Herald & Lantern 12 January '83

Lower Cape May Budget

By Bob Shiles ERMA — Lower Cape May Regional Schools Supt. Ephraim Keller is expected to recommend tomorrow night that the school board postpone adopting a tentative 1983-84 budget until firmer state aid figures are available.' According to Keller, it was announced last Friday that county school boards now have until Feb. 1 to complete and submit budgets to County Schools ^Supt. Robert Rongart. The original deadline was to haVe been Friday. "^hile officials have ibwlcdged that increasAlaries and additional ma/idated health benefits vyifl most likely boost the budget above the current $5.2 million, just how high the new figure will rise is anybody’s guess. Keller said Monday that constant changes in state aid figures make it impossible to determine what the district's "cap" will be for the coming year. "THE BOARD HAS instructed me to keep expenditures within the "cap” but I really don't know what thfi‘ will be," he said. He indicated the $4,391,441 current expense figure he's been working with will probably exceed $5 million when state and federal aid is added

Although stattTaid is expectejMo decrease, the ad : minfstrator anticipates there will be no reduction in district programs during the coming year. He added, however, that because of a drop in student enrollment, there is a good chance that there will be a reduction in teaching staff. The district includes the Lower Cape May Regional High School and the Richard Teitelman Jr. High. "How much less aid we'll be receiving is the real pn blem" Keller continui "A big reduction in st^e aid means we’ll have/to look at things differently." Last year the regional

Set Repairs Of Bridge

STONE HARBOR - Anyone interested in Cape May County plans to reconstruct the 104th Street bridge over Carnival Bay should write to\ the Commander, Third Coast Guard District, Governors Island, New York. N Y. 10004, by Jan. J9. The bridge received a "2” rating from the state on a scale of 100, making the 48-year-old structure one of the least safe in South Jersey. County plans submitted to the Coast Guard call for

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district was supposed to receive some $933,000 in state aid. Instead it was cut $46,000. An additional cut of $16,000 was recently reinstated. Some $1,056,000 would be available for the 1983 84 budget if the state provided full funding as specified in thdi original formula. Keller added the Regional School P<)ard is expected to discuss the budget at a special work session Thurs day at the high school beginning 7 p.m. A regular meeting, where action may be taken, will be held at B p T m.

replacing the existing deteriorated timber fixed bridge at the same location with a wooden structure 20-feet long and 45-fect. eight-inch wide. County’s goal is to complete the job before Memorial Day so as not to inconvenience residents. Only aboul 10 of 105 homes that use the bridge are occupied year-round, accor ding to county principal engineer James Mott. One lane will be kepi open throughout the construction. he said, recognizing that many residents use the bridge on weekends. If construction, which is estimated to take 4-6 weeks, cannot be com pletcd by Memorial Day. Mott said, it will be postponed until after Labor Day, He said the bridge presents “no serious danger." Cost is estimated at $200,000, which will be paid 90 per cenl with federal and state funds, 10 per cent county.

Metalworker MARMORA — Army Reserve Pvt. Steve F Musson. son of Fred W and Barbara Musson of ’298 Church Rd., has completed an Army metalworker course at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

TRENTON - Three federal grants totalling $115,830 have been award ed to the New Jersey State Police. The grants will assist the State Police in three key areas: Alcohol education and public awareness; traffic accident review and research, fatal accident investigation A TOTAL of $53,995 is eartnarked for an alcohol Boro Assures Bart In Plan

STONE HARBOR - A revised Flood Oamage Protection Ordinance has been passed by mayor and council which assures the borough from being suspended from participation in the National Flood Insurance program This new ordinance feplaces Ordinance Number 492 and covers both new and old construe- . tion to regulate development, including the issuance of permits and certificates of compliance that the structure is elevated to or above the tOO-year Base flood elevation. Copies of the revised ordinance may be revised in the borough clerk’s office

education coordinator to oversee the various alcohol and .highway safety programs currently underway throughout the state The program also provides inservice training for school administrators, ischool nurses, board of education and the supporting staff within the school A total of $49,818 will be used to continue the traffic records system, the statistical and research arm of the State Police

which keeps abreast of the various causes of traffic accidents and generates reports on key subjects identified by reoccurring accidents. ANOTHER GRANT of $12,017 will allow for special training for seven officers in the field of traffic accident reconstruction The training will qualify those individuals as expert state witnesses in court cases involving fatal accidents

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