##VIDEO ID:rm3tzyc-hGM## e e e e e EXP good evening everyone this is the north brunic Township Board of Education reorganization meeting tonight is Tuesday January 7th can we please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr Ali here Mr Carter here M James here miss Keith here Mr Lori here Dr Patel here miss to here and Mr W here we have a clarum thank you 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 meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the open public meetings law the public notice of this meeting which included the time date and location was distributed by 300 p.m. on Tuesday November 26th 2024 and Wednesday November 27th 2024 in the following manner posted on the bulletin board reserved for announcements in the board office 25 lywood place North Brunswick mailed to the home News Tribune Star Ledger nj.com and the clerk of the township of North Brunswick and delivered to the nine duy elected board members happy New Year everyone thank you all for being here tonight it's uh definitely one of my my favorite meetings in the almost 5 years that I've been on the school board um we have our swearing in of some of our uh reelected board members and of course the swearing in of one of our newest team members who is joining us tonight so at this time I will turn it over to Miss Hawk thank you Happy New Year everyone um Dr Patel can we start with you yeah missak if you could make sure we use the microphone so everybody can hear on the YouTube video absolutely thank you you can invite your family up as well if you'd like please I Dr pel I Dr pel do Solly swear that I will support the of the United States and the constition of the state of New Jersey of United States the St of newy and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saint and I will bear true faith and aliance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and the government established in the United States and this state as well and this state as well under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God one more part I Dr I to solemnly swear swe that I possess the qualifications I possess the qualifications prescribed by the law prescribed by the law for the office of a member of a board of education for the office of a member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter I'm not disqualified as a vter pursuing to state law pursuing to state law nor disqualified nor disqualified due to a conviction of a crime or offense listed in state law the conviction of a crime or offense listed and that I will faithfully and I will faithfully impartially and justly impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability of my ability so um our next uh person please SW in Mr sink we're going in alphabetical order how would you um you can invite your family as well so we do have a few books here if you have your own that would be even better absolutely is it okay to to respect everybody is it okay do both of them together whatever you would like whatever there's we have every version here we'll take the Holy Bible and this is well wonderful very and here's something for you to follow along with just in case we yet are we good y excellent uh raise your right hand um I Mr Sing I Mr Sing do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith fath and Allegiance and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States to the same and to the governments establishing the United States and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God one more more more version uh I uh Mr Sing I Mr Sing do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by the law that I possess the qualifications prescribed by the law for the office of a member of a Board of Education for the office of a member of the Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to state law I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to state law nor disqualified due to a conviction of a crime or offense listed in state law nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in state law and that I will faithfully and partially I will faithfully and partially and just just justly perform all the duties of that office justly performed all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me that help you guys congratulations Mr sing if you can join us up on the DI step up yes you said yes your see here we can turn around our name plate there we go official well let's see Mr you have company now I know thank you so much and Mr wi thank you you're you're a no pro at this you've got your family as well that's wonderful excellent okay and here is your something follow along just in case big do solemnly swear solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New New Jersey that I will support the conit Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance now to the same to the same and to the governments established in the United States to the government governments established theit States and this state under the authority of the people so help me God I st when do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by the law for the office of a member of a board of education that I Poss qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I not disqualified as a voter I'm not disqualified as a voter pursuant to state law pursu to state law nor disqualify due to a conviction of a crime or offense listed in state law iqualify conviction crime or offense listed in state law and that I will faithfully impartially and justly I willfully impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God all right thank you Mrs Hawk and before we move on to our formal um presentation of results we did want to offer our new newly seated newly elected board members a chance to speak uh Mr Sing did you want to say anything um I'd like to thank my mother no I'm joking to do that right uh yeah no I wanted to thank everybody here on the board looking I'm very excited to work uh closely with all of you guys I've met some of you I'm looking forward to getting to know a lot of the other members here as well and uh you know definitely thanking the public out there for believing in in me and uh getting me up to this Podium so thank you thank you Mrs Patel pel okay thank you yeah this is my second term so I'm really excited like Mr Singh has says um really thanking the public and giving us this trust again and um looking forward to another great three-year termic thank you and Mr W sure I'd like to definitely thank my family for their support um and thank the public for um putting their faith in me as well um you know we have a great responsibility um to our uh students in our district and to um our families and and uh our staff and and teachers and we really want to do right by them so um just thank you again for that opportunity thank you and I do want to mention and I will mention this again at the end of the month January is actually National um board member appreciation month and as we seat this new board um it's just really important to remember they're all volunteers they were elected but they don't get paid for this job and they give up a lot of their time and their personal family time to be here and to help the students in North Brunswick and the families make their lives better so we really appreciate everything that you guys all do and we will thank you again later in the month but um I didn't want to make everybody aware of that and let's just give a round of applause to all of our board members thanks Mrs Hawk you're back on oh thank you um we need to memorialize the votes and the election that happened in November um on our agenda are the total number of registered voters which is over 29,000 here in North Brunswick there were 23 over 23,000 votes casted um at this election and uh more importantly especially for us here at the Board of Education you will see a list of the candidates who ran for Board of Education and the number of votes that each uh individual received and and now of course uh the results of of that uh election are here on our deis so um can I please have a motion to accept um these results so move second I'm sorry who was second over there thank you Mr Carter you're going to get credit for this one I feel like we're taking a test um all in favor I is anyone opposed the election results are accepted I'm going to continue on with the meeting so our next very important part of this uh reorganization is to um appoint a new board president um so I am going to take uh any nominations for board president um if someone has a nomination for board president I would like to nominate Haley to for board president for the calendar year 20125 are there any other nominations okay hearing none we have one if someone could please uh close um the nominations portion of this meeting second all in favor I is anyone opposed so now we're just going to vote we're just going to do a verbal vote because because there is really only one candidate Miss to um but I need to go through the formality so I'm going to get my list here Mr Ali we're voting for the president of the board of education for the one-year term I vote for Haley to miss to uh Mr Carter uh Miss to uh Miss uh James I'm voting for Miss to um Miss Keith Miss to Mr Lori Miss to uh Dr Patel Miss to Mr Singh Miss to and Miss to Miss Toad and uh Mr when M to congratulations H you are the president for so much so I'm going to turn over the meeting to you because we need to do the same thing for um the vice president very good thank you thank you all very much um so at this time we will take our nominations for uh board vice president I'd like to personally nominate Miss James for vice president for for the 2024 20 or really 2025 year calendar year seeing that there are no others um Miss haly Miss Hy Miss to can you please we close this portion there's only one name yes um can I please have a a motion to close this portion of the nominations for vice president so move second all in favor has anyone opposed I'm going to do the same thing just to make it official because it's only one name but for the records um Mr Ali Miss James Mr Carter Miss James Miss James I vote for myself Miss James Miss Keith Miss James Mr Lori Miss James Dr Patel Miss James Mr Singh Miss James Miss to miss James and Mr W Miss James congratulations uh Miss James you are the vice president for another time you all right at this time um we will jump to number 11 on our short agenda this evening um every calendar year the board receives a code of ethics for school board members um we have to sign off on our acknowledgement tonight but at this time um we will read letter by letter uh as we do every year so I will start with you Mr Singh and we'll work our way this way um if you could please take letter A on number 11 on the agenda okay great thank you so much guys I will uphold and enforce all laws rules and regulations of the State Board of Education and court orders pertaining to schools desired changes shall be brought by about only through legal and ethical procedures thank you Mr Ali I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will seek to develop and maintain public schools that meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or s social standing thank you Dr Patel I will confine my board action to policymaking planning appraisal and I will help to frame policies and plans only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them thank you Miss ke I will carry out my responsibility not to administer the schools but together with my fellow board members to see that they are well-run thank you letter E I will recognize that Authority rests with the Board of Education and will make no personal promises nor take any private action that may compr the board and letter F I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use a schools for personal gain or for the gain of friends Mr Lor letter G I will hold confidential all matters pertaining to the schools which if disclosed would needlessly injure individuals or the schools in all other matters I will provide accurate information and in concert with my fellow board members interpret to the staff the aspirations of the community for its school thank you Mr when letter h letter H I will vote to appoint the best qualified Personnel available after consideration of the recommendation of the chief administrative officer thank you Mr Carter letter i letter I I will support and protect School Personnel in proper performance of their duties thank you and I'll take Jay I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on the complaints at public meetings only after failure of administrative resolution at this time we need a motion to adopt these can I please have a motion so moved second all in favor actually I'm going to take roll call on this because it's so important uh Mr Ali yes Mr Carter yes Miss James yes Miss Keith yes Mr Lori yes Dr Patel yes Mr Singh yes Miss to yes and Mr W yes accepted and approved thank you uh at this time we'll have a public session on any matter if you uh anyone from the audience would like to come up to the podium uh and speak you will be given three minutes we just ask that you state your name and sign in okay seeing none can I please have a motion to close the public portion of the meeting mov second all in favor anyone oppos this session is closed thank you um again everyone this has been um a great night for our new board members and um we have a really exciting year ahead so I obviously would just like to take a moment and thank this board um we have a dedication to the children to the staff to the administrators and to our our Township um the voters you know they put us in these seats every year and I know that we have one thing in common we have a lot of things in common I know we have one thing in common is that we all care and that we're all here because we want to serve our community um and our constituents so thank you all um thank you for putting your trust in me Alicia I am looking forward to doing this again with you um so if anyone else wants to say anything before we wrap up looking forward to a successful 2025 and Beyond thank you all for your vote of confidence in me um for board leadership I really am grateful to continue to serve on this board um I remain grateful and indebted to all of you all individually for the individual work that you all bring um and I'm just excited to see where we're headed because we really are a great team and I'm grateful to be part of it definitely all right we have our meeting later this month but at this time can I please have a motion to adjourn our reorganization meeting so moved second all in favor is anyone opposed we are adjourned thank you um for those of you who did not get your single pictures taken we can take them in the back but we also want to do a group picture before remember all the forms I need all the forms give Rosa the forms