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York Board of Education unanimously approves routine minutes, personnel actions, substitute pay and a city-school resolution
Summary
At its April 13 meeting, the York Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to approve prior minutes and bills, accept a staff resignation, ratify two teacher contracts for 2026-27, authorize a girls wrestling cooperative with McCool, set substitute pay at $170 per day, and adopt Resolution 2026-10 with the City of York.
The York Public Schools Board of Education met on April 13, 2026, in the superintendent’s office and unanimously approved a set of routine administrative and personnel items, including two teacher contracts, a cooperative athletics agreement and a new substitute pay rate for the 2026-27 school year.
Board member Alex Hildebrand moved to approve the minutes from the March 23, 2026 meeting; Board member Alison North seconded the motion, and the roll-call vote recorded all listed members in favor. The board then voted to approve bills and checks for payment after a motion from Board member Matt Holthe, seconded by Brian Tonniges.
The board accepted the resignation of Levi Loofe and recorded appreciation for his years of service after a motion by Brian Tonniges and a second by Pepper Papineau; the motion passed unanimously. The board approved two teacher contracts for 2026-27: Mason Hiemstra, listed as YHS PE with contract classification A-0 (moved by Alison North; seconded by Alex Hildebrand), and Jesse Herndon, listed as YHS Computer Science with contract classification A-0 (moved by Matt Holthe; seconded by Pepper Papineau). Both contract approvals passed on roll-call votes with all listed members recorded as voting yes.
On athletics, the board approved a cooperative girls-wrestling agreement with McCool after a motion from Brian Tonniges and a second by Matt Holthe. The board also set substitute teacher pay for 2026-27 at $170 per day after a motion from Alison North and a second from Matt Holthe; that motion likewise passed on a unanimous roll-call vote.
Finally, the board approved Resolution 2026-10, described in the agenda as a joint resolution between the City of York and York Public Schools; Pepper Papineau moved the resolution and Alison North seconded. The motion passed on a roll-call vote with all listed board members recorded voting yes.
The meeting included agenda items noting reports from York FFA, YHS Speech and a March budget update on the agenda, though no substantive report text appears in the transcript. Announcements were made and the meeting was adjourned at 6:19 p.m.
Actions recorded in the minutes were procedural and routine; no contested or split votes were recorded in the transcript.
