Monday, May 13, 2013

Hoboken Board of Education: May 14, 2013 Full Agenda

St. Anne's Church under construction- circa 1922
The following is the full agenda for the Tuesday, May 14th meeting of the Hoboken Board of Education. At 52+ pages long it is certainly a full agenda which will no doubt lead to some interesting discussions.

Two resolutions of note is RESOLUTION NO. FI-0021-12-13 which indicates the Hoboken Reporter will only be used in the future on an "as-needed" basis and will no longer be one of the official newspapers used by the Board of Education. Another resolution that is interesting is NO. FI-0022-12-13 which adopts Parliamentary Procedures for the Board meetings. If such a resolution is passed, it is highly advisable that Board members receive specific training in parliamentary procedure for meetings to be fully effective. Watching the procedures on local television or at meetings is far from proper use of parliamentary procedures with the biggest offenses coming from key Board leadership.


RESOLUTION NO. FI-0021-12-13
SUBJECT: ADOPTION OF OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education, upon recommendation of the Business Administrator,
approves the following:
To authorize the Jersey Journal and Star Ledger be adopted as the official newspapers to be used for the
advertisement of meetings and legal ads and all other necessary public notifications for the 2013-2014
school year and the Hoboken Reporter be used on an as-needed basis and hereby is submitted.

RESOLUTION NO. FI-0022-12-13
SUBJECT: PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education, upon recommendation of the Business Administrator,
approves to adopt Roberts Rules of Order as the official parliamentary procedure manual to be used to
conduct meetings and appoint the board secretary and board attorney to act as the parliamentarians for the
2013-2014 school year.