Freehold Township board: construction on track, $6.53 million in bills approved; audit delayed
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The board’s finance committee reported construction documents have been sent to the state and the district remains on track to issue construction bids in February; members approved fiscal items including $6,530,764.65 in bills and claims and noted a federal data delay that postponed the audit.
The Freehold Township School District’s finance, facilities and transportation committee reported that construction documents have been submitted to the state Department of Education and the district remains on target to put the project out for bid in February, a committee member said during the board’s regular meeting.
The board approved routine fiscal items by voice vote, including the secretary and treasurer’s report and bills and claims totaling $6,530,764.65. The committee also listed travel and related expenses, transfers, PTO honoraria, the IDEA basic and preschool fiscal-year 2026 grant, and several out-of-district contracts.
Unidentified Speaker (Speaker 8), reporting for the committee, said the district has sent all necessary documents to the DOE and expects to publish a building-by-building timeline with start and completion dates when the bid process is ready. “We’re still on target to go out for bid in February,” the speaker said.
Committee members also told the board that the annual audit was not on the agenda because the federal government had not yet provided data required for the audit; the committee expects to include the audit on the January agenda when the data arrives.
The IDEA basic and preschool fiscal-year 2026 grant was included in the slate of items moved by the committee for approval; committee materials listed the grant in the fiscal items presented.
The board did not record a roll-call vote tally in the transcript for these items; the agenda items were put forward and approved in the meeting’s routine-business section.