Ridgweood school board names new business administrators
AUGUST 29, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER
A former school district employee will return to the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) as its business administrator in the coming months.
On Aug. 25, the BOE approved the hire of Alfredo Aguilar as the district’s business administrator, with a contract lasting through June 30, 2015. Aguilar will be paid an annual salary of $168,000.
Although Aguilar was unanimously approved to hire, he will remain in his current position, as the business administrator for the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, for 90 days or until a replacement is found.
In the interim, assistant business administrator Gertrude Engle has been named acting business administrator and will receive a stipend of $250 per day.
Aguilar previously served as the business administrator for the Oradell Board of Education and from 2009 to 2012 was the assistant business administrator in Ridgewood.
From 2004 to 2009, Aguilar was a middle school math teacher in Paterson Public Schools and from 2001 to 2004 was a financial services officer in the U.S. Air Force.
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Crikey, that fellow Aguilar will be pretty darn well-paid for someone in the back office. Does anyone know how well suited he will be to engage in the thrust-and-parry of union negotiations in a way that defends the best interests of the taxpayers and the BOE finances? Or is that the job of some other district underling who absolutely must be paid thee times as much as the average college-educated adult plus generous benefits and a government-funded pension.