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Votes at a glance: Timberlane board actions April 3, 2025
Summary
A roundup of formal actions taken by the Timberlane Regional School District school board on April 3, 2025, including purchases, policy adoptions, budget transfers and personnel items.
The Timberlane school board took a series of formal votes at its April 3 meeting. Many items involved routine administration and procurement; the board approved the motions listed below in open session.
Votes at a glance
- Approve organizational meeting minutes (03/20/2025): Motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote (tally not specified in transcript).
- Approve regular meeting minutes (03/20/2025): Motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote (tally not specified).
- Approve revised scope for high‑school canopy project (Option 1 — removal, repour, bollards): Motion moved by Jack Sapien, seconded by Alyssa; passed by voice vote. (See full article on canopy decision.)
- Allocate FY25 monies for Phase 3 Atkinson Academy Belfry ($641,740 estimate): Motion moved by Mark, seconded by Jack Sapien; passed by voice vote. (See full article on Belfry.)
- Approve purchase of utility/HVAC van from Central Chrysler Jeep Dodge (Central Auto Team), total cost $55,090.625: Motion moved by March (transcript: motion made by March), seconded by Bridal; passed with one recorded opposition in the public record (transcript notes one opposed). Administration said the van purchase includes factory‑installed ladder racks and interior racking, saving the district roughly $9,000 compared with buying an equivalent vehicle and upfitting separately.
- Approve Special Education budget transfers dated 04/03/2025 in the amount of $1,525,977.32: Motion moved and seconded; passed (tally not specified). Administration said transfers fund contracted services, transportation, tuition and other special‑education needs through the end of the fiscal year.
- Approve AP Psychology textbook for Timberlane Regional High School: Motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote.
- Second reading and adoption of policy EBCC (False alarms, bomb, active shooter and other threats): Motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote.
- Approve last day of school (district calendar): Motion to set student last day as June 19, 2025 (half day); motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote.
- Approve authorization for the superintendent to execute documents for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (TRAC) grant for the Timberlane public track (grant #33‑00751): Motion moved by Alyssa, seconded by Donna; motion carried with two abstentions recorded in the transcript (Bridal and Marion abstained).
- Approve resignations and one retirement of certified staff as listed in the personnel report: Motions moved and seconded; passed by voice vote.
- Accept renomination report dated 04/03/2025: Motion moved and seconded; passed by voice vote.
Notes on procedure and tallies
Where the transcript records only a voice vote or the board chair’s summary (“All those in favor? Opposed?”), the public record does not list a named roll‑call tally for that item; the articles above note when specific oppositions or abstentions were recorded in the meeting. The district will post approved minutes and formal motion texts following standard procedures.
If readers need line‑by‑line detail for a particular motion (mover/second, recorded votes, or the full motion text), the board minutes and submitted agenda packet contain the official motion language and vote tallies when the clerk has completed the minutes.
