Ask Your Freeholders: Fourth of July Fireworks

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Ask Your Freeholders is a weekly feature from Gloucester Township Patch in which you get to ask questions and get them answered here every Friday by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Camden County—the county's highest body of elected officials.

Just send your questions to Haddonfield Patch editor bill.duhart@patch.com or ask it in our comment box below the story, and we’ll take the first three every week and get one of the seven freeholders to personally answer your question for this column.

Here's this week's question:

From Gloucester Township Patch:

With the county's Cooper River Park July 4 concert already canceled, does this also mean the county is not hosting fireworks either? Is it not possible to save the fireworks through fundraising?

Answer from Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli: 

The county never provided the fireworks at the concert event. Pennsauken Township provided them. Those interested should call Pennsauken Township municipal building to find out whether they are sponsoring fireworks this year.

From Collingswood Patch:

Beyond shared services, does the Camden County Freeholder Board encourage smaller local municipalities to merge to save money?

Answer from Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli: 

The county encourages consolidation of services between and among municipalities, as well as shared services on a countywide, voluntary basis. The county is in the midst of building a shared-services website which will list assets in terms of equipment, personnel or skill sets that municipalities can tap into when looking to trade, barter or combine services. The online database will make it much easier for municipalities to reach out to each other and save taxpayer dollars. This is an enormous tool being created by Camden County’s Division of Shared Services to help our municipalities and, most importantly, our taxpayers.