Rich – Assistant Superintendent
Sternberg – Business Administrator
Subject of School Board discussion at the Board’s July 23 meeting, 7:30 p.m. at 33 Mountain Avenue.
Interesting stuff. Did you know, for example, that if the Board were ever to decide to eliminate the position of Assistant Superintendent, as many taxpayers have suggested, the Borough would owe the current occupant of that position his monthly salary times the number of years he’s held that position in the district?
Did you know, also, that there’s apparently no way for the district to disentangle itself from employing Marilyn Birnbaum other than notifying her, by June 30, 2008, that her contract will not be renewed at the end of June 2009? She’s currently almost finished with a five-year contract (salary increases are not specifically noted in the contract documents obtained) dating from 2004-2009. And if the Board didn’t notify her three weeks ago, then their hands are apparently tied for the foreseeable future.
I may be reading the contract wrong, but it doesn’t even look like the board could fire her for cause, and if they did decide to eliminate the assistant superintendent position, the contract requires a renegotiation to up her salary to take on those additional responsibilities, whatever they are. What a job to have! No belt-tightening required!
Next documents to obtain: job descriptions.
Thank you to Donald Sternberg for supplying the contracts, Linda Darge for obtaining them, and Antoinette Rinehart for mailing them.
North Plainfield Citizens for Community Rights 