Quakertown Community School District holds reorganization meeting; elects O'Donnell president, Reimers vice president

The Quakertown Community School District Board of School Directors held a special reorganization meeting Dec. 16, 2025, electing Dave O'Donnell as president and Brian Reimers as vice president and approving several contracts and committee assignments.

The board opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and roll call. The chair announced that an executive session would follow to discuss legal matters and the transportation request for proposals timeline and stated that "this meeting is being recorded by the board secretary and tonight's meeting is being live streamed and recorded." The chair also confirmed that several members had been re-sworn into office earlier: "So myself, miss Rogers, miss Hahn, and miss Marola were all re sworn back in so we are official officially official."

Mister Spear nominated Dave O'Donnell for president; Mister Lyons seconded the nomination, O'Donnell accepted, and the board approved the nomination by voice vote. Similarly, the board moved to nominate Brian Reimers as vice president. Reimers was not present to accept immediately, but members agreed to proceed; the nomination passed by voice vote. The board also completed committee and liaison assignments: a member elected themselves as the district's representative to the Upper Bucks County Technical School Joint Operating Committee and later John Kern was elected as the alternate; the board elected Brian Reimers as the Quakertown liaison representative to the Bucks County Intermediate Unit for the term described in the transcript as "2526 25 to 28 term."

The board then moved to approve action items from the Dec. 2 reorganization and regular meeting. The items listed in the motion included professional staff unit pay approval; an affiliation agreement between Albright College and Quakertown Community School District; a contract between IU13 and Quakertown Community School District; a pre-K counts memorandum of understanding; an agreement with Lifespan for 2025–2026; and policy committee recommendations as presented. A member asked whether a previously tabled item remained tabled; another speaker advised that the last meeting "was a nullity" and recommended retabling the item if necessary. The motion to approve the listed items passed by voice vote; the transcript records members saying "Aye" but does not include a roll-call tally.

There were no public commenters signed up. The board moved to adjourn after completing its business.

The board scheduled an executive session after the meeting to discuss legal matters and the transportation RFP timeline. The transcript does not record further details about the legal matters, the RFP timeline, any formal roll-call vote tallies, or whether Reimers later formally accepted the vice presidency in a separate recorded segment.

Next procedural steps noted in the meeting: follow-up on any items that may need to be re-tabled given the prior meeting's status and the scheduled executive session; no dates for additional meetings were announced in the recorded segment.