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Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 26 June '85

COPING — Speakers confer before parents and officials met Thursday in Green Creek's firehouse to discuss child sexual abuse and exploitation. From left are: Franklin Unkle Jr. from the state division of Vouth and Family Services; Joann Ireland of Mental Health Services: Middle Township Police Cpl. Fred Teasenfitz; and Unkie's DYFS colleague, ruth Stuenckel.

Colleges Make Pitches

( From Page 1 ) 30,000 volumes. Vo-tech and the college would spend $2,000 apiece for five years to achieve that goal ACC said it would need about 12,000 square feet for three classrooms, two laboratories, office space and "a library facility." For the latter, it proposed a local "core linked electronically and by courier service with our main campus library ..." BIT IF THE PROPOSALS were similar in their discussions of site, they differed greatly in potential cost, which the county has said is a key factor. AC (' gave no real estimate of "start-up costs to the freeholders," and did not address the question of "on-going operational costs" other than to say "published statements < presumably <-jn this newspaper) by Department of Higher Education officials indicate an uncertainty on the part of the Department of Higher Education as to whether or not chargebacks will be used to support the branch campus." ACC added that its "annual operating budget of the equipping, operating and supporting of a branch campus and satellite facilities would be approximately equal to the amount paid by Cape May County." The county currently budgets about $1 million a year for chargebacks ACC SAID THIS would give the county "high quality educational services ... at a fraction of the cost of running a fullservice community facility." CCC. on the other hand, predicted a firstyear start-up cost of $150,000 which would drop to $50,000 the second year and $40,000 the third. CCC went on to say that, if the vo-tech center is provided without charge, it would charge the county a $22-per-credit-hour chargeback, as opposed to the $31 it charges students in its county. In the closest that either school came to actually mentioning the other. CCC then compared the cost to the county of $22-a-credit hour with the $66-a-credit hour now being charged by ACC Using an estimate of 15,150 credit hours for the 1985-86 school year. ACC's chargeback would total $999,900 compared to CCC's $333,300. according to CCC. THE FREEHOLDERS have said that money would not be the sole criterion in selecting a school to offer a branch cam pus, but "a combination of what 's best for Anoth er $ 150? 4 TRENTON — The Joint Underwriting Association wants all New Jersey car in surance policy holders to pay an additional $150 to offset a projected $268 million deficit over the next few years But Insurance Commissioner Hazel F Gluck opposes the extra charge on the grounds it is not immediately needed The Legislature, which created the JUA, rejected a surcharge in 1984. Only senior citizens would be exempt from the charge.

the students in Cape May County and the - dollars involved." according to James S. ) Kilpatrick Jr.. county director of education. > ACC proposed to establish a joint com- ) mission of Cape May and Atlantic County citizens to investigate the "advantages I and disadvantages" of establishing an Atlantic-Cape May Community College. It said it would "bear the full costs" of the commission and pledged to be "flexible in I working with the county to service its short-and long-term needs. ACC's proposal, a two-color pamphlet > that ran 56 pages (25 of them making up the specific proposal) and was entitled "The Challenge of the Future," made much of the "already close ties" between the two counties. Those links included its 10-year history offering higher education courses to county students, the sharing of "the hospitality industry" as both counties' "premier growth industry," and prominence of its extension center, currently moving from Court House to Rio Grande. ACC ALSO POINTED OUT that 15 per cent of Cape May County's residents work in Atlantic County, a number expected to grow And it said 25 of its full-time employes with salaries and fringe benefits of $1 million a year live in Cape May County. CCC's actual proposal ran 41 pages, but it also included a 52-page catalog. 37 pages of state Department of Higher Education regulations, several pages of maps, and an 11-page "sample agreement" between the college and the vo-tech school. That college would maintain student records, assign academic advisors, administer tuitions and fees, provide remedial assistance and be in charge of faculty at the college VO-TECH WOULD HANDLE records at the schoool, provide laboratory supplies for courses at its campus, and be in charge of faculty at the school This apparently would put the county in control of hiring and evaluating college faculty at the vo-teach center. CCC said it would give "core courses" at the vo-tech school and "supportive liberal arts and elective courses" at the college. "Now we have some meat to work with," commented Kilpatrick, who said a 15-member committee should be formed this week and report to the freeholders by July 31. That report, he said, could be "which, if either, should be accepted, or some changes." HE SAID the committee will include himself, Freeholder Herbert Frederick, one person designated by each of the five freeholders, county Superintendent of Schools Robert G. Bongart, Vo-Tech Supt. Wilbur J. Kistler Jr., Special Services Supt. George Bailey, and a representative of: the League of Municipalities, county School Boards' Association. School Administrators' Association, Education Association, and county council of ParentTeacher Associations. That line-up will leave the freeholders firmly in control of the committee's decisions. Kilpatrick said he also intends to accept an offer from state Chancellor of Higher Education Edward T. Hollander to consult with Dr. Narcisa Jones, director of the Office of Community Colleges.

I It's a Hardship 110 Cars in 48 Spaces?

By E. J. DUFFY DIAMOND BEACH — Lower Township planners voted unanimously last week to allow First Peoples Bank to reopen Enrico's restaurant on Pacific Avenue. Harry W McVey. township planning I director, said the nine-member Planning I Board "issued a hardship variance." permitting the bank to operate Enrico's for two years with only 48 parking spaces while limiting seating capacity at 300. Within the two-year period. First Peoples is expected to pither find more parking for the facility or sell it, McVey explained. Meanwhile, 110 vehicles can be parked in the 48-space lot through valet parking, he added. "HOW ARE THEY going to have valet parking?" asked local businessman Louis Lambert who opposes board approval of the parking plan. "It would be a terrible (traffic) mess," he complained, "and they (planners) created the mess by allowing it (Enrico's) to open." First Peoples' spokesmen told the planners that Enrico's could get "110 cars in there," Lambert noted, but the spokesmen didn't say how it could get them out — or allow access for emergency vehicles. Besides, he added, a complex the size of Enrico's would need at least 100 parking spaces just for employes. Furthermore. Lambert griped, "they (First Peoples) said (Enrico's) seating was 300 total. The seating is 450 in the backroom, because I've had that manyseniors in there, and the (occupancy) sign in the front (room) says 250." "I WAS JUST AMAZED that the board would do something like that," said the owner of Laura's Fudge shops who's been trying to buy Enrico's from First Peoples for a hotel-convention center he plans nearby. Named for former owner the late Enrico Gervasi, the restaurant complex came under First Peoples' control last year when he filed for bankruptcy protection. According to Township Solicitor Bruce Gorman, Ronald J. Angelo, Gervasi's architect, applied to Lower's zoners Sept. 9, 1976 to expand Enrico's with The Flaminco Room. "Effectively, they (zoners) made it a condition of the (expansion) variance that they (Enrico's owners) maintain the lease for 96 parking spaces," Gorman explained before the hearing, referring to Enrico's former 18-year lease on a nearby loL "Therefore," he speculated, "they can't operate the Flaminco Room" or, perhaps, the remainder of the complex either. PLANNERS OBVIOUSLY didn't see things that way. however.

"I don't feel they should be allowed to congest or park anywhere near my parking." Lambert said before the hearing last Thursday night He attended, he said, but didn't speak during the lengthy session "We could rent them our parking." sai.d the Erma entrepreneur who acquired the lot Enrico's once rented But. he added. "1 don't even want to rent it to them "They can't see Enrico's without us," he continued. "Who's going to buy it without parking? We've offered to buy it but they (the bankers) want to play hardball " Four months ago, Lambert announced his purchase of a million dollar tract adjacent to Enrico's. There, he plans a threestory, 150-unit hotel with parking beneath and around a conference center of seminar and exercise rooms. m He wants to convert Enrico's into Jason's, a restaurant with "a French twist" named after is son. Lambert said in March he offered First Peoples $700,000 for Enrico's complex but the bank wanted $850,000. Despite Lambert's criticism of First Peoples, Robert K. Bryson, bank vice president, said "there really are no hassles between Mr. Lambert and the bank." Regarding sales talks about the complex, Bryson said of Lambert: "The ball is really in his court." Last week township council approved Enrico's yearly liquor license with 25 others in the municipality. Still pending, though, is a township mercantile license for the restaurant. Enrico's owes the township $35,000 in back taxes plus interest that will have to be paid before that license is issued, however, according to Municipal Clerk Claudia R. Kammer. No More Nepotism TRENTON — Nepotism would end and municipal court judges would no longer prepare or prosecute criminal complaints if reforms recommended by a state Supreme Court task force are adopted. It also recommended reducing political influence, creating uniform procedures and improving public confidence in the state's 530 municipal courts that handled 750,000 cases last year. Judges, said the task force, should have five ' years' legal experience, attend state training classes, and survive a state police background investigation.

Voll Asks Convalescent Home Probe

( From Page 1 ) prosecutor because I am very disturbed that this man would come into a government body and impress us with false information to try to sway us to support something he wants." The 120- bed nursing home has not applied for municipal sewage service, but intends an on-site septic system. A local group called the Cape May Court House Neighborhood Association is suing DEP and the home to prevent it. Miller offered to donate the equivalent cost of the on-site system — estimated at $40,000 — to the Middle Township Sewage District No 1 to enlarge its plant capacity to handle the nursing home. Several sources told this newspaper that amount is not enough to make significant changes at the plant. THE PLANT is over capacity. It was designed for 100,000 gallons a day and received a average of 109,000 in May. The DEP has said the home's septic system has to be designed to handle 18,000 gallons a day. although Hospicomm says actual use will be less than half that. The township has a report from Solicitor Bruce Gorman, dated June 13, that said county Health Officer Louis J. Lamanna " ... could not endorse an expansion of the existing plant without an extensive review of engineering aspects thereof by the DEP." Gorman also reported that DEP Deputy Atty. Gen. Priscilla Hayes, whom Miller implied supported the nursing home offer, "was very upset that those representations had been made." Gorman said that Hayes and DEP " ... have taken no position with regard to

the proposal" and that she would be meeting with Hospicomm "to discuss the matter." ALTHOUGH THE HERALD received smaller denials in talking to representatives of the MUA and the county Planning Department, Gorman did not include them in his research. He indicated that after he found contradictions in his first two inquiries, he considered that adequate and stopped checking. Miller, who apparently had talked previously to Voll and Committeeman James Alexis, came to the work session to request a "public relations resolution" backing the nursing home's offer. Voll and Alexis indicated they were in favor, but Gorman and Committeeman Charles Leusner cautioned that Miller's statements should be checked. HOSPICOMM IS KNOWN to feel the cards are stacked against it at the sewage commission because its chairman, A1 Karaso, and its solicitor, Carmen Alvarez, are members of the association that is suing the home. Karaso. a co-founder of the association, said he is no longer a member although he conceded his name is on the original appeal, "as a private citizen, prior to the (commission) election." Karaso indicated he would determine whether to vote on any nursing home application at the time it's made. Alvarez, who gives the commission legal advice, but has no vote, said she would "get somebody else to step in for me, and that would be my advice to Al. that the appearance of a conflict would be strong enough that he shouldn't participate in any votes." • i . . , , ,