Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Plus, Ivy Street resident speaks out about a "crappy" situation.
At Monday night's Clark Council meeting, councilmembers discussed three drafted ordinances to be finalized and introduced at council's next meeting on June 18. Mayor Sal Bonaccorso also addressed the spray-painted Matt Kent memorial inside the Clark Reservoir. Fair or fowl: The first drafted ordinance concerned the raising of chickens and other farm animals. Council had previously discussed chickens at their March 5 meeting, when members directed Township Attorney Joseph Triarsi to draft an ordinance prohibiting chickens and other farm animals. However, after further discussions, councilmembers settled on an ordinance that will allow residents to raise chickens (and other domestic fowl) but not other farm animals. The ordinance also …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Council will meet for their first June meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.
Clark Council meets for their June workshop session tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 30 of the Municipal Building. At tonight's meeting, several Boy Scouts from Troop #145 are shadowing the Council to fulfill the requirements to earn their Citizenship Badge. Tonight's agenda also includes a resolution appointing John Kurek, Michael Vaccaro and Anthony Giarrizzo as members of the Clark Volunteer Fire Department. On tonight's agenda is discussion of the following proposed ordinances. (See a full PDF of the agenda in our gallery.) PROPOSED ORDINANCES: 1. AN ORDINANCE TO SUPPLEMENT CHAPTER 84 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF CLARK ENTITLED “ANIMALS” - a continuation of council's drafting an ordinance to govern the raising of chickens and other …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
At Monday night's council meeting, members discussed whether or not to prohibit raising chickens and other livestock.
Clark chickens may have to fly the coop. At Monday's meeting, councilmembers discussed whether or not to prohibit chickens and other farm animals in the township. Clark Health Officer Nancy Raymond said last year she was notified that a Clark resident and Schieferstein Farm were interested in getting chickens and felt that the town needed to put forth an ordinance regarding chickens. Raymond also told council that there are currently two Clark residents who have six chickens each that she is aware of. Councilman Brian Toal chimed in and said that two years ago there were at least eight residents with chickens and a resident on Ivy Street who bred homing pigeons. Raymond reached out to other towns in Union County and of the nine that …
Rosanne Grieco
12:34 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Correction Yeah and While your at it... start getting all the Commerical Trucks parked on our streets in residential zones overnight which also doesn't belong parked on NJ residential streets in the hours of 2 am and 6 am. Why isn't this law inforced...it is all over the town. I don't like paying residential taxes if Commerical is going on our residential streets. Let them all take out permits … more ›