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Tenafly superintendent says business office reorganizing; public questions salary increases for new assistant roles
Summary
A resident asked why newly posted assistant business administrator roles show higher salaries than prior incumbents. The superintendent described a restructuring to improve budget predictability and to support management of a $76 million referendum, and said overall central office staffing will remain unchanged.
A Tenafly resident pressed the board about higher salaries for two newly posted assistant business administrator positions, and the superintendent responded that the district is restructuring the business office to improve budget oversight and to support management of its $76,000,000 referendum.
Resident Jody Friedman said she was following up on a prior question about the assistant business administrator roles: last June the district appointed assistants at about $74,000 and $110,000, she said, and those two positions resigned in December. The new listings at the meeting showed assistant business administrator roles with salaries of roughly $140,000 and $110,000, she said, and asked whether the positions were new, replacements or where the money would come from.
Superintendent Mike (identified in the meeting as the district superintendent) replied that the district is restructuring the business office as part of a broader initiative to improve interdepartmental communication, budgeting predictability and accountability, and to integrate new financial software for real-time data access. The superintendent said the work will also expand transportation capabilities to offset rising costs for out-of-district placements, athletics and extracurricular activities, and that managing the district's $76,000,000 referendum will require additional experienced oversight and certification in the short and intermediate term.
The superintendent said the total number of staff in the business office will remain unchanged and that salary increases for new roles will be fully offset by reductions elsewhere in the central office, making the central office budget "positive to neutral" year over year, according to his statement in the meeting.
The transcript does not include hiring motions or a formal personnel vote on the new assistant roles during this meeting. The resident's question and the superintendent's response were part of the public comment and the subsequent administrative reply recorded in the meeting transcript.
