>Bergen freeholders vote to overturn lame-duck appointments
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
BY MICHAEL GARTLAND
NORTHJERSEY.COM
STAFF WRITER
The Bergen County Freeholder Board voted Wednesday night to overturn and review several appointments and policy initiatives that were approved late last year by the outgoing county executive, Dennis McNerney, and the lame-duck Democratic freeholder board.
The board, which is now controlled by Republicans, voted 4-2, with one abstention, to rescind the appointment of its clerk, Jennifer Holdsworth Kleinman, and replace her with Karen Mastriano.
It also passed resolutions calling for the review of dozens of other appointments and contracts, as well as the nullification of a $2.6 million bailout of the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood. The appointments, contracts and the bailout were all enacted during the freeholder board’s lame-duck session in November and December.
