North Penn appoints Teoh, Bell to fill vacant seats
BY DAN SOKIL
NORTH PENN NOW
The North Penn School Board will head into 2026 with two more new members.
Residents Mark Teoh and Dan Bell were both appointed to fill vacant seats on the board Wednesday night, topping a long list of candidates to become the fourth and fifth members to join the board this month.
Bell is a former Towamencin Township supervisors, and Teoh’s wife, Meg Currie Teoh, sits on Lansdale Borough Council as the current vice president.
“Thank you to everybody who volunteered to step up and serve their community. It is a volunteer position, and these folks really stepped up,” said Superintendent Todd Bauer.
November brought two rounds of changes to the board, as newcomers Koh Chiba, Christine Coyne and Ken Keiser all won by large margins at the polls against their Republican opponents to take the seats that had been filled by outgoing board members Tina Stoll, Christian Fusco and Jonathan Kassa. Later that month, then-board President Cathy McMurtrie abruptly announced her resignation during the board’s Nov. 20 meeting, and on Dec. 1 the three newly elected members were seated, then Bauer announced that board member Elisha Gee had resigned a seat she had held since March 2018.
After the second resignation, new board President Juliane Ramic announced that both vacancies would be filled during a special meeting on Dec. 17. Ramic kicked off the appointment process Wednesday by outlining the board’s call for applicants, and recalling how she was grilled and appointed in a similar meeting at the start of 2018.