Sayreville Board of Education votes to enter executive session on personnel, student matters and Teamsters negotiations

The Sayreville Board of Education adopted a resolution Dec. 17 to enter executive session to discuss personnel matters, student matters, negotiations related to the Teamsters and attorney–client privileged matters.

The resolution, read into the record at the start of the meeting, cited Section 8 of the Open Public Meetings Act, chapter 231, Public Laws of 1975, as authority to exclude the public for those topics and said the matters will be disclosed when the need for nondisclosure no longer exists.

Board members moved the measure into executive session; the transcript records that Missus Pabon and Mister Callahan were identified as the motion and second. The resolution states the public shall be excluded from discussion of and action upon the specified subject matters and that the resolution takes effect immediately.

The transcript records verbal "Yes" votes from Mister Callahan, Mister Fernandez, Missus Napolitano, Missus Pabon, Miss Piylock, Mister Walsh and Missus Bloom. The roll call earlier in the meeting listed additional board members and staff by name but the transcript captures only those seven affirmative responses during the vote on the executive-session resolution.

By citing the Open Public Meetings Act, the board signaled that the topics to be discussed are considered sensitive under state law; the resolution indicated the board intends to make the subject matter public "at such times the need for nondisclosure no longer exists." The meeting then proceeded into the closed session; no further public actions on those matters were recorded in the provided transcript.

Less-critical agenda items at the start of the meeting included the opening announcement about public notice to the Home News Tribune and the Star-Ledger and a recitation of the pledge of allegiance.