Part of this may have been posted in error Thursday night.
Other business passed Monday night included an Ordinance establishing of a Recreation Commission with broad authority.
As usual there were several resolutions awarding grants by the "Fair and open '' routine to 'State approved vendors. All were on the consent agenda before being placed on the non-consent list Five had a value of in order,$100.000, $196,500.00,$48,800.00,$35,500.00,$320,000.00.
There were two problems with these; they did not belong on a Consent agenda due to size of the sums involved; and several should have been awarded by competitive bidding. If the mayor's veto of Ordinance MC 2010-23 had been overridden by the 5:2 vote that had passed the original Ordinance authorizing an enacting vote that would have lowered the threshold for independence.
Councilor Burney has posted an explanation for his vote to uphold the Mayor's veto of 2010-22.
His logic stills eludes me. If you want transparency you take what little steps that you can get. One can not always hit a home run. Moreover multiple little pieces can make up the whole.
Too expose the manipulations to use money from the wrong line items can make visible the Administration's need not to appoint a CFO and a Director of Administration and Finances.
The impression received from Burney's explanation is a desire to catch Administration in an illegal act.
When will Council wake up and realize that the length of the meeting is conducive to mental fatigue and poor thought processes.
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The people of Plainfield complain about their taxes and lack of services yet stare waste and financial irresponsibility in the face with no problem because it's coming from "the party of the people", their protectors, the ones looking after the little guy...The Democrats, Jerry Green and Company.
ReplyDeleteAs you can tell from comments on your blog and others from the obvious "hooked into the system" to the ignorant party line goose steppers it's wrong to go after waste and irresponsibility even when jobs are being shed and services reduced. There is still no CFO with none in sight and you have people like Burney stopping the one shred of momentum forward with the statement of "it's not quite enough". He will be gone and McWilliams, Mapp, Storch and Williams will be able to start forcing issues down the irresponsible mayor's throat.
She will prove her lack of morality and fiscal prudence by vetoing most anything forcing her hand proving to the people who can see what's going on what a complete sham she is.
I had to change my party affiliation from Democrat to Non-Affiliated because of the crooks in Trenton and the crook in the mayor's office. I don't see the logic that Mr. Burney used either and some times good laws come in small steps and in this case emergency triage was needed. Let's hope the new Council members coming in are responsible and force this mayor to be honest and moral. I've written the governor asking for a forensic audit of Plainfield's books and encourage other concerned citizens to do so.
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