I 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. Can you turn that up?
>> Yeah. Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, adequate news of this meeting was forwarded to the official township newspapers, posted on the bulletin board and township website on January 4th, 2025. This meeting is being videotaped and will be on channel 9. >> Roll call.
>> Mr. Pierella >> here. >> Mr. Keane >> here. >> Mr. Marsh >> here. >> Mayor Brun >> here. All right. Second a motion to approve correspondence and reports. Motion to approve. >> Second. Of course.
>> All those in favor? >> I made a motion to approve the minutes from October 14th, 2025. >> Motion to approve the minutes. >> Second. >> Is that a roll call? >> All in favor. >> All in favor? >> I >> I get a motion to approve the bill list.
>> Motion to approve the bill list. Second. >> Barb. >> Mr. Fierella. Yes, >> Mr. King. >> Yes, >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes, >> Mayor Bruna. >> Yes. Can I get a motion to approve the raffles? Uh, Deli Deca and Deli Project Graduation. >> Motion to approve the raffles. Second.
>> All those in favor? >> I get a motion to open the first public portion for resolutions below. >> Motion to open the the first public portion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? Hi, >> this is more of a question since I am
sorry. My name is Julie Sunderland. I'm the administrator of uh the property at 3200 New Street in the Mala Village. And I see that your first resolution I see some orange was ask about this is to
extend the statuto's time to permit the planning board to review the ordinances that were approved at the October 14th meeting. Does this mean that these ordinances where you're fixing things was going to be delayed further? >> Yes. >> Why did they not were they not aware of
you? >> They did not have a meeting. The planning board didn't have a meeting. Correct, Matt. >> Correct. So, so they're going to have it they're going to hear them at the November meeting. >> Correct. >> They're still scheduled for you guys
>> as long as long as long as the planning board makes no significant changes. They will send them back and they will be on the December meeting for here. >> Correct. >> We knew that. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, they're not delaying the vote. What what what this is is statutoily we
could have proceeded because the time would have expired, but we were already aware that they they weren't able to meet. So, this is just memorializing their opportunity to to review it and get it back to us before the date that we already set. We knew when we did this
that was the date. The date hasn't been moved. This is a required formality uh requested by the planning board just to document that they're getting that time. Perfect. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Second uh motion to close the first public portion. >> Motion to close.
>> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> get a motion to approve resolution 15625 extension of the statutory time to permit the planning board to review ordinances approved at the October 14th, 2025 meeting. >> Motion to approve R 15625.
>> Second. >> Mr. Fella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. Yes. Mr. Mayor Brun. >> Yes. Resolution 15725 reviewing and approving the Franklin Township Fire Commissioner District number four salary for 2025.
Motion to approve R 15725. >> Second. >> Mr. Perella. >> Yes. >> Mr. King. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bruno. >> Yes. Resolution 15825 authorizing the mayor to sign an authorization for treatment works approval for Jinia
Development Corp. >> Motion R 15825. >> Second. >> Mr. Mr. Fella, >> yes. >> Mr. Keane, >> yes. >> Mr. Marsh, >> yes. Mayor Brun, >> yes. Resolution 15925 supporting the municipal farmland preservation efforts
and goals as indicated in the 2026 municipal pig compliance statement. Motion R 15925. >> Second, >> Mr. Fella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane, >> yes. >> Mr. Marsh, >> yes. >> Mayor Bruno,
>> yes. Resolution 16025, payment to West Jersey Title Agency for title services for farmland preservation project. >> Motion R6025. Second, >> Mr. Pella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. >> Mayor Brunett.
>> Yes. All right. Resolution 16525 authorizing a purchase of one new 2025 CV 515 SFA 4x4 trucks with dump body and plow uplift attachment under Sourcewell
co-op contract number 032824 NVS from Allegiance Trucks 525 West Lynon Avenue Lynon New Jersey motion R 16125 >> second >> Mr. Fierella >> yes >> Mr. Yes, Mr.
>> Marsh. Yes. Mayor >> Bruno. Yes. Resolution 16225 authorizing the purchase of two 2026 Peterbuilt model 520 RD with H automated door pack
Jesus Python 33 cubic yard uplift. It's a trash truck under Sourcewell co-op contract 091219. The member number 161 9463 from
Mid-Atlantic Way Systems 10641 Cordova Road East of Maryland 21601. >> Motion R 16225. >> Jesus. >> Second. >> Mr. Pierrella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bruno. >> No.
>> Yes. Um, resolution 16325 authorizing the purchase of two new 2026 Ford F450 regular cap 4x4 dual rear wheel with dump body and plow spreader upfit under
New Jersey contract T1 T21 02/24 fleet 88820 from Sioka Ford of Flemington 215 US highway 202 Flemington New Jersey. >> I missed it. Can you read that again?
>> I'll give you the zip code. >> Motion R 16325. Second. >> Mr. Pella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. Mayor Bruno. >> Yes. Resolution 16425 authorizing a
purchase of two new 2026 Ford Superduty F250 singer single rear wheel XL four-wheel drive with plow and spreader upfit under Sourcewell contract 091521 NAF from National Auto Fleet Route 490
Auto Center Drive Watsonville California >> it's going to have a little miles on it when you get it isn't it >> motion R1 16425 Second, >> Mr. Fierella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. Mayor.
>> Yes. Is that That's really not >> winner or something like that. >> Okay. >> I'll take a road trip. >> Resolution 16525. authorized the purchase of a 60 ft wide by 40 foot long metal cloud enclosed beam building under
Sourcewell co-op contract 071223 CSS and 110822 CSS from clear span 703 Hebron Avenue floor 3 Glastonbury Connecticut motion
R1 16525 >> second >> Mr. Pella >> yes >> Mr. Keane >> yes >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bruno, >> yes. Resolution 16625, authorizing tax collector to grant tax exemption for a totally disabled veteran.
>> Motion R 16625. >> Second. >> Mr. Pierella. >> Yes. >> Mr. Keane. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marsh. >> Yes. >> Mayor Bruno. >> Yes. Resolution 16725 authorizing the closed executive meeting for the township committee of the township of
Franklin contract negotiations. >> Motion R 16725. Second, >> Mr. Fierella, >> yes. >> Mr. Keane, >> yes. >> Mr. Marsh, >> yes. >> Mayor Bruno, >> yes. Can I get a motion to open the second public portion for any comments? >> Motion to open the second public
portion. Second. >> All those in favor? I >> Good evening. Uh, >> good evening. My name is Scott Brown, 149 Old Marshall Mill Road in Mount Jersey. Um, last month I came to my first meeting and I was reporting to the
committee and and mayor about two issues. One was my dead edge my dead end street the regress and the park issues the handicap accessibility. I am happy to report the good work that got done. First of all, the 5,742
steps that the truck uh trash truck and the recycle truck back up at quarter to 7 in the morning be no longer. The sounds of silence are wonderful. >> What' you do? Cut the wire on the back >> down the street and make the turn. >> Thank you. Nothing to it.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, Matt was out there the next day and we got that the turn fixed. >> Um again, Matt addressed the issue of the 24 cats, the hoarding, the fleet infested. Some of the cats were hurt. There was a committee of volunteers that came from Vinland, took the animals.
Some of them were well, they were all malnutritioned. Um uh but they were very very sick. So they took them and forced them out of that area so that they can get uh healthier places and removed from the property. Also addressed the issue when Matt came out where the two um
squatters that were tening on the property for sale um I am happy to report that they have been removed. their properties have been removed and so have their drug paraphernalia and their tents are gone. So, we're back to normal there. Uh, also, uh, one of the issues that Matt addressed while he was
there in my driveway was the church traffic. I am happy to report that the church traffic is no more. They don't park on the dead end street and they have not used the um, um, generators at 6:30 in the morning. Four generators running. They're singing
naturally and without generators. So, that's good. Also, I'm happy to report that chief of police Matt uh took care of the transients that were coming back on on old Dutch mill that we pressed backs into my property. Um they have been warned and removed. So, that's good and
it's continues to be a great work in progress. Um also, I want to happy to report that uh the uh Brian worked with me with the playground to make that handicap accessible. The process has started and um um two things are
happening with that. the re and then we also got the special needs committee and Elks of the United States to donate what's called a buddy bench. Bench simply says, "Hi, I'm nonverbal, but I want to be your friend." So that when my son says they're non-verbal, other kids will know and they've worked in other
areas. Uh it's like a $600. Got that donated and also got the signs that um are handicapped signs for kids to signal to non-verbal and kids that don't speak. Um, so they tell them the basic signals, what it means to play on the rope, on the swing jump. Those signs are like
$1,100. We got them donated. Brian's going to be kind enough to coordinate the ramp and those things to get into the park. So, that'll be great. I do all this uh because of our non-verbal son who's 21 years old and we prepare prepare the quality of life. Uh
I am a combat wounded 100% disabled veteran. So, uh it everything that we do in this world means everything to our son. We pay a long-term care insurance so that when we die, Benjamin can stay in that house with 24-hour care. And so these things of good quality of living
mean a lot to us uh on that street. It also uh the tax exemption is good. So I appreciate it. One of the things that I want to bring up is the work that Matt and and Brian did out there the next day answering my texts, answering my phone calls. I'm a numbers guy and I looked at
the numbers. You deserve the rates. I mean, let's put the facts here. >> Now, I know he put you up to that. >> We won't even go square footage, but >> Barb, is that bell going to go off soon? >> We are the largest county in Boston County and uh that's that's a fact. And uh it just doesn't match their work. Uh
both Matt and Brian, uh there was no time clock and that means a lot to us. So, >> thank you. >> Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Brian. >> Appreciate you coming out and telling us that. >> Happy Veterans Day. Thank you very much. You didn't do none.
>> You didn't mention your name. >> Put your hat back on, please. >> Sorry. >> You're fine. >> 9200 Youth New Street at Mau Village. Um, I've been doing some additional research in the efforts to be able to overcome some things in the code that
some of which will be fixed in December as long as you don't believe that. There is a I was informed that there was a grandfather in the code for these properties in Mountain Village except there is a phrase which is being interpreted to
mean that the only people that owned the property at the time the chapter of the code was adopted. Now, I don't know. I haven't been able to find out how long ago that was, but I do know it predates 1984. So, the the phrase says, "Which parcel
was under one ownership at the date of the adoption of this chapter?" Now, that can be clarified. Does that really mean that the grandfather only follows the homeowner as long as they own that property and it doesn't follow the property? Matt,
>> I mean, I'm going to have to review that. I can't answer that without I I understand the importance of the uh the need for the response, so I'll have to I'll have to review it. I'm not exactly sure. >> This is why everyone's had so much problem trying to add on to their homes.
>> I I'm not sure if they're >> Well, it's the only It's the only other thing that that's the only thing that gets over the one acre requirement. >> Okay. So, I don't know if there was a issue going on at the time that they only wanted people who owned a property
since the 1950s to be able to add an addition, but that's basically what I've been told is the interpretation of that phrase. Otherwise, I would already have a shovel in the building. >> Okay. So, I know that you are touching on this uh in the ordinance
uh 13. >> Yeah. whatever 13 whatever it is. >> Um, and I Yeah, but I don't know that that phrase is being addressed because that phrase eliminates everybody who owns a house unless they've been there
since the 50s. And I don't know too many people who were 20 years old and able to own a property in the 1950s that are still here. >> Okay. So, that might have just been a simple fix or maybe it's being misunderstood. What was what was what was meant at that
time? Okay. But that's what's caused a lot of >> I'll confirm with Mr. Belli too. So the world definitive answer. >> Yeah, because it does say the chapter, not the or you know, it says the whole chapter. So that's a whole different thing than
just a particular part of the chapter. So if we can address things like that and maybe find a way to not petty cuz that's what I'm guessing happen. Somebody did it once, somebody else was. >> Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. >> If it was an 84, I was negative one. So
I It wasn't me. >> I wasn't quite old enough. I wasn't quite old enough to own property, >> you know, but uh I it doesn't that was when that code was amended. >> Yeah. >> So if the code was and it talked about being in the 50s and the 60s. So if the code is that old,
>> I sincerely doubt anyone's still around that owned property back at that time. So obviously become something that you don't need anymore. Mhm. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can I get a motion to close the second public portion? >> Motion to close.
>> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> You want to do the committee reports now? We're not going to We're going to go into close. We're not taking any action. >> Right. There will be no further action taken after our close session. So, I would say we would do committee reports
now. Um the only thing we would do after the close session would be to reconvene to adjourn. Y >> there would be no no other votes or information. >> All right, Mike. >> Uh I have nothing. No reports. Mark,
>> uh I'd just like to congratulate Kan and Mike on the re-election. >> They we don't do politics up here. And I'd also like to uh Matt inform me that they started on the HVAC system in the library last week. It's been a long time coming. So hopefully we'll have
that wrapped up in the next month or two. >> They were working on Monday, weren't they? Last week they were working closely. >> Last last week they actually put the units up on the roof and they've been there working. >> Can they check the ceiling tile before it pops up there? John, uh, I want to thank all
poll workers and, uh, counters and election officials that did a good job of, um, working the polls and securing our democracy. Congratulate everybody who won. Uh, happy Veterans Day to all of our veterans out there. Um, very grateful to be in a free country and,
uh, thank you for all that service that, um, our veterans put in for that. Communications was cancelled. It was supposed to be today, but obviously we're here today. So, communications uh meeting was cancelled and finance subcommittee is going to meet on Thursday. So, if anyone has some
questions, feel free to send those over to me and I'll make sure to try to get those addressed at that time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Shop with a cop. You got something to say about that? >> Oh jeez. It becomes unprepared.
>> Why did Matt say? I just got an email. >> Yeah. >> What's the date? >> I was just first week of December or second. >> Why he's looking it up? The reason I bring it up is the police department uh
is is looking for any kind of donations uh monetary I believe to uh help support the uh effort. They I believe they get what about 50 60 kids out there. >> Um and they they they they take them
shopping. They It's It's really a good thing to say. It's a good thing to be part of. Um but uh the kids get get x amount of dollars to spend and usually the cop or the fireman or whoever is walking around shopping with them
actually has to dig in their pocket for another 50 to 100 sometimes. But no one goes without and I think it's just a great thing. It's it's morphed into something pretty big. December. >> Yeah. December 6. >> December 6 holiday with a hero. And you
guys are collecting donations down at the fire uh police department. Correct. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um congratulations everyone who won in the election. Um, I want to personally thank Brian and Matt for
taking care of that problem. Usually Matt's getting screamed at. Brian, you don't get screamed at, but Matt sure does. But, uh, thank you for taking care of that problem. >> Hopefully hopefully uh, it stays the way
it is right now there and, uh, we don't have any problems that, uh, reappear. So, with that said, thank you for coming out. Um, again, we're not we're taking no action in close session. >> We're taking no action after
>> after close session. If you want to stick around, it's going to be quick, but with that being said, can I get a motion to go into close session? >> Motion to go into close session. >> Second. >> All those in favor?
>> I >> Matt Lions. Yes. >> Want a motion to come out of executive session? >> Yes. >> Can I get a motion to come out of executive session? >> Make a motion to come out of the session. Executive >> second. >> All those in favor?
>> I can I get a motion to enter >> close the session. Right. >> What? >> To close executive session or now? >> Out of a motion. >> Now we want to reopen the meeting, right? >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Yes. Motion to >> motion to reopen and motion to >> Can I get a motion to open the motion to open the meeting again? >> Second. >> All's in favor. >> I need a motion to close the meeting. Motion to close. I mean, all those in favor I hold.