The Gates Chili Central School District Board of Education voted Oct. 21 to approve tenure appointments, multiple student travel requests and a three‑year agreement with the Gates Chili Administrators Association.

Tenure appointments
The board approved a resolution titled "Be it resolved that the board approves the following tenure appointments at the 10/21/2025 meeting as recommended by the Superintendent of Schools." The names read as part of the motion were Jody McKenzie (school social worker) and Rebecca Scott (principal). The board recorded the vote as unanimous.

Student travel approvals
The board approved three trip requests that had been presented earlier in the meeting:
- GC varsity baseball team trip to Orlando, Florida, March 26–30, 2026. The coach described a program of practices, scrimmages and team-building activities; the coach said the per-student cost is about $2,200 and that fundraising and scholarship assistance would be used to reduce individual student costs. The motion was made and seconded at the meeting and the board vote was recorded as unanimous.
- GC jazz band trip to Baltimore, Maryland, April 17–20, 2026. Band director Chris Oldfield described concert, museum and performance plans; the estimated cost per student was about $700. The board approved the trip by unanimous vote.
- Gates Chili Middle School eighth-grade trip to Peak 'n Peak Resort (June 2026). Principal Dan Zanowski said the student body had selected Peak 'n Peak in a class vote; the proposed per‑student cost was $269, with scholarship and fundraising options available. The board approved the trip by unanimous vote.

Collective-bargaining/administrators agreement
The board approved a three-year agreement between the Gates Chili Administrators Association and the district, effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. The motion was recorded as unanimous.

Votes at the meeting were recorded by the clerk as unanimous for the items listed above. The meeting transcript does not provide individual roll-call tallies for each vote, and the board did not state a numerical count when announcing results.

Why it matters: the tenure approvals finalize personnel decisions affecting school staffing; the trips authorize out‑of‑state travel and associated district oversight; the administrators agreement sets terms for a multi‑year management contract to be implemented beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year.

Each approved item was on the board's action calendar and will be recorded in the official minutes.