The Mount Vernon Board of Education on Sept. 30 voted to approve several intergovernmental and vendor agreements and to adopt governance policies.

The board approved an authorization to enter into a lease agreement and memorandum of understanding with Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center Inc., doing business as Westchester Community Health Center, to provide services in district facilities. The motion was seconded and the board carried the item; the transcript records two abstentions during that vote but does not list individual vote names on the public record.

The board also approved an authorization to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Smile New York Outreach LLC for the 2025–26 school year, and approved a renewal agreement with Home Care Therapies (DBA Horizon Healthcare) for pupil-services health contracts for 2025–26. In addition, trustees approved a pupil personnel services memorandum dated Sept. 30, 2025.

The board appointed representatives to the City of Mount Vernon cable advisory committee and voted to waive the 24-hour notice requirement to allow the addition of late resolutions to the agenda. Following the waiver, trustees voted to waive the second and third readings and immediately adopt Board policies 2210 (Committees of the Board) and 5582 (Audit Committee). The board chair said the district has been discussing the picture and bell matter in executive sessions and that a decision is near.

In human-resources and operational business, the board approved a range of personnel appointments, leaves and resignations as listed on the consent agenda; several motions were made and seconded and carried without recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript excerpt. One item (11.16) was pulled from the agenda and tabled pending further work with the CSCA.

The transcript shows standard motion/second practice and that the majority of consent-agenda and contract items were passed by voice vote; where members indicated recusal or abstention the chair noted it during the vote, but the public record in the meeting transcript does not provide a full roll-call for each vote.