Representing Your Voice In Local Government
The Best 4 Oceanport Team 2010
Oceanport debates shared services, budget cuts
Follow this link to a September 9, 2008 APP story on shared services...
Oceanport considers shared-services options
Council mulls whether local would be lost
BY JENNA O'DONNELL Staff Writer
OCEANPORT - Borough officials are looking into their shared-services options following a discussion at the March 12 council meeting.
Mayor Michael Mahon presented several shared-services models to the Borough Council at the meeting, at which council also approved a reuse plan for Oceanport land within Fort Monmouth.
"Under the Fort Monmouth model, they are talking about shared services," Mahon said at the meeting, "and as we all know, within the last 10 days, the governor took a shot across our bow as far as our sovereignty and as far as our ability to be able to continue to afford to be autonomous as a community."
Host towns are being asked by the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization and Planning Authority (FMERPA) to consider sharing services as part of plans for the reuse of their portion of the fort's acreage after it closes in 2011.
Read more....
By CAROL GORGA WILLIAMS • COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU • January 14, 2010
OCEANPORT — Borough officials and their counterparts in Sea Bright will share court services in a measure motivated less about saving money and more about helping out a neighbor.
Superior Court Assignment Judge Lawrence M. Lawson said he has been urging Sea Bright to make improvements to its municipal court office facilities for about 10 years.
Lawson said Sea Bright's municipal office facilities were housed in a trailer, a presentation that not only was damaging to high-tech equipment, but also sent a message that it was less than completely professional.
"My goal is to bring all the municipal courts in the Monmouth vicinage up to a professional standard so going to court there is a meaningful event and they will respect the judiciary, just as they respect the judiciary when they come to Freehold," Lawson said.
Read more.....
