Running for the Tinton Falls Board of Education

Friends of Tinton Falls,

As a borough resident of nine years, involved parent to a daughter and son at Atchison School, Chairman of nonpartisan grassroots group Neighbors Opposed to Privatization at Earle (NOPE), and in my third year as a volunteer coach in the rec program, I firmly believe in serving the Tinton Falls community and am running for one of three seats on the Board of Education.

On these merits, I ask for your support in Tuesday's (April 20) BOE election (line 3) and that you refer me to friends and relatives in Tinton Falls; but even if your votes go elsewhere, please be sure to support our children by voting in favor of a 2010-11 budget that, after attending the three BOE budget meetings in March, is fiscally responsible and serves our kids well.

My approach as a prospective BOE member will focus on being professional, respectful and open-minded, much like my chairmanship of NOPE, which (contrary to widespread opinion), through grassroots efforts, practicality and hard work gained bipartisan support up to the U.S. Senate and has succeeded on our community's behalf. No other candidates can lay claim to potentially saving Tinton Falls from a hundreds-million-dollar unfunded mandate that would have stemmed from civilian housing at NWS Earle. The outcome was far more optimistic than when I attended my first BOE meeting back in late-2007.

From this experience, I view myself as a worthy complement to a Board that performs a tremendous service and sacrifices countless hours to the benefit of the kids of our borough, and offer fresh perspective regarding how we can better lead Tinton Falls within the context of ludicrous state funding cuts and insufficient federal impact aid for military dependents, whom we embrace in our community but are grossly underfunded by the federal government to educate.

I invite you to visit my LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/billholobowski) for more on my professional background and invite any return comments or questions by email or phone. Otherwise, I am open to meeting one-on-one with community or neighborhood groups (if you are a part of one), but will not engage in, for lack of a better term, a "political campaign."

Again, please forward this to your Tinton Falls contacts, and get out and vote on April 20.

Kind regards,
Bill Holobowski
56 Neville Street, 07724
C: 732.322.0130
H: 732.544.8595