To Mayor Zimmer, Members of the City Council, City Clerk and all:
At the City Council meeting of February 3, I addressed the Council asking for an explanation of a perplexing action taken by Councilwoman Mason at a Sept 15 council meeting. In this piece of video Councilwoman Mason can be seen passing along suggestions for the re-writing of the community's rent control ordinance from a group of developers and landlords, Mile Square Tax Payers Association. In this video you will see Councilwoman Mason making sure MSTA's suggestions get to the city attorney and hear Councilwoman Marsh ask Councilwoman Mason if MSTA saw the re-written rent control ordinance before the members of the City Council did, a question that never gets answered. I have also tried to get an answer to this to this question since September. I have sent numerous emails to Councilwoman Mason, had a letter published in the Hoboken Reporter asking for an answer, and attended public meetings to directly ask Councilwoman Mason and still have not received an answer.
What I see in this video is egregious. Some of you may not agree. But I would still like an explanation of Councilwoman Mason's actions and an answer to Councilwoman's Marsh's question: Did MSTA see this version of the ordinance before the members of the City Council? And while we are at it, why in the world is Councilwoman Mason working for MSTA?
Below is the link and the embedded video of the 9/15/2010 Hoboken City Council Meeting video at USTREAM. It starts at 1:23:28 and Counclwoman Mason is seen holding the envelope with the MSTA response at 1:24:05 and passes it at 1:27:13.
Link of 9/15/2010 Hoboken City Council Meeting: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9602149
- Eileen Lynch
My comment: Regardless of where you stand on the issue of Rent Control, here is another case where Beth Mason's transparency and ability to conduct herself above board is being called into question by another resident. Maybe that explains all the candy hearts she gave out yesterday, some sort of sugar induced atonement to the citizens of Hoboken's 2nd Ward. ◦
