Harold Mitchell, former mayor, councilor and PMUA chairperson was elected once again. The vice chair's seat could not be filled as Commissioner Malcolm R. Dunn, also a former councilor failed to garner the needed three votes.
Less controversially, Carol Brokaw was voted secretary, even as she acknowledged she expected she would be replaced soon, and Alex Toliver was voted treasurer.
One alarmingly little detail may be an augur of things to come.
While passing the routine resolution designating the Courier News as the PMUA's newspaper of record, I could swear I distinctly heard Commissioners Brown and Dunn vote 'no'. Unusual, but that is their prerogative.
A short while later, Commissioner Dunn insisted that he wanted to 'change' his vote to a 'no', which the chair allowed.
Now, in an adult organization, one would expect that one casts one's vote with due deliberation, with the understanding it is being carved in stone.
It is alarming that Commissioner Dunn thinks one can simply ask to have one's vote changed -- after the roll was taken and the meeting had moved on.
This does not bode well.
I had to leave before the fireworks of the public portion of the meeting, for which you will have to read Bernice's excellent coverage here.
-- Dan Damon [follow]
Plainfield NJ
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