okay please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge toag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under
God indivisible with liberty and justice all good evening this meeting of the township council is being held in accordance with scheduled meetings of the township Council theed by the counil time and meeting record
recogniz your name address be Township clerk's office for the preparation official record of the township c m pleas Mr here Mrs Al here Mrs Grace love here Mr Nash here Mrs Walters here Mrs W here Mr marado pres Mr car here Mr ctis here Chief arkins here Mr Miguel here before we go to our public comment period there is an
addition to the agenda it's a yellow it's on wel board there but it's resolution 25268 which authoriz an execution of agreement between the township of bler and lgp contrac LC for the Taylor Avenue multigenerational Park improv project those that have been following this project this is a a fully granted funded project off of Taylor Avenue so that is
on a resolution add on in addition to a bid report um for that anything else add that Mr cars no thank you we now go to our first public comment if you're unfamiliar this first time you've been our meeting this is uh for public uh excuse me agenda items only uh we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes on the agenda items only there 15 minutes total for the first public portion and you're entit to one time
to speak anyone like to speak any agender Mr good evening good evening it's ironic that on Friday the agenda for this meeting came out at the same time there's an announcement on the internet that government spending has in
New Jersey has grown into a monster you're looking for the same kind of Department that Mr Trump's looking for Department of government efficiency in New Jersey certainly you guys could use that knowledge when I look at the agenda I'm very confused I thought I had a
good understanding of the English language but I sure don't know how to talk government I cannot make heads or tails of U -25 D2 I don't understand it I tried but it seems to me that you had the option for 3 and a half% over last year's budget
if I understand this document correctly you chose not to do that and instead you chose to to put the Township in more debt you could have had less debt if you used the full 3 and a half% that is available I don't understand why you would do that your CFO is not here and all this subject matter is a cfo's responsibility I don't understand that either
so section 2A of 2503 is a million dollar you
just did a budget it hasn't been final Iz you haven't approved it yet put the million dollars in the budget if you have monies to spend for the sewer division you took their monies into the budget you don't need to borrow when you took money from the sewer Division and they need it now why borrow
for it you've already got the dollars see my time is up I'm disappointed if you guys read all this stuff and were prepared by Mr CIS for the budget I'm disappointed in all of it thank you Mr leader Mr Boro good evening
Council Ray pador from the historic village of Ariel good evening as I look at tonight's agenda I see uh on orance 253 and4 Mass cation more B we dead um I have asked you uh on numerous occasions maybe to have um to consider uh putting the MUA back together the people of the township have spoken they uh have told you they didn't want
you to sell the S and uh as I look at the agenda tonight it almost looks like you are being very spiteful to the people that voted the seore referendum down so all in all you destroyed the MUA took $6 million of their money which was there for repair and replace and for the third time you're borrowing more money 300,000 once 600 a second time and now a million dollars to do what they
efficiently saved to do and you felt that it was necessary to destroy them and word words of Mr cartis they get a $6 million budget and $6 million surplus which it wasn't a surplus it was repair and replace account and he called it ridiculous so you dissolved them you procured their money you pissed half of it away and you still have half of it and you are looking forward to borrowing money to do what they saved money to do so again
looks like you are spiting the people of Gloucester Township who voted your windfall $143 million down you didn't get to get your spending spree but you're going to have it anyway because you're going to borrow now there are things on there that are very useful uh I've always been a sports guy in this town I've coached Sports and uh of course when a um when a development needs lights or needs Field improvements uh whether it be open space Green Acres
or what have you it's always a need to take care of the kids give them the safest and best PL playing environment I don't begrudge him with that but I've got to go back to when you guys destroyed the MUA and this is what you're borrowing money for you said that you were going to save us money you never answered the question how much money we going to save us because you didn't know Andor because you didn't want to save money it was about destroying them and taking their
money it leads people to believe that they were either lied to or you guys had intentions with that with the accounting that was done by the MUA very efficiently I might add and the way that the township does its accounting extremely inefficiently they had a $6 million budget and $6 million surplus this Township has an 80 will have an $87 million debt I think it's time that
we take a look at the responsibility here and Tom if I may address thank you Mr your time's up I believe he should retire or resign thank you Mr good evening Denise Coen she's Landing good evening can you hear me
yes my questions have to deal with ordinance 253 and 04 and it has to do with the timing of the 2025 Municipal budget and the proposed $1 million Bond ordinances um question one given that the budget has not yet been introduced and in past years was not presented until May can you confirm whether this year's budget will be introduced prior to the public hearing on these
ordinances and two if the budget will not be introduced before the public hearing ings can you explain how the township can move forward with borrowing such a large amount of money without first providing the public with a full Financial picture it would seem that long-term Financial commitments like this should be considered within the content of a complete and transparent budget thank you so anyone else like to
speak hi I'm Stacey smargo 1680 Old Black Horse Pike in Blackwood and um here for what is this 0255 for the speed limit reduction on Old Black Horse Pike literally just wanted to take 30 seconds and say thank you for looking into this and thank you for all that you're doing to help protect not just my family but the other families on the road and all the work that the police department has
done with um trying to police the bus and the stop sign and um thank you for hearing me when I spoke last time so my son is here and um I'm I hope nobody has a problem with it but I just want to publicly say thank you very much for working on this yeah on agenda item sirenda item yes
okay yeah my name is Phil d 13 stord I just want to thank the work that the board has done in working on that special needs part my son had special needs and uh we appreciate that and I know that you're looking at lights for the field so that they can play a Friday night light game it might not
mean much to many but it does to us The Joy the glory the fun that they have it's so important I know spending money is on everybody's mind but I think this is well spent you just come to one of those games you see those kids having fun it's worth it please please put those
thank you thank sir is there anyone else yes ma' hi I'm line CL here and this is my son Billy your name thank you and we just wanted to thank you as well just B backing off
of him um for the playground uh phly plays for fi dream and again I agree with uh the lights they like playing Friday nights under the lights right playing baseball yes okay all right oh wow say thank you for the playground thank you thank you very much everyone else
good evening Dina Henry sommerdale I don't understand how we are already forecasting that we need to borrow $10 million when we haven't even done the budget yet so I understand that
there is a list of items a through L but are all these items in necessary that we have to borrow right now that we have to make a decision on this is there anything that we can cut we are already in debt and to keep adding debt is not responsible a great example is hey you want to go on a vacation yes you have
some funds to go on a vacation but if you only know that you can spend $10,000 on a vacation you're not going to be spending $40,000 to go on a vacation we have to spend within our means because if we keep going and swiping and swiping as Ray says our credit card you're going to kill us you're going to kill us financially and it's going to be $20 here $40 here and there's many households that cannot afford the 2030
$40 increases per month on their mortgages so I ask you at on this list from A to L is this something that we need to do every single item or is there things that we can cut and how do we know that we need to borrow this money now we haven't done the budget yet it hasn't been introduced so why do we need to vote on it right now why can't we just wait to see what budget cuts we can make thank
you yes sir our last speaker hi my name is Bob Nemo and my son is 26 years old he plays Field of Dreams of belly and I just want to thank everybody my son loves coming to the field and playing and he really would appreciate if he got the lights for that night on Friday nights because we had a couple of games last year that he played at night and they loved it absolutely loved it
and it's not fair to them have to experience what a typical kid would experience so so I'd like to thank you guys for everything you done with the Field of Dreams and that's all I have to say thank you we have time for one more speaker that not spoken SP hello everybody my name is Rob runquist
I live at 1890 new Brooklyn aial Road I have something prepared and I would like to say and this is uh this was organized by myself and my wife Christine but she couldn't be here because she's having back problems another one of my neighbors that lives right down the street from me George Norcross he couldn't be here because his wife is in a hospital I just like to say what I have to say here hello first of all I would like to thank mayor mayor and his staff including Gabby
and all the others and Tom CIS who assured me that this city sewer project would go through and we really appreciate it a few years ago my wife Chris and I presented mayor Mayo with a petition from our neighborhood signed by 16 of the homeowners whoever is present or if they are present that's the
survey and the petition some of these homeowners have cess pools like us and some have already installed new Septic Systems Prior but did not like the septic systems and still wanted the benefits that come with city sewer my family initially moved into 1890 new Brooklyn Aral Road in January of 2013 as the springtime approached we learn very quickly about the downfalls of
having a Cess pool or a septic system instead of having steady sewer we had the small backyard mode and ready for our barbecue guests all the food was prepared for our barbecue everything was ready to go the guests arrived and we're all sitting down to eat and then all of a sudden the powerful stench of our present CIS pool overwhelmed them some of us were gagging and they left the kids
began screaming and ran up onto the deck they couldn't believe they they it was it was in the in the ground it it seats up from the ground the horri the horrible smell overtook the entire property both inside and out we soon learned that the stench was present on our entire block and that the neighbors were all used to its horendous presence in warm weathers like we found out
sometime even in the cooler months it was present Gary Scott who was another neighbor and he is present almost a DEC a decade ago petition for this and the health dilemma that the health dilemma that uh creates but it was never approved you can be sure that we never ever had another barbecue after that my
son's friends never came back blah blah blah maybe once in a while they would sh for a little while and then would would leave around 2022 we purchased our house on a continency of two things we either had to pay to have a new septic system installed which would cost us an estimated $40,000 or we could petition the township to put in City silver cess pools have been illegal in
New Jersey since the early 2000s I'm sorry your time is I'm almost finished and a house cannot legally be sold with a cesspool we decided to commit to getting to the neighborhood to help us all the position to get city sewer put in there is no way that a health inspection of this area soil and air would pass with the way it is currently besides the health issues the cost of installing new updated
SE system and cost estimated $440,000 whereas connecting to a city sewer line line is around 18,000 so with CES pools being illegal since 2005 and setic systems being expensive equally smelly and our option was to move forward with petitioning for city sewer why on Earth would want anyone want to invest in moving backwards instead of forward we believe in the future health of the neighborhood is benefiting greatly from the city's sewer improvements and we know that
our neighbors feel the same thank Youk that closes our public comment portion U does anyone want to before I address the questions that were made anyone Council like to address any uh Mr leader um you had a question regarding want to just say something about the Field of Dreams and I I the people they came to speak about the Field of Dreams and disabled children that play
there I think that's so wonderful that you came out um you must have heard it was going to be in the budget we must have heard about the last meeting where some people were against it and um I'm so happy that you came to speak up for it because I think it's very important uh for people to speak up for what they want and and put the naysayers to decide when those things happen so thank you all for coming and I just want to thank you for your comments I I think the naysayer should come to a game and see
how happy these kids are and then maybe think have you speak I'm sorry um Mr leader your question about ordinance 0-25 d02 uh regarding the municipal budget appropriation limits that the establish of c bank that allows municipality to go from Two and a half% to three and a half% for the final appropriations of previous year there will be a uh second reading of that this evening so if you
want to comment on that you can comment on that as well uh in regards you made a comment that I wish that uh we were all prepared uh that is an opinion sir you're not aware what type of reading was taking place or what questions were asked Mr again you made a statement and you made statements in the past where you were not correctly accurate with those statements so by indicating that we're not prepared that is an opinion that you're having sir I have opinion I have opinions as well Sir Mr Paul
Doro uh in regards to uh uh the the township being spiteful and that we destroy the MUA the MUA is now a sewer utility so for those who are not aware uh you still receive a bill you still receive services from the township it chains hands the MUA is now under the the department of the township uh there are still cleanout that being placed SE are still running through the township and everything is operating so uh Mr
P regard say it's destroyed that we still operate operates on the town Township on the public works as aing children um no one's being spiteful sir there are things that have to take place last shentan as spoke too that million dollar ordinance that's for an extension the sewer extension new Brooklyn Road for residents that live along that that Corridor that's what it's for whether it was done here or done with the MUA that would have to been done and that would have been bonded whether it was the MUA or the
sewer utility um this coin in regards to a budget uh no the budget will not be introduced prior to the second reading of this capital budget a capital budget is normally put out in February and March uh we're in February now we'll have a second reading at the February 24th meeting a budget will most likely be introduced early April late March end of March beginning ofil the capital budget has projects in there such as sidewalk improvements Street improvements Park and
Recreation improvements uh there is equipment that's purchased there purchas for the police department and public works and equipment for the municipality as a whole that's what's included in our capital budget uh Miss Mar yes so today's the first reading there'll be a second reading hasn't passed yet uh but there'll be a second reading where there'll be public comment if people wish to speak about that uh Mr res thank you for
your comments okay uh Lor Billy thanks for your comments and Miss Henry question budget you don't understand why we have to borrow um again I I just St it earlier we have two budgets the capital budget and an operating budget uh so this capital budget is for need improvements throughout the township that's not part of our operating budget uh yes the when when we borrow we have a Deb service that's included in our operating budget uh but these are projects that are outlined uh and people
have come to the township regarding uh resurfacing their streets uh whether there's improvements to our parts needs of our different departments that included in the capital budget uh Bob thank you for your comments okay and then Mr rquest thank you for uh your letter and from you and the residence we now go to uh wave the reading accept the minutes of 2025 rization meeting January
2nd 2025 Workshop January 133 2025 and the regular meeting January 13 2025 and Janu 27 2025 may have a motion a second on the question call please Mr yes Mrs Aly Trel yes Mrs Grace love yes Mr Nash I abstain from January 13th meeting and workshop yes Mrs Walter yes Mrs wers yes Mr Mar yes all ordinance
second reading public hearing ordinance second reading there will be a public hearing ordinance 0-25 d02 calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation and to establish a cap Bank uh this will increase the budget Appropriations from Two and a half% to 3 and a half% of the previous year's final Appropriations now I open up the public here anyone wish to speak on this matter Mr Le
May leader glendor thank you Mr M for admonish me again I'd like to uh make a point that I'm not sure where it is something about 40 years payback for the money's
borrowed if that's the case that's two generations two generations people not even born yet are going to be paying for that their family's going to be paying that for 20 years would haven't been born if they're born today they'll still be paying for 40 years of that lo I take it Mr Mardo that you said that the amount is
increased to 3.5% on 252 uh gosh read it that way so in in addition to raising the budget 3.5% of you're borrowing millions of dollars that our grandchildren or your grandchildren not mine are going to have to bear and pay
I agree that the public should have more details uh the the line items you list just seems like some of those could be delayed some of those could be taken out of the budget until next year Mr Mardo indicates that that that work was already done seems
like an awful lot of items uh Chief I think that the work your team has done for the 35 mph speed limit is great I don't think it's enough I compare that road Mr Le I don't want to interrupt you but this is a hearing on the ordinance oh that's right I forgot okay well the ordinance is 25 miles no that is a different ordinance oh
well thanks is there anyone else seeing public here have please I'll make that motion question roll call please Mr yes Mrs yes Mrs Grace love yes Mr Nash yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wers yes Mr Mar yes next is Bond ordinance 0-25 d03 this is the first reading there will be a public hearing at the second reading this Bond ordinance authorizing the completion of various improvements to the SE utility system
in the township of bler County of Canon New Jersey appropriating the sum of $1 million therefore authorizing issues to General obligation bonds or Bond anticipation attachable L County of C New Jersey and the aggregate principal amount of up to $1 million making C determination in Covenant and authorizing certain related actions and connections with the forment this is for a sewer extension on New brookly Road may I have a motion please I'll make that motion second on the question
roll call please Mr yes Mrs Al yes Mrs Grace Mr Nash yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wyers yes Mr Mar yes next is ordinance 0-25 d04 this is the first reading and introduction it will be hearing at its second reading Bond ordinance authorizing the completion of various Capital Improvements and the acquisition of various pieces of Capital Equipment in and for
the T of bler can Cy New Jersey appropriating the sum of 10,43 ,000 $3,536 therefore authorizing this issuance of General obligation bonds of bond anation of the township W County of C New Jersey in the aggregate principal amount of up to 998,199 making certain determinations and cment and authorizing certain related actions in connections with the for build this
is for our annual capital budget in this budget has reconstruction repayment of very sidewalks and curbs and those will be here marked as we go forward uh various repaving of various streets throughout the township drainage Improvement projects upgrades the various parts playgrounds and Recreation facilities not limited to the township pool and the Valley Sports Complex addition installation of various traffic signs and signals upgrades to various Township buildings acquisition of heavy equipment for the public works department not limited to a recycling truck
which if we still had the MUA we would still have to go out for a recycling truck it goes our Global agreement as the township we would purchase their equipment for them a recycling truck as part of the global agreement so recycling truck compost turn a high T torque Shredder various vehicles for public works department various equipments for the Park and Recreation Department in information technology and office equipment equipment for the police department but not limited to communication equipment vehicles and tactical equipment improvements
of town grounds black box theater Lakeland connected Trail black L and black West may I have a motion please I'll make that motion is there a second second on the question question yes um there's a grinder in here and I was wondering yeah um so uh the various uh departments including Public Works the police
department the C of engineer uh Recreation uh it submitted requests to the administration to the mayor those requests were in vicinity of $18 million uh so we did uh labor over this for a period of time to make to make cuts to bring it down toh where we're at right now which is around 9 million uh
99 almost 10 million um one of the items in here that's uh quite High I think it's around 1.4 million is a shredder uh years ago we had purchased a tub grinder I think it was about 20 years ago and what that is for is that is to put your uh tree branches your stumps uh the Christmas trees uh all the brush that we pick up again it's
24 square miles uh 22 almost 22,000 homes uh um and so what happens invariably you get a huge pile of brush and so what we have been doing is bringing an outside contractor in to take care of that because when we had that tub grinder we had a miror of problems with that piece of equipment because I don't think the technology at the time was where it really is today and So eventually that thing just fell apart and we just
couldn't do it anymore so we formed that out come to the realization that that is not a prudent thing financially to do uh last year I think we had almost $400,000 in expenses to get rid of some of that stuff that is back there behind the Public Works building that that brush and the decision was made with all the supervisors with the mayor with myself uh that the best move would be to invest in a shredder and so that will
be located down at the compost site and initially will relocated at Public Works to eliminate that pile uh you need not only the shreding but you also need a heavy piece of equipment with a grappling hook that can pick up that stuff and put it in that shred and then you're going to C it off with probably 30 yard uh 30 yard dump trucks in life that's a big ion yes I appreciate that explanation because I wasn't quite sure because that was a big chunk of change
and it seems that it was very close to to do it this way I think it's one of cut it down yeah it was a lot of cuts thank you for are there any questions so we have first second on the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs alred Troxel yes Mrs Grace love yes Mr Nash yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wers Mr Mar yes next is ordinance 0-255 this is
the first reading and introduction will be hearing at its second reading War it's amending chapter 8131 entitled speed limits of the code of the township was lost through a snage speed limit reduction along the old blackor mik County Route 676 in the township of bler County of can state of New Jersey this is amending section chapter 81 section 31 W speed limits to amend the speed limit on the old blackw from 40 mph
to 35 milph for the entire the old black I have a motion please on the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs Al Trel yes Mrs Grace love yes Mr Nash yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wers yes Mr Mar yes next is our consent agenda any council member like to have any item Mo please speak up hearing none Iain a motion to
accept the consent agenda as presented so second any question Please Mr yes Mrs alel yes MCE love yes Mr Mash yes Mrs Walkers yes to alling from an bill is number number 25862 and yes Mrs wers yes Mr M yes uh resol resolu bid reports for Taylor Avenue Park
may have a motion please I'll make that motion second on the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs to V yes Mrs yes Mr Nash yes Mrs Walters Mrs wers Mr Mar yes resolution 22-06 resolution authorizing execution agreement between the T of bler lgd Contracting T Avenue multigenerational Park
make that motion second on the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs Al Trel another happy yes Mrs Grace love yes Mr n yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wner yes Mr marot yes uh we have two OV questions this evening one from candra Brown a 16 Spinning Wheel Lane in clemon I live on Spinning Wheel Lane my house backs up to the woods on Kelly dve I have
noticed orange ribbons tied to my back property line and a man today with a neon V what is your plan for the woods uh the owner of the property behind 16 spinning wheel is plan to construct the new home on the site as of this time Miss Brown no permit has been issued yet and our next e is from Mr leer Mr Le would you like to read this or would you like to read okay this will your five minutes if you choose to speak
through the public second public portion understood from David Le 1105 hton Avenue glendor we can't hear you brings rules objections to not shout out when Council and business Personnel fail to speak directly to the microphone how can the public Express themselves requesting for louder speech which without breaching the meeting standard rules the entire sound system has been adjusted to make for a better quality audio we had purchased two new wireless microphones to the
public and the old ones were 15 years old and fall so they have been updated I hope you're able to hear us back now go to our second public portion uh please leave your comments for five minutes for the second public comment once you've completed your comments or questions the public comment period has concluded ask Council presid or my colleagues then ask any address the comments or questions asked by the person who just anyone like to speak on thetion Mr
sorry Council that I don't understand the Rules of Order um I did want to comment on some of the things that you just voted on but I was shut down because of Rules of Order I don't know the rules of order I tried to learn I guess I'm not on the ball enough to understand it I did want to compliment the chief his department for the speed limit problem on the
old Black Horse Pike however I think more needs to be done I compare it to Station Avenue with homes on either side of the road and there's no commercial there on that road that I'm aware of I'd like to see it even lower miles per hour on all blackor PL and I don't understand why I was unable to comment on that before the vote
12504 I don't understand um where the down payment is coming from there's a almost a $500,000 down payment I don't know what fund that's coming from it doesn't state it I guess it's a
requirement to get the one r252 d62
um the resolution does not state from what account these monies are coming from so spreadsheets balance sheets Financial stuff there's always a from and to this it says funds are available all they needed to say in addition was they're available on the general account or whatever other account that these
funds are going to be distributed against i b this up in the past seems to be ignored the amended lease um on r2502 d67 um I'm not
sure what it was what it's to be apparently it's a change in the lease agreement but it's clearly not described as what what the change is apparently list a new amount uh for Action items um first action item was Mr carmir was going to produce an
organizational chart has that been assigned don't know there been no comment on it um an item it's not an action it will be next time is what when you have so many resolutions or whatever the O's are um when you have a larger quantity it would be beneficial to the public if you
gave each resolution a minute or two per person because the public didn't run out of comments before the time was up so either in you know what is it 15 minutes allocated to that function when you have five things to discuss it's going to take more time for the public to understand those and question those than if you only have one or two but the way it's designed it's the same no matter how many resolutions
you put before the public and yourselves thank you for hearing me out anyone else Mr good evening H re looking at the uh
think for the $10 million and I think it's h says acquisition of various vehicles and equipment for Public Works SK that's one there's one in here says something no okay no here a recycling truck G it's going to probably take four to five years before
that's delivered why are we borrowing money today that's basically my question I mean there's there's other things here you know when are they going to be obtained I mean I know that one there like I said that's going to be four or five years from that so how can you borrow money for something that's going to be due in
four or five years that's something sound right to me I don't know how anybody could approve that that's it than yes yes hi Hill Top section um following
stat of the old black hor Pik Improvement um it was mentioned two Town Council meetings ago that it was going to be considered if white lindes were going to be painted at stop signs I have a front rear and interior Dash can every day twice the day sometimes up down black I catch people running n stops at tailor King Street and the old black Pike what's the update on the mentioned um I
heard the word naysayers against Parks no one is against Parks I don't know who said that but anyone that I know we're not against Parks we're certainly not against children not against Parks what we're against is the obnoxious overspending um that's it thank Youk
how going m r 12 North black Force bik black I'm just here to follow up from the Redevelopment meeting on the uh second floor expansion to tattoo shop and uh I know when we spoke at the meeting they said it would be roughly one month I was just here to see what the actual process is going
to be from this point just thanks anyone else Mr swe Miss Henry and you'll be there after good evening Council Sam
sweet from arel evening um with regards to the ordinance 25-4 I would like Council to when they're looking at it and looking at approving that to basically go through it line by line and determine that because we're borrowing looking to borrow close to $1 million 10 million on this budget um a million with the water sewer and that's
the largest amount that we borrowed in the last 10 years we attempted to borrow in the last 10 years on here uh and as we all know Debt Service increases our taxes and there's a lot of things on there that I think I've proven over the years in examining that budget that could be excluded or not even be borrowed for I beg Council to look at that line by line and go through with the fine tooth con and see where we can uh
make some not necessarily Cuts but not borrow right away push off because we have in the past there have been line items that have they borrow for that have not gone into place for two three years so we're paying interest on that amount so I would like to again just go through it line by line come up these questions um and then miss Troxel you made a statement that says to push naysayers aside just because somebody disagrees with
you doesn't mean that you get to push them aside you're ignoring their comments just because they're a nay doesn't mean that they're against something for whatever reason and they deserve to be heard and not pushed aside so that comment that she made is is just totally wrong on so many levels and the fact that you're a public official and feel that that's okay to say again wrong on so many levels thank you thank you Mr miss andry you had
your hand up I uh um I'm going to go she here hi good evening Council um first of all we like to just thank you for your service that you do I know it could be challenging um we have your name and address my uh yeah I give you thator my name is Sylvia Williams and this
is the and we're homeowners at lacascata and we were here last year regarding I believe it's probably and I'm not sure I'm sorry this is my first time here and I'm hoping to maybe get more involved as um things come and get uh involved with lacascata but I know the ordinance here for the Capital Improvements 25-4 um I believe it's the same ordinance that we looked at last year
and in regards to the paving of via Cascada um we were told at that time that via kcata would be one of the uh areas that would be paved we've waited for several years to get this done all the areas around us have gotten their streets repaired and we're still waiting so we just wanted to make sure or if we can ask are we going to be a part of that project we answer questions after public comment
so um do you have any additional questions I we'll answer so this is via Lac or via particular Road there's you know there's m i will we'll clarify that after the Mr cars will comment on that after we done a public thank you very much appreciate thank you coming out yes sir how
you going today Council Jerry Brown 9 Court soille just curious to find out about the Capital Improvements we're on Gable court and U I've been a homeowner there new construction for about seven years now since I went there our road has not been paved we have 15 houses in our development and everyone these houses have have concerns like myself because you go into a driveway the street is so of the sidewalk is so high where your car literally hits your driveway Johnson
oh cley Road Sor so we had numerous conversations with the construction office and they recommend that we covered it this is my first meeting here so you know I'm new this Council from Township but I'm just curious to find out for improvements of this community as it relates to Pavement and sidewalks will Gable Court be part of a project for the capital budget for 2025 I'll answer after you have anything
else to add to that Mr Brown okay this Co she'll be coin choose leing I'd like to follow up on the um budget for the sewer maintenance see if Mr cars was able to get that budget from the MUA thank
you thank good evening good evening Bonita Morrison loas scata homeowners first of all I'd like the U the Town Council to be aware I am no longer affiliated with the lockas SC homeowners association other than as a member because I still
own my home there but after eight years six as a volunteer two as the property manager I'm no longer involved at all but I came tonight because I did get an email that um our project was in Jeopardy and I understand that you're going to talk about that later so I just wanted to let you know that I was here and that I'm very very interested in seeing if we can go forward with this can you okay thank you
thank you thank you for your service at the HOA you're welcome sir Miss hry DEA Hendry Summerdale uh I just have a quick question when items are going for the agenda items and the agenda
is posted on Thursday typically is it commment practice that agenda items are leaked to um members of the community ahead of time because it seems to me that these Valley Brook lights were known about before the agenda was posted so just want to see if that is common practice or is that something that was a mistake thank you
anyone else yes hello my name is uh Jenna Alano I reside at um Brookline Drive in Laurel Springs my backyard actually backs up to Valleybrook and lauring Fleming um I'm here in support of the lights at Valleybrook Sports Complex I grew
up in wer Township we my husband and I moved back here in 2020 um our first summer summer here the Field of Dreams was vandalized and I remember feeling insecure and nervous about living close to the incident and wishing everything was better with to Aid and find in the culprits I remember also thinking how could these juveniles get away with taking away a safe space for kids I know there's a lot of kids
that play frequently at the field dreams as well as my own children who play played TBA recreational soccer at the time fast forward to 2023 the lighting currently available at the fields they run on fuel they're loud they don't exactly shine on the field um and there's instances where we have cars parked up on the grass so the kids can see
to play at night I noticed that there was an issue with this and I did take a petition to um my neighbors on Brookline Drive just asking for support I spoke with multiple members that were home at the time and we obtained about 15 signatures in 2023 um the lighting is important for safety for all the kids and adults who these fields the Field of Dreams can
be well live for the teams and practices how neat would it be to play Friday Night Lights right tbaa will also benefit they will be able to see during soccer practice something simple like that and don't forget there are multiple on our recreational teams and adults that use these fields for practice as well as you deliberate don't only think of TDI but think of the safety of
all our children and members the community can use these fields that's it thank you so anyone else like to speak yes G Scott Ariel New Jersey hello everybody thank you for
your service 70y year Township president seen a lot of changes in this town Township uh but I want to thank you for proceeding with the sewer trying to do it get an approved for us a lot of these houses were built in the 50s and the 60s and the Builder's built all around this they implement the sewer system but a couple houses got blocked in an area without sewer and we have cess pools septic systems and uh you know it's
an environmental issue and you know but they got a force main that runs from Cross Key Road right up Ariel Road it goes right past all our houses I know you can't tie into a force main but they're bringing it up from deadin drive it stops at soulwood there so I'm thanking you for the effort I did go around 20 years ago to a lot of the houses to the petition I went to uh the MUA and I didn't know a lot of the guys
except s he was on and they said well if you got 300,000 we'll run you a line to your house so that was the end of that conversation that was 20 years ago maybe 2025 but you know we tried to get it years ago and I want to thank you for your effort and a lot of these people that are against the you know saying stuff about you know they all live in developments that have silver already and the bilders put it in so I
knew when Clement Tona wasn't there you know sawwood any of them places like I said I grew up an aial seven for 70 years so I want to thank you thank you is there anyone else yes hi Ashley Flores La lacara I'm here on be with some of the other residents in L kascada and just wanted to say that I hope it is being considered that
via Cascada does get repaved because it is quite dangerous um it's unsafe and it's becoming more problematic especially with the you know the increased snow that we're receiving so I hope that is being considered thank you thank you anyone else close portion Mr leader and if Council Council wants to jump in as I regarding the Rules of Order I would have um no issues
with you sit down as you Mr leader going our Contender means for the last six months or so um and go that I know we communicated email over those months so I have no problem doing that with you um in regards to lowering the miles per hour that that's something to the police department Traffic Safety Miguel too just did a complete traffic study okay you have a question regarding a down payment that's for bond counsil that Mr
cars Bond it's required under the state when when you do a general obligation Bond uh you have to pull 5% down in this particular instance uh that would equate to $495,500
on this too Mr leader talked about bills list uh where the resolution doesn't state where the bills are coming what accounts they're coming from um and he said seems to be that's not a practice of of the office of Finance his comment was that he said to and from and that would be a transfer resolution to and from these are from
specific to count these are the P of those uh the general general fund uh the capital fund trust funds uh they're all listed and then there are backup uh documents that show all of the dispersements uh under each of the funds okay uh the organizational chart um you gave us some action items sir that's something that I know I take I took that Mr Caris um but the organization CH that
is something that you said Mr car are responsible for that is something that the administration would do and that that would be that's that that action items those are suggestions that you make sir okay so if there's there's going to be any movement on organization chart that would come to the administration uh Mr exi on the $10 million be with me for a second regarding the recycling um four five years on delivery so these there's a
lead time that takes with some of these vehicles that there's 36 months looking three to four years what is the Le time on this recycling truck as far as we're seeing anywhere from a year and a half to possibly two years on a recycling truck a libris recycling truck that tends to be the brand that most townships are using and most private contractors are using is payment due upon when you acquire it or
upon delivery you must show the availability of funds before you can go out for bid so you you must have those funds in place before you can commence the bidding process so it's that's a that's a game stopper right there you do not have the funds allocated okay thank you uh Miss Kelly had a question regarding white lines and update on white P Lin Chief can you give me an update on that so Mr Miguel My Traffic Unit myself been involved with this um right now we're
awaiting uh speak with Public Works uh we have plans to put some white lines down uh but we have to wait out the weather right now the temperatures aren't right for the road paint along with all the salt and whatnot but we're uh anticipating that being done in the springtime would say Mr right it was our last meetings uh I'll just add to there's been a delay we have speed signs that are the uh they solar powered uh speed signs that are being installed on
the Old blackor Pike similar to what we have on Station Avenue with some other areas again weather delays because a concrete needs to be ped for the bases um but they are forthcoming everyone's ready to go waiting for weather conditions uh from the from Public Works to uh make sure that it it's done right with the weather so we're making good progress with that uh we hope to have those uh uh signs we've done education programs with even the school buses we've been continued to publicly uh through public information campaigns as well
as enforcement efforts so and we've seen we've seen tangible results I think uh with these efforts and we'll continue to Monitor and and do so U I'm in full favor of the speed limit reduction I appreciate Mr McGill's assistance again we had to go through a do a traffic study of our own collect data Mr McGill uh did his uh due diligence with uh repairing it we went to Canon County they gave us the clearance and the final steps will be uh Council approving that
in the next reading and then with there will be a grace period of time where we'll have extra signage out those big traffic signs uh and there's a grace period I believe a 90 days before we actually can issue summonses because of the change to give people the time and we'll also continue to use our social media and public information to let everybody know of the lower speed uhow lower speeds on that roadway thank you Chief appreciate Mr Ring you speak Mr Mr car afterwards the update on your
Redevelopment agreement uh m Mr sweet uh you make comments look at it live by line uh look at our debt service increases taxes and there's look at things that we could probably push off until the following year uh Miss Williams and Miss Hall thank you for coming here the pavement of Lo scata that's listed on our Capital Improvement Mr car do you have an update on that
it is and uh Matt if I'm not mistake design was in the 24 budget we took care of the design already uh the uh request in this Bond ordinates uh for that project for construction is 375,000 Inspection Services would be 37,500 for total project cost of $412,500 that's slate for this year that is absolutely slate timeline for that
Mr Brown I comment on that we had uh probably about a week and a half two weeks ago not sure you there Tom that meeting we met with the mayor and two residents from your community dealing with Gable Court it was a very positive meeting I don't know if you've had
an opportunity speak with them uh we advise them that the matters in litigation with the bonding company very fortunately before a project such as yours any development in this town most towns are the same uh planning board and townships require Bond ordinance to be put up to protect against a builder who does not fulfill the obligation of streets as you probably know the developer of your community went bankrupt and walked away uh we've been in several years
and trying to work negotiation with bondex bonding company they were met several meetings they agreed to do certain things but then they backed off on that so the matter was placed in the litigation litigation firm is handling the suit uh we've had a lot of negotiations to try and settle it and if I can recall correctly the mayor is very positive uh to at least do the streets and I believe we might to do that in this year's projects for streets have to be
planned out work uh so the uh meeting was very positive it was a very strong commitment from the administration to work with the streets in Gable court and to aggressively proceed proceed with liation is it possible Mr