Port Jervis board approves coaching appointments and sets April 21 as school day

The Port Jervis City School District Board of Education opened a special meeting at 5:00 p.m. and approved personnel items that included coaching appointments and a change to the 2025 student calendar.

Board members approved the resignation and subsequent appointments related to the district's modified baseball program and confirmed additional coaching appointments tied to vacancy 2622 for the 02/2025 school year. The board also voted to amend the 2025 student calendar so that Monday, April 21, 2025, will be a regular school day.

The personnel motion was offered and seconded on the agenda item described as a resignation and coaching appointments for the modified baseball head coach and modified baseball assistant coach and for appointment vacancy 2622 for the 02/2025 school year. The motion passed after the board chair asked for and received the customary voice vote of "Aye"; the transcript records the outcome as "Motion carried." The calendar change likewise was moved and seconded and carried after a voice vote. During the calendar discussion a board member asked for clarification, noting the date falls the day after Easter; another member confirmed the change would make Monday a school day.

No dollar amounts, individual coach names, or detailed personnel documents were discussed publicly in the provided transcript. The meeting record shows routine procedural motions to open the special meeting, approve the agenda, approve the personnel items, approve the calendar change, and then adjourn. The board's next listed meeting date in the transcript is April 24.

Action items recorded in the meeting included opening the special meeting, approval of the agenda, approval of the personnel items described above, and the student-calendar amendment. Each motion was seconded and recorded as carried in the transcript; the record does not include an individual roll-call vote or vote tallies by member name.