Burlington County College fills board of trustees

Burlington County College's board of trustees swore in two new voting members Tuesday, bringing the board to full capacity for the first time in more than a year.

Kevin Brown, of Woodland Township, and Kate Gibbs, of Maple Shade, were chosen to fill slots left behind by trustees who were elected to public office. Joseph Hyland, 25, of Cinnaminson, was sworn in as one-year, nonvoting alumni trustee.

The board has 11 voting trustees, along with three nonvoting members: an alumni trustee, a solicitor, and secretary.

Brown is on the Burlington County Planning Board and is council representative for the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, according to a news release from the college. He has also served on the Woodland Township school board.

Gibbs, who used to head the Burlington County Republican Committee, works on business development for the Engineers Labor-Employer Cooperative 825.

"Their background and expertise blend very well into the college's tradition of academic excellence and workforce development," David Spang, the college's interim president, said in a news release.

Hyland was chosen by students in the college's Class of 2014 to serve a one-year term as alumni trustee. He graduated last spring with an associate's degree in liberal arts and sciences and will attend Montclair State University as a psychology student this fall.

The appointments of Gibbs and Brown bring the board to full capacity for the first time since May 2013. They fill two seats left behind by Joseph R. Malone III, who became mayor of Bordentown City and left in May 2013, and Maria Rodriguez-Gregg, who was elected to the state Assembly and left in December 2013.

In June, the board swore in Todd Flora, the county's new interim executive superintendent of schools, to fill the slot left by the previous county head of schools, Margaret Nicolosi. (The executive superintendent is an ex officio trustee.)