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Hackettstown board renews Maschio's food service contract, approves broad slate of vendor contracts and personnel actions
Summary
The board renewed Maschio's Food Service contract for 2026-27 (management fee $36,925; total contract cost stated as $797,541.82), approved multiple service and tuition contracts, and approved hires, resignations, summer staffing and volunteer authorizations. Several attachments were referenced but not included in the public minutes.
At its May 6 meeting the Hackettstown Board of Education approved a range of operational contracts and personnel actions, including renewal of the district’s Food Service Management Company contract with Maschio’s Food Service, Inc. for the 2026-2027 school year.
Under the approved FSMC renewal, the district will pay Maschio’s an annual flat management fee of $36,925 (payable in monthly installments of $3,692.50 for 10 months) and the minutes list the total cost of contract as $797,541.82 with a Guarantee Breakeven. The board approved that contract by motion; the published meeting record references contract documents attached by reference rather than reproducing them in the minutes.
The board also approved tuition and out-of-district placements (Glenview Academy, Hunterdon County Vo-Tech, Morris-Union Jointure, Rutgers Day School) and a set of service contracts for supplemental and substitute personnel and related services (including WCSSSD, Bayada student nursing, the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, J and B Therapy, Delta-T, ESS Northeast, Health Source Group, and Sussex County ESC). Facilities and operations contracts approved included boiler water services, a student information system (Realtime Information), elevator maintenance, pest control, municipal advisory services and field lining.
On personnel the board approved a pending hire for district/school psychologist Michele Horn-Alsberge (pending clearances), accepted resignations effective June 30 from Pamela Mitchell (speech-language pathologist), Nancy Padula (for purposes of retirement) and Phillip Torres (special education teacher), and recorded multiple maternity leaves and staffing for summer programs, including credit-recovery instructors and three security officers for the summer program (June 29–July 30, 2026) at $28/hour. The board approved volunteers, chaperones and athletic appointments as listed in the agenda.
During the opening of the meeting Business Administrator James Schlessinger read the board’s required public-notice statement: "Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act." The board later moved into executive session at 8:32 p.m. to discuss pending/anticipated litigation (including the Peace NJ project) and superintendent evaluation; the minutes state no public action will follow from that executive session.
The meeting record indicates routine roll-call approvals for the action-item slate; specific roll-call tallies for many items (including the FSMC renewal and some contracts) are not printed in the minutes. Abstentions noted in the public record: Ms. Cavanagh abstained from item A6; Dr. Soobryan abstained from A13; Ms. Cochran abstained from B10. Several contract and vendor documents were referenced as "attached by reference" and were not included verbatim in the published minutes.
