Delano Township committee meeting of February 24th 2025 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Delano Township Municipal Building 770 coopertown Road Delano New Jersey we are recording mayor thank you good
evening welcome to the February 24th 2025 Township committee meeting 709 p.m. Municipal Building 770 coopertown Road roll call please Mr Bartlett here Mrs Patrick here
Mr MC here Mr alette here miss Seuss here also present Mr Schwab our Township administrator Mrs lure our municipal clerk Mrs Russell our Deputy municipal clerk and Mr Warren our acting police chief please rise for the flag
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technology is disrupted for any reason the township meeting will proceed in person as an official meeting and for with the official notice thank you Janice uh I would ask for a moment of silence um we've had some members of our community pass away
uh within the past few weeks um lifelong residents Sandra Welsh Jeff Snider rosem Mary stall and Don Lenton Kate would you like to say a few words about those residents yes uh Rosemary stall uh Gary stalls mother Gary was a police officer
in town she worked for the school for a number of years uh Jeff Schneider a longtime resident for 80 years he was a mailman for over 30 some years uh Sandra Rossy Welsh she worked with her mother
in the real estate office and I'm sure many people knew Sandy um and Don Lenton he was a scout leader for troop 19 for many years so let's have a moment of silence in memory of those four
residents they were all lifelong residents of Delano thank you okay this uh ordinance 2025-the um point 20253 is um an ordinance that was
introduced by the Del by the township committee uh it went to the Blen board for a consistency review um through that process the plan the L board's planner found an existing section of the code
that has the commercial vid um language restricting the uh registered weight um for commercial trucks to being parked in a residential zone so the ordinance that was
introduced would uh actually duplicate and and conflict with a section of the code that we already had have in 11014 a8d so it is the recommendation um so that we don't have conflicting ordinances on the book is to
actually not adopt this ordinance to let it die on the table as they say a parliamentary procedure to let something die on the table and then um the committee then can go back and look at what's existing on the books uh and then
do a new ordinance if it uh if it wants to update any of that weight classes for the uh restriction on parking of commercial vehicles in a residential zone so that is the recommendation um to let this
ordinance um actually die on the table and not be um adopted this evening thank you I'm fine with that everybody in agreement consider it dead yes I think we would need a motion to not adopt ordinance 2025 because you're
not adopting you don't need to have the public hearing okay okay can I get a motion to not adopt ordinance 2025 D3 I I'll move we do not adopt 2025 D3 I'll second thatt motion by Matt second by
Kate uh roll call Mr Bartlett yes Mr Patrick yes Mr mcf yes Mr olette yes missus yes thank you thank you okay the meeting is now going to be open to the public for comments and questions session one
please come up to the podium and state your name and address if you'd like to make any [Music] comments there he is Ray Weber 22 ships way um two things I want to thank the committee for coming
out and visiting his well the chief here coming out and uh addressing residents of Newton's Landing that's first thing second thing is there's a sign down between Old Creek Road and new Creek Road on that
island the wind blew it down where's Old Creek you know where Old Creek Road is yeah yeah yeah it's it's on that little Island in there on Newton Landing Boulevard oh there yeah you know I noticed that when we were out there that night yeah sign Public Works put it in
it's well the do not ENT sign on the one side's leading and the other one says there's an island there is down it's only on the ground okay okay we'll let John know yeah just let John know okay yeah thank you very much thank you thank you
thank you anyone else meeting is closed to the public comments and reports Township administrator Mr Schwab please thank you uh the two things uh we have our budget meeting tomorrow 3:30 so you should have all your information that you need for
that um also want to know I'm spending a lot of time working on getting a reimbursement for all our grants all those grants are wonderful but but the state tends to want to hold on to that money and not reimburse us so we've got the bay Ruth field we got the Field of Dreams lights we got the trees we got uh
you know all still the park stuff with the uh path and the fencing so we're spending a lot of time getting that going and I believe we're mostly there uh also I had sent you uh the report from this agency that does the insurance
rating for properties and that we have a had a good rating for our Construction office and our numbers for Delano for Ratings have maintained the same that's all I have and our budget meeting tomorrow is 3:30 bu meting is
3:30 great okay um department heads Chief um Chief toer what's wrong with me I'll give CH Warren sorry I got Adam on the brain from this weekend today we have uh 27 police cases
there were 219 motor vehicle stops with 123 citations 1,679 calls for service last week we were able to give two officers off of conditional [Music]
employment background checks March pleasure Friday night some of you [Music] attending awesome thank you Mrs lure nothing at this time but I will have
correspondence okay thank you Township committee Mr olette would you like to go first all right uh couple things with the uh Delano Public Library uh in March
coming up you got March uh yeah March 22nd the annual spring tea and uh then on the 29th there's a spring wreath craft going on uh they have other activities that are posted on
their website uh www. Delano library.org so you can check out the website uh for the good things they have going on at the library uh the other thing that I have is the Lano history board uh we're starting back up
with our uh open house here at the uh Township building and our first one will be Saturday April the 5th so come on out and see what the history board has that's all I have man thank you Mr
mcfaden uh February 4th I attended a joint landard board and then on the 6th I attended the envir environmental Advisory Board their meeting uh 19th I sat in on the court
session here and of course the 21st was Adam's retirement party and the 22nd was the firehouse banquet okay and that's it anything remarkable to report at any of those
meetings anything to update us uh just that EAB is going to be doing their haulk Island clean up on April the 4th uh joint land use they had no one show for theirs they applications were postponed
yeah so the the field the um Hulk Island cleanup is April 4th April 13th I think right isn't it or April 12th isn't it the same day as the Easter EG same days e are 12 April 12th okay
all right great anything else that's it for me okay um Mr Bartlett uh let's see I I couldn't attend the fire company meeting at the end of last month as conflicted with our same night here but I attended the Fire Commission meeting that was a standard business I've
attended along with Miss Fitzpatrick and Mr Schwab and Miss lore for succession planning we've done some interviews over the last month um my myself and Mr olette have met a couple times in regards to the library
contract and I've been working still on uh the various Hulk Island things with the various properties out there and the signage which is ordered and will be in uh hopefully very shortly great um Mr Fenimore actually called me about Hulk
Island he wants to get together like a subcommittee with um you and and the chief and Public Works to talk about like a plan to like maintain and go out there on a like a basis for monitoring and clean up and stuff so he suggested
we do that and I said you know once we get the signs established so we can all be on the same page as to what those markers are what the trails are for safety no he's talking about the marker that's what the signs are order yeah they're ordered yeah yeah so the property markers are out there now the post that we nailed in they're out there
so you see the property lines but the actual Trail markers and the trail sign should be here soon so everybody knows what exactly is a trail and if there's like a safety call or something there like a fire they can say I'm at mile marker 1.2 and they'll know exactly where that is something like 52 various
signs and sign posts and yeah no one will get lost out there yep okay um Miss Fitzpatrick Deputy Mayor what you got yeah I got a l here uh Recreation uh the flower show trip is scheduled for March the 5th is
sold out the Easter egg hunt is scheduled for April the 12th at 12:45 p.m. children should be there since we start promptly at 1 p.m. um Memorial Day parade is scheduled for May 25th
um Recreation is sponsoring The Joint senior luncheon uh the date is March 11th at 12:00 pm. at Living Springs Community room uh Delano senior club and the residents of Living Springs will each have 50 members 10 for a total of
100 all that's Jazz will be the entertainment and a box lunch will be served um The Eagle Scout project we're still waiting for the ceremony to be rescheduled due to weather conditions uh Living Springs uh I met
with the residents of Living Springs on January 31st eron provano our uh tax clerk attended the meeting and went over the New Jersey tax forms regarding the anchor senior free and the state New Jersey programs stay excuse me New
Jersey stay um the Delano seniors met on February the 11th at the firehouse the guest speaker was unable to attend uh there were several announcements regarding trips and due dates in addition to reports and updates from the secretary uh the next meeting is
scheduled as I said for March 11th at Living Springs uh entertainment and food will be provided and I just want to re re iterate that the event is sponsored by the Recreation Commission and I'm hosting that uh the Sewer Authority met
on February the 11th via Zoom due to weather uh Styx they've received their permit from d for the SIU uh they are just discharging domestic waste at this time uh 989
coopertown Road there's no change they still have several items needed before uh requesting release of their performance by on Final testing to be done uh the trunk line project there are a couple of outstanding items to be completed we're waiting for final
inspection from d uh prior to closing out the project uh permanent financing for this project may not be completed until November we're still working on raising um dissolved oxygen levels to comply
with the permit by adding additional air Raiders and a shallow water bubbler system the operator's report is on file reorganization resolutions were read and passed and the officers were officially appointed uh projects for this year were
discussed and the number one item would be the West Avenue Pump Station trash trash Basit installation uh the engineer was asked to provide a list of items with the estimated cost for our next meeting next meeting is March 11th
uh Del Riv um daisa uh basketball season is still ongoing with Allstar games and registration is still open for baseball softball and T-ball opening day is scheduled for April 12th uh Chief Adam tier's retirement what a wonderful
evening recognizing the chief's 21 plus years was an incredible evening there were 190 people in attendance and he had many accomplishments during his career and we wished him well in his next venture it was like a reunion of the towns uh and in addition
to recognizing Adam I was able to catch up with some old friends from Beverly including his mom and dad and um his uh aunt and uncle and uh was fun for me because we used to go to all the dances together so it was a great night uh
Delano fire department's banquet um I attended the banquet saddle up it is always a fun time nice to see the members recognized for many years of service as well as the number of calls attended a great job of volunteers that
we all applaud for their outstanding service Riverside Delano bridge and River Road um I emailed several uh gentlemen at the County as well as the Bridge Commission uh at the request of the mayor regarding the uh status of the
Riverside Delano bridge and also the repaving of River Road from Morgan Avenue in Palmyra to um east of uh Perkins Lane in Delano we've been promised that the bridge would be repainted for over 20 years now the
overlay of River Road was scheduled to take place in 2022 last year uh I did complain about the section from Pavilion uh from the bridge to Pavilion the light in Riverside and they did repave that so
I'm hoping to get some response on these two issues and the Delano joke handle I sent another email out um regarding The Jug Handle promises to review and propose a better solution um because
delaying the light has not really been a success so I'm still waiting for replies on that and shat Tre meets this Wednesday um at 7 o'cl and that's my report thank you Kate okay um I attended
uh several meetings this past month uh including the joint land use board meeting which U Mr F and reported on the two applications were postponed um Recreation meeting K covered I attended that as well Newton's Landing meeting that was my first meeting it was very uh
informative I was happy to answer questions and um have a few takeaways and we are addressing them uh met with the camera company potential camera company out at Waterfront Park to discuss the locations of the security cameras that are going to be installed
in conjunction with the park design um speaking of that I had several meetings with uh Taylor design and with ER regarding waterr Park just tightening up the plans and all the uh details it's a very detailed um Park plan and that
actually was published last week in the paper so that went out to bid and that will be awarded um as well as the cdbg uh handicap ramps are going to be awarded I believe it's March 13th right Richard we see we're see bids receive
bids yeah I'm sorry meeting yes receive bids on the 13th 12 12 yeah you're right 12th 12 3:12 and that's at 10:30 and 11 a.m. on the 12th for those two projects uh had various meetings with
our Administration regarding capital projects um trying to plan out our 3 to five year plan just going over things for our budget so when we meet with the rest of the committee We Are all uh aware of what's going on um I also
attended uh Chief tiller's retirement party that was a great fun evening and uh the fire department banquet as well so it was a very busy month as always and tomorrow night if you're bored you can come meet the mayor at the library at 6:30 so if you want to come chat ask
some questions I will be there from 6:30 to 7:30 and that's all I have moving on consent agenda item 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 anyone have anything they need to remove probably not it's just approval minutes okay current fund payment of
bills we have $144,200 $ 79,2 5271 Capital fund $ 36,3 12050 escro trust $3,579 Housing Trust
$1,725 33 unemployment fund $166.2 approval of the minutes from January 1 January 13th January 13th 2025 Board of Health meeting January 27th and January 28th cons approval of consent
agenda can I get a motion please so moved second motion by Matt second by Kate roll call please Mr Bartlett yes Mrs Patrick yes Mr MC yes Mr alette yes Miss Seuss yes thank you and then we
have the approval of minutes from um December 16th which Mr mcfaden has to abstain correct can I get a motion please second you could have it f uh Kate and
fern roll call Mr Bartlet yes mror yes Mr MC M Mr olette yes M yes thank you correspondence yes two pieces of Correspondence the first one uh is in your packet we received the letter from
um the Delo Board of Education just uh wanting to know if we will participate in the walart street school graduation ceremony Awards um the traditionally it's the Community Pride and spirit award that's
given to two students and just want to uh see if you want to continue with that for uh the W up Street School 2025 graduation ceremony yes okay Pearson school though H Pearson school yeah well yeah it
wouldn't be W Street School it's now the the Pearson school yes we'll have to change that on all the certificate so you um committee want to continue with those two Awards okay and then the second piece of Correspondence is just um the rington county will be having a
um State Planning Commission cross acceptance public meeting on Tuesday March 11th at 6: PM um it's part of the state planning commission's uh cross acceptance uh process that they go
through and I believe we do have a volunteer that will be attending on beh have the township committee yes I will be attending okay and that's all I have for correspondence thank you thank you Janice meeting is going to be open to
the public this is session two for comments and questions again please come forward and state your name and address seeing none I will close session two to the public moving on we are going to do the municipal budget presentation section
next um take a recess while weet down there so we're going to take a slight recess and set up we're move yeah we're going to move everything down there and then we'll call up the library board first it looks like yeah you can decide who you're going all right now set
up we ready to go back into session we are recording can we just do a test to make sure that I can you hear me now no can you hear me now testing how about
now it's coming through okay good okay sure uh Delano Library would you like to come Delano Public Library come on up even hello Mr Lord
good evening you hello hello you how are you well thank you entertaining us again it's always fun you look forward to it every year so uh I had forwarded um the actual
reports uh for end of 24 plus our uh 25 request um high level we're only asking for additional $5 last over 1% increase nothing nothing big
that should cover everything for um we are um paying our um minimum wage is the state minimum wage not even the small person in the small employer of minimum wage is $ 1569 is what we um H at so due
to the uh Township committee's previous um addition to our uh budget keep up to that so we're up to there um and everything else uh because we have some really uh robust fund fundraising over the last few years we
do pick up as much as we can um with everything else uh we do have our uh but uh replenishing our books uh Katrina does a and Library team does a exceptional stand have uh does everything to try to update the the
books to keep them up to date and in good condition um and uh from the programs uh the uh friends of the library uh provide a lot of assistance in that so we rely on them as well we have a lot of volunteer supervi programs as well
correct so that's it one of the numbers and I know I had sent you the the cover letter um for the for 2024 but I think I'd like to highlight that uh we have a 26% increase in circulation for this year um
we had a 28% 25% um increase in programs 48% in attendance and 29 27% new library cards 9% more people through the door so what we think we are seeing is that uh people like what we have to offer uh
they like when we're able to offer it we have two week days we have two evenings and we have a weekend day that seems to work for people um sure than you and I I think I've said here before that Blanka doesn't have a community center and people are really looking for places to gather all the small groups that
we've developed over the years uh continue to grow and become more cohesive we have various crafts groups we have book club that's very successful um it's delightful and and I'll just share I was there the other day I was writing a grant proposal and there was a a little boy came in his little blue
glasses I went out to the counter and said excuse me do you have any chapter books for little boys I thought this is why we do this right here so would you be so kind as to read the cover letter I'll be glad to so we could just have it on record sure thanks so um for 2024
we've had 6,493 people in the door to access Library services does not include those who use digital sources such as ebooks streaming videos periodicals and database access 16004 items were circulated sorry 16,000 16,000 thank you
16,4 items were circulated this does not include uncataloged materials we do have magazines paperbacks that we give away if somebody's going to the beach we don't care if we get them back and we have a jigsaw puzzle exchange that is extremely popular we had 145 programs
they were attended by 1,860 people uh we offer at least nine public programs a month 92 new library cards were issued by our library staff for our highlights we like to say what we're proud of so for the year and then tell you a little bit about our goals for the next year so
for 2024 uh we find that our patrons are increasingly using the library as a community Gathering space across all age groups um I've been I'm there a lot of the time I've seen teens drop in and hang out I've seen smaller kids hang hanging out uh there are older people
who hang out it's lovely uh our growing friends at the library group is supporting fundraisers like the community yard sale Sumer book sale vendor night they also did a night of Enchantment they brought in a card reader uh we have have our Friends funding and they're using their
volunteer time and they've added resources and programming we have reached out to Pearson School administration that was in October to Pilot a student borrowing program facilitated by the Delano Public Library staff through our weekly storytime program our preschool Learners were able
to log 130 books towards the goal of a thousand books before kindergarten we continued the long-standing tradition of summer reading programming for all ages read to me through adult uh we supported Community groups the Women's Club meets there occasionally for trips the seniors do Recreation summer camp meets there we
patronize local small businesses for programming supplies materials food whatever we can do community outreach programs included a table at our community day a winter mittens hat and scarves collection for local charities and an Alex's Lemonade
Stand that surpassed the $250 goal for 2025 we are looking at building on the success of our well attended program to provide additional offerings to meet the demonstrated need anytime we put up a program you get people some of them um we have to people why because they're
filed we are maintaining focus on our long-term goal to reimagine the library as a more flexible space and this is particularly in the area when you walk in the door to the right side uh We've removed some tables that were there the space is very flexible we have um
stackable shares that go there we've had concerts there at many many different types of things once in a while we have a movie but that space we'd like to be more flexible for programming um Delano has supported a public library since 1860 so we really
appreciate your continued support please stop in check us out and I've listed our website and please do sign up for our monthly new newsletters just an e e newsletter and you only get one a month no will bother you great thank you you don't add
anything um well I'd like to thank you all for your support it's appreciated much Le um the point that I would add is the programming um right now we're focused on the smaller children and the adults the school brought in the 4 AG
club which kind of took the after school programming to to there and um rather than compete with that we're leaving that go we'll try to get those kids in the summertime and we are starting to open up some of our other programs our craft programs to a like younger age will
spread the the age group out there and the 92 library cards are those that are issued for Delo locally that you could go and library and get your library card so we can only account for the ones that we physically issue that's nice um I
have a question for you Tom um you just have the estimated amounts for 2024 do you have the actuals are these or are all these the actuals for 2024 for the people on the door you mean or the budget when origal I think we didn't I resend
you he sent the actual oh I don't have the actual I have the one that has estim this is from November yeah was it a big difference uh no not really you can have my
yeah their actual uh 105 870 and income 117 117 427 were expenses oh okay yeah good cuz it's nice to see them I'll resend this out I thought I we do a lot
money vacation toi didn't get through I know just a question uh you said you had reached out to the Pearson School administration about the student borrowing have you heard that uh we did meet with them in October have not heard back we thought we would be having that program beginning in January January
yeah so did you find out the same time we did about the classroom Library initiative that they yes okay yes great okay that's all I have anyone else a question uh Tom for the annual appeal you have budgeted $5,000 for this year
which is significantly down over last few years um are you are you finding that you're getting lower amounts of uh money in the mail from the appeals it's it fluctuates every other
year but I always anticipate less revenue and more expenses is why I usually budget not to be surprised um hopefully it comes up around 8 or 9,000 to offset some of the the funding
that we're going to be putting up the actual 7500 11000 progressively going down so hopefully the community steps up yeah it it gets I said we tend to get this kind of uh movement on that so we kind of the
same way the firehouse our donation Drive which kind of alternate when you do yourself I just the cost of everything goes up you don't have as much expend L yeah right P nothing goes down anymore so I think
that's why we see so many people using the library it's free all the programs are free exactly and they have some wonderful programs some I've attended some I've not but thank you could train it for a wonderful job you do I was for the tea I know yeah are you booked for
the tea not yet my daughter may be coming that weekend CU it's her birthday so I have to see if she can yeah so is that something like a $133,000 in the black for the end of 25 if all goes well if all goes well
okay you know we're trying yeah we hope you're going to be able to read right stock surus I same same TR replenish the Surplus that we done appropriate because we never know whether the county will come
through or not whether they'll cut and 500 bucks they're they're looking for it they auditor find the state yeah the state state money came in we even ran through the budget and so on we show getting it I don't know why it didn't get fored on so that's because the new
people didn't know what to do so they're working on it they'll take care okay okay thank you so much thank you very much thank you for all your support oh you're [Music] welcome any questions please feel free
to email oh we know you know where I live thank you next victim I don't think sh here I don't know I here here for environmental am anybody
from sh tree here I don't think so no okay um we can do environmental next hello everyone Hi right him everyone has a copy of yes okay
okay so we're requesting a minimal budget this year of $850 um which is a little bit less than last year um the first thing we have is a tree giveaway we try to do this every year we did it last year in conjunction with Community Day it was pretty
successful um we've been continuing to do EAB hosted speaking events at the library where we try to do environmentally related speaking events for the public we provide like Refreshments um we usually do a table at Community Day
each year where we do environmentally related themes with giveaways um last year we did trees we've done reusable bags before reusable water bottles um every year we do we give away uh an eighth grade award for
environmental stewardship in the amount of $100 to one student and then last um $200 just for promotional items t-shirts pens tabling events yeah pretty straightforward yeah any
questions the only thing I would suggest is the Community Day Giveaway trees they were really some nice trees and some kids got them and they threw out back I heard I mean I would have loved to have unfortunate and kids got them and just destroyed them I was terrible so make
sure an adult gets them this someone responsible yes definitely like I would definitely take one I would be responsible yeah agree and then the haulk island cleanup I guess um Public Works will be providing I haven't talked to John about it yet but he usually offers up the clean communi funds for
any cleanups yeah and and that's April is that it's not it's not confirmed we need to look at the tide schedules and make sure just had a clean up out there so I wonder but um we have three other events in town that day I think there's
a lot of opening day opening day Easter egg hunt may want to reink that date just to get more yeah we'll look at the tide schedule and see ifu they're up against yeah you know it's the biggest issue is the voters out
there of course so they won't even start till Lake Memorial Day you want to get in before the vegetation out tick mosquitoes yeah good idea definitely so we'll try to do a couple of them hopefully yeah you know and if W to
spring fall yeah avoid summer for sure yeah yeah just let us know so we can all sign up sure we had so much last three four dump trucks yeah then we did one 2021 maybe a couple years before that and it was just so much so much washes
up well police are going to be patrolling out there and hopefully I don't know our police the police police okay the UTV we have a vehicle do they have the Logo put on it yet that's what he just got the
street legal and you got the for so yeah it's being stored out there and you're going to do regular patrols out there as well so great and and'll be good starting very soon awesome I was out there yesterday and I walked out to
the point walk the trails uh the trash that's out there seems to be concentrated like before when we did the clean up back in the fall there was litter everywhere and uh yesterday I noticed that it just seemed concentrated
up on I guess it would be the south side near the river okay was it low tide uh no this was up on the top of the cliff oh yeah probably got a l like wind trash BL up there but I was surprised that uh there wasn't more trash out there
picking up the cleaning well that nobody's been out there and too cold and there trash cans out there too yeah there's trash cans and uh there's the signage they're not taking as much sign there it's very can't park on those streets anymore
so we made some great improvements out there good there's going to be signs um that did a whole um schematic trail map so now there'll be like signs for when you call into Central they you can say I'm at mon marker 1.2 and they'll know
exactly where you are okay in emergency so great yeah good M must know how to get around there all right I think that's all I got yeah okay thank you thank you so you're expecting John for she tree no I don't
think so I haven't heard you haven't heard that he's not coming you said no we haven't heard anything we don't even have a budget yeah I I gave you you know what we had before so we meet we meet Wednesday right so we'll get something
to the town okay yeah we meet Wednesday they meet Wednesday so he probably just forgot okay we'll still F them though well I was going to offer to call him if he just forgot about it wanted to run up here I don't know um have a budget to
present he he didn't send us a budget but talk to him about it because you want to have a planting remember I mentioned that okay good yeah um yeah so you guys can talk about it at your meeting too yeah yeah okay okay good thank you
everyone thank you Emergency Management here next Rob's [Music] here no it's not in our packet yeah oh we
didn't get it I prepared it for you I have a single copy of it well it doesn't look likea so go ahead yeah I don't have it what you got uh 2025
budget for Emergency Management the New Jersey emergency preparedness 2025 conference it was put down $400 for the two people for myself and Matt
which is was I paid for mine currently because it was a minimum date to pay before the 15th or was an additional $50 up charge for the conference so it would have save the committee more money I
paid it to get it done it out of the way I have it up there you did this is the original one we I guess this one I sent to the followup wasn't I'm sorry that's all right the one I sent okay so did you get reimburse for that not yet oh did you
put your bill in yet not yet I had just printed out the paperwork for it and it was from last year wasn't it no for this year oh this year last year was taken care of okay so it's 400 for both of you together 400 for both of us it was $200 for one
person okay then the hotel expense is we put down $968 because it is a69 $89 room fee plus $32 in taxes and Resort fees for two people for four
nights which I booked that as well to get it reserved so right here they don't run out of rooms for myself that yes that's the same amount as last year y it came up to being $536 20 and
32 with the taxes and fees and the rate for two rooms for one room for but it's 968 for two rooms that's what we budgeted for because that was the rate for last year so it's like a th60 1,60
now okay correct uh Community Day for $200 for brochures and handouts and Other M minist needs to hand out and then a
$750 mici micius yeah miscellaneous miscellaneous there it is for 750 for bags uh tent tents possibly and other things that we need for Emergency
Management you want to talk a little bit about the conference last year so so last year we both attended the conference I took a total of five different courses while we were down
there uh a lot of good information was passed out and it helps out with the Emergency Management because we have to maintain so many hours of classroom time to maintain it through the state level uh this coming year the courses
that I've signed up for are evacuation and re-entry planning another course it's a two-day course which is recovering from a disaster and Rapid needs uh assessment as well as on Friday they're doing a general session
on the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse so they're having people that were actually on scene in Maryland coming up and doing a full presentation about the course that good so what is this the OEM
conference is dated for ail April 7th through the 11th so you really receive a lot of good info from that the C that are required order to maintain yes in order to maintain your
status that's good that you can do it there and you don't have to do it elsewhere that's good and then on February 11th was it I did the trainer to trainer
course for the name of it correct for Pathways to preparedness which is was taught by new jerse uh Department of Human Services office of emergency management through the state
and the Ocean County College Office of disabilities and it went over those that with disabilities and how to help them get prepared for in case of something should it happen to give the information out and that course is for us to be able
to for myself to be able to teach individuals about that course where they gave us a full to be an instructor to be an instructor for it yeah a lot of those classes that we take uh they're at no charge those are supplemental to the ones that we get down in Atlantic City
where we do pay for but there's dozens of hours that we do a here that do not charge us from state or County Ora what's left of it we have a meeting April 7
yep I I have to go down after it's always the first Monday so all right so what's the total yes yeah 238 okay cool thank you okay
good gave some yeah we put uh no I just um I yeah I did want to ask um if is there anything that you could present to the seniors at Living
Springs I'm I'm going to have the Chief and I'm I I wanted to have the fire department you know like you could do something during the day is there anything that in your training that you think you need to go out there and uh explain anything to them or do you want
to wait until after this convention May evacuation plan evacuation was thinking especially with that course I just took they gave a lot of information of uh to go bags yeah because they I don't know if their
management team has an evacuation plan but it would be a good idea so what I would do is I would email him CC YouTu so that you can contact him to set a date and time when you can go out at your convenience whether it be during
the day or whatever I go once a month out there I go to the last Friday of the month but it's at night so you may be able to do I don't know how what your schedule is for all cuz I know you work crazy yeah I work overnights yeah um it'll be awake during the day yeah I don't
sleep we probably do something similar with's Landing as well yeah yeah so and I don't know you may even want to do Zer Brook yeah you may want to you know touch base with those different places I think it would be a good idea since you
have this training we might be even able to do just like a general one for the community to do it here yeah yeah good good idea okay and then also uh going over the
calendar there are only four months with the fifth Mondays one of them being December which drops us down to three right we may have to pick different
dates for our four meetings because also those uh three Mondays that fall on the fifth Monday I'm currently working off three of them oh okay so I'll get with Matt we discuss
dates and once we figure it out we'll send it out to the council yeah it's always been the fifth Monday just I think just numbers wise that worked out to having room four per year four or five per year only required have two two
per year St obviously want to exce that we work on a schedule okay yeah I think mon the fifth Monday was because the room's available too yeah yeah and look at the calendar as well but we've been doing it up the fire house as well uh so we haven't really
been using the schedule for this room really doesn't matter but we want to make sure that everyone's available as well right yeah okay and what I'll do is I'll email the heads of the different areas that you can go visit and I'll CC both of you so
that you'll have their contact information all right anything else I'm thank you thank you history board you're up next
Peter John [Music] John how you doing so far so good good you w met John lordone new chairman do and what paperwork did you they have
that they have that this they have we have the whole thing yeah all [Music] right oh they have that okay that's I've seen that you verb what important oh okay I didn't bring that particular thing
but for the record that's fine okay here we are um the uh paper that uh that I gave you um the important thing is what's on the front page at top
right and very simple it's just listed as our 25 budget U proposal and uh I did itemize it by section and uh the bottom line is that we'd like to get $3,500 for next
year and to back that up I gave you reports um also by category uh for what our budget and actuals were for 2023 and for 2024 um which will give you some some
idea we our our budget and our actuals never actually match by the end of the the time it's just how it goes but uh we try to go by what our spending patterns are and then we look at the projects that we have in the pipeline for the for
the following year and uh so this is the the number that we turned in in December and that hasn't changed since December what has changed is our end of the year spending for last year and and uh
finishing up with the grants that we were working on and I did give you um uh a few things here for one the of course last year was it's either feast or famine with us you know orates years
but um since uh last year was a Babe Ruth day um year we did have a an earned uh income of uh 2128 uh 2, $28 for that event uh which
represented um 40 4705 $475 in advertising income uh less the expenses uh for the day um and we were also operating as under a
grant for uh 2024 which is on the back and we had asked for $ 5,629 uh to do a variety of projects and you only have the one page the back
page I I do have some copies here if you want to take them I I didn't make enough for everybody if you need one they be made distributed something that would be fine but just to give you some idea um that uh this was for for a
number of uh items that that we uh were doing primarily it was for the interpretative signs uh which we reduced from five to four at the Township's recommendation and then we made up for that by uh putting in some um additional
Grant worthy uh projects so that we actually came out even uh for the year which is always what they're looking for they they want us to spend all of it nothing more nothing less and uh we man I think managed to work that out by the
uh uh by the end of the year um and we have a chip grant that is uh that was approved for next year uh which is a grant of $5,200 uh for two projects it's a um a
simpler project than what we had before and it is um for um the restoration of the the an 1856 map that we acquired of the Wilton uh Delano lots
and uh we got it I believe through Newton's Landing they had acquired it and then when their uh history committee folded they donated it to us uh but it did need work it did have some damage needed some work we wrote the grant we
were approved for uh for the Grant to to get that um accomplished um when do you going to get that back well that's go ahead John it they said it's about a year oh really yes it'll take a long time and it's amazing to me because it's only like 18
by 10 or something mhm $4,000 to uh restore it that it'll be restored and that's a good thing it'll be restored and it'll be mounted in a case and it'll be really nice right it will be nice and also duplicate hang it here somewhere it would be nice
to have it in town halls we certainly can do that yeah it' be nice and once they um once they digitize it we can make copies of it we can make almost identical copies of it and use it for other purposes and we we modeled that
section of the grant after the grant that they got in Riverside for last year for a Riverside map that they did was almost for the same price but what they've been doing is selling um selling that selling framed copies that's a nice idea yeah so you know we
haven't explored all the possibilities yet but we'll have the capability nice job so that's the grant that's coming up for um for this year um and um other than that that the
township was able to as part of the grant for 2024 uh the township said that they would pay for some equipment that we needed we wanted to get a dedicated laptop that we could take with us to different locations and it wasn't
sharing that that information on my personal computer so that's right that's good how's that working out so far so good we we we picked it up one day last week I think and uh Dan came over today because we had some problems with the
printer and he fixed those and the printer is all hooked up and ready to go the Pet's ready to go uh we're the process of putting stuff on it yeah converting it from Peters to yeah we're going to take stuff off of Peter's computer and put on this photographs and
articles and we were able to uh get an oversized um scanner a flatbed scanner because some of the photographs we get in and some of the documents and the clippings and things are much larger than what you could do in a standard um
a standard scanner and uh so that's s that's been tested and that works out uh we also picked up a um uh CD DVD reader writer because the new
laptops don't have their own I know they don't have they don't have a unit but for you know 40 bucks or something you've got the Plug and Play and uh some of the records that we have kept over the years going back to when Joe bustler was the chairman on CDs so they'd be
useless to us if we didn't have a reader and I know pop vaman's oral history is on one some of the oral histories are on them yeah that's good so anyway we were able to pick up all of that equipment one of the things that made this little crazy is that the um that uh I
overestimated on the cost of of some of that stuff so we were able to shift some some things around and pick up some extra supplies and things that we needed and still came out even so we were very pleased at U at how that came out one of
the things we used money from the grant for was we bought past perfect software past perfect is a program that they use in museums and other historical societies I know we used to use it where I used to live and it's a fascinating
program it's amazing you you take an artifact it reir records who gave it to you when you got it why it's important whether it's a play or a book it assigns it a number in a location so you can people who want to find something whether it's genealogy records or
artifacts they can come in call it right out inventory system and it's SE much more complicated than inventory but yes and we we spent uh an extra U 100 100 or something dollars to get the add-on so
that it would also do images so we can photograph each item and the photograph is with the right with the paperwork you don't have to attach things or you know mess around with it so so we've already started putting some some things on it so we're happy about it uh the one thing
that um that hasn't been done for the grant yet we we got the signs the four signs and the the signs look wonderful and thanks to the public works uh Department Kenny and the public works department they assembled the signs and we were all set to get them in the
ground but then we ran into some problems about where we're going actually locate them because the um Recreation uh committee um handles our park properties and so they have the final say as to where it actually goes
in the ground so thanks to Al grabov coming out with us and Caroline came out with us about a week ago uh we went out and visited all of the sites and actually marked with spray paint okay where where we have them targeted to go
into the ground the next step and I contacted uh John fenmore about this is we have to get utility Mark outs to make sure we're not near any utility lines and things and once we do that we can we can put them in the ground okay we also
talked about um at um Vine Street Park and at the street end at Buttonwood because it's streight end of Buttonwood there is an easement that has been applied for uh by the um New Jersey American water and we don't know we know
about where it's going to go we don't know how extensive it's going to go and until we get that detail we want to put that in the ground without concrete so that if necessary we would be able to pull the sign and be able to to uh move
it and the one Vine Street Park the same way because they're going to be doing some Hardscape work around where we've decided uh we're going to put the sign and we'll put that in temporally and then we can pull it when they're doing the work cuz the the water company will
be digging I think they'll be digging because they're going to be putting a pipe across their right they haven't they haven't submitted the they haven't submitted plans or anything they have submitted plans they haven't submitted the easement year they're going to be doing
a Jack and board from the Riverside side under the there they may not actually be digging there CU they're going to be landing Jack and warit Inwood Street two houses up but I still wouldn't put anything in there I wouldn't even put the sign in yet right I wouldn't even put it in I
would wait till we have a better idea I think what he's saying is if they put it in without concrete they can move it otherwise tempor otherwise what it takes him two years to figure it all out that makes sense we just case's got to move it for
six in we dig a hole we put a brick at the bottom set it pack it in and nobody would know the difference if they didn't actually we we put in concrete thinking about 5 10 15 years from now for the purpose of location that was smart thing to do
right America be another year before it's like 3 feet off the Little Bend where but is and we're all good with that right yeah there you go right for for the sh the old Shipyard used to be at that corner and then you know Waterfront Park you
work with right Scott about things are right and I think our biggest um our biggest problem this year was losing if you recall we lost our printer and we had to get a new printer last January and uh when I did the survey of
all the printers in the area I was amazed to find out how wonderful the pricing had been at good Impressions but I did find a good supplier in um the college print shop in Mount or so um
they've been doing our work for us they're wonderful um I can do most of the most of the work the S jobs to we used to use the college too the Women's Club for different things we' use them but they're limited they can only work for government bodies and nonprofit
organizations yeah and um so anyway that's uh that's reflected in the budget that all of our printing materials which have very popular um they just cost more we have to budget for it it's cheaper
yeah one thing to consider you invested all that money in the laptop the ETC and you have your huge photo archive stored on there consider also spending 100 bucks on an external backup hard drive yes please yes actually I think we have
one I think that many years you know we're about 20 years old as an organization and uh long ago when I had asked for a laptop back around 2005 um they they said no no we're not going to get you a laptop but we'll get
you an external drive and they did purchase probably like 256 megabytes yeah go get buy a couple terabytes for 50 bucks and you don't even need a hard drive they have USB drives now there are terribly go get one to back up your arch so you're not losing everything on
absolutely external hard drive uh another thing that that I found is that um some of the programs that we have we're going to have some subscriptions we have to deal with now which we had not had to deal with in the past uh we took um a membership in the American
Association of state and local history which is a small Museum um organization it's $98 a year um but it gave us a um a significant um discount on the P perfect
so it kind of worked out for the first year but now we're going into a second year where I don't have the coverage from grant money for that and so I had to work that into the budget and um Adobe we found out Adobe um after that
that we're going to have to pay pay a subscription every year for that yeah so there's some things that we were buy the Microsoft 360 it's part of the came with yeah yeah yeah anyway so uh so that's where we are
um we have some interesting plans coming up maybe you have seen the um sneak box that we've been dragging around this year for uh for things and um Tuckerton Seaport has said that they really want to gift that to us uh but the the boat
needs work and one of the things we did is to invest in the trailer so we could haul it around and um Fern found a pretty good deal for us on that um so we have a trailer now that we can we can hold it around and
our plan is to accept that from Tuckerton SE Port around April and then uh take it to the um what's it called the sea port uh museum in Philadelphia to have them evaluate that to make sure that we can
stabilize it not make it seaworthy but so it doesn't fall apart uh and um it does need a little bit of work done and and we have budgeted for that at least some of that work for for next year good so any questions about uh how
the money's being spent uh we try to be real careful no no good job appreciate it app yeah very good thank you thank you does anybody want want a better copy that has the second page I I took I took John's second page I took I can always
make more thank you very good thanks guys thank and thanks to fer for all all of his work this year he's been just wonderful with you the Grant from the county for
this year there's I think $1,200 to put together a booklet Wasing uh waterfront properties along the Delaware River and uh yeah that's it so with uh the Historical Park Waterfront Park uh we
can uh when we get to the point of asking Scott uh to be able to put a uh distribution box there similar to what we have out front of the uh Presbyterian Presbyterian Church on the triangle yeah
we're sort of seeing that that publication as a as a um sister publication to the one we did for the Oldtown yeah well I think you can put it next to the to the little Library yeah cuz the Parkland done already so it'll just be done separately sure I could
probably be attached if it's would we just be screwed right to it people can pick it up pick up a copy right there it's been a very popular way to get the that information out we put out over 200 copies of that walking tour at the uh the thing that we have at the triangle
not including what goes out of here and off the tables that are other places so um great anyway that that worked out well for rest year than thanks everybody Mr
Lord are you here for L for too come on [Music] up hang thought you were just here you had better to do oh me
yeah done operate yeah I know that usually is done I was surprised to see it on this list well last year we're here yet last year spe more so because of the traffic study yeah the traffic study that's why operating stuff so I did so you're just just to tell us it's
normal business normal business correct you know it's the same thing same thing you know L for any type of uh um guidance for us for uh the ordinances or all that stuff same thing with Michelle for the planner all that Stu one payment towards the traffic study and we're
still waiting to hear back on the edit yes yes I have instru instructed not to pay yeah good until such time let me know when that next meeting is or you have another meeting or did you give them all the cuz I couldn't make that meeting yeah we haven't had they haven't
sent us anything to have another meeting about yet oh okay let me know yeah you haven't heard I'll email Joe see what they done so yeah yeah okay but for the most part yeah L's back to normal how okay good Perfect all right
thank you have a great night Recreation [Music] ready yeah how you doing great hello hi Hi how are you good hello what you got
for so going over our budget for 2025 uh like Richard said is a lot of money it's we did acrew a lot of money in 2024 because we did purchase a lot of things that put us over budget as far as soccer nets and things of the sort um but we don't have to put that out for this year
but we are purchasing more soccer nets which brings us down to almost our last line item of equipment which we for $7,000 which will cover a couple more new soccer nets so way Fielder dreams will have all new equipment out there for the soccer uh as far as most of our budgetary items they all are all in line
with last year there are a couple things that we're asking for some more money for only for inflation and things that have went as far as our summer concerts you can see we originally budgeted for 10,000 we're asking for 15,000 this year for 7even to n concerts that's just because
the bands are asking for more money which greatly so they are deserving of um our community Day Festival we are asking for $144,000 for that now that is because this year we will be handling that ourselves I will not be going through the fire department so we'll be
acre the cost of tables chairs hot dogs bowls anything else that may be needed that the fire department did help us out with before um our carriage rides same thing we were at $5,000 we only spent 4,000 last year but our existing
Carriage company is no longer so we are going to have to find a new Carriage company and we are not sure what their rates will be at this time those Uptown still doing it though yes still going to do it I believe that's only going to be for one one yeah one so we have to find
another company for the second okay um the park and View movie night last year we did spend a lot of money just because we did purchase our own equipment so we don't have to continue renting it so we are asking for $2,500 for that this year uh just for license fees and things of the sort as well um other than that
everything tree lighting the tree lighting so the tree lighting we are every year it's getting bigger and bigger uh people are enjoying it more and more so we are asking for $5,000 which originally the actual for 24 was only $2,000 I don't foresee us needing all of
that right now because we did purchase a lot of lights last year and things that we would need so they are reusable uh but as it grows we are going to need more L Towers possibly which hopefully we'll be talking to Township committee about purchasing through the town as
well so this way the town can have those instead of continuing to rent them for every event we have um other than that any questions on your end for what we need well yeah do you want to talk
about the um Centennial Centennial the Centennial is a different line item I'm going to hand that off to Steve okay if you would like to handle that sure well before you do that the um the soccer net so you purchased eight large Nets last year
yes and then what are you asking for this year we need uh I believe it's four small Nets and we're going to be purchasing I think a spare for each and that's the gold post and the Nets yes completely so those were the originals from 20 years ago yeah they've been red
100 times yeah so once you do that par it's the additional post and next then they'll be all new everything will be new for the soccer program yes yeah we'll talk to Public Works and have them cut up and scrapped he called me today he said there's a bunch of Nets out there now a bunch of gold poost that
weren't out there before John I'll go out there tomorrow look um okay and then we don't have anything else that's like major right no nothing out of the ordinary uh we spoke about everything that would be inflationary with the additional money
we need other than everything is pretty much in line with how we've been budgeting in the past couple years okay sorry go ahead Steve no um the only thing I'll add before we pivot to Centennial is that our our summer camp
is continuing to be extremely healthy um they had a surplus was added to their account 61 or rounding up to $6,200 um I was also informed that this most likely will be Linda gkin last well last year would be her last year as summer
camp director so the um Recreation Commission is currently going to be putting out a notice to the staff see if anybody wants to move up to that director position yeah I thought maybe they already did um at my last leadership board meeting with the church
uh apparently their electric bill is like $1,000 more when we have the summer program and I told them I don't know how that can be because number one they aren't there five days a week sometimes they're only there three because the
trips and everything but right now we've been paying a cleaning bill which is $600 and they're going to double that probably so instead I don't know how because I said that we need a bill to pay um
so but I know the amounts going to go up so if the summer as long as the program can can handle it but I mean I know it's going to probably double cuz 600's just not enough I mean when so I would say that it's going to be 1,200
or500 so as far as the cleaning service if they want to just send us the bill that they so they pay the that's what you paid the last two years $600 for the cleaning which was for every week and then the electric we can we can we'll sit down with the church and make an you
know okay cuz I know you need a bill right Phil yes yeah so I know you need a physical bill so just let me you know I just want to let that you know I told them that I would bring it up at our budget meeting um for you to not so
expect at least another 600 or maybe 7 maybe, 1500 all together imine you from the air conditioning it's the air conditioning and they have they don't have Central they have these units that just suck it
up you know just they just they're running all this yeah I'm happy to report that the summer camp could sustain yeah that's what I just wanted to make sure because and and they really like having I think I think the teachers like being at the church yeah and
they're doing some Renovations there they've been working on it uh so yeah I can confirm that because we had talked about moving it back to the school after there was a change in the administration and the teachers were like could we please keep it at the church and we said yeah no problem yeah seem to really like
it and uh yeah that's good I'll let them know that's not a problem yeah no okay not at all so uh pivoting to Centennial uh the Recreation Commission formed a subcommittee um we would like to host an
event in September of 2026 we're going to start planning for it um the beginning of next month to recognize and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Delano in in 1926 it was renamed uh to Dinger Township and
we would like to recognize that um as our official 100y year um anniversary so the Recreation Commission formed a subcommittee to take the lead on that event um and we are asking for a um a budget for the Centennial event to
begin our planning um of this event we would like it to be a rather large event um probably one that Delano hasn't hosted ever before we we we went to Edgewater Park event and
um kind of just did some you know observing observing and it was a lot of reconnaissance and it was it was a really well-run event we liked it there were a lot of ideas that we took from it there's some things that we want to you know change but uh you know it's going a lot of the vendors they had a lot of
bands a lot of food it's going to cost cost money and I think this is a once in a if I may say a once in a generation um opportunity um we don't expect to be doing this again um but we would like to adequately support the event to ensure
that it's um you know successful successful and uh you know we have to start booking vendors and the you know booking is going to probably require some deposits especially when you're talking about having them book us you know a full year and a half in advance
um so we're asking the committee to um give us at least half half of what we project we will need for such an event um and you are establishing a account right yes the accounting for this event will be separate from the recreational
operations which is why we're asking it as a separate budget line item um this will not be mixed in with our general funds it will be kept separate with a separate book so that anytime the committee or the administrator or an auditor wants to see um we can run out
you know a report check detail p&l and um and there will be a large fundraising initiative as well yeah I know Eder Park did different events throughout the year so uh like they had a dance one time and
they did so what was the event that you went to that you saw everything at Edge Park because I got that was their sental that was their sentennial yeah so they had a bunch of events but this was one Centennial like that was the last event last yeah I didn't go cuz I I I didn't
go I didn't know when one c one of the one big event was what was it like that's what I'd like to it's almost like a big carnival it a big carnival yeah it was it was in a f they had a lot of um vendors you know kind of like what we have at our Holiday Village but a lot more they had food trucks they had rides
they had big sliding boards and they so we would do that at the Field of Dreams part of it and we're going to do a dedication at Centennial Park yes we also wanted to have a clock there that's not going to be part of your budget that has to be part of our budget and um Time
Capsule and all that we would Pro I think we were the preliminary idea for the dedication is to have perhaps the dedication either I would say the weekend before or earlier in the day um
the nice thing about having it I would probably say maybe a week before would be if we took pictures and everything we could have a you know a table and a display at the Centennial event that's the one advantage of having it on a separate day but yes it would coincide
with the you know the stuff that we can all talk about in the sub commmittee meeting right you might even want to do it a month before so you can put it the Beverly be and advertise you know like stuff like little details like that but I think it's just important that we get the funds now so we can make the the deposits for the different vendors
whether it'll be a band or you know um a food truck or the rides cuz they had an extensive amount of rides there they and they had know those game trailers that you have they had them for free they were actually free and they that was really there was some talk about um
like I said it's you know maybe a fireworks display we want to get pricing going to be in conjunction with the americ 250 I was going to be my thing that's a nice thing so what our hopes are to have multiple uh we'll say
parties or events throughout the course of a couple months so this way we can not just celebrate our Centennial one day so we can have something leading up to a grander scale of what it is and uh the reason why we are coming Richard to ask for such a large scale of money sum
of money and half now is so that we can book the events so unless we give them large deposits they won't hold those States for us so that's why we want to break it up into two payments also help the budget as well how to handle it we're talking about setting up what's called dedicated by Rider y dedicated
rider that's so people make donations or anything all goes through that but that's Municipal money not R right so it ends up being paid for just like you pay any other bills in our voucher list and so on so I have to work with the auditor to determine how I do that one of the
issues is always uh deposits because legally you're not supposed to use public monies till the work is done right or there's a project there so talk around tomorrow how to do that yeah how you you know how you give money to somebody a year and a half before they
provide service because it's public money so private money so wck wouldn't do a separate account if we're going to it would come from us me yeah would be it would be our account that would pay for we'll talk we'll talk to Rob to Julia tomorrow it wouldn't be a separate
account for them we're just going to give them x amount of dollars like they get in their budget right it maybe the alternative for that kind of stuff might be that instead of the private money going out just hit into the dedicated by Rider you know there might be some
private money that actually goes direct that they're going to spend that's not public money the minute it gets deposited if it's our money our 35,000 this year and another 35 next year you talking about you know it's got to be spent under the same rules as every other dollar
well with regards to the donations for the event were we talking about donations for the event itself before the clock and for the the park mhm to help pay for the help forther help pay for the clock and help pay for the time Caple that your attentions for the
event collecting donations or the clock that's me I the clock clock so I mean that should be in our budget that should be our that's going to be done in the fall so we don't you know we have to do that now so we're just going to have
to figure out some sort of I guess we we would do like maybe a program book because yeah if they're going to get funds they're going to want some sort of recognition so how do we handle when we do um Babe Ruth day for the history
board that's kind of like how we would handle this they they get a program book they sell advertising they bring in $5,000 brought in and we put it in our account and then we pay for it out of our account right we buy the materials and so on right but there's always
something left in there like this year there was like 2100 left I think or whatever yeah and that actually is in the township account so if you look at the history board operating account if he brought in $5,000 and spent only 3500
there 1,500 extra that ends up getting canceled the Surplus and yeah you know they're going through us through through the townships stuff so we'll talk to around because that's part of the budget thing because that 35,000 is a budget item
yeah so I got to say okay this is an item in there how are we going to handle it and get I'm sure it's easy it's we're not Reinventing the wheel proba to do proba way to do it they're they're the ones that Park might be able to usually place I've known the that's been always been
handled outside of the municipal budget yeah there generally been uh you know had foundation for example right hand Recreation Commission well that's independent oh yeah so you're not independ
that's they're not they are us us they us nonpr Cal LLC possible way to do it you could have the same people be appointed to be the people running it illegal about you know having you also
be that but maybe that's the the answer the history board also they have their own little thing their own little account they do some stuff through that that yeah just like we used to do here try to bring it bring it in not a lot of money it's not a lot of money so nobody worri about yeah but
here we're talking about a lot lot of money relatively yeah and so maybe what Matt suggesting might be the way to yeah to handle we can figure it out tomorrow yeah yeah and just ask as Park how they did theirs did they do AAL they they
don't have a recreation toart no a commission yeah commission yeah but but how do they handle the money was it was it an LLC I don't know how they did I yeah or maybe they handle it not they
were supposed to do these things happen once in a while get written up you know that's the risk that you take yeah take somebody saying you spent the money wrong it was illegal and so what's some people will say well for we should arrest you and others will say just
don't do it again next 100 years when you do it 100 years from now just do it right and how that spired out of control it's so easy to set R I'm sorry Matt I can hear you I was just saying you know we need to make sure we're doing it right because you saw how what happened with Del Ran they had that whole cow
celebration spiral out of control with the monies and this we have the doubt eyes yeah we definitely I know we will yes so here everybody knows what the intent is and let's ask the pros how it should be what's the best way to do it find out how Ed Park do theirs it would
be interesting if they put money in from the outside yeah yeah because they sold different things right yeah there could be two pools one is the pool that comes through cuz we can't take Township money and hand it to the LLC for example yeah you know you're not allowed to do that but so that certain things get paid for
with Township money within the township gr other things the main thing is as you I know totally about the down payments and stuff dealing with the the performers and the vendors those kind of things the stuff that you got to do that way you do you try to set up separately the stuff where you're actually going to
buy stuff you're going purchase order pay for it you know how we Grand a year in similar way you know you can give the nonprofit right I I think you're probably going to have to form a foundation kind of like the
Burlington County farmfare they have the Burlington County farmfare Association which actually runs and funds the farmfare um you have the Burlington County Library Foundation but they're doing that on a regular basis so it makes sense to have that a one shot deal I don't know if there's
anything else in Burlington County that can be used as that vehicle so that's why it's important to see how Edgewater parked did there because Edgewater eastampton I mean a bunch of them have had it there it's got to be way yeah you know a nonprofit that
there's a treasure sitting at this table run so are you talking just so I understand are this the 35,000 that we're requesting are you looking at running it through I do wom this club it's non problemin because that that money we were what we were kind of expecting from the recommission would be
we would be submitting bills to Aaron and then Aaron would run it through the through the bill list would run it through the township and the dispersements would come from the township but the point is that it can only be spent for things that are legally spent it can't be spent for a deposit for a performer that's going to perform a year and a half now can't use
public money you have to have a bill which is why we a nonprofit yeah we'll fund the nonprofit and the nonprofit can handle it that way right so there's a lot of things that can be one of the things that is one of the more difficult ones we'll talk to that yeah but
ultimately that's that may be only 10% of the total cost so it's figure that out but yes so find out par Camp we'll talk to our AIT see what they say you know this is why it's
process the actual a budget for that we'll figure out this so you have it in there there is a line the municipal budgets have lines there's a you know a line that state for celebrations and so there is a separate
line for that but again you have to spend it no different than you spend it for police equipment or public works or okay the I'm faded so okay anything else no any other
questions for us no very good budget very y nice job thank you figure out that situation [Music] yeah egg do
have do we have to go through it nope I'm going to be real quick for $5,000 5,000 di is up next yeah hello I'm D treasure are they paying is Riverside paying their fear yeah yeah Riverside
that's the plan they pay did they get did you get the money for half of the insurance yes we did thank you well they don't pay us they pay the insurance it was the off of the bill yeah right we didn't get a check from them oh okay but we paid the whole bill uh
I it comes off of what right it comes off of what gets G no it doesn't we give them $55,000 we don't and then we pay the insurance we pay the full amount Riverside right yeah we paid the bill but is Riverside
supposed to reimburse us yeah yes half of the insurance yeah the best thing to do for that for the future would be that the vendor bills us each yeah half half otherwise technically we need a Shar service Gren you don't want to do that
um all right right but but they can they we get I mean because it's so small we we do get checks from you know Riverside and whatever in Beverly for the compost s so we don't have agree so if they are supposed to give us half of that they
can write us a check F who did they break the check to last year they actually did I wasn't aware they they were paying that yeah I think that it was so that you only had to ask for Less instead of or 7th whatever it
was we were only paying we're paying small amount the insurance bill has always just off no one told us to do any so if they agreed to pay half it they should reimburse us for okay don't worry about last year you know right I
didn't she didn't even ask for anything yet their budget timing is totally different than I I haven't even submitted anything yet okay all right so Sabra was supposed to be here but she um got 76 or tickets in the last minute so she sent than us she sent me a email to
um to read with some information here okay um 2024 we saw growth in every program as far as registration numbers spring Sports increased from 212 in 2023 to 248
last season two of our 12 VI teams competed last season for the championship 10,000 we only pay five correct soccer had 184 this past fall adding 18 more to the overall title despite losing our commissioner less than a month before the start of the season um thank
you to our board members deel and Kevin for handling that situation and stepping up as Commissioners uh fall softball went well we kept our numbers relatively the same this year we added Tri outs which was a good opportunity for our athletes to have their skills evaluated we're currently in 2425 basketball with
the highest amount of registrations in four years of 23 32 athletes this year has been going smoothly no reported incidents with parents and families in the gym on game day we're able to run a five verse 5 for third and fifth grade but we transs Vision them to three versus three and we're also pleased with
the progress um see then she has kind of like a breakdown here I've been going to all those Sunday games and Gavin plays it's incredible there it's like clock work yeah she is
so organized impressive they have a great board I'm telling you I've never seen it this efficient so spring Sports from 23 to 24 went from 212 to 248 an increase of
91 um PA soccer from 23 to 24 went from 166 to 184 it's good cuz they were losing numbers yeah they were nobody wants to play uh um and then winter basketball
217 to 232 we did have two indoor soccer teams this year for the first time MH and um regarding flag football they're trying to establish a girls flag football as an inter Scholastic Sport
and they're hoping to create a league um as it's going to be featured in the Olympics so that's something that they're hoping to um start up and then volleyball uh along with Riverside and many of our school athletes will be starting volleyball at their schools we want to
be able to bring volleyball to Del R um we we have Ally Smith recently recently retired from Air Force who's been a coach in our soccer program for the past two years expressed interest in helping the program started so that's her notes now as far as
numbers um pretty similar to last year's budget um we are just asking you know for the municipal Grant of the 5,000 and then Rivers it's 5,000 why doesn't D pay the insurance directly and we just
increase what I the town wanted to because we wanted to make sure because they wening they weren Pang it years ago we had a problem they had the wrong Insurance still around know why they had the wrong Insurance just to make sure and all
right and then so they they invoiced Del directly I Comm back then the treasurers work to no okay you couldn't depend on them no and the fellow who was getting the insurance was an agent and he was got the wrong insurance he got medical insurance instead of liability insurance
it was a mess it was a mess so the township um you know they they use barl Bar's agent communicates directly with me as Treasurer I give her the enrollment number she bills me I forward you the bill you write the check I drive the check to them and
yeah they should have well and then I um but now we got to then give her side to reimburse us for yeah and then I and then I send you Insurance certificates so you have that M file I see so we do it just because we don't trust that well it's a security for the town you never know going to be next year it's better
to handle it that way at least we know we have the right Insurance yeah so um last year for our fund drive we we had about $10,000 in um donations mostly from Delano residents so we're always
appreciative of that we do we do actually send out mailings to both Riverside and Delano so um we uh had obviously an increase in our revenues from the programs because the uh enrollment were up so um we anticipate
8,000 for this year's fund Drive 5,000 in concession stand sales which we hope are more depending on you know how often that's open um make about $2,000 to $2,500 profit off of that so they hope to have some more fundraising events
this year to uh to help offset the cost but we're in pretty good shape we always appreciate the township support that's all I got any questions no
[Music] good I know I did it by myself this year good job thanks for giving me a break what C actually okay that concludes our Municipal budget
preparation preparation s and um we don't need a resolution for executiv so can I get a motion to Matt and Phil all in favor hi hi thank you
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