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Health & Fitness

December 2, 2013 Middletown Township Committee Meeting

The video of this meeting can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/RtZtmyY0CQE

Members of the National Parks Dept. made a presentation on the refurbishment of the historical buildings on Sandy Hook. They asked for cooperation in promoting the program.

Two ordinances were introduced and there will be a public hearing for each on December 16 before they are voted on for adoption. The first ordinance approves a settlement with the developers of the Avaya property and the second is a salary ordinance for 2014. Resolutions were adopted to pay bills, increase the amount paid to the Special Labor Counsel, advance payments to Sandy victims and accept a $112K grant for to pay for recycling.

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A member of the public asked about why a firm that has been working with the township to provide document scanning services was not informed about that service going out to bid. He was told that it was his responsibility to check the public notices in newspapers for bid proposals.

Another member of the public asked when the oil collection container at the recycling center was going to be cleaned up and operational. He was told that it was being worked on. It was also mentioned that there were many other sites in town with hazardous waste contamination that could be cleaned up if a law that was sunsetted was brought back.

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