Just two public meetings are listed for this first week of 2024. The public needs to be aware of what procedures will govern how the public will be permitted to provide public input to each meeting!
Clarification: Voices originally misinterpreted the Teaneck Schools website announcement of how public input would be managed at its 1/3 reorganization meeting. And the language that led to that misinterpretation has now been changed. Here is the key sentence in the website announcement (Click Here) that was revised this (Wednesday) morning:
"Public Comments can be made in person and virtually via the Zoom Link"
A Schools official has apologized to us for the confusion – and we, in turn, apologize to our readers.
Board of Education Reorganization Meeting – Wednesday January 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm will occur in-person at the Cheryl Miller-Porter Student Center at Teaneck High School and virtually via the Zoom link (Click Here) Again, as revised, here is the key statement about public comment: Public Comments can be made in person and virtually via the Zoom Link. Further, the School’s website stresses that procedures for how public commentary is managed are now set forth in the Board’s “public comment guidelines” which may be found on the Teaneck Schools website or at Click Here.
For the agenda of the Board’s reorganization meeting Click Here. It describes when the 3 newly-elected Board members (Gerald Kirshenbaum, David Gruber and James Wolff) will be sworn in and the new Board officers will be elected.
Board of Adjustment – Thursday January 4. 2024 at 7:00 pm in person in Council Chambers at Town Hall. That meeting will be simulcast on zoom (Click Here) and add passcode 857551. HOWEVER, no public may comment or question from internet locations will be permitted; a member of the public must be present at the meeting itself to do so. The Agenda for the Board of Adjustment meeting may be found if you Click Here.
Note again: The Board of Adjustment’s Thursday evening meeting will be in-person in Council Chambers for the first time since the pandemic in the Spring of 2020. But only members of the public who actually attend in-person at Town hall will have an opportunity for public input (to ask questions, comment on agenda applications or make statements in Good & Welfare).
· As of Tuesday, 1/2/2024, the minutes for eighteen (18) BofA meetings held during 2022 and 2023 are still missing from the Town website. And the Thursday agenda as published on the Town website does not include the vote to approve/disapprove the long- delayed change of use application for part of the 60 Bergen facility that at the BofA December meeting was rescheduled for this January 2024 meeting.
Upcoming: The Martin Luther King Day remembrance (“Our Shared Humanity”) is Monday evening January 15 at 6:30 at Temple Emeth. Would that again remembering King’s words and life could serve to help this troubled town! (See Flyer in Announcement Section).
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