At tonight's Special Meeting of the Board of Education taking place at 6:30pm at the August T. Miner (Board of Ed) Administrative building on Leonardville Road, the board plans to enter into a five year lease agreement with the township for use of the Lincroft Library building for administrative offices, leasing the building for just $1 per year to the township.
In reading the lease, it is not clear what administrative offices would be housed in the building, and whether Crossroads drug rehab counseling center is outside of the allowed use, seeing how Crossroads is in the process of vacating Croydon Hall to move there. Furthermore, the Lincroft community was not given the opportunity to collaborate with the Board of Education on the use of the building, as Dr. George had promised would happen. Members of the community felt strongly that if they were going to lose the library then they would want the future use to be in line with what was lost, i.e., for the building to have an educational use that benefits the children. While the Board of Education may not have an educational purpose for this building now, they may have one later. A shorter term lease should be given and then the use of the property could re-assessed in a new budget year.
It would seem that the residents and students of Lincroft all lose out on this deal. Educational enrichment, clubs, community center, etc..... are all possibilities that could be of benefit to students and the community. How does leasing the building for the township's administrative offices benefit any students other than those who will be attending the all girl "Catholic" school, Trinity Hall? Did they even think in a progressive way at all or reach out to non-profits, Brookdale, or other educational entities to see if there would be a better fit for the building or community? Apparently not.
You would think that after constantly being reminded by the Township Committee that 62% of all taxes collected in Middletown goes to the Board of Education and that is why our taxes are sooo high, the Board of Eduction would want to off set those taxes in someway by leasing the building to someone that would pay more than $1 per year. Again, apparently not.
The agenda and property agreement to lease the Lincroft Library to the Township can be found - HERE
(Thanks to M.E. for the heads up)
14 comments:
When has this TC ever made really rational,ethical decisions about anything....especially MONEY ??
These political clowns in this community are hell bent on destroying everything good that exists here....the library system,the school system,the park system and our sports programs for our kids.
Close three library branches that serve ALL of the people and then build two turf fields (one on swampy land at Nut Swamp School) at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Priorities anyone?
We already have TWO turf fields and if money is such a problem as the clowns keep telling us,by damn this is asinine !
If this BOE and this TC had brains they would really be dangerous. Projects like this CRAP (turf fields) should be PUT TO A VOTE.
SELL THE ARTS CENTER and get rid of that albatross. It will never pay for itself.
Balancing the money in this town is always a smoke screen and lying to the townspeople is commonplace. Bonding is the answer to everything and those in administration are bonding us to ETERNITY !
# of people who attended the meeting and spoke out about this silly issue? ZERO.
Meetings at 6:30 p.m. clearly excludes the working,taxpaying people in this community !!
That's why they schedule those meetings at that time !!
You mean no one attended after Mike's clarion call against moving Crossroads (which is really because he has something against Trinity High School)?
Not one? LOL
And, Anon at 6:20?
I am willing to bet that many more citizens will either play a sporting event on those turf fields or watch such an event in any given year than the number of people who went to the branch libraries during any year.
And you seem to be confusing who is who: the TC runs the township. the LB runs the Library, and the BOE runs the schools. They are NOT the same...
The political hacks and their henchmen are attempting to CONTROL all of the MONEY and thus to CONTROL all of MIDDLETOWN...the schools, the library and administration. BUNCH of tyranical.ethically challenged bastards !!!.Middletown's own mob.
Take note the slanderous fiascos that ALL ELECTIONS IN MIDDLETOWN HAVE BECOME.
Got your head in the sand or ELSEWHERE,anon 10:40 p.m. or you are just PLAIN IGNORANT OF THE FACTS OF LIFE IN THIS TOWN !!!
Teachable moment , Anon. 10:40 p.m.,
The one confused is YOU because many residents (both repubs and dems and others ) clearly see the attempts of this TC crew and their poodles to repress the rights of the people by aspiring to control ALL of the MONEY in this town.!!
As for turf fields, when the jocks are serving on the BOE (candidates fielded and backed by the TC ) it is evident who this expense( and the bonding for it ) is to serve and that's not the general population..
Anon at 7:53 -
I think YOU need a "teachable moment.."
The members of both the Township Committee and the Board of Education are ELECTED by the voters in Middletown. If you or anyone else doesn't like the way either of those two bodies are run, I suggest you take action to do something about it instead of whining about how "evil" the actions they take are.
I think you need to understand that you are the one who is out of step with what the citizens of this town want...
Middletown no longer makes Money magazine's list of best places to live. It does not qualify anymore.
WHY Anon12:06 p.m. ? WHY, if everybody's so happy with the BS you try to feed us ??
And by The political hacks, you mean the same people who have been elected OVER and OVER again!
Which demo-rat is being recycled this year?
Why doesn't Middletown qualify for the money magazine list anymore, Anon 4:06 ??
The politics in this town stinks to high heaven and suppose that's because of the party in power, right ?? Who else do you want to blame ?
No demo-rats in that bunch, right ??
Just the thugs and hoods and "hacks" you speak of, that are the party in power, right ?
So, why doesn't this town qualify anymore for Money's list ? WHY ?? WHY ???
There has not been a Democratic majority in years.so who is to blame for the decline over these last years , Anon 4:06 ?? WHO ??
The motley crew now serving !!! That's who !!!
You guys are funny...
You do realize that an overwhelming majority of towns in the country are not on the Money list, right? That the "top 100" are the top .01%? I can't say why we weren't on that last list, but that is totally irrelevant.
The fact is that the voters overwhelmingly elect and re-elect the same majority, and have for a generation.
To me, that indicates that the town is happy with the governing body.
Stop whining and get yourself candidates who can possibly win...
ANON 7:40 a.m.,
CRY BABY.
This motley crew is nothing but a bunch of integrity compromised characters that fail to realize even Governor Christie says his children are offended by the tone of politics today !
Slander,character assassinations and a total disregard for the people who elected you. That's what the residents of Middletown have been exposed to these last twelve years or more !!!
This dissenter is not a Democrat and there are many more who agree with me. Don't flatter yourself,Anon 7:40.......You assume anyone who disagrees is a member of the opposing party. Get real.....this a democratic society with many differing points of view. You are just not smart enough to acknowledge that. You have to slander or intimidate any difference of opinion.
This town once was a nice place to live .. It is not anymore and much of that is the fault of today's Middletown Republicans.
Sharfey always spouted about the ranking for this town in Money Magazine and he and his comrades are responsible for the decline over the last ten years. That's the truth of the matter.
These clowns have no respect for the towns people and can't even show civility towards them. It's a waste of time to go to meetings in this community run by an Ignorant bunch of petty dictators ,coached by the equally ignorant counsel .
Hey Tony the THUG..
Where's the Parking lot expansion that you promised when you came hat in hand and STOLE 500k from the Library you lying bastard?
Let's see the emails between you and the Head of Trinity School you low quality individual, you? I'm sure you were planning to close and STEAL the branches for a couple of years too...
WHERE ARE THE EMAILS...eh, you fkn BUM?
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