The Secaucus Board of Education added two governance resolutions to the meeting agenda and approved a slate of finance and settlement resolutions, while several members recused themselves from individual items.

Board Secretary and Business Administrator Grace Yeoh told the board she was adding two governance resolutions—R1.37 and R1.38—to continue the suspension of two students whose names are on file in the board office through the next regular meeting. During the roll call on the governance package (R1.01–R1.38 and motion M1.01) Board Member Kelly D'Adetta said she must recuse from R1.38; Board Member Mister Lewis also said he needed to recuse from R1.38. The governance package was approved with the recorded recusals.

During the finance portion of the meeting the board approved resolutions R4.01–R4.17. Yeoh described several of the finance resolutions (R4.14–R4.17) as approving and adopting settlement agreements and releases in matters pending in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Hudson County, listing docket numbers HUDL8020, HUD-L-724-21 and HUD-L-2457-20 and a settlement between the board and the parents of a student (filed in the acting superintendent’s office). The resolutions were adopted as presented.

Multiple board members announced recusals during the roll call for the finance resolutions. Board members explicitly stated recusals from resolution R4.13 during the roll call: Mister Bartletta, Mister Barry and Miss Howard each said they needed to recuse from R4.13.

A member of the public, Billy Wolf, used the public forum to raise a personnel complaint about a hiring decision in which he said he was informed by phone he was no longer being considered because of a clerical error in a letter of recommendation. Wolf sought a transparent review and asked the board to “clear” his name; the board responded that because the matter is a personnel issue it could not be discussed in public and would be addressed in private.

Later in the meeting, Board Member Kelly D'Adetta moved and the board approved a motion to have Assistant Business Administrator Pat Kikuchi join the board’s panel at meetings going forward; the motion passed on a roll call vote.

The board did not discuss the sealed settlement terms in public; Yeoh indicated the settlement documents are annexed to the resolutions and are on file as described in the resolutions.