This week’s newsletter starts with a look at how the non-partisan veneer of BOE elections continue to deteriorate with impacts on local control already becoming evident. Staying at the state level, we dive into a new report from the Office of the State Comptroller that asks hard questions about how Police Officers with serious misconduct on record can retire with pensions intact and what residents can do in their communities to stop the money bleed.
Local education got a good deal of attention starting with the New Providence school district and their practice of publishing agendas 24 hours before BOE Meetings and no attachments. We move on to Berkeley Heights with an overview of the BOE agenda, a closer look at the Districts plans to pursue a regionalization study and an attempt to reign in athletics fundraising practices that many community members feel have gone too far.
We end with the Berkeley Heights Town Council meeting – another agenda full of no-bid contracts and a meeting where the Council discussed none of them as they were voted through in one shot.
On the socials:
OSC Kevin Walsh takes a final swing at legislative ‘acquiescence’ of corruption.
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