6 1 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 17 My '85

Avalon Trying Out Improvement Plan ■

AVALON - Local of- | ficials are concentrating on implementing 59 management recommendations resulting from a survey of borough employees and citizens as part of the Governor's Management Improvement Program from Ix>cal Governments. Some of the ideas presented to Mayor Rachel H. Sloan and borough council at a special meeting July 8 include plans for improving communications between management. • employes, and citizens, reducing the number of false burglar and fire alarms in the borough, enforcing ordinances more strictly and conducting personnel studies to clarify « job descriptions and salary B levels '■('Ol'NCIL ANI) I have 1 discussed those recommon- | dations and their im- £ plementation plans and ? agree that they will benefit | both the operation of the b Itorough and the citizens 8 here." Sloan said. Borough officials have I already introduced an or- | dinance setting specific ■I penalties for recurring fire A and burglar alarm viola9 lions, created a newsletter H for employee and citizens ■ which details Avalon I events and news and are I ■ planning meetings with I state and county officials to I discuss solutions to pro- ■ bleiCS in road transports - I tionAbeach protection and H new communications I systems Til K KKCOMMKDAI TIONS resulted from a | series of informal interI views conducted by | members of the local GMIP management team, i comprising five borough U employes The team then | met with the local GMIP steering committee com prised of five borough I citizens and business peo1 pie which presented its | recommendations to | Avalon officials Additions to the public safety building — which inJ eludes the installation of ' new police equipment an

bullet proof glass — as well as the scheduling of Ocean Drive repaving work for the fall and solutions to the problem of traffic congestion on Avalon Boulevard during the summer will also satisfy some of the ideas employes expressed in the survey. A REPORT on the effectiveness of the program in Avalon will be completed some time this fall, but Sloan has already judged it a success. "Participating in the Governor's Management Improvement Program has opened up the lines of communication throughout the borough and has helped us better coordinate our efforts to give the public the N best service we can." she said. Members of the management team were: borough Public Works Admi nistra tor Raymond Seliger. Police Lt. Louis Taylor, borough Treasurer Peg Brown. Recreation Director David Haberle and Tax Collector Peggy Peterson, chairman of the team. Members of the steering committee included the Rev Robert Scott. First United Methodist Church; Roger J. Soens. Sr. attorney. builder and realtor; Marlene Clayton, resident; Edward P. Crippen. manager. William Ris Gallery; and Richard D. Rodgers. senior vice president of Sturdy Savings and Loan and chairman of the committee

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