Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • March 12, 2014 Midland Park Thank you to everyone who helped make our Fourth Annual Bash at the Brick House a success! We thank the Party with Purpose team for including us in their Feb. 27 Winter Benefit in Hoboken. We are fortunate to be one of their grant recipients. We now need Easter Baskets for chil- dren and food baskets for families. We also need volunteers who can help us solve some computer issues. Just in time for Easter, the Duffy Con- firmations Group is hosting a Lollipop Sale to benefit ECF. To place an order, please e-mail sfd652@gmail.com. They are also sponsoring a Bagel Breakfast on Satur- day, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Parish Center in Ridgewood. Admission is $5 per person. To place a ticket order, please e-mail melenaesteve@gmail.com. We are very grateful to these girls! Meet Luis: Luis is an 11-year-old boy who enjoys attending school and playing sports with his friends. After quite some time of being able to enjoy his childhood and be free of treatments, Luis has relapsed and is again battling cancer. Weekly doc- tors’ appointments have left him feeling weak, and his family with little time to relax. His family is always by his side being supportive and, most of all, loving. Due to his weekly treatments, Mom has quit her job in order to dedicate all of her time to her son and his well-being. Luis is now being home schooled, and he misses his daily school routine and seeing his friends. He spends his days relaxing at home, playing video games, and watching television. This family enjoys spending quality time together and gift cards to GameStop would help them share activities. They could also benefit from gift cards to Shop Rite. ECF is a nonprofit organization that pro- vides a variety of specialized services, at no charge, to any New Jersey family facing the challenges of caring for a child with cancer. ECF does not raise money for cancer research, but provides direct in-home care to its families. Many families do not have the financial or emotional support to help them get through a major illness like cancer, so ECF provides families with counseling by a professional case worker, material goods (such as household items, toys, and monthly grocery deliveries), and emergency finan- cial assistance. These individually tailored services are critical in helping families get through the crisis of pediatric cancer. ECF does not receive any government funding, and relies on donations from the community. Call the Northern Regional Center at (201) 612-8118 or e-mail Laura at laura@emmanuelcancer.org to help. ECF now needs volunteers who can deliver groceries to families in Bergen and Essex counties. Spanish-speaking drivers are in particularly high demand! Individuals and groups are encouraged to help by hosting fundraisers or collecting food or gift cards for ECF’s families. The Northern Regional Center at 174 Paterson Avenue in Midland Park welcomes volunteers and visitors. Call (201) 612-8118 before you stop by. Because storage space is limited, please do not leave items at the center without checking with us first. For more information, visit www.emmanu- elcancer.org or “like” ECF on Facebook: EmmanuelCancerFoundation. As always, thank you for helping the children and their families! Ordinances include funds for vehicle, improvements The Midland Park Council recently introduced a capital ordinance that would authorize additional funds to the reserve for municipal vehicles. If approved by the coun- cil on March 27, a total of $255,000 would be appropriated from the capital improve- ment fund for future vehicle purchases. The acquisition of funding from the cap- ital improvement fund would be authorized for: • Midland Park Fire Department’s reserve for a fire truck, in the amount of $150,000; • Midland Park Fire Department’s reserve for a fire chief’s car in the amount of $5,000; • Midland Park Department of Public Works’ reserve for a street sweeper in the amount of $60,000; • Midland Park Department of Public Works’ reserve for a plow/salt truck in the amount of $40,000. Last week’s article about the 2014 capi- tal budget indicated that a sum of $600,000 had been included in that spending plan for a ladder truck for the fire department. However, that figure is incorrect. “Every year, the borough puts sets aside $50,000 in a capital reserve account for the future purchase of a fire truck,” Midland Park Borough Clerk/Administrator Ade- line M. Hanna explained. “To date, we have $350,000 in this account for a fire truck. This year, the borough made the decision to allot $150,000 for the fire truck purchase, since this will be done within the next two years. This will decrease the amount of funds that would have to be borrowed.” A second ordinance introduced at the last public council session would authorize var- ious municipal improvements, acquisitions, and projects, and would appropriate the money from the capital improvement fund. However, the ordinance (#5-14) includes an erroneous total appropriation. As a result, the measure will have to be voted down by the council and a corrected version will be introduced at a later date. That ordinance would cover a commer- cial grade snowblower, outside lighting along the parking lot at borough hall, and renovations, front porch work, and shut- ters at borough hall. The ordinance also includes funds for the 2014 road resurfacing program, an Ingersoll Rand rotary screw three-phase air compressor, and curb and drainage work on West Summit Avenue. Funds would also be devoted to unspeci- fied equipment for the fire department, and computer equipment for the volunteer ambulance corps. The police department would receive eight bullet resistant vests, 15 Glock duty weapons, two desktop comput- ers, three monitors, and four laptops, and two Tahoe police vehicles. The ordinance would also cover first base-line fencing and repairs to the infield grass along Vander- meer Field, and a new snack bar door. Sinkhole work approved An emergency construction project on South Rea Avenue has received retroactive approval from the Midland Park Council. Repairs were carried out on the borough street after a sinkhole appeared. At its last public meeting, the governing body formally approved the contract with Colonelli Brothers of Hackensack for the sum of $11,954 on an emergency basis pur- suant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-6. N.J.S.A. 40S:11-6 permits a contracting unit to enter into a contract without public advertising for bids when an emergency affecting the public health, safety, and wel- fare requires an immediate performance of service.