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Rocky Hill Board of Education adopts $60.2 million budget, confirms two administrators and approves consent items
Summary
The Rocky Hill Board of Education unanimously adopted a $60,225,193 operating budget for fiscal 2026–27, approved a $300,000 capital program, named Charity Smith Special Education Supervisor and Ryan Cleary Director of Human Capital and Leadership Development, and approved consent items including a meal-price increase and a Sodexo contract renewal.
The Rocky Hill Board of Education on June 18 unanimously adopted a $60,225,193 operating budget for fiscal year 2026–2027 and approved a $300,000 capital improvement program, confirmed two administrative appointments and cleared consent-calendar items that included a student meal price increase and renewal of the district's Sodexo food-service contract.
Board Chair Jessica Loffredo reconvened the regular meeting at 7:01 p.m. after an earlier executive session. Co-Chair Maria Mennella moved "be it resolved that the Rocky Hill Board hereby adopts the Fiscal year 2026-2027 Operating Budget in the amount of $60,225,193, in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Budget Resolution adopted by the Rocky Hill Town Council on May 18, 2026." The motion was seconded by Tom Cosker and approved unanimously. The minutes record the motion and note the Town Council budget resolution adopted May 18, 2026 as the governing fiscal framework.
The board also moved to adopt the 2026'—7 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) of $300,000; the CIP motion was moved by Maria Mennella, seconded by Tom Cosker and approved unanimously.
On personnel matters, the board voted to appoint Charity Smith as Special Education Supervisor (motion by Maria Mennella, seconded by Jay Chhabra) and Ryan Cleary as Director of Human Capital and Leadership Development (motion by Maria Mennella, seconded by Bryan Addy). Both appointments passed unanimously. The minutes do not specify start dates, salary figures or contract terms for either appointment.
The consent calendar passed without opposition and included approval of a student meal price increase (amount not specified in the minutes), renewal of the Sodexo food service contract (terms not specified) and a formal request that Energia develop and publicize a request for proposals for an Energy Performance Contract. The minutes record that Tom Cosker moved to approve the consent calendar and Jay Chhabra seconded; the vote was unanimous.
The agenda also recorded routine approvals of prior meeting minutes and a revision to Policy #5800 (Meal Charging Policy), the latter moved by Maria Mennella and seconded by Brian Clemens and approved unanimously; the text of the policy revisions is not included in the minutes.
The record shows the board entered an executive session to review the superintendent's contract and then returned to open session. The minutes indicate the executive session was entered at 6:21 p.m. and ended at 6:37 p.m.; the meeting record also lists a 7:00 p.m. meeting start in the header and reconvenes the regular meeting at 7:01 p.m. (the minutes contain this timing inconsistency). The executive-session motion was moved by Maria Mennella and seconded by Bryan Addy and recorded as passing unanimously.
The meeting closed at 8:07 p.m. with a motion to adjourn moved by Maria Mennella and seconded by Brian Clemens. All recorded votes on the visible motions were unanimous. Where the minutes omit details (for example, the meal price amount, Sodexo contract terms, and appointment contract terms), this article notes those items as "not specified" in the minutes.
