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Dennis Drivers Appeal to Public

DENNIS TOWNSHIP - The school district’s bus drivers plan'to go door-to-door in an appeal to local taxpayers to support them at the next school board meeting on Sept. 14. The school board has voted 7-1 with one absehtion to replace five of the 10 drivers with a contracted service from Coast City Academy Transit Inc. of Erma.

The drivers claim the district will save only 10 per cent of the $14,000 it claims because the state pays 90 per cent of the $14,000 it claims because the state pays 90 per cent of transportation costs. School board president George Brewer, the "ho’’ vote on the issue, told the Herald and Lantern the amount “may be only $600.”

Tax Hearing Dates Listed

COURT HOUSE - Lawrence Berardelli Jr., county tax administrator, posted the 1983 tax appeal hearing schedule Monday. Hearings will be held for taxpayers who filed their appeals before the Aug. 15 deadline. Those hearings are scheduled in alphabetical order, listed by the taxpayers' municipality, the taxpayers’ last name or those of their attorneys. Those scheduled for hearings are required to produce receipts at the hearings for the first threequarters of the 1983 assessed taxes, Berardelli noted. HEARINGS WILL BE held in the first-floor courtroom of the main court house on Main Street here (Route 9), according to the following schedule (numerals indicate the number of hearihgs scheduled): < AUG. S at • a.m.: Avalon (2),

Cape May Point (•), Lower Township (S), Middle Township (6), Stone Harbor (4). AUG. 29 at I p.m : Cape May City AUG. 30 at 9 a.m.: Dennis Township (29) AUG. 31 at 9 a.m.: North Wildwood City, name A to GOR<2Si AUG. 31, at 1 pm North Wildwood City, name GOU to Z (16). SEPT, t, at 9 a m. Ocean City, name A to FOR (37). SEPT. 1. at 1 pm.: Ocean City, name PKItoZ(4l>. SEPT. 6, at 9 a.m.: Sea isle City, name A to EMM (27). SEPT 6. at I p.m : Sea Isle City, name FRA to KEL (25). SEPT 7. at 9 a.m.: Sea Isle City, name KIE to PAUL (25) SEPT 7, at I p.m. Sea Isle City, name POL to Z (27). SEPT. 8, at 9a m.: WildwoodOty. name A to HUN (28). SEPT. 8. at 1p.m.: Wildwood City, name JAM to Z (28). SEPT 9. at 9 a.m.: Upper Township (23). SEPT. 9.at I p.m.: Woodbine (12). SEPT. 12, at 9 a m Wildwood Great, name A to COIA (25). SEPT. 12, at 1 p m Wildwood Crest, name COL to HALL (25). SEPT. 13, at 9 a.m.: Wildwood Creel, name HARR to KANE (25). SEPT. 13,1 p m.: Wildwood Crest, name KNI to REG. (25). SEPT. 14, at 9 a.m.: Wildwood Great, name RIS to VIS (28). SEPT. 14. at I p.m : Wildwood Great, name WAG to Z. (15).

"I didn’t feel it was worth it to cost five people their j6bs,” hesaid. "I also don’t think you’ll have control over the buses, over their maintenance. And I felt it was being railroaded." The drivers are among about 47 persons represented by the local unit of the New Jersey Education Association, now negotiating a new contract with the board. Rose Tozer, a laid-off bus driver who serves on the NJEA negotiating team, said it will file an unfair labor practice charge because of the layoffs, and also will charge the board with failure to negotiate in good faith. Tozer said the drivers offered to take a pay cut to prevent the layoffs. “Unfortunately, they didn't say that specifically," said Brewer. "They suggested it in a roundabout way.” A SECOND laid-off bus driver, Margaret Gilman, said they earn from $6.24 to $9.20 an hour and offered to take hourly cuts from 14 cents an hour at the lowest rate to 65 cents an hour at the highest. The other three drivers, she said, are Linda Day. Mary Jane Dolly, and Dorothy Hess, whose husband, Howard, is a school Ward member and abstained from voting on the question. The drivers are paid for 3Mz to 4 hours a day, Gilman said, and are requesting a guaranteed four hours in the negotiations. Brewer said he did not think the negotiating stance caused the layoffs.

"This has been brought up practically every year for the past II,” he said. "The bus drivers have been a pain in^he butt to tell you the truthT And one advantage of a contract, you know what it's going to cost you.” He said the district expects to sell the five buses and anticipates netting $12,000. The driver layoffs take effdet Sept. 9. School opens Sept. 7. It's unclear what will happen the two days in between.

Clean-Up Day Set

STONE HARBOR - The third and final Clean-Up Day of the season will be tuesday, Sept. 13. v Property owners, during the week preceding, may place at curb side discarded furniture, refuse, rubbish, junk, household effects and appliances and the Wrough will remove them on Clean-Up Day or promptly thereafter. It was pointed out that this final Clean-Up Day is a good time to get rid of outdated and unwanted filrnishings rather than store them for another year in homes that close for the season. In doing so the dangers from possible fire are removed and the discarded items will make next season's opening much simpler.

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