um is uh YouTube good y recording in progress good okay I now call for to the committee meeting for this Tuesday March 25th I'd like to confirm that adquate
notice yes adequate notice of this meeting of the township committee was given as required by the open public meetings act as follows notice was given to Chad carer and the Mars County daily record on January 8th 2025 notice was posted on the Bolton board in the main hallway of the municipal building on
January 8 2025 and notice was filed with the Township Clerk on January 8th 2025 thank you Mr lanti I get a roll call please Mr alowitz here Mrs ewal pres Mr McHugh here Deputy Mayor Roland here and
mayor Troy here we have the full committee thank you Mr lanti I now ask everyone to rise for the Pledge of [Music] Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States America to the Republic for it stands one nation under
God indivisible and justice for all good evening chadam Township it was a blue bird today with enough signs of spring to suggest the nice weather just might stay with us for good uh spring Sports is well underway I see families back on the playground now that the
Frost has disappeared gardeners and landscapers are out and about reading yards for recreational enjoyment for our valued staff and those of us on the day spring also means budget time but more on that shortly I spoke earlier about egov as an important theme for the
township multiple enhancements to the website have been included including online payment capabilities for the construction Department as well as online payment capabilities for pet licensing we are intentional about delivering timely and relevant
information to the public on business matters in including improvements to the parks to Colony pool as well as to the trails in our community I am pleased that our staff is successful in advancing the egov initiative for the benefit of our residents and I do welcome everyone and all to visit the
website uh to take a look at the information that's available as well as the enhancements that are now available to the public as well the budget is our blueprint as to how we plan to allocate our resources to deliver proper services to our residents each year the finance subcommittee works
Works diligently to balance fiscal responsibility with the needs and wants of our community as these funds are your tax dollars the gravity of the financial stewardship on this subcommittee and the committee at large is not lost on any one of us we are mindful of keeping
taxes affordable delivering quality services and achieving a host of other objectives I would like to highlight for you several noteworthy things uh the Appropriations uh is anticipated be 19.2 million versus 18 1 over the prior year
and our fund balance notably remains steadfast at about 2.3 billion for this year as well there were meaningful changes in public safety insurance costs increase in legal expenses partly preparation for forthcoming affordable housing work as well as unexpected legal
expenses and gains from leveraging shared services in Recreation and health so ultimately what is the bottom line and what does it mean to the average householder homeowner well for the homeowner with an average residential assessment of 870,000 the following
numbers might apply Municipal purposes tax portion for this year would be 2,969 up from 2797 in the prior year this represents a modest change of about $172 a year or
$14 a month in our world of $5 eggs looming price increases for multiple Industries and household goods from your mobile phone to your car this new budget makes critical investments in human capital timely hires in building and administration and Colony pool where a
Cadre of experienced pool leaders will be joining to continue the operations at Colony continued commitment to Public Safety to our police and to our Volunteer Fire specifically facilities and Equipment upkeep and it safeguards our surplus of 2 and a half million to
maintain operational Readiness throughout the year the budget before you is a noble feat and I say this because notwithstanding this challenge ing context the subcommittee and staff have found a way to hold Appropriations essentially flat once accounting for the
$1 million State Grant uh for Trails I would also like to make uh a public service announcement on behalf of our dear public works as they are now accepting orders for mulch delivery throughout the Spring Public Works offers mulch delivery
services directly to your driveway deliveries run every Friday from April 4th to June 27th excluding holidays orders are taken on a first come first basis and each ORD is approximately three cubic yards for more information
please visit the DPW page on the township website yet one more wonderful reason to take a look at the website uh so with that I thank you and now move on to Township committee reports Mr Miku if I may start with
you minman can you hear me yes oh wonderful sorry sorry about that I just got to get on get on board here oops sorry about that if you need a moment we can move to the other side sorry no we're good I got there um you did mention it is spring and so we'll start
with the community garden uh there is an annual uh Garden meeting and it will be held at the library of the cadams uh actually this Thursday March 27th and that'll be 7:30 p.m. in the Women's Club room uh there will be a
guest speaker um and that's Peter nitki who is an agricultural and uh Resource Management agent uh Professor with Rutter's Cooperative Extension uh the Garden Club will be uh replacing the north side of uh the fence
along the north side which is in need of significant repair so that's pretty exciting news for for them uh there is a reminder that the garden committee itself does meet uh the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 and that meeting is
held at the burrow Hall uh all Garden members are certainly welcome to attend right and of course uh every year uh because of all the work that they do both the burrow and the township dpws uh the garden the community garden committee wishes to express their thanks
uh for all the help uh moving on to the library uh as we are mostly aware the Friends book sale uh raised um almost $45,000 this year um so it's a very exciting and uh a very successful
undertaking once again uh so it's spring break time and that means get out and go and so we remind residents that they can take advantage of the library Museum passes program and that's funded by the friends
so you can visit uh many wonderful Museum museums uh passes can now be reserved by date uh through the library website uh for the Metropolitan Museum of Art uh the Intrepid uh Museum the LI Liberty Science Center and the Guggenheim among others so check it out
uh and then uh finally with the library there's uh the first ever appraise your jewelry Workshop uh it'll be held at the library on April 13 uh and it's has a featured appraiser from uh the Antiques Road show it's kind of fun uh you can
call the library for uh for details um April is Earth month and that means the environmental commission and the open space guys are going to be very busy um the native plant sale where the uh commission participates along with the
Great Swamp Watershed Association uh that opens on April 1st and it will run through April 18 um lots of lots of programming on Saturday April 26th uh the environmental commission is hosting a Seedling giveaway uh and it'll be at castle
playground at Shunpike field uh in the Oak Road which of course is right next to castle playground that'll be from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. uh and they'll be Distributing 25 uh flowering dogwood trees 25 Pimon trees
and 25 northern red oak these are all bare root seedlings and this is a first come first served event uh also will be materials obviously how to take care of trees uh while they are important and why residents are encouraged to plant native
trees um and uh these seedlings uh do take some care and so there will be information on that as well uh at the same time the environmental commission will arrange a cleanup of the Park area so lots of activities going on the same
place same day and uh there'll be gloves and trash bags available and we encourage all Park goers to help help clean up on that day and be a part of it um this will help also with the clean communities program and encourage residents uh to enjoy the park and keep
it clean at the same time we'll be doing some work in the reforestation area at the uh The Grove there and residents are encouraged to learn about the project and uh lend a helping ham if they would like to uh we'll probably plant three more uh three more trees uh some
northern red oak be roots eagling will probably be on the docket for that to replace some that have been lost over the number of years uh the open space committee and the environmental commission have plans to highlight the township Trails on National Trails day
which is April 26th same day also from 10:00 a.m. to 12: p.m. open space will have representatives for each of the municipal Trails uh in the township and we welcome visitors that's obviously the Green Village Pond Trail Lan and Shan B
right um and there will be some dates to be coming up later to pay attention to and that is there will be a ribbon cutting at the Oak Grove restoration project all right and then a there will be a walk also to learn about invasive plants species commonly found in the
township um and this is hosted by a fellow by name of Matt Palmer who's an expert in that and if you're paying attention to a lot of New Jersey news there's a lot of uh invasive plant news lately particularly in towns like sville and other places so it's pretty interesting
information thank you mayor that's all I have thank you committee man MCU committee woman ewall thank you um I wanted to make residents aware that the colony pool um if you recall last year we started looking at um the renovations
to the Colony pool and uh we will be posting those the plans based on the discussions last year uh there are some minor tweaks just to make sure we're we're addressing all the recommendations that were made last year uh but that will be posted for input by residents uh
and the plan is to um to go to bid this summer so we're going to need to have an approved plan in the next month or so uh on the agenda this evening is uh our resolutions to approve um a new manager and two assistant managers for Colony
pool um we're excited about the new team that's coming in they have extensive uh pool management experience as well as the fact that they're all teachers with expens extensive experience dealing with children um and and um teens uh and the
head manager also has a lot of experience uh coaching so I think it'll be a great team and we're excited to have them join us at Colony pool the events committee is uh going to be hosting their spring event shortly on April 26th it'll be um
I have chav Township municipal field which I assume that means here Municipal Building field municip the way it's written that wasn't quite sure uh so it'll be here on the 26th of April from 12 to to two right now uh the
School of Rock will be performing and there'll be Kites and face painting uh and more um planning is in process this evening so I'm sorry I'm going to miss that meeting uh but they did just an amazing job with the holiday party and we such a wonderful turnout I'm looking
forward to uh the event this on April 26 so I hope everybody will come out and join us um the senior center is open again after the construction work that was done uh they are back in full swing with new Carpets New ceiling flooring
and lighting which I may have to take a tripy on after this meeting to go check that out um and everybody really seems to love it so we're excited that work is done and it seems to be a big success um the senior center is celebrating their 35th Anniversary and they have a um
anniversary party scheduled a fundraiser for Friday June 6 uh the theme is beers and cheers to 35 years and they will be honoring Jim Conelly their former board president but also a very active volunteer with many organizations in the community so I hope everybody will come
out to celebrate uh the senior center to help with that fundraiser and to honor uh Jim Connelly they also have number of new programs they're introducing um Tuesday I'm sorry this Wednesday tomorrow they're going to have fairly
Dickson Professor presenting thank you I Shar had a lot of good information I hope got picked up I have to start over again yes oh my okay so um the senior center uh I was
saying Wednesday a fairly Dickenson Professor will come in presenting on Chicago 50 years of all that jazz tomorrow at noon uh two new programs are coming uh they're initiating two new programs a retiree recent retire support group starting on Tuesday May 6th for
four sessions uh and they have a poetry Workshop starting on Wednesday May 7th for six session that would be led by a fairly Dickinson Professor um and they have their shred fundraiser and sneaker Drive um Saturday April 26 from 99: to 1200 at the middle
school usually the sneaker Drive they had they have bins in a number of locations throughout town so I'll try and get out more information about that because that's been a great success I wanted to also make everybody aware that the planning board met um last week um it was uh pretty quiet
night in terms of there was only one thing to approve which was some work that was being done at Fairmount country club but uh there is discussion ongoing discussion about detached accessory units and we're talking about garage or uh shed type structures or other uh accessory units there are discussions
going on about that so I would just recommend that um residents um if they're interested kind of pay attention and provide their input um and finally I don't know if our liaison to the rec program will mention this but I did want to thank her myself I want to give a huge thank you to Carol NADA uh she's
retiring at the end of this month after 39 years serving as the recreation director for the cadams um she's done an amazing job coordinating a huge program that serves thousands of children uh over the past 39 years uh so you can imagine a huge huge impact on our
community I uh wish her the best and thank her for her service thank you committee woman wall comme woman Roland okay thank you uh the Board of Ed held their meeting on March 17th uh they did not
serve any corn beef and cabbage but they did present the budget their first pass of the budget um for the for the year for the school um so you can take a look at that that uh the other good news was that we
have three unused snow days uh one is April 21st the Monday after the Easter holiday and then also the Thursday and Friday before Memorial Day weekend that's May 22nd and May 23rd so the uh calendar has been updated online if anyone has any
questions um regarding the Historical Society Friday night the um the annual Board of Trustees meeting and dinner was held um where they went through the Slate of Trustees uh we had some trivia and we had a great dinner and it was um
just good to get together and learn just tons of more information about um chadam Township it's just such a wealth of knowledge and that was really all I had committee woman Roland thank you committee man Al pertz uh thank you
mayor about two weeks ago The Joint recck Committee met um and it's that wonderful time of year where everything is running uh pretty full steam ahead uh basketball's wrapping up and every other Spring sport is uh very much uh in play
right about now uh just a note to all residents that if you see a bunch of kids running around town it's because they're on track and field and they're practicing and I'd encourage everybody to slow down in particularly high density areas uh but the bats are
cracking and baseball's running and soccer's playing lacrosse is playing everybody else is pretty much out there and about uh just a reminder too for uh those of us that are over the age of 18 uh there are still basketball uh open
basketball games and women's volleyball as well that happens uh on a weekly basis check the joint Rec Committee website and as committee woman uh Ewald mentioned uh it was a fond farewell to Carol NADA who has spearheaded uh all
efforts for uh the recreation department uh scheduling and maintenance of uh well maybe not the maintenance of the fields that's DPW but kind of the scheduling and uh managing the whole process uh uh and it was a wonderful honor uh this
afternoon recognizing her for her 39 years of service um DPW has also done a terrific job of getting all the fields ready uh for everybody to play on and enjoy uh all the wreck activities um that's that's all I got
thank you commit Manel peritz uh and Carol na thank you for your 39 years of service uh you have touched many children uh assisted many mayors committees committeemen committee women
councilmen Council women uh teachers and other members uh and staff both the township and burough so hats off to you enjoy your retirement and we wish you well um I do have I would like to make two announcements uh with respect to
volunteerism um in the resolution uh in the consent agenda agenda is a resolution um acknowledging two members uh to the Garden Community Phil ankle and Ellen cron uh two individuals who
are long-standing residents have been uh serving in the past so we genuinely appreciate their stepping up and continuing their volunteerism uh in this capacity uh I would like to make an announcement with regard to Mayor appointment Steve gessle to the environmental commission uh so uh thank
you Steve for uh volunteering and we look forward to your contributions uh to that organization on to hearing of citizens uh Mr lanti could you kindly provide guidance as to how the first hearing of first hearing of citizens shall be
conducted members of the public are now welcome to come up to the microphone to address the township committee this is is an opportunity for any member of the public to be heard about issues which are not topics scheduled for public hearings tonight those present May step up to the microphone to be heard if you
are watching via Zoom you may speak during any of the public comment sessions by following the zoom instructions to raise your hand and there are phone numbers on the screen that you can dial into if you're watching on TV um whether in person or online when
you recognized to speak please mind the following procedures please say your name spell your last name and give the name of your street you do not need to give your street number all public comments will be limited to 3 minutes rather than use any of your time answering questions the township
committee will wait until you finish speaking before responding there are two public comment sessions on tonight's agenda each member of the public will be limited to one comment of up to three minutes during each uh public comment period written comments submitted to the
township committee before 3 p.m. today will be read during the public comment sessions written comments are subject to the same guidelines as oral comments duplicative written comments may be summarized rather than read in full according to guidelines issued by the New Jersey Division of local government
services and since we do have a couple public hearings for ordinances I will note that the same rules apply to those public hearings thank you mran do we have any written statements uh we do not have any written statements tonight and do we have anyone online
uh we do not have any hands raised thank you Mr lanti at this time I'd like to invite members of the public to approach the microphone in the event they'd like to make a statement before you close out that public hearing I did want to sorry share a factoid there was I was at the
Historical Society event and uh they had a um uh kind of a trivia game that they played and I just wanted to share did you know um did you know that there was a dinosaur footprint that was found in EST uh and it is at they had said it's
at Morris Museum I don't know I was trying to look up to see if it's um if it's shown and this was I don't know a few decades back because the uh our Historical Society wasn't in place at the time but a lot of chattam residents don't know that and I think that's pretty cool so I'll we should try and uh
bring out some of those interesting facts every once in a while um because we have an amazing uh history here and I wanted to share that little piece of information I believe in fact there are three different artifact dinosaur artifacts oh really yeah I believe so wow speaking to someone there um thank
you committee woman eal that was so are you addressing that as a member of the public tonight sure I see no one else I shall close a first public um a first hearing of citizens um we now move on to uh adoption of
ordinances uh ordinance 20257 regulating the distribution of UNS unsolicited printed material I shall now open the public hearing for ordinance 20257 regulating distribution of
unsolicited printed material I invite uh Mr Cony do we have anyone online no hands raised I'd like to invite anyone from the audience to come before the microphone with regard to this particular ordinance I shall close the public hearing at this
time I now ask if there's a motion uh to adopt ordinance 20257 regulating the distribution of unsolicited printed material so moveed second miss lanti Mr El pertz yes Mrs
eald yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and and mayor try yes motion passes wonderful um I now open for discussion uh to the committee ordinance 20257 which has been discussed at Workshop but I certainly would like to
afford any member of the committee in event they have further opinions or comments to provide them at this time um I did want to um make mention um probably the key thing uh because I know the environmental commission had
asked about this the key thing to having success here is really educ a um so certainly this will be posted but we could highlight uh some of the key factors of this ordinance which I guess the important thing for people to know is there is an opt out um that the uh
there's an opt out option if you will and um that uh there are fines associated with violations for that opt out so um I think the only thing is that right now the the uh media pieces that are tossed on our Lawns are not um don't
have that information so we'll need to communicate with those or organizations to be able to provide that and maybe it's something we post on our website but um that's pretty much a key piece of this whole thing and also that they just can't throw things willy-nilly so hopefully it's in a little more orderly
fashion it was interesting just recently that there have been a few inquiries in theam community Forum about how do we stop these you know mailers from being tossed in our driveway oh really yeah just the past week I think a couple of people
asked I believe on that Medium a telephone number was provided uh where you can uh leave your name and address in order to opt out of such collateral from being deposited on your yard any other comments from the
committee I shall now close discussion uh and take a vote Mr lanti that won't be that's right oh yeah my apologies um
yeah onward uh to ordinance 20258 C Bank ordinance I shall now open a public hearing for ordinance 2025 08 cap Bank ordinance Mr lanti uh we don't have any hands rais
thank you Mr lanti I now invite any member from the public to approach the microphone I shall now close public hearing at this time uh I now ask if there's a motion to adopt ordinance 20258 C Bank ordinance so removed do I
have a second second uh if we're going to ENT discussion I just want to ask um Mr shotty if you could just give a brief I know people get confused about this if you could just kind of briefly touch on it again Alex I remembered my
microphone um so the state uh by law allows for a appropriation cap of 2.5% but that's based on statute that's very old and obviously they recognize that uh Appropriations may need to
sometimes be more than that for a whole slew of things that are unpredicted un unpredicted um so they allow the governing body to increase that to 3.5% uh which allows those Appropriations to uh increase by
3.5% uh as an exception uh however uh if it's not used that that allowance for an increase that allowance gets capped so I'm sorry gets banked so it's not actually increasing taxes it's not increasing Appropriations it's allowing
for that and that difference can then be banked for up to two years should there be an emergency that again requires the use of that uh so it gives you flexibility it's a tool in your toolkit um and so we do this as a uh as a almost
formality but also as um preserving the rights of not just this year's governing body but future Year's governing bodies to be able to adapt to the economic circumstances that might require uh Appropriations above and beyond what might be typal thank you and the use of
that so this is just authorizing the bank correct of of a concept correct so it's it's allowing the creation of or rather allowing for that increase but what's not used and we're not using it gets banked yes okay y um
and and any use of it and there's no funding of it now any use of it would be uh would have to be authorized by the committee at that time correct yep and it would be part of the budget Pro process uh in future years if we were to use any of that bank allowance thank
you thank you Mr shoty thank you committee womy wal if there's nothing further I now like to close discussion um on to uh introduction of ordinances should we yeah sorry mran can we take it
to vote Mr pertz yes Mrs eal yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and mayor Choy yes motion passes thank you Mr lanti onto introduction of
ordinances um ordinance 20299 land use board fees Mr shotti could you kindly introduce the ordinance thank you mayor uh so this uh is an item that has been discussed at uh two previous Workshop meetings it comes
based on a recommendation from our land use board manager uh who uh wisely recommended that certain fees uh for applications that come before the planning board or the zoning board be amended uh and be increased to account
for the increase in costs uh these are not costs that taxpayers directly will bear and by raising these fees adjusting these fees here in ensures that the taxpayers aren't the ones who are footing the bill for any development individual properties that are doing the development that those costs are born by
that developer uh or or Builder uh and it changes uh only in about uh let me see I think it was um seven fees uh and it adjusts them by $100 to account for the cost of uh
postage the cost of newspaper advertising because there are legal notices that were required to publish uh so she took those into account all the increases the last time that I could find that these fees were touched was in 2020 I'm sorry 2000 I apologize so it's
been almost 25 years that these fees have have been uh adjusted for the times so that's what is before you this evening is this uh ordinance to increase um I said seven fees uh before the land
use boards and we did compare the fees in some nearby municipalities like the Bureau of New Providence and the buau of chadam and uh for the most part this is in line with what they have as well thank you Mr Shani it also does add
uh one one new fee though which is the amended site plan fee which did not exist before uh and she did note that that is uh something that we do get uh from time to time and warrants a fee since we are bearing those costs
amended site plans are are not overly common certainly common up that they should be part of uh the fee structure uh and there's set applications have come before the board thank you Mr shot is there a motion to introduce uh ordinance 20299
land use board fees some move I'll second thank you um I now open up for discussion uh I just I think it's a was a very good exercise to go through all
of this long a bit long overdue given 24 years uh no extra cost or burden on taxpayers probably uh developers who may very well pass it on to the residents who are making the changes but uh I
think it's a terrific uh amendment to fees that were probably long overdue to be assessed thank you Comm anyone else I will close discussion um on the ordinance that Mr kti will take it to a
vote can I get a roll call please sure Mr El pertz yes Mrs eal yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and mayor Troy yes uh motion passes we'll have the public hearings uh will schedule that
for April 2020 um April 22nd 2025 and this will also be referred to the planning board for a master plan consistency review yes wonderful thank you Mr lanti uh next up uh ordinance 202-10 encroachment land sale Mr shotti
could you kindly provide a summary sure so uh there is a piece of property on River Road um that the township had acquired some years ago for affordable housing development uh as part of the development process the review process going before the boards um it was
determined that there is a property uh that had then been encroaching on the the property of the Town acquired uh and so that property that portion of the encroachment had been subdivided as part of the process and we are uh offering
that land for sale to the adjacent property owner uh so that way we can resolve the issue of the encroachment allow the affordable housing development project to proceed without any further delay and to generate some revenue for the town for an otherwise uh
underutilized or unutilized property and we are looking at getting about $20,000 for this property so that's a nice little chunk of change for the township thank you Mr Shi I now ask for a motion to introduce
ordinance 2025 one0 encroachment land sale so moved and I'll second thank you m Mr lanti Mr Mr Al pertz yes Mrs eal yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and
mayor Troy yes motion passes and public hearing will be scheduled for April 22nd thank you I now uh open up for discussion ordinance 202-10 I I will say just as as a wrap up comments on it uh this this a scenario where it was highly
unexpected through the work of um uh affordable housing related efforts this was discovered and uh hats off to uh Mr John rashki Mr shahadi um uh and others um our legal representation Miss Capon
um in in effectuating um this uh well actually hasn't happened but uh um but uh preparing the documents and um fulfilling the negotiations uh to ensure that this transaction comes through because it does uh allow us for us to
continue with uh the project that's been uh premeditated over there so um uh it was a bit of a prickly complicated situation and uh needed to rely a bit on the kindness of strangers but I think uh um I think we're pretty much at a Finish Line so
hats off to you thank you very much um if there's nothing else I'd like to close discussion um on ordinance uh 202-10 encroachment landale uh take it to a vote Mr lanti oh
I all right thank you Miss lanti onward to uh the introduction of the 2025 Municipal budget Mr shoty um resolution 20250 079 introducing year 2025 Municipal budget
um there has been a presentation that was uh afforded to the public and members of the committee uh at the most recent Workshop uh so thank you Mr shotti for that presentation um uh is there I guess we
introduce is there a motion to uh introduce the resolution 20279 introducing year 2025 Municipal budget so moved is there a second second thank you Mr
lanti Mr Al pertz uh yes Mrs E yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and mayor Choy yes motion passes and um so that's the
you've adopted the resolution to introduce the budget and the public hearing on the budget and final adoption of the budget will be on April 22nd yes yes uh I now open up uh for discussion amongst committee okay um I'll close it on to
the uh consent agenda um is there any member of the committee wishes to exclude any particular item from the consent agenda do we need the um executive session item I'm I'm sorry committee Min Q yeah
isn't there a there's a to go into executive session do we need that uh to remain in the consent agenda uh the executive session was taken off the agenda the item on the consent agenda is proving the executive session minutes from the last meeting in
the meeting before that okay thank you GRE that perfect uh if there are no carats on I ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved I'll second Mr Al
pertz uh yes Mrs eal yes Mr McHugh yes Deputy Mayor Roland yes and mayor Troy yes motion passes great thank you mran and now open up for discussion uh the consent agenda um if I may mayor yes uh
just just for clarity of the record the vote was on for the consent agenda resolutions 202-8003 Clos discussion on the consent agenda take it to vote Mr lanti sorry
no thank you Mr lanti um on to our second hearing of citizens uh Mr K is there anyone online who wishes to speak actually yes okay Mrs bergo uh you're um able to speak
now hi thanks Greg this is Aon bergo Candace Lane I'm just calling um in to see if Mrs Ewald might be able to just provide a little um clarification around when we can see the pool wall
reconstruction plans for Colony pool and what the minor tweaks might be that we can expect to see is it posted yet yeah I'm GNA ask uh Mr shotti if he can speak to that no problem thank you sure uh thank you for asking so the um right now the website
from last year has the plans the initial plans that were presented this week there will be an updated announcement on the revised drawings also from last year but that were revised based on feedback at that time those are still draft in
preliminary at the workshop meeting uh coming up in April uh will be another opportunity to further advise refine or tweak those plans uh based on feedback from the public and from the governing body so uh you can expect by Friday the
latest that there will be the second iteration of plans from last year that accounted for uh a large majority of the commentary uh but obviously recognizing that there were still some more tweaks to be made does thatly answer the
question for yeah well and and just to speak to some of the highlights so uh some of the key feedback that um was uh taken in was the desire on the um Snack Shack side to keep that sloping
entry um and then on the deep end side to keep a vertical wall on the the uh lap lane side uh to keep the um gradual entry on the Frog slide area however just to improve that slope because it
was it's a very dangerous steep slope as you get towards the dock um so we want to improve that but it'll look more like uh the other side U and then the little tweaking things were were there was you know there might have been ladders where we had talked about stairs or stairs where we had talked
about ladders so just some of that uh clean up but no and I think the only other thing was um there's a section by the diving boards between the stairs and the diving boards that uh you know there may have been some concerns the way that juts that visibility is poor so whether
or not we can just kind of uh continue the curve so you don't have that interruption in the flow um so these are things that I had wanted to talk to the engineer about before we post the new uh drawings and the other thing is to be honest I was looking at you know architect drawings engineer
drawings and they were most residents uh it's going to be difficult to look at so just also seeing if we can get a version that's um a little easier to to understand um so that's uh what my goal was before we post what is the timeline for actually
approving what do we I'm trying to remember okay mik drawing so oh thank you uh so our Township attorney did remind me that we did uh authorize the bid okay uh it's just and as I promised you all last year
we weren't actually going to advertise anything uh it just allowed us to do that so we can move more nimbly so all we have to do is just arrive at a consensus as to the design so that would be at the next Workshop meeting would be the next discussion so it's as soon as the governing body has reached a
consensus uh then our engineer can go out to bid essentially the next day we can advertise okay that authorization is still standing from from last October November was it July okay okay so if residents want to have an opportunity to
have input on those drawings uh I guess I'm wondering workshop's not going to be enough because they're not gonna actually have a chance to see the final drawings before well Workshop do we want to again give more time for the final drawings because then we've got time I mean if we do workshop and then ask for
a final by the end of April but then are we revising them again based on that feedback so then they're not really final because if people are giving yet another chance to input well I guess then we go back to the original questions when you when do you need to go to bed let's start there um from what I heard from Mr rushki last uh last
meeting he would like to go out to bid by the end of April end of April yes yeah because we advertise it's out there for 30 days uh maybe you know the longer we put it out there obviously the better because potentially more bids but at a
minimum let's say we're out for 30 days so let's say from May one to end of May then review the bids we can make an award in June but if there are issues with the bids we don't get enough there's issues with them we we have to read advertise uh that then takes us
into July and August and we'd like to have a contract in place by September so even if best case scenario we were good off the first bid they still have to mobilize plan you know get any necessary permits all of that to again get us
started in September so uh what Mr rushki had uh recommended and his preference was that we actually advertise by the end of April so there there is a set of drawings currently available in the enging section of the website that is the first iteration where it was all straight
walls okay the second version was the changes that committee woman e will just spoke about that was the second iteration uh based off of the last feedback um and there was still more feedback after that but that is what I
currently have that's all I have right now to publish okay why don't we post that for now because I think it was tweaking from okay yeah so we'll publish that we'll have discussion about it and then we could just finalize if there's things like can we have a ladder instead of a stair or St that's an easy it's not
because um we're not making a big change keeping all the main components feedback was the major components keeping most of if not all except for that one portion all keeping it slope from an engineering he would fix the slope uh where we
talked about there were some areas that we were concerns about but other than that was just minor you know stairs versus ladders that kind of thing so hopefully um you know we get any more input at that Workshop meeting we can keep it another week after but if there
are you know if we get that feedback then you would certainly want to review it and then come with another decision so I think we have to set a date and say either the workshop's the last opportunity or kick it down further yeah I would suggest if you post it we also
to the extent of our ability encourage people to weigh in post posting it so prior to the workshop so that we go into the workshop with any additional feedback though it sounds to me like uh I was merely a resident when this all
happened last year and it sounds to me like based on the feedback you are collectively very clearly heard the feedback and made the changes based on that already so um I hopefully don't believe will be too many more
significant ISS not we not good but I would just give that up I guess to every extent possible I would try to encourage if anyone does have feedback to provide it prior to the workshop so that you can move towards a
finalization okay I will uh follow up with John rushki though on some of those little details but also if we can get something that is easier for residents to look at yeah that may push what I can publish because if we're looking for something that's more of like a sketch
as opposed to just engineering drawings those tend to take a little bit longer well yeah let's push out what we have yeah but if we could supplement it at some point that would be great yeah and we're referencing the amended drawings correct original are on there it's the amended ones that are not on there so
those are what would be push pushed out this week okay great sorry might we want to remove the original ones if they're no longer being considered um just to avoid confusion that's all yeah I I could put an update that says
this has been you know linked to the new one nobody's really seeing because it's it's no I'm just suggesting that you know maybe there's a current View and the proposed view just to Showcase that there isn't such a substantial difference versus the original one that does show a substantial difference which
has already been changed um I would just suggest removing it just to avoid confusion that's my recommendation it's not being considered I don't know why it should stay up I mean aside from rejected over it or something from a public record
perspective so that way someone doesn't say well it's no no longer visible I would just fair enough caveat that says this is no longer big big red mark with an X through it or something along those lines yep we have no further hands raised on
Zoom thank you Mr lanti um anyone in the audience who would like to come before the mic is encouraged to do so I now close the second hearing of citizens um is there a motion to adjourn so
moved all in favor I I thank you thank you everyone thank you see you Mar everybody night recording