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Warren Hills board approves personnel hires, bills and special-education contracts
Summary
At its Jan. 27 meeting the Warren Hills Regional Board of Education approved personnel appointments including coaches and substitutes, authorized multiple field trips, and passed budget items totaling $1.73 million plus two special-education tuition contracts totaling $110,259.45 and home/bedside instruction agreements.
Warren Hills Regional School District — The Warren Hills Regional Board of Education voted Jan. 27 to approve a slate of personnel appointments, travel requests and finance motions that included the board bill list, student activities bills, cafeteria bills and special-education contracts.
The board approved personnel motions I.1–I.3 after a motion by Molly Fraumeni and a second by Jean Hansen. Appointments included a JV baseball coach stipend of $4,431, the hiring of multiple substitute teachers at $130 per day and volunteer coaching assignments contingent on required paperwork. The board also recorded the resignation of paraprofessional Maria Del Pilar Romero Ramirez effective Jan. 30, 2026.
Under budget and finance motions (III.1–III.8), the board approved the bill list for Jan. 7–Jan. 27, 2026 in the amount of $1,733,167.20; the Student Activities bill list for Dec. 1–31, 2025 in the amount of $18,940.70; and cafeteria account bills for Oct. 1–Dec. 31, 2025 totaling $338,633.93. The board also approved transfers of $37,005.38 for December 2025.
The board approved two Special Education tuition contracts for the 2025–26 school year: The Center School contract for $69,346.20 (effective 11/1/25–6/30/26) and an East Mountain School/Carrier Clinic/ HMH placement for $40,913.25 (effective 1/8/26–6/30/26). The motions also included Home/Bedside Instruction Agreements with LearnWell at $63.10 per hour (plus a 33% administrative/preparation fee) for two identified students, and acceptance of donations of $400 and $15 through The American Online Giving Foundation (Benevity partner) for the Computer Science student activity pursuant to Policy 7230.
Education and policy motions, moved by Paula Merrill and seconded by Molly Fraumeni, affirmed that there were no reported HIB cases for middle or high school for 2025–26 and approved multiple field trips under Policy 2340 for Key Club, Peer Leadership, music groups, DECA, engineering and cheer competitions at listed destinations.
The motions carried on recorded roll calls with no nays reported; absent board members recorded in the minutes included Thomas Dufner, Lisa Marshall and Cory Piasecki.
The board held two executive sessions (beginning 6:38 p.m. and 7:42 p.m.) to discuss confidential matters including personnel and attorney-client privileged topics; no substantive details from executive sessions were released. The public meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
