The Neshaminy Board of School Directors voted unanimously to adopt an Act 1 accelerated budget opt‑out resolution for the 2025–26 fiscal year, and approved a slate of routine personnel and business items during its regular meeting.

The board’s resolution, moved by Missus Hollenbach and seconded by Mister Allen, states the district will not raise any tax rate by more than the Act 1 index for 2025–26, which the motion records as 4.7 percent. The resolution references the Taxpayer Relief Act (Act 1) as the statutory basis for the action and was approved 8‑0.

Why it matters: adopting an Act 1 opt‑out signals the board’s decision about the local tax cap that will guide the superintendent and staff as they prepare the district budget for the coming year. The motion included an attached resolution file for the district record.

Alongside the budget resolution the board approved multiple grouped consent and routine matters by single motions and roll‑call votes. Those approvals included administrative personnel retirements and resignations (one administrative name listed), certificated personnel actions (including recognition of a 25.4‑year retirement), support‑staff personnel items, and a business‑operations package covering procurement‑card revisions, a Special Olympics memorandum of understanding, an enrollment study by Future Think LLC, and agreements with School Operation Services Group Inc., Transfinder, HopSkipDrive Inc., EverDriven Technologies LLC, and related vendor arrangements. The business operations motion also authorized fund‑balance transfers for capital projects.

Educational development items — including overnight student trips and a student settlement agreement — passed with one abstention. A board member said they were abstaining because they have a child in cheer and a child in band; the motion was recorded as passing 7‑0 with one abstention.

Policy business proceeded with second readings and final adoption of several district policies that had undergone a first reading on Nov. 12, 2024. That motion passed 8‑0.

No discussion in the record altered the outcomes of the votes; most motions were presented as grouped “master” motions, seconded and approved by unanimous voice or roll‑call votes. The board did not take further public action on the executive‑session topics announced at the start of the meeting.

The board’s decisions establish the district’s tax posture under Act 1 and clear a series of routine personnel and vendor contracts the district will implement. The board scheduled a reorganization meeting for Dec. 2 and a facilities meeting for Dec. 12.