The above
item is taken from the November 25, 2014 BOE minutes that were recently posted
on-line.
Link to minutes:
A few years
ago, I wrote the below letter to the editor (bottom of page). The very next day, a longtime BOE employee
visited our business to tell me that the Lodi politicians were talking about
getting even by changing the Wilson school parking lot with a purpose to hurt the business.
Over the
past two years, I was approached many more times immediately after filling out
an OPRA request, speaking at a council meeting, and questioning Quatrone’s merit
bonuses and Licata’s unethical behavior on this website. Many informed me of the Lodi politicians’
obsession with getting even, specifically with the parking lot.
So as the plan goes forward, the public can watch
for the costs involved, the practicality of the change, and if the policies
apply to the other school lots in town.
I was first
told of this plan the day after this letter was printed. Coincidence?
The Record:
Letters, Aug. 12, 2012
Sunday
August 12, 2012, 8:53 AM
Regarding "School official to
retire, son hired" (Page L-3, July 29):
The "handing of the reins over to
his son Marc Capizzi" was nothing more than a power play by Lodi school administrator Joseph Capizzi to
preserve the political patronage system that he has become famous for. The
father will collect the pension, the son will collect the salary, and together
they can continue handing out the jobs and the contracts.
The article stated that school
superintendent, Frank Quatrone, only interviewed one candidate for the position
Joseph Capizzi was going to vacate. Quatrone apparently sees nothing wrong with
this because he was hired as superintendent in the same manner: Lodi was told that he was the only
candidate at the time he was retained.
Board of Education President Joseph
Licata should disclose his conflicts of interest when commenting on
administration. His mother is a teacher in the district. If the board did not
invoke "doctrine of necessity," Licata would have been bared from
voting on all administration and collective bargaining agreements with the
teachers union.
The board votes unanimously on
everything, not because its policies are working, but because almost the entire
board has immediate family members employed in our schools.
The Lodi politicians can
scream all they like that their relatives are "qualified." The
numbers show what they are doing isn't working and nepotism hurts the children.
Lodi collects $38.1 million in taxes for its schools and receives $14.2 million
in state aid, second-highest amount of state aid in Bergen County. Yet our high school is ranked second
to last in the county according to NJ Monthly Magazine.
These conditions represent failures of
the Christie administration for not monitoring how the state's millions are
being spent, the Bergen County superintendent for
rubber-stamping Lodi's bad behavior and
Lodi for its apathy.
Ryan Curioni
Lodi, July 29
