{"id":15848,"date":"2020-01-16T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2020-01-16T01:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:53:48","slug":"brick-resident-thanked-for-county-planning-board-service-another-brick-resident-is-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/01\/brick-resident-thanked-for-county-planning-board-service-another-brick-resident-is-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Resident Thanked for County Planning Board Service, Another Brick Resident is Appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Freeholder Gary Quinn honors retiring OC Planning Board member Donald Bertrand. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Turnover the the Ocean County Planning Board won\u2019t leave Brick underrepresented on the countywide body \u2013 and for one retiring member, it was the bittersweet end of a family tradition this week.<\/p>\n

Donald Bertrand, a longtime Brick resident who has served on the board, retired after 25 years in the unpaid, volunteer role. He was thanked by the county freeholders at their meeting Wednesday and given a plaque for his service. Bertrand replaced his father on the board when he was first appointed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the pleasure of serving as the liaison to the planning board for three years and it was a pleasure serving with you,\u201d Freeholder Virginia Haines told Bertrand, as his family looked on. \u201cI can\u2019t thank you enough for the years of dedication you\u2019ve given to the people of Ocean County.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really appreciate this,\u201d said Bertrand. \u201cI know Gerry [Little] got me into the planning board to take my father\u2019s place. He was here when George Buckwald was here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moving forward, a former Brick Township Board of Adjustment member will fill the seat left behind by Bertrand.<\/p>\n

Dennis Liberatore was appointed to fill the unexpired term, which lasts until March 21, 2021. Another Brick resident and former planning board member Joseph Marra was appointed to be an alternate board member.<\/p>\n

Though rarely in the news, the Ocean County Planning Board reviews all subdivisions of land within Ocean County and makes determinations on proposals for development along county roads or which affects county property. It consist of eight members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Turnover the the Ocean County Planning Board won\u2019t leave Brick underrepresented on the countywide body \u2013 and for one retiring member, it was the bittersweet end of a family tradition this week. Donald Bertrand, a longtime Brick resident who has served on the board, retired after 25 years in the unpaid, volunteer role. He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15849,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,3929,3928,3930,3927],"class_list":["post-15848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-dennis-liberatore","tag-donald-bertrand","tag-joseph-marra","tag-ocean-county-planning-board"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_8911-scaled-e1579157572438.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-47C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848","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=15848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}