I’ll keep this short, because I have said it before, and I will – probably – have to say it again.
So, City Council is gobsmacked at Wednesday’s announcement that Trenton’s Heritage Days will be produced again this year at a cost to the City’s taxpayers of $40,000?
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
According to the Trentonian article by David Foster, “Council President Phyllis Holly-Ward said Mayor Tony Mack gave his word that he would remove the annual party from the budget… ‘There’s nothing that we can do to actually stop him,’ Holly-Ward said.
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
“‘We don’t need a party, the councilman [George Muschal] said. ‘We spend thousands of dollars on somebody singing — pick them up in a limousine. This is craziness.’ The former city police officer of 40 years also worries about safety. ‘When you get eight shootings in a weekend, it’s going to worry anyone,’ Muschal said. ‘This is not acceptable.'”
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
“[Mayoral Aide and Fuckup Without Portfolio Anthony] Roberts said that Heritage Days did not need state approval because it is not a new event. He claims the party must go on.”
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
And this was discussed at the same meeting at which Council authorized $450,000 in additional overtime to Trenton’s Fire Department.
What’s another $40,000 when “the party must go on,” am I right?
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
So, Councilmembers, how long are you going to continue to act all gobsmacked with your mouths hanging open every bloody time this Administration continues to brazenly get away with wasting our money on unauthorized boondoggles?
How long before you actually do something about it???
(2) The Council may, for cause, remove any municipal officer other than the Mayor or a member of Council. – Trenton City Ordinance Section 2-9 A. (2)
Trenton City Council = Amateur hour.
It’s becoming embarrassing for them to be continually punched in the nose by Tony Mack and Anthony Roberts then sit there with their pie holes agape.
Here’s a novel idea directed at Trenton City Council.
Read up on your powers and use them!
Instead of posting inspiritional sayings to your Facebook wall each morning when you have coffee, or adding to the general chatter of the FOTIB Facebook page with no follow up to the tough questions, get your collective acts together and use your powers!
Great piece Kevin, I second it, now will the council grow a set.
Trenton’s Heritage Days has been dead for years, and the mayor is its champion.
even during its best days, years ago, it wasnt much. $40k could well be spent on just about anything, maybe hire someone to board up the hotel from fiscal hell.
Kevin, just to keep this in the realm of tractable discussion, the ordinance allows this “for cause”. While I’m sure there are a dozen other things to point to – for this one incident, what would be considered valid “cause”? Being a pig headed dipshit doesn’t seem to hold water nor does wasting our money (clearly, or all of City Hall should be fired).
just saw on line that the mayors trial will be in “January 2014”
One important function of city council is to keep an eye on the public purse – in other words, they have the right (maybe even the obligation) to say, “NO!” They seem afraid to do so. Heritgage Day(s) is a case in point. Did anyone notice that the recent Punk Rock Flea Market was a huge success without any public funding?
Hi, James – Thanks for posting. Well,I think that a case could be made that repeatedly spending unauthorized and unappropriated funds is cause for dismissal. If Mr. Roberts – to name one person – approves $40,000 for Heritage Days this year; $1,000 for an unauthorized pedestal; $12,000 for National Night Out; and $75,000 for last year’s Heritage Days; that’s a lot of money. That’s certainly grounds to consider discipline up to and including dismissal, don’t you think?
That works for me! Now what the hell is Council waiting for!?