Fair Lawn board recesses to closed session to discuss personnel

The Fair Lawn Board of Education recessed into a closed session Thursday evening to discuss personnel matters, the board chair said after calling a special meeting to order at 6:33 p.m. at Thomas Edison School in Fair Lawn.

The chair announced the meeting location as the Eugene M. Banta Public Meeting Room (Room 1937-01). During roll call the chair read members’ surnames—Doctor Rutolini, Miss Brown, Mister Rosenberg and Mister Santana—and recorded responses; Rosenberg and Santana were noted as present. The chair also stated that one member of the public was in attendance.

The chair read a resolution to move into closed session “to discuss personnel,” and a motion and second were recorded on the transcript; the chair then announced the board would enter closed session at 6:34 p.m. The transcript does not include a formal roll-call tally for that motion in the public record.

Board members and staff briefly discussed logistics—participants confirmed they would use paper copies of meeting materials rather than laptops and noted that no public comments had been submitted to the meeting’s Google Docs. Participants also checked that the meeting camera was open, with one participant asking whether the camera was actually recording.

The public portion of the transcript ends after a subsequent motion to adjourn was moved and seconded and the chair asked, “All in favor?” No final vote or additional public business is recorded in the transcript provided.