Middlesex board approves routine minutes, personnel, education and finance items; schedules executive session

The Middlesex Borough Board of Education approved routine board business on Dec. 16, 2025, adopting the superintendent's recommendations for meeting minutes and committee action items across personnel, education and facilities/finance.

The board moved to approve the minutes (agenda item 5.01) and then voted on the superintendent's recommended personnel items (9.01–9.13), education items (11.01–11.13) and facilities and finance items (14.01–14.11). Personnel committee chair Todd McLean presented the personnel slate; education chair Brenda Curry and facilities & finance chair Todd McCoy presented their respective reports.

A recusal was recorded on personnel item 9.08 as stated during the roll call. The board secretary read roll-call responses aloud for each approval motion; members identified in the roll calls included Missus Parenti, Missus Schueller/Schuler, Missus Jeffrey, Mister Nicolai/Nikolai, Missus Perry, Missus Quinn, Missus Reynolds and other members whose verbal "yes" responses were recorded in the meeting transcript. Votes on the listed agenda blocks were recorded by roll call and the motions were carried as announced at the meeting.

The board also moved John Healya from a special assignment to principal of early childhood education for the district's new preschool program, with an effective date shown in the meeting record as July 1, 2026.

Finally, the board adopted a resolution under Chapter 231, P.L. 1975 (the Open Public Meetings Act) to meet in executive session on Dec. 17, 2025, to discuss attorney-client privileged matters, confidential student matters and confidential personnel matters. The board indicated no additional public actions would follow the executive session that night.

The meeting concluded after the executive-session motion and the board adjourned.