we're horizontal tonight not we'll find out mayor s we are recording thank you good evening welcome to February 3rd 2025 Township committee meeting 700 p.m. Municipal Building at 770 Cooper town Road and Delano roll call please Mr Bartlett
here M Fitzpatrick is absent Mr mcfaden here Mr olette here miss Seuss here also present Mr Schwab our Township administrator Mr Fox our Township engineer Mr heinold our Township solicitor Mrs lur is absent U Mrs Russell our Deputy municipal clerk Mr Fenimore superintendent of Public Works Mr Warren our acting police chief and miss mcfaden our Administrative
Assistant please rise for the flag salute congratulations to the flag the United States of America to The Republic stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Sunshine statement please please be advised the 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 Burling County Times and Courier Post and published in the December 30th 2024 Edition written notice has been posted on the official bulletin board of the township of Delo at least 48 hours prior to the meeting live stream statement this meeting of the Delano Township committee may be transmitted via live stream on YouTube video The streaming of the meeting is not intended to be relied upon as formal public access under 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 official notes thank you first meeting uh first item on the agenda tonight we have ordinance 2025-the 4514 this is the second reading by title only and public hearing hearing is open
to the public for ordinance 2025 D1 if you would like to come up and speak about this item please come to the podium and state your name and address please seeing none I will close this hearing to the public and I get a motion please so moved second motion by mad second by Fern roll call please Mr Bartlett yes Mr mcfaden yes Mr allette yes Miss Seuss yes
next we have ordinance 2025 D2 an ordinance of the township of delango amending chapter 10-18 of the codified ordinances entitled Board of recreation Commissioners this is the second reading by title only and public hearing the hearing is now open to the public for only ordinance 2025 D2 seeing no members of the public this hearing is now closed motion please I'll make a motion motion
by Phil second by second Matt roll call please Mr Bartlett yes Mr mcfaden yes Mr alette yes Miss Seuss yes thank you okay we have two special presentations tonight um we're going to have the Delan EMS go first please um they are going to come up and discuss the 2024 statistics and kind of give us the year and review good evening even
chief of Del BR mergen Squad uh thank you for the invite tonight to come and share this information with you guys uh we do this monthly with the Del BR Township so we'd love to do it with you guys also it's would like to do um just like to provide 2024 what we did um Del we had 3,681 calls for service especially the County Central County Central Communications does not include any of the special events or standby that we've done with football games and you know Del Day stuff like that um and I believe we did
a few events here in fanco out of the 30 3,681 584 those dispatches were uh in deleno it counts for about 16% of our volume out of that 584 we did transport 309 to the hospital and 77 of those patients did refuse to transport which is unusual which is usual you know for people that feel like they need to call that one just get you know help them up if they fall down take the full pressure make sure that they're good we did see an increase in volum about 12% towards the second half of the month um or second half of the year and that's because we were actually helping out
wedge water for the months of November in December uh they were resorted back to their other contractor that is providing it here now so um they're there our average response time into uh deleno is about 8 minutes our standard is about 10 so we are below that standard um entire time for the call is dispatched the time we have the patient at the hospital available is about 48 minutes and that's about stent for everything that we're doing within this area so that's pretty good we did have an opportunity to train the C police officers in CPR we're able to take a hybrid approach to it let them do the online course they came in verifi their
skills and we got them all done before the end of the year so got that accomplished for you guys um our EMTs we continue to uh embrace the spanic scope of practice our enties can go ahead and PR CPAP on patients we're going to be able to check blood sugars uh in the coming month we also uh due to our 2024 donation drive we are able to buy two dupus devices which are mechanical CPR so in addition to the uh Advan that we did in 2023 with the advanced aeds we now have the cardiac compession devices also so it's allowing us to rent
a better care at patient side so very happy to see that moving forward um just real quick you we do uh build for services through third party insurance companies uh if a resident was to call and complain that they don't have insurance or anything like that we do not put them into collections we don't do any collections at all we got to work with them um if they have insurance we'll work with them if they're not location Advocate we'll direct them to charity care or how to take care of the bills because they have a bill from spot I'm sure there's Bu from the hospital also so virtual and all those other places have those programs in place so we help provide the guidance to them if they call our office they call our
office and they provide some type of hard some that may be right to call off but no big deal um obviously uh through our contract we did write off $6,890 um in total of global forgiveness for residents that includes Del and Delano uh we have better reporting tools as of the Fall so we will be able to break out specifically how much of charges are and how much is written off specifically for Del res so we're very excited about that um we spent 2 our 21575 career hours we spent 396 hours
for volunteers and we also did 38 hours of continue education so we're very excited that we're able to do that um but yeah so that's where we're at want make sure you guys understood what we're doing and if there's any questions or problems we're always available for you guys and we provide monthly reports to you know the cont manager and that thank you very much question sure uh you said 60% of your calls come to Delano no 16 okay okay thank you thanks
for that clarification like wow over 584 of the 3600 so 16% thank you and and 584 that's about the when Delano EMS was operating still that's right around the number that we were doing each year usually it was between 550 and 600 so that checks out Matt did you need them to come every month or you think once a quarter might be more um I mean what do you think I talk to Chuck as needed I think it' be nice uh when
be once a quarter he could come to uh Township committee uh meetings and give an update but we get our monthly reports they get sent to the administrator I review them as well and they're uh Bev has them for the records in here okay definitely you guys have any issues please let me know I'd love uh to get compliments and we know people get complaints but I look also here the good things it is definitely I know we're we're very happy with the service we're receiving and we appreciate you guys very much apprciate service thank you so much
chuck okay uh our next special presentation is going to be by the friends of Burlington County Animal Shelter um regarding the Trap neuter and vaccine release program for cats so if you like to come on up thank you I actually spoke here a couple years ago I noticed your names kind of looked familiar I know you guys were very receptive to an ordinance um and I know we all get busy so I kind of wanted to Circle back as we go town to town um
just to refresh you my name is an I live in Lumberton um I work in Burlington County as a CPA at locky Martin for the last 30 years and I'm part of the leadership team of our organization um we support the county animal shelter and we devote our time and all the funds raised to address animal homelessness overpopulation and abandonment um thank you for letting me speak tonight I really do appreciate it um we have many programs that we fund but the one I wanted to speak
um tonight is about um the humanely reducing Community cats through our TNR program um so just hard to read that sorry it was better when you have the lights off but I don't want to put everybody in the dark but um if anybody wants to read it but I can just I don't I'm not going to take up ton of your time um but I just wanted to say um you know we are a 501c3 nonprofit We Are all volunteers and we partner with the county animal shelter to care for all the shelter pets and help place them into adoptive homes and we also work
with the community to try to um reduce the number of homeless pets we started in November of 2010 we have over 500 volunteers on record we provide the equivalent over $1 million of Free Labor annually last year we raised over 600,000 from local residents and businesses so there's a lot of people that care about homeless animals and we're so happy about that um we pay for all the Advanced Medical Care at the shelter the county does not we pay for
all the broken legs the bad teeth the broken Tails animals hit by cars they all used to be euthanized before our organization came to be we also run and and I'm not this is no discs at the shelter staff they work extremely hard and we love partnering with them they really care about the animals there as well um but it is a NeverEnding battle to keep up with them but so we run the cat and dog foster programs for them we pull adoptable timestamp dogs into private kennels that we pay for we've been keeping the dog save rate over
90% for years which is really good considering there's probably 110 kennels full of Pit Bull mixes um but we've kept that number at a no kill status for years now we also run a shelter diversion program to try to keep animals out of the shelter we by providing pet food to Oak's food pantry for people that you know can't afford to feed their pets we also have our own cat adoption center in Mount h now which has adopted over 300 cats in its first year uh the Miller family donated the old Ran cus uh
veterinary office in Mount Hol on old uh M Street to us which was a game Cher for us we also partner with um best friends if anyone's heard of best friends it's kind of like the mothership of animal rescue they're out in canab Utah and they're all across the nation trying to get all shelters to a no kill status um so one of our largest programs why I'm here today is the tnbr program um we were trying to work with all Burlington County towns to adopt an ordinance that works best for you uh
we received hundreds of emails every year from residents looking to help Community cats in their neighborhoods um we have cats you know I have cats in my yard the neighborhood has cats them feeding astray you know it never ends um we can barely you know we really have trouble keeping up but we try um so we provide lowcost vay neuter Services um for over 2,000 Community cats a year last year we spent $97,000 fixing these cats uh we also support Community caregivers and residents
by lending traps or trapping for them if they physically can't we help with the recovery of these cats at our adoption center and we help with the releasing uh we also support medical care for injured Community cats um we spent 21,000 last year on that and the 300 cats we adopted of out of our building which is affectionally known as the hissy Hut if you ever drive by you'll see the sign these are all abandoned cats that we caught during our trapping to while helping residents mostly
abandoned pets the ones that were chipped no one called us back or they said well we didn't want it anymore so luckily they found us um so for statistics in 2024 231 Community cats were euthanized at the shelter versus 243 in 2023 which is a slight decrease year-over-year um the live exit rate last year for cats was 78% um prior to us coming to be in 2010 the live exit rate for all cats was
only 27% so it's really gone up with the Foster program TNR um luckily Delano had zero cats euthanized at the shelter last year which was excellent and in 2023 there was only five so we're not talking big numbers out of your town um so for Community cat Youth and Asia rates going back to 2019 it was over 500 it started the decline and we've been kind of holding steady at 230 240 the last few years so TNR has really helped
with stopping all these kittens from being born um let's see oh my cat oh my I had a cat reproduction chart here and apparently it doesn't show on this slide for some reason when you're in screen mode but anyway it just showed how many cats if you have two cats in your yard in about 5 years you're going to have 75 cats in your yard just to show that how quickly they multiply um cat cats can have kittens at age four months and they can be nursing and having more kittens that and be pregnant so it's it's
a Non-Stop battle um so obviously you guys are doing something good because you are not flooding the shelter like other towns are with their Community cats so the reason we need an ordinance is one we're trying to get Burlington County to become a no kill County we want to follow the model of Kate May County Mammoth County um you know the old Camden County is getting there you know we really want to be one of those towns that or counties that can say we're a no kill County um so the ordinance would just allow existing authorities whether
it's Animal Control the police whoever um and the shelter to use T TNR for Community cat control in your town it wouldn't be any charge if a cat goes in it gets fixed for free and brought back to its outdoor home and we're only talking about cats that look like they're doing okay somebody's feeding them and somebody's caring for them um removing the current restrictions and all the municipalities will eliminate that horrible 7-Day stray hold every time a community cat comes in it's held for seven days in a cage it's never
been in a cage and then they're ultimately euthanized we try to get them into Barn programs but there really aren't that many um it also allows shelter resources rather than having to take care of a snarling feral cat um in some cases you know to free them up to do other things that they're you know rather be doing rather than um doing that so it also reduces the potential for spreading diseases you know you bring these cats in from the outside if they have if they're sick or have an upper respiratory you know that can flood through the whole shelter even to
the adoptable cats and it also reduces compassion fatigue we know many staff that really are exhausted from having to kill perfectly healthy animals so um anyway enforcement of local ordinances would still be under your preview everything your animal control your police um but any assistance for TNR would be provided by us um and it's really the only effective way to um do community cap management you know many over 600 cities and towns
Across America have been doing it um C catch and kill has proven not to work um and it's also you know the more Humane choice for the reasons I discussed previously um so that's really it we I just wanted to um we're going town to town to try to get towns and like I said you know the the highest town probably has 70 cats that were euthanized at the shelter you know you obviously had zero and last year you had five so you're not a a big hitter but it would be great if
we could get all the towns to just be on the same page and have an ordinance and it'll allow us to uh be called and come in and take care of your you know any issues you have um luckily I guess you haven't had any do you guys use ACL or do you have um yeah yeah AC okay okay I guess yeah I guess he hasn't had to try much so that's that's great news or maybe we I know we get calls from residents probably in Delano every town calls us and when sometimes we're just doing it without you guys even you know
having to be involved which is great and that's that's kind of what we're hoping for too so thank you for listening and appreciate your time and uh I guess I'll just reach out from the old email Trail and see I know I sent a sample ordinance that you guys you know can take a look at it also has a nuisance of baitman clause so any Resident confrontations you know can be worked out thank you very much thank you so much thank you do we want to keep the lights off in here
tonight it's very romantic thank you thank you we could see the audience again I have the chief investigating that banging noise because it's really bothering me yeah
sounds like the heater is trying to it does it does yeah okay um do we want to move the discussion up to right now so we can have the discussion now while everybody's still here I don't have to wait anybody have any comments questions I guess we would take this ordinance and kind of put it into the format that
we would need um Mr heinold yes I would need to get the ordinance and review it adopted so it's in a format that fits into our code okay yeah if you could if you could look into doing that that would be great I'll coordinate with um Miss Fitzpatrick who was kind of coordinating this um she's ill tonight so she apologizes she couldn't be here um yeah she wanted to be here and be part of it because she is a big big supporter of the program so of
course any um comments from the committee do we want to open it up to the public for any comments if you'd like to come up state your name and address hi Wy good evening I live at 539 just move that mic towards face there you go thanks and I was also here um couple years ago and I want to thank you for pointing that out for our town
having no cats I've been doing a lot of TNR on my own independent as you all know and a lot of people I wish I had a poster board with all the cats and their pictures that I've teed oned in our town but I don't but these papers each one of these represents a cat that I in Delano this is just Delano cats
and now there's like 40 of them here the allets oh yes yes I use All Pets um so we don't have we do have a cat issue but it isn't out of control like other towns I've seen willing Barrel has a big problem yeah they have a big issue but um we do you know have a cat problem and I have been doing it on my
own and so this would be a big help to have an ordinance in place yeah so that's all I just wanted to say Wendy thank you so much for your work that you do for the town and we appreciate you sharing the pictures on the Facebook page so the residents can see the cats and um thank you for keeping them under control yes oh and that's not to mention the 30 plus kittens that I've taken off the streets in to Lano that we don't have running around cuz they all have homes now yeah so they get adopted so yes that's awesome thank you so yeah
thank you we appreciate you Wendy thank you so much thank you okay so I guess the next step would be to get that um the ordinance and the informant that we need and we can put it on the agenda for um a meeting later this month or in March and we can um discuss it more then when Miss fatrick is back anybody else wishing to speak at this time okay I'll close this portion of the presentation to the public and then I'm going to open the meeting up to the public for uh General comments and
questions this is Session One um if you'd like to come up to the podium speak about anything please state your name and address this is session one is now open to the [Music] public seeing no one I will close this meeting to the public we are going to go to comments and reports comments to the professionals Mr heinold I'll just report again that um for those people who've been attending the meetings this is going to sound
a bit redundant but we are in the fourth round of affordable housing in the state of New Jersey um there was a deadline of January 31st at our last meeting we adopted a resolution to uh accept the designated number through the process and because of the extensive uh work that the committee has done in the past uh we are in a position to be able to not only not build additional units
but be able to uh likely extend existing units uh restrictions to buy future conformance um going forward I just talked to Mary Beth Lan our our planner again tonight um we will be uh following up on those discussions but I think the import from the general public standpoint is that the lanco has been in compliance up to this deadline we filed timely to remain in compliance and under protection meaning no developer can come in
and say we think Delano should change in this way and we'll we'll put the units where we say we want them to put it um we have the ability to control our own destiny relative to this issue and again because of past uh projects and approvals we are in very good uh shape in that regard um so we'll keep you updated as we move through the process but as far as affordable housing news goes in the state of New Jersey this is as good as it gets no wait any
awesome thank you very much sure Mr Fox thank you mayor um my report is pretty brief this evening but uh bring everyone up to date on our Lo projects um the uh dot uh Grant Road Project which is Walnut Street and Chestnut Street um that has been submitted to the state for
their preliminary review um the plans inspects are complete and we'll get their comments uh and also we're going to review those with the subcommittee uh the public work subcommittee if they have any changes we can make those changes at that time as well the uh Town Road program which is uh one block Del Avenue and one block of Second Street those plans are done as well and we're going to do that with the subcommittee um and once we go over when we have that subcommittee meeting my our
next my next report at the next meeting um that I'm attending I can give you all the dates of when we went to award um the project when they would start and and when construction would be anticipated be completed I'll add that to my project board yeah your timeline I didn't see that yet but oh it's there I I um did John get back to about Thursday uh no I haven't heard from anyone but yeah and Richard and yeah Richard yeah anytime between 10 and 3 what
time works for you on Thursday 3 yeah is that is that work a little earlier 3 is good 2:30 be good good 3:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 2:30 okay 2:30 Thursday it's a date thank you um and along with that we also have the Community Development block grant uh project which is replacing handicap accessible ramps throughout Town several locations uh we'll review that as well um
again I'll have dates for everyone at our next meeting uh the park plans are are pretty close to being finished um I did my report my report to to you um I'm going to revise those dates we ran do a little snag so everything's being pushed back like two weeks on those dates there um so we're going to advertise on the 17th February
17th we'll receive the bids on March 13th uh we an award on the 17th March 17th meeting uh and we would expect construction to start around the 14th 15th of um April still there's no issue um with having the construction completed by the 27th June 27th anticipate to have instruction complete I don't see any issues with that at all because of
as you know how we're doing the Gazebo that's being done by state contract and that was what was going to be a long lead time we need a long contract time for that we don't need that anymore so I'm I'm really confident that we'll have enough time to complete the project um and just SE two weeks the chance to start the eyes and cross the on it so who would start first would did the general contractor start prep the site and then they would install the Pavilion yeah the general contractor would come in get the site
set up and then they would work together with the Gazebo contractor um but yes General the GC would start first get all safety fencing up erosion measures all that kind of stuff uh probably start do some rough grading and then cont and when was the pre-con meeting you think um I there wouldn't be a preon meeting we won't know that until we would contract see that is then we'll determine the preon meeting perfect Harry is
that being put on the slab or on Footers it's it's going to be put on footings and underneath the Gazebo are are put pavers um but the the actual gazebo is is being done with footings thank footings and then the slab and then the pavers will be on top of the slab yes just put yes you don't put papers on the ground it's like a little would it
be a rat slab I guess yeah down okay thank you that's all I have this evening okay um do we stand with the boat ramp I know you were talking about maybe at the end of this month or uh having something together for that yeah um by by the next
uh next couple weeks I should be able to get on that um we've been kind of putting all forces into the part yeah I I know I just general that's fine y it's it's in Works we're definitely focusing on the waterr park so I get it all good okay department heads Beverly thank you mayor um as you all know animal licensing month was in January um all dogs
and cats uh by state and local statute needed to be licensed by January 31st so any that um that we know of that are on our books that we're not um will'll send out late notices um there is a late fee of $3 uh per month $3 per pet per month so we um we kind of soft en force and continue to send out late notices to Residents um to try to get them on board and um ascertain if any of their pets have passed or they've moved away um we do have some upcoming events some dates
I want to share with you the townwide yard sale will be the last Saturday in April April 26th and the shredding event that we hold here every um spring and every fall and the community clean updates would be the following Saturday of May 3rd um and then um if the governing body would like to consider authorizing the finance department to pay any bills that may come due um as our next meeting isn't until February 24th um if there are any bills that they um need to
pay that would incur interest um if you would be interested in considering that is everybody okay with that yes yeah okay can we have a motion to uh approve the bills to be paid yes please so moved second motion by Matt second by Fern all in favor I I I thank you very much may Mr fenmore yes um we snowplow and saled uh and
put out 30 ton of salt uh we picked up 15 cubic yards of brush mostly Christmas trees uh picked up trash Long Creek Road Cooper Town ball field and West Avenue uh we fixed 13 recycling Lids uh cleaned all the storm drains off removed one tree at West Avenue all storm damage um and we cleaned the sidewalks off
for the snow removal which was uh a little feet in it CU everything got frozen but we finally got everything cleaned off and then finally we got all our wood chips picked up the county picked them up and we're not we don't know how lucky we are that they do that that's all I have thank thank you no compost report yeah no it's it's settling okay I
I turned it last month and it's resting okay thank you for the update Chief short turnaround from last Monday so nothing to report okay thank you all right we're going to move to the consent agenda 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'd like to remove
or discuss uh 20 25-37 please okay we will remove that Okay resolution 20 25-38 disposal of unclaimed bikes propy resolution 25-39 resolution authorizing Burlington County division of mosquito control to conduct aerial larval adult mosquito controls activities and authorizing execution of Municipal agreement form resolution 25-40 resolution authorizing
Professional Services of bidding engineering environmental oversight and contract Administration for environmental remediation work at the 200 Ash Street Park site resolution 25-41 a resolution authorizing the township of Delano through the township of Delano Police Department to participate in the defense Logistics agency law enforcement support office 1033 program to enable the township of Delano Police Department to request and acquire excess Department of Defense equipment 25-42 renewal of
contract for fod Turf maintenance we have the payment of bills current fund $657,500 5895 Capital fund $2,619 32 cents escro trust $4,270 approval of business license 2024 49
approval of consent agenda can I get a motion please some moved second motion by Matt second by Fern roll call Mr Bartlett yes Mr mcfaden yes Mr olette yes Miss Seuss yes thank you uh circling back to resolution 20253 that's the um authorizing execution of agreement of sale for purchase of 401 Creek Road
uh we could give the public a I guess a reader digest version of the agreemente sure I'll do what I can the uh for those of you who are following the U uh 401 Creek transaction we authorize by ordinance the acquisition this resolution is the result of negotiation now between Criterion and the township as to
the actual terms of the acquisition uh the basics are it's a $3.5 million purchase price um there are some requirements relative uh to um the pre- purchase process that are standard for commercial transactions uh a little bit longer than usual because we are a public entity and um we need time to take action at public meetings
so we have 120 days for our due diligence period uh we have 60 days for our title review period and assuming the governing body acts favorably on this uh agreement I will coordinate with uh Council for the other uh part party for the seller and we will put together a time frame that basically gets us from agreement execution to to the closing
table that will include all the due diligence that we have to do on our side um the title work uh and um the bond ordinance process which is a I'm sure you've sat through Bond ordinance adoption but it's an ordinance process where we have to uh send um notices and ultimately once that board Bond ordinance is approved we have to issue Bond anticipation notes um that
is the nutshell of sort of where we are in the process we did negotiate fairly lengthy uh back and forth with the sellers Council um we have you know I do Municipal work I've been doing it for 25 years my sister is a commercial uh real estate attorney who's also my law partner uh so we've had a lot of eyes on this document I'm comfortable recommending it to the governing body for the purposes of what we're trying
to accomplish here thank you could you just elaborate what is involved in a due diligence period what will happen then sure I mean the biggest issue in the due diligence process is to um pull in Harry and his office environmental environmental resolutions they've got experts in the environmental Fields who will have already started the process of reviewing what is in place Criterion just bought this property in 22
uh so um they provided documents to us relative to their due diligence process uh but we can uh certainly expand upon that and revisit things as ER recommends and then um again once we get through tonight I'll be in contact with Harry immediately to start talking about what those items are what the time frame is and ensure that you know we've dotted our eyes and cross RTS to make
sure that we're getting what we negotiated for which is a commercial Pro property without any um unknown environmental issues that would cost us money down the line to address so it's really just kind of the inspection period on the commercial end what called due diligence there are buildings on the property there has been review by uh Township officials I'm not that's not really the point of what we're acquiring this for we do have the ability to inspect one key element that was a bit of
a negotiation back and forth is they've got to take all the personal property off this um which uh they didn't want to do but they're doing so um I think that makes perfect sense because we don't want to again buy something we don't know it's not really what the deal is about and it's a lot cheaper for a private Endy to to undertake that work than for a Publican to need to do so and the township does not want to be a landlord so that's why the tenant is being asked to leave yeah we did look at that
issue um quite frankly again there's not sign significant enough Revenue to justify uh the likelihood that it would change the financing elements under the public uh financing laws so um we are accepting the property tenant free and they have notified their tenants there are no issues in that regard and the um there is an an expectation that they will be vacant um based upon those Communications and
as a requirement of closing thank you anything else sir no thank you very much sir yeah thanks for asking uh Phil or Matt anything no I'm good with this okay um I would ask for a motion to approve resolution 20253 authorizing the execution of agreement of sale for purchase of 401 Creek I'll make a motion I'll second motion by Phil second by Matt roll call please Mr
Bartlett yes Mr mcfaden yes Mr olette the resolution that's before us this evening uh the township committee prior to this had approved the purchase of uh 401 Creek Road and then going through the resolution that we have on our uh agenda this evening uh for the purchase uh gone through it um pleased that our uh the en environmental piece is
going to be handled by uh er uh and that we're not totally counting on the report that was submitted by Criterion uh so I have confidence there and I also have confidence in Mr heinold and uh the work that his firm put into uh drawing up the agreement so I vote Yes Miss Seuss yes thank you to Doug uh for his hard work and getting this
done with all the language that protects us moving forward thank you to all of you and um and I will specifically note that both uh the mayor and uh our former mayor um were helpful in that process as well thank you thank you uh any correspondence Bev yes one piece uh we received notice from the board of chosen freeholders the division of mosquito control um requesting our approval um for their FAA um permit that they do
annually to allow them to do uh aerial spraying of mosquitoes doesn't mean that they're going to it just gives them the ability to do that if they needed and that was your resolution 39 this evening was giving them that Authority and that's it thank you meeting is now open to the public this is session two for comments and questions please come up to the podium and State your name and address Ray did you come late where were you changing around keep
you on your toes give me the curve ball okay yes uh question for you is the name and address oh sorry Ray Weber 22 ships way thank you thank you um is the county looking into helping out with any purchase of that property because there is some Wetlands on there as well as there's uh backs on to the county B I would think they' be wanting to preserve it uh the county is not helping with the purchase but they are aware of
the wetlands and discussions uh have commenced regarding that yeah D and so forth I would assume with the county with the county I don't know where it's gone from that okay all right um the other thing then too is um there's been a number of problems with key and I know they're endangered species they're protected they're protected and I know the along the cek there there seem to
be coming in quite a bit and well as uh we've had a number of residents complain about them I told them they're endangered species or protected species or whatever you want to call call it um is there any other problems in any other areas within Township and any solutions that the T might have come up with they're everywhere come look at the side door of the building Ste over tonight what they did to the to
the field of dream you can't walk well that's it yeah the same thing else so okay B Ruth field same thing or seaw wall I just want to if we want to spend thousands of dollars a month for geese the geese people to come out what is that what it was to do whatever they do geese Chasers yeah geese Chas would be $1,000 yeah know yeah per site yeah yeah so unfortunately we just have to deal with their funkiness and yeah and U just a reminder that uh February 13th you're
invited it's on the calendar thank you I appreciate it thank you and Ray I'll have an answer for you we'll we talked about for your system over there tomorrow okay good I was promised that tonight great thanks yep anyone else going once going twice session two is now closed to the public discussion items uh recreational facility fee structure update uh in
your packet you have a proposed fee structure um that's been prepared by Recreation to update the field usage fees which hadn't been done in a while uh to be more uh in line with today's expenses now the lights are there now that we have more Turf maintenance um so I would ask for you to look that over and uh see if you have any
questions or want to add about it they did have a subcommittee on this they went back and forth with uh members of recreation countship leaon and Aron proana Mr mcbad yes uh you were part of the recreation uh committee
before any input or thoughts uh we we did take a lot of time to review this and uh along with me there was is the new current chairperson of the Recreation Commission and um Steven lure was also available for the and this is what we had came up on based on what we
could charge per facility with the Green Acres guidelin restriction that they put on us so this is the this is what we felt was comfortable for all parties involved it's still affordable um very much so and um they wanted to get this to the uh different groups in the beginning of the year while they do their budget so they don't not um you know don't have any
unexpected fees um I think a monthly fee of $300 per you know as a base fee and then you have a a shed rental fee and then a monthly restroom fee because we are now providing um someone to to utilize and clean the the restrooms uh which before it was on the different organizations to do that and their volunteers and it just became too much um so I think the fees are very reasonable and uh they are Phil correct me if I'm wrong they put in a separate account and they have
to be utilized for only that's for daisa right only when it involves Del R yeah so Del ri's fees are put in a separate line item account and they can only be used for filled um field fees like field maintenance and improvements so so these other fees would be for outside mhm C yes Del is listed as our official Town sponsored whatever it's called we have an income service agreement with that
right so this is outside organizations not from Delano thank you is the light fees built into this yes okay we did look at the um usage and the uh PSG bills month over month while the lights were being utilized and it was very minimal they are pretty energy efficient and they are on an app they're controlled by an app so they're not on every night uh when it's raining and a certain person remembers that it's raining to turn them off they get turned off
um and uh yeah so they work with the organizations so only have the lights on when they need them and looks like this the uh field usage schedule hasn't been updated since 2012 so yes yeah it seems to be much more in line with yeah it's still very much affordable anyone else have any questions or comments can we get a motion
to approve the uh field usage revisions I'll make a motion I'll second it just a question this has been adopted by the rec board Rec commission yes okay we're basically just agreeing to what they've already it has to be yes approved by us okay so that was a motion by Phil seconded by me roll call I guess are all in favor doesn't matter all in favor um
maybe a roll call since it's the resolution okay Mr Bartlett yes Mr mcfaden yes Mr olette yes Miss Zeus yes thank you and this was 2025 d43 yes yes thank you okay um there's no need for an executive session so can I get a motion to adjourn so moved oh thank God motion by Matt second by Fern all favor I thank you good
night we'll see at our next meeting on the 24th hoping somebody was second I didn't want to stay here all night thank you that banging was killing wh