Don't forget, Superintendent Mackey Pendegrast also added four supervisor positions last year @ $120,000 per year.
Just like the WT K-8, the superintendent is expanding high paying administration jobs at the expense of the taxpayer. Everyday is soak Mendham, Chester and Washington Twp taxpayers.

The superintendent's, don't forget in the face of WT K- 8 enrollment dropping, this position is totally unnecessary, the tax payers are getting ripped-off!

I have never seen the job description for a superintendent, but I am not surprised by your reply, because I would have expected these things to be the normal duties for that role. So if you are correct, this begs the question: What other duties is the superindent finding himself needing to perform that are preventing him from being able to perform these particular tasks? I assume that the board should be able to justify such a decision and expenditure to the taxpayers, correct?

For clarification, Tom - Jacke Schram is not the board president or vice president in 2013.
Also, under Superintendent diBatista, there was a director of staff (Pendergrast) and a director of curriculum (Hunter), with no assistant superintendent. Those positions are now gone (as specified in the story).
Thanks for the comments.

Thanks Jason for grounding this guy.

Excuse me Jason, Jacke Schram was quoted defending these positions in the Observer- Tribune. Doesn't matter what her position was. I'm not a reporter.

However, Penderast did create new district supervisor positions along with the Assistant. Administrator's job. @ 120,000 ea. I was told there are 4. ( that's an expansion)

Pendergahst plan was criticized by his peers because he FALIED TO present it to the public.
William Nossin of Old Bridge, a member of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association. said.

“To be frank, what I heard is most troubling. In other districts, with something like this, the superintendent has made a presentation as to what it would look like, the concepts and how it would improve the district,” said Nossin. “You’ve made no presentation and yet you ask for questions. You just voted on it. How is that answering properly to the people who elected you?”

Pendergrast slammed this down the throats of the taxpayer with out a presentation. It passed the BOE by a 5-4 vote. and Jacke Schram supported it.

After a closed, executive session that lasted nearly two hours on Monday, April 16, the board approved a plan creating an assistant superintendent’s position and district supervisors for content and technology integration.

And try to keep your board trolls like Sam Slobo focused on the story instead of me for a change. PEACE!

BTW, Jason here's the link http://newjerseyhills.com/observer-tribune/news/west-morris-regional-district----facelift-for-school/article_17cbcb02-8983-11e1-9470-001a4bcf887a.html

Kevin, who said: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs?

Cristen, well stated. The chief “basher” is not interested in facts. Just the sound of his annoying high pitched voice!

Christen, you didn't approve hiring of 4 NEW supervisors @ 120,000? And you didn't RUSH the assistant superintendent's position without a presentation to the public past the BOE with Jacke Schram.leading the charge? The information came from your BOE and then was published in the newspapers
Or maybe William Nossen, of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association is a basher too?

You were a tax and spender.on the school board and you don't like the TRUTH getting out about your agenda on the BOE.Your support of the malevolent Kevin Nedd is an embarrassment to you. Peace and be well.

BTW Christen, while your at it, why don't you explain how you gave former BOE member John Notte a thirty five dollar an hour job WITHOUT advertising it to the public? If you had advertised you could have gotten someone for $10-$15 an hour.
You call the position a "facilities monitor." Translated: A "facilities monitor is someone who stand around in the parking lot with his hands in pocket at the tax payers expense.

Of course Tom provides no facts to back up his allegations. Tom loves to cite local newspapers as his authority for his rantings. Unlike Cristen and yours truly, he can't cite the years he served as an elected official as the groundings or basis of his opinions. The one time he chose to crawl from under a rock and put his name in the hat, he couldn't muster 46 votes from a town with over 12 thousand registered voters. How sad.

Correction, former Principal Gil Moscatello gets $500 day as a consultant.

A few comments on the above:

1. I don't work for The Patch.

2. I do have "special" insight because I did serve as an elected official in our town.

3. My re-election defeat had nothing to do with my "behavior", otherwise 3400 would not have voted in my favor; try factoring in my principled decision to run as a Democrat (having won previously as an Independent) in a township where both McCain and Romney beat the President by some 30 percentage points as a true indicator of my doomed chances.

4. The quoted comments were authored by Tom Lotito in a OT letter to the Editor. Enough said.

"principled decision to run as a Democrat"??

From what I have hear you have flipped from Independent to Republican to Democrat and back and sideways.

If the Shriners had a strong local party you would have been peddling a tricycle with a red fez on.

"From what I have hear..."

At least this explains your ignorance.

Democrats have no principles, look at the corrupt politicians they elect and keep in office:The Clintons, Obama Reid, Pelosi, Corizine, Menendez, Sharpe James.et al.

Kevin FYI, your election defeat has EVERTHING to do with your behavior, you need to demonize someone in order to make yourself feel better and you don't know how to make friends outside your circle of ideologues

This causes you to argue with anyone who challenges you, not to mention the constant obsessive personal attacks. Politics is consensus, not dictatorship.

Tom,

Do you ever think before you post?

1. The who's who list of bad GOPers is never ending: Janklow, Hinshaw, Tonry, Lukens, Kelly, Hansen, J. F. Hastings, Swindall, Packwood, Konnyu, Livingston, Peterson, Calvert, Barr, Gingrich, DeLay, Cunningham, Durenberger, Rowland, Vitter, etc.

2. If "bad behavior" was the reason for my not winning re-election, please explain why my vote count increased from 2700 plus to over 3400 votes when comparing my second campaign to my first? Bad behavior would have resulted in less votes, not more.

3. I don't engage in personal attacks. I state the facts and let the chips fall where they fall. Like the fact you rely on hard working taxpayers like me to subsidize your existence, because your standard of living is so low you can’t afford a house that requires you to pay property taxes covering what the town and school district spends on your behalf.

Forgot to mention Kevin Nedd.