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Warren Hills board approves personnel, policy and budget packages; bill list totals $917,560.59
Summary
At its Aug. 26 meeting the Warren Hills Regional Board approved a package of personnel appointments and resignations, the second read of several policies, field-trip requests, and budget items including a $917,560.59 bill list, transfers of $339,712.00, special education tuition contracts, and a $2,600 donation from the At‑Ease Foundation.
The Warren Hills Regional Board of Education on Aug. 26 approved a set of motions covering personnel appointments, policy updates and finance items, including a bill list totaling $917,560.59.
Personnel approvals included teachers, paraprofessionals, coaching and advisor stipends, testing and tutoring coordinators, and several event and substitute staff approvals. The board approved summer IEP meeting staff at the contracted rate of $47 per hour and accepted a secretary resignation. Several personnel approvals were marked “pending receipt of required documents,” and the board adopted a motion authorizing the superintendent to hire faculty, staff and advisors for the start of the 2025–26 school year, with the board to review approvals at the next meeting.
On policy, the board approved second reads of revised policies and regulations including P & R #2430 (Co‑Curricular Activities), R #5511 (Dress and Grooming), R #5600 (Student Code of Conduct), P #7320 (Disposition of Property), and P #9163 (Spectator Code of Conduct, as amended). The board also affirmed that there were no HIB cases reported for MS or HS for the 2025–26 reporting period and approved several field-trip requests (including a National FFA Convention trip to Indianapolis and College of New Jersey student council trips).
Budget and finance actions approved by the board included acceptance of the July 2025 Board Secretary and Treasurer’s reports, a bill list for Aug. 13–26, 2025 of $917,560.59, a Student Activities bill list of $3,777.15, and transfers totaling $339,712.00. The board approved Special Education tuition contracts (example shown in the minutes: Morris‑Union Jointure Commission – DLC at $61,031.00) and transportation contracts with the NJ Department of Children and Families to transport two students to a DCF regional school at $75.00 per student per day. The board approved Change Order No. 12 for high‑school HVAC upgrades for $5,273.99 and accepted, with gratitude, a donation of two Jersey Tactical Corp. emergency response lockers valued at $2,600 from the At‑Ease Foundation.
Votes were recorded by roll call and the motions listed in personnel, education & policy, and budget & finance were carried with the recorded board members voting in the affirmative.
Votes at a glance: • Motion to approve personnel package (I.1–I.6) — Mover: Jean Hansen; Second: Molly Fraumeni — Outcome: approved (roll call shows all listed members voting Aye). • Motion to approve Education & Policy motions (II.1–II.3) — Mover: Lisa Marshall; Second: Paula Merrill — Outcome: approved (roll call shows all listed members voting Aye). • Motion to approve Budget & Finance motions (III.1–III.9) — Mover: Amy Kemp; Second: Corey Piasecki — Outcome: approved (roll call shows all listed members voting Aye).
Several personnel approvals are contingent on receipt of required documents; the minutes note rescinded approvals where documents were missing and identify some hires as pending. The superintendent’s administrative authority to hire ahead of board ratification was added as Motion *6 and included in the personnel package.
