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Board approves consent agendas and routine contracts in unanimous roll calls
Summary
The Branchburg Township School District board approved multiple consent items and routine contracts—covering governance approvals, policy first readings and abolitions, curriculum and personnel slates, and finance agreements—by roll call votes during the regular meeting; no substantive controversies were recorded.
The Branchburg Township School District Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a package of consent and routine items during its regular meeting.
The approvals covered governance items (approval of minutes; harassment, intimidation and bullying investigative reports; and HIB findings), curriculum and instruction items (conference and travel, student-teacher approvals, contracted-service revisions and acceptance of out-of-district students for 2026–27), an extensive personnel slate (substitutes, leaves, stipends, ESY and extra-duty hours, co-curricular revisions) and finance and facilities items (bill list and payroll, secretary and treasurer reports, line-item transfers, agreements for school supplies, network upgrades, insurance and donations).
Board members recorded affirmative roll-call votes during separate motions moving the governance, policy, curriculum, personnel and finance slates. The roll calls identified board members recorded as voting "Yes" including Mr. Blousestein, Dr. Criy, Mr. Krishna Murdy, Miss Smith, Mr. Tuma and Mr. Desai; motions were seconded where required and passed without recorded opposition.
The finance and facilities report also noted a continuing discussion of the Old York project and an upcoming referendum that will be addressed at a later date; no final action on the referendum was taken at this meeting.
Several agreements approved by the board during the finance vote included an agreement with Educational Data Services, Inc. to purchase school supplies, network switch upgrades through NRI Networks and an agreement with Delta TR North Jersey. Specific contract amounts and detailed terms were not read into the record and are listed as "not specified" in the meeting materials available during the vote.
What happens next: approved contracts and personnel actions will be reflected in the district's records and posted with meeting minutes; the board will return to discussion of the Old York referendum at a future meeting.
