Bermudian Springs board tentatively adopts 2024 budget, approves personnel and contracts; sets tax ceiling for later vote

The Bermudian Springs School Board used roll-call votes to approve a slate of routine items and to tentatively adopt the district's 2024-2 budget. Motions that carried included the consent agenda, approval of general fund and cafeteria payables, multiple professional and support staff hires, summer-custodian employment, summer-camp contracts and extracurricular coaching contracts for girls wrestling and field hockey.

During new business the board conducted the election of a school board treasurer; Ruth Griffin was nominated, nominations were closed and the motion to elect her carried by roll-call vote. Several operational items also passed, including district sports and custodian supplies and amendments to board minutes.

On the budget item a board member asked whether "the maximum that we can raise taxes would be 5.40," and was told that was the correct maximum; the chair clarified the board is not voting on a tax increase at this meeting and that a formal vote on the tax would occur at next month's meeting. The board carried the tentative-adoption votes for the budget; no final tax-rate decision was made.

The board also approved a series of agreements (recorded in the agenda as the Rock Academy agreement and the Yer Breaches Education Center agreement, as read into the record) and highlighted the upcoming administration of PSSAs and Keystone exams; raw assessment data are typically available later and not released publicly until the fall. The meeting concluded with an announcement that the board would go into executive session to discuss personnel.