Wednesday's special meeting to appoint a PMUA commissioner fell through when only two of seven City Council members showed up.
The nominee was listed on the resolution as Jacinth Clayton-Hunt and she was named to an unexpired term replacing Commissioner Harold Mitchell, a holdover since 2011. Had she been approved, Clayton-Hunt's term would have expired Feb. 1, 2016.
Only Rebecca Williams and Cory Storch attended the meeting and after 15 minutes elapsed with no quorum, Deputy City Clerk Sherri Golden declared the meeting adjourned.
Clayton-Hunt was known as Jazz Johnson when she served as Plainfield's public information officer for about two years, ending in 2008. Before that, she served in a similar role at the PMUA. In 2009, she briefly posted a blog about Plainfield called The Plain View. According to her LinkedIn page where she goes by Jazz C., she has been the director of a public relations firm called Creative Blitz since 2009.
Mitchell, a former Plainfield councilman and mayor, was an alternate on the board before being appointed to an unexpired PMUA term in 2008 succeeding William Reid. He has served as chairman and remains as a holdover as permitted by state authority law. He also represents Plainfield on the board of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewerage Authority.
The PMUA board's next meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. June 9 at 127 Roosevelt Avenue. Check the PMUA web site for any updates.
--Bernice
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Here is another Eric Watson appointment and former PMUA employee. How can we expect to go forward and we keep recycle the same people?
ReplyDeleteMapp fooled of you, Dummies
DeleteThe Democratic Party, old or new can not even get themselves together to show up for a meeting.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same Jazz that charged the PMUA $12,500 for a Facebook page. Are they serious right now?
ReplyDeleteNothing new Mapp is just as bad as Green here he wants to replace Mitchell who had enough since not to support Watsons big pay day and now he is allowing Watson to come back to the city and place his friend jazz at the pmua along with his other friend Henry Robinson so he can run it. Good job council members for not showing up. Mr Mapp people in glass houses should not throw rocks because they come back to bite you
ReplyDeleteHi Bernice,
ReplyDeleteIt is very disappointing to learn that Mayor Mapp nominated Jacinth Clayton-Hunt, a former PIO in the Robinson-Briggs Administration and a PR person at the PMUA. Given that history and all the political connectedness it implies, it is hard to imagine Ms. Clayton-Hunt would be a truly reform minded PMUA Commissioner committed to driving the PMUA to deliver its services at market rates instead of the outrageously high prices we pay today. I’d love to be proven wrong on this, but it doesn’t look likely now.
Until Mayor Mapp gets a cooperative majority on City Council, any nominee that the council is willing to approve is most likely highly compromised and therefore unwilling to make real reform at the PMUA. That unfortunately seems to be the case with the nominees Mayor Mapp has put on the PMUA to date. It’s true that the new board has made some changes such as replacing the long-term Corporate Council, Executive Director, and CFO. But until they are committed to making the PMUA deliver solid waste services for about $30/month, which is what Grand Sanitation charges today, deliver sewer services for about $225/year, which is what single family homes pay in surrounding communities, and charge a Shared Service Fee of about a $1.50/month which accurately reflects the amount of trash they pick up in the public spaces and from illegal dumping, these changes are about as meaningful as it was to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic while it was sinking.
It takes three reform-minded votes on the PMUA board to force it stop abusing its ratepayers. Mayor Mapp needs to wait until he can put true reformers on the PMUA Board. If he doesn’t, I seriously question his commitment to real reform in Plainfield. The ratepayers deserve better than this.
Tom Kaercher
It doesn't matter who you put on the board the pmua will never and I mean never be competitive with for profit sanitation companies or other city sewer rates. Pmua is a place for politician to hand out jobs which means increase cost and shared service cost. Look at the many departments with excessive employees. An example is you have 7 dispatchers for 9 trucks. You have 4 Purchasing people and only 1000 purchase orders per year. Not to mention a customer service department of 6 more
Deletepeople. Even Human resources has about 4 or 5 people for 135 employees. All departments need an operational audit and the political commitment to do what is right for the residents.
I heard that they have 10 employees in the inspection department generating almost no income. What do they do all day? Can someone OPRA the revenue generated by that department and post on it? Can someone get a census by department to see how many employees in each department and the associated salaries. I think that this document will explain why we can never get to where Tom is wishing for.
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