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Board approves routine business, hires, agreements and a boiler purchase; roll-call votes noted
Summary
At the Nov. 20 meeting the board approved minutes and bills (general fund bills totaling $940,361), multiple personnel hires and clearances, affiliation agreements for student-teacher placements, an anonymous $2,000 donation for warm-up jackets, and a $21,111.37 purchase of a Kamasai high-efficiency boiler for Joe Walker Elementary; the FFA chaperone trip passed on a roll call vote of 8-0-1.
The McGuffey Area School Board moved through a queue of routine agenda motions on Nov. 20, approving multiple personnel actions, agreements, donations and a facilities purchase.
Key votes and approvals included:
- Approval of the Oct. 16 regular meeting minutes (motion carried). - Approval of the general fund warrants (checks 81444—81578) totaling $940,361 as submitted (voice vote). - Approval of the food service schedule (checks 7817—7826) for $161,592.03 (voice vote). - Adoption of the treasurer's report for October 2025 (voice vote). - An affiliation agreement to host student teachers from West Virginia University, effective Jan. 1, 2026—Dec. 31, 2030 (motion carried). - Approval of Penn West University student-teacher placements (motion carried). - Acceptance of an anonymous $2,000 donation to pay for warm-up jackets for a team (motion carried). - Approval to begin a crocheting club at the middle school (motion carried). - Hiring approvals including Jessica Hickman as a speech-language pathologist and several substitute/driver appointments (motions carried). - Approval for chaperones (Renee Cambruzzi and John Leisure) to attend the Pennsylvania Farm Show with McGuffey FFA (roll-call vote recorded as 8-0-1). - Payment approval to Weiss Burkhardt Kramer LLC for invoices totaling $4,051.57 (motion carried with recorded opposition/abstention on the vote). - Purchase of a Kamasai high-efficiency boiler for Joe Walker Elementary for $21,111.37 from capital improvement funds (motion moved, seconded; vote recorded as carried with at least one abstention).
The board also approved a memorandum of understanding with the Pennsylvania State Police and several minor policy and procedural items. Where roll-call tallies were recorded on the transcript, they are noted above; most routine motions were carried by voice vote.
