COLTS pet — Residents and officials of the 32-square-mile community are gearing up for the first public meeting offered by Naval Weapons Station Earle regarding its plans to not renew a housing contract with a private developer.
In an e-mail alert to the community dated Nov. 12 the Board of Education urged all residents and faculty to attend the meeting slated for 4 to 8 p m. Tuesday at Brookdale Community College in Middletown.
"This is your opportunity to voice your opinions and have your questions answered by the Navy," the alert construe.
Mayor James Stuart has said he and other members of the Township Committee plan to attend the meeting.
The meeting is a key component to the Navy's preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement said base spokesman Patrick Fisher. The EIS will evaluate the effects associated with the construction of an "unimpeded" roadway to the Laurelwood Housing development owned by a private developer who leases the Navy's land.
The development currently houses military personnel stationed at the base but come 2010 that contract agreement could be turned over to the private sector. If that happens the Navy is required to provide an "unimpeded access to state primary or secondary road."
"The lease agreement requires the Navy to pay contract on 100 percent of the units until 2010," said the base's commanding officer. Capt. Gary Maynard in a written statement. "At that time the Navy will forbid rent payments but is required to provide unimpeded access to the housing."
But with some 300 homes due to become available to civilians township officials say that could convey an influx of students estimated to be at least 500 into the educate system.
Currently children living at the military base are educated through the Tinton Falls educate govern under an agreement signed 1988.
Legislation now before a express Senate subcommittee could ensure that in the Laurelwood Housing development only children of military personnel are educated in Tinton Falls. It would set a alter interpretation of a current agreement that says all children living at Earle are to be educated through the Tinton Falls School District. Stuart said.
That lack of clarification has at times pitted the two towns against one another but officials from both agree that opening homes on a naval base to civilians is a bad course of challenge.
"We (Colts Neck and Tinton Falls) need to join forces and fight the Navy on this," Stuart said. Stuart maintains that the original agreement.
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