Wyckoff April 14, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 9 Township to decide on budget, school trustees by John Koster On April 20, Wyckoff’s registered voters will cast their ballots on the Wyckoff Board of Education’s proposed $33,228,727 budget for 2010-11, which includes a local tax levy of $31,808,113. The debt service associated with this budget is $1,811,718, with a special revenue fund of $743,070. The tax impact associated with this spending plan is an increase of $290 for the owner of a home assessed at the township’s average of $807,000. Voters will also decide on their representatives to the school board. Three seats are available this year. Newcomers Catherine Runge and Jill Mortimer filed by the official deadline. Since the deadline passed, three write-in candidates -- Deborah Chen, Thomas Rousseau, and Diane Sobin – have decided to seek seats on the board. Chen has been a Wyckoff resident for three years and is a member of the Wyckoff Family YMCA, and the Wyckoff Newcomers and Neighbors Club. She is a parishioner of Saint Elizabeth’s church. She is currently taking the 10week Community Emergency Response Team training course. Chen holds a master of social work, which she received from Rutgers University. She is a licensed clinical social worker and is currently a social worker in the Hawthorne school district. Chen and her husband, David, have been married for 12 years. They have two children, ages five and seven. Mortimer holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in English language and literature. She is the K-12 curriculum coordinator for the towns in the Northern Highlands Regional School District, and has been a Cub Scout parent and Sicomac PTO member. Rousseau, a retired high school science teacher with 35 years in Bergen County school systems including New Milford and Ridgewood, has announced that he will see office as a write-in candidate. He holds a principal’s license and has served as a sports coach at Ridgewood and at Ramapo. Runge is a graduate of Manhattan, a realtor and the owner of her own company, Advanced Sales Trading Solutions. Sobin is a financial professional with 25 years of experience. She is the mother of two daughters, one now at Ramapo and the other at Loyola University. Sobin has been active in the recreation program and PTO group. She and her husband, Larry, have resided in Wyckoff since 1996. The school board also filled the vacancies left by the recent resignations of trustees Matthew Cole and Carl Anello. Lisa Martone and Rob Francin interviewed and were appointed to the two unexpired terms. Francin has served on a board of education in another county and is experienced in educational administration. Martone, a graduate of Montclair State College, taught physics and science in high school for many years, and is currently the supervisor of student teachers at Monmouth College. Rudy Boonstra, Wyckoff’s present mayor, has filed for reelection in November, when a single seat on the Wyckoff Township Committee will be available. The mayor said he feels he has a unique sense of experience that will enable him to preserve Wyckoff’s small town atmosphere as the township considers the numerous development proposals currently under review. Boonstra’s service to the community began in 1968, when he joined Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department Company #3. He has been an active volunteer firefighter ever since. He was elected to the Wyckoff Board of Education in 1973, held every committee chairmanship on that board, Rudy Boonstra files for reelection in November and served two terms as board president. He was subsequently elected to the Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education, where he served in the regional board until 1994. When he was elected to the township committee in 2008, Boonstra left his seat on the Wyckoff Board of Adjustment, where he had served as a member for 19 years, including a dozen years as chairman. Most recently, Boonstra demonstrated his commitment to Wyckoff by serving as one of the township committeemen during the power failure caused by the snow storm, and touring the streets most of the night after the second power loss during the March wind storm. At last week’s work session of the Wyckoff Township Committee, Boonstra urged that Wyckoff join forces with Glen Rock and other municipalities to demand information about why Ridgewood Water Company’s recent “boil water” notice was not disseminated to all affected Wyckoff residents. Some Wyckoff and Midland Park residents were in a grid where people were told to boil their drinking water due to the possibility of contamination when Ridgewood Water Company workers accidentally shut off a pipe and eliminated water pressure. 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