Where the Money Went
Most of what a school board votes on is routine: a contract here, a grant there, a policy update filed away. This page pulls out every dollar figure the board voted on, plus the handful of decisions that weren't routine at all: a superintendent's abrupt resignation, and a ceiling that came down in a second-floor classroom.
Every dollar figure, sized by amount
Each circle is one financial decision; size reflects the dollar amount, color reflects the kind. Hover for detail, click to read the meeting it came from.
The budget itself, year over year
Three real votes: the 2025-2026 tentative budget, its revised final adoption six weeks later, and the 2026-2027 budget adopted a year after that.
Twenty months without a confirmed superintendent
Behind the routine contract approvals, one real leadership story runs through this entire archive.
From a new hire's introduction to a permanent successor, by way of a resignation
- 2024-07-23: New Superintendent Kyle Arlington is introduced to the board, updating members on his transition into the district.
- 2025-06-10: Nearly a year later, the board appoints Special Counsel to conduct a third-party legal investigation at Ridgewood Avenue School amid personnel concerns, and names acting principals there and at Central School.
- 2025-07-22: Arlington resigns effective the same day, amid the personnel/climate investigation; Winnie Kievit, the district's Director of Curriculum and Technology, is named Acting Superintendent.
- 2025-12-16: Keisha Harris, who had been serving as Acting Principal of Ridgewood Avenue School since the investigation began, is named permanent Principal there.
- 2026-03-18: Kievit is appointed permanent Superintendent, with a contract running through June 2029 -- closing out a 20-month stretch without a confirmed superintendent.
Search every decision
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How this was put together: every meeting's minutes were combed for two kinds of events: financial decisions tied to a specific dollar figure (budgets, capital projects, bonds, grants, contracts/purchases), and major personnel, policy, or facility decisions a local news reader would consider genuinely notable. Routine business — individual teacher appointments, field trip approvals, standard bill-list line items — was deliberately excluded, so this is a curated record of the significant items, not a complete ledger.
Descriptions are grounded in the real minutes text but are paraphrases, not verbatim quotes; a dollar amount omitted from an event means the minutes didn't state one. This is a one-time look back, not a live feature — it won't update automatically as new meetings are published. See the borough's official agendas & minutes for the current record.