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Votes at a glance: Frontier board approves hires, resignations, project funding and policy retirements
Summary
At its Dec. 17 meeting the Frontier Central School District Board of Education approved multiple personnel appointments and transfers, accepted retirements, adopted 2025–26 budget goals and guidelines, authorized $150,000 for the Glaisdell Elementary outdoor play-court project (SEQR unlisted action), and retired a group of policies.
The Frontier Central School District Board of Education on Dec. 17 approved a series of personnel appointments and transfers, accepted retirements, adopted budget goals for 2025–26 and approved a funding action for an outdoor play-court project at Glaisdell Elementary.
Key votes and outcomes (all motions carried unless noted):
- Adoption of the meeting agenda: carried. - Consent agenda: carried. - Points of pride resolution: Board approved induction of Frontier High School students into the National Technical Honor Society (certificate presentation and resolution carried). - Personnel appointments and employment actions (multiple motions): Board approved a slate of instructional and support appointments and transfers, including: - Appointment of Laura Feldman as Supervisor of Accounting, probationary salary $85,500, effective Dec. 14, 2024 (motion carried). - Transfer of Deborah Wishart to senior account clerk typist (motion carried). - Multiple classroom appointments (elementary, middle, special education, reading) as listed by the administration (motions carried). - Support-staff hires (food-service helpers, bus drivers, motor equipment operator, grounds worker, auto mechanic, and others) (motions carried). - Retirements and resignations: Board accepted retirements/resignations including Deborah Ross (occupational therapist), Susan Hilton (elementary AIS), others listed by the administration (motion carried). - Business management reports (10.1): Board accepted business management reports as submitted (motion carried). - Budget goals and guidelines: Board approved the 2025 and 2026 budget goals and instructional goals (motion carried). - Glaisdell Elementary play-court project (10.18): Board adopted a resolution determining the planned outdoor play-court project to be an unlisted action under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), authorized up to $150,000 of district funding toward the project (with the balance to be financed by serial bonds or other obligations as part of the voter-approved 2021 capital improvements project and subject to Dormitory Authority approvals), and authorized district officers to solicit bids and enter contracts consistent with applicable New York State law (motion carried). - Policy retirements (11.3): Board retired a package of policies no longer required or that are covered elsewhere in the policy manual (motion carried).
Several votes were routine personnel and administrative approvals filed under agenda sections 8.1–9.1; the superintendent and assistant superintendent of finance and operations presented the recommendations and noted fingerprint clearances required by NYSED/Office of School Personnel Review and Accountability where applicable.
Why it matters: The approvals set personnel and operational conditions for the district heading into the 2025–26 school year, including finance, facilities and program staffing. The Glaisdell project resolution moves a planned recreational improvement into design and procurement while invoking SEQRA and Dormitory Authority processes for financing.
