##VIDEO ID:SJckPtIWdzg## [Music] I got to talk to you afterwards yeah I've been looking at him so yeah I got the clouds right I was looking at Brian got for me last year not bad yes sir run that's fine right that's fine I guess well he is the mayor okay good evening everyone I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and councel for the borrow of glass borrow for December 10th 2024 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 burall bulletin board as well as the burough website and forwarded to both the South Jersey Times And The Sentinel of glester County and filed with the burough clerk on January 6 2024 thank you can we all rise and salute the flag please I PL algi to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Karen roll call please mayor Wallace here Mr Brown here Mr Caso pres Mrs garlic here Mr halter yes Miss Miller here Mrs Spence here Mr milandro here Mr scati Mr Bruner thank you uh this is the presentation uh portion of our uh meeting so I'm going to come down off the D ask em Manuel if you come on up for me please you can stay right there my friend front and center you know your way around here you've been here for a few days uh emanu Mr Brooks is retiring from the Bur um and anybody as you all know um that has put more than 20 years greetings em I wanted to take this opportunity to form congrat dep hardw dedicated and dependable are all terms that are used when describing your work I cannot thank you enough for your unwavering service to our municipality over these past 30 years on behalf of myself and our I want to thank you all best respect [Applause] don't old enough to that long start when he was awesome thanks okay uh we have no public hearings this evening so at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of October 8th 2024 as well as the closed executive session minutes of October oober 88th 2024 motion to approve second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries uh Karen could you take us through Communications please yes mayor I have a letter of resignation from Diane Cameo of the Glassboro Zoning Board of adjustment I'll take a motion for that I'll make a motion to accept the resignation from Diane ciola just a comment that she was on this learning board for 30 plus years maybe 37 I think accurate enough and thank her for her service and accept her letter but um that thanks thank you I have a motion on the floor is there a second second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries uh will'll move to committee reports and begin with council president Miller uh good evening I'd like to um congratulate Mr Brooks for his 30 years of dedicated service to the Bure of Glassboro many of those years he walked to work saving gas irregardless of the weather um but I just think it's um a true commitment to the burough of glass forall thank you very nice thank you very much uh councilman Brown good evening mayor good evening uh the only thing I have is I too would like to congratulate Manny I have uh at home several photographs of us from grade school we went to school together for many many years uh going back to Academy Street School Bo School up through intermediate and high school so I just like to congratulate him I've known him for many many years good man and uh I wish him nothing but the best thank you man thank you very much very nice uh councilman Kone yeah thank you mayor I'll be the third person to uh congratulate uh Mr Brooks on his 30 years of retirement that's a long time and that's dedication and I wish him a safe and healthy retirement that's all I thank you sir uh councilwoman garlic yes mayor I would also like to congratulate um Mr Brooks I've known him from childhood as well and he um has been very dedicated to the Burl and serving those 30 years I'd also like to thank Danielle uh C Diane I'm sorry Diane for her service to the zoning board I had an opportunity to serve with her and and see her leadership and it was excellent in serving with her so I thank her for her dedication to the burough as well I am in receipt of the reports um for November for the park and recreation department and the senior center they um had their trip this month to Italy everything went well um and Amanda had to hold down the fort she did an excellent job as well I paid her a visit or two and um went to the meeting that she hosted in November so thank you very very nice thank you uh councilman halter yeah good evening Mr Mayor thank you want also Echo everybody else's sentiments here for Mr Brooks congratulations and wish them well in retirement um as far as the Water and Sewer Department goes we continue to make Replacements and upgrades on our galvinized uh service lines specifically along the dely drive Corridor as they uh prepare in advance for uh large scale repavement and uh upgrade project from the state do um we still continue to have uh lead times very long for obtaining products and supplies needed to help service that department so that our guys work through that regularly also I want to especially congratulate the the borrow staff uh for all the efforts put forth for borrowing lights the other night um specifically uh starting from Megan veral and her team and and everybody else that participated it was a really really nice event my family enjoyed I actually had family in from uh from Vermont they thought it was one of the nicest things I'd ever been to so um locally and Out of Towners we appreciate everybody that was able to be there and I'm looking forward to the next event in town thank you very much sir and councilwoman Spence thank you mayor um I too want to congratulate Manny for his service to the Bur of Glassboro and uh also echo my comments with Diane camea and her service for all the years she spent on the zoning board um I also want to say borrowing lights was fantastic I it was a really really well attended event and uh it just keeps getting better and better every year and Megan did a great job with her team to make it happen and mayor you did really well counting down that was very very impressive hey I can count backwards and only from 10 to one I'm also in receipt of the November construction report and um that's that's it there thank you very very much okay we have no unfinished business uh Karen new business please yes mayor I need approval from governing body of a New Jersey state Firemen's Association membership application for Simon P Dempster I'll make that motion to approve second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries uh this time I'll ask for the engineers report please mark yes good evening everyone uh just a brief report updating all the the work of camot Townhouses is Phase two's all the homes are done getting complete they're doing their punch list work there and across the street uh in cam a lot they are finishing the last couple units in section 1.4 so they're got a lot of clean up a lot of punchless work to do so both those job be finishing up High Street tow houses we met this past week with war Su Department reviewed the punch list with the contractor they have to clean up some things with the water and SE cleanouts curb stops and things along those lines so that work will be continuing but I imagine and we'll have to see how the weather goes it may not be till the spring but I know they want to get off their bonds but until they get that stuff those items taken care of won't do that it was very helpful uh having the guys have the camera system was invaluable on the laterals uh again to kind of check to make sure we don't have any problems with these uh because the contractors are not kind when they uh they put them in fine but when the guys are building the houses they're driving over them porn concrete it's just it's amazing how they get beat up especially in the townhouses projects but the camera was very valuable instrument for your for the department so it was a very good purchase helped us out and clarify a few things for the contractor for where they they drive over the clean out and break the pipe it's kind of tough to see until you get the video in there so that was very beneficial couple other projects are just waiting for close out the the work for self storage on delc Drive uh lissos over here next to Matt blat U that that's all nearly done Lio out on L Street all completed uh just waiting for basically punch list as builts and that stuff so all be closed out but the they're they've been operating for some time batt Concepts you're going out on the boulevard uh they're actively building doing their building they got the base paav so they're making progress they'll be working on that this winter for those no word on Taco Bell I think they're too busy at this point I don't know if they're when they're going to do their widening to do a double drive-thru because uh no matter what they do they're going to lose some business you for that they they are very when I came through they were they were hopping so we'll see how that plays out some Deone Builders do job in their building uh getting that all cleaned up uh they have the parking lot paved but they still have to clean up stuff have not heard word from them as to when they're going to be fully operational U so we'll let you know that that happens there um other than that the Jersey joint facility the Cannabis facility the plan board approved Council establish ordinances for they are under construction and it's in the State Street about 47 barber shop in that complex in there they're completely rehabing that uh water and sewer department was out this past week upgrading Water and Sewer Service say using a cement tin line so that George you appreciate that that was a challenge for the guys so but they are experienced with they get that work done so uh they're trying to have the site improvements done by the end of the month uh so they'll be working on the inside of the building so hav not heard their goal to finish you inside but uh they're running the gun also to get that W up and that's all I have this time he Mark I can come out of retirement if they need help hey I'll take you up on that actually I can keep you busy five days a week you careful I'd like that in writing please sir thank you thank you Mark okay at this time I'll turn the meeting over to our borrow solicitor thank you mayor given the administrative nature of the resolutions this night this evening we can proceed with a consent agenda vote to adopt them all under resolution 31124 through uh 31824 Council so moves under the consent agenda motion to approve second I have a motion and a second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cabone yes Mrs garlic yes Mr halter for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries this time I'll entertain a motion open a meeting to the public move the public for should be open second I 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 councel see n I'll make a motion to close the public portion second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I oppos extensions motion carries public portion is now closed at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills make a motion to approve all duly authorized Bills second I have a motion and a second all all in favor State I I opposed extenstions motion carries uh any comments from our administrat just a couple quick updates and first of all I'd like to uh also congratulate and thank Mr Brooks and Miss camea on their service to this proo um thank them very much uh Echo the comments in regards to the tree lighting that's quite an event and we did uh we did find the squirrel who uh put the middle of the lights out um so Ryan and Ricky yeah they they tracked down the squirrel they got and the squirrel is in custody right now that's why the lights went out on the tree all kidding side a squirrel did eat through that um couple things going on in the burrow right now from an administrative perspective uh we're budget season uh we're budget season budgets are never pretty and this year's no different uh we will do our best we're in contract negotiations now too it's contract time with police and fire um and uh it's it's interesting times the budget the budget some of the challenges are around health benefits pension inflation salaries it's it's it's a hard Big Challenge right now but we'll we'll get we'll get we'll do our best that's all I have mayor all right thank you very much sir um I would like to again uh congratulate Emmanuel Manny I guess as he's affectionately known by his very very close friends uh and Diane for their service to the borrow uh for the um three de well what's that six decades between the two of them that's quite impressive uh thank you very much for that uh I would like to recognize as others have done um the fine work on burrowing lights what a successful event I'd like to recognize Megan and those that helped her with her Department uh chip and his crew uh chip Clark and Joey blandino and his crew uh and all the others of police explorers the police department everybody that took part uh to make that event um everything it was thank you very very much I'd also like to uh thank the police department and recognize them uh I attended their uh senior Christmas breakfast again this year actually it was a lunch in and uh from what I understand it was every year they have at least 150 160 people I think this year um they had the most that they've I was told they had the most uh that they've had everybody enjoyed themselves it was a wonderful time thank you all very much for what you do in addition to what you do every day um I'd like to wish everybody here uh safe and happy holidays um and uh just thanks for showing up and continue to show up uh support us and keep us plugged in and what's going on in the Bros so we can better serve you and with that I'll entertain a motion for adjournment I make a motion to adjourn second I have a motion and a second all in favor stay I I opposed extensions motion carries this meeting is now adjourned thank you everyone next meeting next year January 14 2025 6:30 p.m. that's count