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Pam Borghi Named Borough Clerk In Red Bank
By John Burton
RED BANK - The Borough Council named its new borough clerk, giving the nod to someone who has been doing the job since last summer.
The council on Monday voted 5-0 to name Pam Borghi to the permanent position of borough clerk. Borghi had been deputy clerk since Jan. 2009, and had been serving as an acting clerk since Aug. 2009, when then clerk, Carol Vivona, retired.
Mayor Pasquale Menna offered his support for Borghi's appointment, telling the council and audience it was, "extremely heartwarming to be able to make this appointment," naming, "one of our own."
Menna said it was his pleasure to, "appoint a longstanding employee," to the post.
Borghi started with the borough in 1993, as a part-time employee. She has worked for the borough as a secretary and as the borough's public information officer. She then obtained the necessary certification to serve as the borough's registrar, according to Menna and Borghi.
Before working for the municipality, Borghi was a reporter for The Courier, a now-defunct community weekly newspaper in Middletown.
"You've worked up the ladder," Menna told her.
The clerk and her office serve as the secretary for the municipal corporation and secretary for the governing body, the six-member borough council. In addition, the clerk is responsible for the coordination and management of public records, administrator for all elections held in the municipality and the compilation of agendas for the borough council's public meetings.
She also is responsible for the official minutes of borough meetings, and for addressing requests and questions posed by the public, according to information posted on the municipality's Web site.
As the certified registrar, "She will be able to do two jobs, basically for the price of one," observed Councilman Michael R. DuPont, who serves as the council's finance committee chairman.
Borghi's salary for this position will be $58,000, marking a $10,000 increase for the added responsibility, Menna said.
"Thank you for having faith in me," Borhi told officials after her swearing in.
In the last four months, the personnel and finance committees interviewed approximately 20 candidates for the position, before making the final selection, Menna said.
