The Ship Bottom Borough Council last month introduced a $3 million bond ordinance that paves the way for infrastructure improvements to Eighth and Ninth streets to begin. The work, which is slated to start this fall, must be completed before the state Department of Transportation can undertake its final phase of the $312 million federally funded project to expand and rehab the Causeway to LBI.  

Councilman Robert Butkus, who chairs the water and sewer committee, said the ordinance is needed because a pipe 60…