To the editor
How many readers remember those elitist cliques in high school? Or those elitist fraternities and sororities in your college? Especially those elitist cliques that were composed of "better-than-you" snobs. Snobs who felt their rightful place was on top of Mount Olympus with the gods.
The Beacon’s Sept. 13 issue has numerous articles that indicate Hillsborough has at least two of these elitist cliques.
The most visible is Dr. Gulick’s school clique.
Mike Detsis, once again, fruitlessly presented the Library Academy Charter School application to the school board. Why does the state require Mike Detsis, et al, tell their game plan to the enemy?
Dr. Gulick’s clique salivates at the opportunity to cut down the charter school application. It is so ego filling to do this.
And once again, the charter group ran into the proverbial brick wall trying to penetrate the educational clique for the good of our children.
Dr. Gulick’s interview comments were revealing, not in context, but in the between-the-lines interpretations.
Dr. Gulick and his minions are opposed to the concept of taking money from his budget to fund a charter school. But rather than take on the state education commissioner and have changes made, the clique attacks the little guy because he is more vulnerable.
This is akin to Lou Possimoto’s diatribe last year about the state developing school funding not dependent on property taxes. But then he hid when challenged to lead the march into Trenton.
Dr. Gulick is paranoid about losing $2.5 million dollars in funding to his educational clique. How do you function with a budget cut?
Not a word is said about losing the students and staff that would offset this money loss.
The Gulick ego really swells in his comment that the Liberty Academy Charter School curriculum will "never even come close" to that offered by his clique.
Many taxpayers will disagree with him.
Perhaps the Academy will have a curriculum that rivals the Catholic schools.
What is Dr. Gulick’s response to Dr. Munley’s charge that Doylestown, Pa., educates its pupils on one-third the budget of Hillsborough?
Just imagine, taxpayers, a school district that could cut your property taxes by two-thirds!
The school clique was blatantly obvious in selecting its interim school board member.
Mr. Scibiorski reported Mr. Hudes’ fawning, boot-licking comments about the greatness of our school system. Mr. Rogeberg and I thought it was time for cost cutting. Mr. Caldwell took the middle-of-the road. Mr. Schneider highlighted his years as an educator in the Hillsborough system.
Three guesses as to who was named as the replacement, the first two don’t count.
Mayor Tricarico rivals Dr. Gulick with his own clique The Democratic 100.
CCBH filed an appeal of the Krame decision. Four of the Tricarico 100 were four of the five Planning Board votes approving the Promenade. And these four approved the Promenade the second time.
Feisty Marian Fenwick-Freeman is not a member of the 100 Clique. She will join Peg Van Patton and Paul Drake when her term of office ends. The mayor needs that seat for another of his 100.
To the detriment of our township, the mayor does not consider talent, expertise or training when rewarding the "100" with seats on the various boards, commissions and committees.
This is especially true of those key township boards and commissions.
The Mountain View Plaza application has the appearance of another Promenade; i.e., gloss over or bury any negative aspects that a prudent Planning Board would use to reject the application.
All Hillsborough’s citizens should attend the Oct. 11 meeting of the Planning Board. The agenda calls for addressing environmental concerns of the car wash application.
Everybody knows Mayor Tricarico outdid himself in picking a deserving member of the "100" to chair this important environmental commission.
Who says the township deserves an environmentalist to chair this commission? A science teacher (husband of the township administrator) should be able to handle this chairmanship easily. But to be sure, the mayor hired a high-priced environmental consulting engineer to support the chairman.
It is the mayor’s clique, but our tax dollars.
Taylor Avenue

