Email sent to BOE Trustees Licata and Nardino

Subject: Controversial employment arrangement
Date: 09/17/15 11:38:55 PM
From: "ryan curioni" <rcurioni@optonline.net>
To: joe.licata@bgcoflodi.org

Dear Mr. Nardino and Mr. Licata,

Can you please explain why it would appropriate for two Lodi Board of Education Trustees to use a school employee during the school day to generate money for their employer? Can you please justify why the Lodi taxpayers should pay that employee for the days he is working for you at the Club?

Is it appropriate that you are technically Jamie Ciofalo’s boss and he is technically yours?

Is it appropriate that one of highest paid administrators in the district was out of school at least 41 days and 44 days during the last two school years? With that many days out, why would he be given an additional title this year, “Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction”?

Since posting the below information on Tuesday, tips have been pouring in and people are angry.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2015/09/theft-of-time-lodi-taxpayers-paid.html

If you can defend what is taking place, please email me a response and I will gladly post it.

Thank you. Have a good weekend.

Ryan Curioni

Theft of time! Lodi taxpayers paid Ciofalo for his days at the Licata Club.

Jamie Ciofalo had a reported 44 days out last school year.  He did this at a time when Lodi was failing its QSAC review and Lodi’s ranking fell below Passaic High School.

Link to JC attendance records:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/281211757/Jamie-Ciofalo-Attendance-records

Jamie Ciofalo was never docked for all of those days spent at the Lodi Boys and Girls Club organized by the corrupt Board President Joe Licata.  Not one day is listed as “dock/Unpaid day”.  How can you have a balance of -18 “Other” days used as absences and not be docked?  What type of BOE members would want an employee of a struggling school not to show up? 

Ciofalo’s contract doesn’t allow for what he did at the Club.  Professional development days are for when an employee attends an occasional workshop or seminar that is supposed to make them better at their jobs.  That is not was Ciofalo did.  During school days, he was generating money for the Nardino/Licata Club, the Ciofalo/Licata “nonprofit” located at Licata’s home address, and friends and business associates of Ciofalo that were also presenting.

The taxpayers of Lodi were paying Ciofalo to work in our schools.  And he was working for Licata and Nardino.  Ciofalo and Licata better pay back the Lodi taxpayers and submit their resignations.

BOE Trustee Nardino was using a school employee to generate money for the Club that pays him well into the six figures.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2015/05/its-time-for-lodi-boys-and-girls-club.html

BOE President Licata was using a school employee to generate money for the Club that pays him so much, he refuses to disclose his compensation.  He refuses to open the Club's books to the public.

Remember these posts:

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2014/09/supervising-guidance-should-be-top.html

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2014/11/lodi-has-school-this-friday-also-on.html

Ciofalo was paid by the Lodi BOE for all those days.

Attention Board Office: Don’t alter Jamie Ciofalo’s attendance records!

The public will eventually see Ciofalo’s attendance records.  They are definitely subject to public access. 
 

Ciofalo spent too many school days at the Lodi Boys and Girls Club with Joe Licata and Mike Nardino while the taxpayers of Lodi were paying him to run the guidance department.

It will be very interesting to see what reason was used for each of those absences.  Jamie Ciofalo’s last contract is listed below (shows two personal days).

http://www.perc.state.nj.us/publicsectorcontracts.nsf/Contracts%20By%20Employer/A3F3A1EF3B760BF485257A320050EA85/$File/Lodi%20BE%20and%20Lodi%20Admin%20Assn%202012.pdf?OpenElement

Being the Board initially and wrongfully denied access, it certainly appears they  have something to hide.  I hope they don't get so desperate that they try to alter his records before they go public.