Due date

With over two months elapsed since Birdsall Engineering was put on an eight week contract to advise the Council on development strategy, it is about time for residents to examine the results of their $87,400 investment. Skeptical as many have become regarding the ability of the Township to relieve the homeowner tax burden by broadening the tax base in the near-term, one can still hold out hope that there will be something genuinely original and also practicable within the contents of the Birdsall report. The Council would still need to demonstrate an ability to implement any ambitious plans that might be contained within the report, but it might regain the sense of direction it may have lost after its awkward handling of the Brett Park issue.

Optimists who want to stay positive on the Birdsall Engineering report until it becomes available may want to ignore this recent news story regarding the firm's handling of a project right in its own backyard in Tinton Falls, NJ.