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Politics & Government

Freeholders Target Berkeley Island Park for Redevelopment

Public hearing on park upgrade and other county projects slated for Aug. 17

Public hearings are slated for 4 p.m. Aug. 17 on plans by Ocean County officials to spend $2.3 million on a variety of projects including the planned redevelopment of Berkeley Island County Park, repairs to a helicopter and branches of the county library.

The Ocean County Board of Freeholders at an abbreviated meeting this week introduced four spending measures to borrow some of the money and use some already in the county’s capital improvement fund.

Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari said the freeholders propose spending:

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  • $750,000 to do the engineering needed to redevelopment Berkeley Island County Park and buy land for parks in Tuckerton and Ocean Township (Waretown). Of that sum, $400,000 will be borrowed.
  • $1 million to build equipment wash pads at the county golf courses at Forge Pond in Brick and Atlantis in Little Egg Harbor and at other county facilities as part of a state program designed to reduce stormwater runoff of pollutants. All of that money will be borrowed.
  • $300,000 to replace the main and tail rotor blades on a helicopter used by the county Mosquito Extermination Commission and buy a mosquito sprayer system. All of that money will be taken from the capital improvement fund.
  • $250,000 for repairs and renovations at county library branches, all of it coming from the capital improvement fund.

The hearings will take place in the freeholder meeting room at 101 Hooper Ave. in Toms River.

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