Hello. So, we're calling to order the Cranberry Municipal Alliance Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 16, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. Um, stand for the pledge. >> Yeah. All
right. Statement of adequate notice pursuant to the sunshine law. Adequate notice in accordance with the open public meeting act was provided on January 3rd, 2025 of this meeting's date, time, place, and the agenda was mailed to the news media, posted on the township bulletin board, mailed to those
requesting personal notice, and filed with the municipal clerk. Now we'll move on to roll call. Miss Benerroof is absent. Miss Charwin is absent. Lieutenant Fmer, >> I am here. >> Dr. Dizzler is absent. Miss Kaplan
is absent. Miss Olman >> here. >> Miss Stanley absent. Miss Weinstein >> here. >> Miss Yay >> here. >> Miss Lindenfeld >> here. >> Thank you.
Um I would like to also say welcome to our newest member, Mrs. Jennifer Lynenville. Thank you so much for volunteering your time for this position. Um so right and then now next
we are going to do the um the approval of minutes of May 2025. So if um any of you have um read through the minutes from May, can you please approve the minutes? Anyone?
I'll Can I get a second? Okay. Second and roll call vote. Uh, Lieutenant Bremer, >> yes. >> Miss Schulman, >> yes. >> Miss Weinstein, >> yes.
>> Miss Yay, >> yes. >> And Miss Lindenfeld, >> yes. Thank you, >> Kathine. So now we are going to move on to our new student representative report and I would like to invite the committee and
to the public to our new student rep. If um Raina, if you could come up to the mic over there and introduce yourself, >> you just press it to turn it on. >> The red button. My name >> Oh,
>> sorry. >> Um, my name is Raina. I'm in eighth grade. >> Sorry. >> Well, Raina, I just want to thank you so much for volunteering yourself to be a student rep from Cranberry School to our
uh municipal alliance. And um you know one of the thing about the municipal alliance is um our committee was established in 1990 for the purposes of coordinating community and government agency efforts to reduce alcoholism and
drug abuse. Our committee focuses mainly on prevention education and programming measures and we work with you know high school, middle school and cranberry school to um coordinate a lot of events. and you are our student voice. So, I
really we all really appreciate you volunteering and stepping up to for this um position and um as a rep to the students for us. We welcome your feedback, your thoughts, your opinions on anything and um I just want to say
thank you and welcome. >> Thank you. Um, so you could um go back to your seat if you like, but if you want to say anything right now, you're more than welcome to say anything to the committee. >> I don't think I have anything to say.
>> That's good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, we will move on to the next uh which is the police department report by Lieutenant. >> Okay. Uh first off, uh Chief Dara uh you
know expresses uh his regret not being able to make it. He had other you know commitments that he couldn't get out of. Um he also wanted me to just make mention that uh he wanted to congratulate Dr. Dizzler. She's not here but he wanted to congratulate her on renewing her contract at the school. Um
national night out was a great success. We uh you know um the addition of with the municipal alliance and the uh health tent um I think really made really enhanced National Night Out um we had a very good turnout and we had a lot of
positive um comments about um the tent and the the event as a whole and we were very happy with the event. So thank you to everybody that that participated and uh that's it for me. Okay, thank you so much for that report.
Now we'll move on to the next uh report from the liaison to the township which is Rob Christopher. >> What is Oh, that's the air air conditioning. >> The air is very loud. >> It's very loud. I know.
>> I don't I don't have a whole lot to review. I was going to also congratulate Dr. Dizzler, which is very exciting for uh the school and the town. Um, national and out and kbury day were great. Um, I don't have anything specific to share with the committee, but happy to answer
any questions if you guys have anything for the township or bring it back to the township if I don't have an answer. >> Great. Thanks, guys. >> Great. Thank you. >> Okay, so next we move on to the budgets.
Um, I don't know if I made enough copies, but if you could, if you don't mind sharing it. I haven't made enough. Go. Oh, I realized I need one more. I need one for myself.
>> Oh, you want to share with me? >> Okay. Sorry. Okay. Okay. That's yours. So, um, so these are just some of the expenditures that we had over the summer and some of the fall expenses that we
need to talk about today. And, um, as we talk about our old business as well as new business, um, these are the, you know, the expenses that you I want you to reference. So, um just now continuing on with regarding the police night out,
we in the Cranberry Municipal Alliance partnered up with the police and um had a our own um tent underneath that um event and um they were some of the national night out expenses that we had
in in that um night. So we hired a caric character artist for that amount and we already paid him. We approved that amount and he did a fabulous job provided a lot of great entertainment during the national night out and we also had tents and games throughout the
um area that we had and I think a lot of the community members were enjoying that. We also provided the food and snacks um some balloons and banners for um decoration. So we discussed in May some uh you know perhaps contributing to
the cranberry police regarding the amount of money that they spent on feeding everyone and um we just wanted to have a discussion on whether you know we still want to provide the funding to the cranberry police um for the amount
of money that they spend for national night out. So, um this is something that remember we talked about in May and if that is the case, you know, we would have to kind of talk about it, vote on it, and um I don't know if the receipts are still available all the way from
May. >> Uh they should they should be I'd have to speak to uh the ones that ran it from for the PBA, but um you know, I would have to speak they should have the receipts. >> Okay. Is this something that you think um they they would appreciate having?
>> Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Okay. >> And of course, I will abstain from any kind of vote on that. >> All right. So, um Joanna didn't give me any instructions on the amount, but I think
this is something that she wanted us to kind of just talk about and consider. And I think this is something we'll wait until October when she's running the meeting, but maybe next month. um you could have some sort of like an amount in mind with some receipts that you have
and bring it to the October meeting. That'll be helpful. >> Okay, I will work on that. >> Okay, great. Perfect. So, um um I know Mine and I, we were there for
National Night Out. Um Mine, do you have any thoughts from the National Night Out that you would like to share? Um, >> well, it was a really great turnout and it's just I don't have much to say other than that
it was a really great night out for people. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> It was a great way to comm um meet new people and just come together as a community. So, um, under our tent, we had this cannabis vision impairment goggles that
Diane Stanley was running, but she's, uh, she wasn't able to make it to the meeting today, so she wrote a nice long email about, um, how the the goggle stimulation experience went. So, with this cannabis vision impairment goggles,
you put it on and you're supposed to put on the goggles and that's supposed to simulate how one person is when they're under the influence of marijuana or cannabis. And you're supposed to go around the cones back and forth. And she said she had about 45 people and
including me, I did it. Um, so when I put on the goggles, it totally affected my cognitive abilities and I had such a hard time concentrating and the visual cones was very distorted
and my um motor skills were greatly impaired and I was really um it's supposed to simulate the effects of smoking marijuana and I was just really really surprised that it was so impaired. I um I I had no idea it was
supposed to be that impair when you smoke marijuana. So um she said that many children of all different ages enjoyed trying on the goggles and they laughed as they were trying to walk through the cones around the cones and she said it was a very powerful learning
experience for the children and she was able to chat with them about how smoking marijuana and how if you smoke marijuana riding a bike how dangerous that could be. Um and obviously for the adults the experience was better related to driving
and she really thought this was a very positive experience for everyone. Um there was no preaching but just education and encouragement to reflect on the impact of marijuana on their family and friends. So um hopefully she's hoping that we could do this
activity again next year for the National Night Out. Okay. So that's the report from Diane Stanley. Um, let me see. Well, Dr. Dysler, welcome. I know I saw you at National Night Out.
Uh, what was what were your thoughts? >> Um, it's always great to see families come out and I think a lot of people showed up for the event and I thought adding Municipal Alliance to it while it was planned for the year before we got washed out. Um, I think it was a great
addition. I think there was a lot of um just involvement from the community, a lot of people helping out people in this room. I think there was a lot of people there. Um so I I thought it went extremely well and um I think that uh
the police they do a great job in uh organizing it and I think that I'll say you all because I know I'm part of municipal lines but I know that there was a group that was really um instrumental in making this happen with them. So thank you. I think it was great. >> Yeah.
>> Thank you. Thank you. So, um, Mo and I, we, um, you know, deliver the sandwiches for Princeton High School, um, freshman orientation picnic. So,
Raina, that'll be you next summer. The Cranberry Municipal Lines, we deliver sandwiches right after freshman orientation in um, late August. So, we got our sandwiches from Mr. subs in cranberry and they did a spectacular job and Movian and I we used two SUVs to
bring all those sandwich platters to the to the freshman and we're just not only feeding the freshman were feeding the faculty as well. So it was a really great positive experience and we paid um Mr. S $1,750
which we agreed upon in May to approve. Mine, do you have anything to share regarding that day? Um, no. I mean, it was it was a good turnout, I think, um, of all the volunteers from Princeton High School as well, too. But I didn't actually stay to see the students come
out. So, >> yeah. >> So, it was a lot of fun. It's like u my annual trip to Princeton High School now that I'm an older, you know, mom. Empty nesters now. All right. Great. So, now we're gonna um move on to new business.
And we think I'm glad you're here. I wanted to ask you about teen mental health first aid at Princeton High School. >> Okay. Um so we have not scheduled anything yet. We um reached out after we finished last year, but I never heard
back from anyone. Um so we're we're going to try to schedule something this year because we realized we have to do one thing um one at least one class. And then the way it worked last year was we had seven classes scheduled for um in the spring with one being a makeup. But
this year we're planning to do the first class in December or December and that way we'll only have to do five. we'll schedule for six with the makeup because by the end last year it was like >> it was hard to get um
the schedule was great but it was hard to um get the kids to really listen so a lot so at that one point we actually doubled up some of the classes at the end because there were it was just worked out better that way for our staffing and and such. So there's no
update as far as uh the date yet. Okay. But you um you're gonna definitely uh impress on them that we have to do one class before December by December. >> Yeah, they're aware of that. I think with the new schedule that um scheduling that they implemented last year, it
worked out much better. >> Okay. And um Joanne said that we still need a bill, >> an invoice. Yeah, she >> she texted me, so I will do that. And then I know um Arian from um the township committee is applying for a
grant again next year mental health expense at the high school. >> So that's >> she reached out to me in the spring. So I sent her some information. >> I see. All right. Great. And um Vera, can you just quickly just say what team
mental health is for Princeton High School? >> Sure. So it's it's actually mental health first aid. So, um, like you have, uh, EMTs to help with emergencies. Uh, they're the first responders. So, for teen mental health, we're training, it's
peer-to-peer. So, we train the teens to be able to recognize symptoms and signs in their classmates or themselves or anybody really, uh, to be that first communication to the person to try to get them help. So it's a sixcl class
program um for 30 to 45 minutes each class and we've done it now two years. So >> and this is only offer as a sophomore, >> right? It's for the whole sophomore class. >> All right. So um now we will move on to
World Mental Health Day which is in October 10th. So last year we partnered up with um I'm pretty sure it was Pen Medicine, right? You had a vaccine van come out. >> Oh, it was sorry. >> Year before we had a team
>> Yes. Okay. So it was a different van. I forget which hospital, but their um van came out and they gave out vaccines. I forget who it was. >> I think we piggybacked on to the library if if I'm understanding right. It was the library's plan and then we had a
table. I think you guys had a table through Pen Medicine, but it was organized, I believe, through the library last year. >> Okay. But there was like a van that gave me vaccines. I remember that. >> Yeah. So, Pen Medicine doesn't have a van, but there it first time first year I went there was that van,
>> right? >> It just so happened I think we had a program at the library that day. >> Oh, it was in. It's so funny because today we had a program at the library. It was on healthy aging and the brain and and nutrition. Um, so that's another thing that we've done, but um, yeah. So
>> it wasn't our van. >> Okay. So I I thought it was So it was somebody's some medical hospital van and they gave out flu vaccines and um, co shots and everything and it was parked at the library and Cranber Municipal
Alliance. We had a table next to them and we provided information about us and approved literature and pamphlets. Um, so Joanne said that this fan is not is not planning on coming out this year on World Mental Health Day. So the question
to the committee is, do we still want to recognize World Mental Health Day in October 10th? And do you have any thoughts on what to do? Um, I remember one year when I did this with Joanne, we had a table, but there was no draw of a
van, you know, offering any services like that. and we really didn't have any foot traffic, you know, it was just like Yeah. So, I don't know. Do you guys have any thoughts on doing anything on World
Mental Health Day as CMA? No. No. Okay. All right. I have a question about that because the first year I went, there really wasn't much traffic. That's the problem. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, >> so with the van, we had a lot of traffic because they came for the flu shots, but I know that if we just set up a table ourselves, we're not going to get we're not going to get the draw. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. So, >> I'm just gonna look to see if the
library was doing anything on that day just to see if that might be a good But we have a good uh firewall. It's not letting me onto the library website. >> All right. All right. So, it doesn't seem like Cranberry Municipal Alliance
is going to do anything because the traffic is just not going to be there. All right. So, moving on. We're going to talk about Red Ribbon Week, which is in October 23rd to October 31st. Um
I am going to hand this out and if there isn't enough you could share it. I'll share this with you. Just share that with other. So um these are some of the fall expenses that
we need to discuss today and do a roll call vote on. Um here are two themes that we I need us to sort of decide and vote on. The red ribbon week is in October and the theme right now the
theme first is uh life is a puzzle solve it drug free and the theme two is u the best version of me is drug free. So um we are supposed to pick one theme one or theme two. Does anybody have a
preference? >> Version two. >> I'm partial to rhyming. I like to agree. I like two. >> Raina, do you have any It seems like most people want to go
with theme two, right? >> Seems unanimous. >> Okay. I think so. Okay. >> Do you want to do a vote on it or I think it's already >> Yeah. >> Yeah. We don't have to. What we could do vote on is um Oh, the other page we have to do pick tattoo or stickers. What What
should we pick? Tattoo or stickers? This is just for the expenses like should we um we have to do a roll call in terms of like expenses. >> Yeah. >> Um but for now do you want to do get stickers or tattoos?
>> I say stickers. >> What do the kids like better? I think >> tattoos. >> What do you think? Okay. Well, right now I just have tattoos or stickers. So, if you have to choose tattoos or stickers.
>> Okay. Tattoos. >> So, we picked theme two. The best version of me is drug free and we pick tattoos for um red ribbon week. All right. So, good tattoos. So, now um regarding the
expenses for re ribbon week, last year we spent $265 and this year um for the pencils, you know, tattoos, bookmarks, etc., We um Joanne Sharwin would like to have
us vote on expense of $350. So I think you need to do that right. >> Does someone want to make a motion to approve the expense of $350? >> I'll make a motion to approve this expense. >> Thank you. Does someone want a second?
>> Second. >> And we'll do a roll call vote. Miss Vener, >> I agree. Yes. Lieutenant Kmer. >> Yes. >> Dr. Dizzler. >> Yes. Uh, >> Miss Kaplan, >> yes. >> Miss Shman, >> yes. >> Miss Weinstein,
>> yes. >> Miss Yay, >> yes. >> And Miss Lynenfeld, >> yes. Thank you. >> Um, so another So, moving on to the next expense that we need to um vote on for the expenditure is Halloween on October
31st. There is last year we spent um we gave out Halloweens the smarty packs um for Halloween. I forget which house gave it out. Here it is. But it's going to say, you know, from Cranberry Municipal Alliance. So these
500 Smarty packs will cost $200 for 500 pieces. So, um, we would like to do a roll call vote on our Smarties expenditure for Halloween
for $200. >> Are we doing another expense after? Do you want to combine them in the vote? >> Yeah, because I know that there's also stress balls. Um, and you know, Joanne didn't put down specifically where the stress balls go, but you know, whether
it's Red Ribbon Week or um, Halloween, those stress balls are always good to have. I know during National Night Out, they all the ones that we have in the past, they were all gone. So, she put down $22 per dozen. I'm not
She didn't tell me like like how much how many, you know, how much she wants to buy. Um, I don't know. >> It's okay. Um, can I have a motion to approve the $200 expense for the
Halloween Smarties? Um, and then keeping in mind the stress ball expense of $21.99 per dozen. >> Motion to approve >> and a second. >> A second. >> And a roll call vote. Miss Benner,
>> yes. >> Lieutenant Premer, >> yes. >> Miss Dizzler, Dr. Mr. Dizzler. >> Yes. >> Miss Kaplan. >> Yes. >> Miss Schulman. >> Yes. >> Miss Weinstein. >> Yes. >> Miss Ye. >> Yes. >> Miss Lindenfeld. >> Yes. >> Thank you.
>> Okay. So, uh, moving on to the next item, speaker for parents, students. Um I know that in May we you know uh talked about this in May for uh the upcoming year like career day March or um I know
kindness week is October right >> I believe and correct me if I'm wrong um it wouldn't be for the fall because it's going to be in the next year's budget right so it' be something for um after January so to date I don't have u
anything to bring to the table, but I think it should stay on now, maybe as part of either new or old business so that it can come up at a an upcoming meeting. >> Yep. Great. Thank you. >> And if anyone has great leads, speakers,
please, you know, send them our way and or Dr. Dizzler's way. So, keep your eyes open for, you know, speakers. Yep. Out there. Perfect. So um the learning series web partnership for drug free New Jersey
um this is something that Joanne um asked me to share. This is regarding um from the new jerseyalthyaging.org. Apparently um opioids is becoming more of an issue for people 65 and older. Um
they said that one in eight o older adults 65 and up is prescribed opioids every year and um the opioid overdose deaths for people 65 and older are up 300% since 2002.
So the New Jersey Healthy Aging Summit is having an opioid safety um conference in Atlantic City on Friday, September 26. And if you like to register or find out more, you could go to new
jerseyalthyaging.org. Um, but I thought it was, you know, something noteworthy because we always talk about, you know, the issue of opioids in the young people, but it was really my first time hearing about the aging population having issues with that
as well. And um Ria, I know that you just went to um something with the um helping with a weren't you at like a seminar or something you just mentioned for the aging at the library. >> Do you? >> Oh, we just had um healthy aging and
nutrition. Our dietician spoke today. Just a program there. >> Okay. All right. So um it's something that I think we need to just keep the conversation going that um as part of our
you know committee's vision is to focus on prevention education and programming measures to reduce the um effects of drug abuse and alcoholism and automatically we always focus so much on the young people but I think going forward we need to also kind of keep an
eye on what more we could do to put the um you know 65 plus population in our town. Okay. So um I think that's about it for my end and I would like to open up the floor to
you know any anyone that wants to add anything public comment student comment just announced there's no public comment there's no public comments right does anyone want to make a motion to adjurnn
I'll make a motion to adjurnn and a second. >> Second. >> Go ahead. No. Go ahead. >> All those in favor? >> I I Thank you. Thank you.