MILLSTONE — Dueling factions on the school board became apparent when it came time to choose the new elected officers.

The Board of Education reorganized Monday after the April 15 school election.

Kathy Winecoff was chosen as the board’s president for the year. The board split 5-4 over the two nominees for vice president.

Winecoff was last year’s vice president. Linda O’Reilly, last year’s board president, did not seek re-election.

Mary Pinney received the nod over Tom Foley for the board’s secondary post.

Before the vote was taken, Foley said the new board contains a "large minority not represented by the president."

Foley said that when he submitted his name for vice president, he hoped that would be taken into consideration by the full board.

"It used to be that this board chose its leadership to represent the whole," he said.

According to Foley, the four board members who voted against Pinney would prefer to see him in a leadership position on the board.

Winecoff, Pinney, and board members Alan Gallagher, Patricia Coffey, and Mary Ann Friedman voted for Pinney. In addi­tion to Foley, board members Laura Dreifus, Sami Qutub, and newly elected board member Paula Kinsey voted against Pinney.

In other business, the board unani­mously chose Coffey as the district’s vot­ing representative on the Upper Freehold Regional School District Board of Education.

Millstone is currently the sending dis­trict in a send-receive relationship with UFRSD.

Although children from the township make up more than half the student body at Allentown High School, Millstone only re­ceives one vote on the regional school board.

"I’m going to go ahead and ask Upper Freehold to put together a committee so we can start talks about increased representa­tion on their board," Coffey said.

"Even though we don’t have the repre­sentation, it is important that we stay in­volved. We only have one vote, but we can still have people participate from the audi­ence," Coffey said.

Coffey held the voting post on the UFRSD board last year.