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Monthly Archives: December 2013

Decision Day Tomorrow

At least we hope so. The Government Records Council meeting that was postponed Tuesday is now scheduled to be held tomorrow: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Caruso, Frank <Frank.Caruso@dca.state.nj.us> Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM Subject: RE: Bean v. Borough of Belmar (Monmouth), GRC Complaint No. 2013-39 To: “jbean@betterbelmar.com” <jbean@betterbelmar.com> Cc: “dupont@redbanklaw.com” <dupont@redbanklaw.com> To all […]

Think Walmart Should Pay Better?

Pony up!  

Snow Way!

———- Forwarded message ———- From: Caruso, Frank <Frank.Caruso@dca.state.nj.us> Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM Subject: RE: Bean v. Borough of Belmar (Monmouth), GRC Complaint No. 2013-39 To: “jbean@betterbelmar.com” <jbean@betterbelmar.com> Cc: “dupont@redbanklaw.com” <dupont@redbanklaw.com>To all parties, Please be advised that the Council’s December 17, 2013 meeting has been postponed due to weather. The GRC will […]

“Traitor” Saves The Constitution!

From Yahoo News: Judge: NSA spying ‘almost Orwellian,’ likely unconstitutional In a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama’s surveillance policies, a federal judge on Monday branded the National Security Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ telephone data “almost Orwellian” and likely a violation of the Constitution…………… …………..“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than […]

“Fictions Of Government”

Freudian slip? A screen shot from a Patch story about Belmar’s multiple OPRA  non-compliance complaints:       (Don’t tell them.  Let’s see how long it takes for them to fix it.)  *Fixed @ 9:30 AM.

Transparently Opaque?

The New Jersey Government Records Council is having a meeting December 17 at which it will adjudicate a number of OPRA non-compliance complaints.  On the agenda is Jim Bean’s complaint about the refusal to provide information on Belmar’s gift card distribution and Ted Ehmann’s complaint about the stonewalling of his requests for information about the […]

Council Meeting Of December 11, 2013

  The big news is the mayor’s announcement that FEMA said it will contribute $4.1 million to the rebuilding of the pavilions.  This obviously changes everything.  The two new bond ordinances were shelved pending further developments. I will write about it this weekend.

Today In Court

Some info from someone who was there: Nothing regarding decisions on key points of the original lawsuits was decided by Judge Lawson. The entire hearing had to do with Pringle’s letter of two weeks ago about the stay order and the fact that the mayor is passing  two new bond ordinances this evening. It was […]

Decision Day **Updated**

Judge Lawrence Lawson (love that name) is set to hand down decisions today on some of the legal conflicts involving the boardwalk development. He is going to decide on the validity of Doherty’s invocation of redevelopment law.  Hopefully he’ll rule that it was not justified. He is also supposed to advise us on how much […]

Going To Be A Long Night

REGULAR MEETING  DECEMBER 11, 2013 A special meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Belmar held on the above date at 6:00 PM at the Belmar Municipal Building, 601 Main Street.  PRESENT:      Mayor Doherty, Councilman Bean, Councilwoman Deicke, Councilman Magovern, Councilwoman Nicolay, Borough Attorney Michael DuPont, Esq., Business Administrator Colleen Connolly, […]