At its June 8, 2026 meeting, the Liverpool Board of Education worked through fourteen straight items of routine business — minutes, personnel actions, treasurer's reports, a budget transfer — and every one of them passed by the same 5-4 vote, with the same five members voting yes and the same four voting no each time. Nicholas Blaney, Kimberly Martin, Daniel McKeever, John Solazzo and Alexandra Gyder carried each item; Jecenia Bresett, Stacey Chilbert, Kimberly Melnik and Matthew Jones opposed each one. The minutes record no discussion attached to any of the fourteen votes and no stated reason for the dissents. Then the routine business ended, and the lineup didn't survive contact with anything that mattered. Later in that same meeting — which opened at 6:37 p.m. and did not adjourn until 12:34 a.m. — the board took up a resolution to abolish an unspecified number of positions. The minutes don't list which jobs or how many; the resolution is recorded only as the board's motion "pertaining to the abolishment of positions as presented." Two members of the public had addressed the board earlier in the meeting: Jody DelBrocco on incentives, and Jim McClenthan on what the minutes describe as current reductions in workforce and early-retirement incentives. A motion to table the abolishment failed 3-4-1, with Blaney abstaining and only McKeever, Solazzo and Jones voting to delay. When the resolution itself came up minutes later, it carried 6-2 — but the coalition had rearranged. Blaney, who had voted with McKeever and Solazzo on every routine item that night, now voted with Bresett, Chilbert, Melnik and Gyder to abolish the positions. Solazzo, who had just tried to table the item, voted for it. Only McKeever and Jones were left in opposition. The same meeting produced the board's other unresolved business: word that member Kimberly Martin had resigned, effective June 30, 2026. The board voted 5-3 to appoint Michelle Merlino to fill her seat through May 18, 2027 — Bresett, Melnik, Blaney, Chilbert and Gyder in favor, McKeever, Solazzo and Jones opposed. In the space of one meeting, Blaney had gone from the routine-business majority, to the abolishment majority, to the appointment majority; Bresett, Chilbert and Melnik had gone from the routine-business minority to the abolishment majority to the appointment majority. No two of the night's contested votes broke down the same way twice. By the board's July 7 annual reorganization meeting, the numbers changed again — this time because the seats did. Stacey Chilbert and Daniel McKeever no longer appear among the members present; newly elected members Dawn Curry-Clarry and Victoria Baratta had joined, alongside Merlino. The reconstituted board's first vote was its most unified of the year: it elected Alexandra Gyder as Board President and Kimberly Melnik as Vice President, both unanimously, with all nine members present voting yes. The unity didn't last the night. A motion to enter executive session later in the same meeting — the routine language board members use to discuss personnel and legal matters behind closed doors — failed 3-5-1. Bresett, Solazzo and Jones voted to go into closed session; Blaney, Melnik, Curry-Clarry, Baratta and Merlino voted no; Gyder abstained. Every other executive-session motion in this record passed without recorded opposition. The minutes don't say why this one didn't. Two weeks later, on July 21, the new board's fault lines sharpened again. A proposed tax certiorari settlement with Target #1475 in the Town of Clay — the kind of routine revenue item boards typically approve without controversy — tied 4-4 and failed. Bresett, Melnik, Gyder and Merlino voted for the settlement; Blaney, Jones, Curry-Clarry and Baratta voted against it. The same meeting split 5-3 to appoint Assistant Superintendent Kimberly Vile as Deputy School Purchasing Agent, with Bresett, Melnik and Baratta opposed, and 2-5-1 to reject a routing-efficiency study contract with FEH BOCES, with only Jones and Gyder in favor. What the minutes support, and no more, is this: on a nine-member board that turned over three of its seats between June and July, the routine agenda repeatedly broke down on a clean numerical split — but the moment a vote touched money, a job, an appointment, or whether to leave the room, that split scrambled into something the record doesn't explain. Blaney anchored the routine-business majority in June, then helped sink the Target settlement and the FEH contract in July, while still joining every member in electing Gyder board president. Jones voted against abolishing positions, against the routing contract and against the Target settlement, then broke from those same members to vote for entering executive session. The minutes give the vote totals and the names attached to them; they do not explain why any member voted as they did. Whether any of these lineups holds a second time will show up the next time money, a job or a closed door is on the agenda.