Update on Bergen County Democratic Organization

by: Bill W

Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 02:34:29 PM EDT

Promoted by Jason Springer: The BCDO gets an A for effort putting up the bylaws, but their "html version" isn't very clear or searchable. A helpful reader has posted a real html version.

County Committee members should have received a letter from BCDO Chairman Michael Kasparian detailing his progress with the programs he promised to implement back in January.

Here are the highlights:
A BCDO ethics training, spearheaded by retired Superior Court Judge Daniel Mecca, will be held on May 20th. Governor Corzine has been invited, and plans to participate. The BCDO web site is up and running. (It looks a little wonky on Firefox, but it works.) Looks like they've got a decent bit of content there, including the BCDO bylaws and a list of all County Committee members and Municipal Chairs. (Addresses are not included, and I think that's an understandable precaution.) An independent financial assessment is being conducted by Bederson Associates. An Executive Committee meeting was held in March, and another will take place in June. A fundraiser will be held on May 21 at Le Jardin in Edgewater; invitations will be forthcoming. Executive Director Daniel Ortega, Fund Raiser Marissa Heluk and Treasurer Mat McCarter are leaving their positions. The new executive staff includes Executive Director Matt McHale, Fundraiser Allison Zayas and Treasurer Donald Lenner.

I like that the web site is up, and overall it looks like progress has been made. I'm not familiar with most of the individuals named in this letter, though, so I can't speak to what sort of direction the staffing choices suggest.

Any other thoughts?