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Board approves consent agenda, appoints audit committee members and authorizes contracts
Summary
The school board approved the consent agenda and a series of routine motions including appointments to the audit committee, a side letter with the CSEA teacher's aide unit, authorization for technology DPAs, a SEQRA determination for a bond project, and a piggyback transportation contract with Royal Coach Lines; staff reported $12,000,000 in bonds issued and a $500,000 grant for electrical upgrades.
The Mamaroneck Union Free School District Board of Education approved a broad consent agenda and several routine but consequential actions at its meeting, including committee appointments, labor and procurement authorizations, and capital‑project procedural steps.
The board unanimously approved the consent agenda (items A–G), which included prior meeting minutes, personnel actions, agreements and amendments, change orders, the treasurer’s June 2025 report, acceptance of gifts and donations (including a $10,000 gift to an Elise Herz ceramic fund), and other standard items. A motion and second were recorded and the chair called for the approval.
Among discrete actions, the board appointed David Carlos, Michael Davidson and community member Rena Beater to the audit committee for the 2025–26 school year and named Arianna Cohen and Althea Delcedo Makish as alternates; motions were made, seconded and approved. The board also authorized a side letter of agreement with the CSEA teacher’s aide unit concerning health benefits in retirement and approved a revised compensation and benefits statement for unaffiliated employees for 2025–26.
On contracting and procurement, the board approved an Article 5 intermunicipal arrangement authorizing designated ROC attorneys to negotiate and approve data processing agreements (DPAs) for software and technology resources and authorized piggybacking onto an out‑of‑district transportation contract with Royal Coach Lines, Inc.; staff said piggybacking saves about $68,000 per year on the referenced bus. The board also declared itself lead agency for environmental review of a bond project at Mamaroneck High School and read the resolution stating the project is a Type II action under the state environmental quality review act as read into the record.
District staff provided financial and facilities updates that contextualized the approvals. As staff described, the district issued $12,000,000 in bonds in June to fund the first phase of the 2024 capital projects and has completed many summer maintenance and capital tasks across schools. “We issued $12,000,000 in bonds in June to pay for the first phase of those projects,” a staff member reported. Staff also announced they were awarded a $500,000 grant to upgrade electrical capacity on the Palmer side of the high school to support air conditioning expansion.
Other approved items included authorization for out‑of‑state field trips for the high school debate club (staff said most transportation costs are fundraised or donated, with adviser stipends counted as district cost), a stipulation of settlement concerning payment of salaries (number 04841), and the establishment of a $650 petty cash fund for Chartwells for 2025–26 to cover register cash needs. The board closed business by noting upcoming study sessions (Sept. 16) and additional meetings in October and then adjourned.
Votes were recorded as motions with seconds and the chair called for approval on each listed item; the transcript records motions, seconds and the chair’s “All in favor” confirmations throughout the consent and action items.
