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SPECIAL MEETING
JANUARY 29, 200
The Committee of the Township of
Oxford held a Special Meeting on January 29, 2008 in
the Oxford Township Municipal Building, 11 Green
Street, Oxford, New Jersey.
Mayor Riley announced that the
meeting had been properly advertised in compliance
with the OPMA of 1975 and called the meeting to
order at 4:05 PM
In
attendance were Bonnie Riley, N. Angelo Accetturo,
William Bray, and Sheila L. Oberly.
The
Township Committee discussed with Rich Motyka, Tax
Assessor the tax appeal submitted by John Corson,
owner of the Valley View Trailer Park.
Mr. Motyka stated that
the appeal has been delivered to the State of New
Jersey and no date has been set for the appeal.
Mr. Corson is assessed
at 2.9 million; the trailer park was assessed at 1.2
million before the re-evaluation and Mr. Corson is
asking for the assessment to be lowered to 1.8
million.
Mr. Motyka said that
the overall expenditures that he is claiming are
over fifty per cent of his income, which he thinks
seems excessive.
In reviewing the detail
list of expenses; sewer bills were $72,000;
utilities, $8,000; insurance $12,000 and repairs and
maintenance $115,000.
Mr. Motyka will ask Mr.
Corson for a detailed list of the repair and
maintenance expense.
Mr. Motyka
stated that there are ten vacant lots, sixty-six
singles, eighteen double wides and one house.
He increases the rent
in October of each year.
The rent is a follows
for 2007.
House -
$1,100/per month
Single-
$380/per
month-Jan-Sept.
$400/per month-Oct-Dec.
Double
wide-
$415/per
month-Jan-Sept.
$440/per month-Oct-Dec.
Mr. Motyka will meet with Mr.
Corson later in the week to discuss the expenses
submitted by him for the trailer park.
Mr. Motyka
discussed Block 6 Lot 4, and Lot 4.01, which are
Oxford Furnace Pizza Pub, the apartments and the Day
Care Center on Wall Street.
In 2006 this property
was rebuilt and subdivided into two separate lots
and since it was rebuilt, it would qualify for the
abatement program that was passed by ordinance by
the Township Committee in August 2006.
Mr. Motyka stated that
in 2007,the property should have been divided into
two lots-Lot 4 and Lot 4.01 and these properties
should have been abated for 2007.
This was not done.
At this
time, the Township is taxing Block 6; Lot 4:
$66,600 on the land and
$100.00 on the improvement (Oxford Day Care.)
On Block 6, Lot 4.01
(Oxford Furnace Pizza Pub) the tax is
$65,700- on the land
plus $100.00 on the improvement.
The exempt portions are
Lot 4-$405,000 and Lot 4.01-$89,000, which
represents the full exception based on the
twenty-year abatement program.
Mr. Motyka said that there was an
error and this property was never included in the
Tax Abatement program for the year 2007 and he is
going to start the abatement program for this block
in 2008 as per ordinance 2006-09 that was adopted in
August 16, 2006.
Mr. Bray stated that the Township
should get direction from our Township Attorney,
Michael Lavery and the Division of Taxation-Local
Finance Board, if this building would be classified
as new construction.
Recess:
At 5:52 PM, representatives from
the PBA and the Oxford Police Department distributed
the new proposed police contract for January 1, 2008
to December 31, 2010
PBA
Scott Raub,
Ron Pantuso
Oxford Police
Lt. Charles Lilly
Robert Yeisley
Jeff Hummel
Chris Malcolm
The
Committee reviewed the new police contract.
Mr. Accetturo stated
that the Committee and Township Attorney, Mr. Lavery
would have to review the contract.
He asked if the
percentage they are requesting for salary increase
is six percent.
Mr. Pantuso stated that
yes; Oxford is toward the bottom of the pay scale in
relation to other Warren County employees.
Mr. Pantuso said that
any changes made from the last contract are
highlighted in the new contract.
The police left at 6:25 PM.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
WHEREAS,
Section 8 of the Open
Public Meeting Act, Chapter 231, P.L. 1975, permits
the exclusion of the public from a meeting in
certain circumstances, and
WHEREAS,
this public body is of
the opinion that such circumstances presently exist.
1.
The
public shall be excluded from the discussion of any
action upon the hereinafter-specific subject matter.
2.
The
general nature of the subject matter to be discussed
is: contractual matter, police contract.
It is
anticipated at this time that the above stated
subject matter will be made public at the conclusion
of the litigation.
The motion carried with
the following roll call vote
On motion by Mr. Bray, seconded
by Mrs. Riley and passed unanimously on roll call
vote the Township Committee entered into Executive
Session at 6:25 PM
The Committee entered into open
session at 6:40 PM.
The clerk will call QC Labs
tomorrow and request two hundred bottles be
delivered to the municipal building be distributed
to residents for testing of their wells.
Mr. Bray
said that he attended the meeting with Oxford
Textile and Dave Roberts sent a copy of the outline
of the Plan Endorsement Process.
A copy of the public
notice has to be advertised for the Plan Endorsement
Citizens Advisory Committee and a resolution for the
Plan Endorsement Citizens Advisory Committee would
have to adopt.
This must include a
member of the governing body, a member of the
planning board, a member of some other local board,
commission, or committee, and at least two members
of the public, not an employee or associated with
any other board mentioned above.
The Mayor will pick
this Plan Endorsement Citizen’s Advisory Committee
by resolution at the Township meeting held on
February 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM.
On motion by Mr. Bray, seconded
by Mr. Accetturo and passed unanimously on roll call
vote to authorize the Mayor to sign the letter
submitted by NJ American Water Company for a water
extension application.
On motion
by Mr. Accetturo, seconded by Mr. Bray and passed
unanimously on roll call vote to adjourn the meeting
at 8:10 PM.
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Sheila L.
Oberly, RMC
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