- Ever since 2008, the Township Committee has appointed two members to be involved with negotiations about the Redevelopers Agreement (which has never been finalized.). Randy Bishop has been one, since the start, and he is always the one to be the spokesman for the project at public Township Committee meetings. Now Carol Rizzo has become the #2 Committee negotiator. That negotiating subcommittee should be reporting on its activities, but at a very long Committee meeting on July 25, they said nothing until a citizen inquired about the North End. Then it was revealed that the two sub-committeemen did meet with the Camp Meeting Association recently. Why? This process is about as transparent as my wife’s mushroom barley soup.
- We know that WAVE has the option to buy the North End land, but there are many hoops to jump through before that could happen. Meanwhile, the CMA still owns the land, as far as we know.
- Two Neptune Township dumpsters are sitting on that private land, and those dumpsters were noted to be brimming over yesterday (today they are not.). But what could they be dumping? Perhaps they are removing refuse having to do with the White Whale renovation. Is the Township doing contractor work for a private company and why are they doing that? Are the private owners of the White Whale paying for those Neptune dumpsters?
- Why was Committeeman Michael Brantley inspecting the North End property on July 27, 2016, at 11 am? He wasn’t going swimming. He was dressed in a business suit and was with two other “suits.” Shouldn’t he explain himself since the North End Redevelopment Plan (NERP) is a public project? Doesn’t this look peculiar?
Committeeman Michael Brantley at the southern edge of the North End Redevelopment project. Blogfinger photo. 7/27/16
5. The Township Attorney Gene Anthony said that he had nothing to report publicly at the Committee meeting about the North End negotiations because he hadn’t heard from WAVE or their attorney.
ALOE BLACC
Just Ask:
Why don’t you take your own advice and make that call? Then let our readers know the news. A couple of days ago we had 1700 visits on Blogfinger. You would be performing a public service.
Here’s a suggestion….why doesn’t someone just pick up the phone and call Mayor Brantley. I would think he would or should be happy to answer a concerned citizen’s question.
Nancy: You can be sure that the dumpster complaint would have been handled by the DPW chief. Committeemen don’t visit dumpsters—they pick up a phone; and do you really need 3 guys in suits to check two dumpsters??
To answer to why they met with the CMA: it was about the ground rent issue. At the Township Committee meeting, Gene Anthony reported on the meeting and said that CMA has said no more ground rent increases for now. (Nothing implied for the future.)
And perhaps Committeeman Brantley was at the North End because a complaint was made at the meeting about the overflowing dumpsters. Perhaps he was checking on what was being done about them and some mammoth trucks that were also reported.
And, yes, no movement on WAVE and the North End.