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Board approves ballot proposition to reallocate $600,000 and accepts two donations
Summary
The board approved placing a proposition before voters to reallocate $600,000 from a completed Walt Whitman boiler project to Countrybrook and accepted $5,000 in supplies from Burlington Coat Factory and a $1,000 donation from alumnus Elliot Leonardo.
At the March 25 recap, Board of Education President Nicholas C. Petrides said the board approved a second proposition to be placed before voters that would reallocate $600,000 from the previously voter-approved boiler replacement at Walt Whitman High School to fund a boiler replacement at Countrybrook. Petrides said the Walt Whitman project came in under budget and that the reallocation “has no impact on taxpayers as the funds are already at hand.”
The board also approved the acceptance of a $5,000 in-kind donation of supplies from Burlington Coat Factory to support students and families districtwide, and accepted a $1,000 donation from Elliot Leonardo, class of 1996, of Signature Premier Properties to support the Veterans Plaza project at Memorial Sixth Grade Center. Petrides described these contributions as helping to honor veterans and provide learning opportunities for students.
The transcript does not record vote tallies, the names of the motion mover or seconder, or the exact ballot language for the proposition. The actions were reported as approved in the meeting recap; whether the proposition is ultimately approved will be decided by voters if it appears on the ballot.
