please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance call meeting to order sorry pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation godible andice the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the cedar board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be advertised by having the date time and place thereof posted on bulletin boards in the district published and GE transmitted to the Verona Cedar Grove times and star lger newspapers tap into online news filed with the Township Clerk and posted on the district's website on Tuesday November 7th 2023 the annual school election for the Cedar Grove School District was held between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. and as much longer as was necessary to permit all of the legal voters then present at the polling places to vote voting was conducted for the election of one member to the board of education for a period of 3 years the votes were certified by the office of the clerk of Essex County and the results of the election are as follows uh candidates for a three-year term Paul uh a pic Jr 1,682 votes the candidate elected for the three-year term was Paul AIC Jr at this time I'd like to call Mr pic up front to read the alt of office please raise your right hand um read after me I state your name do solom me swear or affirm I Paul a pal Jr do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the con tion of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people and this state under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I that your name do solemnly swear or affirm I Paul a pic Jr do solemnly swear or affirm did I possess the qualific ation prescribed by law that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education for the office of member of Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs19 4-1 and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs9 4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 or offense listed in njs 18a 121 and then I will faithfully and partially and justly and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office and perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me got me got [Applause] congratulations welcome aboard thank you welcome back aboard welcome back back on the train I'll take a roll call uh Mrs Dora here Mr grandi here Mrs Keegan here Mr marzulo here Mr pic here all right um now I'd like to um um ask if there's any nominations for um the election of board president move Miss door second any other nominations I'm going to close that um so in a D1 um where it says motion to elect we'll put in um Dora all right so it'll read motion to elect Dora as president of the Board of Education effective immediately until the next reorganization meeting as prescribed by law all right um have a motion for that so moved right discussion right um Mrs Dora yes Mr grandi yes Mrs Keegan yes Mr marzulo yes Mr pet yes yes all right congratulations thank you not sufficient I'm just kiding well thank you thank you very much okay at this time I will take nominations for vice president of the Board of Education i' like to move forward to CH Keegan any other nominations okay close that uh section the motion will read motion to elect Cen Keegan as vice president of the Board of Education effective immediately until the next reorganization meeting as prescribed by law any discussion roll call Mrs Dora yes Mr grandi yes Mrs Keegan yes Mr marzulo yes Mr ball yes congratulations seats thanks okay this time I'll open uh this portion of the meeting to the public for agenda items only seeing there's nobody here that wants to speak close that portion of the meeting and move on to some organization items I'm going to um put them all together want them all together so can I have a motion for 4 A through 4 d d so move second any discussion yes there is a discussion on page five uh there is a an error in the home instruction leaz on so please uh strike Jessica pignatello and insert Katherine Alvarez I believe that was the only one can I have a roll call please D I just have one one question yes Mr P what page are you on three on the board meeting dates I I was just inquiring about the uh January 30th date if I'm correct that would be very late in the month and it would we as a board although I wasn't here on the 12th you went from December 12th through till January 3rd 30 without moving any business items we haven't done any business um I was wondering if you know the board wants that date to be that late in January it normally would be the 23rd um if there is a reason why you know or somebody's schedule is problematic maybe we can change the day in that week so at least we stay on schedu moving it up is that something we would have to decide at this point yeah okay before we vote on it all right do we want to look at our schedules it's just a suggestion I I'm not opposed to it out as everyone else thought was is there any administrative reason ton or is there anything you know that's pressing to move it to the 30th or because normally it would be the 23rd right is there anything administrativ in uh uh was there any reason that you know we needed to move it and not have it on the scheduled date that was the only thing I was asking I can't make it that day okay I think that was the reason that was the reason why we the 23rd oh I didn't know 22 is not no one had ever said that to me I didn't know that yeah the 22nd is not an option either no is it 24 we do the 24th I'm going yeah I think it's good if you prefer to have the 30th I'll I'll roll with it but I'm just saying it's a long time not to do business I can't do the 230 I'm having a medical procedure done so no one said anything that's reason why you feel you can make the 24th yes yeah you sure yeah no yes okay yeah all right is everyone available on the 24th yeah yeah yeah okay so we'll um strike the 30th on for the next meeting January 30th and change it to the 24th okay any other discussion all right roll call please Mr grandi yes Mr marzulo yes Mr pic yes Mrs Keegan yes Mrs Dora yes right that moves us to public comment any school related items see there's nobody here for that I close that portion future meetings so the next meeting we just changed from the 30th to the 24th executive will be at 6:30 regular meeting will be at 7:30 and then it'll be at South End follow following one will be February 27th same times and that would be at the uh Middle School both in the media centers um at this time the board is going to move into um executive session to discuss contract matters related to the board and no action will be taken this evening good anything else I need to do okay all right before I go I just like to say happy New Year to everyone happy New Year to everyone in the audience and at home I hope everyone um took advantage of the time to reconnect rejuvenate a little bit make some more memories work on our health and I'm excited about the new year ahead of us we got a lot of things that coming down the pipe that I'm excited about and uh thank you for your confidence in putting me back in this position all right we move to Executive thank you