On Thursday night, the Penns Manor School Board voted to keep their current board president in place and to not go against the state mask mandates for schools.
The vote to ask board president John Hardesty to relinquish his position came after a petition was submitted to the board concerning his behavior during the meeting on September 9th. Hardesty threw his gavel against the table and used a curse word during a heated discussion about the mask mandates in the district. The vote was 6-2 against the motion to relinquish, with Ron Larch and Richard Polenik voting in favor of it, and Hardesty abstaining. Hardesty said he was grateful that the board voted to keep him as their president, and he also apologized for his actions during the September meeting.
A second petition that asked the board to not comply with the face covering mandate from the PA Department of Health and provide parental consent for students to wear or not wear a mask also failed to pass by a 7-2 vote, with Larch and Polenik voting in favor of the petition.
In other business, the board approved moving the next voting meeting back one day to November 10th, as the district will be closed on November 11th in honor of Veterans Day.
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