Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • November 13, 2013 Wyckoff School board approves WEA sidebar agreement by John Koster The Wyckoff Board of Education has approved a side- bar agreement to compensate members of the WEA for teachers assigned to summer work in the school district. The parties to the sidebar agreement -- the school board and the teachers’ union -- worked out a negotiated agree- ment in which middle school counselors will be paid for up to 40 hours of summer work at their regular salary scales for school year employment. The board, however, will receive credit for the amount already paid to each teacher who took part: $1,450 per counselor to those teachers who served as counselors. The WEA had requested a meeting on Aug. 23 to gather information and to possibly launch a grievance proceed- ing against the Wyckoff Board of Education, asserting that the teachers who were selected for the summer counseling work might be underpaid. The WEA disputed the board’s interpretation of past practice with respect to the payment for, and assignment to, summer work, specifically, which assigned summer work is paid at the set curriculum work as opposed to the individual daily salary rate. The board agreed that the teachers selected for coun- seling would be paid within 30 days and the WEA agreed not to initiate a grievance proceeding. The sidebar agreement voted on Oct. 28 closes the issue at hand, and future practices will be discussed between the WEA and the Wyckoff Board of Education before the next summer vacation. Three elected to board of education The Wyckoff K-8 Board of Education election seated three uncontested candidates. Board of education newcomer Nicholas Mamola was elected with 974 votes, incumbent Christopher Della Pietra was elected with 958 votes, and incumbent Samir Taneja was elected with 658 votes. J. KOSTER Regional trustees ham, where she had taught English for three years. Bunting grew up in Haledon and graduated from Man- chester Regional High School. He has been a resident of Wyckoff since 1996, when he graduated from Susque- hanna University with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He has worked in the insurance industry and has managed an investigative unit for an insurance company. He has been active in Wyckoff’s recreation programs, having been a football coach and the town’s travel basketball director. Butto joined the regional high school board this year to fill the unexpired one-year term of Wayne Peterson, who represented Franklin Lakes on the board. Butto received 22 write-in votes, the highest number of the eight people who received write-in votes to fill that position for which there were no official candidates in the school board election. Butto has lived in Franklin Lakes since 2003. He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and graduated from Bergen Cath- olic High School. He has been the senior financial manager for the Beyer Automotive Group and has been in the auto- motive industry for 28 years. (continued from page 7) chaired several of those committees. She has also been the board representative to the APTS from 2009 to the pres- ent and has served as the board’s county representative and liaison to the Wyckoff Board of Education. She was vice president of the board in 2012 and is now board president. Currently a managing partner in a small software devel- opment company, Budd was previously employed by IBM for eight years in several areas, including human resources, compensation, and executive development. During that time, she developed a separate and unique program with Syracuse University to enable IBM executives to complete their undergraduate degrees in short, intensive programs. Budd holds a Ph.D. in comparative Renaissance litera- ture from Fordham University. Prior to working for IBM, she spent seven years as assistant dean of students at Ford-