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Riverview School District board approves routine finance, policy and personnel items and hears education, student-life reports
Summary
At its monthly meeting the Riverview School District board approved prior minutes, the treasurer's September reports, contractual memoranda for student services, board policies, and multiple personnel items; it also received education and student-life updates including a STEM grant purchase of VEX work cells.
The Riverview School District board approved a slate of routine business and personnel actions at its regular meeting this month, and heard extended reports on education and student life including a STEM grant purchase that added VEX robotic work cells to district classrooms.
Board members voted to approve minutes from Sept. 8, Sept. 15 and the combined Sept. 23 study session and voting minutes. They then approved the treasurer’s reports and related September fund statements, covering the general fund, athletic fund, food-service and student-activities funds, municipal and delinquent real-estate collections, Keystone collections and payroll-related receipts, and the Approval of Bills for Fund 10 for September 2025.
In a motion tied to the Riverview Capital Improvement Project, the board approved agreements and memoranda of understanding that included a student-specific service agreement with Holy Family Specialized Learning for the 2025–26 school year and an MOU with Big Smiles Pennsylvania to provide restorative dental services for students. The board also approved student-life items, among them budget outlines for student activities and a resolution (R2225-1) identifying the Riverview Music Booster Association (RMBA) as a civic and service association under the Local Options Small Games of Chance Act. The board approved facility use for a local coffee business to provide life-skills training at no cost to the district.
Education items approved included permission to donate or dispose of district property (46 sleds, 59 chairs and 25 tables), participation with Jeff Remington of Penn State on an AI-focused research grant intended to help build a pipeline from classroom to workforce, and a memorandum with the Riverview Education Association to create and hire a part-time (0.4 FTE) ESL teacher for the 2025–26 school year.
Under governance matters, the board approved a set of board policies as presented and approved a memorandum of understanding with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit for ESL translation and telephone interpretation services (contracts and service codes referenced in the meeting packet included vendor-specific items such as TransPerfect AI portal translation and telephone interpretation services).
Personnel actions approved by the board included the acceptance of the resignation due to retirement of Kathleen Linacre, a theater technician, effective Nov. 4, 2025; additions to the substitute and paraprofessional lists for the 2025–26 school year; approval of bus drivers through Allegheny Transportation Services for the school year; approvals of varsity and volunteer coaches pending required clearances; and an amendment to make the athletic director position full-time for the 2026 school year. All motions noted in the transcript were moved, seconded and recorded as passed in the meeting.
The board received a detailed student-life report from board member Antonio Perez, who summarized PTO activities, assemblies, school events (including an outdoor movie night with roughly 300 attendees), multiple extracurricular clubs, and noted a substantial grant from Arkon/Arkonic used to purchase VEX work cells for hands-on robotics instruction. The superintendent’s education update covered I-Ready diagnostic data meetings, assemblies and programming across elementary and secondary buildings, the PSAT administration for 11th grade, and scheduling for parent-teacher conferences on Nov. 3.
Solicitor Mr. Musconte reported that legal staff had reviewed various contracts and provided comments to district administrators and had handled a student-discipline matter and personnel issues. The board chair disclosed that an executive session to review the superintendent evaluation and a personnel matter had been held at 6:00 p.m. before the public meeting.
Votes at a glance: all formal motions recorded in the transcript were approved by voice vote during the meeting; the transcript records aye/second responses but does not provide a named roll-call tally for each motion.
The meeting adjourned at 7:46 p.m.
