Despite enlarged pictures, arguments for public safety, public presentations, a fully staffed and funded West Windsor Police Department Traffic Safety Division, two staff engineers, and letters to the mayor and council for public safety sidewalks along Route 571 in Penns Neck, the cricket fields get a priority without any 91-page business plan (see Grover House) or private funding (see former WW-P Board President Hemant Marathe-led demands of school district for private funding of football/band/soccer/graduation field lighting)?
The better protocol would be to invite the mayor, whenever he returns from an extended vacation, to walk and bike along Route 571 during morning/evening rush hour and at night in the rain and snow. For best results, sprinkle a few signs on residents’ yards and heap copious amounts of praise on Council. Voila!
I don’t wish to be a council member. Rather, I wish I were a former council member who just shows up with a herd of residents (most of whom I have never seen attend a council meeting in 12-plus years), and walk off with funding advanced from a couple of years into the future.
It appears if you want something done, get a former politician to mumble a few words and things get done. No questions asked. Despite millions of taxpayer dollars sitting in the mayor’s fund balance, even the sidewalks in downtown Plywood Junction — Best Town in the World — aren’t completed. Why elect a mayor and pay any salary to those unable to get things done? Lead, follow, or get a government job.
