Town of Dover, NJ
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2023-02-21
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 8 Community Action Mediation Program Organization
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration of Government
- Ch 4 Affirmative Action
- Ch 8 Community Action Mediation Program Organization
- § 8-1 Statement of purpose/establishment.
- § 8-2 Guidelines of program.
- § 8-3 Mediator appointment/qualifications/term.
- Ch 10 Contracts
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employee Awards Program
- Ch 20 Fire Department, Volunteer
- Ch 25 Health, Board of
- Ch 29 Housing Authority
- Ch 40 Meetings, Attendance at
- Ch 44 Municipal Public Property
- Ch 49 Officers and Employees
- Ch 52 Open Government Transparency and Participation
- Ch 57 Police Department
- Ch 61 Purchasing, Joint
- Ch 67 (Reserved)
- Ch 68 Recreation, Arts and Cultural Affairs, Department of
- Ch 69 Redevelopment
- Ch 72 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 80 Sewerage Authority
- Ch 84 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 90 Ward and Election Districts
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 99 Affordable Housing
- Ch 101 Alarm Systems
- Ch 105 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 109 Amusement Devices
- Ch 113 Animals
- Ch 118 Auctions
- Ch 123 Bicycles and Similar Vehicles
- Ch 133 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 138 Businesses, Registration of
- Ch 141 Cannabis
- Ch 144 Clubs, Social and Athletic
- Ch 146 Community Gardens
- Ch 148 Community Project Labor Agreements
- Ch 150 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 152 Courier Drop Boxes
- Ch 154 Curfew
- Ch 158 Dancing and Dance Halls
- Ch 162 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 167 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 171 Electrical Standards
- Ch 176 Excavation Safeguards
- Ch 179 False Fire and Burglar Alarms
- Ch 183 Fees
- Ch 189 Fire Prevention
- Ch 193 Fires, Conduct at
- Ch 196 (Reserved)
- Ch 199 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 202 Garage Sales
- Ch 204 Graffiti
- Ch 207 Handbills
- Ch 211 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 221 Hunting and Fishing
- Ch 225 Insurance
- Ch 229 Junk Dealers
- Ch 236 Land Use and Development
- Ch 238 Lead-Based Paint Inspections
- Ch 239 Motorized Scooters
- Ch 242 Littering
- Ch 246 Massage, Bodywork and Somatic Therapy Establishments
- Ch 249 New Americans Integration
- Ch 250 Newspaper Vending Machines
- Ch 254 Noise
- Ch 259 Obscene Materials
- Ch 265 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 269 Pawnbrokers
- Ch 273 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 277 Plumbers
- Ch 281 Poolrooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 285 Property Maintenance
- Ch 286 Property, Vacant and Foreclosed
- Ch 291 Recycling
- Ch 293 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 295 Rental Property
- Ch 301 Sales, Special
- Ch 305 Sandblasting
- Ch 311 Sewers
- Ch 313 Sex Offenders
- Ch 315 Shopping Carts
- Ch 319 Signs
- Ch 322 Small Wireless Facilities
- Ch 324 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 328 Smoking
- Ch 333 Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 337 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 338 Storm Sewers
- Ch 341 (Reserved)
- Ch 345 Taxation
- Ch 349 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 353 Telephones, Outdoor Public
- Ch 357 Theaters, Shows and Other Exhibitions
- Ch 361 Towing
- Ch 366 Trees
- Ch 371 Vehicles, Unregistered or Junked
- Ch 373 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 380 Wage Theft Prevention
- Ch 383 Water
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 393 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 395 Animals
- Ch 401 Fees
- Ch 403 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 407 Food-Handling
- Ch 411 (Reserved)
- Ch 423 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 427 Public Recreational Bathing
- Ch 434 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 441 Weed Control
- Appendix
- Ch A446 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A447 Telephone Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
Town of Dover 4-14-2020 by Ord. No. 11-2020. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
The Program is hereby established to provide an innovative and
emerging community mediation services, focusing on being a part of
a preventive strategy to assist the community and community members
to navigate cultural differences and teach and implement mediation
skills for community members to learn, use and benefit from over the
long term. The goal of the program is to facilitate dialogue-based
mediation that guide the parties to design their own path to address
conflict. Community mediation programs are a proven, cost effective,
confidential, problem-solving process where parties in a dispute voluntarily
work together under the guidance of a trained mediator to reach a
solution, through communications to resolve disputes in ways that
promote respect, common goals and keeping relationships intact.
The Program shall operate under the following guidelines:
A.
Participation
in the Program is voluntary. Participants may end the mediation process
at any time and for any reason.
B.
The
Program is intended to be private and confidential, to encourage open
and honest discussion. Exceptions to confidentiality include: dangerousness
to self, others, or property.
C.
Participants
design their own dispute solutions with the assistance of a trained
mediator who shall be appointed by the Mayor.
D.
The
Mediator shall make reasonable efforts to schedule the initial mediation
session within two weeks of a request.
E.
Mediation
sessions will last approximately two hours with the objective of resolving
disputes in one to two sessions, depending on the nature of the dispute.
F.
The
Mediator shall establish guidelines for communication at the commencement
of each session to provide the participants a safe environment. Mediation
sessions shall be designed to be informal with emphasis on conversation,
understanding, and collaborative problem solving.
G.
In
addition to resolving disputes, a goal of the Program is to teach
participants alternative ways to handle disputes in the future.
H.
The
Program shall be provided to all residents of the Town of Dover at
no cost. Participants in landlord-tenant disputes may access the Program
upon payment of a fee of $100 for one session of up to 2.5 hours,
the cost of which shall be split between the parties.
The Mayor shall appoint a Program Mediator with the advice and
consent of the Board of Aldermen. The Mediator shall have the following
qualifications: A license to practice law in the State of New Jersey,
fully bilingual oral and written English and Spanish, knowledge and
experience in immigration, landlord tenant, and family matters. The
Mediator shall be appointed for a term of one year commencing on January
1 or anytime thereafter if not on January 1 and ending on of that
calendar year ending December 31.
