April 30, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 3 Midland Park Powderley to be promoted to police lieutenant Midland Park Police Sgt. Michael Powderley, who joined the department as a dispatcher in 1990, was promoted last week to the position of lieutenant. He will be sworn in at the May 8 meeting of the mayor and council. The position has been vacant since the promotion of Police Chief Michael Marra in March, 2012. Powderley’s salary will be $127,300. “Mike’s promotion is well deserved. I’m looking for- ward to having him as one of my administrative officers,” said Chief Marra. He explained that Powderley has already been performing the scheduling and in-service training duties he himself had been doing as the lieutenant before becoming chief. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to have been selected to be in a higher supervisory position,” said Powderley. “I’m looking forward to moving into the job and to help the chief and the mayor and council move the department forward, and I want to thank them for giving me this opportunity.” Mayor Patrick “Bud” O’Hagan said Powderley was selected from a field of five officers from within the depart- ment who applied for the job. “We knew we had good quality police officers, and during the interview process, they excelled in knowledge and desire to advance to higher positions while helping their fellow officers become better trained and more responsive to the needs of our residents. We are proud of our entire police force, and we wanted them to know we cared about their safety as well,” the mayor said. Powderley, a Midland Park resident, expects to receive a master’s degree in criminal law/business from Fairleigh Dickinson University by year’s end. In addition to his sched- uling and in-service duties, he is also a firearms instructor and is responsible for vehicle maintenance and community policing. He was hired as a police officer in January, 1992 after a year as a special police officer and dispatcher, and was promoted to sergeant in February, 2009. Council approves fuel sales to board The Midland Park Board of Education and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus have approved an interlocal agreement that will allow the school board to purchase gasoline and diesel oil for district vehicles from Ho-Ho-Kus. The Ho-Ho-Kus Council and the Midland Park Board of Education approved the related resolutions earlier this month. According to the resolution approved in Ho-Ho- Kus, this shared service agreement will take effect “as soon as feasible during the month of April 2014.” This agree- ment will be for one year, and may be renewed if both par- ties agree to do so, the resolution notes. Midland Park BOE President William Sullivan con- firmed that the trustees approved the agreement at a meet- ing on April 8. “This agreement is the result of information shared during one of our joint meetings with (Midland Park) bor- ough officials” Sullivan explained. The Borough of Mid- land Park already purchases its fuel from Ho-Ho-Kus. The Ho-Ho-Kus Council’s resolution states that the school board “wishes to enter into an interlocal shared ser- vice agreement with the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus whereby the MP BOE will purchase its gasoline and diesel oil directly from the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus and…after paying the ini- tial costs covering the reprogramming of the computer that regulates the oil and gasoline pumps, along with the cost of the individual ‘keys’ needed by each MP BOE vehicle to obtain access to the pumps, the MP BOE will pay to the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus the most current rate for each gallon of gasoline or diesel oil plus 25 cents.” The board will be billed approximately once a month. “The initial cost to the MP BOE for reprogramming the pump computer and the electronic keys for each vehicle came to a total of $325,” Ho-Ho-Kus Borough Administra- tor Don Cirulli reported last week. “For years, we bought fuel through Ridgewood, but Ho-Ho-Kus’ price was better than Ridgewood’s,” Midland Park School Trustee Robert Schiffer told Villadom TIMES. Schiffer was referring to the administrative fee associated with the fuel purchases. Ridgewood charges the price of fuel plus 60 cents a gallon. This interlocal agreement continues a recent trend toward shared services. On Jan. 1, Midland Park and Ho- Ho-Kus merged their municipal construction departments. (continued on page 18)