Mike Boone and Dominic Ferry are the two candidates running for one seat on the Verona Board of Education on Tuesday, November 7.
To help readers to get to know the candidates, MyVeronaNJ interviewed both separately via Zoom last week. There were four questions that were the same for both the candidates, and another four that were specific to an individual candidate’s background, platform or public positions. You can read each candidate’s response to all eight questions on the pages below, which also include ways to learn more about them on the web and social media.
Both men have been residents of Verona for two decades and both have two children who have gone through, or are still in, Verona’s public schools. Boone, who has had a long career in communications, now leads operations for digital publications and marketing communications at Interpublic Group (IPG), a global advertising and marketing company. [Full disclosure: This reporter worked at The Wall Street Journal when Boone worked there, but we did not work in the same area or country.] Ferry, a native of Belleville, has spent 36 years in Nutley’s Water Department, where he is now assistant superintendent of public works. He also owns his own consulting company.
The Board of Education election is Tuesday, November 7. The candidates are listed on the back side of the mail-in ballot, along with a proposal to increase the amount of Verona’s open space levy to three cents per $100 of assessed value from two cents. The open space trust fund was created in 2019.
Please note, Mike Boone is also an adjunct professor at at Marymount Manhattan and CUNY Graduate school. I think it’s important to note that Mike has been an educator for many years. Mike also has an MBA degree from the university of central florida.
on Tuesday, May 9 ?
No to increase taxes – Open space levy, when Verona has No open spaces – just slops of land and artificial turf fields.
Dominic Ferry’s website is not up and it’s less than a month till election ( or less if you are VBM) How is one to know what he stands for? Of course this interview is helpful, but this and signs alone do not make a candidate. Please put up your website Mr Ferry!
I’m in agreement with E.Brown. Interesting they want to increase the tax without saying why or why they cant exist with what they already collect. Verona is tapped out on open space. Its just another tax in a already high tax town, county and state.