March 9, 2003: Snow Job Part IV

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Snow Job Part IV

Ortley Beach Intersection Three Weeks After The Big Snow Storm - Still No Activity From Moribund Public Works Department

Annoyed Citizen Of Ortley Says “The First Thing To Do Is To Replace The Emergency Management Coordinator • • PRONTO!!!”

Numerous Township Intersections Have Snow In Them Three Weeks After The Snow Stopped: At 4th Avenue And Nichols Avenue In Ortley Beach, Little Snow Anywhere Else, But The Intersection Is Still Full Of Snow - And Still Dangerous

Leaderless Public Works Picked Up The Garbage Six Times, But Never Touched The Remaining Snow

To the editor:

Township's "Emergency Management " Vehicle, In Perfect Shape Except For Allegedly Malfunctioning $700 Generator, Is Plowed In At The A & P Parking Lot In Ortley Beach Four Days After The Snow Stopped Falling

It seems to me, the first thing to do is to replace the Emergency Management Coordinator • • • Winton.* PRONTO!!!!

Emergency Management 101 is to plan for any and all possible catastrophes. I guess he was not born in 1997 when we had the last blizzard.

Do you think Ortley is ready for the next big hurricane?

I hope our new ward councilman (to be elected in the change of government on November 6th) makes Ortley Emergency Management a priority.

Annoyed Ortley Citizen

*Editor’s note: John Winton is Dover Township’s politically connected “Emergency Management Coordinator”. He has several different jobs with the township and draws six different salaries for a total salary of $84,025.88

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Three Weeks After The Snow Stopped Falling, Clueless And Leaderless Public Works Department Still Hasn’t Cleaned Out Numerous Intersections, So Pavement Is Covered With Ice As Soon As The Sun goes Down

Ortley Beach Intersection (Fourth Ave. & Nichols Ave.) From Projected Right Turn Angle Three Weeks After The Big Snow Storm - Still No Appearance By Politically Infested Public Works Department

There were at least four days where the temperature got up to 50 degrees or more, but the public works department left so much snow in many intersections that some streets were still dangerous three weeks after the storm, especially after sunset.

At the intersection of Nichols Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Ortley Beach, garbage trucks from the Public Works Department have been in the neighborhood six times in the three week period.

And yet, there has apparently been no communication, and no effort to clear the intersection which could have been cleared in five minutes if somebody showed up to clear it.

The story is typical of many intersections throughout the township, some for a shorter period of time where the snow melted quicker.

GOP PW Department Now Under Russo Jr.’s Protection

The clueless GOP politics-infested and virtually leaderless Public Works Department is apparently now under the protection of Republican-designate but still (as of 3/09/03) a Democrat, certain mayoralty candidate, appointed Lame Duck “Mayor” John Russo Jr.

The leadership of the Public Works Department apparently couldn’t care less if the snow was never cleaned out at all - unless they could stretch the job into another dose of $60 an hour double time for the politically connected. (3/9/03)

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