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Swedesboro-Woolwich board approves personnel hires, budget items, tuition and AI policy
Summary
The Swedesboro-Woolwich Board of Education on Aug. 21 approved a slate of personnel hires, payment of August bills and July payroll, tuition and meal prices for 2024–25, and Policy 2365 governing use of generative AI. Votes and abstentions were recorded by roll call.
The Swedesboro-Woolwich Board of Education approved a series of personnel and financial actions at its Aug. 21, 2024, meeting.
On a motion by Vice President Natalie Baker and second by Kenneth Riley, the board adopted the meeting agenda and later approved entry into and return from executive session to discuss personnel matters. The board approved the regular and executive-session minutes from July 24, 2024.
The board approved recommended personnel actions submitted by the Personnel & Finance Committee. The hires include paraprofessional and support positions, a bus driver candidate (Charles Marker), teacher hires (including Brad Gilmore and Sarah Perez), a long-term substitute for third grade (Kayley Klehamer), and payroll/bookkeeper hire Sonia Hamaty (listed salary $50,000). Many appointments were noted as contingent on completion of required state paperwork and certifications.
Financial approvals included payment of August 2024 regular and addendum bills totaling $974,297.40 and July 2024 payroll totaling $279,272.69. The board also approved a July 2024 line-item transfer of $207,561.18.
The board set tuition rates for out-of-district placements for 2024–25 as follows: PreK–K $15,380; grades 1–5 $17,141; 6th grade $18,085; disability placements $23,059. Lunch and breakfast prices for the school year were approved: student lunch $3.20; reduced lunch $0; staff lunch $5.00; breakfast $1.60.
Policy 2365, "Acceptable Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)," was adopted on a 7–0 roll-call vote.
Roll-call tallies recorded a limited number of abstentions: Alfred Beaver abstained on the personnel block (item A) and Gina Azzari abstained on the bills/payroll item (item D); other listed motions carried unanimously where noted. The board announced its next regular meeting for Sept. 11, 2024.
The minutes and financial reports were submitted by Board Secretary Mr. Korey Jeffries, who certified that, per N.J. statutes and N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-16.10, no line-item account had been overexpended for the reported period.
