Saturday, November 30, 2013

New Members to Join School Boards This Week

New members to join school boards this week
 
Seven of the eight school boards in Lower Bucks County will reorganize Monday night during special meetings.The state requires school boards to reorganize the first week of December. Most of the governing bodies usually reorganize on the first Monday of the month.The Bensalem, Bristol, Bristol Township, Centennial, Morrisville, Neshaminy and Pennsbury school boards will reorganize Monday night.
The Council Rock board will reorganize during its regularly scheduled meeting Thursday.
This year's reorganizations will include the swearing in of new and returning board members who won election in November. Here’s a look at what will take place during the reorganizations:
BENSALEM
New Bensalem school directors Jason Harris, Kiran Patel and Jennifer Ryan will be sworn in Monday night. Incumbent Kim Rivera will be sworn in for a second term.
Harris, Patel and Ryan will replace outgoing Bensalem school board members Ralph Douglass, Yagnesh Choksi and Elizabeth Cerasi who didn't seek re-election.
Rivera and three new board members will be sworn in during the 7 p.m. meeting. It will be held in the district administration complex at 3000 Donallen Drive. Information: 215-750-2800.
BRISTOL
The Bristol school board will reorganize at 6 p.m. Monday in borough hall, 250 Pond St. At that same time, new board members will be sworn in.
The outgoing school directors are Joseph Saxton and Beverly Breslin-Kalinowski. Incoming board members are Dave Chichilitti and Kelly Cochran.
Incumbents John D’Angelo and Ralph DiGuiseppe III also be sworn in for another term Monday night. Information: 215-781-1000.
BRISTOL TOWNSHIP
The Bristol Township school board will welcome back Katherine Bachman, James Baker Jr., Angela Nober and Frederick Black for another term in office.
The four incumbents will be sworn in during the board’s 7:30 p.m. reorganization meeting Monday at the district administration building. It is located at 6401 Mill Creek Road. Information: 215-943-3200.
CENTENNIAL
The Centennial school board will reorganize 7 p.m. Monday.
Vice President Betty Huf, a Region II representative, and board members Michael Hartline and Jane Schrader Lynch, both Region III representatives, will be sworn in for another term.
The three won re-election in November.
The meeting will be held in the district administrative complex at 433 Centennial Road in Warminster. Information: 215-441-6000.
COUNCIL ROCK
Council Rock has 3 new school board members coming in.
Denise Brooks will represent Northampton Region 3, Mark Byelich will serve as the Northampton Region 6 representative and Andy Block will be the Upper Makefield Region 8 representative.
Incumbents Bernadette Heenan (Region 3), Robert Donnelly (Region 6) and Paul Anagnostakos (Region 8) opted not to run for re-election.
Incumbent Kyle McKessy won re-election to represent Region 9 on the governing body. Region 9 represents Wrightstown and a small part of Newtown Township.
McKessy and the three new board members will be sworn in during the 7:30 p.m. reorganization meeting Thursday. The meeting will be held in the Chancellor Center at 30 N. Chancellor St. in Newtown. Information: 215-944-1000.
MORRISVILLE
The Morrisville school board will reorganize at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the LGI room at Morrisville High School.
Departing school board members are John DeWilde, Ronald Stout and Jack Buckman. They will be replaced by Ivan Colon, Joe Gilleo and Jon Perry.
Incumbent Dan Dingle also will be sworn in for another term during the reorganization meeting.
The high school is located at 550 W. Palmer St. in the borough. Information: 215-736-2681.
NESHAMINY
The Neshaminy school board will welcome one new member during Monday’s 7 p.m. reorganization meeting at Maple Point Middle School.
Ron Rudy will be sworn in to serve as a Region 3 representative. He will replace William Oettinger, who successfully ran for a vacant seat on the Middletown board of supervisors.
Maple Point Middle School is located at 2250 Langhorne-Yardley Road. Information: 215-809-6000.
PENNSBURY
The Pennsbury school board will welcome four new board members during its 8 p.m. reorganization meeting Monday.
Debra Wachspress and Joshua L. Waldorf will be sworn in as Region 1 representatives and Debra E. DeBlasio and Allison Smith will take over as Region 3 representatives.
Wachspress and Waldorf will replace Simon Campbell and Kathleen Zawacki. Campbell lost his re-election bid in the November election. Zawacki opted not to run for another term.
DeBlasio and Smith will replace outgoing board President Allan Weisel and board member Howard Goldberg. The two men opted not to run for re-election.
The meeting will be held in the multi-purpose room of Fallsington Elementary School at 134 Yardley Ave. in Falls. Information: 215-428-4100.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good luck....we're all counting on you!

Anonymous said...

The swearing in is at 7pm

Anonymous said...

The swearing started long before that........