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Board holds central-office contract B48 after trustees call for public numbers
Summary
Trustees agreed to pull and hold agenda item B48 — a central-office contract with a county-approved 1% increase — until attachments showing the underlying numbers are provided to the public; trustees said transparency is needed before approval.
The Bayonne School District board paused consideration of central-office contract B48 on a trustee request that the public be shown the supporting numbers.
At the open workshop, a board member said the central-office contracts had been county approved with a 1% increase and that the documents had been resent to trustees. Trustee Burke asked whether the item under discussion was B48 and whether the board should pull it; another trustee said the suggestion from trustees was "to please pull it until those numbers are transparent for the public as well." The board then agreed to hold B48.
A trustee also clarified that B47 is not addressed by B48, saying there is no overlap between the two agenda items. No formal vote tally was recorded on the transcript. The motion to hold B48 was entered into the record by the presiding officer; no mover/second or roll-call vote appeared in the open-workshop transcript.
The transcript noted the central-office contracts must first go through the county approval process; the speaker said those contracts had been county approved at a 1% increase. Trustees said they would revisit B48 once attachments with specific figures are provided so the public and board members can review the details.
The board moved on to other agenda items after the hold; the open workshop portion of the meeting closed at 5:38 p.m.
