she must be ask I'll ask and I'll let you know do you need a phone number you guys want to do a consent agend on the resolution she's been home for about two weeks she's a like a
real I don't one minute mayor we got start what time is it uh we have one minute better it is want know the audience we got one
minute NOP it's time yeah good evening everyone I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and Council of the burrow of Glassboro for November 26th 20 24 to order Karen could you please read the opening statement pursuant to the open public meetings act
I hereby announce that adequate notice of this meeting as required by set act has been provided by adopting a schedule of regular meetings for the year 2024 which schedule was posted on the burrow Hall bulletin board as well as the burough website and forwarded to both
the South Jersey Times And The Sentinel of Gloucester County and file with the burough clerk on January 6 2024 thank you can we all rise the flag please I 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 C roll call please mayor Wallace here Mr Brown here Mr casone presid Mrs
garlic here Mr halter yes Mrs Miller here Mrs Spence here Mr milandro here Mr scati and Mr Bean thank you uh we have no presentations this evening so I'll turn the meeting over to our Bor solicitor yes thank you mayor we have a number of
ordinances on public hearing I will read all the ordinances and when we open to the public the public would have to write to comment on either 24 30 31 32 or 33 beginning with ordinance number 2430 ordinance adopting Redevelopment
plan for Block 361 Lots 5 5.03 within the bar of Glassboro ordinance 2431 and ordinance amending chapter 445 vehicles and traffic section 458 stop and yield intersection various streets subsection a a of the code book of the bar glass
barel ordinance 2432 and ordinance amending chapter 445 vehicles and traffic section 4452 no parking certain Street subsection F schedule one no parking again the code book of the bar Glassboro and we have ordinance final
2433 and ordinance of the bar of Glassboro amending chapter 379 of the bar of Glassboro chapter entitled rental housing G motion to open to the public it would be on all four ordinances for public comment and Council so moves motion open in public second I have a
motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries the floor is now open to anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address uh proposed ordinances uh either 24-30
24-31 24-32 and or 24-33 say none I'll make a motion to adopt the ordinances as written second I have a motion and a second uh Karen roll call
please Mr Brown yes Mr casone uh yes with a exstension on ordinance 24-31 Mrs garlic in favor Mr halter for with an OB sension on 2433 M Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries um at this
time I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of October 22nd 2024 as well as the closed executive session minutes of October 22nd 2024 motion to approve second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I
opposed any extensions motion carries uh we have no Communications this evening so I'll move to committee reports and begin with council president Miller uh good evening mayor um I have nothing at this time
thank you thank you very much uh councilman Brown good evening mayor good evening I'm member seat of the financial reports for the month of October and that's all I have mayor thank you very much sir uh councilman casone yes uh thank you mayor Wallace ni of you that you uh recognize my pleasure
uh I'm in I'm in receeded a police report for the month of October and that's all I have that was a wonderful report Council thank you I tried my best councilwoman garlic good evening mayor good evening I have nothing to report thank you thank you very much uh
councilman halter yeah good evening mayor thank you uh the Water St Department still has a few openings um that we're working through uh replacing some uh folks that had moved on uh also the we're still working on the lead based pipe Replacements and galvanized
pipe so here in Glassboro specifically we did have some residents that were concerned about some letters they received from the bur of Glassboro as directed by d uh but again uh recognizing that we do not have any lead service pipes in Glassboro the wording from D creates a lot of confusion with
residents and concerns so we continue to work through that and uh plug forward as best as we can thank you very much sir uh and councilwoman Spence thank you mayor I don't have anything to report except I do want to say um I wish everyone a very happy and healthy
Thanksgiving for this Thursday that's it very nice thank you very much uh we have no unfinished business uh Karen could you take us through new business please yes mayor uh I am looking for approval for Street naming for the following
streets in Glassboro meano Avenue mitcho Lane Donnelly court and Tucker Terrace I'll make a motion to approve those four names second I have a motion and a second all those in favor State I I
opposed any extensions uh yes mayor I have an extension on Magan Aro Avenue okay that exstension is noted uh motion still carries and I also have request for street closure
application for St Bridget's Hispanic Ministries on December 11th 2024 it's for their procession as well as a request for approval of facilities use application for burrow and lights on December 6 2024
motion to approve second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries at this time I'll ask for the engineers report please Jim thank you thank you mayor council
members uh we still have a uh with the DR Horton projects at Aura those they both still have homes that they are completing uh High Street tow houses uh most of the site work is done there's still some minor punch list items uh and some minor repairs that have to be taken
care of after the paving has now been finished out there um straga Court uh we're still that the force main has been tied in and the portable water connection's been tied in they're still waiting for some outside agenc approvals before they start full construction out there for the straga court uh the qz
storage on Route 47 uh they uh have finalized most of their punch list work and they're just addressing some as builts that have to be taken care of uh liso's Bakery they have their TCO uh and have to finalize as builts also they still work inside
the building they working on demountable Concepts that site uh the clearing is completed uh and they've done some of their drainage and storm water out there they did start doing foundation work and waren lab on that uh bo Boulevard we're
still waiting for the springtime to be able to uh schedule construction on that one uh Taco Bell they have not started work they're still looking for uh probably in the next month or so but that's been the next month or so for the
last six months uh raisin cane you can see every day they're moving along real quick they're addressing some punch list items and they'll be ready to uh move ahead and open up fairly soon DeSimone Builders the same way they've been uh moving pretty quickly and uh their site work is finishing up and I know that
they're working on the inside of the building too and the dot has their uh rout 4 47 projects that they're working on uh they'll be you'll see a lot you know different projects being worked on Route 47 starting in the next few months and continuing on for probably a year
and a half after that Alfred Avenue New Jersey DOT project we submitted that design to the New Jersey Jersey do and it's there for their review and approval before we can send it out to bid and then lastly I just want to report that New Jersey DOT did announce the funding
for the 2025 Municipal Aid projects and on hampon Boulevard we did receive funding for $352,500 again turn the meeting over to our borrow solicitor yes thank you Mary tonight on our consent agenda will be moving to approval of resolutions as a consent motion for Resolutions 290
through 293 taing 294 and also approving 295 through 300 for the purposes as outlined on the agenda which is available to the public Council so moves roll call vote motion for approval second okay I
have a motion and a second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cabone yes Mrs garlic yes Mr Haler for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries and mayor we have an ordinance for introduction tonight that would be ordinance number
2434 an ordinance amending ordinance 2324 which adopted a Redevelopment plan Amendment to the Third Amendment of the glas central business district and nearby environment's Redevelopment plan a plan for the revitalization East High Street area for the purpose of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots 123 4.02
13 block 4 44 last of 2021 block 44 last 2203 23 24 25 26 2601 the project area in the bar of glas County GL state of New Jersey for the development known as Woods Glassboro Council moves for introduction roll
call move to introduce what was that I I have a motion and I now have a second um I didn't hear you Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cabone yes
Mrs garlic for Mr halter for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries this time I'll entertain a motion to open up the public portion motion public portion be open second have a motion is second all in favor State I opposed
extensions motion carries the floor is now open to anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address mayor and counsel see no one I will make a motion to close the public portion second I will second that motion I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I
opposed any extensions motion carries uh I will now entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills motion to approve all duly authorized bills I'll second to approve all duy authorized bills okay I have a motion and a second to approve all duly authorized bills all
those in favor State i i i opposed any extensions yes mayor I have an extension on PO number 24-4 629 thank you mayor I have some extensions um 24041 152 04575 and
04667 all the rest are good any left Notions noted motion still carries uh any comments from our administrator couple couple quick things i' like to thank our firefighters Chief Smith OEM coordinator Jack D'Angelo for all the
work they did before this rain came uh it was great working with you guys getting out I mean I think all of our citizens knew exactly what was going on Steve you and your team did a heck of a job I mean there was fire burning all around you guys so really appreciate
that um two other things very quick good news you know we we continue to try to combat unnecessary parties in town we filed three court injunctions and it looks like we were able to stop these popup parties these rage parties and it looks like the final after you get the
injunction you go back and you get the final and it looks like we're going to have good positive result from all of those as well and lastly I've been trying to update everybody on parking in town in October for the first time since we instituted our parking plan in the
downtown we parked over 12,000 cars and to put that in perspective back in February we only parked 7,454 cars that's a 61% increase and again the purpose of putting the the paid parking was was not a cash grab it
was to turn the cars over get more people in the businesses and uh based on those numbers it looks like it's working pretty well so far that's all I have May thank you sir very nice um yeah you kind of stole my thunder there Ed um I also I should have thanked
you too you were you were out there mayor you you became a fireman for a while no that's for the professionals but I also too wanted to thank uh our oh the County OEM Glassboro fire Glassboro Police uh the state forestry all those
that really kind of wow I was out there like Ed said uh and really got to appreciate uh really what goes into keeping uh all of us safe and uh I can't thank you all enough um keep up the
great work um to all of you out there that came out to the meeting tonight thank you uh continue to come out we need to hear uh The Good the Bad and the Ugly please stay involved um and most importantly well not most importantly but have a great Thanksgiving but most
importantly go Bulldogs we're going to win the state championship and with that I'll entertain a motion for adjournment motion to adjourn this meeting second all right have a motion in second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries it's meeting is journ
have a great evening great than Thanksgiving next regular meeting will be December 10th 2024 6:30 go Bulldog go Bulldog no