in accordance with section five of the open public meetings act after 231 PL1975 notice of this meeting was posted on the bulletin board designed for that purpose a notice was transmitted to the official newspapers provided by a resolution adopted January 4th 2025 a meeting notice has also been
continuously posted on the bar website may I have a roll call please yes mayor council President Morgan here councilwoman Phillips here councilman Addison councilman Pagan is absent but excused councilwoman Hering here councilman
Deore here and mayor here thank you uh please rise for the pledge of allegiance allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all please
remain standing for a moment of silence and specifically I ask you to remember patrolman John Norcross and investigator Jack McGlaclin who lost their lives about 30 years ago thank you please be seated uh we'll now open up for public
comment on agenda items only that's public comment on agenda items only if you have like to make a comment please step up to the microphone and state your name the town you're from the record public comment on agenda items only not seeing any public comment on
the agenda items we'll close that portion we'll move into the caucus work session and not seeing any items correct Kell no no items all right not seeing any items on there we'll move right into the approval of the minutes of the April 1st 2025 work session may I have a motion to approve the April 1st work
session minutes phillips so moved motion by Councilman Phillips may I have a second seconded by Councilwoman Herren all those in favor opposed or abstained all right thank you
next we have may have a motion to approve the executive sess minutes of the March 18th 2025 business meeting motion by Councilman Moore i have a second seconded by Councilman Harren all those in favor i
any opposed or abstained thank you all right now um we'd like to present a proclamation honoring the longtime Barrow arborist Steve Dorsy like to welcome Steve and uh any of his
family up here in front tom would you like to join me down there thank you [Applause] pictures so I'll read this proclamation it's um
the proclamation reads "Honoring Steve Dorsey for 50 years of dedicated service as arborist in the Burough of Haden Heights New Jersey April 15 2025." Whereas Steven Dorsey has faithfully and skillfully served the burrow of Haden
Heights as the arborist for 50 years dedicating his time knowledge and passion to the preservation and care of our town's trees and green spaces and whereas through his tireless efforts Stephen has greatly enhanced the health beauty and sustainability of our
communities natural environment ensuring that current and future generations can enjoy the benefits of a thriving tree canopy along our streets and whereas Steven's commitment as a steward educator and advocate for responsible tree care and environmental awareness
throughout the burrow is commendable and whereas his expertise professionalism and friendly demeanor earned him the deep respect and admiration of residents colleagues and officials alike and whereas April 15th is a fitting day to honor Steven Dorsey as it falls during
the heart of spring a season of growth and renewal that so perfectly symbolizes the lasting legacy of his work now therefore be it resolved that I Zachary H mayor of the Burough of Haten Heights on behalf of the Burough Council and the residents of Haden Heights do hereby proclaim our health our heartfelt
gratitude for his 50 years of outstanding service to our community congratulations Mr thank you very [Applause] much i appreciate the trust that the town has has given me for uh for doing
the work as a bar arborist it's been my privilege and and really a pleasure and I consider this work to be the most important work of my career and and thank you thank you very much we cannot thank you enough i mean obviously uh I
think everybody here in the community um will agree that the our treeine streets and um our wooded areas in this community are one of our greatest uh pride possessions and so uh we owe so much of that to you 50 years of of
service to this community is I I have not heard of anyone topping that howard I know you think you might but I I don't think so but no um we cannot thank you enough again and it's a it's a a prized you know treasure of our community and every time somebody drives on the street
and they see a tree hopefully they're going to think of you well appreciate it very much thank Thank you tom anything okay i just wanted to say uh Steve's professionally trained and self-employed as an arborist and served our community since 1974 uh he done this for 50 years i
think he knows every tree in town he's touched it he's he's looked at it uh he's surveyed the entire town and provided a complete list of trees most recently um we're going to plant a tree in your name we're going to put a plaque
that's That's beautiful thank you thank you Tom thanks thanks okay and thanks Real Tom tom can you hold up your Thank you congratulations congratulations all right now I will uh we'll move into
our council member reports councilwoman Phillips thank you Mayor um I do want to just echo the the thanks to Steve Dorsy it's hard to do literally anything for 50 years so um all of that service to keep
our community beautiful and keep our trees beautiful we really appreciate that um I have the fire department report for March so um from March 1st to March 31st there were 30 calls in Haden Heights there were 26 calls in Bington 11 calls
to mutual aid four calls to the highway for a total of 38 calls five average firefighters per call 38 total career staff calls so that was that report was given by Chief Hails i appreciate that um and they're also um beginning the
search for our new firefighter um career staff firefighter so I believe that interviews are going to start um soon wonderful yeah and that's all I have i'll leave the police report to somebody else down the line thank you thank you Council Council President Morgan thank
you Mayor um just also I want to extend uh my thanks to Mr dorsy for all of his efforts and contributions to the town it certainly was a labor of love and you can see that um on almost any street in
town it really shows and that's as I've said before I think that's remains one of the most attractive and desirable aspects of this town even if you don't appreciate it right away this kind of part of the fabric of the town and so his contribution to that can't be
uh really quantified in any tangible manner but it is profound um tonight we are introducing the budget for uh next year for this year for this year um just wanted to touch on some
highlights for it uh the basically the tax increase that we're going to be seeing uh from the burrow's end of things is about 4.5% which is uh higher than we would like to have it but unfortunately there
are just a lot of costs uh that we've incurred this year with regard to a lot of the necessary activities that we've been uh involved in in conjunction with just a general general uh steep increase in costs for things primarily there was
a a large the renewing the uh contract with the SSA uh for the DPW services with autobond was rather steep uh trash services have gone up uh we've had other significant costs
increases but we've had to add additional costs as well you know we've had to budget more money for tree maintenance and other items as well as u equipment purchases that have just uh resulted in this increase we're hoping
to get it back down to the sub 2% number for next year but that will be a challenge just because you know it's just costs are going up and we're victim to that just as everybody else is um so
uh but I do want to temper that with some good news in that uh we managed to improve our surplus from last year to the tune of about $500,000 so um while uh while it's you know the tax
number is is significant we're seeing it's not just the it's not just people are paying more you're going to be able to you already are seeing the that those cost increases be applied throughout the town both in just
the improvements to the roads and sewer services uh but also in um the overall financial stability of the town so which will hopefully enable us to do
uh more well continue the projects that we've already implemented and try and expand on them in the future as well that's it thank you thank you Council President uh Councilman Addison okay uh on the environmental
committee um we're still trading documents uh with the D and uh people that released the money they wanted a couple more things so hopefully DP will send them over so they'll release some money for the testing um there's an interest uh by Heights Grows in putting
a rain garden over at the community center so they're looking to maybe do that there was one there one time but they filled it in uh on the fountain i've reached out to the two vendors we had quotes uh from before and there we're supposed to get back to me with new quotes and then we'll have to pick
one and then get the electric and the water set up for that hopefully it'll be this week to get her hear back from I'll follow up again shade tree ordered 30 trees uh we're still reworking the ordinance uh we decided we're going to uh start all over again and make one
that makes more sense for us um we're working on the uh the grant application still for the uh uh uh for the tree counting and uh and we're going to look to hire the two vendors we selected to do the tree count and the uh
and the report and also I want everybody if they can come uh Thursday at 10 o'clock at the Dell there's a remembrance ceremony for the 30 year anniversary of the uh the Norcross event so if anybody can make it it' be a good thing to show show up there for
that that's it for me thank you Councilman Addison councilman Harren thank you Mayor um on the parks and rec side we're working in coordination with um our CFO Mike Mansover um on some cleanups to some of the buildings down at the field and a few fixes to some
electrical outlets at the ball fields um unfortunately our opening day parade was rained out on Saturday but I do want to thank the police department and um the HHYA uh group for putting together a really nice plan i know they went back and forth for a period of time to get
that all lined up and unfortunately the rain did not hold out um uh we are uh also um wanted to express thanks to the DPW uh team for um helping to remove a broken bench seat
down at the picnic tables at Hoffs Park um and they're working to have it fixed when they put in the sidewalk that will be the new access to the playground um on the civic event side um we're working towards the Memorial Day plans um and Fourth of July plans getting everything
together there we have a nice number of volunteers um ready to go so far working with the Boy Scouts to get all of the parade details ready there um still working on getting a band situated for the Memorial Day parade so if anybody knows of the band um that would be
really helpful to u get secured um I did have a chance to meet with our senior uh senior group and um getting things moving forward with programming consistently through the summer for Fridays from 10 to 12 at the community
center um ladies are really excited definitely looking forward to um recruiting more men in the community to see how we can get more men out to join the group um and uh really want to be sure that all the seniors in the town know um how that this group is
accessible available and um that there is a group of folks looking to you know come together and and have a good time so um that uh consistent planning for Fridays from 10 to 12 will be um ongoing
and excited to see the support that we're getting from the county on it too thank you Councilwoman and Councilman i will say on the parks and recck side the new playground equipment at Hoffs Park is definitely a hit my daughter's already enjoyed playing on it so it
seems to be very well received i'll go through start off with the police report 1,145 calls for service 20 arrests and charges six accidents 210 motor vehicle summons issued throughout the month it's
for the March 2025 monthly report touching on the engineering committee we talked about finalizing details for the chairlift to get that back into compliance which is definitely much needed uh finalized some details on the road paving program including second
a crest press a 7th a by the school and then oak between Maple and Glen View and then New Jersey AB covered by the DOT grant discussed the banner poles getting those remediated and fixed on the current set to be able to hang banners up for community events which would be
helpful and then the up HVAC upgrades for the municipal building as well that's all we got thank you Councilman uh mayor's report so uh redevelopment projects under or continuing underway we're we're wrapping
up um some final negotiations with 322 Wers Pike uh the old Jefferson Bank uh rehab that is just about finished which we're excited that's been moving quite fast um working on finishing up the St mary's project and few other in few
others in the works um I'm happy that um Councilman Deore mentioned the the wrapping up of the paving obviously High Street finally um right High Street no yeah High Street just getting wrapped up which it looks
great um it is curb to curb beautifully smooth i know they're kind of still working their way through third and fourth area but um and then we have more paving in the works which um I think when you go as Councilman Morgan had mentioned in regards to the budget you know though it there's a slight increase
we have been continuing to try to push for a tremendous amount of projects to get underway here in the town whether it's sewer related road related or a combination of the two um and uh I think we have uh hopefully manholes and work will commence very shortly as well which
will be great again a lot of great work getting done making our roads a little smoother so u kudos to the engineering committee and our engineers uh for all their hard work on that um I just want to also thank our our CFO Mike Vanser who did an excellent job in you know
arranging for financing for all these projects and for putting our that was huge and which I think to highlight that too is the fact that we're able to get so much accomplished in this budget uh at a third of the cost of what it should have
been because of some of that long-term financing that we're putting into place and re you know really reworking that budget to uh to tighten those numbers up so um looks great uh a couple other things to note um the county tomorrow will be
announcing their summer concert series and the lineup should be posted we are always thrilled to host um the uh county summer concert series down here in um uh at the Dell it's always a huge hit so you'll be able to find that lineup
hosted on the county's website and then we typically Julie does a great job of making sure she showcases it and puts it out on our own website um great opportunity and I think there's still some work in the mix um we're trying to try to cater a little bit more to that senior community so we'll see what's
coming um also wanted to bring everybody's attention to the county will be doing a ribbon cutting on April 29th at uh 12 PM i believe that's a Tuesday right um I have that right and that'll
be down at the um at the Dell at the new pavilion that they'll be opening which we're really thrilled again once again to partner with the county all the work that they bring to our community um it's really great and we love our parks so uh I welcome everybody to join us as well as my peers council and that's April
29th at 12 and then finally uh this Thursday um I I welcome everyone to join us uh to uh somber memorial service in memorializing the 30th anniversary of the loss of patrolman John Norcross and
investigator uh Jack McLaclin of the Cammy County Prosecutor's Office uh that memorial service will start at 10:00 a.m down at the Dell right Chief anything else right on 10 right at 10 right at 10 so it's um you know it's a a very somber
occasion it's something um that we uh truly um as much as it's very somber I think it the the spirit of remembering those two individuals the sacrifices they've made and the many sacrifices that all of our law enforcement officers make um is very
uplifting and that is all I have for the mayor's report now we'll move into unfinished business i have a public hearing and final adoption of bond ordinance 20251569 a bond ordinance authorizing the acquisition of various capital equipment and the completion of various
capital improvements in and for the bureau of Haden Heights County of Camden New Jersey appropriating the sum of 2,787,547 therefore authorizing the issu issuance of a general obligation bond or bond anticipation notes the bureau of Hatton Heights County of Camden New Jersey an aggregate principal amount of
up to $2,137,500 making certain determinations in covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connection with the board going we have a motion to open the public hearing portion of bond ordinance 202569 motion by council president Morgan may I have a second second seconded by
Councilman Addison all those in favor i any opposed all right thank you the public hearing portion of bond ordinance 2025 1569 is now open if you'd like to make a comment specifically on this bond ordinance please step up to the microphone state your name and town that
you live in for the record not seeing any public comment on the bond ordinance may I have a motion to close the public hearing portion of bond ordinance 20251569 so moved motion by Councilman Phillips may I have a second seconded by Council President Morgan all those in favor i i
any opposed or abstain thank you next may I have a motion to adopt bond ordinance 20251569 motion by Council President Morgan may I have a second seconded by Councilman Harren i have a roll call vote please yes Mayor council
President Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes councilman Addison yes councilman I'm sorry councilwoman Harren yes and Councilman De Moore yes thank you thank you next we have new business we have introduction of ordinance 202570
an ordinance amending ordinance 20251565 authorizing salaries wages and reimbursements to be paid to non-contractual employees of the Burough Hatton Heights public hearing and final adoption of ordinance 202570 is scheduled for Tuesday May 6th 2025 at
approximately 7 p.m in the municipal building here at 625 Station Aad New Jersey i have a motion to introduce ordinance 20251570 please phillips so moved uh motion by Councilman Phillips may I have a second
second seconded by Councilman Harren may I have a roll call vote please yes council President Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes councilman Addison yes councilwoman Harren yes councilman De Moore yes thank you thank you and reminder public hearing and
final adoption of ordinance 20251570 will be scheduled for Tuesday May 6th 2025 at approximately 7 p.m here in the municipal building located at 6:25 Station of Haden Heights New Jersey next may I have a motion to introduce
ordinance 202571 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget cost of living allowance and to establish a cap bank NJSA484-45.4P i have a motion please motion motion by Councilman Addison may I have a second
seconded by Councilman Deore have a roll call vote please yes Mayor council President Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes councilman Addison yes councilwoman Harren yes councilman Deore yes thank you thank you and again public
hearing and final adoption of ordinance 2025 1571 is also scheduled for Tuesday May 6th 2025 at approximately 7 p.m in the municipal building located at 625 station at Haden Heights New Jersey [Music]
okay um next I have a motion to introduce resolution or yeah motion for to adopt resolutions 2025108 resolution certifying compliance with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance on the considerations of arrest convictions
records and employment decision under title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resolution 2025109 resolution for local examination of the 2025 municipal budget resolution 202511 resolution awarding contract to Axon for body warn
camera state contract resolution 2025112 resolution awarding agreement of for extraordinary unspecified services Garventa USA Inc in the amount of 55,584.81 Bar Hall chairlift resolution
202513 a resolution awarding a contract to Tri-State HVAC through OM Omnia Partners National Cooperative Agreement with the purpose of purchasing HVAC equipment for the municipal building resolution 2025114 resolution authorizing the hiring of a construction office planning
board secretary resolution 2025115 resolution authorizing a shared service agreement buying between the brow of Hadenfield and the brow of Haden Heights for tax assessor services in accordance with NJSA4865-1 judy Shoemaker CTA resolution 2025116 a resolution authorizing a contract to
Bach Associates for Professional Engineering Services for the design and inspection of the municipal building HVAC Remediation Project resolution 2025117 a resolution authorizing a contract Tubac Associates for professional engineering services for the municipal building roof improvements
resolution 2025 118 resolution the burough of council burrow resolution of the burough council of the bureau of Haden Heights County of Camden New Jersey authorizing the issuance and sale of up to 6,496,000 of general obligation bonds
series 2025 of the B of Haden Heights making certain making certain covenants to maintain the exemption of the interest in said bonds for federal income taxation and authorizing such further actions and making such determinations as may be necessary as appropriate to
uh effectuate the issuance and sale of the bonds resolution 2025119 a resolution authorizing the payment of bills and claims for the second half of April resolution 2025120 a resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with provisions of New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act and JSA
104-12 for one matter related to personnel in the administrative offices discussion for that is expected to be about a 15 minutes in duration formal action may be taken on the foregoing matters following executive session may I have a motion for all of those resolutions please and yes I will come back to the resolution regarding the
question i have a motion for those resolutions please motion motion by Councilman Utison seconded by Councilman Herren may I have a roll call vote please yes Mayor council President Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes
councilman Addison yes councilwoman Herren yes councilman Deore yes thank you thank you next may I have a motion to adopt resolution 2025 110 a resolution approving introduction and providing notice for public hearing in public inspection of the 2025 municipal
budget yep yep so can I have a motion please motion by Council President Morgan ignored Councilman Davor's motion oh I thought he says "Do you want a motion?" I said yes i want a motion sorry a de more motion all right so he
seconds I guess yeah motion all right so a motion by Councilman Deore and a second by Council President Morgan we have a roll call vote please yes council President Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes councilman Addison yes councilwoman Harren yes
councilman Deore yes thank you thank you public hearing and final adoption of resolution 2025 1110 is scheduled for Tuesday May 20th 2025 at approximately 7 p.m here in the municipal building located at 625 Station AB in Haden Heights New Jersey i believe right Kell that the
budget is here for anyone that would like to review it correct okay wonderful uh I will now open it up for public comment that's public comment on anything at all it doesn't have to be on the agenda just step up to the microphone state your name and the town
you live in for the record please hey guys hi Corey hi corey Mueller live in Heads school psychologist here do a bunch of things um so as a school employee and a town um member the board of education announced yesterday they're going to raise our tax levy or attempt
to apply for one for $100,000 so they're they're doing this because they feel there's a funding gap that the state admits to having but within their budget to either settle each contract or complete certain services but when you look at $100,000
and what that raises does I kind of go back to like projects that maybe have wasted funds or maybe weren't successful and I go back to the kind Devon app field so I know that there's a tri partnership agreement between the soccer club the burrow
uh and the board of education for about I don't know like a quarter million for that Devonav soccer field um so I guess the the the board of education's half was around 80,000 so I'm not sure when I think that's was last year so now I'm looking at the field now and I'm knowing
that that money wasn't successful in mediating the field and making it successful for play so I don't know um so I want to make you guys aware of that because that 80,000 would have went back supposedly to the board of education and
public school system and not probably be included in the tax levy they're proposing thus keeping our taxes down um so I just want more information on the Devon Field project how it became what it became um who pushed for it was it
the soccer club um why wasn't there like recognition that it might be a failure um what happened to the sad there because is this not playable now and I don't think it's recoverable when you look at the field that what they did is from my understanding they put like a sand layer
a dirt layer then a sod layer and now right now we're currently playing back on the sand layer so that's a quarter million of taxpayer and also uh soccer dues that didn't last a year so I just wanted more information and possibly
background on what happened and if there's a plan and it probably to correct it would probably cost more money I would assume um but I also want to know how we got there you know a little bit because I it seems like it's wasted money i'm not saying it's anybody on the board's on your council's fault
it was a tri partnership agreement and somebody must have pushed or thought it was a good idea possibly without really exploring how successful it would be does that make sense yeah yeah 100% um so where we're at right now um we actually have we've continued the
agreement um between the three parties specifically as it pertains to field maintenance which includes mowing uh but more importantly it's turf management um and with the goal of returning those fields back to um a much better state
similar to when the sod was first installed um our engineers are here in the room we did do quite a bit i want to say this was probably project started two years ago councilman um Egg Burton was here and kind of championed the initial uh push for that
we explored a number of vendors we wrote a bidsp spec um the challenge with Devon ultimately is is that it's it's a a very old town landfill and that is um considered capped and correct me if I'm
wrong Steve if I if I kind of missed that but it's considered capped where the soccer fields are now um and so the challenge has always been managing water because when you have a capped landfill it prevents water filtration through the soil into the groundwater so you're
always going to we're right now unless we were to add three feet of soil we're always going to have a water issue that sits on the field that's issue kind of number one so we did the the remediation that we did to to prep the sad um was
as best as possible without dumping million dollars plus of soil on on top for lack of better words am I correct so far Steve on that okay um so that was the challenge number one the triparty agreement um after the Assad was laid
one of the struggles we ran into specifically last year I believe it was was there was a watering issue as we went into the summer um and there was a communication breakdown between all parties uh that kind of resulted in the fields uh not being watered enough and
ending up the way they kind of look now uh there is strong belief and hopes that we will return them because that base layer of preparation that had gone in um it still exists it's not gone um and by strategically resting the fields like they actually are doing right now uh
with the varsity field that we can potentially get grass growth uh in time for fall the challenge that we always face here in Haden Heights is that we don't have a lot of fields we're a fully developed outtown this we're not Medford we're not a Gloucester County community
where we have acres and acres of open field kind of constantly rotate the play um we're left with you know three soccer fields three baseball fields three softball fields and uh two dozen teams that want to play on all of them so
that's that's always our challenge um the biggest thing that we've we've done to try to rectify this future going forward is Mike Mansorfer our CFO um who has a background in turf management uh is the point person now for all three parties to communicate anything that
they would like done at the fields we're also hired three outside vendors so before where we relied on the high school to be the sole provider of all turf management um and rely specifically on the ground screws there which at times probably in the rich reamer days
you know I'll give a shout out to Rich when I went to high school there Rich was phenomenal the guy had uh 30 plus years of experience right so he did a phenomenal job managing those fields but as employees come and go as of lately they there was some struggles there to
maintain the field all of the fields appropriately So the ultimately we decided this year to go out and contract with a third party vendor to do all of that from mowing to turf management to uh irrigation right that's the other one
thank you and um and take that that control away from both the school district the soccer club and us in a sense of trying to manage that right leave it in the hands of a professional where we'll audit it though through the leadership of Mike Hensler um does that kind of I know there was a couple
questions there and I covered a lot so I don't know if I hit them all and I appreciate it and we love you with the work that happens in town we love we're living here i I find that like um when in these and HHYA and any kind of local club there's a lot of turnover as their
kids age up new board members come in and there's like a pressure to make things happen that possibly can happen so I just hope that the town protects itself in the future from like a new board coming in 10 years from now and being we should do this side again and
not wasting the money on because I think in retrospect um maybe we wouldn't if you knew what was going to happen today you wouldn't move forward with it um knowing what this current state is i mean you don't know what's going to happen with the weather and the maintenance it's not your fault for that but it's just um you know like a missed
opportunity looking at it but I'm and I'm hopeful that like I said I don't think it's completely missed i think there's an opportunity here looking at that field i was on those fields i still am on those fields a lot because my kids are out there but like I would say they're night and day compared to how bad it was before right that was that was 20 years
of probably neglect steve when was the last time or Craig prior you know was probably early early 2000s when there was like an investment in those fields so it is better i do have high hopes um that we will get those fields back um and they're recoverable
um and I think now that Mike has his footing here he he's and he's pretty established we have a much better presence uh kind of overseeing this um and we are following obviously with the board's decision the other night which I was there was a little confusion on that $100,000 I think but um an additional
aid or tax levy or what so what's it yeah anytime that happens you think about missed opportunities and I'm not saying but like you know I'm sure there's many out there but I appreciate you guys thank you so much thank you thanks Cy yeah so I was gonna say real fast sir if if I can I want you to know
there still was significant benefit that came out of that project because what we did is was one of the requirements and our engineers in the back he will correct me when I'm wrong because I will be um we got the problem was that it was on play it wasn't draining so it was
always sppy wet right and just always like running around in a mud pudd so what we required when those fields were prepped was to do under the grass that you don't see presently was dump soil
and a sandy substance and mix it rotoill it and that was a big part of this job because now it it drains just needs the appropriate turf management to grow the grass on top of it but the underlying
problem that was occurring which was up against what's called marl or clay that doesn't drain at all it's now draining to a much better degree from my understanding we just need to get the grass back to where we needed to be and that's as simple with the watering
that's in place as you could seat it if you want which is certainly not nearly as expensive as as soding it so we did get tre and a lot of the cost was not so much with the sod on top but what was going on what you don't see under the
surface so it wasn't a recurring problem we can fix it cheaper yeah we we can we can fix it now because there is a better mix of soil yeah underneath there so there's some ability based upon even the way it was graded that it drain off
better because the bigger problem at that time two years ago was it was always wet would never drain we couldn't get any use out so I just wanted to add that in there's some benefits to what transpired i'm glad thank you Mike anything else i'm sorry the only thing I wanted to mention is I think the
governing body actually worked with county also we got a grant and one of the things one of the hurdles was that was the watering to uh it get done done in time um because we didn't have enough water pressure to be able to run multiple zones so um through our work
getting the grant we're actually able to install a booster pump on the water system two zones of irrigations down at one time which is going to number one cut down the amount of water time and allow the kids to play on it like we want them to uh but still get the amount
of water down we need so added we added some zones too to get better coverage so and that was all done through a grant so that was no cost yeah but the maintenance plan is just going in in this budget that we just did and it's got it's a it's a pretty
aggressive maintenance plan um the the challenge still on the maintenance is going to be resting the fields and getting it overseated um one of the techniques that live by golf courses use and we can possibly use here it's not in this current budget um but what I'd like
to see happen is get some blankets uh where you can actually seed them on the off season keep the soil temperature high actually use seed while the fields aren't being used um and then that will solve that problem but again it's as you can see they're doing a ton of work um
in this current budget and that just didn't make the cut right now uh but it's something that we're thinking about and and you know with their best blessing we'll get it in the next budget as well thanks guys thanks any other public
comment all right not seeing any other public comment we're going to recess into executive session should be about 15 minutes and then we'll uh have that we don't need the engineers right we're good