Mayor: Sea Girt Replacing Playground, Scheduling Events

An update on borough news from Sea Girt Mayor Ken Farrell includes events around town and information on coming projects, such as a playground rebuild this September.

The complete statement as released by Farrell:

Have you been to our Beach yet?Please take a walk and enjoy the new boardwalk. We are very proud of how quickly we bounced back from the storm and how beautiful our beaches are again.
Future events that will impact traffic in and around Sea Girt: Bridge on Rt. 71 and Wreck pond will be repaired this summer
Sea Girt Avenue will be paved, in part, and work will be done on Sea Girt Ave and railroad track flooding problem—late July timeframe
NGTC note of interest (army Camp):the NJNG's Regional training facility (RTI) will start construction late 2013 and2014. There will be two new buildings for regimental training.

Upcoming events: 3 Aug:Sea Girt Lighthouse Citizens committee Lawn Party from 6-8 p.m. (Rain date: Sunday, August 4). Tickets are $60 per person. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Further information: 732-974-0514.
3 Aug:Sea Girt 5K
6Aug:National Lights out for Crime event: 6 to 9 PM at the National Guard Training Center. We encourage attendance and meet your Police officers
14 Aug:Council Meeting –for more information concerning these meeting visit our website agenda http://www.seagirtboro.com/meetings.html
23 Aug:Concert at the Pavilion 7:30 –9pmfeaturing“Idöl Threat”
14 Sept:Special Sea Girt Library event---details to follow (save the date..)
5 Oct:Dune Grass planting program initiative. We will start at 8:45 AM at the Pavilion
Council News
The Council is moving forward with a replacement of the Baltimore park playground equipment—in early Sept 2013 timeframe. The playground will be closed for 15 days or so in early Sept 2013 for planning purposes.

Sea Girt Public SAFETY note: The safety and security of our Boro and its residents is number 1—and we are proud of our environment in that area. Please however,call the Sea Girt Police if you see anything suspicious or out of the ordinary—we would rather you call....be vigilant and report anything suspicious,“when in doubt, call the police”.
White Swan Superfund cloud testing-EPA sampling of indoor air for TCE‘Air’ sampling was conducted an on a few homes in the Western part of Sea Girtearlier this month--- As to questions, we will work to hold a Town hall in the Fall with the EPA..that is the goal anyway.Mr.Westgate of the EPA will be glad to talk to our residents. If any of our residents have questions please callMatt Westgate at the EPA at 212 637-4422.

Sea Girt Newsletter
The Administrator puts out a reoccurring electronic newsletter on behalf of the Governing body, it's worth signing up -to do so, look at Sea Girt website or click here.

Sea Girt Emergency Notification System
The Borough of Sea Girt utilizes SwiftReach Networks, Inc. Swift911 Emergency Notification System, is used as a means to quickly, efficiently and effectively notify our residents and business owners of emergencies that may affect them. An emergency notification message is typed and spoken into the Swift911 system. A recorded message is then sent to each of our residents and businesses, with a listed telephone number, and to numbers that have been added annually. The typed message can also be sent to an email address.If you have an unlisted telephone number, the police department can manually enter your phone number in either of two ways. You may go to our website www.seagirtpd.net,click on the SwiftReach link in the menu on the left side of the home page, and fill out the contact information, and hit submit, or you can call headquarters at 732-449-7300 and give you name address and phone number to the dispatcher, requesting to be added the Swift911 system

Beach benches/plaquesprogramoverview:
These plaques are very important to all of us, For 2013, Some Benches have be placed on the East side oft he boardwalk this summer. A plan is being developed to restore the benches by the summer of 2014.There will be no plaques on these benches atthis time..Sea Girt personnel have been diligently searching for the lost plaques. So far we have recovered ninety-nine out of one hundred twenty-five plaques. A listing of the recovered plaques is on the SeaGirt website found at www.seagirtboro.com
Councilwoman Anne Morris is leading our program as relates to future plans for newer benches. Our plan is to restore plaques AND benches to the Sea Girt Boardwalk by 15 MAY 2014
Any PERSON who had a plaque on a bench in Sea Girt is encouraged to contact Borough Hall and give their contact information so that we may notify them once a bench plaque replacement program is devised. call Sea Girt Boro Hall at 732-449-9433.-ext110.
We are not taking or adding new names to our waiting list—the list is closed as of early May 2013.

Sea Girt Library Info
The following summary is provided to help our Sea Girt residents understand our library and how it operates and the funding sourceWe have a unique form of Library. Our library is located at The Plaza, Sea Girt, NJ near the NJ transit Railroad track --(732) 449-1099
During the 1960s through late 1988, the Sea Girt Library operated out of Borough Hall’s and Lighthouse, respectively.I n 1989, the Sea Girt train station was completely renovated to house our Boro library thanks to a lavish donation from Ms. Sara Zock. Ms. Zock, both individual and via the Kurr Foundation, along with other generous donors has allowed our library operate over the last 20 years with any direct budget or fiscal support from the tax payers of Sea Girt. Sea Girt has Lynn Kroll as our librarian and she is both progressive but also efficient in the management of this Boro's library. We are also very lucky to dedicated volunteers who have freely offered their assistance—many who have been with the library since we opened. They provide a tremendous service to the library, but they contribute even more so by helping keep our costs down. We are always looking for more volunteers. For over 20 years, the Sea Girt Library has been a valuable asset to residents of our Borough.The library’s quaint, friendly small town atmosphere is an integral component of what draws people to use it.

Final Thoughts
One of the main goals of the Governing body is to encourage community involvement and input. If you would like to help with our beach project, we will be planting Dune grass on 5 October 2013. Please let us know if you want to participate.