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Port Jervis board approves consent agenda, personnel hires, contracts and multiple routine motions
Summary
The Port Jervis board approved minutes, special-education committee recommendations, personnel appointments, numerous grants and contracts, textbook adoptions, cooperative purchasing participation, and other routine action items during its May 6 meeting.
The Port Jervis City School District Board of Education approved the consent agenda and a slate of action items on May 6, moving multiple personnel and operational matters by voice vote.
The consent agenda included approval of the April 21, 2026 minutes and recommendations from the Committee on Special Education and the Committee on Preschool Special Education. Personnel items approved included new teacher appointments Megan Mito and Josie Wilson; school nurses Deborah Donado and Daisy Martinez; computer health desk aide Benjamin Leberg; and summer school substitute staff.
Among action items approved were the 2026–27 Board meeting calendar; a Port Jervis High School educational travel trip to Yellowstone (April 19–25, 2027); new physics and English curricular resources for K–12; Port Jervis Education Foundation grant ($3,337) and a Greater Pike Community Foundation grant ($1,000) to the high school music department; a resolution raising substitute pay rates; health and welfare services contracts with Middletown City School District and Ocean Central School District for 2025–26; cooperative purchasing through the Orange-Ulster cooperative bid committee; an agreement with ADA act for prevention and teen intervention services for 2026–27; Marshall & Sterling as consultants for the district’s workers’ compensation self-insurer plan; capital project change orders; and a resolution approving additional election inspectors for the May 19 vote and board election.
The board also conducted a first reading of Policy 7131, which would remove a 10-student limit and geographic restrictions on nonresident tuition-paying students; the first reading was brought to the floor and recorded.
