New Attendance Policy Adopted By Wall Township Committee
Ordinance gets unanimous approval
The Township Committee at its regular meeting on Wednesday adopted an ordinance allowing its volunteer boards and committees to boot absentee members. The vote was 4-0 in favor of the measure, which sets minimum attendence standards for its volunteer boards and committees, such ast the Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment. Committeeman Clinton Hoffman was absent. The measure requires that volunteer members of municipal panels must attend 65 percent of the scheduled meetings in any calendar year or face expulsion by a two-thirds majority vote by that panel, the ordinance says. There was no discussion among committee members before the vote. It is a measure that the committee had been mulling since January, when talk of creating an …
Joseph Higgins
10:25 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
These are the type of things that when the average person reads them is stunned by the simplicity of it. Have we really reached the point where we have to pass around an attendance sheet to see if people are actually doing their job? Whether a paid position or volunteered, if a commitment is made it should be followed through. It shouldn't be just another line on a resume. more ›