PART 2-COUNCIL AGENDA

Today continues the review of Wednesday agenda. What is apparently evident from the Resolutions submitted by Administration and Finance is the absence of acceptable fiscal management. Compounding this lackadaisical approach to accounting of the municipal’s finances are the certificates from the (acting) CFO which are evidently stamped with his signature and have been initialed by various individuals.

There is only one Resolution from Public Affairs and Safety; Z19 which would donate a 1972 aerial fire truck to the La Vega Dominican Republic Fire Department. There is no mention of who is underwriting the cost of shipment.

The Department of Public Works and Urban Development has 13 proposed resolutions on the agenda. Four have to do with the 4^th of July Celebration. These were discussed in depth on Saturday by Bernice on her Plaintalker II blog. (Click ).  As in the past few years the dollar numbers leave much to be desired. Moreover once again the Council is being asked to retroactively approve expenditures.

Z21 & Z22 are for additional funds for Remington and Vernick’s road engineering services to the sum of $64,884.00.

Z23 is for a contract of $165,766.90 to repave Cole Place and Z24 for $260,122.90 for Deborah Ct. They are to different contractors and must be assumed to be awarded by competitive bidding although the support documents are not in the public packet.

Cole Place is the entrance from Leland into the large Apartment complex to the east of Leland Ave.  Deborah Ct. is at the eastern terminus of Cole Ct.

Z30 authorizes an “Execution of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Plainfield and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to continue participation and designation in the Brownfield Development Area Program. “

Included in the support documentation is the list of members of a “board” (?) that has oversight on this program. I will have to reread the documentation to better understand what is involved. Among names listed as “Board Members” are familiar ones involved in recent financial transactions approved by the Council; Cecil Sanders, the new Chairman of the PMUA and Jeffery Dunn.