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Votes at a glance: Pleasantville Board actions, Sept. 16, 2025
Summary
The board approved the superintendent’s report, a chronic‑absence plan, multiple administrative and personnel items, a special‑education settlement and several policy and finance motions; roll calls and movers are listed below.
At its Sept. 16 regular meeting the Pleasantville Board of Education approved a package of routine and substantive items. The board recorded roll‑call votes for motions ranging from acceptance of the superintendent’s report to a special‑education settlement and a 30‑day suspension for an employee.
Key outcomes: • Approved the superintendent’s report and accepted associated informational items. • Approved the district plan to reduce chronic absenteeism by 5 percent for 2025–26 (see separate story). • Approved routine items including monthly fire and safety drill report, minutes (2.1–2.3), finance items (3.1–3.18), transportation (4.1), policy item 7.1, curriculum items (8.1–8.3) and facilities and personnel motions where recorded. • Approved human resources additions to the after‑school CARE program (Desiree Daniels‑Green and Carla Banks at $45 per hour as certified teachers for the program). • Approved settlement in a special‑education case: LM v. Pleasantville Board of Education, Office of Administrative Law docket EDS‑11390‑2025S. • Approved denial of a custodian grievance concerning punching in and out, sustaining the superintendent’s decision. • Approved the organizational chart and a job description for administrator, principal, student accountability and assessment. • Approved a 30‑day unpaid suspension with a last‑chance agreement for employee number 100553.
Where the agenda or transcript did not include additional detail (for example, vendor names, dollar amounts beyond a few items, or full text of job‑description changes), those items are noted below as "not specified."
