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Board approves routine consent items, personnel changes and additional custodial positions
Summary
At its Planning and Action meeting the Shippensburg Area School District board approved a slate of consent agenda items including minutes, finance reports, donation recognitions, curricular and personnel items; it also approved additional custodial positions totaling a projected $242,000 budget impact.
At the Shippensburg Area School District Planning and Action meeting, the board approved a series of consent and action items following roll call and public comment.
Key approvals included: adoption of the amended agenda; approval of minutes from the Aug. 25 board meeting; finance reports and bills of payments; a degree agreement with Central Penn Education Associates; authorization of a high school student council Instagram account; and a personnel slate that included leaves of absence, resignations, corrections, a termination and new appointments.
The board also approved curricular and extracurricular items: adoption of a K–3 music curriculum and permission for the high school music department to travel to Virginia Beach March 13–15, 2026 (students would not be required to be in school unless a snow makeup day changed scheduling). The board approved an addendum for substitute custodial services through ESS Northeast and an addendum for interim administration services while the district completes student services staffing transitions.
On staffing and operations the board approved a memorandum of agreement with the support staff association (SAESP) regarding substitute custodial services and authorized hiring three full‑time and one part‑time custodial positions to address additional square footage and understaffing; administration reported the personnel additions would have an estimated total budget impact of $242,000.
Other approved items included a petition to place a tax parcel on the Franklin County judicial sale docket to restore tax revenue for that parcel and routine board discussion items (a request to form a pickleball club and a library support job description were discussed).
Voting notes: votes during the Planning and Action meeting were voice votes recorded as "Aye" with no recorded opposition for the items presented. The board’s roll call at the start of the meeting listed the following members as present: Jim Bart, Mike Carey, Levi Kressler, Nathan Goetz, Michael Lyman, Kirk Nagel, Fred Scott, Darren Donovan and Steph Eberly.
Ending: Administration indicated interim arrangements are in place for student services hiring and will return with additional information as needed; the board scheduled its next Committee of the Whole on Sept. 22 and other upcoming committee and community events.
