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Board approves personnel and finance package, accepts donations and imposes long‑term student suspension
Summary
At the meeting the board approved a slate of personnel items and finance motions including multiple PTO and foundation donations, several contracts and leases, and a seven‑month long‑term suspension for student ID 300806893 (through 6/30/2026).
The Freehold Township Board of Education approved multiple grouped personnel and finance items and took a separate vote imposing a long‑term suspension on a student.
Personnel and policy motions moved by the personnel chair (Missus Spieler) covered a large group of items listed on the agenda, including a first reading of policy 2415.51, retirements and resignations as presented, new employment and position control updates, leaves of absence, salary adjustments, extensions of long‑term assignments, unpaid days, honoraria and additional compensations, volunteer approvals, interpreter appointments, practicum placements, termination of employment, and both certified and non‑certified substitute lists. The personnel package passed on a roll‑call vote; board members recorded “yes” votes in roll call during that item.
The finance package, presented by Ira Appetavita and the Finance, Facilities and Transportation Committee, included the secretary and treasurer’s reports, bills and claims totaling $4,994,604.87, transfers, disposals, PTO honoraria, and several contracts. The board accepted donations from PTOs — Applegate School PTO ($1,000), Laura Donovan School PTO ($17,248), Westfield School PTO ($5,768) and carryover from West Freeholds PTO ($1,904) — and two Freehold Township Education Foundation grants: $210,000 from the estate of Carolyn S. Duckett to Clifton T. Barklow Middle School to fund ViewBoard interactive flat panels and mobile trolleys for instructional spaces, and $45,360 to the district technology department to fund ViewBoard hardware at Dwight D. Eisenhower School. The district also approved multiple vendor contracts and out‑of‑district transportation and nursing services contracts listed on the agenda.
Separately, the board approved a motion to impose a long‑term suspension on student 300806893 through June 30, 2026. A roll‑call vote on that motion recorded several yes votes and one abstention: Missus Lambert abstained; other board members recorded “yes.” The motion carried.
Why it matters: the personnel and finance approvals implement staffing and operational changes, the donations fund classroom technology and equipment, and the suspension is a formal disciplinary outcome affecting an individual student’s enrollment status.
Votes at a glance: • Personnel package (multiple items as listed on agenda) — approved (roll call; individual agenda items listed on the agenda as read into the record). • Finance package (including bills/claims $4,994,604.87; transfers; contracts; bond refunding included in separate finance item) — approved (voice/roll call). • Donations accepted — Applegate School PTO $1,000; Laura Donovan School PTO $17,248; Westfield School PTO $5,768; West Freeholds PTO carryover $1,904; Freehold Township Education Foundation $210,000 (CTB library media center technology) and $45,360 (Eisenhower ViewBoard hardware) — accepted. • Long‑term suspension for student 300806893 through 06/30/2026 — approved (roll call; abstention by Missus Lambert).
