Local Government

The Old Hunterdon County Court House located in Flemington, New Jersey where the historic Lindbergh trial was held in 1935
Introduction
How local government works and what citizens can do to reduce property taxes (that includes school taxes--see the bill sponsored by Senator Mike Doherty entitled Fair School Funding below) and eliminate the out of control township police departments by using their County Sheriff (a Constitutional Officer) instead of having high cost individual township police departments (the chief of police in a township is not an elected office nor is he/she a constitutional officer). Implementing the above will save millions in property taxes.
Topics covered
1.How State and Local government works;
2. Why the Sheriff’s Office Should Replace existing Township Police Departments ;
3. A Few Hunterdon County Freeholders and the Somerset County Freeholders Misleading the Public about Twp. Police Mergers;
4. Fair School Funding proposal by Senator Mike Doherty (23rd District) would reduce property taxes by thousands of dollars per househould if passed by the New Jersey Legislature and signed by the Governor located at www.fairschoolfunding.com.;-- Raritan Twp. /Flemington Borough is getting only $5,611,128/$48,603,208 (12 cents for every dollar sent to Trenton) for school funding; under the FSF plan, they would get $21,522,459 back and all of Hunterdon County would get an increase of about $130 million.
5. How is Agenda 21 being implemented on a local government level?--the UN's Agenda 21 is being implemented by Non-governmental organizations (NGO's) with a political agenda and go by such names as Sustainable Developement, Smart Growth, Historic Preservation, Open Space, etc. (it is enforced by non-elected boards and is a blueprint to turn you community into a little Soviet Union--see American Policy Center.) and also read about what some of the communists on Readington Township Committee tried to do to the Solberg Airport, located at 39 Thor Solberg Road, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, through eminent domain (see www.solbergairport.com).
6. High Cost County Attorneys; and
7. Polytech in Hunterdon County--find out about what happened to former Hunterdon County Freeholder George Muller's 04/10/01 Polytech Yale Property Proposal to acquire the Yale property across from Hunterdon Central High School Field House that would have benefited not only the Hunterdon Central High School students, but the taxpayers--see former Freeholder and Undersheriff George Muller's 1 page PDF report .
For a detailed explanation on the topics listed above, see headings below.
Locate your State District Number by Town (this is not your Congressional District Number, which is different)
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp
Counties and Districts
There are 21 counties in the State of New Jersey and 40 legislative districts for the State Senate (one State Senator per district) and the Assembly (two Assembly members per district—see map above). These counties together contain 566 municipalities composed of clearly defined territory; 250 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 245 townships, and 4 villages. A county stands between the state and municipalities and includes a Board of Chosen Freeholders, sheriff, clerk, and surrogate. All are elected officials; however, only the county sheriff, county clerk, and county surrogate are constitutional officers (the county freeholders are not constitutional officers). Also, the county sheriff has great authority under the constitution for protecting citizens’ constitutional rights (see heading entitled Why the Sheriff’s Office Should Replace existing Township Police Departments). Some counties have an elected county executive, which pertains to counties that were organized under the Optional County Charter Law. The location of the administrative office for the county is referred to as the county seat.
The New Jersey Senate
The New Jersey Senate was established by the New Jersey Legislature in 1844. In 1947 the New Jersey Legislature changed the New Jersey Constitution to allow the term of State Senate office to be four years instead of three years. New Jersey Senators are elected in a “2-4-4” cycle based on the decennial United States Census, which affects the district boundaries. As a result, elections in the Senate seats take place in years ending with a “1”, “3” or “7”.
Vacant legislative seats can be filled with interim appointments by the county committee (each political party has elected county committee members—2 year terms--for each polling district in the township—two persons are elected only by their registered party affiliation; voters such as a registered Republican or a registered Democrat can vote for two persons in their polling district only). The office is on the ballot for the next general election unless the vacancy occurred with 51 days of the election—the appointment would then stand until the following general election.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
This allows the State Senator from his/her district to prevent consideration of a local resident nominated by the Governor for a position that requires Senate confirmation. For example, a State Senator from his/her district can block the nomination of a prosecutor or judge temporarily or permanently without any obligation to justify the basis of their actions. [County Prosecutor’s and Judges are appointed whereas in Pennsylvania the District Attorney (the equivalent to our County Prosecutor) and judges are elected by the people—a better system.]
Historical note: The New Jersey State Senate had 21 representatives, one from each county regardless of the population (this was predicated on the our constitutional Republican form of government—2 U.S. Senators are elected every 6 years regardless of population and the congressional seats are apportioned by population and congressmen/congresswomen are elected every 2 years). Yes, United States is a constitutional Republic, not a democracy (see Republic vs. Democracy--PDF and The Electorial College: Preserve or Abolish?--PDF). The Founding Fathers believed in a Republic and were against a pure democracy because it would lead to anarchy. Also, the states with a smaller population would have no say if the number of U.S. Senate seats were determined by the population. Unfortunately, the wicked Supreme Court of the United States in 1964 (Reynolds v. Sims) decided abolish this form of government in New Jersey—which was based on the federal model—by requiring a “one man, one vote” principle that legislative districts must be approximately equal in size. David Friedland was the person who filed the suit in the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of two union leaders, who disgraced themselves by undermining our Republic form of government. The New Jersey Legislature acquiesced to the wicked United States Supreme Court and mandated the changes of “one man, one vote” principle that took effect in 1967. The Governor had the authority under the Constitution to disobey the United States Supreme Court, but chose to instead to be a coward or he did not understand the authority given to State Governors and County Sheriff’s under the United States Constitution.
What is the Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (N.J.S.A. § 40:69A-1, et seq.)?
Under the Faulkner Act, it offers four basic plans for New Jersey municipalities:
- Mayor-Council: Municipalities can establish three to ten executive departments headed by a director, which is appointed by the mayor;
- Council-Manager: The municipal manager is the chief executive with broad powers, which is appointed by the council who has complete control;
- Small Municipality: This is for municipalities that have a population of 12,000 or less, and the legislative powers are vested in the council with a the mayor presiding over the counsel sessions with a voice and a vote ; and
- Mayor-Council-Administrator: This is largely a borough form of government that has an appointed professional administrator (unlike the three other Faulkner Act plans, the Mayor-Council-Administrator offers no optional variations in structure).
There are two procedures by which the voters of a municipality can adopt one of these plans. The Act provides many choices for communities with a preference for a strong executive and professional management of municipal affairs. Twenty-one percent (21%) of the municipalities in New Jersey, including the six most populous cities --Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Trenton, Paterson and Elizabeth-- all govern under the provisions of the Faulkner Act. More than half of all New Jersey residents reside in municipalities with Faulkner Act charters.
Initiative and referendum
Citizens that reside in municipalities under the Faulkner Act, regardless of the particular form, have the right of Initiative and referendum. Yes, ordinances can be introduced directly by citizens without action by the local governing body such as the Township Committee. In order to exercise this right, a citizen has to prepare a conforming petition signed by 10% of the registered voters who turned out in the last general election in an odd-numbered year (i.e., the most recent General Assembly election). Once the petition is submitted, the local governing body can vote to pass the requested ordinance. If the local governing body refuses, it is then submitted directly to the voters. For example, the citizens of a township decide to merge their twp. police department into the Sheriff's Office (this would be done on a contractual basis between county and township) or want to phase out their township police department over a period of time because of out of control costs (binding arbitration with high percentage increases in salaries when the federal and state economy is in very serious trouble, etc.) and replace it with the Sheriff’s Department (up to 50 to 75% cost savings), a petition would have to be signed by 10% of the registered votes, then the local governing body can pass the requested ordinance. Otherwise the ordinance would go on the ballet for a direct vote of the registered voters in the township. This should only be done if the twp. committee or council refuses to act in the best interest of the people by refusing to merge the twp. police dept. into the Sheriff's Office on a contractual basis. Sometimes just voting for new committee people is easier.
Why the Sheriff’s Office Should Replace existing Township Police Departments
The Sheriff should be in charge of township law enforcement duties for the following reasons:
- Because your Sheriff’s Office is the whole county and the Sheriff is a Constitutional Officer, there is much more flexibility.
- For example, if the Hunterdon County Sheriff’s Office took over the policing functions of the Raritan Township Police, the Sheriff’s Office could only assign 10 Sheriff Officers instead of the over 30 now on the force and have a satellite office (the existing police station in the township) in the more populated areas.
- If there is an emergency, the Sheriff can have the other Sheriff’s Officers in the county respond to the incident. This would not be the case with an existing township police departments—the police dept. is stuck with a huge overhead even during times of little activity.
- The Hunterdon County Sheriff’s Office has civil service, which means the cost of each Sheriff’s Officer is considerably less and there is no age limit—a lot of qualified retired military personnel work for Sheriff’s departments across the country.
- The cost of the townships police departments is out of control—there are many on the township committee who have a cult worship mentality towards the police officers, make back room deals or they are intimidated and give them whatever they want. Also, the police have binding arbitration. For example, a breakdown of the cost of a typical township police department such as Raritan Township Police Department in Hunterdon County in the 2009 approved budget is:
- Salaries and Wages ($3,256,220.00 in 2008)----------------------$3,325,035.00
- Other Expenses------------------------------------------------------$208,975.00
- Police & Firemen’s Retirement System ($647,406.00 in 2008)---$441,365.00
- Compensated Absence (value $779,763.00; Approx. $50,000 x .54%)---27,217.00
- Purchase of Police Equipment-----------------------------------------$7,900.00
Total: $4,010,492.00
Raritan Township’s Total Budget: $16,872,575.32
Police Percentage of Budget: 24% [Note: This percentage does not necessarily account for the true cost of operating a township police department—when the full costs are accounted properly such as pensions, the percentage cost can be anywhere from 30% to 50% of the townships’ budget)
- The Sheriff is elected Constitutional Officer and not a bureaucrat and is an employee of the people.
- Mistreatment of the citizens by the current township police departments (which the President of NJIAT has been receiving a lot of complaints by the citizens--both old and young--against the township police departments in Hunterdon County such as being pulled over with no probable cause, harassment, nasty attitude, etc.) is harder to address because the chief is not an elected officer (who sets the policy and culture for the department and many honorable township police officers have to work under a chief who runs the department like the Gestapo) and most township committee members are cowards or have a vested interest (control) in keeping their high cost police departments. The Sheriff is elected every 3 years and is thus directly accountable to the people.
- The Sheriff has the ability and authority under the Constitution to protect citizens’ liberties against the federal government and state government. Yes, they can disobey a federal law if it is a direct violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Also, the county Sheriff and the Governor are the only state officials who can call out the “militia” (armed law abiding citizens—see I Samuel 25:13 for support of an armed citizenry called to action) or “posse” to support efforts to keep the peace in his/her county. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 27, 1997, that the Brady bill was unconstitutional and that the Federal Government could not commandeer state or county officers for federal bidding—this is a tenth Amendment right. Federal agencies could not do whatever they felt like doing. Justice Scalia wrote for the majority, stating, “The Federal Government may not compel the states to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program.” (See article by Sheriff Mack on the subject.)
- The President of NJIAT has spoken to many high ranking New Jersey State Police Officials about the local township police departments—they concur with me that the township police departments are out of control and should be phased out with the exception of park rangers. The townships that are currently patrolled by the State Police such as Kingwood Township do not have to pay for the services because they were grandfathered in and have a population under 10,000; of course, the NJ taxpayers are paying for this service. If the citizens of that township had to pay for services, it would still be less expensive than having a township police department; however, the Sheriff’s Office could perform the same function at a lower cost and the Sheriff would be directly accountable to the people in the county. Also, any concealed carry permits should be processed through the Sheriff’s Office—this is what Pennsylvania and many other states do.
- On January 25, 2010, a meeting was held at the East Amwell Municipal building to discuss the possible merger of West Amwell’s, East Amwell’s (which does not have its own police department) and Lambertville’s police department. There was one major problem with the independent study conducted by Blue Shield Consulting of Morristown (Mr. Ted Ehrenburg is owner and one of the main speakers there): The Sheriff’s Office report was not included. An East Amwell resident asked why the option of the Sheriff’s Office was not mentioned and brought to the panels attention that Undersheriff George D. Muller was in the audience and deferred to him. Undersheriff Muller pointed out to Mr. Mike Capobianco, the Hunterdon County shared services coordinator, that they have already discussed the matter in detail and let Mr. Capobianco explain why the Sheriff’s Office report was not included. Mr. Capobianco’s response can be summarized as follows:
- The Sheriff’s Office is the most cost effective method of policing the county and is a 100% behind having the Sheriff’s Office (an already existing county police force) police the county where needed.
- The Hunterdon County Freeholders would not release the advisory report submitted to the Freeholders from the Sheriff’s Office and that is why it was not included in the study.
- It would be very difficult to get the Freeholders accept the Sheriff’s proposal because they do not like the Sheriff
The citizens of the three townships, especially East Amwell, were not happy with the study and thought it was very flawed and offered no guarantee that the residents would save any money. They would probably end up paying more money --West Amwell and East Amwell would have to subsidize Lambertville. East Amwell has free services already from the State Police. The Freeholders might have been given erroneous information by various individuals who have a vested interest in keeping these high cost township police departments and are trying to destroy the Sheriff’s Office. (It should be noted that Undersheriff George D. Muller has administrative expertise as former Freeholder for 18 years has actually generated revenue and saved money for the citizens of Hunterdon County through the Sheriff’s Office in 2008 and 2009 and Undersheriff Muller has given presentations to other townships on the cost effectiveness and efficiency of having the Sheriff’s Office patrol their community and also proposed that the Motor Vehicles contract out the services to the Sheriff’s Office instead of the high cost Township Police Department that did not want it anymore—Hunterdon County would have made a profit on the deal if the Freeholders voted to approve hiring a Sheriff’s Officer because the State of New Jersey would reimburse the county for a set amount and the Sheriff’s Department cost of hiring an officer is much lower then hiring a township police officer. The Freeholders would not approve the hiring a Sheriff’s Officer for Motor Vehicles—the conduct and actions of the Freeholders is not good.)
Hunterdon Central High School should consider a Sheriff’s Officer at the school instead of a Raritan Township Police Officer considering that the Chief is trying to obtain $70k (the real cost would be $100k) from the school for their services—the Sheriff’s Office has jurisdiction in the whole county and the sending districts could split the costs, not just Raritan Township residents if the school was charged for the services. (I am sure if the Sheriff’s Office had a patrolling function in the county, they would not charge the school.)
There seems to be hostility or a misunderstanding towards Constitutional Offices by the Hunterdon County Freeholders—this ought not to be the case. The purpose of the Freeholders is to: 1. Run an efficient county [having the Dept. of Corrections (County Jail), Emergency Services, Homeland Security, Communications, etc under the Department of Public Safety (DPS) instead of the Sheriff’s Office is not running the county efficiently); 2. Lower the costs to the taxpayers (which is giving the Townships an option on to use the Sheriff’s Office on a contractual basis); and 3. Protecting their Constitutional rights, not how much control they can have. The Prosecutor’s Office is a State Constitutional Office--however, it is not an elected position like Pennsylvania, thus not accountable to the people and the Freeholders have less control of this office then the Sheriff’s Office! It should be noted that the Prosecutor’s Office has to pull individual police officers from different townships throughout the county for their Swat team—the Hunterdon County Sheriff’s Office should have their own Swat team instead of the Prosecutor’s Office, which is much more efficient and effective.
The 2008 Sheriff’s Office Shared Services Report that was purposely kept out of the police merger report done by the Blue Shield Consulting of Morristown is now available and other successful merger reports of twp. police depts. merged into the Sheriff's Office--see Police/Sportsmen Tab & below.
County Police vs. Elected Sheriff--PDF
Contracting out Services of the Hunterdon County Sheriff's Office (2010)--PDF
Hunterdon County Sheriff's Office Shared Services Proposal (2008) for ten municipalities--PDF
Can the County Sheriff Save the Constitution?—PDF
What can County the Freeholders do to reduce the cost of township police departments?
The county Freeholders should be instrumental in promoting the Sheriff’s Office instead of trying to destroy it as is the case in Hunterdon County. By working with the Sheriff’s Department, the taxpayers on the local level would benefit because the individual townships in the county would have a valid alternative to their high cost police departments. The township committee members would put in a request for so many unit hours (the unit hour cost would include the salary of the Sheriff’s Officer, overtime, and police car to operate in a one hour increment) and any other needs. Also, Communications (9-1-1), the Office of Emergency Management, Homeland Security, County Youth Facility, Office of the County Fire Marshal, Emergency Services Training Center, and the county jail (which was taken away from the Sheriff’s Office in the 1980’s) should be under the Sheriff’s Office—the majority of the county Sheriff’s Departments in NJ have control of their county correctional facility).
The Freeholders created in 2005 another bureaucracy called the Hunterdon County Department of Public Safety (PDS) and put the above services under PDS—this would be totally unnecessary if the Sheriff’s Office was running those services. This is not implying that current director of PDS is not doing an excellent job—he should just be under the Sheriff’s Office, which would give PDS a more effective Homeland Security (a local response plan is much more effective with a county Sheriff’s Office, especially having control of the Incident Command System (ICS) and if your township police departments have been replaced by the Sheriff’s Office).
(It should be noted that the new jail was suppose to be built behind the county library on RT 12—it would have been half the cost then the current location and could have housed temporary non-violent federal offenders, which would have been paid by the federal government. Yes, the county would have made money—the current jail was built on an outdated design that has a tunnel that connects to the court house that floods. Ask your longest serving Freeholder (1978 to present) why he voted this way in the 1980’s along with other Freeholders who are no longer serving). Instead of the Hunterdon County Freeholders destroying the Sheriff’s Department and being petty over items requested such as off-duty badges ($2,000), which was already approved in the budget, they should be saving the taxpayers money on the big items such as eliminating the enormous fees that the county attorney is receiving for his services--$845,286.86 in billing fees to the county in 2008.
If the Freeholders allowed the Sheriff’s Office to place an officer at Motor Vehicles in Flemington, the county would have actually made a profit because the State of New Jersey would reimburse the Sheriff’s Office.
Somerset County Freeholders and One Hunterdon County Freeholder Misleading the Public about Twp. Police Mergers
There was no reason for the Somerset County Freeholders to commission a 2 1/2 year study about mergering or consolidating township police departments. The Freeholders could have had a two week free study from the Sheriff's Office or National Sheriff's Association. Having the Sheriff's Office patrol or supplement townships in Somerset County (Somerset County Sheriff's Office) is the most efficient and cost effective--it is also easier to negotiate police contracts for townships who want to merge into the Sheriff's Office. There is no need for Somerset County Freeholder Jack Ciattrelli, who is running for Assembly and an intelligent man, and Hunterdon County Freeholder Rob Walton to promote legislation in New Jersey to authorize or make it easier for municipal police Twp. Departments to merge. This is not the case with the Sheriff's Office, who are already authorized by the state. The municipal police departments are able to legally merge or supplement their departments through the Sheriff's Office.
The real issue was that the Freeholders do not want to give up control that included the Somerset County Prosecutor. The Sheriff and the County Prosecutor are Constitutional Officers. The difference being is that the Sheriff is elected by the people, thus more accountable to the people whereas the county prosecutor (a State Constitutional Officer) is appointed by the Governor and controlled by the Attorney General--look at the the former Somerset County Prosecutor (Nicholas Bissell) who was indicted on 30 counts of criminal activity by a federal gran jury in 1996; since he was appointed, he could only be removed by the Governor and thus the citizens had a bad prosecutor in Somerset from 1982 through 1996. In Pennsylvania the Prosecutor or District Attorney is elected. They will end up with a high cost county police force and a duplication of services (the Sheriff's Office is an already existing county law enforcement police force). This is stupidity on the highest level.
Contact Sheriff Fred Brown , a straight shooter, about using the Sheriff's Office to reduce police costs to the local municipalities in Hunterdon County--there are false rumors being circulated by some Raritan Twp. Committeemen that Fred Brown recommended the current police chief in Raritan Twp. and is not in favor of supplemental police coverage from the Sheriff's Office if the municipalities request it. This is an outright lie and not Sheriff's Brown's position. Unfortunately, Freeholder Rob Walton was quoted in the Hunterdon County Democrat (08/04/11) by Terry Wright in an article titled Officials explore shared services that Sheriff Brown would not be interested in offering shared services for municipal police departments--this is a lie and Sheriff Brown has made it clear he will offer services if requested by the municipalities.


Fair School Funding (FSF)--Do you want to reduce your school property taxes by millions of dollars? Then support the Fair School Funding proposal by Senator Mike Doherty.
State Senator Doherty (23rd District) has recently drafted legislation that would give all students in New Jersey an equal amount of aid no matter where they reside in the state, not the current formula where 150 towns get back only 5 cents or less back on every dollar of their State income tax sent to Trenton. 20% of the students are receiving 60% of the educational funds—these towns receive $20, $30 or $40 back for every $1 sent to Trenton. The bill is consistent with the State Constitution, Article VIII, Section IV, Paragraph 2.
Let me give you a brief background history on how we arrived at 20% of the students in New Jersey receiving 60% of the school funding. The State Supreme court has violated the New Jersey State Constitution by disregarding the division of powers (Article III, Paragraph 1), ignoring that the funds are suppose to be equally divided to the students in New Jersey (equal benefit for all the people of the state, Article VIII, Section IV, Paragraph 2), and the State income tax that was enacted in 1976 that was supposed to be used for the express purpose of reducing taxes (Article VIII, Section I, Paragraph 7.a.).
How would Senator Doherty’s bill on Fair School Funding, an Act concerning State school aid and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, lower property taxes in 80% of towns without reducing their school budget?
Senator Doherty’s bill would create a new formula for the allocation of State aid to school districts. Each school district would receive aid based on the State aid per pupil rate and multiplying that amount by the school district’s enrollment for the budget year. In other words, the State Treasurer projects the total revenue amount from the State income tax for the budget year to determine the per pupil rate and then the Department of Education is to divide the amount according to resident enrollment of the school districts. This new formula in the bill will have the effect of bringing millions of dollars back into the school districts were property taxes can be reduced thousands of dollars without ever touching the school budget. For example, instead of Raritan Twp. /Flemington Borough getting only $5,611,128/$48,603,208 (12 cents for every dollar sent to Trenton) for school funding, they would get $21,522,459 and all of Hunterdon County would get an increase of about $130 million under the FSF plan.
Not everyone living in affluent areas such as Hunterdon County is wealthy. The current formula instituted by a rogue State Supreme court is wrong and legislature should just nullify/not enforce any unconstitutional rulings. The extra money going to the Abbott districts is wasted and there is a lot of fraud. (This bill would not affect the food program for lower income students administered by the Dept. of Agriculture.) The bill if approved by the Legislature would be an amendment that would have to be approved by the voters. Call Governor Chris Christie, Majority Leader Senator Steve Sweeney, and Minority Leader Senator Tom Kean, Jr. and tell them to support the bill if they are serious about reducing property taxes.
For further information, read the Fair School Funding Plan proposed by Senator Mike Doherty (23rd District) that would reduce property taxes by thousands of dollars per househould if passed by the New Jersey Legislature and signed by the Governor located at www.fairschoolfunding.com.

How is Agenda 21 being implemented on a local government level?
Against "Agenda 21"-- Tom DeWesse stated in an interview at CPAC in Washington, D.C. 2011 on how destructive this United Nations program is on local governments and how it is being implemented on a local municipal level; for example, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)--see video interview at www.libertynewsnetwork.tv. and What are the UN's Agenda 21 and ICLEI? The UN's Agenda 21 is being implemented by Non-governmental organizations (NGO's) with a political agenda and go by such names as Sustainable Developement, Smart Growth, Historic Preservation, Open Space, etc. (it is enforced by non-elected boards and is a blueprint to turn you community into a little Soviet Union--see American Policy Center.) If Agenda 21 is fully implemented, it will eventually terminate your right to own property--the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not recognize property rights. Local officials should withdraw from ICLEI and your State Representatives and State Senators should cease funding and oppose all measures for sustainable growth. Montgomery County commissioners in Pennsylvania on March of 2011 let its membership in the ICLEI lapse--residents accussed the commissioners with being in league with the U.N. to promote global warming, a lie being told to the public. Also, read about what some of the communists on Readington Township Committee tried to do to Solberg Airport, located at 39 Thor Solberg Road, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, through eminent domain (see www.solbergairport.com).
The High Cost of our Hunterdon County Attorney
The Hunterdon County attorney not only received $845, 286.86 in billing fees in 2008, but also gets a $62,328.00 salary from the county with health care benefits and a pension (see copy of 1099--PDF& Salary and Health Benefits—PDF). They can hire two full-time salaried attorneys and a paralegal for $300,000.
What happend to the Polytech proposal in Hunterdon County?
In 2001, former Freeholder and Undersheriff George Muller of Hunterdon County proposed purchasing the Yale property--which is across from the Hunterdon Central High School Field House--in order to house the Polytech students instead of leasing the building on Bartles Corner Road. The cost to purchase said property with state grant and bond financing would have been less expensive per year ($400,000) than the annual cost of $500,000 to lease a building for Polytech. This would have given the Hunterdon Central students free parking and courses without leaving the campus. The Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) would have also leased Yale property space from the county and there were other government agencies looking to lease. The building would have been paid off in less than 20 years and generated an income. Unfortnately, Freeholder George Melick and former Freeholder Marcia Karrow voted against the Yale property purchase. The Freeholders needed four votes because it was a bond issue. (See the 04/10/01 Yale Property Proposal--PDF.)
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See Sheriff Mack’s website below for further information.
www.sheriffmack.com
http://www.usa1911.com/landing/

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We can show you how. Did you know . . .
- The President cannot tell your County Sheriff what to do;
- Congress cannot tell your County Sheriff what to do;
- The Supreme Court cannot tell your County Sheriff what to do;
- Your County Sheriff takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
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