Voorhees Township Board of Education reorganizes: Watson elected president, Kedover elected vice president; professional-service contracts approved

The Voorhees Township Board of Education held its reorganization meeting on Jan. 6, 2025, at 7 p.m. at the Voorhees Township Public Schools Administrative Building. Helen Haley, the school business administrator and board secretary, called the meeting to order and announced that public notice had been posted "pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act."

The board sworn in newly elected members and then completed officer elections. Monica Watson was elected board president in a voice vote that carried 8–1; Julie Kedover was elected vice president by a 7–2 vote. The certified results of the November election read in the meeting named Monica Watson (9,288 votes), Julie Kedover (8,807 votes) and Crystal Munyan (7,032 votes) as winners of full-term seats; an unexpired two-year seat was awarded to Jason Bryce (recorded in the meeting as 9,353 votes).

Why it matters: the reorganization determines the board officers who will preside over meetings and set committee assignments and procedural priorities for the coming year, and the meeting also confirmed routine contract awards that enable district operations.

The board approved several consent items tied to district operations. A motion to approve all items awarding contracts for professional services listed under agenda line 13 (13.1–13.4) passed unanimously. Separately, the board approved the progress payment(s) listed under agenda item 20.1; that motion also passed unanimously. The meeting record shows these motions passed by online voting but does not list individual recorded roll-call votes for those items.

Board secretary Helen Haley announced there were no executive-session items and that no public commenters were signed up. The board noted the next regular meeting will be Jan. 22, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the administrative building. The meeting adjourned by unanimous voice vote.