##VIDEO ID:MUH_gcMMXuw## e 7 o'clock and this meeting uh will now come to order good evening and happy New Year welcome to the Panic Township Board of educations January 6 2025 organization regular business meeting my name is Ordon Gibbs and I am the board secretary for the Panic Township Board of Education I'll be presiding over the meeting until such time as that the board president has been duly elected this time I'll read the statement of compliance in compliance with the open public meeting ACT public law 1975 chapter 231 notice of this meeting has been properly advertised in the Daily Record and Suburban Trends its agenda has been posted at the appropriate locations and a copy has been filed with the banic Township Clerk please stand for the flag United stes at this time I'll read the uh annual U election results this is for a three-year term as a board member we have Joseph Bloomer who had 3,986 votes Christina Tina AIO had 4,151 votes Brian senic had 464 votes Aaron Haider had 2,228 votes and rins were 104 votes for a total of 14533 votes at this time we'll uh administer the oath of office and we will start with Mr bloomer please raise your right hand and repeat after me I Joseph blumer I Joseph blumer do solemnly swear or affirm that 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 and allegiance to the saying and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people do solemnly swear or affirm that 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 and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and it State under the authority of the people I Joseph Bloomer I Joseph Bloomer who solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of a member of a board of education and that I not disqualified as a voter pursuing to rs1 1941 nor disqualified due to a conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18.1 12-1 and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of the office according to the best of my ability do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant of rs19 board -1 nor disqualify due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of the office according to the best of my ability welcome to the Board of Education thank you very much Studio signature this time we'll call Miss iio how you doing it's a little tough to raise your right okay there you please repeat after me I Christine I AIO I Christine IO do solemly swear or affirm that 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 and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people that 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 and allegiance to the same and the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people I Christine IO I Christine IO do Solly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of a member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 1941 nor disqualify due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability do solemly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs19 colon 4-1 nor disqualified due to a conviction of crime or offense listed in njs 18a col 12-1 and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all of the duties of that office according to the best of my ability congratulations thank you it's just a sign this time we'll call Mr s these always your right hand and repeat after me I Brian senic I Brian senic do solemnly swear or affirm that 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 and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people do solemnly swear or affirm that will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and then I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people I Brian senic hi Brian senic who solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of a member of the board of education then I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 1941 nor disqualify due to conviction of a crime or defense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability do soundly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 1941 nor disqualified due to conviction of crime or offense list listed in njs 18a 12-1 and then I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability congratulations thank you e okay at this time we will have a roll call Mr Bloomer here Mr cesi here M ESO here Mr gon here m z here Mr mcweeny here Mr Pompeo here Mr senic here and Mr shenton here we have a quorum at this point we will have a nomination for board president do have a nomination um I will nominate Brian second do we have a second nomination second oh second nomination you're Notting yourself no okay wait Vinnie wants to be president oh okay okay okay okay I'm gonna take a roll call Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Mr Esposito yes Mr gon yes Miss a yes Mr mien yes Mr Pompeo yes Mr senic yes and Mrs shanton yes nomination complete congratulations to Mr s thank you all right at this point I'll ask for nominations for vice president is there a nomination for the vice president yes I would like to nominate Miss Esposito vice president any other nominations okay Mr Gibbs please call the rle Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Mrs Esposito yes Mr gon yes M AO yes Mr mcweeny yes Mr Pompeo yes Mr senic yes Mrs Shen yes nomination complete congratulations Miss okay uh good evening happy New Year Welcome to our January 6th reorganization meeting uh first I want to thank the the board for your confidence in me uh to continue as your president for another year look forward to working with you all as well as Dr Portis and our Administration and teachers to promote student achievement I also want to congratulate Miss es bazito for being selected to continue as the vice president your experience as a teacher and as an administrator is an asset to our board and I'm excited to collaborate you for another year and last I want to congratulate Mr Bloomer and Miss AO for being sworn in tonight thank you both for your willingness to volunteer your time to serve our community over the next three years and I'll hand it over to miss Esposito if you'd like to say something um I'd like to congratulate Miss IO Mr Bloomer and Mr siic um on their renomination welld deserved um and Miss io's first term um thank you for the nomination and the vote I appreciate it I'm excited to work with everyone again and congratulations to Mr senic on um welld deserved presidential president election um thank you okay before we go on I just want to make some announcements as far as appointments uh the FFA committee will be chaired by Mr Bloomer it will include Mr Pompeo and Miss AO the PMC committee will be chaired by Miss shenton and will include Mr cesi and Mr gitten the CIS committee will be chaired by miss szo it will include Mr cesi and Mr maeni the policy committee will be chaired by Mr mweene and will include miss shenton and miss AO the board Effectiveness committee will be chaired by Mr gon and will include Mr Pompeo and Miss IO the negotiations committee will consist of Mr Bloomer Menton and myself the township joint Services committee will consist of Mr Bloomer and myself and Mr Bloomer will serve as the mentor to miss IO uh there's other appointments that will come up but those will be announced when the items are voted on at this point I'd open it up to public comment on any agenda item only member of the public may speak for a maximum period of five minutes by the clock during this portion of the meeting and if you have a question please direct it to the board president state your name and sign in before you begin speaking Dave Cole just want to congratulate everyone keep doing the great work you guys are doing we appreciate it thank you Mr Cole no need to good night all right uh continuing with with our action items first up is policy I'm going to ask Mr mcweeny to move the items under policy like to move items p825 through p1025 second any questions or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr CI yes M esito yes Mr kitten yes M yes Mr mcweeny yes Mr Pompeo yes mran yes and Mr Shin yes motion carries okay up next is FFA and before I ask Mr Bloomer to move the items I want to make an announcement that Mr maxen will be appointed to serve as the representative for the mors County Educational Services Commission and that's under FFA item 101-2 and with that I ask Mr Bloomer to please move the items under FFA i' like to make a motion to move FFA 8525 through FFA 10225 second on FFA 8625 it is Tuesday February 18th not Monday February I'm not coming on Monday let's put it that way because we're off anything else Mr Gibbs please call the roll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Mrs Esposito yes Mr G yes M yes Mr mcen yes Mr Pompeo yes Mr siic yes and Mrs shenton yes motion carries okay under PMC before I ask Miss shenton to move the items I want to appoint Mr G to serve as the delegate to the NJ SBA and the Morris County SBA under PMC 12-25 and I want to appoint Miss espido to serve as the CPAC liaison under PMC 12125 as well as the liaison to the Education Foundation under PMC 122-2 so with that said I now ask Miss shenton to please move the items under PMC I would like to move PMC 12-25 through PMC 12525 second second any question or discussion okay Mr Gibbs please call the rooll Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi yes Mrs espito yes Mr gon yes Mr AIO yes Mr mcweeny yes Mr Pompeo yes Mr senic yes and Mrs Shen yes motion carries okay just to make uh the announcement again the remaining two committees CIS will be chaired by mrss Vito and the board effecting this committee will be chaired by Mr G uh moving along under other we have one item and I'm gonna ask Mr cesi to please move the item under other you want to leave me out huh okay um I'd like to move other z- z25 somebody you didn't say that right say that again there's a Niner in there oh oh -06 d25 hey I don't have my cheaters is there a second second questions or discussion Mr Gibbs please call the RO Mr Bloomer yes Mr cesi Sure yes M espito yes Mr gon yes Zak I need to abstain as I was not here for the discussion Mr mcweeny yes Mr Pompeo I will abstain Mr senic yes and Miss Shen yes motion carries okay I'll will now open it up again to uh our second opportunity for public comment this time the public can speak on any item they wish for a maximum period of 5 minutes by the clock if you do have a question please direct your question to the board president and state your name name and sign in before you begin speaking okay seeing nobody coming to the mic I'm going to close that session for public comment and move on to Old business any old business about new business board member announcements uh yeah I can go um I don't even know what date it was at this point things a blur but um I attended the Ruth kellet jym naming um and it was a fantastic night a great event um it was uh the the speeches were amazing it really had made you um feel that you kind of knew her um she again was a Trailblazer for this uh not just for this community but for Mars County um women Athletics uh it was just just amazing I like um how they had past present and future golden Panthers present the uh unveiling um so it was just a great night overall and uh the KE kellet family was was there in uh large quantities it was it was just a great night so just really happy that we were able to get this done I second that Joe it was um it was amazing it was done really well um and it was just it was very nice the sign is beautiful pH uh just wanted to congratulate uh Mr siic and Mr bumer on being reelected and Miss io on being elected um welcome to the board thank you I'll just Echo what what Tim said um happy to have Mr senic and Mr Bloomer back on board and really excited to have Mrs IO joining the board um looking forward to doing great things in the years to come I want to uh repeat what Mr Bloomer and Miss Esposito said I to went to the uh the Ruth kellet dedication of the gym it was outstanding um I got to see the video as well before it was put up on that board with the sound and although the L and Shirley song did get old after about four minutes um seeing the clips go over and over and it really got an understanding of just how powerful and influential she was so great job and I'm just going to put one more thing out sorry um but I really appreciate all the support that we had for that and what I'm really proud of too is that that was a real ground swell that came from the Community Coach Bondi was really an advocate for it we worked very hard as a board but also with Mrs biondi and as a a department in high school administration um to make sure that everything was done very precisely for the right reasons and to the appropriate level so I was I'm so proud of how it went and I think um it was a really great accomplishment for the community okay uh we do have reason to go into executive session tonight our next meeting will be Tuesday January 21st here at the high school and we will uh not take any action in executive session but we will uh adjourn from there is there a motion to to Executive session motion to go on to Executive second all in favor I opposed good night everyone