Some Questions For Upper Saddle River Mayor & Council
A Special Council meeting has been called. Apparently there are some pressing issues that won’t wait until the next regular meeting. Meantime some residents are waiting for answers that never seem to be anwered.
- With a vacancy on the Borough Council where on the Borough website is the information that the seat is vacant? The last minutes posted were from the December 27 2018 meeting. How are the residents to know what is going on with their elected officials if there is no current information?
- Why exactly does the town need a Deputy Clerk? After so many years has the workload increased so much? And if so, why? How much extra is this going to add to the borough budget? Who approved this new position?
- Why is there a ‘closed session’ to discuss Litigation? Is the town being sued? Or is the town suing? As the residents ultimately end up footing the bill why is this not being done in a public forum? What is being hidden?
- Why won’t the town live stream council meetings? As a point of public record and transparency why does the council think it is ok to rely on the voluntary streaming that is done by members of 2 Facebook groups? As it takes, on average, fully 8 weeks to get the minutes of the meetings posted to the website this delay is not satisfactory. Why are the mayor and council unwilling to meet residents requests allowing them to be part of the civic process and take part, remotely. Not a good reflection on democracy.
- Why are the financial accounts reported in a way that the general public can’t understand? Transparency. Accountability.
- Why is there still a need for a secret meeting before the general council meeting? While there certainly are issues of confidentiality, there are an awful lot of major decisions, of public interest that occur during these meetings. Transparency again.
Hopefully some of these questions will be answered at this or a future meeting. Residents are listening.
Please join me in sending BIG Congrats to the entire Rotella family! Welcome aboard the sinking ship called USR M&C! I truly hope you will bring some transparency to this Council🤞. Kathy and Douglas, anybody who’s a friend of momma Yatko MUST be good for this town. I hope other Citizens’ members will welcome Doug and you with open arms. Perhaps now we can convince Jannie to consider to join you guys. That would change IMHO the dynamics of this town forever. Let’s get together and move this town #ReallyForward towards transparency and mutual respect. Bravo, bravo, 👏
Derek you’re an idiot….stop kissing people’s asses here. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Erik, such mean spitrited comments IMHO disqualify you as a candidate for any public office. You are a buffoon and narcissist. Period! Let’s focus our efforts on supporting John McCann, Frank Pallotaand Mike Ghassali in their fight for District 5 and not waste any more time on meaningless USR NO-EVENT election in the town of phonies……..