Herald/Lantern/Dispatch 17 April '85 . ' . 25

MUA Explains $2.50 Boost For Disposal

SWAINTON — At a user rate hearing held by the May County Municipal Utilities Authority recently, an MUA official explained that the proposed $2.50 increase for solid waste disposal is a direct result of new state taxes. ."These amendments are being proposed specifically to incorporate additional state-mandated taxes and other charges to be levied on all sanitary landfills in New Jersey pursuant to recent changes in the New Jersey Solid Waste Management Act," said Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O'Neill in his opening remarks at the hearing. O'NEILL EXPLAINED that the proposed increase comprises : — The addition of a resource recovery investment tax of $1 per ton of solid waste received at authority disposal facilities; the addition of a solid waste services tax of. 50 cents per ton of solid waste received at authority disposal facilities, and the addition of a sanitary landfill host community surcharge of $1 per ton for every ton of solid waste refuse ultimately received at the authority's secure sanitary landfill for disposal. O'Neill said that the $1 host community surcharge would be shared equally between Woodbine and Upper Township, with each community receiving approximately $40,000 a year. NOTING THAT the increase will bring user fees up about 9.5 percent over the CMCMUA's current rates, O'Neill said that "for the average household, these additional taxes and charges will add approximately $4 t to $5 a year to the current cost of disposal". He also explained that the new state tax levies are exempt from municipal and county budget "caps." O'Neill emphasized that the authority's base user fee for solid waste disposal services, excluding all statemandated taxes and other charges, is not proposed to be changed until Jan. 1, 1986, or later, in accordance with previously adopted authority policy. "AS PROVIDED for in the recent changes in the New Jersey solid Waste ^Management Act," O'Neill said, "the new resource recovery investment tax and the solid waste services tax levies will continue to in-

crease annually by an additional $1 per ton and 5 cents per ton refuse, respectively, between 1986 and 1988." The authority also recommended changing the hours of operation for its Middle Township transfer station and sanitary landfill in an attempt, O'Neill said, to operate the facilities as efficiently as possible during the summer season. HE SAID the recommendations were made after a detailed study of the past year's traffic at the facility indicated minimal usage during the hours the authority is recommending changes in its summer schedule. The landfill site in Woodbine will remain open during the same periods it currently operates, O'Neill said. That includes: From the beginning of the year until May 26 and from Sept. 22 to Dec. 31, the landfill will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturdays and holidays, and will be closed on Sundays. DURING THE summer months, May 27 through Sept. 21, the landfill will be open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and holidays, 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 9 a.m. to noon on Sundays. O'Neill said the proposed summer hours at the transfer station will allow workers time to insure the efficient same day removal of all solid waste from the transfer station to the sanitary landfill. The new schedule at the transfer station, he said, would be: from the beginning of the year until May 26 and from Sept. 22 until Dec. 31, from 7:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 8a.m. until noon Saturdays and holidays, and , closed Sundays. FROM MAY 27 through Sept. 21, it will be open 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday ' through Friday and hoi- J idays, 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 1 on Saturdays, and closed ' Sundays. Tom Pikulinski, a repre- 1 sentative of the trash- J hauling firm of Mar-Tee n ' Contractors, and George £ Campbell of G.R. Campbell 1 Inc. asked the authority to ' consider extending the closing time at the transfer sta- c tion one additional hour during the summer months. I Both said that the earlier t closing means that they will s have to leave trash in their r

trucks overnight or over the f weekend. William F.X. Band, authority chairman, said, however, that trash haulers still have the option of taking their solid waste to the sanitary landfill site, which is open for an hour and a half after the transfer station closes. HE ADDED, however, that the authority would take the firms' suggestions into consideration before a final decision Is made at the authority's meeting today. O'Neill pointed out several positive changes that are being made in the authority's standard terms and conditions for use of the sanitary landfill and transfer station. These changes include: a $3.50 reduction in the user fee for the disposal of bulky wastes at the transfer station ; the acceptance without charge of source-separated vegetative wastes that can be composted — such as leaves, grass clippings, brush and small trees, and limb6 — at both the transfer station and sanitary landfill.

ALSO. A $3.50 reduction in the disposal charge for other vegetative wastes that cannot be composted; a proposal to adopt formally the implementation of strict procedures, which the authority initiated in 1984, for managing non-hazar-dous special wastes such as properly prepared asbestos, hospital wastes, empty pesticide containers and fish processing wastes, along with an increase in monitoring and surveillance to insure the prevention of illegal disposal. The routine disposal of dry sewage sludges at the sanitary landfill became substantially restricted after March 15 with the ultimate goal of completely eliminating this practice in the future, except for emergencies, and for customer convenience and to reduce the time required to use authority disposal facilities, the authority will continue to accept the | pre-determined empty < weights of customers' i refuse collection vehicles to I

reduce the need for double weighing. * O'Neill said that anyone requiring additional informatioin can contact either him or Diane m. Leonik at the authority office by calling 465-9026. Sii^ionsen Out of Boot f COLD SPRING —"Navy Constructionman Recruit Frank J. Simonsen, son of Frank J. and Elizabeth Simonsen at 1010 Seashore Road, has completed recruit training at Navy Recruit Training Command, r^fevy Training Center Orlando. FL. s V \ During Siroqnson s eight* weight training cycle, he studied general military subjects designed to prehim for further academic and on-the-top trainin one of the navy's 85 fields.

Forum Set For Avalon Candidates A V .m O N — A public forum co-sponsored by the Avalon Chamber of Commerce. the Avalon Home and Land Owners Association and the Women's Civic Club of Avalon will be hekT'N 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 7. at the Avalon Community Hall. Candidates in the municipal election in May ' will be featured. Each candidate will be given three* minutes to deliver a prepared speech. The order in which candidates speak will be determined by a drawing held immediately prior to the start of the meeting. The public will be invited, to submit written questions to specific candidates (no more than two each). ThC meeting moderator will direct a question to each candidate for reply in the same order the prepared speeches were made.

, Dorl« Ward FACE-OFF — Contenders for three Sea Isle Cify Commission seats in the May 14 elections faced-off during a Candidates' Night at the resort's public school Thursday. From left are: former Commissioner William J. Kehner, Robert B. Taylor. James Iannone, Incumbent J. Alan Gansert, incumbent William H. VanArtsdalen Jr. and Michael J. McHale. Mayor Dominic C. Raffa arrived lateu ' * *

Kilpatrick Asks Second Term

OCEAN CITY - Attorney James S. Kilpatrick Jr. will seek a second term on the county Board of Freeholders of which he's vice director. Kilpatrick's announcement said he is "endeavoring to provide a branch (community college) campus in Cape May County." He is liaison to both Cumberland and Atlantic community colleges, which the majority of county students attend. The board was slated tomorrow to approve a "request for proposals" to those two schools to be considered as a branch The lack of a local community college is an annual election issue with Democrats usually citing it a local failing. The county is currently spending $1 million a year for "chargebacks" so student#' can attend those schools. Kilpatrick is a Republican and, according his news release, has started circulating nominating petitions

among county Republican clubs and groups to appear on the GOP ballot at the ^ June Primary Election. He was elected to his first three-year term in 1982. The part-time jobs pays $15,000 a year. - As a freeholder. Kilpatrick is in charge of the courts, public safety, education and the Planning Board. He also serves on the Welfare Board. He oversees the Cultural and Heritage Commission, - I the County Museum, the I Library Commission and is I on the Beach. Inlet and Bay I Stabilization Committee and chairman of the I Coastal Counties Committee on Beach Erosion. Monmouth, Ocean and Atlantic Counties also ar represented on this board. C Kilpatrick also has jurisdiction over the Voca- ) tional Technical School, the Special Services School District (for the educabie T retarded) as well as the County Superintendent of Schools Office. Kilpatrick said his accomplisments in office include the construction of a county library branch in Upper Township, which is nearing completion ; and the addition of 16 acres to the C-H Extension Service Land in Dennisville. « He has overseen the expansion and additions to the court facilities that include the addition of a new position, that of Family Court Judge and accompa- - . • v

nying staff, Kilpatrick said. The court record room is being centralized with all court records, deeds, mortgages. liens and other appropriate data stored ■ under better conditions. | Additionally, there will be a microfilm room . This ser- [ vice previously" was | contracted. ' '*0 p e r a t i o n Bushwacker" has been launched under Kilpatrick's directions. This provides work for adult offenders who do not require imprisonment. Teams of offenders are clearing litter from county roads and doing other public service tasks. Kilpatrick became the first of his office to assume daily control at the County Correctional Center when former Sheriff Beech Fox relinquished charge in his last months in office. The warden reported directly to Kilpatrick from June 1984 until new sheriff James T. Plousis was sworn in and resumed control of the'jail in January. I Kilpatrick) said he was qualified forVhe position as an attorney! with a J.D. degree and a B.S. Degree in Econofmids from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School. He also had received a certificate for have completed'', ^tlie^NPriSon Management Course\in Septemtfer 1983 at the National Institute of Corrections ib-New Haven. 1 \Conn. r Kilpatrick said that Resides working to establish a college campus here, he also is striving to establish an adult high school at the County >voTech and a day-care center faf children of counjjy employees — Utilizing a $7,500 grant from the state to obtain a coordinator, Kilpatrick is expanding the number of cultural and heritage art works for county buijdings Four works of art have^' been purchased so far. An additional $110,000 included in the construction funds will enable the countyjto provide works of art

for the county buildings at Crest Haven, the courts and libraries. \ I Kilpatrick and his wife. Lois, and their two children, Jodi, 19, and I Staci, 12, reside at 217 Dory Drive, Ocean City. He is a former member of the Ocean City Zoning Board, past president of the Cedar Beach Civic Association and when he lived in Pennsylvania was a member of his town's board of education.

Drug Fund Cuts Hit By Hugh es WASHINGTON D C. - Charging that the President's.. Drug Enforcement Administration budget request "fails to meet the challenge of the DEA's mission", House Crime Subcommittee Chairman William J. Hughes has called for a $21 million increase in its Fiscal Year , 1986 budget. "Drugs are pouring in » from other countries, yet the President has cut the number of DEA agentsoverseas assigned to stop^ these drugs at the source . It makes no sense," Hughes safd. He requested that the number of agents ♦ assigned to the Foreign Cooperative^ Investigation Program be restored. to the 1982 level. Hughes called for $6. million to assist state and local governments prevent the diversion of legal prescription drugs into illegal markets. Hughes also requested an $8.8 million increase for DEA state and local assistance programs, which result in 20 percent of DEA arrests. The Reagan Administration has cut the program in half since 1980.