The purpose of this article is to establish the Manalapan/Englishtown
Community Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, whose mission
is to provide consultation, programs, training, and resources to the
Manalapan and Englishtown communities with the goal of preventing
and reducing the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
There is hereby established in the Township of Manalapan a permanent
committee to be known and designated as the "Manalapan/Englishtown
Community Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse" (hereinafter
referred to as "Alliance"). The Alliance must publish an agenda for
each Alliance meeting, adopt bylaws, keep minutes of all Alliance
meetings, permit public comment at meetings, abide by the New Jersey
Open Public Meetings Act and have a quorum of Alliance members for action to be
taken by the Alliance (a quorum is 50% of the official Alliance membership
plus one).
The responsibilities and powers of the Alliance shall be as
follows:
A. To create a network of community leaders, private citizens, and representatives
from public and private human services agencies who are dedicated
to a comprehensive and coordinated effort to promote and support drug
and alcohol prevention and education programs and related activities
with an emphasis on all ages along the developmental life processes.
B. To conduct an assessment of their community to determine the needs
of the community in relation to alcoholism and drug abuse issues.
C. To identify existing efforts and services acting to reduce alcoholism
and drug abuse.
D. To coordinate projects within the municipality to avoid fragmentation
and duplication.
E. To develop programs to be implemented at the municipal level or participate
in regionally developed programs that accomplish the purpose of the
Alliance effort and the purpose of the Municipal Alliance Committee.
F. To assist the municipality in acquiring funds for Alliance programs.
G. To cooperate with the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse,
the County Local Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and
the Alliance Steering Subcommittee to provide municipal data, reports
or other information which may be required for the County Annual Municipal
Alliance Plan or needed to assist the Alliance effort (per N.J.S.A.
26:2BB-7 et seq.).