Board approves routine motions: minutes, finances, personnel, MOA with nurses and updated safety plan
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Summary
At its Dec. 17 meeting the Oceanside Board approved minutes, financial reports, multiple personnel recommendations, a memorandum of agreement with nurses (including a $5,000 signing bonus), and an updated 2025 districtwide safety plan that adds staff requirements such as knowing AED locations.
The Oceanside Union Free School District Board of Education took a series of routine but substantive votes at its Dec. 17 meeting, approving minutes, financial reports, personnel recommendations across categories, a memorandum of agreement with the nurses’ chapter that includes a $5,000 signing bonus, and an updated districtwide safety plan.
The board approved the minutes of the Nov. 19, 2025 regular meeting by voice vote. It then voted to accept financial reports, treasury reports, transfers and internal claims as submitted. Multiple personnel motions passed by voice vote, including professional personnel recommendations; civil service personnel recommendations; hourly employee recommendations; 2025–26 co-curricular appointments; and DACA employee recommendations as listed on the agenda. The board also approved the recommendation of the CSC/CPSC chairperson.
On labor relations, the board moved to approve a memorandum of agreement between the district and the nurses/occupational therapist bargaining unit. Dr. Harrington and other speakers described a $5,000 signing bonus for school nurses intended to assist recruitment and retention. A subsequent speaker said two newly hired nurses will be eligible to receive the signing bonus after a one-year start date (speaker referenced payment timing as "next January 2027").
The board approved an update to the 2025–26 districtwide safety plan, with staff noting the revision responds to a new regulation requiring staff to know AED locations in school buildings and that students will be instructed (via physical education) about where AEDs are located. The motion to approve the updated safety plan passed by voice vote.
All recorded motions described above were passed by voice vote; the transcript records the motions, seconds, and the chair’s calls for "All in favor? Aye," followed by "Motion passes." Individual roll-call tallies or named votes were not recorded in the public transcript.
Next steps: the district will implement the safety-plan revisions, post required materials on the website, and begin the signing-bonus process for eligible nursing hires per the MOA.