Politics & Government
Spring Lake Heights Eyes County Cash for Shredding
Successful drive-through paper collection event will yield some greenbacks for borough
It’s not just federal employees who get paid for shredding documents.
Having collected and fed about 5 ½ tons of paper on June 11 into a super-sized paper shredder, the Borough of Spring Lake Heights now stands to an infusion of cash from the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Although Mayor Frances Enright does not know exactly how much money will come from Freehold, she happily shared the news Monday night about the promised reward.
County officials are dazzled by the amount of paper collected and shredded.
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"We're going to get paid for this by the county," Enright said during Monday night's Borough Council meeting.
During Saturday's much-publicized, community-wide event, residents could drive into the parking lot of the Spring Lake Heights Elementary School, hand over any office paper or documents to be shredded and either stick around to watch their demise or just go on.
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They didn’t even have to get out of their cars. Instead, they could hand it over to borough workers from the car window.
The drive-in shredding concept impressed county officials, Enright noted.
“They loved the way you could just drive up to the school and drive away,” Enright said.
Enright publicly thanked Art Herner, the town’s director of its Department of Public Works and other DPW employees for taking the lead in organizing and carrying out the event.
