Middletown mayor explains status of the township department and Gregg Silva, its longtime director
Nobody had asked, so officials didn’t tell any updated news about recently suspended Middletown Department of Parks and Recreation Director Gregg Silva … until now. Mayor Tony Fiore was asked; and he told Patch that since Silva’s early December suspension over an undisclosed personnel matter, he has retired. Still not elaborating on reasons why the longtime township employee was put on the “administrative leave” with pay, citing it as a legally confidential personnel matter, the mayor did say that “Gregg Silva is no longer with Parks and Recreation. As of Jan. 1, he retired. I can’t say anything other than that he retired.” Speaking only on procedure and background, Fiore added that while on the indefinite leave, Silva decided to retire “…
Township introduced budget with hike in taxpayer cost, $4 million in spending cuts; conforms with 2 percent Cap Levy Law
With respect to the introduced Middletown Township 2011 municipal budget, spending is down and taxes are up. It will cost the average taxpayer an extra $60 a year, or $5 a month, based on a new mean township property value of $380,000. Last year, the average was $435,000. Per $100 of assessed property value, if approved, this municipal budget will cost taxpayers about an extra eight cents on the rate this year, or a total rate of 47.02 cents per $100, up from 39.8 cents last year. Officially introduced at last night's regular Township Committee meeting, the $61 million spending plan, with a municipal tax levy of $46.7 million, is $3.87 million (or 5.9 percent) less than the 2010 municipal budget, Mayor Anthony Fiore pointed out in a …
Shared services, two percent cap commitments reiterated by committee
Middletown’s municipal budget set for introduction at the April 4 Township Committee meeting, Mayor Anthony Fiore reiterated at Monday night’s meeting his commitment to staying within Gov. Chris Christie’s two percent cap on spending and his theory of why the unions’ and township library’s cooperation in compromise are key. He first thanked the Middletown Township Library Board of Trustees for agreeing to release to the township roughly $500,000 of its $1.2 million surplus to assist with budget restriction woes and stave off more than the estimated 26 layoffs and service cuts. The mayor again reassured that with the agreement that is “something that’s happened across the state” intact, the library would, in turn, benefit from economic, …
Pilgrim
12:15 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012
Fiore and others saying it is a personnel matter and therefore cannot be discussed seems to be a very broad interpretation of "personnel matter". Fiore and Mercantante may not be allowed to discuss the specific details of the "retirement", and this does't mean that the incident that created the forced leave of absence cannot be revealed and publically discussed. more ›