MILLSTONE - Starting on July 1 volunteers who work more than 10 hours in the school district will have to undergo fingerprinting and a background check.

The Millstone Township Board of Education unanimously passed the new regulations at its Feb. 11 meeting.

Superintendent of Schools Mary Anne Donahue said volunteers currently have to be approved by the school board and undergo a Mantoux skin test for tuberculosis. The former regulations will work in conjunction with the new regulations.

Abackground check would notify the district if any registered volunteer has been charged by the police and would provide the outcome of any charge. Background check information will be handled in accordance with the New Jersey legislative code, according to Donahue.

The district will have to pay the fees for fingerprinting, which costs $50 per person, and registering the volunteer with the state, which costs $6 per person, according to Donahue.

Board President Mary Ann Friedman estimated that the new rules would cost the district between $5,000 and $8,000 per year.

Volunteers have to sign in at the school where they are working. The administration will have to keep track of volunteers who help out in more than one building, according to Donahue.

School officials will notify volunteers about the new regulations when they get close to having worked five hours. Donahue also said that the district would conduct a campaign to let parents know about the new policy.

Board member Sergio Galindo said the district created a spreadsheet of volunteer hours that showed most workers log under 10 hours each school year.

Board member Margaret Gordon said she would like to see a spreadsheet created after the 2008-09 school year to see if the district lost any volunteers due to the new regulations.

Donahue said she expects a lot of parents will ask to be fingerprinted during the next school year because volunteers only have to be fingerprinted once.

"It's a one-time shot," she said. "They aren't fingerprinted every year."

Board member Tom Foley, a recreation coach, said that his league requires fingerprinting every three years.

Another board member, Peter Kudrick, considers the new regulations a good policy and said that he is glad the board went forward with it.

Gordon said board members are not against the new regulations, but the new rules have created a logistical issue.

During the meeting, the board also unanimously approved the videotaping of its meetings for a six-month trial period.

The board will tape its meetings for future broadcast on the township's PEG channel.