Overnight field trips to Orlando for the National Science Olympiad were approved by the board at its meeting on Tuesday, April 17. The trips will be from Wednesday, May 16 through Sunday, May 20. Lodging and transportation to and from the University of Central Florida, where the Science Olympiad will be held on May 18 and 19, will be provided.
The approximate cost for High School South students is $1,020 apiece while the cost for Community Middle School students would be $1,200. The additional cost for middle schoolers includes $180 for admission to an Orlando area theme park, only after the details were discussed by the curriculum committee (WW-P News, April 13).
Also, the bus contract for Community Middle School, whose students require land transportation for their large and delicate science project equipment, was awarded to Stout Coach for $13,000 at the school board’s April 17 meeting.
Personnel Moves: At the end of the school year High School North vocal teacher Mary Jacobsen will retire after 22 years with the district. In June Community Middle School mathematics teacher Sharon Zubricky will also retire. Zubricky spent 17 years with the district and Board President Hemant Marathe, on behalf of the entire district, thanked both ladies for their work and dedication and said that they will be missed.
In other personnel moves, Carolyn Montony of High School North will resign after four years in WW-P. Meanwhile Grover Middle School special education teacher Candace Musawwir also resigned as she decided not to return from a leave of absence.
The school board approved two special services consultants as Dr. Yvette Roche Muniz will serve as a consulting school psychologist for a 30-days between April 16 and June 15 at a rate of $400 per day.
From April 18 through June 15, Mary Ford will serve as a consulting social worker, not to exceed 14 days of work. Her rate will also be $400 per day.
Also at the Tuesday, April 17 meeting, the school board accepted a federal STARTALK grant of $99,250 for Hindi and Urdu language immersion camp this summer. The grant was discussed at the April 3 curriculum committee meeting and is in effect from March 1, 2012 through February 28, 2013. To prepare to hold the language camp this year, the board also approved Michelle Crilly to serve as the nurse for the camp, set to run between July 11 and 22. Crilly will receive $47.09 per hour for 59 hours of service, funded through the district’s 2011-’12 STARTALK grant.
Four members of the district’s mathematics personnel will receive $47.09 per hour, not to exceed six hours, for creating calculus problem-based learning assessments throughout April. They are Michael Drake, Denise Shea, Melissa Pearson, and Jeannine York. Pearson and another staff member, Caitlin Ellingson, will also receive pay for creating a geometry problem-based learning assessment this month.
Extra Duty: Luis Ramirez will receive $7.09 per hour for up to 180 hours for implementing the “Families and Schools Together” program on April 18 at Millstone River School.
Community Middle School teacher Kathleen Marrolli will receive compensation of $47.09 per hour for up to 60 hours of home instruction for social studies, science, algebra and IRLA, from March 21 to May 9. Maureen Leleszi will also receive $47.09 for up to 33 hours of home instruction in consumer economics.
High School South’s David Olson will receive the same hourly rate for up to 52 hours of language arts and physical education home instruction. At the board meeting on April 17, Olson was also approved to be the fitness supervisor at High School North, effective from April 18 through June 1, for a prorated salary of $3,555.30. Olson has 14 years of experience.
Teachers Diane Chiocca (French II), Julie Norato (Chemistry Honors), Anne Lyon (Language Arts II), and Carl Romero (American Studies I) all received extra duty stipends of $47.09 per hour, not to exceed six hours.
Also at its Tuesday, April 17 meeting, the school board voted to adopt the following refunding bond ordinance related to its bonds issued in September 2002.
“Providing for the refunding of all or a portion of the outstanding refunding school bonds of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, dated September 15, 2002, issued in the original principal amount of $41,820,000, appropriating not to exceed $23,000,000 therefor and authorizing the issuance of not to exceed $23,000,000 refunding school bonds to provide for such refunding.
The 2002 bonds maturing on or after December 1, 2013, may be redeemed at the option of the school district in whole or in part on any date on or after December 1, 2012 — “the re4demption date” — at a redemption price equal to the par amount of the 2002 bonds to be redeemed plus accrued interest, if any, to the redemption date.
An aggregate amount of less than $275,00 for expenses listed and permitted under NJSA 18A:24-61.4 was included in the aggregate principal amount of refunding bonds (not to exceed $23,000,000.)”
