Liverpool School Board Elects Gyder President, Splits Over New Business Official Post

Key Actions & Decisions

• ◆ • Elected Alexandra Gyder as Board President and Kimberly Melnik as Vice President for the 2026-2027 school year; both votes were unanimous, 9-0.
• ◆ • Created the position of School Business Official, 5-0 with four members abstaining (Michelle Merlino, Victoria Baratta, Jecenia Bresett, Dawn Curry-Clarry); separately voted unanimously, 9-0, to move forward with interviews for a School Treasurer position.
• ◆ • Approved routine officer appointments, authorizations, bonding of personnel, and other items (mileage reimbursement rate, non-resident tuition rates, standard work day resolution) as consent agenda items, all by unanimous vote; Dawn Curry-Clarry abstained on the Other Appointments consent item.
• ◆ • Approved Designations (official newspaper, bank depositories and related items) 8-1, with Matthew Jones casting the lone Nay; Jones also cast the lone Nay, 8-1, on appointment of the Audit Committee.
• ◆ • Tabled the Curriculum Committee appointment and voted 7-2, with John Solazzo and Dawn Curry-Clarry dissenting, to table the FEH Contract for Routing indefinitely.
• ◆ • A motion to enter executive session to discuss the medical, financial, credit or employment history of an unspecified person or corporation failed, 3-5 with one abstention (Alexandra Gyder), meaning the board did not go into closed session.
• ◆ • Approved second-reading revisions to Policies 6470, 7315, 7242 and 8470, and approved a resolution to participate in the RIC ONE Risk Operations Center (ROC), both unanimously.
• ◆ • Discussed, without a recorded vote, a proposed tax certiorari settlement for Target #1475 in the Town of Clay, a technology purchasing lease with OCM BOCES, and gave approval to proceed with a 360-degree access road project at Liverpool High School.