Jim Grenafege

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MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): “I have always been an advocate of in-house counsel at the county level,” said Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege. “So it makes sense that I am all for it here in Middletown.”

Grenafege’s running mate is Patricia A. Walsh. She said, “The school district caps legal expenses in the context of its annual budget. There is no reason to tolerate excessive legal spending on the municipal level from the numerous attorneys the township now employs.”

Walsh said she recently saw a published report where Township Attorney Bernard Reilly is paid for 200-hour months and 15-18 hour days. “More scrutiny must be given to each of these individual legal bills,” she said.

MIDDLETOWN (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh and Jim Grenafege will be holding their first campaign press conference at the Middletown Town Hall, 1 Kings Highway.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): The Middletown Committee, led by a Republican Majority, is not getting the job done where it involves fiscal leadership, according to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege.

“A 7.1 percent tax increase is not what our taxpayers need. We need to be watching every dollar just as our residents are. Years of non-stop bonding and unnecessary expenditures must and will come to an end when my running mate and I are elected to the Governing Body,” Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh said.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): “F.E.M.A. has failed Middletown residents categorically,” Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege said.

F.E.M.A. offered an informational session to the public on July 16 at Croydon Hall. In a conversation with a F.E.M.A. representative, Grenafege discovered there would not be a question-and-answer portion, similar to the kind held during an identical event in Keansburg. “I was told it wasn’t necessary,” Grenafege said. “So I said that, very often in a public forum, questions are asked that can be very helpful to the entire group. So it sounds to me like the people in Middletown are not as important to F.E.M.A. as residents in neighboring towns.”

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): It’s more of the same, according to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege.

According to Grenafege, a retired career consultant, the Republican Majority on the Township Committee has resorted to gross inaccuracies in its June 2008 edition.

“One of the things is that it isn’t up to date about this newsletter is the Standard and Poor’s AA rating the township had done about four years ago,” Grenafege said. “Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger is just resting on the township’s past laurels. There is nothing new by way of accomplishments in the Mayor’s tenure but Mr. Scharfenberger is trying to take historical information and take ownership of it to make himself look better.”

Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh, a 12-year school board member, said, “Mayor Scharfenberger, in this recent Middletown Matters, fails to disclose that, for the past 20 years, the current and previous GOP administrations in town have used deferred school taxes to balance this township’s budget and make it look better than it actually is.”