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Ambridge board approves personnel items, club and facility contracts, property transactions in combined votes
Summary
At its Sept. 10 meeting the board approved a slate of personnel actions, club/activity sponsorship changes, technology and vendor agreements and several finance items as laid out in the agenda consent items; one item drew a recorded abstention and one negative vote.
The Ambridge Area School District Board of School Directors on Sept. 10 approved a series of consent and non-voting agenda items including personnel hires and resignations, activity and coaching assignments, technology purchases and several finance and property items during roll-call votes.
The board adopted agenda items in two motions. Earlier in the meeting a motion to adopt agenda items 1 and 2 was moved by Mrs. Kehoe and carried on a roll call. Later the board approved a consolidated set of personnel and administrative items (described below) in a combined vote. During the combined personnel vote a board member registered an abstention on a single item and another member cast a recorded no vote on that same item; otherwise the package carried.
Major approvals recorded in the meeting included: - Personnel actions (items covering resignations, retroactive hires, cafeteria staff, credit-recovery instructors, after-school detention supervisors, posted positions and coaching assignments). The agenda listed multiple specific hires and resignations by name (for example, the resignations of Sarah Schafer, Miranda Swartz and Elizabeth Vincent; the retroactive hire of Leah Ritz as a middle-school English teacher; the hiring of Ruth Cooper as a cook; and multiple named credit-recovery instructors). The board approved these personnel items as presented. - A rescission of a previously approved quote: the board recommended rescinding approval of a prior quote to replace the quarterback club concession stand roof (the quote had been approved at the May 21, 2025 meeting) and included related building-and-grounds items on the agenda. - Technology purchase: approval of a CDWG quote to buy 50 Chromebooks for district access-service staff at a cost of $24,300, to be paid from access funds and procured through Keystone contract pricing. - Finance items: approval of a 3-year Jostens yearbook agreement pending solicitor review (no cost to the district was reported), approval of a disabled-veterans tax exemption for 403 Golden Grove Road (per Department of Military and Veterans Affairs certification), and approval of the sale of a county repository property (882 Shiller Street, Baden) to identified purchasers for the announced bid amount; related tax exoneration for the same parcel was also approved. - Legislative direction: the board directed the board secretary to cast the district’s vote for the Ambridge-area scribe board officer slate as listed on the agenda.
Recorded voting notes: the combined personnel/consent motion passed by roll call. One board member said she would abstain from a single listed item; another board member was recorded voting no on the same item. The meeting transcript records that the motion otherwise carried.
The board did not take separate final votes on stadium construction or bleachers at the Sept. 10 meeting; those items were discussed at length and staff were directed to return with additional quotes and procurement guidance.
Ending: The board’s approvals complete routine staffing and administrative business for the start of the school year; items requiring further study (stadium improvements and any capital contracts) were left for future action.
