At the Pennsbury School Board meeting, held on May 15, 2025, an above average attendance of community members were present including a handful new attendees that appear to be non-residents of Pennsbury. Many were present to hear the PHS Building Update presentation that included the withheld Geotechnical Report findings and were hoping to ask questions of representatives of KCBA Architects and SiteLogiQ at public comment. Unfortunately, the vendors left the meeting as soon as public comment began. Despite the vendors departure, public comment was kicked off with a serious dress down of the Board financial mismanagement by Pennsbury School Board candidate Andrew Dell, along with an allegation of election interference by Board Member Jeannine Delwiche and her spouse Michael Celec.
Public Comment Allegations Regarding Election Interference
The second speaker at the public meeting was Andrew Dell, a candidate for the Pennsbury School Board. A regular attendee of Pennsbury Board meetings, Dell has consistently voiced concerns about declining academic performance, misplaced priorities on social issues, and financial mismanagement. During the most recent Board meeting, he again raised alarm over the estimated project costs for the planned PHS building, arguing that they are significantly understated. He also questioned the Board on why a referendum was not initiated.
Dell, after discussing key points about the PHS building project, shifted his focus to personal attacks against him on social media. These posts, originating from left-wing activist groups such as Indivisible Bucks County—a local chapter of the Indivisible Project—highlight the intensity of political discourse. While this organization has led protests nationwide, some demonstrations have reportedly escalated into violence, including incidents at Tesla dealerships. In the video below, Dell presents his public remarks and outlines his allegations of political interference in detail.
Who Is Michael Celec?
Michael Celec, a resident of Fairless Hills and the spouse of School Board Member Jeannine Delwiche, has become a frequent attendee of School Board meetings since Delwiche’s election. Celec manages a YouTube channel primarily dedicated to editing and posting videos that often portray private citizens attending Pennsbury public meetings. Many of these videos have been criticized publicly for being taken out of context. Additionally, the content includes footage from Pennsbury security cameras capturing incidents involving attendees who hold differing opinions from the Board, some of which Celec has personally been involved in as documented on his YouTube channel.
Based on publicly available property records, Celec and Delwiche became residents of Falls Township in 2017. Celec’s LinkedIn account shows that he is currently employed as a Library Assistant at Bucks County Community College since 2016. Celec also currently serves as the Executive Director of the Bucks County Audubon Society since January 2023. Form 990s were last filed with the IRS for the Bucks County Audubon Society on April 7, 2024 for Fiscal Year ending June 2023. Historically, the executive director received $85K in annual compensation with a substantial benefits package.
Celec, alongside his spouse Delwiche, have been very active members of Democratic-leaning political groups in Bucks Couty. Utilizing the Wayback Machine, Celec previously served as Deputy Chair of Communications for the Falls Township Democratic Party. Additionally, Delwiche and Celec were announced as new NAACP Bucks County Branch Executive Officers, a group that has routinely brought non-resident activists to Pennsbury School Board meeting.
Pennsbury Has History Political Misconduct
We saw first hand a few months ago the viciousness of some School Board members related to politics when Board Members was attacked over multiple meetings for daring to take a middle ground position around political symbols such as Gay Pride Flags in classrooms. This blog previously reported on the 2021 election misconduct that included cease and desist orders against Republican candidates, federal violations of civil rights during public meetings of community members and a SLAAP lawsuit against Republican candidates brought by Board Members Jeanine Delwiche, Linda Palsky and Joanne Steere after a direct mail campaign made unflattering correlations. SLAAP lawsuits have since become illegal in Pennsylvania due to the abuses by those that file them.
At the recent Pennsbury Board meeting, where Andrew Dell presented his allegations, a Falls Township resident who recognizes as “Watermelon Man” during public comment, revisited one of the community’s most controversial political moments from the 2021 election: the “Peace Vigil” held at the Garden of Reflection. At this event, Pennsbury School Board members and candidates alleged death threats whose severity were later disproven during a First Amendment injunction hearing. The Federal court ultimately determined that Pennsbury officials had violated the civil rights of four community members at the hearing.
In addition to revisiting the Gardens of Reflection event, “Watermelon Man” also exposed politically motivated attacks and false allegations against him after attending a recent committee meeting. Pennsbury is believed to have contacted Falls Township police related to a complaint based solely on hearsay, as Right to Know requests revealed that the district had no concrete evidence to support its claims. Important note, “Watermelon Man” is the spouse of Falls Township Supervisor candidate Jennifer Metzger. Both are frequent attendees of Pennsbury School Board meetings and have been vocal critics of the planned PHS building, which is set to be constructed just 30 to 40 yards from their home on Hood Boulevard.
The video of “Watermelon Man” providing public comment related to the false allegation against him and his recounting of the Gardens of Reflection political event can be viewed below.