There was some good entertainment at West Windsor town council’s regular business meeting on Monday, March 1. Unfortunately, the “entertainment” distracted from the task at hand.
The task at hand was the mayor’s annual State of the Township Address. The audience had come to hear the mayor’s important annual speech about the town. The mayor delivered a well-prepared speech that touched on all aspects of the town, from the budget to commercial development to roads and traffic, among others. It presented a solid state of the township, with good progress on all fronts.
The mayor also unveiled a delightful new video about West Windsor that showcases different aspects of the township from shopping to commercial areas to parks and open spaces.
Unfortunately the audience had to also sit through a staged presentation by a few town residents rehashing old business and a councilman’s own long-winded speech. Both presentations were unnecessary and purely grandstanding. The councilman in particular had no business presenting his own “state of the township” address. He is not the mayor.
These types of interruptions to the council meetings happen time and again and cost the taxpayers a lot of money in wasted time and effort. We cannot afford this. I suggest we implement some constraints to put a limit to the rabble-rousing and get on with business.
Lindsay Diehl
