What? That grab my gabble. You grab my dab. Yeah. [Music] Thank you. [Applause] You're born. [Music] Hey G.
Good evening. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and please remain standing for the invocation by Pastor Gilda McNair. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Good evening everyone. Good evening. I'm here to give a prayer over tonight's meeting, especially during this Passover
week. I want to pray a prayer of blessing over the city council as well as the citizens here in the community. I pray over your families. I pray
over anything that may be going on in your life. I pray that this meeting will be done justly, in decent, and in
order. And I thank you in the Holy Father's name. Amen. Amen. [Music] 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 council which schedule designated the time and date and place of this meeting. Adequate public notice of this meeting has been provided pursuant to the open public meetings act. We are using an electronic amplifying recording device in order to attain a clear and audible record and
request all those wishing to speak be recognized and state your name and address directly into the microphone. The recording device be so utilized by the township clerk's office for the preparation of the minutes and shall be the official record of the township council meeting. Madam clerk, may the roll call, please. Mr. Minion here. Mrs.
Albreight Troxel here. Mrs. Grace Love. Mr. Nash here. Mrs. Walters here. Mrs. Wyers here. Mr. Marcato present. Mr. Carlamir here. Mr. Cartis here. Chief Harkkins here. Mr. McIll here. Madame Clerk, Miss Grace Love is running late.
Thank you. Uh we have a special presentation this evening before we go into the Glosser Township scholarship drawing. Uh I ask my uh colleagues from council to meet me down on on the floor there. Uh this is a presentation from Penote Tech.
All of us. All of us. All of us. Okay. Recently, council had adopted uh the move forward in establishing a playground called Jake's Law Playground over at the Valley Brook Complex. This playground is for special needs students
to special need individuals where it's an all-inclusive playground. And when this uh was introduced uh there were some funding challenges. We were going out for a loan and some business and community leaders had stepped up and had said they wanted to contribute to it. So
our friends in Penote Tech, if you could please join us to representatives uh have decided to join us today and they have a gift that they want to donate towards this playground. Again, this is adjacent to the val in the valley sports complex where Field of Dreams plays. as
for our special needs adults and students that play there. So, I'll hand it over to you, sir. Thank you very much. Uh, thank you guys for having us today. Uh, my name is Jason Obiaak. I'm the vice president of Penote Tech. This is my colleague Chris Ryan. He's our COO. Um, we've had a campus in Blackwood
just around the way for decades now. And we were just looking for a good way to give back to the community. And when this opportunity was presented to us, we thought it was um, quite a good one. So, we're happy to give back and happy to be here. Thank you guys for having us. Do you want to disclose the amount?
The chief operating officer will. So it is the CFO will. There you It is a check to the township for $20,000. We actually have a player here. Would you like to come up? Jump in the picture. Come on, Billy. Come on, Billy. He's one of our players at Field of
Dream. Oh, he has a shirt on, too. Very good. Two weeks start. Yeah, we just want to see where you're going. My team your opening. or thanks guys. I know I know I gave you
another next we have where a majority folks are here is the Glosser Township Day Scholarship Committee and their drawing of scholarships. Mr. Hollings. Dr. Hollings. Excuse me. The microphone is turned off. Doctor
should be on. I turned it off. There we go. Chief, you have might have to help. Took it off. There we go. [Music] Okay. Thank you. Uh and thank you, Mr. Marcato. Um we're the Glouester Township
Day Scholarship Committee and um we're very happy to be here tonight. What we do during the year is we run a number of fundraisers and the purpose of those fundraisers really twofold. Um one is to try to help improve the spirit and and
general overall good feeling about Glouester Township. But as we run these meet these various activities, we make money. All the money that's raised, every penny of it goes back to students in Gloucester Township to help defay the cost of their college um tuition, etc.
Um which unfortunately seems to be getting bigger and bigger every year. Um and really that's what we're here to do tonight. Um we have an application process. Um, there will be a total of $41,000 scholarships awarded tonight and
those are the result of applications that we send out to every school, every high school in the area where Gloucester Township students might be attending. So, it's not just Triton Highland and Timber Creek, but it's all of the non-public schools in the area. As long
as a student is from Gloucester Township, they qualify. Um, we have criteria for this scholarship that are purposely set up so that it becomes as inclusive a scholarship as possible. We want as many different students who are
planning to go to college to possibly benefit from this because the fundraising that we do throughout the year covers the entire township. So, we want to get everybody involved to the extent that that's possible. In order to receive a scholarship or be eligible for
it, you have to be a resident of Gouster Township for at least the last three years. You have to be accepted at an an accredited college or university. You have to score at least a combined 800 on your SATs or a composite score of at
least a 17 on the ACT if you chose to take that instead. And you have to be in the top 50% of your class or have a GPA of at least a 2.5. So this is for everybody who realistically is planning on going to
college. This year we had 366 students who qual who met those qualifications and their names are on this piece of paper that hopefully you picked up on your way in. If you don't have one of these right now, you're going to need it. So um Harry Morgan in
the back, uh if you put your hand up, he'll bring you one. Oh, okay. Okay, it's going to take Harry a minute. And while he's doing that, I'd like to introduce those members of our scholarship committee who are here tonight. Harry is our u
chairperson and we have several other people here tonight. Uh specifically also walking around. Uh Danielle Barford, McKenzie Carr, Bill Fagan, and Orlando Mcado, uh council president is also on our committee.
Uh we had a number of other people too, but they not everybody was here able to be here tonight. Um I'm really happy to see as many students because I know you're on break. Um and you could be doing a lot of other things tonight but
not studying, I imagine. Um okay. So um as I said, we we do send these applications out everywhere. And on the sheet that you're looking at, it's important for you to realize that it's possible that a mistake was made in
typing somebody's name. That's because I did the typing. Um, but I'm going to say to you that the number that has been assigned to each person, which is based on the alphabet, the number that's on that sheet is your number, regardless of whether we spelled your name wrong. And
you should be one slot higher or one slot lower. I just want to make that very clear. It's the only way we can do this. Um, and I'm hoping that I didn't misspell any names, but I probably did. So, the number that's there is official right now. If you're a student or a
parent, you should look at that number and you need to start focusing on that number. Whatever you do to improve your good luck, start doing it now, okay? because we have 366 ping pong balls in this whatever you call that thing and
we're going to start pulling them one by one. After we get the first 40 and those 40 will be $1,000 scholarships, we're going to pull 10 more. Those 10 extras, we call them alternates. And the reason we do that is that I'm sure that at
least a couple of the students who thought they were going to college may not go. in which case we don't need to come back to council again and do another one of these things with more ping pong balls. We have a list in order 1 to 10. So the first alternate is the
first person to get a scholarship if somebody didn't decides not to go to school. I should tell you that after the first 40 you may be kind of down but last year seven of the alternates ended up getting full scholarships. So hang in
there and it's always possible. Also, if you don't get a full scholarship and you're an alternate, we're going to give you a $100 anyway. So, with that in mind, I want you to know this is the 40th year we've been doing this. During that time, we have we will have given
counting this year 1,425,200 in scholarships. Thank you. Um, and to some extent you're applauding yourselves because it comes from the community, the participation in our various events. Um, we had an event uh a
couple days ago on Saturday. Um, I don't recognize anybody here from the 5K run in that cold morning on Saturday, but that's one of our fundraisers. We also had a murder mystery back in January over at Valleybrook. Um, so we do a number of things during the year to to
continue to raise money. And as I said, this year there will be 40,000 40 scholarships each in the amount of uh $1,000. You can learn more about what we do by going to our website. It's printed
in blue in the upper leftand corner of that sheet that you have in front of you. So if you have a few minutes, after all, you've got a whole week off now. go take a peek at that and see the kinds of things that our committee does. And I believe that with that we're ready to
get down to business here, which is to start calling names. So, uh, can we start? Okay, Ricardo, you want to take the first [Music] pen? When he pulls a number, uh, hold on one second. We need we need
the lid for the box. Okay. When he calls a number, I will try my best to pronounce the name. I'm going to apologize one time right now for any name that I mix up. I also want to remind all the students that you are not
in school, which means you can cheer. Okay? There's there's no administrators here. You can do what you know, have fun. That's what this is all about. Um, ready? Yeah. Two hands though.
I do. 186. Number 186 is the first one. Um, I assumed you would just cheer for yourself. 186 is Ryan Kurriger. Want to stand over there? No, I'm okay. Thank you, though. 76. Number
76. And 76 is uh Josel and Colon. I'm expecting a lot more noise if you actually win. 167. Number 167 is Ryan Jennings from Timber Creek. Okay, we're getting applauses
anyway. That's good. Don't squeeze them hard. 191. Number 19. And that is all right. Congratulations. 191 is Kat Katrina Lee.
uh from uh uh Timber Creek. Congratulations. 66. Number 66. And that is Ava Sharonowski from Highland. [Applause]
17. Number 17. Um, Assai Barker from Highland 31. Number 31. That's Julian Bardi from [Applause] Highland. We're going to shake them up a
little bit here. 108. Number 108. And that is uh Joshua Enc from Highland. Having a run on Highland here. 30. Number 30. Um, Amaya Benson from Triton
[Applause] 159. Number 159 is Jason Hines from Triton. Okay, that's the first 10. We're going to have somebody else come down. [Music] this wheel. I do this gently though.
It's it's it's an old wheel. We have me we have memories of some issues. Yeah. Where 222 number 222 and that is um that is Nicholas Macaui from Triton.
[Applause] 358. Number 358, Giovani Williams from Highland. [Applause] 25. Number 25 is uh Caleb Bato from
Highland. [Applause] 67. Number 67 is uh Connor Chambers from Timber Creek. 343. Number 343. And that is uh Gion
Vasquez from Highland. 33. Number 33 is uh Ro BB from Triton. 99. 99
uh is Angela D. Donado from Paul V 6. 239. Number 239. And that is um Corey Murray from Highland 272. Number 272. And that is Tyler Ramirez
from Timber Creek at 326. And number 326 is uh Sayia Tibu from Timber Creek. That's the first 20. We'll get somebody else down here. [Music]
It is. Yeah. If not, we'll have a delay. Okay. 59. Number 59. And that is Charlene Kenny from Highland. 245. Number 245 is
uh Reese Naidig from Timber Creek. [Applause] 214. Number 214 is uh Charlotte McConey from Highland. 60. Number 60 is uh Amorissa Caputo from
Highland. Oops. 308. Number 308 is uh Abdulbased uh Shu Shodolu from Highland.
[Applause] 322. Number 322 is uh Payton Stilo from Timber Creek. [Applause] 91. Number 91
is Angelina De Antonio from Timber Creek. [Applause] 72. Number 72 is Morgan Clark from Triton. [Music] [Applause] 255. That's number 255. Apparently a
good number. Uh that is Janice Osai from Timber Creek. 211. Number 211. Uh 211 is uh Karen Madison from Timber Creek. Okay. As we as we get ready for the last 10, this is where you really want to focus on your
number. You know, it seemed to work here, but uh never not again. So, okay. Good luck everybody. That's kind of up to you. No pressure though. 302.
Number 302 is uh Sage Sarakino from Highland. [Applause] You don't have to spin it each time. I don't might fall apart. 13. Number 13.
Lucky 13. Faith Avant from Triton. Oh, she There's a request for you to reach way in the bottom the next time. Okay. It's not. Oh, okay. Is that 158? No, that's 58. Number 58 uh is uh David
Caravan Canavan. 55. Number 55 is uh Jesse Butler from Timber Creek. Another B 117. number 117 and that is Owen Fontaine from Cammy
County Technical School, Glouester Township campus. 172. Number 17. It is Tyler Jones from Triton. 259. Number 259 is
uh Kush Patel from Highland 129. Number 129. And that is uh Larkin Gerick from Triton. Two more. Helen, this one and one more.
175. Number 175. And that is uh Evan Keefe from Highland. This is it. 22. Number 22. And that is Ryan Bates from
Highland. We We really wish we were in a position to be giving out lots and lots of these thousand scholarships, but there's there's only so much money we have. We we give it all away um every year. So now we're going to have 10 more alternates uh
selected hopefully from the bottom and the top and the middle. And so these will be the alternates in order. Number 304 is alternate number one and that is
Lucas uh Shack from Timber Creek. Number 11, that's uh Mia Aqualino from [Applause] Highland. Number 193 is Cody Laro from
[Applause] Triton. Number 321 is Thomas Steel from Timber Creek. [Applause] number
299 and that is Nicholas Salamone from Paul V [Applause] 6. Number 143 is Ashley Haynes from Timber Creek. [Applause]
242 is Charles Nullroth from Highland number 176 and that is Rebecca Keith from Highland number
275 and that is Um Gavin Reed Ramsey from Highland. This unfortunately is the last one. Number 93. Did we hit anybody with the last one? I guess not. Uh 93 is
Addison Dean from Highland. Okay. Okay. Once again, I want to thank all of you for being here. I'm sorry that we didn't have a lot more smiles. Um but um good luck to everybody uh as you
finish up your your senior year and uh embark on college. Thank you to to council for giving us an opportunity to do this in public and for the cooperation that council has given our committee over the years. So thank you very much. Enjoy.
Thank you Dr. Holl. We'll take a fivem minute recess. Is that it? Yeah, that's nice. They don't usually get it. Done's number. I'll call her in the morning.
Tell everybody. Hey, how you doing? [Music] So, do I just do that? So, it's a motion for for our Okay. So, it's um it's part of an ordinance, right?
Okay. Do you know if it's already on the agenda as one of the ordinance? What ordinance number? You know the ordinance? 025. Yeah. Close 025. The ordinance. [Music]
You're making the resolution. Tell me what it's about. No, it's an ordinance. It's probably 04 right here. This one uh 12. So this is a first reading and we
have a second reading which is at that time you could speak on any issues that you had in reference to introduce it. Now let me let me just correct her for a second. you have an opportunity in the beginning if you want
to talk about anything that's on the agenda. So at that point you could say I wish you you could say I'd like to table that so I get a chance to talk to you more about it. You can make that request. They may introduce it anyway.
on that 1.7. Well, if it's on the agenda, it's I mean, are you saying you saying there's more to it than this? So, your request of council would be ask them to hold off on it, table it until you get a chance
to meet mayor and then reintroduce it at a future point in time. You might want to talk to the chief. Yeah, but he'll he'll when he gets free, we got a break for another five minutes. Just tell him what you what you're requesting and see how he feels about
Yeah. See how he feels about that name and your address. Thank you. Tell them real quick, Christie, if you want. You can. We're here. [Music]
Uhhuh. Right there on the left at the beginning. Yeah. [Music] Yeah, I wouldn't blame them. Thank you so much. Thank you. Have a good night. Thanks again for all you do.
I both have been like waiting. Please don't Uh he's better. Yeah. So we introducing and you have a public hearing. Okay. Okay. Got you. Is that his or [Music]
I mean started just with those hard things came back 106 moderate mildly more fiber. Think that's it. Oh, don't start
7:30. I Yep. My wife saying, "You guys ready?" Oh, Miss Jim was nice. Uh, somebody went through the door. You want me
to in there? Want me to go go say? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is it figures? [Music] Madam clerk, can I have the roll call
again, please? Mr. Manion here. Ary Troxel here. M Grace Love. Mr. Nash here. Mrs. Walters here. Mrs. Wyers here. Mr. Marcato present. Mr. Cormier here. Mr.
Cartis here. Chief Harkkins here. Mr. McIll here. Mrs. Grace Love here. May I have a motion to w the reading accept the minutes of the workshop March 10th, 2025 and the regular meeting March 10th, 2025 and March 24th, 2025. I'll make that motion.
Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mun, I abstain from the workshop on March the 10th, 2025. Also abstain from the regular meetings on March 10th, 2025 and March 24th, 2025. Mr. Rich Oxel. Yes.
Mrs. Graceoff. Abstain from the meeting on March 10th and the workshop on March 10th. I abstain from um the meeting on March 24th. Mr. Nash. Yes. Mrs. Walters. Yes. Mrs. Wyers. Yes. Mr. Marcato. Yes.
We'll now have our first public comment. This is for 15 minutes. It's for agenda items only. Each speaker is entitled to three minutes. uh during the public comment uh if you have any questions or comments you would make those comments or questions and then after the public comment portion uh council may respond
to those uh comments or questions. Would anyone like to speak on agenda items only? Seeing none, we'll close the first public comment ordinance of first reading and introduction. Ordinance 0-25-11.
ordinance amending chapter 67 of the code of the township of Gloucester entitled peace and good order to establish article 3 entitled block party applications. Uh what this does it amends the chapter 67 peace and good
order to define what a block party uh and the the process for block party applications. It defines what a block is, what a party is, the authorization to issue a permit. Uh the parameters as far as having that event, as far as controlling event parking, sound
amplification, uh blocking access to to the street, where the application is made, uh and the fee of that, the cleanup after block parties, and the limit on the number of permits for block parties in a given year. I entertain this is a first reading. A hearing will
be held at its second reading. May I have a motion, please? I'll make that motion. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Muri, yes. Mrs. Sbury Troxel, yes. Miss Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mr. Walters, yes. Mrs. Wyers,
yes. Mr. Mcado, yes. Next is ordinance 0-25-12. Ordinance amending chapter 81 of the code of the township of Gloucester entitled vehicles and traffic section 14 entitled parking prohibited at all times on certain streets of the
code of the township of Gloucester. Uh this section 8114 is designated as parking prohibited at all times on certain streets and is hereby amended as follows. The name of the streets are Village Green Lane North from the norly quarter of village green lane to a point
95 ft southernly therefore there from Village Green Lane south from the southernly quarter of village green lane to a point 115t 118 ft norly there from Farmfield Lane east side from the easterly corner
of Farmfield Lane to a point of 110 ft westerly there from and then Farmfield Lane south side from the southernly corner of Farmfield lane to a point 30 ft normally there from this is a first reading. A hearing will take place at
its second reading. May I have a motion please? I'll make that motion. Second on the question. Roll call please. Mr. Munan. Yes. Mrs. Aubrey Troxel. Yes. Mr. Grace Love. Yes. Mr. Nash. Yes. Mr. Walters. Yes. M. Wyers. Yes. Mr.
Marcato. Yes. Next is ordinance 0-25-13, ordinance amending chapter 81 of the code of the township of Gloucester entitled vehicles and traffic section 22 entitled stop intersections of the code of the township of Gloucester. Uh this amends section 22
stop intersections to include the following intersection road west and eaten place where the stop sign will be on eaten place west. Somedale Road West and Eaten Place, a stop sign on East and excuse me, Eaten Place East, and the
intersection of Somerdale Road West and Sherbrook Boulevard with a stop sign on Sherbrook Boulevard West and Somerdale Road West and Sherbrook Boulevard with a stop sign on Sherbrook Boulevard East. May I have a motion, please? I'll make a motion. Is there a second on the
question? Roll call, please. Mr. Mun, yes. Mrs. Albridge, yes. Mr. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash. Yes. Mr. Walters. Yes. Mrs. Wyers. Yes. Mr. Marcato. Yes. Next is Ordinance 0-25-14. Ordinance amending chapter 81
of the code of the township of Gloucester entitled vehicles and traffic section 20 entitled one-way streets of the code of the township of Gloucester, Canon County, state of New Jersey. Uh this is chapter 81 section 20 of the code of township Gloucester entitled one-way streets and is hereby amended to
include Somerdale Road County Road Route 677 the direction westerly between West Summerdale Road County Route 677 and 112 1124 West Somerdale Road County Route 677. This is a first reading. There will
be a second reading uh a hearing at its second reading. May I have a motion, please? So move second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Albridge Oxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes.
Mrs. Wyers, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Next is our consent agenda. Any items that any council member would like to remove, please speak up. Hearing none, I entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. I'll make that motion. There
a second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Manion, yes. Mrs. Albert Joel, yes. Mr. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, a no on 110. Yes. On the remainder, Mrs. Walters, yes. Mrs. Wyers, yes. Mr.
Marcato, yes. Resolution 119, resolution approving open space tax levy for 2025. May I have a motion, please? I'll make that motion. A second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Aubrey
Troxel? Yes. Mrs. Grace Love? Yes. Mr. Nash? Yes. Mrs. Walters? Yes. Mrs. Wyers? Yes. Mr. Marcato? Yes. Resolution 120, resolution extending a temporary budget for the tangible Gloucester temporary budget appropriation for 2025.
May I have a motion, please? I'll move it. Second. On the question. Roll call, please. Mr. M. Yes. Mrs. Albury Troxel. Yes. Mr. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mr. Walters, yes. Mrs. Wyers, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes.
Resolution 121, resolution of the township council of the township of Gloucester, County of Camden, state of New Jersey, governing body, certification of compliance with the United States Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, enforcement
guidance on the consideration of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions under the title seven of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. May I have a motion, please? I'll make that motion. Second on the question.
Roll call, please. Mr. Mo, yes. Mrs. Alrech, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mrs. Wyers, yes. Mr. Mcado, yes. Resolution 122, resolution approving introduction and providing notice for the public
hearing and public inspection of the 2025 municipal budget. Mr. Cars, would you like to add any comments to that before we Yeah, sure. Uh so this is the 2025 calendar year budget. Uh total
appropriations 83,444,84.78. Uh amount to be raised by taxation 60 million 98,670.30. uh that results in a local tax rate of 1.3194 uh compared to the prior year that is a zero
increase. So it's a zero increase on the budget. It is a zero increase that's being introduced on the rate tax rate. May I have a motion please? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mun, yes. Mrs.
Agreel, yes. M Grace Love, yes. Mr. Mr. Nash. Yes. Mrs. Walters. Yes. Mrs. Wyers. Yes. Mr. Marcato. Yes. Uh, we have some EGOV questions. Okay. Uh before I go into that u just to explain we have egov uh
that was created to provide uh greater opportunities for people uh that could not attend council meetings to submit an email uh to council and have a question answered. So the intent of it was to bribe for greater transparency of local
government. Uh when this was introduced uh it is rare. It's not done in other municipalities. It's not common place other municipalities. So over the last few years, we fine-tuned it uh that it provides the administration some time to respond uh to some of the questions that
are asked. So recently, there have been some questions that have been sent, EGOV questions that were submitted from individuals that appear not to be who they claim to be. We've had some fictitious names, uh addresses, and emails that have been attached to these EGOV emails. So this effort, uh to make
government more transparent, unfortunately, is being abused. So today an e-gub was received and the center of that email did not provide an address and they asked for that address not to be revealed. Uh and the email address that they provided was an email address
of a previous ego resident. Uh and the phone number that they provided was the phone number that if you wanted to call in a pothole or the light was out or your trash was not picked out as their contact number. uh if this individual would like me to respond to their
question, they can reach out to me directly. Uh transparency is asked of of government and I I ask that of individuals that submit this. Uh so if that individual wants a response to their ego, uh they can contact me
directly. Our next ego is from Dena Hendry 89 Lampost Lane. Uh good morning. The 20 the February 13 25 vendor activity report lists multiple bills for Stella Contracting that appear to be for the same job. Were those
payments for the entirely separate and unrelated projects or are they part of the same job? If they are related, wouldn't splitting them to stay under the bid threshold violate New Jersey local public contracts law NJSA4A1-1?
Who is responsible for ensuring compliance with public bidding laws? The business administrator, the CFO, or council? Does council review bill list with this in mind before approving them? If bid splitting did occur, what steps will council take to investigate and
correct it? With the 2025 budget scheduled for adoption on May 19th, what changes will council make to ensure compliance with the law going forward? Uh, our business administrator, Mr. Carters, is a qualified purchasing agent. He makes the determinations uh to
put certain services and acquisitions out for quotes or bids. Those quotes are obtained for purchases between $6,600 and $44,000. The bids are obtained for purchases in excess of $44,000 unless a
state there's a state contract or it's an approved cooperative purchasing system that's acceptable to utilize. So in the case of the brush, so this is the stuff that we put out on our curbs and it magically goes away and it's picked up uh by public works. Uh Mr. Carus has
determined that the brush disposal is not required to be bit. This determination is based on the fact that the brush pile size changes on a daily basis. The township collects large amounts of brush. They add to that pile each working day. Another factor not
utilizing a bidding process is the vast variation in composition of the pile. Unlike other municipalities, uh we accept stumps, roots, tree trunks, huge branches, and smaller brush. So, this adds to the complexity when a contractor comes out to bid on that particular
pile. This uh past April 4th, we had a early morning storm uh for those who live in the Broadmore section off Somerdale Road, there are severe storms that destroyed trees and property throughout uh that section and throughout the town, in particular, Somerdale Road. uh that brush was
collected and it significantly increased the size of the brush pile. So it's for this reason that the business administrator, Mr. Cartis, has determined that uh it's in the best interest to have the best pricing for brush removal and disposal by sectioning isolated areas of that brush pile and
obtaining multiple on-site quotes for removal and disposal of each section. Uh in regards to Miss Henry's question regarding uh the uh public bidding laws, if we have a audit that's taking place each year, we have auditors that are not going to lose their license if something
was going ary. So that that process uh Mr. Carters has utilized and we have not been cited for that. Uh in addition to that, council does take a look at the bill list that's provided at our first meeting. Uh all council members have any questions, they can always contact uh
the business administrator or the CFO or uh me directly. Uh the next question is from Nancy Kelly Gentilli from 210 Keystone Avenue, Blackwood. According to
November 26, 2024 email from CFO Christy Erit to bond council Jeff Witinsitzki CCing Tom Cartis, the GTMU had ordinance in place for $585,000 before it was dissolved. The breakdown provided in that email was
$100,000 for standby generators, $300,000 for sewer rehab, $25,000 for pump station upgrades, and $160,000 for equipment. The CFO stated that the ordinance became invalid once the MUA was dissolved and
the township later introduced a new bond ordinance for the exact same amount and purposes. My question is simple. Did the MUA ever receive or spend the $585,000 before it was dissolved? If not, why wasn't that funding transferred or reauthorized immediately after the
township assumed control? And what happened to the original ordinance and any associated funds? I'm asking these questions as Oprah response has been shared with me. Uh in response to Miss uh Gentilly, just to clarify, the MUA did not have an ordinance in place for
$585,000. They have a cap they had a capital budget in place before it was dissolved. The amount of the MUA's capital budget and the new ordinance adopted by the township were not for the same amount. the email that you're referencing, uh, Miss Gentilly, uh, CFO Eric meant to say that the prior MUA had
a capital budget, but once the dissolution happened, the capital budget was invalid. The MUA did not receive or spend the $585,000 before it was dissolved, the $585,000 was amount based on the capital needs of the sewer utility. Uh with that
we'll go to our that was from Chris. Okay. U for now we'll go to our second public portion. This is for 30 minutes. Each speaker is entitled to five minutes uninterrupted. If you have any questions or comments you will pose those questions to council. At the end of the public
portion we will respond to those comments. Mr. Paloro. Mr. Podor, if you could turn that uh podium around, I appreciate it. Thank you for helping out. Good evening, Council Ray Por from
historic village of Ar. Good evening. I don't think it's on. [Music] Test test test. Yep. Again, Ray Palor from the historic village of Ariel. Um so you introduced the budget of zero
increase. Uh no surprise um on uh on odd number years. Um, my question regarding what you guys refer to as a black box, um, and some more grant money coming into that. I have to believe you have an
answer to this question. the total amount of money spent on a building that formerly someone was paying property tax on and that has ceased and desist since you guys have taken it over with all the
remediation and all the money that's gotten put into it. Do you have a total to date, not including the 1 million in quarterly installments that'll be going to it? How much money's gone into that building so far? Number
one. Number two, uh I forgot that you guys didn't talk. Um number two, um in the very end, uh that building is not going to be uh
producing any revenue. And um for the art district that's been advertised for quite some time, it we really haven't seen a whole lot more going on with that. at least what the sign says when you come off a 42 freeway at Blackwood Clement Road and what is your expected
date where it starts looking like an art district and not uh the money spent on a Picasso painting? I've asked this before and I'll ask it again. What's to prevent this body from putting the MUA back together
again? Um, they proved that they could run a very efficient budget. They showed that uh they were not going to raise our rates. They showed that they could put money away for an emergency. You guys
procured that. It took $6 million of the money that they put away, spent half of it, borrowed against repairs that was saved for, and all the while never answered the question how much money you were going to save. You still haven't
answered that. So again, what's to stop you from putting the MUA back together again? And for those that watch us all on the live stream and watch it on YouTube that see
the same people come up and ask questions, the same people here, I'd ask them to pay attention to the answers now at the very end and what were not good answers before or even less of answers
now. you spoke of transparency um and you decided that you got an ego question that didn't meet your standards and I was wondering if um that's something you would put out to the public and allow us to be the judge of
that as well. Um again, it's about the MUA. It's about the job that they did and you proved that you couldn't and still can't and you're still borrowing and you're still putting the town in hawk and our kids and our grandkids. People can't bring their kids
to this town. Who the hell could afford it and it's only going to get worse because next year's an even number year and we know what happens then. So, thank you for your time and uh hope to hear some clear, concise and transparent answers. Thank you. Thank you, Miss
Smithman, followed by Mr. Burns and Mr. Exon. Good evening, council. My name is Shauna. Smithman. I live in the SDK, Milbridge Gardens apartment complex on Milbrook Court. Milbrook Court runs parallel with
and adjacent to Kelly Driver Road, identified as Kelly Driver Lane on the New Jersey Transit bus schedule. The next intersecting road that connects the both of them would be considered Milg Gate. I say that because the address is
1341 Blackwood Clement Road, apartment 341, Clement, New Jersey 08021 hyphen 55 5673. Although my doctor uh Dr. Dr. Glenn Mcccleintok's office from Lord's
Medical Associates Hadfield Internal Medicine was receiving notices that the building to that address was abandoned, but it's not. So, the United States Postal Service, the SDK Milers Gardens Apartment Complex, and South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources, who
assist me with the apartment back in the year 2015 said that it's supposed to be written 341, the apartment number, followed by Millbridge Road. Even though it's located on Milbrook Court, they said the entire apartment complex was to
write their address, their apartment number followed by Milbridge Road, no matter where you lived in the entire apartment complex, even though Milbridge Road is an actual road that leads into a housing development. I live in an apartment on Milbrook Court in the lower section of that apartment
complex. when the way to write the address was changed to 341 Millbridge Road, Clementine, New Jersey, 08021-5563. It changed. It was very strange. I say this because I brought this up previously and I will bring it up again. I'm still having complications
with my identity. Oh, one moment. Did you see that? Ma'am, step away. Wait, no, no. This is I'm not ma'am. Step away from me. Yeah, I don't care. Move back and move away from me. Don't step up from me. Stay over here and you can address
counsel. Is that ma'am? My name is Sean Smith. Ma'am, do you see this? Do you see where that is? Yeah, you can address counsel here. All right. Well, I guess my question would be, are his cameras required to be on because I brought up this identity
theft? It is not required to be on. Miss Smithman, please address council. Please do not go towards the chief. I have called and left a message with the police department of Glosser Township, New Jersey, because $90,000 of a retroactive benefit amount from the
Social Security disability insurance was not transferred from South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources account where a computer glitch accidentally put more than $100,000 or close to $100,000. I don't know because they never gave me the paperwork to identify the computer
glitch. They said it went Instead of going into my TD bank account, it went into an account with South Jersey Behavior Health Resources without my name, just my social security number. But 148800699 is not my social security number. I just noticed that Kennedy
Memorial University Hospital, now known as Jefferson Jefferson Health, had my social security number incorrect. It was one of many one of many discrepancies that I brought up with the Glosser Township, New Jersey Police Department to investigate this
fraud. They have not returned my phone call since South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources instead of correcting the computer glitch or giving me paperwork stopped services. Yet, someone from their office continued to call and show up at my apartment either
pretending to or actually working for South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources. I wouldn't know. That company walked me out of their office. That man, Chief David Harkkins, claims to have had my information out of that office and claimed to have reviewed this fraudulent
case of identity theft. He opened and shut the case without my participation, who signed the paperwork, who reviewed the interviews, and as you can see, the information is still incorrect, and it's missing 90. I wouldn't know the correct amount because I never got the paperwork
from South Jersey Behavioral Resources and they sent the information out of the county of Camden to a county of Atlantic County, New Jersey. This is fraud. This is felony fraud against the federal government. You are stealing funds from people who
need this money. I was forced to go under Social Security disability insurance. told that I would not receive assistance with mental health unless I applied for all applicable money and benefits that I was entitled to. They would not stop the process and as soon as the money went through, they stopped the therapy
services. I want to know why I cannot receive assistance from Glosser Township, New Jersey on this matter. Thank you, Miss Smithman. Mr. burns. Good evening, council. Good evening. Brian Burns, Swood Drive in Ariel.
Um, this is not a question, but I I do want to make a comment. And what my first comment is I want to say thank you to Councilman Nash for having the courage at the last council meeting to suggest that this protocol where we can
no longer have a dialogue back and forth should be re-examined. I couldn't agree with you more. Um to me, you know, you other folks, you don't have to fall in line and you don't have to drink the
Kool-Aid. That flag there is the American flag. It gives us rights for free speech and yes, we are free to come up and say whatever we want. But when you stifle people and you no longer had to dialogue back and forth, that to me
is unamerican. So, let me repeat. You do not have to fall in line and you do not have to drink the Kool-Aid. You know, somebody mentioned it's a mayoral election year and this protocol does not reflect well on the mayor and I beseech
you talk behind closed doors. Pass a resolution that makes dialogue free like America is free. I know in your hearts you have to know that this is right. You don't have to fall in line
and you don't have to drink the Kool-Aid. Stand up like Mr. Nash stood up and said, you know, I don't agree with this. Let's re-examine this. This is a community. And Mr. Mado, in all due respect, I don't care if other
communities do it the way it's done now. I don't live in other communities. I live here. So that that's my feeling on that and I please take it to heart and rethink this lack of you know communication back and
forth. I know it gets heated sometimes. It gets nasty sometimes but that's that's America and you were voted into office. She took an oath and that oath is to uphold the New Jersey Constitution and the Constitution of the United States
which guarantees free speech. Please think it over. It's not right. You know, I It's just not right. And I can guarantee if you pull the people here, they're going to say it's not right. Open dialogue is the way
things are. You know, change happens. If your child came home from school and said to you, "Mom or dad, I have a problem with school and I I want to tell the teacher about we wanted to I want to have a discussion." The teacher said, "No, I'm not going to discuss with you.
This is my answer." What would you do? You would be in that principal's office the next day. I guarantee it because I have been in the principal's offices. I had been before the board of education to support things in in Timber Creek and Mullen where my kids went to school. and
I got those things resolved through dialogue. Anyway, so the other things I wanted to mention, um, you know, you guys passed a, uh, a resolution that a
sewer system can be examined in the Hickstown Road area. Um, you folks got the information multiple times. Uh but I do have a question with regard to the re-examination plan, master plan re-examination page 59, which identifies
those same blocks and recommends it become a redevelopment area. So the council has the ability to make this a redevelopment area. This is this is part of your jurisdiction. So my question is,
do you plan, as page 59 on the master plan re-examination suggests, making the Hickstown Road properties, which are environmentally sensitive area, a redevelopment zone? And you have this paper. I given it to you twice. I have it again if you need it again. Be happy
to give it to you. I have multiple copies. So the question I also want to check up on the Merry property, okay? And you guys get all the kudos for saving the Rosalyn Bridge property, the Haze property. This is the last piece of that puzzle. You know, we may not see
eye to eye on everything, but kudos to you guys for preserving this open space. It's a feather in all of your hats. When I'm not here anymore and you're not here, that property will be there for the enjoyment of the residents. And you know, I'm a strong advocate for protecting environmentally sensitive
areas. And the Hickstown Road is an environmentally sensitive area. and and you guys own re-examination plan suggests or recommends it to be a redevelopment zone. So, I would suggest make it environmental residential. You can put a couple nice homes back there
and still protect, you know, the the stream and the and the swamp pig and the other endangered, you know, fauna in Florida that are on that site. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Exin. Mr. Gardano, you're next. The
gentleman over here. Good evening, council. Hi, Rexstein Glenn Oaks. I got a question about resolution 254110. Um, it's about a million dollar. There's a little over a million dollars for
lights in the township at athletic facs. Uh 593,385 I thought was part of the capital budget. But this other almost not almost
uh 400 and some odd thousand no closer to 500,000 doesn't appear to be in a capital budget. What's going on? On top of that, what other places are we going to put lights at?
That's it. All right. Thank you, sir. Mr. Gardano. Uh, Hugh Girardano 57 Argal. Uh, good evening. Good evening, President Marcato. Uh, I wanted to come up and personally say thank you for listening to the residents of, uh, Glosser
Township in regards to RVs, boats, um, and other well-maintained recreational vehicles. Um, as you know, many of the folks that live in the township are workingass. Um, and an RV or a boat is the way that they spend time with their
family, the way they enjoy their retirement. Um, and it is has and it was an hindrance uh when we all received violations um from being able to enjoy that. It costs thousands of dollars to update your house. Um, some folks don't
have the backyard or the other methods of storing a boat or an RV that is properly stored. Um, many of the folks that I had spoken to have nice RVs and nice boats um, and enjoy that with their family. I wanted to personally thank you
uh, for reaching out um, for understanding the issue that's in front of us. I know there are other folks here uh, that have attended the meeting for just this issue. Um, and I want to say thank you for supporting the working class. Um, and coming up for a
resolution so that folks can have a well-maintained, non not being used in their driveway uh, vehicle um, here in Galer Township. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. You had your hand up. Yes.
Yes. Sorry to point at you. I don't know your name. You're not ever gonna offend me. My name is Jamie Krishki. I am from Spring Lane Drive in Blackwood. I want to follow up on the RV. I was one of the people that did get a letter. Um I have
a well-maintained RV um that I keep and use a couple times a year with my children. Uh I think the gentleman that just spoke hit it on the head. We're workingass people. Um, I I drove around the township after I got this letter. Uh, I've seen a lot of vacant properties
that I haven't seen before. Uh, and I'm not originally from here. I'm only here for two and a half years. Um, seeing those vacant properties. There was a couple properties that um, quite frankly looked a lot worse in
general than just some of these than these RVs. I did not see any dilapidated RVs on my travels. I don't even know all the borders of Cluster Township, but I'm asking council to take a look at this. Um, right now we we've lost the uh
picnic in June, and I'm not familiar with all the terminology, uh, because of some viable threat of 300 teenagers. I know our law enforcement people practice and they do what's right. Um but but we're taking away stuff that this community and their
families use. I I I think the council I'm asking you to take a good hard look at that. Um because if you have some of these people that are going to not have the means to park their RV, there's going to be more vacant houses in this community. And I don't think that's
something anybody here wants. Um that's all my point is. Please take a look. And thank you. Thank you. Anyone else like? Yes, sir. Hi, John McCory at Lake Lakeland Road. I'm here regarding uh Lakeland Road, the speed limits, and the
chief is nice enough to explain to me. Uh that's really a county issue, but at least I'll present my my concern at this time. There's a 25 mile zone around the uh woman's um shelter, healthcare, and then there's a a homeless shelter there. And then it
it it goes to 35 up until um 168. Crossing 168 to Davistown Road, it becomes 25 again. Now, the police haven't forced the 25 and and it's 35 and that's what I'm concerned about. I
was hoping um and I was told this is not the right avenue and he's going to have the lieutenant call me and I appreciate that from him. Um I my concern is that I know at night because I live right at the bridge, the Lakeland Bridge, and I hear these guys coming and even during
the day there's an um incentive knowing that it's going above 25 to at least do 35 and and some of them are doing faster. My point is if we could get it's a it's a busy area. In addition, they
have uh apartment complex where the people are always crossing to the um car wash. Uh and and there's deer that are always getting hit. There's two deceased deer right now. And I called about a couple months ago about two other ones. They're always getting hit and and
especially these guys at night. They come they come fly and they usually come from the direction of um the stop sign to um to um 168 and by that time they're like sometimes speeding but uh I'm just
thinking if they just got the whole thing to 25 mile zone and I agree that the speeders are going to be speeders but you know what it's a big difference between doing 45 in a 35 zone than it is in a 25 zone. zone and plus people get
the heads up. And like I say, I've seen firsthand how the Gloucester Township Police enforced the 25 around the post office. They did a great job because people are just doing 30. They the smart ones aren't doing much more than 30. You know what I mean? Um but uh that's my
only concern. And he said he's going to have someone get back to me regarding this. And it is a county issue, but I want to at least present the idea because I think it's more than reasonable. Get the whole situation on Lakeland complex is 25. In fact, you cross the corner, it's 25, then it
starts to accelerate again after you come to the stop sign, take the left, and it starts and then it goes up again. But uh that that's all I have to say. Thank you for your time. All right. Thank you, Miss Coin. By a gentleman in New York Giants hat. You sir, you're after Miss Coin. You'll
be you'll be after Miss Coin. Oh, I I'm half that. Oh, okay. We'll allow it. We'll allow it just for tonight. Denise Coin, choose landing. Good evening. Good evening. Um, under
NJSA 40 col 69A-36 and a Faulner Act mayor council government, all powers of the municipality and matters of policy rest with council unless specifically delegated by law. This means that you
are legally responsible for every salary in the budget and must ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent transparency. This statute gives council authority to approve the budget, establish or eliminate positions, and structure municipal departments. Salary
levels, personnel lines, and appropriations fall under your control, not just the mayors. At the last meeting, I raised concerns involving $382,000 in salaries paid to Gabriella Muscara, Primo Cruz, and Mary Joe
Dentina. Gabriella Muscara is listed as the director of the sewer utility, but is regularly CCD on administrative emails from the mayor's office. Her calendar only had a few entries related to sewer work. Is her salary paid from the sewer department or the mayor's
office? Primo Cruz earns 170,000 split between the legal department and the mayor's office. His calendar was almost entirely redacted. Why do we need an assisted solicitor at that cost? Mary Joe Dentino is being paid 92,000 for a
position capped at 81,000. The position appears new. It was not competitively posted and no detailed job description has been provided. What department pays her salary? When I raised these concerns, the council president and the solicitor said they were outside your
pre purview. Respectfully, that's not accurate. NJSA 469A-36 gives you the power to approve and reject these appropriations and demand supporting documents before voting on them. That includes job
descriptions, hiring records, and emails. There's also legal precedent in Driscoll versus Burlington Bristol Bridge Company. The New Jersey Supreme Court held that the public officials can be held personally liable if they ignore
or fail to act on fiscal concerns. The court ruled that blind approval in the face of public interest violations may carry consequences. So before the final budget hearing on May 12th, I ask you to scrutinize these salaries, request documentation, and
share your findings with the public. You were elected to represent the people, not protect the administration. If you refuse to do your job, the public has every right and every tool to hold you accountable. Thank you. Thank you. Yes,
sir. Thank you for uh hearing me out. Uh my name is Dutch Brooks. I live at 22 Edinburgh Road in Blackwood. I've moved here since 79. Bought in the old section of Chesn Highland Village. And I've been a camper all my life. And I moved here
and had a camper all the time I've been here. Never had a problem with my neighbors. I even talked to all my neighbors. They have no problem with my campers, the RV or anything. and my whole family's just taking it on. They all doing campers and everything else. And uh like I said, I'd have
to spend a lot of money to try and get this in my backyard. I tear my fence down, put a new fence up when really there's been no issues. It's not gaudy looking or ugly. And if it was an issue with my neighbors, I would gracefully work it out with them. But I know a lot
of people that have campers in here and boats and never been an issue with any neighbors in my section anyway. But um I just wish that maybe it worked something out. Thanks for your time. All right. Thank you, Mr. Brooks. We have time for
one last speaker. Yes, sir. My name is uh Phil Craft. I'm at 133 Lehigh Avenue in the Blackwood Estates. I've had a camper since 1985. I've lived here since 85. Take a lot of pride in my camper. She's worth 50 grand. The reason I'm telling you that is because we just
bought it not too long ago. Every camper I've ever owned, extremely wellkept, all registered. Since I've lived here, I've seen campers in people's driveways that have never been moved since 1985. Right. Right. Practically beside
Meadows Diner. It's been there. We all know it. Right on Lake since 1985. Not to, you know, badmouth the guy. But, uh, for me to take my fence down like I told John, which I got to give you guys
credit, you hired an outstanding guy. John is a very low-key, non-confrontational, easygoing, no threat to anybody. Because when I went when I went there, I was really I was not a happy camper. Let's put it that way. When you're screwing around with my
camper and I get to get rid of that, I just bought a new truck to pull the camper to Alaska. I go camping 20 times a year. Most of the time it's not there. I did store it in my backyard a little bit. my neighbor. I have a future Babe Ruth next next to me and he took out the
window of the camper. I'm not going to tell you how much that cost me to have somebody come out and to try to get a piece of glass for a camper is outrageous. And the last thing I want to do is have a confrontation with my neighbor when I go walking over there. As you see in everyday life, parking spots, driving down the road, you wave
at somebody wrong, before you know it, you're involved in a confrontation. I don't want that with my neighbors. So you guys are kind of like getting me involved in that where I have to go next door because not only do I have Babe Ruth living next to me, I got his cousin behind me and they're both accidentally
hitting the balls over which is no problem because why? My campers in my 40 foot by 20 foot wide driveway very wellkept. Like I told John, if everybody was like me and had to take the fence down completely, I'm going to leave it down.
So, I'm going to have my nice ranchers been wellkept ever since I lived there. I'm going to have a half a fence on one side because of you guys. It's really not going to make that that the real neighborhood looks so fantastic. So, I really really think you should
really look at it and at least have the people if they have a camper, which there's I could name a lot of other people from under the bus that have had them there for 10, 20 years. They've never been moved. It's hard to move a camper when it's got four flats. So, and they got multiple other things. So, you
have to have like a kind of like a a a compromise of some sort. If the people have something really really well taken care of respectfully to to their neighbors, which we all want our property value to stay up, you guys got to take care of that. And on one other subject, you have all these kids going
to your picnics and your gettogethers. You guys have the power through the police force. If a kid does something wrong, I'm one of six sons. If I did something wrong, you guys didn't bother me at all. He does nothing for me. I was afraid of my father. You guys
have the power to make mommy and daddy pay. Why don't you do it? If some kid ruins something, he prosecutes them. Why can't you go after these people and say, "Listen, you do this, it's a $5,000 fine." I have a direct answer. Why don't
you do that? No, I'm curious. I'll respond when you're done your comments. Okay. Okay, I'll take it easy on you. Thank you for your time. That's fine. Okay, thank you. That will conclude the public portion. I'm going to couple uh Mr. Craft's comments, Mr. Brooks, Mr.
Christie, and Mr. Gordano's comments. So, I had a conversation with Mr. Gordano uh last week regarding this matter and I had suggested that at our May workshop uh and he gave me a little bit of background about um just as Mr.
Craft talked about his camper and how he maintains it. Mr. Brooks said, "You maintain yours." Uh, Mr. Gardana, when he brought his his comments, Mr. Christie, how you maintain yours? Not everyone maintains it like you guys do. So, at our May workshop, I suggested
that we take a look at the ordinance. We'll bring we'll have the director of community development, our our solicitor here, council, and take a look at the ordinance and maybe see where we can tweak it where we're not going to uh have individuals and residents incur a
substantial cost or any cost to keep their trailer or camper or boat on their property. So, uh that discussion will take place at our May workshop uh which is I believe May 12th. Yes. Correct. Okay. So, that'll be advertised for that. So, but thank you very much for
your comments then. Um, Mr. Polydoro, uh, you had questions regarding the black box, the total amount that we spent. I don't have that on me, Mr. Polydoro. And Mr. Carters, you don't have that on you. I do not, but we can provide that to you. We have your email, Mr. Polydoro. As far as the expected
date of completion, I believe it is the fall of 2025. I believe it is August. Okay. Cut a ribbon on. Well, I'll be conservative and you like it's August August of 25. Okay. Um, in regards to
your comments about what's to prevent the body from putting the MUA back together, the MUA is part is a sewer utility. Mr. Bador, you've said it again. You've asked this question many times and I've responded the same way many times to you in the same matter. It is a sewer utility. Everyone's sewer
here. Everyone's paying their $45 a quarter. Okay. They're paying it. The sewer is flowing. Okay. The money that you said that was taken by this township was sent back to its residents. That $6 million was sitting in a pot that no one was utilizing. So that has been returned
to our residents. In regards to your ego question, Mr. Polydoro. Okay. What made me the judge? I'm not here to play games. People want to send fictitious emails and names. Albert Newton or whatever name this person was. The phone
number was the phone number to contact the town for potholes. So, whoever this person is, just say it. Just send the email. Put your name on there and I'll respond to why we have to play games. We're all adults here. Send the email. If you have
a question, we'll respond to it. Uh, in regards to Miss Smith, that is out of our purview, Miss Smith. I've told you that many times. You brought this up to us many times. That is not something that council can do for you here. That is another matter. Thank you. Why was his camera not on into Mr.
Burns, Miss Smith? There's no comments now. Within the purview of this of this township, why was Chief Morgan's camera not on during this council meeting? Officer Melendez, can you tend to to
Miss Smith here? Okay. Uh Mr. Burns. Um, thank you for your comments. Um, free speech is expressed here, Mr. Burns. No one is prohibiting any speech.
In fact, there are more people have an opportunity to speak because there isn't cross dialogue and back and forth and name calling that's taking place. So, I disagree with your comments. I respect your comments, but I disagree with it. In regards to your question about the re-examination plan, I responded to you
via email that that particular parcel that that we discussed that was an application a form application to have a possible sewer there. Okay. As council and I stated as a workshop and I deferred to uh the solicitor when I said it, we cannot comment on that because
there is a possible application that is may go forth in front of the planning board. So, as a council, we're not going to comment on that. I don't want to put us in legal jeopardy. Mr. Carme, is there anything you want to add to that? No, that that's correct. You don't want to kind of send any message as the
governing body to a planning or zoning board as to what your thoughts are on an issue going before them. Okay. In regards to Murray property, do you have an update on the Murray property? Murray property, we're still waiting for Green Acres. Uh there still were issues out there of contaminants. Uh they haven't
given us the clearance. Uh they took a while with they gave us the clearance on Haze. That's why that one closed and the township acquired those that property. Uh we cannot make the acquisition until Greenacres gives the approval. Thank you. Uh Mr. Xstein on your uh
regarding resolution uh 110 uh when you had saw the comments about Blackwood Kanas. Uh there was additional money left over from a capital budget. Blackwood Kowanas had met with the administration and discussed about having their lights uh having another
light added to their minor league field and to update their lights uh to LED on the um what is that? The major league major league field. Uh so that's where that money uh came from. Uh Mr. John, thank you for your
comments. the chief had spoken to you regarding that chief county issue but you may be able to provide some guidance on him on that. Okay. And then uh Miss Coin um where Sally you may you cited a uh part of the statute u these
individuals that you had addressed those three individuals as I stated at the last meeting they serve at the pleasure of the mayor. They're appointed by the mayor. We approve a budget. We approve a salary ordinance and they have to adhere within that salary ordinance. Um we why
do we need an additional solicitor? Uh there are many legal matters that come before this uh administration and the township. Uh there are matters that sometimes Mr. Carmir can't get to. If you take a look at our bill list, you take see the amount that we spent on legal fees. There are oper requests that
our clerk is inundated with that have to go through legal review. Uh Mr. uh Cruz adds another layer of legal expertise to the township in regards to where uh his salary comes from. Mr. Cartis, he is
chief of staff and also the assistant solicitor. Is that's do you have I don't have the exact breakdown, so I'm not going to put anything out there. M still here or Okay. Miss, are you able to do you know off the top of your head where um Mr. Cruz's salary is it split between
the mayor's office and that's an assistant solic and I don't know the breakdown off the top of my head but we can provide that okay u miss dentino's same we could provide that you can
provide that for me and uh the wage for the wage for miss coming from the sewer utility that is correct okay uh Miss Cornin, I can assure you no one here on the dis is ignoring any fiscal concerns. Um, but I do appreciate your
comments. With that, I entertain a motion to adjourn. I'm sorry. No, sorry. Pulling of directors. Mr. Carlamir. Sorry. Nothing to report. Jump the gun. Mr. Carter. Nothing at this time. Chief Harkkins. So, a couple things to gentlemen. Um, about the
juvenile justice. Oh, yes. Thank you. Thank you. So, a couple things from we're required uh to follow attorney general's directives. Uh some changes that happened in 2020 are limited. Uh the prosecutor
prosecution areas needs approval by a county prosecutor. Again, depends on the crime. So, it's not as easy. Much of that is out of the purview of township council. It is statewide juvenile justice reform, juvenile uh diversion
initiatives uh that we're complied that have passed the state legislature and uh we follow attorney general directives that direct us how much it can but I can assure you that it's not uh just to let you know how the council it's not on the council to u they don't have a whole lot
of authority. We can pass local ordinances, but even our municipal judge is uh limited on his enforcability. A lot of that is handled with can the family court, state family court as far as as it goes. It can be frustrating for us as well as your I share your
frustrations in many ways. However, that is the way it goes and it's not necessarily uh the responsibility on council. Just to clarify, I can talk to you more offline to explain it, but uh that's that. Mr. Mrite again, I will we will uh be in contact with you tomorrow.
We are aware of issues on Lakeland Road regularly. Uh we'll see what we can do to help you. Um and I appreciate you know all that you I know you know you from being in that area. Legitimate concerns. We'll work with the county and uh I assure you council will follow up
with them on that. Um uh the only other issue I just want to address I'm here tonight. I will meet with Miss Smithman right now, right here, right after I offered. Ma'am, I'm speaking. Don't scream. Okay. No appointment unofficially during a counselor where
I'm not permitted to respond. Ma'am, you can report a crime any time, 24 hours a day. We've investigated your case at length. It's been reviewed by Camden County prosecutor for all those folks that may think that this is not We've been uh if you have new evidence, new
documents, I am here. I will meet with you. We'll meet with you now. Ma'am, I'm speaking now. Miss Smith, please talk about this an official capacity without my back. Ma'am, I'll talk to you right afterwards. I'm here. No. Again, I have
Miss Smith. Mr. Mennis, can you escort her out, please? And just for everyone to know about body cameras, I am not required to have a body camera turned on except if I'm on an incident or a call for service. Uh that is how there's
nothing and again it it I clarify council knows this very well. Council has no authority to give direction to the police chief or a police officer in it is not in a report. Uh the appointing authority is the mayor on the executive on police
dayto-day operations. as a police chief has complete autonomy on the operations. And I just say that because there may be folks that think that council can order me to do this or do that. It is not proper. It is not council's responsibility to do that. And again,
council, I assure you this case has been investigated. I know it keeps coming up. Um but uh we will certainly help if there's any new information. Um but uh again, I don't investigate these cases. I review them for 136 officers. A
detective was assigned at that residence, been to that residence, been interviewed many, many man hours, was reviewed by me as well as many other. And we even sent the Camden County Prosecutor's Office for review. There was no uh probable cause to charge
anyone with any crime. And we've also referred it to New Jersey Health and Human Services fraud unit again who returned to us uh that there was nothing no crime involved. However, there was help was offered referred to Mrs. Miss
Smith. So with that, I just want to finish and say happy Passover and have a happy Easter to everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Mr. McIll, nothing to add. Thank you, Mr. Mon. Thank you all for coming and as the chief just said, happy Passover. Happy Easter to those
who celebrate. Thank you, Mrs. Aubrey Troxel. Yeah, I just want to take a special thank you to Penote Tech for that $20,000 uh donation. That was uh outstanding. I really appreciate that. And I know that uh all the people that are working on that project appreciate
it, too. Um if you've ever woken up uh in the woods in a camper, there's nothing like it. It's a great uh you get that smell of the fresh air. It it's just really wonderful. So, I understand the people with campers. I understand why you love them. I used to do it when
I was young. I can't do it anymore. But anyway, um hopefully we can work things out for you. Uh also, I hope that your u Passover was great is great. And uh I hope that the Easter Bunny brings you everything you want and I
hope you get a special blessing at Easter. And uh thank you for coming. Appreciate it. Thanks, Grace. Love. Yeah. I want to quickly comment on the EGA format. What you have witnessed as an example tonight
as council president articulated and with stellar skill answered every single question. What we did take away was the unprofessional conduct that was either coming towards council. We're not here
to be abused. We're not here to uh um the dialogue is fine, but a lot of times it's the abuse and that's not we're here. We're governing body and we're here to govern and support the community, but it's hard to do that when
there's negative comments coming in. So, I appreciate the new format and I encourage the new format to continue. And again, as you seen as an example, he answered every question stellar with stellar ability and and and it worked
very well. And as he mentioned, it was more opportunity for more of our community to speak. So, I thank him for the new format and we you know, I hope that, you know, we are individuals and um we all have our different opinions, but I do like the new format. I want to
wish everyone a happy Easter and a safe week. Mr. Nash. Uh just want to thank everyone for coming out. Also wanted to comment on um a popular topic online. If you've been uh on any of the Facebook pages uh
regarding the GER Township Day, I want to say thank you to the chief uh for his leadership. Um we 100% support your decision. We trust you and I think you made the the right move. So thank you, Mrs. Walters. Um, I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight,
including Penote Tech for their um, donation. Um, congratulation to the scholarship winners. Um, much success in their careers. And I want to thank the chief also as well for Gloucester Township putting the safety and the um, the health of everybody, the the police
officers, the the uh, families out there because it was um, it was not a good scene last year. So to keep everybody in um to keep everybody in perspective and to know that it's a safety issue, it's
not because we don't want it. And Glue for making that decision for us, Mrs. Wurers, I'm going to say a lot of things that were already said. Um so thank you to Penote Tech for the donation for Jake's Playground, which is amazing. Um that companies are stepping forward for that. I really love to see uh
congratulations to all the scholarship winners. You know, it's wonderful that the scholarship committee is able to do that every year. Um hopefully this year they'll be able to continue it. I know they're missing out on some of their fundraising, but hopefully we can all come together and support them with their um goals. Um thank you to the
chief for Chip Day. It's a difficult decision. It's not something any of us want to see. Um and hopefully, you know, we can move forward from this and and you know, be able to celebrate in the future. Um, I forget what else. What else? Oh,
happy Easter. Happy PE. Mr. Marcato, I want to thank everyone for coming out this evening and just echo what my colleagues say. Thank you to Panko Tech for the $20,000 contribution uh to Jake's Playground. Uh, thank you to our scholarship committee. This is a group of
volunteers. Uh, in fact, Mr. Holling, Dr. Hollings head the the MC has been doing this um for close to 40 years on the scholarship committee and uh this is very near and dear to him and I could see how it pained him to speak at the press conference to talk about that we
had to move forward in postponing uh the event. Uh these are all volunteers. the money that's generated at Gloucester Township Day, the money that's generated at the beer and truck food uh event in October uh is uh and the 5K race that we had this past week uh and the murder
mystery that all goes towards providing scholarships for students that are seniors in our community. Uh so it it hurts a little bit. However, um you know, we cleared $10,000 on our uh close close to $10,000 on our 5K race this past Saturday despite the bad weather.
Um but um they will press forward and uh hopefully we can resume uh our activity again. Um so thank you very much for your leadership on that uh chief and also to the scholarship committee and I want to wish everyone a a wonderful holiday a peaceful holiday with your family. With that I entertain a motion
to adjourn. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor. Have a great evening everyone. Oh my ear. around the glasses