Board approves residency finding; student disenrolled and $2,000 tuition assessed as part of consent agenda

The Mount Olive Township Board of Education approved, via its consent agenda, a residency committee recommendation that a student (listed in the agenda as student number 65019307) is not domiciled in the district beginning approximately March 27, 2025, through the present date. The board ordered that the student be disenrolled at the end of the school year and that the parent be assessed tuition of $2,000 for the student’s ineligible attendance in district schools.

The residency committee’s written finding was read into the record during the meeting; the transcript states the committee held the residency hearing on May 12, 2025, and that the parent attended. The resolution text included notice that the family has a right to contest the decision before the appropriate education authority.

The board moved items 7 through 11.4 on a consent agenda; item 11.3 contained the residency resolution. A board member noted that the settlement referenced elsewhere on the consent agenda would be paid by insurance rather than taxpayer funds. The consent motion was handled as part of routine administrative approvals and then the meeting proceeded to public comments.

Later in the meeting the board took a voice vote to enter closed session "for the purpose of discussing personnel matters of attorney client privilege and just the implication," as read into the record. A motion to go into closed session was made and approved by voice vote.

The board’s official minutes should list the formal roll-call and vote tallies for the consent agenda items and for the closed-session motion; the transcript supplies the resolution language, the student identifier, the tuition amount and the residency-hearing date but does not include a roll-call-style tally for the consent vote in the portion provided.