The Gloucester County School Board met Tuesday night in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium for a work session, tackling many items including the resignation of board member Karen Espinoza.
“We received her official resignation email last week,” said school board chair Troy Andersen.
The board must fill the vacancy within 45 days of Espinoza’s resignation and appoint a qualified voter who resides in the Petsworth Magisterial District until her term expires on Dec. 31, 2025.
Several committee assignments were left vacant with Espinoza’s departure. To fill these vacancies, the board voted for vice chair Leonne Arsenovic to serve as a backup for the facilities use committee for Carlton Drew; Deborah McDonough to serve on the school board scholarship committee; Arsenovic to serve on the student disciplinary panel with McDonough to serve as an alternate, Arsenovic to serve on the Middle Peninsula Regional Special Education Board and McDonough to serve on the New Horizons Board of Tr...