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All proposed budgets passed in last week’s Fire District elections. The results from the Feb. 15 vote are as follows: Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving the Eight Villages. But we can only do …

Board of Education vice president Eva Nagy said the district has been promised at least $3.9 million in grants for the proposed $85 million referendum projects. An $85 million referendum that would result in a new elementary school and a reconfiguration of the Pre-K to 8th Grade schools could be held in September, now that state grant money has been …

Interim schools Superintendent Eveny Pagan said the administration needed to get more information for the Board of Education before it could take a vote on a proposal to privatize paraprofessionals. An expected vote to privatize the school district’s 123 paraprofessionals was put off Feb. 20 by the Board of Education. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …

Paraprofessional Monica Espinosa speaks against privatization. School district teachers’ aides showed up in force at the Feb. 17 Board of Education meeting to tell the board just what they thought of yet another proposal to outsource their jobs. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …

The Township Council is now the body in charge of the Hamilton Street business district Special Improvement Zone. Thanks to a last-minute amendment to the ordinance making that so, the council’s status as the SID’s “district management corporation” is limited to two years. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

Professional contracts worth $273,000 were awarded at the Feb. 11 Township Council meeting. The largest, $200,000, was for township attorney Louis Rainone, a member of the DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick and Cole law firm. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only …

Left to right: School district business administrator John Calavano, school board attorney Robert M. Tosti, school board president Julia Presley at the Jan. 31, 2014 special meeting. Board of Education president Julia Presley on at least eight occasions consulted with the board attorney on the former schools Superintendent’s separation agreement that is predicated on the withdrawal of ethics complaints against …

The five commissioners of Fire District 3 have changed their minds about the $144 salary increases they requested. The commissioners, whose territory includes the areas covered by Community Fire Company on Hamilton Street and East Franklin Volunteer Fire Company on Pine Grove Avenue, had requested the Township Council approve 2014 salaries of $7,428. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet …

Former schools Superintendent Edward Seto will be paid nearly $55,000 and has agreed to waive ethics complaints against the Board of Education leadership in a separation agreement approved Jan. 31 by the school board. The board met in a special session to approve the agreement, accept Seto’s resignation and appoint Eveny Pagan as the interim Superintendent. Don’t Miss Out! No …

Brian Bonanno, the school district’s manager of administrative services, told the Board of Education Jan. 30 that it could save $675,000 by privatizing paraprofessionals. On the night the Board of Education was told it could save at least $675,000 a year by privatizing its paraprofessionals, one board member said the district should also outsource substitute teachers. Don’t Miss Out! No …