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Board president announces immediate resignation; colleagues praise her service but no formal acceptance recorded
Summary
Paige, the board president, read a resignation letter saying she will resign effective immediately and recounted 14 years of service; board members and local officials paid tribute but the transcript records no formal acceptance vote.
Paige, the New Milford Board of Education president, announced during the meeting that she intends to resign from the board effective immediately, then read a written statement recounting 14 years of volunteer service and listing accomplishments.
Why it matters: a departing board president creates a vacancy and removes institutional experience at a time when the district is approving goals, grants and operational projects; the board’s next steps for filling the seat were not recorded in the meeting excerpt.
Paige read a prepared letter that said, in part, that after “careful thought and conversations with my family, I have made a difficult [decision] to resign from the Board of Education effectively this evening.” In the letter she listed items she considered accomplishments during her tenure, including technology infrastructure upgrades, security improvements, capital projects and growth in services for students with special needs.
Following her statement, multiple board members and at least one municipal official addressed Paige with public thanks. One board member said, “Paige is one of the big reasons why I’m here,” and another called her institutional knowledge “incredible.” A municipal councilmember thanked Paige for mentoring newly elected officials and praised her community service. Several board members expressed concern about losing institutional knowledge but offered best wishes for Paige’s next chapter.
The transcript records colleagues verbally rejecting or asking her to reconsider the resignation (“I reject your resignation. Not accept it. I’m just gonna tell you that right now”), but it does not record any formal motion, second or roll‑call vote to accept or reject the resignation. The meeting proceeded to other agenda items and then to closed session.
No formal timeline, appointment process or interim president was recorded in the excerpted public minutes; the transcript shows the chair declined to accept public comments during that portion and that board members requested follow‑up and noted the challenge of replacing institutional memory.
