Middletown

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): Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia A. Walsh said she would lobby to make E-mails written from township-owned computers accessible to the public through OPRA.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): Today Matthew Morehead, Chairman of the Monmouth County Bayshore Young Democrats, announced that in the findings by The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) of Middletown's fair share plan that the town was ordered to repay the Development Fee Ordinance in the amount of $82,687.85. This fund was intended to help lessen the burden on residents.

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): According to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege, the formation of the Middletown Blue Ribbon Budget Commission is an important part of his strategy to repair the municipal budget process. 

“One of the things I believe in is that there is tremendous amount of talent in the community: Not just talent from a potential perspective, but talent that has been developed. If appropriately invited to take part in the governmental process, top corporate leaders in this community will participate,” Grenafege said. 

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.”

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ) — The Monmouth County Bayshore young Democrats attended a press conference on the steps of the State House in Trenton at 11:30AM on June 16, 2008.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): Middletown residents, along with Bayshore area residents, are entitled to substantial help from the Federal Government that is foisting what amounts to a new tax on them where it involves the re-issuance of Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, according to Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Jim Grenafege and Patricia Walsh.