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Community College Choice: Two Examples

Commission: 'We're Unique'

Warren County chose the commission route in 1981 to provide a community college to its population, currently 90,000. That format was the second choice of consultant Dr. N. Dean Evans, given to the Cape May County Community College Proposal Review Committee on June 9 "We're a college without walls," said Dr. Byron Rinehimer, president at the Warren College since it was founded. "We're unique and we don't try to hide it. We don't compare ourselves to Princeton University. The Warren County Community College Commission has an administrative staff of

12 full-time and six part-time people with a total payroll, excluding benefits, of $268,034.

KEY OFFICIALS include the president, dean of academic services, coordinator of student services, coordinator of business services, a counselor. It also has a part(Page 73 Please)

ED. NOTE: Dr. N. Dean Evans, consultant to the county's Community College Proposal Review Committee, has recommended it merge in a joint college with Atlantic Community College. His second choice was a commission format in which the county maintains control and contracts with colleges to offer courses and services. These two articles by Joe Zelnik examine those systems in two north Jersey counties similar in size to Cape May County.

Joint College: 'Good for Us'

The Hunterdon County Community College situation is remarkably similar to Cape May County

It has a population of about 92.000. It has no community college, and pays chargebacks for its students to go to other

two-year schools. This year that totaled about $1.4 million. Most of its students go to the community college in Somerset County, population 210.000. Hunterdon students make up about 25 percent of Somerset's 4.600 students. A YEAR AGO. at the invitation of Somerset County Community College, freeholders from both counties appointed a four-member Bi-County Study Committee It studied the same options as the Cape May County Community College Proposal Review Committee: continuing chargebacks, establishing its own Hunt(Page 73 Please)

/H^NEWS |p|7 DIGEST ' ;7 / The Week's // // // Sludge Boulevard? CREST HAVEN — Been hankering to tell the freeholders where to get off? They're looking for a name for the < nameless ) road here that runs parallel to the parkway and leads to the site of the completed MUA composting facility and the uncompleted Seven-Mile Beach/Middle Region sewage treatment plant. The freeholders hope to agree on a name by their June 24 meeting. Give your suggestion to your favorite freeholder or, if you don't have a favorite, to us. and we'll pass it on. Another $30 Million COURT HOUSE - Freeholders last week agreed to "guarantee" repayment of about $30 million the county MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority) is borrowing. That's a legal step that helps the MUA get lower interest rates when it borrows. The county has already given the same guarantee for $185 million borrowed for waste water projects. This borrowing is for solid waste and, according to MUA Executive Director George Marinakis, "takes us to the point of putting resource recovery in place." It is intended that a private investor will build and operate that trash-to-energy incinerator. Planning Vacancy COURT HOUSE — William Laskey of Stone Harbor has resigned from the ninemember county Planning Board because he's moving to Florida. Member Ellwood Shephard of Rio Grande has suggested one of the board's alternates — Alice Belanger of Dennisville or Harry N. Hand of Wildwood — be moved into the vacancy. Planning Director Elwood Jarmer said that could be recommended (Page 59 Please)

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Dor is Ward HE MADE IT! — George "Butch' Meher gets his graduation diploma from Ocean Academy Pre-School at Crest Haven from Principal Judith Gollatz at ceremonies at the county park Saturday. He's the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Meher of Tuckahoe.

Another County Toll Plaza?

COURT HOUSE — You can have two more Parkway overpasses, but it'll cost you — at another toll plaza. That's the gist of a report to the county Planning Department from State Sen. James Hurley of Miliville. Hurley said the New Jersey Highway Authority (NJHA) (which operates the Garden State Parkway) "is moving toward taking over" the 4.2-mile section of the parkway now maintainence (as Route 444) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Construction of overpasses at Crest Haven Road and Stone Harbor Boulevard would follow, Hurley said. But that is "predicated on the Parkway installing a new toll plaza in Cape May County," said Hurley, because "they claim to need the added revenue to pay for the changes." Planning Director Elwood Jarmer. who has worked for those overpasses for years, managed to contain his enthusiasm last week. (Page 18 Please)

Underenrolled Day Care Lost County Money By JOE ZELNIK CREST HAVEN - In 1983. the county League of Women Voters charged the county lacked day-care facilities ^ Freeholder Gerald M Thornton called the report "garbage." In 1984. a hundred county employes peti tioned the freeholders to create a day care center for their children Last October it opened at the vo-tech school's career center. The county preschool was aimed at children 21 .-6 and had a staff of three: a director-teacher and two teacher aids. LAST WEEK. Freeholder James S. Kilpatrick Jr reported that the school lost $32,259 last year One reason'' Not enough children With 20 the expected break-even point, it never had more than 14. Costs were $42,965 , revenue $10,706. Kilpatrick recommended, and convert Thornton seconded, the decision to give t|ie school another year and "if it does not meet projections, take another look " At first the county had limited the school to county employes. Then it was expanded to include employes of "county-affiliate agencies" which ran the gamut from Mental Health to DYFS (Division of Youth and Family Services ) . NOW. BASED ON the suggestion of VoTechSupt Wilbur J Kistler Jr , the school also will be opened to people who work at "other groups or agencies (e.g. schools, the hospital)" in an effort to boost enrollment. Actually, Freeholder-Director William E. Sturm Jr. suggested, "With public (Page 18 Please)

New Department Formed Police Academy Coming

COURTHOUSE — The freeholders have created a Department of Public Stfety Training and appointed Eugene W. RHtcm of 3riganttoe tta director. J?' mm, ». win coonftaate train** for the county's special (summer) police and, he told tiua newspaper, intends to "ran a regular police academy for fulRi me police officers." A retired state police lieutenant, he ii being paid $50,600. He also has a 151.414*year aAnttUati all veaeaetaiy, Patricia ACwreos of Ooeaa City who ' vas transfer-

red to that Job from the Department of Development. I THE NEW DEPARTMENT was requested to March by a ooatingent that included cooky Prosecutor John Oorino and several police chiefs. They said 28$ special police are used, primarily in the resort communities, com oared to no regular, fan-time pobce. and will need extemive training became of new state regulations Piuilailifcii agreed that the county could do the training more effectively than KHflffMifPage 4 Plaaae) I

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