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Eastport South Manor board approves personnel, consent items and retires student-technology policy
Summary
The board approved personnel appointments and the consent agenda (business/operations/personnel), accepted the district-wide school safety plan, noted a year-end budget cleanup and voted to retire policy 5610 (Student Use of Personal Technology) to align with a new state-required policy.
At the Aug. 27 meeting, the Eastport South Manor Central School District Board of Education approved routine personnel appointments and the consent agenda items M1–M9, which included the district-wide safety plan and treasurer reports for May and June 2025.
Administrators summarized a year-end budget transfer process used to close the 2024–25 books and said the transfer was to "clean up the codes" so each account ends with a positive balance; the transcript includes a stated figure in the materials (verbatim phrase in the meeting: "2,240,100 $98,013"). The board also approved a memorandum of agreement with the ESM Administrators Association and multiple listed personnel actions, including resignations, leaves, civil-service appointments, substitute and supplemental-pay listings and interscholastic coach appointments.
Following a presentation from district counsel/administration about a new state-required policy governing student cell-phone use, the board suspended the two-reading requirement and voted to retire existing policy 5610 (Student Use of Personal Technology) effective immediately; the retirement was framed as required to ensure compliance with Education Law subsection 2803 and the state's timeline. The motion passed on a voice vote recorded as "Aye."
