Byram Hills board holds executive session and approves agenda, personnel consent items, five policies and two math intervention textbooks

The Byram Hills Central School District Board of Education held an executive session at 6:20 p.m. and then approved the regular meeting agenda, a consent agenda including personnel items, five policies on second reading, and the adoption of two math-intervention textbooks for kindergarten through fifth grade.

The board convened in executive session at 6:20 p.m. to discuss contract matters (nonrepresented employees), negotiations with the BHTA, and individual employee contract matters. After the executive session the board opened the public meeting and approved the evening’s agenda by voice vote.

The board approved a consent agenda that the superintendent described as including personnel (item 6.1), CSE/sub‑CSE/CPSE recommendations (7.1) and business items (8.1). The consent agenda vote followed a motion and second and was approved by voice. The superintendent announced that the board had approved, as part of personnel, the acceptance of the resignation of Evan Horowitz "for the purpose of retirement." (The personnel items were approved as part of the consent agenda — the board did not take separate roll-call votes on individual personnel items in the public record.)

On policy matters the board approved five items on second reading. The policies recorded in the meeting packet and read into the record were listed as: 5100 (Comprehensive attendance policy), 5710 (School safety and educational climate), 8130 (School safety plans and teams), 9140.1 (Staff complaints and grievances), and regulation 9140.1r (Staff complaints and grievances regulation). The policy committee was thanked; a single motion to approve all five second reads passed by voice vote.

The board approved adoption of two textbooks to support the district’s academic intervention supports in mathematics: Bridges (recommended for primary grades, primarily K–2 intervention) and Do The Math K–5 (recommended primarily for grades 3–5 intervention). The presenter reported piloting of both programs and cited pre/post assessment improvements in pilot classrooms; the board voted to adopt both by voice.

The board also approved the minutes from the May 20, 2025 meeting and then adjourned the meeting by voice vote.

Votes in the public record were taken by motion, second and voice; the record shows motions carried with "All in favor" responses but no roll-call tallies were posted in the transcript excerpts.