Top Hoboken City Admin Leaving For Mahwah Job: Officials

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken’s business administrator will soon be leaving the Mile Square City to take the helm in Mahwah, officials say.

Hoboken Business Administrator Quentin Wiest will be moving on from Hoboken to “take a position as business administrator closer to his home in northern New Jersey,” city officials announced earlier this month.

His last day in Hoboken will be Oct. 13, officials said.

As of 2015, Wiest was one of the city’s highest paid employees at $161,500, according to municipal records.

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Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer appointed Municipal Manager Stephen Marks, who has “worked closely” with Wiest, as the city’s new business administrator, officials stated.

“I thank Quentin Wiest for his incredible service to Hoboken,” Zimmer said. “Working together as a team along with Stephen Marks, we achieved an AA+ bond rating, stabilized municipal taxes, adopted fiscally sound budgets and advanced important infrastructure projects including upgrading water mains, creating new resiliency parks, repaving more than a fifth of our roads and moving ahead with the repaving and revitalization of Washington Street this fall. I wish Quentin the very best and am proud to appoint Stephen Marks as our new business administrator.”

Mahwah Council President John Roth said Wiest is an "extraordinary qualified candidate."

He was a councilman in Ridgewood from 1980 to 1992, including a four-year stint as mayor from 1986 to 1990. He presided over the formation of Ridgewood Water, and has an engineering degree from the University of Michigan.

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