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East Ramapo Board elects Shimon Z. Rose president, names committees and officers
Summary
At its July 1 reorganization meeting, the East Ramapo Central School District Board of Education swore in trustees, elected Shimon Z. Rose president and Sherry McGill vice president, and approved board appointments and committee assignments; several procedural items and policy re-adoptions were discussed or set aside for later review.
Shimon Z. Rose was elected president of the East Ramapo Central School District Board of Education after trustees completed oath-taking and a roll-call vote during the board’s July 1 organizational meeting in Spring Valley.
The board also elected Trustee Sherry McGill as vice president and approved routine appointments and committee assignments for the 2025–26 year. Board members confirmed appointments for district officers and designated signatories, and took several standard annual votes to authorize district business.
The reorganization session opened with administration of oaths to newly seated trustees and the interim superintendent. After nominations and a roll call, trustees voiced unanimous support for Rose’s and McGill’s elections. The board then moved through a set of grouped motions to appoint officers, form committees and confirm designations; motions for grouped items were approved by voice vote.
In committee assignments, trustees volunteered to remain on or shift between standing committees that include Audit; Curriculum and Instruction; Athletics, Wellness and Medicaid; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Facilities and Transportation; Policy; Special Education; Technology and Information Management; and the Teacher Center. Board members discussed the number of seats on committees and invited the newly seated trustee to select preferences; several seats were reassigned by agreement among trustees.
Board members also considered the annual readoption of existing policies. A set of policies listed on the reorganizational agenda (described by staff as readoptions with no substantive changes) was discussed. Trustees asked for copies of policy language when attachments were not included on the agenda; the board pulled two items (listed as agenda items 2 and 3) for later review so members could examine the specific language and follow the normal first- and second-reading process. State monitors later advised those readoptions were standard annual items and that no changes had been made.
The board approved the remainder of the reorganizational agenda, noted corrections for the minutes (a fiscal year label change), and adjourned the organizational portion to open the regular meeting and public comment.
Decisions recorded at the meeting were procedural: the formal election of president and vice president; approval of officers, committee rosters and routine designations; and tabling or pulling specific policy readoptions for follow-up. No new policy content was adopted during the organizational session; trustees asked that policy text be circulated so members can complete the standard multi-reading adoption process at a later meeting.
The board scheduled follow-up reviews and confirmed that some items (including the re-adoption of board- and employee-ethics policies) would be returned to the board for signature and formal acceptance before final minutes were closed.
