The New Township Fire Company For the third time in eight years, Tabernacle has a new fire company. At its October 26, meeting, the township committee created a township fire company named the “Tabernacle Fire Company” (Ordinance 2020-4). The committee will choose the company’s new chief who will select its officers subject to the consent Read More…
Tabernacle To Bury Volunteer Fire Company
For the fifth time in the last six years Tabernacle’s committee is about to do another major makeover of emergency services. After months of secret planning by Mayor Kim Brown and Committeeman Sammy Moore, the committee is proposing to eliminate Tabernacle Fire Company #1 (TFC1). The committee will replace it with a township-run fire company. Read More…
Tabernacle Not Interested In Improving Relations Between Rescue Squad And Fire Company
At the August 24, 2020 meeting, the committee refused to establish basic standards for professional behavior between the Tabernacle Rescue Squad (TRS) and the Tabernacle Fire Company #1 (TFC1). This was unfortunate because bickering and fighting between the companies has been a regrettable hallmark of their working relationship. This was a lost opportunity to improve Read More…
Tabernacle’s Inner Circle
At the June 15, 2020 meeting, the township committee approved the payment of $200 for Certified Finance Officer Rodney Haines’s participation in a webinar conference. The webinar was held by the Tax Collectors and Treasurers Association of NJ. Mr. Haines is Tabernacle’s part-time CFO. He is also the full-time CFO for Little Egg Harbor Township Read More…
Tabernacle’s April 24, 2020 Meeting, Different Medium Same Result
Democratic governments, for the most part, are required to conduct the public’s business in a public meeting. Citizens, for the most part, have the right to be there and participate. That fundamental exercise of our democratic republic was tested on April 27, 2020 when the Tabernacle Township committee held its first electronic meeting on the Read More…
Tabernacle Township Meeting Video February 24, 2020
Tabernacle Committee Weasels Out Of Email Address Problem, Flubs Workshop Meeting
Elected Officials’ Email Addresses Talking to your elected officials should be easy. Because email is easy, it seems obvious that all committee members should be available through their official email address. But for reasons that were long unexplained, that’s not the way it works in Tabernacle. After months of asking committee members about the township’s Read More…
Tabernacle Returns To Mayor Kimberly Brown And Goes Backwards
With the start of the new year, the reorganization of the township committee in January and the addition of two new committee members, I was hoping for a fresh start. But that hasn’t happened. Mayor Brown’s leadership shows the same controlling style as when she was mayor in 2015. The remaining committee members are largely Read More…
Tabernacle Adopts Bogus Open Public Records Act Resolution Based On Misleading “Data”
At the November 25, 2019 meeting, the committee unanimously adopted Resolution 2019-119, which concerns the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). The resolution was developed by the Municipal Clerks’ Association of New Jersey (Association) with the blessings of the New Jersey League of Municipalities (League). It praises the good purposes of OPRA but lobbies for a Read More…
Happy New Year! Tabernacle Township December 16, 2019 Meeting Video
Have a happy, healthy and safe New Year! Tabernacle Township Reorganization will be held January 2, 2020 at 7PM at town hall.