Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • December 19, 2012 Waldwick The Waldwick Borough Council last week introduced an ordinance to prohibit smoking on all borough recreational properties. All town parks and the municipal swimming pool are included. Fields leased to the sports organizations and the garage leased to the Graduation Ball Committee, which Councilwoman Anita Bozzo said is full of volatile material, would also fall under the ordinance. The smoking ban had been a goal of Bozzo’s, who will be stepping down from the council on Jan. 1 after nine Council moves to ban smoking at recreational sites years on the governing body. Adoption of the ordinance is expected at the council’s Dec. 27 meeting, Bozzo’s last session as a town official. “The recreation facilities are there for the use of our children. We have to protect our children. It is not appropriate – it’s bad – for them to be exposed to second-hand smoke,” Bozzo said. She said she expects good compliance, particularly because most people already refrain from smoking in the parks. “More and more towns are adopting these policies. We should too,” she told her fellow councilmen. Councilman Greg Bjork questioned how the ordi- nance would be enforced and to whom violators would be reported. Borough Administrator Gary Kratz said anyone smoking could be reported to the monitor in charge of the facility. He said people could also call the police or file a complaint with the police department, which has to be done in person. “By law in order to file a complaint you have to have witnessed it,” Kratz explained. If convicted, a violator could face imprisonment of up to 90 days, a fine of up to $2,000 or up to 90 days of community service. The maximum penalties are set by state statute, Kratz said. School days lost due to the power outage following Hurricane Sandy will be made up during the scheduled spring break in April. The Waldwick Board of Education last week voted to revise the 2012-13 school calendar to reduce teaching days from 182 to 180 days, which is the minimum state requirement, and to hold school on April 11 and 12, still leaving Days to be made up during spring break April 8, 9 and 10 as vacation days. But Superintendent of Schools Dr. Patricia Raupers said that if other emergency days are needed during the school year, they will also be taken from the spring recess. The district was closed for eight days in late October and early November in the aftermath of the storm. Two of (continued on page 24)