After a little more than two months, Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh says he will most likely recommend that Interim Business Administrator Robert Hary be appointed to take over the job.
Hsueh said he plans to officially make the recommendation to the Township Council “very soon,” and that it will happen within the next few weeks.
“I think he’s coming along nicely, and very smoothly,” Hsueh said about Hary’s performance on the job during the three months he has been there.
Hary has been serving as the interim Business Administrator since Chris Marion ended his tenure in June. Marion announced his resignation in May, on the heels of a tough budget season that saw accusations fly regarding an analysis of Council President Charles Morgan’s budget proposal. Marion, who has accepted the township manager position in Scotch Plains, however, said the move was simply to further his career. When Marion was hired in 2004, he brought stability to a position that had previously seen four administrators in six years.
Up until his appointment as the interim business administrator, Hary served as the township’s director of Health and Human Services.
The business administrator, by law, is the mayor’s appointee, but Hsueh says he has been looking for input from individual council members. If Hary is appointed as the business administrator, Hsueh says he will then look at reorganizing the Department of Health to fill Hary’s shoes.
