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the municipality “did try through code enforcement” to “maintain rentals,” but that “legally, we can’t prevent rentals.” He acknowledged that some of the homes at issue “were converted” in the 1950s and 60s, and the municipality “did not have good records” from that time of what was approved or disapproved, but that today, “we have better recordkeeping.”

That being said, he emphasized, the borough has “no control” over preventing rentals “if properly zoned.”

Mull noted that the windowless house was being worked on and that permits have been issued, and an individual has six months from the issuance of a permit to begin work. The person issued permits, she said, are in their “second month” of having approvals.

“The whole inside is going to be finished, and the entire property redeveloped inside,” she said. “They’ve started on the outside. It is 100 percent better inside. They have six months to move on the project.”

The meeting ended with Diane Fanucci, a Republican candidate for borough council who is known to sound off on a variety of topics during public comment, in part, calling on the council members to have a “dedicated email account” so that residents can email each councilmember directly with their questions and concerns.

“That is a public record,” quipped Serlin in response, causing Fanucci to ask, “Is there something wrong with a ‘public record?’”

The borough solicitor explained that he believed having such accounts would pose “privacy” issues, while Mull asked, “What is the purpose?”

“That is what the administrator gets paid to do (field questions and emails),” Haines said. “What’s the purpose? I am not saying we have a problem with it. But this (public comment) is the open forum to ask those questions.”

While Haines said she would have Mull “look into it further,” Jerome asserted he felt any emails are “truly best handled going through the office.”

“Some on council may get the message, some may not,” Jerome added. “At least this way there is one central clearing house, and when we need to be notified about something, we are. It is a logistics kind of thing.”

Jerome said that for himself, he would be concerned emails addressed to him would “get lost” because with his business, “he gets thousands of emails a day” alone. But that with emails going to the borough administrator, that person could bring “notice” to an issue that requires his attention.

Fanucci said she would look into whether the governing body members for other area towns have individual email addresses, noting the local school board members do. (Pemberton Borough is one of a handful of towns in this newspaper’s coverage area in which the individual elected officials don’t have direct email address for them posted online.)

During the course of the meeting, Councilwoman Andrea Martin sought and received approval from Griffin to create a “committee” to” look into bringing public recreational events to town,” such as food truck nights. That committee, she said, would also like to take a look at bringing back the town’s fall festival, formerly known as the Hanover Street Fair.

Upon return from an executive session, based on the exchange about emails, Martin asked if she was allowed to communicate with the committee and others via email and the best way to do that. Serlin recommended she create an email account separate from her private email, using a service such as Gmail.

A long-awaited “administrative code” was introduced at the Aug. 15 borough council meeting that formally defines the powers of the mayor, council, councilmembers and borough officials and departments. It is scheduled for second reading in September.

“Every ordinance adopted by the borough council shall, within five days after its passage, Sundays excepted, be presented to the mayor by the borough clerk,” the proposed code reads in part. “The mayor shall, within ten days after receiving the ordinance, Sundays excepted, either approve the ordinance by affixing his signature thereto or return it to the borough council by delivering it to the borough clerk together with a statement setting forth his/her objections thereto or any item or part thereof.

“No ordinance or any item or part thereof shall take effect without the mayor’s approval, unless the mayor fails to return the ordinance to the borough council, as prescribed above, or unless the borough council, upon consideration of the ordinance following its return, shall, by a vote of no less than four members, resolve to override the veto.”

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parents will have an option to opt out of a classroom lesson,” Havers declared.

The superintendent noted that allowing parents to opt out of a classroom lesson is “not a different format” for the Pemberton district and emphasized it is the “same type of option as they have had in the past.”

Havers, when Republican candidate for Pemberton Borough Council, Diane Fanucci, expressed back in June that she felt some of the standards had “really inappropriate parts,” responded, in part, that “I share some of your concerns” and that he “thinks some are very controversial and for good reason.”

At the time, he further maintained that there are “some standards we won’t put in the curriculum because we don’t think they are appropriate,” while others he maintained would possibly be “modified.”

“The reality is, when (these) new standards come out, in my experience – in my 26 years of education, I have yet to find a set of standards where I have said, ‘I can teach all of that in one year,’” added Havers, maintaining there are often times where his colleagues in education arrive at the conclusion that they are “not going to have time to teach” all of them.

“The end result may not make everyone happy,” said Havers at the time.

However, since that time, a spokesperson for the NJDOE told The Bergen Record (also known as The Record) that “districts that do not teach the standards will be penalized for instruction and program in the appropriate curricular area,” adding, “the severity of the ramifications could vary.” The threat of penalties being instituted has garnered the attention of several school districts and reportedly led to accusations from Republican lawmakers that Democratic Governor Phil Murphy’s administration is simply “gaslighting” parents over their protests of the standards.

“Again, it is in our curriculum for parents to have options to teach at home,” said Havers on Aug. 18. “We dissected those standards very carefully, had great dialogue in terms of where we are at, and what should be taught in class and out of class, and will have a revised ‘opt out form’ for anyone who is still not comfortable.”

Pemberton School Board Member Sheri Lowery, who heads the public body’s Curriculum Committee, following the local superintendent’s pronouncement, during a subsequent Aug. 25 meeting of the school board, “commended” her “hometown” in its approach to the new “health standards.”

“We have some common sense in this town,” she declared. “We are actually listening to each other, not getting caught up in that (controversy). I am very proud of you all. Some people have strong opinions online, but when I come here – I am so proud of you all.”