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Board approves personnel contracts, budgets, service agreements and multiple overnight trips in consent/action items
Summary
At its Aug. 19 meeting the Lower Moreland board approved a series of personnel motions, contracts, budgets, student-services agreements and other items listed on the consent and action agendas. Several items were routine and approved by voice vote.
The Lower Moreland Township School District board on Aug. 19 approved a package of personnel items, contracts, budgets, student-services agreements and facility-use requests listed on the meeting agenda. Most items were approved by voice vote with no recorded dissents.
Key approvals and motions (voice votes unless otherwise noted):
- Minutes: Approved minutes of the regular meetings of June 17 and Aug. 5, 2025 (amendment noted to correct an attendance marking).
- Personnel and contracts (Items 5 A–E): Approved routine personnel actions including two new mentors added to the mentors list; approved an updated contract for an interim assistant principal at Lower Moreland High School extending the end date to Jan. 30, 2026; approved a renewal contract with Delta T for the 2025–26 school year; and approved memoranda of agreement between the district and SEIU Local 32BJ on overtime and on the health and welfare fund.
- Teaching, learning and community engagement: Approved professional meetings documentation; approved a proposal for Frontline Forecast 5 comparative analytics for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 school years.
- Business and finance: Approved a tax collection committee delegate appointment resolution; approved accounts payable checklists including a checklist dated Aug. 11, 2025 totaling $623,926.51; approved a wire transfer list dated July 31, 2025 totaling just above $3,200,000; approved the master capital projects budget (available funds reported as $849,269 at 06/30/2025 and $862,826 at 07/31/2025, the increase attributed to interest); and approved updated financial reports, which showed an assessment increase of about $2,500,000 due to new development added to the tax rolls.
- During discussion of the capital projects budget, board members asked about a prior presentation by ICS and whether recent payments (a referenced $29,000) related to ongoing stadium redesign work; administrators clarified the amount paid had been part of previously approved packages and that follow-up meetings with ICS were scheduled to review design updates.
- Buildings and grounds/facility use: Approved several facility-use requests, including multiple applications from the HVAA (one flat annual fee covers multiple sports) and requests from police and Girl Scouts.
- Student services: Approved agreements to provide student support services, including Lakeside Educational Network for counseling at Murray Avenue and the middle school; a shared-services agreement with the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) for 2025–26 (presented as a lump-sum broken down per student in the MCIU documentation); placement agreements with Nexus School and the Timothy School for students listed per IEPs; renewal of the district’s pool counsel agreement with Sweets, Stevens, Katz & Williams for 2025–26; and a multi-year agreement with Pediatric Therapeutic Services for behavioral, occupational and physical therapy (school years 2025–26 through 2027–28) at attached rates.
- Technology: Approved a five-year lease proposal from Hyper V (as listed on the agenda).
- School board agenda items/overnight trips and athletics: Approved the LMHS music department overnight trip to Chicago (presented earlier in the meeting); approved overnight trips for cross-country to multiple invitational and championship meets; approved the Bryn Athyn Academy of the New Church outdoor turf and sports-facility agreement (approximate cost $3,500) after solicitor review; approved enrollment of listed students from the (as listed in the agenda) Bernathin School District under board policy 202 with related services billed separately; and approved second readings of revised policies listed in agenda items e through p.
Most motions were presented as routine consent or action items and carried by voice vote. Where board members sought clarification (for example, on MCIU lump-sum line items, the capital-projects budget and stadium design work with ICS), administrators provided details or scheduled follow-up meetings.
The meeting concluded with standard committee reports and adjournment to the next meeting on Sept. 2, 2025.
