on. Oh, I didn't know. I don't wear glass, so I don't know. Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is the Buuna Vista Township Regular meeting, January 27th, 2025. We'll start with a roll call. Mr.
Krenzer is absent. Renard here. Mrs. Ta here. Mr. Williams here. Mayor Rajiri here. On January 7th, 2025, notice of this meeting was mailed to the Daily Journal and the press and duly posted in the main lobby of the municipal complex.
All requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act have been met in compliance with the Sunshine Law. I'd like to ask everyone to stand to salute the flag. Mrs. Test, will you lead us? Sure. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Approval of minutes. We have the regular meeting December 23rd, 2024 and the reorg meeting January 5th, 2025. Uh they
were done this afternoon and place in your folders if you wanted to take quick moment. Uh but they are complete. We need a motion and a second to approve our minutes. Motion to approve the minutes. Second. Roll call. Renard. Yes.
Ta. Yes. Williams. Yes. Rajiri. Yes. Announcements, presentations, discussions, there are none. Mayor's report. A few quick items. Good evening again. uh 27 days in so far and we've already uh got our our our plates full.
So um first and foremost uh myself and township committee attended uh the celebration of the life of Dr. King last Monday at the community center. Phenomenal event as always every year. The room was full wallto-wall. Uh it's a very eclectic event. Song, prayer, uh
poetry, little bit of everything. Phenomenal food, extremely well attended. So, I want to thank everybody that made that event possible, uh, namely the seniors of Newtonville. So, very great event. This is my fifth year attending and, um, if you haven't been, I encourage you to do next year.
Uh, moving on, the township has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the state of New Jersey to replace our existing salt shed at public works. Um, our existing structure is in total in complete disrepair, so this could not have come at a a more critical time. So,
we anticipate, fingers crossed, having this completed by the end of the the end of this year. Uh, and it is a a missionritical upgrade. Um, so fingers crossed that everything falls into place there. The existing structure uh probably should have been addressed the better part of
of the last three or four years ago. It it's it's totally in disrepair. We're a few good windy evenings from the thing falling in on itself, which would save us a few dollars on the demolition cost. But, uh, looking forward to that. So,
uh, more to come on that, but but that's a a big win for us. Uh, that's a a super super costly, uh, item to address. So, hoping everything falls into place in that front. Uh, quick plug for our next blood drive, April 2nd, here at town hall at the
municipal complex. You can sign up online under the American Red Cross and use sponsor code Vista Township. That way, you can actually commit to a window for yourself. makes it a lot easier to get in and get out. Again, April 2nd, 2 to 7 here at town hall. Um, looking
ahead, Earth Month, uh, the month of April will be Earth Month. I I try to get this on everyone's calendars far in advance. Um, our normal cadence of the first Saturday of every month at public works is expanded during the month of April. It's every Saturday from 8 to 12.
Um, still having major major major issues with illegal dumping across the town. We make it so incredibly easy to do it the right way. Uh it still uh is mind-numbing um why people just think that it's, you know, totally okay to
just drive down a dirt road and unload an entire truck um in the middle of nowhere for somebody else to deal with. Um so please save the date or save the entire month of April again, Earth Month. Uh that first Saturday, it's pretty much everything. It's household
trash. It's yard waste. It's paint. It's tires in limited quantities. Electronics. Um so insanely easy to do it the right way. So please spread the message. Um the entire month of April. I last year it ended up being five Saturdays in a row. I'm not sure if it will be the same
again cuz we catch the first Saturday into May as well. So five weekends to do all your deep cleaning and then that cascades right into our community yard sale. So mine through all your treasure, throw away what isn't worth hanging on to and and then come sell it at Michael
Debby Park a few weeks later. And that is all I have tonight for my mayor's report. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Ordinances for introduction, first reading, there are none. Ordinances for public hearing, second reading, there are none. Public
comment on current agenda items only. In order for the committee to conduct the business of the township in the most productive manner possible, meeting attendees will be given two minutes, all-inclusive, to comment on any agenda items without comment or question from the committee, but only on items
specified on the agenda listed for the current meeting. Please step up to the microphone at the appropriate time and state your name and address for the record. 29-25 is authorizing the payment of bills in the amount of 1,578,28.72. Of that, the schoolboard tax uh for the
month is $973,587. Consent agenda includes item of business which are not controversial and do not require individual discussion. A motion approving the consent agenda is moved, seconded, and voted upon as one item by the township committee. If any discussion is requested on a consent
agenda item, it is removed from the consent agenda to the regular agenda. 30-25 is authorizing transfer budget appropriations. 31-25 is appointing Dominic Diani as special environmental council. 32-25 is certification of
compliance with United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 33-25 is authorizing a change fund for the 2025 dog clinics. 34-25 is authorizing stipens to be paid for the 2025 rabies
clinics. 35-25 is authorizing the refund of taxover payments. 36-25 is authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with Barber Consulting Services. 37-25 is authorizing the renewal of proprietary software
maintenance and support agreement. 38-25 is authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with KD National Force Security. 39-25 is authorizing the mayor to execute service agreement with Ross Environmental Solutions, Inc. 40-25 is
appointing Phoenix Adviserss to serve as disclosure agent and municipal adviser. Deie Woodter, are you good? Okay, I just want to make sure. 41-25 is authorizing contract for software license agreement
with BRT Technologies. 42-25 is adopting fourth round fair share affordable housing obligations. Third 43-25 is approving time extension for the reconstruction of Old Landis Avenue phase 1. 44-25 is appointing
Kenneth Kenneth Metsler as full-time public works mechanic laborer. 45-25 is authorizing Calar Calmar Associates to perform groundwater monitoring for 9inth Street landfill. 46-25 is authorizing participants application for LEAP
implement implementation grant for highway speed feedback signs. 47-25 is authorizing participants application for LEAP implementation grant for highway digital signs. And 48-25 is rescending
res resolution 170-24 and further authorizing the mayor to execute a shared service agreement with the town of Hamilton. Do you need some water? Good. Do you need some? Are you good? Okay.
Thank you. No, you spread it to me. Uh, I need a motion and a second to open to the public for agenda items only. Motion to open to the public. Second. All in favor? I. Motion to close. Motion to close.
Second. All in favor? I. Um, motion and a second to pay the bills. Motion to pay the bills. Second. Roll call. Renard, yes. Ta, yes. Williams, yes. Reeri, yes.
And lastly, we need a motion and a second to adopt consent agenda resolutions 30- 48. Motion to adopt 30 through 4825. Second. Roll call. Renard. Yes. Ta. Yes.
Williams. Yes. Rajiri. Yes. And I want to piggy back that real quick. I want to piggy back on that real quick and uh and welcome Ken Metsler to BVT. Uh looking for a long prosperous career. Uh we can't overstate the significance of just that that duty and how critical it is to
the township just how many how many pieces of equipment we have so many moving parts and how kind of mission critical they are to the various functions that we do. So, uh, welcome aboard. Long, fruitful, um, you know, existence, hopefully several several decades of fixing what we break,
[Music] item 12, um, administrator's report. So, yes, I want to piggyback off of the mayor uh one of the comments he indicated regarding the grant um from the state that was a uh state improvement grant, a
capital improvement grant that was applied for back in 2024 um and just receiving notice um after about 5 months of that application that the township was awarded the full amount that we requested, which was the 400,000. Um you know, again, this money
is hard to get. It's not easy for a small community like us. Um we're just applying again for another recreation grant to be able to redo some of our tennis courts that's coming up. Um so hopefully that momentum can continue and in the spring we can start to see uh some more improvements uh to be done
throughout the township. Um so I'm really excited for that. It is a lot of work, but um it's definitely it's it's very fruitful. So that's that's definitely the work that I enjoy to do um is going after those grants. So I do appreciate that. Um, just want to plug our rabies clinics. Um, I know we had a
couple resolutions on here for that. So, our rabies clinics for both dogs and cats. Um, you do not need to be a resident. Um, you can just, uh, you could be Atlanta County resident, Cumberland County, Gloucester County. Uh, this is sponsored by the state of New Jersey. Um, and through Atlanta
County Health Department to come out. So, our rabies clinics, our first clinic is Saturday, March 1st. Uh, we will be at the Richland Volunteer Fire Company, which is right on Main Avenue. um between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. And then we are back again for a second
clinic. Uh we're one of really the only municipalities that will do multiple rabies clinics. Uh we will be back again March 15th out at the Collins Lakes Fire Hall. Um that will also be 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. So if you're not able to get to one, you could go to the other or
vice versa. Um animal licenses are also due for renewal. Um, so if your animal is good for your rabies shots already, uh, please come in with your renewal forms and we will go ahead and get that taken care of at the clerk's office as well. Um, and then the last plug just to get everybody ready for it, we'll be
back again in February on TV night, but it's already out and around. Uh, we are back again with the breakfast with the Easter Bunny. Um, I heard the Easter Bunny will be back in town, um, April 12th at the MLK Center at 10 a.m. Um, hopefully brought in by the Newtonville
Fire Company and EMS, weather pending. Uh, but definitely that was a great event last year. Uh, very widely attended. Um, we just happened to have a huge rain day last year, so I think that was one of the big items for everybody to get out. So, uh, we're excited for
that. Again, it'll be at our Dr. Martin Luther King Center, uh, 661 Jackson Road. So, put that on your calendar, uh, April 12th, and we hope to see everybody there for breakfast and, uh, Easter egg hunting and pictures. So, that's what I have. Getting into our busy season
already. Uh, we're going to jump over to item 13, committee reports. Mr. Williams. Yes. Um I attended the uh Martin Luther King uh celebration on the 20th and as
uh the mayor mentioned it was uh well attended. I think there was approximately at least 90 people there and uh it was uh again it was a good uh celebration and uh also I attended the uh
uh Martin Luther King uh uh advisory group on Thursday and we came up with some uh he has some uh 20 25 events that they're planning and as we mentioned it was the Martin Luther King celebration
on the 20th and then March 8th is the veterans indoor barbecue and then May is the mentoring mother's day breakfast and then June is the mentoring men's barbecue on June 7th. Uh that's just some of the uh events that
are coming up uh from the MLK center. And as Lisa mentioned, we're having the uh Easter Bunny over at the uh MLK Center this year. Um, also I attended the uh um
um mayor's uh uh dinner on uh last Friday and at this uh dinner they gave out the executive uh budget message for Atlantic County and um some of the highlights were that uh New Jersey
residents continue to debate the benefits and costs of the offshore wind Atlantic shores which plans to build 195 wind turbine generators 10 to 20 m off the coast of Atlantic County is forging ahead. Atlantic Shores has already spent
millions of dollars on the purchase of properties for a cable staging area in Atlantic City and offshore substations in Egg Harbor Township. Transmission cables will run underground from the Chelsea section of Atlantic City to Egg Harbor Township. the uh the county
executive Dennis Levenson has has always been for the offshore wind developers identify the cost, the savings to our taxpayers and definitive proof the turbines will not harm our marine life, fishing and tourism industries and the infrastructure impacts of transmission
lines as well as an expl explanation as to why no other proposed projects are close to the shore as the ones planned off our coast. We they're also awaiting a decision in the uh casino pilot lawsuit that
challenged the state's 21 casino pilot amendment. Three superior court judges ruled in favor in our favor that the consent agreement was binding. Each time a decision was made, the state appealed. Last October, the state appellet division vacated the prior decisions,
not because it disagree with the rulings, but rather because it questioned the process that relied on certified legal affidavit instead of sworn testimony. Mind you, no one from the state had ever raised the concern in any prior proceedings. Furthermore, 99%
of all cases accepted certified legal affidavit. If all the taxpayers in New Jersey benefit from this from the casinos, why are the taxpayers of Atlantic County the only ones to bear the burden of the pilot legislation? Atlantic Cal County taxpayers are owed approximately 14.1
million and that is what we expect to receive. The original pilot will sunset in 2026, but don't be fooled in thinking that will be the end. These are just some uh excerpts from the uh budget message and
the uh this message will provide a summary of the state of Atlanta County and the current projections for 2025 car county budget. The actual budget will not be introduced until after the governor's annual budget. By law, the governor must deliver his
budget message to the state legislature on or before the fourth Tuesday in February. That's all I have. Mayor, thank you. John, how many of the 25 events that Quinton has lined up for MLK are you going to be cooking for? 25.
I just wanted to see how far advance he puts these on your radar. Mr. Renard. Yes. I too would like to uh welcome Mr. Mesler to the Brinav Vista family. Uh and I would like to say that the event at Martin Luther King Center
for M Dr. Martin Luther King was very good. It is every year and the man deserves all the accolades and all the honors that he rightfully gets. Uh he was a good man and uh I really would
like to see his dream come true. Thank you. Thank you, Ker. Mrs. Tester. Uh, I'd like to ask for a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of David Lavari, a longtime resident of Unavista Township
and a member of a family who were pioneers in business and farming in this community. Thank you. He currently owned Lavari Seafood and American Grill in Tuo, a business he was perfect for. And he always had a smile on his face and a
devilish look in his eye. He'll be terribly missed by his family and his family of friends. May he rest in peace. Also, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day which is very important to me and should be by our township because at
one time in the 50s and 60s, we had many Holocaust survivors living here on the chicken farms they started. My parents and I were one of those families coming here in 1951, followed by my father's two brothers and their families, and many others came and settled here and made Buunav Vista
Township their home. These people were unique in their struggles, having lost their families to Hitler, all because they were Jewish. Bunavista Township gave them a new opportunity to start over, and with hard work and good neighbors, they did. But we must assure everyone that
anti-semitism will never happen again. Prejudice of any kind must never be acceptable. We must never forget. And in the past three weeks since our last meeting, we celebrated MLK Day.
Unfortunately, due to uncontrollable circumstances, I was not able to attend as everyone else here did. And I'm certain it was a lovely celebration is it has always been and I look forward to attending next year's event.
Um, however, I was able to attend the state of the state with my son again this year, and it never ceases to impress me being in Trenton. And even if you don't agree with everything the governor says, it still is an amazing
place to go. I would love to commend public works for the excellent job they did during and after the snowstorm. Kudos to them. And at this time of year, we look forward to all the events we've planned for the upcoming year. I hope everyone
participates in as many as they possibly can and enjoys them to the fullest. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Tesa. And uh and hopefully we're done with snow. Knock on wood.
February. Item 14, public comment. The committee welcomes participation of interested organizations and individuals during regular caucus, workshop, and special meetings. However, in order to conduct the business of the township in the most productive manner possible,
attendees will be given four minutes, all-inclusive, including all dialogue, questions, and responses from both the speaker and the committee for the designated public portion of the meeting. There may be no transference of a speaker time to other attendees. So, please step up to the microphone and state your name and address for the
record. We need a motion and a second to open to the public. Motion to open to the public. Second. All in favor? I. Good evening everyone. John Armano Oak Road. U couple of things. Excuse me. Uh
first thing is I belong to a lot of organizations and one of those organizations is Angels in Motion and what we do is we do outreaches at um in Pleasantville and Atlantic City uh for the homeless but also for the
individuals suffering from the disease of addiction. Um and um with that tonight I would like to uh with their organizations to donate a case of Narcan to uh Bunavista Township that you guys
can give to the rescue squad. You can fill your uh defib boxes and u just something to say uh thank you for what you guys do and um keep up the good work. Uh, second of all, if you're all
aware of the opiate u lawsuit that the federal government filed to big pharma and they received billions and billions of dollars and those monies were distributed through the states. The states distributed the mothers through the
counties. Unfortunately for Buunista Township, uh, we didn't meet the threshold for population to join that lawsuit. Atlantic County gets somewhere around almost $400,000 a year for the next 18
years. So each year they get 400,000. Um since we were not able to join the lawsuit, I would highly recommend that you guys uh do some type of a resolution or a request from the county
um to get a little bit of that money. the county distributing it now. Uh so I don't know, we might be not getting it this year, but maybe next year. And what you could do with that money is you can give that money to the school systems
for education. Obviously, we don't have rehab centers in the township. We don't have detox in the township. These are available throughout Atlanta County, but we do have schools. We do have a high school. We do have elementary schools.
And the way I look at this is if all our money uh goes to rehab and detox and nothing goes to education.
Uh we're always going to need rehab and detox. We have to educate the public. And by the public, I mean our children, our parents, and our grandparents. Um,
because just because a doctor with a white coat tells you to give your son opiates three times a day, every day for pain, you as the parent have to understand that you can see what's happening to your child. You know, if he
becomes a zombie uh just because the doctor said to do it, take a step back. go back to the doctor. You know, maybe he doesn't need three, maybe he needs one. Your metabolism creates it differently than someone else's. All these little tiny
things. Our our senior citizens and and I'm one of them. Um, you know, we're taking multiple medications. You know, are we taking it the directed the way we're supposed to be directed by? These are the things that we can
take this money if we get any and and go to senior citizen gatherings and just a five minute talk, a 10-minute talk, we can go into the high schools. The best thing that happened and I I I can't remember it was five or six or seven
years ago, but we had a program at the high school and it was called hidden in plain sight. An organization came in, they set up on the stage a bedroom and they hid drugs the way their children hide their drugs. And they told the
parents how to look, where to look. And they had a class uh an auditorium session at 10:00 in the morning and at 7:00 at night. And the way they got the parents to go was they held the prom ticket.
Their children could not go to the prom unless the parents or guardian attended one of these two sessions. To me, that was excellent. And a lot of the parents got a lot of knowledge about, you know, where to look, how to look. Uh, it was interesting to hear reactions from the
parents about, I'm going to use the word sanctuary of my child's bedroom. I would never they I would never go in my and I'm thinking to myself, you know, I must have grew up differently because, you know, if the
door was locked, it wasn't a door. So, education, we have to educate our our children. Um, why did that program go away? Money. Was it costly? I mean, it it was very
costly. Okay. uh the Municipal Drug Alliance, which uh I'm a board member of the Governor's Council for Substance Use Disorder, how they spend the money is really really restrictive and it's a it's a problem that we're working on. Uh we
used to re we used to respond, we used to get money from the fines. If you were convicted of a criminal offense, we got that money. If we found cash at your house, we took that money. That's how and it was always fluctuating because good year, bad year, and I hate to say
it like that, but you know, we did a lot of arrests. We didn't do a lot of arrest. Well, that's changed now. Now there's an actual line item for the governor's council. So, they're guaranteed that money. Still, there are restrictions on how you spend that money. Um, it it came down to
money. I mean, we were with Weimoth and with the Barrow, we were all we were all three together. Um, unfortunately, I I'm understanding that's going to end. Uh but monies are still available. Um to get into the schools is not easy
to do. Their time so time restricted on their classes. Uh it it's difficult to do it. It can be done. It's just difficult. And we need to emphasize that every school system has a drug problem.
And if you say no, you're you're just fooling yourself. Maybe some are worse than others, but there are problems in every school district. So, um, you know, look out for some of this money. It's out there. I
can tell you from my own personal knowledge that a lot of this money is being spent wrong. Um, they're using it for things that this opiate settlement money can only be used for one thing, and that's opiate addiction. Can't be used for alcohol. It
can't be used for homeless. It can't be used for tobacco. Can only be used for one thing. Um, and because the guidelines are so gray, but they're tightening them up. Uh, the county is doing a very good job. Matter of fact, Atlantic County is doing one of the
better jobs in the state of of policing and spending that money. You start out that way, but now it's ending because this is the third year now. So, monies are there. Um, the last thing I want to do is commend uh, Miss Tilton for the dropbox
initiative. U, Mayor Sharillo and myself and Sheriff Ballast at the time. Uh, took a lot of time and effort to get that box into Bunista Township. Been here approximately 10 years, approximately a,000 pounds of medication
off the streets of Bunavista Township. Um, and if you can visualize what a pill weighs and to get a thousand pounds is a heck of a lot of medicine. And it's so convenient. You know, you pay your taxes, you drop off medication. You got
a problem with a street and you come in, you you drop off your medication. Come to a meeting, drop off your medication. It is a great asset to the township. It's a great asset to the individuals who live here uh in the surrounding area for that MAC because there isn't a box
close. So once again, Mr. Tilton, uh great work. Um I understand Hamilton now is is going to do it. Fantastic. Um you know, and to jump through the hoops that we had to jump through, you know, and the waivers that we had to
get. Um and since the law hasn't changed, the waivers are still in place. Um, very proud that the township was the first in the state to get one that wasn't in a police station. It was a great accomplishment. Uh, a lot of hard
work, but in the end for the residents, it was fantastic. That's all I got. There's your NAN. Uh, I hope we never use it. I hope it expires and we don't use it. Uh, and if you did it, you let me know, I'll get
it. As a matter of fact, anyone needs Narcan. I will uh I will provide it. Also, one last little plug. I'm also a recovery coach. Any family out there that has a problem with with alcohol or drugs,
please let me know. I'll be glad to reach out. Can't guarantee it will fix it, but I guarantee you that I'll listen. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. And I want to uh I want to echo real quick on one of John's comments and and and we had touched on
this kind of indirectly with the the convenience center at public works earlier, but really this dropbox is is kind of the the same methodology. Um when people have to guess how to get rid of something, whether it's a tire, whether it's a battery, whether it's a a
prescription drug, intrinsically they're going to guess wrong. And we try to just make this so easy, so simple, so convenient to do the right thing. Whether it's it's household waste, whether whether it's prescri, you know, prescribe, you know, or on needed
prescriptions, um, literally there there's hundreds of people in and out of this building during the course of the week. And to be able to have that convenient right at that door at all times, uh, takes away the guest work. And that really is really the ultimate uh, you know, success or failure of of
any initiative. Uh, where do I get rid of this TV? I'm not sure. I'll throw in the woods. Uh, you know, we're So, just to be able to have as many outlets for as many different things uh within the town is as easy, simple, and and convenient as possible. Um, that's what
we try to continue to do to alleviate the guesswork. So, thank you again, John. Anyone else for public comment? Eric Hansel from Milma. Um just following Johnny uh with his thing. Just uh what I want to bring up is um
something that um a problem not only in the township but in the area and above your level. Just making people aware of it. But this um 911 system
um has to be improved. um when when you can make a call, it was a tremendous thing. We went from dispatching with Troy with with the fire companies to uh even dispatching out of
Richland Firehouse. Uh eventually uh we combined with district 11 and tremendous when we went to the 911 thing, tremendous thing until cell phones came along and the
um this I mean a tremendous problem with cell phones. They can't identify where it is. And right here now, if one of us had a problem, if you made a phone call on the landline, you'd have that
ambulance notified within minutes. If we call on a cell phone, we might wait depending on it's possible five minutes. It's possible to go direct. We had incidences where it's way uh been as
much and more than 20 minutes before that cell phone call gets to the dispatcher to activate the fire company near an ambulance. We had an incident uh several months ago about two months ago way beyond the township. Believe me, not
nothing to do with the township, but where my grandson um uh riding down a road, notice smoke coming out of a house, whatever, stopped. The insulation on the house was on fire,
knocked on the door, they got a couple pots of water, put the fire out, but called 911 from spot where they could see East Violent Firehouse. It took 20 minutes for the fire company
to be notified. Not blaming anybody uh local, but with all the technology we have today, somewhere somebody's got to get serious within the state and find ways to
alleviate that situation. We had a time to go back probably 10 a few years ago with Darthy ambulance to uh with Darthy ambulance uh whatever where they needed had an emergency in
town called 911 on a cell phone. Meanwhile, somebody from local was there. Let's get the ambulance before even before we had paid ambulances. They had their their local rescue squad
respond to the respond, call 911 and dispatch, you know, the way it's supposed to be. Went to the emergency room. Came back sitting in the firehouse when the call comes in for that for that
emergency. And that's bold. When I when I can pick up my phone and I my level on phones, you'd have to use a fraction on 1 to 10 to get me to a one. But if I can ask what is the temperature in tarp to
Estonia and get a thing like that, I'm lost that we the technology has to be developed to alleviate that situation. When the 911 call goes in, it uh on the
cell phone, it might go direct to Gloucester County. Might it might be picked up by other towers around. You might be talking to somebody, they tell me, in in in Delaware. And if if you call and say you've got an
emergency in Cranberry Run or Alpine Village or whatever, I'm lost at how it can take 20 minutes for them to find that. And and what I'm saying that somehow
somebody's got to start putting pressure either on the state to develop something better, maybe it's a national thing. they have the same problem in others in other states. We had um to to show when
when things are uh prolonged like that to go back about 40 years ago, we were dispatching out of Manitoba and uh um it happened at at the time, you know, uh we had a radio committee. I
was chairman of the radio committee. Uh we hired the dispatchers and trained them and whatever. I was the chairman, but we had a call come in uh with a name of a person on Tahoe Road. That's all that was said. They
were trapped in a house, a young lady trapped in a house that was on fire. Couldn't get out. the dispatcher and we always said trained, you know, if you do something, don't worry about doing it right or
wrong, but do something if you don't know. They she didn't know which fire company to uh blow out. The police was there. They knew the name of the same person on Tucko Road up in Franklinville.
Even the police car responded to that house, called their fire company or whatever about 20 minutes, a half hour later that somebody in the area right here in the Rosa on Tuck Road and and
Oak Road, whatever it is there not smoke in the area. And two women died in that fire where they had the the the front door was locked. They couldn't get out. They had a ch in front of it using the kitchen door. The fire was in the
kitchen. They couldn't get out and two women died. If if with that was almost a half hour, whatever. But when you start prolonging this thing, minutes and hours or or or whatever, you lose that chance
for that fire company or rescue squad to maybe help someone. And and my thinking is it it's got to go I believe it's a state problem, not whatever, but maybe
we have to get out to our people that when you do report a fire or an emergency on the cell phone, maybe there's key words we should put in. Maybe we even got to tell them we're in New Jersey or Atlantic
County or or whatever. But right now it's a possibility that someone in Alpine Village are right here tonight. You might be waiting way more minutes unbelievable for that rescue squad to be
but uh you know and our fire companies and LEAS has been tremendous. We have great fire companies rescue squad but they can't respond if they don't know there's emergency. My thought.
Thank you, Mr. Hansel. Thank you. Anyone else for public comment? I'll ask for a motion to close. Motion to close. Second. All in favor? I I. Item 15, uh, executive session. We have
resolution 49-25, which is authorizing the township committee to go into executive session. Whereas there are three items scheduled for discussion this evening. Of those items is any any matter involving the purchase, lease or acquisition of real property to discuss land acquisition of
block 5501, lot 21. any pending or anticipated litigation or contract negotiations or any matters within attorney client privilege. We have um a docket number Atlantic for Atlantic County of 2204-24
Francis Terry versunista township at all as well as other conversations for attorney legal updates and confidentiality purposes for security matter. Um of that I estimate roughly about 15 minutes and no action to be taken. Thank you, Lisa. Uh, we need a
motion and a second to enter executive. Motion to enter executive. Second. Roll call. Renard. Yes. Ta. Yes. Williams. Yes. Raji. Yes.