Votes at a glance: Lower Moreland Board of School Directors, Jan. 21, 2025

The Lower Moreland Board of School Directors took the following formal actions during its Jan. 21, 2025 meeting. Where the transcript did not record roll-call tallies or named individual votes, the board adopted motions by voice vote and the minutes record the motions as carried.

Key votes

- Adopted the minutes of the Dec. 17, 2024 regular meeting (motion approved by voice vote).

- Personnel motions (new hires, administrators and other staffing items, as listed in the agenda): motion approved by voice vote.

- Athletic and non-athletic extracurricular contracts and stipends (as attached to the agenda): motions approved by voice vote.

- Professional meetings and high school program of studies for 2025–26: motions approved by voice vote (program of studies carried with edits to staff updates noted).

- Facilities use applications (Goddard School Graduation, etc.): approved by voice vote.

- Adopted the 2025–26 preliminary expenditure budget and authorized submission of the required preliminary documents to the state and initiation of the Act 1 exception process (motion carried). See the separate article on budget and Act 1 for detail.

- Accounts payable checklists dated 12/23/24 and 1/13/25, wire transfer list dated 12/31/24, and financial reports: motions approved by voice vote.

- Approved Sweet Stevens Katz & Williams fee agreement for 2025–26 (motion carried).

- District calendars for 2025–26 and 2026–27 were tabled for further edits and then the motion to table was carried.

Capital projects and related professional agreements

- Authorized ICS Consulting to proceed with Bid Package 1 (Pine Road rooftop unit replacement and Lower Moreland Middle School pool dehumidification) — projected budget $597,162; motion carried.

- Authorized ICS Consulting to proceed with Bid Package 2 (fire alarm replacements at Pine Road Elementary School and Murray Avenue School) — projected budget $936,828; motion carried.

- Authorized ICS Consulting to proceed with Bid Package 3 (building controls network upgrade at Murray Avenue School) — projected budget $208,854; motion carried.

- Authorized ICS Consulting to proceed with Bid Package 4 (complete cooling plant replacement at Murray Avenue School) — projected budget $1,256,156; motion carried.

- Approved professional agreements with ICS Consulting tied to the bid packages (professional services for design and procurement); motions carried.

- Approved professional agreement with ICS Consulting for stadium field/track conceptual design and site analysis (reduced fee following prior work); motion carried.

Other items

- Approved an overnight trip request for the jazz band to attend the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival in Bethesda, Md.; motion carried.

- First and second readings of multiple revised policies: motions to approve were carried for lists of policy revisions after the board considered edits; one version of Policy 105.2 failed and an alternate version (item U) was carried with updated language that places more responsibility on staff for exemption-from-instruction requests.

- Change orders to Burrow Construction and James Morrissey for the high school project (GC-016, MC-2, GC-C0 CO-4): motions carried.

How votes were recorded: Most agenda motions were approved by voice vote with "Aye" and no detailed roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript excerpt. Where the transcript indicated a motion and second and that the motion was carried, this summary lists the motion and the recorded outcome. Individual board member vote-by-name records are not present in the provided transcript for many items.

Provenance: Each listed item corresponds to motions or discussions recorded in the Jan. 21 meeting transcript; procurement-related items appear in the capital projects section, and budget and finance votes appear in the business and finance section.

For details on the preliminary budget and pool-related procurement, see the separate reporting articles on those topics from this meeting.