Saturday, May 18, 2013
All Parsippany municipal office candidate tickets have confirmed that they will be represented.
Voters get the chance to get to know their municipal candidates better prior to the June 4 primary election. The 2013 Parsippany Candidates Forum, sponsored by Parsippany Patch, Parsippany Life, the Daily Record and NJ.com, will be held May 21 at 6 p.m. at Lake Parsippany Rescue and Recovery, 100 Centerton Road. All of Parsippany's political tickets fielding candidates for mayor and Township Council have confirmed that they will be represented. The forum is intended to give interested residents an opportunity to get the information they need to cast an informed vote in the upcoming election. The event moderators, representatives of the four major media outlets serving the township, will ask questions to each of the candidates. Residents …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Advocate said he's filed ethics complaint because Montville Library Board attorney Ann Grossi is giving 'false legal advice' on restricting pornography.
The Montville Township Public Library Board's attorney and a retired lawyer advocating against pornography on library computers have different advice on whether public libraries must turn off Internet filters at an adult patron's request. But a recent situation in which a man viewed pornography on a township library computer did not hinge on the filter being turned off at his request, board attorney and Parsippany resident Ann Grossi said Wednesday. He simply got around the filter that's already in place. The Montville library board's technology committee is looking at ways to strengthen the filter as one of the ways the board may address the issue, she said. Grossi advises that the filter be turned off if requested, and points to a U.S. …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Before council, John Inglesino hails Somerset County Prosecutor's finding that criminal charges were not 'viable' in Town Hall job-offer allegations.
Town attorney John Inglesino addressed the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office decision not to pursue criminal charges against Mayor James Barberio and associates at Tuesday's Township Council meeting at Parsippany High School. Inglesino claimed vindication over the decision, which was prompted by a probe based on claims by former Parsippany Police officer and current council candidate Dr. Louis Valori. The candidate had claimed Inglesino, Barberio and Council President Brian Stanton offered him a $50,000 police department public relations job to keep him out of the 2013 election race. Valori took his complaints—and a portion of a secret recording he made of the Sunday, Jan. 13, Town Hall meeting where the job was discussed—to law …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In Parsippany, voters will choose party nominees for mayor, Town Council, county clerk and the state legislature.
Tuesday is the last day to register to vote in the June 4 primary election. To register, head to the municipal clerk’s office at Town Hall between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Local races include Republican and Democratic races for mayor and for two seats on the Township Council. The GOP races are contested: Mayor James Barberio is running for re-election against Councilman Paul Carifi Jr. For council, Robert J. Peluso and former Parsippany Police officer Dr. Louis Valori, on the Carifi ticket, face Barberio's ticketmates, Councilman Vincent Ferrara and former Plannng Board member Milin Shah. Running for council on his own is Republican Board of Education member Michael Strumolo. The Democrats are unopposed in the primary: Councilman Jonathan Nelson …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Barberio blasts councilmen seeking mayor's seat for voting against introduction of $62M 2013 spending plan.
The Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Council, by a vote of 3-2, approved the introduction of Mayor James Barberio's proposed $62 million 2013 municipal budget at its Tuesday night agenda meeting at Parsippany High School — and the town's top executive is not happy that the vote wasn't unanimous. Council members Paul Carifi Jr. and Jonathan Nelson, who are both running for mayor in the 2013 election, voted against the measure. Barberio is running for re-election. In a statement released Wednesday, Barberio attacked them both and called on the councilmen to change their votes when the measure comes up for a final vote. The $62,286,803.97 spending plan would result in a zero percent tax increase for residents. "I worked hard on this budget to …
Have a thought regarding a municipal matter or another issue? Share it on Patch.
I attended a special Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Council meeting in December 2008, the week before former Mayor Michael Luther’s last year in office. In attendance were the five council members, the business administrator, the township attorney and former municipal clerk Judy Silver. I identify Judy Silver because to me, Town Hall's Council Chambers was her “house,” yet all documents that evening were prepared by Morris County Joint Insurance Fund administrators and distributed by District 26 Asw. BettyLou DeCroce, who then served as Roxbury's town clerk and as MJIF chair. On that evening, we witnessed a deal done before it even started. MJIF is a self-insurance fund comprising of townships mostly from Morris County. When one thinks of …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Parsippany-based Freeholder Ann Grossi is building support for her bid for a new job.
Morris County Freeholder Ann Grossi, running in the June 4 Republican primary to replace outgoing county Clerk Joan Bramhall, has something to celebrate. Her campaign has announced that the Par-Troy resident has won the public support of a long list of New Jersey mayors. The list, headed by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Mayor James Barberio, who is running for re-election, includes the names of 24 town leaders. An open letter sent to Morris County Republicans by an entity called Mayors for Ann Grossi and signed by Barberio extols the candidates virtues. "As Republican elected officials and community leaders we can think of no one more qualified and capable of continuing the integrity and efficient management of the clerk’s office than …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Paul Carifi Jr. blasts investigation of brother, James Carifi; Barberio says candidate's bid is an 'act of revenge'; Police Chief says he's got it wrong.
Councilman Paul Carifi Jr., who is running for mayor and at least publicly so far has stayed away from the campaign controversies arising from ticketmate Dr. Louis Valori's accusations of a quid pro quo job offer against incumbent Mayor James Barberio, is speaking out. The candidate says efforts to investigate his brother, Board of Education member and retiring Parsippany Police Capt. James Carifi, are politically motivated. Barberio rejects the accusation and says Paul Carifi's criticisms are "unethical" considering his council status and may rise to the level of official misconduct. “Time and time again, Jamie Barberio resorts to unscrupulous schemes in an attempt to ascertain an easy campaign victory," Paul Carifi said in a statement …
The town filed a Superior Court motion that may force the police captain to talk—and may cost him a $368K retirement payout.
It appears there is more trouble for Parsippany Board of Education member and retiring police Capt. James Carifi. Hard on the heels of having his April 1 retirement delayed due to an in-progress Parsippany Police internal affairs probe, published reports say the township has filed a motion alleging Carifi took official and perhaps confidential documents belonging to the PPD—which, if proven, could rise to the level of theft of digital information, a second-degree offense. The motion filed Friday before Superior Court Judge Rosemary Ramsey in Morristown accuses Carifi of using removable hard drives to transfer to his personal email police reports and confidential information about residents not wanted in connection with any crime—and that …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Michael Strumolo says the township's form of government should evolve to give residents more representation.
Michael Strumolo, a member of the Parsippany Board of Education running for one of two contested Town Council seats in the Republican June 4 primary, says the township's form of government needs to evolve. Strumolo said the Faulkner model used by Parsippany, with one full-time "strong" mayor and a five-member part-time legislative body, is not meeting residents' needs. He insisted his thoughts are in no way meant to criticize anyone currently serving. "I am committed to running a campaign based upon ideas and not personal attacks on any other candidates," he said, but added that citizens must ask themselves some important questions. "Do you know your current Town Council member? Do you feel they are representing your interests well? Do you…
Jerry Manning
11:14 am on Monday, May 20, 2013
The Mayor gets nothing done without the approval of the Council.. The current Mayor had nothing to do with the golden parachute for the Chief. That situation was put in place quite a few administrations ago... If you think the better answer is Carifi jr., just remember he and his brother,Capt.Carifi were the campain managers for the campaign to oust the very honorable current Sheriff with an … more ›