I am certain few paid heed to my purposefully not providing West Windsor Township Business Administrator Marlena Schmid with a copy of suggestions I presented during the March 3 West Windsor Council meeting.
I did not want to waste the paper.
Ms. Schmid has yet to respond to anything I have sent to her and the Hsueh administration. I guess she doesn’t like questions from peasants seeking public information and answers. Information sought via Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests is extremely slow and of finite value.
At the next Council meeting I will call Ms. Schmid out on this … and ask that Council seek an RFP bids for a competitive business administrator, as Council has done for the municipal attorney.
On an extremely positive note, what a seamless Council meeting! I thought I was in Plainsboro given the brevity and business-like conduct of Council under the leadership of Bryan Maher. (See story, page TK).
Secondly, if I were in Plainsboro, the extremely competent Plainsboro Business Administrator, Bob Sheehan, would be seated down front and off to the side with the township attorney.
Both of these positions (business administrator and attorney) provide the Council with advice and information; neither of these positions are a decision-making body afforded the dais.
The recently re-elected mayor leading to the November, 2013, election would have the electorate believe he is all about West Windsor. To the contrary, the directly elected, fully accountable mayor maintains he does NOT need to be present during Council meetings in which the township’s business is being conducted in public. Therefore, why does West Windsor need a paid figurehead?
Pete Weale
