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Police Probe 5 Shootings in Pemberton Township, Seize Handguns During Two Motor Vehicle Stops Some Incidents Believed Connected, Federal Authorities Join Investigation as Police Vow to End Violence ‘Uptick’

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

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A water tower at the intersection of Pemberton-Browns Mills Road and Four Mile Road, which is associated with the New Lisbon Water System.

Pemberton Township to Take Control of New Lisbon Water System for $800,000 with Plans to Interconnect It With Two Other Systems

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PEMBERTON—Burlington County is in the process of selling the New Lisbon Water System; also known as the Burlington County Water System, comprising of three deep water supply wells, a 150,000-gallon elevated water storage tank and approximately 26,000 feet of distribution pipes, meters, hydrants and other appurtenances; to the Township of Pemberton, which plans to interconnect it with two other township water systems to ensure reliability of all its systems.

The Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders approved 4-1 the $800,000 sale of the over 50-year-old system during its July 8 meeting, after Pemberton Township Council unanimously agreed to have the municipality acquire the New Lisbon system during its June 17 meeting. (Burlington County officials declined to identify to this newspaper the freeholder who voted against this decision—and did not respond, as of press time, to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request seeking the county resolution approving of the sale and related meeting audio, contending freeholder meetings will be posted online again for

public access once they are no longer virtual due to the pandemic).

According to a copy of the sale agreement recently obtained by this newspaper through an OPRA request placed with the township, closing was scheduled to take place by July 30, with the township assuming ownership at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 1 of this year, or within seven days of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) approving the purchase.

Mayor Dav id Pat r ia rca told t h is newspaper in a July 27 interview that an “application to the NJDEP to transfer rights” is being worked on, with officials gathering necessary paperwork from the county last week.

“I can’t say how fast the NJDEP will be working on this matter, but I can say they have supported the position of Pemberton Township taking over this system, even though we did not have the ability to invest in it,” the mayor said. “I am sure they welcome our plans to improve this system.”

The sale agreement stipulates that the buyer shall assume “all liabilities, obligations and undertakings” of the seller “pertaining to, or arising from, the water system” from and after the closing date.

Patriarca, as the township first moved June 3 to assume ownership of the facility, said the New Lisbon Water System supplies water to the Pemberton Township Municipal Building, as well as to the county’s facilities along Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, some of which, including the former Rowan College at Burlington County’s Pemberton campus, are now closed.

“Since the closing of many county facilities, we targeted this particular facility as a potential asset for our water system,” the mayor said. “My personal belief is that water is a tremendous asset, a basic need for a community that should be controlled by the community.”

Patriarca contended that if the New Lisbon system had become privately owned, it could have led to water utility rates “at a much higher rate than what we provide for our residents.”

Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel pointed out during a recent council meeting that while the county owned the New Lisbon system, the municipality took care of it for nearly 40 years (up until recently as the two parties did not renew a licensed operator See WELL/ Page 10

PEMBERTON—The Pemberton Township Police Depar tment, after five repor ted shootings over the last two months in and near the municipality, including two in which bullets were fired into homes, one in which a vehicle was shot at on a main thoroughfare and another that police concluded evolved into an all-out gun battle, is vowing to “put a stop to the uptick in gun violence that we’ve seen.”

The rash of shootings in the Pemberton area began June 8.

Authorities, according to a press release from the Pemberton Township Police Department, were called to the 160 block of Kinsley Road, in the Sunbury Village section of the township, at around 9:19 p.m. that day and discovered multiple shell casings in the roadway.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg, the release said, and sought aid at nearby police headquarters all as investigators descended upon the shooting scene. The victim is said by authorities to have survived the shooting, but “has been uncooperative with investigators.”

A second shooting, which police determined involved “multiple subjects” that “became involved in a gun battle” occurred in Sunbury Village at 6:04 p.m. on June 30.

Multiple shell casings were found by police at the intersection of Kinsley Road and Emmons Avenue, and at the intersection of Anderson Road and Norcross Lane.

“It (the gun battle) progressed to the area of Anderson Road,” the release said. “Multiple people have been interviewed about the incident, however no cooperating victims or witnesses have been located.”

On July 15, around 7:22 p.m., just outside of the Pemberton Township line on the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL) portion of Fort Dix Road, two vehicles, police determined, were involved in a shooting in which multiple shots were purportedly fired at one of the vehicles.

“This incident was called in by eyewitnesses in the area, however, at this time, we have no one reporting that they were shot at,” the release said.

A second July 15 shooting being probed by authorities occurred around 10:55 p.m. in the 100 block of Alabama Trail, in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township.

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Insurance Company Reaches Settlement with Pemberton Twp. for Defense Costs Indian Harbor Agrees to Give Town $116,000 to Cover Expenses Incurred in Defending Police Overtime Lawsuit That Also Alleged Ensuing Retaliation

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PEMBERTON—Indian Harbor Insurance Company has reached a $116,456 settlement agreement with the Township of Pemberton for legal defense reimbursement pertaining to a U.S. District Court case in which the municipality and Mayor David Patriarca were named as defendants for claims asserted by township police officers that alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), and retaliation under the FLSA. Pemberton Township Council, following a 30-minute executive session, approved the settlement agreement during its June 17 meeting without comment.

Indian Harbor, according to a copy of the settlement agreement fully executed June 25 and recently obtained by this newspaper through an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request, provides the township with “Public Officials and Employment Liability” insurance.

The municipality and Patriarca were sued

by Thomas Stewart II, “et al. Plaintiffs” in the Camden vicinage of the U.S. District Court, a matter mostly decided Sept. 2, 2015, according to a civil complaint summary obtained by this newspaper. The plaintiffs, identified in the complaint as “Pemberton Township Police Department patrol officers and patrol sergeants” argued that the defendants violated the FLSA “regarding unpaid overtime compensation.”

The FLSA generally requires employers

to pay overtime rates when employees work more than 40 hours per week, but a section of it contains a partial exemption from the general overtime provisions, permitting public agencies to establish a work period that lasts from seven to 28 days for employees engaged in law enforcement. The plaintiffs, according to the summary, alleged the township never adopted the exemption.

“The plaintiffs allege that Pemberton Township enacted a policy which ‘requires all employees to clock in and clock out’ at scheduled times, ‘not the time [plaintiffs] being to work for the defendants,” according to the summary. “Plaintiffs further allege that ‘defendants require plaintiffs to conduct several activities prior to the start of their 7 o’clock shifts,’ and that the plaintiffs ‘were not paid any wages’ to complete the required ‘pre and post shift duties.’”

T he s u m m a r y l ist s p r e pa r at ion of in-car video recording systems, obtaining and securing shotguns and thoroughly inspecting police vehicles among the many tasks that the officers had performed “outside of their scheduled shifts.” Patrol sergeants, it said, were required to attend meetings, review emails and paperwork, along with supervising personnel “outside of their scheduled shifts.” In doing so, the plaintiffs claimed “the additional duties” resulted in “an additional two and See DEFENSE/ Page 11

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Area Vets Reported to Be Holding Their Own During Pandemic, with No Known Casualties But Deprivation of Social Activities, Revenue

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Pictured from left to right are American Legion Eden-Stanley Post 294 veterans Jeff Nelson, of Pemberton (Air Force), Ron Eagle, of Springfield (Army), Kevin James, of Lumberton (Air Force), Chris Collins, of Pemberton (Marines) and Paul Mosca, of Eastampton (Army).

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

PEM BERTON—W hile U.S. militar y veterans in long-term care and Veterans Administration facilities—especially here in New Jersey—have been among the most publicized and lamented casualties of the novel Coronavirus pandemic, those currently or previously residing in Burlington County appear to be mostly holding their own against the potentially deadly respiratory illness, according to reports given to the Pine Barrens Tribune by their representatives.

That is not to say, however, that there may not have been indirect casualties among area vets stemming from effects of the five-monthlong outbreak, who at the very least have been deprived of their normal activities and the services on which they usually rely (including

an extended shutdown of the commissary at Fort Dix that has now partially reopened).

“From what I am hearing, most of them have been playing it safe and staying home,” Evelyn Rosado, the director of Burlington County Military and Veterans Services, told this newspaper in a phone interview. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean their health and mortality haven’t been affected in other ways.”

She noted that, for example, there have been more claims than usual from the spouses of veterans who have passed away during this period. And while a few of these deaths involved have been the result of COVID -19, more were the result of “service-connected disabilities” that went untreated because those suffering from them haven’t been receiving

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Quarantine Sting Nets Medford Lakes Man Who Shared Genital Photos with Juveniles and Received Genital Pictures from Them

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Lenape Trail Man Is One of 8 Individuals Arrested in County After Authorities Observe Dramatic Rise in Online Exploitation of Children During Pandemic

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

MEDFORD LAKES—A 27-year-old man from Medford Lakes Borough is facing child pornography charges after allegedly showing some of the illegal material in his possession to minors, and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with numerous juveniles on social media platforms.

Andrew Marinari, 27, of Lenape Trail in Medford Lakes, was charged May 29 with two counts of third-degree endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree providing obscene material to persons under 18.

“Mariani is accused of possessing child pornography, showing it to people under 18 years of age, and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with numerous juveniles on social media platforms,” said Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.

An investigation, the prosecutor added, revealed that Mariani was communicating with “numerous underage juvenile males,” sending photos of his genitals and receiving the same from them.

Mariani was one of eight men throughout Burlington County charged with possessing and distributing child pornography as the result of a joint investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic dubbed “Operation Safe Quarantine.”

BUSSELL Also charged, locally, through the operation was Ronald Bussell, 71, of Marlton. Bussell faces three counts of endangering the welfare of a child (two are second-degree, one is third-degree), along with a possession and distribution of child pornography charge.

“Those who believe the anonymity of cyberspace will mask their illegal activity could not be more mistaken,” Coffina said. “As illustrated by these arrests, we know how to find

MARINARI you, apprehend you, and hold you accountable for endangering innocent children as a means of seeking your depraved gratification.”

T he prosecutor contended t hat t he investigations of the individuals took on “added urgency during the mass quarantine” associated with the COVID-19 public health crisis as a resulting dramatic increase in Internet activity throughout the state “increased opportunities for sexual exploitation of children online.”

The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office received 52 cybertips from March 17 through July 16, compared with 29 cybertips during roughly the same time period last year.

Statewide, from March 1 through May 23, 2019, the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received 760 cybertips.

During the period following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in March, there were 2,240 cybertips, almost three times as many.

“The worldwide tragedy of COVID has impacted our lives in countless ways, upending our daily routines, including our children’s ability to attend school in person,” said Homeland Security Investigations— Newark Assistant Special Agent in Charge Richard Reinhold. “With children spending more time online for school and entertainment, it is unthinkable that perpetrators would try to take advantage of this difficult time to exploit our most vulnerable citizens. However, this is the reality we confront across our state, and why Operation Safe Quarantine is so important, resulting in the continued need to combine the resources of Burlington County law enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations—Cherry Hill, to pursue such criminals.”

Operation Safe Quarantine “remains active,” the prosecutor warned, and “numerous additional arrests” are expected “in the coming weeks.”

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Rakesh Darji, of Environmental Resolutions, Inc. (ERI), and a colleague, discuss on July 15 revisions to Washington Township’s tax maps.

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WASHINGTON—Revision of Washington Township’s tax maps has become a costly and time-consuming exercise with Special Project Engineer Rakesh Darji, of Environmental Resolutions, Inc. (ERI), revealing at a July 15 Washington Township Committee meeting that the documents detailing the size and value of taxable real estate in the municipality, among other information, “were not substantially updated since the 1950s” and have required

more work beyond what was initially approved.

“In all candor, these maps are pretty much brand-new maps,” Darji said.

The township authorized a $30,000 special emergency appropriation in 2017 to fund the costs associated with preparation of a new set of tax maps, after the state had previously reviewed the maps and determined that 26 pages required revision.

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Police Recover Loaded .25 Caliber Handgun During Lakehurst Road Crash Investigation PEMBERTON—Police in Pember ton Township arrested a man, involved in a singlevehicle accident last week on Lakehurst Road who allegedly was under the influence of an intoxicating substance, and was purportedly in “unlawful possession” of a loaded handgun.

Damian Helm, 28, of the Browns Mills section of the township, crashed his vehicle in 300 block of Lakehurst Road at around 8:01 p.m., according to Lt. Jay Watters, a spokesman for the Pemberton Township Police Department.

“Upon arrival, officers found the operator of the vehicle to be under the influence of an intoxicating substance,” Watters said. “During further investigation into the incident, Helm was found to be in possession of marijuana, syringes, a glass smoking pipe as well as a Phoenix Arms .25 caliber handgun, which was loaded. Helm was also found to be a ‘certain person’ not allowed to be in possession of a firearm.”

Helm was charged with six traffic violations, including driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, failure to maintain lane, possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, uninsured motor vehicle and possession of an open alcohol container in a motor vehicle.

He was also charged with five criminal and disorderly persons offenses, including possession of under 50 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a hypodermic syringe for the use of controlled substance, unlawful possession of a handgun and certain person(s) not to possess a firearm.

Helm was lodged in the Burlington County Jail. Watters later told this newspaper that police do not yet know if Helm was connected to any of the recent shootings in the township (see separate story), or if it was a separate incident completely. However, the incident involving Helm was put in a separate press release from police.

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Woodland Introduces $1.4 Million Budget with Flat Tax Rate, GRC Complaint Dropped

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WOODLAN D —A $1,429,987 budget for Fiscal Year 2020 was introduced by the Woodland Township Committee July 29 (delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic), that, according to Mayor William “Billy” DeGroff, does not raise taxes, nor use any surplus.

“There will not be any local purpose tax increase, and we did not use any surplus,” DeGroff said.

C h i e f Fi n a n c i a l O f fi c e r K a t h l e e n Rosmando said the budget is about $12,000 more than last year’s produced budget primarily because it takes into account a grant that the municipality had received. She said other items that account for the slight increase in the size of the budget are increased contract and utility bill costs.

“So, we are at about the same amount that we were at (last year),” she said. “Most of our line items—we kept a strong hold on everything. We are pretty much holding the line.”

The municipality had been promised by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy, prior to the pandemic, that its Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) funding would be restored to 2010 levels this year, after the funding was cut by former Republican Governor Chris Christie.

Rosmando said that she did not anticipate, due to the pandemic, an increase in PILOT funding in the introduced budget. Murphy recently warned of drastic cuts to the state budget due to historic revenue losses from the public health emergency.

The loss in PILOT funding, along with few ratables due to the rural character of the

town and Pinelands Commission regulations preventing any substantial commercial construction, had forced the committee to raise taxes significantly last year.

“Last year, as everyone remembers, we had a substantial increase,” Rosmando said.

“But we don’t see that happening, hopefully, for the next several years.”

Township Solicitor Evan Crook announced du r i ng t he latest com m it tee meet i ng that the last of three Government Record Council (GRC) complaints filed by resident Jane Donoghue to challenge three Open Public Records Act (OPRA) denials had been withdrawn.

He said the GRC issued its final disposition in the matter earlier in the day, noting that the complainant had actually sent an email to the GRC July 7 requesting the complaint to be withdrawn.

Donoghue, as reported in last week’s newspaper, said she had reluctantly agreed in late February to settle all three complaints in third-party mediation, and turned in three settlement agreements, with the latter being in a separate envelope.

Du r ing a Ju ne tow nship com mit tee meeting, William Burns (the township’s nowformer solicitor after switching law firms) was unanimously appointed by the committee as a special counsel to defend the remaining complaint at a rate of $165 per hour, with officials contending at the time that the mediator had turned the third complaint back over to GRC for disposition since a signed settlement agreement for it had not been received.

Donoghue had told this newspaper that See BUDGET/ Page 11

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Municipal Purchasing and Bid Thresholds Increased After QPA Hired by Pemberton

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PEM BERTON — P u rchasi ng a nd bid thresholds in Pemberton Township have increased under the oversight of a newly-hired Qualified Purchasing Agent (QPA).

The part-time hiring of Gail Catania, QPA, enabled Pemberton Township Council to raise the municipality’s bid threshold last month from $40,000 to $44,000, the state’s maximum statutory bid threshold under Local Public Contracts Law, adjusted upward by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy on July 1.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, c o u n c i l r e c e n t l y passed an ordinance allowing township departments to make individual purchases of up to $6,000, without its approval, if a QPA is employed by the municipality. Previously, all purchases of $3,000 or more needed council consent.

Mayor David Patriarca declared that “it is certainly not a free-for-all here” now that council has pulled back its oversight of less expensive purchases, with language written in the ordinance contending that a QPA provides the township with additional expertise to ensure that all of its purchases are made strictly in conformance with applicable law, including Local Public Contracts Law. “The township wants to take advantage of the skills and expertise of its QPA and provide township administration with more flexibility to make the purchases necessary to support daily operations of its staff in the most efficient possible manner,” a section of the ordinance stipulates.

Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel assured residents that there are a number of “internal controls” in place, and that department heads “can’t just buy what they want, when they

want it.”

He explained that when a department manager wants to make a purchase, that person must create a purchasing requisition in an administrative system. Once the purchase order is created, he said, it is reviewed by the township’s chief financial officer (CFO).

“If the purchase is over a certain threshold, it has to get council approval,” Hornickel said. “In all cases, it has to get the mayor’s approval. The purchasing agent has added another layer, or another set of eyes to the purchasing process.”

The business administrator added that the QPA not only reviews the actual purchases, but also vendor history to make sure purchases from an entity don’t exceed allowable thresholds, and to see if there are any violations of pay-to-play laws.

Township Solicitor Andy Bayer noted that the individual purchasing threshold council has set is still “well, well below” the authority a QPA has under the Local Public Contracts Law when engaging in purchases.

“The township recently hired a QPA,” he said. “This is an individual, or employee, who meets certain criteria and training in connection with purchasing, and actually when the township has a QPA, the bid threshold goes up, meaning the township could acquire a (larger) purchase of goods without going out to bid if you have a QPA.” Patriarca contended that he reviews every purchase to see if its something that was budgeted for by council, while the CFO checks to see if the funds are available.

“I look at these purchases individually, every purchase, to make sure they are purchasing within the purchasing plan,” Patriarca said.

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Old Pemboro School Is Now Demolished, But to Use or Sell the Site Is the Question

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Brink’s Tank Services cleans up a site off Early Street this week where the former Pemberton Borough Elementary School once stood.

By Andy Milone PEMBERTON BOROUGH—Demolition of the old Pemberton Borough Elementary School is complete, according to Pemberton Borough Administrator and Clerk Donna Mull, but the decision-making on the use of the site is not as officials weigh whether to construct a recreational facility there, using grant money, or to sell the land to a developer in order to generate additional tax revenue.

Brink’s Tank Services wrapped up the demolition of the school building early last week at the site, which is located on Early Street, between Egbert and Davis streets, Mull said in a telephone interview with this newspaper on July 22.

The firm is also finishing up the removal of additional asbestos that had gone undocumented in a previous asbestos report, a process that should take a couple of days, she noted, with the parcel to be graded and seeded later. The additional asbestos was found, according to Township Engineer William Wentzien, in the building’s boiler room both earlier in July and more recently, within the columns holding up an overhanging roof, as well as in some piping wrapping around the entirety of the building’s perimeter.

The extra asbestos-removal work involved in addressing those problems adds another $38,393 to the $118,850 contract awarded to the firm.

The school building has been closed since 2008, and previously had been viewed by residents and council members as an eyesore, a danger to public health and a financial liability.

The borough administration had been considering the possibility of constructing a recreational facility, such as a bocce ball or tennis court, in place of the demolished school building, but Mull revealed that officials are now weighing another possibility: selling the land to a developer.

“We talked at the budget meeting about promot i ng the proper t y for a builder

because we need the revenue,” she said. “No decisions have been made at this point.”

Mull announced at a previous council meeting that the Pemberton Borough had lost $73,000 in electric utility revenue for no specific reason, “other than people are using less electric.”

She noted that the administration had to cut $64,000 in appropriations, which, combined with a tax hike, helped balance the borough’s 2020 fiscal year budget. She also noted the municipality had lost about a million dollars’ worth of annual ratables as a result of the Bu rli ng ton Cou nt y Board of Freeholders acquiring privately owned properties along County Route 530 for a road project.

The borough had sent a questionnaire to residents earlier this year asking them a b out wh a t t y p e of r e c r e a t io n t he y pr efe r r e d t o se e c on st r uc t e d on t he property. The questionnaire, obtained by this newspaper, had options for a dog park with fencing, shuf fleboard, bocce ball court, small playground, exercise stations, tennis courts and a picnic area. There was also a write-in option.

Mull said the borough received 147 responses, but noted that she was not ready to reveal the results of the questionnaire.

If council does settle on a recreation facilit y, Mull said there is about $80,000 of grant money previously awarded to the borough from the Burlington County Recreation Grant program that the “county said could be used for demolition and a (recreation) project.” However, she previously emphasized that this grant money cannot be used for engineering costs.

The borough submitted an application for this year’s 2020 county park grant application for the maximum amount of $250,000 to be used, in part, for the possible recreation project, according to Mull. The borough, however, has not received any correspondence back from the county regarding the application following an awarding of the first round of grants for this year.

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(Continued from Page 5) One purchase recently drawing scrutiny, approved by council, was the award of a $106,584 two-year contract to Premier Technology Solutions, LLC for computer networking and technology services.

Hornickel, who is now an 11-month township employee, explained that his predecessors would “just put out a straight bid package” for technology services. He said that this year, with council’s approval, the administration can now seek Requests for Proposals (RFPs) packages with competitive contracting.

“What that did is it allowed us to ask for additional information (from bidders) other than price,” he said.

Pricing, Hornickel said, is obviously a dominant factor when weighing proposals (carries 65 percent weight), but he said that the administration and the QPA sought a bid package that included additional information (carries a 35 percent weight) from bidders such as cyber security protocols, what other municipal contracts they have in place, afterhours technology service offerings, and average times to remedy service requests.

T h rough the i nfor mation collected, Hornickel and Catania, were able to implement a point system and assign points to each of three bidders. It was determined, he said, that Premier

had services more tailored to municipalities with police and criminal justice information systems, compared to its current technology service vendor that has had a contract with Pemberton for the last 10 or 15 years.

“One bid package was completely out of range,” the business administrator said. “The other two were neck-and-neck, the incumbent and the new one. We called references for Premier and they have a more classic municipal client base, meaning that they do police IT work.

Incumbent has municipal-sewer, clientele. Both Gail and I gave very fair and honest evaluations, and the company we are recommending beat out the competitors by three points.”

Hornickel contended that Premier’s two-year package included having a specialist on-site one day a week, answering calls 24/7, 365 days a year, and providing the township with four terabytes of offsite data storage.

“That is literally a ton, I can’t quantify it,” he said. “Offsite data backup is important; God forbid something breaks here; we have another set (of data) offsite.”

More than a dozen purchases over $6,000 have been made by the township this year, as listed on council meeting agendas available on the township’s website. At council’s latest meeting, eight rifles for the police department were purchased for $9,331, while five fire hydrants and twelve 6-inch Megalug packages with gaskets were purchased for $8,473. Also approved were 10 portable radios at $18,982 for the township’s volunteer fire department.

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(Continued from Page 2) routine hospital treatment and “it’s been very difficult for them to get home health-care assistance.”

Not only are there a limited amount of hours available for such assistance, Rosado said, “but most of the appointments early on were either cancelled or were done via Telehealth—and that wasn’t always easy for the older population who aren’t computer savvy.” Because of the Coronavirus, she pointed out, it’s become more difficult for such individuals to get assistance, or for them to leave home to solicit assistance from a family member if they don’t have a computer.

Rosado added that she doesn’t keep count of how many veterans in the county may have contracted Coronavirus, with such statistics falling under the purview of the Burlington County Health Department, which “is not really identifying them as veterans.” She said veteran statistics relating to COVID-19 might not even be disclosed because of HIPAA (the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

“But nothing really has been said regarding a large number of them being affected,” she contended.

The story was much the same from area chapter heads of major veteran organizations.

“A lot of the older vets are very cautious, and understandably so,” asserted Guy Gibb, commander of American Legion Eden-Stanley Post 294, on Fort Dix Road in Pemberton Township, in a phone interview with the Pine Barrens Tribune. “Our post hasn’t lost any members, although I have heard of some members of the American Legion who passed from complications of COVID in the state, but not from Burlington County.”

While there have been a few deaths of World War II and Korean War-era vets among the more than 400 members, there really has been no increase in mortality, “just your normal drop-off,” he maintained, adding that the 94-year-old mother of one member of the post did have the virus, but had actually recovered.

Mark Preston, who has served as commander of Medford Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7677 since March, told this newspaper his post, with a membership of more than 300, had lost three of its members since March, but he was “unaware of any of those deaths being from the Coronavirus.” Since the post loses an average of one member a month, he noted, that mortality rate was “nothing out of the ordinary,” something he attributed to “people trying to be careful, or if they’re not, they know not to come.”

Preston, however, also observed that local veterans might be having to forgo their usual health checkups and treatments, as the Veterans Administration facility on Lincoln Drive in Marlton “is basically not seeing anyone face to face, and telephone doctoring is not very

useful” for most vets.

“In a general sense, I know it is taking time to process VA claims,” he added.

The post, however, has continued to keep tabs on its members, according to Preston.

“Once a month, we go through our whole phone roster to check up on them,” he said.

“We are even calling people who no longer live in Jersey, but are still members, and they are very appreciative. A lot have moved to Florida.

There are quite a few who have relocated down south, but are still members of our post. They are doing fine, or at least as best as can be in these circumstances. The only story that everyone has in common is they are sick of the Coronavirus and can’t wait for us to be open.”

In fact, the main effect of the contagion on county residents who served their country as member of the Armed Forces, according to the heads of these local posts, is the frustration of having their customary social get-togethers and fundraising activities curtailed as a result of the shutdowns and social-distancing orders that have been in effect since mid-March.

“Everybody is being negatively affected,” observed Gibb, who said that while chapters have once again been allowed to open for meetings, albeit with very strict limitations and guidelines, organizations such as the Boy Scouts and the Fraternal Order of Police that regularly used the post facilities for meetings prior to the pandemic have yet to return.

“Maybe they’ll start coming back, but it is really hard to coordinate activities.”

So far, the post has managed to conduct a small food drive and assist a local veterans organization called VALOR by maintaining a clothing drop box back in March.

“But it’s very hard to do anything right now,” Gibb said.

Preston described having similar problems.

“The hardest part for us is the closing of our campaign and the resulting lack of funding,” he noted. “Our programs have been impacted because we don’t have discretionary funds.

We are all going through the same problems of trying to find ways to still be viable to the community.”

Even traditional ceremonies such as raising flags and playing taps in local cemeteries on Memorial Day could not be advertised, he said, because “we didn’t want a crowd.”

While Democratic Governor Phil Murphy has lifted some of the restrictions on outdoor activities, allowing the American Legion post to open their canteen, any drinking has to be done out in the parking lot, under tents, and only during daylight hours, Preston explained.

Unfortunately, the hot weather has discouraged members from staying very long or showing up at all, he added.

“We used to have a Thursday night dinner and a once-a month steak dinner, but that is not happening,” Preston lamented. “We’re hoping that by next month, we can do it again.”

Adding to the adjustments many vets have

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(Continued from Page 4) state) down to two pages of comments,” Darji said. “We are on the five-yard line now.”

D a r ji , h owe ve r, p o i n t e d o u t t h a t $35,500 has been billed so far to the municipality (with $27,500 paid), and that another $5,000 is needed for the engineering mapping work to be completed. He said the condition and age of the maps “gave a shock to us” and that is why officials already overspent on revisions by $5,500.

Township Tax Assessor James Renwick, who joined by telephone the first township committee meeting held in-person since the Coronavir us pandemic began back i n Ma rch a nd was said to have been quarantined for 14 days after being exposed to the virus, warned the governing body “that I don’t want you to think $5,000 is going to get you to the end of the line.”

“I have been dealing with these maps for 24 years,” he said. “We are at the 10-yard line, but sometimes that is the hardest part—to get to the end.”

Renwick, when pressed by the township committee to provide an estimated cost on how much more money would be needed to complete the project, replied, “I can’t give you a number.” He contended that there were at least 165 “old deeds” remaining to pull and replot, and that he has a “year to two years’ worth of work” left, going through boxes of old documents.

Mayor Da n iel Ja mes, who noted that the process to revise the tax maps “has been going on forever, and in the grandscheme of things we have spent a lot of money and haven’t gotten anything for it until now,” said his primary concern was that other projects have already been planned, wh ich will requi re use of t he money set aside in the mu nicipal budget for engineering costs.

James added that he a nd Tow nsh ip Clerk Kathleen D. Hoffman need to meet w it h C h ief Fi n a ncial Of fice r K r ist i n Manning, who was absent from the meeting, “to see what we have planned for the rest of the year” and “get some idea of year-end anticipation.”

“We have to have tax maps, there is no doubt about it,” the mayor said. “It has got to happen, but we just need to see where we are going to find the money for it.”

H o f f m a n , w h o a s s e r t e d $ 43 , 0 0 0 was left in the engineering budget and had initially contended the funds were

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available, suggested that the t ax map work re su me p ossibly i n Oct obe r or November.

Dar ji maintained his belief that the mu nicipalit y was closer to the 5-yard line, and said that he does not want the “moment u m” to come to a halt w it h only two more pages of comments left to be resolved.

“What I would like to do is make the revisions and send it back to the state,” Darji said. “I will even hold off on my billing until you guys get your financial situation straightened out. I don’t want to lose the momentum we have.”

Darji added that was “really happy” when the municipality “only got” two pages of comments back.

Washington Township Committeeman C . L e i g h G a d d J r. , w h o i n i t i a l l y questioned how the tax maps were in the condition that they were in after hearing that they were worked on for a number of years prior to the emergency appropriation, called it “commendable” that Darji was “willing to hold off on billing and keep the momentum going.”

“I just hope there is an end in sight,” said Gadd, with officials contending “leg work” was done over the past several years and “all the data was there,” just that it was “shown incorrectly.”

The mayor, however, was not optimistic that would be the case.

“Let us be realistic—there is no end in sight,” James said. “This will be a cont i nuou s pro ce ss , but i f we cou ld get it down to a $1,000 to $2,000 a year mai nt e na nce fe e, once eve r y t h i ng is compiled and straight, it is still going to have to be maintained.”

The mayor pointed out that properties are still going to be sold, combined and given to the state, “and so the tax maps are a continuous work in progress.”

Darji called tax maps “living documents” and contended that they have to be “reviewed constantly on a regular basis.”

“That is why we are getting beat up now, because nobody spent $2,000 a year (to maintain them) since the 1950s,” James said.

Darji contended that the “good news” is t h at t he t ow n sh ip w i l l so on h ave digitized tax maps encoded with ge og r a ph ic a l i n for m at ion (CA D a nd GIS files) that can be easily updated, unlike the current paper maps with corresponding deeds and other infor mation in “boxes and boxes.”

“The old maps look nothing like the new maps,” Renwick said.

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“We know this system well,” Hornickel said.

Hornickel called the New Lisbon system’s wells “very robust” and declared that they “have the capacity to produce a lot of water.”

“In fact, there is one well the county drilled in 2010 that isn’t being used,” he said. “So, we have the potential to use a water source that is not even being used.”

Patriarca noted during that meeting that the township first became interested in acquiring the New Lisbon system a few years ago when the municipality was reconditioning one of two wells that are part of the Lake Valley Water System. “ O n e of t h e wel l s w a s d ow n fo r reconditioning, and then we had to consider what would happen if something happened to the other well,” Patriarca said. “Well, we would not have had water for that entire community.”

The mayor said the township determined that purchasing the New Lisbon system to interconnect it with the Lake Valley system, and eventually interconnecting with a third system, “or creating a loop system,” was the best option to “safeguard against” the Lake Valley community (and also the Oak Pines community) from losing water.

“If you lose that well, you are in a pickle,” said Patriarca in the July 27 interview with this newspaper.

Using a water supply already established that has the “capability of producing more than enough water in area that it is in,” and then drawing from that system to assist another area “just ma kes sense,” r at her t ha n d r illi ng a new well, Pat r iarca contended i n the July 27 interview.

Patriarca told this newspaper that the shortterm goal of officials is to acquire the New Lisbon system and “recondition it.”

“The short-term goal is to take ownership of it and bring it up to our standards, and bring it up to how we operate our other systems,” said the mayor, noting that the municipality recently received a grant ($1,171,600) and loan ($1,464,500) from the Pinelands Commission’s Pinelands Infrastructure Trust Fund for the water system improvements.

The “mid-term goal,” as the mayor put it, is to interconnect the New Lisbon system with Lake Valley system. Then, once that is completed, the township is hoping to interconnect the New Lisbon system to the Browns Mills Water System.

“One of our long-term goals with this system is to interconnect our Browns Mills system to our Pemberton system, which we are strengthening now with the northside water system that we have been building,” Patriarca

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“So, if one area of town happens to have a supply issue, we can still fulfill that demand by a matter of changing a few valves and the direction of water flow from another area, and continue to provide safe water to all our residents.”

Hor nickel, during the recent council meeting, added that the typography of the area adds to the benefit of interconnecting the New Lisbon system, as it is located uphill f rom the Browns Mills section of the township.

“So, having a water tank in a high location allows the water to pretty easily flow downhill to where you need it, and then in the other direction, we may need a pump station, but still the pressure of that tank is in a very strategic location for us,” he said.

Meanwhile, according to Patriarca in the July 27 interview, the township is also exploring interconnecting the new northside system to nearby Pemberton Borough’s system at some point.

“It would make sense for us to maintain a connection to Pemberton Borough because that system would be a backup to Pemberton Borough and vice versa,” Patriarca said. “Right now, their backup system is an American Water system, the former Sunbury Village Water System.”

Patriarca stressed the impor tance of planning and designing interconnections in advance to “create a level of redundancy.”

Council appropriated $1,470,000 for improvements to its water systems through a bond ordinance, and authorized the issuance of $1,399,875 in bond notes during its May 20 meeting. $840,000 was appropriated t h roug h t hat bond ord i na nce for t he purchase of the New Lisbon system, while $104,000 was appropriated through it for the development of the development of the new water system. The bond ordinance also called for $180,000 to be allocated for well and tank upgrades, including to the Beech Street Water Tank.

Township Solicitor Andy Bayer contended that the county “is not in the business of providing water” and providing water to property owners is “not a core function like it is in Pemberton.”

“It (the New Lisbon system) may be the only public water system, as far as I know, that they own currently and they want to basically get out of the water business,” Patriarca said. “I feel this particular utility needs to stay in the hands of the public and not conveyed over to private. … I compliment them going in that direction and keeping it in public control.”

Burlington County Spokesman David Levinsky confirmed to this newspaper July 27 that the New Lisbon system is the only one that the county owns.

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(Continued from Page 1) casings,” the release said. “Also, a residence in that area was found to have been struck numerous times by bullets.”

Two days later, on July 17 at around 12:40 p.m., according to the release, the Pemberton Township Police Department was made aware of a video on social media that depicted “several subjects” in possession of a handgun with an extended magazine, “which appeared to be loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition.”

Police, based on information they obtained, set up at several locations around Pemberton Township to locate a vehicle that they suspected contained the individuals and handgun depicted in the video. The vehicle, according to the release, passed by two police officers assigned to North Pemberton Road.

“A high-risk motor vehicle stop was conducted in the area of North Pemberton and A r ney’s Mount roads by multiple members of the Pemberton Township Police Department,” the release said. “During the stop, the occupants of the vehicle were found to be in possession of a Glock 19 pistol with a 30-round extended magazine.”

Kobe Kemp, 20, of Brow n s M ills; Garmondeh Junius, 26, of Mount Holly; Elease Burton-Spellman, 29, of Browns Mills; Andre Ross, 20, of Pemberton; and Kenneth Jones, 18, of Browns Mills, were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a handgun, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and possession of a large capacity ammunition magazine. Ross was also charged with possession of a marijuana after he was found to be in possession of “some” of it during the traffic stop.

Two days prior to the July 15 shootings, according to the release, police conducted a motor vehicle stop on South Brynwood Drive for a traffic violation and the operator of the vehicle, Kyree Matthews, of Pemberton, was “found to be in possession 28 bags containing marijuana, as well as he was found to be unlawfully possessing a Glock 41 pistol.”

Kyree was charged with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm during distribution of controlled substances, unlawful possession of a handgun

and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

All of the individuals, with the exception of Burton-Spellman, were arrested and lodged in Burlington County Jail, according to Lt. Jay Watters, a spokesman for the Pemberton Tow nship Police Depar t ment. Bu r tonSpellman, he said, was released on a summons.

Police have not determined, Watters said, whether they believe the individuals arrested July 13 or 17 were involved in the July 15 shootings, or any of the others over the last two months in the same vicinity, only that “we believe some of these aforementioned incidents to be connected and the investigation is ongoing into all of them.”

“We are working on that,” Watters told this newspaper July 29. “We are trying to figure out, what connection, if any, these individuals had to the shootings. It has been assigned to a detective and she is working on the cases.”

Due to one of the shootings occurring within JBMDL’s territory, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 307 has joined the investigations, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office is also playing an active role in the investigations.

A shooting that authorities contend is also still under investigation, but “is not believed to be connected to the other incidents,” occurred at 12:12 a.m. June 13 in the 100 block of Ridge Road, in Browns Mills. Police found a residence in the area that had been struck during the gunshots.

“While I don’t know, obviously, all the details of the investigations and what is driving the shootings, it is certainly a concern, but am confident the police department is investigating them,” said Pemberton Township Mayor David Patriarca when asked July 27 by this newspaper about the incidents. “What drives people to disregard human life in the manner that they do today, and not just in Pemberton, but everywhere in the country and society in general, I still haven’t been able to understand.

The disregard for human life keeps growing. It doesn’t make sense.”

Anyone with information on any of these incidents is asked to contact the Pemberton Township Police Department Detective Bureau at 609-894-3310, or the department’s Confidential Tip Line at 609-894-3352.

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half to four hours” per pay period, which they purportedly did not receive compensation.

“Plaintiffs allege that the defendants took away access to the department locker room ‘in direct response to filing the complaint,’” according to the summary. “Plaintiffs further allege that they ‘have all been forced to remove their equipment from the locker room and to store it in their personal vehicles, or at their house.’ Furthermore, plaintiffs contend that the defendants ‘instigated internal affairs complaints’ to ‘intimidate plaintiffs to deter them from pursuing the claims against defendants.’”

Count One, pertaining to alleged violations of the FLSA, was dismissed without prejudice, with Judge Robert B. Kugler finding that the plaintiffs’ assertions that they worked at least 82.5 or 84 hours every two weeks “only make it possible, not plausible” that they worked more than 86 hours every 14-day pay period.

Count Two, pertaining to alleged violations of state regulations, was dismissed with prejudice after Kugler found that the regulations don’t pertain to the defendants, as well as Count Four for the same reasons.

The Third Count, involving retaliation under the FLSA, was not dismissed, however.

“Accepting all factual allegations in the complaint as true, and construing those facts in the light most favorable to plaintiffs, the court finds that plaintiffs’ claim of retaliation under the FLSA is ‘plausible on its face’” according to the summary.

Stewart retired from the township police force in 2016, according to a posting on the police department’s website.

Patriarca, in a July 27 interview with this newspaper, said that the case is still being litigated in federal court.

“It is obviously in ongoing litigation, so I am not going to comment on litigation,” the mayor said.

He added that he would let the dismissals speak for themselves when asked if he had a rebuttal to the dismissed charges.

The municipality and Patriarca, on Nov. 6, 2019, sued Indian Harbor “seeking a judicial declaration regarding the parties’ respective rights and obligations with respect to defense and/or indemnity for the claims asserted in the

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(Continued from Page 5) Township Clerk Maryalice Brown’s remarks last month about the GRC not receiving the third settlement agreement marked the first time that she had heard that the GRC did not receive it.

Donoghue then descr ibed to this newspaper how she had tried to turn the paperwork in several times after hearing that the GRC did not receive it, but had gotten no response. She then alleged it was a setup by officials to make it seem like she was costing the township money because the complaint at issue involved an OPR A request for timesheets of municipal workers that she sought to point out how the tow nship could save money “if they paid people for the hours that they worked.”

While Burns’ work defending the GRC complaint is now coming to an end, a check register provided during the July 29 committee meeting indicated that the law firm Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle and Sacks, LLC, in which he is employed, had been issued a $2,392.50 check July 29 for “Legal Services— GRC Complaint.”

The law firm was issued a $297 check for the same ser vices during the previous month.

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Specifically, the mayor and township wanted a declaratory judgement that Indian Harbor is required to defend them in the Stewart case, is required to reimburse them for all past costs, litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees incurred in defending the matter, and pay all past and future costs, litigation and attorneys’ fees in defending the case.

Additionally, the mayor and township sought to have the insurance company pay attorneys’ fees together with interest related to the matter, pay the costs of the lawsuit, indemnify them in the Stewart case and pay any judgement or settlement in the Stewart case.

Patriarca, in the July 27 interview with this newspaper, said the dispute was “over what was covered and not covered.”

“My understanding is that they did not feel matter fell into the criteria of their coverage,” the mayor said. “We ended up having to pursue a case where we ended up settling and agreed upon what they would cover and not cover.”

According to the settlement agreement, which “will result in the dismissal of the declaratory judgement without prejudice,” Indian Harbor has agreed to pay Pemberton Township $116,456.27 as reimbursement for 50 percent of “all reasonable past costs, litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees” incurred in defending the Stewart case “from the filing of the first complaint” in the case “until April 30, 2020.”

Additionally, Indian Harbor had agreed to pay 50 percent of “all reasonable future costs, litigation expenses and attorney’s fees incurred by the plaintiffs” in defending the Stewart case after April 30, 2020 “until the claims are resolved.”

“In consideration of Indian Harbor’s payment of the past defense expenses and agreement to pay future defense expenses, plaintiffs fully and forever release, acquit and discharge Indian Harbor from all claims related to Indian Harbor’s duty to defend plaintiffs in the Stewart Claims, including reimbursement of plaintiffs’ costs, litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees incurred prior to April 30, 2020 in connection with defending the Stewart Claims,” reads a portion of the settlement agreement. “Plaintiffs’ release of claims against Indian Harbor, (aforementioned), shall not apply to any claims that may arise in the future if Indian Harbor fails to pay future defense expenses.” its final bill from the law firm related to the matter. DeGroff declined to be interviewed for this story.

A not her topic of concer n at recent meetings has been a large amount of trash being dumped at the municipal dump, with DeGroff expressing his belief in May that outsiders are partly responsible for the increase. The township, due to the increase, has had to have its container emptied more often, according to the mayor.

DeGroff’s initial idea to place a solarpowered control gate that can only be opened with access control cards, or magnetic cards, at the dump’s ent ranceway was dropped last month due to a $15,000 estimate, which officials said was too expensive. He said other alternatives would be explored.

Committeeman Derrick Daniels, during t he Ju ly 29 com m it tee meet i ng, said the dump’s foreman tur ned away three people this past Sat urday f rom out of town trying to dispose of their waste at the facility.

“That is saving money right there,” Daniels said.

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