Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 2 |uly '86 b 25

Minutes of 8 Released 18 Closed Sessions Held in Six Months

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - Freeholders have released minutes of eight secret meetings held between Jan. 15 and Feb. 20. They made no comment on the fact that all were being released after the 90-day limit spelled out resolutions they unanimously passed to go into the closed sessions. RJ eased at the same time June 19 were three portions of minutes, regarding litigation, from meetings in December. AMONG THE TOPICS freeholders felt necessary to discuss behind closed doors so far this year: salary requests, pay for MUA and Bridge Commission board members, contracts or employment of labor counsel Lawrence Pepper and Crest Haven Nursing Home medical

director Dr. Clayton F. Carr. Also, merging of departments at the county airport into one Department of Economic Development (DED), insurance recommendations by county in- . sura nee broker Charles Pessagno, possible acquisition of 20.8 acres in the Woodbine area for the Road and Bridge Department. AS USUAL, the county's format for taking minutes of closed meetings gives no indication who said what, but merely lists who was present and the subjects considered. The freeholders have met in closed sessions 18 times in the first half of this year. That compares to 24 times in the first six months of last year. The freeholders usually justify closed sessions to discuss "personnel matters" and "possible litiga-

tion," topics permitted under the state's Open Public Meeting Law. THE FORMS USED for reporting "minutes," as opposed to actual minutes, were started by the county in January, 1985, after this newspaper pressed for release of minutes of closed meetings. Prior to that, they were not released. The minutes are made available to this newspaper because it reqjbests them in writing. Tli is newspaper has consistently objected to 1. the arbitrary selection of a 90-day period for releasing minutes, and 2. the failure to observe even that deadline.

THE OPEN PUBLIC Meeting Law states that minutes "... should be in sufficient detail to give the public a general description or outline of the subject and issues discussed And it says minutes of meetings should be released "promptly," and, in specific, "when the reasons for discussing and acting on it in closed session no longer exist." The freeholders still have not released the minutes of meetings held in April and June, 1985, nor minutes of 10 meetings held this year, the oldest on Jan. 23, the most recent on June 24.

Belleplain Hosts Search Seminar

BELLEPLAIN - The New Jersey State Sheriffs' Association, with the Cape May County Sheriff's Department as host, sponsored a two-day Search and Rescue seminar relative to both rural and urban environments. Tom Bown, author of several books on tracking and 13 on ACC Dean's List MAYS LANDING — Thirteen Cape May County residents were among 267 students named to the Dean's List at Atlantic Community College for the spring semester by attaining a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Those honored are: Jr Adamczyk, Phillip Amundsen, Paul Burnley, Joseph Garrett, John Mountes, Joan Smith, Justine Tremblay, Bonnie Weimer, and Charles Wells, Court House. Kelly Ma quire, Susanne McCutcheon, and Deborah Millikan, Avalon; Ellen Leonard, South Dennis.

wilderness survival and the premier tracker in the United States today, lectured on tracking and its relation to search and rescue, escaped prisoners and fleeing criminals. Milie Curtis and other members of West Jersey Canine, whose search dogs saved many lives in locating victims of last year's Mexican earthquakes. demonstrated the use of air -scenting dogs to locate lost persons and drowning victims. HELICOPTER pilots from Coast Guard Air Base, Cape May, spoke on the capability of their aircraft to assist in search and rescue missions. Morris County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit demonstrated the use of tracking and articlesearching dogs and members of the Cspe May Sheriff's Department blood hound unit presented their dogs in various uses related to search and rescue and criminal-type trailing- tracking. Lectures on the theories and principles of land search were presented by recent graduates of National Search and Rescue School. Attending from the Cape May Sheriff's Department were: Officers James Abbott, David Polding, Dennis Felsing, and Harry Cooper.

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