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On the Blog Post May 7 Town Council meeting
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On the Blog Post May 7 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
1:44 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
At a council meeting earlier this year, the town's public information officer indicated that MyTown Marketing had ended its social media marketing services for performance-related issues. The previous vendor should not be confused with the current vendor, which has had no performance-related issues that I know of (and whose executive provided an extensive update on its activities for the town at a recent council meeting).
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On the Blog Post May 7 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
1:27 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
OK, I was waiting for someone else to do this, but http://westorange.patch.com/articles/live-blog-election-day-under-way-in-west-orange#video-2817544
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On the article Shop Local, Save Money on Taxes in West Orange
Joe Krakoviak
2:12 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013
The township does not pay for cell phones for any council member. I raised the issue of the town's payment of employee cell phones at the April 23 council meeting, during the discussion of the 2013 municipal budget. I gave a rough estimate of about $35K to $40K based on my review of bi-weekly bills and asked the town CFO to provide the actual numbers and rationale. You can review the budget hearing from the indexed video of the council meeting at http://bit.ly/17wAvci at a website I maintain, www.WestOrangeGrassroots.org.
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On the Blog Post Preview: May 7 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
10:43 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyI spoke with a Patch editor about my concerns for a poster using someone's name in relation to the rumor/issue. The editor decided to delete the post, so you may notice a lack of continuity in the flow of the posts. The poster whose post was deleted is certainly welcome to repost or post further here, just without using the name. The deleted post had a reply that was also deleted, even though the reply didn't use a name associated with the rumor/issue. I'm not sure why his post was deleted, but that poster is also welcome to repost/post further, under the same conditions.
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On the Blog Post Preview: May 7 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
10:23 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyI appreciate the various posters' concern about this rumor/issue, which I share. But I insist that names and identifying information not be used in commenting on this rumor/issue in this blog (or any other public platform for that matter) absent some type of legal proceeding or first-hand knowledge. Legal ramifications aside, we all deserve respect for our reputations, fairness and civility in our public discourse -- where we do well to focus on facts and issues, not personalities, please.
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On the Blog Post April 23 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
9:28 am on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
ReplyWest Orange Grassroots now has the video of the April 23, 2013, council meeting posted, http://bit.ly/17wAvci, in a downloadable format that's also indexed so that you know where to look in the video for specific issues. You can also watch a flash (non-downloadable and non-indexed) version of the meeting on the town's website at http://bit.ly/17Yjiqy.
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On the Blog Post April 9 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
5:34 pm on Friday, April 19, 2013
ReplyWest Orange Grassroots now has the video of the April 9, 2013, council meeting posted http://bit.ly/11rm3xe, in a downloadable format that's also indexed so that you know where to look in the video for specific issues. The extensive discussion of my questioning of the selection process of the executive director of the Downtown West Orange Alliance starts at Video Part 1, 12:30 in, and continues throughout the meeting (including Public Comment), as you can see in the index. You can also watch a flash (non-downloadable and non-indexed) version of the meeting on the town's website www.westorange.org.
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On the Blog Post March 19 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
11:33 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
ReplyWest Orange Grassroots now has the video of the council meeting posted http://bit.ly/100ykJI. It’s in a downloadable format that's also indexed so that you know where to look in the video for specific issues. You can also watch a flash (non-downloadable and non-indexed) version of the meeting on the town's website at http://bit.ly/14fm1yI.
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On the Blog Post Preview: March 19 Town Council meeting
Joe Krakoviak
8:55 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Unfortunately, neither Prism nor the township’s redevelopment professionals will be at the March 19 council meeting. The township’s deputy attorney sent a March 17 e-mail to the council, with a copy to the mayor, saying that I was the only one on the council to submit questions on redevelopment and that no one from the public had submitted questions. (For some reason, your e-mails to the mayor on March 8, copy to the council, don’t appear to qualify as questions from the public -- although it certainly looks to me that you ask the mayor six rather detailed questions about the project.)
Therefore, the deputy attorney wrote, the mayor is not “inclined” to invite the redevelopment professionals to the council meeting to answer questions or make a presentation.
If that’s not acceptable to you, then I’d recommend you come and express your views in person at the council meeting.
Joe Krakoviak
1:44 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
@Paul P: The Freedom of Information Act is the federal version of the state's Open Public Records Act. OPRA is all that's needed for New Jersey state and local records. The West Orange School District is a separate entity with its own OPRA custodian.