Roselle Park board approves personnel, education and business items; purchase orders pass with recusals and abstentions
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The Roselle Park Board of Education approved the personnel and education sections and several purchase orders after amending the business agenda. Multiple roll-call votes recorded recusals and abstentions on specific purchase orders and harassment-incident items; the board also ratified residency appeals decided in executive session.
At the Roselle Park Board of Education meeting, board members approved a series of personnel, education and business items, including several purchase orders that drew recusals and abstentions from individual members.
The board voted to approve the personnel section that included staff appointments, paraprofessional hours, safety patrol assignments and coaching appointments. The motion passed on a roll call with the board recording 'Yes' votes from present members and the chair declaring the motion passed.
The board amended education item 23 to remove the word 'unpaid' after confirming the placement was on-the-job training; that amendment and the updated education section — covering field trips, clinical placements, tuition items, professional services for special needs and concert/event approvals — passed on subsequent roll calls.
In business, the board removed three purchase orders from the general expense listing and then re-added them as separate agenda items for individual votes. Addenda item 2 (PO 236079) was approved with a recorded abstention by Lucy Figueroa and a recusal from President Dr. Kirkland. PO 236081 passed with Chris Monroe recorded as recusing himself. PO 236087 was approved after clarification that it related to compensation for a district employee; the roll call included recorded abstentions in alignment with members' disclosures.
The board also approved the harassment, intimidation and bullying (HIB) incidents section; several members recused or abstained from voting on specified incident numbers as they disclosed. Finally, the board moved to ratify residency appeals that had been decided during the earlier executive session; the ratification passed on roll call.
No formal motions to reverse votes were recorded and the board indicated it would follow up on public questions about specific checks and contracts noted during public comment. The public meeting concluded with an announcement of the next board meeting and brief community updates.
The board's official minutes and roll-call records list the full vote tallies and specific item identifiers.