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Vol. 16 - No. 47
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TOWNSHIP SPRAY PARK READIES FOR OPENING
–Photo by Jennifer Peacock Orange construction fencing still surrounds the Spray Park, with benches and landscaping needing to be completed. By Jennifer Peacock the park “dimensions did not Community Development Block JACKSON – The township spray change and were built to the orig- grant for the project. Schlegel said park should be open just before inal sketch.” The physical spray the costs not covered by the grant Memorial Day weekend, township park was $62,448.29 and the con- were paid for with previous capital officials said. struction costs were $134,546.00, for park improvements. Business Administrator Helene she said. The spray park is located in the Schlegel told The Jackson Times The township received a $146,583 (Park - See Page 4)
$1.6M For Land To Buffer Jet Noise From Joint-Base Neighbors
By Daniel Nee OCEAN COUNTY – The County will be the recipient of $1.6 million in federal funds through a reimbursement program designed to encourage land preservation near military installations. Freeholder John C. Bartlett said, overall, the effort by the board has
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focused on purchasing property within the five-mile buffer of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to protect it from encroachment as well as residents’ complaints over jet noise. “The Joint Base needs to be protected and this Board of (Noise - See Page 24)
April 23, 2016
Jackson Grapples With Landlord Registrations By Jennifer Peacock to amend the landlord registraJackson isn’t the sleepy little tion process. He wants to see town in the middle of the woods an annual registration with a anymore. fee attached. So said Jackson Council PresiCurrently, a landlord registers dent Robert Nixon, one time and that “PO Boxes don’t paperwork “sits in when he addressed really do us any a file somewhere,” his fellow officials good when we’re Nixon said. and residents at trying to find the Council’s April Landlords of sinlegal owner of a gle family homes— 12 meeting, on the property.” topic of the growNixon was clear he ing number of –Council President is not talking about homes serving as Robert Nixon t h o s e w h o ow n rental properties. apa r t me nt c om Jackson is now plexes—will then a bustling, high be required to propopulation comvide accurate informunity, and with mation each year. t hat ha s come He wants names, an explosion of physical addresses, persons buying phone numbers, and homes and, rather if possible, a list than residing in of tenants to know them, renting them out. Nixon who is in the home. said the township’s current land“[Post office boxes] don’t really lord registration process is inad- do us any good when we’re tryequate to meet the township’s ing to find the legal owner of a changed needs. It’s an issue, property,” Nixon said. he said, that effects code and Nixon added that he wants to law enforcement and residents’ fine landlords who fail to regisquality of life. ter with the township. (Landlord - See Page 5) The solution, Nixon said, is
With Jail Population Declining, County Begins Adapting To New Incarceration Policy
By Daniel Nee OCEAN COUNTY – County Assignment Judge Marlene Lynch Ford said the state’s new bail reform law, currently being piloted in three counties, will be New Jersey’s iteration of a trend that is the first real change to the bail system in American criminal courts in the nation’s history. For the county government,
which funds the salaries of corrections officers and administers the jail facility off Hooper Avenue in Toms River, there is the potential for both cost savings and cost increases under the reforms, which will go into effect for the entire state next year. “Under the cur rent system where monetary bail is imposed, you have the nonsensical result
that people who have the ability to post bond and are a danger to the community are released, while those who do not pose a danger to society and are poor, are held,” Ford told the county’s freeholder board at a recent work session meeting. The reform law, passed by voter referendum in 2014, changes bail (Jail - See Page 5)
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