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General News: New Board Begins Work at NYMA
July 20, 2010
On Friday, immediately after the former board finalized a $5.8 million loan agreement that would allow the New York Military Academy to remain open in September, the school’s new board of trustees got right down to work.
Open Enrollment at NYMA
On Saturday, the school began enrolling cadets for the 2010-11 school year and the new board began reaching out to families, alumni and area residents to let them know that the NYMA 2.0 plan to re-structure the school has been set in motion.
Richard Gerlach, one of the alumni who now serves as a trustee, said on Tuesday that he understands that the weekend enrollment went well, although he didn’t have a number of returning students yet. “”It has been an uphill battle,” Gerlach said referring to the effort to find the financing to keep NYMA open. “But we don’t shy away from that and we have a lot of great minds and are not afraid of asking for help.”
A New Board of Trustees Takes Control
Gerlach, a California businessman, will serve on the board along with David Fields, a financier who is the board’s president, Chip Di Lorenzo and Evan Jones, both educators, Michael Rant, an attorney, and local businessmen Wayne Corts and Joseph Bonura, who financed the rescue package along with Peter Chiadello a dentist from Wallkill. John Smith, a Cornwall-on-Hudson resident who served on the former board will keep his seat. Town of Cornwall board member Randy Clark will be a non-voting member of the board. With the exception of Corts, Bonura and Clark, all of the new trustees are alumni of the school.
Gerlach said that Major Jeffrey Coverdale, the former commandant of cadets, is serving as interim superintendent of the school.
Local Support for NYMA's New Mission
One piece of business the new administrators looked into on Monday was an outstanding water bill for more than $94,000, the result of a major water leak on the campus. In a letter to Cornwall-on-Hudson mayor Joseph Gross, the NYMA 2.0 group asked for a reduction of its bill saying the school’s “future success is tied to the new Board’s ability to control costs” and asking the village to assist with the school’s new mission.
Two village residents also asked the village board to stay involved with the NYMA issue. Peter Neuman urged the board to move ahead with its master plan in order to protect the village from unwanted development on a large parcel like the New York Military Academy. Peter Duggan, the chairman of the board of the Storm King School, also called for vigilance on the part of the board and noted the challenges the new school administrators will face in meeting their goals.
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