Part-Time Facility Monitors OK'd for Central, Mendham High Schools

Both West Morris Central and Mendham High Schools will head into the new school year with second facility monitors after the board of education approved the pay rates of two men at a meeting this week.

The board approved a part-time Safety and Security Monitor, Richard Hollender, at Mendham High School at a salary of $25,000 for the school year. Hollender will join a senior resource officer that patrols the school as a joint effort between the district and Mendham Borough Police Department.

Hollender’s position was recently created and will have him on site for five hours per day for the 180 school day calendar.

At Central, John Notte will return as a part-time facility monitor, also working up to five hours per day for each of the 180 school days. Notte’s pay comes at $20 per hour.

This was the second vote for Notte, now entering his fifth year as a facility monitor, after a July motion only garnered four yes votes to bring him back. All personnel votes require at least five yeses, and the July meeting did not have a full nine-member board on hand.

At that meeting the board approved the $40,000 salary for Tim Smarth, a full time facility monitor at West Morris Central now entering his first full school year. 

Notte’s pay has decreased significantly from when he was first hired and was earning $35 per hour.