[applause] Yes. Thank you. Okay. [clears throat and cough] >> Where's your pine? You're part of the [snorts] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> [applause]
>> All right, Jen, if I could have roll call, please. >> Uh, committee committeewoman Evans >> here. >> Committeeman Montgomery >> here. >> Committeeman Dick >> present. >> Committee woman Tory >> here. >> Committeewoman Loveman >> here.
>> All right. I present resolution 20261-1 appointing the mayor chair of the governing body of the Hannesport Township Committee for 2026. Is there a nomination for mayor? >> I'd like to nominate Andy Dick for mayor.
>> I'll second that. Okay. >> Roll call. >> Ms. Tory. >> Yes. >> Ms. Evans. >> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dick. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> Miss. [laughter] >> Yes. >> Wonderful. All right. Uh, Committeeman Dick, please come forward with your
family for the oath of office of mayor given by retired state senator, assemblywoman, Burlington County Sheriff, and Burlington County Assistant Prosecutor Jean Stanfield. [clears throat] [cough] Repeat after me. I state your name. >> I, Amy Dick,
>> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution >> that I will support the Constitution >> of the United States >> of the United States >> of the Constitution >> in the Constitution >> of the State of New Jersey >> of the State of New Jersey. that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> to the same
>> to the same >> and to the governments established >> and to the governments established >> in the United States >> in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> and that I will faithfully >> and that I will faithfully >> and partially >> and partially >> and justly >> and justly
>> perform all the duties of the office township mayor and chair of the township committee >> perform all the duties of the office of township mayor [snorts] >> and chair of the township >> and chair of the township According to the best of my ability. >> According to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. >> So help me God.
>> CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] Thank you. >> [laughter] >> You're so good at this now. [snorts] >> All right. All yours, mayor.
So, now we're at resolution 2026-2-1, appointing the deputy mayor, vice chair of the governing body of Hannesport Township Committee for 2026. Is there a nomination? >> I nominate Karen. >> Second.
>> Roll call. >> Uh, Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Miss Evans? >> Yes. >> Miss uh Miss Sorry, Miss Tory. >> Yes. >> Miss Loveman. Yes. >> Mayor Dick >> and Yes. >> Committee Winry, please come forward
with your family for the oath of office given by Jean Stanfield. >> There you go. All right. [snorts] a cookie. [snorts] >> Raise right hand and repeat after me. I and state your name. I, Karen, >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear
>> that I will support the Constitution >> that I will support the Constitution [snorts] >> of the United States >> of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same >> and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. and to the
governments established >> and to the governments established >> in the United States >> in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> and that it will faithfully >> and that will faithfully >> and partially >> and partially >> and justly >> and justly
>> perform all the duties of the office >> perform all the duties of the office >> Hesport Township Deputy Mayor and Vice Chair of the Township Committee >> and Hesport Township Deputy Mayor and vice chair of the township committee to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability to help me God. So
help me God. CONGRATULATIONS [applause] [snorts] >> so good to see you. Be well. Okay. >> [snorts] >> Got you. Congratulations. Congratulations, beautiful start.
>> Okay. Resolution 2026-3-1 appointing liaison and deputy liaison committee persons. I need a motion and a second. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Evans. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Loveman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick.
>> Yes. Resolution 2026-4-1 authorizing various professional appointments and contracts. Need a motion. So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Miss Evans. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Loveman. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes.
>> Resolution 2026-5-1 appointing risk management consultant TC Irons Agency. >> A motion. >> So moved. Second. >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Evans. >> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Miss Loveman. >> Yes. Mayor Dick.
>> Yes. Resolution 2026-6-1 appointing joint land use board class 3 member governing body. >> Need a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Miss. Love. >> Yes. Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Miss Evans?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery? >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick? >> Yes. Resolution 2026-7-1 appointing Burlington County Joint Insurance Fund Members, Fund Commissioner Paula Costco, alternate fund commissioner Jennifer Coutsurus, claims coordinator Jennifer Coutsurus,
safety coordinator Paula Costco. I need a motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. >> Mrs. Evans, >> yes. >> Mrs. Tory, >> yes. >> Miss Loveman, >> yes. >> Mayor Deck, >> yes. Resolution 2026-8-1 appointing deputy clerk Jennifer
Coutsurus. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Tory, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. [laughter] >> Uh, Miss Leman, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes.
Resolution 2026-9-1, appointing a public agency compliance officer, Paula Costco. >> Some moved. Second. >> Mrs. Tory, >> yes. >> Miss Leven, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes.
>> Resolution 2026-10-1, appointing a qualified purchasing agent, Paula Costasco. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mrs. Evans? >> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery? >> Yes. >> Miss Lman? >> Yes. >> M. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. Resolution 2026-11-1
appointing sustainable New Jersey green tea members governing body member and chair one-year term Anna Evans office of the municipality Paula Costco citizen of the municipality number one Aaron Sanman citizen of the municipality number two Karima Morris citizen of the
municipality number three Aaron Monero >> so moved >> second Mrs. Evans >> yes >> Mrs. Loveman >> yes >> Mr. Montgomery >> yes >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. Resolution 2026-12-1 appointing municipal housing liaison
Paula Costasco. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dhy. >> Yes. >> M. Evans. >> Yes. >> Miss. Love. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. These are mayor's appointments. These are read only. So I do not need a motion. Environmental commission and alternate members. I have a member
three-year term Paula Oland. Have a member three-year term Janice Luton. I have a member three-year term John Keane and alternate member two-year term Eric Rikio environmental commission chairperson Janice Lutton
joint land use board members class one mayor or mayor's designate I have Michael Morelli class 2 official of the municipality Paula Costco 4 citizen of the municipality Steve Noorita class 4 citizen of the municipality Janice
Lutton class 4 alternate number one citizen of the municipality Leela Gilmore. Class 4, alternate number two, citizen of the municipality, Howard Holden. Consent agenda resolutions. The items listed below are considered routine by the township of Hannesport and will be
enacted by one motion. There will be no formal discussion of these items. If discussion is requested, this item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. I need a motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Evans. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Loveman.
>> Yes. >> M. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. At this time, uh, comments from the public. Uh, comments will be limited to 5 minutes. >> I'm going to speak right from here. I think everybody can hear me. I just wanted to say congratulations to all of
you. Mayor Dave, Anna, Sam, everybody. [snorts] And one last time, thank you again to Mayor Gilmore. >> Bob, can you just state your name and address for the record? Robert code 202 >> and thank you. >> Thank you. >> CONGRATULATIONS.
[applause] >> Anybody else? Okay. Close. Is there anyone online? >> No one's online. >> Okay. We'll close comments from the public. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Deb. [laughter] My fault. >> New to this.
uh Deborah Pia, 50 Braftoft Lane, and I'd like to echo uh Bob's uh comments. I'd like to wish everyone first of all a happy new year. Uh welcome aboard to uh Samantha Lovelin. Congratulations both to Samantha and Anna. And uh let's look forward to a very happy and prosperous
new year. Thank you. >> Thank you, Deb. Thanks. >> Hi class. Um I just wanted to say, you know, uh congratulations um uh to everyone. And uh also I wanted to
say that um I walk every day in the township and um I would just like to [snorts] um tell you that um our maintenance staff um does a remarkable uh job keeping uh all the paths clean and and
um and completing their task. [snorts] So, um, and it's really nice when you're walking and, um, they're busy or whatever or they're next to you or whatever, they [snorts] stop and, uh, they let you pass. And to me,
that's a good thing. Thank you. >> Thank you, Linda. >> Thank you, Linda. Thanks, Linda. >> Anybody else? >> Still no one online. >> No one's online. >> Okay. Uh we'll close comments from the public. So now we'll go to comments from the committee.
>> Um yeah, so I just like to thank uh BV Singh, Assemblyman Barb Singh for coming to swear me in personally, but also what a joy it was to see all of our elected officials um from other places here and uh just wonderful to welcome you to the
township of Hannesport. Congratulations to Mayor Dick and Deputy Mayor Tori. Welcome to Samantha. I look forward to working with you all for the benefit of all citizens of Hanesport. >> Thank you.
>> Ken uh as I start my sixth year on the committee um [snorts] I certainly appreciate the honor and um the privilege to serve all the citizens here and I just wanted to congratulate Anna and Sam and Andy and Karen in their new
roles. Um, and I want to wish everybody a happy Epiphany. So, if you're not sure what that is, you might want to look that up. It's the 12th day of Christmas. So, uh, happy Epiphany and, uh, God bless Hannesport. God bless America. Thank you.
>> Thank you, >> Samantha. Uh, I'll keep it short. I just want to thank everybody for attending and thank Andrea Katz for swearing me in along with Randy Burllo. I want to congratulate everybody on this team. I look forward to the next three years.
Thank you. >> Thank you, Sam. >> As all of you know me by now, I'm never short. I [laughter] always have a lot to say. So, first of all, I'd like to thank all of our honored guests who attended here tonight. Um, without your participation, it would not have been
possible. So, thank you all very much. Um, and I want to congratulate Andy. It pleasure working with you. Um, I am very thankful to be reappointed as deputy mayor and I look forward to working with Andy and the committee this year. I'd like to congratulate Anna and Samantha. Welcome [snorts] aboard. And um I
welcome you to the new team. I am also thankful to be reappointed. Well, I can't say that yet. Never mind. In addition to the [laughter] into these responsibilities, I am thrilled to be reappointed as deputy le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le liaison to Andy to the public
safety committee supporting our fire department and emergency squad as well as our state police who serve Hannesport as the safety of our residents is utmost important and so I'm very happy to be doing that again and I look forward to the arrival of our new fire truck
hopefully this year that'll be exciting um I am looking forward to returning as liaison to the recreation department and working with Donna and Sue on the many events and activities that occur throughout the year as well as our mayor's wellness campaign. In addition,
I am happy to join be joining Andy on his newly corrected created community outreach committee which will be addressing the needs of of not only the senior citizens but organizing the Hannesport helpers and also identifying
and helping the homeless and those in most need in our beloved Hannesport. I'm happy to be on board with you. Finally, I am very excited to be working on our 250th birthday anniversary committee.
Leela, Ken, Paula, Donna, and I have been working on this celebration for over a year and a half now, and we have so much already in place. Our Fourth of July celebration will be another outstanding event, ex, including the return of our fireworks,
music, inflatables, and much more. In addition, we are planning many fun activities leading up to the event, such as a house decorating contest and a historic tour of Burlington County, followed by [snorts] a colonial dinner. We have so many events that we are
planning on creating a special Facebook page in addition to our township pages to help keep you all informed of everything going on this year. So stay tuned for an exciting year ahead. Thank you all for coming and God bless Hannesport and God bless America. Thank
you. >> Okay, so normally I don't speak that much, but I probably will speak a little longer right now, which means I won't say anything for the second meeting. Um, but being sworn in as mayor is an honor that I do take very seriously. I look forward to serving our community
alongside the four committee members seated here alongside me tonight, but also with all of you. Um, as I learned in the first year, um, the most engaging meetings are the ones where we have a crowd. Um, even if they're not always happy with me before or after, they are
definitely the most productive and the most engaging. Um, everyone should feel comfortable reaching out to us at any time if they have a question, a concern, an idea. Earlier [clears throat] this evening, we announced our committee and department liaison. Every part of our township is
covered by at least two of us that covers that area. So if you have a concern, you can reach out to Paul or you can reach out to any of us and you'll be put in touch with the right person. You should never feel that you have no one to reach out to. So if Paul is out for a couple days, find one of
us. All five of us will be working together and they'll make sure they find you the right person to speak to. Um, show up, speak up. We do want to hear from you. And I do mean that even when it's not a popular topic for us. I want
to take a moment. I want to thank Leela for her many years of service to the community. For those who may not realize it, not just the year she spent up here, but she's created, led, and supported more communities, community groups than I can count, and I do appreciate it and I look forward actually made me more
nervous sitting in your your seat here given um who I was following. So, I do appreciate that. Small towns don't thrive without people like Leela and without the entire community. So, again, we do thank you for your time. Um, congratulations to Anna as she begins her second term. Welcome to Sam. I'm
excited that you're joining us. Thank congratulations to Karen on your second year as deputy mayor. I'd like to thank Balier Singh, Andrea Katz, and Gene Stanfield, especially at last minute for showing up and being part of our our wonderful town. Um, and with that, I would like to thank everyone for showing
up and being a part of a reorganization. So, thank you very much. Uh, and I would like to invite William Lynch up for a benediction. [snorts] Let us all bow our heads in prayer.
Let us pray. Eternal God, the answer blessing on our council, our mayor and our committee members. We ask you to give them the spirit of wisdom, charity, and justice to those previously elected and to those appointed here this
evening. May they faithfully serve their offices and promote the well-being of all the residents. We give thanks to all our volunteers and dedicated employees who faithfully serve our community.
Oh Lord, we ask you to continue bringing unity to our character as we witness the recent community celebrations of Christmas and Hanukkah. Some of our residents may be less fortunate. They do not have a warm bed,
a warm meal, or a warm place to call home, even a loving family. We give thanks, oh Lord, to those who come forth to give them comfort and assist in their needs. We ask your guidance upon this committee
with making some tough decisions [snorts] during this coming year. Help them to wisely consider the pros and the cons when evaluating their options. May there be a spirit of camaraderie in this room of a committee working
together to make the best decisions for all the people of Painsport. All this we ask in your name. Shalom and amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> And with that, I'd like to call for an adjournment of the reorganization
meeting at 7:08 p.m. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. Miss Jordy. >> Yes. All in favor? I >> I >> uh with that we're going to have about a 10-15 minute break where we can have some refreshments. >> 7:30. >> 7:30 we'll start the next meeting.
>> Perfect. >> If anyone wants to stick around for that. Thank you very much. >> Could have done that earlier [laughter] as soon as you were [laughter] >> I could have got with your name. So, you Hold
on. I don't call to order. This meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law. This meeting of January 6, 2026 was included in a meeting notice sent to the Burlington County Times and Courier Post
on November 17th, 2025 and advertised in said newspapers on November 21st, 2025. Posted on the website and the bulletin board in the municipal building on November 21st, 2025 and has remained continuously posted as required under the law. 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. At this point, let's rise for this salute to the flag. 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. [snorts] >> All right. We need an approval of regular committee minutes from December 30th, 2025. >> So moved. Second, Mr. Story. >> Yes.
>> Mrs. Evans, >> yes. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. >> Miss Loveman, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes. And we'll back up a second and do roll call. [laughter] >> Got ahead of it. >> Committeewoman Evans, >> yes. >> Committee Montgomery, >> yes. >> Committeewoman Loveman,
>> yes. >> Deputy Mayor Tory, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes. Uh, we'll move on to reports. Uh, looks like I don't see Sergeant Antinucci, so we'll go to the Lumberton emergency squad. My name is Jamie Wood. I'm the chief of
Lumberton Emergency Squad. With me today, I have You guys could move up, I guess. Russ BS, who is the captain. He's coming up. We have Aaron Morrison, who is our lieutenant. And new to our team, Steve, come on up, too. Steve Russell, um, he is a Hannesport resident. We
asked him to join our board of trustees for Lumberton. Since we're representing and covering Hannesport, we wanted to reach out to a resident of Hannesport and have them [snorts] join our board of trustees who govern um our squad. So, Steve has a marriott of uh background in
EMS medics. He's a going to be a great addition to us. So, I asked him to come out today. I know he knows a few of you, so not too many introductions needed. If you guys want to sit, if you want to stand here, stare at me. So, that's our team for today. >> Good idea. Thank you. >> Welcome. Welcome. Thanks for coming.
>> Yeah. Thanks, Steve. >> Um, I don't usually like to talk about what we do. It's kind of sensitive in nature and what we do we take pride in. Sometimes I feel like if you Facebook and post a lot of stuff about it, it loses you lose the mission and now
you're kind of just, for lack of better terms, grandstanding. So, you will not see a lot of posting from Lumberton [snorts] Emergency Squad. Um, but I had been asked about what we've been doing. So, I wanted to come and u give you an idea because you've never really worked with Lumberton. is we've been here for over a little over a
year now. Um we do a lot of community outreach. We take care of a lot of domestic violence victims, get them the resources they needed, continue to take them to groups. Sometimes if they don't have a way to [snorts] get there, we make sure that they're taken care of. Um homelessness, that's pretty big for us.
We have a homeless population in all of our towns and our surrounding towns. We now have a warming shelter in Lumberton on 71 Ark Road. We will go around and to our homeless population, make sure they get there. I have a direct connect with
the person who runs it. If we see somebody out at 2 am, Aaron is our night guy. He'll make sure the person gets there. Um, we've been trying to help him supply with some new shoes, clothes. We did a donation drive through um actually Cooper, one of our other trustees is a
director at Cooper and she had all of her doctors and team [snorts] donate clothes and shoes and stuff and we've been helping them out. Um food insecurities, we have a lot of resources. We know a lot of resources. We try to connect people with that. Sometimes we end up doing it ourselves.
The SNAP program isn't always available to everybody. So, a lot of times people in our organization will just make sure they're taken care of. The prosecutor's office has a community outreach that they do every month in a different town and we were asked by the prosecutor's
office to partner with them. Mount Laurel's the first one that they had. I've been doing it probably for about three years now where we go every month to a different town. Um, addiction is obviously prevalent everywhere. You see a lot of wounds now. We'll address the wounds. We'll try to get them to
treatment. um to the hospital, get them back. We go the extra mile. Uh we do that in every town. It's not just here. We go every town that they do. We do almost all the time. Sometimes I'm not available. Um disabled population. There are disabled communities that you don't
realize that are out there. We make sure we check on them, especially those who don't have loved ones that check on them, that we go out and make sure that they have what they need, whether it's doctors, food, whatever it may be. Um you're actually your residents started this trend. Uh they some people didn't
have a way to the doctors needed PET scans and needed some um appointments for specialists and they've called many transport companies and they were denied. So we have taken quite a few of your residents to appointments and back. This is a non-billable. This is a
goodness of our heart. You know we're we try to always go the extra mile and do the right thing. It doesn't always work out because obviously it's dependent [clears throat] on we have to make sure the town is covered, but if I can spare an extra crew, we go ahead and do that. And we've they've been very grateful. The one lady, oh my gosh, I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She
was just so excited thrown $20 at the crew trying to pay them and they were no, no, no. And she was so appreciative. It was wonderful to see. Um, you have a lot of community events. The your wreck department's huge. Um, we attend all your community events. It's been great working with the fire uh department of
Hannesport. We've been a very good relationship. Um, we have one of our team members that's here. We they went out on a call and it was during a real cold snap, which thankfully isn't today. And they was no
heat in the the house and instead of just saying you're fine, they actually took the extra time, called around, got somebody to come out to fix the heater, the person did it on the goodness of their heart. On the back end, they fixed the heater. Our EMTs went back later to
make sure the heat was working. They went back again the next week, made sure they had resources and did that. These are things that I will never post about. We will never talk about. We don't publicize any of it. And this is a one-time shot for me, just so you know. I'm doing it because you don't I I don't ever do it. I've been asked a lot, but I
will. I It's just the right thing to do. >> We appreciate you sharing. That's just great great job by all of you and the great culture that you've obviously fostered >> to do this. So, thank you. >> For sure. Um because actually speaking of great culture, I went on vacation and this is for me personally the way that I
know that I made it. We had a snowstorm. One of our um disabled uh people that we check on, she's wheelchair bound and I was gone for the week and it snowed. All four crew me [clears throat] all six crew members got together. They're all
30 and to 22 is our youngest. 19 [snorts] 19 to 32 all decided to get together, went over, knocked on her door, and they went out and had a snowball fight with her. >> And [laughter] she just I cried had just
said she never felt so good. And the fact that they did that without being any prompting means that the mission is successful. These younger generation, the 19 and 20 year olds are seeing give back to your community and give back to those in need. So for me personally, that's I've made it. Um, I want to say
to all of you, thank you for trusting us. I know it was rough going in the beginning. I thank you all for trusting us and knowing and feeling that we were going to be able to take on the task. Your community has been great. I have not had any negative feedback. It's all been positive. We've enjoyed being in
Hannesport. Um, I'm going to have our >> Okay, I'm gonna have >> Sorry, >> Russ talk. >> She'll tell you she doesn't like to talk. >> She'll tell you she doesn't like to talk. Yeah. [laughter] Uh so we like to come out once a year and just kind of run down our statistics and things like that. We we believe
transparency is important. So that is my job. I'm up here just to run a little bit through that. I [snorts] just wanted to begin by sincerely thanking all of you again for the support that you've you've given to us over the past year. It's hard to believe it's actually been one full year since we became the primary EMS provider for the township
and it's it's been fantastic. Uh we've received nothing but great feedback from from all of you and also from the residents of the township. Uh, as always, we strive to be the best EMS agency that we can be, and with that continued support, that'll help us accomplish our mission. Uh, wanted to go over a couple statistics from this past
year. Uh, our past year, our agency was dispatched to 3,852 calls uh, for service. Uh, that is our highest call volume to date. Uh, of those calls, we proudly answered 100% of all first rig calls. So, we always have one duty crew that's on 24 hours a day,
no matter what. That covers both townships. that answered that first call and we had a 97.3% uh response rate for our second, third, and fourth rig calls. Uh so that little bit of percentage that's not covered. Sometimes it's we've run out of ambulances. Sometimes it's just we're so
busy that another town has to come in uh to provide that service. It's the inevitable. We're never going to be able to get to 100%. We'll we'll try our best and that's what our goal is this year to improve our 97%. Uh throughout the year, we made several operational adjustments. Uh I don't know if you would notice or not, but we used
to be here 7 to 7. We switched it from 8 to 8. Uh we take a look at our stat like statistics of when the highest call volume is. So we wanted to make sure that we covered uh that one hour on the back end because that's where some of that you know 2% was happening was just after that 8:00 where there was a gap in
coverage. Uh we've added a Saturday second truck on because volume has picked up on the weekends. Uh, and again, we just continue to readjust where our our our our ambulances are needed and the amount of people that we need on each day. Our average response time from dispatch is 1.1 minutes. Uh,
so we're out the door pretty quick. By the time you grab your stuff, a minute goes by pretty fast as you're running out the door. Um, so by adjusting our staffing patterns, like I was just talking about, it helps us to just better cover both towns and also the surrounding communities that
we're called to. Uh in Hannesport specifically, we had 746 calls for service last year. Uh the cost uh to staff this 12-h hour truck that's here uh Monday through Friday was approximately 192,000. Uh the billing
income that's generated from those 746 calls was roughly $149,000. Uh so you can see that there is a loss of about $42,000. People are like, well then why, you know, where you going to get that from? It's because you got to remember that truck's just not answering those 746 calls. It's also being called for
service sometimes in Mount Laurels, sometimes uh in in Mortown. So, that's where that extra income comes to help us break even. That's what our goal is always to to break even. Uh what helps offset this, again, like I said, is just those extra calls that we're having. Uh we're not here to make money. Um, we're
here to provide exceptional 911 service to the township uh while offering our employees a working livable wage. And we are proud to provide uh many benefits uh to our people. I I don't know how much you know, but we give our employees we start off with 3 weeks vacation. They
can get as much as 5 weeks vacation. Uh we have a matching IRA, free vision, free dental, uh clothing allowances. Uh we're working on the medical this year. That is probably my biggest goal is to kind of figure out a way to be able to provide medical because a lot of uh the private agencies it's just it's impossible. You know, [snorts] all of
your income goes towards towards salary. Uh so trying to find those other things. It's challenging, but I I think we can get there and I I believe that's that's our big goal this year. Um so what truly sets us apart as I know uh Committeeman Montgomery had mentioned is that it's
our culture, you know, and that's one thing we hear from a lot of other agencies, you know, how do you keep your people like you do? And it's the culture that we create. Uh it's it's like a family. It's the family that you actually get along with. So we we do we we do like that they're happy and and
them being happy that means our residents are being cared for properly. Uh so I'll I'll cut it short here. You know, we look forward to working uh with you for many years to come. Um if there are any recommendations that you have for us, uh please let us know. If there's things that you would like to see from us, please let us know. Uh and
just to reiterate to uh a point that with with coming budgets in the coming year, please keep in mind that you know ambulance replacements and equipment is a huge cost for us that's over and above what our income is. So we ask that you know moving forward that you just kind of keep that [snorts] in mind and uh we
thank you again for your continued trust and support and have a great happy new year. >> Thanks Russ. Thank you Jamie. >> Uh real quick Jamie two things if you could reach out to me. One, I wanted to pick your brain on some of the homeless initiatives you have because we're obviously getting started with that on on our own end. And also, I wanted to
talk to you about the Cherry Hill Free Clinic. You mentioned bringing people back and forth for some services. Um, I know John's familiar with them. Um, I'm getting ready to Okay, I'm getting ready to join their board actually. So, I might be able to help you with that. >> Okay, great. Okay, great. So, yeah. So, I want to talk to you about that as well at some point. Great. But thank you
again for all to all of you. >> Your service has been outstanding this past year. We've heard so many wonderful things about you. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all you do for us. [applause] >> Thank you. >> Uh, now we'll move to the Environmental
Commission. Uh, you're on report. Janice, sorry to make you. >> You're barely using that thing. [laughter] >> Just to remind me to >> Yeah. Um, [snorts and clears throat] thank you for the opportunity to talk um on behalf
of Hannesport Environmental Commission. Um, I hope you guys got a copy of the report. >> Yes, we did. >> Um, and that we'll put the report up on the um, township website under the environmental commission page. Um, and I know that most of you are aware of the
purpose of the environmental commission. Um, but just in case somebody in the public or for the record doesn't know, um, I'll mention a couple things. Um the environmental commission is a group of volunteers were appointed by the mayor and um we focus on the environmental
resources within Hannesport in order to provide advice and recommendations to the township committee and the joint land use board and also to educate our residents on environmental um issues and um things that can be done by residents.
Uh we meet monthly, usually the Thursday before the joint land use board meeting. Um and we meet in the street community center. It's a public meeting. [snorts] So if anyone wants to come out and share their um thoughts or just hear what we do at our meetings, we review site plans that are going to come before the joint
land use board and we look for any environmental concerns and um come up with suggestions that then we can suggest to the board at their meeting. Um we focus on educating ourselves so that we can um pass things along to the township [clears throat] and we do this
a lot through webinars. Um there's a wide range of environmental topics and you most of them are free um [snorts] through like a webinar from Ruckers or um Pinelands Association and then there's an association of New Jersey environmental commissions um and
annually they have a an environmental congress that we try and get as many of us to attend as we can. Um and then we p try and pass that information along to the residents through um the tableabling events. We do Earth Day, Mayor's Wellness Day, fall event. Um we try also
to have an article in the township newsletters and the e newswsletter. And then this year we also uh participated in a number of tree plantings. There was one at Lockheed Martin. Um there [snorts] was some green team events and some put on by the Pineland. So we try and support those. Um and then from the
report I just wanted to highlight a couple things. Um, one is you'll notice on the report at the top we have a new logo that we will be putting on all the stuff so we're recognizable. Um, it's part of the way that we want to um, make the, you know, residents more aware of the environmental commission and some I
didn't I didn't know we had one for the longest time until I took this Rucker class and like, oh, I wonder if Hannesport has one and then I'm like, oh, we do. So, um, that's how I got involved. I also wanted to highlight that this year um Tish Kelly, she was one of the founding members of the environmental commission in Hannesport
and she retired um after [snorts] decades. I mean she came on in I think the 90s um and you know just she had many decades of service to both um the environmental commission. She was on the joint land use [snorts] board and I know a number of other things in Hannesport but she still continues to participate
in our meetings when she can and provide her experience and knowledge to the commission. And then I also wanted to point out that um our environmental resource inventory which is part of the job of an environmental commission is to provide um that it was mostly done last
year um in 2024 but we adopted it in 2025 and then we submitted it for um um recognition. It was a statewide recognition through the environmental um the um ANGAC the association of New Jerseys environmental commissions. But
anyway, it won an an achievement award for the environmental commission, which is a very um comprehensive report of all of the resources within Hannesport. It's up on the website. Um it's almost overwhelming. There's so much information in there, but we did win an
award for that for this year. So, I think most everything else is um you know, our typical things. if you have any questions about what the environmental commission has done, plans to do. Otherwise, I'll
>> thank you Janice. Great job in leading it for you guys for the opportunity to share and for your support of the environmental commission. So, >> thanks again. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Okay, at this point we'll have comments from the public. This is on agenda items
only and comments are going to be limited to five minutes. >> Paul, >> no one's on. >> No one shock. Okay. Close comments, resolutions. All right. Resolution 2026-31-1 establishing the 2026 temporary budget.
Need a motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Miss Evans? >> Yes. >> Miss Leman? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tory? Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. Resolution 2026-32-1 establishing rate of compensation for certain positions effective January 8th,
2026. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Evans. >> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Love. >> Yes. >> M. Uh. Mayor Dick. >> Yes. Resolution 2026-33-1. authorizing the purchase of one E1
Typhoon HP75 aerial ladder dealer demo fire apparatus from First Choice Fire Apparatus pursuant to a national cooperative contract agreement with Houston Galveston area council contract number FS12-23 >> so moved
>> second >> Mrs. Tory >> yes >> Mr. Montgomery >> yes >> Evans >> yes love >> yes >> Mayor Dick >> yes [applause] RESOLUTION 2026-34-1 appointing acting working foreman and
public works department. >> Need a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. [snorts] >> Miss Leman, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. >> Miss Tory, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes. Resolution 2026-35-1,
appointing land use board special assistant. >> So moved. Second, [snorts] >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tory, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Mrs. Loveman, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes. >> Resolution 2026-36-1,
resolution authorizing an agreement with electron electronic recyclers international, Inc. for e-waste collection and recycling. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Ms. Evans. >> Yes. >> Miss Leman, >> yes. >> Mr. Montgomery, >> yes. >> Miss DHY, >> yes. >> Mayor Dick, >> yes.
>> Resolution 2026-37-1. Resolution supporting the qualified purchasing agents authority to award window contracts as granted by PI 2023 chapter 30. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Tory. >> Yes. >> Mr. Montgomery.
>> Yes. >> Miss Zan. >> Yes. >> M. Love. >> Yes. >> Mayor Dick. >> Yes. >> At this point of comments from the public. Comments are limited to five minutes. [snorts] >> Question.
Bruce Levenson to Fox Court. First of all, I'd like to say thank you for Leela for all the years that you've given our township. We really appreciate you. I'd like to also thank everybody else who who's appointed. I want to congratulate all of you as well. As far
as our people who are elected folks, congratulations to you. Samantha, I expect many great things from you. I'm very curious to see who you will become. Thank you, mayor. A new mayor. congratulate you and Karen, thank you as well. >> Thank you.
>> And with regard to Anna, Anna, I wish I could congratulate you and feel as happy for everybody else. Um, but I thought you were one of the good ones. Um, and last meeting I asked you how you got the township's agenda before it was made
public. You evaded my question. Since you can't answer this direct question, I will make some direct statements. Statement number one, it was wrong to steal the township's agenda from our clerk and make it public before it was supposed to be made public.
It is wrong to steal the agenda from the clerk who is required to keep it private until it is made public by its publication, putting the clerk's in-house trust and perhaps job in jeopardy. It is wrong to use a stolen agenda's
premature dissemination to turn an election in your favor, which is one reason why agendas are private until they are made public in the first place. Number four, it is wrong to announce how you will
vote on the sensitive issue at a committee meeting before that meeting takes place, depriving a builder of their expectation of [snorts] objectivity, fairness, and due process. And I think you need to be reminded that
this committee is a quasi judicial body. impartiality and unbiased free judgment is required. You've chosen to ignore this and have kicked established procedures, proper principles, and your moral values
to the curb. This is my observation. And have replaced them with opportunistic resident manipulation before an election [snorts] to benefit you. Self-serving, callous, opportunistic
manipulation. masquerading as activism. And you have to you've already done your dirty work. Going forward, you should decide if you want to be an honest special interest activist outside of
government or an honest committee person representing all of Hannesport at all times. John, does this conduct violate any applicable laws or ethics provisions? If so, what remedies or penalties are
available? Please let me finish before you answer. If no clear legal remedy exists, I urge this committee to adopt a formal resolution or ordinance clearly defining who may have access to
agendas, when they may access, when they may have access to them, and when agendas may be released to the public by the clerk's office. Clear rules protect the township, protect staff,
preserve trust. When process is ignored or left unanswered, confidence in government erodess. Hannesport deserves honest committee people acting in the township's best interest, not their own. Hannesport
deserves that. I work for that and I hope that we'll have that in the future. And before I step down, would you tell us how you stole the committee's agenda? [snorts] >> Thank you, Bruce. As a former committee person, I always appreciate your
wellthoughtout contributions. >> That's the answer I expected. Hannesport deserves better. Thank you. >> Thank you, Bruce. >> Anybody else? online. >> No one's online. >> Okay, we'll close comments. Uh comments
from the administrator. >> Since we met only six days ago, I don't have any comments. [laughter] >> Perfectly good with that. >> Thank you. >> Third meeting in 96 hours. Uh comments from the solicitor. Sean, >> just want to congratulate you all. Congratulations. Election, re-election,
elevation, elevation, six years. Um, and I thank you very much for the opportunity to to serve you again in 2026. I really appreciate it. And I I like this seat. So, thank you very much. [laughter] >> Thank you, Joe. We like you in that seat, John. Thank you. >> All right. Comments from the committee.
Uh, Anna. >> Uh, right. I'd just like to say that I'm looking forward to adding a few new committee assignments to the ones that I've worked on previously, which has mainly been the green team and for the Burlington County Commissioners. So I'm very excited to work with you all on the
various uh liaison positions we've been assigned and I just want to um reiterate what Andy said at the LA end of the last meeting which is that it is a pleasure to see you all here and it's important that you come up and state your opinions
and thoughts and that we listen and hear what you say even if we don't like what you say. So keep coming, keep speaking and have a wonderful and happy new year. Ken, talk about that. >> Yes. Um,
John just said it's I'm starting my sixth year here, so I'm I guess I'm the senior guy up here, which is kind of scary. Um, I remember when I first started here, um, things have changed quite a bit in our town, and I like to think for the better. Um, still debtree, which is just a wonderful thing. And,
um, you know, with anything negative, there's always something positive that comes from it. There's a seed that's planted and something positive comes through it. And it was very difficult um with our um emergency squad and um we're just so thrilled that um Lumberton and
you know you guys have just been fantastic. So so so appreciate it. You really it's it's the right thing to thank you but by the from the bottom of our hearts thank you. Um thank you. Um I'm going to continue uh being the
liaison for the construction code and enforcement for finance for the economic development um as well as for the environmental committee and the affordable housing. So um I'm going to continue in that light and um doing the best I can for all you good people. Um
happy new year. [snorts] Thanks again and um as I always like to end uh God bless Hannesport and God bless America. Thank you. Samantha, >> I just want to thank everybody for coming and I am in agreement with Andy and Anna as far as everybody coming out
to speak. Um, I do try to as a resident come out and speak. Uh, it's informative and everybody can learn from it. Um, I will be the liazison for the Hannesport school with a with a young baby. I'm excited to get involved with Hannesport
um the school district and see if there's anything uh we can do on our end to support them. And I will also be uh the deputy uh liaison with Ken on the environmental commission. Um I look forward to a new year um with a new team
as far as we got Andy as our our mayor and I I got to say he's he's doing a a great job already. I feel really supported as the new member. Um and then also with Karen, she's kind of taking me under her wing already and I appreciate that. Thank you. Um and just thank you all for coming and I hope to see you at
at our next meeting. Thank you. >> Nice to have you, >> Karen. >> Okay, I said so much last time. >> Um, and I and I did it last time because I remember last year when we had our reorg meeting and I had all this stuff
to say and then after the reorg meeting, everybody left and then I was talking to about five people in the room. So, that's why I try to get my my stuff in at the at the reorg meeting. But anyway, um I also want to remind Ken that he's on the 250th anniversary. >> Oh, I forgot that. Yes. Yes. Yes.
>> I was married on the 4th of July a number of years ago, [laughter] so that's near and dear to my heart. Obviously, just loving our country. So, thanks Karen. I'm I forgot that. Yes, it is very important. Thank you. >> It is. It's going to be a great year to do that. Yes. >> Yes, indeed. >> And um I just like to say something really quick. Um uh cuz I know Bruce got
up here and he said something twice and I just think that um people need to we just have to reiterate that our policy is that when we have a pre-aggenda meeting that's strictly confidential and then um and nothing is to be put out until the agenda comes out the final
agenda comes out. Is that that's correct? Right. And I think there was a little um [sighs and gasps] misunderstanding there maybe. So, um, I just want to reiterate that that's what it was and, um, thank you, Bruce, for bringing it to everybody's attention again, and we all have to be very
careful with that. So, thank you, Bruce. >> Okay. Um, honestly, and I'm the one who appoints the liaison, and I'm not even sure what I'm a liazison to right now. So, [laughter] um, I will get to those, but, uh, the ones that I want to, uh, hit on from
Yeah. No, I I kind of do know. Thanks. [laughter] Um but uh public works I just want to reiterate a couple people have thrown out on Facebook uh leaf pickup will continue every month. Obviously with the snow and the bad weather sometimes they aren't exactly on schedule. Um as somebody who formerly used to get
annoyed if they were a day late at my house they've been really good this year given that we fact that we've had some snow and some frost and stuff. So uh you know lay off from a little bit there. Snow removal, same thing. I mean there's a lot of variables that go into that. Um I know people want it their house done right away. Um if you do have an issue,
obviously reach out to one of us, reach out to the township, but uh but give them a little bit of slack, you know, in the first couple hours that the snow's out there. It's not always as easy as it as it sounds. Um as part of uh one of the new uh liaison or committees that we're going to have um the outreach committee um that Karen mentioned in the
last meeting, I want to thank everyone. I see Scott over there um again specifically, but everyone who helped, Leela, uh the rest of the committee here all helped. Um, we delivered hot food and baked goods for every holiday and in between from Thanksgiving till yesterday. So, New Year's Eve, New
Year's Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving. On those days, every homeless person in this area that I'm aware of between Trooper Bowman and I, I got we got out too and they got baked goods, a home-cooked meal, as well as a home or two that were in need um that we
got some and thank you to Donna and the recreation group for some of their things. So, that's been a huge help and hopefully I can talk to you and we can grow that a little bit more. Um, I do really appreciate that. Um, also want to thank all our um, younger volunteers from the Hannesport Helpers, the 8 to 11 year olds that did bake cookies and I
was able to deliver those and and get those out to everyone. Some of them had little notes in them and stuff, so that was really cute. Um, and also lastly, the Hannesport Helps group. Um, we had over 300 hours of community service in less than six months. So, we really did a great job with that group and I and I and I applaud everyone up here, Leela.
Um, I applaud everyone for getting that going, Donna. Um, and really getting something that that's great. So, the Hannesport Helps Group, we have teenagers that are helping the community. So, there's volunteer projects that they'll take care of, but they're also getting their service hours and we're starting to teach them to
create their own projects. So, hopefully we'll see more and more projects down the road. Um, with that, thank you again for the presentation and and to for your service for the last year and for the next year. So, thank you very much. And with that bills. >> Yep. It's time to pay some bills.
>> I make a motion that we pay our bills. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery? >> Yes. >> Miss Evans? >> Yes. >> Miss Leman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Tory? >> Yes. >> Mayor Dicks? >> Yes. And uh like resolution 2026. >> We can um >> We good? >> Yeah. We don't need TO CLOSE SESSION. >> OH, YAY.
>> YAY. >> ALL RIGHT. [laughter] >> EVEN BETTER. >> But only because you reappointed me. It's permanent now. All right. Take care [laughter] of something. That's so we will call adjournment at 8:08 p.m. Can I get a motion?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Montgomery. >> Yes. >> Seven. >> Yes. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> Great job. >> Remember to get that this time. [laughter] >> Yeah. Good job, Andy.