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June 5, 2004 The Truth about Downe Every Saturday | ||
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A rainbow on the Road to Paradise. On the road to paradise you will pass the Downe Township Inconvenience Center.
The Inconvenience Center is a Solid Waste Facility that a township employee--the current mayor's father-in-law!-- and a committeeman built without any consultation with the township engineer nor any other expert on such design and operation. Recent developments at the facility have expanded the facility without proper Environmental Impact Statements, planning, design and certification by a licensed civil engineer. Residents have a right to expect that projects undertaken by the township meet state requirements in regard to safety and environmental damage.
Click on the picture to see it in its full context as a really stupid place to put a Solid Waste Facility. Bernie Sayers has filed a formal complaint with the New Jersey Bureau of Coastal and Land Use Compliance and Enforcement regarding the following:
Calling the facility on Sharp Lane a Convenience Center is more dishonest and deceptive than calling Reality Television shows a representation of reality. At least the folks watching the TV show realize they are watching television...and it isn't real. Surely, the hundreds of Downe residents who are inconvenienced by sitting in long lines of cars in the heat and the bugs realize what they are going through is not convenient. Check out the Inconvenience Center web page and see for yourself. Click HERE.
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5-Person Committee Petition Presented to Downe Township Clerk by Bernie Sayers A group of Downe Township residents presented a petition to Downe Township Clerk Merle R. Bailey signed by 116 registered voters of Downe Township at 1:00pm on Friday June 4, 2004 at the Municipal Building on Sharp Lane in Newport. The group presenting the papers was Ruth McConnell, secretary of the Downe Township Seniors; Jeanne Covert; Earl Miller and Bernie Sayers. The presentation was covered by reporter Andrew Johnson of The Press. See article HERE. The group was part of growing number of residents who see the importance and benefit of a five person committee. Four meetings in all areas of the township were attended by over 75 people. Merle Bailey accepted the 15 pages of petitions from Bernie Sayers but Bernie stated "these are from all of us." More than fifteen people were involved in circulating the petitions. Mr. Bailey said he would now have to compare the signatures with those of the voting records of the township. New Jersey law regarding the subject of petitions indicates that the number of required signatures is 15% of the voters who voted in the last election at which the New Jersey General Assembly was voted for. The last election to meet that criteria was in November of 2003. Records indicate that 546 voters voted in November. 528 voted at the polls and 18 voted by absentee ballot. According to voting records received from the Cumberland County Election Board, Downe Township has a total of 1021 total voters. The Downe Township voters registration list is available HERE. You will need a spreadsheet program able to read .xls files to view the material. An abbreviated version of the material will be available shortly. A future DDT article will address the next steps toward having five people making our township a better place to live. Resources and References
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"I live in fear of not being
misunderstood."
Oscar Wilde The DDT Newsletter Online was originally published in a print addition of one or two pages and distributed by mail with a bulk mailing permit. The original DDT Newsletter was one man's attempt to change Downe Township's political atmosphere by informing the residents in a humorous way that our township could be administered better to everyone's benefit. This new Internet based version of the newsletter, is now DDT Newsletter Online. Downe Township is very special place to me. I have lived here for almost 40 years. My daughter is an Honor Student at the Downe Township School. I have every reason to continue working toward making Downe an even better place to live. I believe a single voice can make a difference. I also believe that the Internet has given my single voice a strength and range of exposure that--before the Web--a single voice has never had. "There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves - and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance." Walt Whitman The DDT Newsletter Online continues that spirit of confidence and defiance. Write to us: DDT@AICommand.com Comments to the DDT Newsletter Online are welcomed but must not be anonymous. Publication of email to the DDT is at the sole discretion of the publisher.
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