Where

Hybrid Business Meeting In-person at Casco Bay High School and via Zoom

What was decided

This site doesn't collect this board's minutes. They may be on the Portland Public Schools meeting portal (opens in new tab).

Agenda

The board will review personnel changes including resignations and new teacher hires, hear a presentation on the High School for the Future State Application, take a second read of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, and vote on ratifying the Special Education Coordinator Collective Bargaining Agreement. The board will also enter Executive Session to discuss negotiations with the Special Education Coordinators and hold a workshop on the Role of the Board.

Agenda items

• Recognition performance by Audrey Cabral, Bethany Kirkpatrick, and Ashley Terison for Arts Partnerships with FPPS
• Public comment on items not on the agenda
• Board Chair remarks
• Report of the Student
• Superintendent remarks
• Review of personnel items: resignations, terminations, position shifts, other hires
• Postponed: Informational brief on Elementary Network Team
• Informational presentation on High School for the Future State Application

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• Approval of personnel items: election of probationary teacher candidates
• Approval of personnel items: election of one-year-only teacher candidates
• Informational presentation on evaluations
• Second read of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
• Special Education Coordinator Collective Bargaining Agreement ratification
• Entering Executive Session under 1 M.R.S.A. § 405(6)(D) to discuss negotiations with Special Education Coordinators
• Board Retreat workshop on Role of the Board

The full text is in the city's PDF, linked below.

Agenda posted on Diligent Community (PDF, 91 KB). Saved copy (opens in new tab), saved October 16, 2026.

Terms used here

CBA

Collective bargaining agreement: a contract between the city or town and a union of its employees, setting pay and working conditions.

executive session

A part of a public meeting closed to the public. Maine's Freedom of Access Act (1 M.R.S. § 405) allows it only for specific reasons, such as lawsuits, real estate, contracts, or personnel matters.

M.R.S.A.

Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, the state's laws.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting on the Portland Public Schools meeting portal (opens in new tab) (Diligent Community). First recorded by Portland Publick on October 16, 2026.