Letter To The Editor: Fressola's 'Accomplishments' Mistakes For Manchester

Over the past four years, Mayor Fressola has made a number of glaring mistakes which have cost our residents thousands upon thousands of dollars.

To start with, Mayor Fressola was a major proponent of the nursing home/rehabilitation facility to be built on 571 that violated the towns’ own land-use regulations. As a result, the adjoining residents spent thousands of dollars of their own money to fight the project. Even though the residents stopped the mayor’s ill-conceived project, they will never get their own money back.

Three years ago, Mayor Fressola fired the publics works director of 16 years for reasons we still do not know. Not surprisingly, Mr. Stanziano initiated a wrongful termination lawsuit against Manchester Township, Mayor Fressola and the former Business Administrator Elena Zsoldos, which has cost the town in litigation fees of almost $100,000, with no end in sight. As for Mayor Fressola’s personal secretary/business administrator, she faces a felony indictment for cocaine use while working in a township vehicle. The same woman who the mayor said was like a daughter to him and whose income tripled to $130,000 per year from the time she was a secretary to the time she was fired from the business administrator position. Sadly, several of our full time public works employees still hover just over the poverty line with families to feed.

Finally, this year, Mayor Fressola has rewarded one of his campaign contributors with a land swap deal which gives away $150,000 worth of Manchester Township owned land in Pine Lake Park in exchange for two Route 70 lots that serve absolutely no purpose because they cannot be built upon. Mayor Fressola, the time has come to call it a career, we cannot afford your type of “Continued Good Government” any longer.

Meghan Ramos
Manchester