As your Borough Manager, my job is a combination of providing advice along with implementing the policies of

your elected officials. This necessitates me taking criticism, including from those very people your elected

officials (the Assembly) are trying to help. I am not whining, just stating a fact.

Today I find myself involved in a debate that clearly I started when I made a proposal to save money in some of the community's utility departments (water, sewer, electric). The savings, about $110,000 a year, could be used to avoid future rate increases, pay for maintenance issues, or even...