Point Boro Accepted into Complete Streets Program

The State DOT will help design a plan to make the town more pedestrian and bike friendly.

  The idea of a complete street is one that is available to multiple modes of transportation, not just driving in a car, but walking and riding a bicycle.    In Point Pleasant Borough, however, the streets are anything but complete. At its council meeting Tuesday night, councilman and cycling enthusiast Chris Leitner announced the town’s acceptance into a State Department of Transportation (DOT) program aimed at making New Jersey’s roadways more accessible for all, not just drivers. According to Leitner, the bicycle and pedestrian planning assistance program will help Point Pleasant create a comprehensive plan – on the state’s dime – which theoretically will put the town in position for future transportation grant funding that makes …

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Point Boro Residents Look to Start FEMA Fight

Upset about FEMA's new flood maps, residents are scrambling to come up with ideas on how to object.

Point Pleasant Borough Mayor Bill Schroeder wishes he could provide the public with some actual answers.        With council chambers packed with residents Tuesday night, Schroeder talked about a meeting he had with a liaison to Gov. Christie’s office recently to discuss, among other things, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) newly-adopted advisory flood maps. It must have qualified as a good discussion, he said, at least considering how long it lasted. But when he stood up from the table after the meeting, he realized that all of the questions he had before the meeting remained unanswered. “Quite honestly, nothing got resolved,” he said of his talk, unintentionally prefacing a meeting that would turn out to be more of a …

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Nautigal

7:01 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

You're doing a good job talking to people, bernie but policy premiums will be increasing 300-400% even with full compliance of height requirements and people should be made aware of that.   more ›

Hurricane Sandy

Point Boro Winding Down Sandy Debris Removal

"We're much further along than I thought we'd be," public works superintendent says

Citing pressure from the state Department of Environmental Protection and from FEMA, Point Pleasant's public works superintendent on Tuesday night said it was time to wind down debris collection from Hurricane Sandy. Public Works Superintendent Robert Forsyth told the Point Pleasant Borough Council that efforts to clean up debris from the storm have moved along far more quickly than he expected. "We're much further along than I thought we'd be" six weeks after Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore, Forsyth said. At this point, the borough has picked up most of the household debris -- belongings and furnishings damaged in the storm -- and public works is nearly done with construction debris. Metal goods -- damaged appliances -- continue to be …

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Energy Aggregation Companies Present Plans to Point Boro

Savings potential is 10 to 25 percent, representatives say

Three companies that work with entities to aggregate utility costs -- thereby driving down the costs -- have made presentations to the Point Borough Council on what they could offer if Point Pleasant pursues energy aggregation for the Borough and its residents. The Borough has been looking into the feasibility of a Borough-wide energy aggregation program since March, when Borough Council President Antoinette DePaola proposed the idea. The concept of energy aggregation is that a larger entity -- in this case, a municipality -- enters into an agreement with an energy supplier to provide energy to the group defined by that entity at a lower cost than if each member of the group was purchasing it on their own. Municipalities are now allowed to…

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Point Boro Council Names Remington as Borough Engineer

Republican majority rehires firm removed by Democrats in 2011

The Republican majority on the Point Pleasant Borough Council voted Tuesday night to replace CME Associates as the borough engineer with Remington, Vernick and Vena, seven months after CME's contract with the borough had expired. The Borough's new contract with Remington will expire in December 31, 2014, said Borough Administrator David Maffei on Wednesday. Remington's hourly rates range from $52 to $125, and CME's hourly rates range from $58 to $140, depending on which staff member is doing the work (please see attached PDF for rates charged by Remington and CME, as provided by the Borough Administrator's office on Wednesday). The vote for a new engineer was criticized by Councilman Christopher Goss, a Democrat, who questioned making the …

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Mitch Remig Resigned From Point Boro Council to Start County Job

Remig had to resign before starting new job at prosecutor's office

Mitch Remig has resigned from Point Borough Council, a requirement for him to start his new job as a full-time detective with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. He will be sworn in on Monday morning at the county prosecutor's office. Remig, 23, resigned effective this past Saturday, according to a letter he sent to Borough Administrator David Maffei last week and to Patch on Monday night (see attached PDF). In the letter, dated last Wednesday, Remig wrote: "The opportunity to serve the people of the Borough as an elected official has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life to date." His council term would have expired at the end of the year. Remig, who has also been working as a Manasquan special police officer, said his …

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Mitch Remig Has to Resign from Point Boro Council by July 9 to Start as County Detective

Point Borough Republican committee to submit 3 nominations to council to fill unexpired term

Point Borough Councilman Mitch Remig has to resign from his council seat before July 9, when he will be sworn in as a full-time detective with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, said county Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford on Thursday afternoon. Remig, who will earn $38,000 annually in what will be his first full-time job as a law enforcement officer, said on Thursday that he hasn't decided yet when he will resign, but acknowledged it will be before July 9. Remig will have to resign from his council seat, which expires at the end of the year, because appointees to the county prosecutor's office are not permitted, according to county and state ethics guidelines, to be active in partisan politics, Ford said. Ford said that when she …

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Theresa

9:07 am on Saturday, June 23, 2012

Chief Wahoo, Did you persue a Bachelor or master degree?   more ›

Point Boro Public Works Requests Building for Vehicles

$195,000 structure among more than $2.23 million in requests that received initial approval from Borough Council

Like all towns, Point Pleasant makes a significant investment in vehicles for various tasks, from construction and zoning enforcement departments to the police force. In an effort to get as much as possible out of its investments, the borough’s Department of Public Works is hoping to build a structure to shelter its vehicles. That structure – estimated at $195,000 – was just one of the items to receive initial approval from the Borough Council during its two budget workshop meetings last week. Last Tuesday, the Council reviewed capital budget requests from every department – requests that had been revised from earlier workshop reviews – totaling just over $2.23 million. Nearly a third of that amount -- $726,000 – is designated to replace a…

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New Fire Truck On Early Capital Budget Approval List

Borough clerk reminds council this is only the beginning of the process

A $726,000 rescue truck for the fire department was at the top of the list of items approved by the Point Pleasant Borough Council as it continued to lay out the 2012 budget. Also receiving preliminary approval Tuesday night were a pair of Chevy Tahoes for the police department and two new vehicles for the construction department. The council’s workshop hearings continue Thursday, 7:30 p.m. at the municipal building. Borough Clerk David Maffei noted the votes the council members took Tuesday night merely allowed the town to budget for items. “This is not the final approval,” he said, noting that the council has to introduce the budget, vote to approve the budget, and then items – particularly things such as the rescue truck – will have to …

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Point Boro Budget Discussions On Tap Tonight

Budget workshop meeting set for 7:30 p.m. at the municipal building

The Point Pleasant Borough Council is set to meet tonight to discuss the budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. The workshop session, set for 7:30 p.m. at the municipal building, is the first of two sessions this week, with a second workshop session set for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. No votes will be taken at the meetings, but residents interested in what the budget may contain may attend the meetings, which are open to the public.

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