Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • February 10, 2010 Franklin Lakes Three seats available on board of education by Frank J. McMahon Three seats will be available on the Franklin Lakes Board of Education in this year’s school election. Incumbents in two of those positions have confirmed they will be seeking reelection, and two new candidates have filed nominating petitions. The current terms of School Board President Carmen Monte; Richard Koenigsberg, the chairman of the board’s Operations Committee; and Deborah Taylor, the chair of the board’s Curriculum Committee all expire this year. Monte and Koenigsberg will seek new terms, while Taylor will not. Christine Christopoul and Gabrielle Gutierrez, both of whom live on Saddleback Trail in the Woodside Avenue School area, are the two candidates who have thus far submitted nominating petitions to the school board secretary. Monte was first elected to the board in 2003 and has lived in the borough for 12 years. She has two children: a daughter attending New York University and a son who is a senior at Ramapo High School. A graduate of Fordham University with a BS in accounting and computer science, she was employed by the advertising firm of Deutsche, Shea & Evans from 1983 through 1995, where she was responsible for human resources, operations, legal, taxes, real estate, and treasury functions. She has been the school board’s president since 2007, and was the board’s vice president from 2006 to 2007. Prior to that, she served as chair of the board’s Finance Committee and was chair of the board’s Curriculum & Instruction Committee and a member of that committee for four years. Monte said there are many unresolved issues facing the board of education, such as the teachers contract, superintendent search, Colonial Road School principal search, supervisor of curriculum search, and an administrators contract that expires on June 30. Those issues, she said, are her reasons for running for reelection. A seven-year member of the school board, Koenigsberg is a partner in the New York City certified public accounting firm of Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker. He has served as vice president of the school board, chair of the Operations Committee, and a member of the Finance and Personnel committees and the board’s negotiations team. He has also been the board’s representative to the education foundation and to the borough council. In the community, he has been a coach of girls’ basketball and boys’ baseball. 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If she is elected, she said she would bring both experience and a new perspective to the board. “I have three children in the district currently attending second, fourth, and seventh grade,” she advised recently. “Being an active parent volunteer in the Franklin Lakes schools for the past seven years has given me an understanding of the critical need for strong curricula, communication, and consistency among our district schools. My professional business experience and volunteer experience combined with attendance at board of education meetings, school forums, coffee chats, and parent workshops, has provided me with a unique experience and insight regarding our district’s curricula and policies.” Gutierrez, who has received both a BS in finance/international business and an MBA in accounting/finance from the NYU Stern School of Business, has been a resident of Franklin Lakes for 10 years. 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