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Board amends notice language, adjusts 2025 calendar and asks policy committee to draft decorum policy
Summary
Trustees amended the district’s meeting notice language to add a temporary digital publication option, adjusted several meeting dates to avoid holiday conflicts, approved the code of ethics and asked the policy committee to draft a decorum policy for prompt committee review.
Trustees amended the board’s public-notice language and calendar and approved an addition to the code of ethics during the Jan. 7 reorganization meeting.
After discussion about a recent change in state law on public notices and the impending cessation of print publication for the Star-Ledger, trustees approved an amendment to the meeting-notice motion to add a digital/publication option alongside the existing print requirement. The board attorney was asked to provide precise language for the amendment before publication; a roll-call vote then approved the amendment.
The board also amended the 2025 calendar to avoid conflicts with religious observances and the New Jersey School Boards Association conference. Specific adjustments discussed and adopted included changing a June workshop date from June 18 to June 11 and moving an October workshop from Oct. 8 to Oct. 9; the board agreed in principle to consolidate October’s usual two meetings into a single combined meeting for that month to avoid conflicts. Trustees discussed alternate dates (including Oct. 22, Oct. 23 and Oct. 29) before settling on the revised schedule and confirming staff will accommodate the final, published calendar.
On the code of ethics (item 4), Trustee Jerry Kirschenbaum moved to add language addressing board member “dignity and deportment” at public meetings. Trustees agreed to ask the policy committee to draft a formal decorum policy for rapid consideration; the board approved both the code-of-ethics item and the referral to the policy committee.
Several trustees asked that the policy committee expedite a proposed decorum policy rather than letting it remain open for months. The board’s vote on the code-of-ethics item and the committee referral were recorded in the meeting minutes.
Board members also used the consent-agenda process to remove or pull several items for separate discussion; the remainder of the consent agenda was approved by roll call.
