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Monthly Archives: September 2019

The We Didn’t Raise Taxes In 7 Years Is At 19:49

 

They Lost Me With “From The Desk Of”

  I always hated that.  What does “From the desk of” even mean?  The letter is not from some desk somewhere.  It’s from them.  Why don’t they take responsibility for it?  I can tell you that anything I write on these pages comes from me, not my desk or my kitchen table or my front […]

Last Week

Backroom Deals At CRDA?….

That’s hard to believe!     Here’s the David Wildstein piece on it:   Actually I received an anonymous tip about this matter and Doherty’s involvement in it a few months ago so I promptly fired off this OPRA: Unfortunately OPRAmachine had an obsolete contact for CRDA’s custodian of records. When a few weeks went […]

Council Meeting Of September 17, 2019

The Hits Keep Coming

Feds turn Belmar down for $600,000 Como engineering reimbursement. FEMA audit reveals $1 mil Sandy overpayment and they want it back. Dept of Community Affairs finds $1 mil improperly taken from beach utility last year, won’t allow budget to be passed until it is paid back. Plan is to borrow a million to pay the […]

Um…Aren’t You Forgetting Someone?

 

Como’s Costly Complications

  2015 bond for Lake Como project to be amended; * Amount borrowed to increase by 450%!   Ordinance 2015-24; July 2015: (2015-24 also happened to be the ordinance that unbundled the Taylor funding from the Como funding. Remember the fight over that dirty trick?)   Ordinance 2019-32; September 2019: My guess is we might […]

Last Week

BTW, I don’t have time to put it together right now, but check back in a few hours for what will be a very interesting post.

What Are They Dune??

Is this true? They put the dunes back? Did they get a permit this time?