Bedminster Interim Superintendent Contract Extended

The Bedminster Township School District has extended a contract with interim superintendent Ron Bolandi through March 22.

Bolandi was appointed as interim superintendent at a special meeting Feb. 27 to work in the district while superintendent Carolyn Koos is out on sick leave.

Bolandi was originally appointed to serve the district until March 8.

According to the contract, Bolandi will continue to receive $520 per day for the duration of his time in Bedminster.

Board of education president Louis Casella said they are currently unsure of when Koos will return. She has been out on sick leave for the past three weeks.

 “The dollars we are spending [on Bolandi] are very valuable and we had no choice [but to appoint someone],” Casella said. “Ron has been very helpful.”

“We wish this didn’t take place, but we are dealing with the situation,” he added.

Casella said they still cannot release information about Koos’s condition because of health privacy laws, but would provide what they could when they could.

Bolandi is a retired superintendent from East Windsor Regional School District, having spent 20 years there as superintendent until 2010. A resident of Readington, he has also served as an interim in Edison and other districts, and has a very strong financial background.

Bolandi said he was a business administrator in a district, and has worked on many budgets in many different districts.

Bolandi has been putting most of his focus on the budget since his appointment.