have the library. Okay. So, I'm just going to go in order. I know municipal line is not who I'm with. However, I get the information from the Equality Institute with regards to a grant that I had applied for last year. And so, they had sent me some
information, but it kind of slipped through for me. And Denise was kind enough to bring it right back up to the top of my email list. and I stayed up till 2 p.m. that night and I sent in an application for another grant to hopefully support that same program um
the team mental health aid that they um offered to the PHS high school students. I think it's the sophomores. It's a very um popular program, but it's also a program that's been incorporated into the health programs. So, we'll we'll hear from that I think November and it
is a competitive program. So yeah, and I did attend um they quality institute still sends me information. So they um they did a program on suicide prevention. So I attend one of their classes and I wanted to share a couple with you because it surprised me.
Thousand people died by suicide in the US in 202. And seven out of 100,000 died by suicide in New Jersey. New Jersey has the second lowest rate of suicide in the nation. Alaska has the highest at 28 out of 100,000 death by
suicide. Men are 3.8 times more likely to die by suicide, but women attempt suicide more than men. Very interesting. And the highest rates of suicide are both age groups 35 to 44 years and then
again 75 to 85 years. So I I mean for me these statistics are good to show us kind of where we can inject ourselves at what stages and what ages to maybe be part of the solution rather than the problem. But it was a pleasure to see that New Jersey has the second lowest
rate in the nation. Yeah. Um we are continuing in our affordable housing subcommittee to meet and u continue the work the um I did may or can you hear me I did watch a presentation um at the library a
couple of weeks ago and that was by CJ and at that meeting I felt like that you know a very direct instruction was given opposite to what the TC kind of was promoting which is um to send in commentary to support the amendment of
the language in the 250 foot buffer and um you know it really didn't sit right with me that a direct opposite instruction was given to the attendees at that meeting and people were watching that meeting online and um you know I kind of wonder whether we're working for the same team here or not. We really uh
do need the state to help us with that amendment so we can look at alternate sites and um we're going to stick by the work that's in front of us. And um yeah, it didn't sit right with me. Um if I could just inter and just add to that,
it also was misleading because nowhere in my letter, in the mayor's letter, did I recommend a reduction to 50 ft, which was blatantly stated in that meeting. And that's not what I um at all, which is what the recommendation was. It was around the language and the uh usage of
that land, the activity on that land. Nowhere was it mentioned in our letter any sort of measurement change. So that's also important to mention as well. So work, but it also just showed that I think that we're, you know, we may still continue to be emotional in an issue,
but not very educated in it. And um you know I'm asking us all to let's look at this with the same level of scrutiny so that we can talk about the facts as opposed to our emotions. Um,
on a brighter note, on a happier note, I attended the new residential welcome on September 26th held at the public library. We had at least 36 people attend, children, adults, um, people. Some people had purchased here in the library, but not yet moved in. And they
were so excited to know that they were moving into a community that was willing to say hello and welcome even before they had, you know, really sort of set their their roots here. So, um, the library rep shared information about the clubs and township organizations and boards and commissions and places to get
information and more. And, um, there's a lovely line of people getting their library card. So, yeah, it was a perfect welcome. So, now we're at 99% of residents that have library cards. We have a really good track record there, which is pretty good. Yeah. And that I think will do it for
me. Any questions? I guess it'll be my turn. Um, I did meet with the municipal alliance on the 16th, I think, if I have that correct. Um, however, I left my notes at home from that meeting. So, looking at the agenda,
we did go over some old business. Uh, it was the first meeting in three or four months. Uh, essentially, they take the summer off with, uh, school being out. went over some National Night Out feedback, the PHS picnic feedback. Um, did review teen mental health day and
World Mental Health Day. Um, as well as red red ribbon week, which are all coming up soon. But again, left my notes at home. I can fill you in on those dates uh next time. Um, but all in all, it was a it was a good meeting. Um, and
then that same night, uh, I had a meeting with the HBC. Um just mechanically there was a an application and some general maintenance. Um we met our new student volunteer for this for the HPC. Uh Emily Young, she's a senior
at PHS seemed very excited and was already providing feedback in her first meeting and which was awesome like super cool to have somebody that engaged as a as a young person. Uh they went through some additional design guidelines. um had some robust
conversation about that. Um Bobby Marlo um kept us aware of the Whispers from the Grave event coming up uh on the 11th of October. Um that is from 1 to 4. Tickets are currently on
sale online. Um, we had some conversation about the uh the new door um that you all walked through today. Um, and the rationale behind the safety and replacement of that uh the old door that wouldn't close. Um, additionally,
the rear door which was almost impossible to close and created a bunch of safety issues. I think they look great personally. Um, and uh that was that was pretty much it. Um I did also attend there was an event
at the school um Cranberry School my role as the liazison to the board of ed. They won the best in New Jersey farm to school award for which was amazing. Great. Um the department of agriculture
secretary Ed Wingren showed up gave a nice little presentation. Lots of representation from the from state officials. It was it was a beautiful event. Mom was there, Barbara was there. Um lots and lots of kids who were very excited to get first place in the state. Um
literally of all the districts in the state, that's a that's a big deal. Um their aquaponic system that they uh they moved and revamped, which is super cool for the kids to learn from. Um as well as Ponttonian, the food service u company that that works with the school.
They do a great job of fresh fruits and vegetables and things of that nature. So that was great. Um and I think that's it for me, Mr. Scott. Thank you. Um so I had a busy uh park
and meeting on the 17th. Um lot of things to get to. So we discussed the flag American flag at Village Park. There is a poll there. Um the parks committee was unan was unanimously in favor of um installing a flag and um
figuring out lighting. Um Christina looked into it. She found that um they could get uh solar powered lights um that would be up to the task. Um the Lions Club actually stepped in after meeting for
a long um so if we all are agreeing we just take a strong I think we are. Yeah. So I will pass that along that along. So good news. Um let's see.
Uh spoke to Ken Jacobs about the um build park tennis and pickle ball. This meeting was on the 17th. They said it would be done by the end of the month. I don't think that's going to happen. They have to go real fast. Been a busy day tomorrow. Um, but it seems like they're confident
that you hear anything. I I have not heard anything since they said they were trying to get the vendor to get the materials ordered and okay well Ken you know 12 days ago he said the contractor will be starting
offensively done at the end of the month but I'll get an update on that um hopefully be done soon. Um there was a request from a resident who um is uh coaching primary uh soccer, prairie red
soccer, or I'm sorry, excuse me, travel soccer, excuse me. Um, and he had requested the idea of lights temporarily being put up um at the soccer fields in the west property. Yeah. Um, parks committee was uniformly opposed. Um, I
think there just a lot of issues as far as um insurance and lights and just a lot of things and they just they they didn't like the idea. So an expense well the expense will be more
soccer. Yeah. Yeah. Um there was another group of residents and I know you've heard about this who were interested in um possibly cricket pitch. Um I know those talks are ongoing. Um I told Brendan they should really just sit down and
iron out the details exactly where um exactly how you know the the um the size and the use and those questions because those questions are still unanswered. So I don't want any details on that but they're going to continue to look into it. I did my own research. I underestimated
the size of the Yeah, they're long. Yeah, I was really surprised at that. Yeah. And I think we've gotten several requests in the past. This was one that just bubbled up to me. So I'm glad it's being followed up on kind of that same process of like who,
when, where, why with it, right? So if it doesn't go anywhere, at least you did some baseline diligence on it. Yeah, exactly. Um so it's a lot more deta but the actual wear the use and the time of use and the conver soccer cricket. So
all the things will be added out. Um so they're going to continue to work on that people and get get done. Um the uh the entrance to Village Park. I know we've had discussed this a number of
times. So again, parks is going to um actually go out to the site if they haven't already, take a look at it, try and think of ways we can um establish better egress in the village park, needing some better signage. Um just at first blush it's kind of a difficult
thing because not if you imagine so Maplewood entrance of park there's not a lot of public land sidewalk is very narrow it's all private land side so it's kind of really not like a gateway side
um so they're going to have to really sort of take figure out how best that I think was also the concern because I've done it three or four times where I blow it miss Yeah. And now I'm in Bennett and then I'm disrupting that neighborhood going in, backing up, coming back out again. So that was also
a concern is that people make the mistake and then they were there, right? Yeah. Do you think that maybe someone might have a solution to this kind of presum? Well, yeah. So, Andrew maybe can help.
I think there's there may have been a sight triangle issue there as far as moving the sign out more or making it too big or that's what Jared said in your test when they looked at it. That was the issue. That's why it's where it is in size.
Did he move it up? I mean because I passed it today and I was like it's pretty high or something or maybe I just noticed it today because it's been on my mind but it looks like it's a different type of signs.
where it's closed, you know, the sign hangs down, but it it weren't a little bit of looking at, you know, the residents and then, you know, tourists that come into the town. I just remember a day that Senator Greenstein came in for an event and was totally lost. I had to walk out into the
middle of the street because it's just not easy to see. Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't have a physical address as we saw from the trunk or treat event that's going on because someone at 38 Maplewood was about to have a lot of visitors. So they changed it to my address.
We don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters. Yeah. Took out the double P in Maplewood and then said the entrance is off of Maplewood Avenue. That's the best you can do because the park literally doesn't have an address. Correct. It they double peed it. So I
helped them with a couple of things on that flyer. But yeah, my only other thought was that road is ours, you know, but that's not um they will go they'll get some pictures, they'll
measure it. But yeah, I agree. Maybe maybe at that point you want to think about other signs. What are the signs you're looking at? Well, we don't necessarily have that way to elevate that so the line of
visibility is a little better and it doesn't requ for next year for their capital project, we're looking at a couple different things. One is if you imagine in village park where the walking trail is. Imagine the base baseball field here
or snake hill that we're calling the big hill. The big hill is here. The hill. Yeah. If it ever snow the hill the goes like this. Sort of a circle there. They were looking at putting a gazebo in
um a freestanding offtheshelf 7 to10,000. Um that's something that they're going to put together put in their capital for next year. Put on your radar just so you know you're not surprised. Um in addition, I know they came up last year.
They also asked again about trees around a walking trail. I told them they should get in touch with shade tree and sort of plan for trees for next year. Let's see where that goes. And they're also putting together a survey. Um, you know, they they had this
plan earlier this year for splashpad and I brought to you guys and thinking that they should get more feedback from the town. So, they're going to try and put together a survey um sort of a general wish list survey trying to get from the public so they're not just speaking
themselves in the back and uh They don't have a date form that'll come out. They're still um putting it together and sort of winnowing it. So, what they have is like 30 pages. That's too long.
So, they're gonna wow it down. Hopefully, that sounds smart. Yeah. 30 pages. Yeah. So just told September 15th fencing should be up
in the next few weeks. After that portfol and if winter comes it might not be until this morning. So but they're working on it. Um, all right. All good. Any questions for anybody? All good.
Okay. Uh Aman and I were invited to attend the Biocon um which is a pharmaceutical company here in Cranberry which u not for good reasons but um another one of our rocket pharma companies was just mentioned in the news that it's located here in um
Cranberry but it was more about the tariff situation and the increase on branded uh pharmaceuticals and um all this great growth that we're seeing. We house like I think we're the state with the most pharma companies in it if I'm not mistaken. But this was a real
feel-good story here which is a female entrepreneur uh from India that was told that she couldn't brew beer and so she said okay I'll pivot. I'll just start a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. So you know never tell a woman no my that's my personal advice. But she
basically started doing this out of her garage and now they just had a huge expansion here and we were able to go there and along with all of our uh state legislators were there and um our local assembly folks and um the governor was
there. So it was a really nice uh event there and they had a ribbon cutting and we got to tour the facility which like you can eat off the floor in this place. is pharmaceutical facility but and very very uh low from a labor perspective but it will add jobs which is great add jobs
here in cranberry. So it was really it was really impressive for us to go there and we were happy to be invited. Um and what else? Um I had the ability um to go to the Middle Sex County um food scarcity uh uh conference that they had
held. Um, and much like your facts about suicide, I came away not feeling great about food scarcity and the funding and the cutting of funding and that coupled with the amount of people that need
food. Um, and we have quite a few of our residents in Cranberry um that that SK Pantry through the Presbyterian Church works with. That number is growing. after COVID it really shot up and based on our economy and the things that are
happening and the cost of food and all of that cost of our energy bills those things are really creeping up. Um and I can't believe that you know the the numbers of people that are in need are going up and then the amount that we're able to do. So as we're going into Q4
and I'm just asking all the residents of Cranberry to really be mindful of this. The next three months are critical for SK Pantry in particular. uh food banks are are not being uh fueled and funneled through with food as much as they used to be too. So, it's a real it's a real
issue. Um and again, as we're talking about affordable housing, every town is going to have more affordable housing in it um through this round four, those numbers and need are only going to increase in the state of New Jersey. So, it's just something to be mindful of. I know the Boy Scouts are going to start with there. You're all going to get your
rolled up plastic bag on your front porches. Um and and really again the the need is food. Um it's not so much a monetary um donation because then that puts a lot of pressure on the pantry to have to go buy the food with the money. So I know it sounds crazy. Most
organizations will like take cash. The these guys, they're really looking for food. So clarify. I was going to ask that same question. Yeah, it's it's it's it really is. So, you know, anyone could go through their pantry. Please look for non-expired food or make the commitment if you do have some extra to spare or when you're doing
the weekly grocery shopping. Just keep SKS in mind. And again, it doesn't have to be SKS. I'm not making a shameless plug for them, but if it's a local food bank or a charity of your choice that could help with this problem, I just think we all, you know, need to be so that we can see as many families can have some really good meals over the
next couple of months. So, just thought I would mention that. Um, I've been traveling like crazy for work. Um, so it's just been really busy. So I don't have an update on my mulch. Um, but I promise that I will do some more diligence and see um, if I can do that.
So I'm a little bit remiss on that. But I'm trying to see what we have to follow up from our last meeting that if we can tackle any of those things, but I think we do. Um, I've got some complaints from residents. I'm one of them uh that basically cannot function at my home
office any longer due to terrible cell phone service. Um and I can't even on my Wi-Fi calling's not working. It's just it's a mess. So basically every meeting I have has to be scheduled on a Teams or a Zoom um personal and professionally. I just get calls dropped all the time. So
I'm on the bandwagon to see if I can get ahead of this. I I don't think it's necessarily municipality initiative, but I'm taking it on just because I've heard enough from residents, including myself, on the frustration of it. And then a really good story. I just want to give a shout out to the Department of Public
Works for um of Middle Sex County. Uh we had a resident that had complained that uh they were a little overzealous in their trim back uh on Old Trenton Road and they took out some trees uh pretty big trees by accident and they were
quick to accept responsibility for it. They said, "Hold off. We're going to wait till September so we don't kill them with the heat." They came and replanted. They even put a mulch bed down on this resident's property and they were really appreciative. So not only were they very responsive, they took accountability for it. they fixed
the problem and I would hope that all problems if we ever have them with the county would be solved in this manner but it was a nice thing to to do that. Um, we do have Shadow Oaks that we hope to start the phase one of that before the end of the year. Uh, which is good.
And then on our agenda tonight, we'll talk about Cedar Cedar Brook. This we have that as a second. And that's all the updates that I have question um the issue with cell phone
and Wi-Fi beyond this public safety. Again, that's really where the resident had taken it from. Like, it's okay if I get a drop call with my board of directors, but if you have somebody in this town Yeah. So, I mean, this has been before.
Yeah. And the the answer isn't go get a landline. Right. Right. Like that's not the answer. So I guess my my question is is there anything we can do besides us writing a letter? Can I share with you like a little bit of what was done last year because what
had happened to representative in fact they were like oh you're talking about wireless we have a lot of complaints about that right it seemed like it was it wasn't a new complaint for them. Um, but I really it's I felt a little embarrassed because
I I went up there only to find out that here within our community we hadn't complained enough to the actual wireless company. You know, like you need enough complaints at the wireless field, I don't know, website or email address
that receives complaints and you know, maybe one person complained on behalf of 10 people and those 10 people felt like, you know, that was enough, but it wasn't enough. It turns out that more voices, more emails were required to actually, you know, make that a little more
urgent. And so I felt really embarrassed when I went up here, but my people hadn't complained. So, we should open a public comment uh for it. But no, actually my husband tried to do that and tried to get a little coalition and chatter books together and tried to type up like a generic letter and then
anybody who wanted it could just grab it and then send it in and be like, you know, basically it sort of sucks. That was the gist of the letter and what can you do about it? I mean, I you know, and maybe we just need to generate it again. So, I'm going to mention it in the mayor's update tomorrow and be like, it's once it's another
example of strength in numbers and if that's the feedback we heard. But, I've heard it's Verizon, I've heard it's T-Mobile, and I heard it's AT&T. So, we're in a like a tower desert here. And I don't know if an increased frequency or anything like that could help, but it's it's a real problem. And I'm hearing it from all different bits of
town, maybe different carriers in different towns, but it's a problem if you can't function. But like you said, more importantly, if someone can't call 911, like that's Yeah. Yeah. And I think that maybe that should be that should be the again like me
being inconvenienced for work pales in comparison to what the liability and repercussions could be for something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was there in your specific question?
Okay. All right. And I'll ask residents for feedback. If a resident again, I don't know, we might have somebody works at a Verizon AT might have a connection there that can help us out and get us to the right person. So, I'll put a call to action out there and then ask people to,
you know, start to raise the issue. It's a and it's a two twopronged issue, right? It's the fact that the cellular service is terrible and we only have one option when it comes to the internet. and my and when I I personally when I revert to Wi-Fi calling which then goes
through Comcast or Exfinity, right, that doesn't work. Those calls get dropped as well. So, it's cellular data and the Wi-Fi, which we've heard a lot of complaints about Comcast. I know that they're supposed to be updating their wires over in Shadow Oaks. We've got flags all over the place. We look like
six flags over there, but nothing's happening. It's just a bunch of flags in the ground. So, I don't I don't know what's going to happen. Yeah, it's nothing new. We we've all experienced it for years and years and years. Yeah. But it just it's come up a lot lately. So I'll try to upload something.
Well, the who hosted it was a group called Replenish. And so there the things that they were looking for was about how to be to continue to secure funding and that the fact that you know they're taking it up at the state and at the federal level to try to preserve the
funding of that. But all points are going at those types of programs are going to be cut and you don't know what if we have an administration change at the state level. I don't you know I don't know where this falls on the list but the numbers were horrible you know and especially when you talk about like children being affected and you know
still in this day and age that you know we can't feed a general population in this country just it makes me sad. Um but uh it wasn't so much a call to action or this is what you can do. Um it was just you know try to you know try to
do what you can in your own community. But yeah, but the numbers are remarkable. Mayor, I just wanted to remind you take this opportunity just to remind people that October this weekend or
we've got the dump. Happy dump. Oh yeah, bulk. Yeah, bulk recycling. Yeah. So that's October 4th and 5th. And thank you for mentioning that. We also
have the um uh keep uh Middle Sex County moving. We have our uh second walk to school on October 17th. Um so that's scheduled for 8:00. So we'll have um hopefully we'll have a good turnout on that. And then also the Girl Scouts have
also offered we're painting the town pink for breast cancer awareness. So we'll have ribbons that'll go up in town. The Girl Scouts did it last year and then they went around and took the ribbons down which is great. I believe the box of supplies was delivered uh and Delta Yeah, Delta Georgees was alerted
to that. So I believe on the second uh the ribbons they're going to spend the day going up. So we thank the Girl Scouts for stepping up again and not just in putting them out but also they have the responsibility of taking them down again. So um that'll be part of their community service badges and so that'll be good too. But you just
reminded me a whole letter so I didn't write down. So thank you Okay. All right. Okay. And then we have um no subcommittee updates, but we do um our CFO we have department head update.
Yes. So every year best practices checklist comes out from the state. We're required to complete it. Um that's the state's way of um determining if we get folks dating for us energy receipts tax. Um we do every year. again this
year. Um we needed a score of 32 plus. Our score was 38.5. Um almost every question was scored on. Um one thing that we did not score on was having an E charging station on municipal land.
So I guess that's a big push from the state. Um but otherwise, yeah, we're getting 100% by the end of the year of our energy receipts tax. So, okay. Just had to discuss that in a meeting and we submitted it. And would we talk about a potential EV
charging station when we're when it comes to budget timing? I mean, we have talked about it. We just don't want to put it on. Okay. Dr. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll wait for her to come back, but Okay. On the radar.
Okay. All right. Um followup items, right? Um our boards and commissions are vacancies. So we've got the same four again. Environmental commission, a first alternate and a second alternate. Zoning
board is a second alternate. And a municipal lines is a full member. All right. Ordinances. We have no first readings. Uh but we do have a second reading. So the ordinance that is on for second reading this evening is Cranberry
Township Ordinance number 09-25-11 amending chapter 5.8 private duty service. And then is there any public comment on our second reading of ordinance 0925-11? Okay, seeing none. Is there any comment
from our country committee? Okay. So, okay. So, we'll move on to uh well, first let's make a motion. Yep. Motion to adopt. Motion to adopt. Second. Second. Thank you. And we're going to move on to
roll call. Mr. Christopher. Yes. Mrs. Elbidawi. Yes. Dr. Rogers is absent. Mr. Scott, yes. Mayor Kirum, yes. Thank you. It's unanimous. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to move consent resolutions through B?
So, move second. Thank you. We'll move on to roll call. Uh, Mr. Christopher, yes. Mrs. Elidawi, yes. Dr. Rogers is absent. Mr. Scott, yes. Mayor Kiran, yes. Thank you, unanimous. Okay, before we move in public comment,
I just want to let everybody know I'm not angry. I was overzealous in wearing a sweater tonight. It's not quite sweater weather yet and I'm boiling alive up here. So, if I throw this ice water on me, I apologize to the public in advance.
I'll share my pants. Yeah, it's not fall yet in my body temperature. Okay. So, we'll open up public comment now. Just as a reminder, each member of the public has three minutes. Just come on up. uh you'll turn the micro the
I really am the microphone on until you see the red button stays on and just uh just sign in with your name and your address and state. So at this time we have public [Music] Yeah. and put on the microphone for the
YouTube. And then you're just going to turn the microphone on till it hits red. Yes, please. Thank you. Okay. And then Yep, that's good. And then state your name. Your name. Thank you for uh agreeing to
listen to my statement which is uh related to Cambury affordable housing and the project which is um initiated by the Cbury housing association in South Main Street. So my name is Paul Gino and
I'm a resident of S and I want to explain express my strong opposition to the proposed construction of 60 affordable housing units in my immediate neighborhood. First, this project would
surround my home on three sides leaving only one access point to South Main Street located hundreds of feet away from most of the building blocks. This design all but guarantees that resident will cut through my property
and my neighbors one is here as a shortcut to their homes infringing of my privacy and security. Second, this project is not equitably planned across Camry. My neighborhood
already has multiple affordable housing sections. My other area of town was none. Concentrating yet another large scale development here unfairly burdens this community while excluding others
from their share of responsibility. Third, the development would destroy a wooded area that currently support wildlife and provides natural beauty for the community. In its place, the plan calls for parking
lots to accommodate hundreds of cars while we sign significant sorry increase air pollution, noise pollution and air traffic congestion in our neighborhood. Finally, I was never contacted by the
tendering house association the initiator of this project. I only became aware of this project and this uh possibility to address the uh township committee because of the neighbor uh friend made me aware of this. This is
deeply disrespectful to pursue such a disruptive project without reaching out to directly affected residents or offering an opportunity for dialogue. While I am willing to engage in constructive conversation, this
dismissive approach taken so far undermines trust and community cooperation. For all of these reasons, the direct impact of my property, the unfair concentration of affordable housing in one area,
the environmental destruction and the the lack of communication and respect for residents. I urge the committee to reconsider or relocate this project deserve thoughtful balance planning that project the character and quality of
life of all its neighbors. Thank you. Thank you sir. You sir public comment. [Music] Check Yeah. Push on the one button, the red light that stays on. Push one button. There you go. Go. There you go.
Thank you. Name first. Good evening. I'm Jenny Kasaki and I'm a Cranberry resident for 12 I've been a cranberry resident for 12 years. I live on North Main Street and I am a social worker, a mental health clinician. I
currently work with older residents in Monroe, but I was recently an elementary and middle school counselor working in the nearby school district outside of Cranber. There's a reason I keep you all. I am here today before you asking the township committee to please write
and send a resolution to the New Jersey state legislature in support of the New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act, also known as Senate Bill 3672 and Assembly Bill 4987. I've taken the liberty of writing a
draft version of such a resolution and I have emailed copies to all of the committee members of that draft as well. Feel free to make any changes to it you want. 25.3% almost one in four residents of
Cranberry are foreignb born. I and many crimeians like me are very interested in preserving civil liberties and safety of various residents who have recently become the unwitting targets of ICE, Homeland Security, and the Customs Border Patrol. As you're aware,
warehouses and businesses in nearby Edison and Princeton have recently experienced ICE raids uh in the last seven months where both employees and collateral passers by were abducted, detained, and some even deported not because they engaged in criminal activity, but because they didn't have
the appropriate proof of their immigration status on them at work or on their way to work. As you know, we have quite a few warehouses surrounding Cranberry. There are 80 bonded and 28 and or 287g interstate contract
warehouses in New Jersey. Warehouses of these types are prime targets for ICE and CBB. There are at least four of them or more around Cranberry and around South Brunswick and there are more around South Brunswick and Monroe. We
know that ICE has already been trolling around our warehouses in the last few months. ICE has been patrolling Main Street as well in the last few months. The children where I worked would come into my offices regularly afraid that their parents wouldn't be home when they got out of school or that their parents
would be picked up after they were dropped off from school. 15 different municipalities and at least two full counties have already passed similar resolutions and proclamations in support of the ITA, including Edison and
Princeton, the towns that were so brutally affected by ICE and CBP raids. Under the Immigrant Trust Act, a local police cannot be ordered to assist federal law enforcement to arrest and detain individuals for civil offenses.
I'd like to remind everybody that not having documentation is not considered a criminal offense. It is a civil offense. The Thank you. Thank you very much. I do have extra
copies of the resolution at the And I just want to acknowledge that everyone on the township was in receipt of your email. Okay. And then um Jenny also when we spoke I also um uh told you that the
next board of education uh meeting it will be in the mayor's update tomorrow. Okay. I just want to follow up on our conversation. Okay. I know you won't be hearing [Music] My name is Laura Zurflu. I'm at 19 Bunker Hill. Um, and to to add to some
some of the things that Jenny just said, um, in addition to um protecting people from uh from from being targeted, it actually protects our own residents. Um, I've had conversations with the chief of police in Princeton and one of the things that they're very careful about
doing is separating their uh presence from the presence of ICE. Um, when the police are associated with ICE, then you have a subset of residents um that are afraid to to report crimes. And I don't want to live in a community where there are people in my community that are h
are having criminal activity against them and are are afraid to go to the police and report those crimes. Um, so it is something that we really need to consider for our own safety as well as for the safety of our fellow residents. Thank you.
Thank you. Any further public comment? [Music] I'm not teaching a class. annoyed by who's behind me. Good evening. As you know, CHA presented anformational
meeting to Tantric residents on September 9th to explain CHA's alternate plan to the taking of the Henry farm. Our alternatives include developing affordable housing to be incorporated in our community, not building more
affordable housing than we are required to build, being fiscally responsible to not only the township budget, but to the future school budget as well. Our plan meets state guidelines and protects cranberry from builder's
remedy. Our alternate plan was developed with the support and help of many Cranberry residents who care about continuing Cranberry's history of locating affordable housing integrated into our town and preserving farmland.
We have petitions from additional residents showing their support for the CHA plan, which I'll give it to at the end. We hope you agree with our alternate solutions to meet our affordable housing requirements. By working together, we can move forward
and bring our community together again and show those watching Cranberry we care not only about our current residents but our future residents as well. I want to address two comments that were made tonight. One about the meeting
where there's a comment made to reduce the buffer to 50 ft. I believe that was incorrect. was reduced the buffer by 50 ft to 200 ft which is in your letter. It specifically says reduce the buffer
no more than 200 ft seems reasonable. That's what I was addressing. The other comment was by a neighbor who spoke earlier. We are happy to talk with any neighbor of our proposed projects. We do not we did not have the time to
talk with any adjacent neighbors. We are more than happy to do so in the future. Just contact us at cranberryousinggmail.com. So for our neighbors we're concerned, we're happy to meet with anyone to
discuss our proposals. Fortunately, we are allowed to have comments and discussions. Thank you. Is there any further public comment? My microphone is not on. Any further public comment? Seeing none, we will close public
comment for this evening. Action items. I don't mind. I'm going to try to see what I can do and I'll include it in the mayor's update, but I'll also try to do more research on cell and Wi-Fi service
and see what I can kind of find out. I will take that action item. Any other action items? I have a few items that I need to follow. I don't think I need to put them in. [Music]
Okay. All right. We're gonna uh have a motion. We're going to move into You can both together. Okay. Motion to move into close session for resolution R9-25-124 and resolution 0925-125. Second.
Thank you. We'll move on to roll call. Mr. Christopher, yes. Mrs. Elbidawi, yes. Dr. Rogers is absent. Mr. Scott, Mr. Scott, yes. I'm sorry. Mayor Caner, yes.
That's unanimous. And uh after close session, we'll only be adjourned. So, we would now ask the public to leave the meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Let me turn everything off before you know.
Hold on. Yeah.