Sign in supporter's yard at height of closure crisis.
In an email blast Saturday evening, Plainfield activist and Muhlenberg supporter Dottie Gutenkauf advises there will be a bus to Tuesday's court hearing in Morristown, after all.
Here is the message from Dottie --
Thanks to the People’s Organization for Progress, THERE WILL BE A BUS FROM PLAINFIELD to the Appellate Court hearing on Tuesday, February 23 in Morristown. The hearing is in the Court House on Washington Street at Court Street.These are the oral arguments in the lawsuit brought by the City as a result of the activism of supporters of Muhlenberg.
Our hearing starts at 9:30 am so we will have to be there early in order to go through security, etc. The bus will get to Plainfield at 7 am and leave for Morristown shortly thereafter. We will not be leaving from our usual location but instead from the municipal parking lot on Second Street and Central Avenue. If anything changes I will send out another email—so check your email on Monday for an update, or call me Monday late afternoon or evening at 908-668-1149. The cost for the bus is $20 per person.
We will also have carpooling available—a number of people have already indicated they can take passengers. We’ll meet at the bus pickup location. For directions, go to http://www.co.morris.nj.us/maps/dirarbc.asp
Now that Heather Howard is no longer commissioner over hospital matters, there seems to be a chance that the Christie administration will re-examine the closure process.
-- Dan Damon [follow]
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5 comments:
What a waste of taxpayer money....this group
should just get over it and move on..
@ 7:51 -- If they're paying for the bus themselves, what's the beef?
Dan, thanks for posting this--I hope we have a good turnout. People should be aware, however, that the appeal was made by the POP/Restore Muhlenberg Coalition as well as the City of Plainfield, and that North Plainfield signed on as a friend of the Court. Oral argument will be by all parties--including the state and presumably Solaris--and the POP/Coalition's case will be made by attorney Bennet Zurofsky.
The thrust of the POP/Coalition argument has been that the now former commissioner did not do the reviews and research she should have done before approving the closure. If anyone wants a copy of Bennet's brief, I will gladly email to them--all they need to do is email me at (dottiegutenkauf@gmail.com). The City's brief is also quite extensive and thoroughly documented.
Hopefully the judges will agree with us and insist, as the NJ Supreme Court did in an earlier case, on a remand for proper review and reconsideration. It would be nice if the new administration were to take that position, but we all know how bureaucracies operate.
Why can't the BOE/school district do the same with the NJDOE? Everyone complains, but no one does anything. We need the people like Dottie to help the cause in PPS!
Dan, I was referring to the lawsuit brought
by the city...not the bus trip to the courthouse
I had assumed that the group was paying for
it themselves..at least I hope that is the case. Then again,
this is Plainfield.
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