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Long-time city public works employee Yvonne Adams was lauded by county freeholders at their Thursday meeting for her achievement in securing the city a New Jersey Clean Communities Urban Cleanup award.

Adams, the city’s recycling coordinator and office manager of the public works department,  is a member of the state’s Urban Cleanup Team through the Clean Communities Council. Asbury Park was selected as one of the eight municipalities that won the award out of a total 52.

The program, which began in 1986, gives municipalities a yearly grant to use for litter abatement.

The grant funds are used to promote cleanup, enforcement and educational programs about recycling and litter. This year, Adams used some of the grant funds to organize a contest for city students to design the front and back covers of the city’s recycling calendar.

Adams is a certified recycling professional and has been working in the city for 34 years, serving the last four as the city’s Clean Communities coordinator.

“We recognize you, and we, the entire freeholder board, always likes to make sure that we recognize the people who keep Monmouth County the place you want to be,” said Freeholder Serena DiMaso, who presented the award and proclaimed June 26, 2014, Yvonne Adams Day.

[Photo at top, from left to right: Freeholder John P. Curley; John Minton, vice president, Monmouth County Clean Communities; Freeholder Director Lillian Burry; Councilman John Moor; Serena DiMaso; Yvonne Adams, Freeholder Thomas Arnone; and Freeholder Deputy Director Gary S. Rich.]

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