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Loading clothing during the recent district-wide clothing drive in the Hopewell Valley Regional
School District are Hopewell Elementary School parents Heidi Willenius and Jeanine Vaccarino,
and district employees Neville Swaby and Mack Gibson.
Collecting clothes for those in need
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P r e - s o r t e d
S t a n d a r d
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P A I D
B e l l m a w r N J
P e r m i t 1 5 0 1
P o s t a l C u s t o m e r
Sewer
costs on
the rise
Its going to cost Hopewell
Township residents another
$33.75 a year, based on a $450,000
home, to get additional sewer cov-
erage through the Ewing
Lawrence Sewerage Authority.
The township committee Nov.
28 approved the agreement with
ELSA by a 4-1 margin , along with
the $4.1 million in a general obli-
gation bond needed to finance the
additional flow of up to 266,666
gallons per day to the treatment
plant.
The agreement includes homes
in the Briarcliffe, Diverty Road,
Indian Village, Flower Hill, The
Hamptons subdivision and exist-
ing adjacent lots to be served by
that subdivision, existing devel-
oped lots on Brandon Road East,
existing commercial property on
Route 31 and the Zeitz-Hutchin-
son affordable housing site.
Flows not additionally allocat-
ed will be reserved for future uses
within the areas designated
sewer service on the Hopewell
Township Wastewater Manage-
ment Plan, which have reserved
all necessary planning and zon-
ing approvals and have met all
conditions of those approvals, ac-
cording to documents posted on
the township website.
Committeewoman Vanessa
Sandom cast the lone dissenting
vote against the bond ordinance
and the agreement with ELSA.
Responding to Mayor James
Burds comments that the agree-
ment resulted in a significantly
reduced rate per gallon than up-
grading the existing sewer plant,
Sandom said the numbers only
told part of the story.
A report by Wargo Road resi-
dent Gail Downey, the township
representative to the Stony Brook
Regional Sewer Authority, indi-
cated that the cost of the ELSA
agreement would be about $15 per
gallon of flow compared with $67
Agreement with ELSA will cost average
homeowner about $34 more a year
By JIM WRIGHT
The Hopewell Sun
please see SEWER, page 9
Schools collect clothes for the needy
The recent district-wide cloth-
ing drive in the Hopewell Valley
Regional School District collect-
ed 8,376 pounds of clothing and
caught the attention of Wearable
Collections, a major New York-
based recycler that used the
drive in its blog as one of the ex-
amples for future clothing drives.
The textile drive is wonderful
because it is consistent with the
districts mission to foster re-
sponsibility toward the commu-
nity and the environment, said
Board of Education president
Lisa Wolff. It kept more than
four tons out of landfills and at
the same time raised over a thou-
sand dollars for our PTOs.
Keys to the success of that
drive, she said, were having
schools all work together, a pub-
lic-relations campaign on a dis-
trict-wide level and choosing
memorable dates, in this case,
the drive ended on Election Day.
Parents of multiple children,
for example, could send in cloth-
By JIM WRIGHT
The Hopewell Sun
please see CLOTHES, page 3
The following items come from
reports on file with the Hopewell
Police Department.
A 50-year-old Kingwood man
was arrested and charged with
drunken driving, failure to keep
right, failure to wear a seatbelt
and driving with a suspended li-
cense after an off- duty Hopewell
Township police officer reported
that his pickup truck had been
swerving in and out of its lane on
Route 29.
The officer spoke with the
driver, who allegedly had the
odor of alcohol on his breath.
After performing field sobriety
tests, the officer placed the man
under arrest and transported
him to police headquarters for
processing.
He was later released to a rela-
tive and the case will be heard in
municipal court.
An 18-year-old Pennington
man and a 19-year-old Hopewell
man were arrested and charged
with possession of under 50
grams of marijuana and posses-
sion of drug paraphernalia Nov.
22.
The 18-year-old was additional-
ly charged with possession of a
controlled-dangerous substance
in a motor vehicle.
According to police, while on
routine patrol a Hopewell Town-
ship police officer came upon a
parked car in a closed business
parking lot on Somerset Street.
While speaking with the occu-
pants of the car, the officer
smelled the odor of burnt mari-
juana coming from the car.
Further investigation found
the men to be in possession of
two bags of marijuana and a
glass pipe containing marijuana
residue.
The men were placed under ar-
rest and transported to police
headquarters for processing.
Both men were later released and
their cases will be heard in mu-
nicipal court.
A 19-year-old Pennington man
was charged with DWI, reckless
driving, leaving the scene of an
accident, failure to report an ac-
cident, underage consumption of
alcohol and tampering with a
public document after being
stopped Nov. 25 at 5:34 a.m.
A Hopewell Township police
officer responded to Route 31
after a Pennington Borough po-
lice officer stopped a car for driv-
ing on the rim of the passenger
side front tire along with a rear
flat tire.
Further investigation found
that the car had struck a storm
drain and a mailbox on Penning-
ton Harbourton Road.
The Hopewell officer spoke
with the 19-year-old driver, who
allegedly had the odor of alcohol
on his breath.
After performing field sobriety
tests the officer placed the driver
under arrest and transported
him to police headquarters for
processing.
The 20-year-old passenger also
was placed under arrest for the
underage consumption of alco-
hol.
As the driver allegedly had a
fake Florida drivers license in
his possession, he was charged
with tampering with a public
document.
The driver was released to a
relative and his case will be
heard in municipal court.
His passenger also was re-
leased, and that case will also be
heard in municipal court.
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ing to any school and not have to
choose which school to support.
Individual school fund rais-
ers often get lost since they have
more limited appeal, she said.
You need to start by getting
district-level support, Wolff told
Wearable Collections. Since I
was already on the school board,
I knew that our alternative re-
source advisory committee could
help coordinate a fund raiser
across multiple PTOs and could
coordinate with the facilities
group in the district. Most school
districts have a forum for the
presidents of all school PTOs to
exchange ideas. Ours is called
the district parent council, so I
knew to involve them.
Wolff said it was important to
get a buy-in and coordinator for
all participating schools.
I asked each coordinator to
work with the school principal to
determine where items collected
would be stored, she said,
adding that signs advertising the
drive and drop-off locations had
to be created, and that the drop-
off sites had to be easy to find
and access.
Providing lists of suitable
items was another important de-
tail, she said.
Letting donors know that
stuff is accepted in any condi-
tion was a huge selling point.
Everyone loves this drive be-
cause it allows folks to clear out
the house without loading the
landfills and yet makes a positive
contribution to the schools with-
out opening their wallets. Whats
not to love? she added.
Having an Election Day drive,
she said, made it more memo-
rable and easier for the commu-
nity, not just students and par-
ents, to participate, since most
schools are polling places.
One volunteer was so in-
spired by our Election Day drive
so much, that she set up a tent
and a giant sign at a polling place
that was not located one of our
schools and had filled the bed of
a friends truck and drove the
stuff over to the closest school.
Wolf is looking forward to an
even more lucrative clothing
drive next year, since as an annu-
al event, residents know to start
saving their old clothes for the
next Election Day drive.
School district collects 4-plus
tons of clothing for the needy
CLOTHES
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district in Colorado that now includes
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dont seem to mind at all.
The concept, of course, isnt new.
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taxpayers are demanding breaks and
governing bodies try to maintain re-
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more are looking at ways to raise addi-
tional funds. And renting out public
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Avenue home of Charles Brown, 40.
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the officers before they got him in cuffs
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Toms River police were called to a home
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Thursday.
Deven Skyers, 18, who lives there with
his family, told investigators he heard his
dog barking and then was hit on the head
with a handgun by one of at least three
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gets planning award
Hopewell Township recently
received an award from the New
Jersey chapter of the American
Planning Association for Distin-
guished Civic Leadership in
Community Education for its
work in the Pennytown/Mar-
shalls Corner Task Force.
The task force, formed by
Committeewoman Vanessa San-
dom as an advisory group to as-
sist the township in assembling
pertinent information about the
Pennytown/Marshalls corner
redevelopment area is bounded
by Route 31, Marshalls Cor-
ner/Woodsville Road and Pen-
nington/Hopewell Road.
That task force consisted of
13 members representing vari-
ous segments of the township,
including the planning board,
the township committee, the
public, the environmental com-
mission, the Green Team, the af-
fordable housing committee.
The township began the
process to acquire the Penny-
town property in partial re-
sponse to its NJ Council on Af-
fordable Housing third-round
affordable housing obligation.
The planning board adopted
the housing element to the
township master plan in 2008,
with the plan formally identify-
ing the property as a unique site
with development capacity for
up to 70 units of municipally
sponsored affordable housing
based on available sewage treat-
ment capacity.
The township contracted
with the owner of the property
in the spring of 2009 to acquire
the property and completed the
sale in December 2009 using af-
fordable housing trust fund dol-
lars.
The president of the chapter
commended the mayor and
deputy mayor for so completely
inviting the public into the
process, said task force co-
chairman Ed Truscelli at the
township committee meeting
Nov. 28. Each meeting was like
a seminar in planning, and so
much was done by volunteers
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We think this is just the first
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collaboration continues.
Work with Pennytown/Marshalls Corner leads to recognition
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December 7
FOR ALL
Board of Adjustment Meeting: 7
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TGG Winter Concert: 7 p.m. at the
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Wednesday Night Out: At the Red
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THURSDAY
December 8
FOR ALL
SBES Winter Concert: 7 p.m. at the
Performing Arts Center at Hopewell
Valley.
Board of Trustees Meeting: 7 p.m.
at the Hopewell Public Library.
MONDAY
December 12
FOR ALL
Township Committee Meeting: 7
p.m. at the Municipal Building.
HVCHS Band/Orchestra Concert:
7 p.m. at the Performing Arts Cen-
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TUESDAY
December 13
FOR ALL
Affordable Hosing Committee
Meeting: 7 p.m. at the Municipal
Building.
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Performing Arts Center at Hopewell
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a gallon were the existing sewer
plant to be upgraded.
This may seem like a good fi-
nancial deal for the township,
Sandom said. But if you have ca-
pacity that is not designated or
not soon to be designated, the rest
is up for grabs for whoever wants
to pay for it. What we dont want
to do is encourage development in
order to pay off a debt.
Sandom also agreed with Sioux
Road resident Jewel Latham that
the majority of the public had not
been adequately informed that
the ELSA agreement would be fi-
nanced by a general obligation
bond.
In our initial discussions last
Christmas and January, it was
clear that users were going to
pay, Sandom said. Over the past
few months, we have been quite
quiet about the fact that we are
not going to do that.
Burd had told Latham earlier
that the ordinance was on its sec-
ond reading Monday evening.
But most of the public does
not know that this is a general ob-
ligation bond, Latham said.
Youre asking us to finance this
without an agreement with the
people who will benefit.
I wouldnt want to pay for
something ahead of time without
knowing exactly how much Ill be
using or wholl be using it, she
said.
Township Attorney Steven
Goodell said the township must
first reserve flow at the Authority
before it determines what the
projects will look like, what the
costs will be and how to assess
those costs to the various users.
Goodell said the agreement
was necessary for the township to
meet its state affordable housing
mandate, and Burd also men-
tioned that without adequate
sewer capacity, the township
could be subject to builders reme-
dy lawsuits by developers seeking
to build affordable housing.
Sandom, however, questioned
the need for the agreement at this
time.
If we were vulnerable [to such
lawsuits] every developer in the
nation would be here suing us,
and that is not happening, she
said. If at some point, we needed
the additional flow, we could go
back to ELSA, and they would
have no choice, because we are
talking about affordable hous-
ing.
Other committee members, in
voting in favor of the agreement,
said it was necessary and at a rea-
sonable cost.
Ive always been in favor of
protecting the rural character of
the town, said deputy mayor
Mark Markulec. But we need af-
fordable housing, its not so much
that the state mandates it. One
thing that continues to bother me
is spending $4 million in this
economy, but Ive tried to reach
out to as many people as possible
about this, and there are people
who have dealt with health issues
for decades.
Committeewoman Kimberly
Johnson said that the township
should take advantage of the op-
portunity presented by the agree-
ment while its here.
I dont think this is ever going
to come our way again, she said.
We would do worse to take the
gamble that we would end up pay-
ing more in the future. We are
paying now for a cost that we
know we will have down the road.
This looks toward the long-term
future.
Committeeman John Murphy,
a former deputy mayor, said he
thought of the approval as an act
of good faith after negotiating so
long with ELSA.
A few years back, when we
were negotiating with ELSA, I
had apologized for the inaction of
past committees, he said. I com-
municated that we would operate
in good faith and were very eager
to have an agreement with them.
This agreement is the culmina-
tion of that effort.
This has nothing to do with
discussions back then, Sandom
said, in voting against the agree-
ment.
Sewer bond
will cost
residents more
SEWER
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