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…
Category: Tabernacle Township
Eighteen Months Later: Tabernacle New Town Hall
New Municipal Complex: March 27, 2023 Township Meeting At the March 27, committee meeting, Scott England and Tom Leisse, the township’s architect and engineer, briefly presented first stage plans for the new municipal complex on the flag lot on Carranza Road. They emphasized that the township was at the earliest moments of the process and Read More…
Tabernacle Flip Flops on Subdivision
Municipal Complex At the February 27, 2023 meeting, Township Committee returned from a closed session and voted to buy the entire 20-acre flag lot at 144 Carranza Road for its new municipal complex. The purchase price is $825,900. If we add in the costs of appraisal, environmental studies, engineering fees and other soft costs including 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…
Loosey-Goosey Rules of Order in Tabernacle
Robert’s Rules of Order Every year, Tabernacle’s committee officially adopts Robert’s Rules of Order. That’s the tool used by almost all boards to bring order to meetings and allow the group to take care of business in an efficient and predictable manner. But, in practice, the committee uses Loosey-Goosey Rules of Order. Loosey-Goosey rules let 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…
Tabernacle Reveals Private Bank Info
Protecting private financial information It’s common sense that government must protect the public’s financial information. When people write checks to pay fees or taxes, government must exercise care to not release private bank account numbers (AKA “Confidential Personal Identifiers”). These days, the possibility of identity theft or financial loss is very real. A legal requirement 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…
