1. Cuccia and Luna-Biondi’s contracts were approved
on July 1, 2015- NOT TWO YEARS AGO. You are paying them 4% more this year than
what their resolutions called for this year.
2. It is shameful that you awarded him an
additional $97,500 NO BID CONTRACT and find nothing wrong with it.
3. If Mr. Spiniello
wants to quote the statute below, he better make sure he follows it. Lodi never published any
information for the $97,500 NO BID CONTRACT in any newspaper.
40A:11-5.
Exceptions
Any contract the
amount of which exceeds the bid threshold, may be negotiated and awarded by the
governing body without public advertising for bids and bidding therefor and
shall be awarded by resolution of the governing body if:
(1)
The subject matter thereof consists of:
(a)
(i) Professional services. The governing body shall in each instance
state supporting reasons for its action in the resolution awarding each
contract and shall
forthwith cause to be printed once, in the official newspaper, a brief notice
stating the nature, duration, service and amount of the contract, and that the
resolution and contract are on file and available for public inspection in the
office of the clerk of the county or municipality, or, in the case of a
contracting unit created by more than one county or municipality, of the
counties or municipalities creating such contracting unit; or
You can search the public notice website for
yourselves:
4. And the NO BID contract was only entered
into with Charles Cuccia to perform professional services. Once again, Bruce Masopust stated that other
people are providing the services.
Link to contract:
