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WEEK OF JANUARY 16 TO JANUARY 22.1980

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Industrial Upsurge Seen In ‘80s

Airport Key Growth Area

ERMA - The head of county go/emment sees a lot of new industries setting up sh6pdr the Jersey Cape in tf* nev decade, and a great deal of the commercial activity will be at the county j irport here. "In the 80s we expect many more industries that will bring many more dollars into Cape May County," the longtime freeholder d rector told the Herald and Lantern in a telephone interview from his North W Idwood home last Wed need ty. "We are nc v negotiating with many ndustries to come into Cape May County beceuse of its proximity with Atlantic City," CaUnoea maid during the interview - in which he was cautious not to be too specifi c because of what he said were the confidential na ure of the talks. BUT HE alluied to the industrial impact casino gambling in the nearby "World’s Flaygniund" will have on the Jersey Cape. And indications a *e that, if it pans out. the industrial growth here could be Af Crest Haven

varied and along many fronts. "We are negotiating with some state agencies, and we have several others including a food industry that wants to come down this way," he said. If the anticipated industrialization does come about, it will be in keeping with overall planning at the sprawling airport, which is actually an industrial park with air facilities instead of rail sidings. "OVERALL, it will be working in with the original master plan at the airport and will progress with that," Catanoso said. "We intend to extend the facilities of the airport for more industrial sites," he explained. "We’re having new sewers and drainage so we can extend the sites, and there’s an application for more funds from the federal government to extend the runaways." Renovations and upgrading at the airport include construction of a new hanger, which the county will lease to private industry. (Page 3 Please)

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Scrutiny Pays Off For County

COURT HOUSE - Less than \ 2 years after its initiation, the new Cape May County central purchasing system has resulted in savings of between $50,000 and 160,000 according to Freeholder William Sturm Jr., director

Parkway Lights Going On Soon

COURT HOUSE — For years Cape May County has had the distinction of having the only traffic singal along the entire 172mile length of the Garden State Parkway. Soon that , will change - the Jersey Cape will have a second set

of parkway lights, about a mile up the highway from the first. The new lights at the intersection of the parkway and Great Haven Road are scheduled to be turned on within the next two weeks to month and a half.

James Pitman, chief of the state Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Electrical Operations, told the County HeraM that the new signals will be on a blinking phase for several (Page « Please)

BE PREPARED to atop for the new traffic lights that are n Parkway at the Great Haven intersection. Right now the nr but not for long.

>w up on the Garden State signals are under wraps.

of revenue and finance on the county governing body. Sturm said in a hews release that while it was difficult to pinpoint all the savings, many programs instituted by the Central Purchasing Department have brought about efficiencies in purchasing, allowed use of state cooperative purchasing contracts, and expedited county purchasing

procedures.

The purchasing department was organized last March by the' freeholders, and William Deaver of Rio Grande was named 4he county’s first purchasing agent. Deaver is assisted by four other employees; secretary Luretta Dram is of Green Creek, and staff members Sabrina Riddle, Eugene Sicilia and Anna Accardi of North Wildwood. Sturm estimates conservatively the department has saved upwards of 160,000 in its first 10 months of operations. Among the savings were - $1,200 by changing Code A telephones in the prosecutor’s office; — $40 to $60 per drum by purchasing oil under state contract; —$3,200 by renegotiating the service contract with IBM on 100 typewriters; — upwards of $15,000 by buying used pumps and gasoline storage thnks instead of new on«s; —$1,300 by purchasing a used but newly guaranteed emission control tester; —$5,000 by

catching an error Just hours before contract was awarded by the fr^holders; -betwen $50 and $150 per day through

scrutinizing requests Ihd purchase orders from the various county departments. (Page 3 Please)

PURCHASING AGENT William Deaver checks purchasing order with assistants Sabrina Riddle, left, Anna Accardi and Gene Sicilia. Not pictured is suffer LuretU

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Central Purchasing Dept. Eagle-Eyes Expenditures

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"We're just scratching the surface on savings," county purchasing agent William Qeaver said the

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— I other day <4 explaining the operation, df his fledgling

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