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Votes at a glance: March 25 BCPS board meeting — personnel, appointment and legislative priorities
Summary
At its March 25 meeting the Board of Education of Baltimore County recorded several roll-call outcomes: a request to add a motion to rescind a censure resolution to the agenda failed; personnel matters and an administrative appointment were approved; and the board adopted its 2025 legislative priorities.
The Board of Education of Baltimore County recorded several formal roll-call outcomes during its March 25 meeting.
- Motion to add consideration of a motion to rescind resolution 2025‑O2: FAILED - Context: Board member Soleski (recorded in the transcript as the mover) asked to add a motion to rescind the censure resolution to the agenda following agenda item G. The chair called for a roll-call vote. Recorded responses in the roll call (as read on the record) included "Miss Booker Dwyer? No," "Miss Harvey? No," "Miss Chike Colo? No," "Miss Cholesky? Yes," "Mister McMillan? Yes," "Miss Pumphrey? Yes," "Mister Young? No," "Miss Chamanowski? Yes," "Miss Hem? Yes," "Miss Frempong? No," and "Miss Lichter? No." The transcript states "The motion does Favor is 5... The motion does not pass. It is not added to the agenda."
- Approval of personnel matters (Exhibits D1–D4): APPROVED - Motion: Approve the personnel matters as presented in exhibits D1 through D4. - Mover/Second: Motion moved by (recorded) Chike Kulu and seconded by Pumphrey (as read on the record). - Outcome: Roll-call recorded affirmative votes from board members present; the motion carried as read on the record.
- Administrative appointment — Senior Supervisor, Building Operations (Exhibit E1): APPROVED - Motion: Approve appointment of Joshua Smith as Senior Supervisor, Building Operations, Office of Facility Operations. - Mover/Second: Moved by Harvey; seconded by (recorded) Chikikuyi (as read on the record). - Outcome: Roll-call vote recorded 'Yes' from board members present; Joshua Smith was introduced and recognized in the meeting.
- Adoption of 2025 Board of Education legislative priorities: APPROVED - Motion: Adopt the 2025 board of education legislative priorities as presented in the slide deck. - Mover/Second: Moved by Booker Dwyer; seconded by Pumphrey. - Outcome: Roll-call vote recorded affirmative votes and the chair noted the motion passed; staff will finalize and publish the priorities.
Notes on recordkeeping and attribution: The meeting transcript includes multiple garbled or inconsistent renderings of board member names on roll call (for example, variants such as "Chike Kulu," "Chiekakula," and others appear in the roll-call readback). This article reproduces the roll-call responses as they were read into the record. If the board seeks an audited, canonical vote roster for public release, the official minutes and BoardDocs entries should be used as the authoritative source.
No other final board votes on ordinances, resolutions or contract awards were recorded in the open session portion of the March 25 meeting; several items (boundary recommendations, charter-school recommendation) were presented for public hearing or future board action.
