Council's actions fly in the face of logic
The late Casey Stengel, while managing the inept New York Mets during the club's first season, vented his frustration by exclaiming, "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?" Recent activities of the Sayreville Borough Council are worthy of a case study by the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

At its Feb. 4 meeting, the council opposed the mayor's choice of the borough's business administrator to assume responsibility as insurancefund commissioner. Instead, it appointed the director of public works to the position. So now the borough has a business administrator who is not allowed to manage in an area (insurance) that is generally defined as within the purview of business. Rather, the function is assigned to one responsible for roads, potholes and snowplowing.

During the same meeting the mayor questioned the logic of the recreation director reporting directly to the mayor and council while everyone else (meaning department heads) answers through the business administrator, including the police chief whose responsibilities include investigations into murder, rape, burglary, theft, terrorism, etc. - nothing quite so important as recreation. A council member suggested that the governing body take another look at the role of the business administrator. Go figure.

Realistically, the council shouldn't be burdened with such trivial matters. It should be free to concentrate on the more important things in life - like buying a cliff on Washington Road.

Donald M. Gallagher

Sayreville