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Mews Notes from lower Township E. J. Duffy 465-5055

"THEY TOLD ME poiSl blank they don't have any < money to do anything," i Deputy Mayor Joseph I Davis said of the response < he received last week from i the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about protecting the Villas bayfront from i storm flooding. Still, if he can get a Corps engineer to inspect the eroded areas, Davis reasoned, he can combine that engineer's report with one from the township . engineer "to, hopefully, pry some money out of the state." Davis said he wants to build "a really good bulkhead" along the most eroded sections at the end of Miami Avenue. Township Manager James R. Slump told the audience at last week's council meeting that Lower will accept offers of concrete debris which can be dumped as stop-gap shore protection. Davis was looking eagerly at Diamond /Beach for that kind of material. Its developer, Robert Ciampitti, recently agreed to tear up sidewalks along two of the resort's .streets in compliance with a court order but, Davis added, that work hasn't started yet. "I ALSO TALKED to (the Corps) about the trash down in the canal," the deputy mayor continued, referring to tons of bulk refuse found there last month. Davis said, however, that the Corps has not committed itself to cleaning up the mess. Instead, council adopted Resolution 84-77A last week, allowing the township to remove the refuse and bill the owner of a Seashore Road property for the cost. That won't be insignificant. Davis estimated that 10 truck loads of bulk trash have been dumped nearby. Although he said its not that property owner's responsibility but the Corps, which controls the canal, council voted unanimously to approve the clean-up resolution. TOWNSHIP SOLICITOR Bruce Gorman told former Mayor Peggie Bieberbach last week that he'll investigate her allegation th%t a member of the township Municipal Utilities Authority has been charged reduced sewage rates by the MUA for that member's campgrounds Gorman said he expects to conclude that investigation in two or three weeks. Bieberbach asked for the investigation, a possible township takeover of the MUA and its members' resignations last month after the MUA authorized sewer and water rate increases over opponents' objections and calls to table the measures. Last week, Bieberbach asked Stump what became of her request for an investigation. She said she'd still like to find out about the alleged "deal made" on 132 purported sewer links to the un-named campground. "Are you suggesting any criminality? ' ' Gorman asked Bieberbach. Should the matter be "sent to the police department?" She replied that she's been told the MUA's minutes will verify the campground sewer links and that she might take the issue up with the county pro- » secu tor's office. -

Stump told Bieberbach earlier that he has been meeting with the MUA to try and resolve some of the questions she asked last month. When asked about Bieberbach's request the 1 week before council's meeting, Gorman referred Lantern questions to Stump; Stump referred them to Gorman. "So nothing's been done, right?" Bieberbach asked as the two officials huddled at the council meeting and apparently decided that something should be. "Maybe we can have some information by the next meeting?" Bieberbach asked. Mayor Robert Fothergill nodded agreement but Gorman said "three to four weeks." "It's hfen three or four weeks already," Bieberbach noted, "now three or four more?" David conceded Thursday that council will probably not take any action on Bieberbach's requests that the township take over the MUA or can its members. "I forget how he put it," the deputy mayor said of Gorman's report to council, "but he said we can't get rid of the members." A municipal take over of the MUA, Davis added, raises the possibility that the county could gain unwanted control over the local authority. • • • "WE'RE ALL FOR that 100 percent," Davis said of council's reaction to Stump's recommendation that it revitalize the township Recreation Advisory Commission. "See, it's sort of a* watchdog group over the Recreation Department," the deputy mayor added. "I really don't know what happened to it. I don't know what we're going to do but we're going to get a good person on top of it." Council, said Stump, "is looking for people to put on there now." No appointments were made to the commission when the government reorganized in July, he explained. • • • COUNCILMEN - TABLED two measures last week. Proposed Resolution 84-80A would have allowed $60,650 to be transferred in 25 budget items to balance the books; Davis questioned "a whole slew of them," however, and suggested that the measure be tabled. Proposed Ordinance 84-7A would have amended township codes by designating parkng spaces for handicapped residents in front of their homes. PROPOSED ORDINANCE 84-8A was approved for first reading last week with a second reading and public hearing scheduled for council's next meeting, 8 p.m. Monday. As proposed, the measure designates sections of nine rdads as through streets with stop signs to be installed on their cross streets at the intersections. The ordinance also calls for no parking along a south side. section of New England Road. SECOND READING and a public hearing are scheduled Dec. 3 on proposed Ordinance 84-10A which would amend the zoning code to permit development of nursing homes > under certain restrictions in the R-2 rpsid^nKal zone s

"I'm against this ordinance," Deputy Mayor Davis told his colleagues who approved it on first reading 3-1 with Davis dissenting and Councilman David F. Brand Jr. absent. The zoning change had been proposed by the attorney for a developer who wants to build a nursing home behind Maud Abrams Elementary School, Cold Spring. County officials agreed to release reserve sewage capacity in the township MUA plant to accommodate the nursing home but, Davis argued, residents and businesses have been waiting for sewer service a lot longer than the nursing home developer.

"fm totally against it," he said. In any case. Solicitor Gorman told Manager Stump he wants one section of the propsed ordinance re-drafted before the public hearing. "I have no idea what that's supposed to mean," Gorman said. "It's hopelessly ambiguous." REMINDERS - The township MUA meets tonight at 7:30 in its facility off Bayshore Road, Villas. Council holds its work session at 7 p.m. next Monday and its regular meeting a hour later in Township Hall, 2600 Bayshore Road, Villas. The Incinerator Authority meets there at 8 p.m.

next Tuesday. Environmental Commissioners are slated to meet then at 7:30 p.m. and at the same time and place Nov. 27. Township planners hold a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. ^tomorrow in Township Hall. CORRECTION - Arlene Hand is president of Local 2210, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) Council 71 - not Eileen Snyder as reported here last week and in the Oct. 24 edition. Arlene was quoted but those quotes were attributed to Eileen. Sorry for the foul-up, ladies and readers. LAWYER FREDERICK W. Schmidt will discuss trusts and wills during the Millman Senior Club Inc. meeting, 1 p.m. Nov. 19, A. Leo Jordan, club member.

reports The meeting, at the Joseph Millman Community Center, has been rescheduled from Nov. 10. • • • COCKTAILS WILL be served at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 during the Lower Township Democratic Club's fundraising dinner for the Common Sense Coalition tomorrow in The Anchorage, Schellenger's Landing1: Diners have their choice of prime rib or stuffed flounder. Tickets ($20 each) can be ordered from Susan Kenny at 886-6631. REMINDER - Military Order of the Cooties. Pup Tent 32, Villas Villahs, in hosting a ham and beer dinner from 4-7 p.m. Sunday at VFW Post 5343, 3 E Delaware Parkway, Villas. The dinner benefits the organization's Children's Christmas Party. Dona- y tions ($5 each) can be made for dinners at the post home or at the door.

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