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BASD board approves routine minutes, facilities, curriculum and HR items; tax-exoneration request fails
Summary
The Bethlehem Area School District board approved multiple consent and committee items on Jan. 27, 2025, including facilities, curriculum and human-resources items. A requested tax exoneration tied to agenda item 13-02 failed after at least one board member raised concerns about the timing of the request.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The Bethlehem Area School District Board of School Directors on Jan. 27 approved a package of routine agenda items including minutes, facilities, curriculum, finance (with one exception) and human-resources actions, and hired an assistant principal, while a requested tax exoneration (item 13-02) failed.
The board approved the December regular meeting minutes and committee minutes, and voted to accept facilities items 11.01–11.05 and curriculum items 12.01–12.04. Human-resources items 14.01–14.05 were also approved; the board announced the hiring of Jessica Hergenrother as an assistant principal at Fountain Hill Elementary School.
Why it matters: These votes complete routine governance steps necessary for district operations — contract approvals, facility work, curricular adjustments and personnel actions — and the failure of a tax-exoneration request highlights procedural…
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