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Votes at a glance: Cumberland School Committee actions, Sept. 11, 2025
Summary
On Sept. 11 the committee approved the agenda and consent items, voted to seal executive session minutes, authorized superintendent contract negotiations, approved homeschool requests and payments totaling $955,188.38, passed 11 fiscal resolutions, and adjourned.
At its Sept. 11 meeting the Cumberland School Committee recorded the following formal actions:
• Agenda approved, motion by Miss Goldstein, seconded by Miss Feather; vote 7–0.
• Consent agenda approved (minutes of 08/28/2025, executive session listing, residency/attendance/enrollment reports, and bus inspection records); motion by Miss Goldstein, second by Miss Shea; vote 7–0.
• Report out of executive session: no votes were taken. The committee voted to seal the executive‑session minutes; motion by Miss Feather, second by Miss Smith; the seal motion passed 5–2 with Mr. Bacon and Mr. Dean recorded in the negative.
• Homeschool instruction request for the 2025–26 school year approved; motion by Miss Smith, second by Miss Feather; vote 7–0.
• The chair was authorized to enter superintendent contract negotiations subject to later ratification by the committee; motion approved 7–0.
• Transportation: committee approved Phase 2 of the Transpar Group transportation efficiency study (see separate article) 6–1.
• Fiscal business: the committee approved 11 resolutions reviewed in fiscal subcommittee (including an amended resolution to correct an invoicing error) and approved payment of bills totaling $955,188.38; motions carried 7–0.
• Adjournment: meeting adjourned at 8:22 p.m.; motion by Miss Goldstein, second by Mr. Bakus.
Votes are recorded as they appear in the meeting transcript; if a motion’s mover/second were not named in the transcript the entry notes the recorded vote and result.
