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Pemberton Twp. Superintendent Responds That ‘We Are Not Trying to Bring Auto Shop Back,’ It’s Unlikely He’d Recommend Reinstating the Others Because of Aid Cuts, Staffing Challenges
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Several Pemberton Township Board of Education Members Call On Administration to Reinstate Shop Courses at Pemberton High, Particularly Auto Shop, After Reports That Students Are Leaving for BCIT, Other Area Schools to Enroll in Tech-Ed Classes
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PEMBERTON—Several members of the Pemberton Township Board of Education have spent the summer calling on the administration of the Pemberton Township School District, including Superintendent Jeffrey Havers, to bring back Pemberton Township High School (PTHS)’s “shop” courses, many of which were reportedly cut over the past four years, particularly Auto Shop and Woodshop.ARepublican candidate for Pemberton Borough Council has also called for the reinstatement of the shop courses. And a recent remark about the elimination of the courses by the president of the Pemberton Township Bus Drivers’ Association, which was published in last week’s Pine Barrens Tribune as part of a news story about alleged cuts to out-of-district school bus routes, has created quite a stir in the community – with several readers who live in the area apparently previously unaware that the shop courses had been eliminated
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The district, she explained, is moving to the new format because “we want parents to be aware of their child’s development and achievement” and “in order for them to be able to understand this, this report card will show them each and every standard and how their child is progressing along the way.”
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There is also, according to Smith, a “work skills” section that specifies whether a student is “an active participant, can complete tasks, puts forth effort, listens to and follows directions, and works and plays cooperatively.”Aswiththeprevious report card, there is also a section for “parent comments” and attendance, Smith noted.
“It is something that identifies each standard that is to be met by the end of each grade level, in this case we are talking strictly kindergarten,” Smith said. “And it provides very specific information that allows the parent to see how their child is advancing in meeting that year-end standard.”
The intent of the new format, Havers explained, is to make it both easier for parents to understand how their child is doing and “what they can do” to support their child, particularly if they are struggling in a certain area.
“The concept was to build out the resources so that they have them,” the superintendent asserted.
The board approved during its Aug. 25 session visits by “PAWS therapy dogs of Virtua Health,” with the initial visits for students who attend the Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center. “The handlers have all received the COVID-19 vaccination and have current background checks,” noted a statement about the visits on the board meeting agenda. “In addition, the therapy dogs are up to date with their required shots. Copies of insurance, shots, and registration will be on file at the Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center for every therapy dog and handler. Cost is $0.” Additionally, according to Lowery, four Spanish translators have been hired to “help our students feel more comfortable,” with the new hires receiving official boardapproval on Aug. 25. “We are looking at the whole picture,” Lowery declared.
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The “work is going to start,” he added, to plan for the implementation of the new format in first-grade. “The goal is we are going to do first-grade next year, second-grade the year after that and work our way up,” Havers said. Also, on the Instruction and Curriculum front, Board Member Sheri Lowery announced that approximately 350 Dell computers in Pemberton Township High School are “in the process of being replaced.” Additionally, she noted that DenboCrichton School “had some issues” with cellphone service due to poor reception in the area and “signal boosters” are being added in key parts of the school building to aid with reception, including in the main office.The district, according to Lowery, has also recently put together a “STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) room” in its pre-school “to get the students” interested in the academic discipline because “we all know that is where all the jobs are going.”Asthe district continues to contend with a “behavioral and mental health” crisis resulting from the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020-22 and the corresponding extended lockdown, Lowery announced that therapy dogs will be utilized in providing staff and student social-emotional supports. “We know there are issues in the district, so we are finding ways of addressing that, in which we are not just sending them (the students) to the office,” said Lowery of the decision to retain the therapy dog visits.
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“By the end of the grade level, the parent will know, step-by-step in each marking period, where their child is,” Smith maintained.Theprevious report card used for kindergarten students used the “traditional” grading scale of “O (Outstanding), VG (Very Good), S (Satisfactory) and N (Needs Improvement), according to Smith, with it having “very basic” literacy, writing and math components, but the new one has “four performance-level indicators at the top” using a 1-4 scoring system, offering “very expansive” English-Language Arts components, for example, that details a student’s reading and foundational skills, as well as their comprehension of informational text, writing, speaking and listening.
PEMBERTON—Standards-based report cards will be implemented for kindergarten students in the Pemberton Township School District, beginning with this new school year, with the revised report card format expected to be rolled out incrementally with each passing school year in the higher grade levels of the district.
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The Mathematics portion of the new report card details items such as whether a student “can express a quantity, can they count, can they compare numbers and quantities, can they solve word problems using objects and drawings, can they compare and decompose numbers and can they identify shapes and analyze and compare,” with certain portions of the document not utilized until the third or fourth marking periods, or when certain concepts have officially been introduced to a student for the first time, Smith explained. There is also a Science and Social Studies section on the new report card, Smith pointed out, as well as Music, Physical Education and World Language areas. “Another scale” on the new report card indicates whether a student is meeting the “Habits of Success performance indicators” either Consistently, Mostly, Sometimes, or Infrequently.“Thistakes a look at social skills – or whether a student is showing respect, accepting responsibility, acting with integrity, demonstrating perseverance, and maintaining positive relationships through acts of kindness and service,” Smith said.
A “Family Guide” put together by the district’s curriculum team will further introduce parents to the standards-based report card, explaining to them the “what, why and how,” Smith declared.
According to Ida Smith, chief academic officer of Pemberton Schools, standardsbased report cards are “easier for parents to understand and lets them know what their children are learning and what they should do at the end of the grade.”
“This is not new for many other places, but it is new for us,” said Superintendent Jeffrey Havers of the standards-based report cards during an Aug. 25 Pemberton Board of Education meeting.
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In addition to his passion for birding, Wallner and his wife, Betty, also devote much of their spare time to hiking and tending the native plants in their garden.
“Doug Wallner is a longtime Pinelands resident, brings a wealth of experience in natural resource conservation and fire management to the Pinelands Commission, and we look forward to working with him,” said Paul Leaken, the agency’s communications officer.
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Wallner, who was scheduled to be sworn in at the commission’s Sept. 9 meeting, has been a member of the Evesham Township Environmental Commission since 2018, as well as currently serving as co-chair of the NestWatch Program at Black Run Preserve, in which he has been active since its inception in 2015. He has also served as a trustee for the friends of the Black Run Preserve. A resident of the township and the Pinelands National Reserve since 1990, Wallner served in a number of natural resource and fire management capacities during his 34-year career with the National Park Service, from which he retired in 2012. The last post he held was that of northeastern regional fire management officer, in which he worked closely with state fire programs and the New Jersey State Fire Warden.
The gubernatorial appointees are subject to the review and consent of the state Senate. Commission members, who are unpaid volunteers, serve staggered, three-year terms.
Page 4 ♦ LOCAL NEWS / FEATURES WWW.PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM Saturday, September 10, 2022 at ThePTHS.increasing pressure being applied to the administration to reverse course comes amid multiple reports and on the record statements that students from the district’s sending communities of Pemberton Township and Pemberton Borough are now deciding to attend school elsewhere, including at Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT), because of the shop courses no longer being offered at the township high school. And, as has been explained in the past, a drop in enrollment has an apparent relationship to the amount of funding a school district receives annually from the state, with a loss in enrollment typically corresponding to a decrease in state aid – though part of the reason cited for the decision to cut the shop courses is the continuing loss in state aid to Pemberton Schools as a result of a revised school funding formula enacted in 2018, with losses to Pemberton expected to total some $27 million by the end of the 2025-26 school year. The mounting pressure on the administration to change direction also comes as beloved, longtime PTHS Principal Eder Joseph plans to depart for BCIT later this month to become that institution’s assistant superintendent, with a candidate for Pemberton Borough Council revealing in June, just before Joseph’s resignation, that she was personally aware that the principal had “big plans” for woodworking at PTHS. Those plans will now apparently at least be put on hold, if ever coming to fruition.
“Kids who sign up for Auto Shop all of a sudden wouldn’t have a class that is really ‘auto shop,’” maintained Havers of the situation that would occur if an instructor left mid-year. “That is another challenge that we have in terms of getting a commitment. Part of the trouble is we can’t really guarantee that (course) for our kids.”
Pemberton Borough resident Diane Fanucci, a former district employee who is running this November for a seat on Pemberton Borough Council as a member of the GOP, also attested that “our students are going to be trying to go to BCIT now if they want Auto Shop.” She pointed to an apparent “cost” that the Pemberton district was purportedly incurring for “busing our children to BCIT who aren’t taking Auto Shop here,” maintaining that Pemberton school officials should be “reminded” of it.
The “other reality,” as the Pemberton superintendent put it, is “sadly we are still facing another up to $9 million in cuts” from the“Thatstate.is the reality,” Havers declared. “I will say it again – and I feel like a broken record: there is nothing that we have cut in the last four years where I said, ‘Great, I’m glad we are cutting that.’ My colleagues feel the same way and I am confident the board feels the same way.” Havers called the elimination of the various shop courses “forced cuts and decisions” that “we had to make.” As the Pine Barrens Tribune reported last week, Sue Hertell, president of the Pemberton Schools’ Bus Driver Association, during an Aug. 18 Pemberton Board of Education meeting, took both the public body, and in particular the district administration, to task for “taking away,” she alleged, out-ofdistrict extra runs from district bus drivers, including a 5:45 p.m. “late run” provided to students from Pemberton who attend BCIT over“ItPTHS.isallbecause our kids ‘choose’ to go there,” Hertell contended. “It is Pemberton Township that chose not to have Woodshop, Electronics, Automotive and Welding Shop, and our kids have but no choice to go to thatWhileschool.”Business Administrator Dan Smith, who is also planning to leave Pemberton Schools later this month, accepting a business administrator post in the Egg Harbor Township School District (which is receiving an increase in aid under the same school funding formula, Havers recently pointed out), contended in response to Hertell that the reason for the possible elimination of the BCIT “late load” is because the technology institute provides such service “for all other districts that go there, which we are asking that they do for Pemberton,” Hertell’s remark, after being published in this newspaper, received the attention of readers in the community, many of whom since expressed that they had not been aware that such courses were taken away at PTHS. “Did the high school remove all of that?” one reader asked in a social media thread linked to this newspaper’s story. One person responded, “The CTE electives left are: Business, Culinary Art, Graphic Design, TV Tech, Nursing, Horticulture, and JROTC” and that “Sewing is gone. Baking is gone. Auto is gone. Drafting is gone. Facilities and Maintenance is gone. Tech Design is gone. Fashion Drawing is gone. Woodshop is Gone.” A screenshot of that reply was then posted in a Facebook group by the person who asked the initial question, asking another, “Is this true they removed all these courses from the high school?” “So, they remove the stuff that teaches life skills they’ll need,” the person added. “If so, now I see why more and more kids are going to BCIT, which is going to put a higher strain on bus routes.” One of the first replies was from someone who pointed out “Electronics is gone too.” “That’s insane!” the author of the post asking the question wrote. “What are they doing to the high school?” Among the other remarks was that “We need more kids to take up trades. There’s a lot of money to be had doing it.”, “nobody
Additionally, the neighboring Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) has recently begun “piloting” tuition-based enrollment for out-of-district students who would like to enroll in its shop courses, with the LRHSD, through a 2021 voter-approved $66.6 million bond referendum, both expanding and renovating over the summer both its auto and welding/metalworking classrooms for its Career Pathway Program that now includes providing any automotive students an opportunity to earn an entrylevel Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certification through a “streamlined” process.TheLRHSD, also facing steep cuts in state aid, has launched its program, in part, in response to the state funding cuts, hoping to not only gain enrollment, but to see revenue gains by attracting out-of-district placements, charging such students $8,000 a year to Previously,enroll.in the spring, several of the Pemberton school board members had raised the LRHSD offerings and remarked how some of their own family members were interested in them.
Fanucci also recounted how during the 2020-21 school year, the last one before she retired from the Pemberton district, “we were interviewing for possible instructors and one was chosen” for Auto Shop.
However, during an Aug. 25 Pemberton school board meeting, despite two school board members calling for the reinstatement of the Auto Shop course and the like, and another asking questions in that regard, Havers responded, “We are not trying to bring Auto Shop back,” and when asked by Pemberton Board Member Sherry Scull about the possibility of bringing back “Building Trades” or Woodshop, among others, responded, “I don’t think I’d be recommending that we add programs previously cut” in light of the state funding cuts.Scull arrived late to the Pemberton school board’s previous June 23 session in the PTHS auditorium, which she explained was the result of her vehicle breaking down while on the way to the high school. “Guess who I called?” she said of what happened when her vehicle broke down. “A (former) student who had Auto Shop at Pemberton high.” But before providing that explanation, Scull declared, “I don’t feel our district is serving a huge part of our community.” Scull noted that her nephew had just graduated from BCIT, contending it was “because there wasn’t a program here for him.”“And I know that happens with a lot of our kids,” she added. The elimination of Auto Shop at PTHS, she maintained, is not the only reason students are choosing to attend school elsewhere, pointing out that PTHS also “had Woodworking,” which is also no longer available at the township high school. “If you look throughout the township, we are full of carpenters that make a heck of a lot more money than teachers and lawyers,” Scull said. “They are doing carpentry work that they learned here at the high school. It is the same with Auto Shop – look at the mechanics (who are based) in Pemberton Township, they are Pemberton high graduates. So, I just feel that I don’t think we are looking at, and taking care of, that part of our community. I know there are parents who feel that way.”
“I don’t know what happened with that person,” she said, maintaining that the individual who was chosen for the position was someone “with a lot of experience in the real world of auto repair.” Pemberton school officials have not said over the last several months what happened to the previous Auto Shop instructor. While Fanucci pointed out that PTHS still offers Culinary Art, Television Tech and Graphics Art courses through its Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program, “Auto was one of our few, really nitty-gritty, hands-on CTE programs.” “We lost Welding,” Fanucci said. “We lost Woodshop, which was supposed to come back and now that is not going to happen. I know Mr. Joseph had big plans for that. We talked all the time; that was my program. Please at least find it in yourselves to bring that back. “I want to reiterate the importance of technology classes for our local population. We need these classes.” Havers, in response, explained that the Auto Shop teaching position was posted “for at least a year,” but contended there were no takers. This newspaper observed the job posting, first posted on May 14, 2021, with a “date available” of “on or about Nov. 1, 2021,” still active on the district’s website as of the evening of Sept. 4. “One of the things (to keep in mind) when we are looking at the budget is ‘stability,’” Havers said. “So, even if we were able to keep Auto Shop – right, the problem would be if we lost somebody, or they decide to resign or leave, we’d have to then find places for those kids to go.” Havers explained that the Pemberton district had already “had that happen” in which a shop course instructor left during the middle part of the school year, with the superintendent indicating that he felt there was a strong possibility of such a situation again presenting itself because “we found we didn’t have the ability to fill the position for over a year.”
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But prior to those Sept. 4 comments from the public, Pemberton Board Member Terry Maldonado joined with Scull during the Aug. 25, latest Pemberton school board session in calling for the reinstatement of Auto Shop and the like, with Board Member Lionel Lee asking several questions in that regard.The subject was broached again when Maldonado asked if the district’s preliminary enrollment figure for the 202223 school year of 4,157 students, provided to the Pemberton school board on the night of Aug. 25, was accurate. “Yes, that is accurate,” replied Havers, noting that as many as 140 additional students were in queue for registration. “Hopefully, we will get those students to come in and see those numbers go up. … We talked before about our enrollment dipping, hopefully we bring more people in, than leave here to go to another school district. A lot of people are in the queue, in registration.”Apreliminary enrollment figure for the 2021-22 school year, provided at the same time last year, showed that 4,217 students were enrolled in Pemberton Schools. Maldonado, who has been a member of the Pemberton school board since 2013, upon the superintendent’s Aug. 25 enrollment confirmation, recalled how “it was 5,000 plus back in the day.” “My question to the administration – what we are doing to draw people to Pemberton and bring in even more students?” Maldonado asked. Havers explained that the Pemberton district has been working with Pemberton Township to promote the school through open houses, etc., in especially trying to target military families from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in addition to holding events such as Police Week. “Are there any other questions?” asked Pemberton Board of Education President Tom Bauer, to which Lee replied, “Yes, I got“Andone.”it pertains to enrollment,” Lee said. “Our shops – I am talking Auto Mechanic and what not. Are we done with those? Are we still trying to find instructors? Because we lost a few students in reference to those programs – who went over to the tech situation.”Haversinitially replied “correct.”
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The special meeting, however, did not feature any public discussion about the contract besides Board of Education President Steve H. Lee, representing Medford Lakes Borough, reading from a resolution authorizing the closed session, which noted that the topic of conversation to be held behind closed doors was a “Memorandum of Agreement” between the LRHSD Board of Education and Lenape District Education Association (LDEA) from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027. Upon re-emerging from behind closed doors, “Personnel Item 4.1,” a measure to approve the agreement, received 8-0 board approval, drawing some applause from those in the audience, with board members Barry J. Fitzgerald (Evesham Township), Marc R. Jones (Mount Laurel Township) and David Stow (Medford Township) absent. The special meeting was then adjourned.
A number of new part-time paraprofessionals were also hired Aug. 24 at an annual salary of $16,875.
The 2022-23 school year in the LRHSD kicked off Sept. 7. According to the press release, the fiveyear contract is “retroactive,” running from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027, and “includes an average salary increase of 3.35 percent for the first four years, and 3.40 percent in year five with additional dollars allocated in the first year to improving starting salaries for teachers and secretaries.”
Superintendent Dr. Carol Birnbohm said in the press release of the agreement that the district was “committed to a salary and benefits package that not only reflects the talent and dedication of current staff,” but also one that “attracts and retains only the best in the field of education given the highly competitive job market.”
The Pemberton superintendent further explained “part of it was budgetary, but the other part is again you are trying to fill it and maybe cut something from somewhere else” to pay for the course, but that “it wasn’t something that were able to fill” to begin with.Adelina Giannetti, assistant superintendent of the Pemberton Township School District, along with Joseph, according to Havers, “spent a year working” to fill the Auto Shop teaching position and “we just could not fill it.” “How about Building Trades?” Scull asked. “We have a township full of professional carpenters who came through our schools. Any chance of getting that back?”Havers replied that, “At this point, I don’t think I’d be recommending that we add programs previously cut because we are looking at another $3 million in cuts next year coming up, $1 million the year after that,” and that the aid losses could be as much as $5 million more if municipal overburden does not take effect, or an exemption in the school funding formula that compensates for if a district’s overall tax rate is greater than the state average tax rate from the most recent available calendar year. The superintendent noted that he would love to be a superintendent who says, “‘Wow – we got more money, we can add that’” to the school budget, but that unfortunately he is “not in that position.” “Are there any further questions?” Bauer once again asked his colleagues on the Pemberton school board. “I just want to make a statement,” Maldonado replied. “As a parent of a graduate of Pemberton – my son graduated in 2015, and he was in Auto shop – he is doing very well for himself. I think the district should really look at bringing back at least that class. There is a high demand for auto mechanics right now.” Havers, in response, asked Maldonado, “Does he have a teaching certificate?”, to which the currently second-longest tenured Pemberton school board member, also chair of its Policy Committee replied, “I actually told him to go get one.”
is gonna learn how to do sh**,” “that sucks” and “this is so sad.” One woman pointed to the Auto Shop teacher posting online, among others, and urged those in the community to apply, believing that perhaps if the Pemberton district received candidates, the courses could be reinstated.
During a preceding Aug. 24 school board meeting, several new teachers were approved at a starting salary of $60,059 to $61,259 with new teaching hires listed at a higher “step” being compensated annually somewhere between $99,569 and $104,369.
The later press release from the district confirmed the LDEA then “ratified” the board-approved “five-year employment contract,” with the LDEA comprising teachers, counselors, nurses, media specialists, child study team members, secretaries, paraprofessionals and trainers.
The teachers’ union approval was said to have followed what was described in the press release as “candid and thoughtful discussions” between association leadership, the school board and administration. “I’m excited to have the agreement in place before the start of the school year,” said Lee through a statement in the press release. “The LDEA and district representatives worked very hard for many months to reach a fair and reasonable agreement. On behalf of the Board of Education, I wish the LRHSD staff, students and families an exceptional school year.”
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It was further maintained in the press release that Megan Jones, president of the LDEA, was “effusive in her praise of the commitment of the leadership in the association and district” to “collaborate” to reach an agreement. “The LDEA is happy we could work together with the board to create a contract that meets the needs of staff as well as the district,” said Jones in a statement through the press release. “Schools function best when everyone works together – staff, board, parents and students. We look forward to strengthening those ties this school year and in the Birnbohmfuture.”is said to have agreed with Jones’ sentiments. Unlike some other area districts, the teachers’ union in the LRHSD, as well as its members, have not aired any grievances at recent school board meetings. “We all knew it was important to start the school year on a very positive note, with a settled contract,” Birnbohm declared. “Everyone at the table worked hard to ensure this peace of mind for our employees, the Board of Education and, the students and their“Wefamilies.”wanteveryone who comes to work in the LRHSD, who puts in long days giving their all, to know we value their dedication. It’s only by working together that we can provide an exceptional, once-in-a-lifetime high school experience for every student.”
“Are we trying to bring those back so we can get those students back?” asked Lee of the“Wesuperintendent.arenottrying to bring Auto Shop back,” Havers responded. “We had Auto Shop posted for a year, and we could not find someone qualified to do it. One of the things we do recognize with that is if you do have somebody who is qualified, and they don’t stay, we are in the hole again. We would not really be providing quality services for those kids, if they are in the program (and we don’t have someone to teach the course).”
District (LRHSD) are starting the new school year with a new, five-year contract that calls for a little over 3 percent annual raises.The new contract, approved without opposition during a special LRHSD Board of Education meeting on Aug. 30, following a brief executive session held by the public body, also calls for “additional dollars” to be “allocated in the first year” toward “improving starting salaries for teachers and secretaries,” according to a later press release from the district that was provided to this newspaper.
Parks wrote, contacted the municipality about “property damage,” though what the damage entailed was not specified. “They indicated that we would need to provide a quote for the repairs and that they would reimburse us for the cost of the restoration,” Parks told Republic representatives via email. “This is NOT our responsibility. Republic Services is the one who created the property damage and Republic Services needs to secure a contractor to restore the area. The township should not have to get involved in soliciting the quotes and paying to have this work done.”
The emails show the sheer extent of the “debacle,” which is how Burger referred to it during the Sept. 6 council meeting. Back on March 24, for example, a resident in the 500 block of McKendimen Road had contacted the township to inform it that a Republic “driver’s actions were getting absurd,” maintaining his trash can was repeatedly being knocked over by the driver, asserting in regards to the incident, “he drove off before the pick-up arm was fully retracted and the arm knocked over the container.” “I suspect that the driver has a personal vendetta against me for my numerous complaints,” the resident charged. Richard Parks, director of the Medford Township Neighborhood Services Department, in forwarding the resident’s email to a Republic representative, described that “your driver knocked the can over and drove away.” A Republic representative later wrote to Parks, “I assure you the driver does not have a personal vendetta against the resident,” adding, “I am sure this was an accident.” In another follow-up email, the Republic representative maintained the resident needed a new can “because it is round” and “he lives on a hill,” and that if “they have a round can, and if it is windy, the can will blow over.” However, the Republic representative informed Parks that a driver would return to the resident’s house to place the can upright, with Parks replying, “If the driver uprighted (sic) the can without driving away, we would not have had an irate resident and the assessment would not have been issued.” “The assessment stands and again, future infractions will result in additional assessments,” Parks told the Republic representative.Theresident, when told his trash can and location was being blamed as the reason for what occurred, shot back the “can is fine,” that he recently fixed the wheels on it and that “the driver is irresponsible and needs to be terminated.”Theresident also informed Parks that when a driver came by his residence to place the can upright, he was “so lazy that he used the arm (of the trash truck) to upright it.” “I have put Republic on notice that future infractions will result in additional assessments,” later wrote Parks to the resident.
“There is a large spill on Waterbury Court and a trail that runs from there down to Barnstable to Stonycroft Court, Longhill Court, Foxborough Court and Nantucket Court,” Parks described. “There is also spillage on Meadowbrook Lane. All areas where hydraulic fluid was spilled must be cleanedAnthonyup.”Spirito, general manager of the local office for Republic, ultimately replied that “our environmental company was dispatched last night and this morning.” In another reported incident around June 17, Parks described to Republic management that “cul-de-sacs” on Colleen Court and Shannon Court are “being rutted up from trash trucks,” and that a previous request for repairs apparently went nowhere.
A resident, according to Parks, had “even put out timbers/logs to try and prevent the trucks from driving across it and the drivers got out and moved them.” In this newspaper’s review of these emails, none of them appeared to be forwarded or copied to the members of township council, though it is unclear if officials used a blind carbon copy option. It was just a few weeks ago that Burger maintained on the record that “other towns have had problems all along” with Republic that “had not affected us until two weeks ago,” with Watson agreeing that there had only been collection issues “a day here, a day there.”
municipality just as the Labor Day holiday weekend commenced that Republic Services “is unable to mobilize additional staffing until Tuesday, 9/6.” But despite that pronouncement coming from the municipality, Medford Mayor Charles “Chuck” Watson at a subsequent council meeting on Sept. 6, maintained there are only “half-day” delays in collection, with Medford’s township manager, Kathy Burger, agreeing with the mayor, declaring, “We can deal with this.” “We can’t deal with what happened a few weeks ago,” Burger added. Previously, in light of “daily” collection issues throughout the months of July and August that drew the ire of residents, the township had assured them that “officials continue to explore options to help get trash collected in a timely fashion,” and on a couple of occasions, had borrowed trash trucks from a neighboring municipality to assist with missed collections. But residents of these Medford neighborhoods, which also included “all areas off of Golden Club Drive,” were left without any choice but to stare at growing trash piles and take in foul odors from decomposing waste until the Labor Day weekend concluded. And there had been another issue with trash collection just a few days earlier, on Aug. 26, that followed a multitude of other incidents previously detailed by this newspaper, with the late August incident affecting “Medford Pines, Stokes Road from Bowker Road to Tuckerton Road, and parts of Headwater Village.” And officials appeared to be unsure of who had exactly seen a trash truck and who didn’t, with a statement from the municipality declaring, “there may also be a portion of Gravelly Hollow Road that was not collected.” But garbage going uncollected appears pale in comparison to some of the other things described in more than 800 pages of emails obtained by this newspaper through an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request, answered by the municipality on Sept. 3, with the various correspondences detailing various fiascoes entailing Republic Services in town over the last several months that resulted in alleged environmental issues, road damage, property damage, as well as a threat to bring a lawsuit.
Medford Township Council, back in November 2012, according to township meeting minutes, made the decision to privatize trash collection beginning in January 2013, citing the potential for up to a $350,000 “net annual savings” if as many as seven Public Works employees at a then-salary of $63,000 are terminated, though officials sought to “reassign” four of them.
Burger, township clerk of Medford at the time, was in the process of taking over the township manager post from Christopher Schultz, with the present-day Medford Township mayor, who is Watson, and Medford Township Deputy Mayor Frank Czekay, serving on the then-council as councilmen.
“The total bid of the Republic contract over three years is $2,521,383 and Gold Medal’s bid was $3,655,195,” Parks wrote. “At the time bids were received, there was no reason to reject their bid or disqualify them as they met the bid requirements. To disqualify a bidder, you need tangible proof that they cannot meet the contract specification, which was not the case at that Amidtime.”hundreds of resident complaints contained in the emails about their trash not being picked up, some stating for at least a period of one to three weeks, and even one resident report that bulk trash was missed in their neighborhood for nearly six weeks, were other descriptions of rather serious incidents that township officials corresponded with Republic representatives about. These incidents, however, were not disclosed publicly at recent council meetings.
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Casworth Enterprises, Inc., said to be one of four bidders at the time that Medford Township ceased in-house trash collection, was given the initial privatization contract. During the first year Casworth hauled trash for the municipality, the firm was paid $499,800 for its collection and disposal services.
However, the crisis appeared to be well underway at the beginning of the summer as Parks, on June 27, wrote to Republic in an email copied to Burger, with the importance marked “high,” that “Medford Township continues to experience collection issues and communication issues with Republic Services.”“Emails from township staff continue to go unanswered and calls from residents to Republic result in incorrect information or lack of information being given,” continued Parks in the correspondence. “The township is hereby assessing liquated damages.”
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“The township manager is also aware of this ongoing issue, as she is noticed anytime we assess liquidated damages against the contractor.”Theresident told Parks that “if this continues” he would not only install a surveillance camera, but “use the video evidence to sue the township and the contractor.”“Thisnever happened when trash was picked up by township employees,” the resident told Parks. “I realize that info is ancient history. I also don’t want to take this to the manager or mayor. So far, it has been between you and me.”
If Medford Township would have awarded a contract to Gold Medal, it would have resulted in an over $400,000 annual increase in trash collection services, with a municipality often obligated to go with the lowest, responsible bidder when awarding a contract. Republic, in a bid for the same contract, said it would charge Medford Township only $810,781.20 during its initial year of providing services, $840,124.80 in the second year and $870,477 in the final year, for a total of $2,521,383.Council went with Republic. While Burger has thus far not responded, as of this newspaper’s press time, to an earlier inquiry about the reason the township decided to make the switch to Republic, Parks explained the reasoning to another resident in a July 25 email reply, after the resident, apparently furious about the delayed and missed trash collections, questioned who vets the contractors that the township does its business with. Parks, in part, told the resident Republic was “the lowest responsible bidder” and that “the other bids that were received were significantly higher, with our previous service provider, Gold Medal Environmental, being the highest bidder.”
This newspaper previously reported that a December 2020 bid placed by Gold Medal to Medford Township for a three-year trash hauling contract, was for $1,105,799 in year one, $1,218,249 in year two, and $1,241,147 in the final year, for a total of $3,655,195.
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One involved a “hydraulic spill” July 21 in the area of Enclave Court, but Parks alleged, “no report of a spill was ever reported to us by Republic officials for the streets in Medford Commons.”“Iamnotsure why there was no notification as this spill was obvious to anyone entering these courts and cul-de-sacs, including the truck driver,” the Neighborhood Services director wrote to Republic. “ALL spills, regardless of size, should be addressed while they (the trash truck drivers) are out there.” After an hour passed by, Parks followed up again, writing, “please acknowledge this concern has been received by Republic.”
“We will work on getting this fixed,” a representative from Republic responded.
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It is unclear how many employees, who had been assigned trash collection, were ultimately let go from the township payroll, with Burger not responding thus far, as of this newspaper’s press time, to a previous inquiry about that.
A Republic manager for the local office replied, “we apologize for the inconvenience” and “we will get a contractor out to assess andInprice.”yetanother occurrence described to Republic management by Parks, Arrowhead Court was “damaged” by Republic trucks. Although repairs were described as initially being made to the street, Parks noted the company was “back” to using a “bigger truck” in the neighborhood after being told that it could only handle a smaller one.
He goes on to describe a number of incidents in both May and June that have warranted the assessments.Insomecases, Parks described that orders for trash cans and carts for new residents of town (with the township having an influx of new customers due to new housing being constructed throughout town) were not being fulfilled, with Republic being assessed a $2,900 penalty for failing to deliver on a can requested May 22, with Parks specifying, “$100 per day for 29 days = $2,900.”
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The local Republic manager, meanwhile, warned additional delays were anticipated, with Parks replying on July 23, “this is going to be a problem and will result in the assessment of liquidated damages.” “I am completely dissatisfied with Republic’s performance over the last week,” he added. “Our office will certainly be inundated with calls reporting missed trash and bulk. I have asked for information regarding routes and have gotten very little reply from Republic.” One of Park’s assistants reported being “screamed” at by residents that they “are lying” after Republic’s customer service representatives were reported to have told the residents “they don’t know anything about the missed trash,” while other residents filed harsh complaints, declaring, in part, “totally unacceptable,” “I pay a lot of money in taxes … are you deducting money off my tax bill … I pay over 30K in taxes and I can’t get my trash picked up.” “I don’t think this is fair,” wrote one of Park’s assistants to Burger of the complaints.
“We are doing the best we (can) with the resources we have,” responded Spirito on July 22. “I cannot give any guarantees that your request for today’s completion will be accommodated due to lack of trucks and people.”InJuly, the region was experiencing an extended heatwave. Spirito described to Medford officials that “we are battling extremely tough weather conditions, which is taking a toll on our already limited staff and our trucks,” describing that several trash trucks were “overheating.” “I can appreciate and understand your situation with staffing and weather,” Parks replied. “However, your staff distributing the incorrect bulk list resulted in no bulk being collected. … The issue was not created by the township. I don’t care what you have to do to make this happen, but I expect the bulk to be completed by the end of the day.”
But multiple Medford residents, as indicated in the emails to the township, want action taken, providing descriptions such as the “decaying trash is attracting flies, insects and larger animals,” with one resident even asking if the Burlington County Health Department had been made aware of the trash that is piling up and spoiling. Another described that “animals are ripping the trash bags” and “dragging trash all over,” demanding that Republic clean up the “spilled trash.” “This is unacceptable,” wrote another man. “What steps are township officials taking to ensure we have adequate trash pickup? This company has been plagued with issues the first day they started their contract. Shame on township officials for not properly vetting this inadequate, low bid company. You get what you pay for! Can the township send a truck around to collect our trash? Or are we just expected to accept whenever Republic decides to collect our trash. Please do something.”
Burger, in conceding what has been happening is a “debacle,” noted “we did send out our drivers when this was happening.”
“How about used?” asked Czekay, noting that such trash trucks could be used as “backup” in situations where Republic fails to collect trash, with the township “sending out our own” employees to collect trash.
Watson asserted that trash being collected a “half-day late” is a “whole lot better than before,” with Burger declaring, “We can deal with“Wethis.”can’t deal with what happened a few weeks ago,” added Burger, even though residents by the town’s own admission went through the holiday weekend without trash collection as scheduled.
During a Sept. 6 Medford Council Meeting, Burger contended “we are almost there” in regard to Republic and said the company “ends the day with a little bit left to do,” despite residents still reporting online that very day that they had still not seen a trash truck from when their waste was supposed to be picked up by Republic prior to the holiday weekend. “It has come a long way,” Burger said. “It is still not where we want it to be. But we are getting there.” The township manager also claimed, “communication has gotten much better” with a new supervisor at Republic, while two other supervisors “we were working with” are “no longer with the company.”
Another resident, in asserting she was “very angry” over the situation, declared she “resents the fact that Medford takes our money and leaves us to deal with a vendor you pay.” “Do we get a rebate if you exercise a penalty clause and withhold their payment,” she asked. “We are left with the aggravation of a nonperforming vendor and extra expense and time to take our garbage to the dump. What are you going to do about it? What is your contingency plan for a non-performing trash service? Is it to let us fend for ourselves?” Council discussed last month looking into its “options,” including possibly bringing back trash service in-house, but as of this newspaper’s press time, have taken no action.
“I want our residents to know we are doing the best we can – we are not lying to them.” Another assistant to Parks described Aug. 9 that “many residents report it is difficult to get through” to Republic’s customer service team and that “Republic reports to us that certain areas are complete, but then we get phone calls from residents that the area hasn’t been picked up.” The problem, as emails indicate, only became more expansive in August, despite a meeting held between high-level Republic managers and the township management team.“When will we have a day that an actual route is collected, and Republic is not chasing their tail?” wrote Burger in Aug. 15 email sent to high-ranking township officials. In that same email, Burger quipped, “I am sure things are missed if the drivers are still being supplied with the maps that have no streets.”Inanother email around that time, Burger wrote to Republic’s local manager that “it is obvious Republic management does not have any idea what has been completed, and not, in the last two weeks,” asserting, “I need a phoneWhilecall.”the issues with collection became even worse, despite an apparent phone call taking place, Parks took a scheduled vacation in August. Burger at one point apologized to Parks for having to see the dozens of complaints coming into his inbox from residents while he was on vacation, adding, in apparently referring to Republic’s management, “I think they are so lost.” “He says they have a plan they are working on, but I am having a hard time being optimistic and my patience is gone,” Burger wrote.Spirito previously advised Medford “we are having a rough week with staffing” and that “the ability to get help from neighboring divisions” is limited “as every division in our company, and many in our industry, continue to face driver shortages.” He added that Republic “hired 15 people over the past three weeks” and “have them in training,” contending “it is the most we have been able to hire at one time since the beginning of the pandemic.”“Weunderstand your frustrations as we feel them 10-fold,” Spirito declared. “We are limited on staff, hours of service and (have) a team that has been overworked and overheated. We cannot work drivers over 60 hours in a week and in heat like this – we shouldn’t even come close to that. As an effect, we have had several of our staff affected by the heat. Being short staffed, we can’t afford to lose anyone to long-term illness.”
“In addition, Medford Township will be withholding monthly payments until communications and performance improves,” Parks wrote. But the situation appeared to only get worse from there, with a Republic dispatcher at one point, in reference to the trash can requests, informing Neighborhood Services officials that there are “too many sources” making such requests and that, “The customer service line apparently does not know their job well enough to do it and I don’t have the time.” Then came the onslaught of weeks’ worth of missed collections in various areas of town. By July 8, Parks began maintaining a tougher position with Republic management, asserting, “Republic needs to communicate delays” so that “we can pass accurate information on to our residents when they inquire.” Initially, Republic managers blamed lack of notification on COVID-19 illnesses. “Again, why was this not conveyed to us?” Parks responded. “if there are situations like this, the township may be a little more sympathetic to the situation. When we are not told, we assume that it is business as usual. Republic really needs to improve communications instead of leaving us in the dark.”Alist of bulk collections awaiting pickup had accumulated to the point, Parks pointed out, that it was six pages in length. Residents, as the emails demonstrate, pleaded with township officials to do something about the bulk trash piling up outside of their homes throughout July, everything from a freezer, broken chaise lounge, pool cover, sofa, and a large umbrella to a kitchen stove and “two couches sitting in the street.” Some residents described that their homeowner’s associations were threatening to fine them, with one pointing out the discarded bulk items were too heavy to bring back indoors.
In another instance, a woman described to township officials that a sofa she put out for trash was being trashed. Parks ultimately, on July 22, began sending Republic management emails that they “must” complete bulk collections “today, without further delay.”
“I hope to have better results by the time we met again,” declared Burger, maintaining the new supervisor brings a wealth of municipal experience.Thetownship manager also maintained on Sept. 6 that she reached out to Gold Medal, along with another hauler, and neither firm returned her call. She added that “we are looking into the numbers” if council wanted to explore bringing trash collection back in-house, but that a preliminary review found only 12 trash trucks are “available nationwide” at a cost of $375,000 each and that “we would need three.”
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While an assistant to Parks told one concerned resident that an HOA can’t fine a resident given the circumstances, because it is not their fault that bulk trash is not being collected, Parks pointed out to Republic representatives, in another email, that residents were being fined anyway.
Delran, one of the other Burlington County municipalities to experience troubles with Republic, has written to the Burlington County Board of Commissioners, as previously reported by this newspaper, asking that it take up the issue of forming a countywide shared service to collect trash. A spokesman for the commissioners said the request has not been discussed.“Idon’t know what’s going on with Republic, but I think given all the delays, it’s time to reassess our relationship with them and replace them as per any contract that’s in place,” wrote another resident. “Their service is subpar and not reflective of the value for what we pay in property taxes. It’s time for the township to take a definitive action ….”
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“I can barely remember what it was like before this procedure. I’m just so much freer from worry. I don’t have to worry about what I can eat today and it’s completely freeing. I went out with a friend recently and spent the whole day out. Before, I would have been too uncomfortable with gas and pain. My husband was always saying I was grumpy, and now that has changed.”
According to Patel, approximately one in five individuals suffers from heartburn, which in a majority of cases can stem from a hiatal hernia. Unfortunately, many people don’t know they even have one, and the only way to find out is to undergo an endoscopy.
The surgical procedure, which basically consists of wrapping the stomach around the esophagus, has been in use since the 1950s and has been minimally invasive since the 1990s. But whereas it used to involve frequent complications and post-op trouble with swallowing, the procedure has now evolved, and outcomes have improved dramatically, with much lower readmission rates and far fewer hydration issues and problems swallowing than were previously associated with it.
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The operation itself, which is now robotic and involves five small incisions, requires only a one-night stay in the hospital. The pain is minimal and recovery time is usually rapid, Patel However,maintained.itmustfirst be determined whether the problem is one that even calls for hiatal hernia surgery. Typically, the first course of action is to make dietary changes and adjust some daily habits, and, if that proves not to be effective, a more thorough evaluation is made to determine whether it’s related to a different issue entirely, such as a condition in which the esophagus doesn’t relax enough, the symptoms of which are identical to heartburn, where it relaxes too much. That’s why, in most cases, the AtlantiCare heartburn team will perform a pre-op workup with a PH probe, an endoscopy and an upper GI series before deciding on a treatment plan that may include surgery. “So many people think there’s nothing to be done and they have to give up foods they love forever,” observed Patel. “If you are on medication and don’t have full symptom relief or side effects or don’t want to take these medications long-term, you may be a candidate for surgery. “The point is, you don’t need to keep suffering and take risks such as that of developing osteoporosis or increased infections that come with being on medications for life.”
Assur also described how happy she is with being able to eat real food again. “When I could actually have the chicken and vegetables that I used to eat but would come back up is when I knew what an incredible decision I made,” she declared. “Last month, I ate pizza for the first time in 20 years without a struggle.”
The surgery itself has given her no postoperative problems, Assur said. “Part of my stomach was above my diaphragm,” she noted. “Once it was pulled down, that was that.” As for the procedure, she said, “I’d recommend it to anyone.”
“I talk to a lot of friends who don’t think there is anything they can do about their heartburn and hernias,” Assur added. “I show them I’m proof that there are solutions.”
“Not having to worry about ‘am I going to have heartburn’ or ‘will I feel sick tonight’ is a weight off my shoulders. I can go to bed and know I’ll be able to sleep.”
Causes of the condition can include being overweight, doing constant heavy lifting, or anything that increases pressure inside the belly. Over the years, the rate of reflux has risen along with weight gain.
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