Board approves consent personnel, administrative and finance items; declares SEQRA status for electrical project
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Summary
At its Oct. 8 meeting the Harrison Central School District Board of Education approved multiple consent items including personnel appointments, administrative field trips and a finance/facilities package that included a SEQRA Type II determination for an electrical switchboard project.
HARRISON, N.Y. — At its Oct. 8 meeting the Harrison Central School District Board of Education approved multiple consent items including personnel actions, administrative items (field trips and a PTA donation) and a finance and facilities package that included a SEQRA notice and several construction change orders.
On the personnel agenda the board approved certificated and noncertificated personnel actions on consent: temporary appointments and change-of-status items, multiple regular appointments and resignations, and student-teacher observer items. The superintendent asked for the personnel report to be taken on consent; a motion and second were recorded and the board approved the personnel report by voice vote (ayes).
The administrative report, also approved on consent, included board approval for two Harrison High School debate-team field trips (Apple Valley, Minn., and Northbrook, Ill.), acceptance of a donation from the Harrison Avenue School PTA and approval of extracurricular club and Committee on Special Education (CSE/CSE-P) minutes and recommendations. A board member thanked the PTA for the donation before the voice vote.
The finance and facilities report was approved on consent and contained multiple subitems the board identified on the agenda:
- Declaration of lead agency status and adoption of a Type II action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) for an electrical switchboard life-extension project at Harrison High School; - Authorization to appoint special counsel in pending tax certiorari litigation (agenda language: "pending tax tertiary litigation" in the transcript was confirmed as tax certiorari litigation in board discussion); - Disposal of equipment; 2025–26 appropriation transfers; and multiple change orders related to the Purchase Elementary School building addition (change orders E and G1) and to the Harrison High School baseball field (change order G4); - Termination of contract RFB number 25/26-2 for repair and service of public-address systems, clocks and audio systems.
Each of those reports was taken on consent, motions and seconds were recorded on the public record, and approval was effected by voice vote (ayes) with no roll-call tallies included in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Personnel report (consent): approved (voice vote: ayes). Motion and second recorded; no roll-call tally in transcript. - Administrative report (consent): approved (voice vote: ayes). Included debate-team field trips and PTA donation. - Finance and facilities report (consent): approved (voice vote: ayes). Included SEQRA Type II determination for an electrical switchboard life-extension project at Harrison High School; special counsel authorization for tax certiorari litigation; multiple change orders for Purchase Elementary School and Harrison High School; and termination of RFB 25/26-2.
No contested votes or recorded dissent appeared in the public transcript. The board adjourned after scheduling its next regular business meeting for Oct. 22, 2025, at 7 p.m. at Lewis M. Klein Middle School.