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There you go. >> Louise get violent here. >> Wasn't too bad. You know, today >> Thank you. It rings. >> Pour's good, right?

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There she is. She's 11. Give me that. >> You might as well stand. >> Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Good evening. This regular meeting of the township council is being held in accordance with the schedule of the meetings of the township council established and adopted by the township

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council which schedule designate the time and date and place of this meeting. Adequate public notice of this meeting been provided pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings act. We are using a electronic amplifying and recording device in order to obtain a clear and audible record and we request

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that all those wishing to speak be recognized and state your name and address directly to the microphone. The recording advice be subtly utilized by the township clerk's office for the prep preparation of the minutes and shall be the official record of the township council meeting. Madam clerk man roll call please. >> Mr. Minè >> here.

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>> Mrs. Alreel >> here. Mrs. Grace Love. >> Mr. Nash >> he is absent today. He contacted me. >> Mrs. Walters >> here. >> Mr. Castro >> here. >> Mr. Marcato >> present. >> Mr. Hutcherson >> present. >> Mr. Cartis >> here. >> Chief Manazi

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>> here. >> Mr. Miguel >> here. Miss Weiss. >> Miss Eric. >> We now have our first public comment period. This is for agenda items only. Each speaker is entitled to three minutes. They may speak one time and there's 15 minutes total for this public

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portion. Would anyone wish to speak on any agenda items? Seeing none, we'll close the first public portion. Bid report. Jake's Law Playground at Valleybrook. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make that motion. Is there a

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second? >> Second >> on the question. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Manion, >> yes. >> Mrs. Albreight Troxel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walters, >> yes. >> Mr. Castro, >> yes. >> Mr. Marcato, >> yes. Next is our consent agenda. Any council member would like to have any

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item removed from the consent agenda, please speak up. Hearing none, I entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. on the question. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Mo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Aubrey Troxel,

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>> yes. >> Mrs. Walters, >> yes. >> Mr. Castro, >> yes. >> Mr. Marcato, >> yes. >> Uh, we have two GTE gov access emails. One from Nancy Gentilli at 210 Keystone Avenue in Blackwood. Dear Gloucester

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Township Council members, I cannot send attachments to the online ego form. I was sent an email to council with the word doc attached. I'm writing to respectfully ask why comments were turned off on the official Facebook page last year and have not been restored.

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Previously, residents were able to comment while following reasonable community standards regarding language and profanity. I understand and support the need for moderation rules to keep discussion civil and productive. However, with comments disabled entirely, residents have lost an

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important and accessible way to ask questions, share concerns, and engage with local government. Social media is often one of the easiest ways for busy residents to stay informed and participate in civic discussion. I have all also noticed that many other local

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government pages, including elected representatives and neighboring municipalities, continue to allow comments while enforcing clear rules for behavior and language. In many cases, local representatives also actively engage with residents on their official Facebook pages by responding to their

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questions and concerns. Unfortunately, our local represents do not appear to engage in that same way, which adds to the feeling that communication with residents have been limited. Could council please explain why comments were turned off, why the decision was made, and who was part of the decision, and

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whether there is a plan to restore them with appropriate moderation guidelines. Residents deserve reasonable access to communicate with their elected officials in modern and accessible ways. I understand there's the egov online form available for residents to submit questions for council meetings to be

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read and answered. However, that form is very difficult to find on the official township website and appears to be hidden from plain view. Many residents are unaware that this option even exists because it's not regularly promoted or posted about on the town's Facebook page or website. While the avenue may

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technically insist, in practice, many residents do not know about it or cannot easily access it, open communication, responsiveness, transparency or important to the community, and I hope this matter will be reconsidered. Thank you for your time and attention.

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Oh, sneeze. A pleasure. Okay. Okay. Uh so council is not responsible for uh any content that is on the township's website uh or social media. That is the administration. U the uh as far as the

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timing uh and who was involved with that. I I do recall last year uh when the announcement was made that there wasn't going to be Gloucester Township Day. uh there was many comments uh that were back and forth and uh on the on the

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site and then when that was followed by that there was going to be a Juneenth celebration and then there were some comments there and quite frankly some of the comments I saw uh were vulgar and distasteful but council was not involved in determining whether to turn off

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comments or have comments or interact with residents back and forth on a Facebook page. Um there are ways to communicate with council directly uh through the clerk's office, through your own personal emails. Uh if you are, if

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you had an issue with public works, you can contact the public works department directly, the police department or any other department here in Gloucester Township via email or phone, you can attend our meetings on the second and fourth meeting of the month. uh there are public portions as we have two public portions at each meeting and if

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there's an ordinance there's opportunity to speak on that ordinance during that public hearing in addition to having ego. Um so I I thank you for your comments uh uh Miss Gentilly. Uh next is Terry Fretz from 85 Cherry

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Circle in Blackwood, New Jersey. I would like to send a public thank you out to the public works department employees that worked on the grounds of our park at Cherry Circle in Blackwood last week. They put up all new fencing at every entrance, taking care of the taking care of every property next to it. They are

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very friendly and helpful to all those who spoke with them here. I have lived here 40 years and they cleaned all the debris from our park and looks better than it ever has been. On behalf of myself and my neighbors, I just want the guys to know all their hard work is greatly appreciated and thank you to everyone who's part of the decision to

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have all this work done for us. Thank you, Miss Fritz. I also had another neighbor uh the Dumbroski family that contacted me as well about uh your neighborhood in Foxboro and the work that was done by public works in Cherry Circle at the park. So, thank you very much for your comments, Miss Fritz. Mrs.

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Fritz, with that, we'll open up the second public portion. There is 30 minutes allocated for second public portion. Each speaker is entitled to five minutes and they may speak one time. Would anyone like to speak during the second public portion? >> Yes, ma'am. followed by Miss

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>> Well, thank you. followed by Miss Paris. Yes, ma'am. >> Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> My name is Ellen Schmidt. I live on Oakland Drive in Catalina Hills and I've been there for 62 and a half

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years. And all that time since the day I moved in, there has been a sewer problem on my street. It affects Oakland Drive and Beverly Drive at the corner. The day uh the day I moved in, my next

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door neighbor, Frank Rossi, was carrying 25 gallon buckets of sewer, raw sewage, water, and throwing it on his side yard. And I said to him, Frank, or Mr. Rossi, I didn't know him that well at the time. I said, "This is you can't put this on

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your property. This is not good." Now, 62 and a half years later, over a half a century, I came home from a doctor's appointment on the uh 19th or 18th of February, and two of my two 70year-old

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sisters, I'm older than they are, uh were carrying five gallon buckets of sewer water and carrying it out and throwing it on my sideyard. Now, we've had this problem. It's It's really terrible. I do not know what the problem

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is. It's either this to me either the pipe is undersized. The uh one so it's a long story and I and I have detailed it in something that I will present not tonight because I know you

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know you all want to go home too. But I have to say h here's the problem. So, I I will be sending I I did receive a form and paperwork from uh Gloucester Township Munilla Municipal Utilities

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Department, a form that I need to fill out and have back to you or back to you because you are now in charge of that and telling for redress of my my own things. But I'm also here for six of my

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neighbors who have suffered the same thing that I have. And it is that I mean over half a century is a long long time. And hey, I'm still healthy. I think I'll be around for a little while longer. So while my husband was alive, Bill is a uh

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ship pipe fitter. He he uh he replaced so many sewer lines for our neighbors and that kind of thing. We endlessly tried to find out what was going on in the street. And one time we had a camera come out and I went out to the truck and

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watched the camera go through the manhole and down to um Beverly and it was I could see a little bit of roots, not much. And then uh they pulled it back and they moved the truck and then they tried to put the camera down going

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towards the ball field and they could not. They they spoke out loud and said to me, "Um, you have you can't stay here. this and they said to me first I heard them talking then they said the camera will not fit in the opening. That's my in my recollection. So Bill fi

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we had we did put in two check valves and Bill finally put in a vinyl a PVC vinyl and it held until last week until uh but and here's another problem. So my husband died in November of 2024.

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you know, I I am going to probably sell the house or something. Didn't New Jersey present a new law and it says it's number 13 45A 29.1. It's called the sellers property statement conditions

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disclosure. So, I looked it up. It's 22 pages long and it says that I have to disclose that problem and what's going on with that problem all these years. So, um I mean I I did see the um what do

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they call them? Insichu form. I worked at Cherry Hill Industrial Sites and we use in situ form. So, one day about I guess five or 10 years ago, I saw in situ form trucks in our neighborhood. I thought, "Oh, maybe that'll work." Okay. But, uh I don't know what the problem

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is, but I'm here to ask if you can help us. I will. I I do have letters from two or three of my neighbors and um my my neighbor Joe Lombardo is here if you

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need to hear from him also. But um I just wonder well you what will you know how will this happen? You know I thank you for listening to me and trying to understand my plate because it's it's pretty serious now. I mean, while Bill

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was alive, I could, you know, he was big and strong. Thank you, >> M. Schmidt. At the end of our public portion, I'll address your your comments. Okay. >> Miss Paris. >> Danny Paris, Clement, New Jersey.

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>> Um, I asked about I think it was October of 2025. I haven't been back cuz my father-in-law passed away. My mother's in hospice and a friend of mine's daughter committed suicide at 13 in Gloucester Township. Uh but she lived in Gloucester Township, but she uh was at

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her friend's house or her parents I think it was a grandparents house this couple weeks ago and uh this township does nothing for these kids besides this township nor Sicklerville and which is part of Gloucester Township. She was 13 years old and hung herself. So I I want

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to put together something. I talked to Chief Manassi. I talked to uh Michelle Tresy and the mayor. Since I taught in those subjects for 50 years, I think there's a need in this township and I know you have plenty of money. I don't know where all the money's going. I

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mean, Mr. uh Assemblyman um Hutchinson, he gets two salaries. Um and uh I want to ask him a question in a few minutes, but um he makes about 300 close to 300,000, probably more than the governor of New Jersey. So, we have some money

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that we could put together and make a wellness program and I can myself and I am also going to get a hold of your uh superintendent of schools of the public schools and the high schools which I've tried to get a hold of you at the board of ed. Um I want to put something together because we have a problem with

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the Tik Tok, the Instagrams and everything. These kids are coming home being bullied, being uh sexually assaulted and nobody's talking to their parents because there's no parents at home. And that's my first thought right now. My second thought, Assemblyman uh Hutchinson,

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um we have a problem in in an apartment complex and you're you're a state assemblyman. Do you know how uh we can take care of a gas situation and a hot we hot water situation where there's 850 apartments and everybody's being

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included in one meter and dividing into all the apartments where there's one person in one and maybe five in another and six in another and we have to pay 400 or 200 or $300 because we're paying for 800 apartments. Could you answer that for me? you stay you work for the

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state of New Jersey assembly. Oh, at the end. Okay. Well, then I'll go on then. So, there's a law and it's called state specific laws. This is for Assemblyman Hutchinson and Councilman uh I'm not councilman, but

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you're now a lawyer for the township. And it's called the doctrine of incompatible offices and local ethic rules. New Jersey said 207 state law was enacted to restrict dual offices holding an elective county or municipal office. I thought I'm sure you know this. Um

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what happens is uh while serving as a state legislation ethics and conflict even if not strictly pro uh prohibit by law such dual roles can raise ethical concerns regarding the use of public time resources or influence um doctrine.

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That's one of the laws. Now, also, um, marksmen, you guys know of marksman because you guys pay marksman, whoever's the person that pays the bills. Uh, marksman um, landscapers come into our area, which is uh, Milbridge Apartments,

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and they dumped all the old, they took up all their trees, all our shrubbery. I put $1,000 into front of my apartment when I moved there 11 years ago. Pulled out all my shrubberies. I had arbavites. I had rose bushes. I had everything. Chopped them all down and put all the

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brush into the um what do you call into the land that you're not supposed to put anything into where the deers are and you know what's it called? The um greenland. So anyway, they put it all into the water where the ducks go, where the um deer go and everything else. I

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called the township and I think it was Nancy P. Nancy told me to call the D. So, I called the DP and they were pissed off because you're not supposed to do it into the Greenlands. And they've dumped so much crap into the Greenlands and there's no water there. The beavers make

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a big thing. The ducks can't get water. The ducks get sick. The uh birds get sick. The the deers get sick. And that land where the water is is actually Vernon Hills. Vernon Hill hasn't cleaned that up in years. So, I don't know who to go to because Vernon Hill owns that

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property where Marksman threw everything in. So we have a problem with that also. So maybe you can answer those questions for me and I want to put a wellness day together with the mayor with chief who offered to help me and also with the superintendent schools and the principles and if you would like to be

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involved let me know. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else? Seeing none, we'll close the second public portion. Uh Miss Schmidt, thank you for coming uh this evening. Uh you are on Oakland Street. >> Oakland Drive. on Oakland Drive. That's

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in Catalina Hills. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And can I have your number, address of your house? >> 17. >> 17. Okay. You said you have letters. Can you pro you have letters with you from your neighbors? >> If you can give them to the clerk so we have that. Uh Mr. Cars, if you can reach

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out to the sewer utility department uh and follow up with Miss Schmidt. I do not have I have to send. So, let's go. >> If you can bring it up here to the clerk, >> she's to my left.

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>> There are only two here. >> That's fine. >> However, the other four. See, I did not realize this meeting was so >> Thank you. I found out about this meeting about three or four days ago. So, I ran into trying to get all my paperwork. >> That's right. >> I'm the person who

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I decided I might be a writer someday. So I saved all my all the people that I know and what they did whatever day and it just happened on there. >> Okay. >> Many times >> is your phone number on that letter on the other. Can we

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>> I'll meet you over there. >> Take your phone number. Okay. Thank you. And that way the sewer utility have someone contact you from the sewer utility. >> Well sewer utility doesn't is no longer the authority. >> Well, it's a department. Sur department. Yes. department.

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>> Well, we called student. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh Miss Paris, um thank you for your comments regarding uh the uh bullying and Tik Tok and Instagram. Uh

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is if you want to involve the schools, it's best you contact both of the superintendent of Black Worst Pike Regional School. Dr. Rapisi, >> excuse me. I can't >> It is best for you to contact Dr. Rapzy from the Black Forest Pike Regional School District

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>> and Superintendent John Bildo from the K through 8 school district. They will be your point of contact. Uh the gas situation and hot water question, I would ask that you contact Assemblyman uh Hutchinson's office

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directly uh in his role. He's he's our solicitor. He's not I know he's an assemblyman, but you can contact his office. He has staff that works there along with Assemblyman Miller and Senator Morardi. They share an office. There's one down here in Choose Landing Road. And I'll be more more than happy

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to help you. Uh regarding dual office, uh Mr. Hutchinson is does not have a dual office. He's an assemblyman. That's it. He serves as a solicitor. He's not elected as a solicitor. >> He's on He's on your council. >> No, he is not. >> There's not a back and forth. No, he is not. He is a solicitor.

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There are seven elected officials and Mr. Hutchinson is not an elected official as a councilman in Gloucester Township. Thank you. >> And then last with Marksman Landscaping, this is you brought up this before and Mr. Cars, I asked you to take a look into that before. Can you follow up with Marksman on that and get some

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clarification on it? Uh possible putting dumping material in uh Millbridge Apartments. um near the waterway if we can get a followup on that. But also uh I would

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imagine that is they're contracted directly through your apartment complex. >> Sorry, >> that marksman has a contract with your apartment complex, >> but he they don't own the the woodlands back there. Your your

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>> but their contract is with the >> Right. But they're dumping it in your wood, the open woodlands back there that is preservative of the ducks and the deer and everything. And there should be water back there and there's no water. >> So, we'll follow up with Marksman and uh we have your your email address.

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>> You never address anyway. >> That is incorrect. >> No, I don't. >> That's incorrect. >> Well, you didn't contact me the last time. So, >> anyway. All right. Well, with that, uh, pulling of directors. Oh, before we get

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to that, uh, pulling of directors, uh, we have a, our budget was introduced at our last meeting. Um, and I've asked, uh, some individuals to sit on the subcommittee uh, for that budget and meet with, uh, Mr. Cartis, Mrs. Eritt,

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uh, Mr. Mion has graciously accepted that along with Mr. Nash. And I would ask if Miss Albbright Troxel could sit on that as well. Okay. Uh so you would just set up some time with Mr. Cartis and uh the CFO and uh go go take a look

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at the budget and uh come back to us with your thoughts on >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Polling of directors. >> Mr. Hutcherson, >> nothing. >> Mr. Cartis, >> nothing at this time. >> Chief Manazi, >> Mr. McIll, >> thank you. >> Miss Weiss, >> nothing to report.

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>> Mrs. Eric, >> Mr. Manune, >> thank you all for coming. Have a great night and a great week. Mrs. Albert Troxel, >> I'd like to thank the police for their assistance this past week. They did a good job helping me out. Thank you. >> Mrs. Walters, >> uh, thank you for everybody for coming

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out tonight and have a good week. >> Mr. Castro, >> thank you all for coming out and have a great week. >> Mr. McAda, >> thank you for coming out this evening. Uh, thank you for those that attended the uh, arts festival in downtown uh, Blackwood yesterday. Uh, and uh, we have

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we will reconvene on May 11th. So, happy Mother's Day to our mothers, which is two weeks away, and we'll see you at our next meeting on May 11th. A motion to adjurnn. So, move there. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I have a great evening, everyone. Thank

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you.