Call the meeting in order. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Open public meetings. Act statement.
Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, adequate notice of this meeting was forwarded to the official Township newspapers, posted on the bulletin board and township website. This meeting is being videotaped and will be on channel 9. Uh, roll call. Mr. Doyle here. Mr.
Pella here. Mr. Marsh here. Mayor Bruno here. Uh, can I get a motion for public hearing on the following ordinance? Ordinance 0225, releasing, extinguishing, and vacating the rights of the public in a
portion of a paper street. Motion O225. Second. All in favor? I can get a motion to close the uh public hearing. Motion to close. Second. All those in favor? I I get a motion to adopt ordinance 225. Motion to adopt
O225. Second, Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Fella? Yes. Mr. Marsh? Yes. Mayor Brun? Yes. Making a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 325, calendar year 2025 model ordinance for to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits
and establish a cap bank. Motion 0325. Second. All in favor? I Marshall 67 new room. Good evening. Good evening. Uh just a couple things and some of this may or not be related but faculty January 23rd of 2024 when the
salaries were being up in time. Mr. Ky made a comment that this year the salaries will be a bare minimum because last year they had already hit their maximum allowable amount and I saw that this year of course we went over what the bare minimum would have been. I didn't know if there was a reason for that or whether something changed over the year because of course with this
3.5% in our budget coming up. I'm just trying to figure where we're at. This is just this this is for the contractual I believe right? He's talking about something else. I think what he was talking about and he could speak for himself but I believe it was the
ordinance the salary ordinances they've exceeded that number that was on there so every year when they give raises you have to raise the limit so what last year you know it hit the maximum this year wasn't supposed to it still has to is that was it you said January 23rd
24th so last year yeah some of them are probably in line we I think we raised all of them what it was $3,000 a piece and 30% I think is to the you know the average person. Uh and then with the I know we're doing the three and a half% you know as anticipating what may or may not be needed. I understand that is
pretty budget but of course as you remember going back on the March 11th meeting you said our budget was now under control. So I wonder what's under the control being managed properly. Why do we have to even anticipate a 3 and 12% increase over you know basically over the the state? I believe she does that every year. Well I know you can but
I'm just wondering but she just puts that out there. You could go over you can go under it. I don't prices don't ever seem to go down. So, no, that's usually where unfortunately changes 3%. If that's all things went up, I'd be real happy in life. Out of the 24 districts in Washington County, we're ranked ninth in
the highest taxes in Washington County. That was as of the end of 2024. Is there anything we can start doing maybe to, you know, consider? Is that is that municipal tax? Is that school everything? Total tax. We can only help one quarter of that. The municipal tax were actually for schools. I'm surprised we're actually in the lower end of some
of them, you know, which is where I always thought our taxes. Don't tell the teachers that. I understand. But most of it falls in other areas and municipal being, you know, unfortunately a big chunk of that. I mean, we have the same problems that they have, you know, price of fuel, price of electric, price of
everything. So, and then I talked with Ben about being fiscally responsible. Hope tonight you think about that and vote no for this. This is really not the point. Point back. Good evening, gentlemen. Chris says before Mal
um like Groundhog's Day again seating in the cat. That's funny. Well, it's like every year. So over the past year, I've become I guess you'd say friends with uh the deputy mayor of one of the another Gloucester County
municipality and you know I he's talked about stories about his town and I told him about the poles that I encountered in our town and we share more stories and you know and he he told me you know it's not an easy position that you guys
are in and he said it's so hard to explain to residents why their taxes are high or why certain services can't be extended or certain services have to be can uh cancelled. Um you know there's a lot of hard choices that you guys have to make up there and that's what it's your life
for. And so I I I've talked to him back and forth over the past year and there are two things that he said that weren't hard and he was a little surprised when I was talking about the stories about our township. Now granted, I probably colored Bill a
little bias. Um, I'm not going to deny that. Uh, but you know, numbers don't lie. And he was astonished at how much money we pay our public official, some public officials in this town. Now, I I would be the last
one to begrudge those people in those offices for making as much money as possible. I think I would try to make as much money as possible. I think anybody in this room would try to make as much money as possible. the problem doesn't lie with the officials. The problem lies with the people who made those sounds.
And so when I told him that, he could not believe that some people in the township made what they reportedly made. So that was one thing that was not a hard decision. Who's this person? Who's this person you're speaking about? He told me these stories in confidence. I'm
not going to Okay. He is on the November ballot though. He's seeking higher office. So I'll give you that. Um and a Republican. Uh, not many. Secondarily, there's not many of them. So, we'll figure it out by Secondarily, he talked about how this
year, you know, we can't raise taxes. We can't raise property taxes. Property taxes are too high. We absolutely cannot raise taxes. And I told him, my my township, you know, Republican run, um, supposedly financially good financial
stewards in charge of the finances. Um, you know, but every year there is a bunch of cats. Chris, who's overpaid? Are the police overpaid? No, I'm not. Of course not. I said trash guys. I think you and I both know who we're talking. Well, just say you're giving a speech
because when we we do raises, we look at towns the same size and we look at what they make and we do a whole we don't just uh people don't just ask for money and get it. It's all based on other towns. I'll just say that this public official
is also a public employee and his mouth dropped open when I told him some of his salaries that people in this town should pay. His opinion granted uh I can assure you we don't care about his opinion. Oh, okay. I mean, the mystery man doesn't doesn't hold much weight here. Okay.
Look forward to November. Um we don't know who it is. Yeah. And uh so secondarily another hard decision that's not I should say that's not a hard decision is the fact to raise property tax if you're and you know some
decisions are not easy and I won't give you that you know but this isn't a hard decision so I would say don't raise the cap that's can you comment on what officials are you talking about? You don't have to bring your friend into this. What
officials do you think that were paying too much money? I don't want to throw because then but you are because you're just you're you're laying out a blanket statement. You get the character assassination. Look, so can I can I can I this is this is you made your point on
the the capital. You can come back and have that debate in the second public session probably. No, I understand. I just just I don't think Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. Yep. Can I get a mo a motion to close? Motion
to close. Second. All those in favor? I. Can I get a motion to adopt ordinance 325? Motion to adopt 0325. Second. Mr. Doyle, yes. Mr. Fella, yes. Mr. Marsh, yes. Mayor Bern, yes. Uh, can I get a motion to approve correspondence and reports? Motion to approve
correspondence and reports. Second. All those in favor? I. I. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from April 8th, 2025? Motion to approve the minutes. Second. All those in favor? I abstain. Okay. A motion to approve the bill list. Motion to approve the bill
list. Second. Mr. Pierrella? Yes. Mr. Doyle? Yes. Mr. Marsh? Yes. Mayor Bruno? Yes. Can I get a motion to approve raffles St. Mary's school PTA VFW 2071? Motion to approve the raffles. Second. All those in favor?
I I get a motion to approve. Uh, looks like two farm stand permits. Uh, one's at 2219 Taco Road, one's at 1844 Dutch Mill Road. And I'm sorry, there's one at 2041 Jamestown Road. Three total. Three total. Motion to approve all three.
Second. All in favor? I. Can I get a motion to approve food handling permit? Pegasus Restaurant, Mill Tavern, and Bonvacio. Bonvacio. Motion to approve the food handling permit. Second.
All those in favor I uh can I get a motion to open the first public portion for resolutions below? Motion to open the first public portion for resolutions. Second. All in favor? I even have a
question. Well, they don't have a public hearing on it, but it's 0725. 0725. Okay. The mic is off. 0725. I was down there. Is it dead? It was on.
I guess Chris broke it. Chris broke it. Sorry, Cindy. Didn't mean to interrupt you. No, that's fine. You're saying I know. Okay, it's working. Thank you. All right. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Barely.
Ask my kids. You hear this right Hang on. I'm just working fine with Chris. I don't know. I think you're fine. Really? Fine. I just want honestly. Dave, it might be your mom. No, I don't think I mean, can you hear me? Yeah, there you go. Bring it on. Can
you hear me better now? There you go. Okay, I'll just pull I pulled the mic up some. All right. Uh mic drop, not a mic pull up. I'm sorry. Um 0725. You're amending the uh chapter regarding uh
permitting reszoning of certain properties. Correct. All right. And of course, it's the residential RA, which most most well most of it on Route 40 is highway commercial. For some reason, years ago, those properties were excluded. And then highway commercial
and then interchange. So, here's my question. Are we going to have the notice to the people who live in those that specific area? So if in other words if you're one of the properties are they
going to know in order to be like in other words with a something to really notify them. I know a couple of them came forward and actually noticed I know a couple of them do but you know what happens afterwards is that I didn't know you know those kind of things are the question because the highway comes in is
there a way to notify the people to notify them? I don't not with a master plan. Come out with a master plan review. It's general notice in I know the general notice in the paper but you know and I know if you just put it on the computer or you put it in my paper half of them don't I mean that's
the truth. They they missed it. They didn't see it. So my concern was are those people who were in those zones who are right you know where the change is. Is there any way that they could be notified in writing that we're having it? I think the problem is in this there's just a few people most of them
requested it but when if let's say you made one change to RF you'd have to notice I meant just the ones where where you know what I mean I mean I know you guys have looked over this we went through all the meetings I think she's just talking about the Latin blocks that are Yes. Right. Right. Just just the
ones that are just those individuals res if if you're asking can we identify those? The answer is yes. Isn't that in there already? I think her question is, can they get can they get direct, right? If I was in the highway
commercial and all of a sudden I'm going to be, you know what I'm saying, interchange and there's going to be a hotel next to me, I'd want to know that. You get what I'm saying? Um, and that's why I just feel the only way to notify the public is to actually send them a letter. I mean, what is it, a dollar
stamp, but it's worth it in the way that they can't say they weren't notified. They may not open it up their mail too, but I think it's just a safety precaution as well as a courtesy to those people. So they I think when it's a smaller group I like I said my problem is if you change three zones in the town
that would in not this but if hypothetically like say you changed the seven on the shed and all right you said instead of 10se which some of these do right and I understand that but you'd have to notice 10,000 people she's limit you're addressing just seven now ordinance right just ordinance seven and
it's really the interchange because of the the idea of you know that some of that area where I live is the RA and We come right up to the to there. You if you start putting in certain things, I'm going to I'm going to use Elk Township for an example. They're getting two
hotels. Their firemen now have to go and know how to do elevators because they're that close to an interchange. If I live there, I'd want to know that this now, you know what I'm saying, does that. And just to give them a heads up, I don't know. I don't think there's that many properties out there really. I mean,
maybe 10 bucks, 20 bucks, and it'll certainly save, you know, in the long run that at least they would have the courtesy to come out and say that, you know, they had something. That's just all I'm thinking of the general public with. Thank you. Thank you. Just make a motion. Pull that notify those people.
What's that? We We'll move that notify those people. I can do it tomorrow and notify the July meeting. The first the first reading. You're just introducing it so we can Looks like there's 30 of them. Yeah, we could. There's like 30
proceed and then not notice them tomorrow. Not required to do it. If you There's It appears there's residence though for other Well, there's as you said, uh, Mr. Doyle, this is if it were every resident in town, it would be I think it's a good
idea. I just don't want to get legal. Well, there's 30. So that's, you know, it's less than $100. Oh, no. But stamps only 90 cents now and I don't think Marshall 67 one I wanted to thank you. I didn't get a chance to make it to
the Mal Park dedication. It looked amazing and it does look amazing. I mean that's it's a great addition to the town getting that back in shape especially in honor of Mr. Gonzalez and and the same renaming the roof you know another honor to the fact not yet we didn't get that. No I understand that but it's it's coming. Uh I do have a question in
reference to the two grants though which I appreciate as we've talked about it I brought up about cleaning up properties in this town many times the R7625 and 7725. Uh one the gas station down on Malagos and the other one at Carmen Avenue. The grant money I didn't realize it and I don't remember seeing this in the past at the bottom it states that we
have to have a three-year plan in place to redevelop that because of the grant or we have or we have to pay the grant money back it looks like. Is that accurate? That correct? So, is there any plans in place, you know, for this once we get this driven? Is it something that's anticipated or something you're thinking about? They actually sent that
to us after the fact. So, that's why they're back on again because that came from the New Jersey EDA that they needed that wording added to the resolutions we already approved. Okay. Yeah. I said it looked new. So, that's why I was asking. So, but no plans. I mean, this So, who's going to handle that? Is that CME going
to handle that? Well, and it it's it's the wording is actually weird because it's actually 3 years from the time we get the clean bill held. So, so it's not when the money's released correct after that. No, it's when it's clean. Then we have three years to do something with it, which they'll come into the township. So, instead of having more
property, we we will do something with it. I hope so. That's clean. I'm just curious if there's any plans. No, there's nothing in place cuz we don't even have a timeline for when it will be cleaned or how much. Hopefully, the gas station won't be bad because it was already cleaned up once. You mentioned that before a could be a while. Yeah,
that's a lot worse. Yep. All right. And then, uh, who's going to handle that? The planning on that is that going to be a CMA expense for the township or is that going to be somebody else when it comes time to figure out what you're going to do with that? That'll be up to the clean out of their hands going across a
little bit. Thank you. Oh, he was talking about CNA. No, I know. But Good evening. Yeah, I had to talk to you now when I'm not work. Yeah. Get on your knees. There you go. Um,
Jason Brandt, uh, Rosemont Avenue, Newfield. Um, I just wanted to come up real quick and, uh, discuss some of these ordinances you guys are introducing this evening. Um the first one is 0825 which is the uh the stormwater
ordinance. I know it's been uh on the agenda several times um and I've spoken about it several times um and pulled and I just like to thank the committee for a lot of the revisions that they've made to the ordinance. I think it's going to be uh just a kind of down residents um
and it's currently formed uh not early. Thank you for for hearing those concerns. And then uh additionally uh I'd like to thank you guys for for introducing these other ordinances to um you know start the process of implementing uh some of the changes that
the master plan committee uh had recommended. Um specifically I just want to comment on um ordinance. Sorry I make sure I have the right one here which is the um the ordinance regarding the accessory
uses uh which is 0545. Um when I moved to Franklin Township in in 2009, I had the the privilege of uh serving on the zoning board uh in the years following that and
that was an issue that played the township for at least the last 15 years that I've been involved. Um so getting those revisions made uh to the accessory structure um regulations is going to be a huge uh benefit to the residents of of
the township. So, um, I want to thank you guys for that as well. And to the extent I heard another comment correctly that Franklin County School District, um, is one of the most fiscally responsible in the county, I'd like to
take partial credit for that on the record. He was talking about their bud their budget's bigger than yours. He was talking about that. I'm available for consultation. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, J. Can I get a motion to close the first
public portion? Motion to close. Second. All in favor? I. Uh, taking a motion for resolution 6925 authorizing the persontoperson transfer of plenary retail consumption license number 0805 33-3-7 from Doville LLC ta Valari Sports
Bar to the Mill Tavern LLC. Motion 6925. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Furella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. I especially like to name the mill. Are you here?
Yes. Resolution 7025 approving approving a shared service agreement between Township of Franklin and the county of Gloucester to provide family movie night entertainment. Motion R 7025. Second. Mr. Gl. Yes. Mr. Fella. Yes. Mr. Marsh.
Yes. Mayor Bruno. Yes. Resolution 7125 authorizing a refund of Sunny Mac LLC. Motion R 7125. Second. Mr. Dille. Yes. Mr. Fiorella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor Bruno. Yes. Resolution
7225 approving mayor and clerk to sign a three-month award extension for LA 2023 MA Williamstown Road. Just finishing the project. Uh extending the project. Motion R 7225. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes.
Mr. Fierella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor Bruno. Yes. You know they're not doing all that's right. You might have to do it through whatever whatever the money is. Uh resolution 7325 amending resolution 7324 approval for perks of a development
easement on the foreign property of Zachary and Mira and Christian and Morana. Motion R 7325. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Fiorella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor. Yes. Resolution 7425
authorizing Tata Franklin to change the name of the street known as Malaga Lake Drive to Serge Sergeant Gonzalez Park Drive. Motion R 7425. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Pella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor Brun. Yes. Resolution 7525
authorizing administrator to accept the award for a local recreation improvement grant fiscal year 2025 from the New Jersey Division of Community Affairs in the amount of $91,000. Motion R7525. Second. Mr. Doyle, yes. Mr. Pierella,
yes. Mr. Marsh, yes. Mayor Brun, yes. Resolution 7625 acknowledging and amending resolution 5525 for the NJA for the award of the HDSRF grants in the amount of $64,925 for Carmen Avenue properties.
Motion R 7625. Second. Mr. Doyle, yes. Mr. Pella, yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor Bruno. Yes. Resolution 7725 acknowledge acknowledging and amending resolution 5425 for NJA for the award of an HDSRF
grant in the amount of $40,936 for 742 Deli Drive. 724 7 dyslexic kill over it. Motion for R 7725 724 Deli Drive. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes.
Mr. Fella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mayor. Yes. Resolution 7825 approving the governor's council on alcoholism and drug abuse fiscal year 2026. Motion R 7825. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Fella.
Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. May. Yes. Resolution 7925 authorizing tax collector to grant tax exemption for a totally disabled veteran. Motion R 7925. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Fierella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. And
resolution 8025 authorizing tax collector and CFO to refund overpayment of taxes. Motion R8025. Second. Mr. Doyle. Yes. Mr. Fella. Yes. Mr. Marsh. Yes. Yes. I want to introduce the following
ordinances. The public hearing will be on June 11th, 2025. That'd be ordinance 425 to amend chapter 253-5A of the code of the task for Franklin to eliminate additional depth requirements con for conforming lots
consistent with the recommendations contained within the 2024 master plan re-examination report. Motion 0425 second. All those in favor I. Again, that'll be on June 11th. The next one
would be ordinance 525 to amend chapter 253 of the code of the township of Franklin to revise standards for accessory structures consistent with the recommendations contained within the 2024 master plan re-examination report. Motion 0525.
Second. All in favor? I. Next one's ordinance 625 amending article 8 of the code of the township of Franklin known as the land use residential agricultural district uh chapter 253 and article 8 consistent with the recommendations
contained within 2024 master plan re-examination report motion 0625 second all in favor I I next one's 0725 ordinance to amend chapter what was that mark 21
of Dakota Town of Franklin and permit reszoning certain properties from residential agricultural to highway commercial and interchange commercial designation consistent with the recommendations contained within the 2024 master plan
re-examination report motion 0725 second and and we're going to notify those people Matt correct it's up to us as you guys tell us yeah that's what we done. So, we had to get those addresses. I'll take care of it. Just let them know that the change. Yeah, most of them requested
that anyway. I'll take care of it. So, all those in favor? I. And the last one is ordinance 825 to repeal and replace chapter 335 for the code of attached Franklin entitled storm water control to reflect amendments required by the NJP
storm water management rules. Motion 0825. Second. All in favor? I. And again, the hearing will be on June 11th, 2025. It's not going to be at a committee anymore. It's the day after. That's a Wednesday. Yeah, it's election day.
Election day is Tuesday. The next day is Wednesday. That's when the meeting is. Election day is on the move. Election day. Primary is on the 10th. It's on the 10th. I was You know what I was going to say? Really, Mark? Mike? You don't know when the meeting is? No, he's not. No, it is. Tuesday's the 10th. That's
election day. So, we move it to the next day. Correct, Barb? Yes. doing that. I don't know if it is. I'm just 300 on your bus. Okay. I get a motion to open a second public portion for comments. Make a motion for a second
public portion. Second. All those in favor? I know that's not true. I can get a calendar. I want a refund on my taxes. approved calendar. I took my children to the
playground park. Looks beautiful, gentlemen. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Great money spend, isn't it? Absolutely. Thank you very much. 33 today. You get three in one night, man. Marshall 67. the uh emails that come into the
township for you. I mean you do they get screened before they go to you or they go to you directly? No, it goes usually goes directly. I don't I have issues with my email. Sometimes I get them I have issues with my email. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't. Process first or they go to you directly. I think it goes to China than it comes to.
I notice more so than not a lot of them go to junk mail or whatever and I don't say like I have to go in there and look through. Well, you get a lot of junk mail. It's our emails are probably 99% sales junk mail fail.
Pull it off the list. Mine was broke and I just got it fixed. Mark fixed it and it's just you could spend hours dumping the junk mail. Yeah, I kind of figured it out. I'm just curious if they got screwed up. The uh Mr. Kennedy had brought up the last meeting some concerns about some compounds. Has that
been looked into at all? I believe John Matt John sat down with Yes, sir. Robin. Yes, sir. So, I'll let John comment on what he discovered or whatever when he's here next meeting. I apologize that he's not here, but I heard Mr. Kennedy approved comp time
when he was administrator. That may very well be. We just want to see what's happening right now with our tax money. So, I'm just curious if that's the case or not. Actually, it's not. There's no comp time in in the township. Okay. Nobody nobody consider comp time no comp time in the township
DCA when I came here in 22 into 23 all contracts there is no comp time there's no one in town that gets comp time whatever the salary is is what the salary is nobody's getting paid by saying what the what the salaries you say I don't know what he had or what he profess to have the way it sounds so
that's all yeah that's pretty much it okay I mean DPW earns overtime as they they used to be able to take it comp time. We stopped that. The police don't There's some people that have comp time still, but that was from when they were
in the academy and they've kept it ever since. It's better than a 401k. Yeah. No, it is. Uh we talked about the property behind the Malik Diamond the last time. Oh, yeah. And then when I was walking away, there was a conversation that continued
that you were mentioning, Mr. fulfilling to the committee that you know it's harder to do something with him because he's an individual. Well, it's the property you own by a business. Correct. He switched it over to a business and he's been scheduled for trial and extension as a business. Okay. Do you need his other three alases or other business he has? Cuz that's not real.
But Oh, it's amazing what you can find out. He's going to cause a lot of problems. A lot of problems. One goes away, another one. I I'd really just like to know how other towns do it. I don't know. I know the only one I know of because I have friends there in Elmer
and they they find them repeatedly, pull them into the meetings, embarrass them in front of people. I mean, and then they get results. We can't report. Go in front of a judge and take a randomly look at him and come in front of in front of a judge isn't in the public eye. It could be. It could be, but it's a little different. That's I only know that they do that and it works
for them. But you can't we can't require someone to come to one of these meetings. No, I know. I I understand there's a lot of things you can't do but the fine part you can hit repeatedly and getting continual fines once it gets to court what what you find them and what they pay the
actual miles but eventually you can actually get the point on your property correct with the victim and go from there judge has to agree on that yeah but by that time by that time he'll slop up the property an environmental nightmare we'll have to pay well that's why you
have moral now so that's why I'm trying to help alleviate down a little bit. And I said that the weekend is when he's there consistently. That's right. Those nights, but not always, but always, Saturday, Sunday. In fact, now he's selling chickens and eggs. I don't stand up. I mean, just it's like it's like a slap in the face of the town. Like, I
don't care what they say. I'll just do what I want. Do you? Yep. Thanks. Can I get a motion to close the second pop portion? Motion to close. Second. All those in favor? I I Committee reports,
Mr. Marsh. This past week, um May 6th was the day Sergeant Gonzalez was shot 100 ft from our entrance to the police department. I know where I was that day. I'm sure everyone in the audience knows where they were at that time. Ended up dying
on May 7th. We had our candle vigil. Whole police department was there. Police Department did an amazing job cleaning up the memorial um in honor of Sergeant Gonzalez, which it's amazing. It's been 30 years since he lost his life to a scumbag that shot and killed him and uh Chief did an amazing job.
Thank you for doing that. Uh Mark, um I don't have any committee reports. I would just like to say, um we put a lot of time into salaries. We put a lot of time into the services that we offer the public. I'm really getting
tired of people coming up and claiming we should be cutting things without giving us what it is we should be cutting. So, or identifying who's making too much money or anything else. Um, I can't speak for everyone else, but I don't get a paper put in front of me at the beginning of a meeting and just vote
on things. I put a lot of time in investigating and as we all did, as Tim said, what um local officials make in other towns, uh the populations of other towns, comparing apples to apples, and
again, if you want good services, you have to pay people. Um the prices of everything are going up. So, I can't speak for other towns. I can just speak for us. Thanks, Mark. Mr. Doyle, uh wanted to thank the police. I know they did the Gonzalez uh
dedication park, but they also broke their own record for the most um tickets violations for the month of April. So, the fact that these guys just keep improving is pretty amazing. Um, also
the public works guys, I don't know if you guys noticed, but we were paying outside services to like spray weeds. It wasn't done great. Our guys took it over. it's done way better. So, the public works guys went from outsourcing work to doing it themselves and doing a
better job. Um, they're doing a better job with the potholes. So, uh, when you drive around town, notice the little things cuz, uh, that's what makes the difference. Thank you, Mr. Doyle. Uh, I'd like to have a list here. I'm going to start out with Chief
Dazzer. Uh, there was a couple events. They cleaned up out here. They remulched the beds. It was, I guess, every cop, even the guys that were on the street that day were in there working, pushing the wheelbarrow, put pavers down, mulching rocks, everything. And then he
had a couple of nights later, like uh Mr. Mar said, can candle light visual. Again, this is 30 years. A lot of times when something goes 30 years, there's just not a lot of people that continue to be around for 30 years. But the
parking lot was full of people that day and and I believe that's a tribute to this guy and the guys that came before him. You know, they formed a brotherhood here and uh it has everlasting effect. Um I want to thank uh
Administrator Finley. Um I don't know if you notice, but we get quite a few grants, something we haven't had in the past. So, I forget what the first one was. A7 or $80,000. We put some money into it. We
build a thing. We got another $91,000. Probably going to go to a park in town for some kind of improvements there. Um these uh environmental grants to clean up these properties. We would have never got them if it wasn't for this man. I interrupt you, Jake, but we
used to pay a grant writer and I would say we got a lot more grants now without it with Mr. Finley and the girls in the office and Barb working on it. So there's a big savings in salary and uh Tim touched on it with public works, you
know, we we we started doing stuff inhouse that we could we got a little training for uh Jared and uh so now we're allowed to go out and spray and we're going to expand that with other chemicals we could spray uh on the fields. We we still use someone for
fertilizing, but right now we're gonna, you know, we'll eventually get to the point where we're doing all that, too, if it's cost effective. Um, and the job they did at Malaga Park. All that fence was done in house. They repaired the parking lot. They they did
painted the flag poles. Uh, re regraveled the the road. Um everything it it looks goodul all the mulch all the stuff the playground mulch all the the border regrading it regra and we're not done like there's some some water
sitting there and you know they got a plan to get that water to the to the drain. Um, unfortunately I've heard some people complain that, you know, there's no what is it? Sun sale. Sun shade sales. Sun
shade sales. Um, yeah, I don't remember a sun shade there, but you know, like Mr. Do said, we're going to, you know, we're going to plant some trees that hopefully grow up and create a lot of shade. Um, also I want to thank Deanna from
public works. Um Jared Brian, there was another shredding event this week. I don't know what the tonnage was, but there was quite a few people that came out. Yeah, we had a couple guys from public works there. Mark was there. I was there again with Deanna, Brian, and
Jared. So, and Jared's daughter actually helped out from the ROC at Dulce. And it would uh it was really nice. But I want to personally thank those guys for the work they did. All the guys at DPW for the work they did at that park. here. It It really, you know, not because we did
anything or, you know, it was a group effort, but they did the work. So, thank you. And with that, can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I thank you for coming out. Even you, Rene. Even you, Rene.
Yeah. Good luck, guys. I'll Never right.