THEmTTEM OF MILLBURN AND SHORT HILLS Thursday, March 6,1986 Founded 1888 Volume/98, Number 10 Serving the township for 98 years Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations ,35 Cents per Copy, $15 per Year by Mail to Your Door New leases seen for present school tenants Piano Preludes' bid was for $2,550 cupies $136,273 for the second year. leases when the school board initially Brennan in which it notified him that Rents paid by tenants of the South for the first year and $2,820 for the se­ In addition to acting on the South Mountain School during the coming The board puts the annual advertised for bids, submitted pro­ it would not make a new bid proposal. operating cost of maintaining the posals in the second round of bidding. The Pennsylvania firm had submit­ cond year to lease the 300 square feet Mountain School bids Monday night two years will apparently exceed the the Board of Education is scheduled Board of Education's annual costs in building at $120,000. The board had rejected the initial ted a high bid of $105,305 last month. it now occupies. Approval of the bids is scheduled to bids because they failed to equal the Summit Child Care Center, in its Citron Enterprises, which operates to award a contract for the purchase maintaining the unused public school the South Mountain Nursery and of a new telephone system for the building. take place at the Board of cost of maintaining the school bid of this week, offered to pay Education’s meeting Monday night building. $109,616 for the first year of the lease leases 2,149 square feet in the school district. Five bidders have Bids received by the school board and $115,079 the second year. The bid building, bid $18,309 for the first year submitted proposals. this week from the three tenants who Neither Growing Places Inc of Growing Places, a “for profit” day Erie, Pa. nor the Jeffrey Dworkin In­ covers the 11,781 square feet of space of a new lease and $18,374 for the se­ The board is also scheduled to con­ now occupy space in the school caj;e organization, cited adverse tinue its discussions of its 1986-87 fant and Child Care Center of Liv­ community attitudes in a letter to which it has rented for the past two cond year The bid is based on the building total $130,475 for the first years plus the school gymnasium same amount of space it now oc­ budget. year of the offered 3-vear lease and ingston, which sought to obtain school board secretary Ronald T. Committee’s sewer routing decision possible Mar. 18 Initial approval of the routing of a vironmental protection and they will would have to build an entirely new allow West Orange to go through West Orange sewer line through choose the route for us," said sewerage treatment plant in Verona East Orange or Orange because West Township Attorney Roger Clapp. if that community did consent to a Orange is not a member of that Taylor Park and the South Mountain authority. Mr. Clapp also said county section of the community may take Mr. Clapp also said Verona has told line through it. He said the Passaic Valley authorities will not consent to a route place at the Township Committee’s West Orange it has no rights to a through the South Mountain Reser­ March 18 meeting. route through that community and it Sewerage Authority does not have to vation because of harm to wildlife. The Committee at its session this The attorney said he has advised week held a 2-hour hearing on the the Committee the township could proposal to route the sanitary sewer not win a lawsuit trying to halt the down Brookside Drive, Old Short line. Millburn, he continued, will in­ Hills Road and Main Street, through Town Hall renovation sist that West Orange pass a resolu­ Taylor Park, along Mountainview tion, of indemnification holding this Road to Ridgewood Road and Gilbert township faultless should any ac­ Place where it would be linked to the cidents happen as a result of the Joint Meeting line. priced at $109,276 presence of the line. “None of us — the Township Com­ Millburn will also require that con­ mittee or residents of Millburn — A $109,276 contract for the con­ be reviewed from year to year to see struction be done during the summer want the invasion of this project into struction of an elevator and handicap if increases were warranted to lessen the impact on residences our community,” Mayor Frank W access renovations to Town Hall was Also introduced was an ordinance and businesses, said Mr, Clapp. Long told the 50 persons who attend­ awarded by the Township Committee increasing the fees for gardeners The route being considered will ed Tuesday night’s meeting Tuesday to Austin Helle Co. Inc of dumping leaves at the John F. Ken­ cause the least amount of traffic pro­ But, the mayor continued, West Cedar Grove. nedy Disposal Site on the reservoir blems and the least amount of con­ Orange — as is Millburn — is a $130,000 had originally been side of Kennedy Parkway between flicts with utility lines according to member of the Joint Meeting and this budgeted for the project and all bids Parsonage Hill Road and Route 24. Robert Cunningham of the community his little choice but to submitted the first time they were Gardeners would be charged $15 township's engineering department. allow the construction. solicited came in over that amount for a half ton, $22 for a quarter ton, Business administrator Timothy Committeeman Kalman A SAFE AT HOME - Anne Babcock of the American Red with advertising and attorneys’ fees $30 for a ton, $45 for 1.5 tons, $60 for Gordon said there will be access to Oravetz said one of the reasons the two tons and $75 for 2.5 tons. Cross shows emergency telephone number labels to, from added. all homes along the route, on-street township has opposed other routes Licensing requirements would be parking will be allowed at night if left, school nurses Louise Gili and Joan Borneman and A masonry ramp at the employees’ for the sewer is that those routes entrance at the rear of the building eliminated because it has become too necessary and residents will be given athletic director Robert Pearson who are preparing an would require construction of a pum­ rather than one at the main entrance hard for police to run background a day’s notice by the contractor "Alone at Home" safety program for presentation to ping station near the comer of Glen was decided on to reduce the cost, ac checks on gardeners, according to before work begins on their street. township elementary school children later this month. Avenue and Brookside Drive. cording to township clerk Richard Committeewoman Cynthia Q. Fuller Work will be done from 7 a m to 4 The plan as it is currently being Wiedmann. The macadam at the Both ordinances will come up for p.m., West Orange will provide a studied by the Township Committee rear entrance is almost level with the public hearing and final adoption 24-hour emergency number to take would have the sewerage transported doorway. March 18. complaints about the project, by gravity flow and would not require The Committee also introduced an Mayor Long announced the ap­ engineers frorq both Millburn and School sessions focus a pumping station. ordinance which will give non-union pointment of Edward E. Staeger, West Orange will inspect the work white collar and clerical employees Richard Kunz and Timothy P. Burns and where possible streets will not be Mayor Long said the township’s in Town Hall the same 7 per cent a as police officers, thus bringing the completely closed, he said. potential consent to the South Moun­ year average salary increase agreed township force to full strength. "How can we be sure you’ll get all on drug use hazards tain route would be predicated on the to with the unionized employees. The mayor also declared March 22 the pieces in place to start construc­ fact there would be no pumping sta­ Mayor Frank W. Long said the few as township-wide Clean-up Day in tion by the summer?", asked Wayne “You don't get rid of problems, you Hospital, Summit, continued the tion. If engineering studies showed a theme Tuesday. He cited examples of employees who fell into the special cooperation with the Citizens League Rutkay, president of the South Moun­ just forget about them for awhile" requirement for a pumping station, service category — such as the for Environmental Action Now personal friends, athletes whose the consent would be revoked, he tain Estates Civic Association when under the influence of drugs, township attorney and attorneys and (CLEAN). Although Mr Cunningham said all according to Detective Joseph Pariso careers and family lives were ruined said. by drug abuse. Yesterday Bobbie clerks to the Planning Board and A $5,223.80 contract for motor oil, the studies required could take a long of the Essex County prosecutor’s of­ “If we don’t pick our own pill — our Board of Adjustment — would not hydraulic oil and transmission fluid time, Mayor Long said. "No matter fice. Ball, a consultant from Fair Oaks, led a discussion between township own poison — then the issue will be have their salaries increased this was awarded to Blue Ridge Oil & year. Those positions, he said, would Chemical Corp. of Garfield. Continued on Page 6 “You have to face problems and do students and recovering teen addicts.