So at 28 minutes in and on, I asked if the council and mayor if they disputed the euthanasia figures of 6% at the TR shelter vs The County shelter at about 19%. Well, I had just stated the numbers presented at past meetings by many and the Mayor demanded and said, do you have... where are those figures? Then at the end he called my comment "silly"? Silly, regarding the euthanasia figures? Silly? ... not too the packed council meeting room. The mayor said. the figures he had came from the state. OK, so where did they come from, being that they were different, He said from the township. Huh? Numbers are numbers, Mayor
He claims to be a "numbers guy," until that's an inconvenient stance to have. Then he just dismisses them as unofficial or lies. Rodrick will say and do anything if it serves his purposes. Addressing him and letting him speak in circles is always a losing proposition for the audience. This is not who we need in charge of the town. We need him out of office yesterday.
@@Vamon_Kinctuarinwhe Letting him speak isn't completely worthless...you get to challenge him on his numbers. No the allocation has always been about $500k. Last year we have (2022), the shelter only spent $412,500k (less than $9 annually per registered voter in Toms River - I use registered voter to guesstimate the number of individual taxpayers) leaving a $87,500 reserve. Not, the washing machine won't cost $100k- $300k per year (that was his only reason for stating suck an increase in budgetary needs). The washer & dryer will save money in time and utility costs in the long run and only costed $19k, $5k to install and even if I add $6k for labor ( which is absurd), you're at $30k. Oh yeah, and that was on 2023's budget. Heads up, When he says at the next meeting that the shelter ran over budget last year, please note the allocation drops to only $200k (-60%). Why that was done, I don't know, but it was the only years the shelter was allocated less the $500k and they only spent more than $500k the two years other programs seem to have been mixed in with this through the DEPT of Human Services.
Funny that he continued that narrative, WITH THE NUMBER IN FRONT OF HIM, until I got up and confirmed with the clerk that the packet had gone out, which I already knew. I let him talk because I wanted it on the record that his comments were made with the intent to deceive the public. In addition to my summary, of the numbers presented by the shelters themselves (NOCAF,SOCAF, and TRAS for '21, '22, & '23). What he had was more accurate than the NJ.gov site because NJ.gov give the disclaimer that all numbers not reported will be marked as 0, and basically should be relied on as entirely accurate. Wording is different but that's the jist. We keep doing things like this to keep him guessing. Don't let him know what you know until you ask and get an answer. When you get something that doesn't match, call him out. If he surprise you with something you don't know, confirm that he meant what he said, and check it after the meeting with an OPRA request. If it's another lie, go through the process again next time.. This will catch up with him. There is nothing "Regular" about this "Regular Republican of Toms RIver" Even his faction of the republican party sounds like identity politics.
So at 28 minutes in and on, I asked if the council and mayor if they disputed the euthanasia figures of 6% at the TR shelter vs The County shelter at about 19%. Well, I had just stated the numbers presented at past meetings by many and the Mayor demanded and said, do you have... where are those figures? Then at the end he called my comment "silly"? Silly, regarding the euthanasia figures? Silly? ... not too the packed council meeting room. The mayor said. the figures he had came from the state. OK, so where did they come from, being that they were different, He said from the township. Huh? Numbers are numbers, Mayor
He claims to be a "numbers guy," until that's an inconvenient stance to have. Then he just dismisses them as unofficial or lies.
Rodrick will say and do anything if it serves his purposes. Addressing him and letting him speak in circles is always a losing proposition for the audience.
This is not who we need in charge of the town.
We need him out of office yesterday.
@@Vamon_Kinctuarinwhe Letting him speak isn't completely worthless...you get to challenge him on his numbers. No the allocation has always been about $500k. Last year we have (2022), the shelter only spent $412,500k (less than $9 annually per registered voter in Toms River - I use registered voter to guesstimate the number of individual taxpayers) leaving a $87,500 reserve. Not, the washing machine won't cost $100k- $300k per year (that was his only reason for stating suck an increase in budgetary needs). The washer & dryer will save money in time and utility costs in the long run and only costed $19k, $5k to install and even if I add $6k for labor ( which is absurd), you're at $30k. Oh yeah, and that was on 2023's budget.
Heads up, When he says at the next meeting that the shelter ran over budget last year, please note the allocation drops to only $200k (-60%). Why that was done, I don't know, but it was the only years the shelter was allocated less the $500k and they only spent more than $500k the two years other programs seem to have been mixed in with this through the DEPT of Human Services.
Funny that he continued that narrative, WITH THE NUMBER IN FRONT OF HIM, until I got up and confirmed with the clerk that the packet had gone out, which I already knew. I let him talk because I wanted it on the record that his comments were made with the intent to deceive the public. In addition to my summary, of the numbers presented by the shelters themselves (NOCAF,SOCAF, and TRAS for '21, '22, & '23). What he had was more accurate than the NJ.gov site because NJ.gov give the disclaimer that all numbers not reported will be marked as 0, and basically should be relied on as entirely accurate. Wording is different but that's the jist.
We keep doing things like this to keep him guessing. Don't let him know what you know until you ask and get an answer. When you get something that doesn't match, call him out. If he surprise you with something you don't know, confirm that he meant what he said, and check it after the meeting with an OPRA request. If it's another lie, go through the process again next time..
This will catch up with him. There is nothing "Regular" about this "Regular Republican of Toms RIver" Even his faction of the republican party sounds like identity politics.
Rodrick is a pathetic clown that should never have been voted in. I'm sure almost all the people who voted for him are ashamed of it