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Altoona Area School District board approves finance items, policies, service agreements and $546,110 Logan Elementary roof bid
Summary
The board approved multiple routine agenda items including transfers to use a Pennsylvania Department of Education grant for a retaining wall, several policy retirements/first readings, agreements with behavioral-health and education providers, and acceptance of a $546,110 low bid to replace Logan Elementary School's roof.
The Altoona Area School District board voted on a package of routine business at its Sept. 23 meeting, approving finance transfers, contract agreements, policy actions and a low bid to replace the Logan Elementary School roof.
On finance matters, the board approved a request to fund the intramural field retaining wall repair from the general fund in order to utilize grant funding through the Pennsylvania Department of Education School Construction and Facilities Environmental Repair Awards. The board also approved working with Raymond James as bond underwriter and Dinsmore & LLP as bond counsel to refund a portion of the district's 2018 general obligation bond issue. A board member recorded an abstention on the bond-underwriter item.
Under policy, the board approved the retirement of Policy 103.2 (service dogs) and 317.2 (conflicts of interest) and presented multiple policies for first reading including diabetes management (209.2), educator misconduct (317.1), metal detectors (709.1), service animals in schools (718), therapy dogs in schools (718.1), acceptable use of internet/intranet (815), school visitors (907), and student evaluation administrative regulations (213-AR-1).
Education and student-services items approved included an addendum to the master agreement with Hoffman Academy; board approval to send a staff member to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association conference with the district covering a substitute cost (approx. $180); acceptance of a $1,200 organ and tissue donation awareness grant for professional learning and graduation ropes; interagency memoranda of understanding for Blair County early intervention and home visiting programs; a corrected Pre-K counts 2025-26 flexible instruction plan; and agreements with Neuro SPACE ABA LLC and Nittany Learning Services for AEDY services (the AEDY agreement is contingent on Nittany securing a Pennsylvania Department of Education-approved facility). The board also approved a continuity-of-care agreement with the alternative community resource program and a community- and school-based behavioral-health program attestation.
In capital projects, the board accepted the base bid and alternate No. 1 from JM Young & Sons Inc. to replace the Logan Elementary School roof at the lowest combined price of $546,110 to be paid from the capital reserve account.
Under new business the board approved a retroactive facilities use for Altoona Police testing at the junior high, a youth wrestling-room use agreement for Young Guns (fee $75 per session), a waiver of the Altoona Area High School auditorium rental fee for Altoona Community Theater and Penguin Project for Oct. 4'Oct. 12 with equipment and staffing reimbursement estimated at $6,270, and contracts to replace People1 Health with alternate health-care providers (Gloria Gates Care, Capital Rx, Rx Enhance) pending solicitor review. The board also approved addenda to professional contracts for the superintendent, business manager and assistant superintendents, applied retroactively to July 1, 2025, and authorized PSBA officer ballots.
The board approved IU 8 rates for 2025-26, replacing previously preliminary rates, and heard a solicitor report noting that First Amendment issues are likely to be prominent this school year.
Votes at a glance: - Approve minutes of Aug. 18, 2025 meeting — approved. - Approve finance items 4a'f (payments, reports, transfers; retaining wall funding change; bond refunding) — approved; abstention on item 4f (bond-underwriter/counsel) recorded. - Approve policy retirements 103.2 and 317.2 and first readings 209.2, 317.1, 709.1, 718, 718.1, 815, 907, 213-AR-1 — retirements approved; first readings presented. - Approve education items 6a'k (agreements, trips, clubs, grants, MOU, Pre-K correction, volunteers, course approval for assistant superintendent) — approved. - Approve personnel items 7a'd (personnel agenda, ESS addendum, confidential separation and release agreement, superintendent/assistant superintendent goals) — approved. - Approve student services 8a'd (Neuro SPACE ABA LLC, AEDY agreement with Nittany Learning Services contingent on facility approval, ACRP continuity agreement, behavioral-health attestation) — approved; AEDY contingent on PDE facility approval. - Approve capital projects 9a'e, including acceptance of JM Young & Sons Inc. bid for Logan Elementary roof ($546,110) — approved. - Approve new business items 10a'g (parent agreement for student 953587, Altoona Police use, Young Guns rental, auditorium fee waiver with $6,270 equipment/staff reimbursement, new health-provider contracts pending review, addenda to professional contracts, PSBA ballots) — approved; one board member abstained on item 10e (employment conflict disclosed). - Approve IU 8 board-approved rates for 2025-26 — approved.
No detailed roll-call tallies were provided in the public transcript excerpt; votes were announced by voice and motions were recorded as carrying or approved with individual abstentions noted where specified.
