By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
The state is sending a fiscal monitor into the Asbury Park school district.
According to NJ Department of Education representative Richard Vespucci, the monitor will be installed in the near future.
Vespucci said the monitor will have veto power regarding financial decisions in the district.
The move is being made due to several repeated deficiencies in the districts annual audits.
When year-to-year there are repeated problems with fiscal issues and the deficiencies are not being adequately addressed, the commissioner of education has the authority to step in, Vespucci said.
Two recent examples of a fiscal monitor being placed in a district are Pleasantville, in July and Paterson in February. Willingboro, Camden and Irvington also have fiscal monitors.
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