Politics & Government

Borough to Hire 'Clean Communities' Employees, Acquire Land for New Street

On the Agenda: The Fort Lee Mayor and Council meet Thursday at 8 p.m.

The Fort Lee Mayor and Council is set to vote on a resolution authorizing the hiring of “Clean Communities” employees at its regular meeting Thursday at .

Hiring the temporary employees for spring and summer is made possible by a , which borough officials said will enable them to hire high school and college students as temporary help at a rate of $8 to $10.50 an hour to clean up the borough’s parks and work on other projects aimed at beautifying the community.

Borough Administrator Peggy Thomas told Patch last week that the program has been going on for several years, and that this year, they are likely to focus on cleaning up the parks under the supervision of Michael Maresca of the Fort Lee Department of Public Works (DPW).

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“We hire a group of summer kids that go around town and do special projects cleaning up the community, whether it’s Main Street, where they take care of the flowers on Main Street, or they work in the parks, making sure that the parks are clean,” Thomas said.

Fort Lee was awarded $49,575.92, making the borough the third largest recipient in Bergen County after Hackensack and Teaneck with award amounts based on the number of housing units in each municipality and the number of miles of municipality-owned roadways.

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One reader emailed Patch, saying, “I hope these jobs are filled fairly, but have doubts they will.”

Attend the Fort Lee Mayor and Council regular meeting Thursday starting at 8 p.m. in Borough Hall’s Council Chambers to find out.

On the Agenda

The agenda for Thursday’s regular meeting also includes several public hearings, some of which are related to either borough officials see as essentially useless to the developers of Redevelopment Area 5 or vacating “paper roads” or “unimproved roads” in the redevelopment area.

Another ordinance that would enable the borough to acquire “by negotiated purchase or eminent domain” a adjacent to Redevelopment Area 5 at 179 Main St. () “for the purpose of establishing a new public street.”

To download the complete agenda for Thursday’s meeting, click here, or visit the Borough of Fort Lee’s website.


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