Salem School Committee approves tree planting, personnel inclusions, transfers and declares food‑service van surplus

The Salem School Committee approved several routine motions April 27, including an Arbor Day tree planting, job‑description approvals for associate principal positions, year‑end budget transfers, and a surplus declaration for a food‑service van.

Member Cornell moved to approve a tree planting at Bentley Academy for Arbor Day on May 6; the motion carried unanimously. Later the committee approved job descriptions for elementary and secondary associate principal positions designed to support the school merger and serve as part of retention and succession planning; the positions were also approved for inclusion in the Salem Administrators Association.

Finance staff presented three transfer requests to move funds across cost centers (non‑personnel contracted services into stipend lines) to cover year‑end family‑engagement events at Bentley, in the multilingual department, and at the ECC; the transfers were approved unanimously. The committee also approved declaring a 2009 non‑refrigerated food‑service van (75,000 miles) surplus so it may be included as a trade‑in toward a grant‑funded refrigerated replacement.

Committee members also approved the 2026–2027 school committee meeting schedule and discussed newsletter topics and language clarifications for the superintendent search committee communications. All motions reported at the meeting carried unanimously.