Questions For The Candidates

township committeeThe following ten questions, are some of the other questions posed to the Candidates by R’ Yehuda Shain on various vital issues: 1-Can you please detail how you will cut the costs and expenditures of the Public Works Dept? 2-Can you please detail how you will cut the costs 7 expenditures of the inspection Dept? I’m sure you realize with the reduced amount of construction, the department can be downsized considerably. 3-New housing gets a CO one time. What is your opinion re: eliminating CO rental inspections after the first CO? 4-Can you please detail how you will cut the costs and expenditures of the Public School system? (I would have no issue to eliminate the private school busing-what else?) 
 
5-What will you do re: the high cost of Municipal Health benefits-The State’s plan is more than sufficient.
 
6-The LPD costs per capita is out of range based on the USA average. Too much doubling-up of time on certain shifts ( I never knew there were 8 days in a week).
 
7-The vehicles should be repaired in house by Public Works-Not by the Care dealer hourly fees & part markups. Their benefits & pay scale is unjustified….
 
8-What other cost cutting can you detail? please elaborate………
 
9-Are you looking to have a low tax RATE?
My opinion is to have a high tax RATE! (in the $3.00 per $100.00 range++) Everyone pays their fare share regardless of the RATE, but with a high RATE the politicians are somewhat tied in spending.
 
10-PS  I think the number of dollars that were/are spent on quality of life issues were/are too much of a drain and is unjustified.

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21 COMMENTS

  1. thats a funny question “and what are the candidates answers” their answers to all the questions are, same talk different day, its all talk nothing ever gets done. (nothing against the candidates they are good people just this is just the bottom line that nothing gets done)

  2. with all respect to R Yudel ,who is a very sincere and ehrliche person ,he is still a Daas Yochid with regards to some of these issues . I dont believe that getting rid if bussing is what the tzibur really wants . It will help those without kids in school like R Yudel ,but then for those people we could close down all the schools

  3. #1 – Let us stop picking up garbage. Every week there will be designated areas to go burn all the trash.

    #2 – Let us stop inspecting altogether. This way there will be no payoffs and no crooked inspectors.

    #3 – Why bother with a CO in the first place even in new housing. If there will be no requirment for a CO housing will be cheaper.

    #4 – Since we will eliminate bussing many orthodox parents will start sending to public school. As the frum parents pay on average $4000 per child in tuition, that is a lot less then what it costs us to educate. That will help reduce our expences.

    #5 – With ObamaCare we will stop offering any health benefits and let them get benefits on the federal level.

    #6 – We should eliminate the police department and keep Daggetts gun in our cars. There will be no need for police.

    #7 – Once we have no police department there will be no vehicles to fix.

    #8 – We can also stop maintaining the lake area, repaving roads, fixing traffic lights, cut the number of members on the Township Committee, eliminate NJ Family Care, stop WIC and food stamps, close the fire department, etc.

    #9 – With my ideas above there will be no more local taxes as it will all be eliminated.

    #10 – The above nine solutions answer number 10.

    If you like my ideas write in “Meshuganer” on election day.

  4. If you want to ask hard questions, why don’t you ask the Vaad why Christie is not even give a chance. He is for school vouchers which would eliminate our school problem overnight

  5. The amount of flak & the falacy of the Board of Education blaming their thrift spending is always blamed on “bussing”, which we all know is a lie. Let’s call their bluff.

  6. SOME of these questions are valid, though not all. I think that R’ Yudel should do a little more serious research and get a little more involved and then we should make a candidates night and pose these questions to all the candidates.
    The number one question should be what the candidates real attitude is torwards the frum community and if any of them feel that Hitler should have finished the job. The answers may surprise Rabbi Shain!

  7. Yudel You will not call their bluff and be left with every parent paying an extra 600 to 700 on their tution ill for busing . Kereach mican umican

  8. R. Yudel. Again with all due respect.your stirring up a cholent of issues only causes more issues.the only true way to solve all the problems that you bring up is to solve the root of the problem.there are ways we can improve our quality of life and promote businesses without spending money.unfortunately we have been dealing with our problems like someone putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. We have been busy doing favors for every person that needs something as long as they promised us their votes. R yudel we know you want what is best for the town always. Keep asking questions. But there will be no answer until we repair what is broken first. Before we worry about every last detailed expense. I hope you will be there to support the entire community on october 29th to put an end to all the games that our committemen are playing with our town. And get down to growing our town with the true smart growth plan. r yudel you are an ish emes and we all appreciate that. But help us stay focused on the core of the problem.

  9. The number one question should be what the candidates real attitude is torwards the frum community

    and that question must be followed by asking the question; how much of that attitude was caused by certain members of our community and what if anything can we do to mitigate it

  10. From the independents site:
    •Revive a “real” quality-of-life task force to enforce life/safety and property maintenance codes.
    How??
    By everyone obtaining a VISA to visit downtown Lakewood?

  11. CUT AT THE TOP OF PUBLIC WORKS, DO WE REALLY NEED A DIRECTOR, SUPERINTENDANT, ASST. SUPERINTANDANT, SUPERINTANDANT OF PUBLIC PLACES…..THE RANK AND FILE GUYS ON THE TRUCKS AND MOWERS ARE ALL GOOD EMPLOYEES, CUT AT THE TOP, STOP FRANKLINS SPENDING, PROBLEM SOLVED B’H”

  12. public works supervisors, directors, coordinators from driving township owned vehicles home, especially to out of town to like Jackson or Camden county. They don’t come back to town off hours if something happens, and if they do, just go pick up your truck at the 27 million dollar John J. Franklin Public Works Complex. Do they pay income tax on this benefit? How much does the gas cost for this benefit? What else is going home on those trucks? Don’t buy articulating garbage trucks for millions that can’t drive into the dump becausse they get stuck and are not allowed back again so now they sit. Don’t pay pension benefits to anybody on the Twp Committee, boards, appointed positions or part time employees. How many people do you need to run the UEZ? Corby did it alone. Stop the courtesy busing for students that are not in grade school and live within walking distance to the school.

  13. this town is so corrupt, just look on how many police cars the town buys, you could count at least at any given time at least 25, it’s comletely crazy and so is everything else NOBODY cares. WE NEED A CHANGE RIGHT NOWWWW

  14. CHESKY,
    I CAN’T POSSIBLY EVER IMAGINE ANYONE SAYING SUCH A HORRIFIC STATEMENT. (HITLER’S REFERENCE) IT’S UNIMAGINABLE THAT ANY HUMAN BEING WOULD SAY SUCH. PLEASE CLEARIFY IF ANYONE WOULD ACTUALLY SAY SUCH A THING. I FEEL IT’S IMPORTANT FOR THE VOTERS TO BE VERY WELL AWARE IF SUCH IS ACTUALLY TRUE.

  15. “How Many Police cars Lakewood has”?
    You must realize that Cunliff’s daughter bashed up a few of Lakewood’s police vehicles. She also couldn’t pass the police exam, but Charlie (while being a Township committeeman) got her into LPD.

  16. I don’t know about the Htiler comment, but I lost my contract with Lalekwood for standing against attacks against the Orthodox and even turned a big folder with evidence of remarks made against the Orthodox. The person who made those ocmments still lives and works in Lakewood. I am out of Job/contgract because I cannot keep my mouth shut about what I see and hear. Just Ask Jeffrey Williamson.

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