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[Music] [Music] The meeting of the Atlanta County Board of Commissioners is called to order. In compliance with the open public meetings
act of the state of New Jersey, adequate notice of this meeting with the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners was provided in the following manner. Published in the press of Atlantic City and mailed to the Hamilton Gazette and has been posted on the bulletin boards in the county office building in Atlantic City, the Stillwater building in Northfield and the county clerk's
office in Maze Landing. Have an opening prayer. Let us pray. Lord, as we embark on another summer, we pray for good weather, joyful experiences, and memorable moments for all who visit reside in our community. May this summer
be a time of happiness, growth, and unity. Amen. Amen. Face the flag. Attention solution to the United States of America and to
the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Roll call, please. Chairman, Commissioner Corsy is unable to attend today. Commissioner Parker and
Commissioner Gatau are both attending virtual. Thank you. Present. Burns here. Gat Kern here. Parker. Grizzly here. Ruffia here.
Commissioner Parker. You said present. All right. Commissioners have had an opportunity to review the minutes from the June 3rd, 2025 meeting. I will entertain a motion to adopt the June 3rd minutes as presented. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Please call the role. Bratina. Yes. Burns. Yes. Gats.
Kern. Yes. Parker. Yes. Yes. Grizzly. Yes. Ruff. Yes. Dates. Abstain. Anyone attending in person who would like to speak regarding an agenda item or at public comment, please come to the podium, speak into
the microphone, state your name into the town where you reside. You'll be provided up to three minutes to speak. If you're attending virtually and like to speak, please raise your hand during the agenda item or a public comment at the end. I will call your name and a request to unmute will be sent. Please state your name and the town you reside.
You'll be provided up to three minutes to speak. All right. Resolution 328, grant application and acceptance through the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the local transportation projects funding to allow the Atlantic County Transportation Unit
to continue to provide the English Creek Tilton Road Community Shuttle amount not to exceed $350,000. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? Right. Please call the RO.
Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Gatau Kern, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Rizley, yes. Ruffw, yes. Days, yes. Resolution 329. Grant application and acceptance from
the New Jersey Transit for the job access reverse commute program amount not to exceed $450,000. Move. Second. We have then seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public?
Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Gatarn, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruffia, yes. Dates, yes. Resolution 330.
competitive contract with various providers for the provision of a workforce innovation and opportunity act in school youth program amount not to exceed $350,000 move second move then seconded any commissioner comments Mr. Chairman.
Yeah, Commissioner Rizley, just briefly as a way of the explanation that we learned in the budget committee that um this is being equally split between the Atlantic County Special Services District and the Boys and Girls Club of Atlantic City. Of course, this falls
under WHIB, which is uh Mr. Franco, who uh does a great job with that. Thank you. Thank you. Any further commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? All right, please call the roll. Bertino,
yes. Burns, yes. Curran, yes. Parker, Rizley, yes. Ruff, yes. D, yes. Resolution 331, competitive contract with various providers for the provision of interpreter and transcription services
amount not to exceed $75,000. Move. Second. Move. within seconded. Any commissioner comments? Anyone from the public, please call the RO? Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kern, yes.
Parker, yes. Yes. Rley, yes. Ruff, yes. Dates, yes. Resolution 332. competitive contracting for the solicitation of proposals for the
provision of mental health services that will support a mental health court program in New Jersey Superior Court. Visin one in Atlantic and Kate County. Second. Move them seconded. Any commissioner comments? Anyone from the public? All
right. Please call the role. Yes. Burn. Yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruff, yes. D, yes. Resolution 333.
Bid contract with Michael Angererman Landscaping Incorporated for providing landscaping services for various Elena County locations. Amount not to exceed $62,135. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any
comments from the public? All right, please call the role. Certino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzley, yes. Ruff, yes. D, yes. Resolution 334,
renewal bid contract with Providence Auto Group to provide preventative maintenance on county vehicles amount not to exceed $45,000. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? Please
call the role. Yes. Burns. Yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzley, yes. Buff, yes. D, yes. Excuse me. Resolution 335. Subgrant agreements with various
Atlantic County municipalities for drug and alcohol education and prevention services amount not to exceed 188,811. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Anyone from the public? I please call
the role. Uh, Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly. Yes. Buff? Yes. days. Yes. Resolution 336, interlocal agreement with Atlantic
County Improvement Authority to provide project management services for the proposed courtyard concrete replacement project at the Atlantic County Justice Facility. Amount not to exceed $17,000. Move. Second. Moved and seconded. Any
commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns. Yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzley, yes. Ruff, yes.
Digs, yes. Resolution 337, agreement with Tel Aivan Services Incorporated for the provision of backcan kiosks at various library branches, revenue generating. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any
commissioner comments? Anyone from the public? All right. Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Rley, yes. Ruffio, yes. D,
yes. Resolution 338. Shared services agreement with the township of Galloway for snow removal and lawn maintenance at the Galloway Township branch of the Atlantic County Library System. Amount not to exceed $10,950. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any
commissioner comments? Anyone from the public? Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruffier, yes. D,
yes. Resolution 339, shared services agreement with the state of New Jersey, Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner for Medical Examiner Services pertaining to the Southern Regional Medical Examiner Facility,
amount not to exceed $1,980,000. Second move and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? Please call the RO. Portino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker,
yes. Yes. Grizzley, yes. Ruff, yes. Dates, yes. Resolution 340. Agreement of deeds, easements from various granters in according accordance with Atlantic County planning standards.
Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? All right. Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Ruffier, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. As
well. Resolution 341. Equipment use agreement with the New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission to transfer various pieces of equipment for use by Atlantic County Mosquito Control Unit. No cost. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner
comments? Any comments from the public? Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Karn, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruff, yes.
Dates, yes. Resolution 342. Amending resolution number 16 adopted on June, excuse me, January 16, 2024, a professional services agreement with Adcom Engineering Limited liability
company regarding a feasibility study for a centralized call center and dispatch center for fire and EMS to extend the term date. Net increase $12,000. Move. Second. Moved and seconded. Any
commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? All right, please call the role. Yes. Burns, yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruff, yes. D,
yes. Resolution 343. Alternate meth alternate method contract with Intium Softworks Limited Liability Company doing business as MTF software solutions incorporated to provide software assurance and support for the
DocuWare imaging propriety software amount not to exceed 70,446 $70,4462. Moved. Second. Bless you. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? All right.
Please call the role. Fertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker, Grizzley, yes. Ruff, yes. Dates, yes. Resolution 344, alternate method contract with GAN law
for provision of legal materials for various county departments amount not to exceed $50,000. Second. Moved and seconded. Any commissioner comments. Any comments from the public? All right. Please call the role. Bertino. Yes.
Burns. Yes. Kerna, yes. Parker. Rizley, yes. Ruff, yes. D, yes. Um, this time I'll entertain a motion to combine and adopt resolutions 345 and 346, chapter 159s. Moved. Second. Moved and
seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public? Right. Call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kerna, yes. Parker, Grizzly, yes. M you yes days yes moving
on to appointments 347 you know actually I'm sorry I'll entertain a motion to combine and adopt the resolutions 347 to 348 appointments 347 to 350 I'm see let me let me clarify that hold on I need reading glasses I think I'll entertain a motion to combine
adopt resolutions 347 350 appointments or reappointments move seconded any commissioner comments on resolutions 347 7 through 350. So, we thank all all the people that, you know, um put their time into these
comm. Absolutely. So, any comments for the public? All right. Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Karna, yes. Parker, yes. Ruff, yes. Dates, yes. I'll
entertain a motion to combine and adopt the resolutions 351 through 353 roadway solicitations. Second. Move then seconded. Any commissioner comments? Any comments from the public?
Please call the role. Fertino. Yes. Burns. Yes. Kern. Yes. Parker. Yes. Yes. Grizzly. Yes. Love. Yes. Dates. Yes. Commissioner sponsored
resolutions. Resolution 354. Resolution urging the governor of New Jersey to restore the community college funding priorities in the fiscal year 2026 New Jersey state budget. Sponsor Andrew W. Parker.
Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any commissioner comments? Commissioner Parker, are you there? I'm here. Can you guys hear me? Yes. All right. I apologize. I'm out in the mountains of West Virginia. My daughter
had to register. She had orientation for school this morning. So, we're on our way back. Uh on on to the resolution. I I won't say much, but uh for those who remember uh ACCCC came to us and asked us to sponsor a resolution because the
funding for community colleges said to be cut and those cuts could be pretty drastic to our community colleges. Um the one thing that I I'll say to the resolution, we did share this resolution. We we sent the copy to ACCC.
We spoke to our union leaders. Um, and so we had a lot of support on this resolution. And um, one thing that was added in that I the piece that I'll say that we added in was to make sure that we talked about, you know, the the enrollment is going down. We've
discussed this quite often. Enrollment is going down all across the country as well as at ACCC and continues to decline. And so with a decrease in funding, it, you know, then we, it'll be hard to find the funding in order to, you know, vamp those programs up to make
sure that we increase enrollment into these uh community colleges. So, that's one of the reasons that's out there. If you want to read the whole resolution, it's there. And I just want to thank the committee, the subcommittee for working on this. It took some time and um I hope it passes.
Commissioner Parker, thank you for your comments. Thank you for your work on this as well. Like you said, you know, we've heard a lot of comments from from ACCCC from from Dr. Gaba and um hopefully that uh you know, some will hear hear our comments. Hear our our word on this issue. Are there any other commissioner comments?
All right. Any comments from the public? Please call the role. Bertino, yes. Burns, yes. Kern, yes. Parker, yes. Yes. Grizzly, yes. Ruff, yes. Dates, yes. We have received copies of
written communications and petitions. Are there any commissioner comments? Commissioner Bertino. Yeah, thank you Commissioner uh Chairman. Um the Pine Lance Commission sent some uh I think we received correspondence from them about some changes that are being made to the comprehensive management plan and I'd
like to have our finance committee have the opportunity to review the changes and report back to us. uh not that doesn't happen that often and I think it's something of note that we should uh pay attention to and see how it's going to impact the Atlantic County users. A lot of it generally when I blast out
honestly was finance credits and how they're being dispersed and some of the changes they're making to that that will impact a lot of the uh of agricultural a lot of the farmers who do have finance credits that are holding in bank some of that could change and have an impact on them. I want to make sure we're aware of
it in case our constituents reach out to us about it. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. We're going to put in committee and I'll get a committee set up with the salt of the staff. All right. Sounds good. Any other commissioner comments on written communications and petitions?
All right. Any reports of special committees of the board? Is there any unfinished business? Hearing none. Any new business? Commissioner Rizley. Um, I don't know what it falls under, but I would like to
report that uh I did attend the uh local assessors association of New Jersey. They had their conference at the CVU country club. It was very well attended. There were many mayors there from all over the county. So, it was a lot of lot
of attendance. Very good program. And uh as you may recall, some of us chaired a committee on tax assessment 10 years ago. Yeah. And um one of the points in the report that we were
unanimous on was the our opposition to the Gloucester County tax plan. We were unanimous in that point. And as you may recall, 10 years ago, there was a certain assemblyman that was providing legislation to compel us to adopt the
Gloucester County tax program, which I went to Trenton at least two times and testified against it. And um proof is always in the pudding. It's comes out sooner or later. the board that was up front, the panel of assessors from New
Jersey, about seven or eight people, they basically filed the idea of a Glosser County tax plan and the millions and millions of dollars that was spent uh where their numbers, their ratios are
really no better than ours. So, that was quite uh interesting to hear. We were opposed to the Gloucester County tax plan because it was extremely topheavy and bureaucratic. They were they were the two things we could see that it was
going to create a tremendous expense that uh we did not want to put on Atlantic County. So, we were all very much opposed to the Wall Street County tax plan and it was a interesting conference and of course you always learn a few things. So, thank you
Commissioner. Thank you. I was I was on that committee with you. I remember that. I remember that. Well, so definitely. Thank you for that. And Jim. Yep. Um are there any other comments for new business? All right, moving on to public comment. Anyone attending in person that would
like to speak now with public comment, please come to the podium, speak into the microphone, state your name and the town you reside. If you're attending virtually, like to make a public comment, please raise your hand. We'll call your name. A request to unmute will be sent. Please state your name in the town you reside. You'll be provided up
to three minutes to speak. Is there any public comments? Mr. Hackett on. [Music] Okay. Is there is there any other public plan at this time? So, well, if if Mr. Hecker does come on, he's obviously more than welcome to
Sure. to attend at another meeting if he's able to make it. Just double check. So, he's he's not there. Correct. Okay. Um, at this time, I'll entertain a motion to close public comment. Move and second. All in favor? I comment closed. Any comments for the good of the
order? I just want to um say that, you know, school is is out for most, I believe, this week, if not early next. And congratulations to all the graduates. Um you know, just remember to keep an eye on all the the kids that are out there on on their bikes and and walking during the day when you're not used to them
being out in public. So, um with that being said, if they're Oh, Mr. Bertino, thank you. Just one quick one. Uh the blueberries are out, so don't be shy. Uh they look great this year. crop is uh looking extremely good. So, please uh
have have some of Jerseyy's best and enjoy yourselves. They're good. Thank you. Got to give the blueberry plug. Anything else for the good of the order? All right. Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second. Second. All those in favor.
Okay. Meetings adjourned.
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