to the flag and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all they called the April 10th 2025 meeting
to order in compliance with the open public meetings act of the state of New Jersey adequate notice of this meeting of the Carver City Council was provided in the following manner advanced written notice of this meeting was posted the A
Carver City bulletin board and on the Aar city website advanced written notice of this meeting was sent to the Hamilton Gazette and the Atlantic City Press roll call please mayor Jim Penny here
miss Clark here mr cash will not be here mr joy here miss Galloway I'm here miss Heis here miss Hassie here mr keener yes mr timbers here right here okay number four on our agenda is approve the minutes of
March 27th make a motion second motion's been made and seconded all in favor opposed no motion passes okay number five is public comment for any items that are on our
agenda going once twice okay uh number six we have the mayor's reporting okay so I spoke to the county i guess everyone's probably noticed how bad Philadelphia Avenue looks about restriping the street
and um unfortunately their striper is still broken since the fall when I asked them to do it so they're going to do the crosswalks and they're going to do the handicap sections by hand the stripe in the middle is going to have to wait until they figure something out also the
wreck grant that we applied for for the tot lot we did not get that unfortunately [Music] um and I have also a many of you know at the last meeting I
signed a pledge for the to support the monarch butterfly um program so um I do have a proclamation that is one of the things that I have to do so I'll just read that real quick whereas the monarch butterflies are important pollinators
and may soon be facing endangerment whereas native milkweed plants and the monarch butterflies or where the monarch butterflies lay their eggs are becoming scarce and are as are the nectar producing plants that they rely on for
food whereas to bring awareness to this issue I have pledged to take certain actions over the next year and help strengthen and increase the monarch butterfly population now therefore be it resolved that I Dr lisa Jetti mayor of a
Carper City proclaim April 10th to 2025 to April 10th 2026 as monarch butterfly awareness year in a Carver City and ask that all the stakeholders in the city participate in this effort to strengthen and increase
the monarch butterfly population okay so a couple things uh going that are going on and there's a few others that I'm not going to mention because I'm sure Nette and Kim will we have the cleanup day the annual citywide
cleanup day is May 3rd all the information is on the Facebook page channel 97 and also the inst Instagram Sunday oh and then um yeah Sunday the
13th not at really an event but the uh Brad House on Atlantic Avenue will be doing uh cleaning Atlantic Avenue from Philadelphia Avenue to Braman Avenue everybody knows that that's super bad and I think that's all I have so far
any questions the county or the striping of Philadelphia Avenue did they talk about when they plan to repave it it'll it'll probably I don't know when it's going to be repeated i don't think they're even planning on it but I did
you would on their list to to be Well I think they were trying to hold off for the bike path somewhere around that area so that they could do it all at once but I couldn't swear to it so and just regarding the monarch butterflies we have a resident of a harbor city who has
a lot of milkweed that she's going to be sharing with us and we'll be planting in wooded areas along roadsides and so forth so that'll probably be um May good and one thing we have to
work on Jerry is also I haven't had a chance to do it yet but teaching the guys like especially around Peace Pilgrim Park and the the uh gullies or whatever you call them don't get too close to you know where the chop chopping down the milkweeds because we
do have milk weeds at Peace Pilgrim but unfortunately sometimes they get chopped down okay thank you oh wait one more thing mayor wait may 18th is the mayor's walk i forgot to mention that i knew there was something else so maybe you
know most signs would help with the in those areas to because I see those going down Colin Avenue there's certain species of I don't know what they have signs that are like between certain dates these are no mo areas so maybe we can do that
anything else nope thank you okay uh next we'll go into city council committee reports uh start with the safety committee code enforcement and Rotary with Councilman Council woman
okay essie uh I have nothing for safety but Rotary the Easter egg hunt again I'll repeat will be at Rotary Park this Saturday April 12th at 11:00 a.m uh children 1 to 12 are invited to join in the fun if the Rotary does decide to
cancel due to inclement weather uh the rain date will be the following Saturday the 19th uh if the information will be posted Friday uh April 11th you can find it on the city's website Facebook page
um the Rotary's Facebook page as well as I believe the mayor may make a mayor will make a robocall as well um that's all I have for the Rotary and the code committee meeting uh a code committee meeting was held April 8th the ACUA was
in attendance providing information concerning dumpsters and toers as you probably already know the committee has been working on our trash ordinance and the ACUA has information we needed to help us complete the ordinance on April 2nd we had a we had interviews
which that you probably already know were having interviews for the um code enforcement officer a second part-time off or a third part-time officer and um the interview for the officer was held by the committee uh Mr barbaro uh our
administrator was in attendance the committee agreed to move forward with the applicant uh his start date is pending the completion of his background check with the proposed start date being June 2nd uh Mr barbaro if you have
anything to add um at this time for the code committee okay um and the last thing I'd like to say is I'd like to give the quarterly summary for uh code and they have this
is uh the first quarter 2025 uh administrative duties were 107 certified mail and code compliance reports 64 illegal dumping nine in-person notifications 33 inspections
393 investigations 132 red cards issued 14 telephonic email notifications 80 TV tag issues 22 and just to make a note about the TV tags um
I will keep on announcing this to take your electronics to the public works um uh area there and uh drop them off till 3:00 Jerry is it I think Till 3:30
till 3:30 okay they have when you go into the gate on the right hand side they have a big um what would you say metal container metal container there that you can just drop it off at so um I
will keep on bringing this up because um I think a lot of people still are not aware but what they do is when the um department goes around they will they will put a tag on your TVs or your electronics so that you know what to do
and it says where you take them as well and then the last thing on the list was the zoning reviews conducted were 83 and that's all I have thank you president can I Sure um Councilwoman Hessie the 4 also I don't know if it's once a month
or twice a month they also do an electronic gathering where they gather it up and I think it's actually a fundraiser so you can take your public works I mean your not your public works you can take your electronics down there and then they use it as a fundraiser to
get funds to help offset the costs of 4 okay i I posted it on our on our Facebook page months ago the 4 one yeah that's down there question is on the um ACOA and the toters have we put out an
RFP to for trash collection for any other companies because I know there's a lot of companies out there and there's a lot of newer companies coming out for trash collection where they will provide a toer and we don't have to pay an additional it's part of the contract with the trash collecting galloway uses
a couple different companies now and a lot of them they I know in Galloway you have to hire your own company but I know they'll also do an a full municipality that is that an option before we turn around and we go with ACUA again and I'm not saying we shouldn't what I'm saying
is is it worth getting a comparable RFP from other trash collecting companies to see if the toters are included and we don't have to spend that full amount on toers is that something we would be interested in doing as a council
we can do that i mean there's nothing you know nothing stopping us from doing that it never it can't hurt when's our contract i think the um Jody did you tell me that what's that we're just When is it up
though is it in June or is it in April it's like it's coming up I believe i mean it they may come in higher and that's something we would know but if they come in lower it may be beneficial for the taxpayers and then we don't have to spend that large amount in totters if they're willing to provide them with the
contract with a new company right you don't know whether they're you know you don't know until you try right well I I would just put this out there that if you're going to go out for that that it should be service for service because ACUA offers a lot of services that other traffic absolutely what they what they
give us is what we should put the RF FP what we get not just price not just price as a factor you know yes that pricing yeah absolutely I mean that's what you would normally have I don't know what's been done recently but I'm sure that's standard procedure I don't think we put out for I don't think we
put out for trash in all the years I've been up here if it's required that um not an RFP it needs to be a bid and has to be on the street for 90 days at state state law right uh so it's a very it's not
nothing's going to be accomplished by you know the quote end of the contract but um so you got to have usually have your engineer put together specs so that everybody's bitting i' I've done it for the other municipalities in the past and
because the state has a very easy to follow guideline to how to do it and even has a model RFP or bid that you can put out um it's pretty easy in the state of New Jersey because the state has set you up to be able to do that as often as
you want and I'm sure there's time left on this contract or we have to look at that right year to year you said it's year to year is that by January January or December December i thought it was three or four year contract it's been
many many years now it's just kind of renewed every year so the ACA contracts some of them are for years you know three five years you can't go longer than five years um and some are
for two or depends on what the town wants to do uh but most towns in Atlantic County have just continued with the ACA the listerve that I um participated with in the managers association
um we talked about this at the end of at the end of every year and last year we had a lot of communities had significant price increase where I work full time they had a 10% price increase right off the bat
so costs are going up private um in the uh private sanitation uh as opposed to authorities and another you know additionally supported sanitation companies so well uh Jody if we renew
that every year that has to come before city council correct so I haven't seen I think it's an automatic roll over the contract anticipates unless either the city or the ACA notifies with sufficient
time to say we'd like to not do it or we want to go through a bidding process and and some towns do that and if by chance it's say April or May or June and it's before the 90 days is there any way we
and extend it you know it would be doing something like this bring it up here yes with the with the ACU so it really is extended automatically but I mean not a full so if you go out to bid you're defining when the contract's going to
end okay so well I'm I'm a little confused just rolling it over if there's a price increase we get notified of that so you get notified of that that's done on an annual basis yeah but then it would still have to come here for
council to say "Yay we agree with that or not." And I haven't seen any of that since January just really just accept the Well I would think council brought they've talked in the past about going out to bid but have
you received an increase recently it follows the consumer price index so every year that follows and we get like a notice of what the price increase is okay so Jerry can you prepare something for us thank you all right
anything else no thank you thank you Councilwoman Galloway for property uh and for sustainable a Far Harbor City property um the green team's going to host its
first uh event of the spring environmental series this Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m here at City Bull we have a speaker from the Pineelands Preservation Alliance who's going to talk about the uh unique biosphere of the Pineelands and some he's going to
bring some flowers and things that you can't find anywhere else in the world and talk about some of the plants and animals that live in my lands and so forth so uh we got a good response with registrations for that it's free anybody's welcome to come i hope to see
a lot of people there um Barber Day is 3 to 6 p.m friday April 25th at Peace Pilgrim Park it's been really difficult to get any vendors to come so it'll probably be a smaller event than it was last year and last year was small so but
we will be distributing uh trees we're going to be getting uh 15 large trees like 8t tall and some tree saplings we have uh two different species a large tree and a small tree and plans are
still being worked out um we have a bid opening Wednesday morning for um a licensed tree expert u to maintain our street trees so I'm hoping that we get a lot of response there too um also I um
attended a meeting of the uh Atlantic County Parks Environmental Advisory Committee on April 2nd and it was about forestry and our forests here in Park Harbor City it was well attended and there were several people there for
Marbor City and much of the discussion during this meeting was about a Harbor City's forests so um I think we should look into this more because according to the expert that was there the forests in
New Jersey are actually dying because they're never maintained and if they're thinned out it allows the bigger trees to grow it allows the underbrush to grow creates habitats for animals and so forth so um I'm going to see if I can
put together a um a seminar at one of our green team meetings with at state one well I'll invite the state as well but this forester's name is Bob Williams and um he said our trees haven't been maintained for over a hundred years so
it might be time to look at that and there's also value in those trees especially the cedars and so forth there was always a controversial subject i was going to say that that's what the discussion was all about and that it's very controversial but it's because
people don't understand about the forest and what benefits them and anything you do with them if you did go in and thin them out it wouldn't cost anybody anything because the lumber would be used for milling and uh it would
preserve the forest for the next hundred years it would probably help the white birch too because you don't see the white birch anymore because they've been so there species that are getting wiped out and um you know when you have monoculture instead of a variety of
trees it's dangerous for I know in the past they were worried about clear cutting and that's what some of these companies want to do they want to come in and clear cut so much they that was discussed especially with cedar trees because the cedar trees don't grow
unless they're fully exposed to the sun so you really do have to clear cut cedar stands to allow new stands to grow but it it was really interesting and I think you know it would be good for our city to at least learn more and discuss it
and see if there's a future there for us that's it thank you well I do remember years ago when I was a council woman I suggested that we cut some cedar trees down on over by the river and I got
pretty much my head chopped off by certain council people that were sitting here but what what happened now were sitting out there what what h Yeah what happened then after supertorm Sandy and you could say it's not true but that salt water infiltrated those trees and now they're all dead yes exactly and
there is a lot of money in cedar that could have gone very far at a Carver City but nobody wanted to do it highlands uh one comprehensive management plan and that when it was created it was make designed to preserve highland style industries such as
milling and things have changed over the years uh the state forestry service is looking to restore some of our forests in New Jersey because it's it's not just here it's all over the east coast it's right
okay anything else no okay councilman Wright for parks and playgrounds got none okay um Councilman Timbers for license
ordinance right yes erin Hoffman is something report um language to report u ordinances uh Councilwoman Hessie she actually addressed it last time we met which I think was uh last Tuesday we we
uh discussed the ordinance uh for the u the trash ordinance and I think we are progressing pretty well i think we have a um we have some language that I believe our attorney is reviewing now
odd even watering the odd even watering oh yes we also discussed um possibility of an ordinance uh should should um a drought be declared by by the state or or risk of
drought that we could uh modify our wage water usage uh with within the town uh and it would be a schedule basically odd and even okay that's it for DPW
there's uh I'm going to let Jerry uh give a more detailed report on public works but uh there was a meeting earlier this week with Ryan from Remington and Bernie um Jerry yourself and the mayor and I uh going over capital projects or
projects the engineer was uh one of the discussions that came out of that ryan we asked Ryan about a road pavement assessment tool that he had mentioned earlier in the year um and asked him
what what was entailed so um we actually had tenatively prepared to have him make a presentation tonight on that program so basically it uh is a
a program a computer program that from from the air looks at uh from aerial photography looks at the road system uh both the terraces and and the streets and avenues and assesses
them from one to five five I think is the worst or other way around and basically identifies where the work's roads are and then we could use that tool to uh decide what our paving program can be
from year to year and actually develop a a three or fiveyear uh paving program depending on uh how much money is available either from state or other sources or self-funding it ourselves if we choose to do that uh that also
includes an assessment of the signage and an inventory of all the signage that is municipal like stop signs and so forth so um so I had an opportunity to talk to uh Councilman Dash and to Wright
Councilman Wright uh that this may come up tonight but uh if Ryan's not here so we're he he's his son has a he told us the other day his son has a baseball game okay so he'll be here around 7:30 so he may still do it he was going to do
a remote program okay good so we will um anyway that's going to come up for discussion it would be a cost it's not on the agenda but if there is a happens to be a consensus uh to move forward with it it costs
$9,000 it's a you know it's an additional charge by Remington Bernard they they utilize this in many of their municipalities that they municipal engineers for and it's very helpful and it takes out the sort of randomness of well I think that street should be done
or this street I think that's worse so anyway so if Ryan has an opportunity to present it either tonight or at our next meeting we'll we'll do that that's it okay
um is uh Councilwoman Clark online okay for the school board good evening everyone um real quick with uh with regards to the uh 4 it's every third Saturday from 9 to 12 at the 4
grounds for electronic um recycling um so I have the flyer i can post that on the municipal page um as for school board I missed yesterday's meeting because I was attending another meeting um for the Crusaders uh but with regards to the budget the mayor reached out to
the school business administrator um and she was able to get the information on the budget uh and uh we were told that there's only a minimal increase that will be for the debt service um which is dictated by the bond repayment uh scheduling um however the general
dollars remained flat um and I believe it is up for May for the uh final approval of the budget okay thank you thank you anybody else yes Angry it's Carl uh on that did they ever say anything about uh when they're
going to finish the uh the fields and the concession stand uh that is a uh that's a discussion with uh with Councilman Wright and also with uh uh Mr mcgawan trying to schedule a meeting with uh
with the Pinelands okay uh we we do have a finance redevelopment meeting on Monday uh from 2 to 4 i I have a report and I've failed to do this in other meetings to from a
tax collector and not to get into all the little detail but we did collect in the month of March $113,8275 and year to date we've collected $2,721,020.95 5
cents and uh I don't have anything else on that so go to the chief of police we will start off with some numbers that last met on March
27th we've had four burglary reports one fraud one nonprofit one simple assault one stolen four uh we've had seven motor vehicle accidents 28 traffic stops
um for a total of the total number of summones issued that that's not correct it says 13 but we didn't mean that i know that um arrest we had nine total including one DUI arrest we had eight business alarms two residential alarms 68 crime prevention activities one criminal
control six domestic 22 EMS 75 seven firearms ID applications 15 followup investigations 150 checks and seven public service calls um one thing that I am able to share we
do a lot of collaborative work with different uh law enforcement agencies both county and state um on Monday which was the seventh yes on Monday the 7th um I'm just going to read you a synopsis of some stuff that our
officers have been working in collaboration with the state police and with um Atlanta County Prosecutor's Office uh and this is just a a synopsis based on preliminary information um New Jersey State Police Metro South
uh with the assistance of the TE's South Central North K9 unit um Troop A the Crime Suppression South um unit Tac Path uh State Police Hazette Atlantic County SWAT Atlantic City Squad
Eco City Police Department GA Township Police Department Cing Police Department and Lake City Police Department executed executed two no knock and announced are two not been announced and three no knock residential search warrants two motor vehicle search warrants and two body warrants in reference to a
narcotics related investigation um regarding the distribution distribution of heroin um search warrants on the following residences were executed simultaneously the 900 block Morton Avenue the 600 block of
South Philadelphia Avenue Galloway the 500 block of Philadelphia Avenue car the 200 block of Buffalo Avenue in Carter City and the 1500 block of West Riverside Drive in New City seized as a result of this investigation was the
following 9,05 note $16 in US currency a um Beretta handgun a Glock handgun um an imitation firearm multiple point rounds 72 ox wax bolts 14 g of
methylamine 11.5 five films of mushrooms numerous ecstasy pills uh along with other stuff the following subjects were processed and charged accordingly brian Foster of Seekan was charged with thirdderee distribution of paranoia
thirdderee possession of paralygree possession of um other narc and fourth degree restrict resisting flight Strong was arrested in Atlantic City um the $9,560 they seized from that location
charged with thirdderee possession of heroin possession of CVS paraphernalia third second degree um possession of a handgun with CVS offense third degree distribution of heroin thirdderee money laundering fourth degree possession of stolen firearm second degree possession
of a handgun fourth degree possession of large casting magazine fourth degree possession point for second degree possession of scene by felon uh Steven McCain was arrested for possession uh thirdderee possession of crack cocaine
possession of Gerald Digs was arrested for possession of firearm was arrested for CVS third degree thirdderee disposition of marijuana uh possession of CVS parapitaria um
George George Sawyer was charged with distribution of CVS marijuana third degree um Sharon Tantina was arrested with possession of uh Norway and Cody was arrested um as a person
um for for an outstanding outstanding warrant um so this has been an ongoing investigation that our officers have been involved in um to help build all of this up so we are busy and I don't know
some of you may recognize some of the names on there so you know it's something that we are fully aware of and that we are you know actively taking part in and investigating and utilizing whatever resources we have as well as reaching out to others to make sure that
we are able to provide the best services to all of these um that's about all I have sorry okay thank you any questions great no next for his first ever uh city
administrator report city very happy to be here so uh to expand on a little bit about what councilman Doby said um the pavement condition survey is very important um this year so far we've used 15 ton of
cold thatch filling in potholes and we have an additional 5 ton in the yard right now to continue to do that so um we're almost completed with this round tomorrow's weather is not going to be conducive for us to to continue to do it
uh but um this is the time of year April May uh when potholes become extremely prevalent so the pavement condition will be very important for the city in the future especially having the ability to understand which roads are the worst
obviously everyone drives through the roads before they go which ones they are um but it's important for us to rate the condition of each one so I'm happy that we're talking about that uh there's a lot of limbs and branches that we're still picking up um the crew is very efficient at picking up the small
branches we use tobacco um and if we're using we're doing a large tree or a large set of limbs we'll take the uh the chipper out and then we've been very active with the um the ball field with the little league helping Mr gary as
well as um across the street uh making sure that that field uh I'm in contact with Brian so that we can add additional infield mix to that field which was done today um and DPW and police have been
very active with the code enforcement department um doing several things mostly um complicated actions that require everyone's assistance so that's really good i'm excited about tomorrow's rain because I can get a chance to take a look and see
which basins are actually working which are not working it's very important um to be able to do that i do have already touched base on Buffalo that I need as far as the administrative responsibilities we've just had a series of meetings long meetings with Ryan
which they wear me out and his planner and others but um I need to know what projects are actually going on uh so that I can see what my level of involvement will be or is going to be in that
regard other than that that's it if there's any questions in your class i'm always available any questions okay thank you Jerry okay uh CFO report okay just also I just wanted to mention
that we're scheduled to have a budget meeting at the next meeting but um I won't be able to be an evidence for that so if we need another one if anything as of now I don't see anything major changing but if it does we can try to have one before the um main meeting when we're planning to adopt if that's okay
something special any unforeseen circumstances see what happens I'll keep yep okay city clerk okay me is on vacation and enjoying herself in sunny Florida and
working while she's there and Uh city attorney any reports um the other thing I would give an update to uh council about is um the uh tortured history of the uh municipal court case that's been pending for a long time
Sienna matter um this dates back to 2023 I believe it's bounced around from your normal court which is Hamilton to May to Atlantic City and most recently back in Hamilton um we appeared on
Tuesday or yeah Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday for a lengthy meeting with the judge and prosecutor um as of right now uh we were scheduled to reappear on uh Tuesday the 22nd for the motion um that prosecutor to file with
regards to uh the administrative warrant so that our our um our fire inspectors can get inside the building and look at it um so that should be moving forward that day hopefully we get that order and uh the all the the 16 outstanding uh
code violations are scheduled to be heard on May say May 11th you said May 15 May 11th um yeah I think three weeks or two weeks after uh the 22nd whatever that may be um but yeah maybe hopefully
fingers crossed we start to get some resolutions that I think for a long time and I'll update you as we look forward well thank you for staying on top of that because that's Can I just add something to that i've seen them they're starting to work on
the roof of the bowling alley for some reason i'm not sure if that was anything that was told to them that they had to do no they got a permit for that the roof's leaking i was about to say probably leaking on those antiques it's junk treasures they're treasures
treasures thank Okay Brian our engineers report yeah thank you thank for allowing me to be a half hour so late three hits first i think the Phillies could use Yeah
um so I I'll first touch on the Violytics is the company that we have partnered with um for a little over a year now um had a lot of success with them so far i'll be really happy there's actually somebody on the Zoom call was preparing to give a presentation um just a a quick overview a couple slides about
what it is what I can do um so I'll turn it over to them if Yeah please and ready and can hear oh he said he's ready to present yeah so I'm here uh give me one second to share the screen
he should be able to share okay yeah i'm not familiar with the chambers but is everybody able to see perfect okay i want to thank uh the council as well as Ryan uh for having us here uh really excited to be working uh
with Egg Harbor City um a little bit about Violytics we are a uh condition assessment tool uh for roadways essentially the way it works is you have a smartphone it gets uh put up in the dashboard of any vehicle you would drive
the roads and the camera of that smartphone would be taking photos as you're driving those photos are um assessed via artificial intelligence and looking at the road defects uh for every segment of road in town um or in the
city you can do this uh as often as you'd like so you can get really up-to-date information about the conditions um of all the roads as often as you like um on top of that we do have a few other tools things uh to assign work orders so say if you find a pothole you can assign that within the system
automatically um to the the Department of Public Works um you can you know assess and keep track of other assets as well not just the pavement um and it really kind of provides a lot of functionality and helps the city allocate resources in a better way to
effectively maintain uh the infrastructure more effectively we have a few different tools so um the first tool would be our inventory management this is going to be an automatic inventory of things like street signs manholes patch basins they would automatically be detected from the
images that's being scanned and that's being put on a map and um being able to be tracked and maintained by the by the city we also have our maintenance infrastructure that basically is the assessment of those photos uh with AI it's giving you scoring a one to five
scale of each road point as well as every segment of road in the city um and then we also have our core which essentially is a image documentation of the right of way of the entire city so while you're doing these assessments we're saving these photographs it works
similar to a Google Street View in that you have a visual record of what the street looked like every time you do a scan so you can see exactly what's going on on any single street across the entire city um a few of the things that we'll be
able to deliver we are able to do a track control so this is a GPS tracking of the location of a vehicle um this can be used for things like snow plows uh street sweepers anything where you want to keep track and have a record of somebody following a certain path um
obviously we do provide the condition assessments uh for the roadways we also have a work order tool like I mentioned so you can associate an issue on the road and quickly assign that as a task to somebody within a certain department to take care of that and maintain that
infrastructure um we also have our asset creation tool where you can inventory additional assets that are not street signs or manholes things like shade trees or park benches or trash cans really anything that the city is
maintaining can be plotted onto the same map and you can associate those work orders with those specific assets and have a record of each individual asset within the city uh being maintained um digging in a little bit more um when we do a condition
assessment you will get a very detailed map of the entire city showing you a color-coded map of the conditions of every road you can also pull out more of a spreadsheet view and see you know each segment individually and see what the scores are for those segments you can
also zoom in and actually click on the individual uh points that we're looking at photos and actually look at the image that we're looking at and see exactly what's going on in the road there um on top of that we are doing an automatic inventory of street signs as
well as manhole covers and catch basins so simply by driving through the street each individual street sign is going to be tagged automatically and we are actually assessing the condition of those as well um so for example if a street sign is blocked by a tree branch
it's faded if it's dirty if it's graffitied we'll tag that in the system and you're actually able to click on an individual sign create a work order uh to appropriately u maintain each individual sign and then have a record of that being completed once it's done
we also can pull in um additional assets so I mentioned things like shade trees trash cans fire hydrants really anything that the city wants to maintain you can input those in the system we also have a great tool for inventorying them if you don't have a great idea of what's out there um and from there it works
similarly where you can associate individual work orders with those assets and really just keep a record of what's been going on over time finally we have our uh our planning tools essentially what this does is it pulls in planned projects that you're
you know for repaving roads and it allows you to weigh the costs and the benefit of each planned project so obviously we'd love to be able to pave every single road that needs it but that's not always in the budget every year with this we're going to weigh the pros and cons of what's the condition of
that road what is the cost of that planned project and how many years of life are we adding back into the road by doing this project and then it's going to give you a um basically an idea of how much each dollar spent is going
towards adding to the life of the entire network of the city um we have a great customer success team essentially they would be working on site um with anybody involved training them how to use the mobile app as well as our web system where you can
view all the information um and you know really working closely uh with any of our our partner uh municipalities um that's all we have i'd love to answer any questions if there are any daniel this is Jerry Barbario i'm the uh
administrator and public works manager nice to meet you nice to meet you does the program um assess the re reflectivity of the street signs or is that something that the AI can't do unfortunately the AI can't do that
because it needs to be a like a measurement of the light coming off the sign so we can tag say if a sign looks faded but we don't have an exact measurement of the reflectivity of that sign just because it is a photo image okay um second thing is is it
cloud-based and would we get a sign in to be able to access it or Okay Ryan showed me his right okay great correct okay great thanks i think you showed me this tim Hes I I have a question uh could you tell me uh
other municipalities that are using it now yeah so we are working with uh Washington Township nearby as well as Obsin um as well as Gloucester County um I think we have about 30 to 35 municipalities in New Jersey uh using the system currently and are there uh
different modules or is this all one module that you just spoke of so everything that I just discussed would be included um we do have multiple modules but I believe um in in the kind of proposal we have in front of you everything that we've talked about would be in there
thank you i have a question okay uh who does the inputting of the information into the um software so the way that it works is um a representative from the city would drive the roads essentially just putting the phone in front of the car and driving um
once that drive is completed those images are automatically uploaded into our servers our AI is going to analyze those images and then put them back into that um web system that you see there um so there wouldn't need to be any manually uploading of anything just basically you put the phone out there
you drive and then once you complete that it's over any other questions there was a question online where is the data stored and how is it being backed up great question yeah so we work with uh AWS uh gov which
is a very high um security uh server um that is all stored within the United States and um we have it backed up within that as well we actually have a proposal in writing or what's the cost of the program so n
grand right we get do proposal um five years we got to do this when we had to do it manually and it was around 20,000 we do it for like half of that it should be around 10 and that's a onetime fee right yeah so it's it's a onetime fee to go to get the assessment and include
your subscription follow up with for that we would go out and do the first drive we've got every street um with the counter mounted and then turn it over i have a see system here so if anybody wants to see their show exactly what the finished product looks like um all the signs are there even like you talking
about like you even get a little thing youation on the side so it tells you like that stop sign is dirty um it picks up all all kinds of information um but yeah so we we would go out and drive it so we would produce this initial one um we we have the phone to do it you can really set it up with any iPhone like
you said you can mount a public vehicle and drive around and continuous updates there's no additional cost to that that was my next question no hidden costs anywhere yeah i have a question is there anywhere that I know you couldn't do it with driving around but you could add in manual manually the amount of traffic on
one road opposed to another when you're weighing the the value of paving a road like paving Argo opposed to St louis St louis gets a heck of a lot more traffic than Aro so to add the traffic amount in
the way of you know which street would be more valued at paving is there a way to add that into the to the program without doing um like full traffic counts and all that but I mean
right so I mean you could take that data and and take it into another spreadsheet or whatever and and analyze it okay so we'd have to do that and so you couldn't add in there we'd have to do that on so start to jump in we can add that if you have the data we can add that within the
system so you can associate uh traffic data onto each segment of road so you can do that and then it would have to be a manual process obviously in our system we're not measuring that but if you want to associate those and you can see them when you are pulling segments to be paved you can kind of weigh the pros and
cons of the traffic on each segment [Music] question go ahead is there an annual subscription rate that goes with this so I I don't know do you What is your your typical remitt do you remember you give any information about that
sorry so I'm filling in I don't have the exact contract information um but usually we will do an annual subscription um that gives you access to all these tools year round and then you are able to rescan roads as often as you'd like um but apologies I don't have
the exact information in front of me so I mean just for a ballpark number we in that in that you know 10,000 or less we have to go out and drive it first time and do all of that once it exists you guys are maintaining it subscription should be significantly less than the admission great and does the county
participate in this program i don't think Atlanta County has yet we've had numerous discussions with them and they have expressed significant interest i mean we talked to them about just doing countywide and trying to partner with doing that
scale they haven't haven't made that do you think this would be qualify for that um county program where the municipalities share inter service yeah they have that grant program that they it's possible reach out to them about
along those same lines when they survey our town mhm they're going to do the county roads within the town right and the state road um so they do the white horse bike yeah some sometimes we'll like avoid them like we see things like we didn't do we didn't
do approach and say "Hey for want to but yeah we typically you know if you're pay so what do we want to do?" I just No you have I'm sorry i have one other question do we have to put an RFP out there so
you you have a professional service agreement with us we we have partnered with Violin um so you don't you don't have to do a separate RP services request it's essentially a service through us you don't need to do that but we can if we chose to yeah you
certainly could there's I mean there's there's a couple of similar competing products but you know we looked at all of them and we really impressed by especially part of Thank you charge so my my my suggestion if council is
comfortable with it is authorize a contract for one year with through um our contract with Remington Bon because we want the the reason this came up is we want to put a road program together
paving program and not start the way normally it happens well what do you think uh you know nice and so forth we would all have the same information and when you get to the end so that would be my recommendation it's not on the agenda
but if you can make a motion i was going to say the same thing i I mean this thing is way overdue i mean way overdue um but I mean I second that motion it really wouldn't be a one-year contract right because once we buy it we buy it because you pay an annual fee or
whatever the There's like I said the cost of fun is more because we have to go out and get the whole thing and set it all up or whatever there there's a renewal a one year renewals if you like it yeah i must not so we'll have on that part we'll have a year to assess where
we still have the static data from we don't want to continue at least have you know paid the inventory from that and I I know from Gary's point of view wearing his public works had this is going to be very helpful with the staff uh the
employees so they they don't have a database of signs uh or anything so they'll have now Jody where would these funds come from to pay for this what budget would it come into I think we have an ordinance for parking and road improvements I mean I think it would be
an you can use that for solve cost for you know doing those improvements so I think you could probably larger to that or it's an engineering plus too yes so I mean applicable to use that as long as
it's there yeah other than that we get out budget we kind of set aside some money okay so is that a motion Mr d yes okay second i second it over okay uh we have a motion and seconding any questions um
I have a question go ahead uh so this is for for us to go into at least a one year with this contract that we can review before we actually make this decision so we know you know have a better
understanding and writing exactly what it is that we're getting so it just came up within the last like two days so we we didn't have a chance to get a fully proposal together i don't I don't have a piece of paper in front of you um I unfortunately I don't
have time to be in here i have the full account of like exactly what you would get once you see this um but yeah I that's that's the other reason we don't have a proposal in front of you it sort of came up i mean it's a concept we've been taking on for years like I said the
last original proposal we gave for this was I think it was like 19,800 so it's it's less than half says like half came up proportional let me see that yeah so um in uh to deal with that question my
suggestion would be uh that if everybody again Mason and I in our motion if we could uh approve it subject to the review of the contract with our attorney
uh would would that be fine yes okay all right so okay so we have modify my motion to include that and Mason if I'm file motion amended and seconded uh let's do roll call please clark yes
dodie yes galloway as long as the funding is in place for it and I would also like to contact uh Tim Chryser to see if this would qualify for an interlocal grant agreement i Yes i move yes heist yes Pessie yes Kener yes
Timbers yes and Right yes okay thank you anything else Ryan um we met out at the lake with Atlantic City Electric to go over the potential pole um location where the electrical service would be for 50 amp service
upgrades um it was actually really good timing it was the day after a giant windstorm and there was a tree hanging over the power lines um so thankfully Gary was able to to put a call in while we were there and they got that down the next day um and it was literally an entire tree hanging all laying on other
trees hanging over lines okay so that was going to end in disaster um but crisis already there um uh city hall improvements were kind of wrapping up the design on that um still waiting for that subdivision still waiting on word from I bank this fiscal
year um demo Chris I got catch up with you about um getting a notice to the property owner so notice the demolition um here improvements I did get them the proposed uh plan showing the snack stand
and the pad game on that uh the task and piv um we exchanged a couple emails with the contractor and they did indicate that they are planning on doing a leveling course before they do the final service that was Brownfield developments we got an email about trying to set up a meeting so
we're trying to do that um and that's really all I have at the moment okay i got a question but the key uh with um leak spark um the concession stand while we're
waiting for Pand to get back to us for that are we able to do anything with the announcers booth um because basically with the new well the new door needs to get replaced i mean it's got about one more turn and then nobody's going to be able to get back in there um and then
the concrete pad for the uh porter pots um and then basically up top from the announcers booth before the uh the doors fall down and so all of the building renovations you could do at any time and have a big burn for that okay um the concrete pad you should probably
incorporate because by itself it's probably less than a thousand square feet but um when you do the aggregate square footage I think we're going to be in excess we're going to have to count it in okay i mean if if I mean the concrete's not the biggest deal but like basically we can get you know some quotes out there for a new door and lock
for the stand and the announcer getting the um the drop ceiling taken care of the lighting and then the um the overhead doors building stuff i don't work public works can probably handle the quotes and and putting putting all that together so we don't have to put in specs or anything the price should be low enough to be able to do that you
just need to know what it is and the only thing I would say is before you do anything at wreck you should consult the key board they've requested that yeah they were already in this is already we already had a meeting last year about this and you know who that would be right Jer i do but no they're
already on on top of it i mean it's that basically our responsibility to take care of anything on the inside and theirs to take care of it on the outside so door and the two they're up on the the announcers booth um we have two old doors that pull
up so you can see down in the field where we made the announcements they're like just gone pretty much hanging on by us here thread the drop ceilings collapsing in the inside um the electrical panel finally got fixed so I don't got to worry about a kid getting
electrocuted but um so and the entry door at the bottom yes going Yeah yeah to the side door and Okay basically the door facing ninth terrace okay and then um what else was
there something else in there so basically that where we're looking at basically the door is up top and there's a little door like it was a window but it's covered up with a piece of plywood now cuz the kids were breaking in there and um but we're looking to do kind of
what we have at the concession stand like one of the roll door yeah one of the roll things one for the window up there and one for the announcers booth up top okay so it'll last a long time and TV go up and down correct all right and also um an electrical outlet for the inside of the announcers booth down oh
there you go for the shop is there a location for that electrical outlet or is there a counter well the upstairs has plenty of electric because downstairs cuz now that we have the store downstairs um they need uh electric for down there
there's an outlet right on the other side of the window on the outside there's just nothing downstairs okay which is weird because it used to be a concession stand so I don't know why there was never an outlet in it unless it got tooken out i'll ask Mr key
yeah inside there's still like the receptacles I guess for it but they took the actual plug out and it's right under the um the the the panel behind the door yeah that was it yep perfect and I I
would just like to reiterate I know Ryan you've heard me say this a million times I may have even said at the last meeting but please make sure there's an engineer on site when this gets done because that is a one-year guarantee warranty as far as I was made
aware of and if they screw it up this is our last chance i mean that's for the tennis courts I know you'll do it i just want to make sure I say it enough the next like two weeks or so it's a white top now okay i would think with the spray paint i think
that was pretty emails that went back and forth tried we got burned we got burned oh no all right number 14 i have I have one more question ryan uh did you find anything out about the lights for the
smoke shop and if there's anything um state has i I talked to Steve about that um the state's rules are really kind of vague um and it wasn't really clear who to actually contact for enforcement i talked to some people that's usually looking for that stuff and that that
wasn't really in that view um there is stuff in your ordinance that you could site them for um because it talks about lights being shielded and not directed towards um the roadway it just come down to citing that you know citing that specific ordinance and give them
citation for it or at least have that discussion with them first and saying "Look you need to do something." Um so I I do think you have enough there to be able to okay i guess we can I don't know if you're familiar with it or not
would you please go through and there's a um store that's along US Route 30 and they put like LED perimeter lighting on the whole building it's just directed out away from building you can see it from Mars
yeah it's very So the the city's ordinance requires lighting to be directed at the you know towards the property and not away from property not out towards roads and things like that so um I would think the cycle on that essentially they installed lighting that does not require Yeah it
sounds like I mean I think they should just put a dimmer on the darn thing and just turn it down a little bit well it's it's LED no I know they don't yeah yeah i mean my suggestion was to put like a translucent film because there's a couple other you know gas stations that have the same lighting but they're not as bright yeah
like not as quite as aggressive i mean if if they put um you know they saw like a rolled film that you could just put over it so they're not staring exactly ryan the ordinance that you're referring to is that the one that states um shopping centers because it basically says
shopping centers the city's lighting ordinance applies to all site okay um so if you make a change to your site and you add site lighting you're subject to that one perfect i would make sure that the administrator's part of that conversation okay all right number 14 on the agenda
is introduce ordinance number two of 2025 to extend the municipal budget appropriation limits and establish a cap bank jody you just want to explain that real quick this is just an annual ordinance that we do every year it's called the coal ordinance if you
remember from prior years um it allows you to um increase your appropriations up to the um three and a half max um state and if you don't it just banks the rest of it for a future year that you can use and we do this every year it is
notable okay is there a motion motion second motion been made and seconded roll call please okay clark clark yes
yes galloway yes pace yes pessie yes peter yes timbers yes and right yes okay we need a motion to advertise notice of adoption notice of introduction of ordinance number two in the Hammock
Gazette on April 16th for public hearing on April 24th make a motion second motion made second all in favor i have it all right number 15 resolution
authorize introduction of year 2025 municipal budget by title only motion motion's been made and seconded questions okay uh roll call please clark
yes doby yes goway yes heist yes pessie yes kener yes timbers yes and Ray yes okay we need a motion to advertise in the Hamilton Gazette on April 16th for public hearing on May 8th is there a
motion second motion been made and seconded all in favor i have it okay number 16 on the agenda is a resolution approving a third amendment
to the agreement of sale between Atlantic Motion Pictures Studio LLC by Jonathan Saker and the city of Aarbon authorizing the mayor and the city clerk to execute third amendment on behalf of
the city mayor you want to explain that yeah um Jonathan is still waiting for Pinelands approval I believe for storm water management right or they they they have it done but they didn't submit it
yet yeah he's been going through all the predator species the cult resource surveys everything else his engineer has been working on site plan working summer management um originally he came to us with a request for the six month extension talk to his engineer um and I I don't think they're going to be able
to make it in six months so we suggested that they they go to a year extension um he has spent a lot of time and resources on the property and he's doing all the right things it's just taking so extension
so where does that take us to so the April 30th I think is so April 30th of next year then correct but I I would add that Jonathan's very confident that he is going to get this done within six months
but given the how Pinelands operates it's probably not likely so can I ask if we gave him a six-month extension instead of a year's extension what would that do i mean we would just have to come here and and just extend it
so yeah still you're better off and engineering so um we're on a call with him it's clear that he's working very diligently and doing everything he can we saw emails recently from EDA um acknowledging uh the
grandfather application everything he's doing everything in his power to get it done and uh to the extent that that Pineland moves um at any pace at all he'll he should be able to get it done within a year but it it doesn't make any sense to short it because it's not his
it's not it's not not it's no delay at that it's all delay from agencies that he's already made the proper applications to okay thank you okay um is there a motion motion second
second motion's made and seconded any further questions seeing none roll call please clark yes doby yes galloway I prefer a shorter time frame but yes heist yes
hessie I'm liking Annette but I'll say yes as well yes timbers yes right yep okay motion passes um resolution recycling tonnage application
it's just an annual um when we do our annual recycling report we just are required to have a resolution submitted with it okay I'll make a motion is there a second second motion made and seconded questions any further roll call please
clark yes doy yes gowing yes pist yes pessie yes kener yes i'm right this one no it is motion passes number 18
resolution the 2025 IRS mileage rate it's just a update reimbursement for mileage it's just the annual rate for 2025 i'll make that motion second motion made
second roll call please clark yes doy yes galloway yes heist yes pessie yes heer yes timbers yes and Ray yes motion passes number 19 resolution approving the agreement with the A
Carver City Board of Education for school resource officer this is for next year correct there school year runs yeah right it runs different so this is I was going to say this school year is almost over so it's got for September yeah for September and it's the same as it was
the other years were reimbursed okay is there a motion i'll make motion second motion made and seconded questions roll call please clark yes doby yes galloway yes he
Yes timbers yes and Ray yes motion passes number 20 resolution authorized roadway solicitation point drop for the A Carver City Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary
second motion made and seconded all in favor i I motion passes number 21 resolution authorizing roadway solicitation for the aver city fire department motion second
motion made second all in favor i know I motion passes how can they do this okay number 22 public hearing on ordinance number one for 2025 this is amending the redevelopment
plan for the 801 Philadelphia Avenue rehabilitation area to permit certain cannabis uses this is the trucky building on Philadelphia Avenue so public hearing is open any anyone wish
to be heard on the public hearing second call anybody okay motion to close again maggie all in favor a motion to adopt i I have a question
before i know he's put more trees up there now but he still is not within what he what he said he was going to do double them up and they're certainly not arborites which that's fine they put the lean cypress in they're not as sturdy of a tree and they're not as dense of a
tree either and there's no watering source so I'm sure they're not going to last there anyway um and so to me I think it was a feudal attempt to to appease us so I disagree i I mean if we
wanted to increase the landscaping I mean it is again the I think the language come back to that from the original like the 2000 23 no it's like 17 when it first came yeah
when Yeah when it first came okay um so I mean we we kind of talked about it the rules from what was envisioned at that time or what was allowed in state law at that time were very different um his request to the city at that point was for a facility that would have been
about one in 15 or 20 in the state um and now you know hill one becomes etc i think you know the intent of the redevelopment plan previously to be um you know fully screened and fully you know it was treated very differently six
or seven years ago than it is now um I I do still think it's a worthwhile attempt to get him to do as much as we can get him to do as part of this i think he would be receptive if we approved him and said we were approved with a condition to um you know install additional trees in between um in the
area where he installed them and install maybe down the other side where he didn't install them on Deer Street um so I mean I think he would be open to that but I do know the approval itself is at this point in time is very important to him and his and us too oh yeah if you
you know approved him with conditions I do believe he um because we didn't think we were going to get one treat and we got 50 or so now um so I I mean he has expressed numerous times that um you know he's he's willing
to do what whatever it is that would require that he really needs to do and honestly once he starts planting that water runoff if he takes that and those trees with them they're going to be touching the moon very quickly so from a legal standpoint once they
water the cannabis yes that water they can use to water has that been suggested secondary the secondary run that would be really can be used to water those trees and he's going to wind up you know well that would be great some excess water
can we put that in there those seeds in there from a from a legal standpoint can we put those restrictions on the approval well it's part of our Sorry yeah so you can hold them to the red plan yes and then you can always you can
always plan if you wanted okay so we'll we'll say those things uh to them after we do the adoption if if it gets approved we'll just say it's it's adopted but you're reminded that these are conditions and this is you know this is what's required this is
what you've done so far council was happy you made progress but you've not yet satisfied the development so what's the consequences if he doesn't follow through we can resend this can we yes okay um is there a motion i'll make a
motion second motion made second all these businesses any any further questions okay roll call please clark yes doy yes galloway yes heist yes pessie yes kener
yes timbers yes and of course motion passes um motion for advertising the notice of adoption at Hamilton Hamilton is that on April 16th i'll make a motion second motion
made second all in favor i motion passes okay number 23 is the bill list motion second second okay motion made and seconded questions on the bills
uh roll call please clark yes doy yes galloway yes yes hessie yes kener yes timbers yes and yes okay number 24 mayor I was just wondering on 22 did do we
have to have a public hearing we were supposed to open up to public oh we did and then we I said first second um so I just want to give my condolences to Carl and Samantha for the loss of their stepfather this week they're very
nice family and a very nice couple and it's very sad to see him go amen thank you great basically same thing send my own staff to your families um couple things for Jody i meant to bring up the thing two things
one if I can get that uh how much we have in that account to seize for these projects oh to show you what was and then number two if I could also get a print out this year last year you gave me one this year I didn't get one i had a month breakdown
for the electric oh yeah yeah because the simple fact I mean it's not bad i mean electric's like a quarter what it was i mean it's still seven grand a lot better this year than but the thing is is there's two baseball teams using fields out there they're using the spring and pull that have nothing to do
with the cusaders they're not even I mean they're playing consider but they're not egg cassers so they're using the lights at the little league nobody's using the big lights so far knock on wood but um so that's a blessing so um but I he used it in the spring and the
fall i mean if it's a small dollar amount I'm not going to even sweat it because I know those those lights over there don't generate much better this year yeah I'll send that to you though well the big thing was the men's baseball team didn't use the lights last year they they started their games at six o'clock and we're done so
they weren't getting that $1,500 $1,500 $1500 you know so that's that saved and maybe it is a second question these travel teams that are I know I've talked about this before there's no more travel teams that are playing games they're just practice uh so who's paying for the
dirt and stuff that gets put over here us are they i believe that was donated wasn't it no no we paid for this load oh this one today okay and we paid for Crusaders so we paid for that i think we're paying for the infield we paid for Crusaders too for the Crusaders yeah we
don't have baseball well they did the field gary put how much on like Yeah we don't even have We don't even have baseball cuz what years ago well whoever's playing at that baseball yeah that's Danny's travel the city no that's what I just
wonder i didn't know i didn't know if the city's paying for these you know teams to come out here and practice and use the field and then because any other town the teams pay to use these fields and that's what I'm asking yeah and they pay for the electric yeah yeah yeah so I just want to make sure this this field's
in good shape yeah that' be good for the year so was this dirt what was coming from the dirt that was over at the other field no it's separate separate okay it was an additional okay and the thing is I know I saw the email and I meant to respond but then I forgot with the
clay if the teams aren't going to take care of the clay by covering it and making sure it's they're not raking it the kids digging it out clay is useless um because we used to have to go up to North Jersey and get the bricks of clay put to do the batter mounts and the
pitchers mount and if they're not covering it and stuff the clay is useless and you're spending all this money on on clay to it's just going to disappear and be and be junk so to date I haven't ordered any bricks or any clay just in Yeah oh that's good then i
haven't ordered any of that yeah i wouldn't I mean unless they plan on covering it and stuff I wouldn't I wouldn't order it we used to for our son's 23 now so I'll say since he was 17 for like 10 years the cusaders paid for
all the dirt they paid for the clay but we used to have to go up to North Georgia to get the bricks and put it in there but we used to cover it with a tarp at the end of the game or practice covered with a tarp but the problem was the kids used that as a path to go to school and they were pulling the covers off and stuff like that so after I think
we did it for like the first two years and everybody says it's just a waste of money yeah so no we haven't paid for any we haven't installed any oh yeah i'm just saying it's I mean unless the team's planning on covering it and taking care of it it's just throwing money out the window and and infield mix and play kind of something that I make a
mistake with using interchangeably oh yeah no no that's what I figured i figured I just wanted Yeah and Jackie is the Kernney field police she doesn't i know that's why I wanted with anything there i just wanted to make sure
anything else excuse me we should thank Gary too for fixing those lights over there gary can work all the lights that's awesome thanks for filling in for Gary tonight yeah i just wanted to make sure that's all because I know and that travel's
become really big now i mean so much big that the issue is there's so many travel teams in a small little area so basically like me and Jerry coaching a team we have a little argument now he's got a travel team i got a travel team travel's travel is now water down wreck
is basically what it is now and so teams are trying to get fields anywhere they can you know like those Bader fields that are going on Atlantic City there's going to be a line down Atlantic City White Horse Pike for people trying to get those fields i can tell you that right now it's just you
know but I just want to make sure that you know we're getting something out of it because you know just want to ask Jackie how many teams are playing over there every time I go by I see them with the girls they have two teams on different levels 10 you a 12 you sometimes the 14 they
played amongst each other as a practice not like there's no more concession stand things going like it was years ago there's no more uh is Hamilton Star still using that well I see there's no mount there so I'm assuming that there's no baseball team over there um well some of them are local that live here but
they play on a travel team that's out of town right so they and it's just strictly a softball field yeah I see that there's no mount there no there's no Sunday just practice during the weekend sometimes on a Saturday and do you know off hand what they do pay to use that they pay 250
each each team pays 250 for the for the season yes that's good thank you okay um Councilwoman Gallow um just condolences to Carl and your family
councilwoman Hass I would like to reiterate that condolences to Carl and Samantha councilwoman Clark uh I think it's been said um but you know uh Carl so sorry for your loss your
prayers are are are our prayers and and my family are with you guys and uh if you ever need anything you know call thank you uh Councilwoman yes my condolences Carl for the lawsuit your father-in-law and I have a real short thing I'd want to read from the
prosecutor's office if nobody minds um on Tuesday April 1st 2025 the Atlanta County Board of Commission Commissioners presented the Atlanta County Prosecutor's Office with a resolution recognizing the week of April 6th to April 12th as National Crime Victims
Rights Week in Atlantic County i've got others um Flammer thanked Chairman Rick Daz and the board of on behalf of the entire Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office team and provided commissioners with insight on the importance of supporting victims survivors their families and all those affected by crime
on behalf of Prosecutor Reynolds we truly thank you for the resolution recognized in National Crime Victim's Rights Week said a flammer the majority of my 20 plus years career as a prosecutor has been devoted to special victim's cases throughout that time I can assure you and the residents of Land
County that everyone in our office is wholly dedicated to the pursuit of justice for all crime victims blamers told the commissioner about how one case in particular illustrates the importance of this week saying "In 2014 one man who will remain nameless utterly devastated
the Papsen Heist families of a corpus city his crime went sent shock waves throughout the town and our county that one person brutally killed Michelle Paps and her seven-year-old son Gavin in the most horrific manner
imaginable sorry the senselessness cruelty and brutality they suffered the hands was devastating for the first responders law enforcement and assigned assigned to the investigation victim witness advocates
provided comfort and myself assigned to prosecute the case the effects were profound this was one of those cases that stays with you forever but the impact on us professionals tasked with seeking justice and providing comfort to victim survivors pad in comparison to
the heartache crushing loss and shattering impact felt and lived for the family and friends of Michelle and Gavin throughout the investigation prosecution and ultimate sentencing of the perpetrator the Paps family their friends and a Harper city
community stood strong for each other and for the memory of Michelle and Gavin said Flamers flamers told the board that the Papsen Heist family will be recognized by the Atlanta County Prosecutor's Office on Friday April 11th 2025 to close National Crime Rights Week
and said "It goes without saying that no family ever wants such recognition but is it is equally true that no family has displayed such remarkable strength and resilience when faced with such an unimaginable resolution um
situation." Flanders Flammer also thanked the commissioners telling them in supports such as this that helps us pursue justice and healing for victim survivors their families and all those impacted by crime it is support such as
this that provides comfort to all victim survivors to know that they are never alone and that they're always remembered and that victims such as Michelle and Gavin will never be forgotten i just wanted to read that because it doesn't say anything in there about our first
responders our firemen who went into that house our firemen who had to find Gavin and Michelle our policemen that stood by us and held us they deserve recognition and I thank them and I just wanted to make
that public because they didn't acknowledge them and I just they were the first ones there they were the ones that stood by us they were the ones that stood in my driveway to keep the press from coming into my home to bother my
family and I truly truly am grateful for that and Mason i'm grateful for the Crusaders and the board for Gavin's Field always remembering him as a little boy with the backward hat playing in the dirt out in that
outfield and everyone who remembers them I thank you from the bottom of my heart that's all I have thank Jonathan De thank you for bringing that up and I've seen that in the in the
media reported and you bringing up the first responders here in Echo City and your family's appreciation for for their performance and and work that day it's very thankful for hearing that
and my condolences to your family thank you also Councilman Tim uh I wanted to uh use my time to uh kind of tell a little story about my father-in-law
father-in-law is Anthony Rice uh he was a polio survivor from Philadelphia in a neighborhood that uh same neighborhood that I grew up in it's uh Mount Airy Germantown it's the same neighborhood
that the the residents uh over 150 years ago or more decided to leave when people approached our neighborhood and they founded a harbor city so uh after uh he graduated from high school his family moved to Atlantic City he gave 30 years
to the Atlantic City uh school system he was a again he was a polio survivor so he was like a school resource officer he worked in the hallways he chased the kids around they nicknamed him Hop Along because he had a polio leg um so when he
got married to my mother-in-law at that time I think he was living in Maze Landing and he used to drive her to a Harbor City and he would drive around he would say "This is neighborhood that I grew up in it's not Philadelphia but it
looks just like it." And he drive around a house drive around the neighborhood he go to Atlantic Avenue point at the house and like I love this house one day they're driving past the house and he sees a for sale sign he gets out and as I said he was nicknamed Hop Along he hop
alonged up to the door knocked on the door to said love this house met met the homeowners and eventually they got a deal done with a bank and they ended up moving into that home on Atlantic Avenue and they spent 25 years there um
um six four boys one girl my my wife um my son he went to schools in a harbor city and my father-in-law always celebrated a Carver City for everything that given him and his family um this is
the city that that he came to love it's an uncommon love because he loved it for what it gave to him and what he wish he could have gave to the city i'm on this das because he used to tell me he wanted to be on council but he didn't feel that he could walk the walk the
blocks so um I just wanted to uh take my time to uh celebrate him a little bit and just show my appreciation and love for him thank you for giving me that thank you for sharing yes very nice thank you i I also offer my condolences
as I told you on the phone so I thank you all uh anybody from the public wish to be heard yes please come on okay we call if you would just state your name and
um Mayor Campbell written matter um want to clarify if I understood what you were saying about the striping that I call like painting the pedestrian lines and you said the county so that's just crossing Philadelphia yes they're going to do those i know that's
important to you it is important are very bad and and as well as our cross streets because some of those are just like totally gone and as a pedestrian handicapped or otherwise the only chances we slightly
have that somebody might stop is if they see a lion for those you know I've had experience and swear yeah but I've always felt for everyone's safety that the lines would provide a safety mechanism but hey I'll I'll take
Philadelphia Avenue but just saying our our cross streets some of those lines are just gone so if and when I could ever you know 50 years ago it breaks anymore but Jerry
will take care of that a lot of times they try to get the school once done firstand since I've lived up here usually I'm and please nothing against school children but that's the only blocks still like and I could be wrong
but I think all the cross walks that on Argo are like gone just not there so if I like I said I'll I'll take whatever saved me which is bringing my next topic
um because of some changes in my life I've become more of a a passenger you know in vehicles and some probably know where I'm going to go with this but some of the people transporting me have
expressed concern frustration anger at trying to turn i'm always messed up like off of Philadelphia coming onto camp because again I'm very aware of that that spot but yes
um you just can't without going literally into the other lane one person I was with I understand their frustration but there was an oncoming car that stopped and then all those
vehicles and the person driving me went between them i don't think it's a threeight street so I just want to lead again if there's any way to stop the parking on
whatever that side is uh the directions either but the opposite side of Britain were at least from the corner to the terrace because then those Well I would say even making a left turn but mostly for me it's the right turn
off the Philadelphia Avenue you can't see anything until you're there exactly so we could get a little more room at least there's a chance to pull to the side or something and I have to say this is some changes in my life not walking
the way I used to but when it's parked all the way up there and many times at certain times of the day they're parked on the crosswalk oh yeah so Saturday morning my only chance is literally stepping past the vehicles to look to
see if there's something on coming because I'm weird i like don't cross if the lights Well I don't step off a curb just because the light turn green but so if anything can be done to at least from Philadelphia Avenue oh my god I forgot
what terroris it is behind Renberg six terrors well because I used to live further down but if something can be done so because I know there's no parking on the Renberg side right but that particular side um because again
I've always known it as a pedestrian but as I've now been just so you know that um we're looking at all those streets because the fire department has said something about that too where getting a fire truck down that road when there's cars on both sides of
the street but the one problem with that particular spot that you're talking about is those people that live there's a bunch of people that live in those buildings right there there's really no there's really no other place for them to I think back
though spots back there but it's but then you got all the traffic at too an understanding to that difficulty i agree with concerned about general safety as well because pretty
much during daily business hours or whatever whenever I'm in a vehicle and and there's particularly one person that transports me a lot um her language is one that I unfortunately use a lot but
she's just and now of course she's taking me going all the way down to Claudius is to come around but it's just it's just another situation yeah I I did bring that up in the fall and nobody was going for it but
I noticed and I can I I have to say I have it on my phone i have video when I know we're turning just in case someone didn't understand you're literally in the oncoming traffic and when that happens if someone's coming up there has
been conflicts with who who gets to back up right then back up on camp street as opposed to us having to back around again onto Philadelphia because you still have the army so anyway but I just Well I guess my
question for Ryan is I know that's an old apartment building there but don't they have to provide parking so many parking spots if they were building a new one but I usually assess brilliant assessment it
appears to me that there is some sort of they have parking in the back behind it that looks like could fit the usual especially the one gigantic truck that's usually I don't think I don't think it's just that the people that live there but you got there's a restaurant right next
door you know so Al's got his customers that go inside too i I understand that convenience and so forth and so on but um just because you're patronizing a business does that make it okay no no
i'm just saying that's you know safe at least it's very unsafe no 100% if possibly we just can't put some a little further some of that yellow i was going to say can you come make the
yellow further down something like like the Renberg sign has I mean Renberg side has signs that says no parking and there's no there's no yellow markings there two far lengths back from Philadelphia Avenue I think that would
be good yeah barely anything to get it away from that's you know the corner crosswalk yeah so three lengths down from I'm surprised I had a an accident to be honest because making it right because
if you're coming out for leaves you make that right so you can't see nobody going this way and you're going I'm surprised that's why this is attached wherever I go you know but anyway but thank you thanks for bringing up again thank you for
bringing it up public for at least a little while we're happy to have you thank you for your input anyone else in the public wish to be heard uh there being no one else is there a motion to adjourn
yeah right all in favor i oppos nobody's opposed to the back street don't matter us