Revamped rules for
boro facilities are ready
BY SHERRY CONOHAN
Staff Writer
LITTLE SILVER — The Borough Council is ready for a public hearing on another ordinance amending the town’s policy for the use of public facilities.
An earlier ordinance that would have amended the policy for facilities, including the Little Silver Woman’s Club building — which the Woman’s Club donated to the borough last year — was allowed to die, after residents in the Church Street area where the club is located expressed concerns, about the rules proposed for the use of the building. The ordinance was rewritten to address those concerns.
Residents were particularly concerned about how late the Woman’s Club would be open and the serving of alcoholic beverages.
The ordinance sets rules for use of both buildings and athletic fields.
Two key changes regulating the use of facilities were made in the compromise that was drafted. The minimum age for applicants who want to use the public facilities was raised from 18 to 21, and the latest an indoor facility can be used was set at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, and 10 p.m. on all other nights, unless specifically permitted by the borough.
The use of any outdoor public facility must cease by sunset.
Remaining unchanged is a provision that no alcoholic beverages can be served at any public facility without the specific permission of the council.
No smoking is permitted at any indoor pubic facility, and no fireworks or pyrotechnics are permitted at any public facility.
In other business, the council rejected all three bids received on a new fire truck and decided to readvertise for bids. Bids had been requested on a Custom Aluminum Pumper with a 1,500-gpm pump and 750-gallon booster tank.
The council rejected the low bid, $240,974 from Central States Fire Apparatus LLC, of Lyons, S..D., because the company does not meet the requirements of the specifications for a single manufacturer for the cab, chassis and body.
It rejected the second low bid, $269,408 from Sutphen Corp., of Amlin, Ohio, because the bid did not meet the compartment size requirements.
The high bid, of $293,661 from Central Jersey Fire Apparatus, of Manasquan, was rejected because it exceeded the funding available for the purchase.
Councilman Declan O’Scanlon Jr., who oversees the Police Department, reported that with the reorganization of the Police Department last year, overtime in the first nine months of this year had been cut in half from $60,000 last year to $30,000 this year over the same period of time.