Thursday, May 24, 2012
The latest is a $172,000 state grant for masonry repairs at the 100-year-old Fort Lee School No. 4.
The Christie administration announced Wednesday that the Fort Lee School District will receive $172,000 through its Schools Development Authority’s (SDA) Regular District Grant Program. “Furthering the Governor’s commitment to providing the state’s children with safe, modern and efficient schools, the Christie Administration [Wednesday] announced that the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) has executed a state grant to the Fort Lee School District through the SDA’s Regular Operating District (ROD) grant program,” Andrea Pasquine of SDA said in a statement. The grant is for masonry repairs at Fort Lee School No. 4, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. The total project cost is $430,000, state and local officials …
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Fort Lee School No. 4
1193 Anderson Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
School officials say initial round of bids are much lower than projected, while the district’s bond counsel says selling bonds through the Bergen County Improvement Authority will save money and lessen tax impact.
Bids for infrastructure repairs and upgrades to Fort Lee schools approved by voters earlier this year are coming in under budget so far, according to the school district’s business administrator. Cheryl Balletto presented a report Monday at the Fort Lee Board of Education’s regular business meeting, saying that the first round of bids for boiler repairs and other projects were about $1.7 million lower than what the district had budgeted for. “We can have change orders moving forward, but the original round of bids are coming in lower, which is what we were hoping for by having this bond referendum in these economic times,” Balletto said. In January, Fort Lee voters approved the $30.2 referendum, authorizing the school district to raise …
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Fort Lee Borough High School
3000 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The plan resoundingly approved Tuesday comes with $9.7M from the state and at a cost to the average homeowner of about $103 a year.
Fort Lee voters Tuesday approved the Fort Lee Board of Education’s third school bond referendum since September 2010 by a margin of more than 500 votes. In unofficial results, the tally was 1,383 votes in favor of the $30.2 million referendum, and just 865 opposing the measure, with a small number of provisional ballots outstanding that Borough Clerk Neil Grant said wouldn’t be nearly enough to change the outcome. That positive outcome—after two failed attempts at getting larger referendums passed in 2010—authorizes the school district to raise funds through the sale of bonds to finance boiler replacements, roof replacements, science lab renovations at Fort Lee High School and Lewis F. Cole Middle School, masonry repairs and other …
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Fort Lee Borough Board of Education
255 Whiteman St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Voting day is just five days away (Jan. 24); Polls will be open from 2 to 9 p.m.
Next week Fort Lee voters will go to the polls to determine the fate of the Fort Lee Board of Education’s $30.2 million referendum to upgrade and expand the school system. Leading up to the referendum, which takes place Tuesday, Jan. 24, the school board has held three community forum meetings—one on Dec. 12, one on Jan. 3 and another on Jan. 17—in attempt to sway undecided voters, explain various aspects of the referendum in detail and answer any questions people might have. The BOE has also led a series of public walking tours of the schools, providing a firsthand look at the overcrowding and infrastructure woes the district faces. And the board even launched a special website dedicated to all things referendum 2012, which details …
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Fort Lee Borough Board of Education
255 Whiteman St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Fort Lee BOE held its final community forum Tuesday just one week before its $30.2 million referendum on Jan. 24.
Turnout at the Fort Lee Community Center Tuesday evening for the Fort Lee Board of Education’s third and final community forum meeting was roughly the same as the previous two—one on Dec. 12 and another on Jan. 3. But as the board made its final public pitch for its school bond referendum, the message may have been the same, but the messenger was new. Stephen Boswell, president and CEO of Boswell Engineering, offered his perspective on the $30.2 million referendum just a week before Fort Lee voters go to the polls to determine its fate. Boswell gave a presentation and overview of the referendum, complete with a school-by-school breakdown of how the money would be spent should it pass and pictures to back up what he was saying, all of which…
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Fort Lee Community Center
1355 Inwood Ter, Fort Lee, NJ
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
At the Fort Lee Mayor and Council’s annual re-org meeting, “the team” remains the same; Fort Lee Mayor delivers State of the Borough Address.
The Fort Lee Mayor and Council held its annual reorganization meeting Thursday at Borough Hall, where Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich and Councilmen Armand Pohan and Michael Sargenti, all of whom were reelected in November, took the oaths of office; Councilman Joseph Cervieri was selected as Council president for 2012; borough attorney Lee Cohen was reappointed for another year; and Sokolich delivered his annual State of the Borough Address before the governing body went through a litany of statutory, Council and Mayor’s appointments and nominations. Rabbi Meir Berger of the New Synagogue of Fort Lee delivered the invocation before a packed house in council chambers, including Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-37), Assemblyman Gordon M…
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Fort Lee Borough Administrative Offices-Borough Hall
309 Main St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Top priority projects like boiler replacements would get done this summer; the second summer would see the bulk of the work if referendum passes.
If the Fort Lee Board of Education’s $30.2 million school bond referendum passes on Jan. 24, it would set in motion a process that would “roll out over a period of time” beginning this summer, says the school district’s architect of record. With most of the capital improvement, renovation and construction work needing to get done when students are not in school, that means it would most likely take the next three summers to complete all of the work, with priority projects like boiler replacements starting this summer, said Jeanne K. Perantoni of SSP Architectural Group at the school board’s community forum meeting Tuesday. “The overall build out of the program will take a couple years to get through to everything in a prioritized fashion…
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Fort Lee Borough School No. 1
250 Hoym St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Lewis F. Cole Middle School
467 Stillwell Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee Borough High School
3000 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The second of three community forums on the referendum was Tuesday at the community center
The Fort Lee Board of Education hosted its second of three community forum meetings Tuesday in advance of the school bond referendum on Jan. 24. Turnout at the Fort Lee Community Center was slightly better than at the board’s first forum on Dec. 12, as school officials for the most part reiterated what they detailed at that meeting and directed voters to the district’s special “Bond Referendum 2012” website and people in attendance for the most part expressed their support. Acting Superintendent of Schools Steven Engravalle encouraged voters to peruse the website, which he said is regularly being updated with photos and additional information “so that the decisions can be made individually based upon what you see,” and said the fate of the…
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Fort Lee Community Center
1355 Inwood Ter, Fort Lee, NJ
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Science lab renovations explained, frequently asked questions answered on School Board’s Referendum Website.
The Fort Lee Board of Education and school district officials are "hitting the ground running in 2012 with a focus on passing the referendum," according to information released by Acting Superintendent of Schools Steven Engravalle Monday. The Board of Education's recently unveiled “Bond Referendum 2012” website now includes a section devoted specifically to science lab renovations—complete with downloadable plans and "before and after" images—at Lewis F. Cole Middle School and Fort Lee High School “to provide students with a 21st Century learning environment that will support their success in an increasingly competitive world.” As of Tuesday, the website will also include a document called “Straight Talk: Answers to the most common …
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Fort Lee Borough High School
3000 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Lewis F. Cole Middle School
467 Stillwell Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Have you taken or will you take a walking tour of Fort Lee Schools?
The Fort Lee Board of Education holds the second of three community forums Tuesday evening on its $30.2 million school bond referendum, the fate of which Fort Lee voters will determine in a special election on Jan. 24. The community forum meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center. On Wednesday, the BOE will also lead another public walking tour of Fort Lee schools. The tour meets at 11 a.m. at the Board of Education offices at 255 Whiteman St. The series of community forums and walking tours is part of an effort on the part of school officials to convince undecided voters that the infrastructure repairs and upgrades and other improvements, including boiler, roof and window replacements and masonry repairs, …
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Fort Lee Community Center
1355 Inwood Ter, Fort Lee, NJ
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Toni M.
4:03 pm on Friday, May 25, 2012
What personal issues? No one got fired! The Board of Education (voted into their positions by the voters) has not renewed certain contracts, that's not getting fired and it wasn't him. Get ur facts str8. more ›