Board ratifies support-staff tentative agreement, approves policies, donations and extends superintendents contract

At its June 9 meeting the South Windsor Board of Education approved a series of procedural and substantive items, including the ratification of a tentative agreement with the South Windsor Educational Support Staff, adoption of multiple nondiscrimination policies, several donations, and a one-year extension of Superintendent Dr. Kate Carters contract.

Motions and outcomes: Mr. Armstrong moved to approve minutes of the May 28 regular meeting and Mr. Caldwell moved approval of minutes of the June 1 special meeting; both motions passed unanimously. Mr. Mackey moved to add the ratification of a tentative agreement with the South Windsor Educational Support Staff to the amended agenda; that motion passed. Later in the meeting Mr. Mackey moved to ratify the tentative agreement reached with secretaries and paraeducators; Mrs. Manneili had served as the boards representative to negotiations and the board voted to ratify the agreement unanimously.

Policy actions: The board took individual second readings and approved BOE policy 103 (non-discrimination community), 4004 (non-discrimination personnel), 4005 (prohibition of sex discrimination and sexual harassment for personnel), 5025 (non-discrimination students), and 5026 (prohibition of sex discrimination and sexual harassment for students). Each policy motion was moved and seconded and passed unanimously.

Donations and personnel: The board accepted $1,500 from the American Red Cross to support scholarships at South Windsor High School and $10,250 from the Timothy Edwards PTO for that middle school; both donations were approved unanimously. Mr. Caldwell moved to extend Superintendent Dr. Kate Carters contract for one additional year and to authorize the board chair to sign the related contract; the motion passed unanimously.

Executive session: The board voted to adjourn to executive session to discuss 20262027 non-union salary recommendations and invited Dr. Carter to join; the televised portion of the meeting concluded after the motion passed.

What was not specified: The transcript records unanimous passage for these items but does not provide detailed vote-by-name tallies for every motion; where the record says "unanimous" the article reports that outcome rather than inventing individual votes.

Provenance: each of the motions and votes is recorded in the meeting transcript under the corresponding agenda segments; the boards packet and negotiated tentative agreement are referenced in the meeting but are not reproduced in the transcript.