DO Township Committee meeting of May 21st, 2025, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Delo Township Municipal Building, 770 Coopertown Road, Dico, New Jersey. We are recording. What?
Thank you. Good evening. Welcome to May 19th, 2025 township committee meeting 700 p.m.ish at the municipal building here. 770 Coopertown Road, Deleno. Roll call, please. Mr. Bartlett, here. Mrs. Patrick, here. Mr. McFaden here. Mr.
Alat here. Miss here. Thank you. Also, Mr. Pre uh also present, Mr. Schwab, our township administrator. Uh Mrs. Lure, our municipal clerk. Mrs. Russell, deputy municipal clerk. and Mr. Warren, our police chief. Please rise for the flag
salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Janice, could you please read the
sunshine and live stream statements? Please be advised that proper notice of this meeting has been given in compliance with the open public meetings act in the following manner. Written notice has been mailed to the Burlington County Times and Courier Post and published in the December 30th, 2024 editions and written notice has been posted on the official bulletin board of
the township of Delanco at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. This meeting of the Delanco Township Committee may be transmitted via live stream stream on YouTube video. The streaming of the meeting is not intended to be relied upon as formal public access under the open public
meetings act. And if the technology is disrupted for any reason, the township meeting will proceed in person as an official meeting in accord with the official notice. Thank you. At this time, could you please silence all your cell phones and put them on vibrate? And um moving on,
we'll read the rules governing public the com public public comment period. In accord with and subject to the provisions of the open public meetings act NJSA 104-12 at seek during general public comment period. The Deleno Township Committee is permitted to institute
reasonable rules and regulations to allow for a smooth process and ensure a reasonable opportunity to be heard. Calling out from the audience outside of one's time to the microphone is disruptive to the person speaking at the microphone or from the deis and will not be permitted. Public participation and comment shall be governed by the
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tolerated. With that, we're moving on to first agenda item, which is ordinance 2025-5 amending the township code at chapter 216 governing park and public property regulations. This is a second reading by title only and public hearing. Hearing is now open to the
public only for ordinance [Music] 2025-5. Okay. Seeing no members of the public, I will close this hearing. Motion to approve ordinance 2025-5, please. So moved. Second. Motion by Matt, second by Kate. Roll call,
please. Mr. Bartlett. Yes. Mrs. Patrick. Yes, Mr. McFaden. Yes, Mr. Oat. Yes, Miss Seuss. Yes. Thank you. Ordinance 2025-6, a bond ordinance of the township of Delano in the county of Burlington authorizing the purchase of vehicles and equipment for the public works and
police departments appropriating the sum of $178,000. Therefore, and authorizing the issuance of $169,100 bonds or notes of the township for financing such appropriations and making certain determinations and covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connection with the foregoing. Second reading by title only
and public hearing. Hearing is now open to the public only for ordinance 2025-6. Seeing none, I will close this hearing to the public. Can I get a motion, please? I'll make a motion. Second. Motion by Phil, second by Kate. Roll call, please.
Mr. Bartlett, yes. Miss Patrick, yes. Mr. McFraen, yes. Mr. Yes. Miss Seuss. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Next up, we have a proclamation for EMS week 2025. Matt, could you take care of that, please?
Sure. Uh, this is EMS week every year. Uh, everyone in the EMS world, EMTs, paramedics, um, it's nationwide EMS week. Um, and I'll read this proclamation. Uh, whereas emergency medical services is a vital public
service. And whereas the members of the emergency medical services team are ready to provide life-saving care to those in need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And whereas access to quality emergency care dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those who
experience sudden illness or injury. And whereas emergency medical services fill health care gaps by providing equipment I'm sorry by providing important out of hospital care including preventative medicine follow-up care and access to tele medicine and whereas emergency
medical services systems consist of first responders emergency medical technicians paramedics emergency medical dispatchers firefighters police officers educators administrators prehosp nurses emergency nurses emergency physicians trained members of public and other
outofhos medical care providers. Whereas the emergency medical services teams, whether career or volunteer, engage of thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills. And whereas it is appropriate to
recognize the value and the accomplishments of emergency medical services providers by designating the emergency medical services week. Now therefore be it proclaimed by the township committee of the township of Delano County of Burlington state of New Jersey on behalf of the citizens of the
township of Delano that the week of May 18th through the 24th 2025 hereby emergency medical services week and further we encourage the community to observe this week by learning more about the emergency services in your community in honor of those EMS professionals and
the essential services that it provides. in witness whereof the mayor, deputy mayor and committee persons have caused those present to be executed and sealed the township of Delanco this date. And you should know in the state of New Jersey EMS is not considered an essential service. So EMS does not get
any taxpayer money. If you could find that hard to believe, write your congressman, write your state. There is no money from the state for EMS. So, it's up to the local municipalities to pay for emergency medical services. Um,
it's not something we're required to do. It's obviously something morally we're required to do. Um, can you imagine calling 911 and saying we don't have an ambulance. So, having been on that side of the ambulance as an EMT, as a volunteer, and also with our paid squads that we have, Delraniums
supporting our town and our mutual aid, the state says they're not required. They're not essential. So, think about that. That's the proclamation. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Okay, moving on to our public comment
session. There's going to be kind of a change going forward. Uh public comment session number one will be for agenda items only. So, anything that's listed on the agenda can be spoken or asked about in session one and then session two will be uh all non-aggenda items. So, the meeting is now open to the public for comments and questions on
agenda item session one. Please come to the podium and state your name and address. Joey Angel, 316 Oakford Avenue. Um, regarding the resolution of 25 202579, is that otherwise known as municipal alliance funds for primary
prevention? Uh, Janice Be. Yep. Yes. You're talking about the uh the 79. Yes. Yes. It's changed the the um name. So it looks like the governor's office changed the name. Thank you. It used to be alcohol
and drug. Yeah. It is the municipal alliance. Yes. What what is the um the Delanco's portion of that or does it just because it's combined with Riverside just one number? Technically, where's my full package? I can get the resolution. We do have an
inind contribution. I thought it was $1,500 that we didn't picture there. Isn't this for the need program? No. No. This goes I think to the high school for used to be called CASA citiz citizens against substance abuse and it
went I don't know if it's DARE. No, that's a program. I think the money from what Danco and Riverside are combined to be one what used to call municipal alliance, right? Yes. It's it's definitely municipal alliance and and it's done through it's all administered through the police department and um
with Riverside through whatever programs they're going to have. It says our cash match is 1,500. Our inind is 4500. Y and GCSUD is 6,000. Yeah. Plenton allocated through through Lee because that's
budgeted. I'm sure this has something to do with I thought it always had something to do when it was DARE. I think it was. No, no. I always thought that's what it was with Riverside. So, if I could again, the 1,500 is incind. That's the cash in is 4500. Okay. What
is the 6,000? That's the total. That's a total G cu is what it's called, but that's how it's broken out. By chance, do you know what the allocation is that goes to Riverside, Miss Lur? I did. I don't I think it's the same. Okay. I'm not sure um what their resolution says.
I haven't seen their resolution for this year, but um yeah, and that is actually Riverside is the lead. Yes. Agency. So, uh any programs and expenditure of funds, right, but that's not the acronym lead. They just take the
lead. They are they are the head agency, the administrative agency. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anyone else? I will close session one to the public. Um, moving on to comments. Uh, town to administrator, Mr. Schwab. I have no
comments tonight. Thank you. Um, department heads, uh, Chief Warren. Hello everyone. Um for our numbers for the month of May up to date uh we had 14 uh police cases.
There were 36 motor vehicle violations issued with a total for the year of 299 um with 114 motor vehicle stops up to date for a total for the year of 722. uh for the month of today for calls for
service we're at 636 with a total for the year of 4515. Um so again they are very busy running around and we're just getting prepared for the parade this Sunday. So that's all I have right now.
Are you going to have your new uh John Deere vehicle in there? Possible. Okay. It's exciting. No, we will. Yes. Do you want to talk about any of your upcoming community events? No, not right now. I would have keep us on edge. Yes. Come
on, Mayor. Just want to like save the date, you know? I will. Okay. Calm down. Anything else? No. Thank you, Mrs. Lord. Well, I was going to mention about the parade this Sunday. I can't believe it's here already. Looks like the the weather forecast right now is for a gorgeous
day. Yes. Yeah. Very very nice. And uh also too um we the administrative office is working on getting with the times with the help of Mayor Carolyn to accept credit cards and debit cards. Right now
we're cash and check only. What's that cash and checks? You know so we're working on getting um that uh agreement with a vendor uh to provide uh that people can pay via um cash. I mean,
credit card and debit card also. We'll still take your cash. Yeah. Always. Until that's obsolete one day, right? Um Beth, did you have anything? Um only to add for the parade. Just a reminder that it does start at West Avenue again this
year. Correct. So, that's a little something new for those um residents who live in the north end. We get to see it. Yes. Yeah. And um Phil, did did the time change so people know for like uh traveling when
they would not be able to get out? Starting at 1:00. Still forming at 1 and taking off at 1:30ish. We we'll start shutting streets out around 12:30. Kicks off at 1. Okay. Yeah, it kicks off at 1.
12:30 kicks off at 1, right? Okay. Around 12:30, quarter of was when we start shutting certain streets down specifically at that end. So Perkins Lane will probably start closing off by 12:30. So we won't have any other traffic coming down and then by quarter of we'll pretty much shut down
completely. Okay, great. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Um moving on to township committee reports. Uh Mr. Olette, you want to start? Certainly. See, uh, the history board, we met on,
uh, May the 7th. Uh, we discussed the new signage for the, uh, the history, uh, the historical part out front of the Zurbrook mansion. Uh, we have two TX benches uh,
that have been put together uh, by the the History Board Club. And uh we're looking for homes for the benches. Uh we thought we had a home for the two benches and we don't. So um this uh Phil or
uh recreation if you folks have a spot for it before we we reach out to someone outside of the community. Keep that in mind. We have two of the benches. Uh let's see. and uh look for the uh history board to
be in the Memorial Day parade. Then uh oh yesterday we were at the Mayfair, Burlington County Mayfair in Smithville from 10:00 to 4:00 and we had oh I guess probably about 80 I think it was 88 people that stopped by our booth and we
got to chat with a lot of folks and share good things about the Lanko. Uh and we told them about the historical park and uh the events that we're going to have in the beginning of July and uh to look forward to that. Uh then uh the library board uh met on
May the 13th and uh followed up on the uh flood event that had taken place in the library on April 22nd. So there was discussion about that. Uh they'll also have a uh a vehicle I believe and some folks in the Memorial
Day parade and they took a look at the uh bylaws uh requiring background checks. So that was on their agenda. And then on the 14th, uh, I went to the county commissioners, uh, meeting and
they had they passed a resolution opposing harmful cuts, uh, to Medicaid and other health and, uh, nutrition programs. Their resolution number is uh, 2025-00276. And that was a resolution from the county commissioners going to
uh the folks in Trent and mainly DC to uh you know uh be aware that some of the cuts that are being made down in DC that uh we're going to affect a whole bunch of people. So uh they were uh they passed that resolution to pass forward
and that's all I had. Thank you uh Mr. McFaten. All right. On May 1st, I attended the EAV meeting. Uh they did have their tree giveaway at the public works garage and they had a great
turnout along with I'll fill in from last month on their April DAV had a uh estimated 25 attendees that had had
went to their bird migration event that was held at the Palanka Public Library. So, they're holding some great events. Uh, they're still working on a rescheduling astronomy night. That date will be determined at a later
time. Um, May 3rd, I attended with Matt, Kate, and Carolyn the OEM exercise at the train bridge. It was a very well organized attendant, and it seemed like
everybody was on pace and on track. if there ever was an accident there. Uh May 4th, the installation of the little library was completed at Gateway and that was done as his second
part. The first one was done at the FOD Fields and Thomas did a great job on his he was actually troop 36 out of Mount Hollow and I'm jumping back from last month because we didn't do our speech.
Uh May 4th, I mean May 6th, uh went to the joint land use board. They had one of the um businesses come in and they had recommended they do a traffic study in
return. May 8th was the recreation meeting. We worked on summer concerts along with the Memorial Day parade organization and we're ready to kick that off this weekend. Uh May 12th was a school board meeting
to elect a new or vote on electing the new principal of the school or superintendent, my apologies. And then on May 14th was the regular school board meeting. Uh members
from the county discussed the process of the hiring of the superintendent and how they went at it and each group and how many were there. So, it was a it was a good meeting, good educational,
and that's it for me. Thank you, Matt. All right. Uh, since I last gave update on April 21st, I attended the fire company meeting on April 28th. Regular business occurred. We held the Hogi sale fundraiser during
the wet townwide yard sale. Uh, that's sold out. So, thanks to everyone who attended and came out even with the rainstorm. And Del Ruth held their opening day events later in the day. I stopped by for that after we're done with the Hogi sale and looks like all the kids had a good time despite having
torrential downpours. They were enjoying playing in the mud out there. Uh, as Phil mentioned, Delanco OEM held the drill with New Jersey Transit on May 3rd. I reported more on that last meeting, so I won't duplicate that and Phil talked about that, but it went well. uh attended the board of ed
meeting on April 30th. The budget presentation was given for the 202526 school year. The budget had an overall increase, but due to increase in the rate base, there's actually about a 3/10en of 1% decrease in the taxes.
Nothing incredibly noticeable to the average taxpayer, but it's not an increase. So, we have that. uh they are eliminating the prek program this year due to the costs associated with that and also the overall enrollment counts are down year-over-year from last year.
Uh the complete budget info is up on the school district's website which is delanko.com. Uh Phil mentioned about the May 12th and 14th meeting. I wasn't able to attend since I was on vacation out of the country, but uh the board voted in
new superintendent of schools, Dr. Ronnie Tashichi. Did I say that right? Joanna. No. Tarishi. Tarishi. Well, you both said two different things, but Dr. Tish, there you go. Dr. T got sworn in. He has an impressive background. I met him on the April 30th when he stopped by
there and had the chance to speak to him for a few minutes. And the the uh see the board's regular meeting that was also on the 14th. So, we look forward to him starting. And finally, I spent some time out again with public works on Hawk Island. And I'm now pleased to report that all of the final signage, uh, the
trail marker signage is now up and people are out there enjoying what we have done. That's all I have to report. Mayor, thank you, Matt. Yep. Okay. Uh, yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, Disa Del Riv youth sports. Um, they're planning the
following fundraisers this year. a dine and donate at Crawford's Tuesday, May 20th. Uh taco Tuesday, pancake breakfast uh at the Delran um DFW, date to be determined. Uh baseball, T-ball, and
softball are in full swing. Uh they plan to march in both parades for Memorial Day at Deleno and Riverside. Uh I attended the spring sports uh day held at the West Avenue uh ball fields. our mayor threw out the first pitch. Uh the
teams were introduced by their coaches and they all looked great in their colorful uniforms. Their next meeting is May 27th at 7:30 here. Uh Shade Tree, we met on April 23rd. Residents requests were received as follows. 210 Peach Tree
Lane. The resident was present. The committee agreed not to take down the trees at this time. The chairman will talk to the sewer authority regarding their recommendations to remove both trees since there are and or could interfere with the sewer and water
lines. 2819 Colgate. The sidewalks are heaved in one area and it was suggested to use pavers to ramp over the roots. Uh the resident is not happy with the decision not to remove her trees to await Larchmont. The resident who lives
across the street has requested this tree to be uh taken down. U limb hangs over the road and he has concerns regarding it falling on his property. Um as well um the constant limbs are are a
mess and uh so the commission will continue to watch the growth of the tree and uh when we have uh trees to be cut maybe they can take a look at the center of the tree to see if there's any decay. the tree inventory and community forestry management plan was discussed
as well um and to see if grant funds are available. Uh Bill Malvitz was going to call his contact and explain that it may not be done this year. Uh a photo op for Arbor Day was discussed. Maybe watering trees at FOD or planting at Pennington,
which I believe that's what they did. Uh, Living Springs. I met with the seniors at Living Springs on Friday night, April 25th. Explanations, questions, and answers were provided regarding the New Jersey Real ID. Uh, documents needed and residents
experiences were also shared and discussed. Although the deadline was advertised as May 7th, it was noted that you could still apply after that date. Town yard sale. The residents were busy with the yard sale. The rain held off
for a few hours. I enjoyed my breakfast sandwich from the scouts and Hovie from the fire department. They do a great job and need our continued support. Succession meetings. Um Matt and I are continuing to meet with JPM in our search for an administrator to take
Richard's place when he retires. Affordable housing. Um we are continuing to meet and discuss our trust fund monies. I know I have mentioned this before, but I will continue to mention it because I believe that some residents
still don't realize that uh because the township was so proactive for rounds two and three that we do not need to provide any additional housing for the fourth round and possibly the fifth. Uh recreation met on May 8th. uh
summer camp has 40 registered to date and Kristen Atkinson is the new director for the program this year. They plan to continue to meet at um the library on Mondays and trips are being scheduled on Fridays. Rex Centennial subcommittee
reported on their plans which will include vendors, food trucks, um bands, and many other activities. They're working on the plans for Centennial Park. A grant is being submitted to the county for a playground at the Babe Ruth
Park. Uh, five summer concerts will be held at Hawke Island Marina and three are going to be scheduled for our historic waterfront park. The first concert is June 12th at the Marina Coconuts is the band. Uh, work is
continuing on the waterfront park as you can see if you ride or walk by. Uh Ken Shedker was in attendance and reported on the progress he and Bobby Crabtree continue to make on the various items in town that need reports or repairs and
updates. Seniors, I was unable to attend the the senior meeting on the 13th, but I understand u the guest speakers Gabrielle and Jamie uh from Scuds gave a presentation on the free offerings to seniors and the disabled. The upcoming
trips were discussed as well as many upcoming events scheduled at the library. And the next meeting is a lunchon at Fellies on June the 10th. Sewer authority. We met on May 13th at town hall. Uh the trunk line bonding was
sold on May 1st. A brief review was discussed and a structured payment schedule will be hopefully available at our next meeting. Uh Styllex, there's no change. They are just discharging uh domestic waste at this time. 989
Coopertown Road. The inspection was complete. The test results from the lab were within the authorities uh local limits. There were five parameters that uh were above 20% threshold and they will be uh monitored and if there is a
concern uh in the future, we will have them do another test. 1000 Coopertown Road. Phase five of the Stanker and Galto project is underway and there will be additional connection fees to the authority. Mapping was provided to show
the areas in town where problems in TV TVing is underway. Operators report is on file. Um Beverly's audit did show an increase in our flow. So our cost to Beverly will be increased. The maintenance bond for the crossings at
Dela's station has been released for the sanitary sewer improvements and I have no update from the senator or New Jersey DOT regarding the jug handle. Thank you. Thank you,
Kate. Okay, my report. Another busy month. Uh April 25th, I was invited to participate in the Arbor Day plantings with uh the environmental committee. So, we were able to plant about a dozen um saplings at um Pennington Park right
along the trail there. So, that was nice. Um attended the April 30th board of ed meeting as it's been reported. Also attended the Del Riv meeting. The dine and donate is actually next week. They they changed it because tomorrow is our meeting I guess. So, they change I
think. So, they changed it to the 27th. So, the dine and donate at Crawford's is the 27th. Um, I attended the OEM exercise with Phil and Matt and that was um really interesting to watch all the different agencies uh work together uh on a a
train derailment uh if on the bridge if anything ever happens. I think they're well prepared. It was a it was a great exercise on Saturday. I did attend the Centennial Subcommittee meeting and uh ongoing planning for our two events next
year. um tree grant with um the D tree program that we had a couple years ago. It's finally finalized. There was two-year period that we had to wait to make sure the trees were alive and uh everybody made it through and we should be receiving our final funding for that
so we can close that out. Uh the Joint Land News Board on May 6th, there was uh two applications on the agenda. one for Deleno Auto postponed and the one for the Fred Kennedy property. Uh they their
application was not approved to move forward. They had to go back and do the traffic study. As Phil will mentioned on May 7th, I attended the pre-construction meeting for the CDGB handicap ramps that will be um moving forward very shortly
on those those items that were approved for this round. We do still have our application in for the 2025 CGPG. We should be hearing about that soon. And I think that's all I have. Oh, a Hawk Island cleanup. Just want to
announce that now while we're here. Recreation is scheduling a Hawk Island cleanup. Um, just do like one before the summer and one after on June the 1st. We'll be posting information about that. Uh, it's going to be 1:00 on Sunday, June 1st. So, do uh some pre-clean up
before the voters get out there. And I think that's it. Okay, let's move on to the consent agenda items. Consent agenda items are considered to be routine and will be enacted with a single motion. Any item requiring discussion will be removed
from the consent agenda. All consent agenda items will be reflected in full in the minutes. Does anyone have anything they would like to remove from the consent agenda? Yes, sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Uh just real quick on uh ordinance 2025-7, can you just fix in
the title and the second paragraph, Janice, it refers to Rancokus as road should be Rancokas Avenue. Okay, good. Okay. Uh resolution 2025-83 authorizing an emergency appropriation uh in the 2025 budget. Uh
I'd like to have that removed from consent, please. Sure. Anyone else? Okay. Uh, ordinance 2025-7 authorizing grant of easement to New Jersey American Water for Township property between the intersection of Buttonwood Street and Rancokus Avenue
and the Rancokus Creek. This is the first reading by title only and set public hearing date for June 2nd, 2025 at 7 p.m. Resolution 2025-78, an award of bidding contract for 2024 municipal roadway improvement program contingent upon NJ DOT
approvals. Resolution 2025-79, Governor's Council on Substance Substance Abuse Disorder, which is the GCSC, SUD, Alliance to Prevent Substance Use Disorder. Resolution 2025-80, tax
refund overpayment. Resolution 2025-81, resolution to cancel taxes and refund tax overpayment due to total veteran exe exemption pursuant to NJSA 544-3A. Resolution 2025-84 resolution authorizing professional services for park design
plan specifications and grant application submitt services. Resolution 2025-85 resolution amending previous resolution 2024-115 authorizing professional services for 2024 locally funded road program. Payment of bills account
current fund $200,474.35 payroll $136,560.31 dog fund $800 esco trust $345.75 housing trust uh9791 approval of the minutes from March 3rd and March 11th can I get a
motion to approve the consent agenda so Moved. Second. Motion by Matt, second by Kate. Roll call, please. Mr. Bartlett, yes. Mrs. Patrick, yes. Mr. McFaden, yes. Mr. Yes. Miss, yes. Thank you.
Okay. Uh, circling back to resolution 2025-83 authorizing an emergency emergency appropriation in the 2025 budget for NJSA4A colon 4-48. Um, because this is such a unique
uh opportunity that's occurring in within our community uh pertaining to 401 Creek Road and the referendum that'll be taking place on July 29th. Uh I'd like to have the clerk read into the
minutes uh the resolution uh 2025-83 and its uh I guess uh explanation please. Uh, Mr. All the resolutions are posted in full in the
minutes. So, I don't Was that what you were asking? Well, uh, I'd like to have it read for the public now because our minutes will not be approved until a much further date down the road. And I think that folks need to uh know that uh
we've got roughly $70,000 that are is going to affect our budget either this year or next year. Please I'll be happy to read it into the minutes. Thank you. Resolution 2025-83 authorizing an emergency appropriation in the 2025 budget per
NJSA 40 4848. Whereas an emergency has arisen as a result of a special election expenses resulting from a bond ordinance challenge related to a petition submitted pursuant to NJSA449-27 at seek and no adequate provision was made in the 2025 budget
for the afore purpose. Whereas NJSA4A 4-46 provides for the creation of an emergency appropriation for the purpose mentioned above. And whereas the total amount of the emergency appropriations created included the appropriations to be created by this
resolution is $70,000 and 3% of total oper operating appropriations in the budget for 2024 is $213,45026. Whereas the foregoing appropriation together with prior appropriations does not exceed 3% of total operating appropriations in the
budget for 2024. Now therefore be it resolved that the township committee of the township of Deleno County of Burlington state of New Jersey by not less than twothirds of all governing body members affirmally concurring that in accordance with NJSA4A 4-48 that one an emergency
appropriation is hereby made for clerk other expenses in the amount of $70,000. That said, emergency appropriations shall be provided for in full in the 2026 budget and is requested to be excluded from caps pursuant to NJSA4A-53C1. That the chief financial
officer has certified to that the expenditures to be financed through this resolution are related to the affforementions emergency and that two certified copies of this resolution will be filed with the director of the division of local government services. And that's it. [Music]
And would you mind reading the certification for emergency appropriations from the chief financial officer, please? Purpose of emergency appropriations, special elections, expenses resulting from a bond ordinance challenge related to a petition submitted pursuant to
NJSA49-27 at seek. Circumstances that support the emergency resolution special elections as a result of an estoppable petition to challenge an adopted bond ordinance cannot be reasonably anticipated and are not a usual budget operating item planned in the township clerk's OE budget. The special election is being held because of the time
constraints imposed by an agreement of sale for the purchase of property which is the purpose of adopted ordinance being challenged. Date of occurrence. The petition was both received and certified by the municipal clerk's office after the adoption of the 2025 budget on April 21st, 2025. Has any contracts been awarded or purchases
ordered placed in connections with this emergency appropriation? No. Signed, Julie Edmonson, chief financial officer, dated 515, Township of Deleno. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve resolution 2025-83?
I'll make a motion. Second. Motion by Phil, second by Kate. Roll call, please. Mr. Bartlett, yes. Miss Fitzpatrick, yes. Mr. McFaden, yes. Mr. Olette, yes.
Miss Zeus, yes. Thank you. [Music] Okay. And then we have resolution 2025-82, um, refunding unexpended escrow deposit for driveway installation. Uh, Kate has
to abstain from this. So, can I get a motion, please? So, moved. Second. Motion by Kate. Motion by Matt, second by Phil. Roll call. Mr. Bartlett. Yes. Miss Fitzpatrick, abstain.
Mr. McFaden, yes. Mr. Lat, yes. Miss Seuss. Yes. Thank you. Um, correspondence, Janice. I have none. Thank you, mayor. Great. Okay. Uh meeting is open to the public for comments and questions. This is on uh general business. Come up to the podium,
state your name and address, please. Good evening. Mike Temple at 621 Delaware. Excuse me. Uh, I just wanted to add some additional information to the presentation that was made about a month ago regarding 401 Creek. Um, you can never have too much
information and a couple questions to follow that. Um, during that presentation, uh, the mayor showed a map of the area that showed the, uh, the wetlands area. And this is actually the map that you should have
used. Now, I distributed this to the committee. You got this back in December, I think. You also got it two months ago that I handed it out to you. This shows the u affected area of the new New Jersey um
new environmental land land use rules that are coming into effect this summer. Uh New Jersey real resilient um resilient environment and landscapes. Um it's got uh affects the flood hazard
area, wetlands, storm water. Um there's a big package there. Um I had sent uh it it creates an inidation risk zone which uh covers uh tidal flood water that's forecast over the next couple decades.
It requires a risk assessment by the property owner acknowledging future flood flood risk. It requires a deed notice that's filed describing those flood risks. Um, no critical facilities are allowed to be built in the inundation risk zone. That includes
public works type facilities, police, fire, EMS, that type of thing. Uh, Discourages affordable housing in flood zones. Uh and it applies to new and sub substantially damaged buildings to the new elevation that the state uh that
comes with this regulation which is a climate adjusted flood elevation which is based on the FEMA 100year adding 5T to that. Um uh it's kind of a big deal. I had sent a
letter or an email to uh Hud Dockery, the joint land use board engineer and back in uh November. And let's see if I got the Here it
is. Mr. Doy replied uh December 9th. You also have a copy of this that was distributed to the committee back in December. and he goes through what's what's currently in effect and uh what's expected and going forward. He has a
statement in there um that I believe uh the committee should follow up with Mr. Doerty and follow up with Mr. Lopez atRI Harry Fox's colleague who's the flood plane manager over there. But going forward, Mr. Doy says and quote going
forward the township would be proceeding at risk based on future uses that will be permitted in uh on lot 11. Um so that's all I have to say about that part. The um I had
also sent an email to various officials, Senator Singleton, uh Assembly Person, Murphy Conway at that time and the county commissioners um telling them that township was
looking at uh 401 Creek and uh has anything you also have a copy of this letter. This was sent December 9th. Has there been any response from any level of government regarding that? Because there was some uh there was a statement
that there was a land swap proposed, but I don't know. I mean, I I propose that the county some, you know, either help help us fund the acquisition of lot 11 and
take the wetlands portion of it. Um but I don't know that there's anything I've not heard anything beyond that. there's been any talk of a land swap. Is there anything that's coming out of that? Scott Taylor has spoken with the county officials um that handle that aspect of
it and they would that from his discussions that they would be open to taking the wetlands portions and then giving us that lot next to our um allpurpose field. So is there is there a letter agre of agreement or letter of intent or anything? No. be helpful if
something like that was forthcoming for the public to know that there was going to be especially if there's any money attached to that. Um the 700 trees uh given the difficulty or given you know
that the townships were previous intent when I was on committee and I believe that's still in play of intending to uh convey the property to a developer for some other purpose. um that footprint of a new whatever new use is going to be
out there. Parking lots, storm water basins are still going to be uh have to be built. You're still going to lose a good portion of those 700 trees. So until the township passes that on,
uh there's still a great potential that a lot of those trees are going to be uh taken out anyhow. So just to clarify that statement and uh there was mention of an appraisal report uh that quoted uh an
appraised price of 5.3 million and it was in the presentation it said a date of October 22nd is there I don't recall an actual document that came yeah there was a written appraisal you can open it was they when
they did they were ordered to do a appraisal and they had given us a verbal And then back in February, I believe they did the written appraisal and they did it as of the October um numbers. Okay. So, there is one, but it has to be over. It's not It's not uh
Yeah, it's public record, so you can open it. I I think Todd has it. If you maybe he can share it with you. Helpful. The thing about appraisals, like another property the township was looking at a couple years ago, uh that we did not acquire, there was an appraisal done,
but it had no um it specifically said in black and white, this has no um doesn't include any information as far as our environmental hazards, hazmat, anything like that, or flood risk. So, you kind of have to do, you
know, your own work behind it after the appraisal because it's just giving you the bare bones and you have to really get out and look around, see what the property, uh, what the property potential and what those uh, hidden costs might be. But, uh, I said uh, too
much information is is not a bad thing, but I highly recommend that you really look talk to Mr. Dockery and Mr. Lopez because I think my fear is uh it will be very
difficult to for the township to recoup the price that we're paying for it based on the difficulty. It's a very difficult site if the new when the new rules go into effect given the economic uncertainty in the country. Uh daily
um proceed with caution. Is that map on the state website that you have there? It's actually in a couple places on D. Um cuz what I pulled was directly from the state website. Yeah. Uh flood mapper. Uh the Rutgers
Climate Institute has it. Um Land Engineering at D. Um I can send you the link. Yeah, if you can send me the link that'd be great. uh and I giving you u some copies of the same thing but it's all part of the
uh the impact of the NJ real regulations. So these regulations are being objected to to by uh many municipalities. So true. Um I wouldn't be I wouldn't think for sure that
they're going to pass. Well, the previous round the same same thing happened. There was a lot of objection when they bumped the uh the FEMA flood numbers up 1 to 3 ft. Great. And this is 5 to one. So I mean I think um we're we're considering Yeah, it'll be a
discussion item for us. Yeah, it's it's really to prepare for the future based on sea level rise, uh climate change, uh there's a whole bunch of factors, the probabilities, uh basically it's, you know, the numbers that the state and DP are looking at. uh
there's a like a 67% chance that sea level will rise between 2.1 and and 5.1 feet by the end of the century. Um and and all the numbers all the graphs are tracking that direction. And
this is really you know u you know if you're going to build now build for the future. build to protect yourself because it's it's it's cheaper to build it right now rather than pay for the damage, pay for the displacement. It also includes the the
rules also include uh elevating roadways. U so there so you have dry access uh so that would you know be applicable to the road coming out of Riverside to the bridge. Um last year we experienced a year ago January Creek
Road flooded back in January during that storm. So, you know, we got water on two sides, three sides, you know, on a bad day. So, um it's something to to to really look and it's forward thinking. It's it's not the usual methodology.
FEMA flood numbers are it's it's a line on the map. Mother Nature doesn't pay attention to lines on maps. Um but it's a starting point. Uh and but all the FEMA data is based on 1990 and
historical. What this is looking at is essentially 1990 going forward and what we've experienced and we've experienced some very unusual events. So thanks for the time. Thank you. Thanks Mike. Anyone else?
Todd Burke 1506 Street. I was uh hoping that there would be some kind of a public report on progress about 401 Creek Road. Uh I understand that the phase one study which was paid for by
the seller is not open to Oprah requests. Uh but I don't know uh what the uh project showed and I was hoping that we would have some information on that. Um, of course, I've made a request for phase two, which was triggered by
phase one. And uh, you can be assured that when I get the responses to Oprah and as appropriate that I'll make sure that they're distributed to the public because that's what should be done and that's what transparency is really all about. Now, I've heard it said
repeatedly that we should all pull together and do this project as a Delaware as a Deleno uh community effort, but the fact of the matter is that it actually only benefits about 10 homes in Newton's Landing which abut the property in question and for which there
will be uh barriers. uh there there will be protection for those homes on either side, the ball field on one side if it's if if there is a facility there and the homes on the other side. Well, most of Newton's Landing, fortunately for them, get tax abatement. So, they're not
really going to feel the pinch. But, uh I can assure everyone on YouTube, just like I can assure everyone in the room, that of course if this proposal goes through, your taxes going to jump. They're going to increase. They're going to keep increasing. they'll stay high
and they will never ever ever come down no matter what happens with the property. If the property is intended to be flipped, which I think is highly unlikely given the current state of the economy and what it would cost to do any kind of projected construction there
also. If that's the idea, then basically what you're doing is you're engaged in real estate speculation with other people's money. And the other people are us, the taxpayers, and we're not we're not happy about you playing games with our money and investing in real estate
speculation on our dime. That's not that's not the role here. Okay? And if the if the proposal does go through and the township makes use of the property, there's been no discussion and no proposals and no solid
information about reconstruction or reconfigurating exactly what's going on with the property for township uh use and remediation of whatever uh hazmat materials may may be there, which we haven't been informed about and I hope
that we are if it happens. or anything else. And I'm just wondering when we're going to get estimates for how much it would cost the taxpayers, not the township ne us the taxpayers if the property has to be remediated and
there has to be some reconstruction there. And I'm wondering if anybody's figured out how much this is going to cost and when it's going to be attached to this proposal so the taxpayers are again fully aware. What's it going to cost in addition to this money? a million, two million, 5.3 million,
nobody knows because nobody's told us. And those are some of the reasons why I'm opposed to the township getting involved with purchasing 401 Creek Road. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, I anticipated you would
be here asking us questions, so I waited until now to let you know. Um, late Friday, we did get our environmental study back, phase two, and uh, all clear. No issues, no concerns. Um, Mrs. Lur will be getting that to you this week as you did already, Opra. So,
she'll be happy to to get that over to you. So, zero millions to remediate because there's no remediation necessary. Um, couple other things that you mentioned, tax abatements. We don't offer tax abatements. That's something that
through the seniors that they have to do through the state. So, there's no tax abatements here. Um, as we've said several times, um, we're purchasing this property for general municipal purposes. We do not have a concrete plan and we can only purchase it for general
municipal purposes. So, there will not be any anything going forward about what we're doing there um, until we purchase the property. Uh, you had mentioned that the 10 houses and the field has protection from barriers. There's no
protective barriers anticipated if that repair facility is going to be built. there's minor um um buffers with landscape. There's no actual protection. There's no soundproofing. Um just wanted to point that out. Uh that's the my few
takeaways. Um anybody else have anything they want to say? Yes. Uh, I received a response text pertaining to phase one and phase 2 from our engineer and said there was not a
phase one or phase two completed and that uh the surface uh testing was done on the site and so uh I think we need further clarification on this phase one phase 2 issue. Phase one was done by the
seller. Correct. Okay. What we just what we know was flawed. Well, that's your opinion. Um, oh, it's also Miss Fitzpatrick's opinion from the last meeting. Uh, I think there's items in there about other properties that were unnecessary.
It wasn't flawed and that was not her words. Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember saying it was flawed. Is that um it wasn't complete for our records. That's why we did the phase two and we did the letter that Harry sent us. Um the letter that
Harry sent us. Do you have a copy of that letter? Yes. I'm pulling it up right now. Um I didn't I didn't understand that to be just surface only. Okay. I don't I could be wrong. And the other thing that concerns me uh based off of that comment
that uh I had received, if we go back to Buttonwood and Vine Street, the township owned a piece of property over there and we sold it for I believe $30,000 and it was about 20 years ago. I think it was around 20 2005 2004 somewhere in there.
And then the buyer uh once he started construction of the houses uh found that there was landfill underneath that property and then he turned around and sued the township um because we sold him
a piece of ground that was contaminated. And I don't recollect what the numbers or the figures were that it ended up costing the township to uh take care of that issue. where we thought we were making money. We ended up losing money to my knowledge. Were you on committee at that time? I'm sorry. Were you on
committee at that time? I I was not. I was a member of the public. Was there environmental borings done? I have no idea. I do not believe there was that. No, there were. That property was demolished years ago, right? Uh long before my time on township committee.
And when the township sold it to um a resident in Delano who does build um uh when he was starting his building there was um that's what it was. There was a problem and he
litigated it and we did settle the settle it with him but it wasn't something that the township committee at that time was aware of when we sold that property. Correct. And that's my point because it had been done so many years ago and there were no borings at that
time and I guess that things happened. That was it. And so I don't know about this property whether or not borings were made and so here we got $3.5 million $3.6 million that we want to bond and we as the government need to protect people's money and we need to do
a phase one get it done right. phase two that requires it. Do it right and protect the folks interest in uh their dollars here in town. Yeah, I I understand that's what we just did. Harry's report. No, he didn't do a phase one. He didn't do a phase two. Fern, do
you know what a phase one is? It's going through the reports and looking at the uh the different history of the of the site. And so if phase one by criterion who is selling the property, we know that it was a flawed
report, it included two other lots, I believe 450 and 500 that they also own. Yes. Right. And as you're reading through that 800 and some pages, okay, the issue that we're dealing with over on 401 Creek Road, we need to
investigate. We can't rely on false information or misguided information. So all I don't mean to interrupt you, but of phase one, all that is going to do is let you know if you need to do a phase two, which we are already doing, right?
That's all a phase one is. I deal with this every day at work. A phase one report is basically going through data minor, submitting OPRAS to the townships, submitting opas to the fire department, opas to the D, getting any reports that they have. And based on
that, the author of the phase one, whether it's an LSRP or an environmental company, what they will do is determine if there are any areas of concerns and that you would then go out and do your phase two.
So that regardless if that report is flawed as you say because it includes two other properties across the street which that's sometimes normal sometimes not to include other ones in the purchase. They still went ahead and did the phase two which if the phase one said it recommended a phase two they'd
be doing the same thing. Right? That's all the phase one is. Would a phase two uh it would cover us. Would the phase two include uh I guess core sampling or going below the surface? It all depends on what the areas of concerns are and
that's what we just did. Oh, let me read the letter from a lot. I'm sorry. A lot of times phase a lot of times our phase 2s are surface. A lot of times phase 2s are doing a GPR study to see if there's any buried tanks. I had a phase 2 when I purchased my building on Burlington Avenue and that consisted of a GPR and
some cores. There are some areas that would just surface. It's all depends on what the environmental consultant recommends for. Each project is completely different. There's no universal standard. May 15. Again, I would like us to make sure that we're protected because down the road if we go
to sell this property to somebody else and they get into it and we end up with the same thing that from history of 20 years ago, of course, that's why we had five due diligence period and we had our engineers go out there. So
I'll just read this into the record from Yeah. Thank you. regarding this is the investigative investigation summary. Soil and groundwater investigation results regarding 401 Creek Road block 2100 lot 11. Uh dear Mr. Schwab environmental Hold on. I got to draw my
mouth. Hold on. Environmental ERRI resolutions has prepared this letter to summarize the results of a soil and groundwater investigation completed at the above reference site. The investigation was limited to the collection of five surface soil samples, three subs soil
samp subsurface samples and one groundwater sample. Sampling locations are depicted on the attached sample location map. Soil samples S1 through S5 were collected from a depth of 0 to 0.5 feet and were analyzed for arsenic lead.
Target compound list TCL pesticides samples S1 through S3 were further analyzed for extractable petroleum hydrocarbons which is EP EP TCL semivatile organic compounds TCL PCBs and target analyt which is TAL
metals. The detections reported by the laboratory did not exceed EP applicable New Jersey environmental DP soil remediation standards. Soil samples SB1 through SP3 were collected from a depth of 4 to 4 1/2 ft from borings advanced
at the septic field location. The samples were analyzed for TCL volatile organic compounds in EPH. No detections were reported by the laboratory. A groundwater sample was collected from a temporary well point installed at the septic field and was analyzed for TCL
volatile organic compounds and TCL semivolatile organic compounds. No detections were reported by the laboratory. If you have any questions, please feel free to call Mark Culliver
LSRP NPG, whatever that means. [Music] Um, based upon, this is from Harry, based upon our review of the available documents, the plot, background search, and subsequent limited soil and groundwater testing at this time, we see
no apparent environmental concerns with the property. In addition, we have reviewed existing storm water and floods hazard rules and see no reason that future residential or any other development could not occur on this site. We will provide a full report, including lab results, this week, so that is still forthcoming.
But they wanted to get that um summary to us. But it does. So I don't know what else we can do. It's pretty sounds pretty comprehensive. Anybody else public comment?
Well, they can respond to that. Haven't respond to that. I'm curious. Did you have anything you wanted to say about that? Did that satisfy your your concerns? Thank you. Uh, does it satisfy my total concerns? No, valuable question, but again, that's
more information than what I had before. So, thank you very much for sharing that. It's important and I think once we get those reports this week, it'll be forwarded to everyone into in full. Good evening, Harold Klinger, 509 Budwood Street.
Um, I just have a couple of quick questions. Uh and one is uh this special election that's going to happen in July. Mhm. It's going to cost somewhere around
$70,000. Is there uh a reason why we couldn't move it to the general election in November? Yes, because we are under contract um with the seller of the property and we have an obligation for time above the
essence. We were supposed to close in June. If we waited till the general, we wouldn't close until December. What happens if we don't meet the contract? We could be sued. You're saying if we if the bond is voted
down? Well, is the July election past the contract? Yes. So, there'll be a contract extension to um make up for that time. They've agreed to that, but they would uh so understand that their tenant is vacating the property at the
end of this month. So, every month that they don't have revenue coming in is lost revenue for them. So, uh, my opinion, they would come back to us and say, "If you're not going to, you know, have an answer to us by December, you're going to have to pay us for that." So, either way, we're going to be putting money out of our pocket. Have we asked them if they would uh wait till
November? It's our attorney's opinion that it's not even something we would even um have a discussion about that we we have to do. That's an awful lot of opinions to just a simple phone call. He I think I'm sorry, sir. Uh if at our
last meeting, Doug was present, our solicitor, and he did uh speak about the consideration that um we owed the seller uh and I think he went at length. So um it was on his advice, right, that we do
this to um my question again, have we gave them a call and asked them? I'm sure he's he's had conversations with them. He actually stated that at the last meeting. I'm sure he he did. He he might have. Well,
that that's all we're going to say on that. That's what he said and that is what it is. So, you can go back and watch that meeting. So, I mean, if you could just tell me yes or no, we talked to the people or not. I've said we've said what we said about that matter. Nothing else. So, you haven't talked to
the people. Okay, that's fine. That's that's a simple answer. Our solicitor is handling. He doesn't tell us every discussion that he has with them, but it was his recommendation. Who's paying the solicitor? Us? Understood. Or or or the real estate people? Understood.
Do you have anything else that you'd like to ask? Yeah, I' I'd like to just say that to state that I'd rather see the election in in November and and save the township $70,000.
I mean, maybe it's not a lot in in in some people's minds, but 70,000 is a lot in my mind. We're going to lose basically $23,000 a year in
taxes if we do take over that property. Plus, God knows what the uh percentage would be. I mean, on the loan and how much it's going to cost us for that 3 million could be quite a bit.
So, and I know we didn't get to this point with this resolution if the town wasn't concerned about it because we would have never got here. So, I think the
uh town is concerned. Hopefully if that uh if it goes according to this uh and there is a an election in July, they had time to have an election for the
township. Well, for the people of the town because most people are already have vacations going and things of that matter. We know they're going to be out there in November to Well, there is an option to have a mail and ballot and they are able to do that with the special election. There's still plenty
of time to register for that. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Hi, I'm Shel 156 Second Street. As the gentleman before me stated, have we published what this loan is going to
encompass? What are the terms of the loan? How long the bond is going to be? And there were figures thrown out about, oh, your taxes are going to go up $100,000 on an average home of 190 in Delano. People that have a higher value,
what are our taxes going to go up? Shouldn't we have something? Are you talking about for this year? Well, when this bond goes through, how much am I going to expect my taxes to go up? Uh, none of that's been determined because the bond hasn't been uh acquired yet.
So, but you must have financing. You don't buy something without an approval for the bond. Somebody must have be financing this. You must have agreed to some kind of terms. You can't agree to any terms until the estoppel period's over. And now the estoppel period's dead. So there are no terms of anything.
You have people that how a bond works is people bid on it. But nobody can bid on it since it was dead. So we have no idea what our interest rate would be, who would be interested in it. None of that. Yeah. This isn't like going to TD Bank and getting a home mortgage by any stretch of the imagination. Public. We have no idea how much your taxes are going to go up. I think we discussed
that in many meetings. Your taxes are going up, but we have no idea. So, when this is all done, we'll let you know. We never stated that the taxes were going to go up, and we had no idea. Your taxes are going up. If you refer to the chart in the PowerPoint presentation that's on the website, uh it shows what taxes are
going up this year based on our budget. Um and it goes, um I think all the way up to $300 and some thousand. So, you can do the math of what your house is assessed at of what your taxes will be going up this year. That has nothing to do with 401 Creek Road. It's just normal day-to-day expenses that meet your taxes
go up. Is this the new PowerPoint that you guys put up on the website? It's not new. It's the one from a month ago. Okay. So, we're going to blindly vote for this and hope for the best is what you're telling us. I'm not telling you anything. Well,
that's the problem. They're not telling us anything. I'm not telling you how to vote is what I'm saying. Good. Anyone else? It's almost like we never had multiple public meetings on this and nobody received this information before. Right.
Eric Dasher, 2405 Arlington Avenue. Um the gentleman mentioned a loss of $23,000 in tax revenue if we own this property. That was based on an uh what a twothird of an a million evaluation back
in I think it was 2000. No. 21. 21. Well, if it's 5.3 million, that's a big difference than $666,000 value. You're talking about assessed value. What's the assessed value? The tax assessed value is 600 and
something,000. Is how much? The tax assessment value on the property right now is $630,000. That's a tax assessment. Very different. That is very different than a real estate appraisal. Not the same thing. Your house might be assessed at 190,000, but you can sell it for
500,000. Not the same thing. But the loss of tax revenue or the difference between what it was assessed at and what you're saying it's appraised at is going to be what we would lose. No, when tax no you're what we buy a
property for has nothing to do with the tax assessment value. It's assessed. It's based what its value is in it in the tax world. Has nothing to do with real estate value. Mr. Dashy, if this bond, let's just say this bond fails and Criterion goes ahead and builds this truck repair facility, the taxes are
$23,000 a year. They're not getting any increased taxes on that. Yeah, they'll get very minimal based on the pavement. So maybe they get $26,000 a year in tax revenue, which by the way, the town only gets a third of that. So Jelanko Township itself gets about 7,000 of that 23,000. The rest goes to the school and
the county. Well, this is based upon our our last uh you know, townwide evaluation, which I believe was in 2014 15. Yeah, something like that. So, I mean I mean my house is assessed at 295,000. I could sell it for double that. It doesn't have anything one has nothing to do with the other. Okay. The
other thing uh that was said was um we're in a rush because if this doesn't go through, we're going to get sued. But according to the contract, it states that if the bond doesn't pass, the contract is null void and we are not obligated to pay anything. That is
correct. I was referring to if we do not um have an obligation and under due diligence, we could get sued. Um but you are correct. There's a contract contractual provision. If we cannot get financing that Okay, you're a little misleading. I was answering the question that was asked. in a misleading way to the to the public. That's your opinion.
You you put it out there that hey, we could get sued for this. We can get sued for anything whether there's a contract provision or not. Anybody can sue anything. Anybody can get sued for anything. You're right. You're right. Abs. Absolutely. Yeah. But you're putting it out to the public, the people
at Delanco that's like, "Hey, if we don't do it, we're going to get sued. So, one way or the other, we're going to lose money." Well, that's your opinion. No, it's not an opinion. That's what I was referring to him was was his question. So the fact is if the bond is not approved, everybody walks away and
we'd lose nothing. We would the only money that we would lose is what we have invested in which is our environmental, our legal, our our engineering. So that money we would lose and any other time that we have into it that that's money we would lose. We're going to lose that anyway. That's
my point. The point is that's what we would lose. If this doesn't go through, we're losing that either way. Okay. You present things in a very shady way. That's your opinion. It is my opinion. Okay. Thank you, sir. You can sit down. Anyone else?
Zier Carter, 19 Palon Court. I'm sorry. What? 19 Fawn. Fawn. Yep. Um, I just had a couple of questions about the Delanco Township Information YouTube channel. Um, who runs the Deleno
Township information YouTube channel? So, Delanco Township staff and office. So, it's on the official That's a township government website. Uh, YouTube channel that's maintained. I'm sorry. No. Yes or no? The only thing we use
YouTube for is to transmit the township committee meeting. Yes. Yes. That's it. So the record of these meetings are on the Deleno Township information YouTube channel. Correct. Which is maintained by the township. We
actually pay a third party vendor to maintain that record. Okay. But who is uploading the videos to that? The staff. The municipal staff. The municipal staff. Okay. Great. So my question is what is the purpose of
the Deleno Township information YouTube channel? Like why why do we have it? Why is it there? To share information. To share information. Yes. For transparency. Correct. For these meetings for folks who may not be able to make it. Correct. It's not meant for
partisanship. It's not meant for political anything. It's just meant to simply share information. Correct. completely public. Okay. So, and forgive my naive because this is my first meeting and I I I don't
know all the rules and statutes, but there was a video that was posted some I guess eight hours ago that was titled 401 Creek Road Information. Yes.
And it was a beautiful video. Great drone shots. You guys look great. But my question is at the end of that video it said no taxpayer money was used for this video. Correct. So, and forgive me again. In my business you've
got a separation between the official and the unofficial, right? Your personal versus your professional. So if these meetings or this YouTube channel as you say is not meant for political ideology, it's not meant for agenda pushing, it's
not meant to be partisan, it's meant to just give transparency to the people, then why is there a video that is not paid for by taxpayer dollars, which is great, but that means in my mind I would think that that would be for personal
use. So my question would then be why is there a personal video on a YouTube channel that is maintained by so it's not a personal video it's a video of the majority of the township committee which
this is the township right the majority of the township committee is the township we are representing the township and the information that will be provided to residents will also be coming from Delanco Township majority of the Delo township committee and has been approved by our attorney to put it out that way and that's all I'm going to say on
But do you understand my confusion about, for example, if my boss on his official government website linked to a page that had that was maintained by the
government office and there was a video that because if you're not using taxpayer dollars, you're using personal funds, which means that that video was on the personal end, not the professional, not the not the official capacity. Nobody got paid for anything. No personal funds. We made it as the
township committee. That's But you did not use No taxpayer money was used and neither was any personal money. So but then why was it then then why would you put it? We wanted to make sure that the residents knew we didn't pay somebody to do that. That we're trying to save money
by doing things in house ourselves. That's the only purpose of that. We didn't want people to think like, "Oh my god, we just spent $3,000 in taxpayer money to produce a video." Exactly. Again, if you did, that would be a huge problem, right? We didn't. So, if it's not for if it's not for township use,
like in terms of it's not taxpayer dollars, why is it going on that YouTube channel? If like, if it's a township thing, why wasn't Mr. Olette in the video? Because Mr. does not support the message that we're putting out there. But it's a township if if the purpose of this channel is to be completely
apolitical of anything. It shouldn't matter your thoughts on 401 or not. The title was 401 Creek Road Information, not I think we should support the selling of 401 Creek Road, which the video clearly has a a strong bias toward
that. So, I was confused because it was my first time going to that channel that you have a list going back to 23 of all of the committee meetings and the only like what a huge precedent
to break to use the one video that apparently is being maintained by the township staff, whether that's the clerk or whoever. But there is now a personal video, a a video used for personal use regardless
of the the ratio who agrees with it or not on a page that was not designed for that. Okay, I understand your point. Um, like I said, it was run by our our legal representation and he said we could put it out the way we put it out and that's how it was put out. So whether you feel it's personal or not, it represents the
township majority and that's how it was put out. So I appreciate your comments. Your five minutes is actually up. So thank you so much. Anyone else? Thank you. Does it have to be on appreci Hi, my name is Greg Williams, 712 Hickory Street. Um, I'd like to thank
you all for your service and I hope you're all having a good evening tonight. Not concerned with uh 401, whatever. I'm concerned with um with my uh little place in paradise. I've been kind of elected as a very
um just kind of a representative from the neighbors about eight neighbors on 700 block. Uh really I just have two questions. I need the definition because I looked up S21-1 and that is the uh noise
ordinance. So it says the residents of Clash Township uh had an issue and I actually spoke with an officer who shall rename remain nameless and he said there was really nothing I could do since they were doing what they were doing in their
backyard on private property. Okay. So, I looked up the uh the statute and it says excessive sound and vibration or other necessary noise that may jeopardize or be detrimental to their health or welfare or safety or which may
degrade the quality of life as well as the environmental integrity of Deleno. and my wife works from home and basically it is a dirt bike uh and it's it's my next door neighbor and they drive the dirt bike around in
circle and what the and the kid is about 11 and the problem the reason I'm here is I can't communicate with any of them because none of them speak English so I can't talk to them so I go run no weno no weno no weno so I went
and I spoke to the officer who was on duty and he said there's really nothing you can do. So I guess what I need to know is what is the definition of a ne unnecessary noise and uh quality of life? I'll answer that for you. Yeah,
you were misinformed. You have absolutely the right to sign a complaint, sir. I thought so. Um what is loud to me may not be allowed to you. Correct. Worse among them. So you have every right to cuz what happens a lot of times more often than not um we'll get a
call for service for a noise issue and sometimes when the officers arrive that noise is happening it's active. More often than not though it's not correct. So since we're not hearing it now and only you did we're going to tell you sir you have right to come to the station.
5 days after I spoke with this officer, that officer caught the kid, the 12-year-old riding motorcycle in the field in Walnut Street School. Yes, sir. Absolutely. So, there it is. Well, I don't I wouldn't think it was a question
of whether you were lying or not that the fight didn't exist. No, no. What I The only thing I The reason I'm here is can I pursue this? You can go right if you want. I'll walk you over. You can sign your plane right now. Correct. Yeah. Well, and it wouldn't be just me. It would be me and
the other. Well, they'd have to come down in the room. But if you want to sign, you can't sign a complaint if they have someone else. Correct. But if you want to sign a complaint, I'll walk you right now. No, no, no, no, no. But, but now I know I got a light stand. Absolutely. And understand too, even though that we our ordinance states 7:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekdays, 11:00
p.m. on the weekend, that still doesn't mean that at 2 set up my band out in my backyard, right? And this is 2:00. It it can still be excessive. So, and and it really doesn't bother me, but my wife works from home. It's spring, the doors are open. He's literally 30 feet from
the my my dining room. And what he does is he puts the front wheel on the pavement and he puts the tire on the dirt and just goes, I don't mind the chickens. I don't mind none of that stuff, but the motorcycle getting Yeah. But no, you have absolutely right. That's all I need to know. Yes, sir. Once again, I want to
thank you all for your service. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Hi. Uh, Peter Fritz, 303 Union Avenue and, uh, 20-year member of the history board. Um, uh, I've got two history
issues. I wanted to get a clarification if I could. The first thing is that I heard for the first time um the title Centennial Subcommittee um at this meeting tonight and my understanding was that our preparation
for the um centennial for next year was going to be an ad hoc committee that was going to have two members from various organizations within the town. And the history board had started working on
what we thought would be some logical events three years ago, four years ago. And uh then last year uh we were told to stand down more or less and we turned over all of our materials to I guess
Kate that they went to you and we were told that this this ad hoc committee was going to be created and we were going to meet and work together to come up with a plan for the year. But uh we haven't been communicated at all in terms of
what the what the meetings are or when they are. I don't know how we fit in now. And I think recreation took over uh as the committee for the um centennial. That's what I had heard. Yes. Okay. But nothing you didn't turn any material over to me.
I didn't Well, I gave you all the notes that we got from Steve. Yeah. I um I don't have any notes from you, but I just had the names of the people who signed up and Wreck will be contacting them. Right now, Wreck is just brainstorming on how to set it up and
what to do. And they will be contacting all the people who volunteered to be a part, which was the history board, um the joint land use, the library. I think maybe I know I had different I I gave them the list of everyone who
volunteered. Um, and so they will be in touch with you once they have the format where they're going to do it, what they're going to do, and ask you to take over a certain project or something or give your ideas. But that's recreation has taken over. But you didn't give me
any I don't have any notes from you. I just had a list of who was volunteering. I had a folder. I thought I gave you the No, I don't I never got your folder. minutes from the the meetings that we had had several years ago about so if you have that folder hang on to it until you come to the meeting because I don't
have it Peter well uh so if you're brainstorming what's going to happen but history is not involved in the brainstorming I don't see it's more it's more of a uh it was more of a like a setup thing a layout of how like how we have to collect fundraising do we have
to set up a nonprofit how the account more like like housekeeping stuff so when we get down to like we have some dates in mind for next year. So, we're gonna we didn't want to have 15 people all at once trying to figure that out. They wanted to figure out kind of the baseline and then bring everybody in to
to con congl conglomerate of all the different ideas and stuff. So, you'll be getting um an invitation to a meeting very soon. All right. Good. We're looking forward to getting invitation for that. Um, the other uh question I had really goes back two meetings uh
when you folks passed a resolution about removing a fence at the uh archaeological site over at the Newton Rust Farmhouse. And I would be interested to know if any anybody on the staff or
anybody on the township committee contacted the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office. um to have a discussion about the what function that fence served. Um they're very hard
to reach and uh after you passed the resolution and I I kind of knew what the situation was, but I wanted to talk to them and I called them. It took several weeks before anybody even called me back, but um there there could be an
issue. And I did see that after you passed the resolution, two days later, the fence was gone and replaced by two four little concrete blocks that are flush with the ground or something like that. It doesn't seem like much of a
barrier, which I think the the fence was. I don't think it was a barrier. It was more just kind of like a marking was what that fence was for. And they're um also going to be putting a sign out there to let people know what it was as well. Well, the problem is that you don't really want to tell people what
what it was. So, the sign might just say don't ask. Uh well, we want people to know, you know, 10 years from now that this exists and that's why that is there because it's in like a small pagraph and like the middle of like an HOA document. So, it's not something that is, you
know, stands out to anybody. And when we have people retiring, you know, it may get lost in translation. So, we thought this sign would be Well, that concerns me appropriate. Sure. So, that's kind of the stance we took. Um, and at least there's still the markings out there. So, you know, the property lines.
Um, okay. We do have um there are 12 historic sites in Deleno that are on the the list from the state's historic preservation office. One is on the National Registry, Zerber Mansion, and then 11 of them are smaller sites that
aren't well distinguished on the list. They they're given some kind of a name, but you don't know exactly where they are or what they're called. I'm trying to get clarification from the office for them to tell us as a history board where it is so we know what we're supposed to
be keeping an eye on. And uh I wondered if if you have a contact at the at the office that I don't know about that would be a a good thing to have. I did make contact. I finally did talk to somebody but she said oh we she was the
architectural person but the person that handles artifacts was not in the office. They would call me back. That was two weeks ago. We would probably defer to you for the contact. We would I would appreciate it if we could be included in whatever discussions we have here. And I
don't know who it was that caused the sign that fence to go up in the first place. Was that the state that came in to say we want this marked off? Yes. Yes. It was D, I think. It was D. Well, it's part of the D now. That state preservation office is part of the D.
And they approved the fence coming down. Yes, they did. They did approve. Yes, they did. So, you did make contact. know that the um Newton landing HOA reached out to the D and they and our attorney was involved, the solicitor was involved also um because we had concern about the
long term uh once the fence would, you know, would be down and the state uh said, "Yeah, we don't have that problem. You just can't dig, excavate, excavate, or build over." So that's why in the resolution there's a requirement that there be markers. Okay. um and that
they're uh this to mark it off. Oh, so that years down the road it's like what is this? Not just some resolution in a in a file somewhere. So those were the stipulations that the committee um basically the the you know the D the HOA
didn't need the township committee's approval from a standpoint of the it was the state that had the architectural preservation area. They just wanted the township to kind of give its blessing to what the state had already approved. And the and the committee imposed greater
restrictions in that there had to be markers maintained uh and and some type of small plaque or signage or something. Well, that's that would be a help. I I would think uh the HOA had called me at home several times over the course of a
couple years saying why why is this fence up and can we take the fence down? And I said, "It's protecting something." And uh they I guess didn't like the answer I was giving them. And so yeah, around me it went to you guys who got
Well, no, they went to D. They went to D first. To D. Yeah. Yeah, they went to D. And actually there's a gentleman here from the HOA who Ray who would I'm sure he'll clarify what they did. Sure. Sure. Okay. Thanks, Peter. Thank you. Just
need to close. Anyone else? Ray. Oh, there's Speak of the Devil. I didn't see him back there. You were hiding. Usually front and center. Changed my position. Ray Weber 22 Ships's Way. Um, in reference to that
fence, the fence was put up by the builder back in 2002. 2002. Okay. um preserve because there's two two plots in Newton's Landing that are archeological preservation areas. One of
them is right behind the farmhouse. The other one is off of U Newton's Landing Circle uh between houses and the retention base. Okay. On the houses are on
Pennington. the we went to the D uh and asked them about it and they said take it down. The builder supposed to have taken it down when he finished. But what happens is in order to preserve that area, we took down the fence. We put in
the markers. They're 1 ft by 1 ft by 4 in thick concrete blocks on all altars. One, two, three, four, five, six spots where those blocks are on the on there
to identify it because we don't have a perfect square because the D allowed the builder to cut into part of that uh foundation where the preservation
is for the pool and the surrounding walkway around it. Um, so we are planning on installing a
plaque. There's two white birch trees on top of that area. We're planning on installing a plaque on there with a a twoft by 1 ft by two foot
block of concrete and using certain type of adhesive that it'll you'll have to lift up the entire block. It won't take the sign off the block. This adhesive is used by many different industries.
It'll take I mean it'll take a wall out before the thing breaks loose from anything. So that's what it is. It's going to say archaeological preservation on that block on that sign and it's going to be glued to this concrete block that we're going to put
in the ground to preserve it. And it's going to be above ground by 2 3 in. The reason being is because we don't want it to the grass or anything else to grow over it like you see in certain cemeteries where you have
plaques that are ground level. Yeah. And the grass is going over itself. It's an elevated foot marker then. Yeah. It's an elevated foot marker. Okay. And that's what the committee agreed to. Yeah. The solicitor agreed to it.
So, in fact, I'm in the process of ordering that sign as well as getting all the other material together so we can put it together. Do it just because everything else is done except for that sign and I haven't had the time. Where
you been on vacation? I mean, what have you been doing? Country for a month. I know we missed you. You got three minutes. You want to talk about anything else? No. You sure? I'm done. Okay. No trees, stop signs. No, I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else? I'll close session two to the public. I don't even know where we're at here. Oh, we're at the end. Any uh resolution for executive session? Not needed. Motion to adjurnn.
So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you. Good night. for humanity.