Where else, on earth, can you find a $600. p/day job, to simply "muck"
things up, on a grand scale, negate the votes of the residents,
disenfranchising us and what little we have to offer in the way of
summer recreation, because "someone", has designated you "Lord and
Master" over a fiefdom, of under 18,000? I thought we had enough
"bosses"! It's ironic, that we all speak with one voice, when it
comes to the kids! I wish we could agree on how to bring our City
back, to it's once glorious past, but we can barely keep the lights
lit, in Library Park!
2 thumbs up to Hinge, for his unflinching love, for a little piece of
heaven, called the Library Square, an overlooked, mostly forgotten,
piece of public real estate, gone to pot and frequented by the lesser
of our brethren, the down and out and dependent on their "fix"! What
sin did we commit, to have us in the "fix", we're in?
It just didn't begin with this board, the previous board or the board
in 97, that wanted to fix a broken Asbury Park, but from the 70's,
after the riots, dedicated to never educate the children left behind,
when other school districts, started taking children from our
district, for music enrichment, which if AP was thinking straight,
could have hired someone, to come into the district and teach it here!
If Red Bank Regional could have this program, what was preventing AP,
from having it too? The present board has it problems, which I tend
to think, are caused by the arm wrenchers, who want the "free
thinkers", to march in lockstep with THEM! No free thinking allowed
here! Frank, please free to use these terms freely and often! I
don't even care if you use my real name! I am not a member of the
board, nor do I speak for it! My opinions are just that, opinions. I
have no personal opinion of anyone on the board of education and
consider myself, a free thinker and progressive.
I just wish, that with all of the positive publicity, the Pop Warner
and Varsity Football, the hard work, put forth by the young Black
Males coaching them, as proof, that not all Blacks are in gangs, using
drugs or gang bangers, the least this town could do, is educate these
kids, in a proper fashion. The Children, are our future. Let's not
dash their hopes, that they can and will get a decent education, as
Americans, they are entitled to. These are the types of citizens, a
town could only dream of. We actually have them here, in these young
men and boys, in spite of where they live or who their parents are.
My 2 cents!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <asburycouple@>
> wrote:
> >
> > It is amazing to me that something that seems to have always been so
> > broadly supported by the people of this city (who usually never agree
> > on anything) is being scuttled by an attorney and a monitor who don't
> > live here. Aren't there so much more important issues that the
> > school board attorney and monitor should be focused on - like the
> > fact that we are still paying Dr. Lewis or the fact that the school
> > performance needs tremendous improvements? That's what the monitor
> > was brought in to fix - not this. Are the real problems just too
> > hard? Is that why the monitor has chosen to focus here instead - to
> > justify their existence without having to tackle the real and hard
> > issues?
> >
> > This is just another bad joke on the people of Asbury Park. We can
> > never seem to help ourselves, but clearly those who are supposed to
> > help from outside can't or won't either. Stopping the Little League
> > isn't helping anyone.
> >
>
> Do I have your permission to read your statement at the BOE
> meeting next Wednesday? Anyone else also who would like their
> statement of support for the Little League read into the record, I
> would be happy to do so.
>
> Although I do not speak for the Board, there have been so many
> phony arguments and monkey wrenches thrown into this issue that it is
> sickening. The state monitor also does not speak for the board,
> although he has veto power over what the board does, acording to
> Commssioner Lucille Davy. But first THE BOARD HAS TO DO IT! He does
> not have the power of prior restraint. He is in essence the viceroy
> of the Commissioner of Education and ultimately the governor, but
> until the BOE is removed we are still the elected officials here.
>
> What this man is doing is disenfranchising the voters of Asbury
> Park, and in his "zeal", to put it charitably, he is reaching back
> even to the bond issue of 1997, which promised a refurbished little
> league field where it is now as part of the two million dollars voted
> on by the citizens of Asbury Park. He is indeed a miracle man who is
> not only bringing together people who have not been able to work
> together for years, but is changing the past as well. The people of
> Asbury Park voted for the Little League Field to be there, and that's
> where it should remain.
>
> We do indeed need a first class facility as well at the
> Intermediate School. These kids have been playing on a disgusting
> moonscape there, much to the shame of the BOE and the people
> responsible for maintaining that field. But do not let the state
> monitor/viceroy/czar confuse the issue. Do not let the perfect be the
> enemy of the good. In time we can and must have decent facilities at
> both sites. But now it's the long-suffering Little League's turn to
> get the improvements at the present field that they have worked so
> hard to pay for and work towards.
>
> A man who has been here five minutes, forces us to pay him a
> ridiculous amount of money ($600 a day plus expenses five days a week,
> 52 weeks a year, all while he continues to pull down a hefty pension)
> to put forth edicts like some potentate out of Zanadu could better
> spend his time and our money helping to solve problems that are really
> problems; and we have enough of those to keep anyone busy for a
> lifetime.
>
> Frank "I'll get off me soapbox now" D'Alessandro
>
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