Board of Education's call to order. Adequate notice as required by the open public meeting act was provided on December 5th, 2025 by posting the notice with the respective clerks of the city of Lambertville, Burrow, Stockton, and Township of Westwell and advertised in
the star ledger in the triangle paper. Stand for the flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic it stands one nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Now we're going to review the election results of the election for the board of education in the municipality of Leverville city. There were 3,426
voters of which 2,348 ballots were cast. There were two seats open, one for a three-year term and one for a one-year term. Uh Gina Fashetti was elected to a three-year term to term with a total of 1,525
vote. And Aaron Olirri was elected to a one-year unspired term and with 1581 votes. Uh, in the municipality of West Samuel, there were 3,485 registered voters, of which 1,678
ballots were cast. And Mr. Paul Casino uh, won with 770 votes of a three-year term. In the municipality of Stockton, there's a total of 452 voters. There were a total of 303 ballots cast and uh, by
writing candidate, Mr. John Bonani won the three-year term once he opened the statistic vote. Now, I'm going to ask each of the newly elected board members to take the oath of office. You should have those paragraphs in front of you. Um, we're
going to do it a little differently for those of you that may have been in the past. We're going to each ask each member to stand up and read it um so that it doesn't get out of sync and and so on and so forth. So, if I can ask uh Mr. John Bernani to stand up and uh meet your oath of office. Sure. Uh, do I need
to raise my right hand or No, you're good. Uh, I, John Bernani, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, to the governments established in the United
States, in this state, under the authority of the people. I, John Bani, do solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications as prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to New
Jersey Revised Statute 194-1, nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in NJ statute 18A 12-1 and that I will faithfully, partially, and just perform all the duties of that office according to the
best mind of you. John, welcome. Thank you. Mr. Paulino, I can ask you to stand and read the law. I, Paul Feligo, do solemnly swear and 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, to the governments established in the United States, and this state under the authority of the people. I, Paul Feligo, do soly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for
the office of member of the board of education that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to the New Jersey Revised Statute 194-1, nor disqualified due to the conviction of a crime or offense listed in NJ statute 18A 12-1. that I will faithfully
and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. Welcome Paul. Welcome. On that thought, you mean virtually we have Miss Gina Pashetti of Lambertville City. Uh Gina, if you would not mind reading your oath of office.
Sure. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes, you can. Okay, great. I, Gina Fchetti, do solemnly swear 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. I, Gina Fchetti, 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 as a voter pursuant to New Jersey Revised Statute 194-1, nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in New Jersey statutes 18A12-1, and that I will faithfully, and
partially, and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. Welcome back to you. Thank you. And last but not least, Miss Aaron Olirri of Lambertville City. Please take
your role as well. Thank you. I, Erin Olirri, do solemnly 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 in this state under the authority of the people. I, Erin Olirri, do affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of a member of board of education and that I am not disqualified as a
voter pursuant to New Jersey revises statute 19 col4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in New Jersey statute 18A colon 12-1 and that I will faithfully impartially and justly
perform all the duties ities of the office according to the best of my ability. Welcome back. So now we are going to take a roll call of our newly elected board. Um Jennifer Bachelor here. Arthur Denn here.
Pashetti. Gina Shetty here. Brian here. Paulo here. Aaron Olri here, Michael Shra here, Ronnie Todd Marino here, and John Donani
here. Uh, our next business of um is the electing of the board president. Uh, I will call for nominations for the office of board president. No sec second is necessary. At the close of nominations, I will take a roll call of each member
asking you to state your selection for board president. If there is only one nomination, I opened conduct a vote of voice uh for gays, naysay or abstension. Once a president has been selected, I will step down as temporary chair for this meeting and pass the gather to the
newly elected president who will then conduct the election for the office of vice president in the same manner. So with that being said, can I have a nomination for the office of president? Like to nominate for president. I have a second.
second. Um, any other nominations? That being said, I'm closing nominations and all in favor. Any nays? Any abstensions? I have to abstain because I'm still in
the process of opening new board members. Congratulations. Congratulations, Michael. Thank you. I got a name tag over here. Thank you for your faith in me. Shall we elect a vice president and get
a nomination for vice president? I would like to nominate running. Any other nomination? So we can do just voice. Okay. Um is everyone in favor? I
I Yes. Sorry, I have to stay to the process of any names. We'll get it back. So, the rest of this meeting is establishing our norms for the rest of
the year. Um the first order of business is to establish our board committees. Um the six ones that we have on record right now are school and community personnel policy building grounds transportation finance and safety
curriculum and technology and negotiations. Uh, can I get a motion to move item A forward to establish board and a second? Jeff. Um, any discussion on these?
Oh, it's it's a voice vote. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Extensions. Nays. Okay. Um, our next items are uh adopting
the New Jersey School Board Code of Ethics, um, the adoption of our policies and bylaws, and the designation of our newspaper and media. Um so the first thing we will go through the the board of um and I do want to give tradition of
having us kind of read them as a board since we all will function as as a board. Um but then the the next two just to kind of briefly go through is we have a list of policies and bylaws that we go
through every year um and update. uh our policy committee does that but we readopt all of the existing policies at the beginning of every year. So that is what we would be doing with item B and then of course in accordance to the sunshine law we have to designate our
newspaper and media um for all of our meeting advertisements. So before we proceed um if we can start and just go through each section of the code of ethics and each of us will take one. I'll start out with a and then we
can move around this way. Um Gina I are you okay skipping on this? I'm hopeful. Yes. Um okay. So yes that's if you want me to skip that's fine. Um item A. 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 about only through legal and ethical procedures. I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will
seek to develop and maintain public schools that meet the individ individual needs of all children regardless of their ability, race, creed, sex, or social stand. I will confine my board action to policym planning and appraisal and I will help to deframe policies and plan
only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them. I will carry out my responsibility not to administer the schools but together with my fellow board members to see that they are wellrun. I will recognize that authority rests with the board of education and will
make no personal promises nor take any private action that may compromise the board. I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use the school boards or to or to use the
schools for personal gain or for the gain of friends. I will hold confidential all matters pertaining to the schools which if disclosed would needlessly injure individuals or students. 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 boards. I will vote to appoint the best qualified personnel available at the consideration of the recommendation of the chief administrative officer. I will support and protect school
personnel and proper performance of their duties. I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on complaints about public meetings only after failure of administrative. Okay. So those are our guiding
principles. Um with all of that said, can I get a motion to adopt items A through C? So moved. Second. Okay. This is a voice vote as well. All in favor? Hi. Hi.
Any nays? Any abstensions? Okay. Um, we now are opening up a period of public comments. Um, we do not have any public in the gallery. [laughter]
We don't have anything online. So, um, do we need to close it? Okay. So, let's close this period of public comment. And um with that, do you w to just before we adjourn, is there anything you want to just share
with the board as far as next steps with committees? I know typically meetings will start in next week. So, um so I I would love to hear from all of you as far as what you would like to what committees you would like to serve
on. Um we'll be I hopefully rather quick about making assignments for for committees. Um, but for our newer board members, I I know I have some idea of where you would like to go, Paul. Um, but I and would
love to hear where you would like to serve and then our um board members who have been on for a while if there are any that you might want to explore or not explore. Um, I would love to hear that as well. And then typically hopefully maybe by the end of this week
we'll have that finalized. If it's done by Thursday I'll have it my update. If not we can send it out by Friday. And then typically policy meets this week. So we may wind up just trying to figure out something for next week. Um and then everything else starts kicking off. You
know typically next Wednesday the 14th with curriculum and then away we go. So that normally our standing policy Wednesday is okay. But we can we can squeeze it in. There's not something in the world. We'll figure it out. So, there's no policy this Wednesday.
Not this week. No. I I'm happy to be a policy. All right. I am. Hey. And can I get a motion to adjourn? A second. Second. Okay. All right.
Awesome. Voice vote. All in favor? I abst Okay, we are done. Good job. Good job. Make sure you turn your forms in before you go.
Should I What? Should I just turn my form in the next meeting or