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Votes at a glance: Tunkhannock Area SD board approves consent items, contracts and appointments
Summary
At its May meeting the Tunkhannock Area SD board approved minutes, business reports, personnel actions (with one abstention), bus/van contracts, field trips, book-list additions, several service agreements and appointments; two items had abstentions recorded.
The Tunkhannock Area School District Board of Directors recorded multiple motions and roll-call votes at its meeting. Key outcomes:
- Approval of minutes (April 10): motion passed on roll call with unanimous recorded 'yes' votes.
- Business and finance report: approved on roll call with unanimous recorded 'yes' votes.
- Personnel report (with Brooke Kearns removed from a support-staff job-classification change): the board approved the personnel report with one abstention (Mister Farr).
- Conference attendance: approved on roll call.
- Appointment of school board treasurer (John Burke): board voted to appoint John Burke to a one-year term beginning July 1, 2025.
- Bus and van contracts: approved on roll call; administration noted an associated compensation proposal will return to the board in June for separate consideration.
- Consideration of increased compensation for bussing contractors: discussed at length; no vote taken. Administration will present a formal proposal in June.
- Overnight/out-of-state field trips: Approved — FBLA students qualifying for nationals in Anaheim, California; funds to be partially covered by existing Kotera and other donor funds.
- 2025 proposed English department book-list additions: approved on roll call.
- Change of flexible-spending vendor from CBIZ to OCA: approved on roll call (administration said it reduces per-participant cost by $0.75).
- PSBA unemployment service contract (2025-26): approved on roll call with one abstention recorded (Missus Arnold/Arndt; transcript shows an abstention recorded by that board member).
- Two-year agreement with Total Grant Solutions (grant-writing services): approved; contract value $2,000/month for 24 months ($48,000 total).
- Memorandum of agreement with the Aaron Center: approved; board noted the MOU provides access to services if needed and that no students are currently placed there.
- Donation of an air-hockey table to the IC by a community member: accepted.
- Delegate assembly appointment for PSBA platform: approved; two delegates authorized to attend the delegate assembly and conference as offered.
Each item above was moved, seconded and recorded by roll call; the motions that had recorded abstentions are noted.
A full list of roll-call tallies is below (names appear as recorded in the meeting transcript).
