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Board approves finance, activities and building items; several personnel and policy items tabled or pending solicitor review
Summary
At the Jan. 21 Wyoming Area School District meeting the board adopted finance, activities and building reports, approved multiple payments and ratifications, and tabled select personnel and policy items pending further review or solicitor approval.
The Wyoming Area School District Board of Education on Jan. 21 approved routine finance, activities and building items and recorded several formal actions, while tabling specific personnel and policy items.
On the finance report, the board recorded receipts totaling $3,474,978.98 in the General Fund and approved payments and ratifications including: a January payment of $82,733.60 to the LIU (special education services contract), a January payment of $4,958.33 to LIU for Lighthouse Academy dual-diagnosis services and ratification of a January payment of $69,742.73 to the Westside Career & Technology Center for the 2024–25 school year. The general ledger presented at the meeting totaled $1,451,560.20. The board also adopted a resolution indicating it would not raise any tax rate for support of public schools for the fiscal year 2025–26 by more than the index calculated by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
The board approved personnel actions on the education report (appointments, retirements and substitutes) and accepted letters of intent to retire from two employees (employee numbers 12270 and 20421). The board approved transfers and long-term substitutes retroactive to August 2024 and the program of studies for the 2025–26 school year. One contract in the education report — “approve a contractor agreement with Elite Educational and Therapeutic Services for a school psychologist” — was listed as pending final approval by the district solicitor; a separate motion to table the agenda item for the school psychologist (Education item No. 3) carried on a recorded roll-call vote.
The activities report — including PTO fundraiser approvals and assistant/volunteer coach appointments for the 2024–25 spring season — and the buildings report — including approval to rent district facilities for a spring recital and a food-service appointment — were approved by roll call.
In policy business the board completed second readings on multiple revised policies (policies cited by number in the agenda) but tabled Policy 237 (electronic devices) for further review and public comment. The board also discussed opioid-antagonist (Narcan) language updated to “opioid antagonist” in policy wording and confirmed Narcan is secured in the nurse’s office and the police office per administrative comment.
Several settlement agreements and contractor approvals were listed as pending solicitor review in the finance report; the transcript indicates these were approved contingent on solicitor approval. The meeting closed after public comment on classroom consolidation, device policy, building repairs and board-candidate filing information.
