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At the December 17th meeting of the New Milford township supervisors, all were present. There had been a public hearing prior to the meeting regarding the transfer of a liquor license from Forest City to New Milford township. Nobody from the public attended. The minutes and treasurer's report were accepted as submitted.

A motion was made to approve a resolution for the transfer of the aforementioned liquor license from Forest City borough to New Milford township. This was in regards to a planned “Six Pack Shack” type location up in Gibson.

At the December 15th meeting of the Mountain View School Board, the acting superintendent related that they were going to postpone the student recognition items due to there being basketball games that night. These were planned for January 12th instead.

Mr. Loman was not present at the meeting, but had provided a written response regarding the high school Physical Education curriculum. At that time, the 7th and 8th grade students had PE two days out of the cycle, and 9th, 10th and 11th grades had it three days. The 12th graders didn't have it at all. Various electives were reviewed, and Mr. Loman in his statement noted that fitness was one of the focuses of the MVSD PE program. Fitness levels were at an all time low, and he did not feel less physical education was the answer. He noted that 25 years ago every student in the district had PE every other day. He related that when physical fitness went up so did test scores, and pointed out that there were some periods every day when half of the gym wasn't being used, and two periods a day when the whole gym was empty. Student intramurals had been eliminated. He felt that adding a third instructor would be to the district's benefit, as when one had retired her role was not filled.

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