The Hudson County Board of Commissioners may eventually consider an ordinance to prevent them from removing agenda items at meetings before public comment after a heated exchange occurred with a member of the public last week.
When West New York resident Mark Bloomberg went to speak on the resolution to permit the installation of automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras in Weehawken, Board Chair Anthony Romano (D-5) stopped him from speaking since it was not an agenda item.
Romano said the resolution was tabled at the request of Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner in the wake of data privacy and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concerns.
“ … What would happen is, every time theres an item on an agenda where there are people to speak on, they just pull it and they’ll pull it, pull it, pull it, and then one day when nobody’s here, then they put it through. Let’s be realistic about it,” stated Hudson County Commissioner Bill O’Dea (D-2)…