The problem with Tom Borkowski running for Hunterdon County Freeholder with Will Mennen is Borkowski’s public record. Big Taxes During 6 years as mayor of Clinton Township, Tom Borkowski raised the municipal tax levy 39.4%. (Did Mennen do his due diligence?) Borkowski talks about lowering the “tax rate,” but that’s political hocus pocus. The tax [...]
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Tom Borkowski: Who wants big taxes, big bonding, patronage jobs & dysfunctional leadership for Hunterdon County?
Monday, May 20th, 2013 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, Taxes, Tom Borkowski's Greatest Hits, Windy Acres
Filed under: Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, Taxes, Tom Borkowski's Greatest Hits, Windy Acres
At It Again: It’s time for a Clinton Township school board member to resign
Oooooh… Tarnation! They just keep flubbing the law! Teacher’s gonna be mad… The bad boys and girls of the Clinton Township school board are at it again. A candidate in the November 6 Clinton Township school board election misused a Clinton Township recreation department Commissioner’s mailing list for his personal benefit, to tell parents of young soccer players [...]
New Jersey swallows JCP&L’s “7-10 days” PR gambit
JCP&L executed a brilliant PR tactic as Hurricane Sandy approached New Jersey. Even before the storm hit, and before they could possibly know the extent of outages, JCP&L announced that “it will take 7-10 days to bring power back.” How’d they know that? Simple: They didn’t. It was a brilliant public relations gambit. To ward off [...]
3 MMMbarrassment for Clinton Township
The “3 Ms” running for “re-election” on the Clinton Township school board are an embarrassment: Kevin Maloy Rachel McLaughlin Dan McTiernan Hundreds of their campaign signs are all over town. The three incumbents have ganged up as a “team” to run against just one other candidate, Jill Setaro, for the three 3-year seats. The 3 Ms have [...]
“The board of education has made some missteps”
Thursday, Aug 30th, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Election 2012, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
Filed under: Election 2012, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
From the Hunterdon Democrat, August 29, 2012: CLINTON TWP. — Jim Dincuff, president of the board of education, offered an apology to the public in the wake of a recent determination by the county prosecutor that the board had violated the state Open Public Meetings Act during several of its meetings. The act is also [...]
Dincuff: “I said there’s no IRREFUTABLE evidence!”
Monday, Aug 20th, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Election 2012, Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools
Filed under: Election 2012, Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools
At the March 29, 2012 Clinton Township school board meeting, board president Jim Dincuff accused two board members of violating New Jersey state ethics rules. According to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor, Dincuff then violated the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-13(a) and N.J.S.A. 10:4-13(b), and took the entire board into an illegal executive session to [...]
School board attorney spins Prosecutor’s findings
Saturday, Aug 18th, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Election 2012, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
Filed under: Election 2012, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
The Clinton Township school board’s official spokesperson, attorney Vito Gagliardi, is misleading the board and the public about Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns, III’s findings that the board violated the Open Public Meetings Act multiple times on multiple occasions. At the July 23 school board meeting, Gagliardi spins the Prosecutor’s findings. He says that “the [...]
Scofflaw School Board Just Can’t Obey The Law: Dincuff’s crew is a mockery
Wednesday, Aug 15th, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Election 2012, Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
Filed under: Election 2012, Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, Taxes
Oh, no! They did it again! Jim Dincuff’s Clinton Township school board violated the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), N.J.S.A. 10:4-12. The fourth time in three months — and all after they voted never to do it again. Last night, at the August 14, 2012 board meeting, president Dincuff failed to set aside a portion [...]
Maria Grant: Who cares what the school board voted to do?
The Clinton Township school board has already been warned by County Prosecutor Kearns that it’s a no-no to vote to do one thing, then do something else. It’s never clear what the Clinton Township school board means to communicate to the public, and Maria Grant – the chair of the board’s “communications committee” — doesn’t seem to [...]
Deliberate, Willful & Knowing: School board keeps breaking the law after resolving to end violations
In a detailed July 11, 2012 letter, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns, III found that the Clinton Township school board violated several sections of the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) on multiple occasions, failing to properly disclose its executive sessions, and producing inaccurate meeting minutes. Since then, the school board has made several statements through its [...]