NYCSBUS Board of Directors Meeting: April 3, 2025
Agenda
(note that in the meeting the board addressed item #6 first)
1. Approval of minutes from December 18, 2024 and February 12, 2025
2. Consideration of a resolution to extend a labor agreement
3. Consideration of the final text of a labor agreement
4. Consideration of contracts
5. Consideration of a policy for reimbursement of the CEO
6. Presentation of an evaluation of NYCSBUS by NYC Public Schools
7. Adjournment
Meeting Minutes (draft)
These are draft minutes of our meeting. We expect that the board will approve them at its next meeting.
The NYCSBUS Board of Directors met on April 3 at 2pm at NYC Public Schools's headquarters at 52 Chambers Street in New York City.
In attendance were Emma Vadehra (chair), PV Anantharam, Michael McClenathan and Heather Miller. Lori Podvesker, recovering from a medical procedure, participated remotely. NYC Public Schools staff member Andrew McClintock and NYC Public Schools Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT) Executive Director Glenn Risbrook were also in attendance. OPT Deputy Executive Director James Sarkis and OPT Accountant Jin Shi and NYCSBUS CEO Matt Berlin attended remotely.
The chair called the meeting to order at 2:15 pm and noted that a quorum was present.
OPT, NYCSBUS’s primary customer, presented its evaluation of NYCSBUS. Following the presentation, members of the board were provided with the opportunity to discuss the evaluation with OPT.
The board then reviewed the minutes from its December 18, 2024 and February 12, 2025 meetings. Those were posted in draft on the NYCSBUS website immediately after those meetings and sent to the board in their pre-meeting materials, with the CEO’s Report, on March 30. The board unanimously approved the minutes.
The board briefly entered executive session to discuss labor negotiations.
Following the executive session, the board unanimously approved an extension, until April 30, 2025, to its collective bargaining agreement with the United Service Workers Union, IUJAT, Local 455.
The board unanimously approved the text of its collective bargaining agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061 for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028. This text was sent to the board on April 1.
The board considered contracts necessary for NYCSBUS operations. Information about them was sent to the board with the CEO’s Report. After discussion about the contracts, the board unanimously approved all except for one insurance contract about which the board had additional questions related to the accounting for its loss fund.
Finally, the board considered a policy for reimbursement of the out-of-pocket expenses of the CEO. This proposed policy was sent with the CEO’s Report. The board unanimously approved the policy.
The meeting was adjourned at 3pm.