Allendale July 27, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 3 The municipal court case between the Allendale Community for Mature Living and some of the facility’s neighbors was dismissed without prejudice after Attorney Russell Huntington and Allendale Prosecutor Richard Rosa hammered out an agreement with neighbors who had charged the facility, through the police department and the zoning officer, with permitting a number of violations. After Municipal Court Judge Harry Norton Jr. dismissed the complaints, Rosa said the nursing home had agreed in a closed negotiation to install a new electronic gate at the rear entrance so staff members will be able to enter and leave in their cars if they know the code, but outsiders making deliveries and other traffic would have to use the main entrance off Route 17, as provided in zoning agreements when the nursing home addition was constructed. “Mr. Rosa has treated us very fairly,” Huntington said as he was leaving the court. “The ordinance is not going to be changed in any way,” Prosecutor Rosa said. Judge Norton noted that this was the most recent of a number of complaints by neighbors and said he hoped there would be no recurrences, but the dismissal was the only action that took place in open court. The negotiations between the neighbors and the management, while ‘Allendale Community’ consents to new gate visibly animated, took place in closed session. The Allendale Community for Mature Living complex includes facilities for independent residential living, assisted living, and a 150-bed nursing home. The facility has an excellent reputation for patient care, but a long record of reported violations of use of the rear entrance at Harreton Road for delivery services, not simply for emergency access as provided by local ordinance and in agreements that permitted the expansion of the complex. J. KOSTER The Allendale Board of Education has approved the upgrade of three special education aides from part-time to full-time employees, which qualifies the aides for benefits. The district also retained a fourth special education aide for a full-time position. Pamela Flynne has been retained for a special education student at the Hillside School, Cindy Wylde has been retained for another special education student at the Hillside School, and Carol Kolb has been retained as a special education teacher for two special education students at Hillside School. Each special education aide will receive a salary of $18,000 and benefits. School trustees approve full-time status for 3 special education aides Nicole Occhino has been hired as a full-time special education aide for a student at the Hillside School, also at a salary of $18,000, the first step on the salary guide for special education aides. Special education aides who work full-time receive pay on a salary guide that starts at $18,000 a year and progresses in six steps until the full-time salary reaches $26,955 for six years or more with the system. Part time special education aides start at $12.15 an hour, progress to $15.75 after five years, and then to $18.45 after 10 years. J. KOSTER