THREE BAD CHOICES

  Monday despite the delightful weather and a quiet household, I am faced with three choices for this evening all undesirable.

  The first is to watch the Mets play. I have followed the Mets, successors to the Wait till next year Dodgers, from its Polo Grounds days and those entertaining expansion pool players such as Marvelous Marve Thornberry or Choo Choo Colman and a bunch of overage former stars who could not get out of their own way. One knew what to expect then and the games were enjoyment

  However it is now 2018 and expectations of contender have been destroyed by a lineup of overage past prime once stars.

  Another choice is to listen to PONTUS at 9pm explain his choice for the vacant SCOTUS seat. It will probably be as logical as his boast about his great deal with North Korea’s Kim and how HE has secured denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. 

  The third choice which those interested in our city should pick, is the Council meeting which starts at 7pm. That of course means that to avoid hypoglycemia I will have to eat dinner early to get tom the courthouse early enough to find accessible parking and for what!

  There is a resolution for a waiver of the residency requirement to appointed Abby Levenson as Personnel Director. It is noted that she was the most qualified of 12 candidates (unspecified). Perhaps part off her qualifications and why she needs the waiver is that on Feb 2018 this appeared in the papers; “PATERSON – The mayor has put a stop to an arrangement that allowed Paterson’s $87,000 personnel director to work from home two days per week, a practice that reportedly had been in place since last April.

“Your job may not be effectively performed off-site,” Mayor Jane Williams-Warren wrote in a Jan. 26 letter to personnel director Abbey Levenson.

The mayor told the personnel director she had concerns about “how you are keeping records regarding your work at home during the days you are not in the office.” Williams-Warned said she had not gotten a response to her previous inquiry about Levenson’s time records.

“The lack of response leads me to assume that there are no such records,” the mayor wrote. “This is unacceptable.”

  Also on the agenda are resolutions to two engineering firms, Pennon Associates, and Remington & Vernick for two different road projects. Unfortunately I was not able to open the specifications of the contracts. Nor can we be sure if either firm is in compliance with the political contributions levels established by the city.

  Of course there is the resolution “Authorizing the Plainfield Planning Board to Reexamine the Todd-West Redevelopment Plan and Directing the Planning Board to Hold a Hearing and Provide Recommendations to the Plainfield City Council as Directed” no further info so I would presume that a developer has already been selected. 
  Finally as a discussion item only from the Mayor about changes in the city structure increasing the number of departments to 5 plus 10 confidential aids. Since this is a listed as a Communication from the Mayor and is not part of the Ordnances/Resolution agenda will any public discussion be restricted to the end of the meeting   public comments slot.

Once again this agenda which again omits the session devoted for the Council to establishing an agenda smells of fait accomplice patronages, including Council fulfilling its public responsibilities.