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Sharon Board unanimously approves two tuition admissions and waives residency bylaw for one family
Summary
At a virtual Oct. 2 special meeting, the Sharon Board of Education unanimously accepted Iris Wood as a tuition student and waived bylaw 5118 to allow Becky Laliberte’s two children to attend Sharon Center School through June 30, 2025; the children will be tuition students thereafter.
The Sharon Board of Education, meeting virtually on Oct. 2, 2024, voted unanimously to accept two nonresident admissions and to waive a residency bylaw for one family.
At 6:02 PM the board recorded attendance and opened the special session. The first formal action came when Board member Nancy Hegy Martin moved, and Anne Vance seconded, to accept Iris Wood as a tuition student; the motion carried unanimously.
Later in the meeting, Board member Philip O’Reilly moved, and Anne Vance seconded, to waive bylaw 5118 (Resident and Non-Resident Students) on behalf of Becky Laliberte and her two children for the period Oct. 2, 2024 through June 30, 2025; the board approved the waiver unanimously. Immediately afterward, Nancy Hegy Martin moved, seconded by Kathleen Visconti, to accept Laliberte’s children to attend Sharon Center School for the same time frame, with the communication that they will become tuition students after June 30, 2025. That motion also passed unanimously.
The recorded votes did not list individual tallies in the minutes; the meeting attendance lists five board members (Doug Cahill, Anne Vance, Philip O’Reilly, Nancy Hegy Martin, Kathleen Visconti), and each motion is recorded as "carried unanimously." Present for the meeting were Superintendent Melony Brady-Shanley, Principal Carol Tomkalski, Lynn Kearcher and Board Clerk Cindy Webb, who signed the submitted minutes.
The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn at 6:18 PM, which the board adopted by unanimous vote. The minutes list the actions taken but do not record statements of justification for the residency waiver or details about the family’s circumstances.
The waiver references bylaw 5118 (Resident and Non-Resident Students); the minutes do not provide the board’s rationale beyond the recorded motions or any staff report text. Any further inquiries about the admissions or the bylaw waiver should be directed to the Sharon School District office for supporting documents or future board records.
