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Board approves routine finance items; hears elementary peer-leadership and chorus presentations and honors retiring Roosevelt principal
Summary
At its regular meeting, the South Plainfield Board of Education approved finance items labeled A through R, heard presentations from Riley and Roosevelt elementary schools about a new peer-leadership program and a chorus/dance fundraiser, and recognized Roosevelt principal Sam Fierro on his upcoming retirement.
The South Plainfield Board of Education voted to approve its listed finance items (Finance A through R) and spent substantial time hearing school presentations and personnel recognitions at a regularly scheduled meeting.
The approvals came during a roll-call vote in which several board members recorded “yes” votes; one member recorded abstentions on two subitems (12D, nos. 73 and 115), citing a spouse conflict. The motion to approve Finance A through R was adopted (individual mover and seconder not specified in the transcript).
The meeting opened its program segment with a presentation from Riley School. Mr. Kaufman, Riley School principal, described Tiger Tales, a new peer-leadership program launched this year at the district’s elementary schools. He said fourth-graders volunteer for the program after teacher recommendations and written applications and that those students meet with the school counselor during lunch to rehearse monthly lessons they…
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