how you doing you been all right 20 seconds 20 seconds Beau I I've been the Jeff here we go mayor whenever you're ready mayor all
right good evening everyone I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and Council of the burough of Glassboro for February 25th 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 bur Hall bulletin board as well as the burough website and forwarded to both the South Jersey Times And The Sentinel
of glester County and file with the burough clerk on January 4th 2025 thank you can we all rise salute the flag please IED ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all karen roll call please mayor Wallace here Mr Brown here Mr casone present Mrs garlic here Mr halter yes M Miller here
Mrs Spence here Mr milandro here Mr scati Mr Bruner here thank you uh we have no uh presentations this evening so at this time I'll turn the meeting over to our burrow solicitor yes thank you mayor we have uh four ordinances this
evening on H public hearing I'll read all four ordinances the motion when we open to the public will be for comment on all four if there are any comments we'll begin with ordinance 2502 an ordinance amending ordinance 2434 which adopted a Redevelopment plan
Amendment to the third amendment to Glassboro Central business district and nearby Environ Redevelopment plan a plan for the revitalization of the East High Street area for the purpos of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots 1 103 23
4.02 and 13 block 44 Lots 20 and 21 block 44 lot 22.03% the project area all within the bar of Glassboro ordinance 2503 an ordinance authorizing an amendment to the purchase and sale
agreement between the B of Glassboro and woods Glassboro properties Development LLC data October 10th 2023 for the sale of block 40 Lots one 10323 4.02 13 block
44 Lots 2021 block 44 Lots 22.03% 5 26 26.0 the property and project area and the execution of all necessary documents ordinance 2504 calendar year 2025 ordinance to
exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits to establish a c bank and ordinance 22-05 an ordinance repealing Chapter 490 Health rules and regulations article one Board of Health rules and adopting a new
article one to be titled Board of Health again there are the four ordinances uh our public hearing this evening Council moves for the public portion move the public portion be open 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 proposed ordinances 25- where am I 25-2 25-3
25-4 and 25-5 seeing none I move the public P should be closed any ordinance adopted as written second I have any motion any second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr Caso yes Mrs garlic yes Mr halter
for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of January 28th 2025 as well as a Clos executive session of January 28th 2025 so move second
second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries uh car could you take us through Communications please yes mayor I have one letter it's a letter of retirement from toana Bryant
of Economic Development her effective date of retirement will be March 1st 2025 um motion to approve the letter of toana retiring but I just want to say um thank
you to toana for all of the years of service that she's given to the burrow participating in the events the parades and everything um she truly be missed so thank you for all of your years of
service I'll second thank you there's a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries I'll move to committee reports and begin with council president Miller good evening evening uh
mayor memory seat of the January highway report and um that's all I have at this time thank you very much uh councilman Brown yes good evening mayor good evening thank you uh I'm in receipt of the financial reports for the month of January also congratulations to toana
Bryant on her retirement and also uh a big thank you and a shout out to our recently we had a uh power outage in delsy Manor we had our Police Department our fire department as well as our uh assistant burough
administrator out there in the trenches helping everyone so to everyone who those three uh facets of our of our town plus anybody else who helped out I just wanted to say thank you for uh helping out those residents they did a great job thank you mayor thank you very much uh
councilman casabo yeah thank you mayor uh I am in receipt of the February monthly report from Chief Smith of the glassbar fire department in 2023 there were 2,859 calls for service and in uh did I
do that right no I'm sorry there were 1,859 calls for service in 2023 and in 2024 there were 2,110 calls for service which is an in increase of 255 calls for service and that's all I have thanks
thanks for K thanks for sharing um councilwoman garc thank you mayor you're welcome I'm in receipt of the report for Park and wreck for January that's all I have very nice thank you councilman halter hey good evening mayor thank you
water and store Department continues to be busy doing upgrades repairs through the frigid temperatures so thanks for those guys they're constantly working out in those uh conditions out side uh scheduled on Monday of next week we're going to have a road closure South
Academy Street from High Street to um to Grove Street uh will be accessible only to Gilla will be accessible to local residents only that live along that street uh due to a uh developmental project development project that'll be going on out there there'll be some a
new sewer line uh put into the street they'll have to have a lot of connections to all those existing homes including the new homes as well that'll be going in there so that'll approximately be closed for approximately two months while Water and Sewer makes those upgrades and repairs uh similarly dely drive as everybody
noticed is experiencing a large construction project from Clayton up to Westville so there'll be impacts from time to time many of which will be during the nighttime hours uh to delce drive as that project goes forward and make some upgrades there um also I want to touch upon what councilman Brown said
uh from The delsia Manor uh incident that took place last Sunday uh through my all of us have different jobs during the day well almost all of us sorry Georgia retired but um have different jobs thanks for mention that because the old guy here um okay I serve also for
the County Emergency Management which we were involved in that uh incident as well just want to say the coordination between all the entities from the Police Department fire department the burrow officials uh was fantastic it was uh very unique situation for those not familiar we had a lot of winds that took
place in town that night around 5:00 uh we had one gentleman in town that had uh probably lifelong critical injuries from a tree falling on him uh during that storm couple poles fa behind the Dela Manor apartments by the Four Seasons health club that brought a
number of Transformers Down uh Atlantic City Electric was not able to go up into the air for many many many hours due to the high winds that were still occurring so they weren't even able to assess that uh delsy Manor Apartments approximately 40 apartments that house uh a large
number of uh senior citizens mostly there are some disabled folks in there as well uh and those that have some type of physical needs or limitations uh of those apartments approximately a quarter of them are non-ambulatory or need some type of additional function WEA
motorized wheelchair or so forth with the plummeting temperatures that were uh around that night we were on a code blue effect uh so with the plummeting temperatures there was a lot of concerns between all of those entities on scene police fire and OEM about having uh folks that have a number of special
needs uh living in their Apartments without heat so uh decision was made to relocate them the glou County Housing Authority put Folks up into a residence in in Deport uh and some of the other res residents chose to uh go with friends or family the evacuation went
smoothly uh there were a lot of uh potentials for concern with some of the medical needs and so forth out there but again with all those entities out there we suffered through some Frid that evening outside um but we got the job done and I know the next day I was not involved in the reunification or the the
rehousing of those people but I was told it went extremely well the following day so again kudos to all the burough employees that supported from transportation to Public Safety um it was a job well done and nobody had any significant injuries obviously because of that so thanks thank you very much
sir Council woman Spence thank you mayor um I'm in receipt of the uh January construction report I thank that office for all the work they do they're very busy and uh thank you councilman halter for that um well explained situation
with dely Manor I know that was a a really rough night and I'm really proud of all the entities that work together and especially since we have our um OEM in house now the um partnership between Glassboro and the county OEM they it really makes a difference I think things
run smoother and more cohesive so we we better prepared for situations such as that um I also wanted to say congratulations uh to toana Bryant on her retirement and thank her for all her years of service she's been here a long time and she's done a lot of different wore not has worn a lot of different
hats in the burrow and has done a great job and she's going to be greatly missed and that's all I have mayor thank you very much we have no unfinished business so Karen can we take us through a new business please yes mayor I need approval for facilities use and street
closure application for the glassbar Memorial Day Parade May 26 2025 I'll make that motion second I have a motion any second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries at
this time I'll ask for the engineers report please mark yes good evening everybody uh just a brief update uh for those the project the townhouse project over in camel lot they're waiting for warmer weather to get the punch list work done likewise with the East High Street Estates
projects uh they're doing the same demountable Concepts if you're ever out on Cave Boulevard they have all the steel up for their building starting getting the roof on and getting that enclosed so that's proceeding with those Bo Boulevard uh we have a reconstruction meeting tally scheduled for March 11th
uh for that with hopes whether permitting that the contractor will be able to get in the following week while all the students are off on the holiday or on spring break I should say for Rowan and uh get that done so we'll we'll see I'll advise at the next meeting let you know where that stands
uh for those Deone Builders right there across from mat blad on Main Street they're finishing up some of their punch list stuff for the temporary U Co so they'll be looking to move in there so you'll see a lot more activity there uh touched on by Mr aler as far as the Reconstruction 47 that'll be firing back
up now the weather's getting better so that'll be inlets being clean replaced sidewalks curb being redone traffic signals being done and things along those lines so it'll be extensive we haven't got an updated schedule since they got delayed in the winter so we'll get the copy of that so we know we're uh
can get you better advis there obviously can coordinate with the water and SE department and the police department for those Alfred Avenue which is our DOT uh Municipal Aid project that was given granted to us last year that's going out to bid this week and we'll be collecting bids at the end of March so I'll be a a
report first meeting in April for that Jersey joint down on the end of State Street near 47 that they'll be getting their site improvements done now that the warmer weather's coming here uh they've been working inside for quite some time and working on those issues then I'll be going there and councilman
halter also touch base on South Academy Street that will be temporarily closed except for the local residents there for access to replace the water sewer and there's probably at least four other projects we'll be reporting on soon once they finally get all their final perits
in place uh they'll start breaking ground in construction this year so that's all I have thank you very than appreciate it okay at this time I'll again turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor thank you thank you mayor and our
consent agenda tonight we have the following resolutions beginning with 9525 granting approval for form C for self storage at East High Street Block 33 Lot 8 9625 authorizing major subdivision Monument bond for glassor
duplexes South Academy Street blocks and lots noted on the agenda this evening resolution 9725 granting approval perform C for vision stream Glassboro Apartments block 413 lot 14 and
resolution 9825 a resolution of the bar of Glassboro bler County directing the Glassboro planning board to review a proposed Redevelopment plan for Block 31.0 2 Lots 33147 and eight and they are the resolution
under the consent agenda this evening and also for the reasonings noted under each on the agenda if Council moves for approval roll call vote motion to approve second I have a motion and a second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cabone yes Mrs garlic for Mr
halter for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries mayor we have one ordinance this evening for introduction by title that' be ordinance 25- 6 ordinance adopting a Redevelopment plan for Block 31.0 2 Lots
33147 and in the B of Glassboro Council moves for introduction roll call motion to approve second I have a motion any a second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cabone for Mrs Garett for Mr
halter for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries at this time I'll entertain a motion to open up the public portion move the public portion be open second second have a motion in second all in favor State I 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 say not I'll make a motion to close the public portion I'll second it I have a motion any a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions
motion carries the public portion is now closed at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills so move second move I have a motion and a second all in favor State I opposed any extensions mayor I have a
exension 25- 0461 everything else good exstension noted motion still carries uh any comments from our administrator i' just like to also thank toana Brian for her years of service and Echo what a number of the council people said
in regards to the evacuation everyone did a fine job that's all I have there thank you and uh I will also uh say the same uh first and foremost um uh councilman halter for the fine explanation of how everything uh went uh
the night that the deli Manor facility was out of power uh as the mayor and watching how the process went um made me feel really good that the system worked the way it worked the facility was out of power the uh the municipality burrow
stepped in County OEM stepped in uh moved everyone got everyone in a safe facility and people were relocated back into their homes within 24 hours once power was restored with no other issues other than the obvious that they had to
be displaced and when something that major happens and things go seamless like that um tells me that we're really doing something right here and thank you to all those people that were out there in The Frigid cold weather to take care of the residents of Glassboro thank you
very very much and to toana Bryant for the many years of service and all of the things that she did she picked up and did pretty much um whatever needed to be done uh she deserves her retirement I wish her well and with that I will
entertain to journ second I have have a motion and a second all in favor stay I I oppose any extensions motion carries this meeting is now adjourned everyone thank you very much have a great evening next regular meeting will be March 25th
2025 6 p.m. 25th oh wait that's not right no it's not March 25th 25th no the second no 25th no we cancel we that's right we cancel because of the 25th you're it was
correct we only got one no huh