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Long Hill board accepts near‑perfect HIB report and urges state action on rising employee health care costs
Summary
At its June 8 meeting the Long Hill Township Board of Education accepted the district HIB report card (77 of 78 points) and approved a resolution urging state relief for rising public‑school employee health care costs; the board approved multiple consent‑agenda items and then entered executive session on personnel, HIB and contract negotiations.
The Long Hill Township Board of Education voted on June 8 to accept the annual Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) report card from the New Jersey Department of Education and to pass a separate resolution urging state action on rapidly rising public‑school employee health care costs.
Superintendent Alexis presented the HIB report and said the district scored 77 out of 78 points on its self‑assessment and that the annual HIB report mirrors that finding. "We scored 77 out of 78 points," Alexis said, noting the district’s strong results on the state rubric.
During the consent agenda the board approved grouped recognitions and routine items, including minutes, financials, personnel and policy first reads. Chair speaker 2 called attention to a resolution urging relief from rising employee health‑care costs, telling members and the public to read the item; the board moved the financial items with a roll‑call vote and recorded one abstention on item #22 by Miss McLennan.
The motion to move the grouped resolutions and consent items was made and seconded; subsequent roll‑call votes recorded 'Yes' responses from board members on the listed items as read into the record. The board also approved donations (the Education Foundation’s flexible seating donation for Millington) and multiple personnel and curriculum motions as part of the consent calendar.
Before adjourning to private session, the board voted to enter executive session to discuss a HIB report, the superintendent’s evaluation, and an update on Long Hill Education Association negotiations; the chair said no action would be taken during the executive session.
The meeting’s actions keep routine governance moving forward while elevating district concerns about rising health‑care costs for school employees and documenting a high HIB EOY score; no formal policy change on health care was enacted by the board — the resolution calls on state policymakers for relief.
