Notice of the Township Committee special budget meeting on January 21, 2012

[Barny Fife]

Sign me up but I don't want to work nights, weekends, holidays, in snow, or in the rain. Any other time will be fine.

[Barny you will fit in]

[?]

Where is the moderator? Why is this topic not locked by now?

[?????]

[No]

[The Lions of Oz]

Realistically, if you really want to save money and lower municipal taxes, we need to look at the police department because that is the biggest expense in the municipal budget. However, not one of you has the courage to even publicly propose a committee to evaluate the mere possibility of a merger with the Plainsboro Police Department. So go ahead a roar away about your taxes in your anonymous posts, but don't expect anyone to take you seriously unless you happen to find some courage.

[getback]

If you go back far enough in this ridiculous thread there are posts discussing mergers with other towns and why they would ultimately fail to save money. Look at the Hightstown and East Windsor debacle. In theory it is a great idea to have one small town take over another smaller towns force. In practice, at least in the Hightstown/East Windsor example eventually it was going to cost Hightstown nearly as much to have East Windsor provide the service as it costs to maintain their own force. The real money saver would be a large regionalized (county) force.

[?]

Hightstown was disbanding its force, and trying to contract east windsor for police service. Hightstown was saying they had no money and disbanding. Big difference between merger and disbanding.

[Get Involved]

4 of you have posted about the budget since the TC meeting on said budget started. 2 choices - get off your couch and go to the meeting or accept their decisions without your input... I have chosen option 2 since I trust what they are doing...

[How]

[Guest01]

[IP address?]

Isn't anyone creeped out by this? They know our id, but we don't know who they are?

[me]

[Free]

You are free not to post. Personally, I think having registered names is good. There are 11 pages on this topic. With registered names maybeit would be 2 pages.

But, to know 4 ip addresses of which I was one puts some insight around how useful a particular thread really is.

[me]

[not transparent]

I think a forum with signed posts is a great idea. I have not been a fan of the anonymous blasts nor the people who pretend they are the different person. What transparency is there if we do not know who is moderating, hosting, or perhaps censoring our posts? I also think it is creepy. Is there an agenda?