Committee Meeting Cancelled, Again Sammy Moore and Mark Hartman were absent from the May 28, 2024 committee meeting. Their absence prevented a quorum and required the cancellation of the meeting. Hartman called in so late that the Fire House was already full of residents who were finding seats and waiting for the meeting to start. Read More…
Category: Tabernacle Township Meetings
Hartman, Stone and Moore Wrecking Tabernacle. Let The People Speak!
Tabernacle’s sudden cancellation of the March 11, workshop meeting was sleazy. Its refusal to explain why suggests that it was cancelled because Hartman, Stone and Moore want to dodge public criticism and run out the clock on Historic Town Hall. Here’s What Happened My husband and I asked the township committee to use the scheduled Read More…
Tabernacle Historic Town Hall To Be Demolished
On Monday, February 26, 2024, Mayor Mark Hartman, Deputy Mayor Natalie Stone and Committeeman Sammy Moore voted to demolish Historic Town Hall. They asked no questions and didn’t address public comments. It was obvious that they had already made up their minds. Here’s a copy of an email my husband and I sent to the Read More…
Tabernacle Township Old Town Hall
What follows is a letter my husband and I emailed to the Tabernacle Township Committee about Old Town Hall and how to properly handle this very important building. This topic is likely to be discussed at the February 26, 2024 township meeting. February 11, 2024 Dear Committee Members, At the January 22, 2024 meeting, the Read More…
Change In Tabernacle?
REORGANIZATION On January 5, at its first meeting of 2024, the Tabernacle committee reorganized. There were a few surprises. Steps were taken towards a more transparent and productive year. But more work remains to be done. NEW MAYOR AND DEPUTY MAYOR Mark Hartman was elected mayor by a vote of three to two. Mark Hartman, Read More…
Tabernacle Set For BIG Spending Spree
Lots Of Recent Big-Ticket Items At its Monday Nov. 27, meeting, Tabernacle’s committee is expected to approve two new bonds: These new bonds are in addition to three other big-ticket items that the committee recently approved. These are: The five items total almost $11,000,000 in the last 18 months. CFO Rodney Haines is expected to Read More…
Silence in Tabernacle
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…
One Sorry-A** Tabernacle Meeting
Committee meetings don’t get much worse than the July 31, 2023 Tabernacle Township meeting. The Mayor Is Obsessed With Watching The Clock Throughout the meeting, Mayor Moore was more interested in watching the two-minute countdown clock than listening to what people had to say. The countdown clock shows the two-minute period for each citizen’s comments. Mayor Read More…
Tabernacle’s July 3, 2023 Meeting: Surprises and Disappointments
A Late 2023 Budget Resolution and No Budget Discussion The committee remained largely unwilling to discuss next year’s budget. Though the State required municipal introduction and approval of the annual budget by March 31, 2023, Tabernacle finally introduced its budget at the July 3, 2023 meeting. Approval of the budget is expected at the July Read More…
Tabernacle Township Clerk Loses a Minute
What Happened to Committeeman McNaughton’s Suggestion to Reuse Old Town Hall? In my last post, I reported that at the March 27, 2023 meeting, Committeeman Noble McNaughton suggested that the committee re-use old town hall for a community center. This re-purposing would replace a proposed new community center in the new municipal complex. Mr. McNaughton’s comments Read More…
