MILL HALL — The Keystone Central School District Board of Directors tabled approving a list of bills for payment until the administration updates one of the items listed.

During its voting session on Thursday, Board Member Chris Scaff requested a line item be removed from the list.

Scaff brought the issue to the board, noting the item on the list — a reimbursement — was to be paid to him though he hadn’t yet filed the proper paperwork per the district’s policy or state law.

The reimbursement check was listed within the bills and amounts to $121.80 for mileage from a board related trip.

Scaff said the signatures on the check were also not properly up-to-date. He returned the check to the district once he’d receive it.

Business Manager Joni MacIntyre said the signatures have since been corrected to reflect herself and Board President Roger Elling on them. She said this was not the case in January, as the annual software update didn’t take place until the first week of February.

Elling told Scaff the issue regarding why he received the check was previously addressed.

“This was already addressed in an email,” he said, noting the issue involved a new employee that filed incorrect paperwork. “It was taken care of. We appreciate that you brought it out so that we could make sure the issue was corrected.”

Scaff pushed back, noting the email that was sent by Superintendent Dr. Frank Redmon was not enough for him.

“If it did, why is my name still on the bills to pay? I’m still on there as getting paid for it,” he said. “Nobody else in here would want to be under this. We deserve the right to know who said to pay it. We deserve the right to know what happened.”

Redmon noted if the board wished to discuss an employee, it must be done in an executive session.

“If we are going to discuss any wrongdoing by an employee, it’s going to happen in executive session. It will not happen in a public session,” he said.

Scaff pressed on the issue of transparency regarding the situation. Elling reiterated Redmon’s statement.

“At this point it would now be considered a personnel issue… and the individual has due process rights, it will not be discussed in a public forum,” he said. “It will be done in executive session along with council.”

Scaff agreed to further discuss the matter in executive session.

However, he stated he would not vote to approve the presented bills for payment as long as the line item with his name was there.

When it was suggested a motion to approve the bills including the item being struck from the record, Scaff still disagreed.

“In the bills for payment it’s still going to show that there was a check issued to me and that I was paid. If you strike it right now it’s not going to go in there and show it’s not there. Right now it shows it’s there.”

MacIntyre told the board the check was voided once Scaff handed it back to the district.

“We do not go back and edit this (list) because this was the document for the work session. It’s still going to show up because we have to have a paper trail,” she said.

Scaff said the documentation needed to reflect the check was voided.

“It will,” MacIntyre said.

Redmon suggested the bills be tabled until the board’s March meeting so it can be properly updated to reflect the check was voided and Scaff did not receive payment.

It was noted other bills listed have been paid, minus the check sent to Scaff.

“The bills are already paid, I just want the paperwork to reflect the truth,” he said.