Enivronmental commission meets in L.B.

Environmental commission meets in L.B.
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

LONG BRANCH — The city's newly formed Long Branch Environmental Commission met for the first time and officially drafted bylaws recently.

The group was appointed on June 22 and met for the first time on July 13.

The commission members discussed issues including the "Change a Bulb, Change the World" campaign.

The campaign was spearheaded by Mellaci and was featured at the recent Oceanfest celebration on July 4.

"Four hundred and seventy people pledged to the change their light bulb campaign," Mellaci said.

Mellaci also explained that the campaign has grown in the past three years.

"This is our third year," she said. "I thought we did great the first year, the second year was better. I expect this year to be even better then that."

With 470 already signed up, the initiative still has plans to collect more signatures.

"The last year, I think we had about 700 or 750 people sign on to the campaign. This year we are already at 470," Mellaci said. "We haven't started our library campaign yet. They are a great source of dissemination of information to the public.

"They get a lot of pledges," she added. "We signed up about 300 or 400 people down there."

The campaign educates the public about which light bulbs are best to save on energy.

"My concern is a lot of people don't know that compact lights are hazardous," Teitelbaum said. "You have to take them to Home Depot, you can't take them to Hazmat."

The commission will meet on the second Monday of each month and is led by Long Branch resident Mark Smiga.

"Our initial goal is to try to raise public awareness that we exist," Smiga said.

Commission members are Mark Smiga, Marcia Blackwell, Faith Teitelbaum, Dick Honymar, Rich Garlipp, Jennifer Smiga, Richard Lee and Ceil Mancini. Also involved are city employee liaisons, Carl Turner and Michele Bernich of the Planning Board and Carol Mellaci of the Division of Purchasing.

Contact Kenny Walter at

kwalter@gmnews.com.


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