Board approves bundles of resolutions, accepts finances and special-education plan; multiple amendments and procedural motions recorded

The Rochester Board of Education, meeting June 26, 2025, approved multiple bundled resolution packages, accepted committee reports, and took formal votes on minutes, the unaudited June financial report and the district's 2025'027 special-education plan.

Key outcomes

- Acting clerk appointment: The board appointed Charisma Travis as acting clerk for the June 26 business meeting. Motion: Commissioner Patterson; second: Vice President Malloy. Outcome: approved by voice vote.

- Minutes and committee reports: The board approved minutes for the June 10 Equity and Student Achievement Committee of the Whole (motion by Vice President Malloy; second by Commissioner Patterson). The audit committee's external and internal audit plans and the temporary employment services audit were accepted by the board as reported.

- Special-education plan: The Board accepted the district's 2025'027 special-education plan. Motion: President Simmons; second: Vice President Malloy. Outcome: approved by voice vote.

- Financial report: The board accepted the unaudited financial report package for the period ending May 31, 2025, as presented by Acting CFO Blair. Motion: Commissioner Santiago; second: Commissioner Griffin. Outcome: accepted by voice vote. The presentation noted an ending cash balance of approximately $449 million as of May 31, 2025, and listed capital project budgets and encumbrances.

- Resolutions and bundles: The board repeatedly used bundled motions to approve large groups of items. Major bundled approvals included: - Academic resolutions: Resolutions 777 through 836 were bundled and approved after an amendment to resolution 804 was adopted from the floor to correct pay hours/rates and to match the administrative addendum. The board recorded a procedural amendment to 804 and approved it. - Administrative and support resolutions: Resolutions 837 through 880 were bundled with amendments to earlier numbered items (7-52 and 3-43) and approved. - Legal and policy items: Resolutions 881 through 892 were considered with an amendment to resolution 887 (code of conduct language clarifying suspension from transportation and special-education due-process implications). Two policies (43.11.2 and 43.14.2 related to civic education and post-secondary transition) were removed from the consent bundle and moved to a work-session discussion at a later date. - Later additions and time-sensitive waivers: The board waived the 48-hour submission rule for several late-item resolutions (motions to waive recorded and approved) and then voted to approve the late items 903 and 904.

- Executive session: The board convened into executive session twice to discuss personnel, labor and litigation matters; no public decisions were returned after the final executive session.

Several motions included named movers and seconders but were approved by voice vote rather than roll-call tallies in the public portion of the minutes recorded in the transcript.

What was not decided today

- The draft 2025'026 academic and financial plan presented by the state monitor was not voted on at the hearing; the monitor requested public feedback through July 15 and will return the final plan for board consideration in July.

Notes on procedure and next steps

- A public hearing on the district's student personal electronic devices policy is scheduled for July 8 at 5:30 p.m., with a business meeting scheduled July 31. - Several policy items the board flagged for additional review will return to a work session for further discussion, per board members' requests.

The meeting record includes multiple procedural motions, amendments from the floor, bundle votes and waivers of notice; the transcript shows no contested roll-call vote totals for items presented in bundles during the public session.