TRR photo by David Hulse Lumberland Town Clerk Christina Bodnaruik, right, and her successor Virginia Horn are pictured at the town board’s March 13 meeting. (Click for larger image)

Lumberland clerk Bodnaruik resigns

By DAVID HULSE

GLEN SPEY — A mainstay in town government for more than two decades, Lumberland Town Clerk Christina “Tina” Bodnaruik announced her resignation on March 13.

Bodnaruik joined the town in 1978 as a data collector in the assessor’s office, ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for clerk in 1980, and was appointed to the position in February when Jane Frey resigned only weeks into her first term.

Since then, Bodnaruik has been a strong incumbent vote-getter in a town with a heavy Republican majority among registered voters.

Supervisor John LiGreci said Bodnaruik is “the best at what she does,” and has made “my work and that of my predecessors easier than it should have been. She’s gone far beyond what she’s had to do and she’ll never be forgotten here.”

Bodnaruik, who had planned to leave office at the end of her term, said she decided to move her plans up. “It’s been a pleasure to work here these many years. My family is spread out, out of town, so the town itself has become my family and I think of you all as my family and friends,” she told the town board meeting audience.

Several appointments were made to fill Bodnaruik’s various roles. Her successor, Virginia Horn, a Glen Spey Republican was named deputy to Bodnaruik through the end of the month and as Town Clerk and Registrar of Vital Statistics as of March 31.

Horn is secretary of the Lumberland Republican Club, and is not new to politics. She has also served as secretary-treasurer of the Sparrowbush Fire District.

Judy Busch was appointed Assistant Assessor, filling another of Bodnaruik’s roles.

In other business the Board scheduled public hearings, during their April 10 meeting, for proposed local laws to reschedule Grievance Day and to amend zoning to include language to regulate campgrounds.

They also approved a three-year $33,472 lease acquisition of a new four-wheel drive Constables’ patrol vehicle, and the $1,973 purchase of a laptop computer for the assessor’s office.