1. | Dec 21, 2013

Scandals aside Ron DeFillippis and the other CPAs used the Per Pupil cost statistic as the main focus of their Roxbury reievw. But instead of investigating Roxbury's cost items searching for areas for improvement, the group arbitrarily decided that Randolph is efficient, compared the two and criticized Roxbury for not matching that standard. Districts are never identical and comparisons should be avoided.Apparently the DeFillippis group's admiration for Randolph stems from the discovery of that district’s User Friendly Budget Report. they found it straightforward and easy to read adding that DeFillippis spent 3 hours trying to understand Roxbury’s documentation. Had the volunteer CPAs bothered to look, they’d have discovered that all NJ districts, including Roxbury post User Friendly budgets in the exact same format.DeFillippis should have focused on Roxbury and avoided the childish name calling.

2. | Dec 20, 2013

Hey, Adam, don't you think the freshwater angrels of SJ would be better served by the State eliminating the trout stocking and focusing instead on enhancing the habitat and numbers of those species more natural to the region, like bass, crappie, and pickeral? Trout (and trout stamps) don't fit in slow-moving, warmer blackwater, except that the State can make a few extra bucks by convincing spring and fall Saturday angrels that they're really fishing with fly-rods and nymphs in the fast moving streamwaters of upstate New York.