Votes at a glance: Easton Area SD board actions on personnel, academics, facilities and contracts (July 22, 2025)

Below are the formal motions the Easton Area School District board moved, discussed and voted on at the July 22, 2025 meeting, with the outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the transcript records an abstention or a named dissent, that is noted; where the transcript does not tie a vote to a named individual, the record indicates that the participant was not specified in the transcript.

Minutes and procedural items

- Motion: Approve minutes of several standing-committee meetings (Academic Standing, Budget & Finance, Educational Technology & Student Supports) and the regular board meetings of 06/24/2025 and 07/22/2025. Outcome: Approved; at least one board member recorded an abstention on meetings they did not attend (abstaining member not specified in the transcript).

Personnel (Consent slate)

- Motions: Approve a set of personnel items including job descriptions (director of technology; director of teaching and learning K–5; director of technology and learning 6–12), resignations, leaves of absence, administrative transfers, voluntary transfers, professional contracts (pending documentation), temporary professional employee contracts, long-term substitute elections, support-staff elections and substitutes, volunteer coaches. Outcome: The personnel slate was approved with recorded opposition and abstentions on specific items: one board member recorded a "nay" on items 7a and 7b and additional "nay" votes on individual administrative items (the transcript notes the speaker but does not provide a formal roll-call list matching votes to full names across the slate). The meeting record shows the slate carried.

Academics and partnerships

- Motions and outcomes approved: - Approve EAMS 2025–26 school improvement plan (approved). - Approve EHS 2025–26 school improvement plan (approved). - Approve 2025–26 board affirmation (approved). - Approve musical-theater show contract for 2025–26 (approved; district will cover cost of rights to the show per board confirmation). - Approve memorandum of understanding for Pax Nosa Elementary School with United Way Family Connection and EASD (approved). Note: district contribution cited as $5,000 per school; the lead partner changed from Communities In Schools (CIS) to Family Connection after CIS withdrew support in some areas. - Approve memorandum of understanding for Cheston Elementary School with United Way Family Connection and EASD (approved). - Approve ELD liaison agreement (approved). - Approve LVCC pre-K Counts formal agreement (approved).

The board discussion included questions about the length of time schools have been in improvement and requests for additional cost accounting for improvement-related programs and staffing.

Financial, facilities and other business

- Playground equipment replacement (Paxnosa and Shawnee elementary schools). Motion: Approve replacement of elementary playground equipment for Paxnosa and Shawnee as presented. Outcome: Approved. District reported the equipment was out of warranty and primarily showing wear-and-tear; replacements were deemed necessary for safety.

- Nonresident student approval for student 42022 to attend Easton High School for his junior year (tuition to be determined by PDE information). Outcome: Approved (tuition rate to be determined).

- Financial matters: Motion to approve treasurer's report, general fund revenue and expenditure reports, student activity statements, bill register, and related reports. Outcome: Approved; one board member noted they would record a note on item d due to receiving large purchase/check registers less than 24 hours before the meeting and said they could not fully review them (the member did not abstain from the final recorded voice vote in the transcript).

- EverDriven Transportation pricing amendment: Motion: Approve the pricing amendment with EverDriven Transportation Services as presented. Outcome: Approved. Board members asked for historical alternate-transportation spend and a breakdown of reductions over recent years; staff said alternate-transportation costs had decreased from roughly $1 million historically toward lower figures after route consolidations and increased use of district vehicles.

- Police vehicle purchase: Motion: Approve purchase of a police vehicle from Stockertown Borough for $5,000. Outcome: Approved.

- Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 agreement: Motion: Approve agreement with Colonial IU 20 for 2025–26. Outcome: Approved (one member later said “No on a” during the educational-technology votes; the transcript did not map that opposition to a named roll call).

- Letter of agreement with Center for Humanistic Change (CHC): Motion: Approve letter of agreement (no cost associated). Outcome: Approved.

- Out-of-district placement and MSISAC agreement: Motions to approve out-of-district placements for 2025–26 (pending solicitor approval) and to approve the MSISAC agreement. Outcome: Approved.

- Settlement agreement: Motion: Approve settlement agreement as presented. Outcome: Approved.

Public comment and other items

- The board heard no public comment on agenda or non-agenda items during the meeting. District staff noted upcoming events and staff induction schedules and recognized a long-serving coach (Ed McIntyre) who submitted a resignation after 43 years in district service; the board said it will celebrate his career.

Adjournment and executive session

- Motion to adjourn carried; the board recessed to an executive session afterward to discuss personal matters.