EnCap

SCHAER/SCALERA BILL ENHANCING PROTECTIONS IN PUBLIC/PRIVATE REDEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS ADVANCES

Measure Would Help Prevent Repeat of EnCap Redevelopment Disaster; Prevent Public from Being Financially Liable in Future Public/Private Deals Gone Bad

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblymen Gary S. Schaer and Fred Scalera sponsored to enhance the protections and oversight surrounding public investments in private redevelopment projects was released today by the Assembly State Government Committee.

Bring Commissioners to Trenton in June, Senator Urges

Senator Kevin O'Toole, R-District 40, made the following statement about the Meadowlands Commission's long-overdue realization that EnCap will never fulfill its promise to develop 785 acres of garbage dumps in Bergen County:

This week's PolitickerNJ.com Winners & Losers:

BERGEN COUNTY REPUBLICANS

CALABRESE  HELLER & DUGGAN

REPUBLICANS SAY DEMOCRATS’ ENCAP BILL

 IS “TOO LITTLE TOO LATE”

Legislation Is A Cover up Of Democrats Failures on EnCap

 Calabrese Calls it Coverup for McPherson

Congratulations to The Record’s Jeff Pillets, John Brennan and Tim Nostrand, whose stories on the Encap development plan at the Meadowlands has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.   The nomination was "for their probe of how plans to build a luxury community atop old landfills became entangled in questionable state loans and other allegations of favoritism."

-- Has the BCRO sold out to Trump??

NA DEMS DEMAND LOCAL GOP REFUSE TRUMP CAMPAIGN CASH

Councilman Steve Tanelli, North Arlington’s strongest and most consistent opponent of the EnCap overdevelopment housing project, said the Bergen County Republican Party has “sold out” to developer Donald Trump and called on the NA GOP to announce they will not accept contributions from the county organization.

TRENTON – After over two hours of testimony from Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper on the financial and communications problems that have plague the Meadowlands EnCap project, Senate Environment Committee Chair Bob Smith, presented five recommendations on how to move forward with the EnCap investigations.

 TRENTON – Senator Bob Smith announced today that he will chair a joint meeting of the Senate Environment Committee and Senate Legislative Oversight Committee on Monday, March 17, 2008 to receive testimony from Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper concerning her report on the failures involved in the EnCap golf and housing project.

NORTH ARLINGTON - Council President Steve Tanelli is calling upon local Republicans to "take a stand when it comes to protecting taxpayers from the EnCap disaster."

"The local Republican Party needs to join the rest of North Arlington in our universal opposition to EnCap,” Tanelli said. “It's very disturbing that this year’s Republican council candidates do not support the borough's intent to void the EnCap deal and move forward with a proposal that homeowners want and support," said Tanelli, who was elected to the council in 2004 and re-elected in 2005 in landslide victories.