12-3-12 Middletown Township Committee Meeting

Monday night's Middletown Township Committee Workshop meeting was short and sweet, which will make the video below a quick watch. The meeting lasted just 30 minutes but even though it was a short meeting there were a few interesting discussions worth mentioning.

The first discussion of interest takes place at about the 6:45 minute make of the video and the discussion centers around the replacement of the roofs at the Croydon Hall Senior Center and the Public Works. That discussion was followed by a discussion about the need to implement road projects in the year that the funding ordinance was adopted. Often times the township puts the cart before the horse as it pertains to road projects that are then not done in a timely manner.

Tony Mercantante, the Township  Administrator, reminded the Committee that the projects were divided so the engineering work was done in one year and the actual work was done the following year. The Administrator said the schedule is being refined so the engineering work is done in the cold months so the project will commence when the weather warms up.

Township Committee Comments start at the 12:20 mark and other than Tony Fiore, who spoke and droned on several minutes (sometimes I think he just likes to hear himself speak) about Governor Christie's visit to Port Monmouth last week, the FEMA information session at Middletown North High School on the November 28th and the Mayor's meeting that took place in Tinton Falls between 23 regional mayors and JCP&L to discuss what JCP&L could have been done better in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
My favorite portion of the meeting, the Public Comments, starts at 21 minutes into the video.

Linda Baum asked about the cost of storm related expenses and how much money would be needed for clean-up and repairs. She also wanted to know if the earlier mentioned roof replacements where among those that were included in the solar analysis from earlier this year.

Also of note and a point of interest to those affected by flooding after Hurricane Sandy,resident Andrew Bane asked about the new FEMA flood regulations that specify how,when and why flood victims would need to elevate their homes before they could rebuild after excessive storm flooding. Tony Fiore and Tony Mercantante gave him a pretty good explanation but it was a bit confusing. For more information about FEMA's new flood regulations you can find it .... Here



As always, you can download a copy of the meeting agenda  that contains the discussion items and the proposed resolutions and ordinances that were voted on or presented during the meeting. A box around an item is a link, bringing you further into the document to that resolution or ordinance. At the end of the resolution there will be a link bringing you back to the agenda. Attached to this agenda is also the monthly bill list, so that everyone can see how the Township is spending our tax dollars