1. The supervisors heard about a July 4 bike race (with time trials the day before) that's going to start at Brooklawn, Mrs. Hannum's former home, on Newark Road. The cyclists will ride out to Chatham and back over a 13-mile loop.
2. Wayne Grafton, currently an alternate member of the township's Zoning Hearing Board, will be asked to join the board as a full member to replace Charlie Brosius, who has retired.
3. In an effort to resolve the ongoing dispute between The Whip tavern and some of its disgruntled neighbors in Springdell, Supervisor Bill Wylie announced that two private meetings have been held between all the parties and one of the supervisors. (Under the state's "Sunshine Law" all municipal business must be done in public, which means supervisors aren't allowed to discuss township matters in private, except for a few exceptions like legal and personnel matters. By limiting participation in these meetings to only one supervisor, the board is avoiding even the appearance of improper private discussion.)
4. The township hasn't heard anything more about Dick Hayne's greenhouse complex at his Doe Run Farm in Springdell. Last year he filed an application seeking permission to process vegetables that he grows there, but then withdrew the application and hasn't refiled it.
5. The supervisors want to increase by two the size of the township's Planning Commission.
See? I told you it wasn't much. Even so, it attracted the usual crowd of about 25 citizens who like to keep up with what's going on.
Sunshine Law?
ReplyDeleteYes, the Sunshine Law requires all municipal meetings to be conducted in public so that the supervisors or council members can't deliberate in secret. That's why only 1 supervisor can attend these Whip/neighbors meetings, so there's no risk that the two would conduct a discussion in private. Our WMT guys are scrupulous about this -- not all municipalities are.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up -- I'll explain better.