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COURT HOUSE - Bar bara J Beitel. former Middle Township grants coordinator. has announced her candidacy for township committee, with former Mayor Samuel S. DeVico in her campaign chairman. "I spent 21 years of my life working for this town." DeVico said. "I want to leave it in competent hands and that's why I urged Barbara to run. She has energy, ability to make decisions and a track record of which she can be proud. "We need someone with a conservative fiscal sense but a liberal human sense that gets out there and helps people without costing the local taxpayer a fortune." OCEAN CITY - Roy Gillian this week said that the "dismantling of Ocean City's management form of government by Jack Bittner has cost taxpayers here

more than $5 million during the past four years." Gillian, a candidate for mayor, said that the amount of money raised by taxes for local government increased $5,003,757 from the time Bittner took office in 1982 to this year, from $6,399,201 to $11,402,958. "The incredible part of this is that this increase in the amount of revenue that had to be raised through local taxation came during a time when ratables were rising at an unprecedented rate," Gillian said. "With the kind of increase in ratables we have had during the past four years, an efficiently run government would have at least stabilized taxes." LOWER TOWNSHIP - Councilman Joe Lonergan issued the following response to Councilman Robert Conroy's charge that he voted for the Sunset Beach Green Acres Grant '^fter five minutes review". Councilman Lonergan stated: "It is absolutely untrue that I voted on the Green Acres Grant after five minutes review. The Green Acres contract was received by the township clerk some six months ago It was made available to each councilperson at that time. If Councilman Conroy read the contract only five minutes before the meeting, that's his own fault. I try to stay on top of the issues facing the township. Obviously. Councilman Conroy doesn't think that is important." COURT HOUSE - Tony DeVico, 30. a commissioner of Middle Township Sewerage District l and a member of the Middle Region Juvenile Conference Committee, has an-

nounced that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for the Middle Township Committee in the June 3rd primary'. DeVico, a graduate of Bucknell University, owns DeVico Vending, Inc. and lives here with his wife, the former Jeanne Van Meter, and their two children. Jonathan and Margaret. A former member of the township board of education, DeVico sees major changes coming in the township, but believes that "the quality of life in Middle Township does not have to be sacrificed in order to have a growing and vital business community." LOWER TOWNSHIP - "Although we favor controlled gr°wth in Lower Township, a building moratorium throughout the township is not the answer." Bob Conroy. Ed Y ates and Phyliss Genovese. GOP-backed candidates for township council, said. "Cluster development is certainly not harmful," they said. "It makes the least amount of impact on an area while it provides the most ratables without putting a huge burden on our services and schools " In the Diamond Beach area, which has already been sewered and where work has begun on development. it doesn't make sense to stop it. the three declared A lot of money has been spent there, they said. OCEAN CITY - Roy Gillian recently recounted what he termed the "bad memories" of the Bittner administration, from the eviction of the Arts Center and Historical Museum from their "home" to the dismantling of the Administrative Code

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QtilT&n said that the dismantling of the Administrative Code by Bittner is the prime reason for a loss of professional management in the day-to-day affairs of the city. "The people of Ocean City voted overwhelmingly for the management form of government in 1978 and reaped the benefits of that decision from 1978 to 1982." Gillian said. "In four short years, Bittner has wrecked that form of government and precipitated recordbreaking increases in taxes." LOWER TOWNSHIP - Bob Conroy, incumbent candidate for the First Ward Council seat in Lower Township, described some of the funding wfiich, he claims, he has obtained for the township's home rehabilitation program and ;deas he has for stopping erosion of the township's beaches. "Mainly because of my good relations with both county and state officials." Conroy said, "we have already obtained nearly $1 million in funding for the rehabilitation of homes in the Villas." "As far as our beaches are concerned." he said. "I have been at several meetings with state officials to discuss a beach erosion program instituted about a year ago. an experimental theory that has been proven to work off the North Villas beaches " OCEAN CITY - Ocean City Mayor Jack Bittner claims that his first two television press conferences were a huge success. Bittner cited both the number of calls and the quality of questions as a positive sign that the "citizens of Ocean City are interested in issues and not personalities in this campaign". Bittner further stated that one of his opponents. Roy Gillian, refused to debate the issues on two of three dates set by Channel 2 television. LOWER TOWNSHIP - Bob Conroy. Ed Yates and Phyliss Genovese. Republican backed candidates for Lower Township council, have come out strongly against ocean burning of hazardous waste. In a statement made by the three candidates they said, "Our environment is entirely too sensitive to allow ocean burning off our coast. One minor accident, alone, could cause enough bad publicity for our area it could economically destroy Lower Township. " OCEAN CITY - Ocean City Mayor Jack Bittner says that his opponent's alleged plan to return to the one department concept making the mayor a ceremonial one is not only "unworkable but also illegal". Bittner said city council did the right thing when it voted (5-2) two years ago to change the administrative code to allow for the creation of several departments. Bittner cited the recent announcement by the Avalon Council of its intention to "streamline its government by restructuring the administrative code".