Special BOE Meeting Today on referendum, Tax increase, transportation

The Lakewood BOE will hold a special meeting today to discuss the budget and items on the referendum that will ask for an additional yearly tax increase of $6 million dollars.
You must sign your name on a sheet n the back of the room if you want to speak at the public comment portion of the meeting. See  below for tough talk by the board president
Watch Live-stream HERE 7:30 pm

Posted o the district website.
"The Lakewood Board of Education will hold a Special Meeting on Thursday, July 18, 2019, Public Session at 6:30 p.m. in the LHS Commons, Executive Session. Public Session will reopen at 7:30 p.m.  The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 2019-2020 Budget, Transportation, After School
Clubs, Special Education for Public and Non-Public, Personnel, Business Issues and any other matters that may come before the Board. Formal action will be taken."


STATEMENT BY BOARD PRESIDENT
Pursuant to Board Policy 0164, Roberts’ Rules of Order shall govern the Board of Education in
its deliberations and in the conduct of its meetings. As such, all comments from the public and
from other members of the Board should be directed to the Board President who is responsible
for presiding over the meeting.
The President shall direct all inquiries or comments to the appropriate Administrator or Board
member for response, as appropriate. The law requires a period of public comment at our
meetings, not a question or answer session or debate. The board president at his discretion
may or may not feel it is appropriate to answer questions raised during the public comment
BOE Agenda: July 18, 2019 3
period. The board and administration do take all public comments seriously and consider them
when conducting business.
The President may interrupt, warn, or terminate a participant’s statement when the statement
is too lengthy, abusive or obscene. In addition, Security Personnel may direct any individual to
leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum, whether the
person is at the microphone or at any other place in the meeting room. New Jersey law makes
it a crime for any person to intentionally disrupt a public meeting. Law enforcement will be
contacted if a person disrupts the meeting and fails to desist after being directed to do so.
Finally, we ask that you silence all electronic devices.