Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Weinstein was re-elected president and Moramarco vice president.
Steve Weinstein and Glenn Moramarco were returned to leadership positions on the Haddonfield Board of Education during a reorganization meeting. Weinstein was re-elected president and Moramarco re-elected vice president. Both were selected unanimously by the nine-member board last week. Weinstein, 66, an attorney, was hired in December as the general counsel at Rowan University in Glassboro. Moramarco, 53, is an assistant U.S. attorney in Camden, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, holds master's in philosophy, political science and economy from Oxford University in England and a law degree from Yale University. Neither are compensated for serving on the Board of Education. Weinstein has been a major proponent of a proposed public …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
A public-private effort in Haddonfield aims to rehab the deteriorated auditorium.
Improvements to the high school auditorium continue with the support of the Lights, Camera, Action community-led committee, the Haddonfield Board of Education reported this week. The organization raised more than $80,000 toward improvements. The board provided a summary of the auditorium project. Painting, which included plaster repairs, lead paint removal and labor, was complete at the cost of $163,000 and paid with funds from the capital budget. The district is expected to have 40 percent of the sound system, lighting and curtains cost returned through a state grant. The board approved a $34,423 purchase and installation of new drapes in an action meeting this week. When the curtains were removed for painting, most were in serious …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The school board meets tonight at the Central/Middle School library.
The Haddonfield Board of Education is set to vote tonight on a letter of intent to purchase the nearly 19-acre Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. Tonight's board meeting at 7 p.m. at the Central/middle school library is the third public meeting this month to discuss the purchase. The borough Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the letter of intent last week. The letter launches a 45-day process for the borough and the school board to appraise the property and draft an agreement of sale with Bancroft, a center for the developmentally disabled and acquired brain injuries. The $12.2 million purchase price is part of a $16.8 million plan to acquire the property, which is adjacent to Haddonfield Memorial High School, demolish …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Hall announced his resignation in April.
W. Andrew "Andy" Hall, the former business administrator for the Haddonfield Board of Education, was named a senior vice president of a South Jersey educational management company. Source4Teachers/MissionOne, a Cherry Hill based company, specializes in recruiting, training, scheduling, managing and retaining skilled substitute teachers, according to a news release. Hall announced his resignation during a board meeting in April. He would not say where he was going, but did say: "It's a good opportunity to gamble and see what happens." A news release from Source4Teachers/MissionOne said Hall will provide "strategic leadership and direction." Borough school board officials praised Hall after he announced his resignation. "He's the finest …
Friday, March 9, 2012
"We still need brains and a heart."
The Haddonfield Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution Thursday supporting negotiations with Bancroft to buy its nearly 19-acre campus adjacent to the borough high school. The question is, if a deal can be struck, what happens next? If the school board writes the next chapter, the land on Kings Highway East will literally be a field of dreams, for high-school sports, school-district expansion and open-space preservation. If the borough writes the next chapter, the field will also include a residential component to ease the tax burden on residents. "I think we have to get over that hurdle of being open to the proposition that this will be a property, potentially forever, that will not generate any revenue, in terms of ratables…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The three-member Board of Commissioners said they still want to work with the BOE for public-purchase strategies for the site.
The Haddonfield Board of Commissioners on Tuesday rejected a request from the borough school board to be named developer for the Bancroft site on Kings Highway East. The decision was made in a work-session meeting. No public votes on ordinances or resolutions are held at work sessions but other public policy may be decided. The school board asked to be named the developer for the 18.7-acre site two weeks ago. It was part of a plan it has for purchasing the property, demolishing existing buildings and converting it for school use, athletic fields and open space. Bancroft, a center for people with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries, has been located on the site at 425 Kings Highway East for the past 128 years. It's …
Friday, February 10, 2012
The board met Thursday in a regular meeting
Friday, January 27, 2012
The boards will meet on Feb. 6 at the Central School.
The Haddonfield Board of Education will hold a joint meeting with borough commissoners on Monday, Feb. 6 to discuss its proposal for the purchase of the Bancroft property, Superintendent Richard Perry said Friday. The meeting will be held in the all-purpose room at the Central School at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. Several borough commissioners have expressed concerns about the cost of an estimated $24 million school-board plan to purchase and develop the Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. Commissioner Ed Borden said he thought the school board's two-phase development plan was flawed. "The idea of spending $17 million, without a learning center and no plan for the east side of the property, is not a good idea," Borden said in …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Commissioners concerned about cost of acquisition for Bancroft speak of a mixed-use plan to expand the high-school footprint and recruit a private developer.
Several borough commissioners expressed concerns Monday about the cost of an estimated $24 million school-board plan to purchase and develop the Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. Commissioner Ed Borden said he thought the school board's two-phase development plan was flawed. "The idea of spending $17 million, without a learning center and no plan for the east side of the property, is not a good idea," Borden said during a commissioner's work session Monday. "There are serious holes in the plan. It doesn't address affordable housing and ignores construction and legal costs. "Who thinks, in any universe, the state will have millions of dollars to give to Haddonfield?" Borden asked, when told school officials had discussed finding …
Friday, November 4, 2011
The school board's second crack at a purchase plan for Bancroft irons out kinks with the public.
The Haddonfield school-board makeover of the Bancroft purchase plan received a much warmer reception Thursday than a plan rolled out two weeks ago. The new plan trims $8 million off the initial $32 million price tag for buying the 19.7-acre parcel, adjacent to the high school on Kings Highway East. And to make it even more digestible, the board projected costs in a two-phase plan that will initially cost $17.6 million, about half of the price of the plan proposed on Oct. 19. The new offering also shelved a plan to sell offsite athletic fields on Radnor Avenue to a commercial real estate developer. That plan stirred the most criticism last month from neighbors who didn't want more housing on the site. A crowd of about 100 spread out around …
John Sullivan
4:41 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Bill, by my own reckoning, the speakers at the second meeing were approx. 3-2 against the proposal. While some speakers opposed the plan primarily or exclusively because of the turf component, the turf component is nevertheless a key element of the plan, and those individuals certainly cannot be considered to have a "positive" view of the plan, particularly since many have indicated they will … more ›