RED BANK: LIBRARY LAYOFFS SPARK OUTRAGE (via redbankgreen)
Laid-off children’s librarian Sira Williams embraces colleague Jane Eigenrauch after Wednesday night’s council meeting. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Hours after more than half the staff of the Red Bank Public Library…
Menendez Rebuts Christie Over Blame for Stalled Sandy Relief Aid (via NJSpotlight)
Who is to blame for the slow pace of New Jersey’s recovery from superstorm Sandy? Gov. Chris Christie blames federal red tape and regulations for holding up the distribution of aid money to storm victims in New Jersey. But New Jersey’s senior U.S.…
Widespread backlog roils NJ health insurance market (via NJ.com)
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act has clogged the system for nearly all types of health insurance in New Jersey, causing frustration and delays for consumers, agents and policyholders say. Lingering backlogs have left thousands in limbo,…
By Greg Kelly
Friday, March 14
• Family Game Night (Tinton Falls) – MORE INFO
• The Music Man at TRT (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Long Branch Community Job Fair – MORE INFO
• The Odd Couple at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Free Tax Preparation Help (Wall Twp, Shrewsbury, Manalapan) – MORE INFO
• Date of a Lifetime at NJ Repertory Theater (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Monmouth Mall Art & Crafts Show (Eatontown) – MORE INFO
• Henry & Mudge at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO 
• Sylvia at First Ave Playhouse (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
• Chance Auction (Ocean Twp) – MORE INFO
• Downtown Freehold “Irish Week” – MORE INFO
• Pottery & Pasta Night (Brielle) – MORE INFO
• Theater 24 at BCC (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Aberdeen) – MORE INFO
• Archery with Family (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• CBA Cocktail Party & Photo Auction (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• AWFNJ Animal Welfare & Care Conference (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
Posted: March 12th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County | Tags: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County, Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend | 1 Comment »By Christopher R. Whalen, CPA
I am writing to express my many concerns regarding the Trinity Hall Development.
Trinity Hall is a commercial enterprise and will bring to our neighborhood all of the communal, societal and environmental harm that such enterprises do.
Let’s project out some of the many terrible impacts this will have on our neighborhood.
The Trinity Hall Development will increase the volume of:
School buses and other school vehicles
Student cars and
Parent drop off vehicles
Evening noise and light pollution.
Daily noise and pollution from the school’s physical plant.
and
Possibly necessitate:
RED BANK: LIBRARY PUTS STAFF ON NOTICE (via redbankgreen)
A meeting of the Red Bank library board in the former living room of the Eisner family last month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Red Bank Public Library has put its entire staff on notice of possible layoffs in the face of a looming budget…
By Chris Fotache
The Middletown Board of Education is attempting to borrow $32 million through a voter referendum on Tuesday March 11, 2014. You have probably not even heard of this because they are doing their best to keep it a secret so that only the school PTA’s and PFA’s (their cheerleaders) are the only ones who come out to vote. They have them brainwashed that this is such a great idea. What many people fail to realize is that the BOE spent $8 million over the last 2 years replacing roofs that needed to be fixed. This was done with extra money left over in the budget. And it was done with only 1% tax increases over the last 3 years. Why now does this new BOE need to pay an architect $1.3 million to do this work all over again? They paid this very same architect over $200K over the last year to do this same exact work. Why are they paying them again???
The answer is they can’t explain it. They refuse to answer any questions. They say vote for it because it’s for the kids. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?
While it’s important to have the schools safe and running in a functional manner, the new Board’s level of mismanagement, misinformation, and incompetence is staggering. These repairs will get done whether the referendum passes or not as it’s the Boards’ obligation to do especially since the repairs are now public.
The board owns 11 properties in town worth millions that they could sell to fund these fixtures. Why are they not selling them and asking the tax payer to fund this. If the referendum fails, they will be forced to sell some and use that money to fix the schools AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER.
Don’t forget that not so long ago, a $78 million referendum was passed to upgrade schools. So if they were mismanaged in the past, what guarantee do we have that these $32 mil won’t go to waste?
Posted: March 11th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Education, Middletown | Tags: Borrowing, Chris Fotache, Middletown Board of Education, Referendum | 9 Comments »
Chris Christie’s approval rating flips in new poll (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie has called the George Washington Bridge scandal an obsession of the press that the public doesn’t care about, but two polls released today show the ordeal continues to erode his political support and public image. One…
Tom Kean Jr.’s payback: NJ Senators who opposed him removed from leadership (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — State Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. has purged his leadership ranks of two men who attempted to oust him last year. Kean (R-Union) announced the Senate Republicans’ leadership team in a press release today. Absent from the list were…
Property tax battle: Deadline looms on expiration of key law (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — Mayors say a group with an obscure and achingly bureaucratic name has been the most important tool in slowing the growth of New Jersey’s property taxes, the highest in the nation. For the last three years, arbitrators who decide contract…
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