DEP Backs Sayreville Role in Remediating NL Site Mayor Vas
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m& Inside this emu 3n| Mmm MiisRe AGAIN 100 Han* G HoflmwPtaza •outh Amboy, NJ. 08679 Incor/mting the Atom Tdloui, South Amky Citken & Perth Amky Qmtk TABLOID Your Neighborhood In Print Since 1882 C 2002 Devlne Media Enterprises, Inc. 732-574-1200 • P.O. Box 3095, South Amboy, NJ 08879 Middlesex County Edition VOL 121, NO. 34 Friday, August 23,2002 500 Ml l>l \ DEP Backs Sayreville Role In Remediating NL Site SAYREVILLE — In a strong remediation plan for the entire Middlesex County Freeholder said. "DEP's support will really 14 years of going back and forth expression of its commitment to site. "This is great news and a Director David B. Crabiel noted help move this project forward, with DEP, they still have not redevelop contaminated sites, very positive step in our efforts that the Freeholder Board has finally clean up this polluted fully delineated the extent of the the New Jersey Department of to redevelop this vast property," "made a substantial financial site, and get something built contamination. Any reasonable Environmental Protection said Sayreville Mayor Kennedy commitment to this project, and here that will generate signifi- person would have to assume (DEP) has approved the O'Brien. we have an emotional commit- cant tax revenue for Sayreville," that NL is not serious about Sayreville Economic Redevel- "It has been a long fight for ment as well, said Richard Pucci, Executive remediating this property". opment Authority's request to Sayreville against a large corpo- "For almost a decade, our Director of the Middlesex After years of failed negotia- administer the remediation of rate polluter who abandoned the goal has been to clean up and County Improvement Authority, the 400-acre NL Industries site site, refused to clean it up, and revitalize the abandoned indus- which is working with SERA on tions with NL. SERA has moved once SERA acquires the proper- therefore avoided paying its fair trial sites along the Raritan the redevelopment project. to take legal possession of the ty share of property taxes in the River. We believe the contami- "NL abandoned its Sayreville site. The initial hearing in this The DEP action breaks a Borough," he said. "Frankly, the nated eyesore that's now the NL operation in 1982, and the com- condemnation action will take fourteen-year logjam caused by average Sayreville homeowner property can be remediated into pany has been dragging its feet place on Wednesday. September NL's failure to develop and has paid NL's share of taxes for a productive, useful site that we on the site cleanup for almosl 4, \n New jersey Superior Court implement a comprehensive years. This must and will stop." cant all be proud of," Crabiel two decades," Pucci said "After \n New Brunswick. Mayor Vas Introduces Municipal Budget PERTH AMBOY—Aided by again successful in maintaining have been given the opportunity • Providing full-time Emer- administration continues to new ratables, a $2.4 million sur- the current $1.36 tax rate (per to voice their concerns on areas gency Medical Technician cover- aggressively pursue grants and plus, new grants and a record- $ 100 of assessed property value). in need of improvement. Many age seven days a week, twenty- non-tax revenue. During the last high 99.5 percent tax collection It is important to note that 50 of these areas fall under the four hours a day to work with the year, the Urban Enterprise rate, Mayor Joseph Vas intro- percent of this increase is due to watchful eyes of the city's public paid, part-time, per diem EMT's Zone's 3 percent sales tax rev- duced a municipal budget last $1.7 million in new grants that safety departments. In order to to assist the Volunteer First Aid enue paid for improvement proj- week that does not increase the the city has received to fund new address their concerns, the FY Squad. ects totaling $4.3 million. UEZ local purpose tax rate for the sev- programs and projects. The total 2003 budget allows for the fol- The spending side of the dollars and other grants have enth consecutive year. Perth budget increase was also offset lowing: budget was impacted largely by funded public improvements Amboy's $46.4 million FY 2003 by an $18.4 million increase in • Increasing the full comple- salary increases. Over half of the throughout the city including municipal budget continues to the tax base mainly as a result of ment of uniformed police offi- new $46.4 million FY 2003 street resurfacing, expansion to provide tax stabilization while the ongoing construction of the cers permitted by city code from budget-$23,806,188-is allocated the manna, upgrades to water realizing millions of dollars in Harbortown housing develop- 125-132 (paid for by a state towards salaries. There was also and waste water facilities, down- improvements and maintaining ment. grant), as well as funding to a $1,442,371 increase in salaries the vital resources for city These revenue changes have replace retiring officers. this year as a result of negotiated town sidewalk improvements departments to deliver essential allowed the city to continue • Increasing the fire depart- union contracts, which provided along State Street and Amboy services. focusing on quality of life ment's table of organization to for a 3.5 percent base increase, Avenue, and the upcoming side- Although the total FY 2003 improvements. Since Vas began fund three new full-time, paid funding for replacement hires walk improvements along New budget increased by $3.4 million a citywide quality of life initia- firefighters and funding to and other adjustments. Brunswick Avenue and the resur- from last year, the city was once tive four years ago, residents replace retiring firefighters. 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