Harrisburg School District receiver approves consent agenda, personnel hires, calendar and policy revisions

The receiver of the Harrisburg City School District approved multiple routine and substantive items at the Feb. 25, 2025 school board and receiver general business meeting.

The following items were approved as presented in board documents (vote tallies were not recorded in the public transcript): minutes from the Feb. 11, 2025 Committee of the Whole; the Feb. 25 meeting agenda; the consent agenda items vetted at the Committee of the Whole, which included items under the Office of Academics, Office of Human Resources, Office of Operations, and Office of Business Services; and the recommended personnel and operational items presented under each office.

Key approvals called out during the meeting included:

- The 2025–26 district academic calendar was approved; the district clarified it will use instructional minutes (not instructional days) to meet state requirements. A board member asked staff to remove small-date text at the bottom of the calendar that could be misread as relying on dates rather than required minutes.

- A waiver of expulsion-hearing agreement for student number 24250024 was approved.

- Human-resources approvals: the receiver approved the elimination of the assistant dean superintendent position (previously replaced by an issued academic officer); multiple appointments across HEA, Act 93 and AFSCME categories; FMLA and unpaid leave requests; column movements; and recommended hires for the Refugee School Impact Grant (RSIG) and after-school programs. The transcript records the recommendation to approve Mr. Keenan Lee as RSIG program lead at $25 per hour (grant-funded).

- The receiver approved an addendum to the Robert Hoppe agreements to align subcontractor background-check processes with school policy 818.

- The appointment of Kelly Mosby Folks as the district's new chief academic officer was approved. Folks was introduced by human-resources staff; she described prior roles including director of curriculum, instruction and assessments at Central Dauphin School District and experience as an elementary principal at Melrose.

- Policy revisions presented for first reading at the Committee of the Whole and vetted by the solicitor were approved. Policies numbered 1 through 8 as listed in board documents were approved, and three older policies were eliminated and replaced by the revised set (the board noted solicitor review and advised strong communication to staff about the policy on adult-student boundaries, Policy 824).

These approvals were presented and approved as consent or under the receiver’s authority; the transcript does not show recorded roll-call vote counts for the majority of items. Board members asked clarifying questions (for example, confirming the calendar uses minutes rather than days) before the receiver approved the items.

Items approved in the consent agenda and personnel sections were described as having been vetted at the Committee of the Whole two weeks earlier.

No contract award dollar figures or detailed vote tallies were provided in the public transcript. Members of the public addressed other concerns during public comment unrelated to the consent approvals; those comments are recorded separately in the meeting minutes.