Middletown Township has long been redirecting library funds back to the general budget, which is legal and relatively easy to do. Shoot, since 2012 they've turned it into an art form. They can increase township charge backs, reduce the library budget to increase reserves and unrestrict monies previously restricted for projects.They get away with it easily and with little resistance because the Township Committee appoints cronies to the library board, that will do their bidding. The members of the library board often don't have the best interests of the library at heart, they are merely political puppets who are loyal to the Township Committee and care little for the library itself.
I haven't been paying much attention to the library situation for quite a long time now, hell I can't even remember the last time is was there. But when I received the following via email from a person going by the name of Mahat Macote. It may be time to start looking a little more closely again:
What's happening at the Library?For those wondering who this Mahat Macote fellow is? I really don't know. During the great library controversies of 2012-2013 this person was a frequent commentator on the this blog, as well as, sending me emails. If something fishy is truly going on, as Mahat seems to think, then I feel it's something that may be worthwhile perusing.
Malfeasance...that's what!
Why are they having budgetary problems?
I heard that they have have massive turnover of employees, without replacement, which under normal circumstance would mean that the budget is fine?
So why is there a budget shortfall....???
The Library Board has been shedding employees and library jobs, and getting them off the healthcare roles, "quietly"...but where are these so called, "SAVINGS" going...??
To the Taxpayers..???
Don't count on it...
To the LIBRARY...???
Don't make me laugh...
The funds are NOT going to fund the library, as they legally should...to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Yet who is getting raises for doing the bidding of the Library Board and Town Council, who are one in the same, we wonders...yes, we wonders...???
I believe...no.... I KNOW that this is happening--the money is being held back and the Town Council is using the library as it's little piggy bank slush fund, for their personal accounts...or to pad their own budgets, but NOT to the library, as it should be...
They may be trying to justify this as "charge backs" for services rendered, but that is a smoke screen...Don't believe it
Do I have smoking gun proof?
No, unfortunately not... but I do know that this is happening...
A little investigative reporting and looking under a few stones may turn something up....besides some worms, and Fiore....
What else...who knows?
The Shadow knows....
2 comments:
They have a turnover on the board, too with the appointment of Tony Perry to the Township Committee. They take every penny that can be pinched from our library and move on to the next battlefield.
They close our branches to make way for a private school to occupy our open space and never r3estore the branches when the school leaves. That just leaves the people to travel to the main, and only, branch that remains.
It seems they've been feathering their Van-Nests...
Look into the library budget...what they are legally supposed to receive, and what
they are actually getting..
Where is it going, one wonders..aye..we wonders..?
They were going to get their pound of flesh one way, or the other...
Remember when they asking for "Givebacks" when Fat Tony was practicing "extorting" the legally stipulated library funds from the State and taxpayers of Middletown...??
Don't think that they haven't been getting it.
One way, or another...
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