small. So they don't ask Yeah. Yeah. Well, they were people. stand alone for its one nation under God,
indivisible, liberty and justice for all. The burrow complies with the notice provision of the sunshine law by adopting prior to generating this year resolution prescribing the date time location of all regular commission
meeting is one of the listed work by favor 2026. Make second. Make motion. Okay. Um before we get started, we have
the wonderful ladies in orange and we have orange. Um so I'm reading if you want to come up. Welcome. We did not plan as you are as mayor.
>> We often forget to wear our shirts press. This proclamation declared the first Friday in June the be National Gun Violence Awareness Day to honor and remember all victims and survivors of gun violence and reaffirm our commitment
to ending this public health crisis. Whereas every day in the United States, 120 lives are lost to gun violence and more than 200 people are shot and totaling nearly 43,000 deaths annually. And whereas Americans are 26 times more
likely to die by gun than this other kind of and whereas New Jersey experiences approximately 427 gun deaths each year with a rate of 4.8 deaths per 100,000 residents 5.3 billion annually.
168% falls through taxpayers. And whereas gun violence disproportionately affects city with over half all firearm related deaths occur in the 127th urban areas. And whereas cities across the nation including colleing evidence based
strategies to reduce gun violence. And whereas National Gun Violence Awareness Day was fired by the life of Adia Pendleton, a 15-year-old whose tragically killed 2013 on what would have been her 29th birthday, June 2nd, 2026. American orange to honor her and
all victims of gun violence. And whereas the color orange chosen by India spread civilized human life and has become the defining color of gun violence prevention. Whereas by wearing orange on Friday, June 2026, residents of people
across the country will raise awareness, support survivors, and commit to ending gun violence. Now therefore be it resolved that I mayor of the yellow award of do hereby declare Friday national violence awareness day. I encourage all citizens to wear orange
for vocal efforts to prevent gun violence and honor the lives lost by many. Perfect. Hello and thank you for being here. Um, you can see all the long action here lined up, but I want to tell you that this one and this one live here
in town and we're two generations of moms and this is vitally important to us and the fact that people care enough to put the orange on and to uh turn out for some of the events that are scheduled means so much in terms of awareness. We
can beat this. We absolutely can, but we gota got to keep at it, you know. And um Monday, I think from tonight is the annual uh wear orange night at the uh in the waterfront at Nipple Park. I'm
sorry. Well, Snipple Boulevard and it's always just a wonderful event. It's free. Uh the county provides all kinds of nice uh t-shirts and ice cream and good stuff. And there's a resource fair of lots of groups such as moms uh who
will be there with information and items to give you and things to guide you. Um yeah, so try to come and it's a wonderful concert in the plot, right? So you will love that. It's a New Orleans group and it's going to be fun. So hopefully it'll be a beautiful night and
many of you can come and tell your friends. There's a Mom's Demand app that we would urge you to check out online, but there's lots of information here. What else? >> I've got you already passed around.
Cool. A little reminder out. Oh, that's >> good. Um just to update people on what's going on
demand action path.org You can go to every town for gun safety. Just Google it and it'll take you to the research and all sorts of facts related to gun violence. Some of them terms of what states are doing would be that I
believe it's Arkansas. The governor just signed in a law and among other things to ban ass weapons in the state of Arkansas and here I think that makes state and
our mayor governor was also very state police to sign legis law and the red flag law is very specific that honors our second amendment rights process. And we're just
really looking for two things nationally. Universal background check so that law enforcement especially in towns have the same data, same information. And then a new could have a ban back in
the 90s on assault weapons. And why were we so concerned about assault weapons are a lot of fun to go shoot or range and such. I think yes, but as a gun owner growing up with the oldfashioned recreation safety, it's it it's a little
twisted to know that we have approximately 600 mass shootings in this country only because a mass shooting is an intentional shooting of three, four or more people. And the number one weapon of choice, this will be in our
schools, universities, and our hospitals, is the AR bill, not the AK7 so much, but that's not necessary. And we also battle
against legislation for what they call um concealed carry reciprocity, meaning that New Jersey is the fifth safest state. spent about 168 billion on guns in this state. But if
you're from Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, where there is a lot of uh hate speech, hate crimes, misogyny against women, domestic violence, using guns, um if you committed a crime up
here, you're from those states, this reciprocity law would say don't want New Jersey, we're trying them back in Tennessee. Mississippi and what have you. And if you don't think that's a good idea or if you don't think it's coming, we've been
fighting this for 10 years. North Carolina has brought up again. So, it's out there. Again, moms demand action.org. Go through there and see all the stats and every town for guns. Thank you very
Younger do not want to take the recipe I thank Okay. Thanks June 35 amendment chapter 1 141-14 to revise the inspection fees scheduled to match the misal provisions. So this is
the second reading of this of the artist public comment board. This is just updating to make sure that when we do something as a burrow you come in for permits that it's we're charging you. is saying that the municipal land use
in some of the cases we don't and that's what this is any >> yes comment resolutions so this is your chance for public comment on any of the resolutions on the agenda. If you have public comment on
something besides the resolution, you will have another chance. But are there any right now for all? >> Yes. >> And real quick, this is just uh we had
our safe groups report come out and this is applying for a grant to try to focus in on uh a specific area a intersection that role is going to require a lot of work. Um it's a state road, a county
road, a local road and they all intersect. Uh so that is what this hopefully this grant could you know get us towards getting a new idea of what that application for county space recreation
and trustation facility project >> yes authoriz sewer project. Yes. >> Yes.
>> Bernapping as municipal court administrator. >> Yes. >> Approving a refund for tax payments. >> Yes. >> Approve. Approving a contract bill
commission. Yes. So this is J. Can you give a quick over this shared service? >> Sure. Our water our water department um has been uh we've been in a shared service agreement with the Merchville Pensac water commission where they have
been operating or assisting us in operating our water plant. Uh this is uh continuing that relationship, expanding it a little bit uh as we're underway to do major renovations at both of our plants, building an entirely new plant
down by the pool. Um and it's going to bring them in a little more of a construction management role as well um for that. So it's um it's just continuing that work. It's been great. They've done a great deal in helping us modernize our system. Uh and that's all
I'll just continue. Okay. >> And it's a fiveyear fiveyear >> five years. >> I'm requesting approval of items and appropriation chapter 159. >> Yes. So I had asked this question because I don't why we have to. So this
is chapter 159 of our burough code is what we have to make an amendment to whenever we receive grant fund. This the vehicle by receive grant funing. So since we received the communities grant that's why we're
bringing it up to you all >> a shared service agreement through borrow. >> Yes. >> Yes. Um and just to be clear, district service agreement is for janitorial services. It's also um you know
sometimes there are the building and ground department at the school district is very diverse and well uh boyed. So we have under several circumstances needed specific to do a thing and before going outside sometimes you can go to our
district and have shared service agreement there's a place you can work with them to have an electrician come in or do some of those services as opposed to going to a private company execution complete
third urban renewal LLC for the property. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Keep an eye out in the upcoming town of 30 burn is the prior church and now 26
units. Um and so we're going to have some pictures in there for everyone to see. Uh it's really they they did a wonderful job of creating and restoring the space and keeping as much procedure as they could. And we want to let everyone kind of get a sneak peek at all the work that
they did on that. >> Yes. So a few comments today the traffic meeting is supposed to wrap up on Park Avenue. So hopefully that happen soon. Um, I saw a post online fire
today unless you fire. Interesting story. Several updates from the library. Summer reading runs from June 22 present for all ages including adults. The summer reading theme is a story focusing on dinosaurs
and archaeology in advance readers of all ages books. Uh there are several copies of the summer reading books assigned to grade six through high school and those are available on cle. There are some very fun looking kickoff events called Dinos
on the go Friday June 26 from 1 to 1:45 as well as 2 to 2 sessions for ages three and up where you can learn about dinosaurs at the Edelman Fossil Museum. Check out the fossil New Jersey that program space. So be sure to
sign up for one of those. And finally, uh, oh, sorry, a few more things to the library. Uh, family movies on Thursdays at once starts June 25th. On weekdays during the summer, there'll be passive drop in activities in the service area. There's dinosaur scavenger
hunts outside as well as dinosaur craft nights and monthly movie nights. And finally, from the library, unear research local history that will be on Wednesday, July 8th from 6:00 to 7:30. You can join the library College of
History. It's an interactive local history night that will show you how to research at the library and leave time for you to look for some of our archives for yourself. That's what we get with the presentation from librarians at times for personal research.
Several events coming up in town. Uh the mayor may also mention these pride events. It's June 13th from 5 to 8 p.m. in the pocket park. This will have music performances community that celebrate diversity and everyone else who might
make the vibration. In addition Junth that celebration will be on Friday night from also from of course the holiday slavery but also from our community. So be sure to check out
events. Uh finally I just want to highlight working meeting if you wish to join the 17th 11:30 uh approaching all who are the school year my children are counting down safe celebration that's the end of the year and of course father's day coming up in June so shout
out to all father figures especially those who work >> just a couple things one is just noting a couple people that we've lost over the last month the bear will speak about one of them as well but u Carl passed away
and over this last month's father Carl was u was was an ace a big active part of our community as I told them I will never forget the big he's the biggest man I've ever seen in a boy scout that he was a troop leader he did all kinds
of work he was just a great great guy and then we also just recently lost Stan Stan um was I always Sam served on school work um for quite a while. Um but I will always remember when our holiday
parade um our holiday parade started um you know back long time ago it was a Haden Township parade uh never came into the college was the Haden Township parade and uh was run by the JC's uh and
the JC's ran the parade and one year I want to say in like September um they made the announcement that they were not going to be running the holiday parade. anymore. Um, and it was going to stop and a bunch of us kind of got
together and started talking about um, keeping it going, taking over parade. And Stanley um, like led the charge on it and was ended up being the the chair of parade. He ran the parade for I want
to say 10 15 years. Uh it is so much work for one day uh for actually for a couple hours on one day. But Stanley Brown, he was an ace. Um he was a good friend and we'll miss him. Um I just
wanted to mention that. And then also just that the pool's going to be open. The pool getting open in a couple weeks uh as soon as kids are out. Um be nice to your lifeguards. They're extremely hard to get than to keep. Be extraordinarily nice to them
all. Um, and have a great summer. So, >> yeah. So, I did not personally know Stan, but he is over in the Mark side of town, which is where I live. And, uh, speaking with some parent school pickup,
you know, they've been worried about his health the last couple of weeks. And so I it was on the horizon for me. And what they said when they first so he's the him and his wife are the longest standing residents of their street. They've been on the street longer than anyone else. Um
and at the beginning of co he dropped a note in everyone's mailbox off the street and said at 71 come on out your coffee pan and b your coffee can pan. So tonight uh one of the neighbors put notes in every mailbox on that street.
Uh and remembering Stan and uh a way to feel like you were part of the community. Uh what I heard people knew him was to he was a friend instantly and you remembered your interaction. So I'm
sad that I didn't get to meet him, but I'm really glad the people outside. So want to let you all know. um you mentioned called Pride. On June
14th, we're going to be doing a Pride theme rock the block of Habitat for Humanity. So, we're going to be on the west side of town. Um the majority of the uh renovations are going to be on the grant app. Um,
everyone who lives on the blocks that would be able to do this have been sent applications and have been out there knocking on door to door just to get make sure that we have enough people involved. Um, you're going to need upwards of 75 volunteers who work that
day. So, please keep an eye out on social media. If you want to volunteer, you want to paint, if you want to mow lawn, landscape, we're going to be out there from 9:30 to 2:30 on Sunday the 14th. And then Habitat is going to be
sponsoring a block party um in the afternoon from around 3 to 5:30. There'll be food and face painters and just a community event. Um and it'll be honorable side. Um, I think we're going to try to have them on the blocks that that we've
worked on so the work. Um, so more details of that are going to come out. Um, do not get confused with the dates. June is uh someone called it June. What did you call it? I guess May. >> May 7th. May right. Um, we had end of
school summer's getting started. Pride there's a lot of things going on. So we moved the event from the 13th to the 14th. You probably all got mailers in your town prior in January that said the 13th. We have moved into it to Sunday the 14th because we thought that was the
best way to not compete with columns of pride um our event and then also just let the kids come out and enjoy. So keep an eye out for that. If you want to go out here let us know um Junth the pool's opening for the weekend starting this
weekend just Saturday and Sunday. might get a little cold, but if you want, go for it. And then full time, it'll be open on June 23rd because school was moved because they're so June 23rd to full time out.
>> Oh, sorry. Um, so a little bit on public. >> Yes, sir. Just name and address. >> Uh, Grant Patterson, 262 Harvard Avenue. Uh, you're right. remember from the last meeting where I resurface my uh pleasure with the ban on backyard ends. The
challenge to me was to return with eight uh peer residents who were expressed interest in joining the chicken advisory board. So there are five of us here tonight along with our principal advisor Gwen Bailey uh and then three of us who couldn't make it. Uh my wife is here
with the children. She's also tends to be on board and I think a few of us would like to say a few words about it if given the opportunity. Thank you. >> Hi to the phone. I have been coming to these meetings for
well over a decade uh advocating for backyard tickets. So I'm really excited that there's core uh momentum behind it now and my own research and experience with friends who have hens. Uh hens are quiet
but we are asking for no roosters only hens. Uh they reduce the waist stream. A hen eats about 85 pounds of waste a year. These scraps a lot of hens, a lot of waste. Uh they
build soil, they provide high quality manure for compost. Uh they provide pest control as a person who has chronic lime disease. They eat ticks. They eat uh grubs and larvae. They eat mosquitoes.
They will eat meat mouse. and uh they provide thanks. They're great and thanks are a great way to uh build community also. I know as a neighborhood thanks for my garden. I love to share homemade goods. It's a great way to make
friends. Uh it's a great way for your neighbors who don't have hens to reduce their food waste in their backyards. I think it would be a win-win for everyone. We try to be a really sustainable community. so many great things and I think that this is a great
opportunity time to uh take it a step further. Everybody doesn't have to have chickens, but people who do want to have chickens should have the opportunity to give a new pet an opportunity. That's it.
Cara Guerreri at 325 Park A and I also own a small business house Bench at 740 Health. So um in the birding world there is a question that a lot of people will ask which is what is your spark bird? And a spark bird isn't necessarily your
favorite bird but it's the bird that made you start to notice other birds. And my star bird is a chicken. Um, when I lived in Texas, I didn't move to Collinswood till 2020. Um, I had a pretty large backyard chicken operation,
upwards of 20 heads. Um, and it kind of changed my life. It made me for the very first time start paying attention to the weather and being very on top of what was happening in the next week or so, what I put in my yard, not just because
of the fruits and vegetables that I was growing for myself, but because these hens were foraging in my yard and I was going to be king their eggs. And there were just so many things that I had learned having these wonderful creatures like under my stewardship that I then
became very obsessed with birds in general and I probably wouldn't even have my shot today if I hadn't had my hens. Um, so I think they're just a wonderful ad to a community. A lot of people think that they attract robbins and do all kinds of things and I can
tell you I have seen a number of hens grab a mouse by the tail and gulp it down in one gulp. So yes, you'll get to see and learn all kinds of fun things like chickens. Um, and I'm happy to be on a part of the advisory board if I
hopefully am able to do so. Um, and last but not least, you know, I own a shop in Collinswood where I sell bird seed. And interestingly, if someone has backyard chickens, I would strongly advise them not to have birds because hens are very,
for humancaused reasons very susceptible to a variety of respiratory illnesses, including aven flu and a variety of things. And so having wild birds congregate near chickens is never really a good idea. So I'm actually advocating for something to happen in Collinswood
that may potentially detract some customers from. And I think it's that So, just wanted to put the chat. Thank you so much. >> Hi everyone. Uh, Dan Devito, 136 New Jersey Avenue, and I'm the owner of a small business based in Collinswood, Frontyard Food, where I design and build
food gardens for homeowners. And, you know, in addition to all the great things that already said, backyard pens are an issue with food security. Um, when I started this business, a lot of the conversations I had with people was, "Oh, it's would be fun to have a garden." And over the last year, it's
changed a lot to be, "Oh, I really need to know how to grow food." As it gets too expensive to buy, and I get nervous that it's going to be harder to find. Um, the more disconnected we are from where our food come from, the more vulnerable we are. And food insecurity
is impacting more and more people every day. Um, backyard hens is a great kind of opportunity to get closer to where your food comes from. And to the point about community, you know, share with almost anyone who has chickens will tell you they can't consume them all and they end up sharing them with neighbors and
friends. There's a lot of opportunities there. So, I think it's it's a great opportunity for the community. Um, I also think, you know, there there are objections people may have. I think the model we're propo proposing of a resident board is a really elegant
solution to a lot of these because everyone on who wants to be on this board has skin in the game to make it go well. Um, and for something happens where a resident does get a complaint or get a call, it's a friendly neighbor who wants to help them get better at it and
educate them on how to do it well. Um, who's going to approach them and try to fix it. And even further, I think Cara and I as local business owners that will be those businesses will touch this in some ways. They need more skin in the game from a reputation perspective to make it go well and to really help
people be responsible stewards. >> Thanks. >> That's good followup question. Um, so can you tell us a little bit about how the resident board works? So the idea that you brought this
whole group of residents business owners etc. But can you tell us a little bit about the role? So what what is the mission of the board and then obviously the the charge in front of the governing body is an ordinance. How does uh how does the advisory board work with say
borrow staff etc. But what does this look like? I could speak more on that because actually I'm Gwen Bale from Pent Township and chair and founder of Camp Chickens and the reason Cammy or the reason Titan Township has a backyard
chicken advisory board is because Mayor Teague suggested it and it's a phenomenal way to decrease cost to the community was if there was a complaint you're not needing to send out your enforcement officer and all that kind of
stuff. Uh but basically um probably for a size town like like college because we're very very similar in demographics. We have eight members of our board. They're all residents. Uh and once a year we put in our application when the
beginning of the year to be on the board and we meet at this point twice a year. In the beginning we were meeting much more often. And what we would be doing would be when an application came in or somebody had contacted you that they wanted to have chickens here that
whoever is on call and we would divide up that. In the beginning we were on call only like two weeks and because we were on with somebody else you know we were very cautious about everybody being very uh aware of everything and we would go out and the person first would take a
class and it's a three-hour class. actually took the class and um to it that tells you everything and I think the ideal thing with that is it also beats out people that are off fence when they realize exactly what's involved with doing this and then once they get
their certificate and there's a quiz because we don't believe anybody that just says that they looked at the class um they have to pass the quiz then whoever's on the board for that month would go out and do a home visit site first and make sure that their property
can um approaches exactly what the ordinance says like where the coup's going to be, setbacks of any kind, whatever, and make sure they know where the best spot would be, which usually is in the shade and that kind of thing. They learned that class. And then they
can build or buy their coupe, can't buy their chickens. What you have to do next is the board would go back, a member of the board would go back and make sure that it's totally predator proof because we have all kinds of things around here. We all know we have fox now. We have raccoons. We have hawks. It has to be
predator proof. But it's also to make sure that they're staying in your yard because we're very concerned about neighbors. If they had a hole somewhere, the chicken was getting down and getting into the neighbor's yard. So the person goes back and makes sure it's all predator proof and then they can sign
them off. They can take their application to the burough township and get their license and then they can buy their tickets. So I mean it's a lot involved and then if there was a complaint whoever's on call would go out and a lot of times ask
another member of the board to go with them just for reassurance. But the community knows who the board are. You know, we're trying to make sure that, you know, we have a Facebook page. All of our pictures are on there. We try to get everybody that's has heads to be on the Facebook page so that they it's
familiar with us. So, it's not like a stranger. And if there was a complaint, we would go out and as as stuff was said earlier that we're going to educate. If you send your town enforceer out because a coupe stinks, and we don't have that
problem, but whatever. um they're just going to say, "Yeah, you got two weeks to fix it or you get rid of your chickens." Not when you have a backyard for it of chicken people because we are going to say like, "What are you using for vetting? How often are you changing it?" You know, what can we do to help
you with this? But we'll be back in two weeks and it better be fixed. And then if it isn't, then we do or would call in the enforcer. We have no legal ramifications for finding them or doing anything like that. Um so that's
basically what's involved. And in the beginning what I always do with towns and I have helped 35 towns change their law by now. Um is that I am willing to go out for like one of the very first site visits so that they can see carry a
measuring tape so that you can make sure that you're so many feet whatever your ordinance says and make sure everybody's kind of comfortable doing that. And I mean I don't even have a problem if there was a complaint. we don't get complaints. That's the point. But anyway, we I would go with them, too.
So, I mean, you know, right next door, it's like not a big deal. But that's what's involved. And I think that it does really elevate that whole concept. And people would might have said in the past, well, you'll kind of let something scoot under. You know, you you kind of
think, uh-uh. You know, we don't want any bad apples messing up our program. If anything, I think we'll be tighter because we want it to be done right and that's the whole benefit of it and it's free to you by doing it that way.
>> I'd say you in general can send not literature but what so we can kind of look at the structure dive into a little bit more. It's been a contentious topic in Hollingsville for a
while. >> It's been a long while. >> A long while. So, want to make want to make sure that um on our end we do our due diligence, share some of the facts, give people a chance who may not be in
favor of to speak their teeth as well. Um but if you send us more information on what the act or fulfillment, we'll start their learning officer and just start like hooking holes and what what could go wrong kind of our job to make sure
things don't go wrong. Uh and we get to start looking into I have forwarded everything to Amy. She already has. >> Okay. Um we're up to 29 houses inside the townships. So um and we've now been doing it for
almost 11 years. >> Yeah. We got our ordinance passed. Our f first pilot program was passed in 2015. So it's 11 years. >> 11 years. How many complaints have you passed? >> We had one person who complained about everything, but it was kind of had a
chicken thing involved as well. She didn't even like the woman hanging diapers out in the backyard because it was too much of having an earth mother next door. So she would kind of figure that, oh well, maybe that chicken's getting a little too close to the fence. But it was all, you know, nothing
happened. I mean there was nothing wrong but she just had that mindset and it was an issue one >> in 11 years >> in 11 years. >> Okay. >> Um >> sorry just one quick followup question on this topic. Um the municipalities in Camden County.
Do you know how many pass? >> Um there's 19 municipalities in Camden County that allow chickens that I know of. Now, the other small ones, maybe they have laws that are fine and but it's never come up or they have laws that don't allow it, but nobody's ever
asked to change it. So, you know, I only am aware of the ones that either I've worked with or, you know, that it's come up in the past that, you know, whatever. But there's 19. I looked at it this afternoon. >> I'm just curious. Do you let them Sorry,
ma'am. Can you just give your name? Oh, I'm happy. I live in six pound. >> I'm just curious. Do you let them out during the day? >> No. Well, actually what they have their coupe is where they sleep and lay eggs and that's all they do in there. If the
weather's really bad, they might go in there, but it's attached to like a huge whatever dog run that's predator proof with hardware cloth, not chicken wire. Chicken wire keeps your chickens out of your garden. It doesn't keep your critters out of your chickens. It's all harder thought and that can be as big as
the person is able to have because that's where they spent most of their day. Rule of thumb is about 10 square feet per chicken in there and that's where they're going to be. Now you Yes, you may allow them out in your yard. Our law says that they not be out the wall
don't be present the entire time because they're like two year olds. You wouldn't let your two-year-old out and go watch TV. They're little things that a ball could fly down or they could maybe try to get in the neighborh. So you cannot let them out free ranging unless you sit
there or not sit there garden or whatever. But you have to be there. These are pets. Okay. So pets that make breakfast. Okay. But no, they can be out because it's really good for them to eat grass
and to get sunshine. the more grass and all they eat, the more orange their yolks are going to be. >> One more question. >> Um, if you wouldn't mind asking them maybe after the meeting and we'll just
we try to make it you to us, not you all to each other. Not we don't want you we want you to talk to each other, but we want to keep this you guys. Anyone else? Oh, sorry.
Um, when uh I met with the rest of the folks that working on this, I recently just kind of joined group. I thought that this concept of a uh like a community council was awesome because I can say I would have really benefited
when I first started out ra chickens from having some mentorship from someone I trusted and that was right around the corner for me. Um, and so I think all of us on here, whether those of us experience with it or not. Um, I know all of us are really excited to be able
to support someone that wants to be on this journey and I never had that and I think it's going to be what they all see. Just wanted to say that we have more information. Keep an eye out on it on our um maybe this week meeting. I will not promise
that. That's like two weeks away and I want to make sure we've done our due diligence. It might be more like our July. Uh we'll just kind of discuss it more and uh and chew on it a bit. But thank you all for coming and educating us and then
make a motion close. So second questions out