The Middletown Board of Education was successful in luring Hazlet's current school superintendent William George away to take over the Middletown school system.
According to his terms of employment contract William George will be compensated handsomely for agreeing to come to Middletown. George will be paid the equivalent of $187,500 a year for the next 4 years, 9 months of the contract length.
In order to pay Mr. George such a large sum of cash, Middletown needed to get the approval of the Commissioner of Education in order to exceed the cap on Superintendent salaries that Governor Christies implemented earlier this year, as I stated in a previous post .
I hope all works out well for Mr. George when he finally takes over the reigns of Middletown School system sometime in December ( he must give Hazlet 60days notice before taking over in Middletown). God knows that the school system needs some stability to bring back a little credibility after such a turbulent year thus far that has seen 3 Board of Education members resign there positions and 4 Superintendent presided over the school system by the time George takes over.
Middletown Patch has posted William George's resignation letter to the Hazlet Board of Education, it's interesting and worth the read for anyone that wants to know a little bit about Mr. George and his accomplishments in Hazlet.
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Update: The Independent also has an article published today on the hiring of William George as Middletown New School SuperIntendent - check it out
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http://ind.gmnews.com/news/2011-09-29/Front_Page/Hazlet_schools_chief_moves_to_Middletown_district.html
And will the MTC and ignorant public complain about his salary?
Karen Bilbao was making around that and the people vilified her.
Let's see if Mr. George puts in the time and dedication that Ms. Bilbao did.
This is not a criticism of Mr. George, I wish him well for our sake.
This is all about the stupidity of people with their knee jerk reactions.
This is about the Republicans who will do and say anything to get elected regardless of the detrimental effects to our town and this country.
This is about a BOE President who has her own agenda and not one for the greater good.
Hopefully the hysteria the Tea Party created has died down and people can now intelligently work towards improving the education in this town. It's not free.
Will Joan Minnuies listen to Mr. George or will she and her side kicks try and micro manage?
I'm sure Mr. McRae finally got fed up with meeting 4 nights a week and getting nothing accomplished.
Dysfunction at its best.
Ignorance reigns in Middletown so pray for intelligence to over rule the nonsense that has prevailed since Joan Minnuies was made president of our BOE and the BAM group of three were electe two years ago.
THE EDUCATION OF YOUR CHILDREN IS AT STAKE.
AND the TC members should mind their own business which they have not done well in a long time.The law forbids their meddling in the BOE affairs. The TC can't do their own jobs never mind interferring in the BOE's business.
This town is full of clowns who think they know it all....too bad they serve in public positions !!!
While an anxious nation breathlessly hangs on Chris Christie's every pearl of wisdom, we here in Middletown have discovered the only way to move forward and snag a qualified candidate is to toss out Lord Christie's proclamations on salary caps. Do you think Little Lords Fiore or Scharfenberger will write one of their Christie love letters to The Independent describing how the highly touted "toolkit" was not only useless, but actually counterproductive to achieving results?
Actually Mr. George's contract is substantially higher than Karen's. The board was not going to seek a waiver for her new contract as they did for BG. His contract has nearly $30,000 in merit pay, all having nothing to do with improving education and most already in his job description.
http://www.middletownk12.org/boe_agendas/files/20110927/Attach%20Addendum-1.pdf
Base salary $187,500.00
Car allowance $4,200.00
Association dues $1,975.00
Incentives
Assemble/Retain Administrative team..... add $4,687.50
Operation cost reductions exceding $185,000......... add $6,187.50
Reduce special education costs by $100,000......add $6,187.50
Generate $100,000 in revenue (by renting facilities, etc)..add $6,187.50
Total possible compensation $216,925.00
what happened to giving him $165,000? I guess the Middletown Board just colllapsed to his demands. Lets see if he collapses to princess Joan's demands!!!
When April 2012 gets here it's time to elect qualified reasonable,intelligent people (like we used to have until two years ago) to serve on our BOE...that means goodbye Joan Minuies because those qualities are lacking in that woman !
s for C.Christie...he could start the third World War with his tongue and his "faithful followers" in Middletown are just as back.
Tell us anything good that has come out of this BOE since the TC meddled and the BAM group was seated.......now think hard all you hypocrits.
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