Central Valley School Board approves $3.03 million payment, MOUs, contracts and multiple staffing actions at September meeting

At its September voting meeting, the Central Valley School Board approved confirmation of August payments totaling $3,026,663.46 to the general fund and several related routine financial and personnel items, including two memoranda of understanding with the Central Valley Education Association and multiple staffing and service agreements.

The board confirmed the August general fund payment of $3,026,663.46 and approved cafeteria fund payments of $7,632.77 and a construction fund payment of $22,800. The board also approved the August Berkheimer report (attachment e). The approvals were moved and seconded and carried on voice votes with no recorded dissents on the finance items.

The board approved two memoranda of understanding with the Central Valley Education Association (MOU Nos. 2025-001 and 2025-002) and authorized district officials to sign both agreements (attachments referenced by the agenda). The board also acknowledged updated procurement thresholds tied to the Consumer Price Index for calendar year 2025, as reflected on the agenda.

On education-related contracts, the board approved a staff-development travel request list, the district’s 2025–26 supplemental positions (attachment f), an agreement with Trend Services, Inc. to provide physical-therapy and other certified staff to the district at $78.86 per hour (attachment g), and an agreement with AOT, Inc. to provide speech therapy for an out-of-district student at $74.95 per hour (attachment h). Each of these motions carried on voice votes after a motion and second.

In athletics and extracurricular personnel actions, the board approved fall conditioning programs, accepted the resignation of assistant football coach Samuel Lawrie effective Sept. 2, 2025 (attachment i), and approved hires including Rocco Martini as a paid football coach with a prorated stipend of $1,943.18 (effective Aug. 25, 2025, pending receipt and review of all clearances) and Shana Walker as seventh-grade girls basketball coach at a stipend of $1,250 (effective Sept. 2, 2025, pending clearances). Board member Ambrose registered an abstention on the item approving fall conditioning programs; otherwise those motions carried.

The board approved building-usage requests shown on the meeting attachment, additions to the 2025–26 substitute list (attachment k), mentor assignments with a $300 stipend for the 2025–26 school year, and multiple hires and personnel adjustments pending receipt and review of required clearances. Approved hires and changes included Mark Allen as a cafeteria general worker at $15.59 per hour (effective Aug. 29, 2025), subsequent acceptance of a resignation for Mark Allen effective Sept. 2, 2025 (both items appear on the personnel attachment), building monitor assignments for Alyssa Hughes and Kelsey Koons, a corrected supplemental summer band stipend for Marie Duar (from $400 to $451), and approvals of Beatrice Fox, Maria Morris and Judith Perron as paraprofessionals at $18 per hour with specified effective dates (attachments l and related items). The board also approved termination of a probationary employee (ID provided in the record) effective immediately and granted an FMLA request for a custodian (employee number 1965) for up to 60 working days.

Several motions included the standard condition “pending receipt, review and acceptance of all clearances,” which the agenda and presenters repeated during the meeting. The board held a brief update on technology and athletics programs, and planning and signing reported no additional items. There were no public-comment items recorded during the voting session.

Following the regular session the board said it would return to executive session to continue personnel discussions and adjourn from there; the board then moved to adjourn the public voting session.

Votes at a glance - Approve voting session minutes from Aug. 21, 2025 (attachment a): approved (motion carried on voice vote). - Confirm August 2025 general fund payment of $3,026,663.46 (attachment b): approved (motion carried on voice vote). - Confirm August 2025 cafeteria fund payments of $7,632.77 (attachment c): approved. - Confirm August 2025 construction fund payment of $22,800 (attachment d): approved. - Approve August Berkheimer report (attachment e): approved. - Approve updated CPI-based procurement thresholds for calendar year 2025: approved. - Approve MOU No. 2025-001 with Central Valley Education Association: approved; district officials authorized to sign. - Approve MOU No. 2025-002 with Central Valley Education Association: approved; district officials authorized to sign. - Approve Trend Services, Inc. agreement at $78.86/hour (attachment g): approved. - Approve AOT, Inc. agreement at $74.95/hour (attachment h): approved. - Approve fall conditioning programs and coaching personnel actions (attachment i): approved; Board member Ambrose abstained on the fall-conditioning item. - Approve personnel hires, resignations and adjustments as listed on personnel attachments (attachments j–l): approved.

The meeting record shows consistent use of agenda attachments and that many personnel approvals were contingent on receipt and review of required clearances as specified in the motions. The agenda indicates that some items (for example, specific attachment references and employee ID numbers) are listed in the meeting packet; where the transcript did not read full attachment detail, the attachment ID is noted in this report.