PERTH AMBOY – One of the topics of discussion at the 8/11/13 Caucus Meeting dealt with half paved streets. Council President Joel Pabon said, “Residents complained about these streets.”

Department of Public Works Director Frank Dann came up to answer this question, but said, “It is a Code Enforcement issue.”

Dann explained, “It;s the gas company that are replacing the lines and they only dig up the side of the street where the lines are to make the connection. Sometimes the gas company may have to go into a resident’s property to complete the job.”

Pabon said, “Some of the sidewalks on Madison Avenue where the gas lines were worked on have been replaced with tar instead of the cement which was originally there.”

Ed Scala from Code Enforcement answered that question, “The gas company has to do large sections and not just of chunks of streets. Any sidewalk that presently has the tar will have it replaced with cement if that’s what was there originally.”