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Board approves agenda items including preschool expansion approval and personnel actions; recusal noted
Summary
The board carried motions on agenda items 19.2, 20.2–20.8, HR items 21.1–21.8 and HIB summaries (22.2); a member recused from payments to Lenape Regional High School District and Rutgers and public comment raised transparency concerns about a preschool waiver.
The Cherry Hill Board of Education approved multiple agenda items at its July 9 meeting, including financial and personnel recommendations and summaries related to harassment, intimidation and bullying.
Chair (speaker 1) moved agenda item 19.2 and the motion carried after the clerk opened the vote. The board then moved items 20.2 through 20.8 (BNF), which the chair announced as carried. During that vote a board member declared a recusal from payments to Lenape Regional High School District and from any payments to Rutgers; the board proceeded and carried the motion.
Human-resources items 21.1 through 21.8 were presented by the superintendent and approved by the board with a second and roll-call vote announced in the room. The board also approved item 22.2, the HIB summaries discussed on June 23.
Public comment included a challenge to item 20.8, a waiver tied to preschool expansion, from Jeff Horowitz (speaker 6), who said the preschool facility referenced in the waiver ‘‘is not even built yet’’ and asked the district to publish contract text and cost details. Superintendent Dr. Morton (speaker 8) answered during the superintendent’s remarks that the approved partner operates multiple sites across the state and that planning envisions eight classrooms of about 15 students each for the 2027–28 school year; the superintendent thanked staff for advance planning on facility retrofits and compliance with state standards.
The clerk opened votes and the chair announced that motions carried; specific tallies (yes/no/abstain) were not read into the public record for the motions covered in the transcript.
