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Woodland Park Board approves routine financial, personnel and policy items, accepts grant and contracts
Summary
At its Jan. 31 meeting the Woodland Park Board of Education approved consent agenda items, detailed budget transfers, a $764,900.28 bill list, multiple personnel hires and resignations, acceptance of a $24,623 capital maintenance grant, a contract for a C.N.A. at $78/hour, donations and the adoption of homework regulation R2330.
The Woodland Park Board of Education on Jan. 31 approved a range of routine finance, personnel and policy measures across consent and regular agenda items.
On a roll call vote the board approved meeting minutes from Dec. 20, 2021 and accepted secretary and treasurer reports for October–December 2021. The board also approved a detailed set of budget transfers for October, November and December 2021 that reallocated funds across accounts for salaries, supplies and equipment.
The board approved a bill list totaling $764,900.28 (#67 $660,610.49; #L63 $104,289.79), approved a new substitute teacher list, and carried multiple personnel actions: rescinding two earlier advisor appointments, accepting resignations (including Beverly Levinson and Connie Erazo), approving hires and appointments including a full-time elementary teacher (Elizabeth Reisman, effective Feb. 1, 2022), a part-time custodian (Maribel Regalado), substitute custodian (Nicholas Brigati) and multiple lunch aides. The board also approved rates for Memorial School afterschool program stipends and staff class changes.
Finance actions included acceptance of a $24,623 capital maintenance and emergent project grant from the NJSDA/NJDOE and approval of an out-of-district McKinney-Vento placement with an annual cost listed in the record. The board approved a contract with Blazer Works/ProCare Therapy to provide a C.N.A. for contact tracing at $78 per hour (not to exceed 37.5 hours per week) for the remainder of the school year, and accepted donations of fitness equipment and hand sanitizer.
On policy the board adopted Regulation R2330 (Homework) following a second reading. The board voted on an addendum to the interlocal services agreement with the Borough of Woodland Park to formalize shared office space; that vote recorded eight yes votes and one abstention (Tiseo).
Most motions were carried on roll call with unanimous yes votes where recorded; the interlocal addendum recorded one abstention. The board entered executive session at 7:48 p.m. to discuss a preschool lease, the McKinney-Vento resolution and three HIB cases and returned to open session before adjourning at 9:09 p.m.
