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Williamsburg-James City County School Board elects officers, names committees and approves routine items
Summary
At its Jan. 9 organizational meeting the Williamsburg-James City County School Board selected officers for 2025, approved committee assignments and adopted several routine items including personnel actions and its meeting calendar.
The Williamsburg-James City County School Board on Jan. 9 elected Sarah Ortega as chair and Andrea Donner as vice chair for the 2025 calendar year and approved a slate of administrative appointments and committee assignments while adopting routine consent items.
The board swapped the gavel to Dr. Karen to open the organizational portion of the meeting before members nominated and then voted to confirm Ortega as chair and Donner as vice chair for 2025. The board also appointed Kimberly Hundley as parliamentarian, Beth Aller as clerk and Star Robinson as deputy clerk for 2025.
In personnel-designation actions the board designated Dr. Daniel Keever, deputy superintendent, to serve as the superintendent's designee through January 31, 2025, and Dr. Kathy Worley to serve as the superintendent's designee from Feb. 1 through Dec. 31, 2025. Board members also volunteered and were appointed to advisory and standing committees, including student advisory, special education advisory, policy, career-ready advisory, school liaison, school safety audit and mentor teaching program committees. The board approved its regular 2025 meeting dates, which the board clerk said were set to satisfy Code of Virginia requirements for establishing an annual meeting schedule.
Chair and staffing appointments, committee placements and the meeting calendar were presented as organizational items and approved on motions from board members with no substantive debate recorded. The superintendent offered a brief report before the organizational items and board members used the member-comments portion to note recent community events and upcoming meetings.
Votes at a glance - Appointment of Sarah Ortega as board chair for 2025: motion moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Appointment of Andrea Donner as vice chair for 2025: motion moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Appointment of Kimberly Hundley as parliamentarian for 2025: motion moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Appointment of Beth Aller as board clerk and Star Robinson as deputy clerk for 2025: motion moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Designation of Dr. Daniel Keever and Dr. Kathy Worley as superintendent designees for specified date ranges in 2025: motion moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Committee appointments and approval of regular 2025 meeting dates: motions moved and seconded; approved by the board. - Approval of personnel actions (action item 8.01) and approval of minutes from the Dec. 10, 2024 meeting (action item 8.02) were moved, seconded and approved as presented. - Resolution R-125 (Principal Appreciation Week): moved, seconded and approved.
Nut graf: The annual organizational meeting set leadership and committee assignments that shape board work for the year and cleared routine business so the division can proceed with staffing designations, committee planning and the calendar of meetings required by state code.
Background and next steps: The organizational appointments follow the Code of Virginia requirement for school-board annual organization. The board indicated many of the policy reviews discussed at the meeting would appear on a future consent agenda after the review cycle. The superintendent noted hiring events and division planning for the coming school year in a brief report that preceded organization votes.
Ending: The board closed the organizational portion of the meeting having set leadership, committee assignments and a schedule of meetings for 2025.
