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Administration Enacts Vehicle Policy READ THE FULL ATLANTIC CITY VEHICLE POLICY HERE Councilman Mancuso was charged
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UPDATED Mayor Levy has been downgraded from the Intensive Care Unit to a regular room in the hospital. He is now undergoing more tests, according to Acting Mayor Dominic Capella on the Don Williams Show on WOND 1400 AM A critical and dangerous post-surgical complication landed Atlantic City
Mayor Bob Levy in the hospital Wednesday. A blood clot is thought to have
formed in his lung after having back surgery several weeks ago. Levy was attending the Metropolitan Business and Citizens Association luncheon Wednesday, He was experiencing some severe pain which may be associated with his recent back surgery. As such, Mayor Levy was admitted to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center and is currently undergoing tests and observation for his condition, according to a new release on Thursday.. |
McGettigan to Levinson;
By VIRGINIA McCABE Atlantic County Sheriff Jim McGettigan had two messages for Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson on Tuesday after a raucous freeholder meeting. “Tell Denny Levinson to go f*ck himself, he’s a pathological liar and you can quote me,” said McGettigan in a phone interview Tuesday evening. McGettigan said he attended the freeholder meeting Tuesday to obtain legislation that would prevent politicians from taking campaign contributions from vendors and professionals if they do business with Atlantic County. In a press release issued by McGettigan this month, he criticized Levinson for taking campaign contributions from the firm that audited the county budget. “He (Levinson) is so paranoid. He just picked a political fight with me because (Press of Atlantic City Reporter) Tom Barlas was in the room.” Levinson said he attended the freeholder meeting to ask the members if they had indeed been “hoodwinked” when unanimously passing the county budget. "Levinson hoodwinked county freeholders on budget" Levinson said he addressed the freeholders about the county budget. “They weren’t hoodwinked on the budget it was a good one,” said Levinson..”He (McGettigan) doesn’t even understand his own budget. He said he has a $3 million budget and he has a $10 million budget. How can he be that far off on his own budget?” McGettigan said Levinson is trying to make hay out of him misspeaking on the radio. “My budget is a little over $10 million,” said McGettigan. “So my number is wrong, who cares, Levinson is going to make an issue out of it, but it’s no issue.” “It most certainly is an issue, when he says nine freeholders voted for the budget and were hoodwinked,” said Levinson. “It certainly is an issue. He was $7 million off his $10 million budget. How is the world he is going to run the whole county?” McGettigan said some politicians are getting itchy because he wants to clean up the political process and eliminate professionals and vendors from greasing the wheels of government to get jobs and contracts. “They don’t have to take the money,” said McGettigan regarding campaign contributions from lawyers, engineers, vendors, accounting firms. “If somebody gives them money, they can just give it back.” Levinson contends that he always bid all his contracts and always takes the lowest bidder. McGettigan said that despite the controversy at the meeting today, he won the day. “I went there to get a resolution passed,” said McGettigan. “In two weeks they are going to come back with an ordinance that excludes pay-to-pay.” Levinson said he had already submitted a pay-to-play ordinance and that he is now in good company regarding McGettigan’s personal attacks. “As far as his vile language and his attacks on me, he has ridiculed
the freeholders, Vince Jones, the finest emergency manager in the state,
the administration and now he has just added me to the list.,” said
Levinson. “He’s mad because I didn’t give him an underserved
raise and the freeholders also voted against his raise.” |
Hanko Not Running - Galloway Hanko will finish term By VIRGINIA McCABE He served as a school board president, councilman and mayor in Galloway Township. Now Mark Hanko is shifting his entire focus to expanding his business ventures and will not seek reelection. “I loved being in government. We brought a business like approach to municipal government, we were focused on results and we delivered them,” said Hanko in a phone interview Thursday evening. He is finishing up four years in municipal government after six years on the school board. With more than a dozen years experience in human resources, including
working at the casinos in Atlantic City as a human resource manager, it
seems natural Hanko would return to the fold. Hanko said he loved working in government. The best part is accomplishing goals and the frustrating part, according to Hanko is the government red tape. “The length of time it takes to makes things come about is frustrating,” said Hanko. “It is a very difficult paradigm to change. In the State of New Jersey the bureaucracy gets thicker with the regulatory process. There is CAFRA and the Pinelands (commissions) and it is frustrating but you just have to keep at it.” Will Hanko ever consider another run for government? Like all politicians, he is keeping his options open. “You never know,” said Hanko. “If the situation is different, you never know. If there is time in the future and an opportunity, we will see.” To contact Mark Hanko at Hanko Human Services dial (609) 335- 0654 |