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County Again Orders BOE to Rescind Seitz Contract

The second notification since November.

Morris County Superintendent Kathleen Serafino last week issued another letter to the Parsippany-Troy Hills Board of Education ordering them to rescind the

Board member Andrew Choffo said that although he hadn't seen the letter, another member told him it appeared to be identical to a letter Serafino sent in November, except with a different date.

In November, the BOE approved a five-year-contract for Seitz that exceeds the state salary cap of $175,000 for a administrators in districts the size of Parsippany.

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Earlier this month, the district  although the contract is the subject of a legal dispute between the township and the state. The state contends it's not valid because Serafino never authorized it. The BOE claims she approved via e-mail, then backed off of signing it.

Although board attorney Mark Tabakin said at a December board meeting that the district could lose state aid for defying state and county orders, Choffo did not believe that would happen.

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"There's a funding formula for state aid. They can't withold it as a punitive measure,'' he said.

If that did happen, he estimated it would be a protracted process, subject to legal challenges and wouldn't be enacted immediately.


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