Yeah, sorry. Whenever you're ready, mayor. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and Council of the Burough of Glassboro for June 24th, 2025 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 2025. Which schedule was posted on
the Burough 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 4th, 2025. Thank you. May we all rise to salute the flag, please.
I aliance 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. Can I roll call, please? Mayor Wallace,
here. Mr. Casabone, here. Mrs. Garlet, here. Mr. Halter, yes. Ms. Miller, here. Mrs. Spence here. Mr. Milandro, here. Mr. Mr. Brunimer, and let the record reflect that Mr.
Brown is excused for this evening. Thank you, Karen. We have no presentations this evening. So, at this time, I'll turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor. Yes. Thank you, Mary. This evening, we have two ordinances for public hearing. I'll read them both. The motion will be open to public for either of the two ordinances or comment. Beginning with
2516, ordinance approving a financial agreement pursuant to the five-year tax exemption of Baitman Law with the Shabbad and Rowan, Inc. for block 21 lot 8 in the barrel of glass county glustester state of New Jersey and ordinance 2517
approving a financial agreement pursuant to 5-year tax exemption and baitment law with vision glass QZB LLC for block 413 lot 14 also Glboro Council moves for public make a motion open public portion for
this order second I have a motion and a second all in favor state I I opposed. Any abstensions? Motion carries. The floor is now open to anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address ordinance number
25-16 and ordinance-2517. Seeing no one, I'll make a motion to adopt the ordinances as written and close the public portion. Second. I have a motion and a second. Karen, roll call, please. Mr. Kabone. Yes, M. Mrs. Garlic.
Yes, Mr. Halter. Yes, Miss Miller. Yes, Mrs. Spence. Yes. Motion carries. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of May 13, 2025, as well as the closed
executive session of May 13, 2025, and the regular meeting of May 27th, 2025, as well as the closed executive session of May 27th, 2025. So moved. Second. I have a motion. Any second in stereo?
All those in favor state. I opposed. Any abstensions? Motion carries. Uh we have no communications this evening. So I'll move to committee reports. Begin with Council President Miller. Good evening. Um I'm in receipt of the
highway report, but I also would like to commend the Glboro Police Department. um family, friends reached out to me for police escort this past Friday on the 20th from Glassboro going up to Hillrest, I
believe it was. And our Glboro Police Department were um really helpful in providing that escort to avoid the traffic lights and to stop the traffic. And I think it was probably like 50 60 cars in that procession if not more. and
very very appreciative of that. And also today our Glboro Police Department provided an escort from Emanuel Baptist Church down to the um Veterans Cemetery in Williamstown. So I'm very very appreciative of that. Again, a long line
of cars and the officers were there early, made sure everyone was in line and everything went smoothly. see the traffic uh stop cuz sometimes people don't respect the funeral procession coming through. So I'm just thankful
chief to your u officers and that's all I have. Thank you very much. Uh Councilman Kaso. Oh yeah. Thank you mayor. I am in receipt of the May monthly report for the police department and I have a non burrow agenda item. I want to wish my
mother-in-law Rose Maganero a happy birthday. She turned 102 today. That's all I have. Thank you for sharing. Thank you very much. You should be at the party. Council, she has she has a good son-in-law. She
don't need a bar. Sure. You have the floor. Back to um I I am in receip of the report. Mayor, I also would like to say thank you to everyone who participated in this year's golf outing. um both to the participants as well as to the
sponsors. Uh we are not able to do this and raise money for park and wreck without you. So I just want to put that on record that we so thankful and it was nice too. Yes, it was great weather. Thank you very much. Well said. Uh Councilman Halter. Yeah. Good evening, Mayor. Thank you. Um
just want to say thank you to the burough staff that helped coordinate the wine blues and barbecue festival over the weekend. I stopped by for a period of time. It was a nice event. Very hot. Uh for water and sewer, we do have a few openings we're still working on. Um we
had uh the South Academy Street project is moving forward pretty nicely. They're finished with the water and I'm sorry, with the sewer services and connections, have moved on to the water services. So that's the project from High Street down past Gillo Street at this time. So beyond that, everything else is uh slow
going as far as obtaining parts and supplies as usual. Thank you. Thank you very much, sir. And Uh, Councilwoman Spence. Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Um, I'm in receipt of the May construction report, and I also would like to um say thank you to the
committee for the park and rack golf tournament. I was a huge success and I found out that Councilwoman Garlic is a pretty darn good golfer on her own. So, I'll have her on my team again next year so she can carry me through the tournament. And that's all I have, Mayor.
Very much. Thank you very much. Uh we have no unfinished business this evening. Uh we have no new business. So now I will ask for the engineers report please. Mark. Uh yes. Good evening. Uh got some paving work done at the Camelot town houses. Uh
the Richwood crossing area was done, but they still have a little bit more to do at the intersection. They didn't do all the milling they needed to. So they'll be back for that. They are doing base repairs in phase three across the street uh for those and they'll be gearing up to do the paving there once they get all the punch list work done. They've been adjusting water services and cleanouts
and uh some broken concrete for those. The Mountible Concepts is nearing completion. Just looking at asbuilts. They're out on uh Leo McCabe Boulevard. Uh that that works getting done. So probably with next month they'll be looking to open up operations out there for that Bo Boulevard for those who
drove through the area. We mil that today. uh in the heat. Um and they'll be paving tomorrow in the heat. Uh so that should be paved tomorrow. The problem we have is the thermoplastic for all the directional arrows and stop bars has to be a certain temperature of which we're
exceeding right now with the heat the sun and on the asphalt. So we're working with the contractors to get it temporarily striped keep all the lanes flowing. But uh probably we'll have to see. We'll work with the police department's been very helpful uh with that and Rowan's staff uh to go. We'll have to see if it's
going to cool off enough for the people to drive on. We were able to just close one lane at a time today, but tomorrow might not be as convenient because it's going to be a while for that asphalt to cool off before we get out there so somebody doesn't all run it all up when they get back out there. So stay tuned
uh for those. Um Alfred Avenue, our 2024 DOT program, uh the concrete work going to start on July 14th uh for that. So then that'll proceed and that'll be resurfacing those areas. uh the J Jersey joint facility down at the end of State Street in Deli. Uh we recommend the TCO
or the CO for for that project. They finished all their site work, so they're going through their state paperwork to open up on that. The smaller building on the site, if you're looking at to the right, has not been completed. They still are still working on that, but that'll be coming for those. Mr. Halter touched on the South Academy Street. So,
once the water seral talk to the developer to get that paved, get some base paving done so we can get the access open back up. Chick-fil-A is uh proceeding. Uh they're trying to get their paperwork done. I'm not sure why they didn't do this four months ago, but they all a sudden realized they got to
get all the paperwork done. So, uh yeah, um on those, but they will be doing some storm work on the site uh on that. and they're trying to get their county permit uh to permit the water sewer crossing so that you'll start seeing more and more activity throughout the summer there. The Altus Cannabis Place at New Street, they're going hot and
heavy uh with those there on building modifications. We've had a few corrections on site, but uh those are being taken care of for that. And if you notice, it was a very quick turnaround, but Taco Bell did complete their works after getting their plan approval for the extra drive-thru. So, we're just doing some minor punch list work with
them to get that all wrapped up. So, it's all at the moment. Thank you, Mark. Anything from Mark? Thank you again, Mark. Uh, at this time, I will once again turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor. Thank you, Mary. Tonight on our consent agenda, we have the following
resolutions, beginning with 191, authorizing change order number one for the Joseph Boulevard construction work. Resolution 192 authorizing execution of authorization to participate in the state local
cooperative housing inspection program. 193 authorizing refund of street opening performance guarantee ENK properties LLC. 194 providing for the insertion of a special item of revenue budget for shown
to NJSA 48487. 195 resolution authorizing the tax collector to issue duplicate tax sale certificates pursuant to NJSA 54552.1 resolution 196 authorizing execution of
settlement agreement and release between crossings of Glastro LP and the burough of Glboro and resolution 197 authorizing execution of collection location and local government unit LGU. semianual
report form the bur of glass a the resol or the res resolutions is the council moves for approval motion to go ahead motion to approve second I have a motion and a second Karen roll call please
Mr. Came Mrs. Garlic approved Mr. Halter four Miss Miller four Mrs. Spence. Yes. Motion carries. And mayor, we have one ordinance for introduction this evening. That is ordinance 2518, ordinance fixing establishing the salaries and compensation of the officers, employees
of the burough of Glboro in the county of Gloucester, state of New Jersey for the year 2025. Council moves for introduction. Move to introduce. Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second. Karen,
roll call, please. Mr. Cabela four. Mrs. Garlic approved. Mr. Halter, four. Miss Miller, four. Mrs. Spence, yes. Motion carries. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to open the public portion. So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in
favor state I. Opposed. Any abstensions? Motion carries. The floor is now open to anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address mayor and counsel. Those members of the public, we do have rules and regulations. Please note when you approach if you identify yourself
for the record, place of address and also there is a fivem minute limitation per speaker. Thank you. First of all, good evening everyone. Good evening. Like a bad penny, I keep rolling back. But no, it's it's not all your name.
Sorry. Sorry. My name is Willie King. My address is 328 Mlullen Avenue, Glboro, New Jersey. Thank you. Been here for 43 years now. So, same house. The neighborhood we in, like I said the last time, very good
neighborhood, peaceful, quiet until the last year or so. Things are getting uh a little bit dicey. But, you know, I first of all, I want to thank the chief and the police department for the good work that they did the last time we were here. An immediate response. That's what
we like. And I still remember what you said, Mayor. You said safety is your first priority. And I appreciate that. and the people in Glasbury appreciate that. Thank you. You know, but right now we're still getting uh you know, some things is it's like the speeding through Mlullen Avenue
and Alfred Avenue. U the one lady, Susan, I forget her last name. She was pulling out of her yard on Alfred Avenue. And of course, this was during the while the college kids were still here. U roll by and almost hit her. She
blew a horn. He rolled his one out and gave her away with just the one finger. So, but that's how that goes. But, you know, so and and then we have another car that comes through Mlullen Avenue every morning 7:15. I guess he
whoever it is is going to work or whatever they doing. But when you speed through the block like that and then in the afternoon you speed through the block like that, it gets to be kind of hairy. Now, When I first moved in that block, we had tons of
children. But, you know, like myself, you know, we all grew old and I admit that I'm old, 77 years old now, 76 years old now. But the deal is we can't have that. And we have the 325
directly in front of me 2:30, 3:00 in the morning, there's Booha. you know, in the morning and that's we talked about this before and there's laws that they being worked on in the state and I do have contact about
that. So, I know that that's being handled, you know, firsthand. You know, I have contact. So, that's correct. And uh you know, I've been communicating with the people that's working on that. So, and uh they're giving me heads up on that. But hopefully it'll be all done and over
with before the the next regime from the governor's office take over and appreciate that very much so and I know you guys will get it before I will. I think you know I'll put it that way. But again,
you know, the neighborhood has changed, you know, and it's like every now and then, the police department, I was talking to him before I came up, uh, the job that they did on the 200 Pomona. Great job. A lot of good detective work.
And I understand when you got a closed investigation that's going on, we're not going to get to know about it, you know, but but it was in the the newsletter, you know, that what had happened and then if the car breakins in that area,
you know, and they they made an arrest on that. So, I'm not here to bash. I'm here to tell the police department, I appreciate what you did, you know, and you're helping us out. But the question is, what is happening that all of a
sudden this neighborhood particular that I see that I feel is being attacked with this crime? You know, it's more crime in our area in the past two years than it been in
the 40 years plus that I've been in that house. And I'm going to be honest with you, like I said, we had kids stick ball on the street playing with no issues, you know, and none of that. But now it's like I got seven of those flop houses in
a twob block radiance and it's beginning to be an annoyance to just myself cuz I'm at 3:28 3:25 is right over my shade up upstairs and I'm looking right in there front door and I can see back to
that kitchen and you know 2:30 3:00 in the morning this is what we have. So, but I see that the burl is answering a call. You know, like I said, when we came the last time that was an immediate response to help the neighborhood and I
appreciate it and I continue to ask the burl and you know, hey, the neighbors are on a point where for some reason it's go talk to coach. You know, he's going to go up and he going to talk about it. I I don't have a problem doing that. you know, Annie, the mayor,
Danielle, you guys, you know, you always tell me, "Hey, you got a problem, you got to bring it here." So, and that's what I intend to do. I intend to bring it here. You know, and I told the neighbors, if you want to get something done, you know, I worked on a refinery for for 35 years, and they said, "I'm sorry, Mr. King. We've hit five
minutes. I have somebody to relax. If you if you like to finish up your statement, I'll make a motion to relax your time. So, you can finish up your statement." Okay. And and like I was saying, I'm sorry for being so longwinded, but that's how I am going. Yeah. Let me just formally finish up this motion and then I'll let you continue. Okay.
So, there's a motion on the floor to relax the five minutes for Mr. King. There is a second. All those in favor state I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion carries. Mr. King, you may continue. You know, like I was saying, you know, I
I'm just concerned in where we're at right now. The speeding in the neighborhood, you know, and the, you know, if like when I first moved here, you know, the kids was playing stickball and it was doing all kinds of things in the street, you know, and just playing and having a good time. You know, if I
had young kids like a hat when I first moved here, no, they couldn't play in the street. They couldn't play stickball. They couldn't throw the football out there because, you know, you can get hit, you know. So, My question to that, you know, speed bumps or something to slow it down, you
know, to do something in that area to to get those folks to, you know, because I mean, right now it's okay because the college kids are gone. And I'll be honest with you, some of them are very good because on the corner of Mlullen and uh that's
Alfred on the corner Mlullen and Alfred no issues as far as you know that that eating area, but across the street at 297, uh, a lot of illegal parking and, you
know, parking on the street and stuff like that all times of night. It's hard to get around and it's hard to see, you know, and you can't see that. And when those things happen, you know, and, you know, you could get a head-on collision, you know, when you can't see that person come, you know, around there like that
when those cars are parked on the corner. So those are the things that I'm just saying that that I think you know and I know like I said when I came the last time you guys addressed that issue that night I appreciate it. I thank you
for it and I didn't come here to bash. come here to praise you the police department because I told Chief when I came in he did a great job you know and we all appreciate that you know just and I have a feeling he's going to help you tomorrow morning I already got a tax
okay and I appreciate yeah I appreciate that as well you know so you know and uh another question I want to ask there were some more people that wanted to come and they was unsure about the parking
in the lot, you know. I said, "After hours, I don't think you have to pay. I don't know for sure." So, I said, "I I'll ask that question when I got here. There more people that wanted to come, but they said they weren't going to come if they got to pay for the parking." So, I said, "Well, you know, this this lot
back here is two hours. First two hours are free." First two hours. First two hours are free. Never. There should be no issue for anyone. And if anyone does have an issue, please please ask them to call. We'll be to explain it to anyone. I don't have a problem. I know you do.
I understand their concern. But yes, please. But now I know that, you know, so the next time we need to come and I can let them know that for the time you're in the meeting, you don't have to worry about it because it's just two hours of free. So I think we'll get a bigger response the next
time from our neighbors. So I thank you guys for hearing me and I appreciate. All right. Thank you. Thanks againie. I mentioned that. That's all. I was going to get worried. Good evening. Diane Johnson, 16 William Street.
I'm here because I know a year ago I brought up um the bathroom at the Elmir Park and you said you'll let us know what's going with that. Um yeah, we're targeting it's still it's
still in the planning phases. We're targeting for the fall. Okay. So by next year it should be that's that's the that's the plan. That's the plan. Okay. That's our plan. Okay. And um another thing about um 16 I
mean sorry um South South Academy Street the house on over there did they ever board it up find an owner or whatever to Yeah the owner I know the owner was talking oh you're talking a little more on academy
academy yeah because the kids still be right yeah so we secured the building okay but I'd have to check if they ever found the owner the owner was actually address was in Penet and when the police from Pen Salken went to knock on the door, he wasn't
he or she didn't answer. So, I'd have to follow up on that. Oh, okay. The house is secure. Okay. Those are my two questions. And um to you, Mr. Ed, you remember you're in?
That wasn't me. That wasn't me. Okay, that's all I got to say. That wasn't me. You thought I was 82 years old. That wasn't That wasn't me. Thank you. Hello, my name is Mindy Smith. I live at 220 Foxboro Drive.
We Can you lower I'm sorry. Would you Yeah, please. You're softspoken. Thank you. Mindy Smith, 220 Foxboro Drive. Um, I have a few questions. One is I'm curious what is going on with the bypass and I would like an update on
that and also how to how we know without taking the time to come to this meeting what is going on with that. Um, two, how to be more informed because I I was getting weekly emails for about a month or two and they stopped coming.
I don't know what happened to that. Um I'm also curious how many of you are affiliated with Rowan and then I have other issues regarding that but if you could how many of you are affiliated with Rowan and what do you mean by affiliation?
Well I don't know you work there. You have a an interest in their well-being as opposed to or in conjunction with the town. I'll get started. I'm not affiliated with I live in this town and the university is in this town but I'm not affiliated with them. Okay. I would have to say the same
thing. I don't work for them or affiliated with them, but they they are a I work for the burrow of glass. Okay. Is anybody affiliated? I'm not affiliated. I'm not ailated. I don't I've been here since 1993. And I live in Hidden Creek and I feel
like when I moved in, it was a nice little town that just happened to have a college in it. And now I feel like the town is the college and there just are a few residents left and we're just getting pushed out in any way that we can. I don't understand why Rowan gets
what Rowan wants. I don't understand the pay to park, how that just magically appeared and why I should have to pay to come to a town meeting. Even if you say it's free for the first couple hours, I I should have to stop and enter all my information. I I can't even be bothered. I'm going to tell you right now, he
doesn't go give me a ticket, but I just came in. I mean, I think it's ridiculous. This is Glboro. I I just don't understand. What does that mean? This is Glboro. It means we're not in Center City, Philadelphia. I don't know any other town around here where you would have to pay to go to the post office or even
stop to do that thing. Even if you tell me a first half hour is free, I'm going to be in the post office for less time than it would take me to do that thing where I register my car. I just don't go there anymore. The first half hour downtown anywhere is free
if you take the five minutes to enter your information. I'm not doing it. I just stop using soliciting. I understand. I understand that. But then that's a choice. But why do we have that? How did that come about? Did we get a vote on it? How do we get that came about? Because as you you
referred to little Glboro that had a little little college in it. It is now bigger Glassboro with a big university in it. and the town and the university and the complex of the whole region is slow is
in in a big change and the burrow is going through a growth phase just the way the university is and I know that I know because you're not the only one that has said it but the perception uh from some people is that Rowan looks
like they are taking over but I can assure you I can assure you that is a misconception. Rowan is not taking over anything. Whatever Rowan is taking over, they're taking over on their land. Whatever they want to do on the other side of 322 has to come through us. And
we are in direct communication with them on all fronts with development, with public safety, with services, you name it. We meet with them at nauseium to say to stay ahead of the game with them to
stay partners with them because they are in the burrow of Glboro. They are part of the burrow of Glboro as well and they are also a big economic driver but I assure you they do not get everything that they want. The kids are everywhere. They have taken
over. They are more than half of the homes that were owned by residents that kids went to school and now they're not. They are taking over. This is part of the metamorphosis. I don't disagree with your analysis, but in all of the research that I have done,
and I've spoken to mayors from New Brunswick, I've spoken to mayors from Westchester, uh, University of Delaware, uh, that have all gone through what we're going through now. And everything that we are seeing
is are things that happen when university towns are growing. And what we're doing along on this deis and all of the public safety people and all of the burrow people that are out there working dayto day are doing their absolute best and they're doing a a
fantastic job of it to make the quality of life in Glboro to be the best that it can be. And quite honestly, you go I go to other municipalities and I don't argue. Glboro is the best place to be in South Jersey. I I don't can't say I agree.
No. Is there any route to get getting ma'am? If you have more to say, I'll make a motion to relax your time so you can finish your statement. I just want to know if there's any way to get All right. So, I'll make a motion. I'd like to relax the time so she can finish her state. There's a motion to relax. There's a second. All in favor state I. Any opposed?
Any abstensions? Motion carries. Uh, you may continue. You still have the floor. You wanted to make a comment. I'd like to comment on the parking because I do the numbers every day. And I don't mean to sound rude, by the way. I'm just asking. I don't mean to sound rude either because this was a big fear.
And you come and you say, "What are you doing like to help the college or to help offset the college's growth?" One of the reasons this governing body put parking in, there was cars parked all over the place because of the excess rentals. If you looked at Angelo's
parking lot in the morning, cars were all over. I'm sure Rowan Boulevard was, you know, how many times our cops were down Rowan Boulevard because kids were parked there all night and there were popup parties going on
all the time. The paid parking under this direction was not done to generate money. It was actually done to get turn over cars and get people in businesses. One of the things you can't refute, I'd be more than glad to share my reports with you because I do we do have the
interest of the town. So, were we all scared to death when we did it that people weren't going to go downtown and it wasn't going to work? Absolutely. But I planned on reporting tonight. So February this year was the first full month that you could compare
year-over-year parking. And again, this isn't about money, but in February, we parked 38% more cars downtown. In March, 15%, in April, 16%. In May, 13%. And in June, we're tracking 14% more. So, we've
actually driven more people to our downtown. You know how many popups we've had since we've done this? One. One. What's a popup? parties where kids will park all night and then soon as we our police officers walk away, all of a sudden there'll be a thousand more cars
there. That was killing Rowan Boulevard. That was one of the reasons we did this, too. You can't park on Rowan Boulevard now after 2:00. So when you look at it in the morning, there are no cars there. So the parking was not done as a deterrent. I know people don't like it.
We all know people group of people don't like it. But at the end of the day, it really accomplished what it was set out to accomplish. Turn it over, reduce the crime in downtown, and based on the numbers and the police reports, I don't know how you could refute that.
I just want to know why residents don't get a break. Give us a hang tag. Give us a something like I don't understand. Is starting something for I don't I'm not I'm not saying your age or anything, so please I don't want to get in trouble. I don't want to get in trouble.
You're going to get in trouble. But the people who we hear a lot of from is seniors who don't want to deal with the app. Okay. Who don't want to do Yeah. I'm not that old and I don't want to deal with it. Okay. Well, that's predominantly who we hear from. So, Councilman Cosbone came
up with an idea. It's called the Silver Tuesday. Golden Tuesday. Golden Tuesday where we will issue placards to seniors. What do we classify seniors as 62? Yeah. It's not And all you have to do is put your placard up. You can go wherever
you want in town that day. But why can't residents just have a hang tag all the time? I knew that was coming. We get sued. Yeah. Yeah. We get sued on that one. How? We're paying the taxes. I don't understand. People pay the taxes in Ocean City and
they still have to buy a beach tag. They go on their own beaches. But that's not the same thing. How is it not the same? They have to pay for parking in downtown Ocean City. Also, do the stupid app to go like mail something in the post office. thing with with doing it all the time is, you know, I'm sure you got very good reasons, but
what's to stop somebody from giving their placard to somebody else? Somebody else. And then we're right back to where we were. Cars are all over the place. There's stuff going on in downtown. So, we did we did look at it and we did look at the legalities of it, too. So, well, I don't frequent the businesses on
Rome Boulevard because I'm not going to pay to park. And when a friend of mine wanted to and she drove, I asked the manager and she said business was down as a result of All I can do is report on these numbers. I'd be more than glad my report like it. But I I think you should ask the managers of the business.
Scallo put over $2 million in an expansion since we did this. I was just downtown the other night and everybody was packed. Mscal was packed. Spicies was packed. People were walking up and down the street. I mean, I understand what you're saying. I Hey, I've gotten tickets myself. I don't like
to do it myself. I don't like the app. But, you know, I figured out a way to make it work. I use the garages because I like the app in there better. It's easier once you put your information in. It just picks up your um tag and it's great. It's a lot easier. But uh you know, as far as the street parking goes of the post office, there is still free
parking behind the post office. There's about six or seven spots there. That's where I park when I go to the post office. Do I can I pull on on High Street and then pull away and go? It's more convenient to do that, but I don't need to. I just pull around and park and then I go back out and so I mean there's ways to get through it.
That's my way. Well, you know, that's everybody's got their own thing, but you know, this is this parking thing was important that and I can see that it's working myself. I'm do I like it? I'm not overjoyed, but you know what? The benefits far outweigh the negatives on it. Really, it does. And you know, we
are not a sleepy little college town anymore. We are, you know, it's just the college they get. The university is growing. We can't we can't tell them not to. need to provide the housing instead of letting the kids take over the housing that we have for glass for res.
The one other thing we did too, just so you're aware, because we we are on the same page as you. We really are. We really are. We've limited you cannot build a house in Glassboro other than on two sections of town which we've already lost. That is more than five bedrooms.
And the reason we did it, we're tired of seeing we'll get we will get sued, right? And we probably will lose. Okay, we will. But we thought we thought hey if we got to spend money let's fight let's fight. So you shouldn't see any more of these five bedroom the only
place you'll see it is on main and then as it goes over to Carpenter and up that way right by the college. Other than that you cannot build more than a five bedroomedroom house in Glboro. So we have done stuff. We've done stuff in the past and we've gone to court lost.
State entity trumped us. We lost parking. We lost. How many you needed a parking spot for? We lost. So, we've tried a lot. I've been around 25 years. I was a councilman for 19 years. We've been fighting them tooth and nail down. Do we have a relationship to the mayor's
point? We absolutely do. But, we do not roll over on them. If we did, if you were rolling over, there's no way we would have put that five bedroomedroom. I fight with them every time I see their reports that they're going to add x amount of students. And my argument is that's great that you can grow your university because the way you're
growing it is through revenue. Okay. Well, I'm your expense line. I'm your expense line. And it's not fair what you're doing to me because you can put as many kids in as you want, but who's got to protect them? We all do. So, we The point I'm trying to make is, believe
me, we're fighting them on. I appreciate that. I do. We really, really are. But I mean, that's the whole traffic issue. Those engineers that were like, "Well, the trucks will be gone." What truck? The problem is that the homes that had one or two cars when there were first built have five, six cars and
they're all clustered in this tiny little spot where Hidden Creek has to drive right through to get anywhere and it's so frustrating. Can I have an update please on the bypass and what is going on? Greatest on the bypass is is that we the
burrow has met with the county uh again recently a few weeks ago. Yep. And um there's information out. They'll be putting together another we asked when we're going to have another uh community meeting because again reiterate this
this project is being driven by the county. So whenever we get information from the county, we share it with we we share with our residents. Um if you don't hear anything, yes, you're always welcome to come back and find I haven't heard anything. I'd like to know. So the
latest is there's going to be a meeting coming and it's going to be uh it's going to be done in a way that's going to uh benefit both you know get the information out to all of the residents and that the residents will have a an
opportunity to voice their opinions rather than just a uh presentation type uh thing that was what happened the first time. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And I will tell you, we we are all we are as transparent as we
can possibly be. If you or anyone else does not get information that you think you should have, I encourage you call, come up here. We'll give you the skinny. Thank you. Okay. But we do not hold back anything that we shouldn't be holding back. I
assure you of that. I appreciate it. Absolutely. Thank you very much, I'm Reggie Avial. I live at 321 Defert. Um, and I first of all will say I totally agree with Mindy. I had no less
than five senior citizens call my home telling me that they couldn't come tonight asking me if I would please voice their concern about pay parking and they don't see why as a taxpayer and a resident and you can
prove that you live in the house and you can prove by the tax records that you're paying the taxes on this house. All right, that you need to pay for parking in this town. All right. Um
my next question is we have um all the projects going on behind the post office. All right. The three-story town homes. All right. Which we have been told as residents are going to be family oriented town homes. I would like to
know what prevents me from buying a town home and renting it out to college students. Nothing. Nothing. The law will tell you what we've asked to do and what we've done in other establishments. So, I live on Popish over here. Yes. Yeah, you told me. Yeah, we've
we've talked about that. Yes, we have. And what we've done with them and we probably if we ever get challenged and last I'm going to do and I've told you this on the phone. I'm going to lie to you. I know. So, if if we get challenged, we may lose. But what we've done with the popular square apartments is the
resident whoseever's name is on the lease has to make three times has to show salary of three times the amount of their rent. So let's pick round numbers. Say it's $2,000 a month is rent. 2 * 12 is 24. 24 * 3 is $72,000.
They have to show income of $72,000. It's the only way we have right now with our redevelopment attorney. I don't think there's very many students making $72,000 a year. Hence the reason we're doing it. So there's and solicitor you can correct me if I'm wrong. You can rent your property. I can't stop you.
Okay? Can't but the HOA could have rules and regulations and that's how we've tried to attack it. And again where I live on Popler watch there'll be all kind of parties now. It is it is quiet as as could be. I was scared to death when I moved there.
So that's how we're that's what we're requiring on academy and high as well. Okay. The other question I have is there's um 14 acres of property at Higgins and Martin Luther King.
It's my understanding that this 14 acres of property which is all it's all forested has been sold to a development company. That's not that was not ours. It's the area development that you're talking about that it was privately owned
property if I think I'm talking about on MLK and it's on the left hand side the left hand side next next to the park like behind the next yeah it's so it was privately owned
so we had nothing to do with it all right okay it was sold I'm going to be honest with you it was sold to Dr. Horton Dr. wanted a tax abatement and they wanted to build twostory town homes like they did out in 322 which look like army
barracks. They're terrible. I in my opinion. Okay. So when Dr. Horton came in here and said I said to them, "What are you going to build?" "Well, we're going to build." "Well, you're not getting a tax abatement." And they said, "What?" That's why they haven't been built yet. So we can't stop them. But
what we're trying to do with them is have them build threetory nicer town homes. So everyone's property value out there raises up a little bit and maybe the cost of the home is not as advantageous to an investor who's looking for that return maybe now that they got to pay a little bit more. So
that's just another thing that we're trying to do to fight them and stop the rentals. Okay. And there's nothing we they're going to I I didn't I didn't know that we we as taxpayers didn't own that property. I
thought we didn't know that. We didn't own that property. Okay. And and this is this one is totally off the cuff. Um if there's anything you could do about the ugliest town or the ugliest house in Glboro that's on Colombia Road,
it go. All right. That was built on a piece of property that I believe was 75 by 200. So what they did was they built down the property on Colombia. You said on Colombia. Okay. Um,
they build down the property. It's listed as having 16 beds and then they go and they side it. I've got to get I'm almost done. They side it in brown and and gold. Yeah, it's an eyesore.
I I'm just saying please, if there's anything you can do, we did that five bedroom. Thank you. All right. Unfortunately, there's no law against bad taste. Good evening. My name is Rich Bent. I live at 304 Ronald Avenue since 1981.
And I want to make a few observations of that area that uh I've seen change since I've been there. There's problems with the cars which Mr. King brought up at 297. I've gone out at night and late at night and there's been 12 vehicles parked on
that corner. None of them have the parking permit. Now, if we're not going to go and start enforcing cars that don't have the parking permit, why should my wife have to pay to have her car? Because we do
have a parking permit on our car parked in front. Okay. Now, if you go out, Ronald, um, you did 297. 297. 297. That's where all those cars are on the corner and everything else. It's got you go out uh Baldwin and you get the
fish pond. Now, I've gone out there. We have cars parked on both sides of the road, right? And you have people that are just stubborn. You're trying to get out. They're trying to get in. And nobody wants to back up.
Why can't we have one side signed no parking on fish on on no on ball at that corner come back 100 ft with no parking on one side right at least give you a little bit wider road to get in and out
you have that trailer over by the ballpark I've come out my wife has come out we've seen cars coming up the street 60 miles an hour on that thing. They don't care. Why can't we have a camera on that
trailer, take a picture of of of license plates and send them a speeding ticket? Is there we had that intersections and they shot it down. Why is it illegal? Other states have it. I know. I know. They jersey they made illegal.
We used to have speed cameras. Yeah. 47. Yeah. I know. We used to have the cameras there and everything else so we take pictures, but had to take them down. We were generating about $600,000 a year in revenue. Oh, I'm not worried about the revenue. I'm more worried about the 60 m hour.
Was a terrible intersection. Did you come out of Ronald? You look I mean out of Baldwin. You look one way, you look the other and cars are coming both ways and they come over the top of that hill off of Delta. It's like you make the turn off of Delta onto Fish Pond and it's they're gone.
Yep. How fast can I get before I get to the top of the hill? It's getting ridiculous. Uh, what was the other thing? Uh, commercial vehicles being parked on the street overnight.
Right. I thought there was an ordinance that where you couldn't have commercial vehicles parked overnight on the street. That's correct. Yet there's vehicles parked all over town. Out and police will go out there to give you some idea where they're at.
Okay. Uh Baldwin is a big white van with lettering like you would not believe on it. Um what's that? Uh Alfred Alfred. All right. Uh
B not Baldwin. Um Charles the third. There's a couple there. Commercial vehicles. A truck and a trailer or just trucks. They're parked overnight. I mean it all comes down to are they permitted to do that? No, they can't be.
They don't get ticket yet. I ba my wife obeys the law. We pay for a parking permit. That's right. Great. So, it kind of gets a little aggravating. Uh, okay.
Cars commercial. Okay. Um, cars parked on the lawn. They're not supposed to do that either, right? Okay. We got the same problem throughout the neighborhood. I mean, it ain't just one or two. It's any given night there's six cars.
These driveways maybe can hold four and you got six cars parked the front of the house, which comes down to they're letting kids rent the house. I mean, you got to have some kind of ordinance going on or make up one, not make up one, but
an act one. Let me rephrase that. an active audience where parking lot is enforced. So, they're not because it's an eyesaw. Like I said, I've been here since 81. I've seen this area changed like you would not believe.
And uh the speeding is a problem. Like Mr. King brought up, especially parents after they pick up their kid at Bullock, they come through the neighborhood because uh new street is a pain. Mhm. Now, I heard something about uh Alfred
Avenue is going to get repaved or something. Is possibility of having speed bumps put on Alfred Avenue? I have. Oh, that. Yeah. Make a motion to relax the time again, sir. So, you can finish. Second. Okay. You have a motion and second to relax
the time. All those in favor say I. Opposed? Any abstensions? Motion carries. You continue to have the floor, Mr. Definitely take a look at Al. I mean, typically what we do any place we put speed homes is we do a speed study first. Police do a speed study. They
gather the information and come back and say whether or not it determines Okay. Who does this? The police. Okay. I haven't seen a policeman in my neighborhood once in the past six months. One car in six months. I mean, we don't
see him over there. So, who's going to do the study if they're busy elsewhere? You won't see them do the police. We'll have something out of the speed and how many cars are coming through. Okay. And that brings up another question. Just how many policemen do we have per
shift in this town? There's six per shift on the road. On the road, we have six. Yep. Okay. And I will tell you, it's getting increasingly increasingly harder to hire police officers.
I can believe that. I mean, I have no problem with that with the the people that we do have. I don't have a problem with it. We just don't have enough and they're not Oh, I'm a little biased. They're not where I feel I want them to be. We are continuing to continuing to try.
We just had four people go through the academy. I'm looking at the chief. Three ended up not making. So, not only is it hard to get candidates, the candidates we get, I mean, they get a pass. 20 Well, they don't because they don't make it
through. Not that I met. 20 years ago when I first started on this governing body, we'd have we'd have a police officer position open. We'd have 30, 40 applicants and they would pay for themselves to go through the academy. We are now paying to go through the academy. We've raised all of our
salaries. We're trying to do sign on bonuses to get police officers. It's getting hot out there. It's getting real hard. It's the way the culture has changed, right? And what was the other one? Oh. Uh,
you said there's no parking on Rowan Boulevard after 2 a.m. Correct. On the street. On the street at all over the street. All over the town. All over the town is what I meant. So, anybody parked on the street should be ticketed. Correct. They have unless they have an
unless they have a pass. They called in and got approval. That's correct. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh ordinance by that's all I have. Thank you for your time. Sure. Definitely look at Absolutely. We will
look at the streets you gave us for the commercial. Um we'll look at the Baldwin about I mean that one you got the car. It's a big box van that's parked out in front and I meant to the ball with the pock no pocketing on one side.
You got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, sir. Hi, Sherry Smith for4 Villanova Road. I'm going to try and make this very short and sweet. Uh on Harvard Road. Why are the students
allowed to park on both sides? Especially when the students are in and on Lehi too, especially down by Swathmore and Hamilton when those big giant uh apartment buildings were made. We've counted sometimes 3540 cars
in Harvard or in Lehi. Okay. down by the corner by 322 you turn and there's two big giant matter of fact there's four or five houses now the traffic is unbelievable now it's not too bad because of the college students are not here but also on Harvard uh I live
two blocks two houses from the corner we have literally watched the college students run right through the stops four-way stops constantly all the time and I have a special need child and there also other children around that area were by Rogers and I see it all the
time. I was coming home from work one day and I was going down a University Boulevard. Four college students on skateboards were texting. Thank God I had good brakes and good reflexes. I would hit them all. And that they're my main two concerns to be honest with you.
Okay. It's just like I know before you weren't allowed to park, you know, certain times, but now since those houses are being rented, the kids park there all the time outside. They do have some of them have the parking stickers, some of them do not. And that's one of my biggest concerns is the safety of the
kids out of there. Absolutely. Okay. So, other than that, um, let me see. Most of the questions I was going to ask were already taken care of, which is a good thing. Um, but also I see a lot of the kids when they're here, college students riding
their bikes and scooters doubled up, no helmets. And also, I've seen them texting while they're crossing the streets. That's another problem. I like when they just walk and hit the hit the light and just walk. Yeah. Okay. Another uh thing I want to bring
up is about the train. Okay. Uh not very fond of it. I'm worried about kids getting hit by the train. It happens other towns which I'm positive everybody's heard of and I have a very big concern about that also. So I'm assuming that's being taken care of
being spoke about throughout the town. And also when uh we have a house that's supposed to be going up on one of the corners, it's a very big lot. Now, is there kind of ordinance that um only a certain amount of like you were talking about bedrooms and stuff are allowed to
be in what house depending on how many bedrooms that they have? How or how many cars? How does that work? It's not by cars, it's by bedrooms. By bedrooms is what I was referencing earlier. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, that's it. And I just wanted to get off. Like I said before, I had a
lot of stuff, but a lot of people had taken care of it. So, it was awesome. Thank you again for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you for coming. Seeing no others, I'll make a motion to close the public portion. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Opposed.
Any abstensions? Motion carries. The public portion is now closed. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills. Motion to approve all dy authorized bills. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor state I.
I. Opposed. Any abstensions? Yes, mayor. I would abstain abstain on PO number 25-02410. Thank you, mayor. I will abstain on the um bills submitted to the clerk before the
meeting. Thank you very much. Those abstensions have been noted. Motion still carries. Uh any closing comments from our administrator? I I was just going to give my parking report which I've already given, but I appreciate you folks coming out. Um you guys come out in the right way. You
bring your concerns. I think I appreciate you listening to us as well. You may not agree with with what's going on, but I really appreciate it. That's all I have to say, Mayor. Thanks. And uh yeah, just to reiterate what uh Ed has said. Uh I always thank
you all for those of you that came out and shared your concerns. Thank you. For those that came out just to participate and get what was going on, thank you. I encourage you to continue to do so. We are here to help you. We are here to make sure that the quality of life from
the Glboro residents is optimal. That is what we are here for. And uh with that I will entertain a motion for to adjurnn. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor state I. Opposed. Any abstensions? Motion
carries. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you again everyone. The next regular meeting, oh my goodness, there it is. will be July 22nd, 2025 6 p.m.