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Neighbors Night Out
Neighbors Night Out, sponsored by Comcast will be held on Saturday, May 10 from 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Come get reacquainted with your neighbors for a night of fun, food and music. This event is rain or shine, under the tents, in the 200 block of West Atlantic Avenue. Tickets are $50.00, adults only. They are available at the library or by calling Kevin Sheehan at 310-0036. Proceeds benefit Haddon Heights Good Neighbors and the Haddon Heights Library.
The Society of Architectural Historians Philadelphia Chapter invites you to "SEARS ROEBUCK & COMPANY HOUSES" on Monday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Architectural Archives/University of PA located at 220 South 34th Street. Free for Phila SAH members, $5.00 for non members payable on site (checks to Philadelphia Chapter SAH). Reservations requested, contact Mary Anne Eves at ffaphila@hotmail.com, or phone 215-545-1076. From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 kit homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing models with charming names such as The Ivanhoe, The Goldenrod, The Lexington and The Betsy Ross. The most easily recognizable Sears houses are their bungalows, often with matching single-car garages, but they made all kinds of pre-cut structures including 15 room Victorian mansions and working barns. Sears never did anything innovative, all the styles they produced were well established in the public taste before they produced them. Customers could choose a house to suit their individual tastes and budgets and Sears also created the Sears Mortgage Company to help the home-owner finance the purchase of his Sears kit house. The house kits were shipped anywhere there were rails, including trolley lines, which is how they got into many suburban areas. Today many of these trolley lines are long gone, but if there is a Sears house in a neighborhood you can be sure there was once a rail source nearby. Join us for this fascinating presentation by Jane Davidson & Bruce Knapp of The Chester County Historic Preservation Network. You'll soon be spotting Sears houses on your own.
Circolo Italiano will be presenting David Inloes, a Philadelphia based Cellist. This year marks his 40th year behind the cello, having played in numerous orchestras, studio recordings, dozens of staged musicals, many chamber ensembles and in hundreds of private performances. Program starts at 8:00 p.m., admission is free. Coffee and cake served throughout the evening.
The 2008 Haddon Heights Borough Budget, introduced on March 18, is now accessible online. The public hearing on this budget is scheduled for April 15 at the Borough Hall at 8:00 p.m. You can find it via this link. The overview of the 2008 Budget is also available. The 2007 Haddon Heights Borough Budget is also still available. Check it out here. They are both very large files, so they make take some time to load.
The Adopt-A-Spot group
is asking for help from all residents to aide in the clean up and
beautification of certain parts of Haddon Heights.
They are trying to reach out to Hoff's Park and the woods along W.
Atlantic, the CVS corner on the White Horse Pike & Kings Hwy, the
Railroad corridor and others.
Notice to Haddon Heights Residents and Property Owners Haddon Heights’ borough is in a financial crisis. Our borough is operationally leveraged with fixed costs that far exceed and outpace tax revenues that our residents can afford. Affecting this is Governor Corzine’s proposed 2008 state budget that will reduce our income by $255,000. We currently do not meet the requirements for extraordinary aid which was $325,000 in 2007 Our borough revenues are down in other areas, resulting in a need to find $580,000 in savings to realize a 2008 overall inflation level tax increase. To that end, Haddon Heights’ governing body is applying fiscally responsible actions to achieve a 1.6% decrease in municipal appropriations from 2007. Combining this decrease along with a calendar year 2.86% increase in the School budget, and an inflation level increase in the County budget, our overall tax increase is targeted for 3%. This is down versus the overall tax increases of 6.28% in 2005, 8.44% in 2006, and 7.43% in 2007. To achieve a 1.6% decrease in our municipal appropriations, we have scrutinized and analyzed every department for cost savings while keeping in mind the level of services that can be realized during our challenging financial crisis. Based on our analysis and after much consideration we have determined that the Department of Public Works can operate more efficiently and realize significant cost savings to the borough by eliminating redundant positions, outsourcing additional services, and utilizing seasonal help. Therefore, effective April 3rd, 2008 the borough eliminated 8 full-time Department of Public Works positions, and laid-off the employees in those positions. This was not an easy decision for the governing body, but our statutory duties require us to look after the welfare of Haddon Heights’ 7,600 residents and 3,039 property owners. These changes not only have a positive financial impact in 2008, but will also have even greater positive financial impact in 2009 and 2010. The governing body currently does not have plans for additional lay-offs, though we will continue to evaluate borough services and the cost to our residents. We ask for your continued support and consideration as we transition to the new Department of Public Works operating model. If you have any questions please contact the governing body through the Borough website www.haddonhts.com Mayor Scott Alexander DPW Chair Lee Wentz Council Members: Tad Fetter, Gordon Shopp, Rose Fitzgerald, Don Witzig
The Economic Development Committee's Strategic Planning & Community Visioning Project is available here. If you have any questions, please contact Councilman Shopp. Please remember that all are welcome to the EDC's meetings, which are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the Borough Hall.
The following address list represents trees that have been approved for removal. Addresses in blue are on county roads, while addresses in red will be removed by PSEG. Updated 3/6/08.
1st Avenue - 222, 237,409 2nd Avenue - 300, 403, 407 3rd Avenue - 119 (2), 301, 306 4th Avenue - 112, 307, 525 7th Avenue - 108, 310 9th Avenue - 100 10th Avenue - 208 Atlantic Avenue (East) - 209 Crest Avenue - 315 Kings Highway - 1206 Maple Avenue - 1301, 1600 Narberth Avenue - 1800 Prospect Ridge - 1007, 1017, 1101, 1105 South Park Avenue - 1936 Sycamore Street - 1412, 1909, 1944 Thornolden Avenue - 14 West High Street - 1206, 1944 |
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