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Votes at a glance: Greencastle-Antrim board approves routine business, special-education agreement, personnel, invoices
Summary
At its Sept. 4 meeting the Greencastle-Antrim board approved minutes, the treasury report, a placement agreement for a student's IEP, a tuition student enrollment, personnel items, conference attendance and invoices totaling about $2.7 million.
The Greencastle-Antrim Board of School Directors on Sept. 4 approved a slate of routine and personnel items with little extended debate. Key actions included approval of minutes, the monthly treasury report, a special-education placement agreement, enrollment of a tuition student, personnel appointments and invoices for payment.
The board:
- Approved minutes from Aug. 7 and Aug. 21 (voice vote). - Approved the treasury report for the month ending July 31, 2025 (voice vote). - Approved an agreement with Yellow Breeches Educational Center in Carlisle, Pa., to meet IEP requirements for a specific student (roll-call vote: all nine board members yes). - Approved the enrollment of an eleventh-grade tuition student for the class of 2026 through graduation or until residency is established (roll-call vote: all nine yes). - Approved personnel items (agenda items a through g), including the hiring actions introduced later in the meeting (roll-call: all nine yes). - Accepted hires introduced by the superintendent: Molly McManus (hired to fill a sixth-grade ELA position), Anna Raposo (to join as a special-education teacher after graduation/placement in January), and Eugena Roche (long-term substitute/super sub) as previously listed in personnel actions. - Approved Lainie Medina's attendance at the 2025 WIDA annual conference; the trip is at no cost to the district and funded through the Intermediate Unit and the Title III ESL consortium. WIDA (formerly World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) is the assessment system used yearly to monitor English-language learners' progress. - Approved payment of invoices listed on the bills for payment, totaling a little over $2,700,000 (board report language). - Approved nominations for PSBA elections and three nominees for the forum steering committee (voice votes; all ran unopposed in the materials presented).
Several of the items were approved with unanimous roll-call votes when called: the Yellow Breeches agreement, tuition student approval and the consolidated personnel and school-improvement-plan approvals. The sabbatical request for Maria Culver was withdrawn and moved to the October meeting pending submission of a professional-development plan.
Roll-call votes listed each board member as voting yes on the items called by roll call; the transcript records Mister Burns, Doctor Davidson, Mister Davis, Missus Dickinson, Mister Dunkel, Mister Gray, Missus Rippon, Mister Shatzer and Mister Benitez as the voting board members on roll calls shown in the record.
Funding notes: the WIDA conference attendance for Lainie Medina was described as funded by the Intermediate Unit and Title III ESL consortium funds; no other specific funding allocations were tied to actions in the transcript.
No ordinances or new contracts beyond the Yellow Breeches placement agreement were presented for final action at the meeting.
