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Votes at a glance: board approves minutes, accepts personnel motions and adopts town payment schedule
Summary
The Timberlane school board approved prior meeting minutes, accepted professional nominations and resignations, approved a retirement and adopted the fiscal‑year town payment schedule; some tallies were recorded in the minutes while several outcomes were recorded without specific counts in the public transcript.
The board recorded several formal actions during the meeting:
- Approval of May 8 meeting minutes: motion by Bree, seconded by Maryann. Vote recorded in the transcript as 8 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain.
- Fiscal-year 2026 schedule of town payments to the school district: motion made by Shauna and seconded by Alyssa; the board approved the schedule (vote outcome recorded as approved in the meeting packet/transcript; numerical tally not specified).
- Personnel actions: the board approved professional nominations (Kristen Woodworth, school counselor at Atkinson Academy; Courtney Pellegrino, out-of-district coordinator) and unanimously accepted multiple professional resignations (including Erin Foster, school psychologist; Jennifer Penn, math teacher; Carrie Gamble, pre-K teacher; Melissa Di Benedetto, elementary teacher; Stacy Leonard, math teacher) and accepted the retirement of Dolores Coyle, a Pollard Elementary teacher. The board also approved a renomination (William Brown, special educator at Timberlane High School). The transcript shows these personnel votes passed by unanimous or unopposed voice votes as recorded on the public record; specific tallies were not included in each motion's spoken record in the posted transcript.
Motions that passed without a detailed numerical tally in the public audio were recorded as approved during roll-call or voice votes; when a specific count was read aloud (the May 8 minutes approval), that number appears above. The district clerk will provide official vote tallies in the minutes for any items where the transcript does not include the detailed count.
