What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week….
This week’s newsletter starts with a primer on the 2024 Budget that provides a few snap-shots of the 2022-2023 ACFR. Residents and parents are strongly encouraged to read the attachments to this first in a series leading up to the 2024 BHPSNJ Budget process.
We then move to the strange tandem involving the Business Administrator and Superintendent in their relentless efforts to salvage the old majority’s way of doing business. Shauna writes an article demonstrating the District’s continued and deliberate practice of violating OPRA despite yet another settlement costing the District more money hitting the agenda during the last meeting. An educator in our District provided a detailed account of Dr. Varley’s tenure, and John provided an update on the superintendent’s under-the-radar 2023 salary increase.
The team provides their notes on the 2023 Executive Session minutes, which include a letter from the OPRA custodian that can almost act as exhibit A on the thinking that has led us to the kind of budgeting issues we have today. Notes also include questions surrounding a pivot from the CMS field to an “all-inclusive” playground at CMS that no one on the BOE (including the Town Council liaison) has spoken about during public meetings.
We end with another endorsement for Dipti, a weekly round-up of important information across the state, and our notes for the week.