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THURSDAY 10.09.14
VOLUME 135
NUMBER 242
SINCE 1879
ADVICE D7
CLASSIFIED E1
COMICS D6
LOCAL A3
MOVIES D5
OBITUARIES A16
OPINION A19
SPORTS C1
WEATHER C8
YOUR MONEY A14
USA TODAY U.S. TO SCREEN FLIERS FOR SIGNS OF EBOLA VIRUS PAGE 1B
ASBURY PARK The citys housing authority must
pay the federal government more than $200,000 after
an audit revealed the authority withheld nearly
$350,000 in reserve cash in 2011.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment now is demanding that the authority pay HUD
the $203,419 it asked for that year.
HUDs on-site audit conducted this year shows the
authority had $350,472 in its housing choice voucher
(HCV) reserve fund in December 2011 but falsely re-
ported a $0 cash balance. HUD had requested $203,419
from the Asbury Park Housing Authority after Con-
gress mandated it in 2012 to recapture $650 million
from public housing agencies to offset surplus funds.
The HCV program, also known as Section 8, is a fed-
eral program that assists low-income families and el-
derly and disabled people with housing. HUD provides
federal funds for public housing agencies to offer
vouchers that subsidize housing.
Housing authority officials say they had no idea
where the $350,472 was spent, or that they owed money.
We knew nothing of this until all these (reports)
came out, Asbury Park Housing Authority chairwom-
an Angela Brown said.
Housing
authority
owes feds
$203,419
Audit reveals Asbury Park agency
withheld $350G in reserve cash
NICQUEL TERRY @NTERRYAPP
See HUD, Page A8
OCEAN GATE This might be a small town, but the
question is a big one: Whos really doing the work that
taxpayers are paying for?
Chief Financial Officer Paulette M. Konopka said
she is. She says Mayor Paul J. Kennedys claim that he is
doing four different jobs in town for which he is paid
some $50,000 in stipends is not true. Konopka says
she is actually performing the duties of one of the jobs,
at an annual rate of $1.24, and that she used to do the
other jobs for similar token amounts that the mayor is
now paid thousands of dollars to do.
I am the insurance administrator, Konopka said.
The controversy erupted after Kennedy, 59, had
been fined a total of $700 by the state Department of
Community Affairs for serving in the four paid posi-
tions within the municipal government he presides
over as mayor. Although Kennedy receives no salary as
See JOBS, Page A4
Comptroller says
shes doing work
mayor says he is
ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN
T
he opiate antidote naloxone became available
16 months too late for Ann Moyer.
She buried son Nicholas Moyer, who died
of a heroin overdose, on June 10, 2013, his 28th
birthday before the touted drug became
widely available to family members through
the Overdose Protection Act. Leaning over a
folding table in the basement of Lacey United Method-
ist Church on Tuesday night, Ann Moyer, 50, explained
the pain of losing her son to heroin and the prospect of
saving another loved one with naloxone, better known
by its trade name Narcan, as bittersweet.
If it saves one life, how many lives are you affect-
ing? Think about it: theres family, theres kids, mul-
tiple people youre helping by saving one life, she
said.
Moyer and about 50 others left the church that
night trained how to use naloxone and equipped with
traffic cone-orange kits of the drug. The kits are cour-
tesy of the state, as it presses to save lives amid an
opiate abuse crisis widely considered to be the No. 1
threat to public health in New Jersey. Last month it
launched a six-month pilot, the Opioid Overdose Pre-
vention Project, educating and training people in
five counties most affected by the abuse crisis, in-
cluding Monmouth and Ocean, to use naloxone.
WHAT
HAPPENS
AFTER
NARCAN?
State officials say they are working on ways to link
treatment with overdose victims rescued by drug
DUSTIN RACIOPPI/STAFF PHOTO
Nancy DeMichael of Toms River receives a free naloxone kit
Tuesday night.
IF YOU GO
Rock the Farm will be held 2 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Regans
Hollow Farm on Casino Drive. It will feature sets from Lynyrd
Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, original E Street Band drum-
mer Vini Lopez and guitarist Earl Slick. It will support a local
organization dedicated to aiding drug recovery efforts in
Monmouth and Ocean counties.
It reopens my wounds when I see people struggling and I want to help them
out of it because I got a second chance at life, and they should get a second
chance at life. This is a great start. Were doing something, but we need to do
more.
PAUL HULSE, TOMS RIVER
DUSTIN RACIOPPI @DRACIOPPI
See HEROIN, Page A5
SPRING
AHEAD
Next years
hot looks take
center stage
LUXURY LIVING, D1
WHATS GOING THERE?
NEW LIFE
FOR NIGHTCLUB
10th Ave. Burrito Co. opening at site of
Fixx in Red Bank. YOUR MONEY, A14