Thank you Patch. Good reporting. And why hasn't the town fired this man yet? Because he wants his pension. I smell he knows too much. Why is he not fired? And yet we as tax payers have to deal with the financial burden.

Interesting that there is no comment from the town's attorney handling this or the mayor. Who is the police officer investigating this?
Its our tax money. We want to hear an explanation on why this is taking so long.

The Morristown Town Hall was better when it was down the street in the smaller buiding. I think all of the taxpayers knew more of what was going on with these kinds of events.
Bigger not always better.
We pay more,we know less. Does not seem to add up.

Agreed. But the egos of our elected leaders could not fit in that building now.

You are both right? I have asked the Mayor and Mr. Pawar to comment publicly.
And I ask them again and again and again. Maybe if every single person
Shot them an email or phone call, they might see the need to their fiduciary responsibility
To us. They are easy, just google them. We are paying for them. There has got to be a way to get rid of them. Try it and let me know. Because John is thd reporter, and a good one
At that, but all of those criminal miscreants are actually
using our as in mine and yours
Tax money. Must be a way to say arriverderci or vamos.

Funny how they are available for quotes when they want to grand stand, but hide from this.
How much money will this cost Mr Mayor?

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John.. please see the power that each of us has as taxpayers. I hear you. I have walked into those offices and stoooood there. Too often, our tqx dollars are paying for someone
To sit at their desk, on a personal call, and with their mouth chomping. By my count,
Some of these people get three lunches. And yes, I know that if u ask a question,
They sigh and start rolling their eyes as if you had just disrupted work more important to them. But let's please demand what we pay for. Or let's ask that they be discharged.

I have always been a fan of John Fugger's because he was polite, professional and willing to take the necessary time to explain things to me, and that can take a lot of time.

Last comment. If our Mayor, Tim Dougherty, and the chief legal guy, Mr. Pawar, who reports directly to him, and anyone else in that administration, can knowingly let
Someone suffer for two years, we should have their resignations by Monday. there is proof that Mr. Pawar is guilty of obstructing justice. Who are these guys and when did
The laws of this state and country become optional for them. They are a danger to
Democracy.

Update. I continue to call for Mr. Pawar and Tim Dougherty to get out in the bright
Light and square thing with their constituents. So far, no response, no surprise
But I will keep doing it until they respond honestly and publicly. Please join me.
Just one call or email from every single person is all we need to clean out these
crooks. And, as Mr. Pawar would tell you, were he not up to his nose in this, it
Really is ILLEGAL. In addition to being horrible and inhumane.

I have called Mr. Pawar a liar because i had knowledge of the lawsyut prior to hhim, he says. And that I wrote the letter asking him to explain how he could not possibly have known about it, it turned out that I knew on the 17th and he did not know until the 18.
Therefore the suit had not yet been filed, hence no knowledge on
the part of Mr. Pawar or Mr. Dougherty, or anyone else in govt.
If I am wrong, I will immediately apologize and correct. If right....

Mr. Rogers sent me the new town Organization charts. Of notice,
are the two empty boxes where Fugger use to be. But, if Fugger were doing the job of two men, but they suspended him without pay of one.
Final question: Do we have a zoning office right now?

There have been unconfirmed reports by someone who would know, that Mt.
Fugger was fired the. Day the suit was filed. Since this is all paid for by you and
Me, it would be nice if all the people who know would come out from under the
Rocks and be part if the Democratic process. What say you Mr. Mayor. Ms. Feldman,
You can only stall and omit for so long. The truth is the truth.

I am confused. It is obvious that this is going to cost us taxpayers a boatload of money, and I would appreciate if The Patch would continue to report on this so we know exactly how much it adds up to... I am confused what exactly the mayor and town attorney did wrong though? Aside from hiding from the issue after the fact...

Is it City Council policy not to return phone calls and e-mails? The last meeting was a love fest, which is ok and sometimes nice, but i've never seen a meeting hit
hard issues head on. Yes Mr. What's your name, blonde and what's your
name dark hair. we are talking about you hear too. Hello out there.

One last question. When jay delaney was a very good mayor of morristown, his job, as I remember, was paid at "part time." Which is very common in small towns. Are Morritown
Mayor, Legal, Town Council and other elected jobs still considered part time?

The mayor and council are paid , part time , elected officials of the town of Morristown.
The town lawyer is paid a set fee of around $100,000 give or take a few thousand. I believe they did this rather then pay the legal person per case or by the hour. Not sure if it saves money or not.
Morristown is the second smallest town in Morris county, size wise. But it is the county seat. It is estimated That on an average workday 80,000 people past through it's borders.
Should the elected officials work for free? Is the job important? Is the legal department paid too much? Those are issues for the voters to decide.
Morristown has almost the highest property taxes in Morris county. What have the elected officials been doing about that? Again it's up to the voters to decide.
It is an election year . Maybe in 2014 the voters will replace the town council? Maybe they are getting tired of paying do much? Maybe? Time will tell.

You know a lot more than I do. Thank you. Morristown is an important seat of New Jersey,
We have pfizer, mennen and a bunch of huge international companies ducking NY taxes
On a lot of employees. The Mayor of NY works for
1 dollar a year, but he is also the richest man in the city. I prefer paid politicos so that we don't limit leadership to the precisely rich. In 1979 Morristown had the highest debt load
Of any town in NJ. Several years ago, we still owed more money than the rest of
The state. But is gutting the town and selling its remains to developers the answer?
One year they actually tried sell the Green to developers. Can u imagine what the Epstein
Penthouse would be looking at? Thank God for the downtown
Churches. They stopped them. Why don't you run for town council?
Please

I hear you and I agree in part but when you take all of the housing away from
Poor people, sell it to some way out of state developer, town govt is not selling
Their assets, they are selling out you and me. Speedwell redevelopment? The town does not own those properties, and an equal amount of affordable housing is not going
Back in. I was here for the first Speedwell project. It got rid of the Jews. Or at least cut out a very large chunck of them. Ethnic cleansing for political purposes. And they made
The town, ugly, hollow and empty. Is that strip profitable even today?

Why don't you ask the Mayor and Town Council what they have planned to avoid
What you say happening. It happened around 79. Everyone packed up, left town
And went to the mall. By the way the first big mall developer was from Detroit.
But it was more about prejudice than money. But of course you can't make money
In the middle of race riots. What can you sell? Pleeze ask your town and govtpeople
About all of this. Pleez. A lot of what has been done in this town is like rearranging
Deck chairs on the Titanic. We pay the taxes. For that shouldn't they return our calls.
Rebecca feldman does not return calls or emails.so why am I pay sid taxes in addition
To regular taxes? Mr. Dunphy .. if u could just reach out and share our concers, and they could just answer in writing, you could get more done and all of us taxpyers would know
Even more. Good luck.

John ... You reallu should run for town counsel. We have had, in my lifetime, some very
Sound, caring, intelligent leadership. People who did these things out of a sense of
Service to the town, the country...you sound like you have it...it is just about doing
The right thing... and wanting people to be free...from hunger, harassment...
Persecution. No one talks about free market economy or what it really means anymore. Nyc did just fine
With a lot of free market economy.....guiliani was good at that altho I am not a
Narrow republican. I still believe what is written on the Statue of Liberty... the cold,
Hungry, huddled masses, if we were to stop all immigration we we would be as bad
As you fear. You don't need to be rich, or have a fancy education, or any of that
To be a good leader. You just have to lead and to care ...and have a really healthy
Shot of common sense. And maybe a good shot of irish coffee to go with it...its too late
For coffee but the rest would be OK.

I would like to say 1 thing in defense of the Mayor. He was a victim of Fugger himself during the 2009 primary when he was running against the previous mayor. Fugger issued the Mayor summonses, obviously because he was running, and after he won the primary, the summonses were dropped. The Mayor is a decent person, who certainly wishes Fugger would disappear. But his hands were tied by all the union regs, etc. In the past, Fugger has talked his way out of trouble (his assault charge, etc.) by being nice to certain people. He probably made peace with the Mayor, who thought Fugger would behave himself from now on. At this point, with the past scandals (pornography, the Tom Alexander case, all the Fugger problems, and on and on), I think the only solution is for the state to temporarily take over the town's operations until the corruption can be cleaned out. There are some good people there, but the trash has to be filtered out.