Mount Pleasant Area SD board approves personnel items and three-year business manager contract

At the June 3 special meeting, the Mount Pleasant Area SD board approved multiple personnel and contract items by voice vote. The chair called for motions and the board approved the items without roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript.

Items approved that evening included the board’s acceptance of a list of mentor teachers and a related medical-leave request (items 3.1 and 3.2). The motion to approve items 3.1 and 3.2 was moved by "Mister Coppula" and seconded by "Mister Seeder," and the transcript records a voice vote with members saying "aye."

Under Section 10 the board approved a chief of police agreement carrying effective dates 07/01/2026 through 06/30/2029 "as presented" (motion by Mister Poole, second by Mister Cedar) and approved an Act 93 agreement effective for the 2627 school year "as presented" (moved and seconded per the agenda). Finally, the board approved a business manager agreement with James Deritsa for the period 07/01/2026 to 06/30/2031; the motion was moved by Missus Lopez and seconded by Mister Bridal, and the transcript records approval by voice vote.

The transcript does not provide a roll‑call vote tally or recorded dissent for these items; approvals were recorded by the board’s voice votes. The business manager’s name appears in the agenda text as James Deritsa; the transcript also contains a near-identical spelling variant earlier in the meeting. The board took no additional public action on these contracts at the special meeting beyond the approvals recorded in the minutes-like portion of the transcript.