While Plainsboro is focused on its present and future while celebrating a whopping new $523 million medical center, West Windsor’s esteemed mayor is trapped in his “brand” of management by wandering around.
West Windsor’s leadership is caught in the quicksand of a sign ordinance, solar panels (shot down by Hamilton Township) yet thriving in West Windsor on university land, desecration of the historic Grover farmstead, a construction trailer duct-taped to the front of a municipal complex, white elephants throughout the Township (think American Cyanamid/General Growth Properties and the area behind Ellsworth’s) with runaway costs in all areas of Township operations. However, we DO have two vehicles for every Public Works employee. We have bike paths out the wazoo and little fiscal oversight/transparency of the WW Arts Council, among others.
We could go on … but why? Implosion due to monumental incompetence? There is the continued fleecing of West Windsor by a part-time mayor who is full-time absent. There is an epidemic of incompetence supported by taxpayers who are simply “too busy” to demand oversight. Byran Maher is the FIRST person in my 28 years of West Windsor residency to exhibit any sort of fiscal testosterone. Why? Perhaps it is simply asking questions and demanding answers.
What a black eye on the communities with a Board of Education focused more on staff salaries than its simple charter of education! The school administration and board are more interested in padding operational funding than requiring students to give back to the community. Students head into the real world devoid of how government and schools operate. Is it any wonder we get a disconnect from the community that when our young people leave our public schools, they also leave their hometown? Residents must control the agenda instead of blindly mailing in the onerous tax burden.
We must vet these issues of helicopter lessons, runaway fuel costs, township vehicles used as personal chariots, and the pipe dream of a fiscal and environmentally challenged transit village engineered without taxpayer sanction. The no-bid professional service contracts have crafted a smorgasbord of riches for those willing to prostitute themselves to curry favor with the mayor’s agenda.
What do you think?
Pete Weale
Fisher Place, West Windsor
