Peter Bradley calls the lack of information for fields referendum deliberate and accuses the BOE of lacking 'managerial courage.'
The Parsippany Board of Education's $7.7 million athletic fields referendum is scheduled for Tuesday. And with one day prior to the special election, many residents say they still have not received sample ballots in the mail. One township man decided to take action to ensure that people can make an informed decision at the polls. Peter Bradley created a flyer that he distributed to his neighbors over the past weekend. He said concern over the lack of information moved him to act—and he accused the school board of being deliberately slow in getting information to voters. "I’m convinced the BOE believes the referendum would fail if more people knew the full story," he charged. "I’d prefer a fair vote and let the results be what they may be. …
The state Senate approved a 2013 referendum on raising the minimum wage and tying it to yearly increases
A proposal to raise the state's minimum wage could bypass Governor Christie and go directly to voters. During Monday's Senate hearings, Senate President Steve Sweeney of Gloucester County received preliminary support for a resolution calling for a Constitutional Amendment to allow for an increased minimum wage and tie future yearly increases to national economic data. The initiative would be placed on the 2013 ballot for voter approval. Sweeney's proposal, which was approved by committee 7-6, would effectively remove Christie from the approval process. Christie had previously indicated he would not sign a bill that included automatic indexed adjustments, according to a report on nj.com. “For years, New Jersey has assigned a dollar amount …
Superintendent says plans are on track for residents to decide fate of athletic improvements at the high schools.
Parsippany Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz says plans are falling in place to achieve a January referendum in which voters will decide whether to go ahead with athletic improvements at Parsippany and Parsippany Hills high schools. He talked about the Board of Education's version of the project once known as Fields of Dreams at the Thursday school board meeting. Seitz told the State Department of Education gave the district an extension on the July 26 deadline to submit plans for fields improvements, which he said means a January referendum is still possible. He said the first draft of the plans will be delivered to the district Monday and the he will meet with the architects at that time. The superintendent recommended that the board…
Hank Heller
1:16 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Thank you, Maurice and Steve and the many other good people on both sides of the referendum. There is no place in this question for patent dishonesty. If the "bad actors" can be identified, I hope they will. In this way, perhaps many more of us on both sides of the question can get together to try to improve the problem of the fields in reasonable and honest ways. I wish us all good luck in that … more ›