Meet Your New School Board Members

While voters opted mostly for experience in Wednesday's school election, re-electing incumbents Sheila Criscione and Joanne Bergmann, they also chose two candidates with strong financial backgrounds as the newest members of the Board of Education.

William Holzmann, a financial officer for the Hertz Corporation, and Jeffrey Warren, a controller for the Sealed Air Corporation, will be the newest faces on the Board of Education.

Holzmann beat out Jacqueline Reuveni for a three-year term on the Board, and argued for the district to find ways to measure success and to approach the budget with the goal of a zero tax increase. 

"It is in many ways a business," Holzmann said. "You've got to justify your costs and you can't gloss over things. You have to be into every detail."

Warren has said he'd take a similar approach to the budget. He edged Fred Rohdieck to win the unexpired two-year term of Ace Antonio.

Both Warren and Holzmann likely claimed the baseball vote in Wednesday's race. Warren is on the executive board of the Paramus Junior Baseball League and is a past president. Holzmann and Warren are both longtime coaches in the baseball and recreation leagues of Paramus.

For Warren, the Board of Education is another way of helping Paramus kids succeed.

"This seems to be like a next step for me in terms of being involved in youth," he said.