Patrol Guard Bruce Perna addresses Parks & Rec. Comm.
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Field during the football season,
Veterans Memorial Park and the
town hall area.
Perna and Hammonton Public
Works Manager / Business Ad-
ministrator Jerome Barberio dis-
cussed adding the 11th Street park
to his route.
“I think that would be a good
idea,” Barberio said.
“While I think the presence of
the town vehicle riding around
these locations keeps everybody
on their toes, it’s really for the
safety of the kids,” Perna said.
The Patrol Guard position has
been a success thus far.
“It’s an experiment that worked
out for us. We’re going to keep
doing it because it’s important and
it’s working,” Barberio said.
The Hammonton Mothers’ Club
is looking to have a 5K run on
April 28, 2019 from 6 a.m. to 1
p.m. Barberio has notified the Lit-
tle League and is waiting for a re-
sponse to see if the designated
timeframe will impact the league
at all.
“If it was 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. it
might be OK, but the 1 p.m. end
time is why I sent an email out. Im
still waiting to hear back,” Barbe-
rio said.
The approval is being pushed
into November’s meeting.
Approvals granted included Al-
lies in Caring Annual Regional
Board Meeting and the Soropti-
mist Club’s monthly business
meeting, both at the Canoe Club,
as well as use of the Kiwanis
Pavilion on November 3 for a
work party. Barberio’s entire re-
port was approved.
The meeting ended with a re-
port from town council. Council-
woman and committee member
Brooke Sacco informed the board
about a grant that the town re-
ceived from the Department of
Environmental Protection.
“Thanks to Jerry and Dan
Bachalis the $17,220 grant will be
used for the reforestation of shade
trees at the soccer fields,” Sacco
said.
The next Parks and Recreation
meeting is scheduled for Novem-
ber 20.
Freeholder
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the nine freeholders represent
equally populated districts, while
four are elected at-large by the
county executive. Hammonton is
located within District 5, among
nine other municipalities in west-
ern Atlantic County. Collectively,
each board is responsible for
preparing and adopting the county
budget, authorizing expenditures
and bonds, appointing county offi-
cials and members to boards, com-
missions and authorities, as well as
several other key duties.
Incumbent James A. Bertino
(R), 62, is seeking re-election after
serving as Fifth District Freeholder
for the past eight years. Bertino
was born and raised in Hammon-
ton, where he served as town
councilman and deputy mayor
from 1997 to 2011. It was also in
Hammonton where Bertino oper-
ated Garden State Color Corpora-
tion—a photo lab formerly located
at the intersection of 13th and
North Washington Streets—for
more than 34 years. He now works
as the quality assurance officer for
Baker Boys Bakery in Pleas-
antville, which is owned by At-
lantic County freeholder board
chairman Frank D. Formica.
Bertino resides in Hammonton
with his wife, Hope. They are the
parents of three children, Jackie,
Jimmy Jr. and Michelle.
While on town council, Bertino
served as chairman of the Water
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