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Port Jervis board approves personnel actions including tenure appointments, retirements and new hires
Summary
The Port Jervis board approved a slate of personnel actions April 24, including tenure granted to multiple teachers, several retirements and numerous appointments for the 2025 summer and 2025-26 school year.
The Port Jervis City School District Board of Education approved personnel employment items at its April 24 meeting, including tenure grants, retirements, resignations and multiple new appointments.
Board members voted to approve tenure appointments for a group of educators listed in the personnel agenda. The board recognized the newly tenured staff by name during the meeting. The personnel packet also included retirements (Cook Manager Kathy Ackerley among those named), resignations (food service helper Chanel Connell; cleaner Mikaela King; English language learner teacher Carrie Counts), and a series of probationary and substitute appointments for teachers, cleaners and security attendants.
The item also included approval of 2025 summer school teachers, nurses and substitutes and a change of status from probationary to permanent for specified support staff. Board members moved and seconded the personnel agenda and recorded "Motion carried" after a voice vote.
Details from the personnel agenda (as read at the meeting) included the following named appointments and status changes: Margaret Fitzgerald; Caroline Van Patten; Cara Della Monica; Dimitra Collage; Melissa Siegel; Danielle Tiernan; Austin Wilson; Christine Kilgore; Emily Nesnick; Jennifer Summers; Matthew Genero; retiree Kathy Ackerley; resignation Chanel Connell; resignation Mikaela King; resignation Carrie Counts; appointment of probationary math teacher Maya DeWitt; probationary security attendant Mark Long; probationary cleaner Yesenia Camacho; substitute security attendant Sean Brockman; substitute cleaners James Grama and Kathy Martz; and an amendment related to the April 10, 2024 personnel agenda concerning a retirement administrative aide Robin Hendershot.
Votes and implementation
The personnel employment items were approved by a voice vote after a motion and second. The board requested that new teachers present in the audience stand to be recognized.
