Sayreville Board of Education moves into closed sessions March 3 and March 17 to discuss personnel, student matters and SCA grievance

The Sayreville Board of Education voted to enter executive session at meetings on March 3 and March 17, 2026, citing personnel matters, student matters, negotiations with the SCA and a listed SCA grievance. The board said the matters would be made public once the need for nondisclosure no longer exists.

At the March 3 meeting the board read a resolution invoking the Open Public Meetings Act (chapter 231, P.L. 1975) that said, "The public shall be excluded from discussion of and action upon the hereinafter specified subject matters," identifying "Personnel, student matters, [and] negotiations with the SCA." A motion to move into executive session was made; the transcript records a correction naming Mrs. Pavone as the seconder. A voice vote was taken and members answered "Aye," after which the board moved into executive session. The transcript does not record the member who moved the motion by name.

At the March 17 meeting the board again recited its public-notice compliance under the Open Public Meetings Act and read a resolution listing "Student matters, an attorney-client privilege, personnel, and the SCA grievance of 25 26 Number four" as subjects for closed discussion. A motion to enter executive session was made and seconded (the transcript names Lucy Bloom in the sequence of seconding). A voice vote carried the motion and the board proceeded into executive session.

No substantive public actions or vote tallies beyond the voice votes to enter executive session were recorded in the transcript. The resolutions state that information about the matters will be released when nondisclosure is no longer required. The board noted that meeting notices had been sent to the Home News and Tribune, the Star-Ledger, and posted with the borough clerk and the secretary's office prior to the sessions, in compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act.

The transcript references the SCA and a grievance identified as "25 26 Number four." The text does not expand the SCA acronym, name individuals related to the grievance, or disclose details of the personnel or student matters. The board took no further public action in the transcript excerpts provided. Future public disclosures, if any, will be released "at such time as the need for non-disclosure no longer exists," according to the resolution language.