McKeesport board approves consent agendas, a student-discipline resolution and personnel items; one member objects to girls basketball hire

At its April 14 meeting the McKeesport Area School District board approved multiple consent agenda blocks covering routine operational and instructional items, carried a student-discipline resolution, and approved personnel actions — while one board member lodged a public objection to an extracurricular hire.

The board moved agenda blocks through consent (items in blocks 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 9.x) with roll-call votes recorded as "aye" and motions carried. During the personnel consent action a trustee registered a no vote on the extracurricular-hire block for the girls' basketball position and said he would make his opposition public. That trustee told colleagues he would be "100% against it" and accused the process of having "railroaded her." The board carried the personnel block by roll call despite the objection.

The board also approved a student-discipline resolution listed on the agenda as resolution 1455 by voice vote.

During committee reports and finance committee discussion the board noted the food-service RFP selection, contracts related to ROTC and PAC 93, and that teachers' contract items were on the agenda for board action.

No additional formal votes on capital projects, the Foundation of Hope MOU or the high-school design occurred on April 14; those items were discussed and referred for follow-up.