Thursday, October 4, 2012

Middletown Township Committee Meeting 9/17/12

I know I'm 2 weeks late and a dollar short posting this video of the September 17th, 2012, Middletown Township Committee meeting (I will be posting this past Monday night's meeting shortly).

The meeting lasted only 45 minutes so if you watch the video you should be able to get through it rather quickly. The two major points taken away from the from the meeting and which should raise some eyebrows were:
  1. Questions were raised, thoughts and comments were shared regarding the settlement between the Township and a police officer that filed a racial discrimination lawsuit.
  2. It was also stated that the Township does not have enough employees to provide the services to the residents.
In regards to the racial discrimination lawsuit, from what I understand it cost the Township ~ $300K (~$70K of which will come directly from our tax base with the remaining amount coming from the Township's insurance carrier, also part of our taxes).



As always, you can download a copy of the meeting agenda that contains the discussion items and the proposed resolutions and ordinances that were voted on or presented during the meeting. A box around an item is a link, bringing you further into the document to that resolution or ordinance. At the end of the resolution there will be a link bringing you back to the agenda. Attached to this agenda is also the monthly bill list, so that everyone can see how the Township is spending our tax dollars.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was also stated that the Township does not have enough employees to provide the services to the residents.

Anonymous said...

It was also stated that the Township does not have enough employees to provide the services to the residents.

Anonymous said...

Yup, they don't. Because of Christie's 2% cap the township laid them off. It was easier to do that than figure out ways to cut their spending.