Transparency:
1) Broadcast Public Meetings: Every public meeting will be taped and
available to view on the Borough website.
Public meetings will be shown on Lodi’s public access station. Every public meeting will be held in the
council chambers. Executive meetings
will no longer be held in a small office upstairs.
2) Job Openings: All will be posted on the Borough Website and
in the Record newspaper.
3) Hiring and Promotions: All will be reported on at regular council
meetings and appear on the meeting minutes.
Each process and decision will be explained to the public.
4) Resolutions and Ordinances: All will be posted on-line in their entirety
prior to being voted on. Too often resolutions
and ordinances are listed by title only in order to mislead and deceive the
public as to what is actually being voted on.
5) Contracts: all approved contracts will be provided on the borough website. Politicians will be reluctant to give away unearned lifetime perks or $342,000 payouts for unused sick days if they know that people are watching.
5) Contracts: all approved contracts will be provided on the borough website. Politicians will be reluctant to give away unearned lifetime perks or $342,000 payouts for unused sick days if they know that people are watching.
6) Bills: All monthly bills will be posted on the
Borough Website. The public will be encouraged
to send the council an email if they spot a questionable bill.
7) Reggo’s “In House” Tax Reductions: When Lodi’s Tax Assessor reduces the taxes
for “family and friends” of Lodi politicians without a tax appeal filed with
the County, those reductions will be made public each month. Those reductions will be reported on at the
regular council meetings and appear on the minutes. (These reductions will stop once the public becomes aware of them.)
8) Borough Email Addresses:
The mayor and council removed their official email
addresses from the borough website. They
do not want to answer directly to the public.
They also feared that their email exchanges would be OPRAed.
I will restore the email addresses of the mayor and
council and provide them on the borough website.
The public can OPRA email exchanges. If nobody is doing anything wrong, there
should be nothing to hide.
The mayor and council will be prohibited from using personal emails to conduct town business
