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McKeesport Area SD board lists multiple contracts, charter renewal and program agreements on consent-style agenda
Summary
The board read a consent-style agenda on Oct. 10 that included a treasurer's report, contract and personnel items, a proposed five-year charter term for Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny, a $30,000/year agreement with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, energy and lighting contracts, and several personnel and policy items; no formal votes were recorded in the transcript.
At its Oct. 10 open meeting, the McKeesport Area School District board proceeded through a multi-item consent-style agenda that listed financial reports, personnel recommendations and several agreements for board action.
Items read into the record included acknowledgement of the treasurer’s report for August 2024, approval of minutes from the Sept. 5 and Sept. 12 meetings, approval of the list of bills and property tax refunds, and a contract proposal between the district and the McKeesport Educational Support Professional Association (subject to solicitor review).
The agenda also included a proposed five-year charter term for Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny (07/01/2025–07/30/2030) conditioned on continued cooperation regarding residency-based tuition assessment; board member Matthew Holtzman asked the solicitor whether five-year charter terms are required, and the solicitor said he would check.
Other items listed for board action included an agreement with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit to provide PIMS state reporting and child accounting services at $30,000 per year, a Penn State University cooperative student-teaching agreement (08/01/2024–06/30/2029 pending solicitor review), approval of the McKeesport Area Technology Center occupational advisory list, and a Duquesne Light Company agreement for outdoor lighting at $147.63 per month. An energy services agreement with UGI was read as a multi-year renewal term with pricing described in the transcript as "minus 5¢ per BGH." Also listed were surplus equipment sale by highest bid, student-discipline resolutions, driver list additions, first readings of several board policies, an MOU with Youth Guidance for the Becoming a Man program (effective 07/01–07/30/2026), substitute-rate updates, facilities pricing, a leave of absence for Brandy Merriweather (10/21/2024–02/03/2025), and the personnel green sheet.
The transcript does not record roll-call approval votes for these items during the Oct. 10 session; the presiding officer called for a motion to adjourn at the end of the agenda, members voiced a motion and a second, and the meeting concluded.
What happens next: Where the clerk or agenda said items were "board action to approve," the transcript does not show whether those approvals were taken on Oct. 10; the solicitor was asked to confirm whether five-year charters are required and said he would check.
