001now called to order. In accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meeting Act, NJSA 104-6, adequate notice giving this the time, date, location, and to the extent known, the agenda of this meeting was published by the Hunton County Democrat and the Star Ledger on June 9th, 2025. In addition, notice of this meeting has been posted at North Huntington High School and Boris High School provided to the municipal clerks of Bethlehem Township, Califon Burough, Town of Clinton, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Glengardner Burough, Hampton Burough, Hybridgeboro, Lebanon Burough, Lebanon Township, Tukesbury Township, and Union Township, as well as other interested parties, and posted on the district website. Fire exits are located in the directions indicated. If alerted to fire, please move in a calm and orderly fashion to the nearest smokefree exit. Restrooms are located through
002the doors behind this desk and to the right as indicated. At this time, please silence all cell phones. Roll call, please. Christina K here. Brian Chapman here. Angela Dini. Angela Dini. Dr. Din's here. Dr. Dei. Nicole Galla here. Terra Marie Hintz present. Beth Patron here. Rich Lord. Richard Lord here. Oh, excuse me. I didn't do well. All good. Brenda McKisac. Uh Cynthia Ray here. Kimberly Selena here. Daniel Stratton. And Jessica Bay. You do have corn. And can we rise for the flag salute, please? I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. At this time, we'll have opportunity for public comment. Dur during this portion of the meeting, the public is invited to address
003the board of education with comments. You are requested to sign the register provided and to state your name, municipality of residents, group affiliation if applicable, and direct your comments to the school board president. While all comments will be considered by the board of ed, and a response may be forthcoming if and when appropriate, individual school board members may not respond to the speakers at the time of their appearance. The public comment period will be a maximum of 30 minutes in length unless there are unusual circumstances. You will be allocated three minutes to speak and no one will be permitted to speak more than once on the same topic until all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard. Please keep your comments respectful and non-defamy and maintain the level of decorum appropriate
004for a public meeting where students may be present and in the audience. Let me sign here first. If you can let them speak to the microphone so that we can get it recorded. Sure. And can I just ask to speak into the microphone so we can get that recorded? Sometimes it doesn't catch. Thank you. Um, hello. My name is Greg Hodes. Um I live in Hybridge and although I am a member of the Hybridge Burable School Board, I'm not speaking on behalf of the board. Um mainly I just wanted to ask more or less a question that hopefully I can hear in some discussion. Um from what I understand of uh schoolboard policies that there already is a precedent set by the New Jersey School Board Association and state regulations on what is and what
005isn't in discussion of executive sessions. And I was just kind of curious like this resolution has like nine points to it and I'm familiar with both of these. Um, point number nine, matters involving quasi judicial deliberations. I guess I'm just looking for clarification on what this is and what its significance is and what is needed that this resolution answers that isn't already in standard practice. So more or less I'm just kind of like curious as to why there's a special session to adopt this resolution. So any any comment I would really appreciate. Thank you so much. Uh, we're not going to get any of this. Hello everyone. My name is Brian Hodgees from Hybrbridge. Uh, and I'll admit myself I am confused as to why you are bringing forth this resolution. But one of them
006stood out to me and my father was that you that one of the clauses is to move quasi judicial discussion into executive session. And I can't help but just get the impression that there are certain members of the board that are a bit tired of of us in the public uh continuously um overseeing um your little shenanigans and kind of want us to well not oversee you and not call you out on your shenanigans. Uh, I hope this isn't the case, but considering the previous tracker, there's stuff that's happened with uh attempts to change lawyers and get rid of certain books and harass certain librarians. It uh certainly it certainly paints a picture. So, I certainly hope that's not what you're trying to do, but be a bit suspicious if you know what I mean.
007I guess I don't have much else to say. Take care. Jennifer Cusack of Highbridge. Public meetings usually typically follow a regular schedule for reasons. Part of the point of having public meetings is transparency to the public. And when you add meetings not in the regular time and you know it just it speaks loud and clear that this is meant to try and confuse the public to lower the number of people who attend these meetings, you know, and I got to say obviously it did work. All right. You got a very small crowd today. Congratulations on that one. Yeah, but you know it just there is a point to having things at regularly scheduled times with sufficient notice, you know, and um I don't know, maybe you guys manage to squeeze the sandwich in just within
008the word of the law, but it is not within the spirit. of the law of sufficientness. Hello everyone. Dan Dan Conman from chat. Is it okay if I ask what's going to be in the executive session in the general subject matter of what is in the executive session tonight? Uh personnel. That's all I can say. Personnel. That's pretty darn general. Might that personnel be the evaluation of the superintendent personnel? It's an executive session. Okay. I happen to watch um I have to look at the agenda for tonight. It doesn't say anything about anything even about personnel. But more importantly, I happened to look at the public messages sent out by Martha Hixon through her account North Hunter Valley Freedom something. And in that public account, she stated, and I'd like to hand out some of
009these things if I may. I'm just going to ask you, you can leave them here on the table and we'll disperse them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. She stated on June 18th at 12:45 in the afternoon, this meeting will consist of public comment and executive session regarding evaluation of superintendent whom the extremist fashion of the board of ed has been trying to undermine. So, this doesn't reveal what's going on in the executive session. You didn't reveal what was going on in the exe executive session, but somehow Martha Hixon is tweeting out that it's going to be the evaluation of the superintendent. I have to ask myself, how does Martha Dixon find out about these things? I got to say this is strange because I I submitted that thing that can be be mentioned like
010the name of all horn and in that thing there was another problem in which once again information was leaked. Now I don't know if the information was leaked here yet but this is looks like it's we're having a repeat episode of the same thing that Voldemort I can't mention happened for before. I find it unbelievable that this person who lives way out of here and is retired can possibly be tweeting about what is going on tonight when I can't even wear it from the agenda and you can't even say it. But she knows it's about the evaluation of superintendent. I think that's really strange. I'm handing you out these documents so that you all can see this for yourself because not only did she say this, she was then retweeted by the Hunter Review. I
011find that to be very interesting, too. Mr. Kleman, yes. I I'm going to we have your uh materials and I want to note to the public if you go on to the uh website North Hunter Boy's website it the board meeting was posted the special meeting and it does say uh the the nature of the executive session to have discussions relating to the superintendent evaluation. It says no action to be taken. It gives what's going to be discussed is like a whole pot paria of thing a poperri of things. It doesn't say what this person knows. Yes. So we we have we have uh Mr. Kimman we were over the 3 minutes we have taken the information and we we will take everything under adisement and we will respond to the public. Thank you. Is
012there any other public comments? At this time, I'd like to move forward and call for a motion and second to adopt resolution 061925-1 for an executive session to discuss matters reflected in the attached resolution. The board expects to be in exact session for approximately 1 hour and upon return to public session, no action will be taken. All in favor? No, wait. Who made the motion? Um, so moved. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any nays or abstensions? Okay. Sit out here. You're going to sit out here. Yeah. Okay.