Votes at a glance: Middletown board approves routine business, upholds two disciplinary decisions; three agenda amendments fail or pass as recorded

At its Jan. 15 meeting the Middletown City School District Board completed a slate of routine actions and several substantive votes.

Approved items and routine motions
- Approval of the regular meeting minutes for 12/11/2026 and the board workshop minutes of Jan. 8 (motions moved and seconded; approvals recorded).
- Instructional personnel memorandum (14b, items 1–15), non‑instructional personnel memorandum (14c, items 1–12), financial memorandum (15d, items 1–6), special services memorandum (13e, items 1–2) and change orders (10f, items 1–2) for the Twin Towers addition/alteration project were presented and approved; change orders include replacing four electric panels and testing primary service entrance cables.
- Adoption of the 2025–2026 Board of Education goals and the 2025–2026 Board of Education norms after roll‑call votes.

Disciplinary appeals
- The board adopted a resolution upholding the superintendent’s disciplinary decision regarding student number 1300154 after board consideration of a parent appeal; at least one board member abstained and the motion passed.
- The board upheld the superintendent’s decision regarding student number 1511073 after motion and second; the transcript records one exception but the motion passed.

Failed/contested amendments
- An amendment to release the outside investigative report dated 10/24/2025 (motioned by a board member and detailed in the public agenda amendment) failed in a roll call because it did not receive the two‑thirds threshold cited by the chair; the roll‑call entries are recorded in the transcript and the chair declared the motion did not pass.
- An amendment to rescind the leave of Superintendent Amy Creedon effective Jan. 20 was also moved and put to roll call; the motion did not receive sufficient affirmative votes and did not pass.

Vote records and tallies (as recorded in transcript)
- Release of investigative report (amendment): recorded yes/no entries for board members resulted in a tally recorded by the chair as insufficient to pass (roll‑call entries recorded; chair announced motion did not pass).
- Rescind leave amendment: roll call recorded and chair announced motion did not pass.

The meeting record shows the board handled multiple standard items efficiently while leaving the public‑release request and the rescission of leave unresolved. The transcript documents the roll‑call entries for contested agenda amendments and the formal passage of routine minutes, memoranda, change orders and disciplinary‑appeal resolutions.