We stand for the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. I'd like to call the meeting of July
10th, 2025 of a barber city capital to order. Uh this meeting is in compliance with the open public meetings act of the state of New Jersey. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in the following manner. Posted on the AC
Carver city bulletin board, posted on the AC Carver city website. and a notice were sent to the Cington Gazette and the Atlantic City Press. [Music] So number three on our agenda is Wall
Mayor Jetty here. Clark, she said she might in a few minutes. Dash here. Go here. Galloway here. Heist here. Hessie here. here. Here.
Right. Number four on the agenda is approve the meeting minutes of June 26, 2025. Is there a motion? Second. Motion has been made and seconded. All in favor?
I opposed. And it's approved. Number five, uh, is public comment on any agenda items. So u we have a comments at the end of the meeting for anything but for the agenda
items only for this part of the meeting. So please please come up and state your name and address please. Hi. I live at 428 Avenue to address number. I think we can hear on that.
Yeah, it's on. I think it's on. You just can't hear it. It's a different received a certified letter regarding a fartship um for one place in the driveway. I'm wondering what that hardship is. I do not know. It was not
identified if you're in the certified letter. I have heard that it has to do with the handicapped child. Um which, you know, I certainly my heart goes out to anyone that does have a handicapped child. Um, but in the 30 years that I
have lived in that home, I have never seen a handicapped child come in and out of that. Um, that doesn't mean that the child does not exist. I just have not seen it. Um, my concern is that maybe
there's a better solution, temporary solution, rather than a permanent solution with a driveway that changes the capacity of my entire block. um maybe you know put in a a handicap spot on the street. I don't know if
anybody's been down that street, but it is clogged up with parks from my house to the block to the end of the block. And at that street's not on the stop side. It's a hazard because nobody has availability to park. So they're right
up to the stop sign. And I do believe that there has to be so many feet you might 20. Yeah. So, you know, possibly a handicap spot in the in the front of the home. Um, also, you know, I don't see
any um ramps for access at the home. Again, that would be a temporary, you know, piece of equipment that could assist. And again, it's not permanent after they leave the home and changes the complexity of our law, you know, and
you know, if you make an exception for someone, there's always somebody else who wants the same exception. And I think it's going to set a precedence. And once that driveways in, then what's next? Is there a carport, you know, is there anything against putting the
carport, you know, on that way? So really that's all I have to say as I would refer to our administrator. Uh this application came in there was a discussion whether it should go to the land use board or it should come here. We decided it should come here and
jury's prepared to talk about it. So if you want to um Joe if you want to bring up 18 now I can discuss 18 directly then we'll we'll go right to Is that a worry? Okay. Okay. So um I'll explain to the council what's what's going on. So um couple months
ago, Mr. Jere who lives at they did the motion. You want We should do the motion. Yeah, I did the motion. So number 18, we'll jump to that. It's a resolution approving the installation of a front yard driveway at 444 Buffalo
Avenue. Is there a motion? I make a motion. Motion's been made and seconded. We're going to hold off on the uh vote. Oh, so open discussion. Discussions. That probably would like to speak, but
Jason, they should probably speak before I do. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity. Um Jason, I'm his actual neighbor. Um probably water run off already. Um I
have a question. If you just build something without variances, what is what's the repercussions? That would be a violation of our code. What happens? Uh there would be a a summon issued and
uh there would be a court case. Well, he's already up an addition within 3 foot to 4 foot of my property. Water comes off a roof and severe storms already into my backyard. See, I I'm not sure about Did he didn't
have a permit? You're saying I've never signed any variances or ever seen anything. I didn't get your name. I'm sorry. Jason. So bubble. What's the name? So s t o t. Yeah, there's already water problems,
you know, issues with that. His whole backyard's asphalt. They could put in a sliding gate and she could drive right in with the child if she needed to the back. And there's no they offer no help. I just came from that. I'm actually upset.
She was dragging a cooler into the house. Nobody else. I've never seen anyone carry this child or anything else other than the children. This is a disabled child, you're saying, is carrying a puller in? No, no, no. It's the way that's what the
driveway, I guess, would be for, you know, and they don't have handicap ladies. How handicap are they? Um, and who else could use the driveway? Anyone in the band? all issues concerned. And you said the whole backyard is
asphalt. Yeah, they have a big Well, it's not completely, but they have a nice big asphalt driveway that track the back. The cost of putting in a driveway compared to a slide gate sliding gate.
Do you think it would be easier for this child? I mean, if if they I've never actually seen the child before. Oh, you never saw the child either and you live next door. Yes. Okay. And do you think this child if they were to park in the front and have a
handicapped sign in the front, do you think it would be even easier than going to the side and coming around? Very, very possible. Um the difference in their parking spots because he parks his truck right in front of the walkway and she has to park behind.
You don't need a handicap spot. We just need to move your vehicles. Come out and help. Okay. Well, thank you. Ready? Yes, please. Several months ago, um Diego Contreres came to um the building department
asking uh how he could potentially apply for a front driveway uh similar to the other residents that are on the 400 block of Buffalo Avenue. There are, I believe, five other front driveways on the 400 block of Buffalo Avenue and um
there's a little bit of a language barrier. Um I speak uh Spanish as best I can and he and I uh entered into a conversation. Um I uh that day went to his house and he met me there at his house and he explained the situation
that um he has a young handicapped child who they pick up out of their vehicle and they bring into the front of the house. Um and uh this child um when he is not in a wheelchair uh they pick him up and bring him directly to the bed and
in the house he stays in the bed. He's bedridden. And so we discussed a couple of things. I went to the back of the property and I saw the um access that he has from the terrace and the driveway and then he has a garage. He also has a sliding rear door. I sent pictures of some of this
stuff to the council. Um and then we talked about the front and um I offered uh to potentially bring up the um front street parking, handicap parking. Um he said that that wouldn't work because he needs the driveway closer to the front
door because that's how they bring in the child. how they carry the child into the front door and and DGO is here. He can come up and answer any questions that the council may have. I may have to interpret it as best I can, but he will answer whatever questions you have. So then um there was a discussion with
the land use board chair and with Ryan, right? And we talked about the fact that um there was another application as well, 640 San Francisco. They wanted a front driveway. In that situation, it was that there was no rear access to the property with the unfinished or unpaved
area. Um the rear the terrace, forgive me, I don't remember what terrace it was. It is, but behind Buffalo is a paved and he does have access. Um so I asked to fill out an application, which he did, which we scanned to the council. Uh he also was required to do
the 200 foot notice. That's why we have residents here. And uh he provided additional information. So, he provided from the Atlantic County Special School District, Special Services School District, a letter from Brian Contras, that's his son, physical therapist,
explaining his disability. I provided that to the council as well. I also provided the handicap placard that he has for his vehicle. Um, so I provided that as well. Those were the scans that I gave you guys to to to look at. Um so
at that point u when I spoke to the council president he said okay um bring it to the council and we'll discuss it at the council level. So his request is to put in a front driveway to the what's that side the the right side. It'll be the
White Horse Pike side. White Horse Pike side, the south side of his driveway so that um he and his wife could take Brian out of the vehicle uh go in through the front door and immediately um into his bedroom. That's what they're requesting. Um and of
course there was a few items that we needed to discuss that I needed to discuss with Diego because that is one of our streets that we're going to be paving this year. So it's going to be improved. So this uh if approved, this has to be done before the road gets approved. Um so that's where we are
right now. I provided that information to the council members. I have it here again because I have his file with me. Uh he's willing to come up and answer any questions that uh that you may have. Ramping the child into the body.
That wouldn't be my question. It would be Diego's question. David, you got to come up there. Yes. Uh I didn't get any scans or any information about this prior to this meeting. Yeah, it was the information that was sent out with the uh agenda. No, I didn't I didn't get any.
Oh, okay. Here it is. No, I thought I thought this was the stuff that Donna was supposed to send it to you and supposed to send it to council, but you they can pass it around now. I apologize. I had asked Donna to do that and send it over for the meeting.
Yeah. These additional photos as well. And is that the address for the placard? 444. Yep. And these are the photos. Thanks. How about the the comment about the addition on the house? Was there
That's the first I'm hearing of it. I'm not aware of anything like that. It's probably predates me. Oh, definitely. Yes. Two years. Been here for a little while. Right. So, so I don't know that. Uh, I could of course look into that, but I don't know that right now.
So, the question I think that one of the council member has is how come um a handicap parking spot similar to the others, right? Um, in front of your house, how come that doesn't work? So, you need to
answer that question, I believe. Well, uh, it's not going to help because, uh, well, I heard a child that's 12 years old uh they come uh disabled we don't want you
know you know that happens and uh me and mom we have to carry him the house to the car then it's getting heavy it's gone we took Brian to do a special for county yeah county social services yeah
so in the summer uh I'm sorry and winter time we took Brian you know every day there's school and again it's growing and how old is he in a wheelchair yes he's in a wheelchair okay so do you have
a wheelchair van um not yes okay yes so if he's in a wheelchair and you have a wheelchair van I've worked for special services for 32 years that's what I did for a living I retired from there I worked for 32 years at special services with children like yours. Um, you don't
have a wheelchair band. So, what does he ride in in the car? You just buckle him in the seat. Yeah. Yeah. For mama car to the seat. Okay. Well, he should probably be in a adaptive car seat if he does. Yeah. He should That's for his safety.
That's besides all of this. He should be in an adaptive car seat. However, if he's in a hand if you have a handicap van and he's in a wheelchair, you just take that wheelchair lift down and you wheel you wheel him right up that lift to that lift that ramp into
the house and right into the house into the wheelchair. Well, right now stepping in the front house will be step. Right. But and that's a good point. Why is there not a ramp there now? Right. That's what I'm saying. That as he gets bigger,
even if you have a driveway next to your house, you're not going to be able to lift him. We going to make a little ground, right? But what I'm saying is he grows, whether that driveway is next to your house or not, you're not going to be able to lift him. So putting that
driveway in, you're spending all that money on that driveway where that money more and personally in my opinion should be focused on trying to get a van and the the adaptive equipment for him so that you can wheel him into the chair and up a lift. If you talk to your
physical therapist and your social workers at the school, they should be able to help get you that equipment for your home to make it easier to make it adapt make your home adaptive to his needs. We did talk to them and they recommended us to put a driveway there
so a bit more closely into the house and we going to make a little ramp from the door to the driveway. We are going to walk by a special car for us that's going to be next like I said a special child. I'm not
going to lie. I don't know why my neighbor they they never see Brian when I was carrying him recommendation. Yeah, that our city attorney uh has a recommendation and uh I guess the
discussion we had was not correct and this should not be heard here at city council. It should go ahead. Yeah, I mean um based on the conversation that's going on now on the application front, I think that there should be an application to the land use board to
review these issues. Can I ask another question? Asking another question. Yeah. Yeah. Um did I watched you put up that addition? It took you about a year to do it, right? Is that for your son? Yes. Okay. Um did you get a permit to build
that? Yes. And did you request at that time that you wanted a driveway in the front? No. Why not? Because we don't have the money. So, uh, first we we the house because have a lot
of equipment there like therapy stuff. So, the bare home right now have is kind of small. It don't f So, we did the additional room for him bigger. So we can put all equipment and anyone
he can go see you know all the stuff is I did see I did see it from when I went to the back I did see it through the sliding glass doors that there was a lot of equipment. No I'm I'm just saying if he needed an handicapped ramp in the front of the house and he had to come to the city to
get a permit or a varants or whatever to build this addition. It looks like it it's within the setback. So, I don't know if he needed to go to the land use board or anything like that to build it, but at the time there should have been something on your application that you
want a driveway in the front and it could have been heard at that time before you built the addition and it could all be taken care of by now. The city didn't have the money statement. Good question. Yeah, we don't have the money. Sorry, we don't have the money to the first like first we need is the back room to be
doing all the stuff in there. It's growing water quick, right? Well, I mean look, if the needs changed and something's changed with regards to the permit, I mean all ultimately it should be the land use board that hears all that, right? I mean, they've already heard the initials. So, I would say that they should make the application the land use board, let the
land use board flush out the issues. That's the board that's properly venued for u uh for zoning and variance issues like this. So they should be the one to hear legally anyway. So based on that, it's it's not worth us
discussing it any further at this point. Uh we're going to recommend that you take this and make an application to the land use board so they can review the whole site of what you're trying to do there. Okay. Okay. No, your comments are valid here, but uh
it'll be heard again at the land use court. Yes. Will they Well, yeah. 200. Yeah. We'll have to redo the 200 foot notice. We'll have to redo what you did with the 200 foot notice when you get the information from Donna about the lane
board application. We're not trying to give you the runaround. It's just uh procedurally that's the right way. Yeah. My point is my child is grown. We're not that you know like two years it can't carry him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean can't. So that's the point,
right? Okay. Well, thank you. Notice he did not receive notice our conversation. Should have got one. Double check that.
I'll talk to Donna. I got a miss miss off notice like last Saturday. Okay. So that those meetings are the third Tuesday of the month. So I don't know when it would be heard but it'll be
this probably the 15th and August 19th. That's should be the August meeting. We'll send it to you. Thank you Paul. Appreciate it. Thank you. Can I say something on his applic
I kind of agree with the um prior council president that we shouldn't be using curb pub huds on front of properties in egg harbor especially in the downtown area because it's very congested sometimes certain like on my
block the whole end of the block is cars the other half of the block is vacant and and there's open spaces but every time we take it away. Oh, approve a curb cut. We take away a public parking space. So, how many times have we done that?
Well, we just did one at the land use board that was considered a waiver, which I thought, and I might be wrong, that council had to prove that there was no terrorist there. Is that the one on San Francisco? There is a terrorist there. It's just
not right. And and and that's my point is that if we're going to have new homes built or you know like when when that fell built that house he had to come in with a site plan. Did he why didn't he ask for it then? Why did it have to come back? That was a bit of an oversight. It was
included on his initial plan and then when he went to build it they said oh you can't actually do that but it was on my plan from six months ago and that's proved it. Okay. So that was a bit of miscommunication. So, I really think we should like look at that ordinance and see because I in
that area that's 13th Terrace. I think there's not much going on in those neighborhoods. But when you get closer to Philadelphia Avenue, that's when it really gets congested and we have a lot of multi-unit properties in that in that area. So allowing
just being consistent and our thing is consistent because we get people all the time that wants the only thing is there's certain certain homes that you can't because they have either a garage in the back. I've seen that they can. So they would have to make a exception.
Well, right. So if we we can resolution since you're not going to take vote on it. This resolution here. Yeah. Because you just tamp it. Yep. Motion to say make a motion with table. Motion made and second at the table. All in favor?
I number 18 is t. Okay. Then we'll go to number six, mayor's comments. Okay. So, um I did get an email stating that and I think I emailed it to the um finance and redevelopment committee that
the NJA we got the grant for $169,139.80 to do the preliminary assessment for Moss the Mossmail road landfill. So, if you didn't if you weren't on that committee, we did get the grant to
pursue um pursue that. The only other thing I have is the lake report and um badges and bands we sold 4,199 for $59,215.
Picnics 198 at 12,030. Gazebo and boat rides $530. Our sales year to date are 7071,775. 2024 was 84,335. So, we're a variance of 12,560,
which is getting better. If you remember the last report, it was like 30,000, but obviously the weather's not helping the sales. Um, today we had a close. We had a close last week. So, so all in all, we're not doing too bad. We did get the
campground payment, but for some reason it's not on here. It was about $5,900, which is about $4,000 less than last year. Bad weather this year. Yeah, bad weather. A lot of rain and cold. Um, and that's really all I have.
Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Councilwoman Galloway for sustainable property. uh nothing for property and sustainable EHC is on hiatus for the summer but uh we are working to get um speaker at
Cedar Creek High School in September 10th. Um his name is Doug Talamy. Look him up. He's great great speaker and um pleased to have him. What be funded through the grant but that's it. That's all.
Not much going on yet at this time. U Councilwoman Pessie for safety code enforcement Rotary. Uh last Tuesday was a Rotary Club's uh officer changeover dinner. And the new president is now Charlie Pritchard.
Uh yeah. Uh that's all I have for Rotary. Uh safety committee. There's nothing. And the code committee um I'll read the code department second quarter uh summary. Uh, their administrative duties, they
had 129 certified mail, 124 illegal dumping, seven in-person notifications, 62 inspections, 357, investigations, 137 red cards issued, 46, telephone
email notifications, 104, TV tags issued, 12, and zoning reviews conducted 75. And that's um and then the last thing I have also uh the total income for the second quarter was 42,36.
Uh Jerry, if you have anything else to add now. Um no, the um just one thing on the TP tags, it's really working because our uh electronics um container is filling up and uh we just recently emptied it and it's already full again. Oh, so it's working well. Yeah. People
are bringing their old TVs and etc. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bring it over. 7 to 3:30. Sitting in my garage for a year. That's all I have. Uh, Councilman Timbers, uh, license
ordinance, land use, and nothing to report. Uh, Councilman Dovy for DPW. The public works committee met earlier this week, but had an extensive um uh
review of a number of projects by both Ryan on from our city engineer and the status of all those projects. So, when we get to his report, we'll get an update on that. and um Jerry will give a
more detailed public works um operational and staffing report and during the administrators. That's all. Okay. Thank you. Uh for finance redevelopment, uh the mayor and I had a
conversation with uh the gentleman who's working on the studio, the film studio, and um it sounds like it's progressing well. He's very close to getting uh approvals from finance and uh we're
going to ask him to come in. He's he's very willing to come in and talk maybe even to the entire council about his progress and what he's looking to do there. And uh he's also interested in the aarbor. So uh our RFU when it goes
out he's going to be included. So uh things are looking up as far as that. And also we've had a discussion with Dr. Lider. I always say his name. Later for the St. Nicholas property and
he told us that he's purchasing the property in August which he said he's had an agreement of sale with the dascese but he's taken the step to actually purchase the building and uh which kind of indicates to me that he is
going ahead with the project. So that's another big project I think that'll be beneficial to the committees. Yes. Um all right. Number eight on our agenda is
the chief of police. [Music] been a while uh probably last meeting. So I will give you some numbers from the time I was last here until now. Uh we had two calls, two fraud calls, one
simple one, one stolen motor vehicle, nine thefts. meet at lines, three motivated lines, two pedestrian stops, 87 traffic stops or some uh 44 summones issued. Um 10 arrests including one, 20, one residential alarm, 120 crime
prevention activities, two small mists, seven domestics, 42 AMS incidents, nine firearms applications, 17 followup property, eight public. Um, I did have an opportunity last month
right before the last council meeting. Um, it was the New Jersey chief chiefs of police uh conference and police expo. I was very fortunate to hear some uh really amazing speakers who had some great stuff to say. Specifically, one
man was in the um White House bunker with Vice President Cheney on 911. So got a lot of crisis management and you know ways to handle different um very stressful situations. Uh got some pointers on that. And then also a former
retired police captain um who was part of three separate school shootings. Coline um flat lake and I forget the other name of the other school. Um and then his daughter also spoke who was a uh victim in a bike
fluctuating. So we got a lot of interest in his donation. Um and that was a really good opportunity. Um during the last few time uh during the the upcoming stuff that we have got
going on um we are working with the local schools to shore up on active shooter stuff. doing a tabletop app exercise that will include the school administrator staff, our police officers um to go over, you
know, a worst case scenario um and best practices. Um [Music] um we do have the deer Olympics coming up or lead Olympics coming up that will be on August 9th in the morning at the lake, the same day as the foot truck
festival. Um, I would like to commend uh code enforcement. Don't say me. Always always always um of those numbers that were read off
those 47 red tags which are warnings. I got another one while I was deploying my law. Um, and that one is safe from code enforcement. Um, chief of police. Um I I live in Hamilton. Well, yes,
they will find you. They would have found me as I was actually mowing the lawn and Jerry almost I did almost almost um some things that have been going on administratively. Captain Fernandin has
been working very hard. He did participate in a water rescue drill. Um he's worked on our water rescue plan. uh that includes issues for the Mullica River and because we do have the lake that's part of that. So he has he has worked very hard on the water rescue
plan with local authorities um state police the ambulance squads our dispatch so we're all on the same page for any water rescue issues um as well as our emergency operation plan um for emergency management. So he has worked hard with that. I know that uh some of
you got copies like that as No, we didn't get the copy, but they they um I brought up last meeting we signed it. Yes. Um because it was just a I only had it. Okay. Well, I mean, if you really want to look at it, you can you're more than welcome to. I read the whole thing. It's pretty
detailed. Very detailed. Um so, we work really hard on that. Um special thanks to Mike Brandenburgger from Hamilton Township. He uh does a lot of emergency management stuff and he has been super helpful with that. So, um, as always, we appreciate our partnership
with Hamilton Township. Um, did can I ask you a question? Did you finish the water rescue plan? Because the one I have in the AFP is just a draft. Um, I have to It says draft on it. So, if you do have it, did the captain it was it was last year of the year.
Oh, he just Okay. He just sent something maybe within the last three days. So, also done that. Um, yeah. So, he's done that. So, some other exciting news, we did have one of our new hires start this week. He's currently doing um
FTO with uh our field training officers. He is a temporary hireer. So, what that means is he's certified as a class two um and we have nine months to enroll him in a either waiver class or full-time academy. Um so, what we are doing right
now is we are keeping him here for the summer so that we have an extra body gets to know the town and then he will be sent off to complete his training. Um and we do have another officer graduating from the Atlanta County Academy on the 24th and he's teaching invitation for that. Um so he will be
starting shortly thereafter by the end of the month. Um upcoming trainings that we have going on. We have two offices going field training um uh the field training officer training so that they can help train our community hires. Um
we are having folks go to a one officer go to a class called finding words. Um that's really important for us. Finding words. If we have victims uh of any kind of assaulting that happens criminally that are under control, regular police
officers cannot interview them. Um they have to go through special training in order to not ask leading questions full of questions that can influence the children and that's finding. our last uh one of our offices to go get that. We also have a first amendment audit um
training schedule. There's been up to and first amendment audit comes through the area. Um so that's something that is offered through our uh insurance fund. It is. Yes. State insurance. Exactly.
So So that's what we've got going on. We um one thing that I did want to bring up that is part of I mentioned this a while ago um a countywide traffic initiative um I don't know if MJ have seen I know that
um Linda Cohen the radio has done a few articles about it um that the prosecutor's office has also put out some uh some information but there have been two uh 4-hour blocks of traffic enforcement throughout the county on the first one which was June 26th Um there
were 13 part participating uh agencies with a total of 105 motor vehicle staffs with 92 summones. Um oh I'm sorry that's from July 7th. Um 105 motor vehicle stops 92 summones four vehicles towed and four arrest on warrants. The first night on the 26th of June there were 77
summones for 111 motor vehicles lost. So they're targeting areas that were highlighted by the state police as areas of high vehicle crash incidents. Um we are on the rotation for that. The first two the first one was seek Atlantic City
and yeah I don't want to say um but along that corridor and then the last one that they did the other night was um in EHT Pleasantville Northfield and Lynwood. Um so yeah it's been very very
good. Uh the countyy's happy with it. I know that um folks have been talking about it. So, I'm hoping that it is uh curving some reckless and and dangerous driving along with this the car stops. There are educational aspects
to it. I know that on the white horse bike and the black horse bike pike with any of the uh with any of the hotels and the local businesses there, they've been handing out literature about driving safely. Um, so it's not just about enforcement, it's also about education to make sure that
people are aware. Chief, how does that work? Is it Do our officers participate in that, too? Yes, absolutely. So, we have two officers. Um, they don't both go at the same time. One goes at one time. It's a state grant. So, all of their overtime
is covered by the state grant, National Highway Traffic Safety. Um, same folks do click or ticket or bus or polo. So, uh, our county, uh, coordinator, Christine Wolman, we coordinated with her at one of our chiefs, um, meetings
and we came up with this idea. And so, yes, all the agencies who were interested, we sat down, we targeted the areas that were, you know, high traffic, uh, accident areas and um, she found money so that we can do this. So, yes,
uh, there are a bunch of agencies. So, um, the sheriff's department dispatch is has dedicated two dispatchers during those time blocks and it goes through their dispatch and it's it's actually crazy. I listen for a little bit and like these guys are just stepping all
over each other, but they're out there stopping cars. So, um, so so we should we'll see that soon. Yes. Yes, you will. So, so yeah. And that's that's all I have. Quick question. Yes. Do you have I had a
call dispatch earlier for the uh flamingo keeper out at the lake. Do you have any updates on that? What was going on? I don't know. You probably weren't here. No, I don't know about the flamingo giver. One thing I would like to ask is that I know that we've had our officers going out at like 5:35 for the bank bag.
The bank bag is never ready. Um so if they could just call dispatch when the bag is ready. So that way I made a schedule. I made a schedule for them and I texted it to them to keep them on task. this gets done that time, but I'm trying
it hasn't been an easy easy lift. So, yeah, that's that's where we're at. Um, thank you. So, um, I did I did text the individual who's supposed to rescue this flamingo. He hasn't gotten back to me, so he's probably
still in the kayak. I'm just letting you know. I can go outside. Yeah. Mike's really good at that. Go ahead. All right. Any other questions? Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you very much for your help with the
Oh, you're welcome. Anytime. Okay. Number nine is our CFO report. City clerk. City administrative. Thank you. Uh so, um to the public works committee, I sent out that we had a
completed uh revisit from PIOSHA. Uh we had a couple of items that needed to be addressed. We completed those and so we got the all clear. Um let's hope that it takes another 10 years for him to come around and inspect us again. But we passed um everything
really everything was really in proper order at the DPW lodge and so I appreciate our staff doing that. Uh we continued to do regular maintenance on schedule. Although it rained most of the day today, uh we have not fallen behind. Um, and now we're starting to catch up
on uh we've completed five handicap parking spots. Uh, painting those. Um, and next we'll be doing the piano key uh crossing in the school areas. We'll concentrate on that. And then last thing we'll do this summer is the parking lot striping. So, we'll try to freshen up
everything and be able to do all of that. Um, in addition to that, we started metal recycling. Did you get a check today, Jody? Must be on my desk. All right. So, we started metal recycling. For some reason, we collect a lot of
metal all throughout the year and uh so we wait for times when we do catch up on work to be able to um bring it down the street to um uh to American. That's DDW. We're currently in the process of replacing our um backup. We've been
involved in uh negotiations with the uh vendor uh who was on Source Weld. Um and we did get a very good offer for our tradein uh for our backo. So we're moving forward with that process. And right now although um we did fall behind
on brush, we caught up on a rented backho. We had a backo rented for three days and caught up on on the all of the brush throughout the entire city. Uh which was incredible how much we collected truly. Um so we're doing a lot of uh green recycling in that regard.
Um, as far as uh my administrative work, the RFQ that we worked with uh Chris on is ready to go and be posted on the website on Monday morning. Um, in addition to that, I'll have Meg um advertise that as well the way um um it
should be advertised. Um we're working on other items. uh we're trying to uh have conversations about the landfill and move that uh process forward and uh you know everything else that comes my way. Today I did start our shared service agreement with Hamilton. Uh I
was there uh helping them out but throughout the entire day answering phone calls and um emails and text messages mostly from staff some from the mayor um about a few things. Not me. So no you were. Yes, do it tonight.
Yeah. Um, so, uh, things seem to be working out pretty well with that. And that's just the first day, so let's see how it goes. Great. That's it. Any questions? I'm ready. Any, uh, update on the tree removals? Oh, yeah. 43, uh, 43 removes removals so
far from our list. And then, um, Ingred or or Macy not here, but, uh, we did have a little bit of a setback with our contractor working on the, uh, Crusaders building. um he's a few weeks delayed. We're waiting for him to get better. We hope he gets better very quickly and
then we'll be going at um that. But everything is in place. Jody has given me all the purchase orders for that and we have all the quotes and so we're ready to go to get that done. Um and our target is, you know, before football starts which we'll be able to make. Great.
And and the RFQ that you mentioned, is that for North? Yes. And what about the RFQ for um tree planting? Oh, that's ready. Uh, we can We didn't talk about it, but that's ready to go. I've had that in the can already for a little while. Okay. I think we should get working on that
because, you know, they're going to have to order trees. If we're going to plant 200, it might take them a month or so to Yeah. So, I I can put that out this week. I can put that out this week. I'll send that over to Chris to to give it a quick look, but, you know, it's one of the it's one of the ones I've used in the past and we already have the trees
and the substitution list and all of that stuff. So, plant, so that's ready to go. that's been ready for a little while. And for us, a good website is from Trenton. They're doing a tree program up there. They had a long list of street trees. So, I just want to send it to you.
Send it because I can augment. It's not, you know, I can still change the the list of streets. Yeah. All right. I'll get that to you. I just had to add one question about um the park that they're putting in on the main street. Um did what did they decide
to do with the trees? Did they get did they get someone else to uh get the trees for them? Smaller trees. You're talking about Archway Green. Yes. So, Archway Green, I spoke to the landscape architect and we went back and forth on which trees and we agreed on the list of trees and so they have that out of it. I said they did.
Yeah, they have that. The contractor The contractor Maxwell hired RW Brown. I I worked with their staff architect, landscape architect. So, they're still using RW Brown. Yeah, they still use W Brown. That's
their subcontract. Yes. Yep. I just have one thing, Jerry. You and I talked, this kind of related to that other the people that were here today. You and I talked about um painting those stop sign stop bars. Stop bars.
And I just wanted to coun council to know that you are working on that and it will be done because that's important. Yeah. And and we're um I was able to pry a little money away from Jod. So, we're going to be buying some stop signs as well. So, um but we'll be doing stop
bars and stop signs because the stop signs are are pretty bad. There's no reflectivity on the stop sign. So, we think it's important. I think the chief would agree that it's important to stop. So, they need to see stop signs. So, they need to see stop signs, but we'll be doing stop bars, but we'll do piano keys first. We're doing the
crossings first. Okay. Yeah. I I have a question. And I keep forgetting to ask you when I talk to you, but there's a lot of people that have trees where the brush has grown up on where the branches are coming out of uh so if I feel energetic sometimes I get
out of the car and cut that for them. I mean it's not proper street tree. So, at some point, so today, yesterday, today, tomorrow, we're cleaning catch basin tops to make sure that we get all the um the defoliated
bark that collects in our streets, right? Um so, we'll get we'll get on to that as well. So, since Joe brought that up, I'll bring up So, sorry, I know I'm hungry, too. I didn't eat, but um the I had spoken which to you already,
Jerry, about the the um bushes that are growing on the curbs. Yes. Like especially if you go where we're around where Gary lives, you'll see it. And I don't know what the conclusion was to that, but Steve Hadley told me he didn't know because the code was unclear.
There isn't something so I looked into that, but there isn't something specific in our code to talk about that. I believe that we have a lot of weeds growing between the curb and the pavement because um we're somewhat behind on paving streets. In other areas where streets are paved on a regular
basis, that's very that's reduced significantly. Right. So, um um I when I'm driving around writing up work orders for DPW, I'll check to see if a house is really overgrown. There's a couple of house really overgrown. Most of them are rentals. Mayor, yeah, most Yeah. The one
I'm talking about isn't, but Okay. So, um if it's not a rental, because if it's a rental, we'll send them a notice that they have to do a property maintenance. It's not It's just a notice. It's just a warning, right? Um but if it's not, I should talk to the property owner. So, if you want to give me some addresses, if you see that, give
me the addresses and I'll go introduce myself. Just drive down Beethoven. Yeah, I know. I know. All right. I mean, my weed whack them and it takes care of it. And then weed killer. It's all about a maintenance. It's all about for each for each property. Some people are just remiss in doing that.
Yeah. Yeah. And we tried with the sweeper. We had the sweeper out. It won't work. Doesn't Yeah. That was the one request I had for the new sweeper, which I didn't get that it removes that from the from the curb, but I did not.
But I sent Raymond out with the old sweeper because the old sweeper has been reconditioned. It has brand new brushes, right? Brand new bristles on it and it still it still wasn't going to do that. So, it needs to be done with a weed whacker or some Roundup spray. Okay. Miss, you talk about roof and the street
along the curb. Yeah, Stephen. Yeah. Oh, and under the trees along Well, Joe, I think Joe was talking about under the trees. Talking about the trees. Yeah, he was talking about the trees, but we're talking about the streets because I I see it every day. You know,
it's almost like bushes in the street now. Yeah, it's kind of like on Main Street. There is a tree growing out from the can. I think they really need to um chop it, cut it off. Yeah. I mean, just it's in the empty lot,
but their parking lot. That's just a a little strip that they have to maintain there. And for some reason, it seems like it's difficult to do. Okay, I'll take a look at that. Yeah, it's a tree. Usually, we did some weeding downtown and and the downtown sidewalks will be free now. So,
what pops out of uh cracks in the asphalt and all is the tree of heaven, which is the host tree for the spotted lantern fly. And you cannot chop them down or they will keep coming back because they their runners go sideways and new trees pop up. So you have to
kill the tree with chemicals before you chop it down. So and they are everywhere. I mean this is not a tree of this is not one of those trees. This a looks like a maple. Yeah, maybe. But yeah, we could probably have a
program on that just on the street that I don't know. It's that big. It's big. Anybody else? Attorney? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I didn't I don't know. You
know, it's been we're coming up on 60 days since the court had provided the for the bowling eye property to be for the outside to be cleaned. I think 14th is the day. That'll be 60 days. Um Jerry and I spoke this week. He's going
to um go out there on the 14th, see if any improvements have been done to the property, document what's been done or what. Actually, I think it's getting worse. Yeah, I think they're bringing more stuff in there, but more stuff for us to get rid of. So that it's uh yeah so that that point I'd
be required to send notice that uh he has a certain amount of time to remove the property or the city's going to come in and do it. It just depends. So I thought that was already what was in place. That wasn't what was in place. Yeah. The 14th 60
days. And if not I I send him notice that if you didn't have it cleaned then we Jerry and I talked about I mean realist came up with a plan. So, I'm going to document what has or hasn't been removed, right? Because we have the before pictures and I'll have the pictures from from Monday. And then from there, Chris and I came up with a plan
to uh address it. Address. And And what about the 30-day violations that he got from Buckhoffer for the fire marshal? He was supposed to remove those are those are currently being appealed at the Oh, that's right. No, that was a second. That was a
different appeal, right? So, he appeals everything that we we did. We won the first appeal. Um, I hope we win a second appeal. I don't know. I haven't feared even at the informal I haven't feared in front of the construction. Some of the violations still haven't been heard yet in court. Some of the new
violations I think from the uh the buyer inspector's inspection. Those have already been I think they have because they've already Okay. They've already been appealed to the county. I'm just waiting for the appeal date so I could appear at that at that
uh meeting for the board of appeals. because all that stuff outside was on Buck Hopper's report. That is part of the I think we have a good mayor I think we have a good determination on the outside. It's the inside stuff and the fact that the fire uh it's just not a
but he did write off him the 30-day violations for the outside stuff too because it's it's a fire as a plain we have it that we have it on our calendars and the fence the fence is is that going to be moved as well because that is a temporary
fence the fence temporary fence is better it's been in the city right away for two years but I'll be returning at Rentals I'll be returning at the company. I'll have the company come pick it up. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Uh number 13 in
engineering report. Sure. Sorry. Um it was archway green. They're moving right along. Um two got unfortunately they probably could have finished a little quicker but they're still conveying they expect to be done the end of July before any of the events there. U Buffalo Avenue. We
got a response from D working on resubmission. I'm expecting to submit to back into PMs either Monday or Tuesday week. Uh so we can try to get an August project award for that. So we'll get to advertise later in June, I'm sorry, later in July and get on the August
agenda. Um Lake ADA uh I did get a response from the finance commission yesterday in trying to set up um that meeting. I sort of indicated in our last correspondence that there's a couple things we want to talk about. So they requested an agenda. Um so I have a email to wrapped it up already to to try
to provide that. get something on the calendar for this weekend and some other items at that same meeting. Yeah, absolutely. We can talk about as much as we want. They just wanted to know what what we want to talk about so they can bring the appropriate stat. Okay, good. So, I'll I'll go through that with you. Okay, good. Yeah, thanks.
Um, city hall, the ADA improvements. Um, it's it's like four different disciplines. I'm just trying to get all the plans and specs tied together so that we can get back every bid. I believe we need to submit that to DCA first before we fit it. Um, so we'll send it to them as soon as it's ready. U
land county gusser still moving along. We're trying to work with New Jersey Transit and on that trying to get our permits so we can move forward subdivision. This is one of the things getting out of the list because we still don't have formal notice that it was approved even though they told us it was a while ago. Uh I
brag stormwater project. We have a bond introduction on tonight's agenda. Um this $3 million in principal forgiveness. I think we've gone through this a few times now already, but you borrow the money. You you bond the project. you bond for the project with them. So technically you're borrowing it, but at the end when you go to close
on the loan, they immediately forget it. So it's just a process. Um so we worked with your bond council to get this set up. Um and they have done this in 20 other municipalities to fall. Uh Dix Street, Brandon, Baltimore, we're moving along in design. We're trying to get uh
our submission to do by the end of July. So we can fit that this fall and both calendar um whiteer demo. They still have the South Jersey gas utility shut off pending. Is that correct? Yes. So, um I have gas. I just got electric.
It's in my Okay. We have everything. So, we do have everything now. We'll contractor, but we're kind of at the tail end of the window that we had talked about with them. What we did not want to do was start demolishing the building and then it's there's still pieces of it remaining to the food truck festival. So, we'll we'll talk it over
with them, but most likely we're going to hold off to to start demolition until after the food truck festival. Yeah. Um this three weeks he wants three weeks, right? Yeah. He he wanted to have three weeks safely um by the time he would do notices and get his He's going to order us final date cards.
So I think just the interest will not you know potentially have creating a situation there. We're probably better off waiting a month starting as soon as all all the events are uh caring improvements. That's another one that's that's tacked on in the meeting. we can talk to them about the old violations and the potential issues with proposing
uh tennis courts. I'm I'm going to move off to the next meeting because I think we're wrapped up with that at this point. So, Ryan, one punch list item they and I disagree on, but um we I've been able to get the callers to protect uh the court from free stall.
Yes. So, they were they were they weren't a lot of money, so we'll spawn them ourselves. But they did do the fence repair and they did do all the other items. So there just one item that they thought we shouldn't put in but I know that we should put in because you'll have
there's water and the freezing in that pipe area. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Um okay brownfield areas. Um we got some feedback uh we reached out probably three four weeks ago to the brownfield manager. Um we reached out again. You
just got back to us a day or two ago. So we're trying to finalize our HTSRF investigation proposals. We just needed to make sure that they fit with the brownfield program. Um the the brownfield program typically you can't use hsrf funds on private property. I'm sorry if you're just doing the hsrf
program you typically can't use the funds on private property but through the brownfield program you can. So that allows us to do the investigative work over at the gateway through like the brownfield grant. So that's another another benefit of that program and that designation. Um master plan reads then at least I
still owe you the language for the the butterfly. I'm sorry I did not send it to you today. It's okay. No rush. But yeah, so we we need to to sort of advance that a little bit. Um the area needed redevelopment study, we are c we've internally circulated a draft. Uh
I'm hoping to be able to cut that either tomorrow or Monday so that we can review with the planning board at their July 15th meeting on Tuesday. um our our study will recommend that the area or the neighborhood sir Creek area deemed
an area in need of redevelopment. Um and then we can update the redevelopment plan to provide a redevelopment area and um that sort of ties in with the RFQ that we're going to put out for the redeveloper designation. Um redevelopment plan for the ant land
Phil we are um moving forward with that. That's kind of one being behind the uh the north subdivision redevelopment area study. Um so that one we're prepping to have to the planning board for our August meeting. So I have a question. So August planning board and then does it have to come to
council in August? Does it have to come to city council in August then go to planning board or does it go to planning board directly because you're going to bring it and then September September city council? I need the time. So I think it's city planning board city. Okay. Right there. Yes. Okay.
And the city's meeting is uh 14th. August 14th. And then the planning board meeting is then Yeah. So we'll have city has to adopt the city has to recommend planning board then does the study adopts the study recommends it back and then it comes back here.
So maybe September 11th we'll be looking at some right September 11th. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Sounds well. That helped. Um, and then the the county thing we went through, I left it on here just for everyone's reference. U, the last thing I'll note is we had the the driveway
come in uh for the front access driveway. Um, the board after our meeting with the one that did not have a paved terrace at the rear of it recommended back to city council that the city's ordinance committee consider revising that ordinance to only apply when there's a paved terrace in the rear
of property. It's not fair to make people drive out a third road and they have a paved street in front of them. Um, so rather than anytime that situation come up to have someone run the board that it was just part of the hiking. chose is Carol gonna do language or we need to do language or um well I
we can have the committee talk it over see if they want to do that first and then I think we so that's all I have unless there any questions any questions for just the one thing um spoke with Dr. and
satur today today. Um the NJA grant that he received and I know you've been in contact with him and his engineer, but um we agree kind of that he they're going to give you what where they want
everything, the design, but you are going to actually do the calculations. Is that the city has to bid the project, right? So, um, it's it's essentially the sidewalk and the curve and the deceleration lane and all all of that for his property. So, it didn't make
sense for us to design that while they're designing their project on the inside. So, what we said at the beginning was probably a year and a half ago was that as they're doing that design, they will go through that, we will pull once once that's done and they have that permitted, we'll pull off the right ofway portion that the funding
applies to and we will bid that as a city project. That's That's But I think he's thinking the design should really be done by you since you're the city. So I can talk to his engineer again, but I'm pretty sure we were on the same page that they were. Oh yeah, we I was a little we were a
little confused. So yeah, but it is it is our grant that we are the city's grant. The city is the one who has to procure the contract. Um we had discussion with Jonathan in the very beginning that his understanding was he would be responsible for engineering fees and and anything else. Um so that
there was zero out of pocket cost to the city. We're not subsidizing it. D we'll move it forward. But yeah, he's not complaining and he's spent a lot of money on that project. But um we just have to clarify that with his engineer and then his engineer can relay that to him. But his his engineer right now is trying
to get him through the Pinelands waters. Yes. Whatever. Storm management. So and he promised he'll have by next week. Okay. And then when he's on vacation, then when he comes back, he'll focus on that. But that's important because, you know,
I think it'd be a good idea if he reached out. Yeah. Yeah. Set up a meeting with him and his engineer because I've talked to him a bunch of times. I've talked to his engineer a bunch of times and now I think about I don't think I've ever talked to both of them. No. So that probably would be a good idea. Is the reason that it's, you know, a little bit of a misunderstanding there.
Is it because if he doesn't follow through with this, I mean, even though he has invested a lot of money, is that then we have that property, you know, we're stuck with the property and it's going to be set up. We just would lose the grant, that's all. Okay. So, it's it's not for you setting
up the plan. The way the streets are and everything, right? There's no move street pattern or anything like that. It's really um the improvements to the roadway, the sidewalk, the sort of the entrance improvements, if you will. It was the funding was for right-of-way improvements um for infrastructure
upgrades uh related to movie studio movie production studios. So they had $7 million. I think like five people applied for it because that's kind of a narrow thing. Um and we got a million dollars. So it's uh you know he's going to need extensive uh infrastructure along the rightway. So that's that's
what we applied for. A portion of it they actually didn't fund was the um I think it was the sewer portion um because they said that the pump station all that we acquired was going to be on his property and was his problem. Yeah, he did mention that and American Motors working with them to take care of that.
That's good. Yeah, I I figured that they would have some resources. And you're on the same page that the entrance is coming in off of Hamburg Avenue. Yeah, his primary entrance he's planning on coming off of Hamburg Avenue. is planning on having like the rear lot access come off of Mosill
which would come right across from the high school. Yes. And he said that would be a closed exit. Yeah. He was planning on keeping that gated and closed um and just having like larger deliveries. He has like a back lot area over on that side, right? Um personally I felt that a little awkward, but that's the direction that
he wants to proceed. So yeah, he he his concern was the school buses and the kids because it's so close to that it's be could be messy. Yeah. Yeah, if you have everyone showing up for work and 100 cars pulling in as everyone, you know, spoken left and right going to the school and doing his production, you got to understand, but
um I there's some school of thought that you'd rather have traffic on the much heavier travel county road than sending it down a municipal street. Yeah. But um yeah, I think we can work with it bigger. Okay, that was good. Thanks. Any other questions for Brad?
I had I have the work here at city bull. Yes. you have a timeline for that or how disruptive is it going to be for for our employees here? Uh well, there's a backup bathroom I think. So, we talked through that
unisex. Yeah, for a little while. Not really. Not not with any. You're right. They're going to gut it and go and do it at the same time. They're actually going to do the countertop on the desk that you're sitting at right now. So, that will be an interesting meeting.
um if it's not there for one, but uh another ramp on the side here. So, we'll obviously we'll have to work very closely to the contract. This timing is going to be very important. Uh you know, we had a council meeting at two weeks to get the top off and get that next one. Um so, we'll we'll figure it
[Music] again. I'm sure of Flamingo. Oh, good. Critical. Yeah, that's a critical update. Okay. Number four, the resolution to assume no people the Acber City Historical Society bill.
Is there a motion? Make that motion. Second. Motion to seconded. Questions? Roll. I have a question. Okay. Um, what are their normal water bills? Well, this is because American Wood starting to charge us.
So, I don't Do you have an idea what their bill is? Much? They're not in there. I can't two days a week. It's just around that. It's a city. It's probably not by far.
It's more than one. I would hope so. Do they have a bathroom? We can go across the street. You have it or not? That's the men's room over there. Congress looks like it's about $70 a
month was the cost on the estimate that adopt New Jersey. Okay. Roll call, please. Dash, yes. Joy, yes. Galloway, yes. Heist, yes. Hessie, yes. Kenir, yes. Timbers, yes. Resolution passes number 15. Resolution
to participate in the S co-op for natural gas. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. Motion made and second. Questions? Dash? Yes. Yes. Galloway? Yes. Heist? Yes. Hessie?
Yes. Kener, yes. Timbers, yes. Okay. Number 17 is a resolution. Approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
16. He said 17, but six. I don't believe you were 172 resolution to terminate membership in state health benefits programs. Is
there a motion? Second. Motion made second. Questions? I do. I wasn't at that that meeting. Just can you just briefly um Sure I can. Thank you. Um, so it looks like
initially uh when Jody and um an individual by the name of Robert Henry started talking about what we could do about the increases that were planned for the state health benefits plan were in 20 to 25% range. This week that's been realized at 35%. Our state health
benefits plan will go up 34%. And so um to Jod's credit started talking uh with a um an individual who's very wellversed in this and um at the last meeting we talked about joining a health insurance fund um would save us
that 34% increase um for the next 18 months. Um and so since then um I and Mr. Henry and Jody was in one of the meetings. We met with the unions uh and the unions are okay with this. Uh in addition, we had a question about um
pre-existing conditions which of course would be covered and nothing would be changed. So we would be going from the state health benefit plans which uses Horizon as their provider to a health insurance fund which uses Horizon as their provider. Um and for us to save
that money, not only do we save the money, but our employees who contribute on the chapter 78 would be saving the money um in the increase. So this process is we have to get out of the state health benefits plan. We have to give them 60 days notice and then enter into the health insurance fund run by NJ
promotions. Thank you. If I can just add that the coverage has to be equal to or better than what they already have. Thank you. It wasn't at a meeting we talked about. I mean we talked in executive session about it. Yeah, I know. I missed that. So that's why I asked.
Yeah. Okay. Roll call, please. Dash, yes. Dovy, yes. Galloway, yes. Heist, yes. Hessie, yes. Kenir, yes. Timbers, yes. Resolution passes. Number 17, I already
read. So is there is there a motion? So motion second. Motion made and seconded questions. Yeah, I just wanted to say something about this. Um, this is a fund that's available for um, I guess low to
moderate income homeowners that they can get repairs made on their house. So, this one number 17, which one is it? Transit here. I'm so confused. Yeah,
second on the motion. That's not it. We're 72. This is 17 is safe to transit. That was ahead. Okay. So, uh well, I'll still have second.
Are there any other questions? Roll call, please. Dash, yes. Doy, yes. Galloway, yes. Ty, yes. Hessie, yes. Kenir, yes. Timbers, yes. Resolution passes. Submit an application. This number 18, we already did. Number 19, a
resolution authorizing the city of Lake Harbor to enter into an interlocal services agreement with the Atlantic County Improvement Authority for the purpose of administering the housing rehabilitation. Is there a motion? So moved. Second.
Motion's been made and second. Any questions on the motion? Okay. Then now this is okay. This is funding that's available for um property owners who um are low to moderate income, I guess. Um I don't know if it's low or low to moderate. Uh
but the county will come in and actually make the improvements on your house at no cost to you. They put a lean on the house and when you if you should sell your house within five years or so, you pay back I don't know if you pay back 100%, you pay back a portion of it. So,
if anyone needs improvements to their home and they don't have the money to put out, this might be a good program for them to participate in. Yeah, they're about all buckets, too. It's like um if you have a heater that breaks or air conditioner breaks or leak or or roof that leaks or something like
that. I think it's I used to be capped at like $20,000 for the repairs, but it is a really good program. They procure, you know, contractors do and we bought it in the newsletter a couple times, but people are taking advantage of Only one person applied,
right? Yeah. No, no, we have time from the past over the years. Yeah. As of recent. Okay. Any other questions? Roll call, please. Okay. De, yes. Doy,
yes. Galloway, yes. Heist, yes. Pie, yes. Keener, yes. Timbers, yes. Resolution passes. Number 20. Okay. Number 20 is a resolution supporting the state cannabis
manufacturing application of Prior Place New Jersey LLC 801 follow. Is there a motion? Motion. Second. This is Troy, right?
Your main second questions. That was your That was my question. Yeah. Okay. Um I have a question in relation to the ordinance we passed right at the couple council meetings. I know I know what this is about. I'm just asking can we add that that he must
make sure those trees if they die that he replaces those trees that are not part of it. This is simply a support resolution so that he can get his uh so that he can submit his license. Okay. Please let me know when when I could when I can do that because I think this is the second time I've tried to do
that. Okay. I think that's already in I was going to say it's got to so we don't need to resolution. All in favor? I oppos. Resolution number 21 introduce
ordinance uh bond ordinance number 12 2025 bank I bank stormwater improvements. So that's what Brian talked about earlier. Second.
Motion made. Second. Questions? Roll call, please? No. Okay. All in favor? I I I resolution passes ordinance and then advertised notice of
introduction in the Hamilton Gazette on July 16th public hearing on August 14th. Motion made second. Okay. Number 22 is the bill list. Make the motion second. Motion being second. Any questions on
the bills? Roll calls. Dash. Yes. Doy. Yes. Galloway. Yes. Heist. Yes. Hessie. Yes. Kenerf. Yes. Timberts. Yes. Those are tastes number 23. Mayor comment.
Yeah. Just to remind everybody that the fireworks are on the 19th. The lake will close the water at 5:30 and the lake will close at 6:30. And um a little um addition to the fireworks, uh Ryan
Rodriguez, many of you might know him, he has a drone company now and he is doing a drone show before the fireworks. Um Bri for the city because he lives here and his family lives here. So
that's going to be really great. I saw the previews of it. It's amazing. He has you said 55 drums. Yes. speak. So, come on out. Don't stay home. Come out. That's all I have. Thank you. Yeah. I have one thing. Um the New
Jersey Shade Tree Federation is having its 100th anniversary conference um in October. Uh we have grant funding available if anybody is interested in attending. Uh we can pay your way. It's a couple hundred dollars. So if anybody's interested in learning about
trees or even taking or training is it let us know and we'll enroll you. It's May I add if you are core trained I will put you to work. So free council woman
I just wanted to first of all I just wanted to say we will be having a code meeting this this week uh Tuesday the 15th. um key is 6:30, right? Well, the thing is they're also going to have land use board meetings. So, can we have it in your office? Yeah, sure. We can have it in my office.
We'll do a hybrid Zoom and I'll use my laptop. You could have it in emergency management, too. Some haven't gotten to it yet. How about the table? Can it be Can it be fixed, Jar? We just Why don't we toss it and order something
else? I'll leave that up to you. If you send me if you send an email send me an email to give me a great job. Let me just
pick just to finish. I just wanted to say now that we have pickle ball courts, I'm working on getting an introduction to pickle ball clinic together. My hope is to get more seniors and children interested as this progresses. I'll keep
everyone posted. Just enjoy the weekend, everyone. What do you consider a senior? Anyone just would be invited to say I'm a senior. I'm just so I qualify because I do I do like pickle ball but I'm not very good at it.
But neither am I. But I still uh it's just love it. It's great just to get out there. Yeah. I just want to um just throw it out there that on July 26, the Hartsson Harley motorcycle run will be going through town. Um we're starting at Gavin
Pass Morfield this year um in honor of Michelle and Gavin. Um and it'll go through the Pinelands and then the last stop will be at Crossroads. If anybody would like to come out to Crossroads, you just have to contact John Paps to get tickets. If you do not ride, if you ride, you can go by jeep, you can go by
car, you can go by motorcycle, you can go by trike. Join us on the ride. It's a really fun ride and it's for a good cause. All funds raised go to open a domestic violence house. That's what the proceeds are are going towards. Oh, I missed the time. I didn't get the time.
Um, it starts I think registration starts at 10:00 and it goes all day and sometimes it's a very long hot day, but it's worth it. What day was it? It's July 26th. Anything else? Councilman Dash.
Uh, yeah. I'd like to um thank Jerry for all of his hard work and keeping everything organized. Um I've sat in a couple meetings with you and uh I appreciate the expertise bring to it and u especially your organization. So thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Dodie
I have nothing council pro Tim timbers. Say that quick. At least I can remember my name more. Uh, I don't have anything. And thank you. And I just have one thing to
say. As you know, we're only going to have one meeting in July. So the 24th there is no meeting. Our next meeting would be August 14th and we won't have a August 28th meeting unless we need to for reasons.
Yeah. We'll make sure we don't need time. Okay. Um, I forgot something. I just wanted to remind everybody that the peace pilgrim celebration is going to be held uh Saturday the July 19th actually peace pilgrim
part. I'm new. I need a time for that. We got it starts like around. Okay. It's on the Facebook page. Oh, you know me. Only a push. It's only a push page. You know there's
your goat and your drum, right? Number 24 is public comment. Anyone wish to be heard on any anything any great job doing a great job. text
to see our bodyguard here, Mr. J Petty and Stephanie here. Jerry, you're doing an amazing job and it's great to see everyone starting to like you. Yeah, appreciate that. And just wanted to say thank you to the
lawyer here, you know, the the attorney here for putting that whole debacle to the stop because uh when that gentleman was here and Jerry said that there was a language barrier, everyone should have took, you know, should have listened to that and not dump his back and passion.
Why wasn't it this, why wasn't it that? No one cares what you did for a living before. Have your compassion for him and not question him. You know, everybody in the city, no one knows what their back on it. So that's what I like to see. I like to see people on the board who have
compassion from people who live here in Marvin City. That's why you do an amazing job. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Anyone else? You want to state your name, please? No. I thought you raised your hand.
Is there a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion. Second. Motion made second. All in favor? I heard I heard you I made it for