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All right. Um first item on the agenda of which we are very proud. I will turn it over to our chief to uh let us know what uh the good news. >> So uh tonight I have Mr. Harry Delg from the state chiefs of states and talk to me about accreditation. um something
we've achieved after running the 10-year process. Thankfully, with the support of the council, and I think Al would remember me coming and begging for money and saying, "I need or should work for this because I thought it was important." Um when I became chief in 2022, um we had a really nice set of
standards. They were good and a lot of them were really good, but I didn't want good, I wanted great. And I figured the way to get greatness was to um implement accreditation pockets and developed a set of standards in our younger officers. So we had a clear set of uh policies and procedures to follow. So
without further ado, I'll bring up Mr. Delano um to make his presentation. And I just want to make one last little statement um council if I don't get a chance. Jeff was our accreditation manager of the tenant. He did a fantastic job and Doug Seals who was our records clerk who I since retired a
former police officer. He did a great job of helping out too. But it's a whole department effort effort. Um, but compared to Jeff and I stand on the X podium over to the X.
>> So the X the X is here. >> How do you do this? Cool. >> This is good. >> We want everyone to see you. >> I appreciate being introduced program and I just I'm here to tell you confirm what the chief just said that
your expenditures were worthwhile. Um but uh in seriousness privation um just to add some context what I'm about to say uh the uh out of all the agencies in the state of New Jersey there's only 600 that will be eligible to participate in
this program only about 54% made successfully at least once and that is because it's a very rigorous process police department today u last um hearing uh became actually credited and became part of that elite group along
appointment agencies that have achieved accreditation. So if you invoke for two minutes, I'd like to share with you more detail basically what the progress is about. The the Burnersville Police Department has made a commitment to adhering to best practices at the state and national level and highly regarded statewide law enforcement accreditation
program. This program administered to the New Jersey state association of gifts of police and the New Jersey law enforcement accreditation commission has helped to transparently demonstrate the professionalism, transparency and preparedness law enforcement agencies and the state's public safety system.
Now doing thisly challenging content you just mentioned before and the threat to our health and safety encouraging law enforcement agencies to follow standardized practices and policies. This is potentially life-saving and cost effective investment of common resource. Now, accreditation status represents a
significant professional achievement not just for your police department, but every officer that was involved in this process, every officer that of your department. This prestigious accredited status demonstrates Chief John Rein's firm commitment to state and national standards and the continued expectation
for quality, professional, and ethical policing at the Burnersville Police Department. Now accreditation provides an objective evidence of an agency's commitment to excellence in leadership, resource management and service delivery. Government officials can be more confident in the agency's ability to operate efficiently meet community
needs. And as I mentioned before, consisting accredited agencies can take pride that they have been objectively recognized for the professionalism adherence to the highest standard just at the end of that process that you mentioned two year that regular process there's analite inerson assessment that
is made. We actually look to make sure that this 100% compliance over 112 imagine that is there more than 180 items of compliance proofs of compliance. out of that before I just paraphrase and close on the chief John
Rean high level of competence leadership and professional intimacy is everyone in the agency or the future issues deal with the influence of social media and new behavior officer recruitment and retention upgrading radio equipment resources for staffing equipment and training or changing demographics the
Bernersville police excuse me and Bernersville the Bernardville police department will continue to look forward to commitment to following best practices a prepared plan and and a verification of excellence. Though it is the opinion of the assessment team, certainly I concur that the Bernardville Police Department is a highly
professional and committed agency which exemplify all dependence of law agencies at the state and national level. So indeed it's my honor tonight on behalf of the New York City association fully and uh to congratulate you a manager Lieutenant Jitzki the members
of the Bernardville police department the mayor of the council and those citizens that so proud to serve for having achieved their credit in joining a very exclusive law enforment agency in San New Jersey that have made this commitment to act so to all of you can places with lots of humidity.
Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. I got it. Thank you. Um our next presentation um for those of you that may know in September um Main Street Burnersville and the
Summer Central Rotary got together and put on Taste of Our Town which were first time attempt I think it was a a great success. some of the >> big winner. >> The goal of that was to raise money for
the fire company which um way back before co um chamber used to do but since that hasn't happened anymore um these two groups took it upon themselves to step up and fire department. So I
thought I saw Harrison and so um you Marlo is the president Main Street and John you want to come up is the president of the Rotary
and Harrison is the president of the heart So >> and yeah, the fact that for those that don't know, I think everybody here does that our fire department are all volunteers. >> Yeah. >> So they do this amazing job just because
they're passionate about what they do and they're giving them time alone. It's amazing what the man is. So we are >> the amount here is $6,528 of Bay Street.
>> Thank you very much. Detective articles. Thank you very Yeah, >> we will be able to out one firefighter with park pants, coat, helmet, and an air pack to go into a fire save building
with this money. So, thank you very Thank you very much. I think one one of the things we've been finding as you know our Um, a lot of our service groups members are dropping and finding it's really useful to combine
them and work together and do partnerships. They're not really really keep things moving volunteer as well. Thanks to them. All right. Third thing we have third pillar solar who we're going to talk
about community sol they're doing. So, you know, you can you need that. >> You want the phone? >> Well, I guess stand by the next presentation.
Thank you. >> Yeah, absolutely. So, a lot of presentations being pulled up. I'm Ned Horner. I'm the vice president of development at Thirdpillar Solar, responsible for our community scale developments across the country. >> And I'm Nicole, the program development
manager for this project. Um, and I'm responsible for many of our features. Great. >> And um, yeah, so we just wanted to come here and and share a little bit about this project. We recognize that for most of the places that we go with the floating community solar project, both
of those are are new concepts for a lot of these municipalities. So, we really just wanted to have this as an informal uh introduction and overview of the company, the technology, and uh what we're looking to do here in the room.
>> So, Third Pillar Solar is a relatively small team. We're small but mighty that you can see the full team on that slide in the picture. About 20 people. Uh we've been around since 2022 and um we uh we all come from different facets of
the renewable energy industry and collectively actually now have well over a thousund years of uh combined renewable experience and have been responsible for deploying over 5 gawatt of projects across the country from you know very large utility scale projects
in Texas to small projects in uh places like Westchester County And third pillar is um backed by a uh a global private equity fund called Lenture Capital. They specialize in what
they call the energy transition. So um primarily renewable energy uh companies and technologies like ourselves. Uh the Glenro team primarily has a background in uh in doing offshore wind uh that I think has recognized that the tide is turning if you will and that having more
distributed local power is uh better for the communities that it serves. So they they invested in us um about two years ago in 2023 so that we are essentially set up to uh not just develop these projects but also own an outbreak them long term as well.
And this is just a quick snapshot of where Third Pillar Solar is active today. U the vast majority of our community scale projects are concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. So those those highlighted states >> Exactly. Yeah. And uh and and really
where the the favorable solar legislation is as well. And then our our larger utility scale projects that make up the bulk of those numbers are down in Texas, in Colorado, and out in California. >> One early project that we like to highlight because it has um some some
name brand value is uh the project that we're doing at the Miller Kors Brewery out in Golden, Colorado. What you can see there is the the pilot scale deployment that we completed last year. uh this will be followed by a much
larger uh 70 or 80 megawatt deployment uh in about two years from now. But this was really a test to prove that this technology can withstand the harsh winters on the front range of Colorado and it is withtood heavy snowfalls and tripledigit wind speeds. So we're we're
moving full full speed ahead there. So, we just wanted to take a minute to kind of talk through loading solar and what it is because it's kind of a seemingly new concept that not too many folks maybe know so much about. And I know uh we hear about solar all the time, but not necessarily electricity on
water. People get a little concerned about something like that. Uh so, I'll just start by highlighting the legend where you can see those items that are highlighted in orange are just typical standard equipment that's used for solar projects. So you have the panels, inverter, transformer, the combiner box,
things that we're all familiar with. But the things that are a little different here for the floating portion of this are the moing lines and the anchoring. So the anchoring is typically a concrete block that could either sit at the bottom of the reservoir or it could be bank anchored. So go around the banks of the quarry. We also have the floats. So
these actually hook in kind of like Lego pieces. And there's an appendix slide that we have in this uh presentation as well. We'd love to take a look. But you build these kind of like Lego pieces and you stick the panel onto the float and stack them and space them out as much as we'd like just depending on the body of
water and the considerations of that water body. Um but just to highlight the the anchor moing portion um the moing is typically done with an elastic mooring um that can handle up to 150 mph wind speeds. Um, and so kind of how Need was talking about our horse project, that
was a really big concern that we had out in Colorado that we're now testing and making sure that that's a real real thing that they can really withstand that sort of stuff. But um, plastics are typically made with food grade plastic. That's what the um that's whats are made out of. Um, and the panels themselves
are typically made from glass, 99% silicone. So there's no bleaching, there's no chemicals that can go into the water body. And so now, how does this impact the Burrow of Burnersville and how can people benefit from this? And so the few different opportunities we have here is
the guaranteed bill savings. So this particular project that we're thinking about doing is going to be with New Jerseys EPU's community solar energy program uh whereby folks can subscribe, folks that are in JCPNL specifically can subscribe to the project and receive up
to a 30% that's estimated to be 30% discount. Right now, New Jersey BPU is working on uh rolling out their next set of what we believe is going to be a gigawatt or several gigawatts of um capacity for this program. Um and at that point, they will establish the
discount, but we've heard that it's estimated to be about 30% for those residents. Um in addition, just generating local and clean renewable energy to help advance the thorough comprehensive master plan goals. Um and sorry additionally protecting the
conservation of local land. So maintaining the integrity of the nature uh the nature and the natural land that we have here in the burough burn itself um by under by using a former quarry in just instead of taking away farmland. Um we typically see the traditional solar
development. Uh and lastly just providing affordable energy. Um, one of the one of the highlights of the community solar program in New Jersey is providing affordable energy specifically for lowincome households. So, while you can customize your subset of subscribers, there's a big focus and
emphasis on providing um lower energy for uh for those fips as well. >> A few other points I'll add on that slide as well. We understand that there are some affordable housing developments that are are either in construction or planned here and we'd be very open to figuring out a way to to partner with
them to ensure that as many of the subscribers for this project as possible are based here in Burnsville. Um and uh 51% of the capacity for the project must be subscribed by low-inccome um uh
low-inccome subscribers. Um yeah. said 51 >> 51% of their passengers. >> And so the last slide that we have here for you is is of course the um the query that we have in question that we're
working through and trying to figure out if um yeah this is this a good place for our projects. So um we've had some initial discussion with JCP now about capacity. So the way this works and the way that solar projects work in general, you just have to see if the capacity is there in order to actually develop it. If there's no capacity then you can't do
it. Um sometimes those interconnection costs can be quite high. Um and us as the developers, we front that cost and so um if costs are in the quadruple millions, we certainly can't afford that and then the project dies um and then of course sell on just depending on project economics. And so we received some
favorable results from JCPL and that um the costs are reasonable and they're within the market for uh for making those upgrades in order to interconnect. And actually on top of the clip here, you can you can't really see um but the substation, so the line that directly connects to the substation that is quite
close by. Um so not too much needs to be done to uh to be able to interconnect here. Um and this is of course a very preliminary layout of what it might look like. And of course it would just be this black square that we've drawn on top of this water body. A little much nicer than this. Um but it kind of shows
you that you have like the the um floating equipment that goes on the water and then onore equipment that would come on the side of the quarry um and then just connect and have a point of interconnection on the pole line that goes along the road there um just after rip wrap road.
>> So the people that own the quarry >> Yes. >> You would you have a contract with them and lease it? >> That's right. We have a long-term lease in place with them for uh for that that space out in the water. >> And do they get any of those savings? >> They can also opt in that anyone with a
JCPNL account can opt in to subscribe to the project and we expect that a number of them will. Um we know that there's a few that are very strongly supportive of this. Uh it's an owners association so there's folks back there. Um but and then there will also be long-term
leading associate. Hi, thanks for the presentation. Very interesting. Um the third uh pillar will continue to own facility. In other words, right, you own and operate it and you have to guarantee your JCPL to actually buy electricity when you owners do the zones. That's basically the economics.
>> Yeah, that's exactly right. >> Okay. >> And so it was it was the JCPNL policy that's suggesting 51% of that optin. >> That's actually a DP policy. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So that's from the state level um community solar program. Then those bags
would be handed down in the mean at least machines. >> Um there any impact seasonal impact to it like changes in light or winter storms or >> it certainly produces a lot less power in the wind. >> Yeah. Um
yeah that's comes with the territory here. But there's no concerns about snow or ice at least in terms of the amount that you would see >> or damaging it in. I don't think they pour it freeze. >> They worry about that.
>> It is quite deep. It's deep. I don't know. >> Why did that specific location is it just the size of it given the um conception the artist conception right there or is it elevation? I'm just interested why it could >> Yeah, that's a really great question. It has more to do with the grid
infrastructure around there than anything that it's uh a very hard place to build other solar projects. there hasn't been that you know you're actually not allowed to build a ground launched solar project anymore as part of the New Jersey community solar program but for the first few years that
it was running that that was the case and there was a lot of pressure from you know on uh using a land and so given the uh the location there and the the grid capacity that's really what what we identified and the fact that it is an industrial site that you know doesn't
have any viewshed concerns doesn't have any recreational use no public access really check all the boxes of exactly the type of water body that we look for when we go try to find these water bodies across the country. >> We just want to put this stuff in the right places, right?
>> Yeah, that's question. Sorry. There are other um communities locally that have a similar project. I thought I saw one. >> Yes. So the Burough Sville was first to uh to deploy floating solar in New Jersey. That was back in 2017.
I say that project's been there for a while. That's actually in a drinking water reservoir and is uh is powering the on-site treatment plant. And then a few years later, New Jersey American Water uh put out an RFP for a project at the Can Brook Reservoir in Milbour. Uh
that's actually the largest community, sorry, the largest floating solar project in the country. It's also not a community solar project and it's that's also powering their on-site treatment plant for their their drinking water. >> Thank you. You know, still
>> anyone else? Yeah. Well, thank you for the >> I guess I guess what's the next step? you guys are still doing your assessment and analysis to see if it is financially feasible. What's the timing on that? >> It's a great question. So the the next we with the preliminary results that we've recently received from JCPNL, uh
we believe the project will be financially feasible and now we're going to conduct some basic surveys to understand, you know, what's there in terms of wetland resources or other concerns for NJ. And then we will kick off the permitting
process with the uh the burough planning board likely in February March time frame be our guess. >> Yeah. Good. Gina online. >> Yeah. Thanks everyone and sorry I'm not there in person but I appreciate the
overview. I just wanted to ask about the risks and downsides of putting in a solar project like this that you guys have encountered in the past for communities. >> That's a good question. Um, every water body is so different that um, it's it's
hard to generalize in terms of risks, but often the the risks that come up are around the location of these within either flood planes or areas that have um a lot of natural resources associated with the water body. So there be there are questions that come up about the
coverage and whether um you're going to cover enough that it would degrade the natural environment that's there. I think you know what we've looked at from preliminary data and again we're in very early stages of this we don't see those concerns that we'll say are there others
that you think you have >> I would say like um something that we're encountering is just a lot of these solar developers often don't engage the community in terms of fire departments or folks that should be involved in this sort of development and so what we're doing at a project that we have permitted um in in upstate New York is
working with the local fire department working with people locally so that they know um how to just how to manage these um not just to be left there. So a lot of the concerns just comes from local engagement. And so we're trying our best to kind of come here and explain these things to you and create programs for
other folks locally so that they feel supported too in terms of the maintenance and operation after it's done and the maintenance is what you do that you take care of. There a certain schedule of >> there is absolutely and we will have a
subcontractor who's based here locally who can respond more quickly than than you can as a national company. Um there will be I think bianual scheduled maintenance checks that are mostly focused on the anchoring and waring system because we have a lot of uh data that we don't need to do a physical
maintenance check on in terms of how the panels are actually operating. And then the other thing that we monitor closely is extreme weather. So, you know, in the unlikely event that a a major storm rolls through, we would have alerts set up to go out and do an ad hoc inspection
after, you know, a heart rate or some other type of major wind or storm event. >> Just because you mentioned a major event, are there any responsibilities in the bureau to maintain? >> Absolutely. >> No, no, not at all.
>> Thank you. Is it possible to see um the energy? You know, I think um when I worked in Chester, we had a a ground display >> and we could log on and see um how, you know, you see the energy being coming in
and it was great for the kids to learn about how these things work. And >> I don't know if that's you know, something that you could do for the public. That is definitely something that we could look into open sourcing the generation data off of this. Absolutely. Yeah, as I referenced, we will have all that data and I think it's
just about setting up a simple platform that people can walk in and see how many kilowatt hours this is. >> I think it would be a great educational tool. >> Yeah, I love that. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> that's anybody else. Thank you, Miss Thank you for taking the time to come and explain
all this to you. See you again in the future. We don't have any more questions or any residents or folks have any concerns with this. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. >> We have minutes to approve from October
20th and 107. Anybody motion? >> All second. >> All in favor? >> I think. >> Um,
we now have our first open discussion for an item set up for public hearing. So again, remember stand on the silver next. Anthony will do your present. >> So, uh I'm Brand. I'm the librarian
again. Um the uh our one page here about what's going on at the library just been updated. So, I shared the camp last year. Um big news is that we're in our meeting last Tuesday. We've approved our draft budget
and ask to start discussing that when you're in Able and the new year and when reorganizing and we've had some really great numbers especially since the renovation we examined just renovations to the end of October and our children circulation is
up 10% and our attendance is up 4% then things will impact both and also the community. So, I know that was like a really awkward time with my loan numbers. Um, but they've rebounded tremendously and things are going. So, if you guys have any questions for me
about um what's coming up and what we're doing and um our numbers so far, they're just for through October. Our graph of attendance is going really well. That's just through the end of last year and this year. I'm anticipating I hope you can mark up 100,000 you deserve but I
think >> you're at like 84 going up and up and up. >> And you're now open every night, right? >> Yeah, we're open Monday through Thursday um through 900 p.m. >> only open till 5:00 p.m. previously on
Thursday and Wednesday. And now with that extra time, we're seeing a lot of team use because it's after their sports practices. They're meeting projects. They really like the big dry erase boards to do math because they're doing it all on a Chromebook and they're not using paper
and spreading out all sorts of calculus all over. It's beautiful and they've been like every space on you know Tuesday through Thursday has been really busy. I I'm excited to see that. I didn't realize that you guys there's scanner
printer in coffers. So, I'm going like I'm at the library like three four days a week and going to like Mortown to do all that stuff. So, that's awesome. >> Sorry, you didn't know that. >> No, I thanks in chat. I'm glad I saw this. >> We years ago consolidated into one big
printer and we lease it so that we don't have to pay for the ink fluctuations. So the Sandy 15 that's also nice. What if they're plan to get the 100,000? Well, uh, maybe next year opens seven
days till 9 p.m. I really have a standard public library that is for library journal that you guys have at some time. But I think that our beautiful news >> Yeah. I will say personal experience
like if you don't get there early those little kiosks in the back are like they fill up. >> Yeah. >> Like they're they're packed but people are using those like these little little offices. keeping us updated. >> Bob 84. Um, couple of things. Portland, no
problem. I sent you a backgrounder on staller. No uh issues and concerns just it's a backgrounder help you understand projects and the technology and so forth. So enjoy that should be complimentary to their presentation. Uh
second thing is the the uh claremont stop signs at mine at the fiveway intersection. I just want to be sure um someone is not calling the mapping services that stop signs are going to be there
and they meet normal county may do it but at least have someone really check that when a stop sign goes there that the mapping services know it's there. Um the other thing is just think about whether what kind of stop sign you know should it have little lights on it you
know I don't know it's legal something that makes it stand out or they may have a sign that u says u stop sign ahead or something but once again I don't know what they're doing but we want to make
sure people don't run >> I know one of when they added this stop sign if you come down Claremont they enter to the men of road they had for a long time you know new traffic pattern watch new traffic pattern >> that could be an important thing but the
mapping service is important especially with bold full automatic drive and then uh the third thing is I sent you two emails a primary and a followup on the dam and I want to be sure that you are
asking I guess our engineers and your engineers to uh thoroughly cost out the canopy beer option since it's in the neighborhood of 300,000 to do the damn remediation.
Um it's really important um and it is kind of what you guys were asking for because there's something that could avoid these multi-million dollar uh initiatives. Uh there is and the uh industry standard for remediating this
dam is to use a piano key wear. Um it may need additional supports because balance it and so forth but that is the default standard. So the engineers need to start with that and then if they can't they need to explain to you why they can't use the industry standard to
remediate that dam which is this weird um they're kind of funny name. So, but they're they're basically I think what people need to understand is a little bit of the hydro hydro technology which is the amount of water that can pass
over the dam as a function of the cre of the dam which is 60 ft. But if you take 120 ft and you compress it into an accordion into 60 ft, it has that 120 ft of uh it has twice
the capacity. So a piano is even better than that. So it is the engineering standard and you need to go back look at what's being added to you for safety which is just the uh maximum flood
and the correct answer for that is you install a piano. It's only if they cannot do that for some reason they make a break that you would consider any other alternative. that. So, please follow up on that
because it's a lot of money and I kind of like to keep the lake, you know, I like to keep the name on the lake and so forth. So, I gave you all the details, rough estimates on the financials.
You can inflate it by New Jersey inflation. >> Yeah, we could do that. Thank you, Bob. Uh, anybody on a fair question? >> Yeah.
>> No. Okay. I think anybody else? We're good. I'll close the public session. Moving on to ordinances. >> What? >> Ordinances. I mean, my um
So I will open public hearings on ordinance 25 2030 authorizing 2026 salaries and age ranges charity employees of the burrow of Burville would anyone to be heard on this
ordinance just have a question um we try to mirror the burrow's cost of living adjustments So, as a percentage of work, you know, you'd like to know. >> Yeah, we're we're not there yet. I mean,
this is really just setting >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. We will keep you in the >> um seeing none, I will close the public hearing. >> Sorry. Y
>> I move to pass ordinance number 2025-2030 of the final reading and adopt as published. >> Second. Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Mr. River. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Trainer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Desina. >> Yes. >> I will open the public hearing on ordinance 2025 2031 appropriating the sum of $100,000 for the replacement of an SPR blower for the SW plant and
general capital items. Would anyone like to be heard on this ordinance? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. I mean to pass ordinance 2025- 2031. Final reading and adopt as
second. >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Mr. Trainer, >> yes. >> Mr. Ruth, >> yes. Mr. Rivero, >> yes. >> Yes. There it goes. Okay. I will open the
public hearing on ordinance 2025 2032 adding one new sergeant position in the police department and amending chapter 2 of the burl code entitled administration. Would anyone like to be heard on this? And this was a recommendation from the
chief. Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. >> Say I got the one. Yeah. I move to pass ordinance 2025-2032 upon final reading and adopt is published. >> Roll call please.
>> Yes. >> Sorry. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Trainer. >> Yes. Sina. >> Yes. >> We are now introducing ordinances. Um definitely
>> 25- 203 appropriating the summit $200,000 for connection of the WWTP to the NJ American Water Main introduced by title on first reading published according to law and a public hearing be
scheduled for meeting beginning at 700 p.m. Monday, December 15th. >> Right. Comments, questions, anything? I think we uh we talked about it last week. So, um all in favor?
>> All right. All right. >> Oppos. Okay. 17. I move that ordinance number 2025-20344 establishing a fiveway stop intersection at Claremont Roadmount roads drive intersection and supplements
and amending chapter 7 of the road code entitled traffic be introduced by title passed on first reading published according to the law and public hearing be scheduled for a meeting beginning at 700 p.m. Monday December 13, 2025.
Second. All in favor? I >> It's >> I have a delay from my side. Sorry. >> Um yeah, if we can just when we get to this um I think as I mentioned about there is a crosswalk missing there.
>> I think I think they're responsible. Yeah, we can have the five crosswalks and I'd love to have, you know, the blankie as we can have this on the stop sign. So, just to anyway, do I move the next one?
>> Let's see. I move that ordinance 2025-2035 replacing the burough special event ordinance and amending chapter 4 of the burough code entitled general licensing be introduced by title pass on reading published according to law and that public will be scheduled for the meeting
beginning at 700 p.m. Monday, December 13th, 21 Black. We got a second. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? And thank you, Jack, for your work on this. I know we made you go back and forth a couple of times and we'll
probably be going back and forth a few. >> Yeah. But um and I think you know we'll finally approve this that at some point we notify all the local groups that this is in place just so they're aware. >> Y
>> All right. Moving on to resolutions. We have 25 to 11 through 257. Any you want to pull out separately? I think we all these are pretty standard. Just a reminder 213 that's the farmers
market and main street. Um, yeah. >> Just those two things. >> Oh, you got a flyer. >> 6 to 10. >> 6 to 6 to 9. It should be >> Yeah, it doesn't matter. 6 to 8. It take
15 minutes, but it's >> that different from the lighting. Yes, the lightning is at 4 same day and then rain is at 6 time. >> Great. Um, >> I move the resolutions 25-21125-227
be >> roll call please. >> Yes. Mr. Trainer, >> yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. All right. Um, mayor's update.
Uh, everyone's up here. Um, I attended a a session that the business partners have hosted called powering tourism with local insights. Um basically the county logo and tagline will be where history
comes alive and um shop dining and stay in Somerset County. All the towns in Summers County have signed on to Rev NJ which is the 250th celebration which not a lot of other counties can take credit for. Uh the
other thing they talked about, the county has purchased a program called city data which will um allow us to track how many people come in and out of town on certain occasions, events. Uh we were
thinking it would be great for like the farmers market to know where people where they come from, how long they stay, and where they go when they need. Um, right now the county has it so we can't access it but we can them. So if
we give them a list of events, there's a special thing at the library. Um, if we have the holiday parade, we do different events during the year. We let them know when they are and they will then be able to track us and give us that data. So I
think it's they were hoping within a year that we will all have our own signs and could look it up ourselves but for now we have to ask them but it's kind of like placer AI which at some point we were looking to purchase and it's very expensive so this is nice that the county bought it and we had access to
it. Um I did a ribbon puddle. We have a new uh forever young in the Broadway suits on player. Um, I had a a league lunch and learn on the lane up legislation. A lot of it is pretty scary.
If you recall, we did the uh resolution last week for the one about the religious and nonprofits being able to do the inclusionary development with a pilot and don't have to pay attention to our
zoning laws. They can go extra stories, uh, 40 units per acre. So, we have opposed that one. Um, there's legislation about allowing ADUs, the accessory dwelling units. Um, there was another one to reduce parking
requirements within a half mile of the train station. Another one that we kind of like this one prohibits warehouses near historic districts, but there was there quite a few. Um, there's also one on stranded properties, which I don't think applies to us, but
if you don't have any little string walls that are kind of empty and sitting there that um then can be converted to mixed use if they're 50,000 square feet even more. >> Next question. >> Yeah. >> Do we know when the link session actually occurs? Like
>> it's now till December early basically. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So it could be any time >> and I don't to have been opposing it especially to one of the nonprofits organizations. I've seen a lot of articles in the paper of town hall
passing that resolution. I know the the league is lobbying against it. The conference of mayors is lobbying against it but >> we'll see where it goes. Um yeah had two weddings this month. It's a busy month
for weddings, but um we did the I think Rick, you were there, the tree dedication for Tony Jar out in front which was missing wife was here and we have a nice little marker for it. Um
I went to the celebration of life our former mayor Jim Williams and also the way for Nante life Kante was another amazing citizen that we had for many years who did a lot of good work for this community.
Uh Nancy and I had a meeting with the Highlands um folks about our application to join. We're now in the process of the center designation which I think as soon as the draft is approved we will share with everyone so you can all see uh what
Jessica has come up with in terms of what we're calling the center that is the developable area and then what's outside that is is preserved for um water and open space. I think she said, "Yeah, we were going
to do that." Um, they're going to do public outreach in March and April on that once the council and everybody signs a little bit. We had Main Street had a mixer at the Bernie. Um, I were there. Charlie, you were there, right? And then the next
night, the county, the uh business partnership had a mixer at the Bernie. >> Yeah. Uh I was at the the U League of Municipalities Conference this past week
and I um moderated a panel on the Senate Quinn Centennial. >> Otherwise known as the 250th. Um >> yeah. So Rev New Jersey, if you want to, it's Rev New Jersey.org or if you want
to look up what's going on statewide, um they are having a potluck, America's potluck on July 5th and encouraging towns to all do this on that same day to just have a gathering. People bring cultural foods and
whatever. So that was one thing they and they also are asking everyone to have a reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8th. They do have a traveling exhibit that we can borrow if we have a place to put it like maybe the library
um that we can borrow for up to two weeks. You know, they've got some great panels that set up. Um there was another one of the panelists is her goal is to reach generation Z because they are not really interested much in history. So to get them involved
in the 250th um it's called made by us. One of their great ideas that they're doing is creating a wish wall. So you put up somewhere whether it's Starbucks or the library or boral where people put
postits up of what's your wish for America's future which was kind of a cute idea. So just some ideas we can steal. The other uh one of the other programs I sat in on, those of you that know Chris Otto, I think he was on the
planning board briefly, his company um are I don't know what she described them as, but they do trends and market trends and is u so Jeb was kind of depressing actually, >> but I'll share some of those facts. 72%
of households in New Jersey are childless. 72 7 >> 72% of course and you know this the 55 plus age group is growing sentence of 50,000 to 100,000 of people
residents leave New Jersey every year we are the highest of any of the states of New Jersey of people leaving of 18 to 34 year olds 50% plan on leaving New Jersey within 10 there
and 43 is the average age of a first time homeowner in New Jersey. Just thought those were really interesting. I know. Yeah. So, just thought that >> Yeah. Um just one last thing, we're doing wreaths across America again at
St. Bernard Cemetery where uh it's a it's actually international. uh started with a company in Vermont who had extra wreaths and decided to put them on and veterans braves and now it's international day when all over the country we do
this. So our one cemetery St. Bernard's uh does it every year somehow I'm in charge of that. So, um, if you're interested in being there, we do a ceremony at 2:00 and then we have the Boy Scouts and whatever and
we go out and put wreaths on the graves of our veterans. It is the 13th at 2:00 p.m. and you can sponsor a wreath for $17. Um, I think I posted it on it's on Facebook, so if you want to look up to
where they I think I sent you all the invitation anyway. We're about 30 wreaths short of also um Athereia is the west state to order but and look really great picture
>> two years ago. Yeah, >> this is actually our fifth year of doing that. So um it started with St. East had that the traveling um you know they bring the big truck and you can walk through it at St. that and
somehow we got involved and you know we're doing but it's it's the veterans come the scouts come I think it's really a nice it's cold but we do it greatly and that's why I do it Nancy sorry
um my basically we heard it last week it was just update everybody on a couple new water projects um the water main extension out front and we're going to provide water to the north sewer plant and to the affordable housing um complex
across the street is complete. Uh that took place um at night of I think seven or uh working days. Um, and you passed or you introduced the
ordinance I think for $200,000 that hopefully is well more than what we need, but that is to connect our sewer plant to all of the uh to the extent that they just put in. Um,
New Jersey American Water has already familiar with did a lot of work on the border main there. um increases the size of it and it's a one and a half million project um next to be complete. So the
George water need to go under the railroad tracks um and uh come out on route 202 actually right by um the valley of the burners in um that is a project that will take
probably a month and a half. uh it will not start until January 5th, January 5th. So that we um do not have to start the holidays for the downtown shopping um because there will be quite a few
train station. Um there will be a big that they have to there big boy parrots. Um, wouldn't she be doing Yeah.
>> I'm so surprised to see that next. >> Yeah. um >> fully on >> part of part of the project uh that at some point will be 24 hours drilling um residence and businesses in that area
will be but anyway um we'll put that >> and they wanted to do it in December no >> I think >> yeah take away 20 different spots during
December Um okay. So the second project is um this the third this is not doing right order and this doesn't happen through
the summer but portions of Mount County that's going to take place over four nights again in the summer. Um based on what we said last week, I did email them that they be able to put in the sidewalk. Um I haven't got response
to that in the email. So I'll let you know that. And then we have our sidewalk project that should take place in the boil neighborhood at some point next year. Um
and then I did want to update you. We did talk last week about the work that we're going to do on the polar grounds um to put the ball up so that people aren't thriving uh on that area by the church field. Um there was concern um
about angle access. So we moved the location where the ballard will be so that the driver that goes directly to the field where this area will be completely
open the ball. That's a good idea. So, yeah, that's good. Answer about the what they were doing on that area. They were skipping a piece in the middle. >> Um I didn't get on that. >> Okay.
>> They're still waiting. Well, Bino was retiring. I think he's already may already be gone. So they're in the middle of changing engineers and flames or things. So >> but Matt Wilbur um so hopefully he will respond. I think
they probably call the other day. Thank you. Um, do I have a motion to accept the department monthly reports? >> I move to acception reports. >> All second. >> All in favor?
>> Opposed? >> Um, I don't think we have any other correspondence other than Bob's letter. Um, unfinished business. I did want to talk about the civility policy. Um Nancy had sent us all something she wanted to
add to the um employee handbook and I don't think you got any feedback on that. So I don't know if people remember what you said but >> was good. >> Yeah. >> So we can do that first and then go back to bits of the and I think we just had
an incident this week of someone being abusive. >> Yes. Yeah, they have unfortunate moral, >> you would think. Um, and it's >> Yeah. So, let's we'll get the policy
done first. I mean, yeah, the handbook and then we'll policy for >> you get to like like have like a bullet point version of it that we can like post. >> Yeah. Like where people like interact mostly with you know employees like just
sitting right there point to it. are going to miss our expectations. >> So the output and they turn it off at in December with the uh the great
unfinished business any business. Great. We have another open session if anyone feels the need for driving roads. Um the first question I had was for Nancy. Um
do we think the county might also be paving bridge and they just have >> Yeah. So there'll be kind of a there'll be multiple nights not just >> organized the night and there'll be others when they're doing something
that's good. Um the second thing is we there was a constructor suggesting I think for main street that the street might be closed uh that maybe 202 would be closed or for something for some one of the events you
were going to be 15 minutes. >> It's just 15 minutes. Okay. >> But they are >> in September the street fair. >> The street fair. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And did you know obviously about
the traffic? >> It's well it would only be between Claremont and the center of town. So then you could go up Claremont and around the other way. >> So Claremont traveling north would go up Claremont
and Mill. Right. Right. And then through the intersection. >> What about coming south to >> south? You'd have to go to mine map. >> It goes over to map. >> Yeah. Just wondering. Thanks.
>> Thank you. >> Anyone else? We're good. >> Uh do I have a motion for close session? >> Executives of executive session >> for contract negotiations and pending litigation. We will not be coming back
out. >> And it's really only 806. >> Somebody's looking at >> Yeah. I can stand on your shoulder, but we have to wear a pill. >> You need anything from us? You're good.
>> Just need a cookie. >> Okay. I