Hanover Area School District board approves multiple personnel actions and names Daniel Malloy superintendent

HANOVER, Pa. — The Hanover Area School District Board of Education approved a package of personnel appointments and other routine business at its regular meeting Aug. 12, 2025, and voted to appoint Daniel Malloy as superintendent, the board announced during the meeting.

The board opened the public meeting after an executive session and announced the session in accordance with the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act. The board president said, "pursuant to the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act, the board president wishes to announce that its regular meeting convened for general purposes today, Tuesday, 08/12/2025, the Board of Education of the Hanoveria School District held an executive session to discuss matters of employee relations, labor negotiations, threatened their actual litigation, and went into closed through executive session at 5PM." The work session began at 6:30 p.m. and the public meeting at 6:45 p.m.

Why it matters: The series of votes formalizes staffing and operational details for the start of the 2025–26 school year and installs a new district superintendent with a multi-year term and a stated starting salary.

The board approved minutes from prior meetings and a series of grouped agenda items by roll call, including general and financial recommendations and multiple personnel items. The board voted to table item 4 on the general recommendations list and later tabled item 17 under personnel.

On personnel, the board approved a correction and motion on item 12 that clarified the hourly pay for special-occasion safety officers: the superintendent read a correction noting the rate as $35 per hour and said, "It's a typo. So $35 and just folks, you you understand that they have been at $35 an hour. This is not an increase." The board approved that item by roll call.

The board approved multiple individual personnel appointments effective Aug. 20, 2025, including: an elementary teacher (Julia Franks), a reading specialist (Carrie Ann Bukowski), paraprofessionals (including Lidi Anger Angarita and Madeline Mishkhari) and a hall monitor (Joseph Steininger). Many of those items were listed as replacements rather than new positions during the meeting; the superintendent stated the appointments were for existing positions being refilled.

The board also approved item 21 to appoint Daniel Malloy as superintendent of schools at a starting salary stated in the agenda as $155,000, with the appointment effective 90 days from the Aug. 12 meeting date and extending through June 30, 2029. The motion to appoint Malloy carried on a roll call vote.

Public comment during the meeting raised two operational concerns. Mike Bosco of Hanover Township told the board the public posting of meeting notices should be consistently posted 72 hours in advance, saying, "Not quite on the agenda items, but on the posting public posting, which needs to happen 72 hours in advance." He said the district’s posting had been "spotty" in earlier years and urged attention to the procedural requirement.

During public comment a resident (name not provided in the record) asked to meet with the board and alleged a hostile work environment involving Superintendent Nathan Barrett, and later criticized the district solicitor. The board president and other members stopped the speaker from elaborating, saying the claims involved personnel matters and directing the speaker to coordinate through counsel. The transcript records the board president saying the person is "legally rep. Your lawyer should contact this solicitor, attorney Buffalino, and work that out between them," and later admonishing the speaker that public accusations about personnel or counsel could have legal consequences.

The board closed the meeting after administrative items and announced the next work session and regular meeting dates for Sept. 9, 2025.

Votes at a glance - Approval of minutes and grouped general recommendations (items 1–3): approved by roll call. - Item 4 (general recommendations): tabled by motion. - Superintendent's report: approved by motion. - Financial recommendations (items 1–7): approved by roll call. - Personnel grouped approvals (items 1–11 and other grouped personnel blocks): approved by roll call. - Item 12 (safety officers pay correction to $35/hour): approved by roll call; superintendent stated the $35 figure was a correction and not an increase. - Items 13–14 (personnel): approved by roll call; one abstention was recorded on items 13 and 14. - Item 17 (personnel): tabled. - Individual appointments (items 15, 16, 18–20): approved by roll call; each appointment listed as effective Aug. 20, 2025, pending required clearances where noted. - Item 21 (appointment of Daniel Malloy as superintendent): approved by roll call; appointment effective 90 days from Aug. 12, 2025, through June 30, 2029, salary stated as $155,000.

The meeting record shows the board followed Sunshine Act notification of an executive session on employee relations, labor negotiations and threatened or actual litigation before the public meeting. Several personnel matters were discussed in public only to the extent allowed; the board repeatedly cut off detailed public allegations about ongoing personnel or legal matters and directed parties to resolve them through counsel.

Ending: The board adjourned after setting September meeting dates. The district did not provide additional written detail in the public record about investigation steps or timelines for the personnel-related allegations raised during public comment.