Frank,
When I read this in the paper, I was very confused. 1. When did the
City Council begin speaking for the BOE? 2. Since you ALL are
ELECTED, separately, (2 elections), by the Citizens of AP, are
SEPARATE entities, budgets, etc., where the Council, is more geared
toward municipal government, garbage pickup, street sweeping, law
enforcement, salaries for municipal workers, etc. When citizens
complain to the Council, are they legally able to intercede?
They administer 1 aspect of governance, where your group attends to
the educational needs of this community. I never thought that the
Council would be so "dead set" against this BOE! What was I thinking?
Sorry, if I'm behind a little. Been offline for a few days attending
to other business. Tell me, who OWNS, this building, the city or the
school board. Why was the original board building "sold", to the
developer and who got the proceeds? How are they able to sell a
public parcel? Again, who got the proceeds? Why was the present
building, "sold" out from under you guys, again, literally tossing the
board into the street, like a "deadbeat" tenant, which you and the
board certainly aren't; I just don't get it. You don't win friends of
forge partnerships, by doing so. There I go "thinking", again!
Sharon
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@> wrote:
> >
> > REad today's press on the school board, pre-k, board offices etc etc.
> >
> > Only in AP no one knows what the other wants to do.
> >
> > And the state paid $5.2m for the building which has sat empty.
> >
> > SOS.
> >
> > Go Frank Go.
> >
> > See Frank Go.
> >
> > Go Frank Go.
> >
> > Make sense out of it.
>
> I actually feel the same way about the lack of communication.
> How in the world would the BOE know what the council was up to
> especially with respect to the Braverman building when just a week
> previous, council members were quoted as saying that the building they
> were negotiating for was in the Redevelopment Zone? Mr. Bruno was
> quoted as saying that the developers probably would want something in
> return for taking that building out the zone (maybe extra floors for
> their luxury condos, etc.) How's this for chutzpah: years ago the
> council condemned the BOE administration building (public property) to
> hand it over to private developer and felon Kushner without so much as
> consulting the Board. For what it is worth, this is my recollection
> of last week's council meeting. (For "health" reasons I do not go to
> council meetings. The only reason I attended this one was because I
> had visited Werner in the county jail that afternoon and hoped to
> speak to people who would be at the council meeting. I also
> considered speaking about the treatment of Werner at the public
> comment portion of the meeting. That became moot when I left the
> meeting abruptly.)
>
> Monday,
> September 10, 2007
>
> I was at the Asbury Park City Council meeting of Wednesday, September
> 5, 2007. I arrived shortly after 7 PM. The 6 PM Workshop meeting was
> still going on when I arrived. Toward the end of that Workshop
> meeting (about 8 PM), Councilman Loffredo announced to the people in
> the meeting, including many senior citizens present who were prepared
> to submit a petition to the council concerning the lack of progress in
> the 5-year search for a permanent Senior Center, that he had good
> news. Mr. Loffredo said that the city was acquiring the "Braverman
> Building" as the new Senior Center. Since I had been involved along
> with the Board of Ed President Robert DiSanto and the Superintendent
> of Schools at the time, Dr. Lewis, I was shocked to hear Mr. Loffredo
> say that since I knew that was the same building which the now-defunct
> SCC had bought for the Board of Ed to be torn down and replaced with a
> state of the art Early Childhood Learning Center. We had been working
> on the plans for many years, and the only thing that prevented further
> progress was the fact that the SCC had run out of money.
>
> When Mr. Loffredo made his announcement, there was a cheer from
> the senior citizens present. At that time, I went over to one of the
> Senior leaders, Mrs. Marianne Kisloski, and explained that this was
> the property that was supposed to house the ECLC. I expressed my
> displeasure that the Council seemed to be pitting one group against
> the other by making this announcement, when no more than a week
> previous, it had been announced that the building for which the
> Council was negotiating was in the Redevelopment Zone (about a half
> mile away from the Braverman Building), and according to the deputy
> Mayor, the negotiations had to be secret and the "Developers" would
> have to be in on the negotiations as well as the unnamed building's
> owners since they would probably want something in return for the
> taking a building out of that zone. Here it was a week later and the
> building now being acquired was nowhere near the redevelopment zone.
>
> When that Workshop meeting ended and there was a short recess, I
> asked the reporter for the Asbury Park Press, Ms. Nancy Shields, if
> she had heard what I had heard. She said she did, and at that point I
> approached the City Manager, Mr. Terry Reidy, for an explanation. I
> prefaced my remarks by saying that this was yet another instance of
> the Council refusing to communicate with the BOE that would cause a
> huge problem, like they did when they condemned the BOE's
> Administration building without so much as consulting with the BOE. I
> said they were now creating a conflict between the Seniors and the
> kids, and the BOE would be made to be the villains. At that point he
> said that he knew that the BOE had sent a letter to the State saying
> we were no longer interested in the Braverman Building as an ECLC! I
> reminded him that I was a member of the BOE, was involved in the
> discussions about the building including having commented on
> renderings of the proposed facility, in which way the new building
> should be oriented (the Braverman building was parallel to the
> railroad tracks), where the drop-off for the buses would be, etc.,
> etc. I told him I wanted to see a copy of the letter he was talking
> about. At that point (about 8:15 PM), the so-called 7 PM regular
> meeting was gaveled to order. I was so upset about what had just
> transpired that I immediately left the council chambers and went home.
>
> I immediately called a fellow board member, Mr. Greg Brewington,
> told him what had transpired and what Mr. Reidy had said to me, and
> asked if he was aware of any letter from the BOE to the State that we
> were no longer interested in the Braverman Building. He was unaware
> of any such letter. The next morning I called the BOE President and
> asked him if he was aware of any such letter. He was not, but he
> would attempt to ascertain whether anyone in Central Office knew of
> such a letter.
>
>
> Frank D'Alessandro
>
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