Woodbridge Central Board approves routine agendas, introduces budget timeline; students highlight FCCLA activities and district achievements

The Woodbridge Central Board of Education on March 13 approved the superintendent's and several committee agendas, opened its budget process with public dates, and heard student reports on school activities and community service.

The meeting’s business began with routine roll call and a closed-session vote on personnel and attorney–client matters. After reconvening to public session, the board approved minutes and accepted the superintendent’s report for February, which highlighted districtwide student achievements and recent school events.

The superintendent, Dr. Massimino, said 109 seniors earned a Seal of Biliteracy; 10 of those students earned an additional seal in another language. The report recapped Title I family nights; Read Across America activities across elementary schools; multiple school fundraisers for the American Heart Association (including more than $4,000 raised by Port Reading School No. 9 and $11,414 by School No. 25); community food drives (School No. 1 collected more than 1,800 soup donations; Ford Middle School donated about 800 pounds of food); and student enrichment activities such as a Princeton STEM conference attended by FMS students. The report also noted a Woodbridge High School student qualified for DECA nationals following regional and state competition.

During the finance committee report, board members announced the district’s budget process timeline: open public budget meetings will begin May 1 and the board will vote to adopt the budget on May 8. The…