Lumberton, NJ – october 5, 2018 –utilizing a grant from the burlington county freeholders, lumberton township completely refurbished the glenwood park playground in the hollybrook section of town.Cognitive stage of learning the township will also demolish the existing tennis courts at the village green park to make way for two brand new basketball courts and to purchase new playground equipment for the canterbury court playground.Cognitive stage of learning township officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the glenwood park playground on october 5, 2018 and expect to open the village green basketball court by the end of october.Cognitive stage of learning canterbury court playground construction is expected to be held off until the spring of 2019.

Mayor mike mansdoerfer stated, “lumberton township is extremely thankful for the leadership of one of our fellow residents, freeholder director kate gibbs, along with the rest of the burlington county freeholders for their continued support of our town’s active and passive recreation needs.” “since the 2011, we have received $1,078,710.00 dollars in grant money from the county and these dollars have already produced a new playground here at the village green, along with a dog park, community garden and canoe launch on the rancocas, we have added sports fields at our municipal building complex as well as completely renovating all of our recreation amenities in the bobby’s run section of town,” added mayor mansdoerfer.Cognitive stage of learning

“we look forward to continuing our efforts to improving the recreation amenities our township has to offer our residents and we look forward to opening our new basketball courts at the village green later this month,” added committeeman jim conway, who serves as one of the engineering project liaisons to the township committee.Cognitive stage of learning “with the continued assistance from the burlington county freeholder board through the municipal park development program, we will be also able to open another new playground on canterbury court next spring and we hope to use future grant submissions to help transform the soon to be township acquired ironwood outdoor park so that all residents have access to its nature trails both on land and on the rancocas creek,” stated committeeman conway.Cognitive stage of learning

The lumberton township committee originally anticipated that the $200,000 grant would be used to construct an amphitheater. However after due diligence was completed on the proposed site, it was determined to not be cost effective with all the DEP permit cost needed to authorize the construction of this project.Cognitive stage of learning “we wanted to get the most bang for our grant buck,” mansdoerfer explained. “by shifting our efforts from the amphitheater, we were able to rehabilitate three parks.Cognitive stage of learning looking at these neighborhood improvements here in hollybrook, I am glad we made this decision to focus on this park first. I am really proud of the final result and look forward to seeing families enjoy this amenity,” he concluded.Cognitive stage of learning

April 26, 2018 – lumberton township – at the april 24, 2018 lumberton township committee meeting, students from the young republic club, the student government for the lumberton middle school, took the helm of township government for the second annual “be a municipal official for a day.” in 2016, students formed the young republic club as a democratically elected student government, with two parties, the blue party and the gold party.Cognitive stage of learning they have adopted a constitution and bill of rights for their fellow students, and represent them before the school district’s administration and the board of education.Cognitive stage of learning during tuesday night’s township meeting each student elected official was paired with one of the township’s elected or appointed officials, to conduct an actual township committee meeting.Cognitive stage of learning

“for the past few years, our township and school officials have worked closely with each other through quarterly meetings to ensure our resources are being used to the fullest, due to these meetings we have produced further shared services between our two entities which include providing a school resource officer, vehicle maintenance and fueling services, in addition to this second annual event geared toward engaging our local students in the role of the local government in their community,” stated mayor mike mansdoerfer.Cognitive stage of learning “last night we welcomed these students to the township municipal building, took them on a tour of our departments and had them shadow our local officials through our regular township meeting, allowing them to truly take part in conducting the business of township government with our township committee members affirming each of their actions,” added mayor mansdoerfer.Cognitive stage of learning

Prior to the 7:30pm start to the township meeting, each student was given the opportunity to sit down with the elected or appointed township official they would be shadowing, to discuss their role in the meeting and how each would contribute to enacting the items on that evening’s agenda.Cognitive stage of learning actions taken by our student leaders included adopting an ordinance restricting parking to residents only near virtua hospital, amending fees for the township’s construction department, amending two employment contracts, providing contact representatives for the BURLCO JIF, adding grant funds to the 2018 budget to include resources to pave allspice and savory way, plus the remaining part of nassau road, awarded a contract for repairs of a storm water line behind the post office and buttonwood school and paid the township’s bills.Cognitive stage of learning

“although the recession forced a scaling back of the size of our police department, we have been working diligently to grow back the department in a way that is fiscally responsible.Cognitive stage of learning we are pleased that we have been able to add officers while reducing taxes for the second straight year. Our plan continues to come to fruition as we add officers while reducing taxes now for the second year in a row.Cognitive stage of learning it is a pleasure to add officers like erik jarvis to the force when you know how hard we worked to bring fiscal order back to the budget,” said committeeman jim conway.Cognitive stage of learning

Class 1 officers in the state of new jersey are part time officers who have obtained special law enforcement officer certifications. They are authorized to perform routine traffic details, spectator control and similar duties.Cognitive stage of learning officers have the power to issue summonses for disorderly persons and petty disorderly persons offenses, violations of municipal ordinances and violations of title 39 (traffic) offenses.Cognitive stage of learning

“last year we were able to fund returning an officer into the school system, which we identified as an imperative need. With the series of tragic events we have witnessed around the country lately, I am proud that lumberton was ahead of the curve in recognizing student safety as a top priority.Cognitive stage of learning now to have erik jarvis serving on our force, we have taken yet another giant leap forward. It’s another great day for lumberton,” said deputy mayor kristin januseski.Cognitive stage of learning

April 2, 2018 – lumberton township – the lumberton township committee adopted its 2018 budget on tuesday evening which lowered the local purpose tax for the second year in a row.Cognitive stage of learning the local purpose tax is lowered from .411 to .406 per $100 of assessed value which represents an approximate savings of $16.00 for the average home assessed at $299,734.00.Cognitive stage of learning

“we are thrilled to be able to support and adopt a sound fiscal budget which lowers taxes,” said mayor mike mansdoerfer. “this year was a culmination of more hard work and penny pinching, evaluating every dollar spent to make sure that we are good stewards of our residents’ taxes.Cognitive stage of learning we know how hard our residents work to earn their income and want to ensure that we are as equally protective when their tax dollars are allocated to services,” he continued.Cognitive stage of learning

The township’s budget funds all critical tasks of the local government. “we developed a plan to address our community needs including building the new emergency services building without increasing our debt service obligations.Cognitive stage of learning most importantly, we allocated funds in the budget to bring a school resource officer back into the schools,” said deputy mayor kristin januseski.Cognitive stage of learning

“our budget also uses grants and outside funding sources to help continue to make improvements to our infrastructure,” said committeeman jim conway who is charged with overseeing many of the town’s road and improvement projects.Cognitive stage of learning “this year we will again pave and repair more roadways and improve our parks and recreation system,” he concluded.