BORDENTOWN CITY: City to keep residents up-to-date with flier

By Amy Batista, Special Writer
   The city has started its own little flier to keep residents informed.
   ”We are probably going to do these fliers every three to four months,” said Mayor Joseph Malone, as he was holding up a yellow paper for the audience to see during the June 9 meeting.
   He said, “It’s pretty important that we inform people. We all get around and we talk to people but there are very important things going on in the community.”
   The first flier included highlights of the 2014 municipal budget, upcoming public works and water utility projects, updates on Hilltop Park and the Mission First Project, upcoming events, public announcements, and more.
   Mayor Malone gave an update on the Mission First Project.
   ”I met with the new site manager, who is going to take over the project, last week and they won’t start work until probably…sometime late July,” he said. “They are ready to go. I took the complete tour of the community. She seems very eager to go.”
   Commissioner Zigmont Targonski noted that residents liked receiving the flier.
   ”Everybody I talk to really likes getting these things particularly some of the elder people,” said Mr. Targonski.
   He said he likes to sit down and “read his things in the evening.”
   ”I suggest to people when something like this comes along for future reference of dates, phone numbers, times, things, events and that to stick it in your phone book,” he said.
   During the meeting, a resident raised the issue of properly lighting the water tower.
   ”The township just committed to doing it,” Mayor Malone said. “I spoke to Dean Buhrer, the (public works) supervisor, told me they were doing it. It’s just a matter of them following through.”
   Recently, veterans in the city have expressed a concern that the flag painted on the side of the tower is not illuminated at night.
   Mayor Malone said that he would contact the township again.
   ”Look at it this way Jeff, we can’t do it, and force (the township) to do it,” he said.
   He asked the several people in the audience to contact Mr. Buhrer and “find out what the status of the light is up there.”
   ”Everybody I have talked to has said yes except they haven’t done anything,” he said.
   According to Mayor Malone, the city has a 99-year lease on the water tank, not the property.
   ”They are buying the property next to them and Dean assured me that area around the tank would be cleaned up,” he said.