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…
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 Municipal Complex Meeting
Township Meeting March 27, 2023 At the March 13, 2023 meeting, Township Clerk Maryalice Brown announced that the township architect and engineer will present plans for the proposed municipal complex March 27, 2023. This meeting will be in person, at 6:30 PM, at the fire house on Hawkin Road. Presumably, they will be there to 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…
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…
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…
