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Berlin Central board moves into executive session as $26.3 million budget revote remains open
Summary
The Berlin Central School District board met June 18, heard a superintendent reminder that the $26.3 million budget revote was open until 9 p.m., approved routine minutes and the consent agenda, and went into executive session to receive personnel updates and the pending budget results; the transcript ends before results were announced.
The Berlin Central School District Board of Education met for its regular session and recessed into executive session while a budget revote remained open.
Superintendent (name not specified in the transcript) told attendees that voting on the district's $26.3 million (described in the meeting as $26.3 million) budget revote was open until 9:00 p.m. and encouraged anyone watching the livestream to vote in person at the high school before polls close. "While there's still an hour left that our budget revote for 26 million 26.3 million budget is voting is still open till 9:00," the superintendent said, urging viewers to stop by for the vote.
Why it matters: the revote determines the district operating budget for the coming year and was the most consequential outstanding item on the agenda.
Before adjourning to executive session, the board handled routine business: it voted to resume public session and approved several sets of minutes (motions to approve minutes for items A, C and D passed on a roll call; members voted to pull the May 20 minutes for separate consideration) and then approved the full consent agenda (motion by Derek; second by Rebecca). The transcript records roll-call-style responses naming Penny, Elaine, Kim, Frank, Rebecca and Derek as voting "yes" on those motions.
The board president announced an executive session related to personnel and said members expected to return around 9:15 p.m. to read the results of the budget vote aloud. A member (identified in the transcript as Don) was to provide the results. The transcript ends before results were announced, so the outcome of the budget revote is not included in the record.
The board scheduled its reorganizational and regular meeting for Wednesday, July 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the district auditorium and set another regular meeting for Tuesday, August 18 at 7:00 p.m. The board went into executive session; no final budget result was published in the available transcript.
