Votes on Woman's Club Purchase, School Budget This Week in Maplewood

Here are some stories Maplewood Patch will be following this week:

The South Orange - Maplewood Board of Education will hold a special board meeting on Monday, March 4 to discuss and vote on a preliminary 2013-14 budget to send to the county for approval. Members of the public may speak. For more information on the budget, see this Patch article for an overview and and the district website budget page. You can find the agenda here.

 

The Maplewood Township Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 5. Members of the public may speak. On the agenda:

• a presentation by BOE president Beth Daugherty on the school budget; 
• a vote to introduce a bond ordinance for the purchase of the Maplewood Woman's Club and a vote on a resolution authorizing the purchase;
• discussion of designating the Woman's Club a historic landmark; 
• an ordinance on final passage regarding changes to parking on Woodland Road.

 

Maplewood Patch will have an upcoming story on plans to introduce a "Walking School Bus" to Tuscan Elementary School.

 

Reminder: the district's elementary schools will have four-hour days on Thursday, March 7 and Friday, March 8 because of parent-teacher conferences. Monday, March 11 also will be a four-hour day.