School Board Hires Management Consultants
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Your Want Ad The Zip Code Is Easy To Place-- for Mountainside is Just Phone 686-7700 07092 An Official Newspaper For The Borflugh Of Megntainsidt MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J,,. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1973 PuLilih.d Eoeh Thunder by 1 l J Now Pnvl'd»ne« Rend. Maun School board hires management consultants 1 Firemen greet Firm will survey I public Friday § Hellum-fiHed balloons nnd badge!, for | the kids and refreshments far oil will he office workload g provided Friday evening when Moun. B tainside'g all-volunteer fire department By WILLIAM GARNET svorkload similarities, make job and staffing • liosts an open house as port of its Fire The Mountainside Board of Education voted analyses, and make recommendations as to | Prevention Week activities, Tuesday night to hire the firm of Metzler svorkload requirements and staff numbers. jj The fire house at Route 22 and Associates to analyze the work load of the Dr. Irwin Kraiise, chairman of the = Mountain avenue will be open to visitors administrative staff and secretaries in the negotiations committee with school I from Oi30 to 9 p.m. and fire trucks, central and school offices. The board met at the Necretaries, said that negotiations have gone to H equipment and alarm systems will bo on Deerfield School, faet-finrling and he was awaiting a reply, | display, A special feature will be a f demonstration of heat and smoke The request was brought to the board by Its Rupp, who Is chairman of the long range n detection alarm systems that can he attorney Charles Jerome who was acting as planning committee, reported that school 1 installed by homeowners at reasonable secretary In the absence of John McDonough. enrollment In Mountainside for this year is | cost. The Fire Department does not sell The firm was hired on a four-to-three vote with 1,052 which is a continuation of the yearly 1 the systems, Pat Knodel, Trudy Palmer and Walter Rupp decline. Lost year's enrollment totaled 1,12V illinium iiiiiiiiinii[iiii!!iiiiiiiiiiiMimiiiiiii!ii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii opposed. Both Mrs. Knodel and Mrs. Palmer students. • said the board had interviewed only the Metzler firm and although other bids svere higher they According to Rupp, kindergarten enrollment, seemed to be more substantial in what they which Is the chief determining factor for total promised to do. school enrollment for the future, was 79 as compared with the predicted 82. Ruling due According to a letter received by the board, -o-o- Metzler Associates will, at a cost of $1,550, take a survey of (tte\ secretaries io determine THE BOARD TABLED a motion to pay for the tuitlon'costs for a course in New Jersey school law at Newark State College being taken tnimohffK on by James Johnson, a teacher in Mountainside. James Keating questioned whether the board GOP hopefuls should pay $105 for a course required for school apartments administrators but not for teachers. Dr. Levin Hanigan, superintendent, said that the course 1 The long-awaited Mountainside B.oard of supported by could possibly enable Johnson to feel more Adjustment hearing on the application of comfortable teaching if he knows the law. He Chatham Realty, Inc., 961 Mountain ave., said that this is a "gray area in that the board is -•Mountainside, for a zoning variance to con- aircounciimen required by contract to pay for courses taken by teachers with my approval." struct the borough's first apartment complex All members of the Mountainside Borough "was started Monday evening, but local citizens Council came' out for the regular Republican Payments for advanced graduate courses ' will hive to wait at least another month before candidates last week in a statement expressing were approved for seven other teachers who hearing the board's decision. support for their election on Nov. 6. All council were recommended by Dr. Hanigan, _'. More than 100 residents attended the session, members are Republican. The board unanimously approved a request I which started in Borough Hall but was later RACCOON SiASON—Rollie Semland points out the elusive Columbus Day sunshine at the Traiisido Museum and Zoo in Mayor Thomas J. Riccardl declared that the by the Mountainside Midget Football Club to j adjourned to the Eehebrook School auditorium animal to his 2 Viy©ar-old dgughtor, Joanne, as family enjoys tho Watchung Reservation, Mountainside, three candidates, Incumbent Nicholas Brad- install floodlights on board property adjacent i to accommodate the overflow crowd. (Phots-Graphics) shaw, Abe Suekno, council candidate, and Ruth (Continued on page 1) Testimony by one witness for the applicant Qibadlo, tax collector hopeful, "represent the ended at 10:30,, a time limit set by the board, finest slate of citizens coming forward to serve with three other experts on various aspects of Democrats charge their community, Highlanders win tho project yet to appear, as well as opponents Break-ins at 3Rt. 22 firms "They are dedicated to preserving our of the proposal. community as an idiai suburban locale, of- The hearing was scheduled to reopen at the GOP will change fering tho best services at a reasonable tax band competition board's Nov. 12 meeting, to be held at 8 p.m. in rate," the mayor added. the Echobrook School, • last Thursday listed by police Qov. Livingston Regional High School image -of borough The candidatBs met Sunday evening with a Highlanders Bands returned victorious from, Those in attendance heard .the-testimony of Break and, entries' a* three - >w^mi" Onee iraido, they jimmied open an group of citizens interested in their views on • only the one, witness, •architect Julian W. -the- Mountainside Democratic Party, con- their 'appearance in the Central New Jersey businesses on Rt, 22, including th# theft of two" ofhee door and removed a 300-pound floor safe. why they wished to serve in these important Marching Band. Competition held in Wood-, : Cousins of Westfield, designer of the eompleit, ^jjij t ffp t for sujjnnrtijn n H"» Mh aurant, "were The sdn, on ~wHeell* 'then apparently was posts, ' . wmen would be put oh a i-and-one-thlrd acre election,- this week issuedd ttheh ; following p bridge High School Stadium'Sunday, Sept, so. reported Oct. 4 by Mountainside police, dropped several steps to the dining room floor Suekno summed up the attitude of the three The triumphant Highlanderi won two site on the northwest corner of Rt, 22 and New statement to borough voters; " ~ where it was pried open. Republicans, He said, "All you have to do is to • providence Road. Cousins laid the project "In 1974, the all-Republican administration ': At 7:45 a.m. lait Thursday, police were trophies: first place in Class A against six other . called to Mountainside Ceramic Molds', 1140 Rt. Two restaurant employees were reportedly walk around our town, and you will quickly bands and the Mayor's Cup for most out. would be a 21-unlt townhouie condominium, intends to change the image of Mountainside, A asleep, in an upstairs area of the building during notice the tremendous pride of ownership with six, one-level, one-bedroom units; three, new borough hall, police headquarters,' fire 22, where a cellar window and office door were .standing band in the competition of 10 bands, found forced open. Police said a let of steak the incident, but police said they claimed to reflected in the way Mountainiiders take care repeating last year's record. two-level, two-bedroom units, and 12 one-level, department, and related municipal f«eilitie§, of their houses and properties. knives, worth 122, and iis in change were have heard nothing. Judges from National Judges Association two-bedroom units. coiting in-excess of $1,000,000, are scheduled to The person or persons who entered Precision , "That kind of pride should be cheriihed and Cousins, noting he tried to avoid the ap-,be constructed, i reported missing, supervised the overall effect, marchirif; and A substantially larger haul was realized by Polymers at 1136 Rt, 22, site of.the third crime, preserved by careful attention" to the basic (Continued on pint 2) "This must be the year when Mountainside services that attract people who share the maneuvering, showmanship, music and sub- thieves who broke into the Halfway House apparently did not get any valuables but did stained performance. elects Frank P, QagHano and Albert W, take the opportunity for a nighttime jnack. same commitment to their community. The D'Amanda to Borough Council to be sure that restaurant, located at 1243 Rt, 22, sometime The Highlander Band Parenta Organization between 2:30 and 9:30 a.m. last Thursday and Police, called to the office at 8:45 a.m., said it Republican Party has helped create the at- our tax dollars are carefully watched. This mosphere in which this kind of individual pride this week also reminded their "supporters of ' Blood drive slated made off with the contents of a safe. had been entered by. breaking a window; their monthly aluminum drive on Saturday, 8 to must also be the year when Steven J, Susiko is although nothing appeared to have been stolen, can develop and we mean to preserve it, elected in the position of tax collector to be sure Police were unable to give fl final report on noon, at the rear of the school and also the the exact amount of money taken, laying only the contents of two bottles of liquor and a can of "We see our duties structured to lerve all "Pageant of Champions" on Sunday, also at the by Red Cross unit; that our taxes are fairly apportioned and fruit cocktail had been consumed. citizens in town and that is the way we will collected, it was "a substantial sum," It reportedly in- school.