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Board reviews food-service deficit write-offs and summer capital projects
Summary
The Cliffside Park Board discussed a food-service deficit, write-offs for graduated students' meal debt and several capital projects including gym HVAC and ventilation work; staff described petty cash procedures and year-end financial closings.
At its May 16, 2025 meeting the Cliffside Park Board of Education reviewed year-end finance items including a food-service deficit that the district plans to address by writing off certain uncollectible cafeteria balances for graduated students and transferring funds from the general fund to the food-service fund.
Board members described the write-off process as limited to accounts the district expects will not be collectible after a student graduates. A board member said "we write off the bad deal" for graduated students and that the district then transfers money from the general fund "to supplement the cafeteria fund." The board identified the item as resolution number 53 in the packet.
District finance staff reported that business office staff closed fiscal year 2024–25 and prepared the first bill list for 2025–26; the board chair congratulated staff member Tonia Lombardi for preparing that list. Board members also reviewed several capital projects scheduled for the summer, naming gym HVAC work at multiple schools, a ventilation project and construction of a multipurpose room at School No. 6.
The board discussed petty cash procedures: at year-end the district closes out the old petty-cash fund and establishes a fresh petty-cash amount for the new fiscal year. The transcript records a discussion that the new petty cash amount would be about $2,000, with a small rollover balance (noted as $4.96) carried forward.
No detailed dollar total for the food-service deficit was provided in the public portion of the transcript; board members and staff described the deficit and the write-off process but did not provide a full line-item amount in the remarks presented on the record. Board members approved routine finance items on the consent agenda during the meeting; the record shows discussion of and reference to resolution 53 but does not show a separate roll-call vote solely on the write-off in the public remarks.
