Thursday, December 6, 2012
Police Chief Eric Mason has informed the Township Committee that he plans to resign from his position as the township administrator at the end of this year.
The Township Committee has started its search for a township administrator to replace Police Chief Eric Mason, who has served as an interim administrator since September of 2011. Mason informed the governing body that as of Dec. 31, he will step down from his position as the interim administrator — a position he has held for more than a year — and focus solely on his role as the township's police chief. "At our last meeting, Commissioner (Lisa) Adubato mentioned that as of Dec. 31, he would resume working (solely) in the police department," Mayor David Robinson said, adding that Mason will continue to work with the Township Committee and his replacement administrator as a new employee transitions into the role. Adubato serves as the …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Police Chief Eric Mason did not retire May 31 as planned. He continues to work as both police chief and interim township administrator.
Despite his initial plans to retire from the Police Department on May 31, Eric Mason continues to work as the Cranford police chief, while simultaneously serving as the interim township administrator. Mason's transition from police chief to fulltime township administrator has been put on hold due to confusion involving pension guidelines that could prevent the chief from collecting his full police benefits if he jumps directly from the Cranford Police Department into the role of full-time township administrator. "We expected the May 31 date of having the new chief in place would slip and it has," Deputy Mayor Andis Kalnins said. "Chief Mason has not retired as we continue to try and get a decision from the state on our current situation …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Interviews to replace retiring CPD chief/interim Town Administrator Eric Mason have been postponed while council members review a new Division of Pensions and Benefits rule that would cost Mason for jumping immediately into the new job.
Cranford Mayor David Robinson says the township cancelled two special committee meetings with candidates for retiring Cranford Police Chief Eric Mason in order to interview them all in one day. But he wouldn't say if the decision had anything to do with new rules that could affect Mason's transition from police chief to full-time township administrator. Mason, who announced that he would step down as police chief on May 31 after 35 years with the CPD, has been embroiled in controversy since the February 28 meeting in which township council unanimously approved Mason to take over as full-time administrator. Mason has worked as police chief and as interim township administrator since last September, when former administrator Marlena Schmid …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
YouTube claims the clip of an eight-year-old phone call between the Cranford Police Chief and his son violates their privacy guidelines.
The controversial video of an eight-year-old phone call in which Police Chief Eric Mason jokes that his day was going well because he "didn't have to kill any white people" has been pulled from YouTube by the site's administrators. On Tuesday, "GazeeboBricks," the people responsible for posting the video, received an email from "The YouTube Team" stating that "The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled: Chief Mason CPD speaks." In place of the video that had been online since …
J. Sussman
5:43 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
So basically Eric Mason wasted a years worth of the governing body's time, and the taxpayers money - when you factor in his $50,000 stipend. I realize the Mayor (Robinson) will equate it to a cost savings, however, when you factor in pending issues like the Lanza lawsuit and the loss of a $500,000 grant, and missed insurance premium payments, was it really worth the savings to have someone of Mr… more ›