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Board approves consent agenda, files SEQRA declaration and advances policy adoptions
Summary
The board approved consent items including SEQRA declarations for capital projects and directed submission of a capital-reserve proposition to appear on the May 19 ballot; the board also waived a second reading and adopted the concussion-management policy on first reading.
The Board of Education approved multiple consent-agenda resolutions and advanced several policy items during the meeting.
Chair read a SEQRA resolution declaring the La Mercede Unified Union Free School District board to be lead agency and describing listed capital projects as Type II actions that require no further State Environmental Quality Review Act review; the board prepared to forward the resolution and related correspondence to state agencies. Later, the board approved a resolution directing submission of a capital reserve fund proposition for the Mariner Community Preschool District to appear on the annual district meeting and election ballot on May 19, 2026. Chair also instructed the district clerk to insert the prescribed proposition language in the election notice.
The board received several first readings of revised policies (student records, reorganizational meeting timing, charging school meals) and Chair proposed waiving the second reading and adopting policy 5425, concussion management, on first reading to comply with New York State Education Department and New York State Department of Health guidance. A motion and second were recorded and the Chair called for the vote; the transcript records assent as "All in favor." The transcript does not include individual roll-call vote tallies.
The board posted key administrative and voter information: the formal budget adoption is scheduled for April 21 and the public vote on the budget and trustees will be on May 19, 2026; school voter registration and absentee/early ballot deadlines were announced along with transportation-application deadlines and distance-eligibility rules for private/parochial students.
No public comments are recorded in the transcript. The meeting then moved to adjournment following a motion, a second and an affirmative voice action.
