Late board member's husband named to seat
By: GEMA MARIA DUARTE
Bucks County Courier Times
morrisville schools
Morrisville School District directors had the difficult task of replacing Brenda Worob, who died in late January. Her replacement was none other than her husband, who has served on the board before.
Stephen Worob won out over four other candidates Wednesday during the special meeting portion of the night, which also included this month's regular work session and January's school board meeting, which was cut short due to bad weather conditions.
Brenda Worob's term would have officially ended December 2013, but that term was cut short to the end of this year.
"You can't have someone who was appointed serve for three years," school board member Marlys Mihok said after the meeting.
In the running were Gayle Haug, David Novick, Theodore Parker and Damon Miller. Candidates answered the same four questions, which included the best way of dealing with the district's deficit and the working relationship with board members. The other two questions involved rating the board and providing the reason for wanting to serve on the board.
Basically, all candidates want to provide a good education to Morrisville students at an affordable price, they said. Most said the board is doing a good job. Haug and Miller, who frequent school board meetings and activities, said they don't always agree with decisions made by the directors, but there are times they do.
Haug said her experience as a CPA would help crunch numbers. Novick said he would use his financial planning skills to review the budget and to eliminate the deficit he would analyze the district's spending plan line-by-line. Parker said he would look into lowering expenditures such as bids and services to reduce the deficit. Miller and Worob would examine employee contracts, which are a large portion of the budget, they said.
Gema Maria Duarte can be reached at 215-949-4195 or gduarte@phillyBurbs.com. Follow Gema on Twitter at twitter.com/deadlineduarte.
February 17, 2011 02:12 AM
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Stay on trackers select Ed Bailey for council
It's official, they did the unthinkable, stay on trackers Worob,Ledger,Burger, and Dreisbach voted to put Ed Bailey on the Boro Council. Luckily this is only till the first Monday in January when the winner of the election will take over. This charade was actually on the local TV channel apparently as a live broadcast. Comcast CH 22. and Verizon CH 38. Rita Ledger made a buffoon out of herself, and when asked if she felt someone was disenfranchised by the selection process, she said yes, even though her "guy" got the spot.
Fom the bcct:
Bailey selected for council
By: DANNY ADLER
Bucks County Courier Times
A Republican council candidate was appointed to Morrisville Council on Monday to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Edward Albertson, who resigned from council last month because he moved out of the borough.
Ed Bailey, who is running against Democrat Rhonda Davis in next month's election, was appointed by council in a 4-3 vote by council members Rita Ledger, Jane Burger, Stephen Worob and Eileen Dreisbach.
Council members Nancy Sherlock, Kathryn Panzitta and David Rivella voted for Morrisville Environmental Advisory Council member Deborah Colgan, who is not running for election this year.
Davis was the third nominee for the seat, but she did not get any votes Monday.
Quickly before an executive session at the end of the meeting, Rivella told the newspaper that he, Sherlock and Panzitta voted for Colgan because she was not running in this year's election, and that Colgan had said she would hold the seat until Nov. 4, then yield to whoever won the race between Bailey and Davis.
Solicitor James Downey told the council that if Colgan had won and stepped down on Nov. 4, officials would have to go through the whole process of filling the vacancy within 30 days again.
Bailey was sworn in and took his seat at the dais after the 4-3 vote. He will fill out Albertson's 3rd Ward council term, which expires at the end of this year.
Albertson was the second councilman to resign from that seat in a year. He was appointed by council to fill the seat of Republican George Bolos, who vacated the post in September 2008 because he also moved out of the borough.
Fom the bcct:
Bailey selected for council
By: DANNY ADLER
Bucks County Courier Times
A Republican council candidate was appointed to Morrisville Council on Monday to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Edward Albertson, who resigned from council last month because he moved out of the borough.
Ed Bailey, who is running against Democrat Rhonda Davis in next month's election, was appointed by council in a 4-3 vote by council members Rita Ledger, Jane Burger, Stephen Worob and Eileen Dreisbach.
Council members Nancy Sherlock, Kathryn Panzitta and David Rivella voted for Morrisville Environmental Advisory Council member Deborah Colgan, who is not running for election this year.
Davis was the third nominee for the seat, but she did not get any votes Monday.
Quickly before an executive session at the end of the meeting, Rivella told the newspaper that he, Sherlock and Panzitta voted for Colgan because she was not running in this year's election, and that Colgan had said she would hold the seat until Nov. 4, then yield to whoever won the race between Bailey and Davis.
Solicitor James Downey told the council that if Colgan had won and stepped down on Nov. 4, officials would have to go through the whole process of filling the vacancy within 30 days again.
Bailey was sworn in and took his seat at the dais after the 4-3 vote. He will fill out Albertson's 3rd Ward council term, which expires at the end of this year.
Albertson was the second councilman to resign from that seat in a year. He was appointed by council to fill the seat of Republican George Bolos, who vacated the post in September 2008 because he also moved out of the borough.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Pennsylvania, A state of corruption
Here it is the section where you can put all commentary for Steve Worobs book. We have not had the opportunity to read it yet, but word around town is that Steve pretty much comes across as a big cry baby, and refuses to take responsibility for his actions. If anyone has read the book feel free to post your own review here. We have moved some of the comments from the book from other posts here also.
From Amazon.com:
1.0 out of 5 stars Diarrhea of Mad Man, August 1, 2009
By
Spider (PA, USA) - See all my reviewsA charitable 1 star. A sad compendium of a man's obsessive quest to root out what he sees as pervasive corruption in Pennsylvania education, justice, and politics. Many years in the making, yet poorly edited and grammatically mediocre. Despite scads of mentions of people, places, and things, it is not indexed, footnoted, or cross-referenced. Worob portrays himself as the pitiable victim of a massive conspiracy, yet doesn't present much real evidence other than junior league sloppy bookkeeping and management, loose affiliations, opinion, and flimsy guilt-by-association. He displays tremendous self-righteousness and disregard for others in his ruthless pursuit of vendetta. He comes across as guilty of many of the nasty actions and tactics of which he accuses others. Worob gets his day in court and blows it, losing a $120,000 lawsuit filed against him by a former Schools Superintendent for his multi-year stream of allegations against him. Unable to face his defeat (in which he represented himself in court), he blames his failure on everyone but himself. Ironically, he comes across like the school student who didn't study and then blames his F on the teacher. A cautionary tale of a self-proclaimed watchdog who goes too far, bites indiscriminately, and doesn't have enough sense to let go of the legs he's chomping on, many of which are connected to innocent people.
From Amazon.com:
1.0 out of 5 stars Diarrhea of Mad Man, August 1, 2009
By
Spider (PA, USA) - See all my reviewsA charitable 1 star. A sad compendium of a man's obsessive quest to root out what he sees as pervasive corruption in Pennsylvania education, justice, and politics. Many years in the making, yet poorly edited and grammatically mediocre. Despite scads of mentions of people, places, and things, it is not indexed, footnoted, or cross-referenced. Worob portrays himself as the pitiable victim of a massive conspiracy, yet doesn't present much real evidence other than junior league sloppy bookkeeping and management, loose affiliations, opinion, and flimsy guilt-by-association. He displays tremendous self-righteousness and disregard for others in his ruthless pursuit of vendetta. He comes across as guilty of many of the nasty actions and tactics of which he accuses others. Worob gets his day in court and blows it, losing a $120,000 lawsuit filed against him by a former Schools Superintendent for his multi-year stream of allegations against him. Unable to face his defeat (in which he represented himself in court), he blames his failure on everyone but himself. Ironically, he comes across like the school student who didn't study and then blames his F on the teacher. A cautionary tale of a self-proclaimed watchdog who goes too far, bites indiscriminately, and doesn't have enough sense to let go of the legs he's chomping on, many of which are connected to innocent people.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Dog park update
A few days ago someone was asking about the Morrisville dog park, and if it was still in the works to be built. Well, apparently it is but funds are a bit light. So the group wants to put sponsorship signs around the park. Stephen Worob, never at a loss for words has some interesting comments in the article.
From the BCCT:
Mixed reviews for fundraising idea
By: DANNY ADLER
Bucks County Courier Times
The Friends of the Morrisville Dog Park group is putting together a "Morrisville is Going to the Dogs Cocktail Pawty" to raise money for the park.
Morrisville dog park organizers need cash.
And while efforts to raise the needed $15,000 to $20,000 are moving, they're sort of crawling - a few hundred dollars here, maybe a thousand there.
So how can organizers beef up their bank account to pay for a bark park on a plot of unused borough-owned open space preserved with county cash?
Ellen Stieve, who's heading the effort, said sponsorship signs similar, yet smaller, to those on baseball fences would certainly help. She proposes four sponsorship signs, which others are calling advertisements, to hang on the interior fence of the future 1-acre park at East Philadelphia and South Delmorr avenues.
Stieve hopes that each of the signs (perhaps in the shape of a bone) will produce up to $2,500 annually.
"It's a privately funded effort and we're looking for some different revenue streams," Stieve said. "Sponsorship is one of the ways we can raise money."
Borough council hasn't made a decision on the issue, but the proposal has received mixed reviews from officials and advisers and has sparked a debate on whether commercial signs should be allowed on tax-payer funded open space.
Some council members like Stephen Worob downright oppose the idea.
"This is evolving into something we didn't want to see," he said at a recent council meeting.
Likewise Councilman David Rivella said the idea goes against "the spirit of open space." While he originally said it's reasonable to allow the signs for one year just to raise startup cash, he opposes the idea the more he thinks about it.
"What's to stop everyone in the borough from saying, 'I want to sell a sign for what I want to do?' " said Rivella, who is calling on the council to hold a yes-or-no vote to see if it supports signs at the dog park.
Councilwoman Jane Burger supports the signs, saying the area isn't passive open space like the wooded 6-acre Graystone preserve on Crown Street, William Penn's starting point for buying land from the Indians in 1682. Rather, Burger said, the Delmorr property is active open space.
"Obviously, any signs have to be carefully planned and thought out and keep with the use of the property," Burger said in a recent phone interview. "I'm not convinced that it's going to turn into gaudy commercialism."
Burger also said Morrisville will have the final say in who can put their ads on the signs. Rivella, though, worries that that could lead to discrimination claims if the council begins regulating who can and can't advertise.
And as a borough resident notes, Morrisville already is involved in a federal First Amendment lawsuit for prohibiting a strip club at the Stockham Building at South Pennsylvania Avenue and East Bridge Street.
While Councilwoman Eileen Dreisbach said the majority of Morrisville's Recreation Board favors allowing the signs on the fence that will separate big and little dogs for a limited time, two members of the Morrisville Environmental Advisory Council, Bill Setzer and Deborah Colgan, have publicly urged the council to reject the proposal.
Colgan said that sponsorships should be built into the design of the park like it is at Robert Morris Plaza with something like sponsorship bricks. She also worries that the signs will commercialize land preserved for the public.
"I do not believe that advertising belongs in public parks," Colgan said. "We already paid for this land, why should we subject ourselves to advertising when we go to it? You don't see ads in parkland, and there's a good reason for it. Advertisements belong on private land."
Dreisbach said it would be ideal to have no signs, "but I know how difficult it is to raise money."
Kris Kern, Bucks County's open space coordinator, said: "On that property, there are no provisions limiting signs."
But in moving forward with Bucks' most recent round of open space cash, she said the county will look into limiting signs on preserved open space.
Signs, she said, can "interfere with the scenic value you're trying to protect."
Stieve argued that the signs would be "tastefully done" and would not be visually distracting. But whether or not borough council signs on to Stieve's proposal, the Friends of the Morrisville Dog Park will continue fundraising efforts. The nonprofit organization is putting together a "Morrisville is Going to the Dogs Cocktail Pawty," as well as selling T-shirts. For more information on those and other efforts, e-mail estieve@comcast.net.
From the BCCT:
Mixed reviews for fundraising idea
By: DANNY ADLER
Bucks County Courier Times
The Friends of the Morrisville Dog Park group is putting together a "Morrisville is Going to the Dogs Cocktail Pawty" to raise money for the park.
Morrisville dog park organizers need cash.
And while efforts to raise the needed $15,000 to $20,000 are moving, they're sort of crawling - a few hundred dollars here, maybe a thousand there.
So how can organizers beef up their bank account to pay for a bark park on a plot of unused borough-owned open space preserved with county cash?
Ellen Stieve, who's heading the effort, said sponsorship signs similar, yet smaller, to those on baseball fences would certainly help. She proposes four sponsorship signs, which others are calling advertisements, to hang on the interior fence of the future 1-acre park at East Philadelphia and South Delmorr avenues.
Stieve hopes that each of the signs (perhaps in the shape of a bone) will produce up to $2,500 annually.
"It's a privately funded effort and we're looking for some different revenue streams," Stieve said. "Sponsorship is one of the ways we can raise money."
Borough council hasn't made a decision on the issue, but the proposal has received mixed reviews from officials and advisers and has sparked a debate on whether commercial signs should be allowed on tax-payer funded open space.
Some council members like Stephen Worob downright oppose the idea.
"This is evolving into something we didn't want to see," he said at a recent council meeting.
Likewise Councilman David Rivella said the idea goes against "the spirit of open space." While he originally said it's reasonable to allow the signs for one year just to raise startup cash, he opposes the idea the more he thinks about it.
"What's to stop everyone in the borough from saying, 'I want to sell a sign for what I want to do?' " said Rivella, who is calling on the council to hold a yes-or-no vote to see if it supports signs at the dog park.
Councilwoman Jane Burger supports the signs, saying the area isn't passive open space like the wooded 6-acre Graystone preserve on Crown Street, William Penn's starting point for buying land from the Indians in 1682. Rather, Burger said, the Delmorr property is active open space.
"Obviously, any signs have to be carefully planned and thought out and keep with the use of the property," Burger said in a recent phone interview. "I'm not convinced that it's going to turn into gaudy commercialism."
Burger also said Morrisville will have the final say in who can put their ads on the signs. Rivella, though, worries that that could lead to discrimination claims if the council begins regulating who can and can't advertise.
And as a borough resident notes, Morrisville already is involved in a federal First Amendment lawsuit for prohibiting a strip club at the Stockham Building at South Pennsylvania Avenue and East Bridge Street.
While Councilwoman Eileen Dreisbach said the majority of Morrisville's Recreation Board favors allowing the signs on the fence that will separate big and little dogs for a limited time, two members of the Morrisville Environmental Advisory Council, Bill Setzer and Deborah Colgan, have publicly urged the council to reject the proposal.
Colgan said that sponsorships should be built into the design of the park like it is at Robert Morris Plaza with something like sponsorship bricks. She also worries that the signs will commercialize land preserved for the public.
"I do not believe that advertising belongs in public parks," Colgan said. "We already paid for this land, why should we subject ourselves to advertising when we go to it? You don't see ads in parkland, and there's a good reason for it. Advertisements belong on private land."
Dreisbach said it would be ideal to have no signs, "but I know how difficult it is to raise money."
Kris Kern, Bucks County's open space coordinator, said: "On that property, there are no provisions limiting signs."
But in moving forward with Bucks' most recent round of open space cash, she said the county will look into limiting signs on preserved open space.
Signs, she said, can "interfere with the scenic value you're trying to protect."
Stieve argued that the signs would be "tastefully done" and would not be visually distracting. But whether or not borough council signs on to Stieve's proposal, the Friends of the Morrisville Dog Park will continue fundraising efforts. The nonprofit organization is putting together a "Morrisville is Going to the Dogs Cocktail Pawty," as well as selling T-shirts. For more information on those and other efforts, e-mail estieve@comcast.net.
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