Bethlehem Area SD board approves routine minutes, finance, facilities, curriculum and HR items in unanimous votes

The Bethlehem Area School District Board of School Directors on Monday, April 28, approved routine minutes, committee minutes and packages of facilities, curriculum, finance and human-resources items in a series of unanimous votes.

The measures covered several grouped agenda entries: approval of prior meeting minutes, multiple committee minutes, facilities items (11-01 through 11-10), curriculum items (12-01 through 12-11), finance items (13-01 through 13-14) and human resources items (14-01 through 14-05). Board members recorded each motion and carried the packages without recorded opposition.

The package votes followed board procedure to bundle similar or noncontroversial items. For example, finance items 13-01 through 13-14 passed after a roll-call vote that recorded nine yea votes. During the finance discussion, a board member called attention to recent community donations, including a $15,000 gift from Giant Food Stores and a $500-per-year Ward Hartstein Family Scholarship at Liberty High School funded by William…