iives um so perfect example we currently are partnering with um the municipality itself through our animal internship youth center and Senior Center as well we also have different college campus
tour opportunities that we offer our students so we visit rvcc um our upcoming field trips consist of Fair Denon University mom University we've been to Princeton Drex University um and so forth Columbia University um there's
so many so I'm sorry if I slip if one slips my mind um we also actually offer students um what's called the time shared program um with through rvcc which is an advanced manufacturing program for our upper classman students
um so they attend Franklin High School in the morning in the afternoon they go to rbcc where they work on Hands-On um projects and they earn different certifications we also have our construction trades program which Tes
takes place at the middle school and you know we have several students who are currently participating in that so again Hands-On experiences that students could engage with um you know shifting gears we have a um model fine visual arts
program we we have an upcoming um spring musical Cinderella So if you are available please check that out um we are constantly um you know offering students the opportunity to participate in
different you know concerts to Showcase their skills um our students also actually paint different walls right they they paint different murals around the school so it is our school is
beautified by our students themselves um to add on to that um we have our AP initiative right which I always love talking about because I work very closely with our supervisor Equity
um and inclusion so our goal is to increase student enrollment um in our AP courses right so we want different stud students from different backgrounds to take these rigorous courses and increase their
opportunity to attend um College colleges post high school so recently we held our AP family night in which we educate you know we inform our parents about our different AP course offerings um we have AP ambassadors who also
connect with students prospective students and families and we just talk about what we're do you know what we offer at Franklin High School in terms of AP curriculum um we also had what's called our AP Ambassador day where our current AP students have the chance to speak to students who are interested in
taking AP classes and you know they talk about the pros and cons of AP um what it's like as an AP student um you know they displayed their individual courses and it it was just it was a great it was a great experience for everyone to see
everyone together um we also let me know I miss something cuz there's so much that we do um we also have you know Athletics wise um we are actually we recently hosted
the Metro Classic Tournament right this is our second year doing that and R is shaking his head um so you know Franklin High schol was just home to a lot of different things right different activities um we're also hosting our wrestling our state wrestling
tournament and um um upcoming State upcoming yes upcoming State basketball tournaments wrestling um speaking of Hosting on Saturday we hosted our first annual robotics competition okay so that was you know
that was very interesting um to experience um we I think I hit a h different Rohan I think I hit a punk I'm think I'm I'm looking at you cuz I saw you there Saturday so I'm thinking of anything
else that I missed um yeah in general like I said I pride I pride myself curently speaking as inter principal of the different opportunities that we do offer our students right through our clubs through our initiatives um through our courses electives um it's honestly
just wonderful to see everything that we offer our students I I understand also you have a Brother's Keeper the one that president M that's that started as well your high school with the law enforcement yes I'm
not as familiar but yeah so my brothers Keepers this is a partnership with the police department Division and they've worked with many of our students um over the last two years right and continue to grow it um so yes My Brother's Keeper is
a Obama initiative we're trying to I understand they wanted certifi this year really uh one of the Township in the area the police FKS that's been assigned to it from the police department come to our school to
mentor and work with our students on a regular basis that's I I didn't know that officers bin and detective Gregory are the main two that handle that okay I have a couple of questions actually um our Township is the second most diverse
Township in New Jersey and we pride ourselves because such a great opportunity to learn and celebrate different uh Traditions cultureal as well as the faith tradition what are some of the programs that you do in high
school to integrate our community together so they can be unified have mutual respect so that's one question the other question is that Ramadan is going to be starting in a couple of days as you know what what are you doing what
kind of uh um facilities or or programs you offering for the students that they are going to be fasting they cannot probably participate in sports maybe definitely not going to be eating and so forth so if you could comment on those
two areas I appreciate it yeah so um at Franklin High School we do offer we have a pleer of clubs right we have nearly 60 clubs and throughout those clubs we do um EMP ize um you know doing community service teaching you teaching that
modeling that for our students so connecting with our Community Resources um our counseling department also has very close connections with um different Community Resources as well as um our Sac
um we also recently recently we um celebrated Muslim heritage month right um in January so we hosted different lunch activities um we also had um you know daily quotes that our student
ambassadors read every morning just to celebrate the diversity found in their school um like I said Black History Month is coming to an end but we celebrate it throughout the year regardless um so same you know same thing we have different resources available to our to our staff and
students right in our library um which are media specialist media specialist shares um we also read um you know weekly poem daily motivational quotes related to um famous poets or historical figures um we had the assemblies that
like I said we started today and we'll conclude tomorrow um and then in gen generally speaking I actually work very closely with our Muslim Association Club advisor and she's actually um coordinating a ramesan gratitude event where students will be participating
community service um and that is connected to Elijah's soup kitchen and we you know we we help contribute to that cause um we also have a safe space for our students who do pray and need you know that quiet time they prefer not
to go to the cafeteria we have the library available to them we have different SP spaces at which we've identified for those students so there is a um what we call zenzen where students can pray um so that has been reserved for those students got to ask can I add to that
you know I want to make sure you also know the the importance of our clubs in our building the the clubs in our building she mentioned to one Muslim Students Association there's a black Youth Association there's an Asian awareness Association we have multiple
different clubs to allow our students to connect with their cultures and share their cultures with our student body I think that's the beauty of Franklin High School because we're so diverse and we have multiple clubs that is we're very
acceptable Community as well too we'll allow our clubs to show what they can do and I think that's very powerful in addition you mentioned Ramadan you may not remember this but Ramadan is coming and if you didn't have it I'll make sure I share it with you is that I send a a
reminder every year for Ramadan for our staff to make sure they one know the the the time period of Ramadan because changes every year because of the moons right um but to give them tips we give them tips T tons of Articles out there just on
tips on how teachers can support our students uh through Ramadan so that's something we typically give out every year so our our staff know that and and as you as you mentioned um the praying right I can remember that and you do it too I walked in the other day I'll give
up my office to allow a student to pray right U because they wanted something I have a nice carpet um but you know that's something that we we do and and that's just the the you know we're a very accepting community so
1997 we um brought this stand up for the other pledge to all the schools actually in Franken Township was the first Township that 7,000 students took that pledge are you familiar with the Pledge on this okay I'm going to give you a
copy I can actually have it in my here we took it yesterday in the council chamber and the reason we did is because we had a lot of officers there that they were uh sworn in that's very good and so
this pledge is really a beautiful pledge which initiated it was actually initiated in 1996 and basically uh I'll read it for everybody to hear it says while interacting with members of my own faith
or ethnic Community or with others if I hear hateful or dragory comments from anyone about members of any other community I pledge to stand up for the other and challenge bigotry in any form
now this is part of anti-bullying in schools actually it is part of it so so I'm just going to give you a copy you can keep it because that's a very important and I remember Dr rali when he started doing this and he made a good
program I don't know you were here or not yeah and the students had all kinds of activities around that uh and that's part of the they made it that part of antiban efforts that they have so it may
not be a bad idea once in a while to remind students so they can remember this pledge so because so important for our community our diverse community that if somebody says something and puts the one Community down they can and uh you
know defend the other one absolutely and you know just to add because it relates to what you just said um we do have um you know we do pride ourselves in the inclusiveness that exists within our school building um you know General
students um our special needs students students from different cultural backgrounds like everyone you know all our students do a great job um celebrating each other's uniqueness and diversity so I I do want to comment
on that okay that's a good thing I just want to the recent execution of the executive order on De those words are disappearing rapidly from corporate
boardrooms including the firm that I work for um has there been any impact to the Outlook that you have or the plans that you have around equity and inclusion well that hasn't personally affected us
because we continue doing what we think is best for our students and that is um Crain diversity okay and continue expanding what we currently have um so you know just to demonstrate an example of how inclusive we are we have what's called
um a one Warrior program where our gener students um work with our special needs students in a phys physical education setting um and they help our special needs students um develop those skills that they wouldn't be able to do so on their own in a you know larger class in
a larger um gym setting so um we we continue despite what's going on nationally um locally speaking right internally in Franklin High School we continue building our programs um we continue celebrating diversity um and
you know we want to make sure students feel Valu and safe in our building and districtwide that's not nothing just Frank High School yeah nothing has come up to change anything what are your greatest challenges you've given us a lot of your
highlights but there must be challenges that you've identified that you're facing and and how what are the approaches for those yeah so you know like at any High School right students are always going to have disagreements
okay so rather than you know how are we helping students students build that maturity to help them communicate with one another so we do Implement um you know we're very big with our restorative practices right so when there is a conflict that is brought to our
attention we help students um talk to each other right like so talk talk to us describe the conflict how can we help um repair whatever is going on so that's something that is a challenge right how do we prevent um students from engaging
in fights or the agreements um something that could be that could lead to something greater so that Focus um restorative practices that has definitely helped us um another challenge is obviously you know vaping that that's Nationwide right um even
globally so we do have you know our sack department does a great job educating our students about um you know the harms that is associated with that so we have different programs available um different through our lunch periods where students can learn more
about the harms we have bulletin boards right um describing um what any harm that's associated with that um we have our monthly you know quarterly parent checking meetings where we also connect with our families to um reiterate the
importance of having these conversations at home so those are honestly our two biggest challenges question has there been a need to address the the climate for young people whose parents uh may be dealing with some challenges due to
immigration status I mean I received an email about a week and a half ago that that uh ice had been in town um in in Somerset on Hamilton Street um at a business so wondering if that has trickled down and what if anything is
being done to address the anxiety of of our kids absolutely so um you know that's a great question question right it's something that's affecting everyone um you know I recently met with my staff and you know we had such a great conversation about how can we support
our students right especially those students who are currently dealing with the anxiety of potentially being deported or their parents right so I just reminded them these are the protocols we should be those we should be those trusted adults in the building
and reassuring them that this is a safe space um I did have a parent approach about it um they were very you know they they also heard that ice was in the community so I reassured them that their child was safe um that we had a plan set
in place um in the event that would happen right um but I think it's just reassuring our staff members our students that the school is a safe place and that we have the appropriate measures put in place in the event that an agent would approach us of the
building good question question Yeah question I I had a question you were talking about the career in technical education um and this is it's actually my research field um do you have opportunities for students to do like apprenticeships where they're like actually working for businesses while
they're in school and also like learning um certain occupational um standards well yeah so we have the rvcc advanced manufacturing program um where they can earn OSHA safety card and if they pass a n certification test right that could
actually be used in um industry related um careers so that's one the construction trades program that's also a Hands-On program and through those you know their instructors obviously they're actually in the fields so easily speaking they can build that connection
right and um if they I'm sure if they do a great job that's something that could lead to a future um role in the field as well um like I said the internships that we've been partnering up with the District legislative assembly as well as
the youth center animal shelter they' even said it themselves like if they do a great job they're committed to it that could lead to Future roles as well can I just add to that the CTE CTE program so CTE programs is the Career Technical
educational programs where we have three that is qualified uh uh TV production marketing which is the newest and our dance so part of it is it's like a highle course but the other part is that they actually get a chance to go out
into the businesses and work in those particular Fields so yes those are three areas that we have and marketing is the next I know next year they're looking to even add more so U we have a CTE coordinator to help guide us and push us to expand and I'm looking forward to see
what's next are you partnering with any like community colleges as well to try to get kids like college credit while they're still in high school du enr we have yes so we do have do enrollment Partnerships with RVC rvcc and c and Hall and that's also something that we're trying to expand um through our
English Department and math department with seall with seat and Hall's question I always like to ask U as you know uh our high school is terrific I've been here a long time and everything else but but we also have a a
slew of charter schools does the administration and all get together with the administration of the charter schools and all we both typically get together with them I am familiar with Dr
sakan from uh cjcp he actually helped with my doctorate by the way so I know him from that uh but in terms of Partnerships not really yeah because um because
especially Alex and I are a part of the amont Alia King Community Foundation and we always as you know one of our main purposes is to give a scholarships and we always have to be careful that we
always go to the high school but we also have to go to to to other charter schools and uh so I was just wondering anybody else I was going to John question no Bas I was raised of course
in the most economically challenging neighborhood part of Franklin and I was wondering after hearing all these good things that's going on in your high school has there been any effect because of the economics and challenges that's
going on in my part of neighborhood has it had any effect on the students in in school that's act the attendance part so you know it varies right you're always going to have a small percentage
of students to struggle with attendance but we do have um you know our counselors work very closely with the great level of Vice principles uh we do our parent meet you know we coordinate parent meetings we have our attendance officer who we also work closely with we
have attendance meetings right we do home visits um in the event that you know we notice there is a true concern related to the student's attendance um and you know like I said attendance is always going to be something that
students struggle with right a small population but we try to um be proactive so it won't become a problem down the line youing for student mental health I know I I come out of the background from the why we created a whole unit um to
try to help with especially with the the co atmosphere and postco a lot of things were services so how are you dealing with that yeah so great question as well um we our counseling department like I
said our Sac counselors um we offer our students different resources all right we actually have our own um men um therapist who offers individual counseling within during the school day
for our students so that's actually um a great new addition um for that purpose that's to serve that purpose um in general right you know weekly check-ins with our counselors um case
managers um and we also connect with Community Resources as well which students can take advantage of in families anybody else if if not we we thank you as always and keep us posted and it's going on we
have these two good high school students that keep that keep us posted but uh and they were very good we're going to lose one of them it's going to be graduating right so CL 2025 so I'll be asking you
for some names for a repl absolutely we thank you and thank you so much filling up this int doing a phenomenal job thank you for having me appreciate it
you than okay I will I'm going to go around Shake everyone's hand it was a pleasure all right nice meeting you nice meeting you you know nice meeting you nice meeting
you my girl now nice meeting you nice meeting you all right take care I was about to take it I will I will have a good night everyone to meet you take care take
care I want to welcome back Pete clar he had some surgery that he was unavailable for a while but uh it looks like he's he's hopping out a little bit he a reserve list and and welcome you back I'm happy back thank you thank
you you're close okay let's move on to the police report uh last month uh there was some delay because the police were very very tied up so we didn't have a report but we
have one tonight so officer Russo you're on um so just want to apologize about last month it was actually on me I ended up about the same thing I had a surgery as well uh that night end up the hospital a couple scenarios for myself um but other than that I'm back healthy
going back to all this good stuff but uh a couple things just we have coming up March 19th we have our chess club starting up again uh it's a great club we run through the youth center um offic those Place usually runs that he's actually out on medical now for nine months I would say um but we have officer torado and officer Mahone
they're going to be uh spear heading that uh it's a great club uh chess tournament goes through with it they end the priz at the end um whoever comes in first for it but uh it's a fantastic Club again it's March Yeah March 19th and the application's open right now for that um we have a Community Food
Distribution we holded First Baptist Church that is on March 5th first Wednesday of every month it starts at 11:00 and it goes until we run out of food which usually lasts about an hour and a half um no questions asked people pull up with their cars we throw two boxes of produce vegetables whatever we
have in those boxes and they drive right off no no questions no IDs no nothing you just just grabb and go uh and then the last one the police department is going to be participating in the Keen uh career fair that's going to be a March 11th so if you know any college students high school students that are interested
uh in becoming a law enforcement we have over 120 law enforcement agencies from across the nation and the state who are going to be participating in uh that career fair whether it be Municipal local or federal um so if you know anybody who was interested in that show up come come around and talk to a bunch
of people bunch of officers so okay I have couple more can I add a couple more that you guys do one is the read Across America which is going to be a March third yeah read Across America March 3rd myself and officer Belin be part of that mie road school yeah so basically the
officer goes to schools and I'm going to invite you to our school to one of you so they go at reach to the kids so which is a great way to build their relationships and the other one was the Garden State Track Club 10 miler yes that is coming up that's going to be on
uh March 23rd as well great job making sure everyone's safe for that run uh yeah it's a great event um on top of the read Across America we also do the Pacer program um we go to every single Elementary School uh I believe once or twice a month um takes a lot of officers
to get through it but we go through and meet multiple kids multiple classes R to every single every single class uh any questions they have about police like police work they get to ask us they ask you know do you have a badge you have this what's this camera on your hip like it's the whole it's a great great thing a lot of uh a lot of fun questions I
think the best way to put it when you have the kids were in school I used to go every year to the Dr Seuss reading class the read Across America the read we used to have to read Dr Seuss to to I
have a question Captain Kangaroo I have a serious question Franklin's fin is I want you guys to know Franklin Town C Police Department Department in the state and I'm Johnny T said that they wor about that he know me
you know what I'm saying they good cops good cops I got a problem with on the to Mission when they have the the Franklin Township all the necessary programs that you just mentioned almost fell off the
seat about the chess program that you got from kids from the first grade to the fifth grade from the first grade to the fifth grade and for for them to get in that program you want
$176 a person who does you do who else Jo the program all of our programs are free we don't charge anybody for any program now see I I said that last night and Kimberly got mad at me now I want you guys to look at channel 33 I got maybe maybe they got on my channel only
but on channel 33 if you look at the at the franklen town uh program they got they got and then they got for for J they got eight particip particip from the first grade to the fifth grade they have
$176 if you join that basketball program they want $45 per child to join the basketball program and then if you want to join the you know I don't know what coding is you know you got know coding is know and if you want to be join the
coding program they want $1 163 for each child to grow and I got this I'm in an economic chall neighborhood they say what the hell I mean what you know they crazy you know I can tell you that every
single program that the police department runs we Finance ourselves we everything is free for anybody in the township any and I I kind of figured that so I know I don't know you you should see the television screen said Mr T it's on the screen uh
that's not part of the police do different Frank Township Recreation board Recreation Bo yeah corre yeah however there are scholarships available but see how how is the public supposed to
know there are charges because they we pay the am I not correct of all am I not correct you are correct I'm not sure about that I don't know the number off the top of my head but yeah $135 for put for to join something else and then they got this executive Men Basketball they
want a $95 Feats gu to come in and train out play basketball but it it's not the police John so okay anything else thank you questions or anything's Mo on a
good okay Budd thanks thank you thank you any report on fls um I uh reached out to um assemblyman danielson's office um as
um councilman carai mentioned um and advis so I'm waiting to hear from them and uh our project manager safy Kalan suggested that I reach out to gate flags.com which is the company that some
of our neighboring community in this County have used want briefly explain that to uh so we where let me come back with for those of you who W on time we have a new HRC commissioner with Sharon and
savatar sabar introduce yourself to her because uh she comes highly recommended and she'll be a wonderful addition to our commission I'm sorry I'm Edna aruo
hitchner and I am the vice chair of this um group um have served for a long time um I brought to the commission the idea that we um start hanging uh Flags in the community and and host our very own
Hometown Heroes project and I'm sure you've seen flags all over the country and throughout this the county as well in Philipsburg and I think they participated in that I remember driving to town and seeing flag so flags of
various sizes um are hung um contain uh rather feature the photograph of living or deceased um residents of the town that have served in various branches of the
military so um Gary and I met with um our project uh our uh Township project manager a few months ago to get the ball rolling further um she met with the mayor of auring town um suggested that I
reach out to gate flags.com um because they're they're uh they were responsible for setting up the flags in a neighboring community so the long and short of it is that um now it is time for me to put
together a proposal with prices Etc uh and there's some things that still need to be determined but we're in the fact finding um phase of this project right now uh one of the things that I have found out since our last meeting is that the the
price of flags can range anywhere depending on the size you know can can range upwards of you know $70 to upwards of $150 you know depending on the size of the of the flag um we had talked at
previous meetings about where we would feature the flags um so the idea is to put them somewhere in this complex perhaps fill the whole complex with flags and then if we need additional space then we would spill out into um
deont so for the next meeting I'll have a proposal with um more of these facts that we've gathered I'm sure by then I'll I will have heard from assembly Daniel lon's office also and um once the
the there is a project plan on paper um we can then deliver it to the township manager and also to the council um for for their consideration how would you get the demographics in terms of you know who would be eligible um I've
written copy that will be featured on our website um typically communities get the word out via for example the Franklin Township Channel or um the local newspapers local Electronic media Outlets such as tap into's we have our
own uh in town um the Franklin reporter of course is um one of our media Outlets here locally uh we let folks know the criteria is always that you be connected somehow to the township or to the town where the flags will hang so that's
typically um I think one of the quandries we have is um as Ed was going through was that North or Franklin some Su does not have a VFW or American Legion like if you go to a Manville for example you'll see Manville has it they
have billsburg same thing you know small so you have a place to go to and they have records already this community uses a Canal Walk for a lot of their programs uh which is you know it doesn't mean a lot of those people are from Franklin originally they may moved into Canal
walk through 55 and over so that's one of the quandries that has had during that period of time we have I met with the Chamber of Commerce for example just to get their endorsement for the Pro project um and there is a gentleman at
Canal Walk who really functions as our our leader of those who have served um in the armed forces um because we don't have a VFW and I also met with him and he um also endorsed the project so I
haven't how many flags have looking up do we know we don't know that yet not until so once once we announce the project um you know something will go on the website there'll be a link to the form that you fill out um giving us the name of the person you wish to be
honored you know what military branch um did he or she serve in uh Etc so then we'll be have a we we will have a count who's funding this do you know well um typically in including um the the our
Township manager reached out to one of our local um communities here in Somerset County they're proud as well as others have been financed by the families that request the um that request the um I have yet to find any
community that um has funded the project otherwise typically the the family who does that and some of the things that we'll have to consider when the time comes and some of these things won't necessarily be our decision as a commission it'll be
the decision of the town of course is you know how long do you hang the flag um a lot of communities take down their Flags during the winter months so as not to you know ruin them because of the weather you know um the snow and the
rain the elements um will affect um thank you our new pastor at Holy Trinity is he just came on board at the uh in the fall and he's a retired military chaplain I don't know if he would be of any help as we go forward but I'm sure
he'd be willing uh Pastor Gregory Jams he just uh came on board with us in in August September time frame but usually has a pretty good take on things that involve veterans thank you uh Peter
now that you're back so to speak uh have you made any progress right so yeah so three things end up for the a new H right there's three's three items that were on the table there um first we have
a subcommittee for the pamphlet we're going to put a pamphlet together for the um human relations commission exactly and then uh so I will reach out we try to do a subcommittee meeting before our regular meeting so it's not two meetings you know two different nights so I will
follow up with that with both of you and we have the original one so now that we have a wonderful group of Commissioners and is the time to really get the new so we'll discuss it I think we had there's some questions we have
also the state actually suers County does not have a directory for uh other um human relations commissions the state does but the uh County doesn't for whatever reason I don't know uh number two was um so we're going to work on
that then number two was um I sent you tonight today that the diversity I did see that right diversity the district runs A diversity night in May that's right and we had a table last year just getting your heads up uh Gary will send
you the uh registration form things like the information on it so you have it you get involved it was a wonderful event last year May 15 okay and then the third thing I'm sorry the third thing real quick I'll is that I had reached out to mayi somewhere
down the road where Gary gets a guest speaker all time maybe have somebody from another either Somerset town or from middlex uh representative from the relations commission come speak to us and you know talk to what they're working on and maybe what we're working on North brunck yeah or North Bruns could be North or Somerset I put North
Brunswick but certainly could be Somerset County okay get some next month that be yeah yeah so we work on that so you'd have what other committees are doing what what a commission is doing in their particular town you know will there would there be any would there be
any any history involved in the hrc's sure and the prior history of hrc's and the accomplishments they might have made and so forth I think it would be helpful even prior to our meeting for us to have
a brief discussion about what should be and I think that's just a suggestion is on the table to look at you know I mean that about the history behind formation of the historical commission being that being that I have been here the longest ex Gary
yeah and I and you there's that we have accomplished I thought it may be a part of it that's the reason for the discussion with the subcommittee what do you put in there like I think the other question came up do you put the names of the
president committee well if you do then when the committee changes you have to change the you brochure again you know I mean so it's just simply you know just have the website maybe things like that so that's those are different things we come up but the historical the mission statement would be something else that
we'd talk about are there any other ideas about what should be in there besides the history and the diversity of our town is huge I mean I think that's what we look at how we put the diversity in there somehow prepared the last mission statement years ago yeah yeah so
years but um yeah I think we just need to make edits to the current language but add to it CU we could definitely make something more robust this time around okay thanks Peter Alex com
so this you know uh I think probably most of you know that we have about 27 miles of Trail in our Township our Township is really beautiful but there was one uh open space that we don't have any trails and that's on the County Road
518 so this past Sunday myself which are the liazon and the trail committee along with u four other committee members we took 2 and half hours of walk through this beautiful wed open space and the
objective was to see if there is a way that we can add some Trails for the people to walk and enjoy the nature so we took some pictures and and uh also some notes so we're going to be reviewing on March 12th see what the
next step will be for that um also um there was a a wonderful event I think was pretty unique event in celebration of the Black History Month I don't know if any of you attended the walkth through history anybody attended that
walk through at the senior community center the panel discussion yes I did oh man you should have don't miss those kind of thing it was really a wonderful way to learn about their black history so that was a really good one we had the
Ramadan lighting night lightning which took place last Sunday and it was well attended we have quite a few and and HRC was one of the sponsors the other thing that at least I was involved along with one of my
colleagues uh uh councilman Amison we are under the executive committee of y y YMCA as you may know we trying to bring a YMCA to the township we had her here was right we had her here me Meg was
here we and I'm hoping that will happen sometime soon is going to bring so much benefit to the Township from employment for helping the the uh well-being of our
community members uh especially the the youth and the elderly um I I mean I've seen YMCA tour it but this past December I told my wife that you know I really you and I need to
go and become a member of a YMCA and just experience firsthand and that's what we did we joined the scad with YMCA and it's amazing we go every other day so it's just really beautiful what what really surprised me was the number of
elderly people coming there and number of Youth and the younger children coming there is just unbelievable so I'm hoping that we will have one in our Township um then uh there is a an event which again
this is The Advisory Board of Health I'm the uh the Council liazon on that one and that meeting is next Wednesday March 5th and we're going to have Dr rabali which is a superintendent and a representative from zall health and
they're going to come and talk about how the Zu fall Health has expanded their services to our Township so I encourage you if you have it's 7:30 in the evening uh if you can come and join it will be a good discussion for you to learn as an
HRC member what kind of change is happening in our Township relative to providing uh Health uh you know services so that I encourage you to do that uh very busy at the council there a whole
uh this is the time that we uh talk about the budget so so we are working on that that one thing that I will just share with you is the insurance health insurance cost has gone up quite a bit about 18 so
perc so our cost has gone up and we're trying to see what else we can do so we don't have to increase the taxes and this is always the council always wants to find a way so we don't uh uh increase the taxes to the to the Township
community so we basically busy with that part of the the business as well question yes whatever happened to the senior El
clinic at one time is is Mr uh what's call um Senior Health Clinic who L us to be here one one of our M he's a doctor now oh Sharon oh yeah iar sh
sh see had started it and then later on they would to build a a house Clinic I heard some conversation I haven't heard conversation about that in the past couple years who was doing that who no what happened to they didn't do that
they were exploring partnership I believe with the rers Robert with Johnson to see if they can bring here but Zu fall HS actually it's uh it's going to really now they
dealing with the the students primarily they want to expand it to the families as well yeah so so you still didn't answer my question part of the county that didn't part of that was the county that was do serine and was in the township she was an uh yes that was a
Community Partnership that she brought here through her involvement was group was still with the county Johnny I know what they kind I think
okay anything else question anything else Michelle you quiet today you're all right okay uh our next meeting is March you want to give her a chance to as a public to see if she has any
questions I asked mine earlier yeah usually they to the public 26 I did do the sorry Tes class the Palestinian that was excellent yeah
really good yeah that was great okay our next meeting is March 26 we hope to have some other people from the other hrc's as as Pete says than that happy Ramadan my
friends speaking of ra I just want to mention one thing I'm sorry okay so one of the things that that Muslim Community doing Ramadan is really engag in Act of
Charities and so a few years back uh we started a food sponsorship for our community members in need and so this year also uh there there going to be um 100
families that they we wanted to sponsor and so all the money that will be collected will be given to food bank and another organization which serves the food GMA so I just want to tell you that that is also something that the
community does to serve the people in need and lastly there is a 65th anniversary of your yes yes that is going to be March 9th I understand
starting at 3 the invitation at 3 if you can it's a 65th anniversary for Holy Trinity Lutheran right on am0 I got the invitation I'm going to I'm send the cop okay thank you see
because the the Interfaith is is also participating with that so if you want to come that's forward to to that yeah we like the community to be there so everybody welcome yes I was in a meeting
today with the um Franklin Food Bank the empty bowls event is not this Sunday but next Sunday so I highly recommend it it's my one of my favorite food bank events ever because what they do Michelle what's that what they do they
have local uh artists do pottery and So when you buy your ticket it gets you lunch and a piece of pottery and then they have when you walk in the room there just a ton of pottery that you can you could buy once you're in there everybody gets a Potter everybody get
one bowl with their ticket ticket oh that's what okay is that the senior center no it's at Double Tree Hotel I bought my ticket already Double Tree the ticket price by the way
70 maybe early BG was no early birg was 70 actually but the it goes to a great cause obviously B does amazing work so you should everybody buy your tickets right
away I'll copy the HRC okay thank you all thank you welcome Bo and thank you it's great to be here okay have a good group I'm happy you're back Peter thank you