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Pottsgrove SD board approves minutes, August invoices, personnel actions, security cameras and contracts; votes at a glance
Summary
At its Sept. 9 meeting the Pottsgrove School District Board approved routine minutes and finance items, multiple personnel appointments and leaves, a tenure grant, contracts for instructional assistants, a security-camera purchase (grant-funded), and several education conference attendances.
The Pottsgrove School District Board of Education on Sept. 9 approved a set of routine and personnel items, contracts and purchases in a series of motions taken during the meeting.
Key votes and approvals
- Minutes: The board approved minutes for the Aug. 12 and Aug. 26 board meetings (agenda items 5.1 and 5.2). No dissent was recorded.
- Invoices: The board ratified payment of invoices for August 2025 in the amount of $1,829,213.04 (agenda item 6).
- Personnel: The board approved several personnel items (agenda items 7.1–7.9): the retirement of Chris Stein, assistant principal at the high school, effective Sept. 26, 2025 (7.1); the appointment of Michael Zaccarta as assistant principal at Pottsgrove High School (7.2); leaves of absence for three professional staff and one support staff and multiple staff appointments, resignations and assignment changes covered in items 7.3 through 7.9; and the granting of tenure to one eighth-grade math teacher, Ryan Okunisky.
- Business/contracts: The board approved rescinding an original change order and approving a new change order for additional paving work at district schools (agenda items 8.1 and 8.2). The board approved a contract with ADD Education to provide instructional assistant contractors (8.3).
- Security cameras: The board approved the purchase of internal and external security cameras (8.4). The district stated the equipment cost will be covered entirely by a grant and that installation will be handled by district staff.
- Education professional development: The board approved several education-related travel and professional-development items (agenda items 9.1–9.5), including conference attendance for four staff members at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Special Education Leadership Conference and other workshops and programs listed in the board materials.
How votes were handled
Most motions were moved and seconded with votes announced as “Aye” and no roll-call tallies presented in the public record excerpt. When numbers or individual roll-call votes were not specified in the transcript, this summary reports the outcome as recorded at the meeting (motion passed).
