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Board adopts memoriam resolutions for several former district employees

Utica City School District Board of Education · July 22, 2026
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Summary

The Utica City School District Board read and adopted resolutions honoring multiple former employees — including longtime teachers and staff — and formally saved those resolutions to district records after a moment of silence and voice vote.

The Utica City School District Board opened its July meeting by reading a series of resolutions mourning the deaths of former district employees and a former board member. The board documented its sympathy and moved that the resolutions be saved in district records.

Names read into the record included Mary Lourdes Contento Barker (about 32 years as a teacher), George Burch (about 21 years, auto‑mechanics and technology), Dolores Clayton (about 35 years), Rosario Dalia/Delia (former board member), Rosemary McCaldi Mastroianni (about 29 years), Loretta Espina Leach McCaldi (about 38 years as a librarian), Cheryl Ruth Katz Rundle (about 24 years as a teacher and special‑education committee chair), and Judith Helen Schneer (about 15 years as a nurse). After a moment of silence the board took a voice vote to adopt the resolutions; the motion carried.