Thursday, March 21, 2013
The announcement was made in a statement Thursday. Weinstein did not attend.
Haddonfield Board of Education President Steve Weinstein is stepping down as president but remaining on the board, school Superintendent Richard Perry announced during a board meeting Thursday. In a statement, Weinstein cited time constraints of a new position as general counsel of Rowan University with not providing enough time to continue as president. He said he will remain on the board until his term ends at the end of this year. Perry read a statement from Weinstein into the minutes of the meeting. Weinstein was on vacation and not at the meeting. Weinstein, 67, an attorney, was hired as the general counsel of Rowan University last fall. The university is expanding rapidly into a medical research school in collaboration with Cooper …
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Haddonfield school board president was appointed to a major position at Rowan University.
Steve Weinstein, a Haddonfield attorney who also serves as the president of the borough school board, will make $300,000 per year in his new position as vice president for governmental relations and general counsel for Rowan University. Weinstein will be one of the university's highest-paid employees. Rowan President Ali Houshmand makes $375,000 per year. During an interview with Patch last week, Weinstein declined to discuss his Rowan salary, but university spokesman Joe Cardona provided the information Monday at Patch's request. Weinstein, 66, will leave his position as partner with the law firm Florio Perrucci Steinhardt and Fader to take the job, which he started last week. "I believe Rowan will be the primary economic driver in …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The cut was announced at a special meeting Tuesday.
The Haddonfield school board Tuesday slashed $4.3 million off the $16.8 million purchase and development price for the Bancroft property. The price was reduced by cutting $800,000 for the installation of an artificial turf field for the high-school football stadium and the addition of an anticipated $3.5 million of state, county and municipal grant and open-space money. The high-school turf was taken out of the proposal after a borough citizens group raised $600,000 toward the $1 million cost to resurface the stadium field and an adjacent one. It reduced the cost of the project to $12.5 million, about a third of the original $32.3 million for the public purchase and development of Bancroft rolled out a year ago. Despite the reductions, …
Monday, November 26, 2012
The inclusion of turf funding has drawn public criticism.
Haddonfield Board of Education President Steve Weinstein said Monday that $800,000 for the installation of artificial turf at the high school football stadium will likely be taken out of the $16.8 million bond referendum for the Bancroft property purchase. The funds will be removed because a private-public initiative to turf the field has raised $600,000. The BOE and the borough agreed over the summer to pay the balance of just more than $1 million needed to install turf at the stadium, and an adjacent practice field, if the private fundraising reached its goal. It exceeded its goal by $100,000. The Bancroft purchase will still likely contain $1 million for an additional artificial turf field, Weinstein said. The construction of the …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Commissioners, school board members and other borough officials answer residents' concerns at annual Haddonfield Civic Association "town hall" meeting
Leaf pick up, the Brandywine retirement home expansion and copper gutter thievery were on the minds of about 40 borough residents who attended the Haddonfield Civic Association’s annual “town hall” meeting Thursday night at borough hall. The association is aptly named. Civility ruled the night, even though some of the most contentious issues facing the borough, namely, the proposed Bancroft purchase and installation of artificial turf fields, were specifically designated to be discussed for fully half of the meeting. The meeting format allowed people to submit questions and have them answered by the appropriate borough official in a calm and careful way. “This format allows people to have a voice and to have a thoughtful, non-emotional …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
In separate meetings Tuesday, both boards approved the $12.2 million sale.
The borough Board of Education and Board of Commissioners, in separate meetings Tuesday, approved an agreement of sale to purchase the 19-acre Bancroft property on Kings Highway East for $12.2 million. Both meetings were sparsely attended, with less than 10 people at each, but still produced some pointed questions about the Bancroft purchase, part of a $16.9 million bond referendum in January to buy and redevelop the parcel adjacent to Haddonfield Memorial High School. Sherry Gallagher, a Chews Landing Road resident, pressed school board President Steve Weinstein about an appraisal of the property that placed its value at $15.1 million. That amount nearly doubled an $8 million appraisal in 2005. "I think the appraiser used a failed …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The agreement of sale is the last step before a nearly $17 million bond referendum in January.
The Haddonfield Board of Education is set to vote Tuesday on an agreement of sale to buy the 19-acre Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. The vote is scheduled in a special meeting at the borough middle school at 6 p.m. The BOE and the borough have entered an agreement of sale with Bancroft after a decade of public debate. The parcel is seen by many as an oasis of possibilities in this nearly built-out, 300-year-old town. The public purchase of the land will allow a kind of manifest destiny to annex it to the adjacent Haddonfield Memorial High School campus and preserve parts of it for open space. The public purchase option was among three presented to borough residents last year after another in a series of exhaustive planning studies…
Friday, October 5, 2012
A Haddonfield BOE appraisal released Thursday values Bancroft property at $15.1 million.
A new appraisal of the Bancroft property released Thursday values the 19.2-acre parcel at $15.1 million, nearly twice the $8 million value of a 2005 appraisal. The Haddonfield Board of Education and the borough have agreed to buy the property for $12.2 million, part of a $16.8-million bond referendum on the ballot in January. Board President Steve Weinstein said Friday the increase in value of the property was justified by the certified appraiser, Harry Renwick, because of a difference in zoning of the property now than in 2005, and a higher demand for institutional property acquisition and development. The 2005 appraisal limited the use to half-acre lots and a limited number of houses. Still, critics of the process remain skeptical. "I …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Haddonfield BOE president spoke after meeting behind closed doors with borough commissioners last week.
School Board President Steve Weinstein said he's still optimistic about a deal for a public purchase of the Bancroft property. "I think the door will open soon," Weinstein said last week after leaving a closed-door meeting with borough commissioners. "I wouldn't still be talking to people if I wasn't optimistic. "When we have something to say, we will say it. If we believe we have a deal, we will have multiple public sessions to get input from the public. When there's a deal." School and borough officials have only discussed Bancroft in closed-door, executive sessions in public meetings since February. That's when Weinstein, Ed Borden, one of three borough commissioners, Borough Administrator Sharon McCullough and schools Superintendent …
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Turf Field Committee has until 2014 to raise $500K.
The Haddonfield Board of Education plowed through a long agenda Thursday that included a report by board member Dennis Kelleher on the Turf Field Committee’s efforts to raise money for new artificial turf at two fields at Haddonfield Memorial High School. A recent fundraiser featuring a barbecue and golf tournament at Tavistock Country Club raised approximately $25,000 toward the just over $1 million needed to install new turf, Kelleher said. “It was really a tremendous thing, a family event. There were about 400 people there (at Tavistock). The turf committee is aiming to raise $500,000 to $600,000 for this project and I think they’ll do that if this event was any indication of all the interest and excitement in the community.” Borough …
Susan Hoch MD
5:44 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
I will consider contributing to raise money for technology but I don't play golf. Of course I know that other districts are struggling. Do you know how Camden is doing with this, for example? You seem confused. I know what published costs of yearly maintenance for turf fields are and they are not $2500 which is the figure Weinstein gave me in public. And for Anniversary Field, adjacent to trees … more ›