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School Board Begins Hunt For New Superintendent, Business Administrator
By Catherine Galioto
The acting business administrator is now the acting superintendent of the Brick Township School District.
Melindo Persi will serve as the interim superintendent after Thomas Seidenberger leaves the post for a Pennsylvania school district later this summer.
At the board of education meeting on June 19, Dr. Seidenberger resigned as Superintendent. The BOE appointed Persi as the interim superintendent.
Persi currently serves as the interim business administrator, too. The top positions of superintendent and business administrator are now both vacant, with Persi temporarily serving in both roles.
Soon, Board of Education President Brian DeLuca said, the district will have five finalists for the business administrator replacement.
The business administrator's post has been in question since last fall, when Nicholas Puleio, business administrator and board secretary for the Brick school district, received a state appointment as the fiscal monitor to the Camden school system. The district has been seeking a replacement since.
Now, with Seidenberger's departure, the district will begin searching for a new superintendent.
DeLuca said Seidenberger left to be reunited with his family at their home in Pennsylvania. Seidenberger had to commute and lived in an apartment near his job in Brick in order to carry out his superintendent duties. His new job in East Penn school district as superintendent will allow him to be with his family more, DeLuca said.
Persi will assume Seidenberger's duties until the business administrator and superintendent replacements are named. A new business administrator should be named before the superintendent finalists are named, DeLuca said.
Persi has worked for several school disstill tricts, including as Acting NJ Assistant Commissioner of Education, and led the state takeover of the Paterson School District.
In other business, DeLuca said the district has no plans to change its school opening and closing times for the coming school year. Though the district is investigating and may change bus routes and stops, there isn't enough time to change start and end times, he said. Because it would require more time to effectively educate all parents to the change, the district may push it back another year.
In addition, a roofing project will be underway this summer. Last winter, a roof leak closed the high school for a day, and though it has been fixed, the entire roof will now be repaired. DeLuca said building materials have already arrived and construction will end in time for the first day back to school.
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