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BOE President Wants 'Cost-Containment' Committee

Lundin: 'We are not sitting there throwing money around. We are wisely watching your dollars.'

President Cliff Lundin said Wednesday he wants Hopatcong to know the Board of Education isn't wasting money.

So, Lundin said at a joint special meeting between the school board and the borough council, during which the council voted to cut the school district's $36 million proposed budget $225,000, that he wants the Board of Education to create a "cost-containment" committee.

Lundin said the committee would "document everything that we investigated to, in fact, cut costs and put them on our (website) with reports," he said. "(We want) to let people know we are not sitting there throwing money around. We are wisely watching your dollars."

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Mayor Sylvia Petillo said she commended the idea.

"Although they're doing it, people aren't that close to the board. So they don't think (the school board) is looking at anything other than the classroom. That's not true," Petillo said. "There is an overall area outside of the teachers and the classrooms that they have been looking at. But the information hasn't been getting out. So when they put the committe together, you'll be able to go through each of these issues just so all that misinformation that's out there isn't the only information is out there."

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