{"id":1136,"date":"2014-09-25T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:18:58","slug":"brick-to-partner-with-btmua-on-snow-plowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-to-partner-with-btmua-on-snow-plowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Partner With BTMUA On Snow Plowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_936\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/car_snow.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-936\" class=\"wp-image-936 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/car_snow-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A snowy road in Brick's Herbertsville section in 2013. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/car_snow-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/car_snow-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snowy road in Brick\u2019s Herbertsville section in 2013. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township will partner with the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority \u2013 technically, a separate government entity \u2013 to help with snowplowing efforts this coming winter, as it has in years past.<\/p>\n<p>The township uses a combination of its own public works employees and contractors to plow municipally-owned roads in town, but the MUA will supplement the township crews and limit the amount Brick taxpayers will have to pay contractors, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir rates are much cheaper than the regular contractors when we go out to bid for it,\u201d said Council President Susan Lydecker.<\/p>\n<p>Lydecker said the BTMUA employees will be paid their standard wage for snow plowing. The council, in July, added a number of local construction firms to a pool of contractors to be called on during snow events. They capped the amount to be spent on contractors at $800,000 for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the township <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-prepares-for-winter-as-road-salt-price-rises\/\">awarded its road salt contract<\/a> to a Massachusetts company in preparation for the coming winter months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-to-partner-with-btmua-on-snow-plowing\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township will partner with the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority \u2013 technically, a separate government entity \u2013 to help with snowplowing efforts this coming winter, as it has in years past. The township uses a combination of its own public works employees and contractors to plow municipally-owned roads in town, but the MUA will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,331],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-snow-plowing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/car_snow.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}