BHCW 12/10/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week, BHCW informed residents of where Mayor Devanney stood in relation to OPRA and shared an email in which she encouraged state legislators to protect critical aspects of this vital law. BHCW exposed a highly suspect RFP and warned the BOE and Community of the potential for more violations on...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week- 12/09/2023
NJ and US Falling Behind Rest of the World on Test Scores, Police Training Badly, NJ Public Charter Schools Show Up Strong, Underage Drinking May Bring Harsher Penalties, Proponents of Corporate Tax Fighting to Keep it Alive NJ and US Falling Behind Rest of the World on Test Scores From NJ Education Report For the first time since the COVID-19...
Suspect RFP’s and Lame Duck Sessions
Resident Comments During the 12/07/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Last night’s meeting ended with the BOE not taking any action in a meeting that could have created more legal issues for the District. Yesterday, we published an email from a parent citing concerns about the District’s RFP for an Architect that, if acted on with a decision, would have potentially led...
Is the BOE Majority Setting the District Up for Another Violation at Tonight’s Special Meeting?
Another Questionable Special Meeting And Potential Violation Shauna WIlliams sent the following email in connection to the purpose of tonight’s BOE Meeting – Interviewing Architects- to the Board of Education. Laws are in place to ensure the public is fully aware of District decisions that impact students and to protect the dollars taxpayers invest to educate them. It was not...
BHCW 12/03/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with revisiting the Berkeley Heights Board of Education; we review the current BOE Majority’s attempts to gridlock change next year through policy changes. Berkeley Heights residents also discovered that the District’s issues with conducting ethical surveys in obtaining student information continue – this time in connection to...
Update on Land Use Ordinance Discussed During 11/21/2023 Town Council Meeting
We were cc’d on an email connected to the Land Use Ordinance we posted about a few days ago – specifically on the issue of political signs. Councilwoman Kingsley informed us that changes were being drafted after meeting with the attorney today. At about the same time, we received an email from Ms. Viana (Township Administrator) informing us that the...
BHCW 11/27/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s Newsletter looks at two essential items impacting Berkeley Heights residents being passed immediately after an election during lame-duck sessions. On the state level, legislators are looking to overhaul the Open Public Records Act and the Open Public Meetings Act. All early indications are that these changes make both laws...
Take Action to Save the Open Public Records Act
The Problem Plans to gut the Open Public Records Act during a lame duck session are moving forward. If passed, this would render OPRA meaningless and citizens of NJ would be in the dark on what their government bodies are doing. Here are the bills: https://www.njlm.org/Blog.aspx?IID=232#item https://www.njlm.org/Blog.aspx?IID=231#item https://www.njlm.org/Blog.aspx?IID=230#item Here is an article John recently wrote that provides insight into how...
11/21/2023 Town Council Meeting – Questions On Redevelopment Studies
On the town council agenda tonight: “2. Resolution directing the Planning Board to undertake an investigation to determine whether all or a portion of certain properties identified on the tax map as Block 702, Lots 4,6, 16, constitute a non-condemnation area in need of redevelopment. (458, 414-424 Springfield Avenue, and 230 Sherman Avenue)” This is the state statute, Section 52:27D-302...
BHCW 11/20/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… Last week, Berkeley Heights Families learned that the current BOE Majority will continue to prevent them from having access to meetings via Zoom. They voted for a measure that further muted BOE Members while giving more power to the BOE President – all of this points to a majority still obsessed...
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