Council hears from town engineer at February 24 meeting
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project is complete. arawak has
submitted final Payment requests
#4 for $14,757.70 (Phase ii) and
$1,438.72 (Phase iia), which is
the release of retainage. adams,
rehmann & Heggan associates
(arH) has prepared a Change
Order for Phase ii which is the re-
sult of a penalty due to failing to
meet certain NJDOt criteria for a
small portion of the road. Closeout
procedures will now be performed.
action requested: approve
Change Order #2 in the amount of
-$497.28 for the Phase ii Project.
• 2017 State aid funding (Sec-
ond road) (arH #11-40055.01):
the project is complete. arawak
has submitted final Payment re-
quest #6 in the amount of
$19,818.46, which includes the re-
lease of retainage. arH prepared
a Change Order for additional
paving done to finalize the trench
repair over the culverts. action re-
quested: approve Change Order
#2 in the amount of $5,129.00 for
the Phase ii Project.
• NJDOt Local aid fY 2020—
14th Street roadway improve-
ments,
Phase
iV
(arH
#P2020.0108): Hammonton has
received $310,000 for Phase iV of
the 14th Street Project. arH
would like to combine the fY2019
and fY2020 grants into one proj-
ect. this would combine Phases
iii and iV and give the town a
total of $620,000 to complete the
14th Street roadway improve-
ments from Second road to egg
Harbor road and fund the con-
struction inspection and testing.
By creating one project, arH an-
ticipates getting better prices to
give the town a better chance to
get the to end of the road. this
would require additional surveying
and design to finish the construc-
tion documents. arH has submit-
ted a proposal for an amount not to
exceed $22,000 to design the re-
maining ±0.5 mile of road. action
requested: authorize arH’s pro-
posal for an amount not to exceed
$19,000 to complete the 14th
Street roadway improvement
Project.
• Wawa (route 30) (arH #11-
10029): representatives from
Bellevue Properties Group have
requested the release of the re-
maining escrow funds for the
Wawa store located at the corner
of the White Horse Pike, Bellevue
avenue and elvins avenue. arH
recommended releasing the re-
tainage with the exception of $600
for the final inspection when the
maintenance bond is set to expire.
action requested: authorize re-
lease of the escrow funds to Belle-
vue Properties Group, for the new
Wawa store.
Herrmann’s report also con-
tained the following information
items:
• Mazza Muffler Site (arH
#11-01102): arH is preparing the
HDSrf grant.
• K&K Linens Property (arH
#11-01094.01): arH is preparing
the HDSrf grant and working on
the receptor evaluation.
• Octagon Oil/Vine Street Park-
ing Lot (arH #11-01060): arH
prepared the remedial action re-
port and submitted same to
NJDeP. the town must pay
NJDeP invoices before the re-
sponse action Outcome (raO)
letter can be issued. Once the
raO is received, the application
for a remedial action permit (raP)
for the remaining groundwater im-
pacts can be prepared.
• Celona Site remediation—
130 railroad avenue (arH #11-
01054): Soil sampling and analysis
has been completed for the prop-
erty. Based on the samples col-
lected, additional samples are not
required. the next step at the prop-
erty is to install groundwater mon-
itoring wells. Michael Deely of the
NJDeP will be notified once the
work has been scheduled.
• Skinner Property (arH #11-
01074.01): arH has submitted the
grant to the State.
• Policastro Property (arH #11-
01101.01): a Pa-eSa has been
submitted to the town for review.
additionally, a proposal for
HDSrf grant application was pro-
vided on December 5, 2019.
• Boyer avenue Pump Station
Design (arH #P2019.1080):
arH is working on the permitting
plans and preliminary design of
the new pump station. they antic-
ipate submitting an application to
the Pinelands during the second
week in March.
• Boyer avenue—2019 addi-
tional Survey Work (arH #11-
50058.24): Survey and r.O.W.
mark-out of Sewell avenue, Boyer
avenue and 7 Street is complete.
• relocation of interceptor
trench Discharge at Boyer avenue
(arH #11-50143.02): Pinelands
approved this work per a resolu-
tion at is January 10, 2020 meet-
ing.
• NJ Water Quality accountabil-
ity act—Valve & Hydrant Map-
ping (arH #11-30166): final
rollout of the app and dashboard
are complete. the Water Depart-
ment has been using the app in its
work exercising valves, and the
app is now also being used to
record hydrant flushing activities.
Users will be meeting with arH
personnel as needed to work
through any bugs.
• NJ Water Quality accountabil-
ity act—asset Management Plan
(arH #11-30166.03): the Water
Main renewal Program was pro-
vided at the last meeting. as re-
quested, arH also provided
anthony DeCicco with a proposal
to complete the remaining ele-
ments of the asset Management
Plan. the cost to complete the plan
for the three well sites is $18,300,
which includes performing a com-
plete asset inventory, creating the
asset Management Plan database
with maintenance and replacement
schedules and performing a water
loss audit. the proposal has been
deferred to a later date.
• frog rock Golf Course (arH
#11-01000): arH has been per-
forming ongoing work with the
Conflict Solicitor and attorney re-
garding the litigation pertaining to
the frog rock Golf Course. re-
quested documents were provided
to the attorney prior to the febru-
ary 14, 2020 litigation deadline.
• rOSi Map Update (arH #11-
75002.02): as authorized, arH
met internally along with the
recreation Committee and Bicy-
cle Committee representatives,
and have completed a portion of
the update the rOSi map.
town clerk frank zuber pre-
sented the following items in his
report:
• approval of contract for an-
drea effinger as Department Head
of the Construction Department ef-
fective January 1, 2020. increase
in Salary of $5,000.
• accept the resignation of
Sharon riley as interim tax Col-
lector effective March 1, 2020.
• accept resignation of Jackson
Morris as regular member of fire
Company #2 in good standing.
approved at fire Company meet-
ing february 12, 2020.
• accept John adams as regular
Member of fire Company #2. ap-
proved at fire Company meeting
february 12, 2020.
• accept Mikayla Digiovannan-
gelo as Junior member of fire
Company No. 2 effect february
12, 2020
• removal of Michael Shannon
from the fire Department for fail-
ure to comply with Chapter 25 of
the General Ordinances of the
town of Hammonton.
• approval to hire anthony Ber-
enato as fire Sub Code Official in
the Construction Department, ef-
fective March 2, 2020. Single
Benefits, 32.5 hours per week.
rate of $52,000 per year, Contin-
gent upon Civil Service condi-
tions, policies and approval.
• appoint Gus Morganti as
Building Sub Code Official.
• approve Wayne esposito as
permanent Construction Official.
the following resolutions were
also approved:
• resolution # 032-2020—ap-
proval of tri-Vet Memorial Day
Parade on May 25, 2020 beginning
at 10:30 a.m.
• resolution #033-2020—au-
thorize the Sixth annual Ham-
monton food truck festival on
June 13 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• resolution #037-2020—ap-
proval of the 4th of July Parade at
1 p.m.
• resolution #39-2020—reso-
lution adopting the Neighborhood
Preservation Program Strategic
implementation Plan
• resolution #40-2020—reso-
lution of Support authorizing the
Submission of a Grant application
to Sustainable Jersey.
the next meeting of town coun-
cil will take place on March 23 at
7 p.m. in town hall.
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