39 Herald * Lantern 12 December '84

_ ^Jevvs Notes from 4 Lower Township E. |. Duffy 465-5055

WHO SAYS YOU. can't beat city hall? Fifty-six township property owners successfully appealed their 1964 real .estate taxes to the county Board of Taxation and won a total of $16,213.39 in refunds plus $256.36 in total interest. Lower's councilmen unanimously adopted Resolution 84-87A last week, authorizing t^e refund checks. Some of the refunds were listed tfer payment on vouchers approved by council during last week's work session. Diamond Beach developer .Robert Ciampitti was the big winner; he was listed to receive more than half the total - $8,177.59. • • • COLD SPRING'S canalfront property owners have been notified by the township tax assessor that their 1985 real estate taxes will be raised to higher level valuations to reduce . inequities in the area rather than adjusted toward a median to attain the same end. Councilman David F Brand Jr. told his colleagues last week. He and the property owners prefer the assessments adjusted at the median instead. * Solicitor Bnfe Gorman advised council that it has "no direct authority over the tax assedknr," but it voted unanimcfely to support Brand's* njsolution, urging the assftsor to come up with compromise valuations for canalfront properties. COUNCIL WILL TAKE final action Monday after public hearings on ordinances (Nos. 84-13A and 84-}4A> that change the fee formula on mobile homes outlined in the original measure (Ordinance 84-54).

Tbe proposed ordinances call for "an increase on tbe fees" from $4412 a month but simplify the procedures, Township Manager James R. Stump noted last week. If the amending measures are adopted, mobile home park operators would no longer collect tbe fees except for . delinquencies; trailer owners would pay them directly to the township. Council approved the proposed ordinances on first reading last week. Ttiey were tabled Nov. 11. COUNCIL TOOK FINAL action after a public hearing last week on Salary Ordinance 84-12A. It changes salary ranges to reflect contracts settled after the original ordinance (No. 84-15) was adopted by the former township committee. The housekeeping measure officially increases or lowers the contracted salary' ranges of the mayor, councilmen, manager, planner, solicitor, police officer and sergeant.

ACCORDING TO AN administrative law judge for the state Public Employe Relations Commission (PERC), five Lower workers should, and seven supervisory personnel shouldn't, be represented by Local 2210B. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes' ( AFSCME ) Council 71. The question was left unsettled and the AFSCME contract with Lower unsigned when tbe former township committee concluded a labor agreement with tbe fledgling local in June. By adopting Resolution/^ 84-90A last week, council incorporated the PERC decision into a signed AFSCME pact. Of the 12 positions reviewed by the judge, the township assessor, tax collector, construction officer, and superintendent of Public Works and Recreation will not be represented by AFSCME. Represented are the electrical, plumbing and building subcode officials,' relief radio dispatcher and assistant superintendent of Recreation. • • w FORMER MAYOR Peggie Bieberbach thanked Manager Stump last week for initiating an investigation into her allegations that a member of the township Municipal Utilities Authority received reduced sewer rates. When she asked council what became of her request that it also consider removing four MUA members after they approved sewer and water rate hikes Oct. 3. Solicitor Gorman said he has advised council on "how they could recall those members." "The reasons have to be

substantial," he added. "The statute contemplates something beyond mere rudeness ( which spectators at the "Oct 3 meeting com . plained about)." MUA members not only showed rudeness at that meeting but also "inefficency" that Stump and councilmen who attended , witnessed. Bierberbach replied. Shortly after >the Oct. 3 MUA meeting. Councilman Joseph Longergan and Deputy Mayor Joseph Davis joined Bieberbach and others in calling for MUA members' heads. Apparently they were a minority on council., however; it never discuss ed on the matter publicly.

"I still want something done on this," Bieberbach told council last Monday, "it's been seven weeks." She said she wants to poll councilmen on the issue next Monday. Advising the officials "to be careful you're not buying a law suit," Gorman . told Bieberbach he would present them with his formal opinion about removing MUA members during that meeting. WHILE COUNCIL holds its 7 p.m. work session in the Township Hall conference room Monday, Lower's Zoning Board of Adjustment will convene a special meeting in the hall's main meeting room.

Zoners will hear developer Thomas Brodesser's request for preliminary and filial major subdivision approval and a use variance for Bay Gardens, a 130-lot subdivision proposed for wood land between Town Bank Road and Fire Lane, North Cape May REMINDERS - MUA members are slated to meet at 7:30 tonight at the plant off Bayshore Road. Villas. The Incinerator Authority meets in the conference room of Township Hall 8 p.m. next Tuesday. En-, vironmeptal Commissioners meets at the same place and date but a half hour earlier. Township planners are expected jto meet there for a work review session tomorrow night at 7 : 30 with their regular meeting at

« the same time Dec 20 LOWER'S DEMOCRATIC Club has postponed its Dec. 18 meeting until 8 p.m. Dec 19 The meeting Will beheld at the clubhouse. "Bayshore Road and Washington Avenue. Villas The club plans an open .house membership drive there 8 p.m. Jan. 15 Refreshments will be serv ed; call Linda Merrill 1886-1468) for details Call Anne Myers (886-0514) for reservations to the club's turkey/beef dinner Jan 20 Tickets are $5 a person REMINDER - Chapter 1197V National Association o f RFfi red Federal Employes holds its monthly meeting at 1 p.m tomorrow in .the Joseph Millman CommunityCenter. Bayshore Road

Ct. House Collection Of Blood COURT HOUSE - A simple gift of blood can not only provide a "good feeling", but will help save the life of someone in urgent need, points out the county chapter, American Red Cross, in se&ing blood donations during the holiday season. A chance to donate a "gift of life, will be available Friday, Dec. 21, at the First United Methodist Church, l Church St. The donor hours will be 12:30-5:30 p.m. The goal in Cape May County is 150 pints. Those who have previously donated on or before Oct. 26 are eligible to donate Dec. 21. To schedule an appointment, call the Red Cross at 646-7000 or come at your own convenience.

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