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Board approves finance and superintendent items, ratifies Nutriserve contract and moves public notices online
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Summary
By voice vote the board approved superintendent items and business and finance items including budget transfers, submission of the preschool expansion workbook for the "2627" school year, a Berlin Township'Pine Hill tuition contract, ratification of the Nutriserve food-service contract (management fee $21,400), and a resolution to post legal notices on the district website rather than pay newspaper fees.
The Berlin Township School District board approved superintendent and business/finance items during the meeting, including finance motions, a tuition contract and a contract renewal for district food service.
On a motion and second the board approved superintendent items a through g, covering safety and security drill documentation, monthly administrative reports, a harassment/intimidation/bullying (HIB) report (recorded as unfounded at JFK), policy updates (adding the term "seclusion" to restraint language), a regulation change permitting parents to drive to field trips when bus capacity allows, approval of guest speakers, and a calendar adjustment for the coming school year. Board members voted in roll-call fashion with eight affirmative responses recorded by name.
In the business and finance section the board approved recommended budget transfers to cover teacher salary lines where needed and moves between salary and tuition lines for McKinney-Vento-eligible tuitions. March cafeteria disbursements were recorded at $22,525.83 and care-program disbursements at $12,571.24. The board approved submission of the preschool expansion aid workbook for the "2627" school year and ratified a tuition contract between Berlin Township and Pine Hill for 2627. The board also approved a resolution to discontinue paid newspaper postings and instead host public legal notices on the district website; an administrator noted the change improves timeliness for emergency meetings. Finally, the board ratified the fourth year of a five-year Nutriserve food-service management contract with a listed management fee of $21,400 and a projected annual gain of $18,458.77; the contract was described as a self-supporting program funded by reimbursements.
The motion to approve the business and finance items passed with the board answering "Yes" in voice roll-call style for the members called.
The board did not indicate additional action beyond approving the listed items and contracts.
