An OG complainer at an HOA meeting. Give Jack a hand. Blogfinger photo, undated. ©
Last night Grover Ken Buckley went before the Neptune Township Committee to complain about the failure of the Township to solve the problem of derelict houses. We used to write articles all the time on Blogfinger complaining about those DH’s, but all those articles accomplished was to raise awareness. We went to court to hear Neptune’s lawyers file impotent complaints against landlords and we went to meetings of the OGHOA which appointed a derelict houses committee.
The derelict committee complained and they created a fine website (derelictbuildings.net) which frames the issues nicely including quotes from the law and pictures of rotting buildings, but no new ideas were found. Their website has posted nothing since last July, and the HOA’s website is currently suspended.
Ken Buckley should be commended for shining a bright light again on this matter, but in the end, he has no new ideas either. Yet he has singled out the citizens of Ocean Grove because they complain without having solutions.
But there are no strings attached to the First Amendment, and so, citizens of Ocean Grove, complain all you want, even if you are clueless as to how to solve the derelict housing problem. Blogfinger is open for business.
–Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger