The Liverpool Board of Education cleared almost its entire public agenda in under an hour on March 31, approving seven items — two sets of meeting minutes, a budget amendment, the January Treasurer's Report, surplus items and a round of policy and calendar changes — without a single dissenting vote. Then the board went behind closed doors for longer than it had spent in public, and came back with the only split vote of the night. The seven members present — Nicholas Blaney, Kimberly Martin, Jecenia Bresett, Stacey Chilbert, John Solazzo, Kimberly Melnik and Matthew Jones — opened the meeting at 6 p.m. with Interim Superintendent Brian Nolan and other district staff on hand. They moved through routine business at a steady clip: minutes from the March 24 meeting and the March 25 capital project referendum, a budget amendment, the January Treasurer's Report, and a batch of surplus-item disposals, each carried 7-0. The board also recognized Liverpool High School for a POOLS Award, then approved revisions to Policy 7554, deleted Policy 7556, chartered a new APISA - Asian and Pacific Islander Student Association Club, adjusted the 2024-2025 school calendar and adopted the 2025-2026 calendar, all by the same unanimous margin. At 6:51 p.m., about 51 minutes after the meeting began, the board entered executive session "for a disciplinary appeal to the Board of Education of a long-term suspension resulting from a Superintendent Hearing for a particular student," according to the minutes, along with discussion of the ongoing superintendent search and tenure recommendations. The board did not return to public session until 8:18 p.m. — an 87-minute closed-door stretch nearly twice as long as everything else the board had done that night combined. When members reconvened, the roll of those voting included two names that had not appeared among those present at 6 p.m.: Daniel McKeever and Hailey Downs joined the vote to return to public session and remained through the rest of the meeting. One minute later, the board took up the only contested item of the night: whether to grant the appeal of "Student #1's" long-term suspension. The minutes do not detail the underlying discipline beyond identifying it as a Superintendent's Hearing outcome. The board voted 8-1 to deny the appeal, with the resolution directing Nolan to notify the student's parent or guardian of the decision. Chilbert cast the lone dissenting vote; the minutes do not record her reasoning. The board then adjourned at 8:19 p.m., one minute later, on a unanimous vote. The board set its next two meetings for April 7 and April 21, both at 6 p.m. at the District Office.