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Votes at a glance: Board adopts resolutions, bonds authorization, MOUs and consent agenda
Summary
At its April 15 meeting the board adopted the AAPI Heritage Month resolution, authorized sale of Measure 2024 general obligation bonds (Series A), approved multiple MOUs and agreements, adopted the 2025-26 meeting calendar, and approved the consent agenda of routine items.
The New Haven Unified School District board approved a slate of resolutions, agreements and routine items on April 15.
Key actions adopted by voice vote included:
- Resolution No. 0502425 proclaiming May 2025 as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (motion and adoption recorded; motion carried).
- Resolution No. 0522425 authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds, Election of 2024 Series A (motion and adoption recorded; motion carried).
- Resolution No. 0532425 designating May 2025 as New Haven employee recognition month (motion carried).
- Approval of a memorandum of understanding with nonprofit user groups granted legacy status (Trustee Gonzalez recused from that vote).
- Approval of staff recommendations to rename Bernard White campus and rebrand the independent-studies program as New Haven Academy (motion carried).
- Designation of Hillview Crest Elementary School as a coding and robotics magnet school (motion carried).
- Approval of the proposed 2025-26 board meeting calendar with follow-up to schedule a late-August governance study session and mandatory ethics training.
- Approval of a physical education waiver for a DSIS student and adoption of the NHUSD Expanded Learning Opportunities Program sustainability plan for 2025-28.
- Ratification of multiple memoranda of understanding and contracts for psychoeducational and behavioral assessments (Chang and Associates; Christina Keefe; Mind by Design; Deborah Burns McKowski) and a three-year agreement with Abnormal Security Corporation for cloud email security services.
- Approval of consent agenda items 13.1 through 13.26.
Most motions were adopted by voice vote and the minutes record "motion carries" after each item; the transcript does not contain a roll-call vote tally listing individual trustees' votes for every item. Trustee Gonzalez announced a recusal on one item because of a familial conflict. No item was tabled or failed at this meeting.
The board adjourned at 7:29 p.m.
