Borough Removes Court Administrator Consolidation Agenda Item

STONE HARBOR – The agenda item that would have paved the way for a joint municipal court administrator on Seven Mile Beach was removed from the June 5 Borough Council agenda for further review. It is uncertain when the matter will again go before the governing body.
Both boroughs would retain their separate courts and appoint their own municipal judges, prosecutors and public defenders, but Stone Harbor’s Court Administrator Deborah Scott would “float” between the two courts.
The resolution, which also would have to be passed by Avalon Borough Council, notes that the “Uniformed Shared Services and Consolidation Act” authorizes local units of the state to enter into a contract with any other local unit for joint provision within their jurisdictions of any service which any party to the agreement is empowered to render…”
The original resolution stated that both municipalities “desire to share Municipal Court Administrators…in order to conserve resources and to provide for a more efficient and more economically sound municipal court system.”
The proposal stated the administrator would work two and a half days in each municipality “or at such times as mutually agreed to by the parties.”