Too late....What is the motivation of this Johnny come lately??? For heaven's sake, the storms started over a year ago and kept coming all year...Where was she for the Concerned Citizens of Wayne meeting? Rumana tell her to stay home in the kitchen??? Please, what an insult to the citizens of Wayne.

Where do I sign up?

Too late....What is the motivation of this Johnny come lately??? For heaven's sake, the storms started over a year ago and kept coming all year...Where was she for the Concerned Citizens of Wayne meeting? Rumana tell her to stay home in the kitchen??? Please, what an insult to the citizens of Wayne..

ya ok....

Greywater is wastewater generated from domestic activities such as laundry, dishwashing, and bathing, which can be recycled on-site for uses such as landscape irrigation and constructed wetlands. Greywater differs from water from the toilets which is designated sewage or blackwater to indicate it contains human waste.

What i think would be a great start is to get in contact with groups that helped with relief with hurrican Irene. To name a few who helped with demolition and cleanup. Jacksonville Chapel, United Methodist, Preakness reformed, Pequannock Reformed, Morman Helping Hands. I'm sure I missed a few and I'm sorry for that. My church helpd more than 800 homes with demolition and cleanup. Now the problems seem to have moved from emergency relief to getting back into their homes. A common problem I'm hearing is that the banks released 30% of the insurance claim and will release the rest when work is complete. For some of the people this is the third time that they have had water in their homes in 2 years. Any discretionary money is long gone. is there away to work with the banks to release money faster? Also Wayne needs to have a shelter in place if another disaster hits. You may want to contact Mr. Burke, he says he is going to be doing a fund raiser at his place of bussiness. Maybe with the money raised the township or VOAD can purchase cots for a community shelter. Then like Pompton Lakes have the Red Cross assist in setting it up. This would help the people of Wayne and also insure that we do not have a regional shelter.

Sandy....putting Councilwoman Miller-Ryan in touch with Rob should be interesting, if she takes you up on it. Rob is an extremely bright guy . As a business owner here in Wayne,, he could be a tremendous resource to the Town, as opposed to them looking at him in an adversarial manner.

Someone needs to extend the olive branch.

Too late....What is the motivation of this Johnny come lately??? For heaven's sake, the storms started over a year ago and kept coming all year...Where was she for the Concerned Citizens of Wayne meeting? Rumana tell her to stay home in the kitchen??? Please, what an insult to the citizens of Wayne....

Well.....no comment from Councilwoman Lonnie Miller-Ryan. Rob Burke extended the olive branch and thus far it has been ignored. I'm not sure whether the Councilwoman reads these posts or not. I think these posts are monitored. It would surprise me if they weren't. Let's wait and see if she does the right thing. ( Maybe she's contacted him other than on this site. Let's hope she did.)

Lonnie is too busy texting the going-ons of this community to Rumana.

Lonnie was a no-show at the Concerned Citizens of Wayne symposium.

Lonnie likes to collect her salary for being on the Council to buy texting equipment so that she can text Rumana during Council meetings. How wonderful for her?

Lonnie is too busy texting the going-ons of this community to Rumana..

Lonnie Miller-Ryan where are you? Rob Burke has extended the olive branch in good faith and you're ignoring him! As that how you treat a taxpayer?

I cannot for the life of me understand why the Mayor, Council and BOE, listen to their bosses (the taxpayers). They MUST be FIRED for conduct unbecoming their positions and INSUBORDINATION, then make sure they are ineligible for unemployment, pensions, etc. As Trump enjoys saying: YOU'RE FIRED

Justice
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I cannot for the life of me understand why the Mayor, Council and BOE, listen to their bosses (the taxpayers). They MUST be FIRED for conduct unbecoming their positions and INSUBORDINATION, then make sure they are ineligible for unemployment, pensions, etc. As Trump enjoys saying: YOU'RE FIRED!

Rob... as I just posted in another article on this site.....these people are strange. It's like they don't want to connect with anybody. They have so much control and power over this town, thay could care less about connecting with the people. It reminds me of the saying....."Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" ( Lord Acton 1867) Still remember that from a political science class in college!

This board sometimes sounds like the rantings of the lunatic fringe. No wonder the town elders don't take people seriously. Justice, you've got it all wrong. The people are subordinates, not the bosses. The only power the people have is elections (or recalls in extreme circumstances). The ONLY way that politicians will listen is if the community becomes a lot more interested and agitated in what is going on. Our posts in this forum are meaningless dialogue if people do not pressure the town representatives. They don't work FOR us, although that would be nice. In an ideal world, politicians are representatives to govern based on the views/values of their particular constituents. But America has devolved into a "silent majority" that simply accepts whatever gets handed down. It's the same thing at the municipal level - see the absurdly low turnout for civic meetings and elections. So the politicians have relatively free reign because nothing is demanded of them. The way to effect change is for someone, perhaps with time on their hands (looking at you Al Scala), to get a copy of the budget, go through all the items, make an honest determination of what the town could live without, and then present those findings/requests at an upcoming town meeting. To have some real meat on the bone, present it to this community, get proposals emailed around, and attract interest in presenting these issues at well-attended council meetings.

Wayne's World.....I'll tell you what. If you want to assist me in this endeavor, I'm in!

THAT is the way to put some pressure on the politicians to reduce town expenditures. Justice's non-sensical rantings cause the arrogant to laugh at message boards as just another forum. The way Mr. Alfieri handled the chicken law issue is how local politics and local activism is SUPPOSED to work. He may not have gotten the result he wanted, but he was heard and the issue considered. In my estimation, Wayne is saddled with high-cost union contracts for police and teachers which are locked in until the next negotiations. But the town also provides services beyond what most other towns in the area provide. For example, we have a health department that provides some free medical care and an animal control department. There is a DPW and a parks department. Perhaps there can be some consolidation of departments (DPW could also take care of town parks, for example) or outright elimination. SOMEONE has to make the effort to go through these items and make a determination what is a luxury or what can be consolidated. Clearly the council isn't going to take up that banner. I would have done it already myself but can barely make it home from my day job.

If you call this board the lunatic fringe, what do you call a township who allowed a World War II Veteran to lay dead while the Town sent the DPW to cut his lawn because the neighbors were complaining? You call that a sane action?

Justice
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If you call this board the lunatic fringe, what do you call a township who allowed a World War II Veteran to lay dead while the Town sent the DPW to cut his lawn because the neighbors were complaining? You call that a sane action?.

All government works for the people. We have impeached a President or two. This town Council is not above the Presidency. Furthermore, why are there people on the payroll (including Council members) who are over 70 years old?

WW, I agree with your comment about the "silent majority"; therefore, it is imperative that the reigns to this horse be taken back.

just at the local level. The town gov't has grown as a leviathan in recent decades - in part due to growth of the town, in part due to patronage, in part due to poor management. It's all of these things. In Bergen, people pay for their own garbage collection and water. Here it's part of the town services. Is it desirable to drop these things in the name of property tax relief when you'd pay more on your own to a private company? THESE are the types of debates people should be having, not the knee-jerk reactions to every little thing that happens or whether Ms. Ryan responded to a random blog post within 24 hours.

Al and WW, Who are the Auditors for this township that should be exposing inconsistencies and providing us with the line detail that would allow the public to make their outcries?

I've never even heard one politician or journalist broach this issue. I called Steve Adubato (Mr. NJ) once about it on the radio and he totally brushed off the topic. His dad was a big power player in Essex County and the state and Steve owes his career to his dad's political connections. There is just TOO MUCH self-interest and much of it is based on the fact that the citizenry doesn't have enough watchdogs to keep government accountable.

I did not post this comment for people to attack Mrs. Ryan. I believe her heart is in the right place. My thoughts where to have people make suggestions that will help the town in the long run. I have seen the dispair of people first hand and also have seen the gratitude of people who received the hot meals delivered door to door. Please try to keep the post civil expecially if your not willing to post your real name..

Wayne's World......these people love this power and control they have over the Town. Don't make them out to be selfless people who are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They love the title, authority, the high profile nature of the position.,the televised meetings,etc., etc. They love the control they have over the town gov't. What escapes me is why this town doesn't wake up and end this one party rule. It's unhealthy. I'm not slumming for the Democrats. I'm a Republivan, and I can't stand these guys in office. They are arrogant, obnoxious,and caustic. Didn't you watch the last meeting to see Jimenez and his ridiculous and sarcastic chicken jokes? Scweigart made some caustic and obnoxious remarks to Victor Alfieri about his community garden.Talk about ranting, why don't you comment about Scuralli. In my opinion, he talks too much and should take a class on people skills.. Wake up for God sakes. This town needs change! Change the people in office. At this point, I don't care what party they're from. You accuse me of having "time on my hands". Don't confuse my passion for wanting responsive, respectful , and fiscally responsible gov't, with having too much time.

When all else fails, call it lunacy, emotional, over the top. Standard legal defense. The town not only responded to neighbor complaints but sold this home for the proverbial Judas silver. No one has been held accountable.

Ok, the "time on your hands" comment was not a criticism, but rather I thought I remembered you saying you were retired. It was not meant as anything negative. As for Mr. Burke's implication that I might be a "shill" because I don't sign my name, I hope you've been paying more attention to my posts than that. I agree with a lot of the stuff posted on this board, and it's at least cathartic to have a forum for one's views, so my motivation is the same as most people's when I feel something about a topic. I am not suggesting the town politicians don't have any self-interest, I guess I am just not that cynical about their motives. I may be cynical about competence, but not as much about motives. I agree that one-party rule is terrible at any level. As I stated months ago, I can't imagine what one's affiliation would have to do with issues facing the average suburban municipality...I can't imagine ideology plays so much into what ordinances are passed or what budgetary items are favored or shunned. To me, the real problem is the lack of facing up to a shortfall of income in the face of increased costs for services. I am naive because I just don't get how most of these things are political. The town need X amount of dollars to run, and takes in Y. We have to decide what are necessities and what aren't, and cut the non-essentials. It seems so simple and yet the issues rightfully being raised in this forum are not meaningfully being addressed.

The only way to have these issues faced head-on and addressed is how I outlined it above...either that, or people on this forum run for the government seats themselves! I think most of us would be surprised how much expenditure the town is locked into by state law or union contracts. I don't believe there is as much flexibility in the budget as people seem to think, although the BOE stuff that has been brought up on this board certainly has some fishy elements to it. I don't have kids in the schools yet so I just haven't been involed enough to be informed. As long as the police stay sacrosanct and their outrageous pay and benefits stay where they are, I don't see how any meaningful budgetary reform can have an impact. Wayne already tried to chase ratables and now we have a city instead of a bedroom community. We are choked with traffic, increased burden on schools, etc. and still short of money. Just like teachers, it's time for cops to pay more toward their retirement and health care benefits. It's the way of the world, no reason a cop should retire able-bodied at 45 with a full pension for the rest of his life.

Have you ever seen anyone from the Town come onto this site and say anything. How about one of these guys coming on here and saying..."Hey guys, you got it all wrong. This is how it really is!" Nope. Silence! They just don't give a crap. They have it in their minds that they will just continue to win elections and will control the town gov't as they do. If the great silent majority would come out and vote for change, we'd remove these guys from office. Have them lose one election, where they lose a few seats. You'll see how fast they change and straighten up! What they need is a wake up call.

Al Sadowski put a newsletter of sorts on here last November. Two or three of us made some comments asking for insight...and he never responded nor posted another of his quarterly newsletters. This forum could have some influence, but only if some people take the information/ideas from here and present it in an official forum. I disagree with Rob that it is necessary to sign real names to give this board legitimacy. It is the quality of the comments and a knowledge of the issues that creates the legitimacy/utility of this board. But only action in official town forums will actually bear any fruit.

Well....maybe your post validates my comment. Why wouldn't he respond to a couple of people looking for some insight.

As far as Lonni is concerned, she is a public figure who left herself open to comments through her action/inaction (CCW) and her proximity to someone who still is shadowed by ethics charges. How is this an "attack"?

As far as Lonni is concerned, she is a public figure who left herself open to comments through her action/inaction (CCW) and her proximity to someone who still is shadowed by ethics charges. How is this an "attack"??

Regarding Mr. Domsky (the World War II veteran), the town knew that he was a senior and a vet (property tax deductions for seniors and vets). They sold his property for an unpaid water bill amounting to $150.00 or so. They cajole the anonymous neighbor complaints. They sent out the DPW to cut his lawn and charge it back. How can you possibly not hold the town accountable? These weren't inactions, these were very deliberate and calculated actions.

Justice: I don't mean to be critical, and you are obviously passionate and invested in these issues, but if you want to have a real impact, you need to avoid the 'lunatic fringe' perception. I'm not accusing you of that, but others already have and you might want to think about balancing your comments and making them more measured. Just a suggestion.

And as I suggested to you in the past and as I am suggesting to others, it would be even better if you posted under your real name. Think about it.

Regarding Police Officers retiring after 25 years. I believe that is done for the public's protection, due to the high burn-out, stress and constant handling of fire-arms. It would help if someone who is familiar with Police Officers to respond to this. Whereas, their salaries and percs appear to be high, I chose not to lose sight of the fact that they continue to be first-responders (same as fire-fighters/emt's) and the risk to their health and lives is catastrophic (unlike other civil service members). When the towers were falling, it was the police officers/fire-fighters who went in without question to help us. As I was coming down the stairs, they were going up, (to their deaths), carrying tons (a figure of speech) of equipment. As our eyes met, all I could do was utter a faint thank you. I'm sorry but I can't agree with you as far as cutting budgets for law enforcement/fire fighters/ ambulance .

Once again, adjectives such as: lunatic, emotional, over-the-top and others are a last resort for defense council in civil cases where the plaintiff is losing. I rest my case.