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Utica City School District board adopts superintendent's report, ratifies contracts and authorizes CIP change orders
Summary
The board adopted the superintendent’s report, which included an extended field trip for Proctor High School, two facilities-use agreements, ratification of a collective-bargaining agreement with the Central & Northern New York Building and Trades Council (AFL-CIO), and authorization of change orders for the district’s $65 million 2024 CIP Phase I.
The Utica City School District Board of Education voted to adopt the superintendent’s report after Superintendent Dr. Spence asked the board to withdraw item S187 and to correct typographical errors on several agenda entries.
Dr. Spence, the superintendent, told the board he would “withdraw S187” and noted “there was a typographical error” on related agenda items, then pointed the board to newly inserted pages 36–37 containing several items for action. Chair Joe asked the board to consider the report as revised.
The items listed on the new pages included: an application for an extended field trip for Proctor High School to attend the statewide Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute; a facilities-use agreement with the Fraternal Order of Eagles for Eagle Hills Golf Course; a facilities-use agreement with the City of Utica for Valley View Golf Course; ratification of a collective-bargaining agreement with the Central and Northern New York Building and Trades Council (AFL-CIO); and authorization of change orders for the district’s 2024 capital improvement program (Phase I), budgeted at $65,000,000.
After brief procedural discussion and a request from one member for better lead time on annual athletic contracts, the board voted to adopt the superintendent’s report with the additional two pages. The chair called for a voice vote and members answered in the affirmative; the motion carried.
The board did not provide further detail in the meeting on the dollar amounts for the collective-bargaining ratification or the specific change-order totals; those details were listed in the board packet and were not read into the record during the motion. The superintendent and staff said they would correct the typographical items noted and proceed with the listed approvals.
