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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood School district has hired Julie Kot as the new School Business Administrator/Board Secretary (SBA) ahead of the 2023-24 school year replacing Kathryn Davenport who has been filling in as Interim SBA since March of this year.
Kot has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration from the College of Saint Elizabeth, along with valedictorian and summa cum laude honors and a Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she graduated cum laude.
Kot currently serves as SBA for Berkeley Heights Township School District. Prior to Berkley Heights, she held the role of School Business Administrator for Long Hill Township School District and Roseland School District, and Assistant School Business Administrator/Board Secretary in districts including Westwood Regional and Hopatcong. She also was a financial analyst for Prudential Financial for over five years.
Good luck, you are going to need it with that crazy Board of Education.
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One big question is still unanswered; why has the newly assigned School Business Administrator never made tenure in her prior district’s. Make you wonder…
It makes”you” wonder, not me or most people. Tenure is not a big deal when there are job openings everywhere. BAs in schools move a lot. Like everything on education these days there are shortages so they leave b/c districts need to pay more to keep or recruit talent and the key is knowing accounting practices. Know how a certain district operates is quickly learned. We’ll how long she lasts….
She will be gone after one year dealing with this current crazy Board of Education.
You don’t bounce around as fast as she did so she’s either terrible or Boards in the districts are terrible. And, she has a law degree? I guess she wanted to be a lawyer but couldn’t get a job in law. So public education was easier…..
Ridgewood puts a priority on other characteristics…
A simple google search of her name and Berkeley heights, as well as Njcourts.gov search will leave helpful .
See her response on budget https://bhcommunitywatch.com/2023/03/29/julie-kot-continues-to-pretend-the-budget-is-classified-information/
Look up http://www.njcourts.gov case numbers –
L-001548-22
L-002248-22
L-002947-22
http://www.njcourts.gov – search under public, find a case, Civil part https://portal.njcourts.gov/webcivilcj/CIVILCaseJacketWeb/pages/civilCaseSearch.faces
How come the Board of Education has so many problems, open again it’s Ridgewood
Looks like all efforts from Fishbein to bring diversity are now being reversed at every level.
Affirmative action was overturned by the Supreme Court. Get a grip. We’re just getting started.
I’ll say it again. I miss Loncto and Morgan. They got it.
lol .,.. they got the teachers unions back
Audit of Long Hill schools found accounting and purchasing issues in 2019. Look up the school business administrator for 2019.
https://www.newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/videos/auditor-discusses-recommendations-with-long-hill-school-board/video_7ca30b6c-2bec-5e1b-9ab3-83021fef00d3.html
Looks like Ridgewood cannot find a business administrator who can avoid purchasing audit recommendations?
It’s simple, follow the rules and don’t give preference to any vendors.. why can these BAs not follow this simple rule?
You mean this one?
https://www.newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/auditor-credits-long-hill-schools-for-cleaning-up-accounting-issues/article_6505af10-4bf4-54a5-a7c9-38b1b0337758.html
And…… May 20th, 2024 she’s gone.
Report is that Julie Kot was too honest for Ridgewood and did not do any favors to organizations that President Sheila Brogan favors!
Her honesty costed her, her job!
Her time in Berkeley Heights was a disaster. I wouldn’t be too upset that she’s gone – it is probably for all the right reasons.