Providing a simple answer to this ethics complaint is
not rocket science. Anyone off the
street could’ve answered without an attorney.
Read the complaint for yourself (click on link below):
Behind the boards back, Trustees Miller, Nardino, and
Carafa had two board employees and a professional service provider retain them an
attorney that can bill the Lodi taxpayers $5,000. The board never approved a resolution. That was past practice. But all rules are thrown out the window
because two new members joined the board.
The three employees in question
believe they can usurp the responsibilities and rights of all elected
trustees.
Once again, why is an attorney necessary?
Mayor Emil Carafa pays part-time Alan Spiniello
$210,000 a year with Lodi tax dollars.
Mr. Spiniello couldn’t volunteer his time to help them provide an
answer? Marcel Wurms couldn't volunteer? How about all the other attorneys
milking the town?
Forget about attorneys, couldn’t the three just walk
into Shop Rite and have some stranger in line help them answer?
If three members cannot answer a simple question about
their votes, what does that say about the rest of their actions on the
board? If you can’t speak, act, or answer on your own, doesn’t that reduce you
to someone else’s puppet?
The three members had no problem wasting 400,000 tax
dollars on architect plans for a building that was never needed. I guess they see 5,000 tax dollars as a
drop in the bucket.
Lodi taxpayers should be outraged that their money is
being wasted on something so ridiculous.
