BOE Calls Special Meeting To Discuss Acting Superintendent

The Fort Lee Board of Education has announced that a special public meeting will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the issue of the Acting Superintendent of Schools.

The special meeting was precipitated by the tabling of a resolution at the BOE’s last regular business meeting on Sept. 26 that would have appointed now Assistant Superintendent Steven Engravalle to the role when current Superintendent Raymond Bandlow leaves the district at the end of October.

The board will listen to the public for one hour—from 6 to 7 p.m.—and then go into private session, said board president Arthur Levine, adding that people can speak “for three minutes once on the role of acting superintendent.”

The board will adjourn after exactly one hour, and the time limit will be strictly enforced, Levine said.

“The three-minute rule is a policy that we have,” Levine said. “The purpose of this special meeting is to discuss the acting superintendent. There is already a pre-announced board meeting on the 17th. So we’re not taking any action Tuesday. We’re listening to the public for an hour, and then we’re going into private session and not coming back. We’re adjourning it in one hour.”

The special meeting is Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. in the Fort Lee School No. 1 library.