That's good. How are you? Good to see you. I just It's so good to see you. What's that? That stuff goes pretty quick. Excuse me. And the next Yeah. This is a good
Christmas. Sorry for Oh my god. I aliance to the flag of the United States forever comply with the notice with the notice for digits that the sunshine laws by adopting prior to their intent for this
year a resolution prescribing the dates, times and locations of all regular meeting commission. This meeting is one of the meetings list resolution and copies of the resolution were by January 10 file the burough clerk a motion to file the following tax
collector court and zoning. And I need a motion to file the minutes from the May 20th 2025. I'll second the second reading. Public hearing ordinance 1807 amending the Burley
College redevelopment plan for 24 West Collins Avenue. Um so this could be development plan that was going to be for the firehouse. the developers as well as one of the tenants
um went through the planning board at the um June 23rd meeting and were approved through the planning board. Um as such there is no reason to amend the B redevelopment plan as contained in the
so um the planning board approved the old firehouse to operate as three separate spaces and rent rents out as such. To our knowledge, the only tenic is ends of the earth cigar and coffee shop. They're all going to be there in one spec
as described in our preview. But due to what happened with the planning board two weeks ago, uh I'm going to expand the ordinance number one instead. Second reading of 1809 until Should I do a roll? Sorry about that.
Commissioner M. No. Mr. Amy Henderson Riley. Yes. Commissioner Danielle Sono. Yes. Or mayor sort of. And to to be clear, everything that was in the redevelopment plan was in what
was approved by the planning board. So approving 1807 would have been a redundancy. Would have been doing the same thing twice in two different places. Just speak. Well, just to give my own perspective, it it's not it's not the same. If it's a redevelopment plan that's adopted, the
burrow has the ability to have a greater control exercise and have input into how that business operates than it does when it straight out. That's what they got. It would still
Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Sorry. Excuse me. Uh yes, I have a second reading and public hearing of ordinance 1809 the utility improvement ordinance for water inlets and sewer
openers. So this is um the repairs that we talked about one month ago. Um and it's going to take $80,000 from our water capital improvement fund for the replacement of water inlets and $150,000 from our sewer capital improvement fund for sewer
repairs along the G app. Um the this is an area that's been having certain issues. So when they decided to make soon repairs, the decision was made uh to while we're doing that also do the um the water inlets because we're all
going to be working. So that's what that is for. Um this is the second reading. Yes. Sorry. I open this up for comment. If there's any public comments, this is the second reading. will be voting on that appropriation. If there's any public comments on that
written article and it has the approval date of June there instead of July 7. It was introduced June 2nd. It should say introduced and then adopted and on the sheet here I have it adopted.
You're correct. All correct. Thank you. I just have a question about the the old fire station. I do that now or later? That'll be at first.
Okay. Yes. Commissioner Henderson. Yes. Mayor Ward. Yes. We have the first reading of ordinance 1810 authorizing tax abatement for the property located 627 Avenue and
authorizing financial agreement suits the 5-year exemption and abatement law. Sure. This is this is for the ocean first property. This is um which is going to the former Sun Bank. Um it is
the redevelopment project there is for the first floor to remain. It'll be made into two or three commercial units and then a second floor and a setback third floor for a total of nine residential units will be above. One of those units
will be an affordable unit. This is giving a fiveyear uh pilot five-year pilot on the project. The statutory minimums for the pilots are a tier a sliding scale scale of 0 20 40 60 80.
This sets the the payments to be at 20% of what the taxes would be. 30 40 60 80 and then the sixth year will be 100%. Um that's what this is this first rate and uh further so the pilot does not
take place until the certificate of occupancy has been been given. So in all likelihood this would probably be start more than 2026 five years be 2031 when they would be back at their Uh, Commissioner Mailing, yes.
Commissioner Henderson Riley, yes. Yes. I do want to comment that the public hearing on this will be this. First reading of capital ordinance 1811 appropriating $100,000 from the general capital improvement fund for preliminary cost related to the improvement at
Scottish Freddy. So there is a cafe grant. It's a cultural arts disabilities expansion program and there's a grant application that'll be coming this summer to be able to apply for a fund to approve this
spring. But in order to do that they have requirements to be able to submit for this grant. The requirements include a market study included the viability of the facility, a current appraisal facility, um the tendment
authority who actually write the grant application and have a lot more understanding of of the system and people in place um as well as fees to the New Jersey economic development authority. So because of that we need to appropriate this money in order to be
able to submit a full grant application that this is the final vote this August 4th it's the first commissioner yes commissioner Henderson Riley yes matter yes
first reading of 1812 adopt the amendment for the developer plan 101 wester boulevard so this is school supply store, a blue building, um the baby blue building. Um and they've had a
pre-existing non-conforming use areas to operate as a business, but it's in a residential zone. And it's been made aware to us that a lot of businesses have been interested, but because of its zoning have been worried that they're not going to get be able to operate a business there. So
if we develop a plan um would open it up to use for businesses such as retail, service establishment, restaurants, excluding fast food, offices, studios, or mixed use of any of those that I just mentioned. Um so this just kind of lays out some more flexibility for that space
that's been vacant for for a while. And the final reading on that be again at our August meeting. Yes. Commissioner Henry. Yes. Mayor work. Yes.
Public comment on the resolutions. I just had a simple question about your name. Oh, I need address. I understand the three units that I read about the cigar club. Does one person or
company own the whole thing and they're going to rent out three separate units, not three separate own? Correct. There's one LLC that owns the building and it will be out to up to three different and only one of the three tenants at the
moment to our knowledge. Has there been any um people voicing any problem with cigars and all the smoke? There were a couple of people that were here a month ago. Um, there was not anyone at the planning board meeting that spoke against the SP.
Uh, they had told us that they will be up for spoken allow after 5 p.m. and um explain a pretty extensive um analogy. So that was that's what they explained the planning board meeting
which is similar but much much more nuanced than I think what we got at the meeting the main reason yeah I it's a fun idea I just think it's in a very frequently place for kids and people who don't know
the Thank you. Hi, my name is Kim Burns. I'm from Tobacco for Health New Jersey. Um, and then the Roger. I'm Rosen County Department of Health and Human Services
and I'm the coordinator of that program and it was outreach to us from regarding the rules and regulations of the tobacco city error act and cigar
laws. I brought along Kim Burns. She is um regional coord coordinator of tobacco health in New Jersey that really serves the entire state of New Jersey with many different um programming and education
pieces. So what I would like to do right now is talk about the actual rules and regulations of the smoke free air act adopted in 2006
regarding the establishment and existing of cigar bars and lounges. So according to CH3 which is 20,6 a cigar bar lounge would pass to had to
be exist and through there by December 31st 2004 a cigar lounge bar could not be expanded or changed any locations because then
that uh ability to be called a cigar bar is all employees. So in order to be uh part of the smoke in the air act is that this group would have had to be
grandfathered in 2004 and be established at that time. In addition to it, um, they would have had to apply for an OC53.
That is a state exemption contract that would have had to been filled out as well and it would have been sent to the local board of health which would have been the county department of health and we don't have anything
regarding that request. So no OC53s have been sent to the county for approval. We did bring the copies for the semester era. Um that has
app and just like Lynn said, it is outlined pretty clearly in the smokefree air act. Um and that's market for that. Um I understand like the smoking outside um it's just smoking
outside um does not violate the smoke rad. Thank you. Actually you all would like to step outside later the um the manager and the owner of NC if you all would like to. Yes, but it's otherwise you
know stated then it does not meet the standards of the debac. Yes. And then we have the office with the following firefighter and police officers. John Springer, Brett Ducky,
Race, and William. my hair. Can you take your finger? I I John, do that. I will support the Constitution of the United States. Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey that I will bear true that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the United States to the United States and indeed
and of the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties aspire fire entire fighter ent for the burrow of Ksworth.
For the burrow of Ksworth according to the best of my ability to testifi. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. You're up. You can never take out We all have kids.
That's how we like it sounds. I do solemnly swear domly swear that I support the Constitution of the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and
allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments to the same to the government established in the United States established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that will faithfully
I will faithfully impartially partially and justly perform justly perform all the duties as police officer all the duties as a police officer for the burrow of for the bur of according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability
so I'll be done I'll be done My heart is Absolutely. Do solemnly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution the Constitution of the State of New Jersey state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same the government the same established in the United States established the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully
impartially and justly perform just perform all the duties that offer all the duties to the according to the best of my a minute. I
solemnly declare declare that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey of the State of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same as the government
to the government of sacrif of the United States. establish and in this state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I faithfully that I faithfully and partially and just to perform just to perform all the duty that's all duty
for the bur of for the according to my according Everybody this morning, they're in one building. you know, just real quickly, I want to just shout out and thank all the uniforms that are here tonight, for coming out tonight,
but also for getting us through the weekend safely. Greatly appreciated. Um, do something about this lighting. uh to family and friends and uh the rest of our fire that came to watch all the swing were free to leave. Thank you so
much for coming and support your new members. Resolution appointing Christopher Torres as parttime firefighter fire department. Hey folks, can we keep it down please? Troops.
Hey gang, we keep it down out there, please. Resolution referring 1812. Yes. Authorizing award of contract to ask company for the Lincoln Avenue project. Yes. Yes.
All private award contract to Engineering for the construction administration services the downtown to gateway project. Yes. Yes. Authorizing the renewal of shared service agreement for the college of board of education for custodial and
services. Yes. to submit a grant application and execute the grant agreement with the county of Candidon for the recreation facility enhancement project. Yes. Yes. Approving special items of revenue and appropriations chapter 159 to the
live for library grant to digitize retrospect additions 20 2004 to 2024. Yes. Authorizing approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant agreement with NJ
doc groups phase uh three ADA grants. Yes. Yes. Yes. Approve resolution for support county for the Battlewood Lynwood Avenue project. Yes. Yes.
Authorized to wrap the license 2025-10 and 11 words. Yes. Authorization to advertise a bid for the Richie Avenue sewer project. Yes. Yes. Approving a salary resolution for
certain employees. Yes. Amending a personal policy. Uh, amending personnel policies and procedures for the Burough Collins. Yes. Yes. And approving payment bills as presented by the CFL.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, sure. I just have a couple of comments. Um, number one, uh, as mentioned at the previous commissioner meeting in June, we do currently have an opening on the health services advisory board as
advertised deadline. If you're interested in tomorrow, which is July 8th, if you would like, if you're interested, um, please send an email to me at the burough. I'll pass along to Joyce and Services Advisory Board. Um, like to give a shout out to all of our
employees and volunteers in the month of June. Had a wonderful popup team. There was a lot that happened in the month and stayed very busy. So, thank you for all the hard work in some extreme heat. Uh the month of July has a lot of very exciting uh
events coming up tomorrow. There's an interesting animal show right um with the library um as as well as some movies coming up in my park. Um so be sure to check out those events. Um as well as uh what I think is the best month.
Um and then finally uh as noted previously but I'll reiterate that uh I we do have office hours so we kind of need to contend as someone um who has spoken at commissioner meeting before to be on the other side. So if you would prefer uh to speak to me oneon one be
happy to meet with you can always email me but um I will be with 9 to 10 on Friday morning. Um I think that's all. Yeah. So, I have a few things. First, the the pocket park, the long awaited
pocket park is uh moving toward completion. Still a few things to be done. Uh furniture is on its way in. Um the group ground is going to be painting their wall. Uh the mural waiting for some time, but they're going to repaint
that wall. So, hopefully by September, um things will be in shape that we'll be able to do an opening, get that part out of the way. Um uh I want to talk about a really exciting subject which is our water system. Our water supply system.
For the last five six years there's been um there's been press out there about what they refer to as the forever pen. This contaminant called peak bots PFAS um that is in um our water supply is
kind of created. It's a bought shoe from the creation of like firefighting foam and different certain different plastic materials. It's it is what has happened is it's not that there's any more in our water. It's that first the state government the DP
lowered the standard of what was going to be permitted. So they by lowering it means like fewer parts per million are permitted in the water. They did that about six or seven years ago. We all had
to then begin improving our water systems to meet those new standards. And then of course, as government would a few years later be once we're all spending millions of dollars to meet those standards, the EPA, the federal
level came out with even lower standards. So it required now retrofitting again all of our water um supply equipment. Um these are huge expenses. Uh we have two different water plants, one on the west
side, one over by the pool. Um the estimates for redoing of all of these m these plants are anywhere from 15 to 25 million. We have been going through a process um
in the state it's called the I bank the infrastructure bank the I bank we have an application going through there for the common avenue site just starting on the hillrest the pool site and and the good part about it when we successfully
get through this process it ends up being half loan half grant half is forgiven so while we're in that process you've been looking for other revenue streams Okay. And all of that was to get to two things to tell you that are
relatively new. One is um to help with that, we've got a million dollar federal appropriation through Congressman Norcross's office that will be going to help defay those costs. And we also a couple years ago had joined in on a
lawsuit against REN. Um, and there's been a settlement in that class action and the burrow will be receiving approximately a million dollars uh net out of that out of that settlement. We should be getting the
first installment this year. Um, it is when we first talked about it. Um, our our new commissioners uh were, well, what do we do with that money? And unfortunately, this is getting new revenue that is long spent and out the
door. But what it will do is help keep water rates water rate increases less severe. We're still going to have water rate increases. All this other revenue just works to help control what
that cost was. Okay. And the last thing is just a status of project that is more than obvious. Our uh Atlantic and Collings app the temporary bumpouts that have been there forever that you know people have
knocked as many down as we've put up. Um but the tonight with the um one of the resolutions is hiring uh Collars which is an engineering firm who will be an engineer um on the federal grant that's covering the cost. We hope in September
we'll be starting those bumpouts will be made permanent. Okay. So this is all part of a study done by DBRBC on Atlantic Avenues where they painted those multicolored bike lanes and all that stuff. One of the things that is staying
permanent is bumpouts at that intersection. That work should be starting in September. We're entering now like the the construction final design phase to get to get that done. So that should be coming in September as well. That's all I have. Thank you. Yeah.
Um on my end, want to make everyone aware that we're going to be on the lookout for a short-term appointment with the planning board. Um, in the same vein, we want to thank Frankfudo for his years of service we're planning for it. He's going to be not personal reasons. Hence why it's going to be a short-term
appointment through April of 2026. Um, we are going to make the details of that application public on our website and on social media later this week. Um, applications will be due by July 18th and then at our office board meeting, we'll announce the new appointment to
the planning board. Um, It closed July 6th. We wanted to give a big thank you to Audi's elevator operator supply popup that was in the old building. Uh it was an incredible space for imagination, creativity, and and wonder. So, I want to thank the
organizers and I hope to see more popups take advantage spaces that we had available in town. It was it was a really fun uh beginning of summer thing for those with with littles or grand littles or or whatnot. Um, another thank you for the 4th of July. It was a wonderful day. Another very, very fast
bike parade. The last year I was on foot. I'll be on a bike next year. My kids are now officially way too fast to jog out there. Um, but thank you to our police department for making that a state event and to the American Legion for the nice cold Easter for all the
kids. Um, especially the surrounding burrows canled some of their some of their fireworks waves. It was really wonderful to be able to be in that park. Um, and you know, Commissioner Miley gave her remark, but it was really nice
to see how cool the park was and how many families were enjoying um enjoying those that display on the 4th of July. And even more effective on Saturday morning, I brought my kids at 9:00 a.m. for park cleanup and BPW was already had been out there who knows how long
because there was no track to be found in the scavenger hunt where I thought it was going to be paintings. Um, so the park was back to new in in no time. So, hats off to DPW. Yeah, you know, they put two trash cans on the side of their lawnmowers and just go. It was really impressive. My son, he could go on the
lawn, so maybe I'll have it. There you go. Yeah. Um, snow. Um, and lastly, we have a couple of grand openings to be on the lookout for over the next month. We have connection coming up Saturday, July 12th. Um, stay
tuned for an in-depth look at at this new space in our community and we also have some ribbon cutting uh for chatterbot and they would play the date before coming and that's it. So this will be if there's any public comment for matters
outside of Yeah. Hi, my name is Dennis Frasier. I'm at 51 East Collins. Um the reason I'm here today, thank you commissioners for taking the time to see to listen today. Uh my car has been broken into twice in
the municipal parking lot that's across the street from my house in the last year. Um the lot is it's on the intersection of East Collins and Maple. The exact address would be 727 Maple. Um it's a lot of the lights are out in that
lot. Uh there's one lot light 60643 which I reported to the TSMG site um about two years ago in November of 2023 and the website still says that it's an issue that they're working on but it's not. Uh there's another light that's on
there that's on uh Maple itself that's covered completely by trees and so there's not much light. And from my house, I can look down across the lot and it is pitch black in a number of the spots that are in that parking lot. Um and I know it's not just my vehicle. I
know other cars have been either attempted to be broken into or vandalized or stolen outright and everything. So, the reason I'm here, I'm just asking one um if the commissioners can encourage PSCG to repair that one light. Um it's certainly I'm falling on
deaf ears when I write call in, right? So, I'm hopeful that maybe that could get changed. And two, okay, someone from Colling can come out at night and see what the parking lot. Uh it is very much a safety issue, not just from stolen vehicles and potential that, but just the trip and falls. You
can't even see more than three, four feet in front of you on a darn night. And there's a lot of spots in that lot that just have no light whatsoever from this whole lot. So that's everything. I thank you all for your time. Public superintendent taking notes for
you here. You'll be able to take a look at it. Thank you very much. Excuse me. Eric 503. I had a question about the corner. You were talking about planning. Is there any plans to improve the lighting at
that corner? That seems to be the one of the biggest issues I think. It's not part of this plan, but we certainly look at I think I mean we talked about the safety of that corner and I think light better lighting. There's one street lamp there. I think better lighting is still
a long way. I also have uh two comments, two kind of complaints. Um one is about pocket park which looks really nice. So I I complain that
seems like there's a lot of impervious material that would be used there and I you know in light of the fact that you're creating a long-term plan for drainage improvement. I thought that maybe that could have been done a little better. Um, and the second complaint that I had
was I'm just getting kind of tired of that big tent in the middle of town. Yes. I don't I understand why that was allowed there, but you know, if they're going to have you wouldn't allow me to put a tent next to my house and live
there permanently. I only one way we'd never let you do that is the state passed a law at the end of last year that said that that was permanently allowed and we couldn't do any restaurant completely that's allowed to do that. Anybody that had done any restaurants that had done any expansions during CO
and had outdoor facilities at the end of last year I did not know that they were all became permanent and the towns no longer had any zoning controls. Okay. I understand that. Can we at least encourage that to make it a little bit
more tragic tragedy for the middle of town? I think it's a I I can agree. It's the state law. But just so big and not cared for or
clean and plants aren't even watered, you're dying in there, you know, like the restaurant know, you know, you think it doesn't look great. Nothing works better than customers. We we never do. Oh, okay. Well, well, I may not listen.
How do people know go Angel? The pocket park and the design of the pocket was before our Sure. The So, it was it was purely it was designed with a lot more um pvious coverage. Uh it was that was cut back
and changed because the numbers that came in were triple what the final cost was. It it is there's less impervious coverage than there was okay. So at least it's a little bit
better but no we we started out with trying to make it all perus and to handle the weight traffic all that stuff. The numbers are the numbers are it looks great. It really does. When is Sarah's gonna do?
Um I think as soon as we get done all this construction, he'll be moving in pretty far. Yeah, it's going to be a nice little spot. Yeah. And it's our understanding that Sarah is going to maintain both locations. So they will be they will be in both spots when I believe some of different
offerings in one location versus the other with a bigger focus towards the flower display that they have that makes that's I think what they're going to be moving over to the new you mentioned that Collers was going to
do a design look for Atlanta and No, they're going to supervise. Oh, okay. Because it sounds like all they're going to do, and maybe it'll work. It sounds like all they're going to do is put a lot more of those uh plastic soft little bump out things. No, it's going to be permanent. Think of it, think of it like in front of the
post office. Yeah. Okay. We went a period of time with just the yellow things that got destroyed and then they came in permanent. And that works well. I like it. Yeah. Oh, okay. I just laugh at those little things. It's like a game at a, you know, country fair, you know. I
mean, there's never more than four of them. Like the clown that falls. Yeah. People drive over them. It just sense that people are not really driving that well. Anyone? Anyone else have any other comments?
Oh, one more in the back. Tom, 5:30. Just wanted to get your comments on the happenings on Saturday, June 28th on Hat Avenue 4:00. I believe you're referring to the motor
vehicle of some sort. Is that what you're talking about? I'm talking about the 500 motorcy. So there are stand up. So you're thinking about the ads that were driving down.
I was I was there. There are attorney general dire. So although it creates a huge safety really guidelines on that
direct law enforcement All right. So my question is has anybody leadership say it's countywide
have any of you been in contact with your peers and other communities? Have you been in contact with leaders on the on the county level at all? Is there a plan? The constraints that Kevin has because
of the attorney general, it impacts. Okay. So now you got to figure out a different way to to correct the issue because now it's a quality of life issue. It is. Yeah. We've had conversation in
the past with other with other towns with the state. We've gone through a lot of trying to get different legislation adopted that would allow confiscation of the vehicles. I know it was in that phase. There's been a lot. But listen, if the cops can't do anything to stop
it, then I don't care what we do. Put up signs and say don't do this here. like it's not it's not going to affect I mean the percentage is doing and I so you know I I hear you um in August I'll be attending the Hampton
County Mayor Association meeting and I you know we have the chance there to bring it up and see what other mayors are doing in their bureaus how often it's happening for them I think first of all anything like that you have if you're going to try to go to the state level you have to have a tally right x
amount came in June and then happen again in July because you have to be able to prove for it there to be a quality issue. It's happening 10 times a year or whatever. So, this is the first one that's happened since I've been in office and we will keep record of that and I think if you would like to keep
records of it as well. The first step is having data to prove how often it's happening and how often it's impacting our residents. Um, but it's a great point and I will I'll be glad to bring it up at the camp county association and see how residents in other bureaus and how they're how they're handling
and the county folks too because I'm sure it's in a lot more communities. Sure. Did they stay in town? Did they do any buy I $500 and they started in and and and you know and and what chief
what Chief Carrie um what they what they do is try to they're aware when they're here and trying to get them in and out as quickly as possible and make sure they don't, you know, mow anyone down on their way. just getting them safely through Collinswood and onward to the
next the next town so that it does not disrupt our quality of life the longer than the couple of minutes it takes them to to pass it on which is not the best answer I understand but they are aware the police are aware and are trying to get them through as swiftly as possible so it doesn't
I know you I know you want to answer the question I appreciate anyone else and this team is just the tool resolution down but the onus does come from law
enforcement at the top level general and unfortunately I wish I could say that I was more important attorney but I'm not so it's just a piece of that puzzle and again which is why it's good suggestion to talk to all leaders at this level and see if we can do together thank you
anyone Thank you all. I have a wonderful resting