OCP would like to get on with other business, but the comedians at the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority, the Gilmore/Clement gang that just can't shoot straight, continue to shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get.

This time it's another apparent records falsification: round up the usual suspects, a process that's becoming a revolving door.

Nobody's going to understand this the first time around, but back on January 22, 2003, DMUA commissioners Paul "Wacky" Wnek, Leneord Hedinger and Deborah Clement conducted an ambush to smear and intimidate veteran commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr.

Ambush Badly Bungled

The ambush was badly bungled, but in the process it turned out that Wnek had falsified important parts of a memorandum he sent from the Burlington Highway Department where he is employed on the public pad.

In order to cover up the Wnek falsification and some obvious misrepresentations from the other two GOP GreedClub commissioners, DMUA attorney Richard Meinders apparently put the draft minutes of the meeting in a file in his law office and kept them there without ever presenting them to a meeting for discussion and action by the commissioners.

Minutes Illegally Approved

Then, at the beginning of 2004, just before the old commission went out of business as the new township government organized, Meinders and DMUA executive director John Broome sent the draft minutes out to the old commissioners, asking them to approve them by mail or fax, a blatantly illegal procedure that violates the state's sunshine law and a whole host of other important regulations.

Haelig Told Them The Procedure Was Illegal

Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr., who had drawn attention several times to the misrepresentations from Mrs. Clement, Wnek and Hedinger, and the falsification of the memo, told Broome the procedure was illegal, but other commissioners dutifully went along and made the illegal "approval."

And there the matter sat for another year. But at the 2005 reorganization meeting on Tuesday, the commission voted to make Meinders the "conflict" attorney.

Meinders was replaced in February 2004 by James Gluck as the regular DMUA attorney, and this was the usual GreedClub maneuver to give him  a chance to send vouchers in again.

Haelig Warned Them: What Else Is New?

Haelig brought up the 1/22/03 minutes, noting it was clear, at least to him, that Meinders and the others engaged in a serious irregularity, and that it might be best to wait until the status of the draft minutes was cleared up, before appointing Meinders.

But, of course, they didn't listen, and Meinders was appointed 4-1, with Haelig casting the only negative vote as Mrs. Clement, Bellu, Anthony Benyola and Joseph Bilotta all voted in the affirmative..

Belated Bellu To Broome

The new chairman, Juan Bellu, suggested belatedly that Broome present a report on the status of the 2003 minutes at the authority's March meeting.

Lots more to come, but if you've nothing better to do now, here's a Video of the minutes controversy and OCP Stories On The Ambush and Related Happenin's, Click as follows:

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