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All right, I will call the April meeting of the Environmental Commission to order and we will begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And then we can move to our statement of notice. Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, notice of this meeting was sent to the Cranberry Press, the Trenton Times,

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and Home News Tribune on January 5th, 2026, posted on the bulletin board, posted on the township's website, and sent to those who requested a copy of this notice. >> Okay, we're going to move to roll call. John >> here,

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>> Dela >> here. Steven >> here. >> Gabe >> here. >> Natalie Mart is not here. Jason's not here. Teresa here and Troy >> here. >> Okay.

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>> All right. So, we did not meet in March. So, we're going to look at the February minutes. Take a look at the February minutes for approval. Okay. Do we have any comments, corrections, or

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>> other thoughts on the minutes? If not, is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> I will make a motion to approve the minutes. >> Do we have a second? >> I second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I think the eyes have it. Okay, then

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we're ready to move on with the agenda. And just out of the frosty April weather is our township committee liaison >> is Dr. Rogers. We go by

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>> the grand granddad clock. >> Oh no. >> Do you think it's Frost warning tonight for those of you who have already put tomatoes and peppers in the ground like myself. >> It's okay. We We do this every year, but we know how to we know how to protect

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them. They'll be fine. We're worried about We have a a lime and a mini lime mini orange plants. >> Yeah. >> That we put out in the summer and in the winter and we've already put them out and then there's the debate. Do we bring them back in and out? So, we're going to cover them. Hopefully they'll be fine

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with the blankets, but I saw my neighbor covering all her her hedges with sheets and stuff. >> I was going to say strawberries. Yes. If the rabbits don't get them, the frost will wonder how they keep the rabbits. Not

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working, huh? Maybe maybe you could just go to the side for tonight. >> Yeah, maybe. >> I don't know what happened. >> Technical difficulties. >> Anyone else working? >> No, that's not working.

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>> What? >> Mine is. Yeah, this is working. >> Mine was working. >> This one's working. >> Yeah. >> You're not working. >> And that's not working. >> We're not allowed to be in here cuz our

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name makes noise. >> Oh, yeah. I think she did. Okay, let me just um look what she does for us. So good. Um anyway, if everyone has noticed outside there's um every township

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committee meeting I have been trying to uh you know bring up about um you know uh recycling and hazardous waste pickup days etc etc. And there's this new book, Recycling the Solid Waste Guide, that's out there. So maybe it's me not so new,

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but I noticed it as being new. It's lots of great information right out front of the office in the township hall. Um, so let's keep the word up, you know, that we need to mulch our grass back into the lawn. If you have lawn, do you have

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lawn? >> Yeah. Okay. Um, yes. So let's make sure we do that. Um, and we and make sure we don't clip our grass really low because if you have a little bit higher grass, it helps shade, use less water, and I think we are in a drought warden still,

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I believe. >> Yes. Well, we're in a dry spell technically, >> right? >> This um >> we're not in a drought. >> It's not a drought. >> No, but I think we're in >> It's a dry They call it a dry spell. Dry >> warning state puts out. >> Yeah, it it depends on where you are,

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but definitely a dry spell. Okay. So, let's make sure we don't cut our lawn really short and shade our soil. Um, the other thing is uh 250th anniversary. I'm the leazison to all the activities that are happening from the township

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committee, the chips and um HPC. Lots of good stuff happening. I think there was burgers and beers. Did that happen already? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Did you do it or no? >> Uh, I was away. I was at a Girl Scout thing, but I saw folks at our Friday Girl Scout meeting talking about going to it afterwards,

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>> Friday night, so hopefully they win. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um, so that's happening. The Colonial Fair is happening May 15th. That's a big deal. Uh, Milstone, >> May 17th. >> 17th. Thank you for the correction. Okay. Oh, sorry. I want to take that window away. Um, uh, but they're

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dedicating this uh the house um the 1713 house that day. There's been so much work done on that. Um I think they still have to do the rain garden though there. Um so um that's going on. Um I am the

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liazison to the shade tree. Uh one of our favorite events is Arbor Day on Friday. Um it's Friday, right? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um I don't have it on in front of me. Um so I get to go the mayor's out of town and we have a little proclamation

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and um it's a fun it's a fun event. Um, I just love their little poems. I hope they're gonna do that this year. >> The second grade where you park. >> Yeah. Um, no, I think this >> something on campus this year. >> Yes. Yes. It's on the school grounds

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this year and um Yeah, it's a good thing. Um, another thing is there's money going towards there's this shed that that's on school grounds that is being redone. Um, we've had put money in the budget for that. We were talking about the schools.

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Um, so that's being redone. Um, and um, Shade Tree also is going to be they checked out the trees. They have a tree list and they've numbered them. You know, Gabe, your wife's on that. Um, they've numb, you know, they're they're numbered on how hazardous and how much work they need to be done and they're

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going to start on Main Street and hope and trim those things up. And this year they are going to be um, actually planting trees. Last year they didn't plant trees because of the drought situation. Um, so they are going out to bid and planting I can't remember how many trees. A good number of trees.

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How's that? >> Along the streets >> right away. Devil strip, whatever you want to call it. Um, yeah. And >> were they able to get like sort out like a water situation with DPW or somewhere to >> I'm not, you know, honestly I didn't go to the last jet tree, but that is something they're working on. So, um,

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there might be a little bucket brigade going on, but we >> I'm not sure. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah, but they wouldn't plant them unless they were >> water figured something. >> They figured something out. They're really on the ball and they're doing I mean it's great. They have CFUs and all

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that stuff. Um uh any questions? I think that's it. Oh, about the letter um to the >> Oh, yeah. That went >> Yeah, that's a while ago. >> Yes, because we didn't meet in March, you know. >> Yeah. And I think you had missed another

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one where I was going to talk about it, but uh we can do it, but it has there things that we need to do before we actually send a letter from the township to um organizations to talk about their sustainability. >> That's fine. I mean, just let me know

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where that fits in. >> Yeah, I can't remember where we left off. >> You'd ask for approval. um reported that the letter of introduction that will be sent to our corporate needs is to be sent to the >> Okay. So, I need to bring it to the township committee for approval.

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>> There we go. >> Okay. >> From my experience, if you don't pursue these pretty regularly, you won't get a response from like people at the ESG. I mean, you know, it has to be kind of like a thorough followup um from our side if we

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expect any kind of action. Of course, they get a ton of emails at these email addresses, and we'll have to I know it was asked um uh for for contacts. I do have contacts at each one of the our our neighbors to the west. >> Oh, great. >> Yeah. Uh so I I do have email addresses

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and contact names. >> Um >> however, it may have to be either deescalated or or escalated. Um you know, depending on like where this person is positioned and what their interest is in our our area. uh per se.

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So Wayfair may not be necessarily interested in cranberry. They may be interested more in I don't know the Midwest or something like who knows. Okay. >> Um but uh >> we'll find out. >> Yeah. But we we need to push it out. Exactly. We need to push it out and find out when it comes back. Um

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>> we just have to be careful about what we what's spoken about. We got to remember that EC is advisory. We're not the planning board. And most and everything that's been done, you know, uh like a lot of things that have been done, you know, regarding storm water management or whatever is planning board stuff. So

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they >> which is fine and that's why I wanted to be respectful and and ask like, you know, put it out there as like it's an idea. >> Yeah. >> Uh you know, I didn't pull the trigger on anything. So >> yeah. Yeah. I mean, and it would have been good if we had contacts already because we're doing the stream cleanup

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the 20th year. >> Exactly. >> I have been to every single one. I think I might have missed one, but it's been 20 years we started that. Yeah. So, it's pretty amazing. Um, yeah. So, I mean, so sometimes our neighbors, like our corporate neighbors, come to that, which

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is really cool. And maybe we could get some contact there that we could send a letter to. Um, I think that's it. Any questions? Cool. Done.

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Okay. Thank you. Uh, the DRC did not meet. The planning board did meet the planning, but I don't know if um I mean Jason did not alert me to anything that we needed to really weigh in on. So

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hopefully that is the case. Our parks liaison is not here tonight. So, we'll move on to old business and we can begin with anything on the adopt a catch basin front.

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>> Nothing new. Okay, then we can >> question >> maps being created and community wildlife habitat certification. Um, no, no real update at this time. I do have a

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question about the uh colonial fair. I was contacted by Karen Kelly to have the Girl Scouts run a table and I'm wondering now um is does it make sense for like the theme of the fair to have

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any other type of like community outreach tables? Like should EC have a table or is it just kind of not the right theme? >> The answer is yes, we're having a table. Oh, amazing. >> Yeah, I I I spoke to the organizer >> of it. >> I spoke to That's why it's on the agenda

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under new business. So, we're we're going to do a table. Um it'll be like cranberry day essentially. I'll try to do the um the watershed model. >> Okay. >> And um any anyone's welcome to come. It's well, we'll get to do it right now.

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It's 10 to 10 to three. >> We have one we have our own model. We have a new model. a new monologue. >> Yeah, it's cute. >> Gabe and I displayed it last cranberry day. >> I got some things from Anjek, but that

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was ours. That that was ours. And that actually was better than Yeah, it's down in the storage area. So, >> we have control of that. Yeah. >> No, I was gonna say like that I'll type I'll wait till new business when you bring that. >> Okay.

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>> Okay, cool. >> Okay. I mean, it doesn't matter. >> Then then I think all I'll say in in terms of community wildlife habitat certification, then it would be great to have um I can get print outs of those >> info. We should have info for folks to take home to know that they can certify

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their own yards. Yes, >> it's May. >> It's May. This is the time. And there's I think a code usually in May. >> Oh, I think we're about halfway there. >> Yeah, we're like halfway. We're at like 56 I think is the last number. Okay.

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>> So, if you tell me, I will put it in. I'll put it in. >> Okay. Yeah. I just I think the the trick is always to link to like anformational page and not the actual signup page where you spend money because that's always been the thing where I think it costs like $25 to register your home.

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>> Yes. >> Um but yeah, I'm happy to copy paste from here. I and I'll send that over to you because now's the time for for May to get that discount, that 20% off. >> Yes. And you know, we we could put a notice in

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the town's email. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> That is >> that's the mayor's letter. >> You're going to Well, there's there's two things. There's two things. The mayor's letter and then there's the town cranberry news email. Do you know that there are two emails, >> but they come one comes right after a

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meeting, the other one comes. >> One is I think the mayor is monthly and the other one is weekly. >> Yes. The cranberry news is weekly. >> So I could so mayors is monthly. >> So I should submit to the clerk one >> monthly. >> I should submit one to the clerk. Yes.

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To get to have that lives there on the news at the bottom. Got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. >> That's right. >> All right. We'll do. >> Yeah. >> We'll do. >> That's really good. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, you know, maybe you might want to like do a little TC TC corner like you don't have the

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>> Yeah, I think probably for the TC I'll have like uh more of like an informative blurb and then with the clerk I think I end up just sending like a link with like a dates like the month of May. That's right. You know, there's this initiative like take a look, click the

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link type. Okay. So, >> um I do have an update for the outdoor classroom initiative. Great. >> Um I recently met with Dr. Dizzler to sort of check in. >> Um they've recently opened up many new

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spaces at the school like the academic commons and the new aquaponics lab. Um so the outdoor classroom kind of took a backseat and so we were checking in on it again. um through the winter they were sort of working out their IT sort

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of situation on how to uh set up an account and get the the video working with solar. Was it getting enough sun for the battery to stay on? They worked out at the school that they want to live stream the way that like the Eagle Cam

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live streams like the nests. Um that wasn't the use case that I had sort of envisioned. I had thought they it would just be on all the time, record video and then they would access video whenever there was activity where having uh access to the live stream on all the

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time in the background in the classroom I think uses more power than we were sort of expecting having like multiple classrooms live streaming all at the same time. Um but we're still sort of tinkering with it. They I think also in the meantime they lowered it and also

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changed out what bird feed they were using. Um I feel like maybe moving it lower might not be as good because the birds might not come if it's too close to the ground then they want the kids to interact with it. So, um, when I went to visit Garden

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Club, I kind of phrased it as like, you know, we're being citizen scientists and we have our hypothesis and we are trying things out and we're tinkering with it and we're coming up with ideas and of why things are or aren't working. Um, so yeah, so still kind of in progress to

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see sort of how effective that bird feeder is there in that spot with that in that enclosed courtyard at that height with that food. But it's all been a really fun experiment with the kids. Um, we talked about invasive plants and native species and what we planted there

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and how to identify them, why we planted the natives that we did. Um, and yeah, the kids were really, really excited about it. Um, and they're excited about weeding of all things. Good. >> Yeah. So hopefully I'll be able to visit

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um a few more times um throughout the rest of the year um to help them keep checking on it. Um the school would be happy to host us if we'd like to go visit it and see the space. Um Noel Kenny, who's um the Cranberry parent

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who's painting the mural, is about twothirds of the way done with the wall um with the warm weather we had a couple weeks ago or last week really. Um she did kind of start up again. So just kind of based on the weather and her schedule, she's kind of making her way through. Um, we have a new teacher at

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the school who's leading um the aquaponics lab. Uh, Susan Schiffman retired and now we have Miss um, Sturio who's leading that space. Um, so I'll be meeting with them to talk about what the next big step is in developing that space.

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>> Is that going to be in the garden or is that indoor? >> It's indoor, but we're trying to make like an outdoor connection to it. um so that they can maybe even do like um like a comparison of like, well, if we grow kale indoors and we grow it outdoors, is

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there a difference? Um what what do you what what does the plant need in relation to being outdoors as indoors? Um there was talk about um cold frames potentially in in the late summer, early fall um so that we could sort of see how

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we could protect plants through the winter and get maybe like a a later fall harvest of like root vegetables and lettucees and things like that. Um which leads me to like the next ask. I think the next project that they would like to take on through like the budget that I

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had sent, I think it was like in 2024, was the raised beds. And I think that section of the budget comes to about $1,500 to buy the beds themselves, which I think comes to about $800. We were going to do um these terracotta pots that you

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bury within the raised bed and then you fill with water and the water seeps out slowly through the pores of the ceramic. And so then it kind of keeps the wa keeps it kind of consistently moist. You don't have to water as often. So all of these are like different things that we do to sort of bring down the burden of

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maintenance on like the teachers and staff. Um and then I think the rest was maybe just like the the top soil and maybe like straw mulch um to sort of protect the plants in the beginning. I think maybe also the accessory the

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add-on accessory for the cold frame part of it. Um, I think there's a hoop that you can buy and that hoop also we can double um and have it be not just a cold frame but also a butterfly house. Um, and I have an example of that. There's a master gardener named Bruce on Route 130

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who showed had took a whole video of it of how he was able to overwinter rue and dill and parsley in that same raised bed with the hoop add-on through the winter. And then by then in early spring, you know, you put your little caterpillars in and then you're able to like have

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them like overwinter and just have a big butterfly release. So that that's the next kind of big idea that they would like to work on. they are um kind of showing their commitment to the space by um investing I think it's like $1,500 in

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uh burying the gutters underground that were kind of a tripping hazard uh and uh pulling out one of the stumps and then lowering one of the stumps to make it into a table. That had just kind of been an expense that we didn't know who was going to pick up or how we were going to

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fund. Um but the the school said that they would take that on um if we could get help sort of elsewhere with like more of the exciting projects that are more of like a the community could really sort of see with their eyes, right? So they were willing to do kind of that infrastructure support um if we

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could somehow then you know tackle this one area. Um the PTO is fundraising for this space as well to help. We have about $1,600 from the fall fundraiser that hasn't been used yet. Um, with administration, we decided that that

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should be for tools for the kids. Um, so things like compost buckets and hand magnifying glasses, little hand microscopes, maybe clipboards, sit upons. So things that were maybe we don't have the funds right now to buy

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like seating and like tables and that kind of thing cuz it's very very expensive. maybe having like waterproof blankets and situpons just to get the kids out there now to like see and interact with the space before it's like built out. The last the other the the one last thing we were talked about as

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well was some sort of like deck platform stage situation that could also be a teaching space where kids could do skits. It covers the drain. It kind of lives above the drain so it kind of covers up that eyesore where everything kind of dips down into the water and and drains out. Is that in the middle of the

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drain? Where's >> um It's um like the bottom left corner. >> It kind of all kind of comes towards Okay. >> the middle left. Um uh Dr. Dizzler said that she would present that project to

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the Cranberry Education Foundation. Now that they've finished um you know, funding the aquaponics steam lab, um they don't really have a new project to put their funds towards. So she is going to put her word in for that. So there has been this real big vote of

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confidence from the school to kind of work on that space and make it and turn it into something that people can actually come and visit, right? Because it just needed just a little bit more of like structure to make it feel like a finished space because right now it is just grass with some with some stumps

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and some things and some rocks and not ready for prime time. >> Yeah. It's not ready for prime time. So >> Okay. >> Yeah. So that's the update. >> That's great. lot going on there. >> So, I know you had asked for like an ask in like January of like how much do you guys need or what are you working towards and it wasn't really till now

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that I had a clear idea of like what the next big project was going to be. >> I feel like I put something there. Okay. >> Um but I'll have to I don't remember what it is and I don't have the budget in front of me for sure, but there was something there. But both >> but this would be for like installation

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in the fall. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. it I mean it doesn't really matter when but yeah >> so >> it's it's the amount so at some point as we're getting towards the more presentable stage of the

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of the classroom will there be some information about it either online or in the space about our contribution to you know where it was this was supported with the help of

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the the school and the environmental commission and I think when that comes around it'd be good to have our name there as one of the contributors not on the top but >> yeah no absolutely >> just to you know and then a visit would be great I would love to see it at some point and obviously others probably

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would be interested so >> when you think that's a good time we can maybe in uh >> yeah there school there's like a covered section that is a has brick and like a concrete pad um right now um the custodians have a lot of like storage

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there that needs to be moved. They have some blackboards that are also in storage that they that they want to bring out and then actually mount as like teaching elements. >> Outdoor blackboards. >> Outdoor blackboards. >> I love that. >> Yeah. So, we want to put those there. And then once Noel is done with the painting, then we're going to kind of

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turn our eye to that brricked wall with with the blackboard and then have some sort of like the name of the space. So the contribution like the garden rules like our our mission statement and kind of pretty up that area. But I think the first the custodians have to move their

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stuff out. The blackboards have to come up and so yeah step by step >> it's still in progress. >> In progress but that's the update. >> Lots of stuff happening. Thank you. >> Yeah. You're welcome. >> I look forward Yeah, the live stream. I mean I remember that came up but it would be great if

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>> even if the classrooms can get the live stream. I think that would be worth worth to having. All right. Um, I'm going to go down preserve management and trail maintenance. And I did walk the Reinhardt last

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weekend, I think. Uh, and I encourage you all to walk trails that you're committed to walk because not just, you know, to enjoy it, but but to really observe things that you might see that need attention. um either small things or big things.

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Small things because we would like to have the do another um trail day in June. Um but the question is where to do which which preserve would be the best for that. And also there may be big things that I

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need to put on on Jerry's list. Jerry is very busy. I mean the p public works is very busy right now. But I did give him some trees. There were some new big trees down in in Reinhardt that really surprised me. One is remarkable because

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it's like a 100 foot tree that's at a 45 degree angle over the trail, you know, and it's like pinned up high, but any wind it could just come down. So, it's it's kind of safe. Then there's one on the ground that's even bigger.

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It's it's Yeah, >> but recently you can pass the trails and I know people have been commenting. I have received word >> from the Facebook >> crowd. >> Um I don't I never look at Facebook. So,

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but yes, I did get word. Now, I don't know. Did they site specific uh preserves or trails >> I think or just generally? >> Cranberry Brook. >> Cranberry Brook. Okay. So, that's one I haven't been to. I haven't has anyone been there lately. Okay. So, I need to go there.

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>> I didn't notice any trees. >> You notice any down trees? Okay. So, I'll go there. But maybe that'll be good for the for the um the June event. >> Oh, it does. Okay. >> Further. >> Okay.

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>> Yeah. Yes, Tree has a tree walk. >> Shade Tree has a a tree walk event. >> Is it June 6th? Do you know if it's June 6th? >> I'll find out. I'll talk to Kathy. I'll talk to Kathy. >> Yeah.

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>> Um >> tree walk event in June. >> So I didn't want >> which is which is just like >> Yeah. So, and when you pick a date, let's put it out. >> Yeah. >> So, just don't

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>> Well, yeah, I'll try not to. Okay. Um, sustainable Jersey. Nothing new there. Okay, that's right. They're still re they're redoing their >> annual meeting coming up in May. And

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also, we're doing a walk to school event which is part of the state Jersey. That's May 8th. Uh, and we're moving the location to the post office >> to try capture the other side. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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location of what >> where we start and I would love >> I always you know like let the kids know that this town runs on volunteers and commissions and boards so Steve come on out >> can you come out at 8 o' >> May 8th

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>> May >> this is the walk to school event >> May 8th that is a Friday I believe 8 a.m. >> 8 a.m. >> I'll be there. >> That That'll be a throwback to my

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walking the boys to school days. Oh, it was so cute. >> I met actually I met a parent I used to walk with in the Reinhardt and he was there with his his younger son. >> That was great. >> The post office

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>> right at the post office. That's easy. >> Not too far. >> At 8 >> 8 a.m. >> So, it's it's May 8th at 8 a.m. 8588. I don't know.

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>> Eights are wild. All right. So, community energy plan. lot has been going on behind the scenes and thank you Gabe for participating and thank you Barbara for participating in this and moving things forward on

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different fronts. The resident survey is live and I did send you all hopefully you received and now can see uh this QR code and and also just the link >> you see it at the trail head. I put one

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in the Cranberry Brook Preserve uh kiosk. >> I saw one. Yeah. >> Um Donna got one into here >> in front. >> I gave one to the library. Now the library doesn't have a bulletin board which is a little weird.

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>> You cannot post anything in the library. >> Yeah, they put it on like >> it's it's a little rack and I think nobody's gonna see it. >> I shouldn't say. But the other thing but the other thing about the library is they also didn't want to give the other

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energy company a copy of the report so that they could participate in the program which kind of >> well yeah >> it is that that's what I got out of that. >> That's exactly what I got out of >> Okay.

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Anyway, there's money, federal money, I think that might get >> Yeah. >> I don't know. So, I just So, this is the resident survey for information. In parallel

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through other channels, Harris needs to get municipal information about our infrastructure. So, we've got township information, but we wanted to get information about the library and they had a study done. They're not willing to share it at this

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time. It's a little strange if you ask me, but that's the way it is. So, um >> what's that? Yeah, if we could because it's not like they're going to make that information public in any way. It's just that

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>> Yeah, I think a little maybe maybe misunderstanding there, >> but >> who who did it? Yeah, >> we don't know because we don't see the report. Sorry. Um but please um now I put this

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on to I put this on the weekly letter. Hopefully I did not see it last week. So hope >> I didn't see it either. >> Yeah. And I got it in on Monday, >> but hopefully it'll come out um this week tomorrow. >> Should we share?

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>> Yes. share as wildly and widely as you think you can because who knows what'll hit because you know these days uh one person's you know phone app the other person you know is like well I never look at that you know and they

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want papers or whatever they want so >> and in all means >> um I will go to the other well I I will go to the park and try to find a place but the park is not obvious where I put it. You know, they don't

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have places where you can put things. So, we try to get the information out, but I think if it appears in the email, that'll be good. If you can put it on those social media, that'll be good. Um, just to get >> Well, I thought it was just me. I couldn't find it on the on

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>> Well, it wasn't on the email. >> I thought Yeah, I was like, wait, >> yeah, >> next week. >> Hopefully. So, we'll we'll look for that. Um, anyway, things are moving along. Although this timeline of finishing is a little

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bit up in the air and I have to talk to Harris about what they think it is because suddenly there are deadlines appearing that we knew nothing about. So, I have to find we have to get an extension. >> I'm I'm in education. We're all about extensions.

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>> What's that? construction. >> Did you Did you ask that is that what has to be done? >> I don't know. I don't know the procedure. I don't I have to talk to our our contact at um at sustainable. >> Okay, great.

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>> All right. And then we we did address the engagement with corporate neighbors, but hopefully we'll get a letter or >> that we had a letter. I'm sorry. I forgot this couple months ago. I did a draft, but if you I mean I think

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you ran it through the meat grinder. >> You want to resend? >> I'm happy to resend it. >> I can't remember where it's resend it if >> and I can give you some contacts as a first approach and then we'll just take it from there. I mean as a next step. >> Okay. >> Oh yeah, that' be great.

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>> It was in last week's Was that the mayor or >> Oh, it was in the mayor's. That was >> okay. >> It's at the very bottom. >> It's in the very bottom. >> Okay. It was in the mayors. Maybe I didn't look. I think I looked at the one and not the other. That's why. Okay.

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>> Well, that's great. >> That's fantastic then. So, >> so they should be rolling. >> There should be like thousands by now. >> How many? >> We don't know. >> No, >> I haven't yet.

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>> Yeah, we any everyone here can take it. That's good. >> That's a good number. But we need Yeah. more. Good. All right. >> That's good. Yeah. I think I didn't see that. So, new business. Uh yes. So, the

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Colonial Fair. Um I think somehow the stream cleanup >> I might I may have missed that. So, the stream cleanup is April 25th, which is next Saturday, 9 to 11.

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>> It's rain or shine. >> It's rain or shine. I hear it's the um 20th annual stream cleanup. Last year it was rain, by the way. Um so, tell your friends. I also put one of these into the Cranberry

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Book Preserve kiosk. And by the way, for the That's what I forgot. I knew I'm like, there's something you're forgetting. I made a new mat for the cranberry brick preserve kiosk. The old one had gotten bleached despite the fact that I had it laminated and they promised it would be UV. You know, I

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think the paper was not the right quality. So, I went to a different vendor and got a new map that they said is for outdoors. Let's see how it does. But right now, it looks great because it was hard to see, you know, the contrast was disappearing.

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Um, okay. I think that's all that little stuff. >> Places that both left track. Do you have any ideas? >> Well, I Yeah, I mean that was early on. They needed to know where and so I told

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them we're going to meet in the park and then a dispatch to to Pin Oaks because Pin Oaks always accumulates bottles and cans of soda pop that we need to collect. So you can meet you can go right there

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if you want to or you can come for the for the greeting. Take your bag and go to Pinn Oaks. >> It would be good to sign up. >> Oh, that's right. There's a sign of And then we go back to Pinnox to give them our We go back to the park to give them our bags of trash also

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>> at Pinnox. >> I thought they weigh it. >> They weigh it. They want to weigh it. So, we like we like to bring it back. >> Yeah. Unless it's like an enormous item, but we don't. Usually, it's all cans. >> So, tire. >> Yeah. We're not going to bring a tire

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back. Have we have we ever tied uh like uh stream cleanup or or any of the uh park stuff with like Earth Day? A lot of corporations like to do the Earth Day thing. It's it's on Wednesday. >> They like to tie in to like LinkedIn and be like, "Oh, we did this for Earth Day," you know, kind of thing. So, just

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an idea. >> Yeah. I mean, we always do this on a Saturday just to get people um >> but we can say Earth Earth Day. >> It's a branding thing. Earth week. Who cares? >> Usually is. Yeah, it usually is the one

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of the Saturdays right near Earth Day. It's always right around Earth Earth Day. >> Yeah, >> they sent me us this. By the way, the the watershed sent us this, but we could ask them to mention Earth Day

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or we could put it when I when I put in the uh I think I did I do that one? That was a long time ago. I put in the newsletter. Don't have to look. But >> it was just a suggestion. I mean because a lot of companies like our company uh we have different divisions of our company. Each one tries to tie in like an uh ESG strategy like how we correlate

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that with Earth Day and like how proud we are to work for companies that actually do care about like what we're doing uh for future generations. >> It's a big LinkedIn post. So it ties in well to social media.

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>> Yeah. They have They do always take a lot of like photographs at that event. They use it often for the floor. The next year's flyer is photos from the year. >> When you click on the link for more information, you'll see cranberry people

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from a couple years ago. >> Over the 20 years, it was like five people. Now it's like 40 to 50 people. >> And we meet places. I mean, it's good and it's bad, but yeah, >> the village has kind of gotten

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>> so other places, right, John? I mean, >> and emphasis on safe. >> So, yeah. I mean, and maybe it'll morph into some other kind of thing if we feel

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we're so clean. But they like to call it a cleanup. I mean, they they do it for many, many streams. The Watershed Institute, >> right? >> We're not the only one. >> There's also >> It's a cleanup. They call it a stream >> behind the firehouse. >> Behind the firehouse. >> That's another big thing because I know

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like along my house, along the cemetery. >> Yeah. And then all the garbage from the cemetery blows out into our yard. There's a line of trees there that stops it. But going the other way, I know because my wife and I walk back there, I know that a lot of trash blows back over

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that way. So that could be another area to >> People have gone there. So we can suggest that on Saturday, people have gone there in the years past. >> You could you could lead a tribe. Yeah. Just down that road. It' be great. Yeah. Um, and also fishing debris kind of,

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>> you know, because there's a lot of fishing now. Amazing. A number of fisher people at night. >> You know, I usually walk at night after dark and I've been seeing people fishing at night. Night night fishing people. >> Interesting. >> Has there ever been any talk of catchers

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for fishing line? Uh, like a lot of fishermanmen like will leave their >> line to recycle the line. Normally on a fishing pier, you'll have like a little catch uh cop where you if you have the line that's already like tangled up or something, you clip it and

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throw it in there and it's not a big deal. >> Just an idea because wildlife wildlife gets tangled in it. >> Can you give me that cost? >> Yeah, sure. >> Because we need a new dock. >> Oh, and we could put it at the dock, too. Yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Get to that eventually. She's like, "In time it will >> in the fullness of time." >> Yeah, >> that's a great idea. >> Fishing line collector thingies.

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Sorry. Fishing line receptacles. >> Recept. Okay, that would be great. I mean, it is in the park, so I would clear it with parks. Also along Brinard Lake those sign that's where a lot of the fishermen go

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to either or like before the dam or after the dam because that's where the fishing line. >> Yeah. So that we can we could maybe we put one in those places and then we'll suggest it to parks and they can they can get their own.

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Oh, for the brainer even. >> They're small, you know. Have you seen them? They're they're they're pretty compact. >> But I think you're right. We need one upstream and downstream for the bridge and then we'll suggest it to parks if they >> We'll suggest it to township committee. >> Well, everything's going to be

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suggested. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, if we can get approximate cross, that'd be great. All right. Good ideas. Um, I think I was on to the Colonial Fair, but I had a Yeah. So, the Colonial

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Fair, Sunday, May 17th, and um I was talking to the organizers, so I agreed they're going to try to have a lot of stuff there. Um, there's going to be a lecture at some point. I don't know

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when the lecture the event is 10 to 3. So, you know, I'll set up for a chunk of that time starting at 10. I would like to hear the lecture. So, I might abandon the booth and go listen to lectures. But if it's right there, I can just stand there and listen. I don't know. >> Girl Scouts was told to set up from 12

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to 3. So, maybe that first two hours is like >> maybe that's the enjoyment and then the booth happens. >> Yeah. historic people. There's a historian who was lecturing and other people maybe. So maybe it's the lecture at 10 and then >> funny games

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>> at 12. I don't know why I'm getting such heat, but anyway, it's like hot. Okay, fishing line receptacles. All right. And yeah, so we'll have the table. Now, what do we do about a table? Because

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normally, where do we get that table? Is that >> sets them up? Do we have to request that >> maybe? >> Okay. Should I do that directly with Jerry?

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Okay. Request a table. >> Okay. So that is good. Any comments from the public? Seeing none. Any comments from the commissioners? Seeing none. Do we have a motion to

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adjurnn? >> Motion to motion to adjourn. Do >> we have a second? >> I'll do it. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> We'll see you next time.

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