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1. Allow Kayak & Canoe Access to Newark Watershed (Northwest NJ Reservoirs) 
The Newark Watershed (NWCDC) owns and operates reservoirs located in northwest New Jersey that make up the drinking water supply for the city of Newark, NJ. Four of the NWCDC reservoirs are open to the public for boating and fishing recreational use.
NWCDC regulations specify that: kayaks and canoes are NOT acceptable types of boats allowed on their reservoirs but row boats and bass boats with electric motors are fine. http://www.newarkwatershed.com NWCDC website "Boating Rules and Regulations rule #4": 4. Canoes, sailboats and inflatable floating crafts of any description are not allowed. Kayaks are also Prohibited.
Today, many people choose to fish from kayaks or canoes and this ban is unfairly restricts access to those people who choose to paddle their choice of craft.
2. Install Speed Humps On Spring Street, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Speed humps should be installed on Spring Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey to prevent vehicles from speeding. Vehicles frequently travel at high rates of speed, creating a danger to pedestrians, children and pets.
Spring Street is a dead end street with heavy traffic located behind Foley Field. Although there is no posted speed limit, pursuant to state law (N.J.S.A. 39:4-98) drivers of vehicles are not permitted to exceed twenty-five miles per hour.
Unfortunately, the speed limit is regularly ignored. Speed humps are an effective way to encourage drivers to obey the law, and to drive at safe speeds.
The Port Authority has bought the land where the 9.11 Tear Drop Monument is located along with smaller Monuments for Bayonne residents who lost their lives in the attacks on The WTC.
Now authorities want to move it and we want it to stay!
4. Save The UBC Dinosaur Track Quarry, West Paterson, NJ
The UBC Quarry in West Paterson, NJ has been a unique fossil locality for scientific research and spectacular fossils from the Passaic formation in the Early Jurassic period of NJ since the 1960's. Many discoveries over the years have yielded a great deal of knowledge to the scientific community in the area of trace fossils (ichnology) during this unique time period.
Large museums and universities have done research projects and collected at the quarry to add to their collections and preserve these fossils. Ironically most of the fossils from this quarry are in private hands and not in a museum for folks to enjoy. The quarry was once an active quarry for many years but now has been sold to a developer to create high end condos that overlook NYC.
The remaining fossils in the quarry will be forever lost if the developers are allowed to demolish the remaining section of the quarry to complete their development. No more fossils from this period will ever be able to be collected again as this is the only place in NJ that has fossils from this time period. Once this section is gone there will be no more science or fossils to be gained. There is one section of the quarry left next to Rifle Camp Park that is of scientific significance that is threatened to be lost forever due to the development of these condos.
Some of the best preserved dinosaur and reptile footprints have been found in this quarry which do not compare to any other locality from New Jersey. Dinosaur tracks and fossil trace fossils have been a very unique, rare, and are an important piece of our fossil history and deserves to be protected. The state of New Jersey has done very little to protect fossil localities compared to other states in the USA and that is why we need your help. Trace fossils are a very important part of the state of New Jersey's history just like Hadrosaurus foulki and deserve to be protected, preserved and enjoyed by future generations. Let's not make this just a memory like other fossil sites in Northern NJ.
Let's make it a preserved site forever. Time is running out and only a few months left till it is gone forever. Thanks.
5. Reduce the number of Police In Garfield, NJ
Since 1999 the amount of police in Garfield has skyrocketed. Garfield, a city of 30,000 people, just under 2 square miles, has more police than we need.
We all witness the police in the city. They drive around bored, so they harass the residents. The police have become OPPRESSIVE.
6. Stop Hamilton Popeyes Drive Through Expansion
- Popeye's Restaurant is planning to construct a 427 square foot addition and add a drive-through window.
- Fast-food restaurants are not permitted in this Community Commercial zone (they are grandfathered in), and therefore are requesting a variance for the expansion as well as an exemption for off-street loading.
- This location is 1100' from a School and Church, zoning laws prohibit fast food to with in 1500' feet of either.
- There will no longer be a loading area for the building on site and must use Winslow Avenue.
- Entrance from Nottingham Way will be in one direction only now, as you will not be able to make a left turn from Nottingham.
- Winslow Avenue will serve as an entrance and the only exit point.
- Patrons who are unaware of the new traffic pattern and cannot turn left into Popeye's will be forced to drive through our neighborhood to reach the Winslow entrance (Nottingham to Crescent to Fenwood to Winslow).
- In addition, vehicles will also use Fenwood Avenue off of Route 33 to turn on to Winslow to enter Popeye's.
Our concerns:
- Public Safety as result of increased traffic.
- Public health, we do not want our children exposed to this unhealthy food. We have enough fast food near by.
- excessive traffic
- deterioration of streets
- safety of residents, especially our children
- increased noise, light, odor and litter pollution
- loss of parking on our residential streets
- depreciation in property value.
7. Newark Pool Operation Procedures
Mayor Cory Booker started the Super Summer 2009 Program this month; however Newark residents don't feel so super about how they have been treated at the city swimming pools. This month 65 Black & Hispanic children were denied access to the Valley Club pool in P.A. because they feared it would "…Change the complexion of the pool...” However in our inner city communities, where the complexions are a wide spectrum of yellows, browns & blacks, our children & adults are once again being denied access to the swimming pools, but this time it is due to city pool employees making up their own rules.
These policies include but are not limited to:
1. Closing the pool before the posted closing time. Today I called the pool at 2:14 PM & was told that the pool was closing at 6PM. The posted closing time was 6:30PM.
2. Blocking patrons & turning them away from even entering the pool area before the posted time of closing. Today I watched as myself & scores of other children & adults were turned away form the JFK swimming pool at 5 PM when the pool was scheduled to close at 6:30 PM. Later at the Boyland Street Center swimming pool on South Orange Avenue, I saw a similar thing happen.
3. Bullying & harassing patrons who voice their concern for the injustice of being subjected to unfair & unethical practices. Today employees verbally assaulted patrons who questioned the logic of the early closings.
4. Not opening on time because staff isn’t showing up on time. Many times we would show up to swim on time, just to find out that all the life guards are not at their stations.
5. Having whole sections of the pool closed off to swimming, even though they have the adequate number of life guards to watch the entire pool. Life guards seem to be more interested in holding conversations or hanging out than working.
6. Closing the dive boards while the pool is open, this sould have a life guard posted at all times that have enough getting paid to do so but not doing their jobs.
7. Not doing scheduled maintenance of the pool i.e. cleaning during slow days or hours as to avoid interrupting the scheduled hours of operation.
8. Not announcing sufficiently ahead of time the scheduled routine maintenance times so as to avoid patrons wasting time, energy & gas to show up to a closed pool.
9. Reducing the hours of operation of the pool from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM. There is nothing super about this. The hours of operation should be the same in the summer as it is in the spring/winter hours or longer. Its makes no sense that the hours have been reduced in the summer, that is just plain stupid. This is the time that people need to come to the pool & cool off.
These are only a few complaints about the running of the city’s swimming pools. I am sure the Mayor who I voted for, is unaware that these detestable acts are happening on his watch, so it is our duty as citizens of Newark to bring these matters to his attention.
8. Release and Acquitt James Mills
Many innocent Americans are held in jails across the country for crimes they did not commit. Some are released but many are forced to spend years, if not their entire lives, behind bars for someone else's crimes.
Most are convicted as a result of mistaken identity and/or botched investigations. Our mission is to prevent such an outcome in this situation.
9. Limiting the number of animals per houshold in Middletown, NJ
We live in a residential neighborhood where one household has at least 15 dogs on premis.
The kennels are not properly cleaned so there are serious health risks due to improper drainage, flys and other insects.
The quality of live in the neighborhood is affected by constant barking and people arriving throughout the day to purchase animals.
