March 4, 2021 - Councilman Frank McVey makes 'vicious and sexist' attack on an environmentalist in his comments regarding the rezoning
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Counciman Frank McVey, in what appeared to be an attempt to intimidate enviromentalist Theresa Bender-Chapman, made comments of a “vicious and sexual nature” and “misogynistic and unacceptable offense.”
This was a continuation of aggressive and unusual behaviour that seemed to be occuring, which started with the January 2021 meeting where Councilmen Robert Fulper and Frank McVey appeared to be acting as proxies for Peron Corporation.
January 24, 2021 - Councilmen Fulper and McVey seem to act as proxies for Peron Corporation
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Councilmen Robert Fulper and Frank McVey held private talks with Michael Perrucci, the owner of Peron Construction, prior to any public presentations to the town. Then Councilmen Robert Fulper and Frank McVey held public presentations, pushing for changing the zoning fo the 32 acres of land along the Delaware River from Residential to Industrial. Addiitonally, during this presentation they were advocating for Providing Peron Corporation with a large chunk of Delaware River Park, which is state funded Green Acres Open Space.
By trying to sell Peron Construction''s idea of changing the property's zoning from Riverside Residential to Industrial, it appeared as if Councilmen Fulper and McVey were acting as proxies for Peron Corporation. These presentations being held by the Councilment seemed like the kind of presentations you would have expected from representatives from Peron Corporation to sell their ideas to the public. At this point, it appeared that the these two Councilmen were somewhat informed of Peron Corporations intentions before Peron Corporation had presented their plans to the town government, and the Councilmen were trying to sell the plans on behalf of Peron Corporaton.
It has to be assumed that they never read the 2013 Master Plan Reexaminaiton Report since zoning this area to industrial completely goes against the documents objectives of making this area something that would complement the current residential area of the Flats of Phillipsburg.