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Rochelle Park Board schedules executive session to discuss personnel and contracts
Summary
At a Feb. 10 special meeting, the Rochelle Park Board of Education announced it would convene in executive session to consider confidential personnel and contract matters and subsequently adjourned; no substantive public debate or formal public votes were recorded.
The Rochelle Park Board of Education held a special meeting on Feb. 10, 2026, during which the board announced it would convene in executive session to discuss confidential matters related to personnel and contracts and later adjourned at 8:45 P.M.
Board President Scott Kral opened the special meeting and read the required Open Public Meetings Act notice, saying the board had provided advance notice of the meeting in accordance with Chapter 231, P.L. 1975 and posted the notice on the district website. The posted agenda set the meeting at 5:30 P.M.
The meeting roster, as listed on the agenda, identified Ms. Elaine Rainone as vice president and listed Mrs. Michele Rainere as business administrator/board secretary; Interim Superintendent Giovanni Giancaspro was listed among others present. The board’s public-comment procedure was reiterated: comment is at the board’s discretion, limited to three minutes per person, and speakers should give their name and address when recognized.
Under agenda item VI the board resolved to convene in executive session “to discuss confidential matters regarding personnel and contracts.” The agenda text does not provide further detail on the matters to be discussed in closed session; the public record notes only that the session will consider personnel and contract matters and that those discussions are confidential.
The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn made by Board Member Joseph Marolda, seconded by Mrs. Michele Balik; the public text records that the meeting adjourned at 8:45 P.M. No roll-call vote tallies or further public actions were recorded in the posted minutes or agenda text provided.
The board announced its next regular meeting for Feb. 24, 2026, at 7:30 P.M. in the Midland School Media Center, with an executive session scheduled to precede that meeting at 6:00 P.M.
