What You Missed From This Week's Council/BOE Meetings

For those who couldn’t make it to Monday night’s , there were a few interesting items that didn’t make it into a full story, but were nonetheless noteworthy. Here are a few leftover tidbits from the meeting:

• Council members unanimously voted to rescind a resolution they passed in July for improvements to . The expenditure was highly controversial—with council splitting 3-2 on the resolution—but last month to . An ordinance to that effect was passed unanimously Monday. Council awarded a contract to Land Tek Group for the project. Township manager Scott Carew said the contractor will have 120 days to complete the project from the day it receives a notice to proceed, which at the latest should occur sometime next week.

• Council also unanimously approved two other expenditures: $455,000 for the installation of new lighting at and parks (after rescinding an earlier resolution to spend $455,000 from the Trust Fund), and $690,000 for improvements to the . Following the passage of all the aforementioned ordinances, Mayor John Button said, “Wow, council. A lot of work got done there.”

• Carew said , with residential inspections underway in Lenola and commercial and industrial inspections underway as well. He said field workers will begin inspections in the “east end” of town next week, with all residential inspections expected to be finished by the end of November. Commercial and industrial inspections should be complete by the end of October. A public meeting is currently scheduled to be held at the on Sept. 27, with a second meeting tentative slated for the first week in October at the , Carew said.

• Carew said he planned to meet with the owner of an industrial property in town to discuss a . 

Township council will hold its next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the IT room at .

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In addition to , the Moorestown Board of Education this week also adopted (on first reading) a new policy allowing students to use their personal technology—smartphones, iPads, etc.—in the classroom.

"The basic idea is, this is how our students are learning these days—why not take advantage of it?" said Board President Don Mishler.

Mishler said the district has to work out a few issues to ensure the policy is implemented seamlessly—in particular: How to ensure equity (that all students have access to technology), and how to protect the district's information technology system, as well as other students, from the potential misuse of student-owned technology.

Superintendent Brian Betze said he would be convening a special committee composed of teachers and other staff to hash out the details of how the policy will be implemented and enforced.

The board of education will hold its next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at .