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Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, and Jacobs Has Over 86,000 Reasons to Be Thankful for Berkeley Heights

I should start out by acknowledging that our District has taken a small step in the right direction by publishing the Bill List and Transfer Report with this month’s Board Meeting Packet. However, considering all the claw-backs over the past three years, we are far from where we need to be. So yes – it is a good step- but...
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10/12/2023 Bill List: More of Our School’s Dollars go to Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, and Jacobs

The link below is the bill list approved during the 10/12/2023 BOE. As expected, this month’s legal bills are lower; we suspect how bills are approved is a matter of optics.   The first bill list of 2023 (January) totaled a whopping $31,467 spent on legal services– recall this was month one of two new BOE Members joining the Board, one...
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Berkeley Heights Superintendent and BOE Remain Silent on Nepotism and Busing

Questions that have been asked multiple times over the course of Months Remain Unanswered Below are two email chains from BOE Candidate Sai Akiri to the Berkeley Heights BOE on questions connected to the costs of the Superintendent’s Nepotism case and the Busing Controversy that represented hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. The email chain on the Nepotism...
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Update to the 11th Hour Berkeley Heights BOE Majority Decision to Change Election Policies

More Question and Concerns on the BOE’s 11th Hour Changes to Election Policy Arise Soon after BOE Candidate Natasha Joly emailed the Town Council on her concerns connected to how the BOE Majority may potentially use the unlawful Campaign Sign Ordinance to overturn an election result given their most recent vote to move forward with changes to the District’s election...
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NJ Education Report Publishes Another BHCW Contribution

It has been over two years since a family member in Berkeley Heights submitted an ethics complaint alleging the Superintendent of Berkeley Heights, Dr. Melissa Varley, violated ethical standards by hiring her family member.   Since then, residents discovered contradictions in her public statements and affidavit that appear to admit she violated the nepotism standard. Subsequently, the NJ Attorney General’s Office referred the...
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The 08/10/2023 Bill List – Another Concerning Snapshot

More questions about how District Funds are Being Used Arise….. -Sai Akiri, 2023 Candidate for Berkeley Heights Board of Education BHCW submitted the following OPRA request on 08/07/2023: Please provide under OPRA and common law right to know the following documents: Bill list for August 10, 2023 Board meeting  Treasurer report for June and July 2023 Cash report for June...
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