Good evening everyone. I'm calling this meeting to order at 6:34 p.m. Dr. Rose, please do the roll call. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anne Baronson. >> Mr. Grand Baronson,
>> I'm here. >> Got you. Mr. Farugi, >> here. >> Mr. Schmidt, >> I'm here. I'm here. >> Mr. Kovac, >> here. >> Miss Davenport >> here. >> And Chairwoman Ford
>> here. >> Okay. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge 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. In accordance with the provisions of chapter 231, New Jersey Public Laws of 1975, the Open Public Meetings Act,
adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by giving of notice to the Coran News, posting the agenda in the public lobby of this building 48 hours prior to this meeting, delivery of this notice to the Franklin Township Clerk at least 48 hours prior to this meeting,
and mailing notice to those person is properly requesting to be mailed notification of meetings at least 48 hours prior to this meeting. Okay. Is there a motion to open a meeting for public comments?
>> Motion to open. >> A second. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> Any oppos? >> Motion's carried. >> Seeing no one here from the public, is
there a motion to close the meeting for public comments? >> Move to close the meeting. So move. Okay. >> All in favor? I I >> Any oppose?
>> Motions carried. >> With regard to the minutes, >> are there any additions or any changes to the minutes? Hearing that there's none, is there a motion to accept the minutes as is?
>> I move. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Okay.
Minutes are accepted as is. And now for the executive summary. Executive director. >> Thank you, Chairwoman, and good evening. >> The first project summary is the solar project. Uh Schneider Electric has completed its analysis and has put
together a business case presentation that will be presented to us here in our office on December 10th at 10:00 a.m. If any of the um board members would like to attend, that's December 10th at 10:00 a.m.
Uh as you know we are um migrating our financial system from one platform to the other uh from Harris to Edmonds. I'd like to ask Dr. Roach give an updated status on that.
>> Thank you Joe. Regarding the finance u migration we had a successful migration training and implementation to the Edmonds municipal um software. We were also requested by the auditors uh to provide them with a uh finance migration
narrative and that was submitted to them. The narrative included everything from start to finish inclusing of inclusive of our internal controls as well as a list of all the resources that are available to the staff going forward. On phase two, which we've been
involved with with the utility billing, uh the staff staff training was successful. fully completed. Um the marketing of the Edmond utility billing was also completed. Our online bill pay notifications were sent out to all the customers uh via an email blast. An
announcement notification was posted on the FTSA website and on our front entrance and in the lobby. And an announcement notification was also sent to the township for publishing. Um, regarding the vendors that were involved with the utility billing phase two, um,
our current, um, provider, Harris, was notified, um, of our transition to Edmonds. We also then negotiated a month-to-month invoice versus an annual contract. That way, when we're done with the migration, we can then uh, sever
ties there. Instead of paying a fullear contract, they were accepting of that. Um our current online bill payer uh provider was invoice cloud. They were notified with a formal notice of cancellation and all the next steps uh
to transition. We've asked them for a threemonth uh over stay with that and did a month-to-month with them as well as we move forward with the migration. Um we coordinated everything we needed to um with our host of the website
direct development and they went ahead and posted on our site uh so that when the bill payers went in and they pushed the pay bill they received the notification of our uh decision to transition and enhance our features. the same time um all those the people
visiting the site will be notified there on uh December 1st which was Monday uh Edmond successfully pulled all the final data relative to uh the Harris flexibil and then on tomorrow um we will begin to have the
installation from our Harris flexibil system into the Edmonds utility billing thereafter on the 4th which is Thursday our utility billing will go completely live to the public um and they will be actively able to pay online and we'll
move forward. Um all the coordination was arranged with the website host um to be in alignment with our go live date and all the online billing will align as we plan. everything is going according to schedule and uh the admin team has
been extremely supportive, collaborative and we had great team building throughout the process and Joe, thank you for the opportunity. Um I appreciate you allowing me the opportunity and your trust in me to get it done. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Roach. I'll also um note that this project was done magnificently with uh very minimal barely detectable bumps in the road. Okay. Uh moving on,
Somerset Street pump station rehabilitation. Um the very last step is for uh CDM to send me its engineers agreement amendment and final payment. And that's it. Uh this
project will be taken off the report after that's completed. Brookline Avenue uh area sewer rehabilitation service lateral uh work is in good progress. That's the main to house the SLLs and LCRs. Manhole rehabilitation
the Portland work 71% complete. The epoxy work um 33% complete. The roadway traffic and striping restoration was completed on November 7th and the road and curb work completed. Subcontractor completed all
that work on October 28th. Church Hill 200 foot pipe failure repair work was uh was also completed and that was completed on November 25th, 2025. regarding the ARP uh grant money, the uh
$3 million and the $2 million. We received all $3 million from the county. And so far, we've received 629,000 and change from the township that's being administered through the township. And we have a remaining open balance of
1,200,000 and change. the Western Canal pump station uh rebuild project. The we did receive an appraisal that came in. Uh that's the fifth appraisal,
fourth or fifth. And uh the appraisal in the last two years went from 304,000 to 340,000. Still minimal, but you know, it's a noticeable difference uh in the upward direction.
Um the office of uh transactions um uh the license agreement has been fully executed with NJB for the land that we need to cross for that lot and then PSNG easement agreement draft amendments were
sent back to PSCG with uh the authorities amendments and we are waiting for their review and response. We do have a meeting coming up with PSNG. Hopefully uh they will give us a status on that. And currently uh CME is
preparing the permit plans for the NJD land use permit application. Commerce Street Drive pump station rehabilitation. Uh like all the other projects, this is in the green category and it's moving uh swimmingly. The
contractor began its work. uh pre-cast buildings uh pre precast building is on site not in place but it's on site and the storage container and emergency generator have arrived and it's placed
on the FTSA property. That completes my project summary and unless there's any other questions I'll move on to the executive director's report. Before you do, executive director, I'd like to know who caller
number two is. >> Uh, hi, it's Howard. My my first call I couldn't I couldn't hear, so I can call back in. Sorry about that. >> Okay, you can proceed, please. >> Okay, type it in.
Um for the uh previous month uh ending November 30th, 2025 in checks we received and deposited 2,261,3568. Year-to date we collected 7,773,17660. We have an open balance of non-metered
uh billing of $1,85,677.93. Penalties generated for the month were $16,397.96. Expense report as of the October 31st, 2025. Expenditures for the month $398,21643
gives us a year-to-ate expenditure of 3,768,987.94. For our cash position report, under unrestricted, we have 2,56,6755. Under restricted, we have 13,847,599.96. Under our designated category, we have
7,929,569.35, giving us a total net cash possession of 23,833,776.86. uh discussion items. If I can uh our annual staff meeting. Uh if everyone could just write this date down. It's January 9th,
Friday, January 9th at 12:00 p.m. And I intend to have uh host this at the Stateside Tap House on Pier Street. That's January 9th, 12:00 p.m. Stateside Tap House on Pier Street. Our
annual audit has begun uh several months ago and the presentation to the board will be on January 6th, 2025. That's our next meeting. On January 6,
the auditors will be uh among us at our meeting and present the annual financial statement and budget report. under land acquisition. Uh we've concluded the Shirley Avenue
pump station land acquisition. So the only thing remaining is a PACG. Uh we as I previously reported, we did receive a draft easement proposal which um we made amendments to and replied back to them with those amendments and we're
waiting for that. Uh the attorney and I discussed uh this and I believe uh the attorney wants me to ask the board to um vote and give me the authority to
execute that final approval in between the meetings. Uh Brian, is that is that accurately stated? What you have on is for the high bay garage that that uh needs to be executed
tonight, but we don't have a resolution for PSCG. No. >> Okay. Oh, I was >> there's probably there might be >> Oh, the DRCC easement. >> Correct. >> The conservation easement. Okay. So, just let everybody know that uh the high
bay garage, which is, you know, that was been done years ago, but we still haven't got the final approval from DRCC. In order to get that approval, we have to give them a conservation easement on our uh our land that the authority owns, which just means we're
not going to build on it and we're going to keep it open, like open space. So, we picked a swath of land that would we would never build on anyway. It's right along our fence line and we're proposing that easement that seems to be
acceptable to them and we would like to execute that agreement with the Delaware Rican Canal Commission and we could do that under another agenda item. Um, solar this our solar project
initiative. I have already uh already reported that we are being given a presentation by Schneider Electric on December 10th here in our office. Under rules, rates and regulations, we are having another community meeting
with the license operators that's scheduled on December 11th, the following day. Under internal engineering, we've had zero new connections for the month of November, though 93.8 new connections
are expected for the fiscal year. Under TRC applications, uh three are in review and three were completed for a total of six for the month. uh our grants uh some county grant for
three million has been exhausted and the municipal grant for $2 million we have received 6.2 to 629,000 and change so far. All all's going forward with that. Um happy to report that all projects are
in the green category and moving forward as expected. Under resolutions, uh we have payroll, operating expense, renewal and replacement and escrow. We do not have general or north resolutions. Under additional resolutions, we have three.
We have the 2026 uh schedule for the board meetings to be voted on. Number uh two, we have the energy supply services agreement with AE for our electric commodity. And number three, we
have a developers agreement um uh on track offtrack agreement release for 101 Metler's Road. And that concludes my report. Chair one, >> Joe, just you have two more that were
added at the end of resolutions. Do you want me to state now? >> Yep. >> Uh the conservative easement agreement with Delaware and Raran uh canal uh commission for the high bay garage and then the other one would be the Harris local government month-to-month utility
billing change from the annual contract. Those two are on for tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Chairwoman. >> Are there any committee reports tonight? Operations committee.
Anything to report. Okay. >> Are we doing that or we Pardon, pardon me, chairwoman. Um, under operations, everything everything's running as expected and there's been no injuries
for the month. >> Okay, see that there are no other reports. Um, can I ask everyone to please mute yourself because I'm getting some kind of feedback and I don't know if someone's saying something or not. That's why I keep asking is there
someone say something? What about negotiations and personnel? >> Nothing to report. >> Okay. Municipal liaison. Okay. Okay,
let's move on to the consent agenda. The approval of the resolutions will be done by consent agenda. All the items listed below are considered to be of a routine nature, thereby requiring one motion and one second for all items. If any member wishes to remove an item
from the consent agenda, please advise me at this time which resolutions need to be handled separately and they will be addressed and voted on separately. Resolution number one is the payroll account
$160,79659. Resolution number two is the operation, excuse me, operating expense account, $218,79843. Resolution number three is the renewal and replacement account, $26,680. Resolution number four is the escrow
account, $5,54. Is there a motion to accept? >> Motion to accept. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I oppose.
And the motion is carried. Um, I would ask um, Commissioner Farooqi, can you please mute yourself because I'm getting that feedback and I thought someone was saying something. Thank you. Okay. Resolution number five, the resolution
authorizing the renewal of agreement with Harris Local Government for its flex Flexibill utility billing product on a month-to-month basis. Is there a motion
to adopt that resolution? >> Motion to >> second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I. Any oppose? >> I. >> Resolution is adopted.
Resolution number six, Franklin. Excuse me. Resolution authorizing an agreement with AP Energy for the provision of electric energy services pursuant to a successful bid on online auction website.
Is there a motion to accept that resolution? >> Motion to accept. >> Is there a second? >> I second. >> Okay. All in favor?
>> I opposed. >> Resolution is adopted. Resolution number seven, resolution authorizing the execution of a release and satisfaction of capacity allocation and developers
ontrack and offtrack agreement for 101 Metler's Road. Is there a motion to adopt that resolution? Is >> there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I >> I >> I. >> Any oppose? Resolution's adopted. Resolution number eight, resolution approving the board of commissioners meeting schedule for 2026.
Is there a motion to accept that resolution? >> Move to accept. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I
>> I Any oppose? >> Resolution is adopted. Resolution number nine, resolution authorizing the authorities executive board director executive director to execute a
conservation easement agreement with the Delmare and Raritin Canal Commission for the High Bay Garage project. Is there a motion to accept that resolution? >> Motion to adopt.
>> Is there a second? Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I >> I >> Any oppose? Resolution is adopted. Uh
with regard to entering into an executive session, executive director, is there a need to? >> No. >> No, Chairwoman. I I'm unaware of any reason here. >> Nothing for me, chairwoman, either.
>> Thank you. >> With that said, is there a motion to close the meeting? >> To adjourn second. >> All in favor? >> I I
>> I. >> Any oppose? >> Good night, everyone. >> Good night. Heat. Heat.