Letter to the Editor: Council Should Investigate Who Leaked Manager's Complaint

I was not prepared for the reading of the Resolution censuring Council member Toffler at the Feb 8 Council meeting.  Our Town Clerk was required to read every word of the resolution into the record.  This alone is very uncommon.  The Resolution clears Chief Wilson and Manager Broughton of any improper actions by them regarding Ms. Toffler's minor accident where she unknowingly knocked a license plate off a car in a snow covered bank parking lot and left the scene.  Further, it cites Ms. Toffler as making some verbal comments that she agreed she should not have made.  

The Manager's hostile work environment letter was submitted in Closed Council Session. How did the Record learn of it? Information from closed sessions is always closely guarded. Is it possible a member of the Council betrayed a fellow council member intentionally?  It is that council member that should be found out and removed from office because that action broke their oath of office.  How can any council member feel free to share confidential information in a closed session if they cannot trust other council members?  It is a question of integrity.

The Council resolution, by eliminating others, essentially incriminates themselves as the source of the leak.  Now they need to take the next step - an investigation.  The Council will not do it voluntarily.  Only a public outcry could prod the Council into learning who among themselves leaked Mr. Broughton's letter.  Only a public outcry.  Otherwise a squealer remains on the Teaneck Town Council. 

-- Art Vatsky