you're ready Okay Thank you This meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law This meeting of April 8th 2025 is included in the meeting notice sent to the Bron County Times and the Courier
Post on January 10th 2025 and advertised in Sid newspapers on January 15 2025 posted on the website and the bulletin board in the municipal building on January 9th 2025 and has remained continuously posted as required under
the statute In addition a copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the municipal clerk Would you all please rise for the flag salute i pledge allegiance 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 Okay Can you have a roll call please committee woman Evans here Committee
Montgomery present Committee Dick here Deputy Mayor here Mayor Gilmore here Okay Need an approval of the regular committee minutes of March 11th and a second please I will make that motion
Second Miss Evans Yes M Montgomery Yes Mr Dick Yes M Yes Mayor Yes We have reports from the engineer tax collector code enforcement construction fire official emergency services report
the fire department and I believe we have the state police in the building They stepped out He stepped out He was in the foyer Yeah he's talking to someone He's talking to Maryland Talking to somebody This is his time Well we can accept those and hopefully
the um officer will step back in So can I have a motion and a second please for approval motion So moved Second Mr Dick Yes Miss yes Miss Evans Yes Mr
Montgomery Yes Yes We're now open for comments from the public on agenda items only Comments are limited to 5 minutes Is there anyone in the room that has a comment regarding agenda items seeing none we know if anyone's
online No one's online Did you point oh no I just said hi to someone Okay I thought I thought you were oceaning No Close comments from the public ordinances 2025-2 to exceed the
municipal budget appropriations limit and establish a cat bank This public hearing and final adoption will now open for comments from the public This is regarding this [Music]
ordinance Seeing none close I need a motion and a second to adopt So moved Second Miss Thory yes Miss Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Mr Dick yes
Yes Consent resolutions of 2025-70-4 through 2025-71-4 I need a motion and a second Motion Second Mr Day Yes Yes Mr Montgomery Yes
Yes Yes Resolution 2025-72-4 Um this is to authorize participation in the sustainable New Jerseys program for commercial outreach I need a motion and a second Motion
Second Miss Evans Yes Mr Montgomery Yes Mr Dick Yes M Yes Mayor Dmer Yes Resolution 2025-73-4 authorizing a contract with biolistic road management assessment I
believe this is replacing one that we had authorized previously Correct It's a better program Yes I need a motion and a second So moved Second Mr Montgomery Yes Miss Yes Mr Dick Yes Miss Yes Mayor Yes
Resolution 2025-74-4 amending resolution 2025-53-1 establishing Hannesport Township's fourth round of affordable housing requirements I need a motion and a second please
So moved Second Missy yes Mr D yes Miss Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Yes And now one of the main reasons we're here this evening is the drum roll
please presentation of the 2025 budget This is Costco All right Give me a second please I need to set up [Music] Yep [Music]
Better Mhm Yep All right Perfect All right So this first slide uh reviews our actual operating budget and the main components of it uh which includes every year this is consistent your operating expenses reserve for uncollected taxes
uh deferred and other debts salary and wages and capital improvements So our total operating budget for this year is 5,31,77 which includes the reserve for uncollected taxes and that is of the responsibility of the taxpayers We have
to ensure that all of our entities uh re are receiving all of the tax funds So we have to um ensure that those that don't pay their taxes is covered So we have to budget for that $365,000 uh which we do we do encumber
that later on through tax sale uh less our anticipated revenues of a little over 2.5 million So our actual municipal levy the amount to be raised by taxation is 2,732,265 So some of the highlights for this year uh we are utilizing a little
over 1.6 6 million of fund balance This is a fiscally responsible amount to utilize as it positions the township for continued financial stability Um we do use our available appropriations cap this year to co cover some of our
necessary expenses Um however the 2025 budget does generate a bank of a little over $16,000 which can be used next year if if we need to I think the biggest takeaway this year and the thing that we're most proud of is that the 25 budget reflects a flat
tax rate It's pretty big Um we're probably one of the very few uh taxing entities in the state of New Jersey that can say that Uh the 2% levy cap has increased
$591,263 due to this year's flat tax rate The another big takeaway is our net valuation taxable decreased by a little over $3 million this year This is mostly due to the nine 100% totally disabled
veterans exemptions exemptions that were granted last year which is actually 21% of all of our total disabled veteran exemptions in Hannesport which is 43 total I do not believe that includes the one tonight or the two that you authorized in February
This removes these veterans home assessments off of the town's total assessed valuation which is used to calculate the tax levy These properties went from taxable to exempt combining for $3,132,400 reduction in the total
assessed value The budget increases services in areas of public safety fire administration um adding funds to $25,000 for the LOAP um program which was authorized by uh voters last year We have notable
increases in our liability and medical insuranceances Uh we are in our fifth year of our trash collection so it's a $100,000 increase And yes we do need to go out to bid this year for the next um up to five
years And it also includes um capital purchases for equipment including another $200,000 for a future new firet truck So again the 2025 amount to be raised for taxes for municipal purposes is a
little over 2.7 million which is actually a little under $11,000 decrease from 2024 So the average home assessment of $281,68 would see an increase in
municipal taxes of zero Yay So the average the average monthly municipal tax bill will be the same as 2024 which is $86.92 And again Hannesport Township is year three of being [Music]
debtree So our 2025 capital project goals uh we are dedicating the remaining $350,000 matching commitment for Creek Turn Park phase 1 improvement program We are supplementing our road improvement program by half a million dollars Again
another $200,000 for fire rescue engine We also have funds for a bucket truck for public works operations which we hope to also do shared service arrangements with surrounding municipalities with that And it replaces an inoperable trafficcoming device and
our computer replacement program So here's a breakdown of the amount to be raised by taxation um for all of our taxing um entities Again uh the total gener general appropriations for 2025 municipal budget which is does not
include the rut is 4 a little over 4.9 million And again we can only provide you with estimations for the other entities um tax uh budgets for this year So basically what the auditors do is they add 2% of the prior year's
appropriation So this year we're estimating uh a little over $10 million for the local school district And you see over on the right column is what they what their actual budget was in 2024 Regional school district I'm sorry regional high school uh 4.1 million Your
county taxes which also includes their open space tax the library tax a little over 4 million our municipal open space tax which is consistent from last year 237,821 uh for total general appropriations 23,689,847 plus the amount of revenues
that we bring in as a local municipality to offset the budget which is uh less revenues for 2025 anticipating a little over 2.5 million So the cash required to support a local uh municipal budget
21,120,45 and then I believe we add the reserve for uncollected taxes to that which is 21,485,45 and then it's just another analysis of that total amount And again it's just a breakdown of the way of how we get down to our
local tax for municipal purposes again 2.7 million So here we're just showing you um the actual uh local rates which we can provide you today and then the estimated rates of everyone else Again our municipal tax rate is.346 plus our
open space is 030 Local school district we're estimating a tax rate of one a little over 1.3 county 0.516 and regional 0.526 So as you can see your municipal
taxes uh rates are the smaller of all of them and showing you the calculation of how our rate is calculated against the home assessment per $100,000 time the total
times the total tax rate of 2.721 which gives you the total property taxes for average homeowner of 7 uh $7,616 and then again your local average of $972.50 50 cents for the
year And then this is just something that I pulled out of the budget which I never presented before as the actual budget document It just shows you like your actual home assessment and what your taxes will be for the local instead of the average So if your home is assessed at
$750,000 your actual local tax is approximately 2 uh $2,595 Again the same as last year The uh Can I ask a question sure Uh the second column it's total tax Can you
explain that column so it's property assessment total tax Is that the amount for tax for all those homes school your local school and your county Right So and then the the column the third column where it says local tax is just your
municipal tax Municipal Right Okay And then this is just another way to show um our pieces of the pie in terms of actual tax levy as opposed to the tax rate and the municipal rate combines the open
space as well Right That's we that's both for um well that's broken out the local tax that's broken out right but that is included that they're combined right is that am I reading that for your local tax correct right okay but like I could have broken out the
county level levy I could have broken out their actual their levy and then broken out the library tax and broken out open space tax So they actually have three lines within their levy We have two The regional has one
and the local school district has one And then here is just another way to look at it in terms of percentages So both last year and this year the municipal le levy represents 13.82% of your total property tax
allocation And then this is last year's actual because we can work in definitive numbers And there's your percentage of actual levy allocation So almost 50% of the taxes that we're collecting
are going to the the Hannesport school and then almost another 20% to RV Right Correct I think Hannesport school is a little over 10 million RV was a little over 4 million Right And I think the county was around 4 million is 5 million 4 million a little
under four million and this is what it ended up last year So obviously we're we're estimating because we don't have these figures yet from any of those We just have ours So we're on time but yeah this goes generally the county is the last to strike their rate and I think
that's an August Paul that's where the RV's length rate is that divided by five basically not not is that like 1/5if of it or does every town have a different number every town we have a based on population we have different percentages Yeah that's
what I meant Yeah Okay Just curious And that's available Oh no no no I I just push with their budget Yeah Information They do make that available I believe based on school population I guess I'm not sure how they calculate it
East Hampton is the lower of the group We're a little bit more by the end of next week Yeah Every other town may actually I probably have that information in Can look it up later Thanks So that's it if you have any
questions I mean no quite excited I don't know how you argue a flat tax rate Probably the first time ever in my career that that's I'm just curious Is the inoperable traffic calming device one of those uh movable ones that shoots
up the speed and or what are we talking about uh it's the Yes it's the one that you can actually see right so we have two different ones We have a hidden one Oh okay And then we have the visible one that actually slows cars down Okay And then the hidden one we set out to to get
more factual Gotcha Well we definitely got to replace that The visual one Yes Yeah And also you look at it the the actual property tax the way it ended up was 14.11 and this year based on the
estimates um and etc it's um less than that We're at 13.8 Well Yep Great job by the CFO and the finance team I'm sorry And Don Mlan's here He's phenomenal So I also want to highlight um
so we put a significant amount each year We we we do replen we do put money in the fund balance because of we we are very conservative in how we how we manage our funds and our operations um we had a a significant number of con
a significant amount of construction fees come in from obviously all the buildings So that contributed to a pretty high revenue Um but most notably our investments our return on investments because of Dawn She has been
so she's captured um some prior mistakes and was able to recapture some lost um interest rate earnings from our accounts She's also invested 5 million in the which fund is that new Jersey Cash Management New Jersey cash management
fund which I don't know that we've ever done that and that's got a pretty good return on that much better return So um the interest that uh the town has been earning in the last couple years has exponentially increased because of our
CFO's efforts and and and what she does um and how she manages taxpayer dollars So um the revenues obviously is a big part of the conversation Um so although we're using so much more in surplus we continue to replenish it Um and I think
it's important that we operate just like we do our homes and and we have money saved you know for our expenses should anything happen um in the future So and it allows us to continue to be debtree and pay pay things as as we need to So knowing what our operational costs are
each year it's good to have a savings I mean rough thumbnail is to have that type of savings for um to match what what we're what our operational expenses are now uh to have that saved Sure Well and then also when
we have our total assessed value which is how we determine our tax rate when that goes down for whatever reason we're able to now say we can we're utilizing a little bit more of our surplus doesn't affect things to offset that so that our t our residents aren't getting a higher
tax rate So when that when that pool of taxes shrinks the tax rate changes for everybody So we're able to offset that by smart planning and and utilizing more of our um fund balance this year Great Well this resident is happy with
that result So we have to have a public uh open public Okay So at this point in time I'd like to open it uh the budget uh presentation to public hearing Anyone in the room wishes to
make a comment with regards to the budget seeing none closing comments and I'd like to offer up resolution 2025-75-4 which authorizes the 2025
budget to be read by title only I need a motion and a second please So moved Second Mr Montgomery Yes M Yes Ne Yes Mr Dick Yes Mayor yes Resolution
2025-76-4 adopts the 2025 budget I need a motion and a second So moved Second Mr Montgomery Yes Mr Dick Yes Miss Evans Yes Miss Fory Yes Mayor Gilmore
Yes So business licenses Need an approval of business licenses Oh there's quite a few Need a motion in a second please So moved Second M yes M Yes M Montgomery
Yes Mr Dick Yes Mayor Yes I see the uh patrolman has come back into the room Sir would you like to come up and give your report at this time i'd like to thank you very much for helping our resident you know Thank you
very very much No problem Um I'm not the normal person coming No So I don't have a more detailed report for you Um I know there's been car thefts in the area I know most of those vehicles if not all have been recovered Um I guess we would just remind all residents to just keep
their doors locked keep your key fobs out of your vehicles and then secure them uh inside your home away from the front door just to avoid any future uh you know car issues going forward Um and that that's really all we have on the do you know how far they need to be kept i
cuz I read something recently with regards to the fact they're cloning them They don't even have to break in and steal them anymore if if you're you're hanging your key near your doorway they can somehow capture it I don't know if that's what's been in these recent cases
I believe these recent cases have all been kind of just keys left in the vehicles Um so they're just kind of walking up the door handles Um it's a lot of active investigation I mean I'm sure technology will keep uh increasing and so will the bad guys and learning
new ways to take advantage But you know I wouldn't le necessarily leave it right next to your front door Um maybe just closer inside your house but obviously I can't speak to the uh that current technology usage
Okay All right Well thank anybody else Thank you sir Thank you Thank you Lea Yes Just as an add-on to that they do sell even on Amazon there's little pouches you can buy for like 12 bucks to leave your key fob in that makes them unscannable
Usually that's when they're looking for a specific part cuz they can clone from the outside thing Yeah So it's like just this little pouch and you put your and then they can't clone your your key fob from the outside Now again that's when they're looking for a specific car So it wouldn't necessarily be this where they
were just kind of opening doors but but that you can buy them on and just put in like I but you can find it on Amazon So they've got everything Yeah Fab pouch Yeah Now as a Jeff Noble Google Okay Well we are now open for comments
from the public Comments are limited to 5 minutes Anyone in the room yes ma'am You come up to the front State your name and address please And then what can we do hi I'm
Marilyn Hoing I live at 131 Paisley Place in the Glenn Um I was robbed on October 23rd and to make a long story short um no they I was never told if the person was
captured or you know um and it was told to a neighbor of mine a couple streets over that the man had been captured and it was from our landscaping people and because they came in through my back door that had a wind or my back window
my bedroom that had a window open this much and the gentlemen of Merit um landscaping were there all day So and they saw my I sure they saw my jewelry box on the corner So everything was taken but I'm hearing
that they've gotten the guy but no no no one has uh let me know that And I I just want some answers And I just talked to this gentleman back here the officer and um he's going to talk to some people too But I'd like it on record that I'd like
the truth I'd like whether or not I they really did and why I haven't been excuse me told And uh lot lot of things kind of went by the wayside with the whole thing with the whole robbery But um so that's
that's what I wanted to just say I'd like to find out And I just told this gentleman you know we'd like more cars back where we are We're all over 55 people are scared and um you know and hearing that now they're
petrified So that's that's all I need to say I'm sure the landscaper would like to know Oh that's another thing Yes we um I was told by the trooper that the head of the landscaping um was talked to We the general I'm on
the board at the Glenn and I asked him a question the head and he said no no nobody um nobody talked to him He knew nothing of my robbery So um I'd like the truth I'd like really to know what's going on So that's it Thank
you Sorry for your loss Thank you for uh Thank you Yeah Very making it public Yeah Thank you Okay Anyone else in the room yes sir [Music] Good evening Joe Shulie 3L on our
drive As strange as it may seem I've struggled with how to open this presentation or talk if you will Um we all love the environment We all love our blue skies over Hannesport We have a green team Um yet there's some curious
things going on that if you looked up in the sky usually at some point in the morning you would see these long condensation trails from horizon to horizon that soon they dissipate I'm sorry they don't
dissipate They diffuse into these clouds Now there's a a large school of thought that maintains that these clouds contain nano particles of aluminum parryion strronium uh a whole
host of chemicals designed to reflect the sunlight And they say that maybe earthwide globally maybe 20% of the Earth's sunlight has been blocked or reflected back out into space
If you looked on Google and or just did a search on any search engine you'll see these chem quote unquote what they're called in the vernacular chemtrails That's a conspiracy theory It's debunked Uh now even RFK is looking into it in
his uh new capacity But I just wanted to say that advise that there is a state senator Ta in district 1 down the shore that has introduced a bill in February actually
February 25th of this year that would quote unquote ban geoengineering That's the technical term geoengineering And it would prohibit government private
entities from spraying these types of what amount to toxic chemicals in the air in an effort to uh mitigate global warming That is one of the key aspects
or key benefits supposedly from this process that has been going on probably for about three decades Even though the government has not admitted it now it's coming a little bit more to light and
the uh you can go back to the early 60s there was a 90page report plus attachments issued by the government uh specifically division of NASA that talked
about geoengineering essentially the title is a recommended national program in weather modification And weather modification has been a military strategy probably since the parting of the Red Sea maybe even before
And but today even the proponents of geoengineering are will admit that there are risks involved So what I'd like to do aside from recommending that we all
get Senator Tyver who is on the Energy Environment and Energy Committee to co-sponsor this bill It's Senate Bill 4161 There are 20 other states including or 19 other states including New Jersey
that have proposed similar legislation and it's something to be taken very seriously and for educational purposes the best thing that I think we can all do is to go on YouTube or just
Google a documentary by the leading proponent or the leading opponent to this chemical spraying that has again very dangerous side effects to it and it's called the dimming d i m m i n g
and if you take a look at that it runs about I think about a little over an hour and a half I mean you'll see uh interviews of folks even on the co bear show way back proposing that this is something that we should do to fight
global warming but they also talk about different uh side effects and again it's most the aluminum is the worst So with that I thank you very much I recommend this bill for your uh endorsement and I appreciate your time Thank you Thank you
Thanks Okay Anyone else in the audience anyone online we do have one resident online You have any comments okay we'll close comments from the
public Comments from the administrator I just wanted to let the community uh know that DVRPC is conducting and setting automatic traffic recorders uh throughout our community for its annual cyclical counting program Um just passing it along in case anybody
sees it and starts questioning what's going on I am pleased to announce that DCA announced this week that Hannesport received another local recreation improvement grant in the amount of $80,000 Wow Um this this is their 25 grant Uh this grant will help toward the
estimated $290,000 cost to replace the municipal park walking path solar lights uh with 17 wired and eight solar lights So hopefully that obviously will help
defay some of that cost Here uh my office did receive notification of a hazardous condition of a section of sidewalk in front of the street center last week After public works inspected the condition we determined that the entire stretch of the sidewalk should be
replaced Uh so public works received two quotes and we will be proceeding with that improvement shortly and we are utilizing um capital funding that's left over from a 2020 grant or I'm sorry ordinance at Mayor Gilmore's request Um
and with the help of Lumberton Emergency Squad we have ordered a new AED automatic defibrillator for the street community center Uh we also ordered some replacement pads for the one here in the meeting room So hopefully that will be installed uh sometime within the next month I think it's on back order but
it's been ordered It's great Um I have had two meetings this month with the Creek Turnpark phase 1 improvement Uh the team of professionals uh our engineers are completing the initial site survey which will include a drone survey mapping and refinement of the
concept plan and I think the drone survey is being conducted as we speak Either was either done today or will be tomorrow Uh the licensed site remediation professionals have been approved to conduct concrete sampling of the concrete that is slated for removal uh
to help determine the statutory and regulatory disposal requirements If applicable any of the uh concrete that is contaminated we are going to include that in our supplemental HDSRF grant application for the Creek Turn Park So we're moving along Great I know you
feel like it's slow but it's it's not promise Thank you That is all Thank you Thanks Paul Mr Gillespie comments just an observation Okay Having sat through over a hundred budget hearings in my career as a municipal
attorney sometimes deafening silence is the functional equivalent of thunderous applause Congratulations Thank you Oh I have thunderous applause Thunderous comments from the committee Mrs Evans Oh right Yes Um well first of all
I'd like to thank Dawn and everyone involved with the budget for a very gratifying result and also uh that's wonderful news on the grant Paula for the solar lights and also that turn park is moving forward You know that both projects are dear to my heart Uh I was
in England for St Patty's Day this year but I did manage to get to the Irish themed dinner dance which was a great success So thanks to the recreation committee for that I've been to two commissioners meetings in the last month and still waiting on
that review of the fiasco that was the general election in November However if you didn't see they have now passed a resolution to spend half a million dollars on new voting machines which does suggest a that they know what the problem was and b that we will be uh
doing better in the future I'm very happy that we're adding the commercial energy sorry commercial energy outreach to our very successful residential program and that is ongoing Last Saturday I got some paper
shredded at cleanup day and bought some basket auction tickets to support the PTO but I didn't win any baskets I'm looking forward to the Easter event this Saturday and also uh a Earth Day which is on April the 26th and
myself uh Janice Lutton of the Environmental Commission and Evan Monero of the Green Team are all going to be attending the Sustainable Jersey Summit on May the 9th Thank you all for coming and see you next month Okay Thank you Mr
Dick Um just a couple things One good luck to all of our younger athletes High school spring sports and middle school spring sports just started so good luck to them Um I think Leela you posted the other day a new traffic website that the
county if you go on the Facebook page for Hannesport Township for Hannesport Happenings for Hannesport 0836 it's all over the place I think it's on Leela's personal page It's actually pretty cool It's an interactive map You can just click on it and you can click on certain intersections I think it's the whole county but but it's obviously for us you
can click on any intersection where there's a trouble and it gives you a bunch of different prompts on what kind of problem is there whether it's low visibility whether the stop sign or whatever And I guess the more traffic they get on that the quicker the county will go out and and attend to the problem So take a look at it It's a
really neat um I discovered uh something today you can go on and those things those intersections and trouble points that are already up there you can click on them and then you can do a thumbs up okay and hit comment So you don't have to continually put the same Yeah cuz
some of them are obviously Yeah like there's a lot of stuff But just because it's up there doesn't mean you shouldn't be clicking it because there's some really bad um situations that are existing Yeah So it's real simple to use It's real easy It's It's very user
friendly and and it would obviously help if more people used it Um looking for uh a yoga instructor to help out with some classes for Hannesport Township residents I'm doing this on behalf of Donna Casey asking she asked me I don't have anybody So if you know of a yoga instructor that might be interested in helping out have them get
in touch myself or Donna I'd like to help out some residents with some yoga classes Um just to double up on um what the state police mentioned uh our house actually our car our our blink cameras caught multiple nights a car stopping in
front of our house person get out lights go off they checked all three of our cars they got b back in and a couple of houses on Lennox Drive actually were you know just robbed of like a couple dollars here or there whatever so a lot of it is just what's what's easy and accessible so definitely keep your
valuables in your in your house but also lock your cars cuz it seems like that's what 90% of it was I mean obviously there might be some more but that was what we saw on all the car cams on all the cameras we saw in our neighborhood Um and then the last thing and it's kind of a weird one So RV does every year if
you have kids that are older you might have heard of this and I was telling Karen about this something called Silent Assassins So I just want to make everyone aware of what Silent Assassins is Um it's a in my opinion it's a wonderful kind of right of passage adolescent thing Basically there's about 200 kids at at the high school senior
level that sign on for it They're assigned a target and they have certain rules that they have within our community to go find said target and shoot them with a water gun and then videotape it so that they're then out It's basically a very large drawn out
water gun fight for 17-year-olds Um the reason I bring it up is because you may see some unusual while you're watching your cars not get robbed You might see some unusual things on your blink camera as I did when my daughter got attacked or however you say that in
front of our house on Saturday night It is good fun I'm sure there's some kids that can take it too far but just be conscious of if you see a bunch of kids running and they have to use very bright obvious water guns It it is it is pretty well regulated That said kids will be
kids So just be very conscious of that If you see kids running through your backyard or something like that don't jump to the worst conclusion Be aware I'm not saying to ignore it but understand that that is something that will happen from now probably until early June Um you will see kids running around in in goggles or swim floaties
That's something that they use to stay safe There's a bunch of weird rules to the game Um not to bog you down with it just understand you might see some teenagers running around It is relatively good wholesome fun Um that's about all I have Thank you Mr from my gallery
So um participated in the uh shredding event and household junk collection this past weekend So a number of folks out there Um so we do that twice a year When is the next one october where is it october 27th is the
next event So the shredding takes place right out here in the township building And the household junk which is tires and paint cans and other types of household junk is um behind the street center Um I was also able to be at the St Patrick's Day dance Unfortunately I
went stag My wife was unable to attend but um it was a lot of fun So uh please uh mark that down in your calendars for another time You had fun What's that we have pictures We have pictures Yes Uh oh pictures Um I met with with Paula um and
just really impressed with um just some of the extra homework being done on the AI program for our road management survey Just really thought that was great work and also about the budget uh for Dawn Mlan and her team and Paul and Jan and everyone else um for what
they've done I mean to have another flat tax rate and rate in our third year of no debt Um even though we lost uh quite a bit of our tax base that number was was it 3 million is that what that Yeah losing 3 million of our tax base
and still managed to uh manage that well So um kudos [Music] Um just want to wish everyone a happy Easter and um God bless Hansport Thank you Thank you This is Torney Um yes Um
Donna and her team have been keeping us very very busy It seems like we have meetings every other day all these events coming up We're always doing something So I'd like to um say thank you to Leela to Sue to Liz and Lorraine
because you guys all work so hard all the time You're always here at all these meetings Um tomorrow we will be getting um together stuff 2,000 eggs for the egg hunt on hunt on on Saturday um which
will be held at noon There'll be um games crafts and uh face paintings Again I'd like to rec um recognize everybody on the excellent job you guys did on the dance It was just really truly beautiful We all had a great time I saw that uh Sam and um Anna were at the school
buying tickets I bought mine but I I didn't win anything either you know but it was nice It was really nice They did a great job They had over 70 baskets So congratulations to the school I hope they made some money Um Leela has been so busy with her mayor's wellness
campaign She also has been keeping us active Um on March 18th we had a presentation regarding scams that um can affect seniors and really all of us And it was so well attended and it was excellent that we're going to do a a
follow-up in September And um on April 23rd we're having another pres presentation at the Kenneth Center about senior medications and their interactions But um one of the things that we're so excited about is our veterans task force that um we have
formed and under Leela's direction And on May 14th two of our veterans on the committee Rick Murphy and Mark Marty will be making pancakes and we are going to be having a pancake breakfast for our veterans and
we hope that um they the word gets out and they come and they can meet each other Um that's you too Joe You know so um we're really excited about the task force and I think that's going very well What is the date for the painting um May 14th
Um and with that I'd just like to say um do do you wish people blessed Passover is that what it is i wish you blessed Passover to all our Jewish friends and wish everybody a blessed and happy Easter And God bless you God bless Hannesport God bless America Thank you
Thank you Well first of all I want to thank everyone for coming out tonight with the weather being less than ideal Your dedication for staying informed and engaged is truly appreciated A special thank you to our
CFO Dawn Mlan and to our administrator Paula Costasco for all the hard work and preparation that went into tonight's budget presentation Thanks to their efforts and despite the loss of an additional nine homes this
year for a total of 43 on the tax roles we were able to maintain a flat municipal tax rate This was achieved through smart investments a strong surplus and the addition of new
ratables all while continuing to maintain a healthy financial cushion for the town I also want to highlight that April 20th marks the beginning of volunteer appreciation week We can never say thank
you enough to the residents who give of their time and energy to our community Whether it's reading to our preschoolers stuffing Easter eggs helping seniors with yard work or serving on the joint land use board the
environmental commission editing our bimonthly e newswsletter and so many other ways Your contributions do not go unnoticed and they are deeply valued As for the mayor's wellness
campaign it's far from resting on its laurels Since 2021 Donna Casey and I along with Dr Elizabeth Forbes have worked to provide information and programs to promote a healthier community I am so
impressed with how far this campaign has grown We now have over 15 people involved We continue to host flu clinics and valuable seminars at the community center This month on April 14th the Jefferson
Mobile Health Mammogram Screening Bus will be providing free cancer screenings Also on the 23rd Dr Debbie Johnson will speak about how aging affects the brain and mental health Looking ahead next month Dr
Reverend Mitchell will be discussing medications and their impacts on the brain Lastly I am pleased to share that we have applied for the $5,000 um funding that's available through the
county Division of Behavioral Health and Youth Services to support the substance abuse prevention in our school Another step in our ongoing commitment to the health and well-being of this community
Thank you all again for your time and your involvement and your support as we continue to move forward together Thank you And with that I'd like to pay the bills Make a motion that we pay our bills
Second the motion Montgomery Yes M Yes Evans Yes Mr Dick Yes Yes And with that I believe we are adjourned Good night everybody Good night 722
Whoa Wow Just make up the motion Would I forget a motion make a motion to be ajourned We all We all adjourn We all adjourned