Transportation, Athletic Director Hires On Brick School Board Agenda

When the Brick Township Board of Education meets tonight, it will be asked to approve promotions of an athletic director and transportation director, in addition to swearing in a new board member.

The special board meeting is set to begin at 6:15 p.m. with the swearing-in of Vito Gagliardi Sr., the selection of interim Executive Ocean County Superintendent Todd C. Flora to fill the board seat vacated in April when John Talty resigned due to health issues.

But Gagliardi’s swearing-in ceremony is only part of what is on tap for the board, which will be meeting at Veterans Memorial Middle School.

According to the agenda posted online Wednesday, the board will be asked to approve the following hires and promotions:

• Edward Sarluca, to become the athletic director at Brick Memorial High School and Veterans Memorial Middle School, effective Oct. 1, to replace retiring athletic director Bill Bruno. Sarluca currently is a physical education teacher at Brick Memorial.
• Donald Wilson, to become supervisor of pupil transportation, effective Aug. 24.
• Kathleen Fitzgerald, to become the district’s Academic Title 1 Coach, effective Sept. 1.
• Aileen Mahoney, to become the district’s English/Language Arts academic coach, effective Sept. 1. Mahoney currently is a fifth-grade teacher at Veterans Memorial Elementary School, according to the agenda.

In addition to the retirement of Bruno, who will be taking a position as an assistant director at the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association, the district’s supervisor of language arts, is resigning effective Aug. 16, according to the agenda.

(The Brick Board of Education has been meeting in the gym at Veterans Memorial Middle School since June, when work to replace the electrical system at Brick Township High School got underway. Credit: Karen Wall)