N.B. selects new head of school business
Amy Gallagher is the current administrator in Piscataway
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer

NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township school board named Amy Gallagher as the new business administrator at a special meeting on Monday.

Gallagher is the current business administrator in Piscataway. She is a certified public accountant and has worked for auditors and an auditing firm. She was a senior manager at Ernst & Young, where she worked for seven years, and she spent two years in Piscataway, responsible for a budget of over $100 million.

"She is well-rounded from the management side, from the fiscal side, from the auditing side, and she is tremendous from the business side with the well-run budget in Piscataway," North Brunswick Superintendent of Schools Brian Zychowski said.

Zychowski said there were two different searches conducted over the past eight months, and Gallagher went through four rounds of interviews. He said she "personified the balance of a manager" and fit the criteria for the financial side.

Gallagher gave her 60 days' notice to Piscataway, and Zychowski said she will begin in North Brunswick as soon as her former employer can find a replacement. In the meantime, he said she will begin to work with current interim business administrator James Riehman.

Zychowski said that since Riehman is retired and was hired by North Brunswick as an interim business administrator when Marshall Sigall left in 2007, due to state pension laws he can only be re-employed for a 24-month period. Zychowski said officials did not want to have to find a replacement in the middle of the budget season next March when Riehman would have to resign, so they named Gallagher to the position now.

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