like to call the meeting to order. I'd like to please ask everyone to stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Will you please read the sunshine statement? >> Be advised that proper notice has been given by the township council in accordance with the sunshine law in the following manner. Notice advertised in the Burlington County Times in Camden
Carrier Coast on January 7th, 2026 and posted on the bulletin board on the same date. >> Please call the roll. >> Mr. Marorrow >> here. Mrs. Aadu >> here. >> Mr. Lion >> here. >> Mr. Smith >> here. >> Mr. Jen >> here. >> Thank you.
>> At this time, uh, we have one of our >> better beginning for our meetings. We have the opportunity to swear in two new police officers. So, I'd like them uh to come forward along with the chief and captain and whoever else might be here to
support them. He's sitting up front door. Wait for everybody to get in. >> Yeah, I lower. Yeah, that way. Just push
that back. All right, I think everybody's inside. Welcome everybody. Thank you for coming. Um, we do have a couple of officers that are going to be taking their office tonight. If I could see, I'm going to have to speak with my outside voice unfortunately because this just died.
Um, could I have officer Leang Leang Tang? I want to make sure I pronounce that correct. >> Um, Does this come off? That was my next question. >> Trying to do this in the microphone so
everybody can hear us. All right. You hold that for him. All right. Put your left hand on the Bible and raise your right hand and just repeat after me. I Leang Tang. I, Leang Tang, >> do solemnly swear or affirm
>> do solemnly swear and affirm >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance
>> to the same >> to the same >> and to the government established in the United States >> and to the government established in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people under the authority of the people. >> And that I will faithfully >> And I will faithfully
>> impartially >> impartially >> and justly perform all duties >> and justly perform all duties >> of patrolman >> of patrolman >> for the Delran Township Police Department >> for the Delran Township Police Department. >> according to the best of my ability. >> According to the best of my ability.
>> So help me God. >> So help me God. >> Congratulations. Welcome. Um, at this time before we go to the next one, um, if some of the family would like to take some photos, uh, we can take a couple of moments for that. >> Thank you.
>> And I'm going to have you sign. >> Thank you. Good luck to you. >> Come on up, guys. Don't be shy. Take a picture. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank good.
Next, can I have Officer Raymond Mullen? Mueller, I apologize. Mueller. Raymond Mueller. >> Do you have somebody to hold the Bible for you? >> All right. >> All right. So, >> don't worry. I did that. Mine too. Same
thing. Now you just repeat after me. Hopefully you memorized it when I did it before. No. All right. Now, just repeat after me. I, Raymond Mueller, >> I, Raymond Mueller, >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> or affirm >> or affirm >> that I will support the Constitution of
the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> that I will bear true faith and and allegiance >> to the same >> to the same
>> and to the governments established >> and to the governments established >> in the United States >> in the United States >> and in this state >> and and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> and that I will faithfully >> and that I will fa faithfully
>> impartially >> impartially >> and justly perform all duties >> and justly and justly perform all duties >> of patrolman >> of patrolman >> for the Delran Township Police Department >> for the Delan Township Police Department >> according to the best of my ability
>> according to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. >> So help me God. Congratulations. Let's welcome him, guys. Congratulations. You can kiss her. It's okay. >> Be fiancé. >> Oh, congratulations twice. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. All right. And if you
want to take a couple of minutes to take uh if anybody wants to take photos, >> we'll do them right over here. >> Army. >> Oh, boy. >> Welcome aboard. Good luck. >> Thank you. We'll just do more later. >> Grab one with the mayor, too.
>> I'll hop in here. I'm sorry. You get Congratulations again. I need you to sign this right here. >> Yep. Good job. >> You just sp No worry.
Before everybody leaves, can we give them another round of applause and congratulate them and say thank you? It's like Elvis left the building. >> Yeah. We're going to move right along with our meeting. This time, uh, we begin our work
session. We'll start with our 2026 floating holidays. which are July 6th and December 31. So, we've removed two other holidays. >> Well, each year the CWA gets um which
includes um sewer. Well, it doesn't include sewer, not for this uh public works and clerical employees, they get to submit two holidays for your approval that are considered floaters. Um so this year, that's their request. >> Okay, good. Okay, any questions or
comments on that council? Do we get to use them? >> No. All right. >> Okay. At that >> I think ahead. I'm sorry. >> All right. So um just want to make sure that um on the folding holidays that the
um all departments are in line with that and it's in line with the contract and everything and that's you know when it comes to um operations is not going to be you know adversely impacted. >> So the the two floating holidays each
employee in the CWA contract gets two floating holidays. Um the sewer gets to use theirs at their leisure. So more like a personal day or vacation day. Um but the clerical and the public works employees have to submit those floaters.
So we are completely closed for public works and clerical. So the building will be closed and public works will be closed on the same two days. So and there they usually always take one around the 4th of July and one around um Christmas time. Um but later
on we'll be approving theou for the CWA employees and they um switched their holiday from Easter Monday to Christmas Eve. Um so that's that's why they're picking New Year's Eve as their floater for this year just because of the way
the schedule falls. >> Any other questions or comments? >> All right. Um I'd like to move on. I have uh on their our uh work session. I'd like to start um uh having council submit any uh any thoughts they want to
discuss. If there's any ideas you have, any projects you want to start, any projects you want to uh recommend to the council and the mayor. Um I'd like to start bringing those to our work sessions. Uh we can discuss those. a council council person could lay them
out and explain what what the proposal is or what the thoughts are and then we can have a little discussion and move forward with things like that. This way we're more open with uh our operations and uh we actually do what the work sessions should be which is uh discuss
our strategies and objectives. Um one of the items I have uh on the uh agenda is uh township committees. We have our green team, historical society, RAAC, and we also have the chicken advisory board. And what I'd like to see with
council's approval and the mayor's approval is to have each one of those groups come into our council meeting at least once a quarter. So that would be uh every uh you know every month we would have one of those committees come in give us an update as to what the
committee is doing what they've accomplished an idea of what the strategies they have for going forward we have had some tremendous uh results our green team uh like you know congratulate Deb Hammond I mean it's an easy thing to do because the green team has been so successful in Bill Rain if
you look around our courtroom today you'll see there are five uh images these images that the historical society has put up for us along with the lobby, the the uh display they put up on the lobby. They have an unbelievable amount of information and we're trying to get
them to even post more information up on the walls. Uh and uh having a further discussion about this past uh there are dates and I don't have all the dates with me, but we can put those on the website. But they're going to have sessions. They had a session the last meeting before and after. They showed,
for example, the first picture, the old firehouse. They showed what it what it looked like then and then they showed a picture exact same location today to show that firehouse today. We have people in our historical society have an unbelievable amount of Delran historical
knowledge. And uh the the session was awesome. They had all types. I think they probably had 15 or 20 different uh shots of Delran in the 20s and 30s and 40s. Uh Mal Anderson uh is a a unbelievable history book, walking
history book. He was talking about the neighbors, the Smiths and these other neighbors on Bridgeboro down there where Joe Frento lives, talking about he remembers when he was a kid when they were building a firehouse and they literally made the bricks for the firehouse and then built the firehouse. It was real interesting. I would urge
every resident to take an opportunity to come out and visit one of these sessions that they're going to have in the future. So with that, council, I'd like to recommend that um each one of the our committees uh be asked to come and present each meeting, each public
meeting, and share with us what they've accomplished. I'd like to also see a video presentation accompany that, pictures of what they've accomplished as like the green team has done in the past. Any comments on that? >> Yes, very quick question, clarifying
question. So would a specific uh committee be assigned for a particular quarter? Let's say for Q1 we pick one or is it in Q1 all the committees present? >> Q1 each month we'll have one committee. Okay. >> So over three months each committee will
have so every month during our year we'll have at least four updates by each committee. Okay. >> And and they could even do them more frequently if they wanted to. >> Yeah. I just want to clarify. >> I was going to ask the same thing. So, I mean, Deb's here every meeting and it
just wouldn't be the same without you. So, um I'm I'm sure that they would still be allowed to report, but I like the idea of the quarterly. Um we just need to put a schedule together for them. Um I think we also need to include the senior club with that. >> Good point. Good idea.
>> Um we have uh green team historical society senior club RAC and I'm forgetting somebody. Oh, the chicken advisory board. >> Yes. Um, maybe we can put together a quarterly schedule that they can adhere to and record. I like the idea of the
the video thing. I did have a question. If they're going to do video up here, do we have sound for this or is this just pictures? >> It's just pictures. >> So, we have no sound. >> I mean, the sound comes out of the television, but it's not connected. >> Okay. >> I know we have some creative people out
there that like to, you know, make some stuff on the internet. So, >> All right. >> All right. Um, >> I'm sorry. We done I have my comments. Okay. So, um I just want to find out is it possible for us to set up a format for them to present their reports that
is standardized so everybody's doing the same report. >> Um >> I'm just I think I'd rather see you be creative and do whatever they felt they're comfortable with. >> Okay. >> And I don't and a good point. I don't think it limits any committee from reporting every month. I mean, you know,
like example, not to embarrass dad, but she always has something to share with us every month. Um, so it doesn't stop anyone from reporting, but I'd like to see a a more formal type of report by the committees each month that, you know, >> I agree. I think it's fantastic.
>> All right. Any other comments or you we're okay with this? >> Yeah. Um Lyn, the only thing I would say um if we could expand on um some not committees, but I know I've requested whether it's the code enforcement to come in or the police department just to
give us updates on how things are working with some of the ordinances we've passed recently the past year just to see how things are going, see the police um what you know what's going on out there, letting us know so we can react to whatever needs they might need going forward. So maybe you know we can add that to to this list of committees
to um to come in and give us and then and of course the people who come into the meetings um updates but I think it's a great idea. >> Good suggestion. Good suggestion. >> I like >> All right. So we can work on that and try to work and I I suggested to the mayor and I think he uh also was in
favor of we sit down and do a calendar for the year. >> Yes. Yes. We'll sit down and we'll map out a whole calendar every month for the year that we know we have projects and then we can always add or change it, but at least we can put that on the website. Yep. >> So people can access it and know what's coming up. And
>> I think one of the other things we talked about and I like this quarterly review because it's going to help to kind of add structure to what they're doing. We have in some cases where different committees are doing things and they're so close to each other. So having them kind of when we did our
community engagement day, it was great that everybody got to talk um amongst each other and help to schedule so that we're not kind of tripping over each other's feet or competing for the town's attention because that's, you know, that's not the goal. The goal is to, you know, bring as much to the community as we can.
>> Agreed. >> Agreed. Okay. Any more discussion? Any other items you want to discuss necessarily? All right. We'll move right along. We have the consent agenda. Um, >> can I just can I just make one comment
on the consent agenda? I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I did just notice on the consent agenda that the um the motion to pay bills is not on there. So, can we add that as item number P um just authorizing the payment of bills. The bill list were in the back tonight,
but it got skipped somehow. >> So, it be 2026-43. >> It's not It's not a resolution. It's just an authorization. >> Authorization >> a little bit so that we can share a little bit of information that it's still a little obscure and it may not be clear to everyone.
>> Thank you. Uh so at this point um the only ones I thought need uh the adopting a 2026 temporary budget. Uh Miss Eris, can you give a little information what that is? Yeah, that's um it's the temporary budget carries us through uh the first three months of the calendar
year until we adopt our municipal budget hopefully in May. Um if you look at the resolution, it's based off of last year's appropriations. So it's 35% um that carries us for the first three months for sewer, for general and for um capital.
>> All right. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Uh item uh H also appointing Joseph Cunningham Jr. as emergency management coordinator and Michael Lynch as deputy emergency management coordinator. Uh these are uh Joe's a fireman and uh uh
Detective Lynch is a a police officer and they will be uh assigned special projects uh they be responsible for the EMC that you know the emergency management coordinator a lot of people have seen Joe out there many times when we've had emergencies as well as
Detective Lynch is always involved he was here this afternoon or this evening in fact um authorizing Item L, authorizing CME associates to perform additional engineering services at Creek Road. Is that for the county project?
>> It is. Okay. >> Yeah, that's additional services the county requested for for striping which has to be redone. >> And and we will have that we will be reimbursed for that. Am I right? >> Correct. >> Just want to make sure we're clear on that. Uh item N uh associate N I
actually N O uh authorizing CME associate to perform engineering services for Summer Hill baseball field and the other one should read um um hockey for >> the hockey rink. Yeah, that's we're getting started on that project. >> So we have two projects. The hockey rink at Summer uh Summer Hill and the
baseball field will be uh worked on and redone. >> Other than that, anybody have any other comments on resolutions? >> Yeah. Um, Lynn, I'd just like to comment on, excuse me, on the um execution of the um the agreement between um between
the township and the um union contracts. >> Okay. >> I think that Where's that at? Oh, um that's L. No, excuse me. >> That's B. >> D. Yeah, >> um >> where is that? >> It's letter B. >> K.
>> K. But no, I just want to say that >> CWA. >> Yeah, I just want to say that was um I'm glad we were able to to get that deal done with them. Um it was um went pretty smoothly, I must say. So, uh I'm glad we were able to get that contract done for the union workers.
>> We want to thank Miss Edgars and the mayor and and Elro, our attorney, for negotiating a good contract. It's been going on for some time, and I believe everyone should be happy with it. It was a contract I think was very favorable for everyone. >> Any other comments?
>> Yep. >> Go ahead. >> And just to um add to what um you're saying about the contract, um I just want, you know, happy that actually is in line with the overall CWA contract that's in place. So that way there's not too many problems or anything.
>> Good. All right. Thank you. Any other comments? >> All right. Seeing none, I have a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I make a motion. >> Second. Smith. Madu roll please. >> Mr. Marorrow >> I. >> Mrs. Apadu
>> I. >> Mr. Smith >> I. >> Mr. Jenny >> I. >> Mr. Lion. >> Hi. >> Thank you. At this point uh we have no other business to take care of. Uh do we have any other business anybody can think of? All right. We'll have open for public comment. Do I have a motion?
>> I make a motion. >> Mr. Smith. >> Second. So move. >> Thank you, Mr. Marorrow. >> All right, we are in public comment. >> Oh, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed?
Okay, >> let me borrow that back. The rules of the quorum. If wish to speak, raise your hand and you'll be recognized. At that time, you may approach the podium and state your name and address for the record. All remarks shall be through of the council president. An individual speaker shall
be allotted 5 minutes. All statements part of the public record with written and video recorded and cannot be redacted. All right. Do we have any comments? Yes, sir. >> Hey board. Name is Joe Po, president of Delan Fire Department of the Commissioners. I just want to
congratulate Lynn for being I wasn't here at the time for being president and Tom here last day is the end of the month and just want to thank you for everything that you have done on the board. You helped us a lot. All all of you guys have helped us a lot. So, um
our reorganization meeting is tonight. So, the end of February, you guys will be a happy camper. So, everything's working out good. But, I just want to thank you all for for helping us and supporting the fire department like you guys have been. So, we have a good group between the EMS and
fire department and and the council here. So, >> thank you, John. Thank you very much. Although, um it was I was supposed to be the end of this month and they asked me to stay one more month and I'm starting to feel like this is the mob.
So, I do appreciate it, but I've got one more month. >> One more month. That's good. Me, too. Maybe. >> So, I just want to thank everybody. Thank you very much. and uh our other commissioner, Jimmy Bower, would like to come up and and give a report of what's going on in town. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you, Joe. >> Jim Bar, 816 Edgewood Avenue. I'll wait till next month. Uh you had mentioned that you you appointed Joe Jr. as OEM and it's a wise choice. Uh Mr. Cunningham organized the Chester
Avenue station and with the bad weather had crews all day Saturday, all day Sunday and all day Monday. Uh, and they were quite we were quite busy after the snow stopped. I guess everybody waited. They didn't want to call us till the snow stopped. And then after the snow
stopped, they started calling and uh they were on one call and we had a working fire in the Bridgeboro section while we were out on another call. So, uh, the crews in house didn't make a difference, especially with the snow, uh, our normal mutual aid, which because
he put it out as all hands in service, it was amazing how long it took the additional towns and units to come in that normally they're a lot quicker and you're looking around and going, it's just the two engines, you know. So, but he does an excellent job and it's a well good choice. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Jim. Yeah, our our fire and EMS and uh public works have done an awesome job this past week. Sir, >> speech William J. 518 Brown Street, Delray, New Jersey. Mr. President, my
questions will be directed to the mayor and the business administrator. Mr. Mayor, under resolution 2026-36, what type of aerial mosquito control will be used? >> Jam, I think you're better. I don't know
what the chemical, >> right? I don't I don't have the chemical compound with me. Um, but I believe this is something we do every year. >> Is this going to be an aerial application or is this going to be done by vehicle? No, I believe this is an
aerial application and it's um >> it's mostly in the areas of like the county parks forestry. >> Will this be done by a drone? >> I that I don't have that answer. >> I don't believe it's done. >> I don't think
>> I can get you, Bill. I can get you that answer on that. This question came up last year and um it was pretty much the same thing. I think it's helicopter and we're just doing the parks and the county areas. So, at this juncture, it may it may or may not be
>> We'll get you confirmation on exactly what they're going to be doing. >> All right. >> And I can email that over to you. I still have your email in Mike. >> Thank you, sir. Question number two. Under resolution 2026-32, temporary budget. Under the paragraph
under the resolution, did you mean for the budget year 2026 or was that a typo and you put in 2025? >> What paragraph are you looking at? the last paragraph of that particular resolution
under >> where it states under it be resolved. >> Yeah. 202633 until such time as the regular budget for the 2025 is 26. Yeah, I believe it's 2020. >> Yeah, it should be for It should be You're right. It should be for 2020. >> It was a typo.
>> Yes. >> All right. Very well. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Question number three. Under resolution 2026-34. Mr. Mayor, direct your attention to the resolution, the last paragraph, could you define the meaning of perspective
need obligation? >> Hold on. Let me just read this real quick. Sure. >> I'm just taking a look at it real quick. Whereas the Fair Share Housing Act submitted to the challenge of the plan is stated. >> And if you'd prefer, I can >> I I actually think you're better off answering this question. >> Yeah. So, it's a legal matter. So, the
perspective need is each round. Uh the third round now, we're in the fourth round. The fourth round looks to what your future need for affordable housing would be as to as opposed to your present need. Your present need looks at what's needed now. The fourth round is a 10-year process. So, it looks at >> So, that's in the future, council.
That's in the future. Yeah. What's present and what's perspective and the perspective is the future need. >> All right. While we have you on the uh on the microphone then do clarification of affordable housing declaratory judgment action. Could you define that for me?
>> Sure. So um under this new fourth round there was a new legislation that went into effect. So the fourth round was very different than prior rounds. Uh in this situation, each town's obligation was set by DCA, Department of Community Affairs. Right? Towns could then accept
that number or challenge that number. Towns that accepted that number adopted a resolution to accept it. Once they did that, uh they had to file with the court something that's called a declaratory judgment action. A declaratory judgment isn't so and so versus so and so. It's
just going to a judge to make a declaration. and the declaration that we're seeking is that the affordable housing plan we submitted is constitutional and accepted. Um so Delan did file the declaratory judgment. An entity named fair share housing filed a
challenge like they did to every municipality in the state. Um fair share challenged the actual plan for some towns. In some instances they just wanted some additional documentation which is what occurred here. uh they were provided those documents and fair share was satisfied that Delran's plan
is sufficient. Uh so what happened is the court issued a consent order to be signed by the township and fair share and that's what this resolution authorizes. >> All right. And this would be part of Senate Bill 50. >> Um this is part I don't know if it's
labeled Senate Bill 50. This is uh this is the new affordable housing legislation which is probably Senate Bill >> Senate bill because of the sunset of the affordable housing. Was that affordable housing? They did that under Mount Laurel 2. >> Yes, there was Mount Laurel 2 was the
court case. COA was the entity that was formed and then disbanded. Um there was special masters that did all the evaluation. This now is a whole new rubric with different panels for challenges. We won't have a challenge so we won't have to deal with that. And
will this also address builder's remedy? >> Uh because of this, Delan's immune from builder's remedies now once this gets signed uh for 10 years. So it's 2025. >> Presumably there will be a fifth round in 2035 unless something changes. But
you're clear for 10 years. >> Very well, sir. Sure. >> That concludes my questions. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Anyone else? Yes, ma'am. Uh, Patricia Griffith, Brown Street, Delran. I just have a question. Um, because there's a lot of talk about
ordinances, about, you know, safe bikes and stuff like that. Why don't we still um why don't we follow the rules that we already have? Like when I first moved here 16 years ago, you couldn't go down Chester Avenue 26 miles an hour. You
you're going to get stopped. Everybody knew that. So now they're flying down 30, 40 m an hour. I'm trying trying to drive 25 and I've got people tailgating me because they want to go faster and it's like well you know it's 25. So just a suggestion maybe we can have a
crackdown on the busy roads like um Haynes Mill, Chester, Fair View and that would help with some of the safety concerns that you guys have discussed in the future in the past. So just a suggestion. >> Absolutely good suggestion. >> Very good. Thanks. >> Thank you.
>> Any other comments? >> Seeing none, do I have a motion to close public comment? >> So move, >> Mr. Marorrow. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Smith. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed. We are out of public comment.
Now we have reports. First, we'll go with emergency services. I see no emergency service personnel. Uh boards and committees. Deb Hammond for the green team. Um we're kicking off two new projects nowish.
Um the first one is the saltwater New Jersey saltwater watch and we have volunteers that are going to be testing the salt content in a couple of the water bodies around here which will be really interesting to see how the road salt is making its way into our
waterways. The other is an anti-littering campaign and we have partnered with the schools and the kids have made us some messages, I guess we could say, their own little messages on why you shouldn't
be littering and we'll be posting them around in our parks and playgrounds um if it ever deices here. So that's it for now. >> Can we possibly get them to do a presentation here of that? What? On what >> the kids? They're doing the the messages
that they're writing. >> I don't know. I'll have to talk about that. >> Yeah, it's like a general they just answer school. >> Yeah, just ask them to get the kids to make us some pictures and >> general like art class or whatever. So, there's no specific group, >> but we might be able it would be nice
to, you know, have them in here, maybe display what they're doing. >> I'll work on that. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you. And the the the displays that Deb's talking about are pictures and messages regarding keeping Delan clean and green.
Uh to put up in our parks, to put up on the trees along our trails, to let people know, hey, clean up, do this, you know, do things that are going to be helpful to our environment. Thank you, Deb. Anybody else? Miss Hutchkins. >> Mrs.
>> Mrs. Hutchkins. >> All right. So, I'm with the RAC. Um, I'm actually really excited to tell you guys about this. Um, so our really awesome RAC has designed a
has created an opportunity for our town to rally together to design uh an original art piece for the RAAC so that we have an image to represent the town and our recreation committee. So, every time that we have an announcement or a
flyer or, you know, anything that we're doing, it's going to have this sort of RAC seal. So, um it's being put out to the schools and anybody who wants to enter can submit an art project and um
we're going to choose one per grade and then we'll vote. The RAAC will vote on the final one that will get submitted. So, that's going to be very exciting. Um, so kids from all ages, we want to see the great art that you have. >> You know what I'm going to say next?
>> Can we have a presentation here for them? >> Why not? >> Why not? Any any >> We will Yeah, we want to bring the um the winner in and, you know, do a whole little >> Anything to promote our community and share with the residents is a good thing. >> We're very excited. Um, and then we did
finally land on dates and a place for our 08075 can sing year two. We're very excited about this. Um, we're going to be at at the table 2, which is the um, soul food place next to the gyro spot.
Um, they're actually going to open on Mondays during April for us because they're normally closed. So, it'll just be for our event. They're going to offer a $35 buffet to anybody who's interested. And we are going to um try to have people do a two drink minimum.
That would just mean order two sodas. Um it is a Bob, so anybody who wants to have alcohol can bring their own. But we're very excited. Um it's going to be a really awesome event and we'll keep you posted with other ones coming up. >> Thank you. Sounds great. Appreciate it.
>> All right. Next, we have our business administrator, Miss Edgars. >> Thank you. I just have two quick things. Um, just another reminder, I mentioned this last meeting, but Friday is the last day to register your dog or cat. Um, and then second, I just wanted to thank the public works department, the sewer department, OEM, police, fire,
emergency squad that kept us all safe, the residents, um, and the employees safe during the recent snow. Um, the public works department was here from 7 a.m. on Sunday till 2:30 a.m. on Monday, and they're continuing to clean up, you know, areas of town today, and I'm sure that will continue the rest of the week.
Um but as a reminder to all residents, please if po, you know, if you can remove your cars from the roadway um during the snow emergency, this helps tremendously with the snow removal process. >> It's very obvious.
>> Thank you. At this point, uh we have our mayor, Lauren Sutton. >> Thank you, Lynn. Um I'm gonna start with um I was talking with Ed earlier. We had just started our 40-day CCTV program of our sewer. So, I'm excited about that
because that's going to it's going to be in various places all over town and it's going to give us a really good picture of our infrastructure with the sewer system to see what's going on. Um hopefully not a lot. I doubt that. But um I also want to
thank um this was a heavy storm and I know that the difficulty that they had wasn't just the snow. Snow is one thing, but we had freezing rain. So this was very difficult for our public works to deal with our first responders to work
within. And I want to congratulate them and thank them. I think they did a fantastic job considering the type of storm that this was. It wasn't fluffy. And if you tried shoveling it, you know exactly what I was talking about. You had to be out there like chopping it apart. Um,
the only other thing I had is uh uh Tom, the line is every time I try to get out, they pull me back in. That's the line. >> So, thank you everybody. >> The doesn't sound quite as exciting as the RAC, but
>> right next Maryland. Yeah, just quickly, the only thing I would point out is there was some discussion about the bikes and the bikes moving quickly. You guys were kind of at the forefront with the ebike ordinance. I'm going to be forwarding you some materials cuz on his last day in office, Governor Murphy
adopted statewide legislation that affects the ebikes. Uh some of that may be inconsistent with some of the things you guys adopted. It also sets legal ages for the bikes. It kind of redefineses, if you remember, I went over the three different classes. Uh this legislation kind of redefineses
those classes. It creates a low speed category and I think the age limit is 15 and over to ride those and then a higher speed category which I think is 17 and over. It also requires lure and registration. Um there state regulations but the enforcement is going to be done
at the local level. So obviously it will be something the police will have to get involved in. Uh to the extent people are unhappy about it which some are you know you might get the complaints as well. Um, so it is new. A lot of it goes into effect the middle of this year. Um, it was something that kind of came last
minute, but I'll get you guys apprised and make sure we all understand what's going on. And if we need to tweak our ordinance at all, we can do that as well. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> Next, we have our engineer. >> So, uh, just one one brief update. We're going to be receiving bids um tenatively
next week for the Hartford Road sidewalk improvement project um which which we'd be looking to recommend an award for the February 10th meeting um with anticipation of trying to start in the spring. >> What is that project involved in? That's going to be a connection from Ashley's
Crossing um to where the existing sidewalk uh ends in front of New Jersey homes uh you know near the Dunies Pub um ultimately um to help for safer passage um you know of of pedestrians um along that stretch. >> Great. Thank you.
>> All right. At this time we have reports from our council members. We'll begin with Mr. Marorrow. Council Marorrow. >> Thank you council president. Um yeah, first off, just like um to piggyback on what you guys have said about our public works, sewer department, police
department, fire department. Um lived in this town for over 20 something years and then um it's it's not surprising to see the work they do during the winter storms. Um Delans always seems to have one of the better, if not the best, um
cleanup during the storms. I have friends that live in neighboring towns and always comment on how great our streets are and cleaned up. I would also recommend um getting your cars off the street if you can. Not everybody has a driveway and we understand that. Um but
also when you're shoveling your your car out, please don't put the snow in the street. That doesn't help. Um put it to the side if you can. Um sometimes the police will stop people from doing that if they see them doing that. So please don't put the snow in the street. Um,
I'd like to, um, one thing I want to talk about real quickly is, u maybe on the coming work sessions, um, myself and Councilwoman Nikki Aeo, um, started doing some work on the, um, I mentioned some rental, um, help for people, um,
some guidelines to to help people um, seniors and so forth who are in rentals. Um, so um, I'll bring that in the coming um, weeks. um we'll have that on try to get that on one of our work sessions if we can and as we continue to put some
stuff together and um I know um Al had said that he's he's also done some research on that for us. So that it should be interesting and I think a really good conversation we should have and um just be safe out there folks and um pay attention to what you're doing
obviously um watch for the ebikes. They're all over even now. Um I see them flying through the Shops um shopping center over there. So please keep an eye out when you're driving. And that's all I have tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman. Now we have Councilman Tom Lion.
>> Yeah. Thank you, Council President. Uh just not to belabor it, but uh the public works did a did a nice job and uh sewer department cleaning up. That was that was a difficult storm based on the the length of it and then the uh
freezing rain and whatnot on top of it. Um that's a tall task to stay ahead of that and stay on top of it. So we do commend them on that. um the CDWA that um we we got that contract done and and that um just expired at the end of the
year. So, that's really good that we got it done in a judicious manner. Uh hopefully everybody is uh happy and as most contract negotiations, everybody's a little bit pissed off when it's done, but uh hopefully they're more
happy than pissed off on it. Um, and hopefully we can uh keep that train going with uh ratifying contracts in in a timely manner and also making sure we take care of our non-contractuals as well. Um, the other thing um I did want
to say about the uh affordable housing and all that. Um, a lot of that transpires initially at the planning board. So, if you see that um on the planning board uh agenda, if you're interested in that, that would be a good meeting to go or ask questions there. Um
and if you pay attention, you'll a lot of those questions will be answered um at the planning board if you're in attendance or a member of that board. Um last thing I did uh mention briefly, um this this was supposed to be my last
meeting, but I was asked to stay on for a little bit longer, and I'm fine with that. Um, so, um, um, one more month or maybe more, who knows, right? Um, but I do appreciate, um, the well-wishes that were at the podium and whatnot. And, uh,
I I'll see you all next month. That's it. >> And we're happy to have you, Tom. Next, we have Councilwoman Apadu. >> Um, thank you, Council President. So, um, before I start my report, I had a question. Um, for the trash pickup for this week,
I couldn't seem to find the information anywhere. Anybody know when it's going to be picked up? >> You can check recycle coach. >> They posted it on the website, but they are operating on a holiday schedule. So, really the only day, Monday, obviously
due to the storm, they did not work. So, Monday was picked up today. And then we do ask people to continue to put their trash out on their regular day. But um it is possible that everything is delayed by one day. But Monday's a really short route. So if they get
through the route, they would they do continue on to Tuesday route. So put your trash out as normal for the rest of the week. But it could be a day behind. >> All right. Because they didn't pick ours up this week on um Stewart. So I mean
today. So should we keep our trash out there? I just need to find out because I think somebody did reach out to me to find out when they're going to pick up trash. Yeah. >> Yeah, I would leave it out. And recycling got moved to Thursday. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> So, that was my question. Um, so, um, once again, thank you, council
president. Um, I just want to say this. Um, every decision we make here is to move Delran forward. And our goal is for a stronger, fairer, and more united Delran Township. And I'm happy we're working towards that goal along with the
mayor and the business administrator and our staff. Right. Um, I'm also committed to doing the work with integrity, transparency, and real respect for the people we serve. Like I said the last time we were here few either the last meeting or before that that I'm thankful
for all those who show up to the meetings because whatever you bring up to us makes us better people. At least it's doing that for me. And I thank you for showing up and voicing your concerns. Um, also I want to make sure that I tell everybody we're here to lead with our purpose and make sure our
community is, you know, um, fair as fair as we can, humanly possible for everybody in the um, um, community. One last thing I want to say, congratulations to the officers that were sworn in tonight and also to our emergency man um, management appointees.
Congratulations. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Uh, Councilman, Mr. Smith. Thank you so much. Uh just a few items tonight. Uh again to kind of piggy back on uh what's been said earlier, uh fantastic job uh through all
all of our uh public servants, you know, from public works to the sewer, uh police, fire, EMS. Uh fantastic job. I mean, as you know, Councilman Marorrow mentioned, you know, you drive around Delran and, you know, it looks like, you
know, pretty clean compared to some other uh towns you might drive around uh locally. So, uh our our they always do a great job and I just want to give them uh their due and just thank them for all their hard work and effort and um you know, really appreciate them. Just
wanted to make sure that that was put out there. Uh also would like to congratulate patrolman uh Lee Tang and Ray Mueller for uh having their oath of office this evening. Uh it's always great when we get new officers on a force. Uh it was great to see all the uh
family and friends that were there to uh you know welcome them u for this momentous occasion. And it's great again that we got more uh public servants to help keep our township safe. Excuse me. and uh you know we couldn't um do it without them. So thanks again. And uh
lastly just wanted to uh say I also saw during the storm after the storm um many great heartwarming things uh at you know one of my neighbors I know uh as a senior uh saw many neighbors going over you know trying to make sure that you
know um the car was uh cleaned off that make sure that you know the pathway was clear um you know trash was taken down to the curb all those kinds of things. I think that, you know, that's something that I love about this town. We always look out for one another and it's it's fantastic that we do that. So, just
encourage folks to uh continue to do that, you know, whenever we have inclement weather. Um, you know, just reach out to your neighbors if they're, you know, maybe not as mobile. Um, especially on, you know, ice and snow. Uh, definitely don't want anyone taking
a fall. So, if we can just continue to look out for our neighbors, I think that's a fantastic thing. And with that, um, that's the end of my report. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Councilman. Um, also want to congratulate our two new officers and welcome them to Delan. Uh, as far as the
ebikes go, um, the new state of New Jersey did pass a law regarding ebikes, and it's pretty pretty comprehensive. We'll have to compare it, as Al said, with ours. Uh, but all ebikes, all ebikes now require a licensed rider, state registration through New Jersey
Motor Vehicle Commission, and liability insurance. They must have a valid New Jersey driver's license or be at least 15 years old. Riders under 15 are not permitted to operate ebikes with motor assistance.
Uh, there's a lot more to it, but those are the basics. uh you know, we've heard a lot of comments from residents regarding ebikes uh on streets, in parking lots, on sidewalks, etc. So, I welcome the the legislation. Uh township services can't say too many
times, thank you to our public works, our EMS, our police and fire, and all those who supported us during the storm. I drove on Sunday. I drove through uh every neighborhood, not every street, but every neighborhood. I did so again
today. and our public works did a great job. The thing we can't emphasize enough, and I think Mr. Marorrow mentioned it, people not putting their vehicles off the road and leaving them on the street is causing the complaints that people are making. People are
complaining their streets weren't done. It's because there were cars left in the street. I drove, you could see it. You could see where the cars were parked and then they were shoveled out, but there's a big pile of snow five or six feet out. There's cars that are buried right now. People complain that the the tote the uh
plows plow the minutes because it's on the street where it shouldn't be. Um it it's bad for your neighbors because once the plow comes up, they're going to scoop out to the middle of the street. Miss your neighbors uh side of the street, miss your other neighbor's side of the street because they're going
around your car. So, please put the cars on the side. They can go onto the uh um driveway. They can go on the lawn. if you don't have somewhere to put it and that's understandable. But uh I've seen so many where there were driveways and the cars were out in the street and the
streets were a mess still uh all over town. Just no one particular area. But I did notice those streets where the cars were off the street were excellent. Uh so thank you very much for their services. Um the VFW uh or excuse me the uh VFW will be hosting a uh information
session. It'll be uh Senator Singleton will be there. I'll be there attending as well. The topic is survivor benefits. If you're a veteran, uh this is a very valuable session. Uh it'll be put on by the New Jersey Disabled Veterans
Association. Um it'll be on February 2nd at 6:00 p.m. The doors open at the Post 3020 on Fairview Street at 5:30. So any veterans, if you have information, you can contact us. You can contact Post3020. Uh, but the topic is survivor
benefits. And that's my report. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Excuse me. We have an executive session tonight. Do I have a motion to go into executive session? >> So moved. >> Mr. Mororrow. >> Second. >> This payment. All right. Everyone in
favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? We're going to go into executive session. Thank you for your attendance. We don't anticipate taking any uh action once we come out, but you're more than welcome to stay with us and greet us when we come back into out of executive session. Thank you.
All right, we are returning from executive session. Do I have a motion to come out of executive session? >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Mor, Mr. Smith. All in favor? >> I. >> The opposed. >> The moment we've been waiting for the MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT. >> MOTION TO ADJURNN.
>> MR. LION. >> SECOND. >> MR. Pay do. All in favor? I >> I >> all against >> we are ajourned.