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Votes at a glance: Middletown Area SD board approves minutes, bills, appointments and operations items
Summary
At its April 1 meeting the school board adopted routine minutes and bills, appointed special education legal counsel, approved several operations and consent items and authorized a change in phone licensing provider; outcomes are listed below.
The Middletown Area School District board took a series of routine and operational actions at its April 1 meeting. Key outcomes recorded on the meeting record: all motions listed below carried by voice vote unless otherwise noted. Where individual movers or full roll‑call tallies were not read into the record, the transcript records the motions as approved by voice vote.
Votes at a glance
- Approval of minutes from the March 18, 2025 general business meeting: motion carried by voice vote; no roll call recorded.
- Letter of support for the Borough of Middletown's Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant application for improvements to the former public pool site (phase 1): motion carried by voice vote.
- Approval of paid bills (totals by fund as attached): motion carried by voice vote.
- Approval of unpaid bills (totals by fund as attached): motion carried by voice vote.
- Appointment of Saxton and Stump LLC to serve as Special Education counsel for the district, effective 04/01/2025 through December (year not fully specified in transcript): motion carried by voice vote.
- Modification to design professional agreement to reflect additional HOP (highway occupancy permit) work, noting a reduction in the fee for HOP work from 6% to 3% for the HOP portion: motion carried by voice vote.
- Approval of a set of operations items including purchase of whiteboard markers and installation of an end wall at a loading dock: motion carried by voice vote.
- Approval of encroachment/easement agreements required to traverse existing utility and pipeline easements (including AT&T fiber and Buckeye pipeline easements) on the proposed Greenfield Drive extension site: motion carried by voice vote; solicitor review to follow.
- Consent approval of personnel immediate action items (list CA through BE as on the meeting agenda): motion carried by voice vote.
- Authorization to change the district's Mitel phone licensing service provider to Visual Sound, Inc., effective immediately: motion carried by voice vote.
- Consent to allow township staging of excavated soil at the district operations site for the sewer project, subject to hold‑harmless, additional insured status, bond and firm removal deadlines and solicitor review: motion carried by voice vote.
Notes: Several agenda items were described as "immediate action items" or consent agenda items and were approved without extended discussion. A number of motions were moved and seconded without the record naming the individual mover or seconder; the transcript records voice votes of "aye" and the chair announcing the motion carries.
