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Hackettstown board approves $2.25 million in bills, accepts scholarships and authorizes cooperative purchasing
Summary
At its Sept. 10 meeting the Hackettstown Board of Education approved a $2,246,719.10 bill list, accepted several donations including two $10,000 scholarship gifts, authorized joining E&I Cooperative Services, and approved transfers and service contracts; two board members recorded specific abstentions.
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. — The Hackettstown Board of Education on Sept. 10 approved routine finance measures that included a district bill list totaling $2,246,719.10, transfers between funds and the acceptance of multiple donations and grants.
The board approved the bill list for the period Aug. 14 through Sept. 10, 2025, and a cafeteria bill list of $3,269.20. It also authorized budget transfers for August totaling $105,625.39 in Fund 10 and $278,213.00 in Fund 20, and certified financial reports for the months ended Aug. 31 and June 30, 2025, in compliance with N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-16.10(c).
"Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act," read James Schlessinger, the district's school business administrator, at the start of the meeting. Schlessinger also noted that board meetings are videotaped for posting on the district website and may be edited to protect student or staff privacy.
The board accepted several donations listed in the agenda packet, including two $10,000 scholarship donations identified as coming from the William and Olga Gannett Scholarship Fund and an anonymous donor, a $1,850 Peter R. Marsh Middle School music grant, two field hockey nets from Centenary University, and a $121.25 donation of 97 notebooks from Dollar Tree-Franklin.
Members also authorized a cooperative agreement with E&I Cooperative Services to access competitively bid products and services, and approved service contracts that included out-of-district placements (FlexSchool and Warren Glen Academy), a Rowan University regionalization study, transportation contracts, and a Warren County Special Services memorandum of agreement addendum for ESY services.
The minutes note that specific abstentions were recorded: Shawn Burke abstained on two checks (noted as Check #76684 and #76758) and Francis Gavin abstained from an item in A8 (service contracts). The minutes do not attribute reasons for those abstentions.
The board also approved an increase in the adult lunch price to $4.50 for the 2025–2026 school year and authorized the disposal of district assets in accordance with board policy.
What happens next: Items approved at the meeting take effect as described in the board resolutions and as required by applicable contracts and regulations; where authorizations require vendor action (for example, cooperative purchasing or out-of-district placements), implementation will proceed through the business office.
