Teaneck Council told its attorneys to repair the errant resolution that created a powerful Investigations Council subcommittee on October 13, 2015 – some 120 days ago. On this page you will see two videos and read about the inability of the Council to get its attorneys to carry out their directions. The first video shows a disoriented Council late in January 2016 trying to remember what it had done back in October. The second video provides you with precisely what did happen on October 13,

At its October 13 meeting, and before Council again discussed the Investigations Committee issue On this page we provide media commentary on that October 3 discussion and augment it with several videos of that discussion. Residents during Good and Welfare raised the alarm about the ad hoc and secretive process used by Council to create on  September 17 this extraordinary entity. Then — in obscure and opaque commentary during which both the Council and the Township Attorney acknowledged that resolution creating the Investigations the sub-committee was flawed, agreed that it as necessary at the very least to narrow the subcommittee’s scope with a second resolution. The Attorney then attempted to persuade the Council members who are not on the sub-committee that the subcommittee would  would do no harm – but would not agree that it should not convene again until after the improper resolution had been amended. Then several Councilman proposed a motion to instruct the sub-committee not to meet until after the Council’s November meeting.On that issue, the Council split 3-3, apparently leaving the door open for the subcommittee to meet.  But there apparently is agreement that the subcommittee needs restructuring. Whatever it is that has prompted the creation of this unprecedented Council development remains unstated publicly. Whatever is going on, Teaneck residents clearly have seen/heard neither the last of the subcommittee nor of whatever it is that is going on.

Here is what the Record reporter, Mary Diduch wrote about the October 13 Council discussion of the Investigations Committee and her follow-on interviews she had with key Council people. “Investigative panel’s scope spurs debate in Teaneck.” (click here to see the story).   But, frankly, the Council’s own discussion of the issue adds a bit of context and tone to the Diduch story – which is why this video is well worth waching.,