Why Doesn’t Tabernacle’s Government Speak? Tabernacle Township has become notorious for non-communication. Questions from the public go unanswered. The Committee rarely addresses public comments. Committee members rarely ask questions about the items on their agenda. They rarely discuss the public business that they vote on; and, when they do discuss it, they don’t go very Read More…
Category: Open Public Meetings Act violations
Business As Usual in Tabernacle: Resignations, Deceit and Silence
RESIGNATIONS At the January 4, 2022 meeting, Committeeman Robert C. Sunbury became the latest township committee member to resign. He’s the third one to resign in the last two years. He’s the second committee member elected in 2020 to resign. Nancy McGinnis is the other. The quickest resignation was Mathew Baals, who took office on January Read More…
The Not-So-Big Tabernacle Reveal
The December 19, Town Hall Presentation Having seen the committee’s near silence on the new and old town hall project for the past 15 months, the December 19 “Public Information Meeting” made it doubly clear that our elected officials are either incapable of or uninterested in involving the public in what will probably be the Read More…
Tabernacle To Do Big Reveal
Public Information Meeting The township has scheduled the Public Information Meeting about the new and old municipal buildings for December 19, 2022 (see township website for details). Earlier, Mayor Moore explained that the committee would consider all options, answer all questions “100%” and accept citizen input. The difference between what Mayor Moore said will Read More…
No In-person Meetings for Tabernacle
Audio plus video meetings After TTJ’s criticism (October 23, 2022 POST) of the committee’s audio-only meetings, committee members voted to turn their video on. Committee members Nancy McGinnis and Robert Sunbury favored the idea but voted against it saying that the committee should return to live in-person meetings. But Mayor Sammy Moore, Deputy Mayor Kim Read More…
After a Year, Tabernacle Committee Wants Citizen Input?
Late announcement for public input Immediately after the flag salute at the October 24, meeting, Mayor Sammy Moore broke from the agenda to announce that it’s time to bring everybody up to speed about the municipal building, and said that the committee will hold a town hall-style meeting. He said the committee will answer everybody’s Read More…
Where’s The Tabernacle Township Committee?
Where are they? The township committee hasn’t been seen since early 2020. At first, the committee’s invisibility could be explained by Covid. When Governor Murphy declared a public health emergency and a State of Emergency on March 9, 2020, everything was a scramble. Indoor gatherings were limited, schools were shut down. By March 16, 2020, Read More…
