##VIDEO ID:eu8niMngZCQ## call meeting order Pledge of Allegiance Al 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 pursuance of the open public meetings act adequate notice of this meeting was forwarded the official Township newspapers posted on the bulleon board and Township website on January 4th 2024 this meeting is be interiew to and we'll be on Channel 9 roll call Mr do here Mr P here Mr Marsh here mayor Bruno here uh can I get a motion open to public hearing on the following ordinance ordinance 125 establishing the salary and wages of Municipal officials and employees of the township of Franklin motion for 01 25 second all those in favor I good evening good evening um I have a question on it okay um went through last year's and I noticed there's almost $220,000 increases on on our salary range from last year at a lot of the uh things and I didn't know why we were doing that uh I don't think anyone's going to get get that much I just think we're just tired of raising raising it every year that's a lot of people you'd have to give a lot of big and some understand some were five and 10 but is was it required by the state or something or were we we just did our cor why we decided to do that and most of the ones that went up were also because the contracts we did we just did through 2029 so a lot of them are in that range now so just to make sure there was no issue with the state we put it up to where the contracts increased to we just increase the the two pbas and the 20,000 you know I saying year 20,000 is a big jump when you see all these salaries and they're going up I mean I can't get more than 50 cents for a newspaper to be honest with you and many of us or I mean it's it's not where you know a lot of people having struggling so when I see $20,000 raises doesn't necessarily I I don't really think anyone's going to get to the top of that range this year okay I have promise you that no one's getting to the to we don't have a lot of businesses in here to offset those kind of raises and it would come on the taxpayer to do that that's all you know would be our all of our concerns of course I just wanted to ask you why you decided to throw it out there thank you y thank you uh can I get a motion over public session motion to close it close it I'm sorry motion to close second all those in favor I I get a motion to approve ordinance adopt ordinance 125 motion to adopt a 125 second Mr Doyle yes Mr fella yes Mr Mars yes may Bruno yes can I get a motion to approve corresponden and reports motion to approve correspondence and reports second all those in favor I uh motion to approve the minutes from December 30th 2024 and January 1st of 2025 motion approve the minutes second all those in favor I uh motion to approve the bill l motion to approve Bill list second Mr Doyle yes Mr fella yes Mr Marsh yes may yes okay a motion to approve 2025 licenses for food handling kening kenel and automatic amusements motion to approve the licenses second all those in favor I uh can I get a motion uh to open the first public portion for Resolutions and ordinances below motion for open public portion all those in favor I good evening Dave Marshall 67 New Road Malaga uh the resolution in in reference to the green are 3525 can you give me a little bit of Enlightenment on where some of that money is going to be allotted or what some of the proposed allotments are I believe it's for Parks correct yes sirk improv we're looking at Forest Grove and proba Pennsylvania Avenue since we just did phase one and Malaga um the next two that could use a start of renovation would be Pennsylvania Avenue and Mars Park I kind of figured that but I was just curious did I ask you about Mal Park here you a second go ahead just I know that all you know put got cleared out yep just didn't know what the timeline was for what what was coming should be coming anytime is St okay I it was in process [Music] I get a motion to close first public portion motion to close second all those in favor I beging a motion to approve resolution 3425 authorizing the mayor to sign the Gloucester Saleem Cumberland County Municipal joint insance fund safety contract motion to approve R 3425 second Mr doy yes Mr fella yes Mr Marsh yes mayor BR yes resolution 3525 authorize the administrator to submit an application for a local Recreation Improvement Grant fiscal year 2025 to the New Jersey Division of Community Affairs motion R35 525 second Mr Doyle yes Mr Pella yes Mr Marsh yes mayor Bruno yes resolution 3625 authorizing the Chief Financial Officer of the township of Franklin to transfer certain funds from two specific accounts in the 2024 Reserve budget to the township of Franklin of the township of Franklin motion R 3625 second Mr Doyle yes Mr fella yes Mr Marsh yes mayor Bruno yes resolution 3725 resolution of Township of Franklin fair share affordable housing obligations for the fourth round motion R 3725 second Mr Doyle yes Mr Pella yes Mr Marsh yes mayor BR yes and then resolution 3825 authorizing a close session for the township Committee of the township Franklin Personnel unrepresented employees motion R 3825 second Mr D yes Mr Pella yes Mr Marsh yes mayor Bruno yes can I get a motion to open the second public portion motion open the second public portion second all those in favor I oh you 300 field I just have a question about Street vacations and the master plan is the Township committee going to approve the master plan and are the street vacations um directly correspond with the master plan uh I believe so I I read the master plan and no um mention of Street vacation than to may be talking about two different things because part of to answer part of your question is that the master plan is going to require a series of of ordinances to be considered uh or adopted by the governing body that's going to take some time and are you talking about large groups of of of Street vacation individual property yeah so that's a separate question that we talked to you I talked to the mayor and administrator about within the last couple of weeks um you're talking about a small small affecting a handful of properties we looking to get vacated so that we don't have two front yards it it affects the setbacks the the administrator and I spoke about that on Friday there I don't know about this particular one but of about the the the situation in general uh and walk through the requirements of the statute the Jason Property Owners and whatnot so um without going into the specifics of this one you can uh the minister and I can respond to that okay very all right thank you thank you Marshall 67 new route back I guess it would be somewhere around the end of November I had sent out an email to a couple of you into the administrator referen to a piece of property on Old Dy Drive that's where the public storage was going to be and I was told that as of the 19th of December they had to have the property cleaned up and they were going to hit the citations so since then almost every day that the mo adding more more to that property eff just yesterday had four more crates of something delivered on that property two more trailer bodies and a pile of trash delivered I mean it's it's an eyesore and a half we issued summons the day I told you we were and we're waiting for the municipal court to schedule because they they just had court last week for the first time since the second week of December so I'm sure it's scheduled either for this month or the beginning of February for them to come to court and I talked to chase about it today uh which is in his report they had come in they were looking to to do stuff there and they picked up applications and they had not submitted them for what they wanted to do on that property so depending the municial court so so I'm guessing the what they're doing then isn't isn't enough I guess the find AR going be enough to offset it they're not scared doing things add to us consistently the fines are up to the judge I mean that's not so and then what happens then you able to find but they can continue to operate that way no I mean because they'll have to if they come to court it'll it'll go through the trial process so then they'll have to vacate the property so and how is that enfor you don't let me ask you I'm just thinking of the pool place and all the problems that had nothing so well we're still in enforcement action on that with the pool place so just the judge issues an order and we adhere to it from there and the fines accumulate every day it is I mean n slow too slow process it's too slow yes I after you sent that I did see that and it's just he just keep it's right kind of behind the mountain it's right behind the church9 church if you go behind the behind M Diner get the church it's it's just down from where like they was it's a BAC lot what are they doing yeah I haven't seen that I I drove over there it's a it's an absolute Isa yeah increas that will be about the size of tractors box every other day there's another PR well I know when I got here we raised the fines cuz the fines were like very like you said it was cheaper to not listen um I've been here for six years I haven't seen anybody Patty big finds I've seen us fine people hundreds of thousands but I've never seen a check because when you go to court uh you know it's always plead yeah and it's it's frustrating I'll disagree with you the court does seek compliance more than fine but the fin is used to obtain compliance should be yeah that's the goal organized Society yeah correct people the on you're worri about I'll send one of the housing guys out to thear to get more pictures I they issued summons the day he was supposed to come in with paperwork for Chase and he did not so don't see him there he hides over thereza truck behind did he say what he's doing he came in and wants to open a business apparently he's a woodworker or something like that most of the pictures I saw do not look like g gbody w working but they look like bance and stuff like that those were full of equ there are there are some trees and stuff but I mean they issued in multiple summonses I want I think may have been the 19th I forget the exact day was whenever the thing was was his Dro that date from Chase and when he didn't come in they issued him summons his that day is old dely drive still considered a state highway or is that ours is that Municipal old Del is Municipal so I'm sure is it a four ton local deliveries though local deliveries to what because I think where old comes it's right at delsy he's right in the corner so he's actually coming in on 47 he's I know exactly where he's at but I don't know if that if that Frontage is on dely Drive actually or is it on Old delsy Drive old Del it's next to the church right it's behind the church South South of the church MH it's the parking lot of the church parking lot he's right to the left and it needs right there them go out there tomorrow I mean they like I said they did Issue someons this we we will just take more pictures I mean there's no we can't really hit them for a second offense of tickets we already issued pending court action so just we can just sh and we should if there is additional conduct that new absolutely because it will take that PR yeah yeah just you only get where you V property but it's usually 10% when the actual real fine is 10% we get out of court a motion to close second public portion motion to close second all those in favor I committee reports Mike we attended the mayor and I attended the um the awards center for the police department it was uh very well done Chief it was a great time great show up for all the department members to show up at that time uh and congratulate all the officers and the guys that made offic of the year and supervisor of the year what haven't had any meeting this um took a ride around the few the the snow we got and uh wanted to thank Public Works they did a great job they actually pre- saled a lot of the dangerous sections and our roads in my opinion I did a lot of driving we're better than most towns right out of the gate and we have a big town so when I'm talking not the main roads I'm talking the back roads so keep up the good work thanks I was out of town but I did get a chance to hear from some a few residents and they were extremely satisfied with the actions of Public Works um let's talk about the leaves where are we with the leaves Wednesday R we Pi up more leads so far this year we involved [Music] what's the uh trash truck count Okay we taking one down Friday have it back up Tuesday the one that was in the accident we have the rental replacing that one so yeah no no I understand that thank you that's all I got can I get a motion to go into close session make a motion to go into close session second all those in favor I we're not we're not taking formal action we're not taking formal action be no more formal action there'll be no more formal action taken yes sir sure that's what Marty said we might full no we might take action at the next we not oh yeah girlfriend is it a different one you what's up yeah she can't do I I got to meet her again I got to meet her again we were in the same thing I got can you hear me off I get a motion to come out a close session motion to come out of the close session second all in favor I I okay a motion to rejar the meeting rejourn right sure motion to rejourn the meeting good motion all those in favor I a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second I can't it is today Ralph bye I was aiming change e