Residents regroup to consider merger
The Merchantville-Cherry Hill Consolidation Commission regrouped last week at the Merchantville Community Center to begin the process of seeking out a consultant to study a possible municipal merge between the two neighboring communities.
The citizen-led commission informed the audience, which was only about 15 residents, that since the last meeting, Cherry Hill resident Pat McCargo took the place of Sandy Levenson, who stepped down.
Chairman Roger Dennis also announced that commissioner Anthony Perno, a Merchantville councilman, was also recently named as the official liaison to the council in an effort to keep the governing body in the know about the commission's plans to move forward. Perno was absent from the meeting, as was former Cherry Hill Mayor Bernie Platt and Kathy Birmingham.
Dennis opened up the meeting discussing what progress had been made since the last meeting, which was held late last year. He and vice-chairman Rich James recently met with Cherry Hill's new mayor, Chuck Cahn, to get a sense of how the township could support a potential merger.
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