It's it's it takes a team to do things the right way. So, uh I want to thank you guys for your commitment and and doing another class 22. Fantastic. Congratulations to you guys. Thank you for being here again tonight. And we're going to recognize you uh at your graduation. So again, congratulations. I'm going to turn it over to Lieutenant
Fischer. >> Well, I know one thing. I think we're all grateful that you absolutely So again, like chief said, thank you. Uh for those who don't know me, I'm Lieutenant Fischer, uh the commander of the community relations bureau. Um I do
a lot of the setting up of the classes and uh the behind the scenes work beforehand. Um very much like to thank Corporate McHugh this year who was at every single meeting due to an injury uh in our unit. So thank you Cor McHugh for uh having the lights on for everyone,
getting them all set up for everything. uh not turn the lights off too soon, I'm sure. Uh but most of all, thank you guys for wanting to do the program and then for coming out to as many of the nights as you could and for for seeing it through. Uh congratulations. I'm I'm glad hopefully
you got a whole lot out of it. um seeing the all the different units. Uh 15 weeks of all different units and uh helping um with broaden some of the trust and bring some of the trust together between the the community and and uh police and maybe you can spread the word and tell people how much you liked the uh the
program. And you know, we're going to be doing it for years to come. So feel free to let anybody any of your friends know, neighbors know. Uh you know, we're already going to start uh signing people up for next year. So uh All good. All good. Yeah. Yeah. let them know sign up signups are opening
soon. So, uh, as I call your guys' names, if you come up, uh, for your certificate, Mary Shepsis. >> Yeah. >> And then afterwards, if you guys could stay, we'll do one big group photo.
>> Congratulations. >> Absolutely. So, we're gonna have you stand right here. Take a group photo after >> Cheryl Hughes. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations,
>> Kyle Reynolds. Congratulations, >> Mary Hendricks. >> Congrats, >> Kevin Davis. Sir, >> congrats, >> sir. >> Kina Duffield.
>> Thank you, >> Phoenix Stocklin. Dennis Paris. Thank you, sir. Ebony Poe, >> Mario Tarantino, Gail Holder, Scott Morhouser. >> Thank you very much.
>> Leslie Alwater Finally did it, huh? >> Yeah, sure did. >> Stan Besonette. >> We really enjoyed it. Oh, great to hear. >> John, >> Kindle, >> confirming we're not missing anyone.
Quite a few couldn't make it. Congratulations to everyone. If you COULD have everybody back up here for a large group picture. Oh, sure. That's fine. I got to try not to do that.
>> We'll take a fivem minute recess. >> Congrats. We're resuming our meeting. >> We'll now open up with our first uh public comment. This is for any items that the public wishes to addresses. Anyone can speak uh one time. Each
speaker is entitled to three minutes and there's a total of 15 minutes for the first public comment period. Would anyone like to speak on any agenda items? Seeing none, I'm going close. First public comment bid report. >> 2026 Road Improvement Program bids
received May 27th, 2026 at 10 a.m. Earl Asphalt Company 1,542,113.13. Landberg Construction LLC1,323,9170. Paving Plus LLC1,274,380.50 South State Inc. 1,435,384.35. Think Pavers Hardscaping LLC1,311,362. May
>> I have a motion to accept the bid report? >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> On the question, roll call, please. >> Mr. Mone, >> yes. >> Mrs. Albbright Troxel. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Grace Love, >> yes. >> Mr. Nash, yes. >> Mrs. Walters, yes. >> Mr. Castro, >> yes. >> Mr. Marcato,
>> yes. Next is ordinance and introduction. There will be a first reading ordinance 0-26-10, ordinance amending ordinance 0-25-23 entitled ordinance fixing the compensation of officers and employees of the township of Gloucester in the county of Camden. Uh this adds a
part-time position of a collection systems license operator uh with a range listed there $55 to $95 per hour. Uh there will be a hearing at its second reading. We 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. Uh next is our consent agenda. Any council member like to have any item removed from the consent agenda? Please speak up.
Hearing none, I and I I'll entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. I'll make that motion. >> Second >> on the question. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Mone, yes. >> Mrs. Albreight Troxell, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Castro,
>> yes. >> Mr. Marcato, >> yes. >> Resolution 266-235. Uh, may I have a motion, please? >> I'll make that motion. >> Second >> on the question. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Minion, >> yes. >> Mrs. Albreight Troxell, >> yes.
>> Mrs. Grace Love, >> yes. >> Mr. Nash, yes. >> Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Castro, >> yes. >> Mr. Marcato, >> yes. We did not receive any GTE gov access emails. We now open up the second public comment period. This is for 30 minutes. Each speaker is entitled to
five minutes and there's uh speaker may speak one time during this public comment. Any comments that are made, we will respond to the comments after the public comment uh time period has concluded. Anyone like to speak during this portion,
Miss Paris, Danny Paris, Clemington, New Jersey. >> First of all, >> good evening. >> Good evening. Um I I actually would like to see at the next meeting um documents from transfers in the state of New Jersey because it
has to be legalized. Uh all your um medicinal places that came in here have to have new licenses for the recreational uh licenses. So basically this township has to have a license that switch from medicinal to recreational.
On your question that uh I left here early and listened to things afterwards. Jim Gallagher did uh pass a code violation um in uh SDK Milbridge when they were building their luxury amenity. They built a playground. 3 feet away is
a six gas grills with bricks and uh a concrete block where any kid could fall in it and it's about 3 to four feet away from the bathrooms and three to four feet away from the picnic ground. Um, so again, when the kids in that are wild in
our development that their parents don't watch them, somebody's either going to get hurt, break their head open, or the gas uh charcoal smells are going to go right on into the kids's uh mouths and everything else. So, I don't know who passed that, but I talked to Vince um
Vincent Belli, who's his boss, and he said he was not aware of it. I asked him who who passed it, and he said, "Well, he was his boss." So, I guess he said, "I passed it." So, um, I said, "Well, how did you pass it if you didn't see it and you don't remember it?" He goes,
"Well, I pass everything because I'm the boss of, uh, Jim Gallagher and all the other inspectors." So, that was a violation of a code because basically you can't be 3 feet away from a playground and that's in the SDK
Milbridge Apartments. Um, also, uh, I guess you guys wanted to get rid of this thing that you send out. I have a great idea for this since you're not getting rid of it. Um, I asked before and never, nobody ever answered me, but
I called the EPA and DP since the water's contaminated in New Jersey American Water and also in Aqua Water because I called the Aqua Water and they sent me the results of all the water that's uh coming out of um, aerial uh,
water and I have it on my phone. I don't have New Jersey American water, I guess, because the mayor works there and I can't get it. Maybe maybe the mayor can give it to us and put the the quality of the waters in this little newsletter instead of having all great activities and nothing like bad in here. Uh it
would be very good for the township to have the quality of the water of aqua and New Jersey American water in here since you know people drink the water and it's not very good. Also, um, President Marta, you were asked at the
end of the YouTube, uh, thing when I left because I was very upset about the meeting and my dog was getting upset also. Um, that you I should represent being a rabbi. I'm not a rabbi. So, I got a rabbi and I have a number for you which I can give you at the end of the
meeting and you can give it to and he's very happy to come here and represent the Jewish community and he will come anytime he wants and if you make sure that we can get uh either October when it's Yum Kapour the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people um to make
that the Jewish history month like everybody else has a history month except the Jewish people um and also you did a slanderous words against me saying I not factual. Okay, that's a good thing. I have it on tape. Um, but guess what? I am factual. So, uh, we have
attorneys now going against the landlord of SDK Milbridge. Okay. And I'd like to find out, um, again, who are who is responsible for the apartments around here? I asked that the last time. So, the township of Gloucester Township has
to have somebody responsible for the apartment complexes. Okay. People live in apartment complexes and they're not up to code. So, I have to find out who was responsible for that. We went to Senator um Morardi's Assemblyman Dan Hutchinson's. We got no
answer. We got three months to a year. We might get an answer. And we still have no answers. Um also, how many more minutes? 36. Uh marksmen. When I came before, I asked about marksmen. Well, the do the ducks are getting killed by cars because there's
no water back there because marksman dumped all the brush. I talked to the EPA, the D, and the board of health. They're going to come down this week because there's brush all over the place that Marksman pulled up out of the grounds and dumped them all back there. And there's no water. There's sludge and
there's nothing back there for the ducks and the birds and the deers to drink. >> Thank you. Okay. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else? >> Yes. Good evening, council. >> Good evening. >> My name is Ellen Schmidt. I live at 17
Oakland Drive in Gloucester Township in the Catalina Hill section. I was here a couple of months ago and I sent packets to all of you at council. I have not heard whether you have denied my request. I haven't had a call and I
haven't had a u letter or anything. So I I came here tonight because I two for two reasons. One, I thought I should at least get an answer. And the second thing is today I was talking to my next door neighbor Barry who's only been here
five years. I've been here 60 years and u you know taxes all that all these years. No problems with that. Anyhow, so on April 29th, a truck came out again and um did something and uh in speaking
to someone from um the Washington Township MUA said that the uh he said Paul, he said that the laterals at the next door neighbors were the roots were growing into the laterals
at 19 Oakland Drive. Now, my check valve did work because today, yesterday, and a day before, he is having that bubbling up again. So, your truck was out there on the 29th of April. This is only June 8th, and there's already another
problem. And they said that they cleared the cleared the problem. So, I I would like a letter of either denial or acceptance, and I would like to have someone address that. And
I'm I'm wondering why is not why isn't that a closed uh a closed thing? Like you know you have here's the manhole here and there's the manhole down there and all everything is supposed to be closed. How
can that be? Where is that route? Is it in the street? Is it, you know, so so Barry is having a problem, but he told me he would not call you because, you know, he just feels like he he wonders
why he wasn't told about that the problem at his house and he wonders why he wasn't told that it his he has to cut the tree down and he's concerned about the birds the you know the birds and the animals in the tree and um just
personally I didn't really realize how much he was watching these poor little animals and and when that tree goes they'll they'll find another tree but he but really there's like you know I would appreciate some answers. So I don't know if you have any
answers tonight if you have are you going to send another truck out and see why his his uh his check his his vent is gurgling. So it's one of those like it's an ongoing problem. has been going on
for 60 years since I moved in and I'm wondering what how can it what can it be the final solution to this problem. I mean you know we do you know u I would appreciate an answer if you could somehow come up with an
answer and send me a letter or call me. No one has called me and no one has sent me a letter and no and you know and Barry did not get a report about his responsibility. He had no idea until I told him today that it hit. So he's
responsible for that tree. And uh so he didn't know. So should a letter go out to the entire township saying, "Hey, if your sewer backs up, it's your problem. Cut your trees down. Get your check file, whatever." So some townships have
that. But of course, it wasn't here 60 years ago when I when I moved in. So, um, I thank you tonight for your consideration, every one of you, and I I'll be waiting for an answer then. All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, M. Smith. Does anyone else
like to speak? >> One time speaker speak during this time period. >> Okay. We'll close the public portion. Uh, Miss Schmidt, I'll address you, Miss Paris. Mich, um the when you came here,
I believe in April, your your issue was referred to the sewer department and we had our business administrator follow up with the sewer department. Uh we did receive your packet of information that you provided to us. Um and that was referred to the sewer department. So I'm
going to ask Mr. Cars. I don't want to speak. I don't know what has transpired since then, but Mr. Carson is our township business administrator. if you could reach out uh to the director of the sewer department and find out what progress uh has been made if any. Uh it is you're on Oakland Drive in Catalene
Hills. What's 17? >> 17 >> 17. Okay. >> And we have your contact information from the packet that you provided us. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I will speak to Gabby. >> Okay. And hopefully we can have someone communicate with you this week. Okay.
>> Thank you for your patience. Uh, Miss Paris, uh, your request for new licenses, uh, for those that went from medicinal to recreation. Um, our deputy clerk is here today from clerk's office.
Are there licenses, uh, an annual license similar to like all the uh, liquor licenses we approved today? Is that something? So, so the cannabis licenses, they don't get approved in the municipality, >> but as far as uh for their annual
license, >> they have a merkantile license. >> They have a mercantile license, >> but their license originally comes from, you know, the cannabis authority, whatever it's called now, whatever. Okay. Um, can you dig in and see if if that if
that is required where they have to provide that when they've gone from medicinal to recreation? Uh in regard to the statement that Miss Paris made at the last meeting speaking to um our construction official, our
construction official sent an email to Mr. Cartis and also copied director of community development and indicated that uh when Miss Paris contacted him, he was not aware of who she was because she never provided her name and he still
didn't know her name. uh the phone call uh regarding uh excuse me the conversation about the barbecue grills. The barbecue grills uh they the locations have been all worked out and proved through engineering and planning. The construction office has nothing to
do with that issue. U so Mr. Gallagher provided that response to us. uh the comment about contaminated water and putting that in the newsletter um in a
section for aqua water and talking about American water. I have asked you on many occasions to provide that documentation to me because you've made many statements over many council meetings and you do not provide that documentation to us. I'm still waiting for you to provide something to me that
you said >> but you do not provide that. Uh the mayor does not work for American Water. >> Oh, he quit. >> So, uh in regard to the rabbi, my comment at the end of the meeting is that uh you are more than welcome, we would we would gladly if you wanted to
leave lead the invocation at a council meeting. You are more than welcome to do that. But we will take the rabbis's contact information. You can give that to the clerk at the end of the meeting. Uh the rabbi's contact. But once again, the min we have a ministerium that meets
on a uh area I think by monthly basis um where uh composed of all different faith leaders here in town and they develop a schedule to provide the invocation. Tonight it was supposed to be Reverend uh John and Verso from CH United Methodist Church. He was ill today. He
contacted me could not make it. That is constructed the schedule's constructed by the ministerium uh not by council. We welcome them to be here of all faiths. uh the uh talking about possible having a Jewish history month. That is something
that we can discuss as as council. Uh and then the marksman and ducks getting killed. Um I've asked Mr. Carter to take a look at this before and about dumping the spoke
with Anthony Marks from Marksman. He said he knows nothing about that. I don't have any other records that indicate any type of contamination by marksman. Um he said he was going to be reaching out to his attorney. He didn't
>> about the comments made by >> he didn't take kindly to the comments being made >> and I would imagine that if he's doing if he's a contractor for SDK apartments and that SDK apartments would have an issue with their landscaper dumping things on their property.
So again, um, people make statements and I wish they're more factual when they make those statements. I like to see information provided to me. >> So with that, um, we'll close that. We close the second public portion. Uh, polling of directors. >> Mr. Hutcherson,
>> nothing. >> Mr. Cartis, >> nothing at this time. >> Chief Manazi, >> Mrs. Erit, >> Mr. McIll, >> nothing to add. Thank you. Miss Weiss, >> Mr. Mion, >> congratulations to our citizen citizen
police academy graduates. 15 weeks. Figure when you started it was ice and snow and getting dark out early versus now where it's sunny and it's 90ome degrees. But great job. Be safe everybody. Have a great week and uh see you next next meeting. >> Mrs. Albreight Troxel, I too would like
to congratulate all of you. Remember this space. don't lock me up. And uh I really am very proud of each and every one of you because it's not an easy thing to do and you all you just all continued to achieve in
that in that class. So, it's really wonderful and I'd like to thank the police officers who ran it too and the chief for uh continuing the institution of this this group of people because um the citizens police is very important to
every town. You really ha help us and help the police to do their jobs and I think that's really important. That's one of the most important jobs in this township. So, congratulations to each and every one of you and and enjoy your evening. Thank you, >> Mrs. Grace Love.
>> Uh, congratulations to everyone again. Um, it's always a great um celebration to learn more about our police department and having our citizens participate and and serve our community alongside our police department. So, we
are really grateful for you. Um I just wanted to share that um and president uh council president will probably speak more of this. Junth is the 20th this Saturday. Um I have been the master of ceremony for the last three years. I
have kind of got a co-master ceremony Siri Castro. Just the uh the celebration of it is a freedom of African-Americans in America. >> So we would love for everyone in Gloucester Township to come out. is a cultural celebration. Um, and it is a
very fun event. So, um, we look forward to seeing you and everyone have a great week, >> Mr. Nash. >> Congratulations to the graduates. Very good job. Um, and one every once in a while I like to, uh, promote some local businesses. And, uh, today I wanted to recognize a
restaurant that I go to pretty much once a week, my wife and I. Potardos. A lot of people heard of it. It's a small family-owned Italian restaurant in Blackwood Clemson Road. I highly recommend it. It's a closed little place. If you want to stay in town, spend some money, bring a bottle of wine. It's a good time. So, I recommend
that's all. >> Guitaros has been open for over 50 years because we used to go there. It was this the place that if you worked at the college, you went and you had to work overtime. You went there for dinner because you knew the food was great and the price was right. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> Greek garlic bread, right? >> Oh, yeah.
>> And you killed the patients after employees afterwards. >> Mrs. Walters. >> Um, congratulations to the graduates. It's nice to see um, everybody getting getting involved into the police. Um, you don't know what it is until you do see and go through the course to see
what they go through. So, thank you for doing that. Um, I just appreciate everybody coming out and have a good week. >> Mr. Castro, >> Sen like everyone else, uh, those that, uh, took the course, thank you for taking the time and through your busy schedule to attend this course. Uh like
Miss Walter said, you know, you never really know unless you get an understanding of what they're going through. Uh please also know, you guys do get that uh free c donut pass like the cops do now. Okay? So make sure you use it and it's a punch card, so
but with that being said, for those that brought their uh concerns up to council, thank you again for taking the time and you guys have a great night. >> Mr. Marcato, >> uh thank you for coming out this evening. Congratulations to the Citizens Police Academy graduates. That's quite a commitment, 15 weeks. That's a semester
in college. So, congratulations to all of you. Uh thank you, Chief, for continuing this program. Uh and Corporal Mchugh and also uh Lieutenant Fischer for their guidance to uh for this program. And again, it provides a better understanding of of what our police
officers do here. So, thank you very much for continuing that program. Uh again, just echoing June 19th. Uh here we celebrate June 20th is Junth here in Veterans Park. Probably kickoff. Is it noon or 11 o'clock? >> It's 1 >> 1 o'clock. 1 o'clock. 1 to 4 I believe.
>> Okay. Uh so if you have an opportunity to come out, there'll be music and and vendors and uh those that are selling uh or sharing information uh cultural things for our community. So if you have a chance, please come out for that. Uh to the fathers because we won't be here.
We won't meet until after Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. uh and to congratulations to all our graduates here uh whether you're middle school, elementary school, or high school uh in our community as we celebrate. I love seeing graduation pictures and and people moving on uh to
um what they're going to do later on in life. So, congratulations to all those graduates. With that, I entertain a motion to adjurnn. So, move. Is there a second? Second. >> All in favor? Have a great evening, everyone. like hiding out. They've been there.