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• IT S COMING CP Wednesday at the meeting so it'll be discussed then." Deputy Mayor Joseph Davis said of municipal council debate tonight about salaries its members should receive. "I don't know what's going to become of it. 'I'm going to recom-meirfT*53.400-*4,400 <a year eacftj. ' he added Now that j above what I said <was acceptable during a j pre-election Lantern inter- ' view-) but there's a couple of people that want more " During that interview. Davis said be would be willing to work without pay but would support a maximum ialary of $2,000 for each of me five councilmen. "to cover expenses " He regards his latest proposal as a compromise !with councilmen who want more money; he didn't name them His proposal, he said, woul djdilL-^keep" us within the $18,000" total

• annual salary collected by the three township committee members council replaced as Lower's government on July 1 — at least if his colleagues decide to take $3,400 apiece S.nce they took office two months ago. the councilmen have been drawing salaries based on the former committee members' $6,000 annual pay. noted Councilman Joseph Lonergan "That's ' the thing that makes it so ridiculous. v ' he complained "I agree with Mr Davis." Lonergan said of the deputy mayor's salary proposal Although Mayor Robert Fothergnll has suggested formation of a committee to establish council salaries. Lonergan said. "I think Joe's 'Davis) going to put" the question up for a votetonight Ironically ( it's the retirees on council. Davis and Lonergan. who favor

lower pay Both officials have also scheduled themselves for time in Township Hall on a daily or near-daily basis "The township manager is compiling statistics for us on South New Jersey." Fothergill said of salary data from. other municipalities in fche region That information will probably be discussed if the salary issue is aired by council tonight as expected lOl NdLIS ALSO ex peeted to discuss but take no action tonight on a proposal to impose fees for col letting trash above a I specified maximum I amount "They're not going to. I move on it this week." said I Davis "It's going to be I discussed bur it's status I quo right now That came as ag I gravating news to activist Mary Baxter who sug gested in July that council adopt an ordinance which would limit the volume of trash the township would accept w ithout a fee During council's Aug 20 work session, its members decided to try and reduce trash from local businesses by simply asking their owners to distribute their loads throughout the week and haul some of it away on their own. Township Manager James Stump told council that six laborers, including three township employes, took three hours Aug 20 to fill one trash truck with refuse from a single business Baxter has argued that * homeowners with household loads of trash are unfairly subsidizing businesses with commercial trash volumes that co6t the township more than $26 a ton to dump at the county landfill, Wooidbine . Stump said last month that he doesn't expect council to consider the ordinance Baxter recommends She faulted cqurfril Aug 20 for fcot moving in

that direction. She said she was upset to learn last week that councilmen don't intend to take any official action about her proposal THEY DO INTEND TO take action tonight on Stumps' road program proposals. Fothergill said Thursday./ "We're going ahead 100 percent," he said. Road repairs and paving have been delayed, he has told council audiences, because municipal crews have been overburden with trash collection. "Within a week after Labor Day," the mayor . confirmed, "they'll be commencing with the road .program." A list of road projects and their priorities will be reviewed tonight. Fothergill added. ALSO ON TONIGHT'S COUNCIL agenda; discussions about the pending administrative code; a public hearing on applications for $150,000 in grants from the state Department of Community Affairs; and a review of the Horseshoe crab cleanup along the bayfront. according to Township Clerk Claudia R Kammer JOHN AND FRAN TRI MBLE of Fern Road. Cape May Beach, wrote council last week, thanking members for seeing that the crabs were removed and commending Stump and Lonergan 'for diligently pursuing this cleanup operation (see front page) " COUNCILMEN AND STUMP sat down with members of the Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority <MUA> in closed session Aug 20 to try and negotiate a settle ment of their dispute about profits from a property lien Council may discuss that matter alone during another closed session tonight "The dispute concerns ■ the distribution of moneyderived from the sale of lands through tax title liens, explained Township Solicitor Bruce Gorman The township, he said, sold a piece of property for taxes and realized a profit The MUA had a $600-$700 lien on that property and wants "a proportionate share of the profits" from the $11,000 sale, Gorman said DEPUTY MAYOR DAVIS said last week that - be will ask Gorman to look "into township zoners' reappointment of lawyer Louis C. Dwyer Jr as their solicitor last month. Feme Detwiler. township land use official until last Friday, said last Wednesday that four zoners attended their Aug T meeting; two voted to reappoint Dwyer and two voted for lawyer George B. Neidig Jr. Zoning chairman Robert Smeltzer broke the tie by counting as a proxy vote a letter from zoner Richard Veit who could not attend the meeting, Detwiler said. In that letter, Veit asked that a vote be cast for Dw yer in his name if a vote on the solicitorship were (Page 11 Please)

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