York County School Board approves financial matters, reappropriation and policy revisions; votes to enter closed session

The York County School Board approved several fiscal and policy items during its regular meeting, voting unanimously on financial matters, a reappropriation request, policy revisions and a closed-session motion on personnel.

Financial matters: Mr. Richardson presented detailed expenditure and payment items across instructional services, technology, administration, operations and maintenance, nutrition and CIP projects. Reported figures included instructional-related payments totaling $484,350; technology payments of approximately $357,400; operations and maintenance payments totaling about $19,918,600; nutrition payments of approximately $655,500; and CIP-related payments of approximately $1,233,000. Mr. Richardson moved to approve the financial matters as listed; Mr. Schaefer seconded the motion and the roll-call vote recorded the motion passed 5–0.

Consent calendar: The consent calendar included approval of personnel actions, minutes (work session and regular meeting dates listed), donations totaling $1,000, program-of-studies changes, the FY27 student calendar, community schools grant-funded clubs and activities, and a lease agreement between the school board and Raider Nation wrestling club. Mr. Pajevich moved and Mr. Richardson seconded the motion; the board approved the consent calendar by a 5–0 vote.

Resolution 25‑71 (reappropriation): Chief Financial Officer Bill Bowen presented Resolution 25‑71, an annual request asking the Board of Supervisors to reappropriate the division’s audited FY25 end-of-year fund balance of $2,100,000. Bowen said $623,000 of that is tied to previously approved 'all-in' funding; staff proposed allocating the remaining $1,500,000 as follows: $600,000 for textbooks; $385,000 to create a CIP maintenance reserve; $300,000 to the health insurance fund; $75,000 for a sewer pump at the operations complex; $7,000 to repair the transportation building roof; $100,000 for white-fleet vehicle replacement; and $40,000 to build a walking path from a neighborhood to the Grafton Complex. The board moved and seconded the resolution and the roll-call vote recorded affirmative responses.

Policy revisions: The board considered and approved revisions to Policy Section C (General School Administration). Members raised a formatting/duplicate wording question that staff said would be corrected; the substantive content was approved in a 5–0 roll-call vote.

Closed session: The board then moved to convene in closed session under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Va. Code §2.2‑3700 and §2.2‑3711) to discuss personnel matters including a prospective candidate for associate director of capital projects, discipline of specific employees and the status of investigations of employees on administrative leave; the motion to enter closed session passed 5–0.

The board recorded no dissenting votes in the public record on these items.