On Thursday night, October 7th, 2010 at 7 pm, the Borough of Bergenfield will be hosting a seminar in the Council Chambers on the second floor of Borough Hall, 198 North Washington Ave. on how to obtain New Jersey State grant funds for the removal of leaking residential and commercial heating oil underground storage tanks (USTs). The seminar is open to both residents and non-residents, and it will be presented by EXCEL Environmental Resources Inc., of North Brunswick.

Millions of New Jersey residents get their drinking water from aquifers that are vulnerable to pollution from leaking underground storage heating oil tanks. The State of New Jersey wants to make sure your underground tank is not contributing to the polluting of the our aquifers by making grant funds available to residential and commercial property owners for the removal of these tanks. Currently, funding is available that will pay for up to 100% of the cost of remediation and replacement of leaking underground heating oil storage tanks. EXCEL Environmental Resources Inc., has obtained hundreds of these tank removal grants and has helped homeowners and businesses resolve heating oil issues at virtually no cost.

Residential property owners seeking to qualify for a State UST Grant must have a taxable income of less than $250,000 and a personal net worth (not counting primary residence and retirement accounts) of less than $500,000.
Commercial property owners seeking to qualify for a State UST Grant, must have a business net operating income of less than $250,000, the net worth of the business must be less than $3,000,000 and the business applicant’s net worth (not counting primary residence and retirement accounts) must be less than $500,000.

If you own a home or business that has an underground storage tank please come to this free seminar to see if you qualify for one of these grants.

BOROUGH OF BERGENFIELD
Special Work Session
October 7, 2010

Pursuant to the Open Public Meeting Act N.J.S.A.10:4-6, the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bergenfield has scheduled a Special Work Session for Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. in the Council Executive Chambers at the Municipal Building, 198 North Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, NJ 07621, to discuss:
Community Center.

Carole Chamberlain-Berman
Borough Clerk, Acting

On Saturday, September 25 from 10:00am-2:00pm, at Bergenfield Police Department headquarters, dispose of your unused, unwanted, and expired medications. The BPD will take part in "Operation Take Back New Jersey", an initiative by the DEA that affords residents an opportunity to rid their home of unwanted, expired, & unused medications. The drop-off/collection is anonymous & provides an effective, secure & environmentally sound method of disposing of the medicines. For more information on the initiative, please visit the web at www.operationtakebacknj.com.

A ceremony honoring the victims and volunteers of the September 11th tragedy will begin at 7:15 pm with music, followed by the ceremony at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Coopers Pond, sponsored by the Garden Club of Bergnfield and the Junior Woman's Club of Bergenfield.

Third Quarter Estimated Tax Bills will be mailed during the last week of August and taxpayers will have 25 days to pay before being subject to interest. After 25 days, approximately the 20th of September, 2010, interest shall accrue. Thank you for your patience as we are in the process of changing our budget from a fiscal year to a calendar year and are awaiting approval from the state.

Due to a printing error in the Bulk-up Schedule many residents in the 3rd Quadrant placed bulk items at the curb on this past Tuesday for pick-up on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the Borough provided insufficient notice to our residents of this error, and most of our residents in the 3rd Quadrant were not aware that their bulk items would be picked up on Wednesday July 21st, not July 14th.

To rectify our error, residents of the 3rd Quadrant who put their bulk items out on Tuesday night will have them picked up tomorrow, Friday July 16th. For those residents who did not place their bulk items at the curb this past Tuesday, their bulk items will be picked up as scheduled on Wednesday July 21st.

The Borough apologizes for any inconvenience the error in the printed bulk schedule may have caused.