Southmoreland School District board administers oaths to four directors and completes officer appointments
Summary
At its Dec. 2 reorganization meeting the Southmoreland School District board administered the oath of office to four newly elected directors and completed nominations and appointments for several officer roles; formal roll-call and voice votes were used for temporary chair, officer slots and liaison appointments.
Southmoreland School District held its annual reorganization meeting on Dec. 2, 2025, at Southmoreland Middle School, where the board administered the oath of office to the four newly elected directors and completed the slate of officer nominations and several appointments.
A district official read certificates and swore in Melissa Moore, Stephanie Geier, David Thomas and Nathan Alexander as school board directors, asking them to sign oath paperwork before taking their seats. "So at this time, if you members would come here forward and stand together," the official said while administering the oath.
The board then conducted nominations for temporary chair and the one-year officer posts required by the reorganization. Multiple nominations were placed on the record: a member said, "I nominate Scott Yotze," and roll-call and voice procedures followed. The transcript records the chair nomination being resolved by voice/roll procedure and the temporary chair assuming the dais to conduct subsequent officer elections.
Nominations for president and vice president followed. After the initial roll call narrowed candidates, a runoff-style recast produced a close result for vice president (announced as "Mister Olson"). For the PSBA liaison and Southmoreland Education Foundation (SEF) representative, nominations were made and the board appointed Dave Thomas as PSBA liaison by voice vote and selected Mr. Alexander as SEF representative by roll call (six votes to three), as recorded by the secretary.
Board members discussed signature-authority housekeeping to reflect newly elected officers. A motion to authorize updating account signatures and forwarding the notice to the secretary of state and other offices was put on the table and acknowledged.
The meeting proceeded to other regular business, including approval of the personnel log and a later executive session. The personnel log for Dec. 2 was approved with the secretary stating that salaries and clearances were on file.
Next steps: the board directed administrative staff to implement the ministerial tasks required by these personnel and signature updates and to prepare the calendar and notices requested during reorganization.
