call meeting order Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for
all open public meeting Z statement this meeting was advertised on the township website and the township newspaper and go as part of the January 1 meeting no I
just I knowbody playing through that thank you roll call Mr Doyle here Mr fella here mayor berno here uh can I get a motion to introduce the following ordinance the
public hearing will be on April 8th 2025 it's ordinance 225 Street vacation portion of Elm Avenue motion intr introduce 0225 second all those in favor I
again that hearing will be held on April 8th 2025 I get a motion to approve correspondency reports motion to approve correspond pleas second all in favor I uh motion to approve the minutes from February 11th 2025 motion to approve the
minutes second all those in favor I um motion to approve the bill list motion to approve the bill list there's two two what there's a supplemental Bill list from Robin that was put on also it was posted but just so you know there's two
so both yes thank you yeah motion motion to approve the bill list and the supplemental Bill list second Mr Doyle yes Mr fella yes mayor Bruno yes can I get a motion to approve
2025 license food handling kennel automatic amusement and form stand motion to approve the 225 2025 license second all those in favor I uh can I get a motion to approve Raffles and bingo motion to approve Raffles and
bingo second all those in favor I can I get a motion to approve the coin drop motion to approve the second all those in favor I can I get a motion to open the first
public portion for Resolutions and ordinances below motion open the first public portion second all in favor I I get a motion to close the first public portion motion to close the first public portion second all those in favor I uh
can I get a motion to approve resolution 4625 authorizing release of a performance bond bond for zawa Franklinville LLC motion for resolution 46- 2025 who's that bearded
guy okay second Mr Doyle yes Mr Pella yes Mr King abstain mayor brunno yes uh can I get a motion to approve resolution 4725 authorizing the CFO and tax collector to refund overpayment of
taxes motion to approve 47225 second Mr Doyle yes Mr FAL yes Mr Kean yes mayor bero yes I get a motion to approve resolution 4825 authorizing CFO
and tax collector to Grant tax exemption for the Widow of a totally disabled vet block 121 lot 38 motion adopt approve r48 2025 second Mr Doyle
yes Mr fella yes Mr Kean yes mayor Bruno yes I get a motion to approve resolution 49 25 authorizing close out change order to mitigation contract with nearest construction for Lacy Ray project final project cost lower by previously
approved amount of $3,551 motion to approv R 49225 second Mr Doyle yes Mr Kella yes Mr Kean yes mayor berno yes a motion for resolution 5025 authorizing
the tax collector to issue a duplicate tax C certificate for Block 1402 lot 11.01 in response to filing of dually executed law tax certificate documentation holy crap motion to approve R50 2025
second Mr Doyle yes Mr Pella yes Mr Keem yes mayor Bruno yes uh resolution 5125 authorizing a lawn Turf Care maintenance program for the town Franklin facilities with lawn connection of West Berlin New
Jersey motion approve R 51 2025 second Mr Doyle yes Mr fella yes Mr Kean yes mayor Bruno yes I get a motion open second public portion for any comments motion open second public portion second
all in favor I I for being what apiz John was later you yeah that's true you got give us your name and Jason 56 okay uh just question about a
vac um have you called anyone yet put app master planor master I believe that I believe you may be in the file that on the list of ones y can we get a hold of him maybe
tomorrow the next day and start the process with him yes sir all right can you call Town Hall tomorrow ask for Matt call right on extension that's it yep thank you B Marshall 67 New Road M the EDC
meeting that occurred in not long there was some discussions about a potential have can come forward for a warehouse I was wondering when that video was going to get posted on YouTube I wasn't there I don't know anything about that but uh check with Candace we'll check with
Candace second so that will be getting posted at some point if it if there's a video yeah it should be well you said all the buildings were fored so even if they had to room it should be home there again I wasn't there did they have it here they have it in the other room I
can check and see if they had it in the other room that's not recorded but it should be there's got to be minutes from anyway we'll talk December 12th meeting here may you said every part of the building is but that's not that's that's not that's security yeah that's that's security video that's not the same as
recording for that was the administration building that was was we were talking about not this oh I'm sure mat Cesar we're not going to talk about the security of the build I'm not I'm I'm just reporting for meeting no that that was in reference to um the cameras
over top of the people that collect the money and stuff like that the county even know it's a camera on the front of our building right uh so that you don't know whether they had the meeting here Mr pH or Mr I I was not there but we will find out from Kanas were either the other two on
there you supposed to be I was not no you're on that AR no so if it wasn't there there would be no recoring that if it wasn't here saying it would just be the minutes it would just be the
minutes there's a differ again there's a difference between security video and videos taken of meetings that are done to be shown on our website I just want to not conflate we've had this issue before where we Ed I I actually thought that that you
know the meeting should be held in here but again I wasn't I wasn't there I don't know find out we'll find out yep no problem thanks maybe you're you're down so low it's okay she fixed it you can fix stuff yeah
sometimes I can um want to thank you for the it's not open yet I don't want you down there on them swing set I want to be the first guy and it is beautiful it looks really good it looks
nice it's a long and you know what officer same and and uh there's some more that has to be done I don't know if you that'll be too late that's the we can't keep the people out
till well what that orange fence isn't hold them back the plan the plan is we're going to have a soft opening to open the playground area as soon as we can get the gates in place um and then then then then there'll be then there'll be
something else coming coming up during Police Week that Matt and I are working on there will be hours the gates will be opened and closed by we're also looking to install security cameras possibly so that'll be another factor to to prevent people from
doing issues there so yeah look we had start no it came out good there's a lot of nice stuff in there really ask what's going on in my neighbor very gas cuz we've got a lot of uh gas lines coming in and I had phone
calls from people who were asking but there's a lot of equipment you know I don't know whether anybody's getting new gas lines yeah or what the gas company wouldn't have to they would do a Road opening permit but that's it on Bon there all the PIP
gas same and uh they had a couple of equipment on the make off of the town on the corner did they have did they have gas there prior to the rest of the township getting gas F section where the
traffic s they CAU it a long time but from my end cuz I was there 1980 from there run K Ro they didn't have it I wonder if you're just upgrading all the probably extending I didn't know if they were extending it or what but I had
a couple calls some people had were I'll call I'll call tomorrow we have a contact that's out to the guest I'll call see what's going on out there anybody ask for Traffic Control Michelle in I don't know why
Michelle she didn't told me today I'll reach out I'll reach out tomorrow and I'll get back to you which one's that we got so many being built in the township it's hard to keep up I'll call you yep I get a motion to close second public
portion close second public portion second all in favor I I Matt you have anything for us Chief yes the only thing um I would like to just briefly um touch on the a tragedy that
happened out5 day um we had several that weed by that and I just want to remind residents just to sorry about that I just wanted to just touch briefly on the tragedy that happened down on 55 the other day um we had several residents that were affected
by that um they affected our school district people Liv in our community and uh you know I just want to remind people that you know speed and and distracted driving um are the main factors of fatal accidents in our state right now
um we are going to be participating in some grants that we received uh in the month of April and May to try to uh reduce our serious accidents um but was a real boss for our community they need those young people and just also so I
just want to recognize those people um one student I didn't know um been involved with him uh during his tenure at DC and uh he so that's thanks thanks Brian you Cindy kind of sto your
thunder there that but that's she's a crack reporter that's what you do do you have anything you want to add or about the park or anything Park want to mention down every week brings a different thing
with them trash is um Tiana contac and Sarah about posting that stuff when we don't I did same was I posted and and they'll put it on Channel 9 okay soon as I know about it it was posted on the website to leave it out that we if it doesn't get picked
up we will leave it out we will get it first thing the next morning then start that day stuff so I'll pull one out again tomorrow just saying that you know for the rest of this week if we don't get it leave it out we will get it the next morning and then start that day thank
you uh you more for committee reports uh his historics is still uh looking to interview uh for their monthly articles uh people in the town uh some older people that might be able to get perspective so if you're interested in
that you can contact Carol Coburn um and she'll set it up thanks John yes Mr Mayor so tomorrow Communications will be meeting so we will um be redoing for inspecting
investigating the website and just trying to um do analytics and possibly improve the user experience of the website make sure that it's as functional as it could be for all of our residents and I just want to mention my extension from the vote earlier was
because of just arriving so um I know that that is required for Robert's Rules so that's all thank you thank John K we've already talked about the play set but just want to thank the Public Works guys because they've done a lot of stuff themselves to save us money um we
did use a installer for the actual equipment but these guys have done those of everything else um and along with doing all their normal work so um I give them credit and just let everybody know that Malo Park was the first Park but we all the parks need
renovation so now that we've got the budget under control it's time to start fixing some stuff so hopefully there'll be another Park next year great um I I just want to thank Public
Works to least are finally picked up uh you know that it is good it's done um most of the people in town recognize that it's 56 square miles takes a while
um you know equipment's old uh it just takes a long time to do that had a little bit of snow but you know at this point everything's done we have another one planned for April that's just one time right
so be prepared so but I appreciate the work there appreciate the work uh all the taxes got collected well majority of the taxes got collected um so that was a busy part of the season for the girls in the office
but uh I want to thank them and uh with that said U little L started up right started this week Saturday when is the um egg Sindy did they tell
you put no I think it's up there I just want to make sure yeah be on the lookout for that you have some young children the re does a a great job with that um with that said appreciate you coming out a motion to
adjourn the meeting motion to adjourn second all those in favor I