City Council meets on Monday afternoon next week, and council will vote on a recommended replacement for retiring Ocean City Business Administrator Mike Dattilo.
Mayor Jay Gillian announced last week that he would seek council’s approval to appoint James Mallon to the post.
Council will vote on the appointment at its public meeting 1 p.m. Monday (Dec. 29) at City Hall. A resolution will ask council to waive the residency requirement for the position.
The city’s administrative code does not require applicants for the top administrative position to live in Ocean City, but they must move to the municipality once they’re hired. The code does allow the city to waive the requirement by vote of council.
Mallon, 46, lives in Buena Vista Township in western Atlantic County with his wife and two children.
The resolution does not specify a starting salary for Mallon. Dattilo makes a base salary of $130,000 annually, according to state pension records.
Mallon was first hired by Ocean City in 1994 in the Recreation Department. He stayed for eight years before moving on to public and private sector jobs in Pennsylvania. He returned to Ocean City to work as Community Services director from 2010 to 2013.
After a short stint as municipal administrator in Pine Hill, Mallon returned this spring to Ocean City as an aide to Gillian.
Mallon has a bachelor’s degree from Glassboro University
and a master’s in public administration from Rutgers.
City Council also will consider the following agenda items:
- Police Station Inspection: City Council will vote on paying Czar Engineering of Egg Harbor Township $10,000 for a “due diligence study” of the police station building. A former school, the century-old structure will be inspected for structural, safety and code-compliance issues. The study could be a precursor to a renewed effort to find an updated space for the department.
- Attics in Ocean City Homes Neighborhood: City Council will vote on the second reading of an ordinance that provides relief for the only single-family neighborhood in Ocean City with a six-foot attic height limit. The proposed measure would allow attic heights of nine feet and eliminate a requirement for a pull-down stair (without affecting overall building height requirements).
- Police Contract: The city apparently has reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract with Ocean City Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local No. 61. Details on labor agreements are typically not released until they are approved.
- Historic Grants: City Council will vote to accept three Sandy Disaster Relief Grants for Historic Properties from the New Jersey Historic Trust. The grants are for historic buildings that were damaged in the October 2012 Superstorm Sandy, including $501,000 for the Ocean City Transportation Center (10th and Haven), $143,031 for the U.S. Life Saving Station (Fourth and Atlantic) and $230,000 for City Hall (Ninth and Asbury).
- Appointments: City Council will vote to reappoint Jeffrey Frost to the Zoning Board, Edmond Speitel to the Ocean City Housing Authority, and Patricia Watts, Victor Plumbo and Martin Schlembach (first term) to the Aviation Advisory Board.
See complete documentation for all agenda items below.
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