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Okay. Like to call the June meeting of the Cranberry County Environmental Commission to order. And we'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance 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. Alrighty. And then we'll read our statement of notification. 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. and moving to our roll call. Okay, roll call. John

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>> here. >> Delpha >> here. Stephen >> here. >> Okay, Gabe is not here. Nie's not here. Jason >> here. >> Teresa >> here. And Troy is not here. We also have in attendance Dr. Barbara Rogers and

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parks and recreation liaison Sally O'Grady. >> All right, welcome one and all. Happy June. Happy almost summer. And we're ready to begin with the township committee report if you want

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to. >> Oh, we have minutes. Well, you know what? We have to go back to meeting. That's why I was >> Yep. >> So, we have minutes from the April meeting.

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Is that right? Okay. Okay. So, please take a look at those and that was a while ago. April seems like a different climate. Had those late frosts, killed all our

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stone fruits. Bad news. I have no plums, no peaches. Very >> Yeah. Well, they had, you know, they some had pollinated, but they were so tiny and they just they just turned

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black. Yeah. Cold. We had a We had >> We had two late frosts and then um Yeah. Not many apples either. All right. Any uh comments, concerns, questions?

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>> No. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Eyes have it. Now we can proceed with reports

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from our liaison. >> Oh, I wasn't sure. Thank you. [laughter] >> It's a flowery season. >> Um I'm the I'm the liaison to Sha Tree Commission, too. Um so I just wanted to give you a little bit of an update

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what's going on there. They do have a walk going on in June. It's in Heritage Park. I don't know the exact date, but it is in June. Um, you know, we had to put a tree removal and tree and and uh replacement ordinance in as part of the

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um permit for um for our storm water management um MS4 permit. And um people are sort of getting used to it that be that before you you know cut down a tree and replace a tree that they need to fill out this. It's a very

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simple form. But the part that's really important about this tree removal replacement ordinance is that we have to get a certified tree uh expert arborist and and that is really protection for the homeowners. You know, you don't want to get just some random person cutting

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down a tree and you know um it's for that reason, but it's also for um for our town to be able to keep track of our tree canopy. you know what's going on um with our tree canopy because we do have a a um a certain target which they're uh recalculating

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um eventually. So um and we don't we have not reached I think it was about 20%. I can't remember the exact percentage. Um so that's happening. Oh and it's really kind of cool too. Um some of the finally this year I mean we're in a drought warning not

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necessarily a drought. Yes. Even though we got poured on yesterday. um you know we are putting that out to the public but um um about nine trees here I am on the numbers again about nine trees have been put on in along the devil strip the

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uh right of way and what's what they're doing is in front of the houses they're going uh that the trees are they're going to put an information on how to take care of the trees for the uh residents that are that are have so hopefully that might bring more success

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to the trees So, >> the right of way. It's your devil's strip. That's the um between the Yeah. Yeah. I like that name because kind of kind of sticks. Anyway, um um so, but

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they have to have the tree consultants come back because it looks like they >> Oh, I'm I'm speaking. I thought I'm so loud. Does does that help?

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>> Thanks, Ally. Oh, okay. Um so um so their trees being planted in the right of way and um and they're putting information um on the residents homes that they're in front of, but the um which is cool on how to take care of

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them. But the the little bit um technicality is they may not have been planted exactly, you know, to requirements. So they um the the people that are planning it have to go back and look at the mulching and the type of uh >> supports

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>> the but no the type of wiring that or whatever the >> the ball and how it was taken care of and how high or etc. it was planted. So they're going to have to be looked at again unfortunately. >> Um >> what was that number? I mean you said

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nine trees. >> I think it was nine. >> Nine. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> We had two two on Prospect Street. >> Yes. Great. >> Two out of nine is a huge fraction. >> Yeah. And the other thing that they're doing is um is, you know, they they're

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trimming the trees too, you know, in the in our public places. Um so they're very busy and um uh we've marched a Memorial Day parade. Um uh oh, the other thing is I'm also

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liazison to HPC. And the reason why I'm bringing these things up is because I think they do go to the environmental commission too is they were very concerned about some um two historic homes that are coming down due to affordable housing. And one of them is the Victorian home on South um River

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Road. Um and um they at first wanted thought that it could possibly be moved but that didn't happen. So um so it is coming down but um so their thing is they wanted to have

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it salvaged which that environmentally like reuse would be really terrific. So that's how I kind of got involved in finding out from the lawyer whether pieces of it could be salvaged. So it looks like in the demolition um process that it is

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written that um that uh things of value will be salvaged whatever that val whatever that means um in where it goes. So that's good you know at least part of it won't go into a landfill in a tomb you know and be in a tomb somewhere. So

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whatever can be reused hopefully will be reused. So um that was that. And um and then we've been working on the um the energy um community energy plan, getting that settled and we'll talk about that later, right, John? >> Yes. >> Yeah. And you know, planning that and

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hopefully we we get some people to the public meeting. I hope that works that some, you know, I know it's in the middle of the day, but yeah, that's best I can. The other thing is that I wanted to say is that um the Southern Middle Sex County flood um study, flood resilience study, it's a really long

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mouthful. Um the following night is a public meeting on Zoom. Um they want um it's 10 towns. It's a regional approach to flooding and they want um people to be on public to get public engagement. If you know of a place that may have um

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you know flooding, you know, even with those downpours and if there's flooding, they would like to know about it and um you know, they want public input. And that is the following day. What is that? The 26th or 28 Whatever. Uh >> the Friday after >> Oh, it's Thursday. Wait, when is ours?

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>> Thursday is C and is the energy plan. So that must be Friday. >> Really? I thought it was Wednesday. Okay, >> we're on Thursday. >> Okay. Yeah. So anyway, I hope that some of you can be on that because [snorts] I had to submit a municipal um survey and

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I I got some really great input of like locations like like by the pool um you know uh old Trenton Road always tends to flood right by the old pool club. Um and that's not on a FEMA map, you know, they're they're going by the FEMA maps. Um you know, so those haven't been

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updated in how many years, Jason? Like 20 years? 30? Um, >> you don't know. >> I don't know. >> Okay. >> So, this is a a nighttime event, like an online >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Online Zoom online. >> I'm surprised Millstone flooding is well

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documented. I would I would assume that that would be on the FEMA map. >> Why do I have it? Wednesday is our public thing. It's the 24th. >> I don't know because it's on Thursday. >> Is it the 25th? >> Yeah. that maybe that whole thing is up. I

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I'll check and let you know. Yesesh, it might be at night. Gosh, I had that on Wednesday. Okay, I'm glad I talked about it. >> Um, yeah. So, that's happening too with that regional approach to flooding and then, you know, it's a year and a half project and they're getting input from

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the municipality and stuff like that. So, that's it. Any questions? >> Are they planning to do more uh trees along the streets? Not this year, but >> not this year. >> Yeah. Because of budgets and stuff. >> Okay. I was just curious. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yep. But they they know of

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the location other spots >> and they know the hazard trees and which ones are going to come down, etc. They're doing that, too. Okay. Bye. >> Very good. So, I'm sorry to report I missed the DRC

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meeting for June. There was one piece um they were talking about a warehouse on a property. It's on it's near Brickyard Road. I'm not sure if it's actually on Brickyard Road, but it's over there. Um I'm I'm

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I'll need to educate myself about it, but it was mainly about the the structure if I remember correctly, but I'll have to uh [snorts] >> go back in terms of environment. Did Did you hear about that one? Okay. So, VRC

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is preliminary of course to uh approval by planning board so forth. So, >> right >> I'll have to look into that see if there are any issues. There might be some water issues there because >> well it's pretty

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>> a warehouse that already exists and are they just ch making internal changes? >> That's what it sounded like. >> Yeah. Then I mean then unless they're building new structures within the flood wires, >> right? Exactly. >> Are repairarian then? >> Yeah. Didn't seem like that. I'll have

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to look at the details. >> Um >> can I just finish my Okay. So I was wrong because Okay. >> The regional the flood studies Wednesday and ours is Thursday. So that's what the thing is. Yeah. Barbara, that flooding

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at the intersection of uh over by the Old Pool Club is on the FEMA map >> is >> Yeah. >> Oh, great. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, I reiterated it. Thank you. >> That's the 20. >> I just kind of highlighted where we get

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whether it's up to you or not. Highlight. Yeah, I I think it I think it makes sense, you know, um any anecdotal information that you can provide regarding flooding, you know, the FEMA

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maps are uh mostly, you know, they're they're generated with model. You know, they do take anecdotal information like, oh, I remember back in 1961 it flooded to 10 feet and we have a picture. But, you know, that doesn't always mean as much as the modeling that

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they do. So, if we can tell them where we're seeing stuff, you know, they can refine modeling and, you know, get a better picture of what's actually occurring in the area. >> All right. So, planning board, anything from the planning board?

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>> Uh, I can't remember how far back. Uh, >> yeah, we have two cycles. We we've um I'll just stick to the last meeting. Um we uh planning board voted to uh approve

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the uh affordable housing development at the intersection uh across from the intersection of uh Dye Road and uh >> South River Road. Correct. Yeah. And uh there was a there's [clears throat]

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uh part of the development or what was going in was within the 150 foot repairarian of uh what was identified as a waterway uh which was a farmer's ditch dug along the property line separating this parcel from the warehouse parcel

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behind it. Um the uh the sorry the the stormwater expert uh testified regarding that uh regarding the need for repairarian agreeing that repairarian is important

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identified that uh in its current condition you know the repairarian is poor in that location. Um and what they're going to do is uh collect treat and then uh allow that you know the repairarian serves as a buffer so that

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the water can infiltrate uh filter naturally and then enter the waterway. Secondary purpose is also to overhang the existing stream cool water for the uh for the for the wildlife that lives you know

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along the banks in the waterway. In this case, it's it's a drainage ditch, so you don't have much uh uh you don't have much of the uh the fauna in there. Um so, um to their case, they

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said, you know, we're we're mildly, you know, we're partially in it, but what we're going to do is collect this water and treat it properly and make sure it's clean before it re-enters. They're going to uh put it through a a biobasin which then enters into the large pond on the

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property which eventually makes its way into u I forget the name of the brook over >> Cedarbrook. Is it Cedarbrook there? >> Yeah. So the water is running off an existing warehouse area and the farmer didn't want to have [clears throat]

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>> Oh. So the farm fields now, you know, farms are always have the ditches where the water runs off and sometimes they collect it, but a lot of times it's just they like to drain the water off their property and in an effort not to drain it into the neighbors property, they would dig ditches along the property lines.

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>> Uh so sitting water in the middle of a farm field doesn't make a very good farm field. >> So uh so this was dug on both sides. uh the warehouse tied into the farmer's ditch when they built all around this property and they utilize it as a drainage uh ditch and it would come in

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90 degrees to Cedarbrook in that area and Cedarbrook um is remarkably straight meaning that it too was straightened by the property owners in an effort to use it as a drainage ditch. So those things were, you know, sins of the past. Um,

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you know, and the, you know, farm fields, as much as we like to think of them as, uh, natural or not. And, you know, what you have when you're talking about farm runoff, you have silts, you know, which silt up your waterways. You

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have fertilizers which cause blooms in your waterways. So, it's uh, it's unnatural. Um, you know, and the case that they made was very coherent. It made a lot of sense. It's not the same as prior applications where

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unfortunately for them they had a reoccurring or a uh or a perennial pond in in the middle of a property and they wanted to fill it. In this case, they're just working with in the repairarian and actually providing an improvement to what's the current condition on the

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property. Um seeing that uh the uh planning board did accept the variance of the uh repairarian buffer on that application uh now that doesn't set precedent every uh every application and

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variance is issued on its own accord. So uh you know and that that's how the planning board operates. You don't get an approval just because the other guy got an approval. You have to make a uh >> case >> make a case as well. So, um this is the

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second time I believe um that uh that the township has allowed a variance of hundreds of times people have tried to get one. Um and in this case, uh you know, we thought that we

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thought the case was good and uh that's about it. >> Okay. >> So, that that got that got approved. >> That got approved. >> Yeah. And then everything else we've been doing is uh there's been a lot of consistency reviews for uh pretty affordable housing projects.

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>> Okay. Yeah. Just I mean it's interesting Cedar Brook on the other side um between South River Road and 130. You can go into the parking lot of the Cedarbrook

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um corporate park. I don't know what they have a parking lot and uh look across the street and you'll see an eagle's nest. There's an eagle's nest up about 80 feet [laughter] in this tree. It's been incredible and

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there's a young one that's been fledging. Um but that's in the Cedar Brook area. All right, so that does bring us to parks and recreation. Introduce our liaison there, Sally

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O'Grady. Yes, good evening. I'm Sally O'Grady from Parks and Wreck and we did not meet in May. Uh, however, I have a couple of updates. Uh, you may have noticed that the water bottle filling station is in in Heritage Park and the pickle

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ball/tennis courts are ready in Village Park. And um, what was what? Oh, we another just another thing on our calendar. September 26 at noon, we have scheduled the historic baseball game in

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uh Village Park again. And then I have a question as far as the flooding goes. Does that include parks? Because Heritage Park has um a lot of uh flooding on their paved paths. >> It doesn't hurt. So if you want to submit it, you can submit it.

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>> So are we talking about fluial flooding? Are we talking about streams and waterways that uh breach their banks and flood uh public works uh properties uh residential private property? >> That's what we're concerned about. And is that what we have in in the park? We

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just have sitting water collecting and ponding. >> Right. >> But there's those big rainfalls now too, >> right? I just want to make sure that you know flooding in one sense is different than just inundation and ponding in another. But I I think anything Yeah. to

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to uh the same point. If if you're concerned about it, make it known uh and the experts will make a decision as to whether it applies or not. >> Okay. So, who do I >> That would be Barbara's thing. >> Barbara, can you [laughter]

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>> Okay, Sally, can you just for my edification, who um puts on the historic baseball game? Like, who organizes that? Is it a parks and wrecks thing or is it >> It's a parks and wreck. Yes. Yes. Um it started a few years ago where Adam Canam knew the person from the historic and he

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got it going and um we've continued it even even though he's not in parks anymore. So yeah, any other questions? We meet Wednesday. So basically I'm here to take your information to them. [laughter] >> What's a historic baseball game?

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>> So they >> I know what a baseball game >> don't have any equipment. They use like sticks and they don't use gloves. >> Okay. >> And they they play um >> it's like how they played in the 19th century. >> Yeah. And their uniforms are

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oldfashioned and >> uniforms. >> It's um the first couple times we did it, it attracted a lot of people, especially like seniors and people that could come over from that development right near Village Park. Is it um is it like a traveling band of historic

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baseball players that play in different locations or are they people? >> They're they No, they're not from town. We pay them to come. >> Okay. >> Yeah, it's a it's a really cool operation. I don't know how Adam found them originally, but um it was a fun

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thing. And I know we did have Girl Scouts involved selling >> I feel like we were there last year um to encourage people to vote. >> Um It was a brownies for democracy, but I think we were just people did not want to interact with the girls and I was how

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cute they were. So, I'm thinking maybe a different angle this year. >> Well, one year you sold uh snacks and water and stuff. >> Oh, that might have been older troops for me. I >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Whatever's helpful to whatever you feel like would be a nice addition there. >> I think all that we're doing as far as

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parks and wrecks is the game. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But I will bring that up at the at our parks meeting. >> What What time of day does that usually take place? >> Uh noon. >> All right. >> September 26, 26 at noon.

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>> Awesome. >> July 5th. >> Is parks involved with July 5th? >> Um I believe that um we get all the fireworks ordered and all that stuff, but I don't know. I don't know what else

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happens after that. Yeah, I we do that too. >> Yeah, I don't know what we have for this year. >> I know that they wanted to have the reading of the constitution or something. >> So I think

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>> they they'll summarize they'll [laughter] summarize. >> No, there was a resident who came to our meeting who was very adamant that that be done um this year and so we're gonna >> but it's it's not the 250th anniversary of the Constitution. It's the 250th

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anniversary of the declaration. >> Well, maybe well then it was the declaration. It was something that they wanted to read. Okay. >> So, the declaration that >> Constitution came later. >> That's shorter than the Constitution. So, that makes you feel better. >> Yes, it is. >> Okay. Good. I much shorter. >> I am not a history major. >> We can agree on that. >> Okay. Shorter.

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>> Article seven, section five. >> Okay. Declaration. [laughter] >> They want to read the declaration >> and and I will check with them on Wednesday and make sure it's the declaration and tell them Mr. Rinfelder does not want the constitution.

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Any other questions? >> This year, this year [laughter] in in like >> in like seven or eight years, we'll do the constitution. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Cool. >> Thank you.

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>> All right. and we can shift over to old business and um we'll jump right down to community wildlife habitat and the outdoor classroom initiative. >> Uh so no updates on community wildlife

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habitat certification. Um but the outdoor classroom um we were able to switch the settings on the smartboard feeder. They the teachers originally went in thinking it was going to be like the live eagle cam

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situation, but that drew too much power from the solar battery to just be on all the time constantly with that feed. Um, how it's been working now is um that it's on and it records and it saves the video and then they're able to access and check it as often as they want to

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see if there's been um activity. Um, and since they've been doing that, they have to refill the bird seed like almost every single day. Um, I was out there, um, leading with the kids. Everything is thriving. Um, the kids, uh,

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were just really excited to be out there, want to do more, more, more, more, more. So, it's been a really, really nice addition, I think, to their program with their aquaponics and their garden club. They're going to be expanding garden club to accommodate middle schoolers. So, in addition to

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having it as like a part of their science curriculum in third, fourth, and fifth grade, they're they're going to be doing more of a rotation out into the garden club and just involving the middle schoolers with the aquaponics room in particular. Um, we

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uh ordered the raised beds with uh one set of accessories for the bed for a frost cover to test out being able to like grow things like over the winter, maybe even turn it into like a little mini butterfly house to release butterflies in the spring. Um, and the

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school uh agreed to uh do the landscaping in that air in that area to accommodate the bed. So, they're going to have a landscaping company come and pull out the stumps and bury the gutters um and just kind of like re regrade that

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area so that it drains better and so that all of those sort of tripping hazards are gone and we have sort of like a clean surface to then put in the raised beds, which is a big deal because it's not cheap and we weren't really able to fund raise. That's not a really glamorous thing to fundra for. Um so,

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yeah. And then with the school's fundraiser that we did with mom's, we were able to get garden gloves and tels and I got a donation of uh pots and all different sizes from one of the local garden centers. Um $50 worth of mulch

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for free from a donation from Home Depot. So, we're on our way and uh hopefully we'll have uh more of a tour or like a grand opening where you guys can come visit and see. But I have pictures of what it looks like now. And the pensamomen grew in like crazy. The

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butterfly weed is there. It's super tall. In the back we have golden rod and aster. Um so those are the main um plant species that are there that are doing really really well and have grown in. So yeah, that's the update. >> That's wonderful. Watch out for that

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butterfly bush. It can take over >> the butterfly. Yeah. >> Is it the the one with the white that kind of like comes up? Orange butterfly milkweed. >> Oh, both. Oh, butterfly milkweed. That's fine. That's fine. >> Yeah, >> that has the opposite problem actually. [laughter] >> But it can self seed, so that's good.

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All right. Uh, a little bit about preserve management and trail maintenance. Uh, myself and two hearty volunteers worked on the woods trails.

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Um mainly clearing brush and and some litter in the not litter leaves in the in the trail in some parts of the trails. Um but it's in in pretty good shape actually. That that one is in pretty

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good shape. We walked the brook trail which connects the Anami Woods all the way down to the firehouse lane or something. I forget what that's called. Behind the firehouse. Um, and it actually was

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pretty good. I was shocked the the Japanese stilt grass hadn't gotten up to your waist yet, but that's coming. U, but you could see where the trail is and so forth. um that still needs probably a a longer term plan because

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it does grow over every late summer where it's almost impassible. Uh then I had a spontaneous event last week where I just my son and I were wanted to go and do some work in the Reinhardt property. So I just sent a

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blast email just in case I wasn't expecting um folks to join us. But um that one also grows in with pepper bush um on a certain part of the trail. So we went in there and did a ton of stuff. It

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was really hot even in the shade. But um that was good to get out there and and just see how that's working. That looks pretty good. Reinhardt is in pretty good shape. Um I'm working on signs mainly for Pin Oaks

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to have a sign. on the other end, the other entrance, and perhaps one or two more, but I'm having trouble finding uh people who do those signs, but I'm still looking. So hopefully we'll we'll get there with

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with uh with the signs. >> The brown wooden one, >> the brown wooden one with the yellow, right? Very simple, >> but people nowaday they do these fancy ones that are like beautiful maple and, you know, carved. So they don't want to do it.

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>> Oh yeah. If you have a if you have somebody send me >> please. Brooks preserves. That's the one that I know. >> Oh, >> so the sign that says welcome to Cranberry. >> That's a very nice sign. >> Okay.

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>> We haven't had much asking about those. I have several in mind, but >> that would be a great one. Anyway, so we'll work on the signage. Um, so we saw some wildlife including

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ticks. Um, so I had put I put information up um, you're happy to look at this um, about ticks in the Cranberry Brook Preserve kiosk. Um, just to give people a starter

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information, there's links to the the Ruters program on vector biology. Vector biology is when you have an usually an insect or some other animal carrying a a human disease. Um, and that's what two out of the three

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ticks that we have do. So, we have the uh the deer ticks and we have the lonear ticks and the dog ticks. The dog ticks, thousands have been tested. They carry no human diseases. So, don't worry about the dog ticks. They may carry dog

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diseases. We don't know yet. And they're they're archiving those for a future study of dog diseases, but nobody really knows. But for humans, it's the the uh the deer tick is the bad one. Carries limes, potentially Rocky Mountain spider fever,

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but limes is the big thing. May carry a few other bacteria. uh that is probably the worst one to have a bite from because you can get pretty sick. But antibiotics should take care of the um the lonear tick is a

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relatively new tick carries a bacterium that can cause maybe you've heard about the red meat allergy. Sort of an autoimmune problem. something in the saliva causes an autoimmune response and you're

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you'll be temporarily allergic to red meat in some people. But it also carries another bacterium that can cause >> was it echinosis? Earlier Erlicker Erliciosis Erliciosis >> Erliciosis sorry I think it's named

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after I think it's named after Paul Erlick the famous population biologist that is similar to lime but not as bad as limes um can infect internal organs, liver and

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so forth. Inflammation, potential for fever. These symptoms are very kind of generic, so it might not stand out, but if you're feeling run down and you've been hiking in the woods, you might check on that one. Um, those ticks are interesting. The adults have a white

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dot. That's why they're called Lonear tick. They're not from Texas, but they look like they have a star on them. Um, and uh the dog ticks, the adults have a a whitish top to them. The deer ticks

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are not so great, but they have more of a reddish color. So anyway, I think that's important for people to know. Yes. Well, at the Monarch Station. >> Yeah. >> Okay.

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>> I don't know if there's room there. >> It was pretty occupied. >> It was pretty full, but we could put one here. >> Yeah. >> Is that what you meant? >> Yeah. >> In the town. >> Yeah.

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>> The kiosk is outside. [laughter] >> Put one here. Okay. Uh, all right. And then you can send in your ticks. Uh they will uh analyze them. They'll I mean they'll analyze the deer ticks and the lonear ticks [snorts] for those pathogens and um they're

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building a database of where the ticks are. So you telling you tell them where you got it, when you found it, um so forth. But that's you know you don't have to do that. Okay. So I think that's all I have on the preserves and the trails. Um, do we

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have anything to say about sustainable Jersey still working there? Yeah, nothing happening there. Community energy plan. Lots have been going on behind the scenes by Harris Energy Partners. I think um the consultant and

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they have compiled the the online surveys. There were 70 to 80 responses and they've compiled that. So that's not so bad. And um >> and they're putting together well they

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put together a report. I've sent you the draft all the draft report. Please look at that in case something sticks out in your mind that you want to ask them about, you want to include or not include or you know, whatever you want

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to comment on. We are we've accelerated and we're going to try to get this finished by July 31st. And they've agreed. And so I think we're well on our way. We're doing the public meeting on Thursday, [laughter] June

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25th at 2 PM. And you know, it'd be great as many of you can come. I realize it's a 2 pm. If you're working, you're working. If you can come at 2 p.m. that'd be great. I don't know what the attendance is going to be like. These things are kind of hard to

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predict. Might I might put something in the library. It's at the library. Maybe I'll put something in the library like we did last time. They were nice enough to give us a vertical place. Um, and so that's where we are. I mean, the

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plan the plan is very comprehensive. I encourage you to look at it. I think they did a very good job. There are some interesting recommendations and and also things where they're like, "No, don't do that. It doesn't make sense." Which I think is important to know for the town.

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>> Um, Yeah, it would be really great if everyone could read that and just making comments. They took their data from the from the municipal energy audit that that we had worked on a couple years ago

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and um I just want to say that we picked a really great to responsive come up with just a decent plan. Nothing crazy, you know, nothing. >> Very good. And I do think that's really great that they're going to push the

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community solar to energy. They say that that's really an important component that residents can save money and you know use solar energy without building anything on top of their personal rooms. Um so the big thing that

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is this timeline we had to push this meeting and then um and then how we have to get all the draft information any kind of comments. So, please make comments as soon as possible, even before that meeting because then I have

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to get a resolution together to go in front of the township committee and we're not going to have a meeting I just found out at the end of July somewhere hours. So, um we're going to have to get that resolution in the second week of July.

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>> So, that we can clean it up and just get that grant in by the end of July. >> Yeah. to just close it out which I think will be done. >> Yeah, >> would be a great accomplishment. So, just wanted to let you know where

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how we are working so that we can get the finished up >> and as you will see um they point out that there are grants available for projects.

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There's a $250,000 one that they site. Um, but I don't know which kinds of product, you know, I don't know about how you get those,