Orchard Park Central School District Packet Summary — 2026-08-25
Meeting: Board of Education Meeting Agenda
The August 25 agenda is centered on consensus items. The Board of Education is scheduled to consider the August 11 meeting minutes, June and July financial reports, personnel matters, and special education recommendations. The agenda also allows individual consensus items to be withdrawn for separate comment, discussion, or consideration.
Key Items on the Agenda
Personnel Appointments and Staffing Changes
The board is scheduled to consider a substantial set of personnel resolutions covering teachers, administrators, support staff, substitutes, community education, coaching, leaves, resignations, retirements, and other employment matters.
Proposed teacher appointments include:
- Hannah Kwasniewski as a probationary special education teacher at the high school, effective September 2, 2026 through September 1, 2030.
- Jason McCarthy as a probationary technology teacher at the high school, effective September 2, 2026 through September 1, 2029.
- Connor Pellicane as a probationary special education teacher at Windom Elementary, effective September 2, 2026 through September 1, 2030.
- Danielle Biekert as a full-year regular substitute reading teacher at Windom Elementary for September 2, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
- Amanda Proefrock as a part-year regular substitute biology teacher at the high school for September 2, 2026 through January 29, 2027.
- Ann Sullivan as a part-year regular substitute elementary education teacher at Windom Elementary for September 2 through October 30, 2026.
An addendum proposes four additional regular-substitute appointments. These include elementary education positions associated with new enrollment, a speech teacher appointment associated with a leave of absence, and another elementary appointment covering a leave.
The personnel packet also includes proposed per-diem substitute appointments for the 2026-27 school year and assignments involving coaching, summer programs, instructional leadership, community education, driver education, mentoring and other activities.
Support Staff Appointments and Changes
The consensus personnel materials include multiple proposed support-staff appointments, including bus drivers, teacher aides, custodial and buildings-and-grounds positions.
Examples of proposed appointments include hourly compensation of:
- $26.33/hour for several bus-driver positions.
- $16.69/hour for several teacher-aide positions.
- $35.25/hour for an appointment effective August 31, 2026.
- $22.85/hour for a full-time 12-month laborer appointment effective August 23, 2026.
The packet also proposes rescinding one support-staff appointment and includes support-staff resignations and retirements.
Auto Mechanic Wage Agreement
A personnel resolution proposes authorizing the Superintendent to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the Orchard Park School Related Professionals Association concerning the salary schedules for Auto Mechanic and Auto Mechanic Crew Chief-Lead.
The attached agreement establishes the following hourly schedules:
- Auto Mechanic: $39.51 at Schedule B-I, $36.27 at Schedules J-M, and $35.25 at Schedule N.
- Auto Mechanic Crew Chief-Lead: $42.62 at Schedules A-L, $41.42 at Schedule M, and $40.25 at Schedule N.
The attached MOA states that these rates are effective July 20, 2026, replace the existing rates for those two titles, and do not change pay for other bargaining-unit titles. The personnel resolution itself describes the salary-schedule amendment as effective August 26, 2026, so the packet contains different effective-date language in the two documents.
Financial Reports
June 2026 Revenue Report
The board is scheduled to receive the June 2026 revenue budget detail as a consensus item.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, the General Fund revenue report shows:
- Revised budget: $119,297,638
- Revenue earned: $122,524,880.82
- Difference shown as unearned revenue: -$3,227,242.82
Among the larger revenue lines, the report records approximately $72.17 million in real property tax revenue, $16.76 million in Basic Formula Aid, and $8.44 million in non-property tax distributions.
July 2026 Revenue Report
For July, the first month of the 2026-27 fiscal year, the General Fund revenue report shows:
- Revised budget: $124,959,368
- Revenue earned through July 31: $239,606.51
- Unearned revenue: $124,719,761.49
The budget includes $74,318,329 in real property taxes, $16,882,932 in Basic Formula Aid, $9.5 million in Lottery Aid and $8.4 million in non-property tax distributions.
Treasurer's Reports
The June and July Treasurer's Reports are also scheduled for consensus consideration.
For the General Fund, the June report shows an adjusted bank balance of $12,891,605.10. The July report shows $6,904,995.31 in budget-purpose disbursements during the month and an adjusted bank balance of $8,450,794.50.
The Extra Class Activity Fund reports an ending balance of $295,625.00 for June. For July, the fund reports $14,230.40 in deposits and interest, $13,936.85 in disbursements and an ending balance of $295,918.55.
Special Education Recommendations
Special education matters are scheduled for consensus approval. The packet presents committee recommendations rather than completed Board actions for the August 25 meeting.
The recommendations include:
- Annual reviews for two resident children.
- Program reviews for two resident children.
- Re-evaluation of one resident child.
- Initial educational placement for one resident child.
- Amendments involving seven resident children.
- Section 504 accommodation plans for two children.
- One preschool program review.
- One preschool initial educational placement.
The packet reports no recommendations in several other categories, including declassification support services, CSE declassification, manifestation determinations, preschool annual reviews, preschool amendments and preschool declassification.
Supporting materials provide individual committee recommendations and proposed services. These include integrated co-teaching, special classes, resource-room services, speech/language therapy, counseling, occupational therapy, social work services and consultant-teacher services, depending on the individual recommendation.
Previous Meeting Minutes
The August 11, 2026 Board of Education meeting minutes are scheduled for consensus approval. Because these minutes document an earlier meeting, the actions recorded in them are previously completed actions rather than proposals for August 25.
Among the actions documented in those minutes, the board:
- Accepted a $1,000 Independent Health Foundation donation for Ellicott Elementary recess equipment and Health & Wellness classroom items.
- Accepted musical instruments and related equipment from NETworks Presentations, LLC valued at $14,871.
- Declared specified transportation and buildings-and-grounds equipment surplus.
- Authorized the district's Data Protection Officer to enter into qualifying data privacy agreements with outside vendors.
- Adopted a bond resolution authorizing up to $1.4 million for eight school buses previously authorized by voters on May 19, 2026.
- Approved a 2026-27 food-service contract extension with Personal Touch Food Service at $3.3692 per breakfast and $4.0189 per lunch.
- Authorized a $1.7 million transfer from the Debt Service Reserve to the General Fund for 2025-26 debt-service obligations.
- Established a $77,318,329 property-tax levy and tax rates by town.
- Adopted the 2026-27 District Safety Plan.
The August 25 agenda does not schedule those matters for new approval; it schedules approval of the minutes documenting the prior meeting.
What to Watch at the Meeting
- Consensus agenda: Most substantive business is grouped into consensus items. Board members may request time to comment on or withdraw individual items before consensus approval.
- Staffing for the new school year: The personnel package contains numerous appointments and employment changes taking effect around the beginning of the 2026-27 school year, including an addendum with additional regular-substitute teachers.
- Auto mechanic compensation: The proposed MOA changes wage schedules for Auto Mechanic and Auto Mechanic Crew Chief-Lead positions. The personnel resolution and attached MOA contain different effective-date language—August 26 and July 20, respectively.
- Financial reporting: The board is scheduled to consider both June year-end and July beginning-of-year Treasurer's Reports and revenue budget details.
- Special education: Multiple CSE, Section 504 and preschool committee recommendations are included for Board consideration as part of the consensus agenda.
- Separate discussion remains possible: The agenda specifically provides for comments or discussion on consensus items and consideration of any items withdrawn from consensus. No Policy, Facilities, Safety, Other or STAP-Comm committee reports are listed for this meeting.
