Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Initial spending for Community Gardens approved.
At its final scheduled meeting of 2011, the Madison Borough Council bid its good-byes to departing members, then moved on to an assortment of agenda items at Hartley Dodge Memorial Municipal Building. Mayor-elect Bob Conley thanked outgoing Councilman Sam Cerciello for his two years on Council, and Mayor Mary-Anna Holden for her 14 years of service to the borough as both a Council member and mayor, saying she would be “a tough act to follow.” Holden did not attend the meeting after her husband, Richard, was hospitalized Sunday night. Council President Vincent Esposito presided in her absence. Esposito and Councilman Don Links honored Holden, too. Links thanked her for “taking me under her wing.” Cerciello wished incoming Council members …
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Borough Council decides to send letter regarding Brooklake Road community gardens despite position remaining unchanged.
The Madison Borough Council decided on Monday night to draft and send a letter back to Chatham Borough after its council urged Madison officials to approve the construction of community gardens on Brooklake Road and formally indicate to PSE&G that they have no objections. However, the letter will not contain the sentiment Chatham is hoping for. The Madison council, especially Mayor Mary-Anna Holden, has been steadfast in its opposition to the gardens on the road. Madison residents that live directly across from where Chatham was proposing to construct them have been fighting against their construction since late July. A number of times those residents had believed the issue was a dead one. The latest came when PSE&G terminated …
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Mayor: 'We want to be good neighbors, and we want them to be good neighbors.'
The Chatham Borough council unanimously passed a resolution Monday night to reaffirm its commitment to developing a new community garden along Brooklake Road, immediately adjacent to the borough line with Madison. The resolution, which follows on the heels of the message the Borough received last Thursday from PSE&G (which stated that the energy company was terminating the licensing agreement for the garden as the result of outcry from Madison residents) urges Madison officials to approve of the garden's construction and formally indicate to PSE&G that they have no objections. Before presenting the resolution during the council meeting, Mayor Nelson Vaughan said that he, Council President James Collander and Borough Administrator Robert …
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Chatham officials are unhappy, while Madison's Brooklake Road residents are relieved.
An ongoing feud between Madison residents on Brooklake Road and Chatham Borough over a proposed community garden project appears to have come to an end. PSE&G alerted Chatham Borough Mayor Nelson Vaughan and representatives from the Chatham Borough Community Garden Committee on Thursday that the energy company has decided to terminate the licensing agreement for the Chatham side of the road, which faces Madison residents. The e-mail from Richard Franklin, manager of Corporate Properties at PSE&G, said, "based on the public outcry from residents of Madison, we felt that canceling the license was the best possible solution." "I'm terribly disappointed PSE&G would do this," Vaughan said. Residents on Brooklake Road, on the other hand, were …
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Borough sent its own letter opposing proposal to place plots across from Rose City residents.
Madison is still waiting on official word from Chatham Borough regarding placement of community garden plots that have been criticized by Madison residents over the past two months. Mayor Mary-Anna Holden said at the last Borough Council meeting more than a week ago that the borough had followed up its Aug. 23 letter sent to Chatham in opposition to the gardens' placement on Brooklake Road across from Madison residents by sending pictures of the massive gas-line explosion in San Bruno, Calif. Those photos, sent by Madison Engineer Bob Vogel, were intended to illustrate the borough's safety concerns related to building the gardens over the below-ground Transco gas pipeline that runs under the property being proposed for the site. The safety…
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Mayor says she thinks what is being proposed is 'dangerous.'
Mayor Mary-Anna Holden and members of the Borough Council joined residents on and near Brooklake Road in criticizing a proposed expansion of Chatham Borough's community gardens. The proposal, which has caused a stir recently with Madison residents who want no part of the project, would place two garden plots and a parking lot directly across from residents who live on Brooklake Road. Two of the most vocal residents against the project, husband and wife Hank and Irene Knobloch came before Madison's council to offer their concerns and ask for the council's support in dealing with Chatham Borough. Irene Knobloch also presented a petition which she said contained the names of 95 people. She said the 95 came from 100 people they polled around …
mark kelly
7:57 pm on Thursday, October 21, 2010
Man, these people in Madison are just a bunch of narrow minded bullies! more ›