Cash Flow Dried Up

SERVING SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. Our 19th year, No. 28 Senior housing Cash flow dried up Mayor Michael English's power of At this stage," he said, the com persuasion will be tested Monday when mittee can go no further.' the Borough Council votes on a resolu That, he explained, is because the tion earmarking $250,000 for the senior committee has used up all the money it citizen housing complex proposed for had in funding the preliminary stages of Morris Avenue. the design process. It needs about According to the mayor, the future of another $250,000 to see the design pro the project lies in the laps of the council. cess through to its completion He has been trying to convince the (Please turn to page 2) council for some time to donate $1 mil lion, some of which it would get back, to show the “borough’s committment to the project.” The money, he said, would come from surplus funds realized from Boy, 16, land sales. The money has been tied up by the court, however, as a result of the borough’s Mt laurel lawsuit. burned in But English has argued and borough attorney Frank Santoro has explosion agreed that releasing some of the money for senior citizen housing would Police blamed fireworks for Mon be allowed by Superior Court Judge day's explosion at the First Baptist Eugene Serpentelli because that fits in Cemetery on New Market Avenue with the spirit of the Mt. Laurel deci which left a 16-year-old borough boy in sions. critical condition with burns over 70 But the council, up until now, has percent of his body. done nothing about the mayor's request. Police Sergeant John Brembt said At Monday’s agenda session, English Tuesday that the youth, a caretaker for laid it on the line. the cemetery, was lighting a firecracker near a fuel storage tank at about 10 a.m. Monday morning when the explosion occured. The youth who police would not ‘Crack’ identify was taken to Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center, then trans ported by helicopter to St. Barnabas found Burn Center in Uvingston, where he was listed in critical condition. in room “We don’t know if he just threw it in Two Plainfield men were arrested (Please turn to page 2) June 27 in a room at Howard Johnson’s, Stelton Road, on drug possession charges, police said. One of the drugs found in the motel room, police s&id, Tax appeal crMfc, a powerful form of cooome gaining m popularity with the drug's lifers * info given Willie Hayes. 33, and Jeffrey Nicholson, 23, were arrested in the by mayor room they shared with Barbara Nicholson, also of Plainfield, police Following through on a promise said. Police added that charges are Mayor Michael English Monday public pending against the woman. ly gave out information for residents Piscataway police called borough of wishing to file tax appeals. ficers in to help with the investigation of Within the next week." the mayor a burglary at a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts. said, “anyone who wants to file an ap Borough police went to the motel after peal should call 745-3350, that's the Planning Board begins hearings an employee reported that Nicholson County Board of Taxation. They will was acting nervous and had white take down your name and address and powder smeared on her face. Police, send you a questionaire. " connecting the white poweder to the “After you send it back, they will call on Golden Acres expansion plans donut shop, went to check it out. you and explain the appeal process," he Police reported that they knocked on Other plans include planting trees continued. “This is not done for free. If The owners of the Golden Acres will feature a revamped A&P super Avenue (the new section I along the throughout the parking lot, cleaning up Nicholson's door and, when she an your assessment is under $150,000, there Shopping Center at Oak Tree and Park market. back of the existing center and over to the shrubbery and trees along the prop swered, asked if they could come in. will be a $5 charge. If it is between avenues are closer than they have ever The board and company are split on Case Road. The company’s main objec When the room was entered, police $150,000 and $500,000, there will be a $25 two major issues refurbishment of tion to that plan is that it will encourage erty’s perimeter and redesigning the been to winning Planning Board ap (Please turn to page 2) charge " proval for their expansion plans, but the parking lot and traffic flow. motorists to use it as a shortcut to Case (Please turn to page 2) there are still several major obstacle.' Planning Board members would like and will make the problem worse rather they must overcome before the plan is Nalitt to put a topcoat over the existing than solve it. given the “thumbs-up". parking lot so that it looks as new as the Nalitt attorney Angelo Dalto also said Representatives of Sanford Nalitt and lot that will be created, but Nalitt plans that the passageway could not legally Associates, Inc. appeared at last Wed to redo the old lot on a spot basis. be used as the board wishes. He told the nesday’s board meeting seeking site Also, the board wants Nalitt to open a board that he will supply its members plan approval for their project a pro planned passageway between two sec with a written opinion backing his posed 84,000 square-foot expansion that tions to allow traffic to flow from Park statement. Council will discuss DPW applications Monday A special Borough Council executive don’t see why we should be doing that department," English argued. “If session to consider applications for the with public works. He knows what’s that’s what’s going to be done, fine, but I Department of Public Works will be best.” feel that if only four names are submit held Monday night before the body’s "We certainly have discussed people ted and there’s a controversy up here, regular meeting. The department will who are appointed to the police (Please turn to page 2) be hiring four people, not three, because one more person recently retired. That decision came after a debate among members on whether the council should have any input during the appli Bond sale urged cant weeding-out process or whether the entire decision should be left up to John Celentano, the department’s su perintendent. by Haus, auditor Councilman Michael Woskey, the council liason to the DPW, told his col leagues that since the announcement of It's one thing to pass bonding ordi pay for a certain project, whether it be the luring was made, the department nances over a number of years, but it’s repaving streets or buying equipment. has been deluged wiyh applications. another to face the fact that sooner or The town can pay off that loan two “The superintendent asked that he be later, the money to back those bonds ways, by authorizing bond anticipation allowed to not submit any names until has to be raised. notes (a short-term move) or by getting he has gone through all the applica But that reality is staring the Borough into long-term financing, which is what tions," Woskey said. “He wants to be Counil squarely in the face and, accor the bond sale is. fair. He should have four names by ding to treasurer Charles Haus, there is The bond anticipation notes are only Thursday.” no time like the present to deal with it. good for a year and a governing body Is “When does the council get the oppor Haus, borough auditor Jack Maley limited to how many it can pass on a tunity to discuss this?” asked Mayor and Dave Thompson, a financial single bond before it must go into long Michael English. “If just four people analyst, appeared before the council at term financing. That’s because the are bking reconunended, I don’t want Monday’s agenda session to try and B.A.N.s, as they are called, only pay off personalities to interfere with the pro convince the governing body to the interest on the note and have no ef cess.” authorize a bond sale. Thompson had fect on the principal. Disagreeing with the mayor’s notion ulterior motives — it is he who would The borough now has $4.8 million in that the council should be involved in act as a consultant for the borough dur bond ordinances, Haus said, and it’s HOOKING UP — Firemen wait as hose is hooked up Friday night prior to fighting roof fire at the searching, Woskey said, "we don’t ing the process. time that a sale was held, if only Kearny Industries, Hamilton Boulevard. Details on the fire are sketchy, but police believe the fire second-guess the police department A bond ordinance is, in effect, a loan because the borough would be able to was started by a firecracker. Police said the roof sustained only m inor damage. when they make a recommendation, I the council is borrowing money to (Please turn to page 2) \ Page 2 — South Plainfield Reporter — July 10, 1986* Planning Board Bond sale urged DPW applications i Continued from page 1) who were satisfactory to him Conlon then reminded Woskey that the only people who arc going to get hurt the borough’s choices of police recruits are those in the department ." hearings begins by Haus, auditor are, more or less, guided by the civil English then called for the special service list.

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