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P A I D
B e l l m a w r N J
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R e s i d e n t i a l C u s t o m e r
Special to The Sun
Former Phillies player and hitting instructor Milt Thompson visited Hurffville Elementarys third-
grade classes recently to give an entertaining and informative presentation not about baseball,
but about creating goals and achieving them through education. Thompson began the presenta-
tion by telling the students every day their goal should be to learn something new, and that the
best way to do that, is to treat it as a job. Your teacher is the boss, Thompson said, so students
should maintain eye contact, listen intently and do the job to the best of their ability.
Classroom lecture
Bill could change
school elections
By MELISSA DIPENTO
The Washington Twp. Sun
No vote may be needed to pass
a school district budget again if
the Washington Township School
District decides it wants to move
its election to November.
Gov. Christie recently signed
legislation that would allow
school board elections to be
moved to November.
Christie initially proposed the
legislation in May 2010 and gar-
nered bipartisan support in the
legislature. His reasons for sign-
ing the bill were to encourage a
higher voter turnout and to help
school districts save money by
combining school elections with
the general election.
This bipartisan tool kit bill fi-
nally gives real pathways for
school boards or voters to move
district elections in November,
providing the bright prospect for
both local government savings
and increased voter participation
in the process, Christie said.
With this legislation now law,
I urge school board members and
voters in every one of our dis-
tricts to act as quickly as possible
to take hold of these benefits.
For the Washington Township
School District, the cost savings
could be in the thousands. Board
of Education President Stephen
Altamuro estimated last years
election to cost between $25,000
and $30,000 for the school district.
The new law states the county
and the board of education would
enter into an agreement, with the
school district held responsible
for any increased cost associated
with the election.
To move the school district
election to November in Washing-
ton Township, either the board of
education or the township coun-
cil would need to adopt a resolu-
tion, or voters would have to ap-
prove a ballot question in the next
November election.
Another major shift for the
school district, should it vote to
move the election, would elimi-
nate the need for residents to vote
on the school budget if it re-
mained under the state-mandated
cap.
The school district is still re-
quired to submit its budget to the
commissioner of education for
approval, however.
A budget that exceeds the 2 per-
cent cap would be presented to
voters in the November election,
allowing residents to approve or
deny a budget with extra spend-
ing.
If a budget above the cap were
approved, the board would sub-
mit its final budget to the DOE. If
the budget that exceeds the cap
were rejected, the districts tem-
porary budget would serve as its
final budget for the year.
Changing the election is a pos-
sibility for the school district this
year, as the bill gives no deadline
for changing the election date.
Altamuro said the board is
awaiting guidance from the state
Department of Education as to
whether there is an upcoming
deadline the district needs to ad-
here to should it choose to move
the election to November. As of
last Thursday, the DOE said it had
not set a filing deadline yet.
Coach recognized for work
By MELISSA DIPENTO
The Washington Twp. Sun
The balance beam. The vault.
The uneven bars. By 1975, Wash-
ington Township was ready to
embrace the wide world of gym-
nastics.
And Harvey MacNeill was just
the person to kick things off at
the high school.
MacNeill competed collegiately
at Glassboro State College, which
is now Rowan University, and ran
camps and clinics in the area at
the time.
He said he noticed Washington
Township High School was one of
the only schools in the area lack-
ing a program and always
dreamed of coaching, so he threw
his hat into the ring.
That year he accepted the posi-
tion as head coach and spent 27
years growing the program.
Under his watch, his teams won
197 dual meets, including a state-
record stretch of 54 consecutive
please see BOARD, page 2 please see PROGRAM, page 4
2 THE WASHINGTON TWP. SUN FEBRUARY 1-7, 2012
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The board got the ball rolling at
last weeks meeting about poten-
tial implications of moving the
elections to November.
The pros of moving the elec-
tion to November, Altamuro said,
would eliminate the need for resi-
dents to vote on the budget if it re-
mains under the cap and might
encourage more people to come
out and vote. But, he noted, a
move to November may cause the
school election to become more
politically charged.
Altamuro said he expects the
board to have a more spirited dis-
cussion on the matter at the work
session next meeting, Feb. 21.
BOARD
Continued from page 1
Board gets ball
rolling on
election move
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