{"id":912,"date":"2017-06-05T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=912"},"modified":"2017-06-05T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:04:34","slug":"toms-river-to-recoup-2-3m-in-sandy-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/toms-river-to-recoup-2-3m-in-sandy-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River to Recoup $2.3M in Sandy Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Sandy damage in Ortley Beach, N.J. on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (Governor\u2019s Office\/Tim Larsen)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toms River\u00a0will receive nearly $2.3 million in reimbursements for money the township expended during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy, officials said.<\/p>\n

The Ocean County freeholder board\u00a0will be distributing more than $9.3 million to the 17 municipalities, including Toms River, that participated in the county\u2019s debris removal program following the\u00a0October 2012 storm. Toms River will receive\u00a0$2,298,677 in the disbursement.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the storm, Ocean County officials centralized storm cleanup under a single contract and invited all of its municipalities to join the joint effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a program we were, in part, criticized for but it provided some of the greatest results to our towns and our residents following a storm that devastated this County,\u201d Freeholder John Bartlett said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more pleased with this outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The county hired AshBritt to manage the cleanup effort, which came under scrutiny after it was revealed that Ocean County Republican Chairman George R. Gilmore had been hired as a consultant<\/a> for the company.<\/p>\n

Under the shared services agreement agreement between the county and its municipalities, the county would be reimbursed by both the Federal Emergency Management Administration at 90 percent and the towns, at 10 percent for the required local match. Officials said the agreement allowed towns to free up staff to tend\u00a0to other storm related activities and provide assistance to citizens. Seventeen of the county\u2019s 33 municipalities entered into the shared services agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cDebris removal was key and we knew we had to do it,\u201d Bartlett said. \u201cWe came up with a plan. We did a good thing for our towns and residents and we successfully received full reimbursement for it. We got their share back for them and we will be sending them checks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toms River was a major participants in the cleanup agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked with Toms River to remove the hazards so the rebuilding could get underway,\u201d Freeholder Director Joseph Vicari said. \u201cThe program provided the same help for all the other towns that signed on. Ocean County and its municipalities suffered serious losses as a result of Sandy. We are coming back and this will help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Toms River\u00a0will receive nearly $2.3 million in reimbursements for money the township expended during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy, officials said. The Ocean County freeholder board\u00a0will be distributing more than $9.3 million to the 17 municipalities, including Toms River, that participated in the county\u2019s debris removal program following the\u00a0October 2012 storm. Toms River will receive\u00a0$2,298,677 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[348,58,11],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-superstorm-sandy","tag-reimbursement","tag-superstorm-sandy","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20121110Sandy153.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}