Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Through the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), Patch received a copy of Steven Engravalle's employment contract.
Many parents, up in arms over the amount of absences of School Superintendent Steven Engravalle since his return from his leave of absence on January 2, have raised questions at Board of Education meetings regarding the terms of his contract. Concerned parents and members of the community have filled meetings questioning his compensation, paid time off and other benefits as agreed to by the Board of Education and laid out in his contract. The Board's reply? They cannot discuss personnel issues in public. Through the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), Patch has received a copy of Engravalle's employment contract, to shed light on the terms of his employment. The contract, approved by the Fort Lee Board of Education and signed by former Board …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Parents outraged over Engravalle's continued absence from meetings; also at issue is continued absence of Board member Charlie Luppino.
Superintendent Steven Engravalle did not attend Monday's Board of Education meeting, prompting parents to call for the Board to remove him from his position immediately. Engravalle's absence was of particular concern in light of the fact that the agenda included the Board's adoption of the preliminary budget for the 2013-2014 school year. "I believe that the adoption of the preliminary budget should be pulled," Paula Colbath said. Colbath's concern centered on the fact that the one-page preliminary budget, as attached to the agenda, did not contain any back-up documentation for the figures presented. "There's no back-up and there's no opportunity to ask [the Superintendent] questions," she remarked. Despite the concerns of Colbath, …
Monday, February 25, 2013
See what's going on in town this week.
The Fort Lee Board of Education will be meeting Monday in the auditorium at Fort Lee High School on Lemoine Avenue. The public work session will be held from 6 pm to 7 pm. The Board will then meet in a closed session from 7 pm to 8 pm before beginning its regular public meeting at 8 pm. The Planning Board is also meeting Monday beginning at 7:30 pm in the Council Chambers of Borough Hall. On the agenda is preliminary/final site plan approval for a 140-unit residential building--Assad Y. Daibes Memorial Foundation for Special Needs at 69 Main Street. Click here to see a copy of the agenda. Monday, the Fort Lee Girls Recreation Basketball League will host its first All-Star game in the Lewis F. Cole Middle School gymnasium. Tip off times …
Monday, February 4, 2013
See what's going on in Fort Lee this week.
On Tuesday, Dr. Doherty, a local chiropractor is speaking at the Senior Center at 11am. Also, Opera classes return to the Senior Center on Feb. 5 as well. On Wednesday, Dr. Nasif, a local dentist, will be speaking to seniors at the Senior Center about oral health. Seniors--mark your calendars for Feb. 12--the state of NJ is coming to talk about Medicaid fraud. The Fort Lee Mayor and Council is having its Executive work session Thursday at 7pm in the Executive Conference Room--room 201--upstairs at Borough Hall. Also on Thursday, the Fort Lee Public Library will be hosting a lecture, "Solar and More: Discussion about the Best Renewable Energy Solutions." Learn from experts how you may be able to leverage government incentive programs, …
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Officials plan to meet again this week before Mayor Mark Sokolich calls a town hall meeting on school security. In the meantime, the mayor said the borough is moving forward with a plan to place two full-time SROs in Fort Lee schools.
Fort Lee school officials recently met with borough and police officials and are planning another meeting this week to address school security issues, as parents, school employees and community members continued to express concern Monday. Fort Lee Board of Education member David Sarnoff, who serves on the school board’s security committee, said Monday that school officials raised a number of concerns shared by board members and the public during a roughly two-hour meeting last week. “We talked about immediate action to address security and medium- and long-range plans,” Sarnoff said at Monday’s school board meeting. “Those plans will also be in close consultation with the Fort Lee Police Department, specifically the chief and deputy chief…
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Steven Engravalle said he would reach out to Fort Lee’s police chief to discuss plans for continued school security in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., as parents expressed strong concerns Monday.
Fort Lee’s Superintendent of Schools, attending his first public school board meeting since finishing his two-month leave of absence, said Monday that school security should be a priority, especially in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. in December, and that if he had it his way, there would be a police officer in every public school building in the Fort Lee district. Superintendent Steven Engravalle also pledged to reach out to the Chief of the Fort Lee Police Department Tuesday. The issue of security was first raised at Monday’s special business meeting by new board member David Sarnoff, who noted that committee assignments were made earlier in the evening, and that he is now on the security committee, along with …
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Fort Lee Board of Education’s special public meeting is Monday at 8 p.m. in the high school library. The BOE plans to discuss the Superintendent of Schools in private, with “personnel matters” also planned for public session.
The Fort Lee Board of Education will hold a special private and special public business meeting Monday, with the awarding of vendor contracts for 2013 and as yet undisclosed personnel matters on the table. Among the vendor contracts to be awarded is the selection of a board attorney. Board president Yusang Park said last week that BOE members were in the process of reviewing requests for proposals (RFPs) for all of its professional services and expected to vote on them at Monday’s special meeting. As of Sunday night, the school district had yet to post a meeting agenda on its website, but according to a notice issued late last week, the board will discuss personnel matters, “including the Superintendent of Schools,” in its private session…
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Robert Daniello will take over as principal of Lewis F. Cole Middle School on no later than March 4. The BOE is also holding a special meeting on Jan. 7 to choose a board attorney, among other professional services.
The Fort Lee Board of Education voted Tuesday to appoint a new principal at Lewis F. Cole Middle School roughly three months after the school’s former principal resigned. The board appointed Robert Daniello, currently the principal of Secaucus Middle School, to the post. But the final details of his contract won’t be hammered out until a new board attorney is selected, which school officials anticipate will happen at a special meeting on Monday, Jan. 7. “The resolution itself is that we will be hiring this person; we agreed to do so,” said Fort Lee Board of Education president Yusang Park on Wednesday. “And as far as the details are concerned, it will be worked out.” According to the resolution the board passed at its special business …
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The Fort Lee Board of Education held its reorganization meeting Tuesday, with four newly elected board members taking the oath of office and the election of a board president and vice president.
Four new members of the Fort Lee Board of Education took the oath of office at the school board’s New Year’s Day reorganization meeting, during which the board also nominated and elected its president and vice president for the coming year. Esther Han Silver, David Sarnoff and Holly Morell were elected to three-year terms in November, and Candace Romba was elected to serve out the remaining year of former board president Arthur Levine’s unexpired term. After taking the oath of office, the new board members were seated, and the first order of business for 2013 was the nomination and election process for board president and vice president. Board member Joseph Surace nominated Yusang “Jimmy” Park, who served in the role after Levine's …
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Friday, December 21, 2012
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9:46 am on Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Board's reply? They cannot discuss personnel issues in public. Kidding me... Since when does a public organization with a public board in a public school system conducting public board meetings are private? hahahah, We are having these type of troubles here in Hackensack. A Board member got arrested for beating up is baby's mother, law suits flipping and flopping all over the place, negative … more ›