[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Local officials want more say at Ft. Monmouth (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Local officials seek larger post-Fort Monmouth role

By CAROL GORGA WILLIAMS
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
November 10, 2009

Local officials are demanding more say in planning for the future of the 
Fort Monmouth property after Army operations there end in 2011.

Now that the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority 
has completed its work, the agency must move to implement its $1 billion 
blueprint for life after the base closure, a process that is raising 
concerns that FMERPA's successor will be weighed down by state 
appointees, drowning out local voices.

Oceanport officials have long complained that FMERPA was controlled by 
appointees of the governor, leaving only one slot for the Monmouth 
County Board of Freeholders and room for the mayors of Oceanport, Tinton 
Falls and Eatontown, the fort's so-called host communities.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/article/20091110/NEWS/91110094/1004/NEWS01/+Local+officials+seek+larger+post-Fort+Monmouth+role

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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