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Green Township Board approves SEMI waiver, maintenance-reserve withdrawal, trips and multiple personnel items
Summary
At its Feb. 19 meeting the Green Township Board approved a SEMI waiver request based on 21 Medicaid-eligible students, withdrew $88,254.95 from maintenance reserve, and approved field trips, disbursements and several personnel hires and replacements.
The Green Township Board of Education at its Feb. 19, 2025 meeting approved a package of routine but substantive items: a resolution to request a waiver from the Special Education Medicare Initiative (SEMI) for 2025–26, a maintenance-reserve withdrawal to cover required maintenance, multiple field trips and associated disbursements, and several personnel appointments and separations.
The board adopted a resolution authorizing the chief school administrator to submit a waiver under NJAC 6A:23A-5.3 because the district projects fewer than 40 Medicaid-eligible classified students for 2025–26. The minutes report 21 Medicaid-eligible students (NJ SMART snapshot) with a projected reimbursement revenue of $1,940.40 compared with a district budgeted reimbursement requirement of $1,746.36.
Operations Chair CJ Bilik moved and the board approved withdrawing $88,254.95 from the maintenance reserve for required maintenance.
Curriculum approvals included several staff professional-development requests and field trips: a 7th-grade trip to New York City (March 25), an 8th-grade Washington, D.C. trip (June 3–5) with multiple vendor disbursements (for example, $11,640 payable to DoubleTree for two nights’ accommodations and $2,700 to Old Town Trolley Tours), and a listed 6th-grade trip to Riviera Maya (March 10). The board approved chaperones and budgeted student-activity disbursements for the 8th-grade travel and activities.
Personnel items approved included a leave schedule for an employee through June 30, 2025 (with sick, personal and family illness days then unpaid leave from April 8–June 30), acceptance of Alison Weatherwalks’ resignation as Spring STEM/STEAM Assistant, appointment of Kristin Grzymko as the Spring STEM/STEAM Assistant, retroactive approval of Kristen Sylvester as Reading Specialist and Title I Coordinator for an extended program, substitute hires (Janice Lawrey, Carlos Salazar), appointment of Suzanne Ploch as library leave replacement, approval of custodial hire Scott Roselli, and hiring of part-time interventionist Iryna Coleman. The board also approved contracting Dr. Sanjeevani Jain to perform school evaluations at $1,250 per evaluation and approved Kimberly Unhoch as a substitute School Security Officer at $36.12/hour pending paperwork.
All motions listed in the minutes carried as recorded in roll-call notations. The board adjourned at 8:58 p.m.; it entered and exited a closed session to discuss litigation and personnel matters earlier in the meeting.
What to watch: the SEMI waiver affects eligibility for certain Medicaid reimbursement processes for special-education services; the maintenance-reserve withdrawal will pay for required maintenance projects. The 8th-grade trip disbursements indicate non-general-fund student activity spending the board has authorized.
