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Votes at a glance: Poquoson school board actions, June 24, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and roll‑call outcomes from the Poquoson City Public Schools Board meeting on June 24, 2025, including consent agenda approvals, personnel and budget actions, policy changes, and contracts.
The Poquoson City Public Schools Board recorded the following formal actions and roll‑call votes at its June 24, 2025 meeting.
Consent agenda (Section 7) - Approval: financial reports; authorization to change appropriation and accept and expend funds; approval of personnel action (with a last‑minute personnel addendum); approval of minutes for May regular meeting, work session and June special call meeting; appointment of student representative Sophia Studd for 2025–26. - Vote: passed, 5–0.
Section 8 — individual items (recorded outcomes) - 8a: Amend 2025–26 program of studies to add a dual‑enrollment pathway. Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8c: Adopt English textbooks for Poquoson High School (HMH Into Literature). Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8d: Approve regular school board meeting dates and times for 2025–26. Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8d (nonmedical temporary staffing): Authorize superintendent to sign contract for nonmedical temporary staffing services. Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8e: Approve Capital Improvement Plan (FY27–beyond FY31) with updated inflation adjustment. Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8f: Authorize superintendent to sign MOU with the city and Poquoson Police Department and contract with Bus Patrol (stop‑arm/interior/exterior cameras). Vote: passed, 4–1 (one no vote recorded: Board member James Claude). - 8g: First reading and waiver of second reading — amended bereavement policy providing three dedicated bereavement days and definition of immediate family. Vote: recorded as passed 6–0 in the meeting record. - 8h: Authorize superintendent to sign an easement request from Dominion Energy for underground power lines (Poquoson Primary School area). Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8i: Approve 2025–26 ESSA grant applications (Title I–IV). Vote: passed, 5–0. - 8j: Approve revised division literacy plan. Vote: passed, 5–0.
The board noted that several items require follow‑up: final ESSA allocations from the Virginia Department of Education, completion of the Bus Patrol MOU/contract negotiations and legal review, geotechnical study for the tennis courts, and finalized Dominion easement details prior to construction.
Full roll call patterns used the following board member votes as read by the clerk on the record: Doctor Bartlett (aye on recorded items), Mister Claude (mix of aye and one recorded no on item 8f), Miss Jones (aye on recorded items), Mister Maxwell (aye on recorded items), Chair Tara Burbage (aye on recorded items).
