Senate President Steve Sweeney says that the resignation of Lizette Delgado-Polanco as the CEO of the School Development Authority is ‘a resignation that needed to happen’ in a statement released this afternoon.

‘The problems at the SDA were serious and the accounts of operational failures seemed to mount each week. There is no doubt that the SDA had become severely harmed in its ability to perform its work and any confidence in its capacity to recover under current management was all but lost’, Sweeney said.

Delgado-Polanco resigned from her position as SDA CEO yesterday, and earlier today resigned as Vice Chair of the NJSDC, replaced by Somerset Democrats Chair Peg Schaffer.

Sweeney added that ‘we can hope that the investigations by the Attorney General, the SCI and the SDA board will shed light on exactly what went wrong and why the problems were not corrected.  The departure of Ms. Delgado-Polanco will allow for a clear review of the operations of the SDA, whether it should be folded into the EDA and how its work should be financed. We can now turn our focus to the important mission of building schools in a fiscally responsible way’.