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 mcfaden here Mr Al 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 salute Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under godible
liy and justice for all sunshine and live stream statement please please be advised that proper notice of this meeting has been given in compliance with the public meetings act in the following manner written notice has been mail to the Brown County Times and Courier Post and published in the December 30th 2024 editions and written
notice has been posted on the official bulletin board of the township of Delano at least 48 hours prior to the meeting this meeting of the Delano Township committee may be transmitted uh via live stream on YouTube video The streaming of the meeting is not intended to be relied
upon as formal ACT public access under the open public meetings act and if the technology is disrupted for any reason the township meeting will proceed in person as an official meeting in accord with the official notice thank you 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 res resents Sandra Welsh Jeff Snider Rosemary stall and Don Lenton Kate would you like to say a few words about those
residents uh yes uh Rosemary stall um 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 EST State office and I'm sure many people knew Sandy um and Don Lon he was a scout leader for troop 19 for many years so
let's have a moment of silence and memory of those four residents they were all lifelong residents of Delano thank you okay this uh ordinance 2025-the uh it went to the luse board for a consistency
review um through that process the PL the Landy Sports planner found an existing section of the code that has the commercial vehicle 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 half in 14
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 an 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 uh 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 that motion by Matt second by Kate uh roll call Mr Bartlett yes M Patrick yes Mr mcf yes Mr oette yes Miss Seuss 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 comments there he is Ray weer 22 ships way um two things I want to thank the
committee for coming out and visiting as well to thechief here coming out and uh addressing residents of Newton's Landing that's the 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 I 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 is Public Works to put
it in it's well the do not ENT sign on the one side's leaning and the other one says there's an island there is down it's laying 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
R 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 the state tends to want to hold on to that money and not reimburse us so we've got the Babe 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 paths 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 Bud meeting 3:30 yeah great okay um department heads Chief to um Chief toer what's wrong with me I'll give sorry I got Adam on the brain from this
weekend today we have uh 27 police cases there were 219 mot stops with 123 citations 1,679 calls for service last week we were able to give
two officers off of conditional employment back check pleasure Friday 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 go first all right uh couple things with the uh Delano Public Library uh in March
coming up you got March uh yeah March 22 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 . deanol 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 Delano 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 ma'am thank you Mr mcfaden
uh February 4th I attended a joint land Year 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 the haulk island cleanup on April the 4th uh joint land use they had no one show for their their 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 same day as Easter on 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 and Mr Schwab and Miss lore for our succession planning we've done some interviews over the last month um myself and Mr allette 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 me 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 it's like 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 lot 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 um the date is March 11th at 12:00 p.m. at Living Springs Community room uh Delano senior club and the residents of Living Springs will each have 50 members attend 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 ear Zano our uh tax clerk attended the meeting and went over the New Jersey tax forms regarding the anchor senior freeze 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 reiterate 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 9 89
coopertown Road there's no change they still have several items needed before uh requesting release of their performance bond 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 B trash Basit installation uh the Eng ER was asked to provide a list of items with the estimated cost for our next meeting next meeting is March
11 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 it 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 it it was fun for me because we used to go to all the dances together so it
was a great night uh the 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 Toano 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 late in Riverside and they did did repave that so I'm
hoping to get some response on these two issues and the Delano Jug 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 sha Tre meets this Wednesday um at 7 o'clock 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 mcf 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 water from 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 tayor design and with ER regarding Waterfront 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 handicap ramps are going to be awarded I believe it's March 13th right Richard receive receive bids receive
bids yeah I'm sorry following meeting yes receive bids on the 13th 12th I think it's 12th yeah you're right 12th we move to the 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 5e 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 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 71 Capital fund $ 36,3 12050 escro trust
$3,579 Housing Trust $1,725 33 unemployment fund $166.2 approved of the minutes from January 1st 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 some moved second motion by Matt second by Kate roll call please Mr bartl yes Mrs Patrick yes Mr mcf yes Mr olette yes
Miss 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 so Mo second you could have it Fern uh Kate
and fern roll call mrl yes M Patrick yes Mr MC obain Mr yes M yes thank you correspondence yes two pieces of Correspondence the first one uh is in
your packet we received a letter from um the Delano Board of Education just uh wanting to know if we will participate in the Walnut 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 Street School 2025 graduation ceremony yes Pearson school though Pearson school yeah well yeah it's
wouldn't be walut Street School it's now the the Pearson school yes we'll have to change that on all the certificates so you um committee wants to continue with those two Awards okay and then the second piece of Correspondence is just
um the r 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 a Township committee yes I will be attending and that's all I have for correspondent 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 we reset 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 to all right down and set up [Applause] is it warm here as a no I feel good thank you he made it in time
under there I don't sound good like [Music] good Lord are you put charge what do we need please and three it's this cord I know
yeah I this cord but somehow this old cord way back unplug it oh no if you unplug it I think it buzzes yeah there the buzz now it does but it doesn't need I don't think it
needs this extension which one is the second this one the no which one is making noise this one all right it's good holy mackel is it this one
that one Library yeah yeah this one t for e e e [Music] it's working we'll find
out are we ready to go back into yes we are recording can we just do a test to make sure that I can 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 good evening hello Mr
Lord evening you all hello hello hi hi krina how you doing thank yourself how are you I'm well thank you entertaining us again it's always fun we look forward to it every
year pretty things it is so uh I had forwarded um the reports uh for end of 24 plus our uh 25 request um high level
we're only asking for additional $1500 last point a 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 the small employer minimum
wage it is $569 is what we're um paying at so due to the uh Township committee's previous um addition to our uh budget to 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 bu uh replenishing our books uh Katrina does a and Library
team does a an exceptional staff 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 the library provide a lot of assistance in that so
we rely on them as well we have a lot of volunteers who provide programs as well correct so that's it from 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 uh we had a 28% 25% um increase in programs 48% in attendence 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 and they like when we're able to offer it we have two weekdays we have two evenings and we have weekends that seems to work for people um thank you and I I think I've said here before that Delanica 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 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 16,000 for 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 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 there 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 summer book sale vendor night they also did a night of Enchantment they brought in a card
reader uh we 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 Story
Time program our preschool Learners were able to log 130 books towards the G 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 20 2 we are looking at building on the success of our well attended programs 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 turn people away because they're filled 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 Shar that go there we've had concerts there had 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 the
public library since 1860 so we really appreciate your continued support please stop in and check us out and I've listed our website and please do sign up for our monthly new newsletters distant e e newsletter and you only get one a month no won't bother
you great thank you don't add anything um well I'd like to thank you all for your support it's appreciated mle 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 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 like younger age we'll spread the the age group out there and the 92 library cards are those that are issued for Dango locally that you could go any 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 in the door you mean the budget when for the the original I think we
gave didn't I resend you he sent the actual oh I don't have the actual I have the one that has estimated this is from November was it a big difference uh no not
really you can have my oh good yeah their actuals uh 105 870 and income 117 117 427 for expenses oh okay yeah good cuz it's nice to see them I'll resend this out I thought I
had we do a lot with the money my vacation to 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 back uh we did meet with them in October and we have not heard back we thought we would be having that program
beginning in J 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 I have 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 money in the mail from the appeals it's it fluctuates
every other year but I always anticipate less revenue and more expenses is the way I usually budget not to be surprised um hopefully it comes up around eight or
,000 to offset some of the the that we're going to be putting up the actual 7500 7500 7500 was yeah and then 7000 11,000 it's like just 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're kind of the same the firehouse with our donation Drive kind of alternate you so yeah I just the cost of everything goes up much
exp yeah nothing goes down anymore so I think that's why we see so many people using the library it's free all the program are free exactly and they have some wonderful programs some I've attended some I've not but thank you Katrina 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 cuz it's her birthday birthday so I have to see if she can yeah so is that something like a $133,000 in the black for the end
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 re right stock that surface I the same we try to replenish the Surplus that we then appropriate because
we never know whether the county will come through or not whe they'll cut I mean I'm still trying to find that 500s and C going up state state money you know they're looking for it the auditor they find it in the state state state money came in we even ran it
through the budget and so on we even show getting it but I don't know why it didn't get for job so that's because the new people didn't know what to do so they're working on it they'll take care of okay okay thank you so much thank you very much again thank you for all your
support oh you're welcome any questions please feel free to email we know you know where I live thank you victim I don't think here I don't know I
think Amber's here for environmental are you here for environmental Amber anybody from sh tree here I don't think so no okay um we can do with Iron Men on next hello everyone all right him
[Music] everyone has a copy of 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 light
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 reable 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 there were really some nice trees and some kids got them they thr them out back I mean I would have loved to have one unfortunate and kids got them and
just destroyed them I was terrible so make sure an adult gets them this year someone responsible yes definely I would definitely take one I would be responsible yeah agree and then the hulke 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 communities 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 L 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 okay opening day opening day Easter egg hunt so you may want to reink that date just to get more yeah we'll look at the tide schedule and see if schu that they're up against yeah you
know the biggest issue is the voters out there of course so they won't even start till like Memorial Day well you want to get in before the vegetation out tick mosquitoes yeah good idea yeah definitely so we'll try to do a couple of them hopefully yeah you know
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 full yeah then we did one 2021 maybe a couple years before that and it was just so much so much
yeah so much washes up well police are going to be patrolling out there and hopefully I don't know our police police Poli okay yeah we have a UTV yeah we have a vehicle they have the Logo put on it yet that's what he just got the so he
can make it street legal and he got the board so yeah it's being stored out there and you're going to do regular patrols out there as well so great end up ping and'll be yeah good starting very soon awesome I was out there yesterday and I walked out to the point
walked 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 it was litter everywhere M and uh yesterday I noticed that it just seemed mainly 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 I got a like wind trash blown up there but I was surprised that uh there wasn't
more trash out there picking up clean well that nobody's been out there and too cold and there's trash cans out there too so yeah there's trash can and uh there's the signage they're not taking as much sign there it's very
it's they can't park on those streets anymore so we've made some great improvements out there good there's going to be signs um Matt did a whole um a whole Trail schematic trail map so now there'll be like signs for when you call into Central they you
can say I'm at M marker 1.2 and they'll know exactly where you are okay in emergency so great yeah yeah nice imps Mike 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 you haven't heard that he's not coming you said no we haven't heard anything we don't even have a budget yet you don't I I gave you you know what we had before so we meet we meet Wednesday
right so we'll get something to the township yeah all right we meet Wednesday they meet Wednesday so he probably just forgot okay we'll still fun 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 UMD to he didn't send us a budget but talk to him about it because you want to have a planting budget remember I mentioned that okay good yeah then um yeah this way you guys can talk about it at your meeting too yeah yeah okay okay good thank you
everyone thank you Emergency Management next Rob Rob's here Rob I don't have do I have a bud no we didn't have one is
this it's not in our packet we didn't get it I prepared it for you I have a single copy of it well it doesn't look like it's too entailed so go ahead yeah meing
item 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 I would have saved the
committee more money i' paid it to get it done and out of the way the I have it up there bring it you did this is the original one we got the original one I guess this one I sent
to the followup was I'm sorry that's all right okay Friday so did you get reimbursed 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 for 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 it's 400 for both of us it was $200 for for one person okay then the hotel expense is we put down
$968 a 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 so here they don't
run out of rooms for myself the yes that's the same amount as last year yep it came up to being $536 2032 with the taxes and fees and the
rate for two rooms for one room for but it's 968 for two rooms that what we budgeted for because that was the rate for last year right so it's like ,60 1,60 now okay correct uh Community Day for $200 for
brochures and handouts and Other M Mist 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 want to talk a little bit about the conference we tended that 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 our evacuation and re-entry planning another course that'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 very good what is this the the OEM conference is dated for April 7th through the 11th so you really receive a lot of good
info from that the C that are required in 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 get 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 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 whether they gave us a full year 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 that we do pay for but dozens of hours that we do a year that do not charge us just get from the state or the county or
thema meeting April 7 to go down I know it's always the first Monday so all right so what's the total yes yeah 23 okay cool thank you okay
good gave you someing yeah did no I just um I would 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 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 maybe your evacuation plan Evac thinking especially with that course I just took they gave a lot of information of uh tog 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 You2 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 well because I know you work crazy yeah I work overnights yeah um we'll be awake during the day yeah I don't sleep we could probably do something
similar with new'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 do it here yeah yeah the meeting room here good do 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 3 right we may have to pick different dates for our four meetings because also
those uh three month Mondays that fall on the fifth Monday I'm currently working all three of them oh okay so I'll get with mat we'll discuss dates and once we figure it out we'll
send it out to the council yeah it's always been the fifth money just I think just numbers wise that worked out to room four per year we four or five per year only required two have two the state obviously that we work on a
schedule okay yeah I think mon the fifth Monday was because the rooms available too yeah yeah J look at the calendar as well but we've been doing it up with the firehouse 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 right okay and on what I'll do is I'll email the heads of the different areas that you can go visit and 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 [Music] Peter John [Music]
John how you doing so far so good good you've all met John mardone our new chairman how you doing and what people were you they have that they have that this they have we
have the whole thing yeah all right oh that to okay that's I've seen that but you can verbally decide what's 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 uh top right and very simple it's just listed
as our 25 budget uh 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 was will give you some
some idea uh we our our budgets 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 uh finishing up with the grants that we were working on and I did give you um uh a few things here for one thing the of course last year was a it's either feast or famine with us you know
it alternates 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
$2,288 for that event which represented um 40 4705 $475 in advertising income uh less the expenses uh for the day
um and we were also operating under a grant for uh 2024 which which is on the back and we had asked for $562 uh to do a variety of projects
and you only have the one page the back page I I do have some some copies here if you want to take them I I didn't make enough for everybody if you need more they could be made and distributed something that would be fine but just
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 interpretive 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 project 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 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 have 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 damaged need need some work we wrote the grant we were approved for for the grant to to
get that um accomplished um when are you going to get that back who know well that's go ahead John 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 by10 or something mhm
$4,000 uh restore it that it'll be restored and that's a good thing it'll be restored it'll be in a case and it'll be really nice right it will be nice and also duplicated so hang it here somewhere it would be nice to have it in town hall we certainly can do
that yeah would' 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 uh 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 202 before 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 or my personal computer so 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 fix those and the printer is all hooked up and ready to go the computer's ready to go uh we're the process of putting stuff on it can yeah converting it from Peters to yeah we're going to take stuff off of Peter's computer and
put it on this photographs and articles and we were able to uh get an oversized um scanner 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 can
do on a standard standard um a standard scanner and uh so that's in that's been tested and uh that works out uh we also picked up a um a a 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 get 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 that 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 Ed 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 reord records who gave it to you when you got it why it's important whether it's a photograph or a book It Ass signs it a number and 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 up inventory system and much more complicated than inventory but yes yes and we we spent uh an extra uh 100 100 something dollars in 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' 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 and 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 around but then
we ran into some problems about where we're going to 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 carollyn 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 markouts 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 at Street end Buttonwood there is an easement that has been applied for of 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 of Vine Street Park the same way because they're going to doing some Hardscape work around where we've decided that we're going to put the sign and we'll put that in temporarily 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 the CR right they haven't show they haven't submitted the they haven't submitted plants or anything they have submitted plans they haven't
submitted the easement specific pap they're going to be doing a Jack and from the Riverside side under the underne there they may not actually be digging there because they're going to be landing Jack and pit in budwood Street two three houses up okay but I still wouldn't put anything in there I
would put 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 it's like temporary otherwise what if takes him two years to figure it all out years makesense
in we just cas's got to move it for six in or we dig a hole we put a brick at the bottom set it Bri packet in and nobody would know the difference so if they didn't actually we we put in concrete thinking about 5 10 15 years from now for the purpose location that
was a smart thing to do right I don't know New Jersey americ could 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 Old Ship used to be at that
corner and then you know Waterfront Park work right Scot about things 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 right uh at good Impressions but I did find a good
supplier in um the college print shop in Mount Laurel 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 too we used to use the college too the Women's Club for different things we've used 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 printed materials which have been very popular um they just cost more we have
to budget for it yeah one thing to consider you invested all that money in the laptop the printer Etc and you have your huge photo archive stored on there consider also spending a 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 now 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 if it's 2005 get it's 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 that are I 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 past 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 acrobat that we're going to have to pay pay a subscription every year for that and so there's some things that buy the Microsoft 360 part
of 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 seport 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 did is to invest in the trailer so we could haul it around and um firm found a
pretty good deal for us on that um so we have a trailer now that we can we can haul it around and our plan is to accept that from Tuckerton seport around April and then uh take it to the
um what's it called the seport uh museum in Philadelphia to have them evaluate that to make sure that we can stabilize not make it seaworthy but so it doesn't fall apart um and um it does need a little bit of work done and and we have
budgeted for that uh 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 it's good job appreciate it apprciate it
yeah very good thank you thank you does anybody want a want a better copy that has the second page I I took your took John's second page I I can always make more thank you very good thanks guys thank and thanks to Fern for all
all of his work this year he's been just wonderful with what doing the Grant from the county for this year there's I think $1,200 to put together a booklet for the uh waterfront
properties along the Delaware River and uh yeah that's right 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 that publication as a as a um sister publication to the one we did for the
Oldtown the Oldtown yeah well I think you can put it next to the to the little Library yeah cu the park plans are 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 last year okay thank you thanks everybody Mr Lord are you here for Jo L for to come on up
hang thought you were just here you had nothing better to do oh you me yeah that's generally done operat yeah I know that usually us done I was surprised to see it on this list well they were here last year were here yet last year spe more so because of the
traffic study yeah the traffic study that's why operating stuff so I didn't so you're just just to tell us it's normal businesses normal business correct you know it's the same thing it's the same thing yeah 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 edits right yes yes and 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 so once we get that yeah you haven heard I'll email Joe and see what they done so yeah yeah
okay yeah but for the most part yeah land's back to normal I was like okay good Perfect all right thank you have a great night thank you Recreation ready yeah how you doing
great hello I'm Hi how are you good good good to see you Steve hello hello what you got for us so we're going over our budget for 2025 uh like Richard said is a lot of money
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 ask for $77,000 which will cover a couple more
new soccer nets so this way Field of 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 were asking for some more money for only for inflation
and things that have went up as far as our summer concerts you can see we originally budgeted for 10,000 we're asking for 15,000 this year for seven to nine 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 $14,000 for that now that is because this year we will be handling that ourselves that will not be going through the fire department so we'll be acre the cost of tables chairs hot dogs rolls 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 yes Danelle 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 that's 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 $22,000 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 light 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 would 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 do 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 SP for each and that's the gold post and the Nets yes complete so those were the originals
from 20 years ago yeah they've been welled 100 times yeah so once you do that appr it's the additional post and Nets then they'll be all new everything will be new for the soccer program yes ones that are yeah we'll talk to Public Works and have them cut up and scra he called me today he said there's a bunch
of Nets out there now a bunch of gold boost that burn out there before John I'll go out there tomorrow and look and 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 steeve 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 Gins 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 ,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 CU 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 makeing 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 know so
expect at least another 600 or maybe seven maybe, 1500 altoe electric from the air conditioning I was say it's the air conditioning and they have they don't have Central they have these units that just suck it up
you know it 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 they seem to really
like it and uh yeah that's good I 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 at the beginning of next month to recognize and celebrate the the 100th anniversary of Delano in in 1926 it was renamed uh to Delano 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 Parks 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 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 success successful and uh you know we have to start booking vendors and then 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 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 a 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 Centennial that was their Centennial so they had a bunch of events this was one Centennial like that was the last event event and yeah I didn't go cuz I I I didn't go I didn't know when one c one
of 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 field 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 um so we would do that at the Field of
Dreams part of it and we're going to do a dedication that's Centennial Park yes we also want 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 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 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 dedication stuff that we can all talk
about in the subcommittee meeting right you might even want to do it a month before so you can put it in the Beverly V 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 because they had extensive amount of rides there and flatables and they had you know those game trailers that you have they had them for free they were actually free and they that was really there was there was some talk about um like I said it's
you know maybe a fireworks display we want to get pricing it's going to be in conjunction with America's 250 I was about to say going to be my next thing that's a nice thing yeah 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 it also help the budget as well talk tomorrow about how to handle it we're talking about setting up what's called dedicated
by ryer yeah dedicated by rer that's so people make donations or anything it all goes through that but that's Municipal money m not re 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 to do that one of the issues is always U deposits because legally you're not supposed to use public monies till the work is done right or there's a project there talk to Rob 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 they so wck wouldn't do a separate account if we're going to it would come from us to me yeah it would be it would be our account that would pay for we
talk we talk to Rob and 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 don't it may be that the AL for that kind of stuff might be that instead of the private money going just hit me into the
dedicated by Rider you know there might be some private money that actually goes to W if they're going to spend it'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're talking about you know it's got
to be spent under the same rules as every other dollar we spent well with regards to the donations for the amount were we talking about donations for the event itself or for the clock and for the the park to help pay for the help for the
help pay for the clock and to help pay for the Time Capsule that your attentions for the event collecting donations or the clock that's well I mean the clock time clock so I mean that should be an art
budget that should be on be done in the fall so we don't you know we have to do that now right so we're just going to have to figure out some sort of I guess we if we would do like maybe a program book because if they're going to get funds they're going to want to 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 there's always something left in there like this year there was like 2100 left I think yeah well 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's 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 Rob tomorrow because that's part of the
budget thing $ 35,000 is a budget item right yeah so I got to say okay this is an item in there how we going to handle it and get there I'm sure it's easy it's we're not Reinventing the wheel there proba probi 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 has generally been uh you know Hadfield foundation for example right is what Happ a Recreation Commission well because independent oh yeah see you're
not independent they're not independ they us us they us start a nonprofit the L of Centennial LLC possible way to do it you can have the same people be appointed to be the people running it nothing 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 worried about no it's but here we're talking about a lot lot of money relatively yeah and so maybe what Matt's suggesting might be the way to yeah to handle we can figure it out tomorrow yeah and just ask U Park how they did theirs did they do a special they they
don't have a recreation to park a commission yeah commission yeah but how they handle the money was it a was it an LLC I don't know how they did you can reach out to them yeah find it or maybe they handle it not they were supposed to
and nobody do these things happen once in a while and what are you going to get written up but I mean 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 therefore we should arrest you and others will say don't do
it again next 100 years when you do it 100 years from now just do it right next time5 right because CRA How that spir out of control it's so easy to I'm sorry Matt I didn't 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 car Lloyd celebration spiral dat of control with the monies and this we have to doubt our eyes and cross our yeah we definitely I know we will yes so here what know 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 water park theirs that would be interesting if they brought money in from the outside yeah because they sold different things right yeah there could be two pools one is the pool that comes through because 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 Ro other things don't 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 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 can issue a purchase order pay for it you know no problem so you're like how we give Del R the six five grand a year be the similar way you
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 Contin 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 there because Edgewater eastampton I mean a bunch of them have had it thereal got it's got to
be way yeah I know a nonprofit that there's a treasur sitting at this table R back so are you talking just so I understand are this the 35,000 that requesting are you looking at running it through I do the wom is Club non problem
CU that that money we were what we were kind of expecting from the rec commission 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 legal to be spent it can't be
spent for a deposit for a performer that's going to perform a year and a half now you can't use public money you have to have a bill which is why we should form a nonprofit yeah we'll fund a nonprofit the nonprofit can handle that way right so there's a lot of things that can be but that's one of the things that is one of the more difficult
ones we'll talk we'll talk to that yeah but ultimately that's that may be only 10% of the total cost so it's where you figure that out but yes so find outk S we'll talk to our aitor see what they
say you know this is why it's a process the actual number as get a budget for that we'll figure out I plugged it so you have it in there there is a line the municipal budgets have lines there's a you know a line that state go for
celebrations and so there is a separate line for that but again you have to spend it no different than you'd spend it for police equipment or public works or any else okay take it out of the budget I'm faded so we need here okay
anything else no any other questions for us no very good budget very job y nice job thank you go figure out that situation yeah find [Music] out the Easter eggs went up their eggs
do you have do you have dice is it's like do we have to go through it Noe I'm GNA be for $5,000 5,000 da is up next yeah hello I'm Da treasure is are they paying now is Riverside paying their share yeah yeah
Riverside that's the plan they paid did they get did you get the money for half of the insurance yes we did thank you I well they don't pay us they paid the insurance there was just cost on the bill yeah we didn't get a check from them oh okay but we paid the whole bill
uh I don't supp it comes off of what okay right it comes off of what gets given to Del no it doesn't we give them $5,000 we don't and then we pay the insurance we pay the full amount Riverside right yeah
we paid the bill but as Riverside supposed to reimburse us yeah yes half of the insurance yeah the best thing to do for that for the fut would be that the vendor builds us each yeah half half otherwise technically we need a
you don't want to do that um all 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 and Beverly for the compost site so we don't have an agree so if
they are supposed to give us half of that they can write us a check that it's fine who did they write the check to last year uh let see where they actually did I wasn't aware they were they were paying that yeah I think that it was so that you only had to ask for Less instead of
sixth or seventh whatever it was we were only paying that's we we're paying small around the insurance bill is always come just no one told us to do it any different so if they agreed to pay half it they should reimburse us for okay and
don't worry about last year but you know forward right I didn't she didn't even ask for anything yet there budget timing is totally different than ours so I haven't even submitted anything yet okay all right so Sabra was supposed to be here but she um got 76ers tickets in the
last minute so she sent than 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 paid 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 Danielle 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 trials which was a
good opportunity for our athletes to have their skills evaluated we're currently in 4 25 basketball with the highest amount of registrations in four years of 232 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
five with for third to fifth grade but we transmission them to three versus three and we're also pleased with the progress um see she has kind of like a breakdown here been going through games CU Gavin
plays it's incredible there it's like clock I mean she is so organized impressive they have a great board I'm telling you that I've never seen it this efficient so spring Sports from 23 to 24
went from 212 to 248 an increase of 91 um fall soccer from 23 to 24 went from 166 to 184 they were losing numbers yeah they
were nobody wants to play um and then winter basketball 217 to 232 we did have uh two indoor soccer teams this year for the first time 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 Riv 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 get 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 Riverside gave us 5,000 why doesn't
D pay the insurance directly and we just increase what we pay the town wanted because we wanted to make sure because they wer because they weren't paying it years ago we had a problem they had the wrong Insurance still around to know why
wrong Insurance just to make sure all right and then so they they invoiced Del R directly I Comm back then the treasures weren't 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 medic Co insurance instead of liability insurance it was a mess it was a mess so the township um you know they use Barkay Barclay's agent communicates directly with me as Treasurer I give her the
enrollment num she bills me I forward you the will 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 them on file I see so we do it just because we don't trust them well security for the yeah you never know it going to be next year was it's better to handle it that way at least we know we have the right Insurance yeah so um last year for
our fun 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 was 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 $2500 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 good I know I did it by myself this year good job thanks for giving me a break it wasn't hard actually
okay that concludes our Municipal budget preparation preparation s yeah and um we don't need a resolution for executive so can I get a motion to adjourn Matt and Phil all in favor hi hi
thank you all [Music] it's uh 9:00