Freeholders Make Appointments

CREST HAVEN — Cape May County freeholders took the following actions at the Tue., Jan. 24 meeting:
• Authorized an agreement with U.S. Coast Guard to allow members of the county Police Academy to train at the Cape May Training Center swimming pool and on its aircraft runway until Dec. 31, 2017.
• Reappointed Arthur Treon as fire coordinator and Richard Lundholm, Ronald McGowen, J. Gregg Naill and Jeffrey Pierson as deputy fire coordinators until Dec. 31, 2013.
• Approved settlement for $60,000 with Victor Tweedle against the county, Gary Schaffer, then director of the Public Safety Training Center, and City of Atlantic City.
• Named to the Advisory Commission on the Status of Women until Jan. 24, 2015: Kathleen Goldblatt, Nicole Lindsay, Linda Lindsay, Elizabeth O’Brien, Gail Stevenson, Joan Quilligan and Patricia Taylor. And as alternate members for the same three years, Aimee Schultz and Rebecca Stout.
• Allowed competitive contracting for operation and lease of concession equipment at the Cape May County Park and Zoo, including photo booths.
• Authorized open-end agreement with Comcast Spotlight Inc. for advertising from county Department of Tourism in the Philadelphia and Harris-burg areas served by the cable network provider. Amount not to exceed $55,000 through July 8, 2012.
• Canceled contract with R. Wilkinson and Sons Construction Inc., which was to erect the Stone Harbor branch library. That project is on hold until the borough’s Site Selection Committee finalizes a location for the facility.
• Passed a resolution calling on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates Garden State Parkway to “expeditiously remove the fencing between Great Egg harbor Bridge and Drag Channel Bridge” on the entrance to Cape May County.
The resolution notes that none of the board “claims to be an expert on homeland security, but they collectively believe this fencing provides exceedingly limited deterrence to a genuine and sophisticated terrorist threat and overreaches any reasonable and practical anti-terrorist measure.”
That aside, it also noted the fencing, “Creates a disheartening image and unwelcoming impression for tourists entering Cape May County.’