Joe Leto provided the following message tonight. He shared some of this information with the public long before I received it:
I would like to inform you that Board’s negotiating teams have
reached memorandums of agreements with the following bargaining units: The Lodi
Education Association, the Superintendent of Schools, and the Board
Secretary/Business Administrator. As these bargaining units ratify their
agreements, I will ask the Business Administrator to provide complete copies of
said contracts to the Board for their review prior to Board voting on said
contracts.
1) It
was reported that the agreement with the LEA came very quickly. All members of the negotiations committee have
conflicts of interest which would have prohibited their participation in any
normal district. The doctrine of
necessity used for negotiations did not disclose Donald Scorzetti’s serious
conflicts. Two members on negotiations just
joined the Board and were endorsed by the LEA in November’s election. The agreement was reached long before the doctrine
of necessity was reviewed by the SEC.
2) The
Superintendent’s contract was negotiated by three members whose conflicts of
interest prohibit their participation. Phil
Carbonetti’s daughter and daughter-in-law work under Quatrone. How is he negotiating? The agreement was reached long before the doctrine
of necessity was reviewed by the SEC. The
agreement was reached before Quatrone and six Board members answered an ethics
complaint against them. The agreement
was reached before the vacant seat was filled, ignoring SEC advisory opinions.
3) We
were notified on Tuesday that Leto chose a committee to negotiate Marc Capizzi’s
contract. Two days later, an agreement
has already been reached. How?
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Lodi is dealing
with a disengaged Board- a “Yes” Board.
Members are impaired by conflicts and negligent of their
responsibilities. Most are receiving a financial benefit for themselves or their relatives.
These agreements were rushed and done in
haste.
Board members are not conducting the
necessary research. They don’t read
things. They don’t ask questions. They are not doing their jobs. Employees are writing their own contracts,
just because they can.
The Board of Education has become a Board of Corruption.
And everyone is left asking, where is
the New Jersey Department of Education?
