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Hope for the future: John Franklin doesn't have a college degree, but his five decades of construction experience are priceless.(Headworks Editorial)
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August 1, 2006
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Whatever it's paying him, New Jersey's Lakewood Township is getting more than its money's worth from public works director John Franklin.
At age 65, after serving 10 consecutive terms on the township's governing board and five years as mayor, Franklin was hired to reorganize its 106-employee, $10 million Public Works Division. His primary order of business: replace the township's woefully outdated public works facility.
Nestled between two lakes and surrounded by pine barrens, Lakewood Township had been a resort community catering to stressed-out New Yorkers since the 1920s. Decades later, the township began condemning land for redevelopment. It now boasts one of New ...
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