he good afternoon the meeting of 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 of the Atlanta County Board of Commissioners was provided in the following manner published in the Press of Atlantic City and mailed to the hon Gazette and has been posted on the
bulleon boards in the county office building in Atlantic City The Still Water building in Northfield and the county clerk's office in MA Landing an opening prayer lead us oh God that we may be leaders of our community and continue to
guide us in the decisions we make for the service of others amen amen please face the flag United States ofice roll call please chairman commissioner Cory is attending virtually today all right thank you patino here
Burns here Cory G here here Parker rley here rafio here days here Commissioners have had the opportunity to review the minutes for March 25th 2025 I will entertain a motion to adopt March 25th minutes as
presented second we've been seconded call the rooll patino abstain Burns yes Cory G yes Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes rafio yes St yes 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 in the town where you reside you'll be provided up to three minutes to speak if you are attending virtually like to speak please raise your hand during the agenda item or a public comment at the end I will call upon your name and a request to
unmute will be sent please state your name in the town you reside we will be provided up to three minutes to speak and at this time we like to recognize National Crime Victims rights week in Atlanta County um first is there a motion to move resol resolution 21 to
the top second move and seconded all in favor I all opposed any OPP post sounds good all right at this time Chief Council John flammer ter would you like to read the resolution want me to read the title
read the title Okay resolution declaring the week of April 6th to April 12 2025 as National Crime Victims rights week in Atlanta County and recognizing and supporting assistance to victims of crimes sponsor Morin Kern move moved second moved and seconded
brok off thing all any commissioner comments at this time well I just want to thank you number one for being here so um a National Crime Victims rights week is April 6 to the 12th and since 1981 National Crime Victims week has challenged the nation and municipalities
to confront and remove barriers to achieving justice for all victims of crime there is um I've noticed a number of sites there there are out there that have great resource guides and um they have an array of Outreach tools and and
um materials and it's ncvrw if anybody goes in because you know it it is very very important you know and what you do for the community is very much appreciated because you're always out there you know looking a after the victims thank you you for that
any other commissioner comments anyone for the public Madam Vice chair do you want to um read the last whereas in the resolution to highlight the uh April 9th event sure um okay where is to commemorate
National crime victim right week April 6 to the 12th 2025 in Atlanta County a ceremony will take place to recognize victim survivors for their continued work in the community and their resiliency on April 9th the virtual Workshop prevented by brain injury
Alliance of New Jersey will take place providing education to the law enforcement Community regarding the different types of brain in injury and how in it um intersects with various victimizations thank you anyone from the
public good right Chief good afternoon Mr chairman uh Board of Commissioners staff and all those present here in the room and virtually my name is John flammer I am chief counsel to Atlanta County prosecutor William Reynolds I'm
here on behalf of prosecutor Reynolds along with uh Trish Hayek who is director of our victim Service Unit um Deputy Chief of County detectives Matthew paly Christy Gardner who is one of our most dedicated victim witness advocates
in the office and also Rich cornette who is our community outreach person I'm speaking on behalf of the entire team at the Atlanta County prosecutor's office we truly thank you for this resolution recognizing National Crime
Victims rights week a majority of my 20year plus career in the office I've been a special victims prosecutor throughout that time I can assure you and the residents of this County that everyone in our
office is wholly dedicated to the pursuit of justice for all Crime Victims if it may take a few minutes to tell you about two families in 2014 a man who will remain
nameless utterly devastated the paps and Heist family of Egg Harbor City his crime sent shock waves throughout that town and our County that one person brutally killed
Michelle paps and her seven yold son Gavin in the most utterly inhumane manner possible the senselessness cruelty and brutality they suffered at his hands was
devastating for the First Responders law enforcement tked to investigate the case our victim witness Advocates to offer some measure of comfort to the family and myself
assigned to prosecute the case the effects were profound this was one of those cases that stays with you forever but the impact on us professionals task with Seeking Justice
for Crime Victims and their families and our victim Advocates to provide some measure of comfort held in comparison to the heart heartache crushing loss and shattering impact felt and lived by the friends and
family of Michelle and Gavin throughout the investigation prosecution and sentencing of the perpetrator the Pap's family their friends and the Egg Harbor City
Community rallied to their support they stood strong for each other and in memory of Michelle and Gavin on Friday April 11th the paps family will be recognized by our office as we
close this year's National Crime Victims rights week it goes without saying that no family would ever want such recognition but it is equally true that this family has
displayed such remarkable strength and resiliency when faced with such an unimaginable situation again on behalf of prosecutor Reynolds and our entire team we thank you it is support such as this that
helps us pursue Justice and healing for our victim survivors their families and all those impacted by crime it is support such as this that provide comfort for all victim survivors to know that they are never
alone they will always be remembered and in particular with respect to Michelle and Gavin paps they will never be forgotten thank you all thank you Chief Counsel on on Trish and Chrissy for for all you and uh your
office does for not only for the victims but for the Atlanta County to know that as you said that they are not alone and you know it's it's can imagine but it's sure it's difficult not to deal with the grieving process but to have to go through all all the the the legal ramifications of of the of the crime as well it's I can't
imagine um what that would be like if if not for for your office so once again thank you so much for everything that you do um I think we need to take the roll call and I think we have a presentation for you as well then um the roll call please at this time pertino yes Burns yes
Cory G yes Kar yes Parker yes Grizzly yes ruio yes de yes um do you guys want to come up middle you want me to down I thank you right at this time we'll have a
presentation on the Renaissance be field project um by Dan Gallagher Sunny McCulla and the deam Enterprises thank you chairman and Commissioners thanks for the uh opportunity to be here today to tell you
about a fabulous development Renaissance at Vader field that before I introduce the two principles I would like to say I was hoping that County Executive Dennis levenson would be here today but he has indicated to me full support for
Renaissance at Bader field and the Financial benefits will bring to elany County he sent me a text this morning saying I can pass that on to you Commissioners I'd also like to mention that we had two uh meetings specifically to discuss
the Renaissance of Bader field with Jack sarelli who me personally hope he'll be the next governor and he has indicated to me full support for the Renaissance of Bader field and as
also indicated that when it is passed that he will make sure that this process is moved a lot faster than uh previously so with that said I would ask the the uh Commissioners at the conclusion of the uh
presentation if you are in support and if you think this project is worthwhile if you would not pass a resolution uh in support of the Renaissance of Bader field that said I'd like to introduce the two principles first Mike Bender Who
will explain all the details of the project the physical details and at his conclusion Dan gallager who is an attorney who practices in Tax and Finance so with that said I would like to ask Mike Bender to come forward
great okay well I'm sure you guys don't want to be here until next Thursday um I personally with my partner Dan Gallagher have worked on this project for about eight and a half years really nothing like it in the
world uh much has been written about it I would say 95% of it has been inaccurate what it is is a comprehensive uh project that we believe is going to be the
Catalyst for the Redevelopment of all of Atlantic City and the surrounding counties project itself has about 1,700 residences of uh different types does have a uh a motor
course one of the main concerns has always been about uh uh how much noise is it going to create well the track itself is in basically a bowl and we've done extensive noise studies throughout the
neighborhoods uh the largest amount of noise that we've recorded with our testing has been about 50 DB put it in context Albany Avenue is about about 90 DB it'll generate less uh
noise than Albany we intend to bring in 2 and a half million cubic yards of soil uh to create essentially at the low end of Bader field about a 7 foot rise above the existing
grade to the Northwestern end about 35 feet in essence it's a road course with rolling topography the uh other uh components of the project include a
museum they include a marina they include two high-rise buildings on a north east corner they have about 450,000 square feet of retail that's open to the public two parking
garages and um it's a comprehensive project there are over 300 professionals that have been working on this uh some since the Inception uh give you an example there's over 40 engineers
uh because Bader field as you guys know is a Brownfield and because it's a Brownfield there's certain Criterion that has to be established to uh in order to remediate it and certainly build upon it uh we
know every inch of Bader field been fortunate to have local uh engineers and international Engineers help us with h our strategies so we've done extensive testing we know where the p is we know
how to uh remediate it we know where the uh uh other contaminants are from when it was a an airport and um we believe that we're at the final uh stages of
our uh lengthy State approval process it's taken years almost five years but we're at the tail end of the Green Acres Provisions that are U really the uh last uh what I would call not obstacle but
last hurdle for us to manage prior to settling on the property uh then my partner will talk about financial support we've got and it's International uh the U opportunity that
uh this is going to bring in terms of tax release for the the city and the residual benefits so uh I can answer any question I sleep uh with this project every
night unfortunately my wife gets mad at me for that but uh any questions you might have I'm more than happy to uh to answer Mr chair um commissioner G yeah I'm I'm sorry but can you even just take like 10,000 steps back for the sake of a
public may not have ever heard about this project and talk about what is um maybe go through some of the slides too I know you highlighted kind of different elements and Dove right in I don't have a clicker for the I mean we you can tell you can tell
our flip happy happy too I thought I had to do this fre in that we we want the public to be as educated as possible absolutely I think it's great go the next one sure we can keep going till he get some there that's what Bader field let's go
back that's what Bader field looks like today uh it's 143 Acres there's a uh an abandoned baseball stadium there's an abandoned Skate Zone and there's a firehouse that is slated for
relocation uh currently on the site it's the first airport in the US in fact the term airport was coined uh because of Bader field and and uh it's a one of the largest pieces of
undeveloped Coastal land on the Atlantic Seaboard here we go the just some of the transportation um components Atlantic City uh is easy and not easy to get
to you can get to it on the Garden State Parkway uh from uh the Northern parts of the state can get to it from Philadelphia from the Atlantic City Expressway I think there's one train a uh day that runs from 30th Street
Station and there's very limited uh service at the airport all of which uh we intend to augment please the uh employment and economic diversity um we believe in the concept
of you give a man a fish he eats for the day if you give him or teach him how to fish he eats forever we have very extensive educational programs that are going to couple with this development and they're broken out into a whole array of
different uh professionals um professional uh areas um there's a huge uh push for what we're doing with sustainability there's a hydrogen micro
grid that'll be here uh it'll be the first of this scope in the nation uh it'll couple with natural gas initially and then eventually move to 100% hydrogen beauty of that is that the
byproduct of hydrogen is water so from an emission standpoint we're going to be doing something that's not done anywhere else in the country as yet we're also going to have about 8,000 geothermal Wells GE geothermal Wells are
basically um they're it's a district Energy System what it does it keeps the costs of heating and cooling uh down appreciably there'll be about 12.7 megawatts of
solar generated here two and a half weeks of battery storage so if uh the the city goes off the grid they can use this this development as a u as a hub for emergency
services go ahead I was talking about the education training there'll be thousands of opportunities for various uh educational uh Endeavors whether it's in the automotive uh realm or it's in the
sustainability realm there is no development like this in the country featur sustainability to this level the um diversity is that we'll be bringing in uh experts from various trades uh in
the automotive business themselves they're going to want to be part of uh this development uh because of the uh positive notoriety it's going to bring okay we have uh uh 406 affordable
housing and uh Workforce uh units will be part of the development they'll essentially face Albany Avenue which you see a rendering of what that would look like uh Dan will talk about the the city
revenue and the implications for uh property taxes and they'll also talk about the number of jobs I can tell you it'll be well over 2,000 uh construction jobs and well over 1500 permanent jobs throughout this uh
uh development the technology is is really something that we've uh focused on we're quite proud of the fact that uh we're building these units out of a material called FP systems they're essentially
indestructible building envelopes they've been rated to 190 mph wind loads uh 250 M hour um uh impact um the beauty of them too is that
uh they have spent 16 years in codification at the Miami Dade um testing institutes before they were uh certified for construction you know the you see it happening in Florida and many other coastal regions
where there the the communities are literally blowing apart in hurricanes and high winds um these uh units will be tesate to resiliency yeah I I spoke about we're we're moving toward lead platinum in the
construction certification that's as high as it gets in the construction industry we're also moving towards zero carbon and when you think of uh a motorsport Community you think of cars with uh emissions will'll balance those
emissions out by the lack of emissions and the other Technologies so our goal is to get to zero carbon and again it's unlike any other development that's currently underway in the US this is what I talked about the smart
grid the hydrogen micro grid we'll be combining it again with natural gas initially where it'll create what's called gray hydrogen we'll move to Blue hydrogen and then ultimately to Green hydrogen where the emission is
water this is some of the the slides relative to that again it's the same okay we had the course metrics the the course is designed by one of the most famous course designers in the world a
guy named Bob Bernard he's in lives in Spain the contener Englishman uh this is really his crown jewel he's uh came out of retirement to do this he's done a lot of Formula 1 uh tracks
and been a consultant for Formula 1 in terms of um safety and I want to make clear this is not a Formula 1 racetrack it's built to Formula 1 specifications which is all about safety you know when
we first came out we were supposed to be running a 247 NASCAR track here I mean there was a lot of miscommunication that happened and we've had and been very successful at getting the record straight relative to what we were
building this is a community okay that I touched on the safety aspect of it the the noise abatement but no one gets on this course they don't drive off the street and get on this course you're either remember or
you go through a certification and that certification includes blood tests immediate so if you've had a drink or you've had some other substance the night before you can't drive um you know the worst thing that
can happen for us is to have you know an array of accidents by people that are not uh fit to be on the track and we are absolutely driven hate to use that term but absolutely driven for safety
the noise abatement we've had noise monitors in all the adjacent neighborhoods we know how much noise we're going to generate we also know how much joy noise currently exists that's kind of a I think you have that uh in your your slide that's you
know the site plan what I what I would tell is the uh the interesting thing about the motor course world is that uh people that uh have these cars or have collectible cars
look at them as three-dimensional pieces of art much like if you had a Picasso in your house and they they live with their cars it's like it's man caves but it's a lot lot more involved than that very res
residences so here's just an example of some of the uh what they would look like but again these are these will be um certainly augmented as we as we um go down the uh the path we've done
extensive due diligence we have nearly 7,000 pages of studies that are in our data room and you're all welcome to go in there if you have a few uh few spare weeks you want to go through the data but everything we're doing is supported
by uh empirical uh data every assumption we have this is just some of the the residential mid-rises are along the inter coals they'll basically the back of the units will face the track front of the
units will face the inter coals we also have a uh essentially an Amphitheater that would be uh the outside primarily for what's what you guys would think of in terms of TED Talks where it would be the latest technology that comes into uh you know
our world we'll be sharing it uh it's not meant to compete with the casinos where they have entertainment it's really meant to have uh technology transfers and people understanding you know what's coming but people realiz is
that the electric car is going to be a blip in the radar we believe the next great technology is the hydrogen fuel cell and I've been in hydrogen fuel cell cars in California where I went maybe a 100
miles and at the end of the trip the guy had a mason jar at the back of the car and it was full of water and he drank it I said this is the way to go you know the the problem with electricity is it's great for right now
but it's I think it's a stop Gap and you know with some of the stuff uh we've been hearing it's very hard to put out if there's a fire and there's a whole array of other issues with it so and then the the retail is going to
be it'll be open to the public it'll be uh featuring a lot of events uh there'll be uh uh things here that are going to want that will attract the public where the public will uh be
gathering here there will be events within the context of the the retail as well as the uh the other areas that are open to the public the track itself because of safety and because of U the
value of these cars which could exceed several billion dollars is a holy holy private very cognizant and we were cognizant before we were told to be cognizant about uh about nature and
about respecting the uh the Green Acres provisions and keeping a lot of this is all public land here where there'll be around Bader field will be a uh uh essentially a boardwalk and softened
wetlands and um it'll really be like a nature trail as well as a boat ramp and we're planning on doing some uh uh some traversing from a a centralized place here uh over to uh maybe Ducktown or to
the other Islands we as I said earlier we believe this is going to be the Catalyst for the Redevelopment and we we don't say that lightly we have literally dozens of people that
uh contact us and want to develop here that they're waiting for our development because it'll get rid of the negativity that's surrounding uh Atlantic City in particular you can keep going these are just some of the other things we intend to landscape this we're
using a a local landscape architect of come Renown Jay Adamson if you guys know him but he's very very good we want to make this a showpiece and then we have a
museum and I've been in contact with the Simeon museum in Philadelphia uh these are some of the cars from the Simeon Museum but we anticipate having a lot of events where the the cars are actually uh part of a traveling
show and where people can come in they can see more or less the history of the automobile and uh we think this is going to create a tremendous amount of interest and also an opportunity for
education education to us is very very important we have on our team uh eight educators of renowned that uh have been contributing to our uh project and that's the
uh that's what I was trying to say at the beginning I didn't know how much time I had no I appreciate that commissioner was it good all right thank you commiss that answer I was looking more detail and stuff just to make sure we don't you know for the public to some that haven't
heard about it because it's a complicated intense project Mr chair yeah commissioner Parker in the in your packet it mentions that there's going to be some affordable housing 12 units for 15 years I believe that is no there's 406 units uh
affordable housing and Workforce how many are going to be affordable housing 406 46 are going to be affordable housing uh of of the no there's 406 total I think affordable is about 200 of the of the 406 I get you
that exact number that's okay and you say there in there it says 37k to 79,000 per household family income uh whatever the the Mandate is for affordable housing our Architects have have assembled that for us how do you
envision that working with high-end luxury uh residential mixed in with affordable housing it's it's not really mixed in it's not part of the internal uh Automobile Club the people that are going to be in the automobile club are
going to be very wealthy people they're going to be very they'll be entertainers sports stars which was my next question you already identified your customers I'm imagine and where they're where they're coming from well give you an give you an example Floyd Mayweather called my partner about a year ago he's
got 150 cars he he said I want to buy five well that's great I where till I own the land you know so we're we're going to have a lot of that but you know it's there's so much here for
everybody but the the uh the the development itself is actually run by what's called a knock you guys familiar with that terminology at all a network Operating
Center so there a centralized brain you'll call the knock and you'll say I want my uh my condominium at U 72 degrees I want the the lights on I want
these uh Staples delivered you know soone very high-end coner so but again the the retail the affordable the workforce the other amenities that are associated with they're all public
access how many cars want to track at one time it it depends do you play golf at all badly very poorly well you would not if you played golf can tell you all about it I lose more I lose more balls than I maintain well if you played golf
and you were a lousy player like you say you were you would not tea off at Atlantic City Country Club at 9:00 amm you would wait until probably 1 so you could tee off with contemporaries I say this because I was a golf pro one time so at the end of the day there'll be
certain skill levels that'll have certain times and the crazy thing here that people don't realize is that the time on the track is only 25 minutes that's it that's it's how long that people drive their cars because it
work plus about 85% of the cars that will be stored here will stay here which ensures people are going to keep coming back and coming back and coming back and go ahead which brings my other question is
security 28 uh we have a headcount of 28 the former head of the New Jersey FBI is the head of our security I named Jim diorio I don't know if you know guys know Jim last question I will ask educational
piece as an educator I'm always interested and I I've read a lot about this um inclusiveness and educational pieces how does that look like how does that work are you going to the local superintendent and and or uh C it
possibly our our yeah I was an educator too so I I I understand your question what we want to do is get these kids early embedded in the the natural love for the automobile everybody loves their cars
you know for some reason and get them early enough where they can go through a uh the promise and be associated with people actually working on uh these vehicles and the different components of the job
descriptions um yeah it's it's it's interesting the uh a mechanic for one of these high performance cars that's going to make 350 to 400,000 a year hopefully they'll be a graduate of one of our County Schools the the county schools
are going to be part of this as as are all the engineering colleges we've talked to everybody wants to participate in this thing because of the residual benefits of it and it's going to impact on everybody well I I noticed that a lot said Atlantic City based and I get and I
understand that the importance of that but of course we as a board are concerned about Atlantic County so in in terms of um contractors in terms of I know there's a piece of that that's going to go towards union labor and that's and that speaks for itself and I
won't talk about that so I'm going to speak about the non-union labor that's going to be used for contractors is there any thing that's going to I don't know maybe um look out to Atlantic County Contractors first local contractors first AB absolutely
our uh construction managers uh were the uh they ran the second largest construction company in the world it's called scansa and they're very cognizant beyond the pla that we're going to put in place
very cognizant about keeping the work here not only in Atlantic City but also in the surrounding areas that's what I wanted to hear it's it's what we've been saying no one's listening I'm listening now yeah there you
go Mr Mr ber thank you um commissioner rley just just a couple quick quick thoughts I'm curious what what do you estimate the total investment required to do this project that's just me honest to God
about 3.4 billion was big it's big it's huge it's but colossal but we start to cash flow uh pretty significantly in 2028 now what you don't realize is that
the um the way these the model tracks for these other clubs that are in certain areas of the the world most of this stuff gets pre-sold so you're selling uh Condominiums you're
selling uh initiations you're selling memberships you can't use the condominium money uh to pay down Debt Service unless it's coming from your International clientele and we anticipate pretty significant International clientele which is going
to be good for the airport it's gonna be good for the casino industry it's going to be good for the economy any thoughts on the redesign of the Ingress and egress there we we kept it to where the um we were we were tied in with the the
main AR you know Porter and the different uh streets there okay so yeah there there is some are you talking about on on Albany Avenue itself yeah yeah there's there absolutely we got to go through pretty extensive studies with d and the last
item no ice hockey I guess no I say that only because we lose the ice Hawk Stadium you you lost that a few years ago so still there but we are we are building it's part of our deal I don't know if uh you guys were aware we're uh
building a $15 million Community Center so that may have an ice socket or roller skating component you know we want to keep the kids off the street you want to find ways to get them involved you know that's how you solve any kind of crime problem
right so ice hockey good sport well hey I was a teacher in Philadelphia when I first got out of college and I'll tell you I almost wanted to go to Vietnam it was that tough thanks yeah sorry yeah Mr thank you very much thank you thank
you I'll be brief I I think Mike touched on it some of the things I wanted to touched on is before we started this project one of the first things we did was sign a project labor agreement um we had support of all the unions um my older brother's a electrician my younger one's a carpenter
so I don't have a lot of choice because they they're both bigger than me um and Mike talked about the building materials um and I'll be brief on that if you want to see what it looks like I'm building a house uh in between Annapolis and Ridgeway Avenue in Atlantic City it's
built out of these materials last week was the um the builders uh I guess organization had a meeting in the Atlantic City and they all came to see what I was building at of feel free to go buy it's unbelievable um and we talked about the
education um putting these systems together I had my Builders go down to Florida to learn how to build it because this will be the first house when the East Coast built like that I can tell you right now I'm not buying insurance no reason to buy it um my house is flood
PL FL flood proof um hurricane proof um it's really unbelievable and every Builder who going through there said the same thing they couldn't believe it um what Mike didn't mention is when this project happens not if when it happens uh the Builder um of these materials who
has a patent on it will be opening an A A manufacturing plant in Atlantic City we've already identified a site a couple hundred jobs that'll be added um they're a big ownership interest in that business is through Owens
Corning so Owens corny is a pretty decent company last time I checked um so we have a lot of support we are financials like Mike said we have a data room with over 6,000 pages of information and we've gone Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stan we've had every house go through it and no one's questioned our financial projections um I'm not a car Enthusiast myself so I was one of the toughest people to convince and when I had some people call me up when this first came out out
like box Mike mentioned it kind of the light went off of my head because these guys don't have one exotic CL they have like a hundred and there's more than them than you think and I didn't real realize the core enthusiasts were that crazy about spending money on their cars
but they are now what I'm really here to talk about is what this does to Atlantic City and a county financially um real real brief history as you know Atlantic city was not in a good financial position
2014 via tax appeals from the casinos almost bankrupt the city I don't want to say who appointed the attorneys who represented the city which you can only guess from who was in charge of the state um these attorneys got crushed um
and the city was faced with issuing junk bonds and I had a chance to pull the junk bonds take a look at them um let's just say that they weren't the best thing in the world for the city and because they're junk bonds they can't be
retired um myself and Kenny Moore sat a few weeks to go over to figure out how to fix the tax problem in Atlantic City because that's that's the real problem there's a ton of people who want to believe it or not want to move back into Atlantic City um according to Zillow
it's one of the hottest real estate State markets in the country not only one of the hottest it's a few points above the next lowest like three or four points and that's not Dan Gallagher that's Zillow um the only thing I believe that's holding it back is the tax rate in the city and the tax rate
necessarily is part of those junk bonds and the junk bond payments and the interest we came up with a mechanism to take the purchase price of Vader field and to apply part of that purchase price towards the junk bond payments um
We Believe on the local tax rate um not believe we know that this year the tax rate in Atlantic City may go down by a third by 2028 it's the lowest tax rate in the county and we believe not even we
believe I know that there are other projects because I represent the people who are waiting for that to happen to come into the City and when that happens we haven't even gone over what that does to the county because you know those new ratables in the city improve the county
ratables so it not only are we creating jobs and a new market and a new industry in Atlantic City look what we're doing to the tax rate local jobs local jobs local jobs local job I've been through the highs and lows of the city and I
know that um AR can tell you they they you know people have come in here and said well we're going to give local jobs we're going to give local jobs jobs and then all of a sudden you see that's right parking lot filled with Pennsylvania uh license plates and I've seen it so that's one thing that I
pledged will not happen um so we got the tax rate and and it's what it's going to do for the county um but when you bring in those ratables our projections are just based off of what our rateable is going to
bring to the city now one thing we someone asked me about is a pilot program we're not doing a pilot program we said Put it on the books for 175 million it's assessed at 100 million right now or we're buying it for 100 million it's assessed lower than that we
said Put it on the books for that and part of our tax relief um program is based off the assessment getting added assessments and moving forward as we go forward so we're putting our money where our mouth is in a lot of different ways
that other people haven't done um so I know that the pilot program's been a big issue but you may want to revisit that um just saying anyway um we believe and we know uh what the tax rate and what's
going to happen in Atlantic City I'm really super excited about it because I really think that um when these other projects come in and they're right behind me when they come in my projections with regard to the tax rates
are going to get even better so that they're really Ultra Ultra conservative and believe it or not the investors that we brought in people who have looked at the project that's one of the first things they ask about and when we show them how it works makes it more
interested anybody have any questions I know everybody likes talking about taxes so all right thank thank you very much for having us here today if if in the future any of us have any more question question is is there someone directly we
should contact contact me my office is uh Chelsea Heights in Atlantic City I have a quick question chairman um at what process are you in right now with the city of Atlantic city the city of Atlantic City
um we got to go through the state um we have went from a memorandum of understanding to a Redevelopment agreement we can cut the check for the city tomorrow get the Redevelopment agreement so the city's ready to move forward once you have city state
approvals yeah we had some issu with with regard to Green Acres that's been satisfied it's actually been if you look at the at the drawings that walkway or prominade around the um outer Port of Vader field is really really nice um and it's better way better used for the open
public space than exists there right now oh I'm sure but we're we're if this is the goal line we're right here right so you're just waiting from the state right we want to start as soon as possible right and approves ass soon going to be
DCA for Atlantic City you're dealing with DCA yes so the state's going to approve it and the state's going to approve it the state's going to approve it well it's not just the DCA it's the D the do the BP New Jersey yeah Abol just
and and as as an as side you know Mike talked about we've put a lot of money into do do due diligence on the project I mean we've done the environmentals we know how to clean it up where to clean it up me just a ton of money and time has gone into it and we're excited about
moving forward and the sooner the better any other commissioner questions comments Mr binder Mr Gallagher I appreciate you coming to do the presentation thank you for letting us uh make the presentation yeah great like you said there's a lot of information
out there but it was great for us to have you know to see it firsthand and to hear from from you firsthand as well so great appreciate that thank you and again anybody has any questions feel free to call absolutely everybody else does thank all right thank thank you
again again if you guys want to want to take off and head on out of here feel free I don't think you'll offend anybody here are you saying our meeting is not going to be interesting as interesting as the 600 pages of data and their data
center all right moving on to the um agenda items resolution 192 for an application and acceptance from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development for the Summer Youth Employment Program amount not to exceed $1,123 500 move second Mo in second and
any commissioner comments commissioner rizley thank you just want to mention that we did have a budget meeting and all the financial items on the agenda were reviewed about the budget committee and we recommend approval of course and this particular
uh resolution we're looking at is our Workforce to board to uh employ over 275 youth the summer so we certainly want to provide that program it's an 8we
program thank you thank you any other commissioner comments anyone from the public all right please call rotino yes Burns yes Cory G yes Kar yes
Parker yes Grizzly yes ruio yes days yes resolution 193 Grant acceptance from the New Jersey Department of Corrections for the county re-entry coordinators program amount not to exceed $100,000 second you have been seconded any commissioner
comments any comments from the public I pleas call the RO commissioner Cory was that no yeah I've been I've been trying to get in to have a comment or question U I must have been disconnected some kind of way before the developers left but we can move the
agenda okay what's the patino yes Burns yes corsey yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes rizley yes rafio yes St yes resolution
194 Professional Services agreement with Z radar limited liability company doing business as reimbursement reimagined to provide minimum data set Support Services to meow viw nursing and rehabilitation center amount not to exceed $130,000 second
move move been seconded any commissioner comments briefly Mr chairman commissioner rley just want to mention this was one of the recommendations in that report that we had do an economic analysis of our Med of viw nursy home so we're we're enacting this thank you
great any other commissioner comments any comments from the public please call the role bertino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kar Parker rizley rafio de yes resolution 195 Professional
Services agreement to establish the 2025 2026 Appraisal Services pool amount not to exceed $135,000 second we've been seconded any commissioner comments any comments from the public all right please call the rotino yes
Burns Cory yes G yes Kar Parker yes grizley yes r d yes resolution 196 Professional Services agreement with SCS Engineers to update the Atlanta County Solid Waste Management plan
amount not to exceed $74,900 second seconded any commissioner comments any comments from the public I please call the rooll Mr chair I are you going to mention that we're gonna have a meeting on this yeah we can talk about
it for the for the board and the Commissioners a the solid waste advisory committee is going to meet to discuss with the ACA uh the plans and stuff as they're moving forward with updating the solid waste management plan so we have that the meeting already scheduled it won't interfere with anything with there
let taking action on this today though okay any other commissioner comments coms from the public did call the role please fortino yes ferns Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker rizley yes
ruio St yes resolution 197 amending resolution number 624 adopted on November 21st 2023 a Professional Services agreement with AAA Financial Group Incorporated for financial advisory Services net increase $1,848
75 second move in second any commission comments any comments from the public I please call the fortino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kern yes Parker yes grizzley yes Ru yes yes resolution 198
competitive contracts with various vendors for Home Care Services Under The Division of Welfare and state respit Grant programs amount not to exceed $395,000 mooved second we've and seconded any commissioner comments any comments from the public I please call
the role bertino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes Ru yes yes resolution 199 big contract with accent fence Incorporated for fencing maintenance repairs and new
installation amount not to exceed $426,000 second M second any commissioner comments any comments from the public all right please call the RO bertino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes
grizzley yes ruu yes days yes resolution 200 amending resolution number 222 adopted on May 7th 2024 an interlocal agreement with the Atlanta County Improvement authority to provide bidding and construction management services for the new generator at the Atlanta County Animal Shelter to extend the term date
only no additional cost moved second moved then second and any commissioner comments anyone from the public I please call the role bertino yes Burns yes Cory yes G
yes Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes ruio yes resolution 2011 inter local agreement with the Atlanta County Improvement authority to provide project management services for the proposed improvements at the intersection of West coat Road County Route 685 and Delila
Road County Route 646 in I carba Township amount not to exceed $5,500 second any commissioner comments any comments from the public please Ro bertino yes Burns corsey yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes
grizzley yes r d yes resolution 202 resolution of support for the Atlantic Cape Community College dental program expansion moved second second commissioner comments anyone from the public please
call the roll bertino yes Burns Cory yes G Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes R yes D yes chapter 159 will entertain a motion to combine and adopt resolutions 203 through 205 sove second
who've been seconded any commissioner comments comments from the public please call the rooll Martino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes r d yes resolution 206
memorandum of agreement with the communication workers of America local 1075 Department of Family and Community Development authorizing a formal written collective bargaining agreement incorporating the terms of the mo MOA for a four-year period commencing January 1 2024 second we have then second are
there any commissioner comments highlights um Cher is want I provide some information about the agreement I canly I actually believe that the um memorandum of uh agreement is attached
to the resolution yeah so you have the benefit of that this is a four-year agreement expired in uh December 31st 2023 uh this new agreement is for four years uh starting in 2024 there's an
increase of 4 uh 08 following year is 8.29 and the last two years 26 and 27 is 3 64 each year now there is also some uh Equity
adjustments uh based on certain criteria within that uh agreement thank you are there any other commissioner comments all right thank you thank you any comments from the public L thank you uh please call the RO
Martino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes Grizzly yes Ruff de yes I'll entertain a motion to combine and adopt the resolutions 207 through 208 appointments
so move second we have been seconded any commissioner comments any comments from the public any of the appointees AL all right ter please call the role Martino yes Burns Cory yes G yes Kern yes Parker yes
grizzley yes ruff yes pleas yes all right I'll under entertain a motion to combine and adopt resolutions 209 through 210 roadway solicitations second we have then seconded any commissioner comments any comments from the public all right please call the role bertino
yes Burns yes Cory yes G yes Kar yes Parker yes grizzley yes ruio yes St yes resolution 212 resolution declaring the month of April as child Abuse Prevention month
sponsor June Burns move second second and any commissioner comments yes commissioner Burns thank you chairman though April is Child Abuse Prevention month as County Commissioners we have a role to play in ensuring all children
have positive experiences and families have the res resources that they need this resolution shows our support for all children families caregivers neighbors Educators law officials and our very own Atlanta County Youth
Services um commission April 30th at 10:00 a.m. at the Atlantic County Office Building in Atlantic City in the auditorium they are we are hosting pin wheels for prevention program to raise awareness and advocate for the wellbeing
of all children in Atlanta County the pin wheel symbolizes childhood innocence and a joyful Carefree experience thank you thank you commissioner any other commissioner comments that was great to see that our pin wheels are still still out there
spinning around mine still doesn't spin we'll fix that later are there any comments from the public please call the role bero yes Burns Cory yes G yes K yes
Parker yes rizley yes Rio St yes all right that concludes the written part of the agenda we've received copies of written Communications and petitions are there any commissioner comments on any of those just want to comment at this point I I know that we did receive and will'll
be receiving information from the mayor Association um they passed a resolution opposing um Atlantic City Electric rate increases um and I believe commissioner rley may have something to add on that as well um but you know I know the county executive sent it's all an email about the mayor's Association resolution
um I believe it will be eventually all s on a bipartisan resolution that will have the signatures of 14 to 17 Mayors in Atlanta County all right are there any reports of special Committees of the board you chair commissioner G um yeah
last meeting um I don't think either one of us talked about our visit to the uh NJ or the uh the a board legislative dinner that we we went to and um I just wanted to highlight it's it's always a really interesting meeting it's always
uh great topics discussed we have really engaged Farmers here uh in Atlanta County um who are just so passionate about uh about farming and and about um greatness in that industry and just a
couple things that um they discussed um uh some things around the Jersey freshline item in the state budet um they were receiving some some funding I think it's kind of questionable I think it got cut a little bit uh in the state budget and there there might even be um
some funding cut uh as a result of some some of the federal things going on these days but that's kind of still a watch area um but they are working on some uh campaigns with regard to the Jersey Fresh kind of marketing uh piece here in the state of New Jersey um talked about the heat stress and labor
bill which we've discussed here uh at the commissioner meeting um a lot of things that we've discussed here previously are still kind of being hammered out uh at the state legislature um so uh I think we just want to keep a watch on that and continue to support uh
where we can there um and um oh they uh we talked about the uh NJ uh resilient environment and Landscape NJ real packed which we had an extensive presentation on here all of
the um the regulations that were put into place via executive order by uh Governor Murphy um we uh mentioned that we did have that presentation here in October uh and that the video was available on our our YouTube page if any
of them were interested in in getting the level of detail that we got um and I also passed along um the resolution that we had passed uh back in October to some of the other elected officials that were there uh in the hopes that they would uh
piggyback um on that with us um um and then talked a lot about the Ruckers cooperative and uh what that means to them and um the value of uh the resources that are there and their appreciation for our continued um
financial support of that and uh certainly you know always looking for more if we can um but a lot of uh really really great comments about that program um so that miss anything John Amy you did one great job there thank you
absolutely fantastic I always enjoy going to those uh meetings and dinners of the a board because I I learn so much and when you listen to the different Farmers talk about their product lines and their Industries you can see the
frustration you can see the issues and uh you know we stand with the farmers we are a farming County we stand right with them and support them every way we can and when you hear the the details when you get into the weeds so to speak the
topics it's really quite an eye open so it's certainly worth any of our time going to those uh meetings when we're invited thank you just a an example of the frustration that they deal with um one of the blueberry farm owners was um
talking about an OSHA visit that they had in the middle of peak picking season unannounced um by a young lady who came from the Cherry Hill office who was very surprised to find blueberries in South
Jersey and had no idea that they were grown in Hamilton m i I think I know who the agent still doesn't know where she's at s but anyway uh so you know to to have
somebody you know coming to do a visit and not know things like that you can see where their frustration is uh so we we definitely stand with the farmers so you were missed commissioner not sure they were they probably had some wonderful words to to say about me but
all can deire commissioner I appreciate the support I know the uh Board of Agriculture here in alany County always supports the the support that we give from County Executive Dennis Lon down through the Commissioners absolutely funding's been an issue Ruckers continues to cut their funding through the extension service and you know
Rucker College was developed as a farming college and they've gotten more into Pharmaceuticals than farming and a lot of the uh a lot of the opportunities for uh for training new employees that uh like we we just had brick van cranker
retire some of the new guys coming on they did put somebody on but you know the state looks always to consolidate not hire people I know with the the county level we're looking to share an emology that we utilize all in South Jersey we told it don't have to be Atlanta County but the support this
board's given him is instrumental and there's going to be some as we've discussed in the past with you guys uh there'll be opportunities in the future where funding comes and we may have to be the stop Gap guide until we can get our legislators to pay attention to like I tell everybody if you like eating you
better get used to supporting agriculture uh because it's the most besides it's a major industry dollar-wise to our entire economy so absolutely I appreciate the support yeah they're a great group another a great story that was told was they they talked about I guess um there was a longtime uh
person who was the pesticide uh I forget what the title was um but that person through science and expertise helped one of the farmers who their major um output was basil and they had to stop because there
was something in the soil that um was killing the crop and so they engineered uh you know new kind of soil mix and he's now back to Growing uh basil as his main you know uh output and
and that was his major livelihood and so just just it was a great that was a success story and and again talking about the key that the roles at at Ruckers uh you know pay pay plays for them so and I did write down Mr chairman it might be worth having um Brian from
the Ruckers Cooperative who was there might be worth him him coming to a meeting and and kind of presenting uh some some of the things that they do and and some of these stories all right sounds good Mr chair if I minut yeah commissioner no yeah I'm done thank you
from I guess through the culture and Heritage committee uh to the MK betterment project on the 5th of this month uh previously uh the MK betterment hosted 25 stocking University students and professors that visited uh the site to
learn about the history displayed about the mck about mck City it was a noteworthy exchange the students realizing you don't need to go to a National Monument but interesting history can be in your own backyard 100% uh they also the mck city
betterman also submitted a letter of intent to the New Jersey black Heritage Trail for a state marker I'll keep your posted on how that works out sounds great there's also there's the ble Point Cemetery uh Republic Gile town to that commissioner ball mentioned before he did some work
on the fence maybe we can have that added as well um any other Committees of the Boardman commissioner rley just want to report briefly on U our Board of school estimates where you attended Mrs Kar
attended and we looked at the the budgets for the special services school district and AIT and um our superintendent Phil gther has assured us that the AIT will be open
in September fully and we all look forward to the uh the opening of that new addition there at the at the school the uh good news we always have good news and bad news the bad news budget's up of course because we're we're gonna
have more kids at the school district but the good news is that uh the funding that this County provides to the special services School District Atlantic c community college and
AIT is that the same level it's been so there's no increase on the County's part and uh we looked at their budgets we looked at what their total Surplus was and the the portion of the Surplus they're using and uh we we all agreed
we're in the we're in the right mode here and um we certainly approve of their budgets thank you thank you Mr chair um shared services committee sure um so just briefly I because I see mayor
Shanker here from Hamilton Township um we did have a meeting this past week to continue our efforts on a uh leap Grant application for the lake lenpy Lighthouse um to be used as a storage facility in partnership with Hamilton
Township and some things out there so um we have Tim continuing to work on that and then uh we will reconvene um with Terry on county-based uh tax assessment uh later this month I think um uh she was she was away and then I think
there's a lot happening in in taxes right now so uh we'll be back on that uh this month right thank sounds great thank you commissioner yeah one one last one last item um the budget committee did meet with some representatives of Atlantic City
Electric and uh we discussed of course the rate hikes that was the the topic um their uh pitch to us was that the entire 177% hike that they're going to
impose in June is all related to supply issues not transmission issues um we have to purchase the the electricity of course Exelon Atlantic Electric they're not generating they're
they're buying electric from the grid and the grid PGM is the the responsible entity regarding the Grid in about 13 different states I think it is so the
problem is simply this you plan to fail then you fail to fail to plan you plan to fail and the problem we have in this state in this region we don't have enough generation this green initiative has
been the enemy of uh rates rates are going to be going up because we have to purchase the power somewhere you know obviously the country needs more generation than we
have that's the that's the problem we have we have a problem of course the production of natural gas as well we need more production and I'm sure that we'll be proposing a resolu solution here on behalf of the board and
probably by the next meeting about our you know disdain for this whole thing I've asked um and received I haven't had a chance to really delve into it the credits
um help me with the term here the UMX no not the srex regarding the society societal benefits charge societal benefits charge which I'd like
to get a lot of to dig deep in that particular topic because one of the parts of the societal benefits charge uh pays for other types of energy and I want to see how much was
quite frankly wasted on wind power that's what I'm after in particular society Ben benefits charge covers a multitude of things part of it is about people that can't pay their bills you know there's a number of other
issues but I'd like to get into that as well right that's they're looking to raise that be as well correct I believe commissioner B I was going to say I believe some of them in tesi and others have spoken about that so yeah they've reached out to the state of course and um they passed resolutions uh
complaining obviously they're not in favor of the Ray Ray hikes and the ray hikes as commissioner ly stated if you put all your eggs in one generation basket like we talked about when we talked about the windmills here and we had that discussion generation comes
from wherever it comes from what you sell to the grid is what suppliers get paid for but if you limit access to the types of energy that you got access to to purchase because you put all your eggs in the green energy basket or you
put all your eggs in and and Diesel what whatever gener I you know at City Electric and I remember them telling me a few years ago Vince they they they have generators to run their jet engines they run all day long he says to supply the grid but they have to purchase to meet their demand and we're going to
continue to see these increases unfortunately until the state in the and and our and I guess we yell a lot louder even even federally that you're GNA have to take a more of a comprehensive approach and look at different ways to generate energy if it's smaller nuclear
uh if you're using gas fired you're using there's different opportunities uh to try to help mitigate that you we'll have to see we we've warned everybody that's coming I know they all call us yelling what are you guys going to do about the rate increases I go we weren't
the planner I never put like we do in Atlanta County we never put all our eggs in in one basket so to speak uh you know and and not have plan B you always got to have plan B and obviously the state doesn't have it at this point in time so
lovely would like to follow up on that I know Congress of VRE issued a statement yesterday or today about wind power and and uh you know how how was heart and all of us as well so including South Jersey gas the gas rates so again follow up on the mer Association resolution um
as we'll continue to you know make sure that we oppose all these increases that are that are coming our way so um any other special any other reports of special committees M Mr chairman can you hear me yes commissioner Cory good I I waited long enough to
speak after going behind Jim bertino it's always a tough act to follow however want to take this opportunity again to thank the budget committee chairman Grizzle for hosting the meeting on yesterday uh with the Atlantic City Electric Company I don't want to be
redundant however I want to be very very very clear I said to the stakeholders and then chairman rizley correct me if I'm wrong to them that uh you know we hide behind microphones and p uh uh computers and Texas but John Q the
public don't understand when you talk about why the rates went up and why they have to do X Y and Z and I thought it would be in their best interest to come to a public meeting and explain to John Q or J Q the public why it is that these increases are taking place whether we
agree with it or not uh but you you know don't want to just leave it to elected officials where we get the phone calls but the stakeholders reap the benefits of the millions and millions millions of dollars and then folks have to pick between do I pay uh for my groceries or
do I try to pay the high electric bill or the gas bill Etc going forward and so I'm glad to hear that um there might be a resolution coming before the board but again we invite the Atlantic City Electric Company Mr chairman through you excuse me or their representative to
come and make that presentation to the whole board uh it was just a few of us yesterday uh they made some points uh you know grafted some of the stuff they were saying but that's just four of us uh but the public in general don't have
a clue what the hell is going on uh with Atlantic City Electric or Exon Etc and so maybe we extend that invitation once again to Mr lloy Lon and Company or who happens to represent Atlantic City electrics uh to our next meeting and so
they can come and not give an hour presentation uh maybe 20 minutes presentation um or so to let the public know what's going on so much about worrying about being um you go to the meeting and and you're bombarded and and
and folks come in and they start blasting you but I think the public has a right to know um and they say if you go to their website or you can find X Y and Z well everybody don't go to the website because if they're not understanding uh what you're saying in the newspaper some of them not going to understand what you're saying on your
website come in person it's like being in court chairman I rather face my accused of face to face and since Atlantic City Electric is the rates at 177% and he talked about some other rates in some other companies maybe they need to come down back before the full
board and that all of the Commissioners hear exactly what's happening and they can relay that message back to their constituents as well and then perhaps you know somebody from the public may show up somebody from the public may not show up but I think they only it to uh
to the T to the to the payers who are paying for this High electric and yes John prer Jim bertina you're right the rates are going to continue to go up but hell if you talk to the public and keep them informed and not Blindside them I think you get a better reaction nobody wants increases but hell at least if you
tell me how you're doing it and why you're doing it um they made me more acceptive to to accepting it um but nobody wants to see increases uh is just like the say nobody wants to see changes and so you plan to work you you you
failed the planning um and then you hit the public with this it's just not good uh but I think overall the meeting itself uh brought out a lot of stuff that probably most of our commissioners I can't say for sure did not know about uh but it's best if if all of the
Commissioners could hear and even the public get opportunity to hear what's happening behind closed doors with Atlantic City Electric uh and I I reserved the balance of my time but I wanted to re go back to Chairman grizzley if I missed something or was I
misspeaking no you're correct y commission Cory I I have no problem with that at all I mean initially I sent it to committee at your request that was your idea to do that to get sent it to the committee um but yeah I totally agree if they come bring them out to the board and you know see if see
if they can explain um what it is that that's happening what they're doing because you're right it's it's uh I'm going to say absolutely ridiculous um these increases after increase that they're asking for try to make that happen sooner rather than later okay so if it's my understand you said maybe the
next meeting or so there'll be a resolution if that's going to be the case chairman through you we would have that uh clerk uh would reach out to the representatives to see if they are willing to attend a meeting to have this conversation definitely and I I'm not
sure when the resolution will be obviously like I said sooner rather than later um the process already started uh you know we talked about several different issues today not just AC electric as well um but I I definitely think we need to be strong and uh you know loud and clear um that it's just I don't I hate to use the four-letter f word Fair um but it's
know it's not it's not appropriate you know you're going to raise the uh the benefits fee because more and more people can't afford to pay their taxes but you know you pay pay their their bills but you making the case that more and more people are able to pay their bill so it's you know doesn't make any sense to a lot of people out there so I
I agree with you commissioner that we should definitely bring them to the board as soon as possible thank you Mr chairman I had one more one more comment to make that I was trying to make when the repres reprentative as they was from uh beta field um you know you hear all those fine plans they want to do on beta
field but I wanted to correct uh the gentleman Mike uh when he made the statement and I will follow it up with a phone call to Mr Galler tomorrow you cannot refer to the search Stadium or the Skate Zone as a bandit we have kids go there every single day playing doing
skating and you have teams that come into the stadium and they playing baseball until that place is closed you cannot continue to go around and saying this a banded building because it's not fair and it's not true thank you commissioner ciry brother Mr berer Mr Gallagher are still here so
they did they did hear your comments G can call me in the morning and maybe I'll let him pay for my cup of coffee but we gonna correct that with his person who's representing the comp I appreciate that chairman thank you so much thank you commissioner ciry um are
there any other special creaties think we're moving on any unfinished business sorry Mr chairman I do have to Mr Parker take a little more time funding initiative available for Atlantic County History partnership program a 2025 special funding
initiative is being offered to new or emerging nonprofit organizations and those that may only require a small amount of funding for history related projects for professional development special funding Initiative Program is a pilot program offered through the
Atlantic County Office of culture and Heritage affairs s to serve as an introduction to the county history partnership program grant program it's a lot of programs in there priority will be given to firsttime applicants and those who are not currently receiving
grant funding from the office of cultural and Heritage Affairs request will be accepted on a ruling basis throughout the year with a simplified process from request to award guidelines and the application are available online
or download okay commission Parker thank you very welcome sir any new business all right hearing none public comment anyone attending in person that would like to speak now at public comment please come to the podium
speak into the microphone state your name and the town you reside if you are attending virtually and would like to make a public comment please raise your hand will call upon your name and a request to unmute will be sent please state your name in the town you reside you will be provided up to three minutes to
speak Mercedes Bia Atlantic City New Jersey um I want to make a comment um in reference to the Renaissance at beta field project um I wanted to kind of clarify a couple things two things in
part um I don't know when um one of the representatives was speaking speaking about um zero carbon and the zero carbon footprint and Leed certification um as well as um any other certification
for that matter in our backyard not too far in Washington DC I want to point your attention to an anacost is called the bridge District which is also opportunity Zone um in our backyard it kind of looks like not beta fi but is on the water surrounding the bridge of
anacasa which will also separate Navy Yard 757 units in one plot of seven that they have um red Bri brick lmd is a developer going to turn your attention there because they also are speaking of
luxury units does not include the things that beta field might include but it is something to take your attention to second part is any type of zero carbon footprint most funders they have a checkbox for zero carbon right now and
is a new thing so when we're looking at performers for any company or any business that might come for the county we definitely have to make sure that we take that in into consideration for any funding because the question is why do we mention these Platinum certifications
and or zero carbon footprint and I speak to the community when I state that thank you any other public comment Mr M thank you and thank you for uh having
us here today to discuss this wonderful project at Bader field that's going to bring many many new jobs it's going to bring tax relief and if you can just a picture a $3 billion plus uh development
which is equal to all the casinos put together as as far as rable go it's been endorsed by the county executive as I said earlier we've we've appeared before most all the labor organizations we be we've appeared
before the Chelsea neighborhood association we appeared before the Press editorial board the Philadelphia inquire we have answered every question that could be brought up concerning this wonderful project that's going to be a
benefit to all ly County the reason I'm here again today is ask this County Commission to endorse this wonderful project that's been on the drawing board for now almost eight
years and I'm I'm asking you as the county executive has to endorse it with a resolution which will help bring this uh project closer to its final position that's going to help everybody so my
question is could I have a resolution to appropriately support the Renaissance of Bader field thank you yeah sun it's it's my goal to send you know as I'm sorry it's my goal as often as possible to send um any resolution request whether
it's you know commissioner comes from anyone else to to a committee to to do the due diligence and the homework so I I have no problem asking the um was it the Economic Development and Tourism Committee to take a look at this and and you know potentially come up with a resolution of support absolutely but I would like them to to look at it first
yeah ask any more than that Mr chairman appreciate it thank very much thank you anyone else from the public would like to speak anyone online all right I'll entertain a motion to close public comment move
second all right all in favor I I thank you commissioner any comments for the good of the order okay hearing not I will entertain a motion to agend move second second all those in
favor meetings adjourned