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Votes at a glance: Cumberland School Committee actions on June 12, 2025
Summary
The Cumberland School Committee approved contracts, the school calendar and bills, passed 17 resolutions, sealed executive-session minutes and took other routine actions; a proposal to change start times was deferred for further study.
The Cumberland School Committee recorded the following formal votes on June 12, 2025. Vote tallies are shown where recorded in the meeting transcript.
- Approval of minutes (regular meeting 05/22/2025, executive session 05/22/2025, town council finance subcommittee 05/29/2025, special budget workshop 06/05/2025, special executive session open meeting 06/05/2025): Motion passed 7-0.
- Consent agenda (enrollment report, transportation report, May resident truancy report, school bus inspection reports 05/20/2025): Motion passed 7-0.
- Report out of executive session: No votes were taken in executive session.
- Vote to seal minutes of executive session (motion by Miss Goldstein, second Miss Feather): Passed 6-1 with Mr. Dean recorded in the negative.
- Approval of an agreement with Ocean State Job Lot for Cumberland High School Tradework Experience: Passed 7-0.
- Memorandum of Agreement with CTA regarding elementary and preschool meeting times (discussed in executive session): Passed 7-0.
- Approval of the 2025-26 school calendar, including a three-day weather waiver as approved by RIDE: Passed 7-0.
- Passage of 17 fiscal resolutions (SCPR_06_2025_49 through SCPR_06_2025_65): Passed 7-0.
- Approval of payment of bills in the amount of $2,394,416.44: Passed 7-0.
- Motion to not approve the superintendent's proposed 2025-26 start-time schedule and to return with revised options (motion by Miss Smith, second Mr. Bacon): Passed 7-0 (see separate coverage for detailed debate).
- Motion to adjourn: Passed (vote not separately tallied in transcript; meeting adjourned at approximately 8:40 p.m.).
Several items were reported (personnel actions and retirements) and recognized at the meeting; the transcript does not show separate roll-call votes for each reported personnel item at the time they were read.
The committee recorded no failed votes on the recorded agenda items; motions requiring further staff work (notably start times) were deferred pending additional data.
