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Medford Lakes board recesses to closed session on personnel and privacy matters, reconvenes without public action
Summary
At a special April 16 meeting the Medford Lakes Board of Education recessed into executive session to discuss matters the board says involve individual privacy and personnel; the panel reconvened and adjourned later the same evening with no public votes recorded on those matters.
The Medford Lakes Board of Education recessed into a closed executive session on April 16, 2026, to discuss matters the board identified as involving individual privacy and the employment, appointment, evaluation or disciplining of specific employees, then reconvened and adjourned later that evening without public action on those items.
Board President Dana Schultz called the special meeting to order at 6:30 PM in the Neeta School library and confirmed that notice of the meeting had been posted on the district website on April 1 and sent to the municipal clerk in accordance with the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act. The roll call listed Dr. Anthony V. Dent, Superintendent; Lynn Shugars, Interim Business Administrator/Board Secretary; and board members Kevin Kerfoot, Emily Connerly, Julia Moore and Benjamin Wilson. No members of the public offered comment during the public comment period.
"I, Dana Schultz, Board President, call this meeting to order at 6:30 PM," the minutes record. Shortly afterward, Kevin Kerfoot moved, seconded by Julia Moore, to adopt Resolution 2026-09E authorizing the board to recess into executive session under N.J.S.A. 10:4-12. The resolution text included two checked exemptions: that disclosure would constitute an "unwarranted invasion of individual privacy," and that the matters involved personnel actions such as employment or evaluation.
The minutes note the board recessed at 6:31 PM. Lynn Shugars certified the resolution as a true and correct copy of the action taken. The record shows a later motion by Kerfoot, seconded by Emily Connerly, to return the board to open session; the minutes record the time of return as 7:58 PM. A motion by Kerfoot, seconded by Connerly, to adjourn was recorded and the minutes list "Ayes 5" on the vote lines; the minutes do not list individual roll-call votes for the motions adopting the executive-session resolution or for the return to open session.
The board referenced the statutory authority for closed sessions (N.J.S.A. 10:4-12) in the printed resolution and cited the legal balancing test noted in South Jersey Publishing, 124 N.J. 478, when describing personnel-privacy exceptions. The minutes contain no public record of the specific personnel or privacy matters discussed in closed session.
The board certified the minutes as "Respectfully Submitted" by Interim Board Secretary Lynn Shugars. The meeting began at 6:30 PM, recessed into executive session at 6:31 PM, returned to open session at 7:58 PM and adjourned at 7:59 PM.
