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Votes at a glance: May 19 Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board meeting
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Summary
Summary of motions and roll-call outcomes from the May 19 board meeting, including personnel, facilities, program recognition, contracts and policy approvals. All listed items passed; most were unanimous.
The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District board voted on multiple agenda items during its May 19 meeting. The following is a concise list of formal motions and outcomes recorded in the public meeting. Where the transcript did not record individual roll-call votes, the tally is taken from the meeting record.
- Appointments and personnel - Approve appointments and routine personnel items (agenda items 9.1'9.7): Passed 8-0. - Approve substitute teacher list (agenda item 9.8): Passed 7-0-1 (one abstention was recorded for a named person on the list). - Approve contract(s) for substitute teacher services (Sweet Steebles Katz & Williams and others) (agenda item 9.10/9.1): Passed 8-0. - Approve final appointments in agenda 9.19 (board secretary, treasurer, school transportation physician and school dentist): Passed (tally recorded in minutes; motion recorded as passed).
- Student activities and clubs - Sanction the Unionville ice hockey program as a club sport (agenda item 4.1): Passed 8-0.
- Contracts and facilities - Approve proposal with Boyle's Flooring to replace flooring in six classrooms at Unionville High School ($40,829.96) (agenda item 7.1): Passed 8-0. - Approve Hajoca purchase for touch-free sensors and low-flow fixtures for Chadds Ford and Hillandale Elementary Schools ($60,908.84) (agenda item 7.2): Passed 8-0. - Approve three painting proposals from Chamberlain & Company ($27,815) covering Hillandale, Unionville Elementary and Unionville High School (agenda item 7.3): Passed 8-0. - Approve CCIU asphalt and concrete bid awards (agenda item 7.4): Passed 8-0 (amount recorded in agenda; work budgeted to long-range facilities plan). - Approve Keystone Sports Construction synthetic turf proposal for elementary pads ($142,915.36) (agenda item 7.5): Passed 7-1 (see separate article for full debate). - Approve staff wellness day client agreement with Mount Cuba Center (contract ~ $15,500): Passed 8-0 (agenda item 4.2).
- Curriculum, policy and instruction - Approve instructional items bundled (agenda items 5.1'5.3): Passed 8-0. - Approve policy 225 (relations with law enforcement agencies) and the 2025-26 athletics handbook (agenda items 6.1, 6.2): Passed 8-0. - Policy 237 (personal electronic devices) and several handbooks moved through readings and will return for further review; no final vote this evening on policy 237.
- Finance and other approvals - Approve bundled routine business (meeting minutes, bill list; agenda items 3.1'3.3): Passed 8-0. - Approve bundled personnel items 9.9'9.18 as outlined in the agenda: Passed 8-0. - Appoint delegates to Pennsylvania School Boards Association 2025 delegate assembly (agenda item 12.1): Appointed Jody Allen and Doctor Baratta as delegates; passed 8-0.
All items in this summary reflect motions recorded in the public meeting transcript for May 19. Items that were discussed but not finally voted on (for example, policy 237 second-reading language changes) are noted as such. For contract amounts, funding sources were often referenced as the district long-range facilities plan; the Keystone turf proposal is specifically funded by a Longwood Foundation grant.
For full text of motions, roll-call details (where recorded), and supporting materials, consult the district meeting minutes and the posted agenda packet.
