The public comment portion of Monday evening's board of supervisors meeting broke down into a bit of a shouting match when former township supervisor Paul Montemuro took to the podium to reiterate his prior claims regarding the misappropriation of township funds by former board members.

"In his letter last month (referring to aolicitor Thomas Nanovic's letter referencing the alleged misappropriation of $1.6 million) Mr. Nanovic stated that my claims were vague and did not mention anyone specifically; that's not true," said Montemuro. "I named Chairman (Warren) Reiner and solicitor Nanovic."Montemuro questioned practices after Thomas Nanovic read the letter at the meeting last month in response to township auditor Matt Schutter asking every month about $1.6 million that Montemuro said was missing. Montemuro, who lost his re-election bid last year, went back and forth Monday with Nanovic on a number of items.During his term Montemuro contacted the FBI to investigate.Nanovic's letter last month addressed the period from 2009 through 2012, citing that the accounting firm of Kirk, Summa and Co. has audited the books from 2009 to present, including the year 2012."I recently reviewed the audit for the fiscal year 2012. There is no mention of any money missing or misappropriated," Nanovic said."That letter does not address the correct time frame. In fact, all it does is verify that we did everything correct accounting wise when we were in office," Montemuro said.Nanovic's letter last month referred to an article published in the Times News in 2012."... In the more than two years since this article has appeared, I am not aware of any person being charged criminally with misappropriation of township funds, any person being sued civilly to recover misappropriated township funds, any surcharges against any person for misappropriated township funds, or any other action taken against any person regarding township funds. By all appearances, the allegation of the $1.6 million being misappropriated was baseless," the letter said.Montemuro asked Nanovic Monday if the bidding process was correctly handled in the few years leading up to Montemuro's election in 2008.In an article published earlier this week, Montemuro questioned the award of purchase orders.Two contractors' invoices and payments stand out to Montemuro. An independent review of meeting minutes and invoices for an 18-month period from January 2005 to June 2006 showed that the supervisors made motions for three bid packages.One contractor submitted two bids: One for equipment rentals was $90,256, with a materials contract for $30,999, a total of $121,255.Records show the township paid the contractor $286,196, a difference of $164,941, which Montemuro says was in violation of Section 3104.Another company was awarded one contract for material at $18,750, plus a separate contract for snow removal. The company invoiced and was paid $266,953 during the same time period."I do think that mistakes were made," Nanovic said at Monday's meeting."Yes we went over what the estimated use would be for one year, and we went over by a lot. But remember, the work was needed, it was done and it was done satisfactorily and it was done at the price that was agreed to in the contract that was in place that year," Nanovic said, restating the claim made previously.When Montemuro began a statement "Didn't you tell the board …""You were not on the board at that time, you don't know what I told the board," Nanovic was quick to remind Montemuro.At that point, Chairman Reiner banged the gavel in an attempt to end Montemuro's comments."That's enough, you've had your two minutes," Reiner said.When Reiner acknowledged resident T.J. York, York yielded his two minutes to Montemuro."You can't do that, it doesn't work like that," Reiner said.York argued, "I am a taxpayer and I want to hear what he has to say.""If you want to hear what he has to say you can talk to him outside," Supervisor Scott Lignore said, adding, "Don't waste our time."Montemuro did make copies of his statement and other information available on a CD to anyone who wanted it.In the end, York took Montemuro's notes and read them from the podium.