will be given by started by Commissioner Robert. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. Commissioner Austin here. Commissioner Alrech here. Commissioner Romero here. Commissioner Loads present. Commissioner Taylor present. Deputy Director Marshon here. Director Sorrow here. Do I have a motion and second to accept and dispense with
the reading of the minutes from the last public meeting? So moved. Second. All in favor? We now have a presentation. Rachel Lipoff, executive director of American Red Cross of Southern New Jersey. Thank you. It's on. We're good. You're
all ready. I have terrible allergies, so I just want to apologize in advance for all of this. Thank you for understanding. My name is Rachel Ripoff and I'm the executive director of the American Red Cross for Southern New Jersey. Um, and that includes Cumberland County and I'm so thrilled to be here. Thank you so
much for inviting me. I've been with the Red Cross for just under a year, so I do use notes when I talk still. Um, so please pardon that. I know that we have incredible relationships with the individual municipalities here in the county. One of the things that is really
important to me as I'm moving forward in this position is to create a relationship with each of you to make sure that at the county level, you guys are aware of what we can offer and know that not only in blue sky and wonderful times when we're not in the midst of disaster that you can call on me, but
should something happen within the county that you know that you can call on me to let us know what you need from the Red Cross, ways we can partner, and we can move from there because it takes all levels. s um when disaster strikes. Um we also have a lot of areas of the
Red Cross that a lot of people don't realize. We know a lot of people know disaster relief and our biomemed the blood collection. So I'm going to just do a overview briefly today of some things and I hope that afterwards if you have some questions either here or you can follow up with me anytime for our disaster relief. Every eight minutes the
Red Cross responds to a disaster including home fires, apartment fires, floods, hurricanes, wildfires. snow, tornadoes, and more across the nation. In fact, I learned from our CEO today that this year we are on track to respond to 57,000 home fires nationally
just this year. Locally in Cumberland County, over the past two years, 26 Red Cross responders have responded 92 times to events such as single and multif family fires, explosions, and other things of the like. We've provided
financial assistance, relief supplies, health, mental health, and spiritual support, and in some cases, food and shelter as well. I want to thank all of the municipalities for continuing to call the Red Cross when disaster strikes. Even when a homeowner um has a
place to go after a home fire, we want to be called because we provide financial assistance regardless of that fact. We are here to provide this health and mental health relief regardless of whether they have somewhere to go that night or not. and the municipalities in this country in this county are so
wonderful and do bring us in and we want to continue to do that. Please continue to call us. Um, another piece of our disaster cycle services. We do preparedness, we do response and we do recovery. Um, is this preparedness piece. We have programs for kids and
teens. We have programs for adults, for caregivers, for seniors. Um we have a prepare with Pedro that we provide to kindergarten through second graders which is at their level but does talk about how to prepare for home fires, how to you know to um how to prepare for tornadoes, how to prepare for floods. Um
we have programs for organizations and companies. We provide handsonly CPR which I would be happy to provide for you sometime. Um and our ready rating program that's for businesses, schools and organizations and helps you become prepared for disasters and other emergencies. The ready rating ready
retaining members have access to our one-of-a-kind tools, resources, and information evaluating and improving your ability to withstand disaster, maintain operations, and protect lives and property. And it's a free program and very easy to access. Our home fire
campaign is one of our most well-known programs. We've been offering it nationally since 2014. Um, I just found out today that since then nationally we've installed more than 3 million free smoke alarms in homes. And it's something that we do on a one-on-one basis. Anybody can call the American Red
Cross at 1800 Red Cross and ask for someone to come out and check their smoke alarms and install free ones regardless of so socioeconomic status. Um, but in Cumberland County since 2014, since we started, we I'm so proud have installed
1,339 smoke alarms for free. We've made 564 homes safer. And we've served doing that 2,45 people in those homes. And so many lives have been saved. And we could not do that without the partnerships with municipalities, with fire
departments. It's just it's an incredible partnership to make your communities safer. It's something that I'd love to explore further with you moving forward and I hope you'll contact me about it. For our blood services, um, in Cumberland County, you're doing an incredible job of supporting blood donations. Um, we, the Red Cross,
provide about 40% of the nation's blood supply through whole blood, plasma, and platelets. We're also very focused on diversifying the blood supply. um individuals with cickle cell disease and other um very specific diseases need
donors who are like them to donate. So we're very focused on u promoting drives that include Latinos um black and African-American donors and that's something that if you have connections we would love that. Um, and we have we've held since July 1st of 2024
through April 30th just in Cumberland County 95 blood drives, which is just outstanding. And we've collected 2,36 units of blood. So, when you think about it, really each one of those is a life saved. There's always a great need for blood, especially when the summer
approaches. Um, fewer people are donating in general, more car accidents, things like that. Um, so we are looking for anybody who would like to host blood drives. Uh, we love a good battle of the badges. If you know of anybody who, you know, police and fire want to go headtohead, um, I really love it when
two municipalities want to take each other on and really, you know, we we could really do some things around that. Um, so anything that you would like to do with us, we would love to partner with you. Um, another arm of the Red Cross that many people are not aware of is our service to armed forces.
We also have an international services component that I'm happy to reach out to you about another time. Uh the mission of the service to armed forces arm is to provide care and comfort to the members of the United States armed forces and their families. This starts the moment that someone joins the military and we
provide these services all the way through their veteran status all the way until the end of their lives. The SAF team supports military families during deployments and in emergencies. They serve in military and veterans hospitals and homes. They conduct emergency communications and continuing support of
our nation's veterans all the way until their service ends. Here in New Jersey, we also run a food pantry at the joint base Meguire Dicks Lakehurst and it provides food and supplies to needy families on that base. Um, and I looked up some stats today and learned that as
of 2023, Cumberland County has 6,153 military veterans and every one of these individuals and their families are eligible for services from the American Red Cross. A couple other pieces and then I'll let you go. Um, on
average, 90 cents of every dollar that we raise at the American Red Cross goes directly to our mission and to delivering the care and the comfort to those in need. And I've worked for many nonprofit organizations in the last 24 25 years. Um, and that's just a
staggering staggering figure. Um, to have everything go to the mission. We are 90% volunteer-driven. Most of the individuals who come to respond to disasters locally, regionally, and throughout the nation in the Red Cross are unpaid volunteers that just want to
help. Currently, um, as of March 2025, our volunteers in New Jersey logged 1,00 I'm sorry, 133,9001 volunteer hours. And I don't think everybody's even logged all their hours. I think that's just the people who we could get to log them. Currently
in Cumberland County, we have 28 volunteers. One thing that I'm very focused on right now is recruiting more volunteers in this county so that we have local volunteers who are able to respond to disasters like home fires quickly. Um we try to respond within two
hours. Um sometimes we have folks who are coming from other counties. So we are doing recruitment events. Um always happy to partner if you have anything going on um in in local districts. uh we have folks who are very focused on this and we want to make sure that we have
all of the people that we need to be able to serve your communities. Thank you so much for having me. Um I will leave my cards so that you can get in touch. Yes. Thank you. Don't leave yet. Oh no. Great. Okay. Um two things. Yes. One, I'd like you to look in that camera and tell
people how to call to volunteer. That's the first thing if you could do that. Absolutely. All right. Absolutely. to volunteer with the American Red Cross, to donate blood with the American Red Cross, to give to the American Red Cross, you can go to 1800 Redcross on
the phone or www.redcross.org and it will get you there. The links are right on the main page. So that's volunteer and donations. Yes. Okay. Say that number one more time so they'll understand it. 1 800 redcross. There you go. Or redcross.org.
That's it. Did you want to No, Rachel, thank you so much for coming in. I'm glad you uh took us up on our invitation. We're so happy to have you here. You did share some of those statistics last month. It was National Red Cross Month. Um and it was something that as Cumberland County Commissioners, we were really proud of what you did. So, we really wanted you to come in and
and just kind of divulge a little bit more information about what the organization was doing nationally, but also specifically in Cumberland County. So, thank you so much. We're so grateful for your partnership. Thank you for having me. No, there's no chance I'm going to do this right now. Madam clerk, you can continue now with
the ordinances. Ordinance 2025-2. Do I have a motion and second that the ordinance be read on first reading by title only? So move. Second. All in favor? I
Ordinance 2025-2, Ordinance amending and supplementing ordinance 2023-2 and 2024-4 authorizing continuation and expansion of the New Jersey county option hospital fee program for the county of Cumberland. Do I have a motion
and second the ordinance be read? Ordinance on first reading, director, before we go on. Wait, wait, before get the the first and second and then you can have a discussion. Second. Second. Okay. Discussion. Director. This
this is a major uh thing for the hospital and we we have we have and you've been involved with it kind of I'm surprised I don't see anyone from the hospital here. if I'm missing something that that this is an opportunity because
this is over if I remember right maybe I did ask the CFO but I I thought the number was close to $40 million and I was told it was even more than that to the hospital are you off of that Chris so $40 million we're going to vote to
give this and we vote every year and at the same time we the county we benefit I think we're a million dollars we get uh that And I want to make sure and you understand that we we face a uh our
townships face uh kind of a crisis. our emergency management service which and I could point directly to the hospital uh causing this system by uh undercutting legitimate services u u do providing
service to put uh put pressure on volunteers because the volunteers were uh don't get paid and they were paying people a good chunk of funds to to become so they would join the paid service from them and now and again
they're not here but I it I actually this is where I would like to say listen we we need to take care of this problem one of their big things that they can't afford to run it anymore after say listen we can do that for nothing and and nobody can do anything for nothing
but now they realize or they understood it does cost money to provide that service and now they our townships have to pay I'm talking to the chair but it's really for everybody have to pay Um, and so I I really wanted to reach out to say
to them, I I would like them to commit to support because now we got to reconstitute uh an EMS system down in our townships and did it on their own because they had a crisis that that the Spear's EMS system was not responding.
So they reconstituted their emergency management emergency service and now it's got to be done elsewhere in our townships that don't have the wear involved at the city of Milville did the bull did it. So I I and the cost is almost for two c two ambulances and a
crew is a million dollars a year. So it's too big a million each vehicle and a crew. You don't have to buy a vehicle again. So, I I would like them here because we're going to vote on this and this is and I say this to you because I know you're handling this problem uh or
I'll handle this problem that I would like them to kind of come up with an idea of putting money some of this maybe not this money because it's dedicated to Medicare but somebody in their their fund that this this organization that's a nonprofit
u so-called nonprofit to put in to help our townships be able to support this at least start it for the first year in order to get it off the ground. And I'm going to rattle off names. Downtownship is the first one. Morris River Township. Uh we got Fairfield is desperate right
now. Commercial townships, they're they're uh EMS is on the W on the ropes uh because the same pressure I told you. They're losing people down. Uh our other ones are getting older. Dear Field, Upper Deer said that within a year to
two years, they're going to have an issue. They have a paid involunteer service. Uh Lawrence Township says they're solid. Um so I just want to put it out there that I would like them to to look and give it an idea that they have their
service. Well, here's where they're going to have to sacrifice a little bit to to help us supply something that they they can't or they won't at a cost that they said they cannot afford. Uh we have to pick up the ball and run with it. So, you're we're going to we put this on the
table. I really don't want to vote for this tonight. It I I'd like to hear from them. Go ahead, Commissioner Al. I didn't want to interrupt you. No, I I wanted to make sure that you got out everything you wanted to get out. We have a meeting set up. It's going to be
May 22nd, correct? It's a Thursday. Uh they're going to be there. The townships have been invited. We've gotten a good response. the senator is going to be there and we're going to talk very frankly which I've already done personally to individuals from the
sphere. So that being said, everything that you said was correct. I'm not arguing with any of it. I wanted to make sure that you got out everything that you needed to get out. I appreciate that. Okay. Did not want to interrupt you. Uh but I want everybody to realize
we have a meeting set up. I have been very vocal on this making the statement that they caused the problem. There's no if and but about it. In Spir caused the problem. I don't have
a problem saying it. Right now, we're expecting them to be part of the solution. Right. So, what we're going to do is have that meeting. It's a week from uh Thursday. Okay. And uh we will see
how that turns out. Uh again, as I said, the senator is going to be there. Michael Ta Spear will be there. How many townships responded? Almost all of them. Almost all of all of the townships responded. I talked to certain mayors personally when I was able to get a hold
of them. They know exactly what's going on. Uh we're addressing the issue. I just want everybody to understand that this is not going to go away. It will not go away. Well, director, with that in mind, I don't know what what I'll
ask John, Mr. Carr, what's u is there is there a time frame ticket on this thing? Can we put this off? So, this is the introduction. This isn't here. So, what is what is the final vote? Two weeks from now. No, you're uh it's scheduled for June 10. Okay. Then I'll have time.
The question I thought you were going to ask is, is it going to be a public meeting? And I don't know. No, the the meeting within Spirit is not a public meeting only because you've referenced it. So, you will not have a majority. Exactly. I just want everybody to know what's going on. Okay. U But
that being said, we have time before the This is only an introduction, Commissioner, so we will have the time. That's fine. As long I just like to keep it out there just in case that they they understand how important this is. You understand that? acknowledge everything
that you uh you stated. Okay. Can we Okay, we had our roll call motion and a second. We need a roll call. Commissioner Ostino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lodes, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Marshon,
yes. Director Sorrow, yes. Notice is hereby given that ordinance 2025-2 was introduced and approved by the board of county commissioners of the county of Cumberland on first reading on May 13, 2025. It will be further considered for final passage after a public hearing thereon at a meeting of the board of
county commissioners to be held at the Cumberland County Administration building 164 West Broad Street in Bridton, New Jersey on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 at 6 p.m. prevailing time at which time and place comments and objections to ordinance 2025-2 may be presented by members of
the public during the week prior to and including the date of such meeting. Copies of said ordinance will be made available to the general public at no cost who shall request the same at the office of the clerk to the board of county commissioners 164 West Broad Street, New Jersey.
Do I have a motion and second to open public comment on resolution items only? All in favor? I anyone from the public may come up address the board. Uh please state your name and not address but
where you're from. Sandy Asivito Upper Deerfield Township on um resolution 2025-264 where we're sharing legal services with South Jersey Economic Development District. Is that 550 or
575, whatever it was, going to cover his cost? And are the other counties going to contribute? What What does this look like? Okay. Well, we got the the question. We'll take that as soon as we get
finished. yet and on 2025-2 um what what amendments what are the amendments I guess is my question thank you thank you for the first one answer first
question sure that uh is something that SJC wanted to do it's a conglomeration of multiple counties so they're doing it out of their budget and I'm not getting it so I'm salary to the county I work for you guys full time. So hopefully we'll go to defay some of the expenses
that my office expends. In other words, the legal services between the assistance and my time and Jeff. So that's the idea, but it's not going to anybody but Cumberland County is coming from the conglomeration. And just to be clear, I think John's being a little
modest here. The reason this is coming to us is because all the hard work that John puts in for that group and that was their way of contributing back for his services. So thank you John on that. But the the question is did they does it
cover the time you spent does does it cover like a little the the meetings are in the evening so that's not time that prize with time that you need it's a good cause. Yeah. But the daytime the contractual stuff or the help of the
resolutions that's during the day. So yeah I think it so the time you think you spent on it. Now, in absolute cander, when I got here, Ted Baker, my predecessor, promised me that we were all taking turns. It has been my turn since I wrote
this 5 years ago. So, I think the stipen is not a stipen. The payment is for work being done during the day, not for him showing up at night. I'm not getting and that will take care of what it has to be done. That's that's I hope that answers your question. Okay. Was
there anybody else that would like to speak to the board on any issue? Wait, I'm sorry. There was a resolution about changes. Sorry. Yeah. What are the changes for the hospital program? Somewhere. There's a red line.
I'm thinking your packages. There's no line in line. Thank you. All right. So looking at what was thoughtfully just handed to me. So the allowance for an additional outpatient fee based on the hospital net
patient revenue allowance for placing uh a lean in the event the hospital does not pay its fees. The Canya Carmelan is saying that it seeks to expand the healthcare related fee program and that is the sum total of the
changes. So minor minor changes and the lean program to enforce payment by the hospital not as to patients is what I'm correct. Okay. Was that good? Thank you. You're all right. Again, anyone else would like to
address the board name and location, please. Good evening. I'm Nancy Richway from Upper Deerfield and Fairfield Townships. I would just like to make clarification for our the people out in public.
uh what we were questioning about John Carr's salary with the South Jersey Economic Development District. I don't think you made it clear what that was about so we'll clear it up. The South Jersey Economic Development District is a district with four counties which
include Salem, Cland, Aratic, and Kate May counties. John has been Mr. Carr has been doing an excellent job as being the solicitor for this group. And years ago, we were taking a solic a lawyer from
every county and changing around the counties. And now it's been decided that Mr. Carr has done such a good job for the four counties that we're going to keep him and we're going to pay Cumber County and that will clarify it for everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.
Anyone else, please? Seeing none, motion to close. Motion closed. Motion to close. Second. All in favor? Are there any department head comments? Seeing none, move on to the ordinances,
please. Resolution 202. Resolution 2025-257. Resolution rejecting all bid specifications for 2024 road program, city of Noble, Cumberland County, New Jersey, bid number 25-13, and authorizing that request for bids be readvertised. Do I have a motion in
second? Second. Commissioner Ostino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lodess, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Maron, yes. Director Saro, resolution
2025-258. Resolution authorizing the submission of a project proposal to New Jersey Transit for New Jersey JC Grant Program. Do I have a motion and second? Motion. Second. Commissioner Ostino. Yes.
Commissioner Alrech for director. What what is the purpose of this grant? What are we aiming to do? So, what is the purpose of why it work? I'm going have to look that one up because I don't know all the grants is uh there you go. We have an answer. We have a person that's
going to be able to answer that. Good evening. I'm Jamie Gomez from the employment and training um department. Uh that's the the match funds for the existing transportation operations. Okay. Those are four fixed routes that go around Cumberland County for the
workforce. Yes. There you go. Thank you. Thanks J. Continue. Yes. Commissioner Albert. Yes. Commissioner Romero. Yes. Commissioner Lodes. Yes. Commissioner Taylor. Yes. Deputy Director Marshon. Yes. Director Sara. Yes. Resolution
2025-259, resolution authorizing application for grant funding from the state of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety for the state fiscal year 2024-25 mental health diversion grant program. Do I have a motion and second? So moved. Second. Commissioner Ostino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes.
Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lodes, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Maran, yes. Director Sorrow, yes. 2025-260 resolution authorizing contract agreement with the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Disability Services for the fiscal year
2026 renewal of funding under the personal assistance services program. Do I have a motion and second? Second. Second. Commissioner Ostino, yes. Commissioner Albert, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lo, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Marawn,
yes. Director Sar, yes. Resolution 2025-261, resolution approving change order number one to contract for providing as required electrical installation and repair services for the county of Cumberland and the Cumberland County Cooperative Contract Purchasing System identifier number
181-CCCCPS bid number 24-42. Do I have a motion and second? Second. Commissioner Alino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Less, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Marshan. Yes. Yes. Resolution
2025-262, resolution affirming an emergency to exist at the Cumberland County Department of Corrections regarding repairs to an elevator and affirming the repair thereof. Do I have a motion and second? Motion. Second. Commissioner Ostino. Yes.
the directors or is this additional to the other elevator uh repairs we made? Is this this is separate? But the um the director from the jail is here if you'd like to speak on that. Is this I guess you better go over there. Yeah, this is
a this is a separate element. Oh, it's a different different. It's not not the same. This is one that's been a while. Uh Chuck Abino, director for department of corrections. Uh this is the ele is this the same elevator we p not too long
ago we also paid to but I guess it was an emergency also. It it it is it's um I I believe it's the same elevator that we repaired recently. But this is a completely separate and different problem. Problem we have is the building's old. The elevators are in it.
you know, they get a constant use uh because of the layout of the jail and we normally I would have just brought it to you as a regular resolution, but the elevator is completely inoperable, which means we can't reach the uh second or third
floor, so we're carrying carts and medical carts. How many elevators do we have? Just one? No, there's multiple, but this is the only one that reaches the top floor in the annex. We have a contract. Our elevator contract doesn't handle uh like we have a like we have a service
contract but it and it what it what those mostly those service contract covers is just like a little preventive maintenance and then priority service when we have an issue like this. So this is what repair has nothing to do with preventive
maintenance at all. No, no. This is this was just a a major component that went. So, the the actual repair itself, we've been down now probably 10 days and the repair itself is is going to take about a week in it in and of itself to do. So,
it's kind of a significant repair. Okay. Thank Thank you. You're welcome. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lodess, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Maran, yes. Director Resolution 2025-263 resolution authorizing the
transfer and conveyance of property located at 2191 Finch Street block 6405 lot 66 on the city of Vinland tax map. Do I have a motion? Second move. Second. Commissioner Ostino. Yes. Commissioner Alrech. Yes. Commissioner Romero. Yes.
Commissioner Lo. Yes. Commissioner Taylor. Yes. Deputy Director Marshon. Yes. Director Sar. Okay. What is the property for that we're transferring it to? Sir, this is a residential home that the prosecutor took um by virtue of
there were occupants. Okay, that was that property we discussed going. Okay, I just want to verify that. We're going to keep the occupants in the home. They have nothing to do with what the police I just didn't recognize the address. Thank you. Yes. Resolution
2025-264 resolution authorizing an agreement between the South Jersey Economic Development District and the County of Cumberland for Cumberland County Council to provide professional legal services. Do I have a motion and second? So move. Second. Commissioner Alino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes.
Commissioner Lodess, yes. Thank you to John Carr once again for the excellent job that you're doing. You're making us look good. So we appreciate that. Appreciate. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Marshon. Yes, Director Sorrow. He does. Okay.
Resolution 2025-265, resolution declaring five metal tanks as surplus and unneeded property and authorizing the county department of public works to sell it as scrap metal to a dealer within Cumberland County. Do I have a motion and second? I'll make the move. Second.
Commissioner Alino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Loads, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Maran, yes. Director Sar. Resolution 2025-266, resolution authorizing application and grant agreement with the South Jersey Transportation Planning
Organization for subregional transportation planning grant. Do I have a motion and second? Motion. Second. Commissioner Alino. Yes. Commissioner Alrech. All right. Well, this is the question I guess I should ask the I'll ask the director. What what is the what
is the purpose of this? Uh what do you drive the to have the South Jersey Transportation? What is the goal that of this plan that you're that's being produced? Well, do you do you remember the the one plan that was uh we had a presentation on that's what the South
Jersey Transportation Organization does. They had the planning for South Jersey which encompasses the land county. I know who they are. This is the plan, the transportation plan for you're you're doing an application for
grant grant to continue the plan. That's the question that they presented and to extend it keep going working with it. The way I understand it with designing it or recommending it or No, actually designing it. Designing based on their recommendations that they
presented. Exactly. Okay. This is that portion of it, not the actual execution but just design and planning. Yes, that's why I understood. Right. Yes. Do we have an estimate on how much it will cost to I don't have that. I'm not on the transportation
board. I just um it it does say in the packet well for it to actually not just for the design and planning but to actually execute all of the things in the design and plans. Well, well, you can't have a cost of that until you get the actual design. Okay. Well, all
right. I I guess I'm drawing a blank here, but there it's particularly I mean, we look the South Jersey Transportation Planning or it does a lot of stuff. Looked at the two rivers, Morris and and uh the Cohansancy Rivers. They look at the roads and stuff. Is
there this extension? What are we asking them to continue to to We're not asking they they take it upon themselves to look into transportation systems throughout the the counties. Yeah. But don't don't we direct them what we would like them to focus on? No, it was the
plan that they that their commission puts together that they presented to us. So, well, do don't we guide them to what we like them to look at in our county? Do do we what they're doing is they're extending the plan that was shown to us
previously. They're moving forward with it. We saw the plan. This and this is where going back to the basics of planning that uh if we don't know we're looking like this organization is supposed to kind of take our input into account whatever. Well,
there's meetings every month. Um so and Well, I don't have the privilege of sitting on the South Jersey Transportation or uh planning organization. Uh I'm not on planning. So that's probably why I'm asking the details of what we're because I've made
it and I Well, what I'll do is I'll get one of the chairman to that. Okay. Do you I'm sorry. I maybe I should ask you if Well, will we
Well, I I I want to tell you I I was told that I was involved with the policies, okay, of the planning, not the planning part. All right, the chair, this is this is what I asked is that that it's great to extend it, but should
Cumberland County, I'm sure Lanny County, I'm sure sale gives them what they would like them to look at. Okay. The discussion is at the meeting. If I can interject, Mr. Kazarski may have information if he's uh he just left.
He's okay. Okay. Well, I'm not at the meeting and I'm glad you represent us, but I I would be nice to at least get an idea that uh or at least present to them what we're thinking this board because I guess you
can carry back that to them. we would love to to look into these areas whatever it is. Well, as a as a commissioner, you're welcome to do that as well be be because uh what I would say to you is what I'm the liaison to is
the policy board. Okay. Not exactly what they're planning on doing. I you know I hear about what we're voting on policywise and I am invited to attend the other meetings but I don't have input. Okay. On the other meetings. All
right. As the liaison. Well, it would be not a voting member of sometimes. Are you going to vote for it? No, I would have stayed. Okay. Continue. Thank you. Commissioner Romero, yes. Commissioner Lodess, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes.
Commission, Deputy Director Marshon, yes. Director Sar, yes. Resolution 2025-267, resolution authorizing payment of bills. Do I have a motion and second? So moved. Second. Commissioner Ostino, yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Romero, yes.
Commissioner Les, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Deputy Director Marshon, yes. Director S, yes. Consent agenda resolutions 15869. Resolution awarding a contract for a one-stop operator to
coordinate the New Jersey one-stop career centers in the Cumberland Salem Cape May Workforce Development Area. RFP number 25-085904 resolution awarding a contract for providing food services and food services management for the Cumberland County Department of Corrections. RFP number
25-105925 resolution awarding contract for providing fire alarm sprinkler clean agent and kitchen suppression system inspection services and as needed repairs at various Cumberland County buildings bid number 23-15's resubmission 15927 resolution awarding a contract for providing global
positioning systems satellite based offender tracking services for the Cumberland County Department of Corrections 15945 resolution authorizing purchase from New Jersey state contract vendor for repairs to mower used by the Cumberland County Department of Public
Works. 15950 resolution exercising first option to renew contract for providing out of school youth industry focused occupational training internship program services for Sland County and Cape May County. RFP number
24-04 15951 resolution exercising first option to renew contract for providing out of school youth industry focused occupational training internship program services for Salem County and Kate May County RFP2504925952 resolution exercising first option to a new contract for
providing inschool youth industry focused training internship program services for Kate May County RFP number 24-035953 resolution exercising first option to renew contract for providing out of school youth in industry focused
training and internship program services in Cumberland County RFP number 24-1354 resolution authorizing purchase of common vault systems premium maintenance renewal for the department of information technology 15955 resolution authorizing
purchase of one new Mike Mattel phone system program install training and licenses for the Cumberland County Emergency Communication Center. 15964 resolution exercising second and final option to renew contract for providing employee benefits brokerage services for medical prescription dental
vision and life coverage for the county of Cumberland RFP number 23-33 resubmission 15970 resolution authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract for renewals of school mapping cloud hosted software 15972 resolution approving
change order number one to contract for providing a probation enrichment and transportation program with life skills component for the Cumberland County Youth Services Advisory Council, RFP number 23-59. 15975, resolution authorizing purchase from New Jersey State Contract
vendor for renewal of Microsoft Office 365 licenses and related software and support. 1599 15980 resolution authorizing and approving participation with the state of New Jersey in the New Jersey County Prosecutor's Insurance Fraud Reimbursement Program administered by
the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. 15987 Resolution authorizing a word of contract to cooperative contract vendor for as needed preventative maintenance and repair services of HVAC systems. 15989 resolution purchase of two XARK
60-in zeroturn mower rear discharge under bid ES CJ2/23-12 for the Cumberland County Department of Public Works contract number 65 MCES CCCPS 15991 resolution authorizing application to the New Jersey Department
of Children and Families for the renewal of a county social services block grant for fiscal year 2026. 65993 resolution authorizing modification number three to agreement with New Jersey Department of Transportation for additional 2021 federal roads program funds for the highway safety improvement
program. 15997 resolution authorizing a shared service agreement with OSHA county for housing of pre-imposed adjudicated juveniles. 1598 resolution I'm ending resolutions 2024-481
2024-649 2024-717 2025-213 and 2025-27 for the community peer recovery center grant programs to reflect the correct grant contract period excuse me
1599 resol Resolution authorizing increase of monetary ceiling for legal expenses in accordance with NJAC 530-5.3 through NJAC 530 530-5.5 the workers compensation matter
of Amanda Wilmore versus county and Cumberland 16000 resolution authorizing increase of monetary ceiling for legal expenses in the matter of PBA 396 contract negotiations in accordance with NJAC
530-5.3 through NJAC 530-5.5. 1601 resolution authorizing assignment of grievance matters involving employees of the Cumberland County Department of Corrections. 1602 resolution approving change order number one to contract for providing various medical services for
the Cumberland County Department of Corrections. 1603 resolution rescending designated 40 mile per hour speed limit for the county road 715605 resolution authorizing the award of a non-farant open contract for 225 gift cards the amount of $200 for the
Cumberland County Department of Division of Employment Training 160 resolution cancelling expired contracts for May 2025 covering material services and supplies 16007 resolution authorizing
purchases from state contract vendors. Do I have a motion and second to open public comment on your business? Before Before you continue, I have a question. I have one question, right? This is all all for next meeting. Correct. Yes. Are we going to
have uh is there a monitoring number on this uh resolution 1597 the the shared service for the juveniles item 22 ore 21
on it look at 21 this is a um shared service yes the shared service for the adjudicated juvenile are we going to have a number on So you have a rate, but you don't have a total number until you have to do that. Okay, but you're going to have a rate on that.
I have a rate for you. I don't have it on me, but no problem. And I had a question regarding the pre-imposed as well. All right, hold on one second. All right, this this is not true. Was this was this the one where they jumped from 250 to
750? Do that? Yes. No. Yeah. So they build all PDM, but the the rates are different. Okay. This when you vote for this, I'll know the rate. Oh, you don't know the rate yet? Not. No, you don't have Okay. I'm sorry. It's somewhere. Okay. That's no problem. I was just
wondering if that was the county did that to us. That's all. I'll confirm. Thank you. Do you want me to answer that question? Oh, that would be fantastic. You have the answer. Yes. Please. Thank you. Thank you.
Chuck Abino again for the Department of Corrections. Uh no, it is not the same county. The county that escalated uh significantly was Essex, not Ocean. I just wanted to verify. Thank you so much. I appreciate and we have a very limited number of bed at Ocean. It's
just four beds. So, but their rate is much lower. Much lower. Very good. And we do try to use beds that are at the lowest rate available to us. We sure do. Thank you, John. Director Robbie, are you I apologize. Commissioner, did you want to clarify? I
clarified what I needed to know for that one. Got it. Okay. Um, but I did have another question. Should we do that now or? Absolutely. No, absolutely. Before we open up the public comment, this is You have questions on these resolutions? I do. And really just kind of since we have the workforce development here, um,
and we have several resolutions about the programs that you're doing. I don't know if you'd like to come up and maybe clarify and explain exactly what you're doing in each of the programs. Hi, good evening everyone. My name is Christy De Leonardo and I'm with Workforce Development. Um so most of the
programs that um are on the agenda this evening are the renewals. So um these are programs that help youth um that are in and out of school um and that is to give them higher academic level levels to ultimately become employable. Um we
do have uh work experience training that is a part of those programs. Um, and there's a lot of other elements that they may need, whether it's mental health assistance, whether it is psychological assistance. Um, whether it is getting them out of a bad situation
at their home. So, there's a lot of different elements that are a part of the program that we offer in Cumberland, Salem, and Kate May. And um, not to tout Cumberland, but I have to tout my colleague Jamie Gomez. Um, so she has the inschool youth program here in
Cumberland County and she is knocking it and her staff is knocking it out of the park. Um, they have over exceeded their level of service and expectations for the youth in our county and we're thrilled to have that partnership with Louisville High School. I know I've directly seen it in several of our high schools and I just kind of wanted you
guys to get up and sort of shine a little bit of light on it because there were several resolutions renewing all of them. So, thank you for that. It's great. Thank you. Any other questions? If not, we can open up.
Do I have a motion and second to open public comment to new business owners? So move. Second. All in favor? Okay, we have comment. Period. Again, state your name and your location. Sandy Asito,
upper Deerfield Township. Can you also speak to the number one resolution ID5869 the the $100,000 for a onestop operator? Hold on before you do that. Was there
any other questions you have maybe anybody else that'd like to speak? You have that question in your mind. Good evening, Nancy Richway from Upper Deerfield and Fair Fairfield Townships. There was a live dialogue on a
resolution 2025 266. This is a resolution authorizing application and grant agreement with the South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization for a subreional
transportational planning grant. It says in the resolution it's for $105,000 which $84,000 would be the federal share and $21,000 would be a county match in
services. Now South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization, it comprises of four counties and several cities and municipalities. It's Atlantanic, Cape May,
Cumberland, Sel Counties, Alway Township, Atlantic City, the city of Violin, and there may be a couple of more. And what they do is they plan things to get grant money, your federal
dollars for your road programs. Most of your road program money comes from South Jersey Transportation. and they work with the state of New Jersey and gets the road funding from the state of New Jersey and the federal government. I think one year
a few years ago you got like $7 million for road construction work. So this isn't something to shake your head at sadly that they don't do planning and they not listening to you. They are doing planning and they have a TAC
meeting every month, the second Monday in the month at 10:00 a.m. And the policy board meeting is every other month where they make policy, but they do more than just
transportation. What you would think of for bus services and like that. And I do understand that they are looking into uh doing a study for busing in common county. So
stay informed. Thank you. Is there anybody else? If not, Christie, could you please come up? Thank you. Oh, wait. Do you want to close? No, no, they just be part of it. Good evening everyone. My name is Christy De Leonardo and I'm with Workforce Development and Sandy, I'm
going to respond to your question. So, the one-stop operator um is actually um a an entity that will be able to apply for um a request for proposal. And it is in the law that we actually have to have
a one-stop operator. um not just in you know Cumberland Salem and Kate May but actually it's throughout the country. So whoever has a workforce development area a one-stop operator is required. Um and one of the major points that the one-stop operator is required to do is
really to coordinate those services. And in our case it's actually in all three counties Cumberland, Salem and Kate May. So their main focus right now would be to gather all of the different resources that are available and to coordinate all the services with all the different
partners in all three counties. They're also um one of the other opportunities they will have is to be able to leverage different funding sources so that there's no duplicating of services and then they might be able to share um like an infrastructural agreement. Um they
also are required to complete our um memorandum of understanding with all three counties which includes all the space that's in all of the onetop so that we all can have that shared space and everybody is sharing the responsibility as far as paying for that space. Um, and they're required to go to
all three counties to make sure operations, employment services, um, and all of the different partners that are available for the residents in those counties to make sure that they have the opportunity that, um, to be able to serve the residents of those counties.
Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Seeing that there's no one else, may I have a motion to close? Motion. Second. All in favor? I. Before we go into close session, this is a little bit uh of
information that I'm going to pass on uh from Diana Pitman, who is our Cland County Department of Veteran Affairs. I wanted to let you know that this month is Military Appreciation Month. uh for some information on this.
Congress designated May as the National Military Appreciation Month in 1999 to ensure the nation was given the chance to publicly show their appreciation for troops past and present. It serves as a reminder of the profound contribution made by service members. The month
culminates with Memorial Day when we pause to remember those who have given their lives for our country. If you have any questions, please contact Diana Pitman. Uh I think it's very important that we that we mention this. I have a
great uh love for our veterans and military. Uh let's face it, it sounds corny, but they always said freedom is not free. And that being said, we appreciate everything that the military does. We are in this country doing what
we're doing. All right. uh because of the lives that were given uh to protect this country. So I just want to bring that forth and I want to thank them. If I may, if I may, director, uh following along the lines
of the Veterans Affairs Committee uh Diana Pitman will be hosting her her uh quarterly meeting on th on Thursday afternoon of this week at uh 300 p.m. at their new offer. No, in this in this
location right here, the member Butch is to attend the uh it will be the Veterans Commission quarterly meeting here at this location. Do they have a uh a zoo identification like? Not at this point. I do not know. We're working on all the
specifics, but right now we at least start at least uh Diana is starting the quarterly meetings which is again say the date please. It's It's the 15th of May at 3 p.m. in this in this room. Veterans
Advisory Specific. Okay. That being said, Clar. Oh, did you have anything else? No. Move on into executive session. We do have a need for executive session. Okay. And there is no anticipated action to be taken. Could
you please read resolution 2025-268? Resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey Senator Biden and fair open public speaking act NJSA 10 col 4-12 matters relating to litigation
negotiations and return client privilege matters relating to the employment relationship do I have a motion and second second yes commissioner yes commissioner loses yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Yes, director. Yes.
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