The late hour and a poor nights sleep will delay an in depth report of the Council meeting. Bernice's Plaintalker II has covered two of last night's important actions
The temporary expediency of employing South Plainfield's full time Administrator and CFO as a part tine "maybe 5 hours a week" again demonstrates a weakness of Plainfield's Mayor in providing for a competent administration.
Along the same lines the other major event was the withdrawing of every Resolution that involved the awarding of a contract. That was due to as City Administer Berry pointed out to the lack of a Compliance Officer. Purchasing Agent Spaulding had served in that role for years, although it would seem to me to have the individual who writes and awards contracts be the one that certifies there legal correctness as a poor policy. It was his involvement in the WBLS check writing that may have caused the Council rightly so to refuse to reappoint him to that role.
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Last year, when the PACO resolution was offered then, Mr. Spaulding's complicity in awarding an illegal job-training contract to Malcolm Dunn's Incubator was pointed out. But with our City Council, apparently politics and $20K outweighs politics and $187K.
ReplyDeleteSpaulding is an easy target. He should probably have been promoted like Al Restaino, another member of the bid review committee, was. Restaino became Director of Administration and Finance, Health and Human Services.
Because non-compliance with law is the fashion around here anyway, at least let Spaulding have his little PACO. Plainfield is a hungry, so why settle for minnows when there's big tuna floating around?
Live and learn.
It sounds like our council is coming together to represent the people and not special interests. It's about time.
ReplyDeleteBob Bolmer