PARSIPPANY — As reported in NJ Globe, Keith Kazmark, Democratic Mayor of Woodland Park, appointment as Business Administrator will be announced during Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Council meeting on Tuesday, September 25. He is expected to start on October 1.
Soriano will submit Kazmark’s name to the council for confirmation and will need three votes to move the appointment forward. Members of the Township Council are: Council President Paul Carifi, Jr. (R); Councilman Michael dePierro (R), Councilwoman Loretta Gragani (R), Council Vice President Janice McCarthy (D) and Councilwoman Emily Peterson (D).
Kazmark stepped down as the Elmwood Park Business Administrator and Municipal Clerk on August 31 after twelve years.
He was elected mayor of Woodland Park in 2011 after serving as council president.
He had originally been named to the Elmwood Park post by Mayor Richard Mola, a Republican who had been mayor for 45 years before his death in 2016.
The current business administrator, Ellen Sandman, announced her intention to retire on December 1. She will remain on the town payroll under the end of the year to assistant with the transition. Parsippany Focus has previously reported that Sandman will seek the GOP nomination for Mayor of Denville in 2019.
Soriano was elected mayor in 2017, ousting incumbent James Barberio.
Sandman was appointed by Former Mayor James Barberio to serve as Parsippany’s Business Administrator on June 16, 2014. Prior to joining Parsippany she was employed at Mendham Borough, where she held the same title for the previous six years, and in Denville for 22 years before that; she also served for five years as Assistant Business Administrator in Jersey City.
