Board approves minutes, personnel and a cooperative girls ice hockey merger; trustee selection process set for Nov. 17

The Yorktown Central School District Board of Education on Nov. 3 approved routine business items and set a timetable to fill a vacant trustee seat.

The board voted to approve the regular meeting minutes for Oct. 27, 2025; to adopt listed policies at second reading; and to approve personnel appointments recommended by the superintendent. Each motion passed with the board voice vote recorded in the minutes as "Aye" and no objections recorded.

The board also approved a cooperative varsity girls ice hockey merger for the 2025–26 school year. The motion, offered on the superintendent's recommendation, permits one Yorktown student to participate on a merged varsity roster that includes students from Bedford, Briarcliff, Brewster, Byram Hills, Carmel, Chappaqua, Haldane, Hendrick Hudson, Lakeland, Katonah, Pawling, Pleasantville, Mamaroneck (Maypach in transcript), North Salem and Westlake (as listed in the merger application). The superintendent explained the merger is used when individual districts lack sufficient enrollment to field their own team and that the arrangement allows students from participating districts to join a single roster.

The board discussed and confirmed the selection process to fill the vacant seventh trustee seat. Letters of interest were due Oct. 31; the district received six letters. The board plans to invite those six candidates to the Nov. 17 meeting for questions and to make a selection at that meeting.

No motions failed or were tabled at the Nov. 3 meeting. The board concluded with comments praising student presenters and thanking community volunteers who had stepped forward to apply for the trustee vacancy.