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Monday, January 28, 2013

Full-Time Mayorship a 'Bold Move for Bloomingdale,' Mayor Says

Council voted to approve Jonathan Dunleavy taking on administrative responsibilities.

In a 4-2 vote, the Bloomingdale Council approved expanding the mayor's position to a full-time role Monday morning. The council unanimously voted in favor of Jonathan Dunleavy serving in that role. Both council Republicans, Councilwoman Linda Shortman and Councilman Mark Conklin, were not in favor of the new mayoral structure, but lauded Dunleavy for the work he has done assuming administrative responsibilities and said they support him. Discussion on full-time mayorship had been tabled since Tuesday when Borough Attorney Fred Semrau had advised the council to hold off on voting on the change, unprecedented for Bloomingdale, while he looked into legal concerns raised by former Councilwoman Linda Huntley during a public hearing on the …

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Bloomingdale Borough Hall, Full-Time Mayorship Tabled for Legal Review, Bloomingdale Police Department, and 4 more ›

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Rich Dellaripa

12:10 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The $82,000 salary is for a Mayor serving full time. A part time Mayor's salary is $2,000.   more ›

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Councilwoman Questions Mayoral Committee Creation

Yazdi appointed 2012 Budget Committee chairman.

Bloomingdale Mayor Jonathan Dunleavy and the borough council finalized many of the borough's committees for the coming year at the council's reorganization meeting Tuesday. But despite the mayor’s suggestions, not every one of his committee recommendations went without questions from some of the council’s members. A heavily-debated committee on Tuesday night was Dunleavy’s proposed Ordinance Review Committee. Councilwoman Linda Shortman spoke out in opposition to the committee as a whole, calling it an unnecessary and costly step that would be better left in the hands of paid professionals who specialize in creating zoning ordinances. “You could work a lifetime and you won’t fix Bloomingdale’s zoning ordinances. I think it’s a professional…

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Bloomingdale Borough Hall

Ann

7:41 pm on Thursday, January 5, 2012

There's a puzzling sentence in the Patch article: "Councilwoman Linda Shortman spoke out in opposition to the committee...calling it a...costly step that would be better left in the hands of paid professionals". Is it more costly for volunteers to give their time to revising ordinances or to pay professionals? Talking of saving money yet showing an eagerness to instead pay professionals in the …   more ›

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