Midland Park
July 28, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5
Employees to have stake in forging efficiencies
Midland Park Borough employees are being asked to weigh in on ways the town can save money to conform to the state’s two percent cap on the tax levy. The borough council last week approved Administrator Michelle Dugan’s strategies for soliciting the input. “While every budget year is a challenge, 2011 calls for a different perspective,” Dugan wrote in a memo to all department heads. The memo asks the employees to take the next six weeks to look at all the services their department delivers for the borough and break them down into two categories: essential/statutory and discretionary services. They are also asked to indicate how each service is currently funded: grant, fee-for-service, or borough dollars. The memo includes a spreadsheet to serve as guidance, which must ultimately be filled out and turned in by Sept. 1, well in advance of the preparation of the 2011 budget. “For the essential services, we want them to look at how we could handle them differently in the future, such as outsourcing, which we now do very successfully with grass clippings, or using lock boxes to collect taxes, which some municipalities already do,” Dugan told the council. “I want them to look for the opportunities that may be there,” she added. For the discretionary services which may be impacted by future budget cuts, Dugan said she is looking for how to do the job differently, or how to handle the residents’ (continued on page 9)
Antonucci returns to adult school
Thomas Antonucci, who retired as director of Midland Park Continuing Education four years ago, has returned as its interim director as of July 1. His appointment runs until June 30, 2011. Antonucci will spend eight hours per week in his new assignment. When he left in 2006 after 39 years in the district, the position was filled by Edward Salvi, first on a fulltime basis and then in conjunction with duties as director of athletics. Salvi retired in June. His first priority, Antonucci said, has been to put together the fall session offerings and getting the brochure published. He said he would also like to bolster the SMART (Summer Math and Reading Time), a previously successful problem solving and language logistics program whose popularity had waned in recent years. Since leaving the district, Antonucci has been an associate professor at Montclair State University, providing mentoring and field supervision of new teachers, a position he will continue to hold. He also served for over a year as the interim director of the Glen Rock Adult School. At its meeting last week, the board of education also hired Megan Lynch as a guidance counselor at Midland Park High School; Raquel Trejo as a Spanish teacher at the high school; and Kate Kesheneff as a .8 art teacher at the high school. Music Director David Marks and Deborah Marks, a science teacher, will each teach a computer programming class at the high school, for which they hold certification.
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