Johnson soft. Yeah. Good evening. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and please remain standing for the invocation by Pastor McNair. I pledge allegiance to the flag United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening everyone. Good evening. I see there's some words out.
Congratulations to everyone before the invitation. Father, thank you for the mayor, the city council, and the leaders who serve in our community. We gather before you today seeking your
wisdom and your guidance as we deliberate matters of great importance for our city. Grant us clarity of mind to understand complex issues,
the courage to make right decisions and the strength to act with integrity. May these discussions be respectful and a commitment to find solutions that benefit
the members of our community. Bless the city with peace, progress, and prosperity. Bless our police officers to serve here
at the council meeting and also in our city. We ask all these things in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. Everyone say amen.
Amen. Good evening. This regular meeting of the township council is being held in accordance with the schedule of the meetings of the township council which established and adopted uh meetings which scheduled designated time and date and place of this meeting. Adequate public notice of this meeting has been
provided pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings act. We are using electronic amplifying recording device in order to obtain a clear and audible record and request all those that are wishing to speak recognized to state your name address directly to the microphone. The recording device be so utilized by the township clerk's office
and shall be the official record of the township council meetings. Madam clerk, may the roll call, please. Mr. Man here. Mrs. Albert Troxel here. Mrs. Grace Love here. Mr. Nash here. Mrs. Walters here. Mr. Castro here. Mr. Marcato present. Mr. Carlamir here. Mr. Carter
here. Chief Arens here. Mr. McIll here. Mrs. Corbin, she's on vacation. We have a special presentation tonight. The lead postal contest winners. I'll pass this over to the chief. Council President,
Council President, if I would ask you to join me down here for the presentation. also asked Lieutenant uh Jason Frretz and patrolman Doug Pickard who's uh one of our instructors for the lead program. For those who don't know me, my name is Dave Harkkins. I'm the chief of police
here in Gloucester Township. And uh we're here tonight to honor these students who are uh in our essay and our poster contest for our LEAD program. Little bit about the LEAD program. The kids know it, but just to give you my
outlook on it, it's one of the premier programs here of our community relations programs. They get to interact with our children, every one of our children in all of our schools, and we make this commitment. Officer Matt Spina, who couldn't be here tonight, is the other
instructor. Our town commits education of our uh students in our school, puts the resources into officers like Officer Spina, Officer Pickard, supervised by Lieutenant uh Frz who's in our juvenile family services bureau. We make this
commitment. They are they're teaching full-time in a school districts that we h of our size with all the schools that we have. We have a fifth grade program. We have a seventh grade program. And it is a commitment that we make to make
sure that our kids have a good knowledge of what's out there, how to protect themselves, and how to interact and not get involved with trouble. And so I want to commend Officer Spina and Officer
Pickard for their commitment. This is a special assignment. It's not an easy assignment. On top of teaching, they're also school resource officers that provide security in our schools, but they're half teacher and half officer.
And that's not an easy. It takes a special type of officer to interact. So to the parents that are here, I congratulate you. Your children really really took up of what the principles of our lead program are. And I want to
thank you for your support of uh this program and for all that you do. them learning this and reinforcing it only comes from you, right? We can only we teach them, but it's in the home is where they're going to learn from you. So, without further ado, I want to turn this over to to Officer Picker, who's
going to go through the awards at this time. All right. Well, first and foremost, good evening, everybody. Uh, I know that it was kind of a struggle trying to get the day for the ceremony to take to begin, but thank you all for being so flexible with your availability and
making sure you can come tonight. So, thank you very much for that. Um, like the chief says, this Here we go. This this unit is a very special unit to me. I've been doing this for about four years now, believe it or not, and every year is
a new experience, a new lesson with all the kids I get to inter interact with and speak to. It's a very pleasant experience and I really want to thank you all for that. Uh I've had the privilege of being a lead officer for almost half my career now. I've been
able to educate the children of this township of the dangers of drugs and alcohol and the long-term effects of bullying and violence in our schools. Every presents a whole new challenge, but more importantly gives me the opportunity to make connections with the kids of this town, which is my favorite
thing to do. Honestly, we have serious conversations, learn about valuable lessons, and most importantly, have a lot of fun along the way. This year was very hard for me because I missed a good amount of it with the knee surgery I had earlier in
the year. So, I didn't get to see every ceremony that I wish I could have been a part of. But when I came back, I got a very warm reception. The kids were so kind and so embracing and loving and I really appreciate the warm welcome received back from all my students. It
was very very awesome. So that I can really appreciate. And I also want to thank Officer Spina who stepped up in my absence and helped make sure all of your ceremonies went off without a hitch. Everyone got their awards and got to celebrate the way they
deserve to celebrate. So uh I'm glad he was able to do that for me even though we could not attend tonight. Um, at each school graduation, we gave away two awards like the chief mentioned, one for the poster contest winner and one for the essay contest winner. The poster assignment, students were asked to draw
a picture, a comic, or design of any kind that demonstrated one of the lessons they learned during the school year. For the essay assignment, the students were asked to write a letter to a pen pal or a friend where they tried to convince the friend not to use one of the following drugs: cigarettes or
vaping, alcohol, or marijuana. And go figure, the hardest part of the assignment was trying to explain to a kid what a pen pal was in 2025 because we have cell phones and social media, but go figure. Uh, but still they did a great job,
which is why they're all here today in attendance. Now, when I call you up, I'm going to call by each category, the poster first, then the essay. I'm going to have you stand beside me so you can get your trophy in one of these goodie bags that I prepared. And
once we are done showing the posters, which we have right here, they're going to be hung up in the mayor's office for the remainder of the school year. And then we're going to go into the essays where the overall essay winner will read their essay to the crowd as well. So when you hear your name, please come
join me on next to me. Okay. From Aerial Christian School, we have Jude Delcalo. Stay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. From Lily School, we have Briana Pearlman. from Lauren Fleming. We have Aub Aubrey
Jimenez who's not here tonight. Night night. From Glosser Township School, we have Noah Beckett. He's also not here tonight. From Chw School, we have Sophia Tran from Blackwood School. We have Sarah De
Jesus. From our Ladyia Hope School, we have Aiden Duca. From Glendor School, we have Delaney Versace, who is not in attendance today. And the overall township winner for the
poster contest is Juliana Cabe. Now, like I said, I have their posters right here next to me, and we're going to have them hung in the mayor's office for the remainder of the year. So, let's hear it one more time for our winners. your seat to everybody. Thank you very much.
Yes, picture at the end. And of course, anybody who couldn't be here today will make sure they get their awards later in the week. Okay, now we're going to go into our essay winners for the entire school year. Now, again, the last one who's being named will be reading their essay to the crowd, so be prepared.
Now again in no particular order, the winner from Lily School is Elena Mundy from Ariel School. We have Wasima Saba From Glosser Township School, we have Gwendelyn Domingo, who is not here tonight.
From Union Valley School, we have Danielle Victor. From Erach Christian School, we have Shenoda Hail who cannot be here tonight. From Alio Hope School, we have Salvatore Dazzio
from Blackwood School. We have Caleum Nick. From Chu School, we have Lachlan Copsky who cannot be here tonight. From Lauren Fleming, we have Christian Yambo.
No problem, buddy. Okay. And the overall school winner, township winner for the essay contest is Miss Joanna Simpkins. You can always tell where the family is right now. Like I mentioned, she is going to
read her essay to the crowd right now. And I have it right here. So, she's not prepared. So, Last summer, my friend Kiara moved to another town. Lately, we have been writing letters to one another to keep in touch. In her last letter, she told
me she is drinking alcohol. Kiara is doing this with her new cool friends and think there's nothing wrong with drinking alcohol. She said when she comes to visit this summer, we'll try it together. Here's my response to Kiara. Dear Kiara, do you think doing alcohol is healthy for you? There are many risk,
reasons, and consequences if you keep if you choose to keep drinking alcohol, but there are also many positive alternatives. There are a diverse amount of consequences of drinking alcohol. Should you continue doing it? First and foremost, you can get hung over, alcohol
poisoning, liver dis liver disease, brain damage, cancer, and so much more. How will your body's health be if you continue this, Kiara? About 178,000 people die from alcohol a year. I don't want you to be one of them. Secondly, it
affects your immune system. Your immune system will be weakened and you'll barely want to eat. If you don't eat, how will you stay in sports and other activities? Lastly, doing work in class, focusing and understanding problems will be much
harder. Your grades will drop horribly. Kiara, I don't want your grades to drop. I know how dear your grades are to you. As expressed, drinking alcohol can really mess with your body and it comes with lots of consequences. There are a lot of reasons people and
kids drink alcohol. Don't be one of them. Firstly, kids can pick up pick up drinking habits from their parents or other adults. They think it's okay because they see adults doing it. Just because you see an adult doing it doesn't mean it isn't bad. Next, kids
start drinking because their peers ask them to or pressure them to. It's called peer pressure. Peer pressure is when someone your age or around your age tries to push you or pressure you to do something dangerous or harmful to your body. When they ask you, just say no.
Last but not least, most people think drinking alcohol will relax them and they do it to feel good. Kiara, it's only temporary relaxation. You'll feel you'll feel good for a very short time, but it will ruin your body. All in all, people use alcohol for lots of reason,
but it still does harm to your body. There are also many positive alternatives instead of doing alcohol. Firstly, I know how much you love to skate, but you can't skate when you drink alcohol because your stamina will be shortened. Kiara, you can't go skating that often if you can't keep up
with your friends. Secondly, Kiara, I know you want to be an athlete when you grow up, but you can't play if your grades aren't good enough. Kiara, how will you play sports if your grades aren't up and you can't keep up with the team? Last, how will you continue your dog walking job if you
can't remember what days you're scheduled on? I know you like to save your money, but how will you save if you can't remember what you're scheduled and keep spending money on alcohol? As shown, Kiara, there there are many positive alternatives instead of doing
alcohol that will keep your body strong and healthy. As you see, I will not be drinking alcohol with you, Kiara. We don't have to call off your visit visit, but I won't be doing alcohol cuz I want to stay healthy. And I suggest you do the same. Can't wait to see you from your friend Johanna Simpkins.
It gets harder and harder to pick a winner for these contests because the kids do a great job every single year. So, let's hear it one more time for everybody who won the night. So again, I want to congratulate all you the poster winners in the essay and what what officer Picard said it it is really
tough. These were all excellent excellent essays that they received. It's tough to to pick one. So congratulations. It was an excellent excellent essay. Uh again I want to congratul I want to can I have a round of applause for officer Pickard and Officer Spina who did this.
Before I turn it over to council president, I I want to acknowledge uh our mayor, Mayor Mayor, who couldn't be here tonight. Um you know that he he attends every one of the the the lead graduations. Uh and he was there for all your graduations, but
he sends his congratulations uh and is very proud as well. That's why he takes these uh posters and he proudly he when I tell you he shows them off to everyone that comes into the mayor's office, he shows them off. He comes and make sure uh any dignitaries or any
comes and sees the work that's done by our kids. So congratulations again and uh thank you for all that you do council and council president again uh the commitment of the town with the mayor to have officers that this is what they do.
They have these interactions. We build relationships with these children. They learn the officers are their friends. There's no uh finer community relations officers than the our school resource officers and in particular our our lead instructors who really have extra duties
on top of keeping our kids safe. So, thank you for that. Thank you for the support that you provide us to be able to do that. It makes a difference in this community. It keeps makes it easier for the officers and makes this the great community that is. Council President Marcato. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chief.
Uh, good evening everyone. Congratulations. Please stand up here with the rest of honores. Okay. Uh, as as the chief had indicated, the mayor could not be here today. He does send his regards and the mayor has extended the invitation to the poster winners because he does display the posters in his office. If you would like to come to
the mayor's office, just contact the mayor's office. You can take a picture. You can even sit in his chair if you like and he'll allow you to do that. So, that'll be they'll be in the mayor's office for the next year. So congratulations to all of you. Uh I'm a little bit older than you guys and in the 70s and 80s there wasn't a program
like this. They started a DARE program. Uh but that was at the tail end of my elementary years. Uh we were just threatened by our parents. Don't do these things. Uh but what this program does is it establishs a relationship between our police department and you guys where you feel comfortable going to
it. And I want to say uh Officer Peard um very proud of you. I've been here long enough where I saw him where he was a special. So the guys that you saw were walking in and they're coming in. They don't carry a gun. They work the different events here in the town. And to see you here and and and and along
with officer Spina run this program. Congratulations to you as well. Congratulations to the chief and Lieutenant French for for their leadership on this program. Uh and thank you very much that we continue to have this in our school district here in Gloucester Township. So thank you very much. Have a great evening. God bless
all of you. And I believe we're going to take a picture, chief. Okay. All right. We'll take a 10-minute recess. Thank you. Sure. I'm going to take over here. All right, let's do this. All right, you guys stay straight. You turn it. Turn this way.
Turn in. Turn in. Turn your shoulders. Turn your shoulders so you can get closer. Got to get close. Get close, guys. You guys turn your shoulders this way. Turn your shoulders. You're good. You're good. Yeah, we're announcing.
What's your name? Now I'm miss You're not getting arrested. There you go. Got it. Congratulations. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
Isn't that nice for somebody? No. You see this after you just pretend you never sleep. We're having breakfast together. You know, I wonder that sometimes is two weeks and I'm like I don't remember myself even like which one. But it's
like I wonder if like I by accident. You know what I do? I turn the hanger the opposite way and it like I have all the clothes facing one way and once I wear it, I don't have to just turn it the opposite way and put it right back.
I know. I already did that. Too bad I'm doing it again. That's how I felt today. I wore that last week. Yeah, I did. I bought this a month or so. But I wore I wore this shirt that meeting that
meeting. I can put them two together. There we go. I I was down last week. I just cleaned my terrible. I had a date. Yeah. Colleen's like, "You got to talk. You got theore. I didn't for a couple days. I thought I'm gonna go down the shore
because beautiful home. I didn't know what my biggest I like. It was too far to walk and I went, "Oh jeez, I can't do this." So I go, "I'm going to steal myself. I'm not going to eat or drink anything. I'm going to get in that car, go down to short, then I'll have a cup of tea and then see what happens."
Really dirt bikes though. I guess state park and now I'm as fast as it came on. And that's as fast as it can. Check it out. It's one of those neurovirus. I almost got it. Somebody got it.
But I got over it. I drank a lot of water. Yeah. And I I drank those Gatorades. My grand from the kids. Yeah. Cuz my electric are off. You could
tell many rooms. It's huge. It's like I'm doing good now. That's good. This is a busy week. I got a whole week. Well, yeah. I got back to work. So, yeah. Soon ready.
Planning to work. Oh my god. You look like you two staircases, too. It might. It does. One in the front and back. Yeah. That's the house I have. You know, mine is just standard. I'm going in there.
Oh my god, the colors are amazing. I go in like It makes you happy. But then I can run out. Oh, look at that pantry. And I usually go and they're used to see me now, so they know, you know.
was only a good time. I know that you're off to and you just something like that and they'll appreciate it because that means you
maybe I'll go later till 12. Oh, I don't know. It's good. Sometimes one time I went it's custom but it's there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was built in um 2005. Yeah, it's pretty good.
That is like upgraded nicely. I would never thought like that. Yeah, me neither. Green is my favorite color. I'm going to probably stay rich and see
yourself out. So 675 and then they're going to come and oh Genesis come up and take it to service for 500. you. And then we have a ribbon cutting street.
And then I have ginger turn forever. I know. And then Saturday there's a barbecue and an ice cream at some place. Madame clerk, may I have the roll call,
please? Mr. Mo here. Mrs. Albright Troxel here. Mrs. Grace Love here. Mr. Nash here. Mrs. Walters here. Mr. Castro here. Mr. Marcato present. Mr. Carlamir here. Mr. Cartis here. Chief Harkkins.
Mr. McIll here. Before we go to the public comment, uh we have a uh letter uh that came in after our workshop and our last meeting. And this is for a letter an
authorization to proceed with a New Jersey Department of Community Affairs local government service program application for uh the community park construction and renovation project which is as the indoor batting cages. Uh this is with Triad. It would pay him a
compensation of $2,750 uh to submit this application to them. um those who have attended our workshop meetings, they've been pretty successful this year in securing uh grant money for a lot of the projects that we've been doing here throughout the township. Um
so if any members of council have any questions on this, we'll do a straw poll on it, please, madame clerk. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Aubry Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Castro, yes.
Mr. Marcato, yes. Thank you. Next is our public comment. This is for uh public participation shall be for agenda items only. Anyone addressing council, please raise your hand. Each speaker is entitled to three minutes.
There's 15 minutes total for the public portion. First public portion. Anyone wish to speak? Is this for an agenda item, Miss Bonita? Yes, it is. Okay, come on down. Oh, wait. Please come here. Go to the mic.
You're having heart complications here. Okay. Because I just picked up the agenda and I'm reading something called advertisement for bids for the cherrywood. Miss Bonita, please. Miss Bonita, I need your name and address and then please
start with your questions and then we'll deal with your heart palpitations. Okay. I'm telling you. All right. My name is Bonita Joy Morrison. Thank you, Miss Morrison. Okay. I've been here for years, almost a
decade, begging council to pave the road in Lacascada. Going forward, you know, as I told you before, I'd like to run for council, but I found better, you know, like you get more with honey than uh what is it? See, honey vinegar.
Thank you, dear. So, I'm going to be entertaining you. I had a haik coup written for tonight. Next meeting I'm doing my rendition of the long and winding road. You can see a theme here. In the meantime, we can skip the haiku because I just read resolution
authorizing the advertising of bids for the Cherrywood Drive project. So does the Cherrywood Drive project is that like birds bird cages or does that involve paving? So we'll answer your questions at the
end of your comments. Do you have any more comments? I just want to say yes. In the beginning, the first few years I came down here begging. I always reminded council of the $10 million they would get every year to spend on different community projects. Cherrywood
has had their share. Cherrywood has had their road paid within the last decade. Okay. And within the past 20 years, more than that, since the 90s, the 90s, not a dime has been spent in Laccada. The HOA
spent 950,000 between 950 and a million dollars paving every parking lot in there because the HOA owns them. Okay. Do you have any idea how tight I had to get and how I
had to get all the thieves out of there? Do you know how hard that was? Okay. To get that save that money to have those parking lots paid. we can't do via Tuscata because it's owned by the township. So that's our thing. And when
I say are, I do not speak for the HOA. I am no longer a part of that. I speak for the people of the community. If you don't want to pave the road, give it back. We'll pave it. We have the money. We saved it. The money is in
reserves. We will be more than happy to pave it. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Leader. I don't think you can follow up with that, but go ahead. That was cute. Get a dictionary. Good evening, council.
Good evening, Dave Leader, Huntington Avenue, Glendor. Resolution 25- col08-309. Members of council tonight are going to vote
to spend it looks like a million dollars. And the statements here infer that members of council peruse the computer printout before they would have to make a decision on whether to spend this money
or not. But the public where you get your money does not have access to these computer printouts. I searched the website three times and there are no computer printouts
related to paying uh the township payment of bills. So, if I'm I hope I'm mistaken, I hope that there's uh a link online where the
public can see how when you say yes, you know what money you're spending and we know as well for what purpose. Right now, the public has no idea. When you approve this, I really hope you have
detailed idea of what you're proving. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Leader. Is there anyone else on agenda items only? Close the public first public portion. Uh, Miss Morrison, so you had addressed
the Cherrywood paving project and Mr. McGill who who's who's our township engineer and his firm works on that. Um, for the time that I have been on council, we have had different stages of
paving uh done in Cherrywood uh because of some things that took place years ago um in that particular uh neighborhood. Um but correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Carters, too. Laascada was on our
capital improvement plan for pavement this year. It is. Is that correct, Mr. McIll? Correct. When is that commencing? Was issued today for that project. Y uh can you address the Cherrywood? There's several stages of of paving that's taking place there.
Yeah, this is Cherrywood Drive itself. I think there was other projects that were referencing some of Cherrywood Drive area itself. So, this is Cherrywood Drive. Okay. But separate from the 2025 road program where the notice proceeds issued today. That should be paved probably in the
next couple months. There's a few roads. So, thank you, Mr. Go. Uh, Mr. Leader, uh, had some questions regarding the bill list and the public having access to that. Uh, Madam Clerk, the bill list is on our township's website. That's correct.
Under the clerk's department, where the agenda is found as well? It is. Okay. Uh, perhaps we can have someone direct Mr. Leader to that site or that area tomorrow. Someone, one of your staff. Yes. Okay. I appreciate it.
Proclamation, drive sober or get pulled over. 2025 statewide Labor Day crackdown. Whereas approximately one-third of all fatal traffic crashes in the United States involve impaired drivers. And whereas
impaired drivers driving crashes killed 11,654 people in the United States in 2020. And whereas impaired driving crashes cost the United States almost $44 billion a year. And whereas during the
past 5 years, New Jerseyy's roadways experienced 33,798 crashes and 6,662 fatalities involving impaired drivers. And whereas an enforcement crackdown is
planned to combat impaired driving. And whereas the end of the summer, Labor Day period, is traditionally a time for social gatherings, which include alcohol. And whereas the state of New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety has asked law enforcement
agencies throughout the state to participate in the Drive Sober or get pulled over 2025 statewide Labor Day crackdown. And whereas the project will involve increased impaired driving enforcement from August 15, 2025 through
September 1st, 2025. And whereas an increased increase in impaired driving enforcement and a reduction in impaired driving will save lives on our roadways. Therefore, be it resolved that David R. Mayor, Mayor of the Township of
Gloucester, and Orlando Marcato, president of council, declare the township of Gloucester support for the drive sober or get pulled over 2025 statewide Labor Day crackdown from August 15, 2025 through September 1st,
2025, and pledge to increase awareness of the dangers of driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs. Thank you. Bid report. Hydrogen sulfide control services. May I have a motion, please?
I'll make that motion. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mone, yes. Mrs. Albreight Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Castro, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Next is our consent agenda. Any
council member like to have any item removed from the consent agenda? Please speak up. Oh, I'll get to that in a second. Okay, we'll do that. Any items on the consent agenda? Oh, I'll take I entertain a motion. I'll move it.
Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Manu, yes. Mrs. Alrech Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Wers, or I'm sorry, Mrs. Walters? Yes. Mr. Castro? Yes. Mr. Marcato. Yes. Weigh the reading. Accept the
minutes of the workshop July 14th, 2025. Council meeting July 14, 2025, and council meeting July 28, 2025. May I have a motion, please? So move. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Albreight Troxel, yes.
Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Castro, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. We had one ego of The uh this is from Brian Burns, five Sawwood Drive. The recent approval
of the master plan re-examination and the open space recreation plan both strongly support the preservation of e uh e ecologically sensitive sites within the township. As the redevelopment entity, does the township council support the master plan's re-examination
recommendation to create a redevelopment zone for the blocks and lots identified on page 59 of said plan, which are located on Hickstown Road. This parcel is designated a natural heritage site by the NJ DP and it is
bear with me uh preservation has been supported by the US fish and wildlife service. There is a concept plan submitted to the office of community development to build four warehouses on this ecologically sensitive site. Mr. Bach, chairman of
the planning board, stated at the last planning board meeting that nothing precludes the township from creating a redevelopment zone for these blocks and lots. By doing so, council can meet recommendations of the master plan re-examination and uh open space recreation plan while
better serving the residents of the area. A resoning of this site to environmental residential will help preserve the site far more than the construction of warehouses. Uh in this uh message that Mr. Mr. Burns that Mr. Bach is the engineer of the planning.
He's the planning board engineer uh not the chairman of the board. Uh and it was stated by Mr. Bach that development could occur on these reference parcels if the individual property developers demonstrate that it was feasible and not on environmentally constrained land. Uh
he does not recall having any discussion as to the designation as to the redevelopment areas. Uh and again uh this is a concept that has not been presented formally to the planning board. Well, that will open up our second uh
public portion. Each speaker is entitled to five minutes. There's 30 minutes total for the public portion and each speaker may speak one time. Anyone wish to speak during the second public portion? Yes, sir. With a hat, followed by uh Miss Gentilly, followed by Mr. Leader. Miss Marson, do you have your
hand up again? Okay. You'll be our fourth speaker. May I have your name and address, sir? Uh my name is James Transky and I'm at 112 Central A uh Glendor. Um I just want to address a concern of
public safety. Um, if you're familiar with the Glendora area, um, Central AB and Front Street, it's, uh, one way during the school year, or I guess in the mornings, um, from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. There's a stop sign at the end of that
street. Uh, people don't stop. I guess the police department has a patrol car sitting there getting people that are coming up that street during the oneway. Um that's a very small period of time that people violate the oneway. Um
they come up normally throughout the day and then rush hour when the black horse bike is backed up. Um I've got countless time of ring video, people blowing the stop sign, speeding up and down that street. Um my wife's pregnant, we live
two streets in. I'd hate for something to happen because it's a two-way street and people are speeding up and down that. Um, I brought neighbors with me that have kids that play on that corner, that grass area there. Uh, just
wondering if there's any resolution to making that a oneway all the time or maybe emergency vehicles only. Okay. We we respond to all the comments after the public portions if you want to sit there. Um, but I'll also probably probably bring the we'll loot the chief
in after a public portion's done. All right. Thank you for your comments. Miss Gentilly. Hi. Kelly Blackwood. Um, just following up on questions that I had from last week. Mr. Marcato, you were going to direct Mr. Cartis and I also followed up
with um a list of questions through email. If you just have the answers with all of that. Okay, Mr. Leader. Dave Leader, Huntington Avenue, Lendor. It's an update that I'm sure you don't
want to hear uh on me joining the green team. I had had no notice from Mr. Cruz or anyone else from the mayor's office. Um, I was kind of thinking after the last time I spoke with you that I
probably should get a privileged status because I'm a registered Democrat in this town. Uh, but I I guess that's not what it takes to get your foot on the carpet of the green team. Last meeting, council did not answer this question.
Why is it the council can initiate a dialogue with the public but the public cannot initiate a dialogue with council? The end of last meeting was ideal example of that. Something was said and it was wrong and the person in the
audience wanted to say correction but they didn't. And we know why they didn't is because a council president admonishes people who speak out when they're not supposed to. And he has said
that this is a period of time that the public cannot speak. So we bring something up, we're looking for resolution, it gets skipped or or there's a a misinterpretation of
what was said. and the public has to wait till the next meeting in order to hopefully get a correction. I think that's a big investment of time for your public just so you can be transparent and communicative if you had allowed
two-way conversations on the issues that come before you. Mr. Cardammon. I'm waiting for response on my request for an updated org chart. Anything accomplished since the last meeting?
Obviously, not an action item. Mr. Nash at the end of the meeting was kind enough to inform us about the the uh 33% that the council is responsible for and that the county and the school boards are responsible for the other
percentages. I respect his information. It's accurate, but it's not the whole story. You guys approve housing without interfacing with the school board. You guys approved multi-dwelling housing
without interfacing with traffic studies and the county traffic studies and the people that live in the neighborhood. So you have an effect on the schoolboard money for sure because the more that they get behind
in having classrooms for the children. I heard one class got 25 students. Um yeah, they're going to have to raise their budget again. And with all the housing that you guys approved this the last 24 months,
school board's going to consistently have to raise the raise the bar to have classrooms and teachers available for those students. This is a prime consideration along with traffic on what you approve for housing. For me anyway, obviously not for you
all. So, my question is, will council work with the county and school boards before approving new housing? I appreciate there's a print out of the agenda this week. I always depended on it being there and it was missing for a couple meetings, but it's here tonight
and I thank you. If the public asks a question and the council fails to answer it, how can the public bring it to the council's attention before the meeting is closed? without being admonished for speaking out of turn.
Thank you, Miss Morrison. The old hag is pissed. Pardon my language. I I don't think I've been addressed in five years. Miss Morrison, can we have your name and address again, please?
Oh, Bonita Joy Morrison like the doors. I live in Lacascada. Please don't make me repeat my house number because I live on the main drive that I'd like paved and I don't care to have anyone knock at my door. Um, oh, it's in Clement, New
Jersey. My question is for the chief here. Um, who do I apply to to get a permit to protest? Miss Marson, can you address your questions to council? Okay, so how do I apply for a permit to protest? That's your only question?
No. Okay, keep going. I'm just I'm so mad. I want to stamp my feet, but I'm so old that I'm afraid I'll break a bone. But instead, I'm going to go over and drive over to Millbridge and I'm going to find that girl. You guys all know who I'm talking about, okay? My friend that used to come
to every meeting and break them for you. I'm gonna go find her and I'm gonna drive her to every meeting just to break them for you and that'll be my entertainment. Okay. Um the second question was you mentioned that the road had been on
a um the agenda for last year for the um capital gains thing. It was I don't know if it's back on. I don't know what happened. Okay. I don't you know I don't
all I know is it disappeared. It was there and then it's gone. Okay. So I would like to know the status of you know are is it going to happen ever in my lifetime? I'm 67. Can I get a road?
It's not funny. I'm just laughing out of because I'm so upset and I'm very very upset to know that Cherrywood, who was a community that had over a million dollars spent on their road, is now getting another road. End of dissertation. Thank you.
Anyone else that would like to speak? I'll be back. Yes, ma'am. Good evening. My name is Michelle Brock and I live in unwinding way. Sorry, Cherrywood area. Um I've been a resident for 10 years this year. Um and I this is
my first time coming to a meeting. So hello. Hello. And I really just have one question. Um, and I don't really know who it's directed to, but um, the intersection of Laurel and Choose Landing where the Waw Wa and stuff is, I'm just always curious
about the traffic light and why it always goes off to make a turn even though there's nobody in the turn lane. And so then when you're traveling during those busy times in the morning, it's so much traffic because everyone's waiting to
make a turn when there's nobody in the turn lane. So there's a whole like minute of time and it's just all four people are waiting. So, I'm just curious as to why it's not like on a light in a sensor so that the arrow is only going
off to make a turn when somebody's actually there because it just makes a lot of traffic and congestion in a one lane road and so I was just curious about that. Okay, that's all. Thank you. Does anyone else like to
speak that has not spoken? We'll close our public portion uh to our first speaker uh at 112 Central Avenue. Chief, is that something that you could address for us? So that has been a long time
legitimate complaint problem. Um I think and I'd have to look back in history of when they they made a limited time where you couldn't go down. Um if it's our view, we're going to come out with our relations. Get your
information. The process is we're going to do a traffic complaint. I I can't remember off the top of my head the last time we had traffic counts on that strip and the stop sign is an issue. Uh Central Avenue is an issue. Uh it it's probably a really good time to do it now
because Station Avenue, we have construction on Station Avenue, shut down, school starting. That's when we see that all kick up. So, what we'll do is we'll do traffic counts. But the best source of information is you to tell us because we can't be there all the time. You're seeing it. You know what the
problem is and we can direct. We'll take some data, car counts, things like that, see what we see, your input, and then we'll uh make it an enforcement area. So hopefully you can get your information, your name, your address, and someone from our traffic safety unit will be in
touch with you this week and uh we can start start. Any other questions that I didn't address? We'll get whoever else residents because that's no you know while we're here we'll address the the traffic light is outside
of our town. The traffic light that you're talking about is actually the burrow of Lynen Wall is a county roadway that Lynen Wall is responsible for the best of my knowledge for that traffic signal. As a general I can't speak specifically
because that's not one of our lights. It probably hasn't been updated with the sensor systems. Mr. McIll will correct me if I'm wrong. Some of them now have sensor systems. I know most of ours do, which actually like a motion sensor that picks up whether there's no car there.
It doesn't trip the time. That one is set probably all year long for the timer to go and it wastes inefficient. And so the traffic control systems that are out there, I can't say when they're going to replace that or or what they're going to do for that, legitimate. It's a very
busy intersection. It's just outside of Boston Township, but it is in the uh burrow of uh of Lynen Wall that's under that control. So I mean, if you want to give us uh your give Corp your information, I can try and connect you
with the burrow of Lynen Wall who maybe be able to answer it for you. Okay, Chief, one last thing. Miss Marson asked about a permit to protest. I'm not aware of any permitting process and the clerk was not aware of a permit for protest. It's a first amendment
right with of course, you know, restrictions of, you know, private property. You can't go on some private property. Uh you can't block doorways or impede the flow of other people. As a general, you can't generally can't uh impede traffic. That's that's an obstruction of
traffic. unlawful, but we do not have infirmity process for uh for protest. Thank you very much. Okay. Uh Miss uh Nancy Kelly Gentilly. Okay. Opening date of the Blackbox Theater. There's a grand opening performance that's taking place
Saturday, September 13th, 2025. Uh the public is invited. There's information on the event details. No, this is a grand opening performance on September 13th. The public is invited. There's information on the event details. They have been circulated throughout the
township social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. Tickets are required due to limited seating and details concerning registration and tickets available to the public online. Uh how much to rent the facility. A rental fee structure has not yet been determined.
Any fees or costs related to the use of facility will have to be adopted and approved by council as an amendment to its fee ordinance before any fee structure goes into effect. is the facility staff. Extra fee for staffing. The facility will be managed by existing township staff as needed on a day-to-day
basis. Any fee for staffing, if needed, will be included as part of any fee ordinance amendment. Our tables and chairs provided a fee amount. The township procure chairs and other fixtures to support the unique theatrical uses at Harmony Hall. Any fee for use of chairs will be determined and
will be included as part of the fee ordinance amendment. Is catering available? preferred vendor or provide our own food or provide our own food and related concession policies will be determined in conjunction with the township's evaluation of related fee structure and building use policies.
What are the operating hours and days during the inaugural launch period uh through the end of 2025. We anticipate that Main Stage will be the only theatrical user of the facility as a theater and other performing arts uh group schedules for the fall are typically already established during the
same launch period. Uh we anticipate that non- theatrical community events will be limited only to those official functions that are sponsored by the township. GT perks, what businesses have signed up? Uh the township still compiling a list and it'll be available soon. Uh
and is it available? It's up to each company what they want to offer. Um that's the latest information I have on that. Do you have anything else to add to that, Mr. Cartis? I do not. Okay. Thank you. Uh Mr. Leader, thank you again for your
priding the status on your green team uh plight to join that organization. Uh you had a question. Why can't the public engage in dialogue? We have rules of order, Mr. Leader, that are located on the bulletin board there and we
follow those rules of order. If anyone is shouting out from the audience, we're going to ask them to please do not shout out during the audience. Any comments and responses to any questions or concerns are done after the public portions and they are addressed. Uh you asked if there is a update from Mr.
Carlair regarding organization chart. I would imagine Mr. Carlair that organization chart that would be something that would be moved forward by the administration at the administration's request. Correct. Has there been a request? No. Okay.
Uh reg in regards to traffic studies and housing. Uh if anyone tend attends a planning board meeting and when a development project is being moved forward, there's impact studies that are provided. They include traffic studies.
uh they will also factor into uh the amount of children that will be attending particular school district. Uh so as far as having conversations with we have two school districts here not just one two school districts and having conversations with them. Uh there are
conversations informally informally that take place between uh those entities regarding projects that are taking place and also with the county. the failure to answer or admonish. Once again, uh if someone's going to shout out from the audience, for instance,
someone say sneak, um we're not going to respond to that. We're going to ask that person, please do not shout out from the audience. Miss Marson, uh I don't understand why you want to bring
someone here and break them for us. I don't understand your line of questioning or your comments, but you're entitled to say what you need to say. Uh Mr. McIll had addressed that the Lacascotta project is taking place road pavement this fall. That was stated in
the first public portion. So we'll reiterate that again. Uh so hopefully you will see that before uh in your lifetime. Okay. Uh and that's all we have uh for our public comments.
Following the directors, Mr. Cromir, nothing to report. Mr. Cartis, nothing at this time. Chief Harkkins, I was uh away last uh meeting the deputy chief at covered, but I want to thank council for your support of National Night Out. Personally, it was a great
beautiful night, successful night. We got great feedback, but that's all because everybody's support. Uh we're close as we close out the summer. Uh we're transitioning from one busy time to a busier time into the fall. Lots of things going on. Our community outreach
team, our officers did a great job. Uh were in almost every neighborhood at some point. We had multiple juvenile uh junior police academy uh court classes that were at capacity. Uh things were really just moving right along. So, it was a great time. We have uh Labor Day
as you heard. I appreciate the resolution on the crackdown for uh drunk driving. We're going to be out there. We have several traffic initiatives through the town to try to change behaviors, people driving, driving habits to make it safer. So, we'll look for that. Um,
we have we're getting ready uh plans are being finalized for our opening of school, our school plans and things like that that are becomes busy times for us in the fall. So, I appreciate the support. We look forward to have a great fall. Uh, and I just want to wish everybody a safe and happy Labor Day
weekend. Thank you, Chief. Mr. Miguel, nothing to add. Thank you, Mr. Minion. Uh, congratulations to the winners of the lead posters and the essays and for all those that participated that didn't win, but uh, it's an accomplishment to participate and, uh, best of luck to the
children of Glossal Township that will be making their way back to school next week. Uh, everybody have a great night and a great week. Thank you, Mrs. Albreight Troxel. I too would like to congratulate all the uh poster winners and that essay was absolutely outstanding that that young girl uh read
to us this evening. I attend a lot of the lead graduates and their graduations and they're really nice and I want to compliment the police because they all do an excellent job and I I see how much the children respect our police officers and I think that's important because you
got to teach respect at a young age and they're learning to respect their police officers and what the police officers do for them. So I think that's a great program and I'm really happy about that. Uh also Friday night I went to the Mr. Mystic Ginger Night Market. I don't know
if anybody was there. It was crowded. It was a beautiful evening. Uh the weather was nice. The police were out in force directing traffic. It was nice and smooth and there were a lot of vendors there and it was just a wonderful evening. I left there a little after 9
and it was still packed with people. It was just packed and I haven't seen Harvin Park that packed in a very long time. So, if you get an opportunity to to go to something like that, please do. I think you'll really enjoy it. And uh I
and I'm looking forward to our um blackbox opening and the first show. I think that'll be a wonderful thing for Gloucester Township. And I'm so glad that we have so many things that are happening in this township for us to do. And I hope your road gets fixed.
Um and you are interesting when you get up and talk. You make me smile. you. Yeah. Yeah. And thank you all for coming. Mrs. Grace Love, um, I want to say, well, he stole all my comments.
Sorry. Congratul Say exactly what he said. Congratulations to the contest winners. And as we head back to school with kids, um, I want to wish everyone a successful and productive uh, 2025
26 school year. And thank you, President Mardo, for the clarity on the uh safety zones. Um because I knew that was part of planning board, but but I'm not on the planning board. So, I'm glad that we do uh do traffic studies and things like
that. So, that's important to know. Um I want to wish everybody a happy night and a wonderful rest of your week. Mr. Nash, uh yeah, just thanks for coming out. Um I did want to point out and congratulate the chief for uh representing GT on a
national television level. So did very very good. It was very nice to see on some of the news channels. So Mrs. Walters, I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight. Uh thank or good luck or congratulations to all the winners um
and those that participated and to all the officers that do go out into the schools and do make a difference to the children. um they see these um kids every day and these kids look up to them. Um so thank you for doing that and
please be safe this new school year. Please stop for buses um and just be careful with the kids and hope all the kiddos have a great school year and have a great night. Can I add one more comment? I just have one when people leave my home I I say one thing to them. Drive to
arrive. So after we pass this resolution, I just that's an easy thing to remember. Just tell everybody when they leave your home, drive to arrive and it may stick in their head and that maybe they'll be a little more cautious. Thank you, Mr. Castra.
Well, or I'm sorry, Mrs. Ye. Mr. Castra. Yeah, I'm going to re say the same thing everyone else said. I'm not going to repeat it. We already know. Thank you to all the participants, uh, all the winners. Uh I want to thank the
residents that came out and brought the concerns uh regarding the traffic um as far as around the school area and in the residents. I first responders, so that's always going to be a priority of mine. The safety of the residents is top priority. So thank you for those coming
out and bringing those concerns to our attention. And everyone have a great night and be careful getting home. Mr. Mcado, thank you for coming out this evening. I want to congratulate all the uh poster winners and essay winners today and thank you again uh our police department
for continuing our lead program here in our township. Uh two announcements. There will be a mural unveiling at 36 South Black Horse Pike on August 28th. So that will be today the 25th 26th.
Thursday. Thursday at 6 PM. This is part of the Gloucester Township neighborhood preservation program. Uh this mural will be on the wall of Mystic Ginger where you are at Helen. Uh and you can meet the artist behind the mural and learn
about the inspiration, symbolism, and storywoven into this vibrant piece that celebrates transformation, growth, and the spirit of our community. So that muraling will take place this Thursday at six o'clock. In addition to that, later on in the evening at Timber
Creek Park is the count uh Kenom County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force uh remembrance and hope memorial vigil that takes place Thursday on August 28th at 7:30 Rainershine at Timber Creek Park.
I want to thank uh Councilwoman Albright Troxel for attending those league graduations. it's hard for us to get out during the day and you're able to go and represent the township. I do appreciate council uh for representing us there. So, thank you very much. Uh please enjoy Labor Day. Have a safe Labor Day and
holiday. We'll see you back here on September 8th. With that, I entertain a motion to adjourn. Is there a second? All those in favor? I have a great evening everyone. No, it's not.