Goodbye,: Township Ends Dry Town Status by Allowing Liquor Sales Within Its Borders
Goodbye,: Township Ends Dry Town Status by Allowing Liquor Sales Within Its Borders
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2011
Goodbye,
Township ends dry town status by allowing
liquor sales within its borders
By ROBERT LINNEHAN
The Moorestown Sun
ts been quite a year for
Moorestown Township. It
has seen management
changes, more debate about
its athletic fields and munic-
ipal complex and the ap-
proval of a landscape-
changing ordinance that will
now permit liquor licenses to be
sold at an estimated cost of $1
million per.
Here, therefore, is a look back
at what happened in the very
busy year of 2011.
January
To kick off the year,
Moorestown Acme shoppers had
to find a new place to buy gro-
ceries. At the start of the month,
ACME officials announced two
of its Burlington County loca-
tions would shut its doors by the
end of the month. One scheduled
to close was located at 350 Young
Ave., in the Moorestown Com-
mons shopping center.
It ultimately closed its doors in
February.
Residents had a new mayor,
deputy mayor and two new coun-
cil members at the 2011 reorgani-
zation meeting.
Newcomers Stacey F. Jordan
and Chris Chiacchio were sworn
in to four-year terms on the town
council.
John Button took over as
mayor as well, after a nomina-
tion and vote from fellow council
members. He was sworn in to a
two-year term as mayor.
Greg Gallo was appointed and
sworn in to a one-year term as
the townships deputy mayor.
The month finished with
Moorestown student Brandon
Pugh being named the
Moorestown Service Club Coun-
cils 2011 High School Good Citi-
zen.
February
Moorestown officials decided
to move ahead with an initiative
to improve the townships recre-
ational assets. Members from a
sub committee of the
Moorestown Recreation Adviso-
ry Committee presented an ini-
tiative called K.I.D.S (Keep In-
vesting and Developing
Sports/Recreation). It involves a
plan to update, maintain and ex-
pand Moorestowns current
recreation fields and facilities.
The groups recommendations
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under phase one included the in-
stallation of two turf baseball in-
fields at Pryor Park, as well as the
installation of lighting so that all
fields at the facility can be lit for
night games.
The group also recommended
installing an irrigation system at
Wesley Bishop Park, expanding
and improving the current grav-
el-based parking area at the facili-
ty and improving drainage and
signage.
The first phase entails resur-
facing and other repairs to the
roller hockey rinks at Wesley
Bishop Park, converting the
lower field there into a turf field
and expanding the length of one
of the fields to create a warm-up
area and two parallel fields, some-
thing group members said would
allow for hosting sports tourna-
ments, which they said would
bring in revenue that could be
used for maintenance of the facil-
ities.
The Roots of Moorestown stat-
ue that graces the front lawn of
the Moorestown Community
House, greeting residents on a
daily basis, suddenly went miss-
ing in February after five years of
going untouched.
The Roots of Moorestown is
one of about 30, five-foot nipper
dog statues created by local
artists and auctioned off during a
fund raiser more than five years
ago.
The month closed out with
Moorestown voters participating
in the townships fire district elec-
tions. Voters in Fire District No.
1, which serves the eastern side of
the township, approved a $1.7 mil-
lion tax levy to support the dis-
tricts budget. According to re-
sults released by the district, the
budget passed on a 97 to 39 vote.
Incumbent fire commissioners
Stephen H. Bixby and Max R.
Fisher were voted into new, 3-year
terms on the board of fire com-
missioners for Fire District No. 1.
According to results, Bixby re-
ceived 126 total votes and Fisher
received 133 to fill the respective
seats.
Voters on the west side of
town, served by the Lenola Fire
District, approved a $683,265 tax
levy to support the fire districts
budget. According to results, the
budget passed on a 24 to 7 vote.
Registered voters also elected
incumbent commissioner
Michael W. Maahs to fill an open
seat on the board of fire commis-
please see VOTERS, page 3
FIELD
Continued from page 1
Field and recreation facilities
upgrade plan moves ahead
sioners. According to results,
Maahs received 29 total votes to
fill the three-year term.
March
In a surprisingly quiet start to
the board of educations series of
community budget forums, mem-
bers of the BOE and district offi-
cials presented the 2011-12 budget
to the public, along with district
plans for the next four years.
Before presenting the num-
bers, officials warned of pending
painful cuts, not only this year,
but also for subsequent budgets
leading to 2015.
It is by 2015 the board hopes its
Vision 2015 initiative will have
shaped a smaller, more efficient
organization through a series of
interlocking strategies that in-
clude restructuring, redesigning,
reconnecting, revenue generating
and reinvesting district opera-
tions.
The board of education was
shaken up a bit in mid-March, as
Larry Friedman, a nine-year
member, announced he was with-
drawing from the 2011 race.
He cited the upcoming retire-
ment from his career in the insur-
ance industry, and an unclear
path in his retirement plans, as
reasons for leaving.
In other school district news,
March ended with a change at the
Baker Elementary School. David
Tate left the school and the dis-
trict and tapped math supervisor
Shelly Rowe as the schools next
leader.
Tate was promoted to the dis-
tricts director of special educa-
tions services, a position that be-
came effective July 1.
Superintendent John Bach rec-
ommended Rowe, who was a
sixth- through 12th-grade super-
visor of mathematics, and the
board approved the recommenda-
tion.
April
The Friends of Fullerton got
good news at the start of April, as
they received an OK to accept
funding from the township to re-
build their beloved park.
The council gave final approval
to $150,000 in appropriations from
an existing bond ordinance that
allowed for various improve-
ments at the currently defunct
play area at Fullerton Park.
The townships money will go
toward a new play structure at
the park, as well as replacing
fencing, surface material and pic-
nic tables.
The state apportionment com-
mission approved a new, updated
legislative map that has shifted
Moorestown from the 8th Legisla-
tive District to the 7th District.
Moorestowns local legislators
are Sen. Diane B. Allen and As-
semblymen Herb Conway Jr. and
Jack Conners.
The state constitution requires
the state apportionment commis-
sion to redraw the lines of the
states 40 legislative districts,
from which the 40 senators and 80
members of the General Assem-
bly are elected, according to the
commissions website.
Legislative redistricting is
done at the beginning of each
decade, to account for population
changes, that occur within the
state during the previous decade
(based on census figures).
The townships municipal com-
plex task force considered all of
its options for a new town hall/li-
brary complex, and came up with
a recommendation.
Its choice is a $220 per square
foot project that would be con-
structed in two phases and would
keep all functions police, admin-
istration, court, library and recre-
ation at the current Second and
Church Street location.
Button pledged that township
officials would keep on moving
forward in the absence of Town-
ship Manager Chris Schultz. In
mid-April, Schultz was officially
appointed township manager of
nearby Medford Township. He
beat more than 30 other hopefuls
for the position.
Moorestown voters headed to
the polls this month for the annu-
al school election and the school
districts proposed 2011-12 budget
was passed.
The budget carried a 1.19 per-
cent tax levy increase over last
year. Residents in the average as-
sessed home of $534,100 will pay
an increase of $80 per year, or
$6.67 per month, in school taxes.
The approved budget included the
elimination of 31 full-time equiv-
alent positions for the coming
school year, reductions that re-
sulted in elimination and modifi-
cations to programs across the
district.
May
A longtime park project came
to an end at the start of the
month.
Lead by Leathers and Associ-
ates and the Friends of Fullerton,
hundreds of community volun-
teers were out at Fullerton Park,
rain or shine, working five days
straight complete the playground.
Meanwhile, you probably saw
the bright green signs that
popped up on lawns across town:
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The MSOS petitioned the coun-
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money from the Moorestown
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Farmland Historic Preservation
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Moorestown Save Open Space
is a citizen-advocacy group with a
goal to ensure open space funds
are used for the acquisition and
maintenance of true open space
in Moorestown.
The group was started by hus-
band and wife team Elizabeth En-
dres and Mark Hines who, like
other residents, became frustrat-
ed after council voted 3-2 to ap-
prove the use of about $217,000
from the Moorestown Open
Space, Recreation, Farmland and
Historic Preservation Trust Fund
for engineering, design and bid-
ding expenses for phase one of
the K.I.D.S initiative.
June
The Burlington County Free-
holders approved $5 million in
grants to 25 towns in its second
round of local grants under the
Municipal Park Development
Program.
Thirteen towns, including
Moorestown, received the maxi-
mum grant of $250,000.
At the time, parks and recre-
ation director Theresa Miller said
the grant would be used at Frank
Fullerton Park to improve the
play area, baseball field and the
basketball and tennis courts.
A local group decided that the
July 4 parade would continue this
year.
Dave Schill, who heads up the
committee, said the group has
been trying to resuscitate the pa-
rade since it went on hiatus two
years ago during a round of town-
ship budget cuts. Schill said the
group raised about $5,200, a bit
more than the $4,000 needed to
have adequate police presence at
the event.
The committee of about 20 resi-
dents actively discussed plans for
the parade since last fall.
Township Manager Tom
Merchel and Director of Commu-
nity Development Tom Ford
posed a question to members of
the council this month about the
farmhouse at Swedes Run, gaug-
ing interest to see if township
funding was worth being spent to
repair the antiquated structure.
The council agreed to look at
various solutions in conjunction
with the historical society and
the open space committee before
committing money to the project.
The township decided to cut
the RecycleBank program from
the 2011 budget.
Button and Merchel both said
that the RecycleBank program
will not be offered to Moorestown
residents as a cost saving meas-
ure for the next budget. Currently,
the RecyleBank program costs
the township $44,000 annually to
offer it to residents. The program
was started in 2009.
July
To start the month, the council
approved the $22.9 million 2011
budget and taxpayers of
Moorestown saw their municipal
tax bills increase slightly.
The township council unani-
mously approved the document,
which saw an increase of about a
half-cent, bringing the local pur-
pose tax rate up to 29.9 cents per
every $100 of assessed property
value.
The saga of the liquor licenses
began in July, as a representative
of the Pennsylvania Real Estate
Investment Trust confirmed the
group, which owns the mall, was
conducting research to see how
residents would react to another
liquor referendum in November.
Joe Coradino, president of
PREIT services, confirmed that
PREIT conducted a professional
telephone survey in June 1 and 2
to gauge the interest of
Moorestown voters for a liquor
referendum in November.
More research would be con-
ducted by PREIT, he said.
Virtua Health broke ground
this month on a new multi-mil-
lion dollar health and wellness
center. The facility will be located
at 401 Young Ave.
Ceremonial shovels of earth
signaled the official groundbreak-
ing for the $96 million health and
wellness center, with the 200,000-
square-foot facility expected to
open in late 2012.
In a victory for open space en-
thusiasts, one of the larger work-
ing farms was preserved as open
space. Members of the council
unanimously agreed to preserve
the 42-acre Browning-Hess Farm
on Lenola Road.
The township agreed to pay 20
percent of the cost to acquire the
property a little more than
$467,300 from Burlington Coun-
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