okay we are back from a uh brief adjournment we deal with a technical issues involving zo so once again congratulations to officer Bel ums skip ahead to approval of minutes we'll come back to the comments just in
case Mr rhen rejoins uh do that second little blip we had uh so with regard to the meeting minutes so the meeting minutes for June 17 any comments requests regard minutes
have not otherwise been provided to miss Ray see none SE motion to approve those minutes so moved second all in favor I thank you now we'll give Mr Ro a little bit more time we'll proceed with uh permit and Raffles we've got 1 two three
four five six six permit some R to go through first is a social affir permit to benefit mainstream Inc on November 2 2024 from 6: to 11: p.m. at Hamilton
Farm Golf Club next is a social affir permit to benefit Trinitas Health foundation on October 16 2024 from 7:30 a.m. to 300 p.m. at at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club an on
premise 50/50 raffle to benefit Children's Specialized Hospital foundation on July 22 2024 at 5:00 p.m. located at Hamilton Farm golf club and on premise 5050 raffle to benefit children Specialized Hospital
foundation on August 26 2024 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club an on premise merchandise raffle to benefit Children's Specialized Hospital foundation on August 26 2024 from 7:00
am. to 5:00 pm at fidler F Country Club and last and on premise 5050 raffle to benefit home h of Somerset County Inc on September 28th 2024 at
428m located at plin Presbyterian Church any questions or comments regarding those permits apples seeing none take a motion to approve so move second all in favor I thank you and let's
see Miss Ray has uh Mr Roden or anyone else Jo I email Mr rhen um I did email him to let him know the zoom is back and running so we want to wait till the end that's fine if so if everyone's okay with that we'll
sure just continue and come back to uh public comment in just a bit so let's go to monthly report discussion by subcommittee chair committee St thank you mayor good evening everybody on
DPW um reports uh our generator project is continuing to proceed along um our Roofing uh project is getting ready to go to bid that should be done fairly soon um we continue to clean up from the storms obviously we're doing Network
we've installed new air conditioners in the police department um and then we've got what a timeline in for the sewer plant uh renovation and then of course over ring all of that is the news that uh our DPW
director Kevin Murray is going to be leaving us taking a position with one of our neighbors and certainly understand it we'll get into it more later but obviously Kevin big big loss for us um very happy for you um it's a feather in your cap so you know wish you all the
best we'll do more later but I think it's important everybody knows that so we we're going to have some shoes to fill uh you know trying to get that position filled but uh we more to come on that obviously again um congratulations to you Kev thank
you um as far as HBC we got a meeting coming up so I'll give you a more substantive meeting update excuse me at the next meeting and that's all I've got okay U so while we're on public works so Kevin I I know that um that little five
minute Windstorm that hit us um took down some trees closed some roads I just wanted just do a quick recap I know we had um Wildwood was closed Black River was closed poor was closed and um was it Union Grove long
Lane long Lane in my yard in your yard yeah my yard I got a couple down trees okay and all in all uh so you're the DPW was out from 8:00 yep so there was five of us out
from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. and then two of us stayed from 1 to 3:30 the next day so uh yeah there's a lot of trees down that second gust that came through that's why I held another person and then we him and I stayed and uh took
care of another one that came down in Black Black River was was like the the center point for us unfortunately you know yeah we did a lot of trees down in Far Hills as well well so um DPW the crew was out you know from
overnight and um you know for some of those Road clearings you know it's a matter of moving trees on others for other situations it's not just moving the trees but it's coordinating with jcpnl to uh depower the lines that are
down because you'd not move in the trees when you got a wired in there um so that took a couple days the last road that was cleared was um was that Fowler or was that uh uh Wildwood I believe was actually the last road but Wildwood was yeah so fer unfortunately the telephone
cable company like to say that they're not treating removal experts so anything on their lines that are instructing the roadway or it ends up being the responsibility of the township so the township had the contract out uh to Richie's Tree Service um which is State contract vendor and they came out uh
within 24 hours actually and removed the tree so we can get fir trucks emergency vehicles passable through fer okay well yeah makes it very difficult to manage look as the years are going on we're seeing more and more severe weather it's you Knowle war zone the next day so
thank you guys for all your hard work thank you um we were very fortunate that we were able to catch up with a contact from jcpnl and they were kind of moving along with us so they were pulling the lines certifying everything was dead and then we were able to at least push it off to get roads open quicker so I'm very fortunate to you know work with JC
all of that well thank you to you and your Crews for getting out there so quickly and and staying through the night to get everything back up so thank you and HPC um to next month
okay hickey thank you mayor good evening all uh Board of Health a board host of the folks from The ruers Cooperative at their most recent meeting they had an extensive discussion regarding the types of nutritional programming that the board would like to pursue with the ruter team the board will be sponsoring
a series of workshops in the fall topics including healthy eating cooking with herbs and stretching your dollar at the grocery store so dates and times will be announced on that one uh County Health Department also joined us this past Saturday at the farmers market they were there to build awareness and get some
information out to Residents and speaking of County Health they are pursuing accreditation with the public health Advisory Board as part of that process they hosted a series of focus groups that involved elected officials administrators and board members from across the county I'm happy to report
that Bedminster was well represented in addition to myself we had our board secretary Janine Delon and board member Marie sperber on those calls to contribute our thoughts so so when you say from across the county so 21 what 21
municipalities 21 yes so simerson County Department of Health is running this accreditation program yes and so three Bedminster particip correct how many total participants uh probably about seven okay all right Far
Hills was number four okay good so Bedminster was well represented and we did share with them our thoughts I will tell you that much good yes yes and uh just a heads up on a new app that we may want to assess from a public health and policy perspective
it's called swimply swimley This is an app that like Airbnb allows you to rent private spaces particularly Swimming Pools by the hour so it's just again something that
we need to assess from a safety and public health perspective is you can go online right now and you can look at your neighbor's pool and see if you want to rent it for an hour so it's just something we need to consider and what was the uh the angle from the health department or what were the concerns
being and and by the way was this uh being reported from from the county from the county yeah County let us know about this and you know people are scratch their heads like wow that's new and just because you can do it on a nap doesn't mean it's best idea in the world particularly when you think about spreading communicable dis diseases or
anything like that so they just want some time to think a little bit more about it so just a little FYI so obvious obviously you do you're doing that at a pool you don't know if the pool is being maintained properly whether it's got safety fencing and everything right are the insurance companies being I'm sure
they're not I'm sure they're not any aware of anything about this there was some uh interesting reactions on the board yes so as you can imagine and mayor that's all I have okay thank you thank you mayor good evening
everyone um jvh we had a meeting a couple weeks ago but they don't want to do too much until we settle the lease okay however they have they do have the um next fall School group day plan that'll be attended by Manville in the morning and The Willow School in the
afternoon um weekend Journey Through the P which is more of a county thing um that we're involved in every year on Saturday the 12th there are plans and Sunday the 13th um there's music um impersonators um they're working on
getting other vendors so that weekend is something we should put on our calendars great and that's about all I have for them M okay committee woman fernandz thank you mayor um so the RO department is you know in full swing with camp but doesn't mean it's too early to start
thinking about fall our uh paperwork for Fall Fest has gone out to sponsors and vendors and um so we'll you know get a a an early move on with a Fall Fest
which is you know in October and otherwise um that's all I have for you guys I was talking to uh Neil Master buono at the farmers market he said Camp is full Up full full up and yes there
were some late comers who as anticipated um missed the deadlines but Neil made accommodations to uh to fit those in so sounds like um this may be I want to say record-breaking but it does sound like the participation at uh at
Camp adminster is just terrific so uh well done to everyone on Rec um there was no lus board meeting uh there's no lus board meeting this week um the next one will be in week and a
half uh we'll consider there's one application regarding fence yeah fence or deck fence or deck and then there's the uh consideration of uh the master plan
consistency review for lot coverage um ordinance that we discussed uh that we introduced last week um and I believe there might be a d variant before the zoning board that you and I are not
eligible for uh Farmers Market uh just another another tremendous um Saturday at the farmers market 11222 exactly 11:22 um and that was with uh the
forecast touting rain rain rain and there was no rain a little bit of Cloudy um but you know from our experience we know that even forecast um will depress some of these numbers but 11:22 is just um for
cloudy June day was was tremendous so it's great to see the uh Community coming out and once again just tremendous compliments about the um about the vendors about the parking
situation about U about providing that opportunity for folks to get together so um who helps put that together again say uh thank you um that's all I have for my
subcommittees M Ray may I please have the administrators I'm yes mayor so we started our uh the employee walking challenge startup again this year just want share um we are about halfway complete with that um we have uh it's an
8we employee Step Challenge we have 31 partes Spence across all of our departments and uh the objective is to get about 10,000 steps with a total of 560,000 by the time we're all done or um 280 miles which is a lot so and you are
where in this is there is there an active um as of today as of going into this meeting I was in first place but I will tell you Neil's in second surpassed me tonight after his workout he just runs around circles at the farmers
market but anyway um so we have Robin we're not moving off that yet so we know your personality we know um the competitive nature and um we anticipate that Neil won't be in first for long that's true
that's for sure um we also had employee contest uh employee film location contest we our winners were uh Sergeant Jeff btry who was just here for um identifying God's acre F burying ground and also Steve D for um nominating the
somerset airport to our list of public venues to visit um they each got gift cards to penetar for lunch so um the micro birst storm that occurred last Wednesday uh June 26 Kevin and his guys were phenomenal through the night all
hours the next day they were you could just see the looks on their faces they were just Energizer bunnies going at it and um Kevin suggested a special uh you know drop off day which occurred last Saturday um but Public Works continues
to take brush Monday through Friday from 7 to 3:30 in the morning if anybody's interested in dropping that off um with regard to it I'm pleased to announce that our um our CCTV project is complete town hall and the police department with
DPW is almost 85% complete so that means we'll have C security cameras out the full campus which is fantastic um we are doing conducting the archaeological study um at River Road uh Park Community Garden site which which will begin at the end of this month just so you know
if you see some activity out there so the archaeological survey is the end of July the it's it's supposed to be the end of July ju that's correct so that's when they're actually doing the started for June 30th but now it's been pushed back a little bit so
um and this is a requirement from the state before we move forward with the community garden just to make sure that um everything is okay so we're doing our due diligence and um I'm working with New Jersey American right uh water right now as a followup to our meeting that we had
with New Jersey americ and water on the repeater shed agreement which helps to um broadcast all of our emergency Transmissions to boost up the signal so we're getting closer on that agreement John Bardo and his team have already reviewed that agreement we've made some changes um that we've suggested now it's
in New Jersey American Waters Court to um fix that um HR we have a department head meeting tomorrow morning 9:30 a.m to kick off our um 2024 uh performance reviews and um Now's the Time we're working on the tax insert we're almost
done and um various ordinance that we're actually working on uh this is a good time of year when people are on vacation and kind of tackle a lot of those things that we haven't been able to such as the alarm ordinance um reciprocal construction inspection service ordinances um there's a new lead
inspection ordinance and firetruck driveway access and that Ines my report okay thank you thank you Chief um I know that we do have the Renee and I have the meeting with um Hills Highlands Master next week
we'll have officer Rivera Rivera okay it's Rivera who's coming with us any other um comments you like to make regarding community policing efforts uh yeah uh Congressman Tom Kane Jr started a program this year called law
enforcement Hometown Heroes to highlight law enforcement stars in the community throughout his district and Lieutenant Tom PLO was chosen and recognized for all of his efforts with the community policing initiatives that he put in place here in bminer so I would like to congratulate him for
that he's not here he's not here for us to have him properly embarrassed by the recognition correct next time he's in we'll get him all right that's so that's tremendous recognition for lieutenant PLO awesome who along with Chief
Bernardo is a prime proponent and implementer of our community pleasing efforts so uh well done and great recognition for lieutenant PLO we um are have no ordinances to
introduce tonight we do have um one public hearing for one ordinance and that is ordinance number 202 24006 this ordinance establishes regulations and permit requirements for filming throughout
Bedminster Township M Ray um yes mayor so this is something we've been working on as part of the New Jersey um film ready initiative in partnership with the county um we put together um an ordinance based on a template TW tweaked a little bit for
Bedminster um we have a permit application that we put in place a location agreement and this is the ordinance that um guides uh possible uh film producers to bed lers
process so I'll take a um motion to open the public hearing for ordinance number 20246 so move to Second all in favor thank you okay so Robin can you just run us through the
tweaks that you would have made to the um to the model ordinance um yes of course I didn't bring all my backup for that today um but
um so one of the things we tried to see what the other municipalities in our area were actually charging for the permit fees and we also um so we're consistent with what all the other municipalities are charging there's a daily rate um for the public places this
is has to do with public venues um we did make sure that we put our police rates in there um we also made sure that the timing the turnaround time for the permit application from when someone submits an application to approval is
Swift because a lot of these times these people come in last minute we also made um the township committee have the final approval so by and by adopting the ordinance um what does that provide us with respect to um
whether it's the state initiatives or the county initiatives so we're following the ordinance that's the state guideline um please just submitting someone into the meeting um we're following the state which um the county
follows the states as well so it's a mirror so by following this this puts us on a list of short list of municipalities that for producers or location um agents that are looking for sites this way they know that Bedminster
is film ready and that they're going to come in here they're going to know exactly what they need to do uh to get the permits and approvals what those fees are going to be and that they can also coordinate with the municipality in
identifying uh locations I should also add to Mayor that um some one of the other items that we did change or identify was students student filming we made that to be just a small amount small feed and um not very difficult
process and also family films sometimes people are filming some of the other towns are pretty rigorous with their rules we just want to make sure that if someone's you know filming with their child outside that that's not an issue so we spelled that out inance okay any other further questions
or comments for Miss R regard or from the township committee to miss Ray regarding the ordinance if not we'll open up to the public uh for comments regarding the film Readiness ordinance Mr R that was a wave of the hand not
necessarily uh just okay so if there are no comments or questions from the public take a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance number 2024 006 still moved second all in favor I I
and take a motion to approve ordinance number 24006 so move second roll call vote Please Mr Stevenson hi Mr hickey hi M moresi hi
Miss Fernandez hi and may Jacobs hi thank you we have one two three four items on the consent agenda any member of the township committee want to pull any of those off for individual consideration yeah seeing none take a
motion to approve the items on the consent agenda so moved second call vot please Mr Stevenson Mr hickey hi M morski hi M Fernandez hi and mayor Jacobs hi thank you I will note that one of the
resolutions on the consens agenda points uh Dr Andy Chang to the Board of Health um Dr Chang is a dentist bed resident and um I believe his wife is the incoming PTO uh president for uh bedm
school so um congratulations to uh Dr Chen for joining the board of heal take a motion to approve the bill list pending review of individual invoices so move second roll call vote again please Mr
Stevenson I Mr hickey i m moraski i and um Miss Fernandez hi and mayor Jacobs hi thank you and chief gots some State Police sir oh hi oh no go to Delicious Heights he did
it it's right up here no they know where Delicious Heights is well we think that's where they're at okay before we go to new business Mr Roden we uh save public comment uh for you to uh
rejoin the zoom session after our little uh glitch earlier so we will now open this microphone and the zoom for public
comment let's start here any member public in person have a comment Mr Rhoden has his hand up Mr Ren you just need to unmute uh oh can you unmute him Robin I I I asked
him to unmute I can't unmute him okay I just unmute we can't hear you so there's an unmute button that should be on the bottom left of your screen Mr roaden yeah tap on the screentime you're
on an iPad it's like be on a phone it's a little different it is yeah it's not working I'm reading you want to call my phone and I can put it up to the microphone and you have my cell phone number now and I can put it up to the
microphone I'll pass okay that was lip reading I was like wow you got that okay yeah I did I got that good look these abilities we didn't even know about yeah all right we'll catch you next time thank you thank you thank you m
thank you Mr Roden thank you is any items for new business consideration and we'll run through old business do improvements still nothing out of um
dot on the crosswalk at at uh 206 in lington um utilities commit hickey thank you mayor um obviously we've covered jcpnl so I don't think we need to talk more about that unless Kevin has something he'd like to add and addition Alti I just want to note the customers are be beginning to order the new Fiber
service in the five neighborhoods where it has now been installed I have been working with representatives from several the homeowners associations as well as the Alti field operations team to help ensure things are running smoothly and to iron out any issues that may arise as customers start to order
that service um do not have any additional updates above and beyond that okay um Kevin PSG and um old Stonehouse uh yeah they're still working they's been in and out on that project I'm not sure they originally seemed like they were just going to power through U some
of it's in Ran I believe once they that's to completion they will be reaching out to the homeowners to figure out metor locations okay on the structures and then they'll be running the lines um something I missed for Comm seon falls under utilities uh the street light inventory I apologize for not
texting about this uh our crews will be starting next Monday the 8th well the uh I'll have two employees working on alternate or other alternating schedules there's four employees that volunteered for second shift almost so they'll be
working from 11:30 to 10 pm this will allow them to continue on regular Public Works functions mowing grass weed whacking um working on vehicles what have you uh during normal daylight hours um and they'll be working 410 Monday through Thursday and then in the evenings they'll be able to go out and
GPS uh the street lights in each of the developments the uh we had training last week all my employees went through it's very user friendly super uh super easy for them to understand it takes about 30
seconds to get each point for each light um with that there's some data inputs that we put in that are like a drop- down menu on the back end so everything's ready it really should hopefully go quickly um you know we we're planning 48 weeks for this project I don't see it going further than that
so we'll put a rave out just so people are aware that you know we'll have residents out when it's see DP they'll be in DPW Vehicles yes y um we'll have our I'll make sure they have their lanyards with their with their IDs um but we figured 10 o'clock we don't want know our
employees out later in the communities later than that so and will they be also be taking photos of each of the um posts themselves because I know in the past we've had some the issue about
inconsistencies and some of the neighborhoods for for one type versus another type so we not we all have the same at this point are we all dealing with the same pictures themselves no there's there's peace meals throughout the entire Hill the burners Township has
different lights than we do now from what they've changed over to um same with all the some of the associations um there's inconsistencies but you know we also changed ours because it was significantly cheaper um with our last Capital purchase very similar but a little bit different U the big thing is
one how many street lights are in each area um because we reimburse based off street lights and then is are they operational is it high pressure sodium bulb or is it led those are those are the key points and everything will maap to a GIS map which will'll be able to pass on to Paul Ferraro's office and
he'll be able to do an entire map overlay so okay which we haven't done in 30 years correct so we could be reimbursing for street lights that were taken out you know 20 years ago and we're just reimbursing for the same number so okay thank
you plugman Park Housing uh John blardo Doug Stevenson any updates um update just the sense that we communicated with um the ownership about the issues and there's now a dialogue going on with our zoning um officer so we're working on
some long-term and some short-term fixes so we're starting to get some traction and Doug when you say issue uh the issue is um uh Property Maintenance related correct okay and and code and code code
okay and serson Hills Public Safety Committee meeting uh we have not had a meeting since our last Township committee meeting and Robin when is our next if you recall when our next um on July 18th I want to say the
Thursday 19th it's after our Township commit 15 and I believe by then trying to think when Bridgewater bridge will be complete Bridgewater will be complete or should be complete subject to the
vote okay that it we do not have an executive session tonight we'll run through Township committee comments and then we will adjourn for our first meeting of July Comm Stevenson thank you mayor uh just want to Echo your comments about
Sergeant vry um nothing really to add I thought you covered it well but just want to go on record and says I EO your thoughts um congratulations to Lieutenant PLO and um next meeting they'll have more comments directed to
that gentleman over there who deserves a lot of thanks we will and uh we'll send him off with the act that he deserves he doesn't he doesn't embarrass as easily as some others but we will we will do our best that's right Kevin seriously
congrats to you um and you'll be sly missed but you know you do what's right for you um that's all I've got thank you will there be a roast I just no roast you know we'll shower him in Praise okay easy enough to do Comm hickey thank you
mayor just again congratulations to sergeant vry lieutenant PLO and yes Kevin I'll save my comments till next time look forward to it but yes and thank you for all you did for the residence over the last several days and last week I mean it seems like every day we have another storm I mean and yes
lights been flickering with jcpnl but fortunately the outages were not extended but a lot of that has to do with the work that you've been doing so thank you so what you're saying is those folks looking to move to a town where they have excuses not to go to work we're not for you yeah right thank you committee woman the
thank you Mary again my congratulations to Sergeant vry welcome to the family um in a little higher position congratulations Kevin and it has been such a joy to work with you all we have to do is mention that we think something might be going on over here and you fix
it we don't even have to say much more than that and we've always appreciated how uh how easily you you've done stuff for us so we will miss you terribly but congratulations I'm last yes the same same H thank you
congratulations to Sergeant Bel and to Lieutenant fita that's exciting news wonderful news and thank you Kevin and all your DPW for all your work you know whether it be earthquakes or floods or S thunderstorm wind I don't know what that
was that we had you guys always take care of everything and snow thank you so farmers market and farmers market for fixing everything up at our Parks um once again congratulations to Sergeant vry uh and
for those looking to further embarrass Lieutenant PLO who embarrasses a little more easily um Chief Bernardo posted a picture of him on um bed release uh Facebook page which I encourage everyone here to um repost
and share and put out as much as you can and um because I'm sure Lieutenant P would love to see his face everywhere and I think that'd be great uh happy 4th of July right and with that
at 7:56 Kevin I'll get you at the next meeting I'll take a motion to adourn for the evening move second all in FA thank you and good night happy happy fourth like that bye Mr sorry it didn't
work out good night good night Chief good