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Union Township Board accepts FY2024 audit, approves $1.55M in bills and routine personnel actions
Summary
At its Dec. 18 meeting the Union Township Board of Education accepted the FY2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and Auditor's Management Report, approved payment of $1,551,866.00 in district bills, approved personnel changes including a resignation and a brief paid administrative leave for an employee, and set the 8th-grade graduation date for June 6, 2025.
The Union Township Board of Education met on Dec. 18, 2024, in the Union Township Elementary School library and approved a slate of routine business, accepted the district FY2024 audit and corrective action plan and handled personnel and calendar items.
Board members certified the Board Secretary’s and Treasurer’s reports and approved budget transfers. The Board also approved district bills for payment in the amount of $1,551,866.00. The motion carried on the roll call associated with the Finance items; the minutes record Yes: 7, Abstain: 1, Absent: 1 for that motion.
The Board accepted the FY2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and the Auditor’s Management Report prepared by Bedard, Kurowicki & Co., CPAs, and approved a corrective action plan addressing Recommendation #2024-001. The audit acceptance was placed on the record and approved as presented.
On personnel matters the board approved multiple consent items including appointment of substitute teachers at the listed daily rate, approval of a home-instruction rate, appointment of a custodial substitute, and the acceptance of the resignation of Kalinka Alton (lunch monitor), effective Dec. 3, 2024. The Board also approved parent volunteer Michael Kokoszka for lunch/recess duty. The personnel consent package (P1–P6) passed by roll call (recorded as 8 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, 1 absent).
The board placed an employee identified in the minutes as "employee #502" on paid administrative leave effective Dec. 9, 2024 through Dec. 13, 2024. The minutes record the leave but do not disclose additional case details; the Board held multiple executive sessions during the meeting to discuss confidential personnel matters under the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act (N.J.S.A. 10:4-12).
Under education items the Board set the 8th-grade graduation date for Friday, June 6, 2025 (E1). The Board approved professional development requests for staff that include conference registrations and course fees (examples recorded in the motion: Techspo ’25 attendee cost $784.00 plus mileage at .47/mile; CPR/AED training $60.00) and approved a 6th-grade field trip to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.
The minutes record approval of a special-education tuition contract with Waterford Township School District for Student ID No. 4178734680 in the amount of $3,142.24, effective Aug. 29, 2024 to Oct. 28, 2024.
During public comment a community member raised a concern about a child restraint incident; the minutes do not record additional details or board action resulting from that comment. The Board conducted three executive sessions during the meeting to discuss personnel and reconvened to public session after each; no additional public details were released in the minutes.
The Board approved the 2025 regular meeting calendar and Kean University student observer placements and adjourned at 9:34 p.m. The minutes are signed and filed by Board Secretary Eva Preuett.
Because the minutes summarize votes and confidential personnel actions, the public record in the minutes is limited to motion language, vote tallies where recorded and procedural outcomes. The Board noted that items discussed in executive session will be made public if/when confidentiality is no longer required.
