Tom Vecchio joined the board for the first time. The board re-elected Adam Sangillo as president and Susan Kutner as vice president. Incumbents Glenn Moramarco, Heather Paoli and Maureen Eyles were also sworn in to the board.
The Haddonfield Board of Education reorganization meeting on Saturday, Jan. 6, was the beginning of a new chapter for Tom Vecchio, as he joined the board for the first time. The board re-elected Adam Sangillo as president and Susan Kutner as vice president. Incumbents Glenn Moramarco, Heather Paoli and Maureen Eyles were also sworn in to the board.
Interim Business Administrator John Deserable administered the Oath of Office to Moramarco for a one-year term, and to Vecchio, Paoli and Eyles for three-year terms. Sangillo and Kutner took their positions with unanimous votes from the board.
Newcomer Vecchio reflected positively on the hard work it took to get him to this point.
“I am proud of the campaign we ran and thankful for the trust of those that supported me,’’ he said.
During his campaign, Vecchio stated one of his goals if elected would be to work with the board on identifying and hiring a superintendent who intends to partner with the board in achieving their collective objectives. He looks forward to getting to work on the principles on which he ran.
“I am excited to get to work and fulfill the goals I laid out over the last couple of months,” Vecchio said.
The board is excited to have Vecchio on the team and hopes to make his transition a positive one.
“We are looking forward to welcoming Tom Vecchio,” Deserable said.
Sangillo, winning by a unanimous vote from the board, also expressed his goals as board president, one of them including finding a full-time superintendent. Moving one step closer toward that goal, the board named David T. Lindenmuth to serve as interim superintendent of schools from Jan. 16 through June 30, according to Sangillo.
Lindenmuth served as superintendent of the Clayton School District from 2012 to 2016, and prior to that he worked as superintendent for Palmyra School District and Oldmans Township Schools, according to a release from the district.
Although an interim has been selected, the board is still tasked with finding a full-time superintendent, using a strategic planning process to ensure residents their full-time superintendent incorporates all of the expected values and traits of the community moving forward.
“The search is going well and as expected, requiring extensive attention,” Sangillo said.
“I’m happy that the board has faith in our leadership and excited to be continuing this important work,” Sangillo said after his re-election. “We have a fantastic board full of individual thinkers with diverse experience and expertise. It’s an honor to serve with them for our students and community.”
The board encourages residents who do not have children in the public schools to respond to a brief survey regarding the search for the district’s next superintendent. The survey will be open through Jan. 28.
The survey can be found at www.surveymonkey.com/r/MXSBNZW. A public forum regarding the superintendent search will be held on Jan. 17.
