Grandstanding! Dont he have health care from TRMUA?. Stevie, please resign tonite. Do Brick a favor and save face at the next election.

Dennis, I don't think he takes health care from TRMUA but I do know for certain because he has said it he takes health care as part of his wife's plan, and guess where is wife works: Brick Township Schools...So in the long run we are paying for his benefits.

Is this what we can expect from Steve for the rest of his term? Here he goes, right into bully mode. Did he miss the reorganization meeting on purpose? Shame on him. Will someone close to him please tell him he is acting like such a baby. Everyone knows that his health benefits are paid for by either the Twp BOE (his wife's employer) or Toms River (his other full time position)...my question is did HE ever take advantage of the incentive waiver? Reducing the mayor's salary to $1 is a joke and a gimmick. The Council should cut the salary back to what it was before Scarpelli increased it to 52K, one dollar is a joke and political grandstanding. Come on Steve... act like an adult and work to get things done.

does anyone remember back when Steve was council president and he would not let the mayor (Scarpelli) speak at council meetings? I wonder if Ducey will do the same to him? he's used to running the meetings and talking whenever he wants. this could be interesting!

How about trimming the overpaid police forces salary??? Brick cops don't deserve $90,000 for this town.. I'm sure we could find PLENTY of people willing to take those jobs at $60,000. Also sell 10-15 vehicles that never move from behind the municipal building..

And please don't forget to rescind the 24% municipal tax increase

Zero I disagree with you on that one. SOME of our police officers do deserve their salaries. There are some however, that do not. Police pay should be done on merit, and their ability to do their job. If you sit in Dunkin Donuts all night, you dont deserve it. When you do your job and catch the ba guys, and help the piblic, by all means you deserve it.

There are many things that can be cut in this town, starting with Juan " lets spend the surplus" Bellu. Why does an assistant need an assistant? Exactly what does childhood friend Dave do in parks to warrant a 5 figure raise? The list is ENDLESS.

The mayor is just trying to take heat off the $3.6 million in spending that was approved with the old council on the way out the door.
The $3.6 million spending should be rescinded. What doesn't the mayor understand?
I thought he said that he heard the voters in November.
The mayor will no doubt put a valiant effort on small items to deflect attention from the $3.6 million spending.

The meeting will be entertaining. If nothing else.

wish they were broadcast live. I could watch it while at work.

this guy is such a phoney.............

Acropolis is such a joke. I always said he was the worst mayor in brick history and he proves me right all the time. I would like to know how much he pay's Art Sholty to put him on a high pedestal. Oh has anyone noticed that the R's election trailer at foodtown is gone now. thought they had nothing to do with it. they waited a month to make it look good.

The bottom line is if its fulltime then keep hours on this clown.....Between Brick and Toms River this guys is making all of us look like clowns....He is stealing, and should be charged.....This clown would not be asking for a $1, if he didn't have Toms River.....The FBI will get to the bottom, and he will be at Fort Dix soon enough.....crook!!!

@Gary, that crime is called "STEALING TIME FROM THE EMPLOYER". Several former co-workers of mine years ago were prosecuted at a plant i worked at for just that. MMMMMMM......

I truly believe if a recall attempt was put forth against Acropolis, the town would again speak and we would be successful. He showed his character yet again by not showing up on Sunday when our new council members were sworn in. Now all he can do is stomp his feet like Herman Muenster... Darn, Darn, Darn... Steve, please, in the best interest of our town, just resign. You are doing an injustice to this town and the people who reside here.

Mayor Acropolis did a lot of talking tonight about how he asked for a reduction of the mayors salary months ago. But what I wanted to ask was why didn't he speak about reducing the salary of the mayor to $1 before he accepted the $93k job at the Toms River MUA? Keep in mind this is the same mayor who said that the reason he was taking the job at the T.R. MUA was because he couldn't support his family on his $50k salary as mayor. I Can't wait until he is out of office.

I think the Mayor's reasoning for requesting that Councils’ salaries and benefits be decreased is because the newbie members don’t appear to be as financially well off as the Mayor and existing Council members. He wants to hit them in their personal pocketbooks. This is a case where the rich get richer or remain rich and the "poorer" who may want to do to do something good for the Township and truly fight for the people really could use the better salary and benefits. – Greedy versus truly needy.

Regarding Acropolis calling on the Council to reduce their salaries...

A change to the Council's salaries is not comparable to changes in the Mayor's salary. The Mayor took the job as a full-time job at full-time pay of $52k. After becoming Mayor, he took ANOTHER full-time job. SO - the Mayor's salary should then be reduced to what it was as a part-time position: $15,000. Not a dollar, not zero.

The Mayor trying to bully the Council into reducing their pay shows his weak leadership and has nothing to do with why he is being called upon to reduce his. If my boss is overpaid for his job and his salary is adjusted, why should he ask me to take a pay cut too if I have had the appropriate pay all along? Would it save the company money if everyone in the company reduced their pay? Of course, but this is about appropriate rates of pay. I don't ask my company to cut my hours in half and pay me the same and if they don't pay me the same to start cutting other people's pay when they still do what they did all along.

Nobody had to lie to get voted in. The Democrats in Brick were dead(flatlined) since the Scarpelli days. The Town Council was all Republicans. All the jobs in town were given to Republicans. All I can say is the Republicans must have been pretty awful to get blown away by a bunch of "unworthy, unknown neophytes". I can certainly understand the bitterness of the losers. It has to be embarrassing to get your a$$es kicked by a bunch of unknowns. For people like John C, instead of acting like a baby why not round up the party faithful and start in a new direction? Stop all the attacks(the electorate is sick of that crap). That's why Obama is going to win re-election. The Karl Rove theory of slinging crap has run its course. Why not try finding something positive to build on?

I agree with Concerned Brick Citizen. The four Democrats may need the benefits or the extra salary. It's not for us to judge. We are not in there shoes for the next four years. They will be away from there families for long periods of time. That alone is worth something. Give them a chance to do the job that they were elected to do. The rich mayor is sitting pretty with us paying his benefits from his wife on Bricks dime. So he need not preach that we the people of Brick aren't paying his health care. For him to give up the mayor salary. He still is living LARGE from TRMUA.... Enough already with this petty stuff. We still were strong armed into 24%!!! Good Luck to the new Dems in council..Let's focus on the debt that Brick has. Instead of some small time health benefits. You people act like they hit the lottery!!! They have a lot of hard work ahead of them!!!!!!

Maybe I don't understand. If the Acropolis Team was so financially well to do, why all the bankruptcys, tax liens and taking government jobs because no one in their industry wants them?

@ John C:
Thanks for the comment. I do know council meetings are on the Brick website as well as B20. My question was......since the new council announced that meetings will now be held weekly, WHEN will the videos be available. As of tonight, yesterday's meeting is still not up on B20 or the Brick website. So I guess that means we still have 5 days to hope we catch the council meeting at just the right time. Then those of us who have computers can watch the archived meetings on our PC's, unlike some of our elders in the town who don't.

The Republicans lost the election because they lost the trust of the voters and the vicious mailers. Stop twisting the 5000 dollar issue. The Mayor taking 52K per year and not showing up didn't help the Rs either. You guys should be pissed off. You got beaten badly by a bunch of nonames. Stop acting so tough and start using some diplomacy(if you have a clue what that means). The more meetings you go to and try to act like you are still in control the more voters you will lose. Give it up. You lost and it was YOUR OWN FAULT. Are you that idiotic not to realize that? Geez

All of coming down on the new members for not answering an making asumptions, you know what they say when you ASSUME.

Under our form of govt, the Mayor has NO SAY at council meetings unless INVITED to speak. I do not blame them for not answering, the question was nothing more then GRANDSTANDING and CHILDISH BEHAVIOR on the part of Stevie.

Bob, I don't see it that way. The 2011 budget showed a reduction in Miscellaneous Revenue of $7.6 million. This was due to using $4.4 million from the state refund for Traders Cove in 2010, tapping out the school deferral tax of $2.7 million in 2010 and selling a liquor license in 2010 for $500,000.
The mayor has robbed Peter to pay Paul. This is his budget, no one elses. You can't add at least $22 million to debt and not feel the consequences. Believe me, this is a fight the new council and I want. The mayor will be digging himself a bigger hole. I can't wait for the mayor to detail the 24% decrease. How is that possible without rescinding all the pay raises he gave to political cronies? How is it possible to rescind at least $22 million of prior debt? How is it possible not to discuss the shortfall from 2010 that he, the council and the BA knew they were carrying into 2011.
How is it possible to be paying your legal counsel more than twice what the previous counsel was paid and there are no financial repercussions? We're talking $1.728 million over 5 years.

the BA is a liar......FIRE SCOTT PEZARRAS

the mayor has been involved in local politics for way too long. too many friends of friends. Acropolis should either resign or stop acting like this is a game . He's not doing anything to make life better for us. He's saying ""oh, oh you embarassed me so now i'll show you how much power I have" School yard BS and meanwhile the duly elected council has to put up with this. Whats this business with him not allowing the former mayor to speak when he was council pres. In my 50 years of working for a living "full time" was 40 hrs/wk and 2 full time jobs was 80 hrs/wk Some how I dont think the mayor looks like he's banging out 80 a week. So who's he screwing?? Didnt the town of Brick ever invest in a time clock??? Does he account for his hours on either job?? And pls no BS about how he may have to go out in the middle of the night for an emergency. The last thing a firefighter, police officer, or medic needs is the mayor strutting around at 3am in the middle of an emergency. Mr Mayor pls stop going on tv and speaking to the people of Brick like we're all stupid children and your the Great Teacher. No more lectures on the form of government. Resign or accept the will of tthe people as expressed at the last election, learn some humility, lick your wounds and start doing your job. Or maybe just GO