Link to February Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ocTGtvwsx0MBLNYKSnIoN0o7j_rYFZvV/view?usp=sharing
Link to February Bills:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IA67j3ARUh-mowb6NMRSIQT0-_4ZgS94/view?usp=sharing
Sunday, March 26, 2023
February Payroll and Bills for the Lodi Board of Education...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Matthew Giacobbe is Cashing In On Doug Petty Cashing In.
Ask Nancy Cardone how much Matthew Giacobbe has billed
Lodi in the past 7 months for matters related to Doug Petty.
Ask Nancy Cardone when Matthew Giacobbe first OPRA-ed
any records from the Jersey Shore pertaining to Doug Petty’s arrest.
Ask Nancy Cardone why Matthew Giacobbe allowed the
Board to replace an unexpired contract for Doug without the required public
notices and public hearing:
Ask Nancy Cardone why Matthew Giacobbe
didn’t include any language in Doug Petty’s contract protecting the district
from reputational damage if its top Administrator has his mug shot on every
nightly news station.
Matthew Giacobbe can’t fix Lodi’s
problems. He is the problem. He is responsible for the Doug Petty
mess. He wants to prolong this as long
as he can because it’s a money-maker for him.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Fauci Targeted DC's Poorest Neighborhood for His Sick Experiment. This Resident Saw Through Fauci's Lies.
It's amazing how rich, overly "educated" liberals have fallen right in line with whatever the government is pushing while others can so clearly see through the the government's lies and sinister motives.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
The Lodi Board of Education Increased Its Spending By $21,902,858 (34.1%) in 4 Years. During the Same Period, the Lodi Board of Education Removed Every Previously Implemented Transparency Measure.
2019/20 Budget: $64,319,416
2023/24 Budget: $86,222,274
Increase: $21,902,858 (34.1%)
Nancy Cardone and her board members have made it clear that there is no limit to the amount they are willing to increase spending just so the struggling taxpayers of Lodi CANNOT see any tax reduction.
The Lodi Board of Education should be producing responsible budgets each year with the mindset that State Aid remains flat. Then, when additional State Aid is offered, that serves as relief and offsets the local tax burden. Instead, the Lodi BOE increases the budgets as much as they possible can and then they increase them even more using every single dollar in additional State Aid.
Serious problems with the Lodi BOE’s reckless spending pattern:
Absent the millions in additional State Aid each year, Lodi would have seen its largest tax increases ever.
Lodi has created a snowball effect like you are seeing in Jersey City. When State Aid eventually flattens or is reduced, Lodi taxpayers will either see tax increases in the thousands or major budget cuts.
Serious problems with the Lodi BOE’s budget process:
Lodi’s Business Administrator, Nicholas Cipriano, spent
a short time in Montclair and left a 3 Million Dollar deficit:
Doug Petty, Dennis Frohnapfel, and Nancy Cardone
violated the Open Public Records Act with their refusal to provide the public
with a copy of a “Detailed Budget”.
Doug Petty and Dennis Frohnapfel stated in writing that Board President Nancy Cardone and her team members never once read a detailed budget as they voted for these enormous spending increases.
Summary: Lodi
has seen its largest spending increases in its history. Board members are NOT reading detailed budgets. The administration has illegally withheld detailed
budgets from the public so members of the public cannot monitor for fraud,
waste, and abuse. Doug Petty was responsible
for much of these spending increases probably in a drunken stupor at the Jersey
Shore. Dennis Frohnapfel abruptly left and
took more money than anyone can explain.
Matthew Giacobbe has gone over budget by intentionally manufacturing chaos
and instability with bad legal advice.
Employee Settlements and Releases Approved By the Lodi Board of Education are Public Records. Matthew Giacobbe Has Been Concealing them from the Public.
In February 2022, I submitted an OPRA request for
settlement that appeared on an agenda. I had no idea what it was for or who it
involved. I just wanted to see if public
funds were used to pay off someone. I
received the following response from the Board office:
“Good Morning,
Attached please find the items you requested from your OPRA request received on 2/28/2022.
As per item #4 on your request, this is a confidential agreement involving a student and is not considered a public document.”
I just looked at the initial OPRA request. It appears the settlement was an Employee Settlement and Release.
Something is not right. Giacobbe took great measures to hide something.
This follows a pattern with Matthew Giacobbe. Look at the language that Matthew Giacobbe used in a separate Employee Settlement dated March 6, 2020.
Just because Matthew
Giacobbe wants to keep Settlements confidential does not make them confidential. Matthew Giacobbe is clear violator of the Open
Public Records Act. He uses his OPRA violations
as a money-maker.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Lodi is Projected to Receive an Increase of $6,407,096 (21.8%) in State Aid for Its Schools.
With all of the additional State Aid in the last three
years, it's unfathomable that Lodi School taxes have not been reduced. Lodi school taxes should have been reduced significantly. When I was on the Board, school taxes were
lowered when Lodi was only receiving a fraction of the Aid that it is now
receiving.
As Lodi receives millions more in State Aid each year,
what do the taxpayers see? They saw
Nancy Cardone give her son a $17,236 raise.
They saw the Cardone group give Doug Petty a $27,000 raise just months
before his arrest. They saw Dennis Frohnapfel
hide budgets and then abruptly leave- taking extra money that nobody can account
for. They saw a committee assembled to knock down the Lincoln School Administration building that included lunatics like Dawn Caruso Dolan (she received a special invitation). They see the Cardone group still
paying Doug Petty over $17,000/month to sit home and not work. They see the politician run “Giacobbe” firm
go over budget as the Cardone members never once reviewed its bills.
What does this mean?
The more State Aid Lodi receives, the more corrupt and reckless the
Cardone group acts.
The most dishonest politicians always say that their big
spending increases are for the children just as people see the money flowing
into those politicians' pockets.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Most People Don't Want This Garbage in Our Schools. The Murphy Extremists Are Once Again Trying to Weaponize the School Ethics Commission to Bully Board Members that Have Any Decency.
Link to one-sided story on nj.com:
The School Ethics Commission was taken over by Phil Murphy and the NJEA years ago. That is why the perverts at the NJEA and its front groups are using the Commission as their new go-to for harassing Board Members who try to protect young children from pornography and indoctrination.
All the millions in State Aid is meaningless if it is used for destroying the youth instead of educating the youth.
Many teachers don't want to teach this garbage.
The advocacy groups spoken about in this article want to transform your classrooms into the pits of hell. They are using your tax dollars to carry out their attack on you. They are taking your money and then telling you that you have no right to opt out. They are telling you that your children belong to the sick and depraved government.
The Commission should be spending it's time investigating Board members that actually commit ethics violations. Perhaps like Board members using their positions to enrich themselves and family members with jobs and contracts. That might make sense.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
How Does the Lodi Mayor and Council Get Away with Paying Alan Spiniello an Annual Set Salary of $236,774.76 When…
1) Alan Spiniello is NOT an employee of Lodi.
2) Alan Spiniello does NOT submit legal invoices (hours worked, hourly rate) for payment.
In 2017, the State found serious problems with how
Alisa Nunno was being paid by the Lodi Board of Education for legal services
and ordered a Corrective Action Plan (click on link below):
The arrangement between the Lodi Mayor and Council and
Alan Spiniello is a lot worse. It’s astonishing
that this arrangement has gone for as long as it has and how millions of
dollars of Lodi tax dollars have been paid to Alan Spiniello without any intervention
from any State agencies.
The Prideful Luna Group Finally Filed an ELEC Report. All Pay-to-Play Of Course. Gary Paparozzi Continues to Kick Back Some Cash from His Illegal Pay Arrangement with the Borough (Post Date: February 12, 2023)
Link to report showing where some of the Luna group’s
campaign contributions are coming from (most of their contributions are still concealed):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CwW8Ote13vuzK8mE3Hk3JqV9Ka3lUmql/view?usp=sharing
Saturday, March 11, 2023
The Lodi Mayor and Council Have Intentionally Removed Any Description from Mary McDonnell’s Legal Bills. First, they Misappropriated Lodi Tax Dollars in Paying Mary McDonnell to Appeal Charles Cuccia’s Personal Fine for Ethics Violations Involving the Luna Family. Next, They Squandered Huge Amounts on Mary McDonnel to Assist Donald Scorzetti With his Personal Vendetta in Targeting Captain Grillo.
Mary McDonnel’s legal bills use to look like this:
Lodi taxpayers were shocked to learn the amount that has
already been spent targeting Captain Grillo: Lodi
By The Numbers: $247,176: Donald Scorzetti’s Personal Vendetta Has Already Cost
the Lodi Taxpayers that Amount in Legal Bills Alone. These Legal Bills are
Still Ongoing and Growing by the Day. (lodioverhaul.blogspot.com)
In response to that revelation, the Lodi mayor and council have removed descriptions from Mary McDonnel’s bills. They do not want the Lodi taxpayers to keep a running total on the amount Donald Scorzetti uses to harass and bully other employees. This is what her bills look like now:
The Lodi Mayor and Council do not want the Lodi
taxpayers to see how they are using Mary McDonnel. The Lodi Mayor and Council are now paying
three different law firms for labor matters each month without disclosing or
justifying those expenses to the Lodi taxpayers.
That is in addition to the monthly payments made to Alan Spineillo who is NOT a full-time employee yet receives a set full-time annual salary of $236,774.76 and doesn’t submit any invoices for hours worked or an hourly rate.
February Payroll for Lodi Borough Hall...
Link to February 15th Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbMYC2CUVpbWsTdSo9QzTjKE-aid7Br7/view?usp=sharing
Link to February 28th Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSAy92WKHbnkstFUatHqZinOmZlFFJRI/view?usp=sharing
Friday, March 10, 2023
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
The More Transparency, the Better. Only Guilty People Hide Public Records.
Link to video of Chuck Schumer trying to hide the January 6th videos from the public:
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Matthew Giacobbe Lost His Case in Palisades Park. Matthew Giacobbe is a High Priced Loser.
Link to story:
Judge
has decided on who will fill Palisades Park's vacant council seat (yahoo.com)
Matthew Giacobbe intentionally gives bad legal
advice to town councils and boards of education just so he can run up legal
bills. When members
of the public request those bills, he illegally redacts them and then bills the
taxpayers even more for blacking out the entire public record.
Matthew Giacobbe has been losing cases all throughout the
State yet he never loses his job because he has a Democrat State Senator (Joseph Lagana) and a Republican
Assemblyman (Sean Kean) listed as partners in his firm. Bipartisan corruption. Bad law.
As the FBI and DOJ are Terrorizing Christians and Raiding Their Homes With Weapons Drawn, Cardinal Tobin of Newark is Talking About Eating Meat on St. Patrick's Day....
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Most Viewed Posts for February #1-10...
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Link to report showing where some of the Luna group’s campaign contributions are coming from (most of their contributions are still concea...
Link to past posts including the search word "masopust": https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/search?q=Masopust&max-results=20&am...
Link to posts including the search word "Giacobbe": https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/search?q=Giacobbe&m=1
Link to post from one month ago: https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2023/01/open-response-to-threatening-letter-i.html?m=0
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