Montgomery Township Board ratifies settlement, accepts FY2025 audit and approves omnibus agenda

The Montgomery Township Board of Education voted Jan. 27 to adopt action agenda items 1.1 through 4.6 in a single omnibus motion that included the board’s acceptance of the FY2025 audit and ratification of a settlement agreement added as a walk-on personnel item.

Board Chair (name used in meeting) called for the motion to adopt the items; a board member moved and the motion was seconded. During the subsequent roll call, most members registered affirmative votes. Several members announced abstentions or recusals for particular line items: one member said they would abstain on agenda item 4.4, another announced an abstention for items 3.16 and 3.17, and a board member identified as recused noted they would not participate in votes on items 4.1–4.6. The chair stated the motion carried.

The walk-on resolution read into the record (item 4.6) states that the Montgomery Township Board of Education and the Montgomery Township Education Association voluntarily agreed to settle disputes concerning successor collective negotiations for the 2025–2026 through 2027–2028 school years; the resolution references Public Employers’ Relations Commission (PERC) docket numbers CO2026-12 and CU2026-004N and authorizes the board president and business administrator to execute the settlement agreement.

Also included in the adopted omnibus were routine procedural approvals of prior meeting minutes and the formal acceptance of the independent auditor’s reports (see separate article). Where board members recorded abstentions or recusals, they specified which numbered agenda items were affected rather than declining the entire omnibus motion.

The board did not receive public comment on action items during the designated comment period. The meeting concluded after additional reports and a public thank-you to transportation staff.

What happens next: execution of the settlement agreement is authorized by the resolution language; specific implementation steps for the settlement and any details about contract language to be finalized were not read aloud during the open meeting and were not available in the public portion of the meeting record.