The Council meeting Monday July 18 at a special meeting
starting at 7 pm. I presume that this meeting is to replace the cancelled
Agenda Fixing Session of July 11 and the regular business meeting that was
scheduled for 8pm on the 18th.
The agenda includes only Resolutions and two Ordinances for
first reading. There is no item for Ordinances for second reading so I must
believe that none are outstanding.
Of the Resolutions there is one appointing another municipal
court judge. Cassandra Corbett is already serving as Chief Municipal Judge in
Linden and a Judge in Union. No salary
is given.
WE should have an accounting of costs for legal related services
including perks. There seems to be a network of lawyers receiving reimbursement
from multiple municipalities that adds up to a tidy individual income before
having to do private practice.
Most of the other resolutions on initial scanning seem to be
routine with the exception of one authorizing purchase of 12 LED signs for use
at four way stop intersections at a cost of approximately $4300.00 each. Was a
RFP sought for these signs?
They are a good idea for safety, although I believe that
many of the four way stops are irrational and like the one at Kensington and watching
an attempt to correct a problem involving one street has now created one also
involving the other street.
The two new Ordinances; one sets the salary line and I
suspect creates the parameters for a “Fire Protection Inspector”. The other
gives the city the right for police etc. activities in the private roadways and
parking areas of the new South Second Street project.
This Special Meeting is a summer compromise to avoid the
usual Council order of doing business and it should be a brief meeting.
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