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Purchases of $1,895,541.50 in goods and services were approved Sept. 8 by the Township Council. The council approved the $39,520 purchase of eight pole-mounted security cameras from Secure Future Tech Solutions of Warwick RI. The cameras, targeted for the Hamilton Street business district, feature wireless connectivity. The council also voted to purchase a 22-door by 24-foot steel pavilion for Consovoy …

The school district’s 15 or so substitute paraprofessionals were privatized at the Aug. 20 Board of Education meeting. The move is not a first step in privatizing all the district’s paraprofessionals, district representatives said. The move came in the form of an amendment to the contract the district has with Source4Teachers, through which it privatized the district’s substitute teachers last year. Privatizing …

Another round of road reconstruction projects has begun. Churchill Avenue between Route 27 and Veronica Road will be closed to through traffic for about the next two weeks as it is milled and repaved. Once that project is completed, the same contractor – Top Line Construction of Somerville – will head over to Canal Road to do the same for the …

Update: The bonding ordinances were approved at the May 26 council meeting. The Township Council at its May 12 meeting introduced three bonding ordinances worth $3.5 million for construction projects and equipment purchases and a $450,000 capital ordinance for equipment purchases. The $450,000 capital ordinance is targeted for two construction vehicles, one  fire prevention pick-up truck, one marked police car, four …

Update: The bond ordinance was approved at the May 26 council meeting. Thirty nine township streets would be repaved this year under a $2.5 million bond ordinance introduced at the May 12 Township Council meeting. Streets included in the program are: Berkley Place, Berry Street, Canal, Camner, Center Street, Chester Street, Clarke Street, DeKalb Street, Drake Street, Dunham Street, Ellen Street, …

A $160 million spending plan carrying a 2.6 percent tax hike for the 2015-16 school year was unanimously approved May 7 by the Board of Education. The budget carries with it a total school portion tax rate increase of about 4 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, from $1.43 to $1.47 per $100. That translates to a $163.95 increase in …

John A. Ravally was unanimously approved as the district’s new schools Superintendent at the Board of Education’s May 7 meeting. Ravally, currently the superintendent in the Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head school districts, will start his new post on July 1. His contract with Franklin runs through June 30, 2020. After his appointment, Ravally thanked the board and said he was …

John A. Ravally is expected to be appointed the new schools Superintendent at the Board of Education’s May 7 meeting. Ravally’s salary will be the state-mandated cap of $177,500, which is the base $175,000, plus $2,500 because the district has a high school, said board president Ed Potosnak. Ravally was most recently schools Superintendent for the Point Pleasant Beach school district, …

Contracts worth more than $107,000 were approved April 23 by the Board of Education. The contracts included: Elementary school schedule analyses for $22,500. Use agreement for the College Avenue and Cook/Douglass Recreation Center pools at Rutgers, for $7,569.25. Internet Policy Manual services from the New Jersey Schoo Boards Association for $2,500. Special education document scanning and microfilming services from AccuScan Digital Archival …

The Township Council on April 14 approved purchases totaling $193,440. Beyer Brothers of Fairvew won contracts for two GMC half-ton pickup trucks, for a total of $73,440. The vehicles are for the township’s fire safety department. One vehicle was included in the 2014 capital budget, but was never ordered. According to a memo from John Hauss, head of fire prevention, …