PMUA a model citizen, will City reciprocate?

Sign at PMUA's new Environmental Resource Center.

Plainfielders looking for a model corporate citizen need look no further than the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority (PMUA).

Especially with its new Environmental Resource Center on Rock Avenue, formerly known as the 'Transfer Station' (see my previous coverage here and here).

This all comes to mind as I read of Sen. Lautenberg's stumping in northern Jersey, touting a new federal law that gives local communities more authority over waste transfer facilities (see more here).

Thankfully, the concerns of those North Jersey communities are not duplicated here, owing to the long-term vision and hard work of the PMUA Board of Commissioners and the agency's executive team, including executive director Eric Watson and his left hand person Dave Ervin, plus financial whiz Jim Perry. They have shown they know how to get things right.

Attendees outside new ERC's 'big house'.

One question does come to mind, however.

Can the administration of Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs reciprocate? Will it be able to get things right in the same way?

Appointments to the PMUA Board of Commissioners are due.

This year's batch should include the regular annual appointment of an alternate, the statutorily required appointment of a commissioner to a full five-year term, and the appointment of a person to fill out the remainder of William Reid's term (Reid resigned when he was appointed to the City Council).

Shouldn't be much heavy lifting here. Let's see if the Robinson-Briggs administration is up to the task.

Oh, by the way. Jimmy the Greek is giving 20-to-1 odds that former Mayor and Councilor Harold Mitchell will replace Reid.

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-- Dan Damon

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