FYI - Private Haulers Can Include "Special" Charges On Invoice In Solid Waste Collection Tariff

From Middletown Public Information:

On Wednesday, December 19th the Township stated that a private hauler cannot legally charge a resident for can retrieval according to the State of New Jersey’s Customer Bill of Rights for Solid Waste Collection.

Since yesterday, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection made Township officials aware that some private haulers include “Exchange Fees” as a special charge on their invoice in their solid waste collection tariff. Since there is no provision in the laws governing solid waste that precludes a solid waste collector from charging “Special or Additional charges”, the Department of Environmental Protection cannot declare a private hauler’s charge to be in violation of the Solid Waste Utility Control Act (ref. N.J.A.C. 7:26H-4.4(b)(3)).

Township residents are welcome to contact the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste’s Economic Regulation Unit at (609) 984-4250 or swutility@dep.nj.gov

April 30 2015 Middletown Township Committee Meeting - Budget Hearing

The Middletown Township Committee held a special meeting yesterday to adopt the 2015 budget. The resolution accepting the contract with the PBA was pulled from the agenda for discussion during Executive Session and reintroduced at the May 4th workshop meeting.





Here are the links to the proposed FY 2015 Municipal Budget and Solid Waste Budget documents  that were present at the March 30th Township meeting. The proposed budgets do not differ very much from what was voted on yesterday:

https://archive.org/details/151292015MunicipalBudgetIntroduced

https://archive.org/details/151302015SolidWasteBudgetIntroduced

May 6, 2013 Middletown Township Committee Meeting

This past Monday night the Middletown Township Committee came together once again for it's monthly workshop meeting,at this workshop meeting the Committee held a few public hearings for the introduction of the 2013 Municipal Budget, the 2013 Solid Waste Budget and on Bond Ordinance #2013-3087 which authorizes the borrowing of $1.5M for the construction of an artificial turf sports field on Middletown Township Board of Education property and other various sports field improvements around the district.

The meeting was held in the Court House of Town Hall as opposed to the cramped little conference room next to the Clerk's office as I had hoped the it would be and lasted a little over 90 minutes with the budget hearing taking up the first 50 minutes. Afterwards it was announced that a date for the adoption of the budget would scheduled for a future meeting.

After no one spoke regarding the Municipal Solid Waste Budget, a hearing was for Bond Ordinance #2013-8037 was conducted. As I posted earlier, Linda Baum asked if a cost analysis was done and if it available for see and it was stated by Mayor Osmosis (Gerry Scharfenberger) that their was nothing on paper, it was all done in their heads. The meeting quickly moved on from there with the other items on the agenda.

Committee Comments followed by comments from the public (my favorite part of these meetings) begins at the 1:05 mark of the video and as usual is somewhat enlightening and shouldn't be missed.





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