I'm always up I have it it's here isn't he he's not going to be in it's all you may yes mayor whenever you are all right good evening everyone i'd like to
call the regular meeting of mayor and council of the burrow of glassboro for April 8th 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 filed with the
burough clerk on January 4th 2025 thank you can 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 thank you Karen roll call please mayor Wallace here mr brown here mr cosone present mrs garlic here mrs spence here mr milandro here mr scapiti Mr bunimer
and let the record reflect that Mr halter and Ms miller are excused for this evening thank you my whistle uh at this time we'll uh have a couple presentations so I'll step down from the desk we have two retirees today call
Uh as to read this on behalf of gunner police department was acquired as a donation from retired sheriff sheriff's officer Tony Chico and the John Sunny Burke
K9 he was our AY's first ret and although we do not know many details regarding K9 governor's history we trusted he would be an asset to the Glboro Police Department's K9 unit they attended the John Sunnyber K9
Academy and graduated with their narcotic sense certification in April of 2019 their biggest impact on the glass community was not as a result of their official narcotic training but their
ability to interact with our citizens and especially our children they were wellknown visitors of the Rogers and Dorothy Bullock schools where nearly everyone knew them by name they were also the highlight of our K9
demonstrations because of their ability to interact with the members of the community on a different level than we had been able to see in the past patrol and March made it a priority to attend community events through the county as a
team they have paved their way for future community oriented K9 teams k9 Gunner will now be officially retired after years of service to the Glboro Police Department and will enjoy his time relaxing with Control Marty who
is also retired we wish them both a happy and healthy retirement [Applause]
appreciation for service and our first laborator and I think it's our last He gave us the ability to interact and everybody wants to bring
out the same concern whatsoever and really had a great [Applause]
Absolutely whatever you want he should get this he should get his loving father [Applause] and as you all don't know one of the things that I initiatives that I started
when I became mayor is that I felt that it was appropriate to recognize those employees of the burrow that the borrow for over 20 years or more anyone that served the borrow for over 20 years either part-time fulltime or a combination of both I'd like to
recognize them for their years of service and I have Corpus here who has met that requirement and I'm pleased to be able to present him with this award i also present everyone with a letter from my desk and I would like to read it it reads as
follows april 1 2025 that's your date right very nice greetings T i would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank you for your service to the B of Glassboro for the past 25 years beginning your career in November
of 1999 with the highway department and being appointed as Glboro Police Officer on October 22nd 2001 then attaining the rank of corporal on February 22nd 2018 is quite an
accomplishment on behalf of myself and the burrow of classboro I wish you all the best in your retirement respectfully Johnny Wallace third mayor [Applause]
i'll get it to your office along with the copy of the resolution [Laughter] that's why he's the mayor oh shoot i have to move i know it's so difficult all right well
everyone that does uh end the ceremonial portion of this meeting uh you are all all welcome to stay for the business portion of this meeting but we will not be offended in the slightest if you want to go out and enjoy the rest of your
evening melissa you have to stay thank you sir thank you go Bulldogs [Laughter] good looking thank you sir
everybody loves everyone okay we're going to continue on with our meeting and at this time I'll turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor thank you mayor we have a two a public hearing this evening for two ordinances
i'll read them both and then we can open to the public for comments on either ordinance first ordinance is number 259 that is a bond ordinance authorizing the acquisition of various capital equipment the completion of various capital improvements in the burough glass county colost New Jersey
appropriating the sum of 2 million737,000 therefore authorizing the issuance of general obligation bond of anticipation note of the mayor of Glboro and the aggregate principal amount of up to $2,600,150 making certain determinations
in covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connection with the foregoing ordinance number 25-10 similar ordinance for different purpose bond ordinance authorizing various water and sewer improvements in the better of Glasville County Glouester
New Jersey appropriating the sum of 13 million $640,000 therefore authorizing the issuance of general obligation bond or bond anticipation notes of the bar of glass bro in the aggregate principal amount of up to $13,640,000
making certain determination in covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connection with foregoing the council so moves for the public portion move the public portion be open 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 ordinance number 25-09 or 25-10 hi how are you
joe 11cess so yeah nope not at all so this is part of our regular budget uh process and what happens is all of our departments hand over their their budgets their needs and so on during the budget
process it's then reviewed it's then put in front of the governing body so this year we will be passing on a 4 cent tax increase which for the average appraised house is about $10 a month increase but this is stuff for both water and sewer
and for the general uh the burrow for tractors cars police cars the stuff that keeps the burrow running on a day-to-day basis that's what this is we have it yeah absolutely
that would be through my office you can I don't you can I get emails like that all the time thank you very much i do have a good evening seeing no other I move the public portion be closed and the ordinance
adopted as written second i have a motion and a second karen roll call please mr brown yes mr casterbone mrs garlic yes mrs dispense yes motion carries uh we have no minutes to approve we have no
communications this evening so I will move to committee reports and begin with Councilman Brown good evening Mayor good evening uh the only thing I have tonight is I'd just like to congratulate uh K9 Gunner and his handler Ron
Marquesy on their retirement as well as the recognition to Corporal Kzn for his burough years of service thank you mayor that's all I have thank you very much sir uh Councilman Kas yes thank you Mayor i also would like to congratulate
uh Ron Markees and K9 Gunner on their retirement have a safe and healthy retirement and uh that's all I have thank you very much sir uh Councilwoman Garlic yes Mayor i'd like to also congratulate all the presentations that went forward tonight and I would like to
say that we are in receipt of our committee reports from last month thank you thank you very much and councilwoman Spence thank you Mayor um I just want to say I'm in receipt of the March and uh building construction report and building and ground report for March and
I also want to say congratulations to uh Gunner because he was at our um block party a few years in a row and he was a very great asset to the department and it's going to be missed and also congratulations to um
officer i can't say his name corporal Ken Kuzz and that's all I have thank you very much uh we have no unfinished business no new business i'll ask for the engineers report please mark just a brief update and this The next
one is 47 continist months thank you Mark thank you okay at this time I'll again turn the meeting over to our burrow solicitor yes thank you mayor on our consent agenda tonight we have the following
resolutions beginning at 129 resolution authorizing the bar of glass to enter into an adoption agreement with officer Ronald Marquees for the adoption of retired police K9 resolution Ber Council BL Glass with me county law New Jersey authorizing the
issuance and sale of up to 19 million429,000 of general obligation bond series 2025 of the bur of glassboro making certain covenants to maintain the exemption of the interest on said bonds from federal income taxation and
authorizing such further actions and making such determinations as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the issuance of sale of the bond number 131 agreement of professional services adopted by the Burough of Glasboro with
Robert and Sapio NIA appraiser resolution 132 authorizing safety and stabil stabilization guarantee in the amount of $8,69259 perimeter landscape buffer performance guarantee in the amount of
$31,975 and site improvement escrow in the amount of $12,385.18 for 60 North Main Street Block 26 Lock 193 contract for management services for the 2025 Craft Beer Festival to Landmark
Americana Inc of Glassboro 134 to award contract management services for the 2025 Wine Festival to Global Producer Services Inc 135 authorizing purchase of dog park
equipment glassboro to General Recreation Inc under a New Jersey state contract resolution 136 appointing veto Mazio as an altered number two member of the Glas Historic Preservation
Commission finally 137 authorizing safety stabilization guarantee in the amount of $18,768 perimeter landscape buffer guarantee in the amount of $28,45 site improvement escro fee in the amount of
$32,413.35 for chicka block 410 block 2.01 they are the resolution this evening our consent agenda also for the reasons noted under each one council so moves for approval roll call vote move for approval second
i have a motion and a second karen roll call please mr brown yes mr cosone four mrs garlic in favor mrs spence yes motion carries at this time we'll entertain a motion to open the meeting to the public move the public portion be
open second 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 for those members of the public uh when
you do approach if you would please identify yourself for the record name address and note there is a five limit five minute limitation thank you res and I just think I feel
They actually just thought Very good thank you very much thank you move the public portion be closed and we continue on with the agenda second i have a motion and a second all in favor state 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 let's approve them get them paid second i have a motion and a second all in favor state i I opposed any abstensions mayor I have a
few abstensions 25-01225 01227 and 01289 and that's it everything else good abstensions have been noted uh motion still carries any comments from our administrator just two quick comments um as you know at the end
of each month I try to report on the parking uh the month of March year-over-year parking again continues to do well we were up 15% over the amount of cars that we parked last year during the same time and this past
weekend we we realized our third highest weekend ever for the amount of cars parked in the downtown and the reason we The reason I do this we do it is it's a great indicator on what's going on with our businesses so this again this weekend was our third highest only
beaten by two other weekends being Italian festival and the beer festival so this was just a normal weekend so I have that and I'd also like to congratulate Gunner and Ron Markees and that's all I have mayor thank you great thank you very much and I would just
like to thank everyone who's come out uh this evening um for the retiring officers and uh Gunner the retired uh K9 um to those that shared this evening their thoughts and questions and concerns thank you
very much i continue to uh encourage you to continue to come out and stay involved and ask questions thank you very much uh and with that motion to Oh I'm sorry no you can go motion to adjurnn there we go second i have a motion and a second all in favor say I i
opposed any abstensions motion carries this meeting is adjourned have a good evening everyone next meeting will be April 22nd 2025 6 p.m stay warm meeting very nice