Lodi tax dollars going to a private nonprofit that pays Lodi politicians six figures…

For years, the Lodi mayor and council were paying the Lodi Boys and Girls Club $60,000 a year for a supposed “lease agreement”.  The agreement was approved by Lodi council members that were on the Board of Directors at the Club.  No bids or proposals were ever solicited for the leasing of property.  Patty Licata’s son received a promotion shortly after.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2014/10/were-they-representing-borough-or-club.html

Last year, I asked the Mayor and Council (at a public meeting) to name any events the Borough held at the Club during the month.  Nobody could name one.

Now, the council signed a lease agreement with the VFW for $12,000.  Since they are using that facility for borough events, all money should be cut off from the Licata Club.

http://www.njpublicnotices.com/Details.aspx?SID=wuok3yvk2lgwaz3m5eibmvkw&ID=136716

Once again, Lodi has one of the highest tax rates in all of Bergen County.  It is not the taxpayers’ responsibility to pay the bills of a private nonprofit that pays corrupt Lodi politicians six figures.

Another “no brainer”, another “win-win” for Licata and Ciofalo

“He (Joseph Licata) will be the executive director of the club come January when the current director, Mike Nardino, retires.”

The above quote is from today’s Community News:

http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/candidates-are-running-unopposed-for-the-boe-seats-1.1443662

How can the Club’s Board of Directors not even pretend to go through a process of selecting a real Executive Director?  

Once again, this is why it is so important to investigate Licata and Ciofalo.

At the top left hand corner of this site, enter the words Licata and Ciofalo to search their conflicts of interest, their unethical behavior, and their misuse of tax dollars.

Still no response, not one answer to this email:

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Email sent to BOE Trustees Licata and Nardino

Subject: Controversial employment arrangement
Date: 09/17/15 11:38:55 PM
From: "ryan curioni" <rcurioni@optonline.net>
To: joe.licata@bgcoflodi.org

Dear Mr. Nardino and Mr. Licata,

Can you please explain why it would appropriate for two Lodi Board of Education Trustees to use a school employee during the school day to generate money for their employer? Can you please justify why the Lodi taxpayers should pay that employee for the days he is working for you at the Club?

Is it appropriate that you are technically Jamie Ciofalo’s boss and he is technically yours?

Is it appropriate that one of highest paid administrators in the district was out of school at least 41 days and 44 days during the last two school years? With that many days out, why would he be given an additional title this year, “Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction”?

Since posting the below information on Tuesday, tips have been pouring in and people are angry.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2015/09/theft-of-time-lodi-taxpayers-paid.html

If you can defend what is taking place, please email me a response and I will gladly post it.

Thank you. Have a good weekend.

Ryan Curioni

Deputy Chief? What they said, what they did…

"We also saved money by eliminating the deputy chief of police…”

-Patty Licata (Community News & northjersey.com, May 7, 2015)

During the May election, all campaign literature from Luna listed that “United” eliminated the “Deputy Chief” position.  That was their self-proclaimed big achievement.

Tony Luna wrote Patty Licata’s candidate profile which appeared in the Community News.  Part is shown above.

Six months later, there is a new Deputy Chief.  The following sentence appeared in today’s Record newspaper:

“The man's identity has not been released and charges are pending, Lodi Deputy Chief Donald Scorzetti said.”

Luna made the appointment behind the public’s back.  There was a public meeting on Tuesday.  No appointment took place.  It is reported that Luna did it the following day, behind the public’s back.  He never explained why he would take an action that is at complete odds to everything he spewed last May.  He never justified the need to create a new position.  He never explained the process used. 

Luna needs to stop playing politics with the police department.  There needs to be fairness and transparency in hiring and promoting.