Board accepts annual audit; approves series of routine motions including calendar change and personnel items
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Summary
The board accepted the annual audit and extracurricular activity fund audit as recommended by the audit committee (financials received an unqualified opinion; extracurricular fund a qualified opinion), and approved a series of motions by voice vote including a calendar change, district goals for 2025–26, personnel actions, policy deletions, and trip approvals.
The Arlington Central School District Board voted to accept, as recommended by its audit committee, the annual audit report and the extracurricular activity fund audit for the year ended June 30, 2025.
Donna, chair of the audit committee, summarized the committee’s review with auditor Roy Miller of Arcangelo & Company LLP and reported that auditors reissued an unqualified opinion on the district’s financial statements — the most favorable audit outcome — while issuing a qualified opinion on the extra-classroom activity fund, which the committee described as not material. Donna noted that a component known as the single audit, related to federal funds, remains outstanding because of federal guidance delays exacerbated by a federal government shutdown; that portion will be completed later.
Following the audit acceptance, the board acted on a cluster of new-business and consent-agenda items by motion and voice vote. The board approved a calendar change tied to a recent teachers’ contract settlement (adding a third half-day for elementary scoring/assessments), adopted 2025–26 district goals, created a certified instructional position, approved deletion/retirement of listed policies, and approved multiple personnel items (qualified administrative leave, classified administrative leave, abolishment of a position, separation agreements). The board also approved trip requests for student groups (Rochester NYSSMA and a Philadelphia U.S. history trip) and moved a slate of policies to first reading notation.
All listed motions during the meeting were approved by voice vote as recorded on the agenda; the transcript records affirmative “Aye” responses and no recorded roll-call tallies. Where the motion involved legal or procedural specificity — for example, the annual APPR independent evaluator hardship waiver application (resolution to authorize execution) — trustees discussed statutory flexibility and noted the board’s annual support for such resolutions.
The board concluded with committee reports (advocacy, policy, BOCES) and organizational news including the Arlington Education Foundation’s hiring of a new executive director, Lejeune Grant.