As if a 32 percent tax increase or a lack of accountability over gypsy moths wasn't enough, it now ap - pears we have people on our pay roll in Jackson that just "don't know!"

I am speaking about the latest pending fines by the state Department of Environmental Protection over the Johnson Park emergency road.

Jackson has a township engi - neer, a municipal engineer, a township planner, a director of public works, a business adminis trator, a mayor and a township attorney. All of those mentioned are overpaid in my opinion. So I ask this, which one of them actu ally works? The "I didn't know" response just doesn't cut it for me.

What really tweaks me is that Mayor Mark Seda stated "they were only cutting grass." You're kidding me, right? Where did all the pipes, stone and fill come from? Was it from falling space debris? I wonder if the mayor and his hand-picked professionals stay up at night thinking of new ways to de ceive and waste the Jackson tax - payers' money.

This proposed road is an ease ment that JCP&L has on that prop erty. The fact here is JCP&L main tains their easements. Regardless of who owns the land, JCP&L has control of that easement for their use. So before the town started to dig on environmentally sensitive land, they should have asked for permission by making one simple phone call.

But that would be too easy, so instead they complicate things and spend money. This is another ex ample of the Seda administration wasting taxpayer money. And Mayor Seda once again will point a finger and place the blame on someone else.

Michael Reina

Jackson