okay call order this meeting has been properly advertised and posted in accordance with public law 75 chapter 231 also known as the public meetings act roll call please mayor Jim
Petty Clark here Dash here doy here Galloway I am here Heist here hessie here hener here Timbers here right here and I'd like to introduce our uh
attorney for tonight Elena I don't know your last name hayatt H she's filling in for tonight for Chris who's on vacation number four is Earth of office for a haror city police officer Benjamin spring okay we'll do it that way ladies and
gentlemen ccel this is Benjamin prayer um he comes to us with a pleora of experience both in the military and in other police departments I'm going to read off a short list of some of what his certifications are um he served in
the military police officer from 2009 to 2019 correct me if I'm wrong with any um he also worked at the Atlanta County Police Academy as a drill instructor PT instructor um firearm um he most recently worked at
the bgen team police department and much saying he wanted to come over here nothing good but good things say about him I was not surprised that he would want to come somewhere where it was not just s sand where there was some work to be done um his certifications do include
uh he's a Firearms instructor he's a physical physical training instructor he's a field training officer and he's had classes such as the FBI Advanced criminal investigation course um everybody that has worked with him in the time that he has been here it's second week um SW in on March 3rd so
he's been with us for the last two weeks everybody that's worked with him has been thoroughly impressed with his work ethic his knowledge base and just his General attitude about police work so I am very thrilled and I hope is over nice to meet everyone thank you to
the mayor and Council um as well as the chief of police at our Administration excited to work here excited to serve the residents and visitors to our city and I would like to thank the chief she's worked very hard to um St the police department and we all know
there's been shortage with police officers and we're continuing to push to being fully s we have a couple irons in the fire but I'm very happy to have Benjamin here and I think's um I do have to say that yes we
coached Benjamin I'm not coaching from other police departments um but it is kind of a musical officer thing but yes so we are very very happy that he has landed here Unity for a very illustrious
career okay hi say your name hi Benjamin Springer do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and Constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution
of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the saint that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saint and the government's established and the government's established in the United States and the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the
authority of the people and I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and and performed andly performed all the all the the office of at caror City police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my
ability so thank you welcome Benjamin thank you is it Ben or Benjamin whatever you want thank you we got you okay number five on our agenda is to approve the minutes February 27th 2025 I
make a motion motion has been made in seconded all in favor I oppos I have it uh passes any public comments number six on our agenda uh any public comments for agenda
items only once twice okay uh number 6A it's a no it's not asking you to speak yet it's a little surprise and I'd like you to come up front Madam give you a little taste your
so everyone knows that Lisa created the wall were the first in acor city and there's a lot of people up there and we're going to add another name to them surprise to her so mayor Dr Lisa jetti has made
history in AC corver City New Jersey as its first woman man setting a high standard for leadership dedication Community Improvement her journey in public service began began in
2006 when she first ran for city council they they they're on way made it a little smaller so all on one her commitment to the city and its residence was evident from the start as she successfully served two terms as
council member before taking the ne next step in her political career in 2012 she ran for mayor and won overwhelmingly a testament to the trust and confidence the people of AC corver City placed in her leadership since then she has
continued to serve with honor and distinction now in her fourth fouryear term making her tenure over 12 years strong throughout her time and all office Mayor J Petty not only focused on governance but also prioritized personal
and professional growth earning both a master's degree and a doctorate a reflection of her dedication to lifelong learning and Leadership sh for some reason I'm not should be no one of the Hallmarks of
her Administration has been transforming the AC Cora City Lake into a profitable and well-managed Venture under her leadership the lake has become a beloved summer destination attracting thousands of visitors and
providing a recreational space that enhances the city's quality of life education has also been a top priority of Mayor Jim Petty she has played a key role in overseeing significant improvements to the city schools
including the acara City Community Schools the Middle School in Cedar Creek High School Beyond infrastructure improvements she has remained actively engaged with students and faculty fostering a strong connection between City leadership and the Next Generation
mayor Jet's influence extends Beyond education and Recreation her leadership has driven major infrastructure projects and financial improvements for the city she successfully guided the restructuring of the acor City police
department and the completion of Rittenberg man a key development in the city she was instrumental in attracting the new Wawa providing new convenience and economic benefits to the community one of her
most notable Financial achievements was leading the effort to sell the city's utilities to New Jersey American Water a move that allowed Acer City to eliminate all Municipal debt securing a stronger
future financially for the city and its residents throughout our 12 plus years in office as mayor mayor ja petti has remained dedicated to community progress overseeing countless projects that have improved the city's infrastructure
economy and overall wellbeing her Legacy is marked by strong leadership Visionary planning and unwavering commitment to acara city and its people today we proudly honor mayor Dr Lisa
jetti by adding her name and picture to the wall she initiated to recognize women's accomplishments in a haror city her leadership has paid the way for future generations and we thank her for her service as we celebrate her
achievements we look forward to the continued positive impact she will bring to the city in years to come this problem sorry quite the surprise and thank you very much Joe for thinking about it and I know
she thank you very I app it coincided with which we didn't know about ahead of time I want to thank me for coming up with the idea so so next is the mayor's
comments 60 I think um everyone should know by now we did get the evb Grant from the njde which I know you're happy about thanks I think you and Jody worked on the grant together Jody did it did the grant thank you Jody um hear we already
had yes she gave I'm here I can hear thanks I would like to recognize a former councilman who passed this this week um condolences to the Rondo family for their loss Mr Rio was connected in
every imaginable way to a Harbor City and he unfortunately passed away um we've been working on the lake opening we have you'll see in front of you tonight or you were emailed the new
prises for the residents the uh committee got together a while ago and we spoke with some residents and um we decided that there will be a resident price that they had requested last year looked it over
thought that yeah Meg sent it to yesterday okay on money Lake person 2 um we are purchasing equipment we have um a pavilion this year that we're going to put up in the front instead of the
tents which just blow over I think we ordered like five last year um did hold a manager meeting we have enough managers to um sta the and our supervisor is coming back again this
year we have a staff meeting scheduled for the 14th of May and uh we will be fully staffed and we have the cleanup day oh well first of all the cleanup on Philadelphia
Avenue last week was done by Alpha F Delta for the Coalition for a safe Community many of you may know them as the brat house on Atlantic Avenue hopefully you don't but but they did a great job they got seven bags of trash and two bags of
recycles they did from the zero BL to deer street so we're thankful for that was this a first for them to go out and do that great um you know the groups in a carber who are signed up for clean communities they have to do for cleanup
year so the Coalition we have already done three and they just Pi them out board so we're good the Min grant for $200 and the big cleanup is scheduled for May 3rd so I'm hoping that we'll get
a lot of participants out I did send to save the date um more information will be coming out soon and one thing I didn't want to bring up um some of you may have seen that New Jersey American Water wants to have a order Fest
Saturday June 7th and council did approve that but contingent on the Chiefs contingent on Chiefs and chief eln to look at the street closing and they decided that it really wasn't a good location for that
in the event there was a fire and the the fire truck or police had to get through for an emergency so they're requesting to use Lincoln Park so I would request the council approve that and wave the
Fe so is there a motion I'll second that motion made to seconded all in favor they bigger spot they use the caders bust yeah but I think they W they and that's all I have opposed none bu
having where it passes and anything else mayor that's okay I just want to think what anytime we wave the do a roll call okay roll call sorry Clark yes Dash yes doy yes
Galloway yes Heist yes hessie yes ker yes Timbers yes right yes right okay number seven on our agendas it's good to be safe unanimous good p number seven is our c
committee reports we'll start with the councilwoman hessie with Safety Code Enforcement Andy um nothing for safety but code um Jody and the code Department have started a trial for the online scheduling system for the rental
inspections you probably remember me saying the last time uh it's just just for the month of March it's a trial um Jody are there any updates on that have you heard how it's working out um it seems like it's going well so
far it's just trying theyve been slowly giving it out so just trying to get people to use it now that you know letting them know that they can use it um I did just talk to them about trying to open up April since part halfway through March people might want to start scheduling for April um so but I think I
mean personally I think it's a nice you know program and a good way for people to um be able to go online SCH an inspection and even for them to keep track of the inspections and it confirms you know you can send emails and things like that so you know we were kind of just saying it eliminates that Oh I
thought you were coming at 10 well you know here's your email confirmation said it was at 11 type of thing so hopefully the more you know we use it we're kind of just figuring out exactly how to set it up so we've just been doing a few people at a time just to make sure you know that it works the way we're that we
want it to so but so far so good thank you appreciate that we're we're working towards transitioning to online scheduling completely for 2026 um it's much more convenient for the landlords and we'll free up the code
Department to work on other important uh issues that they have uh another thing is the code committee is also in the process of interviewing five prospective code enforcement officers and um we're also uh at the April 1 meeting the committee will be
meeting for the first software company of five in order to decide whether to stay with the same company or not in October we'd like to make that decision and um currently we're working on a trash and recycling ordinance in
order to move forward with a proactive initiative in the coming months in the meantime the city will continue to follow the guidelines outlined in its current trash and recycling collection contract with the acua all residents and property owners
are required to follow the acua guidelines rack cards can be found in the hallway here at uh City Hall uh the acua does not collect construction debris or electronic waste uh the construction debris will be taken
to acua if you don't already know and the electronics are brought to the public works it's been they've done that for quite a while but it's a lot of people don't seem to know because I know the C department is always giving out red cards to notify people
that they have TVs out there or computers or whatever they will not no one will pick it up in the on The Terraces there will be red cards as has been for quite a while now um all residents and property owners are required by the state law to
recycle covered trash receptacles and recyclable materials are to be placed at the rear of your properties on the Terrace after 5:00 P p.m. this isn't anything new I'm just kind of a refresher here the night before collection trash and recycling receptacles are to be removed from The
Terraces no later than 8:00 P.M the day of collection that's all the trash check that I have now for rotary the Easter Egg Hunt is coming up it's Saturday April 12th at 11 o'clock there's a rain date of April
19th and uh the information can be found on the city web website Facebook site and a um the rotary's Facebook website as well that's all I have okay thank you Joe can I ask a question sure you said
um five code officials is that five applicants applicants five applicants excuse me I misspoke yeah that's what I wanted to applicants to for how many positions one for one position okay thank you okay next uh we go to councilwoman
Galloway for property and for sustainable Lake cor City for property we do have a um Cemetery meeting scheduled 24 um the um Jody and I and met with and
Jerry met with the state Forester this week online and we got the uh go-aheads issue an RFP for tree maintenance so um they they've been very flexible with us since we lost the sing Grant um and we're going to work with the state on
getting some of that work done as soon as possible uh we have some um high-risk trees that need to come down and we have some trees that need thely need maintenance so uh hopefully we'll be able to uh get that advertised soon and
uh review the bid SPS and and the bid offerings I have a meeting tomorrow morning 9:00 with the um elanic City Electric their schedule to come in and do maintenance under the telephone wire I mean under the electrical wires so we
want to talk to them and see what else we can get them to would fit into our program um sustainable a Arbor City's planning our second annual Arbor Day on uh 3:00 to 6:00 pm on Friday April 25th at peace buildr Park uh we're looking
for vendors especially those involved with the environment or on the agenda any um Energy savings plans or anything like that so if anybody knows anybody we would like to have two food trucks this year one for um Savory and one for
site if we can do that um and we're also doing our second annual photo contest and the theme this year is trees throughout the seasons um information is on sustainable ec.org website and the deadline to subit is April 15th uh
Brenda Ruth is heading that up again this year and uh we have a I'll be posting a flyer on the websites and on the social media Pages we're having a spring environmental Series this year um
some of our members wanted to bring that back our plans are to do a rain barrel Workshop uh Flora and Fauna of the Pinel lands a lot of people don't realize that we have unique things to grow in the Pinel lands that don't grow anywhere else in the world so we're going to talk
about that and the pine LS preservation Alliance will'll do um a rain Garden program they're going to speak about a program that they have available for people who live and have low Ling areas where they can put in a rain barrel I mean a a rain Garden uh we're also going
to do a mountain laa War Walk at the um Nature Center and then we're going to have a potty party and we'll be posting flyers and all these EV post to a pot party CH uh and Jody Brian and chief Alin and
I attended our first online meeting for the climate change vulnerability study uh which will focus on things like localized flooding forest fires extreme heat and cold and so forth that's an 18month program and we'll meet and some
of our city employees will be asked to attend when it's their area of expertise um we're also doing something I don't know if the council's aware of this ran is uh we're preparing a green development checklist that we will uh
place in the building department for develop into development packets and the checklist really just encourages uh developers to consider Green Building practices when they uh build a new Pro new project and it'll also include links
to resources that are available like incentives and stuff from the D and the BPU and the local utilities and so forth because a lot of times there's funding available to bring down the cost of doing some of these improvements and um we'll have a
resolution on our next agenda for that for for what you're speaking Yeah okay and U the mayor's committed to the monarch butterfly pledge and includes several actions one of them is a resolution which is on the agenda tonight and we plan to if anybody knows
where I can find um uh um what is it oh milked milkweed plants they're hard to come by uh especially native milkweed so we wanted to plant some milk weed around town uh adjacent to uh wooded areas so they're out of the
mowing area and they can just and and you mentioned the Plug and Play grant that we got that's it okay thank you uh next uh councilman R only only thing I have a
par playgrounds we'll talk about it when we bring up on the agenda the adjustment okay yep all right um councilman Timbers or um license and ordinance which is Big
Top big topics recently yeah there are several topics we're gonna have a meeting to tomorrow um uh we're going to discuss U several items um we might have some legislation to present the next meeting um uh that meeting will be tomorrow will
be here at 6 o' um I'm thinking maybe if it's um is it Meg is it possible we could set up a um like a zoom in case anyone any the committee members can't make it I'm sure we can I mean okay I'll be here I'll be
here um well Jody has a link is it's a recurring me we we were just able to click when we had it and had a zoom we were just able to hook the button over Zoom Lo all right thank you um um so uh iron H they're going to meet on Monday at The
Roundhouse at 7 um on T on Tuesday um there'll be a l use board meeting again that set set okay that's anything else that's it
thank you Mr doy you have public works so Public Works the only thing I have to report is that we had interviews the the committee councilman Wright councilman Dash and myself interviewed the three finalists for the superintendent of
Public Works position that we advertised and had some preliminary interviews several weeks ago we uh reached agreement on who we preferred um and there was consensus on that and I'm in the process of of doing the due
diligence before we make an offer and move forward with that position that's all more detailed uh report of activities Jerry Mr Barbara could do at near the end of the meeting if that's appropriate
okay yeah why not Jerry did you want to speak on that sure hi sorry I'm a little frosted I drove two and a half hour get here it's not on the White Horse Pike um so this week most of the week was
taken up by um cleaning up uh piles and piles and piles of branches that came down during the windstorms um so we went through all The Terraces and and uh I'm not sure if we got them all but I'll make sure tomorrow morning early the other thing is we put
up the banners and we on a regular rotation to sweep Main Street every Monday morning morning and make sure that it stays nice and clean not much else no snow that hopefully not thank you thank
you that's it councilwoman Clark nothing your report uh I hesitate to bring this up but I did get a call from a Academy about the cats and this woman
Nicole that handles a Harbor City and she uh based on my original conversation with her and I haven't had any since then other than the quality of the day and I'll refer this to you councilman Dash that um she was asking if we want
her to start trapping uh some of these cats and do what we had kind of discussed on email so um what what's your thought on that I can I can touch Bas weather um trapping has continued since the last meeting um
some other cats have been removed um we've come to a consensus that any of the feral cats will be able to stay there once they're neutered ear tipped and vaccinated so they'll be safe the any of the team cats will be removed which is what has been the the process
um I did go out yesterday and take a look at the area I've been keeping tabs on it I see that the you know the shelters were returned right away I was happy about that um the feeding stations are staying clean I didn't actually the couple times I was there I didn't see any cats at all um but I know there are some there because they've been coming
into our Hospital first SP um some of the far ones even are not going back there was one that had um some extensive medical issues needed additional surgery so the surgery was done at our facility and it's being it's being kept in a private resident but probably won't be
returned um so we're working on keeping the area clean keeping the wildlife away from the the cats um and we're gonna just continue to do what we've been doing I think part of the educational part out there is so the residents can go out and put food out that are out
there all yeah I agree and also that the residents don't abandon their household cats outside right because that's how it all gets started when not how it continues well thank you for our interaction on I I appreciate to a good conclusion I appreciate our conversation
can I just interject Steve can you tell me does this do people come out there and drop off cats too I mean is there like a I don't know any I don't know if anything where people arrive out there to drop off cats um my gut feeling and from what I've been told is it's
typically the people that live in the apartments they have a pet they'll they'll get a kitten and then they'll just get tired of it and they'll just let it out and leave it out that's that's how it started and then the population grows so the TNR programs are are meant to cut those numbers down to
hopefully eventually eliminate The Colony Al together um but so yeah I don't think people are like driving over and leaving them but I think there but there's a lot of Apartments there and they do allow pets so uh I think it'll continue where people will just leave
them out yeah because I just know if it's if it's um you know out there on on websites or anything people are going to drop them off I'm sure well it is it is a it is um is it out there it is against the law to abandon animals
um EDG har city has a Hilo the Atlanta County prosecutor's office has hilos um we see quite a few animal abandonment cases coming to court now um so I just remind everyone it's never okay just to throw an animal outside um the animals that we're talking about are animals
that are that are have reverted to being feral so they can't be placed in homes and that's the ones that will stay out there anything that's team gets removed and I just wanted to say one other thing I did talk to risk management about this and he was was waiting for the insurance
company to to talk to him about it that's all just so we're not responsible if something happens there's children out there in those apartments and I know I mean I know myself as a kid I would go in the woods you know and I worked in Pleasantville at the Humane Society and
those little little kittens I mean as cute as they are I mean they're you know they're they're afraid and I'm just you know in case they hurt a child or something you know I don't want us to be responsible keep in mind that this particular FAL colony is one colony of
hundreds and hundreds of colonies and there's FAL cats all over Atara City this is just one kind of brought some attention and you know and I commend the people that are spending the money the time the energy Shing for them and working to get those numbers down which
and they are they are we down and that thing's been out there from since at least 2012 really that long because the only reason I know that I yeah think it might been early that when did clean when he start to clean up well that was way back in 200000 you cleaned up out
there s so 2007 that thing's been out there because the caders would clean up the village and I remember one day I took the kids and they started boning the WIS and I didn't know what it was so I called the mayor I said hey there's this hotel like there's
shelter that's for the cats so that thing's been out there for at least since 2007 well my wife and I moved out there today and it needs cleaning again yeah may keep in mind the TR there's a lot of trash in those woods the trash isn't from the
cat all over the blow so just to be clear you're GNA talk to Nicole tomorrow yeah so we we'll we'll keep coordinating with animal control and with the caretakers um um capan cats has come up with additional funding the humain side Atlantic County
come up with additional funding and Alat allies has already put out $350,000 to help with these projects good so we'll make sure they stay funded and if there's resources they need we'll continue to help them great again for your point people dropping cats off I can't tell you how many cats have been
dropped off out by my house in the middle of town there are no residents out by me there's no one and Mr JY can attest there was a cat dropped off at my house and where does he live now in my lap in your we found him the middle of a
blizzard my kids cried bring him in my husband's extreme IC he could have died during that blizzard bringing that cat in the house and Mary and Rick took him and now he has a nice home to live in because we couldn't keep him but you know I don't even mean that I just mean if people hear about it then this is the
place to you know to just drop sad thing that take the animals and keep them to a certain point and they get rid of them if you don't if you can't take care of them don't take them their responsibility the minute you adopt them they become a part of your family should abely yeah there's a lot of the Leake too yeah that's that's the drop off
any kind of animal that they catch your wing one thing that would help is if the The Village apartment's mandated that any animal it's allowed to be kept there are sper neuter that would help a lot they wouldn't be reproducing right sper neutered and they had the um what is it
when they microchip microchip so that way they can tra to who that's that could be something we talked to them about that that would be helpful that would cut down quite a bit you really think most of it is coming from there we work with lives in an apartment and she said in her lease they can't feed stray
animals they can't so I'm curious like I I I don't know who should reach out to philadel Village and ask them if they have anything in their lease like that but they were quick to say get off my property and then call code they just want to wash their hands up yeah sure so
something should be in a lease yeah because really they're they're kind of yeah we'll reach out somehow and talk to them uh Donna would you have anything no okay
um okay chief of police uh report number eight on our agenda numbers for you um in the last two weeks we've had one brotherly report four fraud reports three simple assaults three deaths um eight M FL
stop is 15 P stops we've had a total of 18 summons issued that includes things uh like dog at large traffic citations um six arrests including uis Nine Business alarms eight residential alarms 24 primes three domestics 21 EMS
incidents nine Firearms applications seven follow-ups 119 property checks eight public service calls other things that we have done in the last few weeks um Captain Perna and Captain brenberg have been active with both the Atlanta
County prosecutor office and the new JY St they were participants in um two search warrants that were not in our jurisdiction however um they were working with them I can't really divulge much of what was seized but they were very successful um once I do get to go-
ahead from the state police acto I will share that with you um but uh it's just a testament to the work that Rosenberger and Captain Perna are doing um so there is work that being done in town and in turn we go help them in different
jurisdictions as well um in terms of things that we have done um Captain K and I uh had a training session today regarding officer his conduct um just going over how to shore up our policies
and make sure that everybody's on straight and narrow uh officer K has been in Crash one for the last week and this is the second week we'll be done with that I participated in a weekly Chiefs in service um as councilwoman Galloway said uh I participated in the
climate vulnerability um meeting and Jody and I reviewed our Enterprise Fleet to go over our police Public Works and code enforcement Vehicles where we're at in terms of Maintenance and selling and purchasing other vehicles um other
things that we have done uh Captain kerna Sergeant mangled officer M and off Spring and I last week were able to go to the spag Elementary School to for read Across America week last week with Dr Su with his birthday um so we each
read in some of the third grade classrooms Captain F and I read a particularly wonderful rendition of green eggs and ham where he was Sam and I read the other part um the egg City Community School has us come over they
have a club called the random acts of kindness club and they provided the with specialized keychains that they made um so we have those the offic have those um we had the new hire Mr Springer uh come on board we're very excited about
that um and as the mayor indicated we um are in the process of trying to find other applicants um we are going through our civil service list which is pretty much almost exhausted in terms of people who have disqualified or have not
responded that they want to continue working so I was able to go to the ATA County Police Academy um and take a look at the alternate root candidates alternate root candidates are folks who uh have taken it upon themselves to pay for their Police Academy training um so
I went to take a look and see what we had there uh there were quite a few who expressed interest so we will be reaching out to them to potentially set up in the views with them to see where we're going further with that other than that um the police department has registered for the DEA National takeback
initiative which is April 28 that's a pill takeback um or medication takeback day so any residents can come to the police department on that particular day um I don't have the times but I will report that in the next one of course anybody can come at any time and put them in our pill drop box um no needles
no liquids but any kind of uh pills or capsules uh can be disposed of in that drop box and also next week on Wednesday March 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. we are doing another Community cares event in in coordination with the um Church by
the day there will be hot meals provided from the ply in and their the New Jersey courts will be there to assist with any exp punishement information as well as operation rise from New Jersey Le for any Naran information um and resources
uh and we also have clothing set up there so anybody who needs any com clothing can come and get that all of that is free to everybody so that's next Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. and that is all I have this speak questions I have a question a resident
asked me if it's possible to put one of the radar trailers on Route 30 coming into the city or is there no space for it well we can't really do that um we we had before but because it is a state
road they do not really care to have right flashing things on there and we got a smack on the wrist last time we did that because we did have it on there yes all right thank you I just want to make a comment that the former councilman former fire department member
is also Chief Perna's father-in-law and condolences to Captain grandpa is my house yes yes so we we did make appearance there and you know we were all
there and his family um this is Perna came order donuts and coffee from Mrs randelle because she was so very grateful but um but yes so we have always and we continue to be our supportive of our police officers and their family members in times of need
and otherwise so but thank you for mentioning that thank you they're on the corner of okay number nine on our agenda is uh CFO nothing for me thank you okay uh engineer sure so I'll go down the list and a
couple follow um so Archway green uh the contractor has started filing for permits we have a bunch of submittals we're reviewing for the structure and some things um so just waiting for materials to come in they they'll start on site they may have actually already started to be honest um jump down to
Buffalo Avenue uh the PSD package was submitted so we're just waiting for DOT approval to bid that project um still is expecting to be able to Bo that in the spring um it's probably best as a summer project because it is the block immediately across the street from the Buffalo Avenue School so probably try to
time that when school is out rather than do it in the spring um Lake Campground project uh the pine lands we submitted all everything to them three months ago now three plus months um so still waiting to hear back on that unfortunately uh City Hall
improvements we have some um preference type items to be selected U lock sets push bars um window configurations stuff like that um so the Design's moving right along we're just trying to finalize that bre did that next or two um Atlantic Avenue pedestrian we got our
project extensions uh submitted so we just waiting for confirmation from dot uh New Orleans a subdivision we got noticed that this was going to get approved like a month and a half ago but their process takes um at least two meetings which are spaced by the month um so we should have a formal notice of
that approval soon be able to send property corners and get those properties advertised for sale um that's the three buildable Lots right across New Orleans Avenue from the community school um the ibank storm project we have had four people working on that for
the last I don't know two two three weeks once we got our survey in um so we're trying to make our submission um by like Tuesday of next week try to keep that on track uh I was actually out there on Tuesday pulling manholes and Inlet Gres so we can get the last bit of
information Aro or uh Aro Beethoven it's it's pretty long stretch the longest stretch is on Beethoven it goes from Philadelphia Avenue to 12 Terrace San Francisco Avenue so that neighborhood um arago goes from like Havana to ninth
Terrace I think just just um so similar areas but um when we met with the power pump Work Director that those are the indications the areas where they had the most failures and the most incidents of you know having to come back and um try to address problems that's the area where all of the Old City Style inlets
are too you're familiar with them it's literally just like a metal top with most of the two little circular Lids um they haven't been installed since like the 30s so they've been around for a while um so they they are all supposed to be replaced as part of your ms4
requirements over time um every year we just sort of chip away at it so this is a chance to get almost all of them actually I think we are able to get all of them as part of this project right did you tell Street uh and um Buffalo there's that
storm drain is sinking okay I don't we can try to incorporate in this but I we went with as much as we could as quickly as we could just to try to meet the timeline um with the state so we we have submissions into DP to ibank um I'm
waiting information back but we're doing everything we can to try to keep it so that we can do this project twice under fy2 and FY 26 um still wait confirmation for that but that's the plan okay cool I just had a question about Atlantic and Philadelphia Avenue that part is it just
because of grading or is there a a storm drain there um on the railroad tracks yeah so is that grading don't drain any there are two inlets that are connected to each other and to nothing else and part of the complication is U we either
have to cross a state highway or railroad tracks both of which are incredibly Cy um so the rest of it we were able to sort of collect and pipe North along Atlantic there's a sale after that pedestrian path ends um so
anything we can get down to there we can evacuate everything on the other side of Philadelphia Avenue goes into a pipe which meanders all the way out and finally lets out on the other side of the kre field um so yeah it's a long way yeah um but yeah we we've not when when
they came in the state repaved rout 50 we tried to get them to put a pipe in across there and they essentially said well there's not enough time we just told us you're doing the project a couple days ago so it's not really our fault but um yeah essentially they they refused um I mean even for them it's
complicated because they're working immediately adjacent the railroad track so there's other complication they have to work with New Jersey train um so that probably won't be there's not like a good answer there I wish there was I was just curious I didn't know whether it had the only other possibility would be
to install um links or perforated pipe with stone um that would create additional storage and some additional infiltration opportuni um there's not a lot of space to do it down Atlantic Aven yeah right exactly heading starting right at that Inlet and going sort of North West on Atlantic um
there's not a lot of Green Space there ideally don't want to do that on the road but um you can sometimes um I mean it's continuously an issue and you know something we need to address then we can take a look at it but but there's no easy answer um wi recer demo I'll skip for
now because that's on the agenda um kre improvements we did make a uh pre application meeting request to the pilin commission for an after hours meeting they came back with request for some additional information um so we're still trying to get some stuff together for them to answer that and then hopefully we can get some on the calendar to meet
with them uh tenis and pickleball court reconstruction the base pting is done we're just kind of waiting for the weather to improve uh for them to do the the surface course um there are a couple of low spots that hold water now I think Gary H has had almost as much paint as there would be with the tennis courts at
this point but um so we'll make sure that they address them they have an opportunity to do it when they do the surface course but um you know if you're not paying attention it's it's hard to catch so I might talk to them about doing it uh with two separate layers doing like a thin leveling course and then doing the surface to try to even
out some of those belly areas but we'll we'll address that as we get a little better weather uh the Brownfield Redevelopment areas we still don't have a formal notice from DP on those but we do have um I guess an email for now um and word is out because I have been getting phone calls from everybody
everywhere so people are definitely interested in those sites in those areas yeah they recognize there's opportunities you know with those programs so so lots of interest um and then the on street parking restrictions we are working on developing list um for that just don't have anything to to
share quite yet um so we uh the last thing I'll say is the appropriate day for the mayor to be recognized and get a plaque um because the two of thought you put that picture anle deep water across fragm and a bridge that
nothing is connected to anything else like the whole thing was floating so that was a bit of an adventure today but credit to the mayor to setting that up and uh you know going through that exercise to help an eagle scout um you know work with their project in the do you want to tell them a little bit about
the project sure um so the E Scout approached uh there there's an old grave site out there um at clar's Landing um I won't get too specific on the location um but the headstands there are from like the early 1700 like
pre-revolutionary War period um at some point they were stolen and then returned um they're now laid down and cast in concrete um over where the grave site is so uh an eagle scout approached and said well I really like to put a picket fence
around it um and there's a a local historian and sort of amateur archaeologist who said you might not want to dig holes at the grave site it's usually not a great idea um which is a valid point so we met out there uh and sort of talked about how they could set something up so we came up with the idea
that they'll do um a little like four-sided split rail fence around the grave site and they'll just be sitting on a little like wood pads instead of having to to dig holes down into the ground so we just sort of be ballasted and self bracing so you won't need to disturb uh the Earth at the site at all and then there's a little pedestrian
bridge which is in terrible shape um so they're going to sort of refresh repair that um you know I sort of advis that I'm you're doing everything by hand you're just restoring this here you're not you know building a boardwalk that's 10t wide or anything crazy um we shouldn't need permits for that um based
on looking at the structure it had to have been there since before um freshw Wetlands permits and all were even a thing so it would be a um the structure essenti be grandfathered in you're allowed to repair it so that's that's sort of the the route that we advis was just repair it as it is and everything
should be fine um so that's that's his project plan going forward I know I don't have a time frame for that but that's the idea so it's the Clark Clark family there's yeah could read but it's the Clark you know like Clark oral or
that landed there get yeah they were like super creative with names yeah how was the beach there no no Rel hey do you just want to mention mention real quick the U we we met with
John satcher and Chris Orlando sure yeah I got a couple more things so Jonathan Seer will be coming back um I believe for another time extension he has expended great effort and cost um of his own and through uh funding that the city
is able to receive um he's still working through the finance commission and now he's working through DP Solid Waste um but he has spent a ton of money and has made a lot of Headway so he's expected to be done with the fin lines Commission in the next like 30 to 45 days um DP Solid Waste they're still doing the
investigative uh portion that you need to have this backup to the closure plan so they have an idea of what they want to do but they have to finish with the borings and and all that um so I mean I I strongly suggest the council entertain that extension request when he comes in he's you know seems to be the real deal
he's put a lot of time and effort into this and he he's got a good hand on um so that should be probably coming up in the next meeting or two I would assume I think his extension is good through April um so he requested a call with um the solicitor's office to to sort of
introduce and explain what he be coming forward uh with in the near future um last two things I have are the Weiss Becker demo which is on the agenda um the low bid we received is 157,000 uh I think the first bid we had
the B the low bid was 160 and then we rebid it I checked it was4 or 139 something um so we been at this time it's at 157 that's that's the number not going to get any better right right either going to do it at that cost or we're not
going to do it those seem to be our options at this point um nobody local bid or picked up um the um the low biders from Scotch Plains um and the next closest one was like s hour and a so it just wasn't any interest locally
for whatever reason we did have three four people picked up and three people did so the question to Jody is there she still on there uh Jody you still there
we really come here sorry mute uh the 157,000 for the demolition do we have that in place uh I think we had 125 for the demolition of the water treatment plant
let me just double check real quick my kids today yeah we had set aside 125 for the old demo so I mean it doesn't have to be specifically for that so it would it's not drastically more than that we had
more in the ordinance for other projects so there so we could do we could do the 157 yes it I mean it'll take away from something else obviously but at some point we could just do another ordinance when we run out you know other projects still wind up being done I I
didn't see the bid so what what does the bid ask for because the it's ready for demolition everything's disconnected yeah it's they don't really have to do anything knock it down and haul it out right so the demolition includes uh everything from the foundation up no
disturbance of the ground there's a pretty significant ele elevation change at the back where the foundation is the ground levels a couple feet above where the concrete pad is at the rear of the building so this includes um bringing in fill material and leveling the site so it's essentially level From the Terrace
towards the street um and then i' suggest we work with a landscaper or somebody to get some pop soil fertilizer and seed and just let it be grass for now um because there's not really much else that we can do and and the um the mural has to be removed we cannot demol
those are all plywood so works could take them down get sced and then would put a lean we would put a lean on the property for that amount I that would make sense to do right yeah you can if I I don't know that there'll ever be a way to recover
it but but after everything's said and done we're going to get the property one way or another corre this end up for closing on it right okay is there anybody questions I was just going to clarify I just looked at the um the bond ordinance we had we had
125 for restoration of the wetlands and we had 40 for the demo so we had 165 set aside for the water plant we did have that much set aside we could use okay um any questions about that do we want to
move on it it's on the agenda it's on we wait just wanted to bring it up here um I I I jump ahead of so next we'll talk about 19 um which is the amend Redevelopment plan for 801 Philadelphia Avenue um
which is the uh boat manufacturer that Dr try wases um number of years ago I say six seven he came in and requested a Redevelopment plan to grow medical cannabis in a portion of the building um
the city uh permitted that at the time um so he has a Redevelopment plan that allows for that um and he came in and said I want to do that now and we said well that's nice but now it's not for medical it's you know other things the the rules have changed the law has changed so we have to update your your
plan to reflect what the current law is and you know the fact that there's classes for different things and Licensing and what have um so he understood that we started with this process um a while ago probably about almost a year ago at this point um so
he's pretty anxious to move it forward um my suggestion is to introduce the ordinance tonight we would look to adopt the first meeting in April um we went we had a meeting with him four weeks ago
five weeks ago now um where we discussed the need for him to clean up the site and to do uh take some measures to you know improve the the The Legal character of the site um from what it's been for the last uh
um so he um I think we left that meeting with some different ideas and he moved forward rather quickly but didn't really communicate off plans were so um if you go behind his fence he removed almost everything along the fence line with the
exception of a brand new boat um and but simultaneously obscured it without uh screening so you couldn't really see what he did behind him um so I talked to him about you know trying to get that that screening a little tighter get rid of the it's kind of lumpy and wrinkled
um I talked to him I talked to him on Monday morning about um adding vegetation from the end of his property down to about where the building is because he still has mold storage and other items uh up near the fence line
past the building you said we really like for all that to be visually screened uh I think I talked to him 11:00 by 11:30 called me and said they'll be in tomorrow and um cool they're there now you drive by uh did install them on Tuesday so any any plantings outside the fence well that's
so he planted I didn't I didn't count them but he planted 25ish 30 maybe um arbues that are six feet tall now and he he was assured they're a fast grow species so he was told by the end of the year or early next year they should be 10 futile and he's going to maintain
them in water them I'm sure right I arities are pretty hard to kill so he should be okay there um but I mean that so we could go back and memorialize you know what what should be where um we can also make additional request if if that's what council wants to do and
essentially go back and say you know look here's where we're at you know you've done a lot to say this point you know this is what we want to see before we adopt your ordinance um but the ordinance process the adoption and some amendments that are going to need to be introduced to it um is going to be a
month or so so my recommendation is to to do it now to introduce it now um we can sort of fix it at the next meeting if that's what's needed then um and then we'll be ready to adopt at the first meeting in April anybody have any comments I do first first I um like
to say you weren't at the last meeting right I was not okay because at the last meeting we did bring up about that material that he has on there that none of us were for it pretty much so tightening it or not is I don't think it's going to fly with the preference
for be for it to be removed or I think it looks good we were by there we went by there today looked I guess maybe we could take a v on time it was kind of all overid went up there I think when he
first down one thing every 20 or 30 feet and um actually when I I drove by on Tuesday because he had all the plants sitting in buckets and I took some pictures there's actually a guy out there doing every couple of feet um trying to stretch it out and and when the wind comes it'll stay and they'll
tighten it I guess huh well I mean ironically put it on he put on the correct side of the fence for visual purposes but the prevailing winds are actually behind it um so I I don't know don't worry Kim it's coming down eventually it's it's coming down eventually yeah nothing last forever especially not
those things yeah it'll look great in like I said I think we we sort of left that meeting with different ideas he kind of ran out and took everything down I talked to a bunch of his employees he got rid of at least 10 boat molds um they kind of asked me what we did to make him clean up because they didn't
expect him to ever do that people that were for him who wish to remain anonymous so I mean he if you poke around the the gate and look behind he removed pretty much everything along the back of that fence line the plus is the
boat molds the the front right the back he probably just pushed it to yeah there's a bunch of I'm not sure the tractor and trailer is that great well great so there's there's a couple trailers actually I think he tried to use them to screen side which is you know probably a nice red one you can see
from Liverpool Avenue just look down Liverpool a nice red Big Jack of fa beautiful so I mean but I mean those are those are the things we can talk to him and have him address over the next month um I know for him he he has um pulled multiple B building permits over the last year and has been working towards
opening the facility so it's now getting to the point for him we're like it's about to become a financial issue for him so I I know he wants to to do you he doesn't want to do more than he has to but he's obviously shown um some level of cooperation and um willingness to to acquest to some of the things asking for
you so it would also be a financial thing for the city too once he starts operating correct you get 2% of Revenue if he grows a million dollars worth the cannabis you'll get 2% of that right um in addition to you know that he's still building boats there too um but yeah I
mean so it's not what he's requesting is not like a huge departure from what he had previously I mean he frankly he could have made the argument that I already have approval to do this I know the the details have changed but I think I should be allowed to move forward but he did you know ort of go along with the process of amending it um so it was a
relatively minor step and we've gotten reasonable concessions this point if there's anything else that we want to go back um we just need to present him with a tangible goal you know we can't abstractly say it needs to look better it needs to be this or that we need to say like this this is what these tractor
trailers we need to do this we to do that um we talked on the phone and and I had suggested that he's going to start you know manufacturing the cannabis MH over the next five years if he could make a certain amount of improvements to
that property over the course of five years and because that that's about how long that screening will last and you know code enfor enforcement's going to have to keep the track of that he's a he's a difficult one to squeeze things out of later so I mean we could put
conditions on and hope that they happen over the next five years but now feels like the time yeah and so that'll be my suggestion would be to have code go in there and see what the violations are back there well so they um I know the
building department has been in the building and in the yard like extensively that's building not Cod correct so I know code has been there just to to take some pictures and whatnot I mean I I frankly I walked in the yard I wasn't there 30 seconds and the security guy came out because it's
got all the cam yeah I was going to say that too buiness but you could see it from the outside what you know what the violations are so to to Dr dr's point he's kept going back to this he said it is still an
industrial site it's shown to be an industrial site it's been used as an industrial site for you know certainly longer than my lifetime um so it is you know he's doing he's doing things to clean up but he's still going to build boats there and he's still going to maintain Golds and you know and U
conduct an industrial use there um so you know it's it's sort of a compromise of okay you're allowed to do your industrial thing here just hide it a little better and make it look a little nicer out front and you know that's like the way it looks now I'm fine with that I think he made a hell of a stri
Improvement where it was yeah when I came in today I actually went slow came by I was going slow more salad did you hear that um I looked and there was a lot of things there was like you said the new boat but the lift thing wasn't there a lot of were moved and that was
my big thing it was an iore every time walked by you drove by I store so a lot of that stuff was gone and I could see through the green curtain that a lot of it was moved so hopefully you know so you don't if it's moved wouldn't it be better not to have that green curtain up
or you still I don't think legally we can make him take the green curtain down it's the property that would be you know like if somebody put the slats through their chain links fence us telling them we can't see in your yard you have to the thing start flopping in the wind then then we can
right it becomes you know it starts flapping and you know the cars can't see because then we we have an issue there but I don't think we legally can say you have to take it down unfortunately we didn't give a specific thing to do like
right but you know as long as he maintain it and it's presentable and it looks better than it did which it does right now you know City attorney was going to speak a little bit on that on our when it gets to the ordinance okay you have anything else confirm that
the fence is 10 feet from the right away that says that in the I'll bet it's even more it's more than that I know because what I'm saying is the right there's the RightWay where we can plant trees because that is
a the RightWay is 100 feet wide the so there there's plenty of room yeah if you're talking about like the grass area there's way more than 10 ft in between his and asphalt line well we might be able to get some trees in there some yeah canopy trees that's another
possible you have anything else um no that's it you want to mention about I wasn't at the last meeting I don't think you were but Jody when we met with the Jesh mlen and uh oh the uh the bik yeah um it looks like we're going to get this
isn't Ryan's project but he's I've asked him to sort of come along with us on the jour yeah a very long journey but uh it looks like we're going to get the Jody does look like we're going to get the extra money to finish the project we had
requested it and I'll let Ryan take over from there yeah so they um they came back with their request for additional engineering fees for um extensive soil testing that's required because it's a linear facility um normally when you build a Bas in for every 10,000 s f feet of area you need to have at least two
borings you need to go down least eight people at the bottom um when you're doing a linear facility you have to do uh a test pit which is like with a bat boat where you dig a full open hole with some could go down to every 2,000 feet and then do a boring every 500 feet in
between so when your project is two miles long that's a lot of test bits and borings and they're all in tight locations right next to the road so um apparently they weren't planning on that so they came back with some request oral engine fees for that but they do have some confirmation from the pands that um
they're proposed configuration of having a perious Paving shoulder with um some infiltration area sort of adjacent to it underneath of it um should be acceptable to deal with water quality and volume
this is the bike path from here to the lake not one from the train station yes okay yeah it's it's from D Street to the lake Philadelphia yeah yeah I mean there's there's a lot of environmental complications they had to do thre dangered species work they had to do um called resource survey work um I mean it
crosses a stream it you know ends at the lake so there's definitely a lot going on but uh yeah it sounds like you're going to get uh additional construction and additional design assistance funding to continue to advance the project Could Just sh up there exactly
the bridge is getting done too yeah so um a different engineer working for the county French and pillo is doing the county bridge design um they reached out to me and said yeah yeah we're going to use that closed Road next to the lake as a storage area I saided there is no closed Road by the
lake what are you talking about and they thought they saw the the snow fence at the end of the road leading to the campground and they thought that was like permanently closed and they said yeah you're not doing that so um what we discussed was the airport uh the Airfield site um you know is gated
there's access there's room that's cleared back there they could use that as a staging area um for the project but they cannot block the campground entrance that would not when is that they do not have a starting date yet they're still trying to put together bid documents and stuff they're
not going to close it down they're going to do alternating traffic so it will not be the 17 minute or whatever it was detour from last time we I wasn't going that way I hope they're not going to do it during the summer when the lake is open uh I don't I mean it's it's going
to be probably a 9 month or more project y so some portion of it will happen I'm sure while the lake is open but labor di is in September yes I don't I don't think stop by this no such start they'll
start they'll start Memorial Day they don't schedule quite yet um but they're just trying to finalize what the bid documents will be which will include things like the sing so uh I told them that the campground rude like if they needed that for a temporary staging area sometime between like November and beginning of April like that would
probably be fine other than that don't touch it with um the bond JY have there at that point too yes the Poli well that's so what we talked about is when the campground is closed um the city has that gate off the lake entrance where you can still get to the campground and grounds so as long as it's not the high
volume of traffic of campers getting back to their sites you know we could probably just open let people out that way for whatever is going on um and and how are they going to repair this bridge do they have to they're going to replace the bridge M they had
they're going demolish half of it and build half of it and then demolish the other half build other yeah they they've been boring out there because that's what Gary said the other day he said they're boring at the lake what are they doing I'm like that's that's been under designed for like three years and they did store on the other side right by
they're going to replace the infrastructure that holds the other side of the lake back uh yes yeah they understand that that's there and is functional and required well it's not totally functional theod it's functional so yeah they they were made aware that that
needs to remain because originally they said like oh you know we don't need those stop logs anymore yes so it's been a it's been a long experience but we're getting there okay we got a lot going on yeah a lot of
time sorry uh yes yeah I'll do that too yeah I gotta get the nville very shortly where going down okay number 12 you have anything to add
Elena we get to the okay thank you number 13 motion to approve yeah that's Bend to the shore bike that's a bike run they've always been on the agenda to approve them they come from town I'll
make a motion the chief sign just to make you aware coming through made second to approve all in favor I opposed eyes motion passes uh use of PE peace Pilgrim Park
sustainable a caror city Arbor Day celebration make a motion second motion remain and seconded questions all in favor opposed motion passes uh number 14 adopt resolution adopt
mayor's Monarch pledge a second I don't necessarily think a roll spending more money to make the if you had Pur certain
things motion's been made and seconded uh all in favor I oppos motion passes number 15 a resolution amending the AC cor City Lake Park fees is there a motion I make a motion M do you want to explain that
just a little bit yeah I I talked to uh let's get the second first and then then we'll go to questions I'll second it wasn't he just asked me to clarify before we make um Council of chairman right of the parks and playground we
discussed a few meetings ago when Chris Chris Orlando was here and they came up with some ideas and he said to hold off till he reviewed the fees and um there was what the only change in the fees is there'll be a residential reservation
fee uh the price for a resident to reserve a non-gr picnic table will be $115 and the price for residents to reserve at Grill picnic table will be 35 and that will be seven days a week and through through the uh resolution it it
says what the ID will be I don't if you want me to read that what the ID will be required and um when you can reserve the dates when you can reserve and it just uh list how how you qualify but mainly it's
about giving the because last year right there was a problem with the not a problem but you know some concern about the hive when we rais the fees for the picnic tables um so this was a fee that everybody was pretty much in agreement with
and there was some meeting like speaking with some of the residents that work and they were happy with it so I think Council uh or committee chair right felt this was a good thing to do and his committee and so the City attorney
prepared these changes to the to our fee schedule and this is a reduction for residents for residents only and it's have to prove that you if you read through it I I did you do have the ordinance not ordinance resolution they have to it's not just 08215 zip code you
have to live in an haror City and and it has to be booked at City Hall Monday through Friday it can't be booked at the lake is say it has to be booked in advance and and then you'll get a receipt that you you produce at the
Leake so they know you did and I think U through it I I guess I should have read it but um residents May Reserve no more than three tables at a time and there's no like first it's it's wor available like
so because people do come out and they sold out by the time they get there yeah so it's first Common there's no refunds but it's all written out in the resolution and I think it addresses what happened last year so hope is it date specific uh date specific would be you can start
reserving April 1st through August 29th but I mean you don't have to say I'm going to go there July 22 yeah but I mean they come City Hall and reserve for that day yeah yep yeah that's what they do now but there's no residence price that's why there's no refund so basically if you do schedule ahead of
time then sold that well if you it's not Avail if they come April 1 and say Hey I want I need the picnic tables for July 4th now it pours and rains July 4th you know you're kind of res you can
reschedule right yeah that well that's what I was asking so they they have a certificate that they bought it that day and they go there and they're all sold out come come to City Hall and Reserve tables so there'll be coordination yeah so if it's sold out they're not going to
get to book it it'll be scratched out on the paper or whatever they do to to yeah there is no refund however if the lake is closed due to rain what and we have a schematic that we use it's um actually my husband made it and it has all the tables on it where
they're placed so when they reserve it gets highlighted so anything and it goes in the bag and it goes to the lake and then they work off of that if they make it after if they make it Friday because they pick up all the bags for the weekend on Friday so if it's made on
Friday they'll have their own schematic they'll highlight it the girls uh at the tax office and then they'll take a picture of it and send it to Lake so there shouldn't be any there's going to be no residents sold at the lake the the key is you have to come to City Hall
yeah we we we just can't if you want a table to pay we're gonna get it out there we just have to get this approved get things printed off we're and one thing I would like to see next year is to make a resident ID and
we'll have to think about this and start it like early not wait till what we're in March yeah for next year because that's how like I used to work at Smithville Recreation and um that's how we the resident would come in and
take their picture it would go into a um database sort of and then everybody at the pools would have have access to it so the resident would come there information's there their pictures there and no problem at all I would like to see it get to the point where we can
sell residents picnics at the Leake but we're not there yet how's the internet out there but this is right oh the internet delay are we have what internet delay okay we had a motion we had a motion we need a
second motion b seconded roll call Clark yes Dash absolutely doy yes Galloway yes Heist absolutely hessie yes Keener yes Timbers yes right yes okay number 16 on
the agenda is a resolution to authorize the bid for the tree maintenance and removals motion motion second second second motion remain second um questions you have a recommendation from
the committee of the the high or the bid that you want to offer no we're going out they're going out the bid oh go out the bid okay I'm sorry so I'll do Clark yes Dash yes doy yes Galloway yes Heist yes hessie yes
Keener yes Timbers yes right yes okay number 17 is resolution to participate in South Jersey PC for electricity motion second Mo second all in favor I mean roll call Clark yes Dash
yes doy yes Galloway yes Heist yes hessie yes Keener yes Timbers right you okay number 18 is resolution to award the demolition contract for the Weiss Becker property of 135 milia Avenue I'll
make a motion a motion's been made in second questions so the low bidder so our resolution would be to little bitter Frank Goldrath and Sun Excavating and
demolition from Scotch Plains New Jersey 157,000 no that was theane okay roll call Clark yes Dash Doby Gallow
yes hessie yes Keener yes Timbers yes right yes passes um number 19 is introduced the ordinance number one 20202 amending Redevelopment plan for
the 801 Philadelphia Avenue rehabilitation area to permit certain cannabis uses question second I got a question what is certain cannabis there's only one kind of can agriculture versus medical I believe there's no
difference anymore yeah our attorney Elena is gonna speak on this I mean there's really no difference no more I mean different classes yeah definely are different there's six class marijuana is
marijuana terms of um this ordinance isn't going to permit him to do like a retail store there I think that's really what the that references to um I just took a look at this ordinance I made a few changes um I wasn't sure about some of
the references to I think that the or the ordinance before um referenced um medical it was defin yeah definitely Medical but it also referen um I think it grouped some of the kind of classes together and I wanted to make
sure that the ordinance was specific to the types um that are in the medical um statute but also the um New recreational statute too so you'll notice that I made some of those changes um just making
more references to the statutes um I do think that there's some more opportunity to go over some of the conditional use requirements because we want to make sure that um they the not setting the property owner up for failure um because
there's I noticed a few in there that I don't think are necessarily going to occur um such as that fence issue typically you know you can't necessarily tell a property owner maybe certain requirements for a fence but they have to meet the ordinance and they also
would have to meet you know their Redevelopment plan so if the Redevelopment plan says that it needs a 10-ft fence um of a certain kind they're going to have to meet that um so if you know there are preferences or if that property
owner you know for a fact they're not going to meet that then we want to make sure that the ordinance meets that um and then the biggest changes the proper and then the biggest change the biggest change um was reference to your
ordinance regarding um tax because the old the prior ordinance made reference to certain agreements by parties um that I just I don't think is an appropriate way to move forward um especially you want to ensure that
you're treating all all businesses in town the same um and also you already have a tax ordinance in place so we want to make sure that um the Redevelopment plan reflects that okay so now this this particular ordinance is specifically to this
property yeah so on on our conversation the other day you were talking about another ordinance that that would be necessary for us to pass in the future to cover everything in the city as far as catus yeah so I took another look and
I asked Meg to um send me any of your ordinances in place and you do have the tax which I think is what when we spoke I wasn't sure if that was in place that you know is Paramount pretty important um for the city and also to ensure that
that ordinance meets the statute um which I reviewed it and it looks um it looks on on par so I think that there's probably other opportunities um for review of your other ordinances like the
local license process probably could be a little more clear um and just to make sure that things are flowing in the appr appropriate manner now you have you know a few applications under your belt um there's a little more experience with cannabis um with other municipalities um just to make sure that
everyone's comfortable with it and it makes sense to both the applicant and also the city and like today I had someone inquire about adding a license to the return license so I had reached out to the attorney and you're looking into that like maybe we should update
our ordinance to reflect an amended ordinant like if you this particular business has a license right and they want to amend it to add another license what the procedure would be we have no procedure so we need so we need to
probably not that has nothing to do with this yeah you you also want to make sure the Redevelopment plan you know references any ordinances that are GNA you know either be in place or to make sure that they adhere to those so okay so we have the motion seconded I
just got one more question I mean this I maybe um and this might be a stupid question but is this for growing marijuana or smoking it says use cannabis use to me cannabis use is smoking in cannabis like use is like a retail St to
me it's should say growth but that's prevents like smoking on the property yeah should say explain got approval before this was cop before was right his Redevelopment plan has
provision like years ago so there at that time there was no state standard provision Revenue share or use classes or any of that stuff you could you could sell it and grow it in two completely different spots yeah you couldn't yeah right exactly so his his Redevelopment plan just totally does not agree with
what the law is now so this is just like an update of it of like okay you're doing all purp you're doing the same EX thing you're trying to do before you just need to fit within the walls as they exist now versus when no just the word is confusing me
that's okay go ahead go ahead um so the ordinance that were that there's a motion in a second is this the is that ordinance already been amended to the Amendments you were just talking about yeah so I already made those those um amendments that I discussed okay um but
there are still some amendments that I think are going to be needed to be made um especially like the It references the section of your code that I just like I'm not sure exists I did look um I just wanted to double check with Meg so we can clean
that up and like I said some of those um conditional terms like the fence issue um also probably needs to be address introduce it introduce it before so you can make changes after we introduce it yes that was okay
thank just I just wanted to ask um I know The Greening yeah item k um it talks about the fence it said it shall be screened along Street frontages and also where the site is adjacent to the occupied properties
where are these Arbor Bitties going they're already in they're along the white they're along Philadelphia Avenue from the end of the fence to essentially where the building stops because that's where he's going to continue to have storage like up to the fence line plus or minus because because it continues to
stay screening shall consist of double alternating bow of 8ot tall Arbor body evergreen trees planted 5 foot on Center uh wait a minute it did say there was another part on this Ben shall be screened along oh here the bench shall
be screened along all Street frontages and also where the side is so isn't it door on the side or de yeah deer street is side so that going be those are the kinds of things we need to flush out to say like it needs to reflect what it is
what require ex and this being in the ordinance could be something we say to him yeah he coming up for a vote this is what the prior plan was we're willing to make some revisions but you gota keep work things was that in the ordinance before so that that was in the original
um the medical cannabis from what I recall at the time was a lot more um limited so like it was going to be a large portion of the site and building like a larger portion that he's doing now um I I think since it's become so prevalent it's not quite as forecast to
be quite as yeah because when when he brought up Murphy was just getting in the office and this was just all brand new so there was no really no 100% exactly what could be done was just a bunch of rumors at the time Lena that's not something you put in on this no
that's that's the original language okay all right um so there's a motion and it's been seconded roll call Clark yes Dash yes doy yes Galloway yes Heist yes pessie I just want clarification I know we're I
know this is just an introduction however um this what do we say that we're going to make sure that he does follow the the ordinance correct before we do anything yeah so we'll make sure that we flush out so that the the
ordinance matches what it is that's being required exactly at this time because I think the other thing says attend events yes was a requirement when it was medical cannabis under the prior rules I don't I don't think we want a 10ft tall fence there is that is that a state law or we just making out low the
10 foot I think that's what it was when it was Medical Only okay Township I don't think has a fence around nothing away from no it's sitting right there on the Main Street and the houses are right next door but when this ordinance was written it was medical and
the speculations were very so much distance to a school a church a daycare so a lot of those since it's legalized now that's changed like they can be within so much distance to because it's now le oh no no I'm not
yeah I'm not I'm just talking the one is built the church is right next door the school's right down the street so I mean that's believe me since I was classes too so if the six requires that fence he's going to have to do that in order
to get his so I have hess's clarification which we heard um K yes Timbers yes right yes okay um motion to advertise notice
of adoption in The hamton Gazette March 19th 2025 April April 10 I thought I sent email April 10th yeah you did there for the adop for the public hearing public hearing on March or April 10
two Street left so when will we advertise it in The Gazette it'll be advertised that date March 19th okay right is there a motion don't move second motion made seconded all in
favor motion pass okay Bill list a motion motion made second questions on the bills roll call Clark yes sash yes doy
Galloway yes he yes hessie yes ker yes Timbers yes right yes okay U mayor comments just thank you again for your presentation I do appreciate it it's
very nice I um just a funny Pat story I'm glad the cat Situation's good Steve and I have always talked about neutering and all that ja and I'm glad it's getting done when I was little my my grandom lived next door to my uncle Pat's shop it was weldy and ratty if you
guys know but there was always feral cats out there but these cats didn't have any Tails so I you know me I would I would stand like a statue and I try to catch a cat because I wanted I wanted one so I
did I did file and get one and I made him a pet so but I never saw a cat since then with had a tale like none of them had tals Max is that what they are so just funny cat story but thank you to everybody who worked on the cast
greatly appreciate it okay anything else nope no okay uh let's go the other way uh councilman clerk uh councilwoman woman uh nothing at this time thank you okay councilwoman Heist nothing at this time councilman Dash I'd like to thank
our chief for hiring an officer Ben bringer greatly appreciated I'm glad you did your due diligence to to get M from tee and also I'd like to thank Council for supporting the the C program and that's something that be
talked about at the ordinance Comm right or we don't need to change anything in the ordinance for that no that will get to ordinance okay all right councilman I don't have anything there okay councilman
timers I just want say uh congratulations to our mayor thank you great job over the last uh 12 plus years um also uh to our chief uh one of the things that when you come up you always
talk about is uh training for your officers and um I think that's awesome so I support that thank you for that and I think this is like uh uh
women's month History Month women's history women's History Month okay well I want to celebrate all women thank you great job all past and yeah past and
right anything else okay c h uh I just wanted to say uh there students from Cedar Creek Art uh Club well not Club but art class are painting the rain barrel that was has been at the the log
cabin for I how many years nette put it out there with the years the Green Team yeah so what we did is we it was starting to fade and uh I asked them if they would do it again and they did they're working on it right now it's looking great so by the end of the month
it should be back so I just wanted to um mention mention that and um thank them okay thank you councilwoman Gallow uh I just wanted to wish everybody happy St Patrick's Day John over to
it only live once cman right uh just a couple things um people signups and flag football signups will start next Wednesday when I get back from Nashville which I gotta leave in six hours
um uh so from 6:30 to 7:30 um also I'm not sure if I brought this up last meeting or the meeting before but I know I brought it up um did we ever send code over to the sooko place and get these lights checked out or what they
just Jackie I mean you can see this place from space the we have to change it we have to get you got to put a pair of sunglasses going drive by there the only reason it because somebody wrote it up to me the other day at and I keep forgetting about
it and his um NJ do uhuh not us oh okay so but I mean I wasn't sure the bring up engineer problem I didn't want put it on his bir you might be able to fit it under um
land use because there's a section that regulates sight lighting you know you could make an argument that that's not s lighting it's building letion but um all of your lighting standards require to to eliminate glare and um I'm trying to think what the the technical term is
essentially like emitting path supposed to be like shielded and you know directed down not out um so obviously all those light bulbs are facing directly out so you might I mean I could talk to Steve we can look in the ordinance to see if if we can identify
section that we think would be applicable to the way that that lighting I think there's another one in AB too meter that you could to know you have it in the ordinance there's a minimum number of that you have to have on the site for
various things parking I I imagine that do has standards for glare emitting from a site on a state highway I don't I don't know they like else no but yeah I got one thing um
mayor just brought it to my attention and I totally forgot but I want to give a big shout out to um a har City Community boys and girls for winning the championship this year they'll be here next month so this month right yeah probably
there's want to say six Championship since since school correct seventh and eth or they do six seventh and eth so they'll be here the7th to be recognized so hopefully everybody could show up for that one thing just so everybody knows
that you know that we're talking about you know appreciating women and everything this is Egger City's first girls basketball team that ever wion a championship I just wanted to ask one other thing I know the chief brought something up as far as not being able to
put the light um the speed light on the White Horse pipe would that have anything would there be any way to tie anything like that with with the lighting situation yes yeah it's hanging up right next to it put it in the front they'll never
see I don't know there is I mean yeah I think that has more to do with um enforcement there and um distractions alone but yeah vein yeah I agree that's I said we we'll out to and try to figure out what
their rules are but I I do think there's something the city ordin probably lean on to to get I mean if they just D them down a little bit I mean it's I think I said something a while ago about you know just shielding them essentially right now you're just staring directly
at the Led Bowl you know if you put um a transition material on it that some level of capacity to it to just diffuse that light a little bit would make a big difference you're gonna talk to Steve about that you yeah is there anyone from
the public wish to be heard I like the lights they don't blind you helps you see ma' can you come to the microphone say your name and your
address anyone else okay sir a motion to adour I'll make a motion second good night everyone crit favor you know