Residents burst into applause Monday after the City Council unanimously approved hiring Ulrich H. Steinberg as chief financial officer.
The resolution authorizing the mayor to "execute an Employment Agreement" also included a residency waiver for Steinberg, who lives in Frenchtown.
A look around the interwebs turned up the fact that Steinberg once headed the state Division of Local Government Services, the agency to which all municipalities must answer for their fiscal practices. He is listed as CFO for both Marlboro Township and Bethlehem Township and Plaintalker is currently inquiring whether he will now be full-time in Plainfield or not. Update: Mayor Adrian O. Mapp says Steinberg will be full-time beginning in mid-April.
The city has relied for nearly two years on Glenn Cullen, the CFO and business administrator of South Plainfield, to spare the city a few hours per week of his expertise. Until Peter Sepelya retired in 2007, the city always had a full-time, in-house CFO. For long periods of time during the administration of former Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, the city had no CFO at all (see post here). The mayor and council dodged the state threat of daily personal fines in 2010 by hiring Ron Zilinski as CFO (story here).
After Zilinski left at the beginning of 2012, the city hired Cullen at $800 for five to seven hours per week. (post here).
The new agreement appears to assure the presence of a CFO through Mayor Adrian O. Mapp's four-year term, a degree of stability the city has lacked since Sepelya retired in 2007.
--Bernice
Wha happened with the Deputy Police Director position? It sickens me that the mayor is caving to the thugs at the head of the PBA. I know that 90% of the officers dont want anything to do with politics or Mike Gilliam. Just check his background. Well, he is in charge of Admin Unit now so he probably pulled an "Oliver North" shred session on his personnel file. I hear that along with wiping out hard drives is a popular thing in that unit!
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