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Votes at a glance: Berwick Area School District board approves minutes, bills, tax resolution and multiple personnel hires
Summary
The Berwick Area School District board approved minutes, monthly bills, a tax resolution tied to the index calculated by PDD, and a slate of personnel hires, and the board acknowledged a parent-group fundraiser and approved a van driver hire.
At its meeting, the Berwick Area School District board approved a series of routine and personnel items. The actions below are summarized from the meeting record and the public transcript excerpts provided.
Key approvals and outcomes - Minutes: The board approved the minutes from the Nov. 11 meeting (voice vote; outcome recorded as "ayes have it"). - Monthly bills: The board approved the monthly bills (motion carried; roll call indicated votes in favor during the meeting). - Tax resolution: The board approved a tax resolution stating it will not raise the rate by more than the index calculated by PDD, which the meeting record referenced as currently 5.5 percent; the item passed on a roll-call vote that the transcript records with individual board members saying "yes." - Academic affairs items: The board approved academic affairs items 1 and 2 (motion carried by voice vote). - Buildings and grounds items: The board approved two buildings-and-grounds items (motion carried by voice vote). - Extracurricular: The board acknowledged a Westinburg parent-group fundraiser (motion carried). - Transportation: The board approved hiring one van driver (motion carried).
Personnel actions (summary) - Personnel items 1–13: The board approved personnel items 1 through 13 after a procedural exchange and clarification about item P-12; the listing in the meeting packet includes the motions and stipends for coaches and support staff. Item P-12 (approval of Shane Duffy as assistant baseball coach at a $2,000 stipend) was discussed and subject to an initial tie before the board clarified and proceeded; the board ultimately approved personnel items 1–13. - Personnel item 14: Approval of Irene Holmes as STEM technology education teacher (roll-call vote recorded in the meeting). - Personnel item 15: Approval of Jenna Welch as an elementary teacher, start step 1 (roll-call vote recorded). - Personnel item 16: Approval of Stephanie Frisk as elementary assistant principal at West Broadway with salary listed as $60,911.37 (roll-call vote recorded with members registering yes votes in the transcript). - Personnel item 17: Approval of Karen Panukkovic as middle school assistant principal at the salary shown in the packet (motion carried).
Other items - Nutrition services: The board received the nutrition services report; administration said the recent administrative review audit (on its five-year cycle) returned a finding of 100% compliance for the areas reviewed. - Budget planning: Administration reported early stages of budget preparation for fiscal year 2026, with several department and school-level meetings already held.
Where votes were recorded by roll call in the transcript, the meeting excerpt records board members answering 'yes' or 'no' for those items. Where the transcript does not contain a full roll-call tally, the minutes record voice-vote outcomes as recorded in the public meeting.
