Incompetence, abysmal leadership and idiots mis-managing .... " not to mention more than $3 million in planning expenses. " Someone should be held accountable for this travesty - Mr. John Button. No wonder.... The Mothership of Incompetence. And for what? A .50 cent trash can fire???? Moorestown deserves better!

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/features/f1

Forgot to add this piece to this news story.... firm building this project has a history of being late, overspending - and we are all happy about this?

Wow. So Newcomer blasts the town hall project during the campaign with his nasty mail flier but sure knows how to show up for the photo op! Hypocrite.

That's Politics. Seems right from how this shadow story is being played out. Wasn't it great how it rained today on this silly parade of politicians? Poetic justice. Payback. . What was that all about? A fire not investigated. Years of wasted taxpayer money pissed down the toilet, $ 3,000,00l0.00 and counting, according to this story. Politics makes strange bedfellows, especially in Moorestown. Follow the money.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/features/f1

Who could POSSIBLY be the dopes to show up in the rain to watch 6 people pick up their first shovel? No doubt at least 4 of them had to hit the Advil hard this morning after exerting themselves like this.

Hey Situation, from what I gather we are talking like $4,500,000.00 million dollars spent before yesterday. What did you hear?

I don't understand why a town of just 20,000 people even needs a Town Hall in the internet age. Rent some office space with a conference room and everybody else telecommutes. Seriously, what business needs to be conducted at Town Hall that can't be accomplished on the web?

Interesting.. So if there wasn't this "trash can " fire, would " ct" still make comments that our town doesn't need a town hall? Would he still say that If town council decided to refurbish it? Didn't town council make a comment a few years back that all services would return to the towns square ? If so I'm sure the next town council will be placing a justice center or a building that combined the police and court at the library building site whether new or refurb.
What use would an amphitheater be if we can only use it 5 months or so of the year?

Ct fwiu, it was a minimal fire with little damage, didn't "burn down". Again fwiu it could have been cleaned up rehabbed and may have been done two years ago, but others had a different take.
I see in the plans that "amphitheater" is listed on the diagram shown here. Laid it out as a general question, as to the reasoning behind having that. New paragraph.

This was never a project about a new town hall. No one really cares about that. It was to get a new library to replace the crappy old one that was poorly designed, underutilized and not maintained by the township. The town hall fire simply provided the cover to do it. The library is taking up most of the new space and cost so while you squabble over the town hall nonsense and whether a trash can fire matters or not, let me tell you it didn't. The failed library renovation project was started under Mayor Aberant and so was the new town hall er library project.

As far as little damage from a trash can fire, that's just flat out funny. The insurance settlement was almost $3 million more than enough to build a new town hall but as I have pointed out, the goal was never about a new town hall.

Congratulations to Joe, Glen, the Friends of the Library and the library board. We are finally on our way out of the moat.

Well said library fan. We like the services provided by the library. I guess the last remaining question is , what service will go at the current library site next? I'm sure the next town council will fill is in on what that will be.. Perhaps a fiscally responsible police and court building?

If I had to guess I would say that the uninformed, fact-twisting, clueless, nay-sayers who are blogging their absolute crap above, are all former Obama reelection strategists. Lie enough and people will buy it. Fortunately, we Moorestownians didn't, and now theses fools have to live with the fact that they are a bunch of losers.
Sour grapes. Moorestown is going forward.

I'm at a loss on why there is cursing and mean bashing going on here. Could people stoop that low to bash our distinguished colleagues and town council members ? Oh my! What a little pity this is.

'Distinguished'?? Now THAT'S funny! and um 'Lifer'? You LOST. Pretty sure if you didn't win, then you LOST and that makes you a LOSER. At least those you identify as uninformed, fact-twisting, clueless, etc were on the other side of that, so they most likely WON, which makes them WINNERS. But you just go with that argument, it seems to work in your world somehow...

After further review... Flag on "true rep" for unsportsmanlike conduct, unnecessary language towards a town councilmember..
Another flag on "ct" for abbreviating bad language to a fellow blogger.

What happened that people are not being so good to others? Even some may not like a councilperson's decisions shouldn't bash and curse at them. Good golly!
Are our incoming council people going to be able handle this mud sluggers ? Give them a chance to get their feet wet. Hope this referee keeps a good watch.

So do we have any clue where the court house and police department is going to be? Please don't say where the existing library is. We walk to the current library and town and it would be a huge mistake to mix the two. Who wants to walk past the angry people just so our children can read library books or walk into town?