Township Council will vote whether to cut its emergency spending associated with Hurricane Sandy by $10.5 million at Tuesday night's meeting in Town Hall.
The reduction to $7.5 million from the previously approved $18 million is due to a shared services agreement with Ocean County, which has a contract with Ashbritt Inc. to handle debris clean-up efforts, according to the Township Council's resolutions that will be up for a vote at the 7 p.m. meeting.
The township is planning to issue debt up to $7.5 million to cover the emergency spending, the resolution said. Debris removal costs for municipalities and states are typically reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after disasters.
Even Home Depot carried the Big Green dumpster bags that hold tons of stuff that can be called in for pick up and the company comes and takes care of it. We spent Millions of $$ on clean up that for the most part would have usually fallen on the hands of the homeowners and that's where it should have stayed. Even the cut up trees debris should either be carried to the dump by the homeowner or a tree service should have been called in to take care of the removal. Whether or not a H/O policy covers debris removal is not the issue,the issue is that the Twp did all this extra removal and now the cost for that service is going to jump out and and bite up when some responsibility should have been put on the property owners.
The responsibility for street cleen up doesn't lie with the DPW employees it belongs to the folks who draw their salaries from Town Hall, they're the ones calling the shots. Remember them at election time.
Don
There is now Nowhere else to hide, the public takers have been exposed !
I was not trying to be cold hearted toward people who were affected by the storm in the worst way imaginable and I do have a tremendous amount of empathy for them,but at the same time I feel as though some of the clean up responsibility and expense does fall on their shoulders, the same as if they had renovations or construction on their homes. The Millions of $$ this has cost the Twp, could have been put into the private sector and those who do this professionally and allowed our DPW be used for other important duties during the aftermath.