So What will we be Cheated out of Next?

Every year about this time the mail arrives with a new DPW Calendar. This calendar immediately replaces the one on the side of the refrigerator that basically helps me keep my house in order.

  This year's document is as follows:

Lynne Algrant is our Councilwoman-at-large
I am going to ask her what happened to my calendar.
Perhaps you might want to do the same.
It made life less complicated for me all year round.
How about you?
Telephone:  (201) 951-1847  Fax:  (201) 731-5356
lalgrant@cityofenglewood.org

• The Cover: it is the same on the outside as in 2012
• The inside cover:  no longer gives a service summary of 2013. It simply gives us the names of the  people responsible for not giving us the traditional calendar.
• Page 1 still lists important information about recyclables
• Page 2 - 3 still gives us guidelines for disposal
• Page 4 still basically reiterates some good points in preserving the environment from wastes
• Page 5 now warns us about reducing the effects of snow and ice storms and gives us safe driving tips that should be practiced.
• Page 6 gives us solutions to storm water pollution
• Page 7 Suggests that we work to Eliminate the litter problem and defines the word "litter" for us and reminds us that littering is against the law.
• Page 8 - Yes, the back cover gives the names and numbers of all the people that we must thank for this gross waste of paper. We may as well have been left with last year's calendar with the same valuable tips. Geez!

There is no calendar. There is no calendar. I want my calendar. I need my calendar. I write things on that calendar that help keep order in my household. OCD, maybe, but that does not change the fact that someone dropped the ball on this one. How many people in this town go through the exact same ritual as I? How many refrigerators in this town still have the 2012 calendar stuck to it? This is not a ward thing. This is a Citywide thing. It was the one thing that all City Residents had in common.

          Elected Officials must be held responsible to do better by all City Residents!
                         
                        Little issues ignored become big problems for all of us.

Still No Representation

Thursday, December 13, 2012
Englewood Public School District
Board Meeting

Mr. Hamer, our 4th Ward Council man was still not in attendance at the school board meeting. This is disappointing, but it is also indicative of the fact that the school system seems to have been abandoned.
The Mayor's Master Plan Meetings contain no future plans for the school system.

Will there be no public school children in Englewood's future?

To Our 4th Ward Councilman

Are you wondering why the new 4th Ward Councilman's photo does not appear on this page? How many of you think that the 4th Ward Residents are represented anywhere in this city? Are we represented on the school Board? No? I would also hazard a guess that most of the Public School children are from our ward. The new 4th Ward Councilman's photo will appear here when I am convinced that he holds our best interests as important.

Questions:  For our Councilman

• What do you know about the NJ NCLB Waiver?

• What is a Focus School?
• What is a RAC?
• What is meant by overhauling 6A of the Administrative Code?
• Do you think Superintendent's should be able to call Special Board of Education Meetings?
• What do you know about the NJSIAA requirements of coaches?
• What is the subject of 18A: 27-10.1-4?

Mr. Hamer was advised that his input and interest was needed at the school board meetings, because there is no 4th ward representation on the school board. He had no answer for this then and seems unaffected now. I wrote him an email letting him know how disappointed I was that he was absent. He was informed that there was a board meeting also scheduled for the next day. He did not appear at this meeting either. It is abundantly clear that the councilman is not interested. 

Do you think that the 4th Ward Councilman should show some interest and concern in the school system in this town? Write him and let him know how you feel. whamer@cityofenglewood.org
Elected officials must learn what we expect of them. We must stop letting them off the hook as they proceed to break all of the promises they make during the campaigns. (Oh, I forgot, he never promised to fight for 4th Ward Residents.)

The next school board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Councilman might also want to meet the new Assistant Superintendent of Schools.

Meet the new Asst. Superintendent

Chance for community members to meet the new Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Michelle James
Friday, December 14, 2012
9:00 am and 7:00 pm
High School Library