The Ship Bottom Borough Council last month awarded two separate contracts for two conflict attorneys as it reviews all its options regarding the LBI Grade School, which the local school board voted to sell so it can fund an expansion and renovation project at the Ethel A. Jacobsen School in neighboring Surf City.

At a special meeting Feb. 12, the borough council unanimously appointed Paul V. Fernicola of the Red Bank law firm Paul V. Fernicola and Associates as special counsel.