Don't get confused about what state you are in. This is NJ. We are in the hole around 30 bil. AND it was the state the funded the waste found in the other towns. Maybe tougher regulations would have prevented. I don't know but my faith are not in the leaders of this state.
----- Original Message ---- From: dfsavgny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:16:20 PM Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: School Waste --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "asburycouple" <asburycouple@ ...> wrote: > > That said, what scares me > is that while note speaking on behalf of the board there is a board > member who recognizes a sense of powerlessness to fix this locally > and is looking forward to the state's involvement to fix a local > issue. A fair interpretation. > The more I see here, the more I think our entire system of > government in AP is just broken. Even fairer. > Perhaps it's time to move to a > full-time, paid mayoral post responsible for running the city and > ultimately responsible for the schools as well. I think we need not only a full-time mayor, with whom the buck ultimately stops, but we need, as Tommy says, a ward or district system for election of council members. As to the mayor being responsible for the schools, that has begun to work out well in NYC, however, AP may be just too small, and I do not know if I would want the city's hands on that pot of dough. School boards technically are on par with the city in terms of power (don;t ask me how the city was able to condemn an equal power's property) with school boards created from the state. I think it may be time to move to regional school boards with more state oversight. > lack in both city and school governance is a strong leader who is > empowered to drive change and accountable to the people. In the > current system is it impoossible to really understand who's really > accountable for anything. Sort of like working in a bank. The modus operandi is that at the end of the day all of the arrows should point away from you. Except of course if there is credit to be taken or a photo op. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
