Lavallette, Seaside Park Ending Municipal Court Partnership

Lavallette Borough Hall (Photo: Daniel Nee)

Lavallette and Seaside Park will end an agreement in which the two towns share a municipal court administrator, thanks to a pending retirement and data that shows Lavallette’s court could be run cheaper with an in-house, part-time administrator of its own.

Under the agreement, the two towns each maintained municipal courts, but the administrative end was handled together since both courts are small. A pending retirement led the towns to re-evaluate the agreement, which culminated in Lavallette’s decision to hire its own part-time administrator for a few hours per week, and Seaside Park to partner with a new town – Surf City – that had been looking to outsource its administrative work.

“We don’t need a lot of service, and if we hire a part-time person ourselves, we don’t have to worry about benefits and vacations,” said Lavallette Councilwoman Joanne Filippone.

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Lavallette conducted interviews for its new administrator this week, with a candidate expected to be hired and begin work after the new year. Seaside Park was poised to approve its shared services agreement with Surf City on Thursday night at a borough council meeting.