The Moorestown Township Board of Education voted to authorize issuance of the 2025 series school bonds to begin funding projects approved by voters in the district referendum and approved multiple routine and substantive agenda items, including budget and personnel recommendations and donations to district programs.

The board considered a resolution described in the agenda as "determining the issuance of the 2025 series school bonds" and approved the motion by roll call. Board members answering in the roll call recorded in the meeting transcript (as read aloud during the vote) were: Miss Arcaro Burns (yes); Mrs. Aurora (yes); Mrs. Barnes (yes); Mrs. Fowles Macaluso (yes); Mr. Myatt (yes); Mrs. Miller (yes); Mrs. Moreno (yes); Mr. Weeks (yes); and Mr. Villanueva (yes). The board discussion leading up to that vote included a finance committee recommendation to issue a single bond series for the full amount and hold proceeds while using interest to help lower immediate tax impact.

Separately, the board approved standard consent and program items throughout the evening by voice or roll call, including:

- Approval of minutes from the Sept. 18, 2024 meeting (one board member abstained on the minutes as noted in the transcript).

- Reports of the board (items A 1'6) and routine superintendent recommendations (educational program items), approved by vote with limited abstentions noted on specific line items in the transcript.

- First reading approval of seven mandatory policy updates and one new sunscreen policy (policies on first reading were advanced as described in the agenda).

- Finance and business approvals (items F1'F12), including acceptance of two donations: an $18,776 grant from the Moorestown Education Foundation for music production and a donation of a speech-language device from Nancy Hovnanian; the board also noted a Corbin family donation supporting the girls golf program.

- Employee relations items and personnel recommendations (items 1'5 in the employee relations section) were approved by roll call as presented on the agenda.

- A motion to affirm suspensions described in exhibit 206-89 (matters discussed in last month's executive session) was approved; one board member abstained from that vote, stating they had been absent from the executive session in which the matter had been considered.

Board members and administrators also discussed implementation steps tied to the referendum, including issuing RFPs for a construction manager and for an environmental consultant because parts of the referendum work will be near wetlands. Bond counsel and the district's architect presented options to the finance committee; the committee recommended issuing a single series of bonds and managing cash flow to reduce short-term taxpayer impact.

Where vote tallies were recorded by roll call in the transcript, they are reported above. For many routine consent items the meeting record indicates unanimous approval by voice vote except where the transcript explicitly records named abstentions; where the transcript did not identify a specific named speaker for an abstention, the meeting minutes listed the fact of an abstention without a name in the live record.

No contract awards or ordinance adoptions requiring separate public notice were finalized other than the authorization to issue bonds and to proceed with the procurement processes described.

The board closed the meeting after additional public comment and items for the good of the order.