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Votes at a glance: Colonial School District board approves personnel actions, contracts, policy revisions and appointments
Summary
At its April 10, 2025 meeting the Colonial School District board approved a slate of routine motions including personnel appointments, contracts for legal and substitute services, an agreement with support staff, policy revisions, and several appointments; vote tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
The Colonial School District Board of School Directors approved multiple motions during its April 10, 2025 meeting, including personnel actions, vendor and legal-service agreements, policy revisions, and appointments. Most items were moved, seconded, and approved by voice vote; the transcript records approval but does not include roll-call tallies.
Key votes and approvals at a glance:
- Approval of minutes and routine financial reports: the board approved minutes (items 4b–4gs) and financial reports for March 2025 (items 5B–5ms) and the treasurer's report for March 2025.
- Personnel appointments: the board approved recommended personnel changes (items 8a, 8b, 8c) subject to standard credential and verification requirements.
- Agreement with Colonial Educational Support Professionals: the board approved a collective-bargaining agreement between the Colonial Board of School Directors and Colonial Educational Support Professionals for the period July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2029.
- Legal and consulting agreements: the board appointed Fox Rothschild LLP as solicitor for July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026 (annual retainer $22,500; base hourly rate $210; alternate rates per engagement letter). It also approved a renewal of a legal-services consultation agreement with Sweet Stevens, Katz, and Williams for the 2025–26 school year in the amount of $8,400.
- Service contracts and addenda: approvals included a professional-services agreement with the Delaware County Intermediate Unit to provide technology testing and remediation services; an agreement addendum with General Healthcare LLC for substitute nursing and substitute instructional aide services effective July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026; and continued substitute-teacher services for July 1, 2025–June 30, 2027.
- School activity budget: the board approved the budget and payment for the Colonial Middle School sixth-grade musical slated for May 2–3.
- Policy actions and appointments: the board approved board policies 8-28 (fraud) and 8-23 (naloxone) on a first read basis and approved revisions to policies 2-21 (dress and grooming) and 235.1 (surveys) on second read. The board also appointed Mark Marcico as the district's representative to the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Board of Directors for July 1, 2025–June 30, 2028.
Remarks and public comment: Mary Tiese, president of Colonial Educational Support Professionals, offered brief public comment thanking the board and administration for cooperative negotiations after the board approved the support-staff agreement.
Details on vote counts: The transcript records motions, seconds, and voice approvals but does not provide a roll-call vote tally for these items; where dollar amounts or contract durations were stated in the motions or accompanying presentation, those figures are listed above as presented to the board.
