Monday, December 10, 2012
Local Finance Board rules James Barberio's plea for friend's son was a 'personal letter.'
Mayor James Barberio was not out of line to send a letter to a Superior Court judge asking for leniency in a drug case involving the son of a friend last year, according to a ruling from the state Department of Community Affairs' Local Finance Board in response to a complaint lodged against Parsippany's chief executive. The body, however, failed to address the mayor's use of official township letterhead for what the LFB characterized in its denial to the complainant as "a personal letter." The issue arose in October 2011, when Barberio wrote a letter on behalf of his friend's son, Daniel Moses, who awaited sentencing after his guilty plea to charges of conspiracy to distribute eight pounds of marijuana. Moses, then 26, ultimately was …
Monday, November 5, 2012
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Monday, November 5, 2012
“Believe it or not! Is it good for the students? Is it good for Parsippany? Can we afford them?” Thus began a letter ’penned’ by Mike Strumolo and published in the Oct. 31 addition of Parsippany Life newspaper. Do you believe it is fair or unbiased for a newspaper to print a letter containing accusatory statements against candidates in an upcoming election without allowing time for rebuttal? [EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Strumolo asked Patch to run the letter to Patch Nov. 4; we opted to publish it Nov. 5, along with Mrs. Orthwein's rebuttal.] Unlike Mr. Strumolo, I will identify myself as a member of the Parsippany Board of Education and state clearly that the opinions expressed in this letter are my own and not those of the board. And as a citizen…
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Believe it or not! Is it good for the students? Is it good for Parsippany? Can we afford them? Do you believe these simple questions are asked by [Parsippany Schools Superintendent] LeRoy Seitz in his decisionmaking process for the turf fields? Then he must also believe that the lawsuit he initiated against the Parsippany Board of Education meets these criteria. Do you believe it is a good thing for our students to lose money out of the classroom to spend it in the courtroom to defend against "the poster child for greed and arrogance" and his litigation? Seitz and his supporters do! Do you believe that after the State of New Jersey rejected Seitz’s contract as being too generous his supporters rushed through a contract exceeding the …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
School board member Michael Strumolo, thinking he was the target of a possible ethics probe, gave the public a look into secret BOE talks.
Those wondering why the Parsippany Board of Education opted to spend up to $5,000 to hire former state Supreme Court justice Gary Stein for some unnamed investigative purpose finally got some answers last Thursday night. At the school board's meeting at Knollwood School last week, member Michael Strumolo, suspecting he was the rumored probe's focus, made a move to bring the matter into the open. When President Frank Calabria asked the board to approve the minutes of its Sept. 13 closed session, Strumolo asked to read a portion of the minutes into the public record. It was unclear whether permission to do so was granted, but Strumolo moved ahead, recounting the board's private meeting with Justice Stein and his son, attorney Michael Stein, …
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Martin blames himself for not double-checking what the superintendent was being paid in July.
Parsippany school board member Gary Martin has been on the job since May. He participated in the July vote to rescind Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz's disputed contract only to discover months later that that agreement was still being honored. That news led to the looming threat of the loss of $3.6 million in state school aid by the county executive superintendent. And now, after reviewing the situation and searching his own soul, Martin has filed charges with the state School Ethics Commission—against himself. "When I heard that Dr. Seitz, whom I respect, was making $220,565, which takes money away from the children, I felt sick," he told Patch. "After the board voted to rescind that illegal contract, I should have double-checked …
Mikey
2:10 am on Monday, December 17, 2012
Maybe he could have his friends son join the police department. The town could always use a new sergeant! more ›