Lillian Burry will be Freeholder Director in 2017

Freeholder Lillian G. Burry will be named Director of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholder when the Board holds its annual reorganization meeting on January 5 at 4 p.m. at Biotechnology High School, 5000 Kozloski Rd. in Freehold Township.

Freeholder John P. Curly will be named Deputy Director.

The five member Freeholder Board chooses their Director and Deputy Director annually for a one year term.  The Director presides over Board meetings and signs contracts for the county.

During the reorganization meeting the current Director and Deputy Director, Tom Arnone and Serena DiMaso, will be sworn into new three year terms on the Board.  Arnone and DiMaso were reelected in November.

Sheriff Shaun Golden and Surrogate RoseMarie Peters, also having been reelected in November, will likewise be sworn in for their new terms at the meeting.   Golden’s term as Sheriff is for three years.  Peters’ term as Surrogate is five years.

The Freeholders will officially close the books on 2016 at a Sine Die meeting on January 5th at 11 a.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Hall of Records .