Plainfield's City Council faces its final vote tonight on the Green/Robinson-Briggs' administration's ordinance to abolish the position of Police Chief and thus bring to an end an office that Plainfield has had for 139 years.
The Council listened attentively Monday evening to a presentation by Mitchell Sklar, executive director of the NJ Police Chiefs Association, rebutting the presentation two weeks earlier by the then-Police Director of Trenton, Joe Santiago (a judge ruled his post vacant that same day), and offering a reasoned explanation of why it is important to have a sworn police officer in charge of the police.
Whether or not the Council tables the ordinances, as it could, tonight is likely to be only the opening bell in another round of the fight by the politically powerful to remove Ed Santiago.
In responding to Mr. Sklar's remarks, Corporation Counsel Dan Williamson averred that those in the community who think the attempt to remove Santiago is a personal vendetta are both WRONG and IN THE MINORITY.
At which point the room erupted with snickers and titters.
Will the Council let the genie of politics and political interference in the operation of the Police Division out of the bottle, perhaps irrevocably?
All will be revealed tonight.
Tonight
8:00 PM
Council Chambers/Courtroom
Watchung Avenue at East 4th Street
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