Board approves personnel and operations packages; tables one education item for committee review

The West Milford Township Board of Education approved a series of agenda items at its Jan. 30 meeting, adopting education and operations items, passing a personnel slate and tabling a single education item for further committee review.

The board first moved education items 1 through 6. Trustee Will Seidwitz (as recorded in the transcript) made a motion to table item 4 because it had not been discussed in committee minutes; trustees voted by roll call to table item 4 and continued with a vote on the remaining education items. Administrators said item 4 involved an outside organization that would provide social-skills groups at no cost to the district and that tabling it would delay its approval for schools that wished to participate.

The personnel package (items 1''1) was approved by roll call; the transcript records a recusal by one trustee on item 24 and board discussion about whether an abstention or recusal was appropriate in specific payroll-related votes. Operations-and-finance motions — including hand-carry items added during the meeting — were also approved by roll call.

No formal executive action was taken on the superintendent search beyond the president's update about interviews; the board did not take any budgetary votes that would change previously approved appropriations at the meeting.

Actions recorded in the meeting minutes: the board voted to table education item 4 (motion passed), approved personnel items 1''1 with a recusal noted on item 24, and approved operations-and-finance items and hand-carry items as presented.