Stone Harbor Borough Council members Feb. 1 set forth specific goals for 2022. They organized that presentation in terms of the six standing committees of the borough, each headed by a council member. Mayor Judith Davies-Dunhour asked each committee chair to report on the status regarding those goals Aug. 2.

During its Aug. 2 meeting, Stone Harbor Council discussed the borough’s efforts to maintain its level 5 Community Rating System (CRS) score, which provides a 25% discount on flood insurance premiums for borough property owners. 

Following a presentation by Thomas Thornton, of Mott MacDonald, on the causes of a dramatic hike in the estimated costs for the 93rd Street pump station, Mayor Judith Davies-Dunhour told the Borough Council that they would see “a motion in two weeks to terminate the agreement with Mott.”

Stone Harbor will get sand on its beaches. That was the main message that the governing body and the public heard at the Borough Council meeting July 19. 

Suzanne Walters, mayor of Stone Harbor for twenty years, from 1997 to 2017, used a July 19 Borough Council meeting to continue to voice concern over how a recent hire of an assistant business administrator was handled. 

Toward the end of 2021, Stone Harbor Borough Council took up an ordinance that aimed at banning the use of public property for private events. 

At a Stone Harbor Borough Council meeting July 19, Police Capt. Christopher Palmer told the governing body about enforcement issues at the Point, a designated conservation area. 

At a Stone Harbor Borough Council meeting July 19, former Mayor Suzanne Walters asked what the borough is doing to ensure that its current Community Rating System (CRS) level 5 rating is either maintained or improved.