##VIDEO ID:_PaL5zwlYeg## e e e meeting adequate notice of this meeting was provided in accordance with chapter 231 Public Law 1975 have a moment ofation before we do uh yeah would you guys be aware of uh we lost an officer this last week and we had the funeral for him on Saturday and I represented the Commissioners on that in there and uh uh you know prayers to Sean MRI and his family uh so take that in consideration when you having your your moment there thank you very much thank you I'll stand for flat Salute by dougas to flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please commissioner Alo here commissioner Al here commissioner Romero here commissioner loads pres commissioner Taylor deputy director Maron here director Soro here do I have a motion in second to accept and dispense with the reading of the minutes from the last Public public meeting second so second all in favor in an email dated December 23rd 2024 the M County Board of Commissioners notified the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners of resolution 202499 adopted December 12th 2024 supporting the immediate adoption of Senate and assembly bills s 3817 and a 4967 delaying implementation of G Advanced Clean trucks regulations to January 1st 2027 the Franklin Township provided the Cumberland County Board of County Commissioners a copy of resolution 2024-the on December 17 2024 demanding immediate transparency by the state of New Jersey and federal authorities regarding bur activity throughout frer Township Sussex County and state of New Jersey the township of Washington provided the Cumberland County Board of County Commissioners a copy of resolution 20242 adopted by Township of Washington at a meeting on December 18th 2024 demanding immediate transparency by the state of New Jersey and federal authorities regarding Dr activity throughout the township of Washington Warren County and the state of New Jersey by letter dated January 3rd 2025 the township of montue notified the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners of resolution 20242 adopted at a meeting held on December 17th 2024 demanding immediate transparency by the state of New Jersey and federal authorities regarding the J activity through throughout monteu Township Sussex County county of and state of New Jersey and transparent correspondence dated TW January 14th 2025 Atlantic City Electric notified the Cumberland County commissioners of an order of the Board of Public Utilities dated December 18th 2024 suspending a proposed rate increase until April 21st 2025 in the matter of the petition of Atlantic City Electric company for approval of amendments to its tariff to provide for an increase in rates and charges for electric service oel docket number PC 17805 d202 4S BPU docket number ER 24110 854 do I have a motion and second to open public comment second all in favor okay at this time anyone from the public that to speak about any new business or any of the resolutions you can step up and you have five minutes please state your name and where you're from s Township my comment tonight is in reference to the decision made by this board to eliminate the public comment opportunity director Saro stated that the reason for this decision was to eliminate the confusion felt by the public as to what public comment opportunity they should be using I can assure you Mr SAR the public is not confused nor are we unintelligent as you would like to believe we do however find you may be confused as to where your priority should be placed this is akin to someone showing up for work and telling their boss they only want their boss to ask them one question a day how would that go over in the workplace not well I'm sure it's common knowledge that special interest has a constant and unfettered access to this board for their benefit while you restrict ours what's wrong with that picture let's think about that question so the taxpayers who count on your representation who voted you into the seat that you're sitting in right now and who stand by and watch you do things like for example try to replace long time County Personnel whose loyalty is to the County residents with inexperienced individuals can selected by special interest and party bosses while the taxpayers and the citizens of this County whom you swore your commitment to are now reduced to a maximum of 10 minutes every month 10 minutes broken up and that's even broken up into 5 minute intervals twice a month if your goal was to alleviate confusion wouldn't it make more sense to allow those people who are legitimately confused and are not just saying something that you don't want to hear more time to address this board but no your kneejerk reaction is to reduce the opportunity for their voices to be heard violence is not golden not for us anyway I respectfully respectfully ask you to honor your commitment to us and to reinstate the second public comment item on the agenda let the residents of Cumberland County have every opportunity to express their comments and questions to this board you have an open door policy for special interests and party bosses we deserve and demand the same open communication with the public is vital and effective communication between the public and this board is essential and very necessary thank you good evening everyone do the ordinance first com onance um resolution 20276 [Music] this is a resolution authorized local Recreation application it seems to be 266 14 and 15 surrounding CERN in the city of and going out to money to make another Park just a Park Street they doing Park out now you want to do a T treasure is not here tonight and things I hear about the county budget I don't know we're going to have money to take care of all these parts you have to maintain them Upper deerfield's Park system cost is over 100 Grand a year R money is good you can get it for free then on resolution 2025 d85 this is a resolution appointing number to the County Technical School Board of Education and I'm going to go back to what I've been fighting for several years now this is another person from the city of Island that's going to sit on vational Board of Education you have two people on there from milville two people from violent and two people from C Regional School Districts there is no representation on this board from the city of Bron School System which includes includes Lawrence Township and downtown there's room on this board that you all could change the bylaws to have eight members on this board and richon is not represented and I don't understand why and another thing that was brought to my attention last night the question was asked I said um I'm going to miss your meeting tomorrow night because I have to go to the tech school CU they haven't had a meeting since November and the question was how are they paying their bills think about that at the last work session we had a resolution ID number 15675 you were waiting for um the bids to come in and this was a resolution awarding the contract for lease operation maintenance and administration of a middle mile Broadband infrastructure Network for cing County and S County evidently the bids didn't come in or you didn't get any bids because not on the agenda for this evening so can anybody tell me anything about that and the other thing is is this less than a month ago several of you took your oath of office you swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey to the best of your ability under the authority of the [Music] people and I'd like this question answered what people what people are you under the authority of because it sure ain't the citizens anyone else motion to close there motion close motion close second faor I okay on the ordinance 20251 is in compliance with njs for a 4 440a col 2-17 so that this ordinance is in compliance and may be read by title only only do I have a motion in second that the ordinance may be read on Final reading by title only so second all in favor I ordinance reappropriate $1,500,000 proceeds of obligations not needed for their original purpose in order to provide for improvements to county for property for the Department of Public Public Works in and by the county of Cumberland New Jersey do I have a motion and second to open public hearing on the ordinance so move second all in favor I anyone from the public wish to speak about this ordinance seeing n motion to close we have a motion to close second second all in favor do I have a motion in second that ordinance 20251 be finally adopted so mov second roll call commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner LS yes commissioner Taylor Sandy yes deputy director marshan yes director Soro yes the ordinance the summary term of which are included herein has finally has been finally adopted by the county of cumland state of New Jersey on January 28th 2025 and the 20-day period of limitation within which ass Su action of proceeding questioning the validity of such ordinance can be commenced as provided in the local Bond Law has begun to run from the date of the first publication of this statement copies of the full ordinance are available at no cost and dur in regular business hours at the clerk's office for members of the general public request the same move on to the consent agenda please do I have a motion and second to vote by consent agenda on resolutions 2025 59 through deputy director Maran yes director Sara yes do I have a motion and second to adopt resolution 2025 59 through 2025 d89 by consent second commissioner alino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director Sor yes resolution 202590 resolution awarding contract for fiscal year 2024 Federal Road program city of Bron Township of Hope well Cumberland County New Jersey bid number 24- 41 do I have a motion in second so moved second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director Sor yes resolution of contract for for concession of vending machine services for the county of Cumberland RFP number 24-19 resubmission to do I have a motion in second so second commissioner alino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director Saro yes resolution RFP 2468 drive a motion in second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lou yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director SAR yes resolution second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Saro yes resolution 20254 resolution authorizing a six-month extension of the small City CD cdbg 2021 grant program do I have a motion and second motion second commissioner Ino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Soro yes resolution 2025954464 yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director SAR yes resolution 22596 resolution exercising second and final option to renew contract for providing commissary services to the Cumberland County Department of Corrections RFP number 22-5 do I have a motion in second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Soro yes resolution 20259 resolution authorizing approval to exercise renewal of a grant agreement with the New Jersey Department Human Services Division of mental health and Addiction Services for the county Innovation program do I have a motion and second second commissioner alino yes commissioner Al yes Romo yes commissioner loads yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director select Sor yes resolution 20298 resolution authorizing purchase of Swift 911 annual software subscription for the New Jersey Cooperative purchasing Alliance do I have for the office of emergency managing management vendor do I have a motion and second so Mo second commissioner Alo yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director srow yes resolution 20259 resolution authorizing purchase from the New Jersey state contract vendor for two fixed camera LPR system extended Hardware warranty do I have a motion in second second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor deputy director marshan yes director SAR yes resolution 20251 100 resolution authorizing purchase from New Jersey state contract vend for five air pack with CGA parachute buckles and for c l and VV carbon 60 for the office of emergency management do I have a motion and second Ive second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner loads yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Soro yes resolution 2025 101 resolution authorizing the award of nonf and ovan contract for providing an employee assistance program for the employees of Cumberland County do I have a motion second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director Soro yes resolution 202- 102 resolution authorizing chaired service agreement with the city of Bing to provide senior citizens meal assistance do I have a motion in second so moved second commissioner Tino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner LS yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Soro yes resolution 2025 103 resolution authorized an increase of monetary Skilling for providing legal services for civil commitments and representation of the county of Cumberland and the county adjusters office do I have a motion in second so move second second commissioner you know yes commissioner Al just disappoint on this and I've made this several years and it's only 1,096 but this is something that when we had a second chair in our legal I thought we would do inh house I mean it's it's not a lot of money but I've know we spent we expect more of that over time uh that so I'm going to say no to this and I'd rather bring it in house let our own legal department handle this a do commissioner Romero yes commissioner Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director SAR yes resolution 2025 104 resolution assigning cabanal and cabanal will provide legal services for civil commitments and representation of the county of Cumberland and the county adjusters office do I have a motion in second so move second commissioner Alo yes commissioner Albert no commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director marshan yes director SAR yes resolution 2025 105 resolution consenting two and affirming Salem County's change order number one the contract for providing One-Stop Career Services Wia title 1B adult dislocated worker and you services for Cumberland Salem and Kate May County by means of the Cumberland Salem Kate May County Workforce Development board do I have a motion second I make the motion second commissioner Tino yes commissioner Albert yes commissioner yes commission Lo yes commissioner Taylor yes deputy director Maran yes director Sor yes resolution 2025 106 amended resolution 2024 d322 enabling resolution authorizing the filing of a spending plan for the A2 2023 recycling enhancement Act tax fund entitlement pursue it to Public Law 2007 c. 311 at all at SEC here and after the ACT do I have a motion and second second commissioner altino yes commissioner AUB yes commissioner Romero yes commissioner L yes commissioner T yes deputy director Maran yes director SAR yes resolution 2025 101 resolution ratifying the award of a fair and Open professional service contract for providing legal services for the Cumberland County Board of Health RFP number 24-6 do I have a motion in second second commissioner altino yes commissioner Al yes commissioner yes commissioner loads yes commissioner Taylor deputy director marshan yes director Saro yes do we need a Treasures report do we have a motion and second to accept Treasures report I'll make that motion second all in favor I do I have a motion in second for authorizing payment of all salaries and wages L the motion second all in favor I okay we're down the commissioner reports you like to start off sure I uh recently attended the 4 advisory committee meeting on what goes on there very good also met recently with barbar Nan the office of aijing to catch up on what's going on at the office of aing and uh work on CL with her to move Department forward okay anything else got you Mr Alber I also said in the 4 advisory committee one of the things they pressed for was a they their Shand what employee they asked us if we would consider it they also said if they we could consider the uh the relationship of Ruckers uh which I said that we have we've had issues in the past pass that this commission has to talk about tackle um they press forward with that um U it's up to us to decide that uh that U how Ruckers comes at a 4 I have some reservations I think other people have reservations of it so we'll talk about that uh i' also attended the funeral it was a a very well put on I say put on the our people well represented that very sad U for a person so young to to pass away U but it was done with a lot of dignity and uh and uh ceremony uh that make us proud to be C County U so I was thankful with being there it was a little tough getting there but it was very thankful to be there so uh I was not able to get all the cultural heritage commission meeting and uh try to do Zoom call with zoom or teams or whatever would uh I could get on so I don't know what happened that be uh sorry I guess that's it thanks director thank you commissioner L yes thank you um you know we approve a lot of Grants here a lot of different programs that go on and and sometimes I think you know we're all left wondering are they really making a difference are they really doing something are they really reaching people and I have to say that um in a recent meeting with our Mental Health Board uh that we got some feedback from the operation Helping Hands uh program that goes through our prosecutor's office um and through human services and there were some fantastic numbers that really came back that just showed us exactly how many people we are directly reaching and I just want to share that with the public if you don't mind uh director so over the last year since that program um has um completed their first year from I think what September 23 to I think uh July 24 they've reached um 1337 residents in Cumberland County um the operation Helping Hands if you remember from meeting where we passed that was some of people going out um into families who were in crisis situations they completed 84 visits they touched 880 88 individuals that were encountered and offered them all kinds of services that the county supports um and out of that 808 individuals they received 59 direct treatment placements with transportation to their clinical facilities right on the spot 10 receiv received temporary IDs for purposes of pursuing substance abuse treatment 14 received a supply of Naran with education on how to safely and properly use it 725 of those individuals received recovery Support Services housing information and other needed social services including finding jobs um 344 of those individuals uh were that were suspected around the county to have experiened an overdose uh were visited with a knock and talk program with our um with our representatives and they um our recovery coaches reached 899 I'm sorry they had 899 contact attempts but they ended up reaching 344 individuals um and directly contacting 165 and out of that number 78 agreed to um going to Capital Recovery Center for intake 8 7 are receiving recovery support including next step for treatment placement and employment assistance and um all of that is still going on along with our 247 cares act program where people are receiving um phone calls um they received I I believe that they contacted 129 individuals that receive services and support through the county and I I just have to say that I'm so proud that we have a county that supports this need uh recently if any of you are signed up for the alerts you noticed that last week there was an uptick in in overdoses um please check on your loved ones that means that there are bad things that are circulating um and I think all of us know somebody that is suffered an overdose so that is a warning to reach out to your loved ones that you think might be at risk um and this is another program to have those um alerts that are sent out to anyone who signs up for them if you're interested you can go on the County website and under the Department of Human Services so I just I'm proud to say that we have touched that many lives here in kland County directly through our services thank you commissioner R great job Melissa um I don't have too much to say other than I also I was at the viewing on on Saturday and I uh you know Mr M goldrick was a great guy I mean he was uh he had part of uh his leg in and so uh because he's he health issues and he was always there to work you know he represented our County and uh and you know he was a great guy and I wish we have more good people like that around uh and I know what um Miss LS was talking about because I lost also an employee on Friday uh due to uh drug abuse so you know uh I try to get uh get him to see Melissa a couple times but uh you know you got to want it some people have to be their back against the wall before they react so but I I'm very proud to have a person like Melissa to do a great job you know and save lives uh I also had uh Sheriff Donado at the radio station we had with loose and we went over all he's accomplishment for last last year and uh we had a great time talking about job opportunities to the young people out there the the seeking to go into the police force uh you know especially the females being that being that our in our Sheriff Department uh you know they most women don't work on weekends you know we're not and and that that's great so you could you know have a family so you know I find the sheriff department a heck of a opportunity for you for young ladies so that's that's about all I have to say today deputy director oh wait minut let me get to before you go Sandy commission Taylor you have yeah I um I had the opportunity to meet with orbert at the office of the aging and she brought me up to speed on what's going on you know with her department and the need for uh a larger facility to house the employees and um I also had the opportunity to be on the in the on the meeting for the South Jersey Transportation Planning organization and they have um you know a few projects that are pretty interesting for our area one is um I Kate mayis fairy and and uh they're they're uh looking into getting a new fair you know that's more eco-friendly and then up to dat which I think is greatly needed so um that's all I have well we want to thank you for staying with the meeting I know you're not feeling well thank you I I thank you deputy director well first and foremost I do want to wish uh commissioner Taylor well obviously she's not very well so see to get better all right um as far as today goes one of the correspondence uh regarding the rate increase uh from the electrical company I liked seeing that this was something I spoke about a few months ago regarding this and I asked people to make some calls to the BPU and to the governor's office regarding your thoughts on another rate increase and it's good to see that this at least got pushed back a few months obviously there's there's work still to be done so I would encourage everyone to still make those phone calls still have your voice her uh to prevent uh a rate increase on electrical which has already gone up dramatically over the course of the last year in my opinion as far as everything else goes we had a few snowstorms over the past month and I do want to thank our Public Works and all the local municipalities that are out there making sure that these streets are safe we have a lot of our workers are out there in the middle of the night while we're at home and they're making our streets safe for us so I really do appreciate that I know sometimes people get on social media and give them a hard time and I just find that to be ludicrous they do a great job they make us safe and I really do appreciate that myself and finally I know there's a the winter Eagle Festival down mortown um fire hall this Saturday I believe it starts at 8 o'clock I think there's things that go to about four or five o'clock so I hope some people can make it that's all I have thank you oh by the way pigy back on that um that is a Great Festival I mean you you really do learn a lot I I've gone a number of years they they even have correct me if I'm wrong I think small bus service that brings you around to different areas There's an actual Loop that you can travel um if you have a chance go down there don't be afraid you might learn something it really is and every time I go down I learn something else and they have live animals and big birds there that you can go up to and and it's great for the kids the last time we went we brought our grandkids three of them and we had to tackle one but um it is what it is so try to get there uh one of the other things I'd like to do is I'd like to introduce our new Public Works director Matt would you please stand I'm going to embarrass you right what I'd like you to do because I don't want to mispronounce your name and I talk to you about it could you please pronounce your last name Goron Goron okay that's what I just wanted to make sure Matt I want to thank you for welcome you on board we're we're expecting a lot of great things huh very good thank you and we also now have a permanent County Administrator Okay Kevin you want to thank you for being on board I always want to thank Administration okay I really do um we have a lot of meetings a few right say um and a lot of this stuff can't be done without them and I really mean that sincerely it's it's it's not possible it's mindboggling how many phone calls you can make in a day and that's more or less what I I do most of the day is making phone calls and going to some committee but if you don't have a good base and our base is our Administration and if you don't have a good base then it's not going to work so I want to thank all of you I really do appreciate all the work that you do um you keep me in line which that's not easy so uh no Ken's just shaking her head but I really do appreciate it from know that I have nothing else to say um so I guess we have the last bit of uh businesses motion to adour oh wait there is no executive session right there's no okay so uh since there's no reason for executive session do we have a motion to adjourn all in favor this has been a QBC television production in association with our partners and sponsors QBC broadcast on Comcast cable channel 22 and live streams its programming on Facebook and YouTube All Rights Reserved by Quinn media and QBC programming that serves the South Jersey Market e