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like to call this meeting to order. Adequate notice of this meeting was provided in accordance with chapter 231 public law 1975. Take a moment of silence. Turn on We'll have a flag algiance flag.
I pledge algiance 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. Okay, I'm in court.
Commissioner Austinino, Commissioner Alrech here. Commissioner Romero, Commissioner Lo, present, Commissioner Taylor. Deputy Director Marshon here. Director Sorrow here. Could you please read the ordinance
or do you want me to say something about the order of the meeting? if that would help. Yes, please. So, uh sometime after 5:00 tonight, uh we learned that the emergency generator that's been powering the building all day is expected to be on until at least
7:00 tonight. That being said, there is no emergency backup means to power and as a result, it is the will of the board to conduct a uh a meeting in as short a time as possible or as as barebones as possible. And that means we're going to
conduct uh consideration of the ordinance that has to get introduced of a printing resolution for the clerk's office that must be done in the bills. And I believe that there's going to be a quick public comment section which needs to be a part of every public meeting.
And then I believe you're going to go into executive session with the understanding that you will not be coming back out. That is correct. in order to let people get out of here before it gets dark in case we lose our emergency backup generator as we did once this afternoon. Okay, that being said, let's do the
ordinance first, clerk. Ordinance 2025-5. Do I have a motion and second to vote by ordinance by first reading on first reading by title only? So move. Second. All in favor? I. Ordinance 2025-5 appropriating
$164,586 from the capital improvement fund to provide for the expansion of the Cumberland County Technical Education Center in and by the county of Cumberland, New Jersey. Do I have a motion and second the ordinance on first reading? So moved. Second.
Commissioner Ostino. Yes. Commissioner Alrech. Yes. Commissioner Lo, yes. Deputy Director Marshan. Yes. Director. Yes. Do the resolution for the ordinance was introduced and passed upon
first reading at a meeting of the governing body of the county of Cumberland, state of New Jersey on October 14th, 2025. It will be further considered for final passage after public hearing thereon at a meeting at of the governing body to be held in Cumberland County Administration building 164 West Fraud Street,
Richmond, New Jersey on November 12th, 2025 at 6 p.m. During the week prior to and up to including the date of such meeting, copies of the full ordinance will be available at no cost and during regular business hours at the clerk of the board's office for the members of the general public who shall request the
same. Should we do that open? Should we do Hold on a sec. Should we do the resolutions first or do the open? I think open for anything on the agenda or not. Okay. Resolution. Okay. What we're going to do is open up
public comment for anything. Do I have a motion and second to open public comment? Motion to open public comment. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Anyone from the public wish to speak? Please come forward. State your name and location.
Good afternoon. Nancy Rididgeway from Upper Deerfield and Fairfield Townships. I will make this as quick as possible. Thank you for allowing me to do this. You're going to go into executive session
and we have several boards that need members to be reappointed for new appointments. One of those boards is the vocational education board which if we don't get an appointment by the first Monday in
November, they will now have a quorum to have a meeting. So you either need to make the reappoints or re or appoint someone new to that board. That's very important. So I thank you for that. There's other boards that
need appoint persons on it too, which we'll get into that the next time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Joy. Thank you, J. Just for do they continue to serve until we if we decide to replace or would they consider would they
we can allow that on other boards. That's Yeah, we can we can allow that, but we we'll be taking care of that. Is there anyone else that would like to speak? No one. Okay, we need a motion to close. Do I have a motion to close? Motion to
close public comment. Second. All in favor? I Okay. Um, we we're only going to do three resolutions, correct? We did three. Okay. Yeah, I have two. Um, resolution 2025-585.
Resolution authorizing the award of a non-fair and open contract for providing printing of election materials for the Cumberland County Clerk's Office and Board of Elections for CRS special school election 2025-15 districts. Do I have a motion and second? So moved. Second,
Commissioner Ostino. Yeah, Commissioner Mre. Just just a comment in case people that this money we're putting out, we're we're fronting the money, but we we we will be reimbursed by the uh co regional high school or whatever their their
unit, they will reimburse this money down the road. Yes. Commissioner loans. Yes. Deputy Director Marshan. Yes. Director Saros. Yes. Resolution 2025-586 resolution of bills. Do I have a motion? I make the motion. Second,
Commissioner Alino. Yes. Commissioner Alrech. Yes. Commissioner Luds. Yes. Deputy Director Marshon. Yes. Director Sorrow. Yes. Did you have one more? I think that's three. No.
Okay. Are you sure? What about? Yeah, that's you. That's your Does the audit have to be Does the audit have to be adopted or certified with a certain vote? Do we have to do the audit? Does that have to be certified at certain time
period? Green light resolution. I agree. Okay. Let's do this also. Which one is the audit? It's the 2025 575. Got it. Okay. I'm doing uh 2025572
resolution supporting operation green light for veterans and declaring October 14th 2025 through November 11th 2025 green light for veterans. Do I have a motion and second? So move. Second. Commissioner Alino. Yes. Commissioner Alrech. Yes. Commissioner Lodes. Yes.
Commissioner Deputy Director Marshon. Yes. Director Sara. Yes. Resolution 2025-575. resolution certifying compliance with regulations at the local finance board of the state of New Jersey. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. Second. Commissioner,
yes. Commissioner Alrech, yes. Commissioner Lo, yes. Deputy Director Marant, yes. Yes. Good. Is that it? I would say I have an abundance of caution to
Okay, we go. Matt, help me out. This real quickly because I'm looking at the dates here. Uh take notice the the state planning commission shall conduct six public hearings for the purpose of receiving testimony on the draft final New Jersey state development and
redevelopment plan and a draft infrastructure needs assessment pursuant to the state planning act at NJSA52 colon 18A-202 parentheses C as set forth in the state
planning rules at NJ AC 15 col 30-5.2 um are any which one is for Cumberland County? It's for the state as an entirety. They're required by statute to have six. Four of them are virtual, two of them
are in person and they're not in Cumberland County. Okay. Should we give them a date in case they want to be on that? Sure. Okay. Tuesday, October 14th. Tada. uh 2025 at 6:00. Uh Wednesday, October
15th, 2025 at 900 a.m. Thursday, October 16th, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. Friday, October 17th, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. Link to webinar.
Uh it's us 02.zoom. [Music] US slashj slash875595469882. You didn't get all that and you want to do it, call the county tomorrow. We'll try I'll get try to get it up on
Facebook tomorrow. Put it on Facebook and the website. Okay. We just got this so I know it's last minute but I wanted to make sure everybody uh knew that it was packed. Well, director, are we do we have to say we we we're supporting these uh I know
it's by law or whatever, but the the these meetings are October. Now, real quick, Matt. Yeah, because you know, November changes a lot of stuff. Could change a lot of stuff, right? So, so we're working on comments
directly from the county and from the um negotiation subcommittee. Uh th these meetings are just for public input. Um they're required uh to be held, six of them. It's very specific. Um and so the
state has set these up to do that to meet the requirements of the state statute. And is the time frame that time frame? So the time frame is they're still planning on adopting the state plan in
December or January. Are they going to take any public and this was an issue last year too I two years ago I think right as um when we I attended some of those meetings and the concern was that the public input came basically after the plan was already done
so the the plan text the policies are what's being approved the mapping changes are not being done until 2026 um the their schedule they were set and determined to get the plan adopted
um under this administration prior to anything changing. So that's they're sticking to that plan and recognizing the mapping changes won't be done until next year. So so we're agree are we agreed to these this type schedule by approving or
reading this? Are we you know the rush rush rush to get this done before December? I I you know we can make comment in our letter that we felt that the timeline was too rushed. Um we did have negotiations uh the state agreed
with all of our positions. Um that's in one of the documents that's being reviewed. Um but certainly uh it does seem like it's been a rush process at the state level and we can mention that in our comment letter. Uh well, and I let me say that that I the time is very
uh very skewed to rush rush rush before and there's any change because if there is a change, I think the perspective or the D or the uh state plan, we we'll change and if we're rushing to get this done and and and yeah, they've g their
comments. our guys. Well, we made it our comments expressed to what rules we're living under now, but they could all change or the perspective could change, which could open a lot of things up for us as we're adopting a state plan for 10 years in the future. What is exactly the
adoption of this plan? December. You said it's it's scheduled for December. Yeah. The policy statement. Yeah. The actual mapping won't be done till next year, right? Direct. I mean, it's not ours to help though.
I know. But just the the rush to push this through is not it's not our It's not this county's best interest to do that. It's there's no doubt about it that they're rushing it through. The only advantage that we have is that all comments that we made in the state plan,
they acknowledge and they accepted every one of our changes with no problems. That that it's that's a very much in our favor. Can it change? Anything can change when it comes to the state, the GP or anybody else. So, what we can do is say that we we fought to make sure
that our position was heard. They heard it and they accepted every one of our changes to the state plan. And that's what we go back and that is and that is in it's going to be in the plan signed off. It's going to be in the plan that we'll that will be decided by the end of the year
as far as policy right policy only. Can you give me an example of of a policy just for the sake of just giving it to me? So sorry this is a portion. Okay. So, so there were um concerns that they were not um paying enough attention
to development potential in rural areas. And so we ask that um specifically rural areas be um highlighted within the plan. And um the new document, the edited version includes just that, that they
have made it a point to in several areas of the plan to note that development should occur in rural as well as urban areas. That's just one example. Okay. Thank you, Matt. Yep. Thank you. Okay,
that being said, let's do a motion for the close session. Motion to go to close session. Resolution 2025-587, resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey Senator Fireman and Bear of the Horse Meeting Act and 104-12
matters relating to litigation, negotiations, and the attorney client privilege matters relating to the employment relationship. Do I have a motion in second? Motion to go into close session. Second. Commissioner Ostino Robert. Yes. Thank you.
Commissioner Alrech. Yes. Commissioner Lo. Yes. Deputy Director Marine. Yes. Director Sar. Yes. So given especially the truncated nature of this meeting, I want to emphasize there's no action to be taken after this and uh the generator went down at least
once today and we would encourage all those that want light when they try to leave this building to um take that under. Very good. Thank you. This has been a QVC television production in association with our
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