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Herald & lantern 2 November '83

3 Local, 8 Statewide Questions Face Voters

B> EJ DIWY will face eight statewide ballot questions when they COURT HOUSE — Cape ester the voting booths May County voters and next Tuesday Voters in those across New Jersey three county municipalities

will also be asked to answer a local ballot

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Wildwood Crest voters will decide if charter study commissioners should be elected to review the borough’s charter, consider a new charter or recommend improvements for the municipal government. Five candidates for charter study commissioner are standing unopposed on the ballot as well. • Last fall, Lower Township voters elected five charter study commissioners who have recommended that the township change its form of government from a three-member committee to a fivemember council-manager system. That recommendation now appears as a ballot question for Lower voters. • Ocean City voters will be asked to rule in 1963 salary increases for municipal managers. The city agreed to the pay hikes in memorandums of understanding with six

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managers but Mayor Jack Bittner challenged the increases and called for the referendum Although only three of the managers are still employed by the city, the six positions are listed on the ballot question along with the proposed salary hikes, the current salaries for each position and the projected salaries if voters approve the increases. • THE FIRST FOUR STATEWIDE ballot questions ask voters to make decisions on bonding referendums Approval of the “Green Acres Opportunities Bond Issue’” (Public Question No. 1) authorizes the state to con tinue acquiring and developing land for recreational and conservation by issuing (135 million on bonds. • Public Question No. 2 is likely to have the most direct impact on Cape residents since its approval authorizes the state to issue $50 million in bonds for shore protection. If approved, the state Department of Environmental Protection has said, construction would begin on upstate priority projects between 1965-1989. Locally, the DEP has earmarked $10 million for beach fill along Seven Mile Beach; $2.5 million for a seawall and $100,000 for bulkheads in North Wildwood; $1.2 million for bayside bulkheads in Ocean City; and $500,000 to reconstruct a jetty off Middle Township’s bayfront. Administrative costs are expected to consume more than $3 million of the money; the state will pay 75 percent of project costs with the municipalities kicking in the rest. • IF STATE VOTERS OKAY Public Question No. 3, they allow the state to amend The Water Supply Bond Act of 1961 for “additional projects, programs and studies to be funded’’ through state loans for local water supply facilities “to resolve contamination problems . ” Approval would also allow state departments to use bond money to finance studies of water projects and upgrade plans. • Public Question No. 4 asks voters whether bon-

ding for $135 million in state and local bridge repairs should be approved. Most of that money ($97.5 million) will fully finance improvements to state bridges. More than $37 million will pay 80 per cent of county and municipal bridge repairs; the local governments will pay 20 percent of improve-

ment costs.

• A “Yes” vote on Public Question No. 5 approves a constitutional amendment, permitting the transfer of juvenile and domestic rela-

tions, district or family ^Question No. 8 will court judges to a proposed # authorize a constitutional family court section in the amendment extending by

proval if a debt service sav-

ings will result.

• The state constitution allows widows of veterans to claim a $50 local proper ty tax deduction while additional local deductions are aUowed widows of disabled veterans and of armed service personnel who died while on active duty. A “Yes" vote on Public Question No. 7 will approve an amendment to the constitution, granting widowers of veterans the same

deductions.

• Approval of Public

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state Superior Court. If the ballot question is

approved, the state will pick up the salaries of the affected judges. Sen. James R. Hurley has introduced a bill which would create a third Cape May County judgeship affected

by the proposed transfer. • Titled “Bond Refinanc-

‘ing,” Public Question No. 6 asks voters if the state Legislature should be allowed to refinance state debts without voter ap-

seven days the 10 days allowed the governor to sign bills at the dose of a

legislative session.

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