I raised the following issues at the council tonight:
1) Why didn’t
Alan Spiniello use any of these school examples when he sent a letter to the
County?
Alan Spiniello sent a letter to the County saying that
the mayor and council can’t place the $7.5M scam on the November ballot by
citing a case in Bogota. Bogota tried to
place a nonbinding question on the ballot making English the official
language. The court ruled that the
question was divisive, controversial, and outside the boundaries of Bogota. That example wasn’t relevant.
2) It was an
act of cowardice and obfuscation of duty to send a letter before the board ever
brought the issue before them. The mayor and council don’t
want to explain to the public why they are against the opportunity to vote.
3) Some members
of the mayor and council support the $7.5M scam. Their children were behind it. The scam was built on lies. I went through some of the lies.
4) The issue
affects the community- taxpayers, schools, etc.
5) Alan
Spiniello was asked: who directed you to send the letter? He didn’t answer.
Nobody on the mayor and council commented.
Alan Spiniello went on a tangent saying members of the
East Newark mayor and council can sit on the board of education. That wasn’t relevant because even though East
Newark has an appointed Board of Education, it is still a separate governing
body than its mayor and council. The board establishes its annual school budget, not the mayor and council. It's like saying the Lodi mayor and council are responsible for everything at the Lodi Housing Authority because members of the council can sit on the Housing Authority.
Spiniello couldn’t explain the ballot question in
Atlantic City. I pointed out that teachers
unions spent large amounts of money to defeat the nonbinding question in
AC. I asked: why didn’t they just fight
to keep the question off the ballot if it wasn’t allowed to be there?
