SECAUCUS – The public Secaucus Town Council meeting, which was scheduled to take place Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. has been postponed to next Tuesday.
The meeting had to be rescheduled, Mayor Michael Gonnelli said Monday morning, so as not to conflict with a function at Secaucus High School.
The council will instead hold what Gonnelli called a “work session” caucus Tuesday afternoon at which the seven-member governing body is expected to meet with the town auditors about the 2009 audit which was recently completed and submitted to the council.
This is the first general audit the town has received since last year’s general audit revealed hundreds of thousands of missing dollars from the Tax Collector’s Office. That revelation led to a separate independent audit last year, which confirmed that $777,725 was missing from the Tax Office.
This is also the first audit to be conducted since town officials uncovered millions of dollars more that was owed to the town from various entities, but was never collected – money that was somehow missed in previous audits (see the cover story of the 12/5/2010 Secaucus Reporter).
The council will hold its last public meeting of 2010 on Tues., Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. This meeting will be preceded by a one-hour caucus session at 6 p.m. – E. Assata Wright