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Hackensack Discussion / Re: High School Resource Officer
« on: November 10, 2013, 10:52:31 AM »
Check out these figures from State website for BOE spending

Hackensack BOE
General Fund Excess Surplus (Definition)*
Actual Excess (2010-11): $1,363,063
Actual Excess (2011-12): $1,086,604
Indicator 21 - General Fund Excess Surplus

*This indicator shows the district's excess surplus as defined in N.J.S.A. 18A:7F-7: the undesignated general fund balance in excess of 2% for regular districts and 6% for county vocational districts. Excess surplus at June 30, 2011 is required to be budgeted in 2012-13. Excess surplus at June 30, 2012 is required to be budgeted in 2013-2014.

Where will this "actual excess" go?

http://www.state.nj.us/education/guide/2013/ind.shtml#ind21

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Services for the homeless...
« on: November 09, 2013, 09:43:56 PM »
Outpouring of sympathy for Hackensack good Samaritan whose noble deed proved costly

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2013, 8:13 PM
BY  SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
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His simple, honest deed received international attention. And just as far-reaching have been offers to help the formerly homeless Hackensack man, James Brady, who is now paying a price for turning in $850 cash he found on the street.
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Related story: Hackensack's homeless Samaritan loses benefits over $850 he found and turned in

How you can help
Bergen County’s United Way has set up a fund to benefit James Brady. Donations can be made in a number of ways:

Through the charity’s secure website at www.bergenunitedway.org/compassionfund/helpjamesbrady
By check, made out to “BCUW/Compassion Fund/Mr. Brady," and mailed to United Way, 6 Forest Ave., Paramus, NJ 07652.
Readers from throughout the country asked how they could help Brady on Saturday, and a local non-profit group set up a fund to collect donations, after a story in The Record that detailed how Brady lost government benefits because of his good deed.

Last month, city police gave Brady the money he had turned in to them six months earlier because it had remained unclaimed. City officials celebrated his honest act, and he became a minor celebrity.

But a city employee responsible for administering aid for the needy saw the widely circulated story and canceled his benefits through the end of this year because he had failed to disclose the $850 on paperwork, The Record reported Saturday.

Arun Arora, 42, of Chicago, who read about Brady on the Internet, saw someone being punished for his good intentions.

“It was a very touching story,” said Arora, who wanted to help Brady. “He’s a human being. And given his background, I’m happy to write a check to help him.”

Others, like Bob Wiseman of Wayne, also contacted the paper in an effort to help. Wiseman said he was ready to cut a $500 check.

“It was just moving,” Wiseman said. “The poor guy is one of many people who have lost their job, but he still had his moral compass.”

A former photographer and market data analyst, Brady lost his job a decade ago and has suffered from depression since. Earlier this year, he seemed to be getting back on track. He was seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist and taking medication —  but he learned last week that he might no longer be able to afford his care. Hackensack sent him a notice on Thursday that it was denying him Medicaid and General Assistance benefits through the end of the year because of what they said was undisclosed “income.”

On Saturday, Bergen County’s United Way set up an account specifically for Brady through its Compassion Fund.

“This outpouring stems from: Here’s a fellow who behaved admirably, who clearly could have used the money himself, but he showed a tremendous amount of pride and honesty,” said Tom Toronto, president of the county United Way chapter. “Then to discover that, through an irrational, bureaucratic rule, he is punished for that. I think it’s unconscionable.”

The money the non-profit collects on Brady’s behalf will go entirely to helping him, Toronto said. Mindful that help in the form of cash could have more unintended consequences for Brady, who relies on government aid, Toronto said his group plans to work with Brady and county housing officials to identify Brady’s needs — medication, food, clothing, therapy —  and will provide those goods and services for him. If the donations exceed Brady’s short-term needs, they could be used for long-term help like tuition for job training, Toronto said.

“James was on an upward path,” Toronto said. “Our goal is to put him back on that path and keep him on that path.”

Brady, who could not be reached for comment Saturday, has said he was not trying to hide anything. He did not know he had to report the money police ultimately gave him. His canceled benefits included Medicaid and $210 in monthly assistance, Brady’s only source of income for non-food items.

The Hackensack Human Services Department official who decided to temporarily halt Brady’s Medicaid and General Assistance benefits, Agatha Toomey, previously said she was just following rules which require any lump-sum payment to be reported as income.

Hackensack’s mayor, John LaBrosse, previously called Brady’s situation “a shame” and said it highlighted “major flaws” in the system that helps provides the needy with assistance. He did not return a call seeking comment on Saturday.

Email: boburg@northjersey.com

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: City Sexual Harrassment Policy
« on: October 21, 2013, 07:28:40 AM »
I think you mean it takes two to TANGO. This little dance took place on the City's dime. He was her supervisor and got suspended for it, so there must have been something found to support her claims. She's been let go, not sure the reason.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: ICAL AND ITS USE OF THE CIVIC CENTER
« on: October 15, 2013, 07:11:16 AM »
No answers, just more questions. Who decides what group(s) get to use the Civic Center for classes? Is it the Recreation Department? Is it the City Manager? Or is it ICAL? The ICAL literature gives the impression that their classes are City run because they use the City seal.

http://www.hackensack.org/controls/eventview.aspx?MODE=SINGLE&ID=735

Is the City in a partnership with ICAL? If not, why are they permitted to use the seal? The question of ICAL charging groups for use of City property needs to be answered publicly, just as the accusations were made publicly by their representative. There is no question that ICAL is a worthy group. The question is whether or not they have assumed the right to control what classes are permitted in a City owned building for their own benefit.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Stealing Gas
« on: September 21, 2013, 05:50:57 PM »
People are desperate. Remember the 70's when people put locks on their gas caps? Check out an auto store, I bet they still carry them.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Stealing Gas
« on: September 20, 2013, 05:54:15 PM »
Do any of the neighbors have security cameras? You never know what they might pick up.

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Here is the Notice I requested from BCUA (emphasis added) - seems to be 50 pounds per day - max 250 per week - will be brought in. I believe that one of the facilities that is listed to be sending medical waste has its own waste treatment system already.

AMENDMENT TO THE BERGEN COUNTY DISTRICT
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN
The following information is formally included in the Bergen County District Solid
Waste Management Plan:
Prospect Heights Care Center SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste Treatment Unit:
The Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan is hereby amended to
incorporate the Prospect Heights Care Center SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste
Treatment Unit located at Lot 10, Block 341, 336 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, New
Jersey, 07601. Expressly subject to the permits, approvals, consent orders,
registrations and/or certificates issued by the governmental subdivisions/agencies
exercising jurisdiction, said Medical Waste Treatment Unit shall be permitted to treat
and destroy Regulated Medical Waste generated by Prospect Heights Care Center,
Franklin Care Center, Medford Care Center, Regent Care Center and West Caldwell
Care Center. The treatment process shall treat and destroy a maximum of .025 tons
per day not to exceed .125 tons per week of Regulated Medical Waste in accordance
with all permits, approvals, consent orders, registrations and/or certificates issued by
the governmental subdivisions/agencies exercising jurisdiction upon Prospect Heights
Care Center. The resulting Type 10 Solid Waste must be disposed of in accordance
with the Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan.
Prospect Heights Care Center shall be required to obtain and be subject to the terms
and conditions of all appropriate permits, registrations, and/or certificates issued to
Prospect Heights Care Center by such governmental subdivisions and regulatory
agencies exercising jurisdiction with respect to the SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste
Treatment Unit operations.

Nothing herein contained shall constitute authorization to conduct operations of the
SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste Treatment Unit as detailed in this amendment until
such time as any and all applicable approvals, permits, registrations, and/or certificates
issued to Prospect Heights Care Center by governmental subdivisions/regulatory
agencies exercising jurisdiction as to the SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste
Treatment Units operations are obtained.


Additionally, if Prospect Heights Care Center is found to have operated in violation of
the Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan, the Statewide Solid Waste
Management Plan, the Solid Waste Utility Control Act, N.J.S.A. 48:13A-1 et seq., the
New Jersey Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1 et seq., and/or the rules
and regulations which implement those statutes, Prospect Heights Care Center may be
removed and thereby deleted from the Bergen County District Solid Waste
Management Plan pursuant to further amendment of the Bergen County District Solid
Waste Management Plan.
8/21/13
Public hearing draft

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Hackensack Discussion / Prospect Heights Medical Waste Treatment Expansion
« on: September 17, 2013, 09:42:48 AM »
 I removed this from the LTACH thread. I had put it there because it concerns Prospect Ave residents


PROSPECT AVENUE RESIDENTS TAKE NOTE - A MEDICAL WASTE TREATMENT UNIT IS BEING PROPOSED FOR EXPANSION AT 336 PROSPECT AVE. IT WILL TAKE IN ADDITIONAL WASTE FROM FOUR (4) OTHER FACILITIES.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE On October 2, 2013, The Bergen County Utilities Authority, the agency responsible for the implementation of the Bergen County Solid Waste Management Plan, as amended, shall hold a public hearing relating to a proposed amendment to the Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan. The hearing shall be held at The Bergen County Utilities Authority, Administration Building, Foot of Mehrhof Road, Little Ferry, New Jersey, at 10:00 A.M. in the Public Meeting Room. A draft copy of the proposed Amendment will be available after August 28, 2013, at The Bergen County Utilities Authority Administration Building, Foot of Mehrhof Road, Little Ferry, New Jersey; The Bergen County Utilities Authority web site at www.bcua.org; the Office of the Clerk to the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Court Plaza South, 21 Main Street, Hackensack, New Jersey; and with the Borough Clerk of each municipality in the County of Bergen. The following proposed Plan Amendment will be considered: The Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan is hereby amended to incorporate the Prospect Heights Care Center SteriMed System 70 Medical Waste Treatment Unit located at Lot 10, Block 341, 336 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601. Expressly subject to the permits, approvals, consent orders, registrations and/or certificates issued by the governmental subdivisions/ agencies exercising jurisdiction, said Medical Waste Treatment Unit shall be permitted to treat and destroy Regulated Medical Waste generated by Prospect Heights Care Center, Franklin Care Center, Medford Care Center, Regent Care Center and West Caldwell Care Center. The treatment process shall treat and destroy Regulated Medical Waste in accordance with all permits, approvals, consent orders, registrations and/or certificates issued by the governmental subdivisions/ agencies exercising jurisdiction upon Prospect Heights Care Center. The resulting Type 10 Solid Waste must be disposed of in accordance with the Bergen County District Solid Waste Management Plan.

The Bergen County Utilities Authority shall hear all persons interested in the proposed Solid Waste Management Plan Amendment and shall consider any and all comments or written objections that may be filed and any evidence which may be introduced in support of the objection, or any opposition to the adoption of the Solid Waste Management Plan Amendment, for the Bergen County Solid Waste Management District. Further information is available from The Bergen County Utilities Authority, Solid Waste Division. Please contact Richard Wierer, District Solid Waste Coordinator, at (201) 641-2552. Robert E. Laux Executive Director Sept. 9, 16, 2013-Fee: $137.98 (73) 3552196

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Services for the homeless...
« on: September 09, 2013, 05:07:33 PM »
I think it's great. Now if they can just get the state of the art kitchen going so they could teach some skills to cook what is harvested

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Anderson Street Station (Future)
« on: August 31, 2013, 11:37:31 PM »
It's like one of those can you see the difference photos. Only differences I see in 2nd photo from last week & this is plywood, pallet & sky. First photo looks the same. At this rate, it will be out of date by the time it is built

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: 24-story tower for Summit Avenue
« on: August 26, 2013, 07:46:11 PM »
Judge ruled in favor of the Zoning Board/City

http://www.northjersey.com/hackensack/Judge_upholds_decision_denying_Hackensack_hospital_plan_.html?scpromo=1
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Judge upholds decision denying Hackensack medical building plan
Monday August 26, 2013, 6:59 PM
BY HANNAN ADELY
STAFF WRITER
The Record

HACKENSACK – A state Superior Court judge on Monday upheld a decision by the city’s zoning board denying an application for a 19-story long-term acute care hospital – a plan that sparked fierce protest in the city over years.

Residents and officials had packed hearings on the project to argue that it would have brought traffic hazards, congestion and parking problems to their neighborhood. On Monday, they cheered the court’s decision even as the attorney for the applicant pledged to appeal.

“This has been three years of waiting to see what happens and trying to stop it from being built in this area,” said Murray Runin, a member of the Prospect Avenue Coalition, a residents’ group that opposed the project. “This would have disrupted the whole area.”

In his 20-page decision, Judge Alexander H. Carver III said the application got a fair hearing and the board reasonably determined that the harm to the neighborhood would outweigh the public benefit.

Bergen-Passaic Long Term Acute Care Hospital had sought to tear down residential structures on Prospect and Summit Avenues and build a medical center including 10 floors of patient rooms, a dialysis center and an adult medical day-care center for up to 180 adults.

The board unanimously denied the application in January 2012.

The Bergen/Passaic LTACH sued the board and the city in November, alleging that it didn’t get a fair hearing; was subjected to delays and unnecessary fees; and that city officials conspired to delay the process and tainted the outcome with prejudicial comments.

Email: adely@northjersey.com

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: 2013 Election
« on: August 26, 2013, 06:09:29 PM »
Actually, John Christ just retired, so move him up to #4 spot. His office, if he gets one, should be in the Building Department on Railroad, not City Hall, just my opinion.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Road Resurfacing
« on: August 13, 2013, 11:26:23 AM »
Enjoy it while you can. Our street got paved a year ago and United Water promptly dug it up.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Times for July 1 events?
« on: June 30, 2013, 06:12:10 PM »
I believe this is the schedule

12:00 Noon swearing in at City Hall for City employees

6:00 Firemen's Memorial

7:00 Ceremonial swearing in Council Chambers, overflow seating in Civic Center will be televised.
Invitations are required for Council Chambers. I believe some with invitees will be at Civic Center.
So I do not know how many seats are left for the public.

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Bergenfield Family Fun Day

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