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Point Borough Municipal Court

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Point Borough OKs Resolution to Extend Shared Municipal Court

New agreement increases percentage paid to Point Beach for administrative costs, while Point Beach pays for police support

  The Point Beach Municipal Court operation is one step closer to staying in the Point Borough municipal building on Bridge Avenue. Point Borough Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to extend the court shared services agreement until 2016. The proposed agreement calls for the Borough to pay more for municipal court administrative costs and to hire, at Point Beach expense, two part-time, special police officers to provide security for Point Beach municipal court sessions in Point Pleasant Borough's Borough Hall on Bridge Avenue. The proposal still has to be approved by the Point Pleasant Beach Council and then Superior Court Judge Vincent Grasso, sitting in Toms River. The agreement calls for Point Borough to hire two Class II …

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Spooner

12:04 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012

Watchdog...why don't you ask the Mayor to have his CFO put out and break down all the Council attorney's cost indices and figures by quarter for the past three years, starting Jan 1, 2010, and post it on the town's website or in the Ocean Star. . . PS: Mayor when you quote the Ocean Star, please either provide the link or the publication date, and your simplistic comment is not representative of …   more ›

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Point Borough Agrees to Let Point Beach Take Back its Court

Revised plan would allow Borough, Beach to continue to share staff

The Point Borough Council agreed Tuesday night to an amended contract that will allow Point Beach to move its municipal court operations back to Point Beach Borough Hall. In a unanimous vote, the council agreed to allow Point Beach to hold its municipal court sessions in its town, while continuing to share the court administrator and staff. The change was requested by Point Beach after it found the shared services agreement – put in place in 2010 by both towns’ previous council members – cost its police department $20,000 in overtime last year. Point Beach Police Chief Kevin O’Hara and Lt. Robert Dikun have said the overtime was the result of a state requirement that mandates Point Beach staff the court sessions in Point Borough with full-…

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