Knowledge is power
With the assembly of a new NJ State PBA Education Committee,
members are offered classes to smarten up on the job
n BY AMBER RAMUNDO
The educated member is the strongest
member.
The moment that statement came
from Barnegat Township Local 296
State Delegate Chris Ebert, Joe Dudley
couldn’t get it out of his head.
That simple statement embodied ev-
ery reason why Dunellen Local 146 State
Delegate Dudley felt so strongly about
establishing the NJ State PBA Education
Committee. It’s the reason that when
Dudley noticed that the committee was
listed as “vacant” on the NJ State PBA
website, he decided to pitch to NJ State
PBA President Pat Colligan the idea of
launching a new course list designed
specifically to strengthen members and
their Locals.
“That statement radiates to the en-
tire reason we’re doing this program,”
Dudley urges. “I would like to see us
offer our members the absolute most
amount of information that we can give
them to make each one of their Locals
that much stronger.”
Soon after Dudley shared his ideas
about broadening the education op-
portunities available within the PBA
– beyond the QuickBooks and Book-
keeping courses that had already been
successful – Colligan appointed Dudley
to chair the program and gave him the
green light to start building the com-
mittee.
“There was a core group that initially
made up the committee, and then there
were people that were asked along the
way to join for very specific reasons,”
Dudley notes.
From the start, Dudley knew that the
Education Committee should include
Passaic City Local 14 State Delegate
Mauro Farallo and Montclair Local 53
State Delegate Joe Savittieri, who both
have valuable experience leading the
PBA’s New Presidents and New Dele-
gates committees. Not only did Farallo
and Savittieri have instructional prac-
tice, but Dudley knew that they would
bring a combined knowledge that
PBA members engage in a training course offered by the Education Committee.
Education Committee Members:
Joe Dudley, Dunellen Local 146
Christopher Ebert, Barnegat Township Local 296
Mauro Farallo, Passaic City Local 14
Steven Maslowski, Sayreville Local 98
Michael Michalski, Holmdel Local 239
Jesse Robertazzi, Toms River Local 137
Joe Savittieri, Montclair Local 53
Eric Serio, Essex County Prosecutors Local 325
Vittorio Spadea, Somerville Local 147
Kamiiko Woods, Irvington Local 29
would manifest the “Executive Board
Cross Training” class held on May 15
that explained the distinct role of all Lo-
cal executive board positions.
“We think it’s in the best interest of
the Local that all the executive board
members are aware of what each other’s
responsibilities are,” states Savittieri,
who served 14 years as the president of
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