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Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone
Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone was a candidate for an at-large seat on the Brick Township Public Schools school board in New Jersey. Colagiovanni-Iannarone was defeated in the at-large general election on November 8, 2016.
Colagiovanni-Iannarone also ran unsuccessfully for an at-large seat on the school board in the general election was held on November 3, 2015.[1] Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone lost the general election on November 3, 2015.
Elections
2016
Two of the seven seats on the Brick Township Public Schools school board were up for at-large general election on November 8, 2016. No incumbents ran for re-election in the race. Newcomers Melita Gagliardi and Daisy Haffner defeated John O'Rourke, Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone, Walter Campbell, and Victor Finamore for the open seats.[2]
Results
| Brick Township Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Daisy Haffner |
27.79% | 12,345 |
| Melita Gagliardi |
24.29% | 10,794 |
| Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone | 15.39% | 6,836 |
| Walter Campbell | 13.72% | 6,097 |
| John O'Rourke | 12.50% | 5,552 |
| Victor Finamore | 6.00% | 2,665 |
| Write-in votes | 0.32% | 141 |
| Total Votes | 44,430 | |
| Source: Ocean County, New Jersey, "2016 General Election," accessed November 30, 2016 | ||
Funding
Colagiovanni-Iannarone reported $1050.00 in contributions and $674.33 in expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, which left her campaign with $375.67 on hand in the election.[3]
2015
Opposition
The Brick Township Board of Education consists of seven nonpartisan members who are elected at large to three-year terms. Four seats on the Brick Township Public Schools advisory board were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The at-large seats of incumbents Michael Conti, Frank Pannucci Jr. and Susan Suter were on the ballot for three-year terms. A fourth one-year term was on the ballot due to a resignation on the board.[1]
Newcomers Victoria Pakala, Stephanie Wohlrab and John Lamela won election to three-year terms, while George White defeated former board member John Talty for a one-year term.
None of the three incumbents filed to run for re-election, though Talty, the member who resigned from the board in April 2015, ran for his former seat. He left the board to recover from heart surgery and he faced challenger White in his bid to return. The race for the three three-year term seats attracted a total of 10 candidates: Walter Campbell, Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone, Leonard Figula, Victor Finamore, David Fischer, Lamela, Pakala, Lawrence Reid, Lois Turner and Wohlrab.[4][5] Campbell, Reid, Turner and Talty were running as part of a slate called Progress Not Politics.[6]
Results
| Brick Township Board of Education, At-large (3-year term), General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Victoria Pakala |
16.6% | 4,006 |
| Stephanie Wohlrab |
15.9% | 3,831 |
| John Lamela |
14.5% | 3,491 |
| Lois Turner | 10.1% | 2,427 |
| Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone | 9.7% | 2,338 |
| Walter Campbell | 9.1% | 2,194 |
| Lawrence Reid | 7.3% | 1,771 |
| David Fischer | 6.6% | 1,591 |
| Leonard Figula | 5.8% | 1,388 |
| Victor Finamore | 4.1% | 993 |
| Write-in votes | 0.33% | 79 |
| Total Votes | 24,109 | |
| Source: Ocean County, "2015 General Election November 3, 2015, Official Results," accessed November 20, 2015 | ||
Funding
Colagiovanni-Iannarone reported no contributions or expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission as of October 27, 2015.[7]
Endorsements
Colagiovanni-Iannarone did not receive any official endorsements in this election.
Campaign themes
2015
Colagiovanni-Iannarone answered the following questions from Brick Shorebeat about issues in the district:
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Current Occupation; Do you currently receive any public salary compensation? If so, from what public agency? Team Leader @ Brick Township Recreation Department Senior Hair Dresser @ JC Penney Salon, Ocean County Mall (Public salary from Brick Township Recreation Department) Have you ever previously held an elected office in Brick or elsewhere? I have been appointed to several boards. BMAC, Board of Adjustment and the Brick MUA as a Commissioner. Member Lead and Seed program at Brick High School, Member Ocean Medical Center Association, Member Brick Trap Neuter and Release Program As it presently stands, the administration of the Brick school district remains in flux. What should the academic priorities of our administrators be over the next three years? The academic priority should always be, to give the students the best possible education. Teachers and administrators need to be included by giving support to allow them professional learning and development as necessary for the academic changes that are happening in education. We need to do all these things while always keeping the Taxpayers in mind. At its core, a public school district will always be judged based on the achievement of its students. Though Brick’s performance has improved in some areas in recent years based on state data, that same data has repeatedly shown that the Brick district lags in the category of college and career readiness. In a competitive state like New Jersey, what specific initiatives should be put into place to ensure that Brick students will be able to compete in both college and the marketplace with their peers who reside in the state’s highest-performing districts? We have many students that graduate and go onto secondary schools and career and are very successful. As an example many of our teachers are graduates of Brick High School and Memorial High School. Of course we can always raise the bar and I do acknowledge that there are problems in Brick as in many economically diverse communities. I would always be willing to work with educators, parents, students and local businesses to come up with programs to enhance the services that a school can offer. Most Board of Education meetings are extremely lightly attended. On some occasions, concern has been expressed that not enough parents are engaged in the academic aspects of the school experience. What specific ways can the district better engage parents and members of the community with the aim of bringing them into discussions on academic achievement? In today’s society it is very hard to get the public involved in evening meetings; most families have working parents that try to spend time with their children in the evening. I believe we can connect with the parents using many different avenues one being SurveyMonkey System, where questions can be sent out to the community to gauge what directions could be taken. It’s a relatively and inexpensive method to represent what busy parents are thinking and comments could be added to the surveys. Also I feel we should be working with parent groups, such as the PTA’s and bring them onto committees, listening to their opinions is an important piece of academic achievement. Listening to what teachers need, to improve learning. The teacher in the classroom, and parental involvement; are the two important indicators that show academic achievement for the student. In recent years, some long-sought facilities improvements have been completed in various school buildings. With the condition and age of the district’s facilities continuing to be a chief concern among Brick residents, which improvements and/or upgrades would you prioritize, and which funding mechanism would you favor to finance those projects? The opportunity of saving energy in our school buildings has not been utilized to its potential to date. The existing board has used ROD grants that required our surplus funding, at 60% of the project costs to fund boilers and roof top units (heaters). The state has a program called ESIP which allows the savings to pay for the energy savings projects. The schools district has a yearly energy bill over 2 million dollars per year. The energy audit done in 2011 showed a possible energy saving of 10%, some proposals have been submitted for up to 20% savings yet the taxpayer is funding this work, instead of taking advantage of programs that would allow using funding for other things. A real look at how much things cost and where available funding is needed, that will be my priority. I am an independent person looking to represent the township residents; I will listen to the needs of the students, the faculty and the taxpayers. I plan to take a fair analysis of each situation that comes along, and make the best decision I can for the benefit of all people in the township. [8] |
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| —Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone (2015), [9] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Brick Township Public Schools, New Jersey
- Brick Township Public Schools elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 App.com, "Embattled Brick BOE faces flurry of candidates," July 29, 2015
- ↑ Ocean County Clerk, "2016 School Board Candidates List," accessed July 26, 2016
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "Public Information," accessed December 12, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedapp - ↑ Ocean County Clerk's Office, "2015 School Board Candidate List November 3rd General Election," accessed August 4, 2015
- ↑ Facebook, "Progress Not Politics," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "View a Candidate or Election Related Committee Report," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Brick Shorebeat, "Brick BOE Candidate Profile: Madeline Colagivonni-Iannarone," October 27, 2015
| 2016 Brick Township Public Schools Elections | |
| Ocean County, New Jersey | |
| Election date: | November 8, 2016 |
| Candidates: | At-large: Walter Campbell • Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone • Victor Finamore • Melita Gagliardi • Daisy Haffner • John O'Rourke |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional measures on the ballot |
| 2015 Brick Township Public Schools Elections | |
| Ocean County, New Jersey | |
| Election date: | November 3, 2015 |
| Candidates: | At-large three-year terms: • Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone • Madeline Colagiovanni-Iannarone • Leonard Figula • Victor Finamore • David Fischer • John Lamela • Victoria Pakala • Lawrence Reid • Lois Turner • Stephanie Wohlrab At-large one-year term: • John Talty • George White |
| Important information: | Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
