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Board approves minutes, personnel, student-services and finance items by roll call; new business motions carried
Summary
The Lawrence Township Board of Education adopted meeting minutes, approved personnel and student-services items, passed finance and business-management items, and approved a package of new-business items by roll call; all motions carried by the listed votes.
The Lawrence Township Board of Education conducted a series of routine votes during its meeting and carried each motion by roll call.
Minutes: The board adopted the executive-session and regular-session minutes from the Jan. 22 meeting and the regular-session minutes from the Feb. 4 meeting. The roll-call votes were recorded as affirmative across the participating board members present at the time of each motion.
Personnel: The board approved personnel items P1 through P21, which included adjustments to start and end dates, leave replacements, unpaid sick-leave approvals, substitute appointments, appointments pending background checks and retirement-related unused-sick-day adjustments. The motion to approve P1–P21 passed by roll call.
Student services and curriculum items: The board approved OIS 1–7 (professional development, field trips, extended school year, HIB, nonpublic transfers and out-of-district placements) and OSS 1–5. These motions passed by roll call.
Finance and business-management items: The finance/business-management package (SBM 1–11) — including bills list, transfers, fire drills, SRECs (solar renewable energy certificates), staff laptop purchases and policy items — was approved by roll call.
New business: The board approved New Business items 1–16, covering staffing, leave replacements, equity coaches, substitute appointments, and curricula additions such as study skills and work-based learning at Lawrence Middle School and Lawrence High School. The motion carried by roll call.
Votes and roll-call notes: During each of these votes, the clerk recorded affirmative votes from the same set of board members present after roll-call: Mister Clark, Miss Evans, Miss Groger (Kroger/Groger spelling in transcript), Doctor King, Miss Martinez, Miss Pascoli, Miss Santos, and Board President Michelle Bose. Several motions list the mover as the person who introduced the motion (the board member who said "I move"), and seconds were recorded at the meeting; in the public minutes the board confirmed each motion by individual recorded 'yes' votes and announced “Motion carried.”
No contested or partisan roll-call dissent was recorded in the transcript for these consent and business votes.
