{"id":11195,"date":"2017-06-27T01:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:26:26","slug":"residents-blast-brick-boes-hiring-procedure-for-new-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/06\/residents-blast-brick-boes-hiring-procedure-for-new-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents Blast Brick BOE’s Hiring Procedure for New Acting Superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dennis Fillippone (center), was selected as the Brick school district\u2019s new interim superintendent June 26, 2017. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>School district officials conceded at a meeting Monday night that there were no advertisements posted nor interviews conducted before selecting a new interim superintendent to lead the district.<\/p>\n

Instead, Board President John Lamela said he and board vice president Stephanie Wohlrab relied on current Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella\u2019s recommendation to promote Dennis Filippone to the position. The board unanimously voted in favor of appointing Filippone to the position, except for members John Barton and Sharon Cantillo, who were forced to abstain.<\/p>\n

Though no one who attended the oft-tense meeting Monday questioned whether Filippone was qualified for the position \u2013 all comments about his skill and character were overwhelmingly positive \u2013 several residents were critical of the process, as well as the fact that Gialanella would be kept on staff in a new role, earning about $66,000 per year for two days of work per week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t pick myself, and I didn\u2019t pick Mr. Fillippone,\u201d said Gialanella. \u201cI gave the board president and the Vice President my recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filippone will be paid the equivalent of $177,500 per year as interim superintendent, while Gialanella will be paid $638.56 per day, for two days of work for the 2017-18 school year. He will not receive paid vacation time of other benefits. The salary would work out to $66,410 if Gialanella works every week of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the board looks long and hard about the precedent that they\u2019re setting,\u201d said resident and former board member Karyn Cusanelli, criticizing the fact that there were no job postings or interviews of other candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?\u201d asked resident Melanie Briggs. \u201cHave you people become your own little clan where you make decisions without the public knowing what\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

George Scott, another resident, was also critical of the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe previous interim superintendent had a doctorate,\u201d he said, referring to Dr. Richard Caldes, who served in the interim role until Gialanella was selected by a newly-elected school board in Feb. 2016. \u201cThere had to be other qualified people. The answer isn\u2019t, \u2018none, I just picked somebody.'\u201d<\/p>\n

Gialanella will take on the title of\u00a0Interim Director of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, the position which Filippone currently occupies. The question was also raised as to whether that job can be properly handled by an employee who only works two days per week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a strain, without a doubt,\u201d Gialanella said.<\/p>\n

Gialanella and Filippone will switch positions July 1. Filippone was appointed to fill the position for one year, and said he has no intention of becoming a permanent superintendent once the contract of Walter Uszenski \u2013 who is facing criminal charges \u2013 runs out June 30, 2018.<\/p>\n

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School district officials conceded at a meeting Monday night that there were no advertisements posted nor interviews conducted before selecting a new interim superintendent to lead the district. Instead, Board President John Lamela said he and board vice president Stephanie Wohlrab relied on current Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella\u2019s recommendation to promote Dennis Filippone to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[2953,1832,1365],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-birck-nj-news","tag-dennis-filippone","tag-interim-superintendent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4120.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}