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 …
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 …
In an effort to fight grease entering the sewer system, this ordinance would require restaurants to prove they are properly operating their grease traps.
At Monday night's meeting, Clark Council discussed drafting an ordinance to regulate the maintenance of restaurant grease traps. Grease traps are connected to the plumbing of commercial kitchens and prevent grease and food particles from entering the sewer system. Though the traps collect the grease, the grease must also be properly disposed of. If grease enters the sewers, it can congeal and clog them, causing a backup. According to Business Administrator John Laezza, the Department of Public Works logs significant overtime fixing clogged sewers – many of which, they believe, are clogged because restaurants are not properly disposing of the grease they produce. "Right now, these businesses can just call up the town and the DPW comes …
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 ›