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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Stoffa Resigns From Retirement Board: Brown Fails to Appoint Successor

John Stoffa
Northampton County has a seven-person Retirement Board whose chief function is to act as a board of directors for the pension fund.  One must be a retiree recommended by the NorCo Employee Retirement Association. Former Executive John Stoffa had that honor, which explains why the minutes of the Retirement Board are now online. But because he's considering a new career as a blogger, Stoffa resigned from the Board on July 1.

Stoffa asked Executive John Brown "to continue to support the retirees. They are a great group of people."

Brown has demonstrated that support by failing to appoint a successor for two months.

As a result, retirees are receiving no updates, which leads to embarrassing situations when a deceased employee's family is notified of an upcoming meeting.

Since his election as Executive, Brown has also failed to attend a single retiree luncheon, despite receiving invitations.

Now that he is running for state auditor general, he might pop his head in this Fall. If he does, I'd advise against delivering his standard stump speech, bragging about how he straightened out Northampton County.

The retirees know better.

Oh yeah, and with a Tropical Storm headed our way, I thought now might be a good time to point out that Brown has still failed to appoint a county EMS Director to replace Bob Mateff, who has only been gone 15 months.

Why rush?
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 7:43 AM

    Let me get this straight, one person retires from a 7 member board, and now the whole thing is I'm ruins?

    Never mind Browns complete lack of leadership, what is wrong with this board that they can't function properly with 1 member missing.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 9:06 AM

    @7:43,
    When you have an even number of members on a board, there is potential for gridlock, unless the presiding member may not vote on issues unless there is a tie.

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  3. Bernie O'HareSeptember 1, 2016 at 10:44 AM

    "Never mind Browns complete lack of leadership, what is wrong with this board that they can't function properly with 1 member missing."

    That's not the point. That'syour attempt at deflection.The point is that brown has let this position go unfilled for two months without bothering to appoint a successor. It is the only position that is essentially selected by the retirees. They had given hm three names when he picked Stoffa. All he has to do is pick one of the remaining two. He refuses to fill it.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 12:08 PM

    Maybe instead of waiting for that FAT county pension check on my hard earned money they should go to the meetings themselves? Imagine that?

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 2:40 PM

    We the people shall never forget the "Stoffa-Gift" episode it was inexcusable.

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 4:19 PM

    He hasn't appointed a director for 911 in almost 2 years. There will be no rush for this either. Lame excuses. His lack of ethics will eventually cause a catastrophe.

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  7. Bernie O'HareSeptember 1, 2016 at 4:52 PM

    2:40, I have no idea what you're talking about but haters are going to hate

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 5:45 PM

    Maybe he's afraid to appoint anyone since all of his other appointed employees are terrible.

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 7:19 PM

    Stoffa also gave us the dump Gracedale mo9vement, $1000 parking spaces and unneeded overpriced buildings. The guy was a real prince.

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  10. Bernie O'HareSeptember 1, 2016 at 7:48 PM

    Stoffa did support the privatization of Gracedale. He did not bring us $1,000 parking spaces,which would incidentally be a bargain. The archives building was necessary bc the old building had been torn down. The centralized human services building has been immensely successful, and serves 18,000 people. Only one member of Council voted against it. Your cheap anonymous personal attacks are OT, but I will allow them to stand bc by themselves, they reveal you to be an ugly person and a coward.

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