OPRA Day
By Tina Renna | May 2, 2009There are things that the Union County Watchdog Association checks regularly by placing Open Public Records Act requests. I then pick up and/or review the records at the County Administration Building about once a month. The following are items of interest that probably wouldn’t make it into a separate blog piece, but are worth mentioning:
It’s a slice of pizza/It’s a sandwich
On April 16, 2009 the freeholders passed the budget. They will be spending $23,000 more per day than last year. They catered their meeting from Costa’s total bill was $315.00. On the menu was 1 tray Chicken Parm; 1 Tray Sausage & peppers; 1/2 Train Linguini Carbanata; 1/2 tray eggplant Rolantini; 1/2 Tray Penne Vodka; 1/2 Tray undecipherable; 1 Tray Salad; 1 Tray Bread.
For desert they ordered from Berntein Bakery $24.45 - 1 large cherry pie; 1 Chocolate cake.
For their mobile meeting held in New Providence, where presumably the New Providence town council attended the dinner meeting, the freeholders ordered sandwiches from Coppola’s $250.75. No bakery bill.
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A Tort Claim against Union County was filed on March 24. 2009 stemming from an accident that occurred on 2/12/09. A death occurred when a vehicle was struck by a tree.
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Another bill was unearthed for 2008 Music Fest. The county paid $2,500 for the production and video recording for the 2 day extravaganza. Another OPRA request is pending for the actual video recording. Gee I hope there is footage of what goes on in the freeholder VIP tent, which has been stuffed way back in the woods out of public view the past two years after we were able to shoot this video footage. There was no charge to the taxpayers for our video produciton.