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Franklin Lakes Board approves $5.7 million bills list, payroll and contract adjustments
Summary
The board approved a consent agenda including an October bills list totaling $5,724,972.90, payroll approvals, authorization to process interim invoices, and change orders adjusting a middle‑school window/door contract that reduced the contract sum to $1,035,556.
The Franklin Lakes Board of Education on Nov. 11 approved a consent agenda of finance and operations items that included a bills list for October 2025 totaling $5,724,972.90, authorization to process invoices between meetings, and payroll approvals.
Under the consent agenda (Resolution Nos. 2018–2023), the board authorized interim invoice processing (Resolution 2018), approved the October bills list of $5,724,972.90 (Resolution 2019), approved a November check register to date of $607,119.45 (Resolution 2020), approved October actual payroll of $2,011,674.37 (Resolution 2022) and approved estimated payroll for November of $2,100,000.00 (Resolution 2023). The overall consent agenda motion (excluding Resolution 2016) passed 7–0 on a motion by Mr. Scott Loia and seconded by Mr. Ryan Richman.
The board also approved two construction change‑order items for Franklin Avenue Middle School. Change Order #3 to Panoramic Window & Door Systems authorized $2,036 for building permits (reducing an allowance). Change Order #4 issued a $34,444 credit to the original contract, lowering the original contract sum from $1,070,000 to a new contract sum of $1,035,556.
Other routine finance items approved included use of facilities (Resolution 2021), payroll warrants authorization and budget planning calendar adoption (Resolution 2024, approved as part of related consent actions). The minutes list the items and dollar amounts; no additional public discussion or separate roll‑call beyond the consent vote was recorded in the minutes.
The board motion to approve the consent agenda was made by Mr. Loia and seconded by Mr. Richman; the motion carried unanimously for the consent block (7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain).
