Central Valley SD agenda lists handbook revisions, Title I policies, service contracts and multiple personnel items for approval

At its Aug. 13 work session, the Central Valley School District board listed a series of consent-agenda items for consideration, ranging from student-handbook revisions and Title I parent-involvement policies to service agreements and numerous personnel hires, resignations and leave requests.

Board materials presented the items as requests for approval at a future vote or as consent-agenda items to be approved as a group. The transcript records the agenda items as presented; the meeting did not record an individual vote on each listed item.

Under the education items, the agenda called for approval of 2025–26 handbook revisions for elementary, middle and high schools; adoption of districtwide and individual-school Title I parent-involvement policies (Center Grange Primary and Todd Lane Elementary); adoption of Title I school parent compacts; and approval of a targeted support and improvement (TSI) plan for the high school.

The agenda also listed several vendor and service agreements for the 2025–26 school year: an outreach services contract with the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind Children to provide vision and orientation-and-mobility services at $130 per hour as indicated on students’ IEPs; an agreement with the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf to provide off-campus interpreting services per students’ IEPs; an agreement to enroll three students at the Watson Institute education center in Swickley at a cost of $67,822 per student for the 2025–26 year; authorization for administration to dispose of obsolete textbooks and equipment with proceeds deposited to the general fund; the 2025–26 bus schedule available for review in the administration office; a contract with Dr. Mitchell Pfeiffer to provide school-physician services; and an agreement with Trend Services Inc. to provide, as requested, physical therapists or other certified staff to care for students (rate not specified in the agenda text).

The finance/treasury portion of the agenda listed payments and reports: a July 2025 general-fund payment of $2,426,648.83, cafeteria fund payments of $8,847.56, a construction fund payment listed as $0, and payroll fund payments totaling $1,135,320.38. The Berkheimer report was listed for approval as well.

Personnel items on the agenda included approval of substitute lists and bus driver/aid lists pending clearance; the appointment of multiple paraprofessionals at a rate of $18 per hour in accordance with the CVESP agreement (pending receipt and review of clearances) with effective dates in mid to late August; several unpaid- or family-leave requests and FMLA requests for employees (employee ID numbers listed in the agenda); multiple cafeteria and custodian hires with stated hourly rates (cafeteria general worker at $15.59/hour; cafeteria prep cook at $17.59/hour) and multiple resignations with effective dates in July and August. The agenda noted the district had experienced "quite a turnover of employees" in food service.

Athletics items included hiring Jamie Economist as head varsity swimming and diving coach for 2025–26 at a $3,500 stipend pending receipt of clearances, and an adjustment to the head girls volleyball stipend to $3,500 to correct a prior board action.

The agenda also listed building-usage requests and other routine items for board confirmation.

The transcript records that the board previously held an executive session before the work session to discuss personnel matters and to receive information; no further details of that executive session were disclosed during the public meeting.

Because the agenda presented numerous items for approval and many were described as "pending receipt, review and acceptance of clearances," the transcript does not show final board votes on each listed item within the work-session remarks. The items appeared on the board’s consent/agenda list for action at the appropriate time.

Votes that were recorded in the public transcript relate only to the meeting’s adjournment; no roll-call tallies for the listed agenda approvals appear in the provided record.