Okay, we'll come to order. Welcome everyone to the January 6, 2026 reorganizational meeting of the Kalan Board of Education. Uh, please rise and join me in the salute to our flag. I pledge algiance 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. >> Okay. Well, welcome back. Welcome everybody in the crowd. And for those
who are on uh remote or cyber, we don't have anybody here tonight, but hopefully somebody zooming in. Uh with that with the New Jersey open public meetings, a 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 interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the act. The Kennelan Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published in the suburban trends on December 28, 2025, posted in the Kinnolan public library, filed with the burough clerk, and posted on the
district website. Uh as we move down the agenda number two, we are going to read off the official results of the election in November 4, 2025. We have three board members for uh three seats, three three-year terms. Um Mr.
Jonathan Eisener receiving the most votes at 2490. Congratulations, Mr. Eisener. Melissa Gazer at 2431 votes. Congratulations, Mr. Gazer. And Mr. Myers call Me Myers at 2416 votes.
Congratulations once again, Mr. Meyers. And at this time, we'll ask Mrs. Lawler, our business administrator, board secretary, to call our board members to oath of administered to the positions. >> All right, please stand and you guys will read off the oath.
>> One hand up, please. of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the government established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people. So help me.
I Jonathan do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified from holding that office due to the conviction of a fourthderee crime and that I will faithfully
impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. There's two copies of your oath to sign. Please do that by the end of the night and we'll file that as well. All right.
We're going to roll call the board. >> Mrs. Donaldson >> here. >> Mr. Eisenhire >> here. >> Mrs. Geyser >> here. >> Mrs. Leonard >> here. >> Mrs. Pella >> here. >> Mr. Myers >> here. >> Do we have a nomination for >> Frank is also here.
>> Oh, Frank, I'm sorry. >> That's okay. >> Mr. Pepe, there was a typo. >> Thank you. >> Do we have a nomination for president of the board? >> I nominate Jean Donaldelsson for president. >> Do we have any other nominations?
Motion to close nominations for president of the board. >> Motion. >> Mr. Pepe. All right. M. Uh, Mrs. Donaldson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Eisener. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Geyser. Yes, >> Mrs. Leonard. >> Yes, >> Mrs. PLA. >> Yes,
>> Mr. Myers. >> Yes, >> Mr. Pepe. >> Yes, >> thank you. >> Congratulations, >> Mr. President. >> I already switched it. I was I was on top. I was already on top. Okay. Uh,
nominations and election of the vice president. Motion to nominate. I'd like to make a motion to nominate Kelly Pereella for vice president of the kin board of education. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Uh motion to close nominations. Could I have a motion for that?
>> Okay. >> All right. Mrs. Donaldelson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Eisener? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Geyser? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Leonard? >> Yes. >> Mrs. PLA? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers? Yes. And >> Mr. Pepe? >> Yes.
Okay, congratulations, Kelly. Awesome. All right. Appointment of committees and chairpersons by the president. So, I've already spoken to almost everybody except for Frank. Still owe a conversation with you. Everybody else I've talked to. Um, and I will be
sending out I kind of already got a sense of where everybody wants to be. I have some suggestions for where I think some folks should try some new areas. So, I'm going to send that out to everybody after the meeting and um if you guys are all in agreement, then we'll set up the committees that way. Okay. So, that that's forthcoming this
week from me >> and um we will we're looking to have our committee meetings on the Tuesday, I believe that's January 20th, and then Wednesday the 21st. >> And then we'll be building our our agenda, our public agenda for the 27th
off of everything that we approve >> in committee. >> Okay. Great. Those are those are the dates that we're looking for just so >> depending on who's where and I'll send out the invitations. >> Okay. Thanks. So, I will get that to you uh by Friday.
>> That way you have we have it all we have it all set up. >> Um and just on that note too, I went over the public meetings for the um for the board and we did want to add at some point a [snorts] retreat.
>> You wanted to do that in February. >> Yeah. and we don't have that. So, we're going to add that. So, we'll bring that up at the January meeting to add um for discussion and then approval. Okay. All right. And I did ask everybody for their input and I know Mrs. Portman, thanks for joining us. She's going to provide
me some too. I've had some brief conversations. I really appreciate what everybody shared so far. Um and so then you just I've got Kelly's already in writing and I know everybody else is working on theirs. I'm going to create the agenda from your input. Okay. Public comment on agenda items. Anything?
Nothing. All right. Agenda items. [clears throat] Um like the motion to approve agenda items. Finance and uh facilities. Sorry, nothing for finance of facilities, but we do have something for under personnel negotiations for some u u leave
replacement uh appointments. So I'd like a motion to approve those as it indicated in the agenda. Motion >> second. >> Any discussion on those? Anybody? Dave? I think they're pretty straightforward.
Okay, you pull the board, please. >> All right. Mrs. Donaldson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pella, >> yes. >> Mr. Eisenhire, >> yes. >> Mrs. Geyser, >> yes. >> Mrs. Leonard, >> yes. >> Mr. Myers, >> yes. >> And Mr. Pepe. >> Okay. The other item is under the uh
education and student activities for a field trip for the mock trial students. Can I have a motion to approve that field trip >> motion? Any discussion? Okay. Can you pull the board, please? >> Mrs. Donaldson, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Pella, >> yes. >> Mr. Eisener, >> yes. >> Mrs. Geyser, >> yes. >> Mrs. Leonard, >> yes. >> Mr. Meyers, >> yes. >> Mr. Pepe, >> yes. >> All right. So, now we're going to go through the part of the agenda, which is just the reappointment and reapproval of
all of our previous work. So under appointments and approvals for 2026, we have the time and place of meetings as indicated in the published schedule. Uh the appointment of the board secretary is Caitlyn Lawler. uh treasure of school funds, the
official newspapers, the official depositories as indicated, adoption of the curriculum that we've already approved, adoption of actions, policies, and contracts, adoption of textbooks, adoptions of evaluation systems as all indicated in the agenda,
the purchasing, which is Caitlyn Lawler, and the uh the banks we're using, and the cooperative purchasing agreement, all those are as previously approved. Professional services as indicated in the agenda. The computer service
providers as indicated in the agenda that we will uh continue with par parliamentary procedures. Our uniform minimum charts of accounts bonding standard operating procedures employee tax shelter annuity and insuranceances
as indicated in the agenda. Compliance positions as we have previously approved and indicated in the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve those agenda items? Second. Any discussion? Again, these are all the work we've done last year. So,
>> okay. Seeing no discussion or questions, can you pull the board, please? >> Mrs. Donaldson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pella, >> yes. >> Mr. Misenmire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Geyser. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Leonard. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers. >> Mr. P. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, new business. Uh, we don't
really have any new business. Public comments. >> Okay. We don't see anything. Um, so we do need to go into an executive session to discuss personnel and negotiation items and student matters. There will be no action taken in this meeting uh during
that session. So, can I have a motion to go into executive? motion to go into executive >> second.