I don't 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. Roll call, please. Committeewoman Evans, here. Mini Montgomery here. Mini Dick Andy. He's on.
Committeeman Dick, are you there? Trying to think. Is he muted? Maybe. Hold on. Let me see. Did he mute himself? Maybe. Did his wife mute him? No. Only kidding. Hold on.
Behave yourself for your wife. I know. Or she'll be muting me. You got that right. Let me just make sure. Um, connected. Testing. Testing. Oh, I mean, our microphone's working.
You want me to move on? Present, but you can't hear me. He said he's trying. All right. He's here. Okay. He's trying to talk. Deputy Mayor Tory here. Mayor Gilmore here. Minutes. We have um the regular
committee minutes of June 25th and the executive minutes of June 25th. I need a motion and a second, please. So moved. Have a second. Second. Mr. Montgomery. Yes. Mrs. Tory. Yes. Mrs. Evans. Yes.
Mr. Dick. H I wonder why we can't hear him. Uh, send unmute request. Hold on. Well, he's muted. Okay. I don't know what's going on here. Let
me try another speaker. Try that, Andy. Something's trying. I heard. Oh, he was just there. Yeah, he was. All right, I'll let him know. Okay, Mayor Gilmore. Yes. Reports. I see Sergeant Antinucci in the
building. Was this camera like gives us a thumbs up? Can you hear me now? Yes. Yes. All right. I just logged back in. Sorry about that. Thank you. Hello everyone. Hello.
So, yes to that. Uh uh no. Uh the vehicle thefts have been uh going on. Arrests have been made. However, they're juveniles, so they're
released and they go back at it again. So, so far it's been I don't want to jinx it now, but uh we're still uh working with the other municipalities and uh the Burrow County Prosecutor's Office is uh coordinating everything.
So hopefully uh I'll have a better uh news uh next meeting, but arrested. Another reminder, don't leave key fobs in the cars. A lot of these thefts are preventable
and uh and uh uh just they're they're a thorn in our side right now, right? But, uh, arrests have been made, but like I said before, they're juveniles,
so they they're not held. They're released and they go back at it again. So, they're not held accountable at all. Okay. That didn't happen when I was a kid, that's for sure. All All changed.
Did you want to report anything on Eastn Way? Oh, Eastn Way. We got Trooper Bowman. He just uh recently uh came to our station and he's doing some patrols out there and he made uh some car stops. He was out in an air out in the area. I don't
know if you guys seen it. Speeders or uh stop signs and stuff. Stop sign violations. So, good. Thank you. Good to know. So, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Sergeant. Okay. So we have the report from the
engineer, the tax collector, code enforcement, construction, fire official, emergency services, and the fire department, and of course, Sergeant Antinucci. I need a motion and accept in a second. I just like to say, I'm sorry, excuse me. I just like to say that there are a number of grant applications that are
that are in there and a number of awards that are mentioned. So, great job. Um, thank you. And, um, that's money that comes to the town. That's um I guess somewhere along the line we paid for it, but uh not not directly uh out of our
pockets this time. So, thank you. So, I'll make a motion that we approve. Second, Mr. Montgomery. Yes. Mrs. Evans? Yes. Mr. Dick? Yes. Miss Tory? Yes. Mayor Gilmore? Yes. Yes. Yes.
Okay. And now we have a uh presentation with regards to the health in all policies practices. Right. So, yep. This is something that the green team has undertaken uh in part because it's a sustainable Jersey action
which will get us points towards our silver certification hopefully, but also because health in all policies is smart and good for the community. The great news is that uh according to our analysis, Hanesport is already doing quite a really good job in terms of
incorporating health in all policies. And that's in part because of course we've had the mayor's wellness committee going for several years now. We've also got the uh environmental commission doing its role. The green team plays a role. Paula, our administrator, has also
played a role. I I didn't actually know this until we undertook this study, but uh you have to analyze your township community for vulnerable populations whenever you apply for a federal grant. And so we've been doing that all along. Uh so so great job. Um also want to
mention Jen's efforts as deputy Clark uh circulating the GIF wellness bulletin and making sure that the uh employee wellness is also taken care of there. Uh so I just want to you guys have got the um the report so you can read it at your leisure but uh I just wanted to
highlight one area where um I feel that uh Hannesport could do a little bit better and also if we undertake an analysis of this we can get even more sustainable Jersey points for a different action and that is and I know
we have tried hard to increase representation on our boards and committees but I don't think we've ever undertaken a um rigorous analysis of the uh representation on our boards and committees compared to our township de
demographics, right? And I actually did as part of the green team the um equity and demographic report last year and so I'm I'm quite aware of things like for example we we now have 8% Southeast Asian population, right? all the the the
Sikhs and the Muslims that you see uh around town and of course we don't have any of them on any of our boards and commissions. So that's the kind of thing that if we did a rigorous analysis we would be able to compare um with our demographics and maybe make some
recommendations and uh reach out to members of those community and try and include them more. So what I'm proposing is that we uh do a survey and we send that survey out to the Jub to the environmental commission to the green
team and of course to us. I mean I could probably fill out ours but uh and there we can then we can have a rigorous analysis of our boards and commissions and compare that to our um demographics. So I've actually got a I because I was
doing this this afternoon. It isn't in the packet but I have the survey here that I'm suggesting for you. I can also email it to you after the um after the meeting. The survey would be offered as a survey monkey online survey and also
as a paper survey or as a PDF so that everybody it's not mandatory and it is anonymous. So the idea is to look at the data you know in aggregate not to look at any particular board or commission but just to look at all of the people who are involved in boards and
commissions and look at them uh as I say in aggregate and compare that with the demographics. So I I would if anyone would like to ask me questions I'd love to answer them but what I'm suggesting is that uh with your approval we go ahead and um get that survey up and
running and out there. thoughts. Will it Are you looking to expand it by including other committees? We can include as many committees as you like. I mean, I know we have the mayor's
wellness committee and that is actually one of our most diverse committees. So, if you if you wanted to send it to that one as well, I think that would be absolutely fine. I was just trying to make it more manageable by making it sort of the, you know, the governmental ones rather than the meal. uh and what
gets done with this information? Well, again, it's anonymous. It is not mandatory. I would envisage making some charts like for example some pie charts comparing the the demographics in a
particular area of Hannesport. So, for example, ethnicity, I've told you I just mentioned that we are 8% Asian, but as I know for a fact, I don't believe we have any Asians on any of our boards and commissions. We're about 9% African-American and we have a few
people a few uh we have South East Asian 8% no no no 8% it's basically um people from the Indian subcontinent so it's like Indians uh Pakistanis mostly and some Chinese but it's mostly in Hannesport
like visually if you walk around you can probably tell that it's mostly Indians and Pakistanis that we have that have moved in really over the last four or five years a lot of them into Creek View in Lakeside, some into Franklin Estates, but some everywhere. Yeah.
Okay. So, is this for your information or does this get passed on to somebody else? This information would be uploaded to the sustainable Jersey website. So, there's a couple questions on here that I would have questions about. Like, my municipality
actively recruits people. If they say no, no, no, that's going to look bad on for us out there in the public. Well, the idea is to be honest and get an honest appraisal of how well the township is doing with respect to these issues. Well, I you know that's fine for us to
know. I think it's good for us to know, but I don't know if I want it out there every for everybody else, but that's just my opinion. What does this have to do with the green team? Actually, it's a sustainable Jersey action. So they're looking at
demographics for the this is the green team that that you represent though and and and so it's part of it's something else with the state of New Jersey, right? So you remember in the fall at
the League Communist Party and um we were we got the bronze certification, right? Yeah, we are now working towards silver certification and that means that we have to find actions that will earn us points that are also make sense for the
community. There's no point in doing something that doesn't make sense for the community. I guess I thought green team was more of environmental things. I didn't my understanding I didn't understand it to be a lot and all that. A lot of people don't truly understand the definition of
sustainability, which is at the root of sustainable Jersey. And so, a lot of it is about environmental practices, clean energy, uh, and that sort of thing. But sustainability is actually about making decisions that make your community
equally good for everyone in the community today and tomorrow. And I've said, as you know, before I was on the committee and when I was out there, I've occasionally observed that our boards and committees weren't necessarily that representative of of our demographics.
And that means that you're excluding some people whose points of views are not being heard. I don't think it means we ex we're excluding people. It just may mean Yeah. It just may mean that those people maybe aren't active, but it doesn't mean that we're excluding No. No. But
because I'm certainly not excluding. See I I grew up in Willingboro which was certainly very diverse and that's how I was reared and that's how I rear my children and going to RV as you know your children went there very diverse and our town is diverse so I'm not excluding anybody.
Sorry I I picked a word badly there. That is not my intent. My intent is to say that we probably should be thinking about actively including people from that 8% because 8% is a sizable minority and that is a group of
people with a distinctive culture who are relative newcomers to Hannesport who might have useful perspectives on the ways in which we operate as a town. Right. Sure. And so I was thinking for example that we actually have an inn with that
community because I'm quite friendly with Balia Singh the former commissioner who is now in the assembly and I know that he goes to the same temple as many of the people who've moved into Hannesport. So I could reach out to Mr. ing and I could ask him to
survey his friends and see if one of them would fill out one of our applications to be on a board and commission and then next time a space opens up we might be able to invite somebody from that community. I think everybody is welcome to attend meetings and to apply and to get
involved. So I think that's a great idea. I just didn't understand how the whole thing had to do with the green team, but I guess how it's a few categories out in this this uh sustainability green team actions under sustainability
come into a lot of subcategories. I think there are 16 subcategories. This particular subcategory uh the survey comes under the diversity, equity and inclusion subcategory. Right. The health in all policies action comes under
health. Right. Where we've already got several other points because of the mayor's wellness. So the so the green team really covers a whole lot. Really is a lot. Yeah. We do what we can. We do what we can. Okay. Thank you. Um Anna, I think that you're doing a
great job. I do. I do. But I think that like I I am totally opposed to us putting our own negative information out there for the world to see. like we're not inclusive or we're not at you know that part of the the survey. Um I'm just
not for that. Um it kind of doesn't show the fact that people may not volunteer. That's right. It that it looks like we are excluding when we're not. Is always begging people to volunteer and with all the activities that we have in town those are plenty of
opportunities for them to step up and do a meeting. So I I think in particular with this I keep referencing this particular community because it's one that I've observed. We have a sizable minority population and we have no representation. Right? And I think
culturally that particular ethnic cultural group needs to be encouraged and invited. They're not going to come and volunteer. they need to have somebody reach out a hand and say, "Hey, we would love to have someone from your
community on one of our boards. Would you like to fill out a resume and submit it?" I don't think it's as easy as just saying anyone can fill out a resume. Right. Or come to a meeting or Yeah. Come get involved. Yeah, sure. Right. But I think somebody needs to
reach out a hand. I don't think anyone's going to just spontaneously do that. But why couldn't you just do that now? I could, but it wouldn't get us any sustainable Jersey points. I see. I see. So, even if we handed this out and and
you got no response whatsoever except perhaps your own or one or two others, there's no requirement for anyone to respond. It just it is anonymous and non-mandatory. Yeah, I I I agree with Karen though. I don't I mean, if we're going to look at it ourselves and do at it do it
ourselves, I Yeah, but have that go out and Yeah, there's just two questions on there, you know, that I'm a little you that that says my municipality actively
recruits people from different cultures and backgrounds. And so what if they say strongly disagree, my municipality proactively encourages people, etc., etc. to attend meetings and activities. Strongly disagree, that puts a negative light on Hannesport. pretty much. Well, you're assuming that people would
say strongly disagree. That there's a possibility. Okay. No. Doesn't that suggest that we could be doing a better job? Yeah. That's good for us to know, but I don't want the whole world to know that regardless. So when I say it's uploaded to the sustainable Jersey website, what
I mean is that it would be one of the roughly 35 actions that we upload to our township website which are searchable, but somebody from another municipality who is interested and a member of sustainable Jersey would have to search
the database with a view to finding out what Hannesport did. It's not like the Burlington County Times could just go and look for it. It's not that kind of public knowledge. It's it's available, searchable, but it's not blazed all over Sustainable
Jerseys front page. I know, but it only takes one person, but it is public. But it is public. It's It's public knowledge in the fact that it's part of a searchable database of public knowledge. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Anna. Okay. Thanks. Great. Great. Great report.
Is that a no think about it a little bit maybe? And you you certainly can. Um, I was hoping to get absolutely uh is does it count as executive session material? Maybe not for this today, but like whatever. But the problem is that I um I'm trying to
put together an application that will get us the number of points that we need for silver certification and that needs to be done by July the 31st. So, it would be great. That's why I put on the survey responses by July the 23rd, which
gives me or would give me a week to sort of analyze it and make the charts etc. that would then be uploaded. But um what other options are there that we could do? Not do get us points or change some of other things. So, um, I've presented a
number of things that you have, sorry, that have also not received approval, such as making the town solar friendly, introducing a small wind ordinance, making the building tobaccof free. Uh,
and none of these have really gone anywhere. So, our building's not tobaccof free. not ground legally tobacco free as in we have a cigarette thing at the end one end of the building in this building so it has to be the there's a certain
radius of the building that needs to be tobaccof free and then if we do that what kind of points would we get for that I can't remember if it's five or 10 um but there are other things of course that we can do but I do find that I get some push back on I don't ever remember discussing
tobaccof free I think I sent it to leader in Poland. There are some smokers that do work here in the there people when they come out of their car, they they put out their cigarette, you know, outside one of those things. So that that could be
too close to the building. They would have to put them out. They'd have to put the cigarettes out before they came to the Well, they do put it out before they come into the building, right? Before they pulled onto the ground. You're saying it should I would have to revisit the uh action to tell you exactly what the requirement is
but it certainly right now we don't qualify and what we would have to do is we would have to pass a resolution to qualify right so that we we were and we had the intention to be tobacco free uh which again we don't now have time to
pass any of these resolutions before the uh deadline to uh submit the points but I could do this but you It was always a little bit of a um Hail Mary pass because Oh, look at me. I'm all American. Um because uh
Anna, Anna, does that does it have that survey does it have to have all those questions? It's a good question and I can also ask that I can reach out to them and ask that were off of there. I would probably right. I already took the third section out completely which was it seemed to
suggest was entirely optional and I think you would have objected even more to the third section. Yeah. I mean if it's a chance to make us look bad because three people think are saying it. Well, there were some questions that
were in the original one I guess that I saw. This isn't I took out the third section that um I'm going I have no idea what this means and I don't know it suggested that the third section was optional so I opted out of the third section
but I can reach out and say we could we just run this without the last two um or do we have to run every question is can we do you know rather than you know yeah because I think it would be good to know
these things if we had it for ourselves. But to Karen's point, I I agree to put it out there for public, you know, I I agree. But it I think it's some good information here. It would be good to have this again based on what percentage you get the people that respond. But,
you know, something's better than nothing. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm sure you'll check on that shortly and get back. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Thanks. Thanks, Hannah. Welcome.
Yeah. Thank you, Hannah. Uh, Mayor Gilmore, may I request to add a discussion item? Sure. To the agenda? Absolutely. Or can I just do it during my report? I want to talk about the storm water report. Okay. I'm going to just do it as part of the administrator's report so we don't
have to amend the agenda. That's okay. Absolutely. All right. Thank you. Whatever works. Trying to find ways to outrun the rain. Well, if you could make it move the other way. So, we are now open for comments from
the public regarding agenda items only. Comments are limited to five minutes. Agenda items only. I see a hand in the classroom. So with regard to uh Anna Evans u request
your name and address to Fox Court Haynesport. So this particular request and the green team in general is really a part of what's called agenda 2030 which is uh put out by the UN by a gentleman
especially by the name of Carl Klaus. um he's part of the Davos crowd and what they ultimately are heading for is that you will own nothing and be happy. And so before you actually go and vote on
this agenda, this green team agenda, which is part of agenda 2030, I suggest you look at agenda 2030 and see what the real purpose of that agenda is. I'm not going to say or imply or whatever, but I think you need to educate yourself on on
that agenda 30. The other issue I have I I understand that Miss Evans is very for um as far as affordable housing is concerned. Those people who are needing affordable housing, she wants to
Are you do you agenda items only? Well, this is what I'm I'm getting at right here. She wants to incorporate with affordable housing people into the normal housing. It's called inclusion. Isn't that correct? Which means you don't really
differentiate or you're trying not to different people on the basis of their economics, on the basis of their race. But now here we have on the other hand, you're dividing people up by the basis of their economics and perhaps their race. Personally, I'm an American. I
don't consider myself necessarily a black person or a white person when I'm asked to fill out a form. I don't say I'm black or white. I don't say that I'm Spanish, Israeli, or British. I'm an American and I want to be represented as
an American. So, I don't like identifying people and dividing them up. When I ran for committee, I ran on Hannesport is one one people all offered the same opportunity. If they have an interest and doing something for our
township, it's advertised in so many different ways. And I'm opposed to dividing people up that way. That's my comment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in the room with a comment?
Anyone online this evening? There are two people online. Anybody wish to make a comment regarding the uh agenda items? Uh go ahead, Joe. Joe, we can't hear you.
Joe, can you are you speaking? He raised his hand, but he's not. I'm gonna have to say no. Okay. Close comments. Ordinances. Ordinance 2025-4
amending chapter 104 of the code of the township entitled land use and specifically section 104-21 decisions. This is the first reading and introduction. The public hearing and final adoption will be August the 12th.
I need a motion and a second please. So moved. Second. Mrs. Jordy. Yes, Miss Evans. Yes, Mr. Montgomery. Yes, Mr. Dick. Yes, Mayor Gilmore. Yes.
Ordinance 2025-5 to release, vacate, and extinguish any and all public rights to the remaining portion of Greenwood Avenue. This is the first reading and introduction. The public hearing and final adoption will be August the 12th. I need a motion and
a second, please. Motion second. Mrs. Evans, yes. Mrs. Jordy, yes. Mr. Montgomery, yes. Mr. Dick, yes. Mayor Gilmore, yes. Ordinance 2025-6 is appropriating
the sum of $337,558.83 in funding from the general capital fund balance for Fauvionics document imaging. This is the first reading and introduction. The public hearing and final adoption will be August the 12th. I need a motion and a second, please.
May I make a comment before we Yeah. Yeah. Just that um just to to have it noted that that money is part of um money that we received from the state as a as the part of the American Rescue Plan. We have received well over
$600,000. This is for guarding COVID. So, this is old money. This is not coming out of tax dollars at this point. So, I just wanted to make sure that was clear everyone. So, I You can't find anything soon. Do you want to get out and I'll refer? We can hear you, Andy. We can hear you,
Andy. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. So, uh Karen made the motion, so I'll I'll second it then. Mrs. Tory, yes. Mr. Montgomery, yes. Mrs. Evans, yes. Mr. Dick, yes.
Mayor Gilmore, yes. We have two consent resolutions. 2025 dash Oh, no number xxx7 110.
They both have the same number. It's 110-7 and 111-7. Okay. I need a motion and a second, please. So moved. Second.
Mr. Montgomery. Yes. Mrs. Evans. Yes. Mr. Dick. Yes. Miss Tory. Yes. Mayor Gilmore. Yes. Resolution. Oh god. And 12.
And 13. Other resolutions in the binder. Just not on the agenda. All right. 2025-112-7 establishing the rate of compens 12-7 correcting the supplemental DHDSRF
grant application for the HIKA redevelopment site. I need a motion and a second. Motion. Second. Mrs. Evans. Yes. Montgomery. Yes. Mr. Dick. Yes. Miss Tory.
Yes. Mayor Gilmore. Yes. Resolution 2025-113-7. It's approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation
for MA- 2026 fiscal year 2026 do trust fund resurfacing for the resurfacing of Patriot Way. I need a motion and a second. So move. Second. Mr. Montgomery.
Yes. Miss Tory. Yes. Miss Evans. Yes. Mr. Dick. Yes. Mayor Gilmore. Yes. Okay. We have um some business licenses to approve. I need a motion and a
second. So moved. Second. Montgomery. Yes. Mrs. Evans. Yes. Mr. Dick. Yes. Miss Tory. Yes. Mayor Gilmore. Yes. We're now open for comments from the public. Comments are limited to five
minutes. Anyone in the room? Yes, sir. With your hand up, please come forward and identify yourself. Bruce Leven, son, to Fox Court, former alternate to the Joint Land Use Board and Hesport Committee person.
Um, I'm happy to announce that our Hannesport Firehouse fundraiser reached this goal of over $5,000. Oh, very nice. In fact, to date, our balance is 5,390 and donations are still being accepted.
They're still coming in. So, tonight, on behalf of the Eastport Volunteer Fire Company, I want to thank all the residents who contributed to the fundraiser, as well as our boots on the ground, specifically my right-hand woman, Louise Herseline, always there to help me, and my heavenly Hannesport
ladies who distributed a multitude of flyers. They include Sandy Danziger, Pam Lynch, and Linda Boat. Thank you to Lilo's Restaurants who contributed with a check. They're always very generous to our town. Also, a big thank you to the
editor, Elizabeth Gallagher, and layout designer, Keva Ellie, of the Hannesport Community Chronicle, who helped us with our solicitation paragraph that was eblasted to all of our residents. Finally, a thank you goes to Jen Cosaurus,
Paula Tyver. You didn't expect that, did you? And Paula Costaska, who helped get the eblast on the township's Facebook page and eblast system, and committeeman Andy Dick for directing us to the fundraising platform. Folks, the last six months, I've
attended many firehouse meetings. The number of needs are overwhelming. Doors wear out, fob systems become p. AC units break down, racking systems require upgrades, fan motors die on kitchen fridges, leaks occur in pump trucks. Websites need upgrading and the list
goes on and on. So fundraisers have to be a regular event. But the alternatives would require our taxpayers to pay so much more. Just think of our 2,000 residents. If every one of them just gave $10, we'd
have $20,000. That's pretty amazing. Remember, and I wish there were more people here, but I hope this gets out to our community. Remember, our fire people are volunteers providing a critical service at a great value to our town.
They will do the hard work of protecting our lives and property at their own peril. Yes, they will do the hard thing. We just need to do the easy thing and support them with our donations. The final thank you goes to my wife Lorraine,
a volunteer herself who puts up with the things I choose to do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Bruce. Anyone else in the room? Anyone online? Okay, we here.
Please state your name and address please. Joe Souli for Elton Drive. Good evening everyone. I apologize for the technical difficulties that I had. high with error on this last
regarding those last comments and I just wanted to basically piggyback on what uh Bruce said regarding the agenda 2030 and even when you dig a little deeper into the health and all policies you can trace this back also to the
world health organization and it's a little bit of a scary thing I mean the goal to have health for everybody is terrific. But they are an organization that basically wants to dictate to
everybody in the world really, governments in terms of what to say and who can say and what not to say and who not can say or who should not say when it comes to health policies. So that's
something again you can look up the World Cup organization and the recently adopted uh agreement among all the nations in the world except for the United States. I don't believe this signature that's signatory
to this uh under the current administration. Uh but it consider that World Health Organization and agenda 2030 as Bruce mentioned is basically a Trojan horse and I think I've mentioned to you before
that it's the whole mantra is think global act local and so what they can't achieve through national boundaries they have you know good sounding programs and number of them are are fine I'm sure uh
but they want to get are foot in the door basically locally in terms of what cannot be achieved uh through international relations. And then the second thing uh was there are now two uh
additional uh pieces of legislation to nominate uh or at least to create the structure for nominating uh representatives or commissioners to a constitutional convention, an article 5 constitutional
convention. So the constitutional convention that I've talked to you about for a number of years is uh is not going away. And so what again they're trying to push the ball forward. If people are
in favor of a constitutional convention, I would just say you have to be careful what you wish for or agree to. And uh the issue, as I've said, is not going away. And there it's uh Senate 3445
and Assembly 4907 established process for election uh oversight of commissioners and so forth including establishment of criminal penalties for certain violations. So this is serious business. Uh we should
encourage all of our representatives at the uh in our district including uh Angry Cats who has introduced her own piece of legislation for a constitutional convention to really back away from this process and be very very
careful with it. And with that everybody good night. Thank you for the time and again I apologize for that delay at the outset. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you chair. Anyone else online? Mrs. Loveman, did you want to speak? Oh, she has her hand raised, but we
can't hear her either. Sammy, we can't hear you. Let me see if I can change the microphone. Sam, even though Andy's on it, Samantha, can you speak now?
I think it's something on their end, right? because Andy had to go log off and back on again or something. Yeah, I don't know. I think both Andy and Joe hopped off and called in and that's why we heard them and maybe they're call trying to speak
through their computer microphone and we can't hear it. I mean, our speaker's working, right? Well, can you text her and see if she wants to call in instead? Oh, wait. How else should she
There she is. Hold on. Got it. Hello. There she is. Samantha, we can hear you now. Samantha, you can hear me. Yes. Name and address, please. Samantha Loveman, 2514 Creek Road.
Thank you. Um I did have trouble hearing earlier. I just so just wanted to put that out there. Um and I'm sure Anna Evans will clear everything up. Um but as far as affordable housing, um there are 72 units going up at the end of my street.
So as somebody that is a resident of Hannesport, I feel the effects um already just from the construction of it. Um, I just want to make it clear that that is a state obligation that township has to make that Anna nor you, Mayor Gilmore, really, you know, you
have to make and meet these requirements. All Anna and everybody that's involved in that as far as moving forward is attempting to, from my understanding, make it so that we don't have these huge complexes going up in
one neighborhood. Um, and so I just hope that moving forward instead of having a 72 unit pop up in a tiny space, it gets more spread out where where our township still meets those obligations,
um, and doesn't have to go through any court hearings or anything like that. So, that's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, S. Anyone else? No, there's no one else online. Okay, then we will close comments from the public. Comments from the
administrator. Okay, I have a few. Um, so one of the other uh sustainable Jersey items um is a review of our uh storm water control ordinance. If you recall, we had a huge revision to that. I believe it was in 2021 1-2021.
Um, so I did request our engineer Joe Barbadara with R&V to review that. Obviously, we want our professionals to look at that. Um, and there are, uh, recommendations for an enhanced storm water management control ordinance. That is an action, a sustainable Jersey
action, and they have 10 recommended modifications. So, uh, Mr. Barbara Daro looked at those. Each one of those modifications is worth five points. And I requested him to look at that through the lens of, you know, trying to make
reasonable adjustments with with also not affecting um our developers or any type of um um development applications that come through. So, reasonable accommodations. And he made a recommendation um for four
uh modifications to the storm water control ordinance. and he did provide a draft of each of those. Um, one of them is adding a definition and incorporating language for low impact development. Currently, there is no
definition for this low impact development. So, simply putting a definition for that in our ordinance would garner five points. Um, there was a recommendation to modify the definition for major development. He does not make that recommendation. um he
felt in his opinion as an engineer that would possibly make it too restrictive. Um improving on-site retention to clean and manage storm water and promote infiltration. He does make a recommendation um to follow the criteria
that results in the greatest infiltration volume and adding uh language demonstrate through hydraulic and high hydraologic and hydraulic analysis that the on-site retention volume. This is all like engineering lingo. So this is why I handed it off to the engineer to the
professional. Um reduce the maximum contributory drainage areas for green infrastructure best management practices. He made a recommendation for that adjustment to the ordinance. That would be five points. Um and then finally adding a storm water maintenance
permit requirement. So currently um our ordinance requires that a storm water management maintenance plan be submitted which is submitted to me as the as the MS4 coordinator but there is a recommendation that we just add another step to that and it's to to submit an actual permit for it. So it would help
with you know recordkeeping and u managing all of those. So that would be a yearly thing that's permit yes would be an annual thing and that would be the large developers that would have to submit that. So, of those 10 um suggestions, he does recommend um
us consider four of them of the 10, which would give sustainable Jersey give Hannesport Township 20 additional points. Um so, this isn't something that needs to be done right away. We've kind of acknowledged that July 31st is unreasonable. You guys would have to
introduce an ordinance now. I think my recommendation would be for you to review that. I'll give you everything. You guys can review it a little more. And this would be a goal for February's submission, February of 2026. Okay. Thank you, Paul. And I'll get I'll send all of that stuff
over to you tomorrow for review. Okay. Thank you. And then I have some reports. Thank you. Something to look forward to to consider. Um, so I'm happy to announce uh that we submitted the safer
grant uh to FEMA last week. Uh we are now working on getting letters of support. Even though uh these letters support do not help with any scoring, it does help with the uh Department of Homeland Security um and their review of
the safer grant and it bolsters, you know, their confidence that we would actually be able to administer this grant should we receive the funding. So, I am going to put together a letter of support to send off to Congress, our congressmen, um our assembly people,
you, Mayor Gilmore. I would request that you also sign one. And um I'm also going to reach out to the Pavage family um to see if they would be willing to provide a letter of support. Um and anyone else that you guys might think of that would be helpful. We have 60 days to submit that
any any of the letters of support. Okay. Um, I am working on uh doing some research on ordinances throughout Burlington County. Um, a lot of the towns have ordinances that have established fire departments. Um, as you recall, that was one of the recommendations. So, I've actually been
working on that all day today. Um, I even extracted the sample ordinance that was in the study that was provided to us two years ago. I'm going to put all that together and have uh Mr. Gillespie review that and um start working with him and putting an ordinance together for you all to to consider soon.
East and Way, as Sergeant Antinucci stated, um we're kind of tackling that issue and the challenges on East and Way from multiple perspectives. Um besides the traffic detailing, we do have our traffic radar out there. We've been able to capture one week of traffic data from
one particular location on Eastn Way. We've moved that traffic uh recorder to another location on Eastn Way. It's out there now. So, we're going to get one more week of information and then I'm going to forward all of that over to the engineer. Um they've already started reviewing Eastn Way to see if there's
any type of engineering controls that we can look at to tackle the speeding issues as well as the failure to stop issues along there. Um I think that we should look at this comprehensively. we should include um any type of changing changes with a road reconstruction
program. It's getting it's starting to show signs of wear and tear just like some of the other roads that we've identified and we've addressed in the last few years. So, I think we should look at doing a comprehensive traffic calming as well as uh road reconstruction. Okay,
and that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gillespie. I have nothing. Thank you. We're just so happy to see you here. I know July and happy belated seven. It was our birthday to John. Are you 39 again, John? Happy birthday.
Evidently for the 30 31st time. Yes. Okay. Comments from the committee. Mrs. Evans. Okay. So, firstly, I would like to address the comments made by Mr. Levenson. Not the fire company thing, which is wonderful, uh, but the previous one. Uh, I hope hearing the storm water
management side of sustainable Jersey has made you understand how ridiculous it is to associate sustainable Jersey with agenda 2030, which is, by the way, a conspiracy theory. Medford has a green team. Medford is 100% more Republican
than we are. Medford is silvercertified. I honestly don't see that there's any relevance in bringing in agenda 2030 in any discussion of sustainable Jersey which was created by a municipal mayors at the municipal uh the league of
municipalities in 2012. Secondly, unincclusion in housing. It's uh a false analogy to compare that to um the idea of representation on boards and committees. The whole point of inclusionary housing in the original
Mount Laurel doctrine was that studies had been done that showed that if children from poorer um educationally lessenriched backgrounds were brought up in developments alongside children from richer educationally enriched
backgrounds. They did better in school. Nothing to do with ethnicity, nothing to do with any other characteristic that we're talking about. just trying to make kids learn better. That's what inclusionary housing was for. And as Sam said, it doesn't it doesn't work very well because it's hard to meet the state
targets by including a small number of um affordable houses in a regular development. But that was the point. It wasn't about ethnicity or splitting people up or looking at people in different ways. It it was about trying to make sure all of our kids have a
better education. So, as everyone can tell, I'm uh in the midst of trying to uh get the final submission to sustainable Jersey for silver certification, and that is the deadline is July the 31st. Um some
things that have helped contribute to that is on June the 21st the green team and the um environmental commission hosted a talk on community solar in the street center which was really really interesting and we're hoping to repeat that in the fall. It is actually a way
for uh people to defay those rising energy costs. In addition, the Burlington County Green Teams Roundt is continuing to plan for its repair cafe at the agricultural center on September the 21st. And finally, if you haven't signed our green challenge on uh
switching out your regular bulbs for LED bulbs yet, then there's some information at the back. You can pick up one of the cards or scan the QR code. Thank you everyone for coming and I hope you stay dry. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Dick.
Andy, any comments? Andy, are you on mute? We can't hear you. What does he have to sign off again? No, no comments. Okay, Mr. Montgomery. Okay. Um
yeah, ju once again just great job with the grants that we're applying for and that we've um achieved awards on already. Uh want to um again congratulate the fire department for achieving their goal for fundraising. Um
we had a discussion on this before that we all tried to help out with that. So, I'm glad um our citizens stepped up and we obviously have more to more to go, but um great job. Congratulations and thanks Bruce for helping out with that and Andy and and all the committee and
everyone else. Um I'm also glad our township has worked uh worked toward and already met a lot of the sustainability goals um that the green team and and New Jersey has asked for. So, I'm glad that um we
have we have done those things. Um the other thing is I we we're going to be paying the bills soon and I look through this every once in a while and just pick out big numbers and one number stood out $899,0003 $899,300924. So, it's almost $900 900
$900,000. I speak a lot. $900,000. that is towards the board of education for our our wonderful Hannesport school that uh my four daughters went through. So, love the school. Just want to make sure everyone understands that we collect those we collect those dollars from everyone here and much of it goes
towards our schools. So, it's a it's a big nut. So, um and other than that, um thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Tory. Yes. Um, well, as usual, the recck department has been very busy. The
summer tennis lessons program for youth and adults ages five and up has begun, started last night, led by Ike Johnson, who's been doing this since 2000, year 2000. Um, so classes will be held on Monday evenings from 5 to 8. The 5 to
6:00 start with the young ones, ending with the adults from 7 to 8. And they run from July 7th to August 4th. Okay. For more, it started. It started tonight. Last night. Contact our recck department. What? Hun?
No, it's No, tell me. We can make a correction. Unofficially. Unofficially, but it's officially next week and it will be August 11 due to the fact that people
Okay, great. Great, Donna. Okay, the yoga classes started meeting on July 25th every Friday from 11:30 to 12:30. They are being well attended and in fact may continue in the fall. The summer
concert series has begun on Sunday evening. We were treated to a concert by the Golden Eagle band and they were excellent. It was a concert band um and they were wonderful. all these patriotic
songs. So hopefully we can get them to um join us and come back next year around our the said they couldn't come on the 4th, but maybe around the 4th that week um to help celebrate our country's 20 250th birthday. On July
20th is the Coots Band. They play classic and current rock pop. August 3rd is the Tucanini Creek Band and they do they are bluegrass band. August 17th is Loose Bandits, contemporary rock, jazz,
and soul. So, all the concerts are being held on Sundays from 7 to 8:30, weather permitting. And uh I'd like to take a moment to thank our sponsors, Taylor Design Group, Hayesport Education Association, TC
Irons Agency, and John Gillespie, and Parker McKay. Thank you very much for your support. Um, our July 29th bingo cruise is currently sold out, so we're looking forward to that. Looking ahead, our veterans lunchon under the mayor's
wellness program will be held at the Kenneth Street station in a I believe August 14th. Is that correct? In the fall, another 13th. 13th, another kayaking event um will be held in the fall as well as maybe
perhaps a tour of Timbuktu. and we look forward to the fall festival to be held on September 20th. Now, I'm so glad that I saw Shawn walk into this to this meeting because on June 26th at the Trenton Thunder
baseball game, our Shawn Bozart was recognized as Hannesport Township's hero of our fire company. You get a free hot dog. So, we would like to congratulate you on your on this honor and thank you for
your 30 years of service to our community. Sean, that's excellent. Thank you. We appreciate you. Congratulations. That's a lot. 30 years. Yeah. Even someone my age of 39 is still
impressed. That means quite a bit. So on that note, as liaison to the fire company, Andy and I have been working very hard for the past six months opening lines of communication with the fire company in our effort to support
them in any way possible. We are in the process of setting up um a sort of town hall public forum with the fire company, the township committee administration to address their current and future needs, including the appointment of an
administrator, increasing recruitment, which seems to be the most pressing and most important thing they need to do right now, as well as the purchase of a firet truck and any other needs they may have. So we are in the process of finalizing the date which should be
sometime in the next few weeks. We encourage all residents interested in hearing these discussions to please come out and join us. As you as your representative, I am especially interested in hearing your opinions regarding the fire company as my most
important role is serving the residents of Hannesport. We will make every effort in getting the time and place out to everyone and we hope you help to help us spread the word. So, it should be within the next few weeks. Wasn't Wasn't that date set? I thought
that got set. No. Uh, no. No. So, uh, the last we had heard was maybe we were looking at the 29th, which is a Tuesday, coming back from the bingo cruise, but we should be back by 4:00. So, we're still trying to finalize that,
but please everybody watch out for that. So with that, I would like to say thank you for coming. God bless you. God bless Hannesport. God bless America. Thank you. So I have a couple of updates and such.
Um one is I just wanted to let it be known that the Dunk Tank earned $104 that will be sent to the Hannesport Student Activity Fund. Wonderful. this great this month's checks
and uh I got so many um thank yous from the people on Tartan Lane uh regarding the Hannesport helpers and the quality of mulch that was used um their application was very nice to hear. And at the
concerts at the park we will be selling food and svenirs in the concession stand. Yes, we will. Don't forget that the farm fair starts July 22nd through the 26th at the Berning County Fairgrounds.
And um yes, due to the uh hard work of the people in this building and also with regards to the mayor's wellness campaign, we were able to um already put into effect a lot
of the things that the green team has put under their umbrella. I can't thank those people that help us enough. I also wanted to put out um some information that I found extremely helpful for some people here in town and
that um the Bronin County Office on Aging has free f electric box fans available for the elderly or the disabled residents who need one this summer. To be eligible, a
resident must just provide proof of residency in Brandon County. And homebound seniors are also eligible and can call to request a fan to be delivered. The volunteers from the medical reserve corps and the health department are
assisting with delivery of the fans to those residents who are homebound. For more information, call the Bronin County Office on Aging at 6092655069. Their staff is very eager to help you stay safe this summer, as are we. And if
you have any problem getting there, I'm sure if you give me a call, I'll arrange to have someone pick you up and take you. Thank you. The fans are actually delivered to their homes if they are homebound. If they're homebound, right? Otherwise, you need to go and
you got to go get it. Right. And that would be where where is that? Do you know? Is it Mount? The Burning County Office on Aging. Give them a call. Where is Do you know where that is? Yeah, that's down on Woodland Road. It's It's okay. Wood Lane. Wood Lane Road. Okay. That being said, we have a few bills to
pay. I'll make that motion that we pay those bills. I will second that. Mr. Montgomery. Yes. Mrs. Evans. Yes. Mr. Dick. Hold on. Yes. Mr. 40. Yes. Mayor Gilmore.
Yes. I see we do not have an executive session this evening. That being said, I need a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Mr. Montgomery. Yes, Miss Tory. Yes. All in favor?