Tuesday night’s meeting of the Somerset County Freeholders at the Administration Building in Somerville was a model of effectiveness. The agenda was relatively short, and all items of business passed, except for a resolution dealing with the county’s upgrades to its security systems. That topic was tabled until the freeholders’ next meeting.
There were only a handful of people in attendance, most of whom were the subjects of citations and awards given out at the beginning of the meeting. At least one of the other persons was a county employee who raised a few points about security issues, which, in turn, led to its postponement.
Robert Zaborowski, Freeholder Director, ran a good meeting. He was prepared and moved the agenda along with no distractions. Too bad more of the public wasn’t there to see how things get done in the absence of controversy. It shouldn’t take a scandal for a public meeting to become filled to capacity once in a while.
We elect public officials to do their jobs and we don’t want to look over their shoulders at everything that they do. Integrity is still expected, even though today’s skeptical public may have become a tad jaded, given recent events.
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