Brian DeLuca BRICK TOWNSHIP – Board of Education President Brian DeLuca will resign his seat on Dec. 31, a day before he is sworn in to office as a Township Council member.
“We’re in the middle of a huge strategic planning project for the district,” DeLuca said Sunday night. “I’m not going to just walk away from it now. I’m still there and I’m still working.”
The board will advertise for candidates to fill the vacancy within the next few weeks. Anyone interested in serving on the board should forward a résumé to Schools Superintendent Melindo A. Persi, he said.
The six remaining board members then have 65 days from Dec. 31 to select a new board member.
If the board fails to choose a new member within the time frame allowed, Ocean County Schools Superintendent Bruce Greenfield will pick someone to fill the seat DeLuca vacated, he said.
Although DeLuca’s term on the school board wasn’t set to expire until April 2009, the new board member will have to run for re-election in April 2008 in order to retain the seat. Board of Education members are elected to three-year terms.
DeLuca has served two terms on the school board and has been board president since May. He was last elected to the board in April 2006.
He was the second highest vote-getter in the race for the four available Township Council seats in the Nov. 6 election. DeLuca received 9,551 votes in his first bid for a seat on the Township Council.