{"id":316,"date":"2017-01-05T01:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=316"},"modified":"2017-01-05T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:19:23","slug":"toms-river-boe-chooses-new-president-after-contested-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/01\/toms-river-boe-chooses-new-president-after-contested-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River BOE Chooses New President After Contested Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_317\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"size-large wp-image-317\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Bell, of Toms River, Daniel Leonard, of Beachwood, and Russell Corby, of Pine Beach are sworn in to seats on the Toms River Regional Board of Education. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Bell, of Toms River, Daniel Leonard, of Beachwood, and Russell Corby, of Pine Beach are sworn in to seats on the Toms River Regional Board of Education. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Majority ruled at the Toms River Regional school board\u2019s reorganization meeting Wednesday night, with a former board president retaking the gavel.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Ben Giovine was elected board president in a 6-3 vote. Loreen Torrone was elected as the board\u2019s vice president by the same margin.<\/p>\n<p>Giovine received votes from board members Russell K. Corby, Gigi Esparza,\u00a0Robert Onofrietti, Giovine himself, and newly-elected member Janet Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Board member\u00a0Christopher Raimann was also nominated as board president. Had it come to a vote, presumably Raimann himself,\u00a0Daniel Leonard and Joe Nardini would have supported him. Bell, Leonard and Coby were all sworn in to their board terms at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with the entire board this year to continue the good work we\u2019ve been doing,\u201d Giovine said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/01\/toms-river-boe-chooses-new-president-after-contested-vote\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority ruled at the Toms River Regional school board&#8217;s reorganization meeting Wednesday night, with a former board president retaking the gavel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[108,79,11,64],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-schools","tag-ben-giovine","tag-board-of-education","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-toms-river-regional-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trrs_swearing_in_2017.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}