Union
County Freeholders
Approve Domestic Partner
Benefits for
County
Employees
By Joan Harvey, plainfieldareaaequality.com
December 2, 2005
Plainfield, NJ
-- The
Union County Freeholder Board unanimously passed a resolution to provide
Domestic Partnership Benefits to county employees, under the
New Jersey Domestic Partnership Act, which received final approval on
January 12, 2004. Union
County is the fifth county to do so.
We had a good group of people at the meeting, but when the freeholders went out
on executive session for over an hour, many of our people had to leave. A
handful of us stayed until the end and had a chance to thank them, both on the
podium and in person. Several of the freeholders: Holmes, Mirabella,
Estrada and Mapp made eloquent statements in favor of our civil rights. A
number of speakers brought up
Lt. Laurel Hester, and how gruesome her situation is, and how unfair.
Dan Sullivan suggested that when the resolution is made up, it should be sent to
the freeholder board in Ocean
County!
If you get a minute in the next few
days, please contact the Union County Freeholders to thank them and congratulate
on their progressive action.
Call 908-527-4100, fax to 908-289-4143 or email:
Rick Proctor:
rproctor@ucnj.org
Alexander Mirabella:
amirabella@ucnj.org
Angel Estrada:
aestrada@ucnj.org
Chester Holmes:
cholmes@ucnj.org
Betty Jane Kowalski:
bkowalski@ucnj.org
Adrian Mapp:
amapp@ucnj.org
Deborah Scanlon:
dscanlon@ucnj.org
Daniel Sullivan:
dsullivan@ucnj.org
Nancy Ward:
nward@ucnj.org
If you'd like
to share an opinion with the
Ocean County Freeholders who are denying Lt. Hester's dying wish, the phone
number for their clerk is (732) 929-2005.
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