##VIDEO ID:GyLuc5WVsO4## okaya I think we're we're we're close enough to start uh today's Monday January 6 2025 this is the uh Board of Education of cwell West cwell uh annual re reorganization meeting the annual re organization meeting of the cell West cell board of education is held in compliance with the open public meetings act and njsa 10 colon 4-6 AKA uh Sunshine Law notices have been sent to the progress cwell New Jersey Star Ledger Newark New New Jersey and tap tap into West education Business Office Harrison School building 104 gra Street West cwell New Jersey and have been sent to the business administrator buau of cwell and business administrator Township West cell for posting the Board of Education meeting will be stream lived uh tonight all Community questions and comments will be welcomed in person at the James cwell high school cafeteria can we all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please Al to the FL 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 so the purpose of tonight's meeting is uh to swear in our uh newly reappointed board members uh to affirm some of our annual appointments and at the end of our agenda we also have a resolution which will be the language for our referendum that's part of the meeting as well the official results from the uh November election are as follows and these are combined results for the two new uh reelected officials for uh Miss Julianne Gro she received a total of 6,431 uh votes uh Mr Christoper uh damola received a total of 5,587 votes uh and have been sworn into new three-year terms uh for the cell West cell Board of Education at this point we're going to administer the oath of of office to the new board members uh Miss Gro would you please stand States stes jul iif by the office of M of and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursu to RS and that I will Faithfully partially andly perform all the duties of that my ability [Applause] n will [Applause] at this point we're going to conduct a roll call Miss D Martini here miss lindal Jefferson here Miss Mack here Mr diola here M Gro here so we have five voting members present and we have a quarum our next line of of action is is for the nomination of the board president for the 2025 calendar year so I'm looking for if I could have a motion uh a nomination uh for the election of a board president I'll make the nomination for julan Gro as a board president okay can I have a second please I'll second are there any other nominations for president okay at this point can I have a uh a Voice vote for the election of Miss Julian Gro for president of the Board of Education um uh all in favor I I all against nay any extensions okay 5 Z motion motion carried there being no further nomination for board president nomination close on motion by okay can just have Clos the nominations again um motion to close the nomination motion I will make the motion to close okay a second I'll second okay you got it okay all in favor uh I I all against nay any extensions none okay all right so so at this point we have elected a new president um of the Board of Education and I'm going to relinquish the meeting to our new our new board president to continue the nomination for vice president okay thank you Brian um can I have a nomination for vice president of the Cadwell West calwell Board of Education I'll make a notion to nominate chrisan Bola okay thank you T and can I have a second I'll second thank you Brian if you could make note uh are there any other nominations for vice president of the Board of Education okay that being said I'm going to close nominations and Brian can we take a vote a roll call vote please yes actually uh all in favor uh I I I all against nay any extensions uh 5 Z motion carried great congratulations okay congratulations um before we move on with the rest of the meeting can I selfishly ask the voice can I take a Qui family so that I so that I can let my children go home and eat dinner no Anthony looks like he really wants to stay I know e e official five President and Vice President so um can I have uh the motion was made for um for for president um so I'm going to go right through the roll call uh Mr dimola this yes or no yes yes okay uh Miss Martini yes D Martini Miss Gro yes uh Miss lalia Jefferson yes uh Miss Mack yes okay 5 zero and then one more time for the vice president um roll call Mr dimola yes uh Miss D Martini yes Miss Gro yes Miss laly Jefferson yes Miss Mack yes okay five Z motion Carri thank you very much thank you C okay before um do you want to say anything okay before we do uh committee chairs appointment of committee chairpersons um I just want to express my heartfelt thanks to the entire Community um the members who come here religiously every meeting and the ones who watch religiously and on who just come when there is an issue or a problem or just a need to speak up for their children or others um your involvement in our community is uh what keeps this community ticking and it's an honor to serve our students staff and all families and I know I speak on behalf of Mr jamell and I both to express our excitement and gratitude that we're able to do this again for another three years um I just want to also address my fellow board members I want to thank each and every one of you um for your unwavering support for trusting the both of us again to serve as President and Vice President of the board it means so much um you are all amazing Partners in our mission to continue to bring the best education and opportunities as possible to the students of the school district and I just want to say it's just an honor to serve amongst all of you um and to the parents administrators staff um on behalf of the board we look forward to 2025 um continuing to move forward with purpose with unity and with a shared Collective vision for excellence and education which is what we stand for so um that being said uh let's move on to appointment of committee chairpersons so we'll do I'm going to read the list of chair persons then we'll do actually I'm going to read everything Brian is that okay and we'll do one vote at the end okay so we're going to do the committee chairs the Board of Ed committee chairs we're going to do the delegates and alternates for all the boards um throughout the state and in ess6 County okay and then we'll also do the representatives to the negotiation teams okay so starting with the um committees curriculum and Technology our chairperson will be Terry de Martini Greenley Vice chair will be Danielle Mack the administrator of that committee is assistant superintendent Caitlyn Jones finance and Facilities the chairperson will be Danielle Mack the vice chairperson will be myself Julian Gro the administrator is Brian McCarthy policy our chairperson will be Marissa laly Jefferson our vice chair will be Terry de Martini Greenley the administrator on policy is Dr Conlin Personnel our chairperson will be Mr damola our vice chair will be Mara Landy Jefferson and the ad administrator on that will be Dr con have that somewhere um moving on to the appointment of board delegates and alternates for the New Jersey school boards Association the delegate will be Miss Greenley and um the alternate will be Mr damola for the Essex County School boards Association the delegate will also be Miss Greenley and the alternate will be Miss Gro myself the Home School Association the delegate will be Miss Jefferson okay and the alternate will be Ms Mack okay James cell high school scholarship fund I will be the delegate and Miss Greenley will be the alternate the legislative chairman the delegate will be Mr damola and that's for school board activities Mr dimola will be the delegate the alternate will be miss m um IQ committee the delegate will continue to be Miss Greenley the alternate will be Miss Jefferson and shared services committee will be myself and Mr danola negotiation teams the calwell West calwell Education Foundation will be myself and Miss Greenley the administrators Association will be Mr damola and Miss Jefferson the secretaries Association will be myself and Mr dimola and the custodians and maintenance will be Miss Mack and Mr dimola okay are there any questions or comments from the board okay so moving forward then can I have a motion to accept the representatives on all Board of Ed committees uh boards and um negotiation teams please I'll make that motion and can we have a second I'll second Brian do you want to take the role sure all in favor um I I all against nay okay motion carried okay now we're going to make a motion to accept the re resolutions that are in the agenda um and they're going to be resolutions 11 I'm sorry 10 through 27 um the last being if anyone's tuning in from home the resolution 27 is the bond the resolution for the um referendum that is going to take place on March 11 this is the proposal of the two questions um that will be on the ballot on March 11th um as promised by the board we have always been transparent um that the the referendum will be in two questions question one being all of the infrastructure projects that have been proposed to the district along with the renovation of the wing in James cwell high school and the steam labs in all four elementary schools um and question two will be the Demolition and raising of a new Fieldhouse okay um so can I have a motion to accept res these resolutions on the agenda this evening actually hold on one second it's going to be yeah items 11 through 25 on this evening's agenda so do I have a motion to can someone make a motion please I'll make a motion great and can I have a second I will second it and then Brian do you want to take the role yes okay uh Miss de Martini yes Miss lalie Jefferson yes Miss Mack yes Mr Dean Bola yes Miss Gro yes 5 Z motion carried okay um no one is in person this evening so we're going to open public comment and then close so I'd list um yeah there's no one here so we can before we actually open close out these this is our annual thank you for anyone watching at home right now we're reading the board Membership Code of Ethics that we all have to sign by law so yes okay no one's here so um we're going to close public comment and I will ask for a motion at 6:18 p.m. to close the public portion of this meeting and enter into executive session someone could make the motion please I'll make a motion okay and a second I will second it and then Brian whenever you're ready motion car thank you thank you and we will see everyone at the next public meeting