##VIDEO ID:vljrkBjG164## bring this that mayor all right good good evening everyone I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and Council of the burough of Glassboro for January 28th 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 B 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 uh can we all rise while the Glassboro Honor Guard presents our colors please I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all can we all please remain standing I'd ask our glass Honor Guard to please retire the Colors oh okay my apologies please be seated okay at this time I would turn the meeting oh I'm sorry Karen could you please do roll call Mayor Wallace here Mr Brown here Mr cabone present Mrs garlic here Mr halter yes Miss Miller here Mrs Spence here Mr mandro here Mr scati Mr Bruner thank you now I would like to turn the meeting over to our burrow solicitor yes thank you mayor before we swear any officer we have to appoint him uh we have resolution R 7325 resolution appointing Panic go e pakus as patrol officer for the Glassboro Police Department of council so moves for approval move for approval second I have a motion and a second uh Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr Carone Mrs garli yes Mr halter for Miss Miller for Mrs Spence yes motion carries okay this go raise your right hand please repeat after me I state your name swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States support theti of unit stes and the constitution of the state of New Jersey theti of the state of newy that I will bear true Faith iar true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of people and that I will Faithfully faithfully impartially and justly and perform all the duties of all the of patrol officer for the Glassboro Police Department according to the best of my ability so help me [Applause] congratulations the Bible read right hand me I state your name swear that I will support theit of the United States St to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in the state theth of will and jce all the offic police [Applause] department e how here ra your right repeat after me I st your name swear that I will support of the United States stes and the of state that I will bear faith and Al to the to the governments established government in the United States and in this state the United States and under the authority of people the of people that I will 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you Solly swear you swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I will support the constition of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey constition of the state of newy that I will I will an aliance to the Saint Al to the sa and to the government's established the estblished in the United States and in this St unit States St under the authority of the people of I will fath impartially impartially andly andly before all the duties of all the duties of Officer for the GL Police Department offic police department according to the best of my ability to the of be [Applause] he those are the ceremonial swearing in for the police officers I would ask you all to please rise now while our Honor Guard retires of colge now be seated uh we have uh a couple more presentations this evening so I've asked uh council members to stay down here uh two uh members of our Glassboro family have retired or will be retiring at the end of this month uh the two that are retiring have been working for the borrow in either a full actually both of them in a full-time capacity for over 20 years uh I usually Supply anyone that's worked in the borrow for uh over 20 years in any capacity part-time fulltime or any combination of both with a letter of and an award and uh for thanking them for all their service so this evening um I have two letters to read uh one is for uh Dominic Mara and it reads this readings Dominic I wanted to take this opportunity to forly congratulate you on your retirement from the GL Highway Department after 32 years of service your career started with water and sewer department and later you transferred to the highway department hardwork DED and dependable are all terms that are used to describe you as an employee Don you have served the burrow proudly your dedication and service to the residents of gloro will not easily be forgotten on behalf of myself and all the residents of the fine BB I thank you for your service I wish you all the best in your retirement with respect Johnny wall the thir mayor for [Applause] uh the other one is for uh Regina we all know her is Gina MOSI uh who will be retiring her letter reads this greetings Regina I wanted to take this opportunity to formly congratulate you on your retirement from the B of glb Gina over your 20y year career you have solidified yourself as an invaluable member of our team always ensuring that our burrow ran smoothly and efficiently your loyalty Pride dedication the B of Glassboro is an example for all of us to follow on behalf of myself and the bur of Glassboro I want to wish you all the best and thank you in your retirement with respect Johnny W thei [Applause] mayor and the last uh order of business for presentations is uh this year the burrow tried something new uh in an effort to try to Foster and build uh Community bring bring our bring our community together even more um our public our public relations department decided to do a light up glbo initiative where uh members of of the governing body um police officers and administration went around and we judged uh decorated houses over the Christmas holiday uh we've had five winners three of them here tonight um for most creative Bri Mara Mike for Mar and and Mark Russell was the Mayor's Choice [Applause] I would like to add I mean that was one of the funnest times I'm sure you talked to any of the others that were out while we were driving around it was such a great time um we even got to meet a lot of the people as we were driving around some of the people whose houses we stopped at that ENT they came out we interacted with them which we all love to do it it was really a great initiative and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year and morees to have judge guys congratulations love than you very [Applause] year that's right that does conclude the ceremonial portion of our meeting uh anybody is more than welcome to stay uh for the business portion of the meeting but we will not be offended if you would all like to go enjoy you the rest of youring good good job May yes may okay we're going to move on 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 December 26 2024 so move second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries we have no Communications so I will move to the committee reports and begin with council president Miller uh good evening good evening I just wanted to say that in our Highway Department we do have three positions that are open and just wanted to give report for last year the highway department removed 6,822 tons of trash and 1,830 tons of recycling and that's all I have thank you very much uh councilman Brown good evening mayor good evening thank you uh I'd just like a lot of congratulations tonight especially for our lightup winners uh that was we had a blast when we did that so congratulations to all five of our winners to uh our retirements Dominic Mara and Regina MOSI I know both of them personally which we all do but they'll be missed but happy retirement to both of them and last but not least to our five new police officers new Patrol officers good luck and uh you know wish you nothing but the best out there on the street be safe thank you mayor very much thank you very much uh councilman casone yeah thank you mayor I'm not going to get into pronouncing their names because some of them you know pretty tough but I want to uh congrat congratulate the five police officers I wish them the best of luck stay safe I also want to congratulate Dominic Mara and Regina mclusky for their retirement uh they served the burrow well and congratulations to the uh light uh winners um thank you for doing what you're doing and uh keeping glassberg good that's all I have thank you very much uh councilwoman garlic good evening mayor good evening I also want to say say congratulations to our um very new police officers and U be safe and we really thank you for coming on board and congratulations as well to Dominic Mara Jr and Regina mski on their retirement and also to the light up Glassboro winners we had a really fun time going out to see all the houses as well as engaging with the community was a lot of fun so congratulations to you we're in receipt of the December report and also just to put the the word out the golf outing is coming up for Park and wreck so everyone please be prepared with your team and with your donations thank you very nice good job thank you very much uh councilman halter hey good evening mayor thank you again EO and everyone else congratulations to our new officers welcome aboard uh thank you to our years of service for those that retired and uh congratulations to those that participated in the light up class for our contest on behalf of water and sewer uh I just want to thank all those guys for braving all these conditions that have been out there over the last couple of weeks I don't envy them at all for digging and maintaining and all those kinds of things out there so thanks to all their hard work as well as all the other employees been working out these rough temperatures lately so thank you thank you very much uh councilwoman Spence thank you mayor you're welcome I to want to Echo congratulations to um the five new officers and thanks for joining our team here in Glassboro be safe out there congratulations to Dominic and to Regina Gina mclusky she has been an valuable part of this burough for a while and I dealt with her a lot of things and I'm really going to miss her a lot um but I sure I'll see her outside of work now hopefully and uh congratulations to all the winners for the lightup contest looking forward to next year's contest even being bigger and better and that's it mayor thank you very much okay we have no unfinished business no new business s Eyes For Engineers report please mark pretty brief this evening pretty much everything's been on hold due to the weather so all the all the housing projects are AC quiet pavings plants are shut down till the middle of March so not producing any asphalt so uh enjoy the LW because we'll be coming back strong in the spring thanks any questions for more thank you again Mark okay at this time I'll again turn the meeting over to our borrow solicitor thank you mayor on the uh consent agenda this evening we had the following resolutions beginning with 74 authorizing execution of collection location local government unit lgu semiannual report form for the bar of Glassboro number 75 authorizing the submission of a Grant application to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs local Recreation Improvement grant for New Street park splash pad number 76 adopting the parking Utility Fund temporary budget the bar of Glasper for the year 2025 number 77 approving one side letter of agreement by Between the bar of Glassboro and the communication workers of America aflcio local 1085 number 78 resolution bar blro committing to its fourth round present need and prospective need affordable housing Obligations number 79 authorizing transfers within the accounts of the 2024 fund Municipal budget of the bar of Glassboro for the year 2024 retro Act of December 31st 2024 resolution 80 authorizing the glassow planning board to review an additional plan Amendment to the Redevelopment plan Amendment to the Third Amendment to the graspo central business district and nearby Environ Redevelopment plan a plan for the revitalization of the East High Street area for the purposes of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots one 10323 40213 block 44 Lots 2021 loock 44 Lots 2203 23 24 25 26 26.0 one the project area all in the bar of Glassport County Gloucester state of New Jersey adopted previously by ordinance 23-24 there are the resolutions this evening on our consent agenda of council for approval roll call vote motion to approve second okay I have a motion any second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr C Mrs garlic yes Mr halter for with an exstension on 7725 Miss Miller four Mrs Spence yes motion carries and we have one ordinance on uh introduction that being number 25-2 and ordinance amending ordinance 24-34 which adopted a Redevelopment plan Amendment to the Third Amendment to the glass Central business district and nearby environment's Redevelopment plan a plan for the realization of the East High Street area for the purpose of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots 1 103 23 402 and 13 block 44 Lots 2021 block 44 Lots 2203 23 24 25 26 and 26.0 the project area in the bar glaso County boss the state of New Jersey Council moves for introduction roll call motion to approve second okay I have a motion and a second count roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr conone Mrs garlic approved Mr halter yes 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 I have a motion in a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries floor is now open to anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address mayor and councel those and members if anyone approaches please note we do have rules and regulations most importantly when you approach identify yourself name and address and there is a five minut five minute limitation per speaker thank you okay good evening good evening Linda gashaw uh Glass Pearl New Jersey um I have a question about the 25-2 those lots that are involved are they now occupied by homes or is this just vacant land it's vacant land vacant land and what is the purpose of this uh Redevelopment why are we doing this uh we're putting up town homes and duplexes yeah that was my question um can I speak on another subject or are we just doing the asent minutes yes oh okay uh I have tried to contact you uh mayor Wallace along with two other Council people which I was unsuccessful in do doing I have um occupied a um board seat or I should say membership with the creative Glassboro Advisory Group for more than six months and I just recently received a letter last week that you mayor Wallace have rejected my nomination my acceptance of the committee to the Glassboro creative without any explanation uh I have been working with the committee the board for some time now like I said we had organized some things I don't think that my behavior has been offensive to anyone we seem to work very well together this board has not been uh actively involved as they would like to in the past and um having me on the board with so much board experience and my skill set that I'm able to bring they were very very pleased with that so I'm just wondering how is it that an elected position it was elected by the members to uh install me as vice president that you could just strike that down six months again I was a member for six months I occupied the seat for more than 30 days and I just got this letter of dismissal so I'm trying to understand where does that come from uh okay uh first of all uh we did I did reach out to the chair of the committee with an explanation as to why you were well you couldn't legally you couldn't be removed because you were put into that position uh without going through the proper channels it has to go through mayor and councel not just the commission and that was explained to the chair so when we found out that these moves had been made without my knowledge or council's knowledge we went right back they were the the uh committee was directed to go back to the way the committee was set prior to any changes that were made by that committee without our knowledge and that we would address any other issues after the reor because this came late in the year November around November okay so that that is why you you were not well you couldn't technically you weren't removed from a position because technically you didn't have that position because you were put in there um without going through the proper channels so that is why you're not in that position okay well I just again I check with the members and as they told me for the last I don't know 15 years of this committee they've never had anyone removed uh inspected rejected uh from the position they've never gotten a formal approval um from the council or the board for the members that they have collected it was just filling out a profile form and waiting 30 days if they didn't get a response from the council or the mayor then you were considered accepted uh as a member of the board so I would be the first one in 15 years or so and your information is inaccurate okay your information is inaccurate well I spoke to the founding member she says she's never never experienced this at all so this is all new that may be true because nothing like that in my to my knowledge has ever been done like that before all right do we need to repeat the process I beg your pardon do we need to repeat the process no we do not and why is that uh because I have spoken to the chair once again after the chair resubmitted your application and I re I re responded back to the chair again my reasons for not accepting your your uh application okay well I spoke to the chair and the chair does not know she has no idea why you rejected or removed me or or actually uh won't allow me to serve in a public position so she's not clear on it either well once again ma'am can you explain that to me after the meeting maybe we could have a conversation because I know you're not available through the week I was told you're only here one day a week so thank you Miss G sure is that possible could I talk to you after the meeting I'll be down after the meeting okay thank you sir you're welcome I mayor can I address one thing sure um she mentioned that you're only available one time out of the week that's not true um I I serve with a lot of Mayors and this mayor here makes himself available constantly he's in the borrow Hall at least that I know of four out of five days so I disagree with you well I got that from the secretary his secretary said one day a week he's available so please correct that with the secretary thank you good even good even evening good evening John wise 114 East Avenue first I want to just say that uh I want to thank you the police office for all those Fells that I saw we need them there's been some car break broke breaking in cars kids been doing some crazy stuff you know and uh I haven't ever been put my hands on them but we looking to help out the b you know I'm I'm I'm home 38 years retired you know so I can look out the window and do nothing slowly until I hear something's going on you know what I mean so that's that's the way I do but um I saw the councilman on TV that's right and I said NE that's H she didn't know who he was but I know who he was I saw him out there he was that was I like that you you you went on your own I'm asking him questions now you went on your own or you went with a group on my own sir okay that's good thank you you didn't get burned up or nothing out there did you hope not I was looking to had something on your head you they catch fire but um yeah I always look around around and have something to say I'm looking at some trees again on the railroad side that's leaning over you know my neighbor she already had one of her limbs fall in her yard and uh I try to help people out if I can but uh my main thing here was just I didn't know you was having all these police officers coming in and I'm happy for that I'm happy for that so uh I just want to let y'all guys know that my eyes and ears is uh coming up here when I got a chance to come up here and say what I need to say okay God bless see anybody you call the police don't be doing anything crazy yourself out there seeing no more I uh make a motion public portion be closed second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries the public portion is now closed uh at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills make a motion to approve all duly authorized Bills second oh I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions mayor I have one exstension 25- 00228 that's it very nice extensions noted motion still carries any closing comments from our administrator just a couple things to Mr wise's Point um times are times are changing uh police officers are hard to come by and I like to congratulate all of them who were sworn in tonight there would be a time when we would have one opening and we'd have 40 applicants that doesn't happen anymore um we're actually paying for people to go through the academy these days I'd also like to congratulate Dominic and Gina um I've known M mcclusky for quite some time and the Barrow is going to be a different place without her I will I have to say that she's definitely been a huge help to this burrow um i' like to congratulate the light winners and I'd also like to thank Megan barl for bringing that to uh fruition Megan that's right about bringing the community together and that's all I had mayor good job Meg thank you good job thank you m and uh again I'd like to uh congratulate again all the officers that are sworn in I get so excited you know I told them outside before I SW them and I'm excited because I know they're good because we only pull in good officers so I'm just excited to get them going I wish them all the best and I wish them to stay safe um to our retirees it's always Bittersweet when you lose people that uh are just so dedicated to their to their burrow and to their job and to the people they work with um but you know they earned it uh to Dominic who just well both of them they just work so hard they love the burrow uh and they've earned their time to retire so I wish them all the best uh to the light winners that I mean it was just the funnest time ever um I hope that there are more lights next year and we can be out there for few hours and just because it was a lot of fun and just bringing the bringing the the borrow closer together we have a great we have a great Community here we're bringing it even closer together uh Megan is spearheading that thank you for that to all the people that came out tonight spoke and shared their thoughts and feelings thank you continue to do so I encourage you to do so and with that I'll entertain a motion second I have a motion and a second all in favor stay I oppose any extensions motion carries this meeting is ajour thank you very much next meeting will be February 11 2025 6:30 p.m. thank good night everyone thank you thank you guys thank you well we lose some good people because go to different like New Jersey America thank you a shame okay just one second please I'm doing I had talk I talked to Chief Smith earlier in the day and uh I said I said how are things are we involved in it and he gave me the load down and I said I said where's that hmat halter I bet he's down there