Palmyra board approves staffing consent agenda; Ellie Gerhardt to step into assistant principal role

The Palmyra Board of School Directors approved the staffing and administration consent agenda at its Dec. 4 regular meeting, the chair announced.

Before the vote a board member highlighted one personnel item: staff congratulated Ellie Gerhardt, an eighth-grade English teacher, who will step into a middle-school assistant principal role. During remarks a board member said, "She was phenomenal with him," describing Gerhardt's work with a special-needs student. (Transcript.)

The consent agenda motion was moved, seconded and passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition. The chair noted that minutes had been distributed and, in keeping with a streamlined approach, minutes were approved without a formal motion after hearing no corrections.

The board announced there was nothing to report for executive session and adjourned the meeting. The items approved in the staffing consent agenda were described in the distributed agenda packet; the transcript does not provide a full itemized list in-line, so the specific personnel actions beyond Gerhardt's recognition are recorded in the official consent packet and minutes.