This Township Committee has become an albatross around the necks of Ocean Grovers. Photo on the Ocean Pathway. Vote them out! Blogfinger ©
At the September 24, 2018 Township Committee meeting, Michael Brantley, who also is on the Mayor’s Negotiating Committee, said that he met with the North End Redeveloper (OGNED) about the North End Redevelopment project.
As a result, he said, “I hope to have some very good news about the North End plan before the next month is out.”
This is his way of saying “by the end of October.” Of course, this announcement now is a nothing-burger.*
But, in view of this “where’s the beef” moment, let us speculate:
We guess that the Committeeman will announce something that will please the new Redeveloper so that he might make a ton of money defacing the North End of OG. And/or it is news that will please the Township Committee because of all the tax money. And/or it will please the CMA for a variety of financial reasons.
What will he have to say that will please the citizens of Ocean Grove? Probably “gornish,” (A Yiddish word which means “nothing.”)
Meanwhile, two residents previously asked the Committee to have the Redevelopment Attorney attend this meeting to explain the violations of land use law going on here. Do you think he came? Of course, he did not, and this is another example of the massive indifference towards the people of OG by the Township Committee.
* Merriam Webster definition: “The term nothing-burger emerges in the media whenever something is downplayed as irrelevant or insignificant. Although the term itself is not new, it has taken on new life in recent months as the au courant way of saying “there’s nothing to see here.”
Committee Theme Song. “Ain’t Misbehaven.” HANK WILLIAMS, JR.