okay good to go thank you okay this meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law would you all please rise for the flag salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call please committee woman Evans here committee Montgomery present
committee Mande here deputy Mayor Cordy here mayor Gilmore here minutes we have approval of the regular committee minutes of February 11th and the executive session minutes of February 11th need a motion and a
second so moved second mr montgomery yes miss yes mr dick yes miss Tory yes yes we have reports i believe Sergeant Antiduchi is here in person
[Music] good evening good evening sorry I haven't been around uh I was sick on the last one it wasn't feeling real good so but I have nothing significant to report however I wanted to report uh back in
January our detectives closed out the uh big rusty uh fire case and two suspects were uh arrested on that and uh yeah we'll be at the uh next uh township event uh coming up for uh Easter egg uh
hunt i was just notified by Donna April uh 12 she gave you your list of Yeah I I got my list we'll we'll be working on it so you're more than welcome to come to the dance on the tour yeah she she I have to check my I had to check my
schedule okay thank my wife is away to do my my date we can do it i'll treat I have a ticket to do it you have you have to agree though antonuchi I don't know how much Irish is in that name but uh Mom Mom's side maybe no we're uh Mom and
Dad oh okay all right that's okay my grandfather used to say uh St patrick he was Italian so okay that's even better you're welcome okay so can I get a motion in a second to accept please so moved second missy
yes mr dick yes miss Evans yes mr montgomery yes yes i don't believe there are any presentations this evening comments from the public agenda items only comments are limited to five minutes is there anyone in the room that
has any comments regarding the agenda seeing none is there anyone online uh there is one individual online if she would like to unmute herself she has any comments
no hearing none no closed comments ordinances ordinance 2025-1 providing the appropriation of 748,000 for Creek Churn Park improvements and authorizing the
issuance of bonds or notes totaling 338,000 this is the public hearing and final adoption we're open for public comments no one in the room online nope we'll close comments and
we're up for a motion in a second please i'll make that motion second Mr montgomery yes mr dick yes miss Evans yes missy yes mayor yes ordinance
2025-2 to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and establish the CAT bank this is the first reading and introduction i need a motion and a second the public hearing and final adoption will be on at the April 8th meeting
motion second miss Evans yes missy yes mr montgomery yes mr j yes mayor Gilmore yes consent resolutions we have several 2025-61-3 through
2025-67-3 i need a motion in a second motion second mr dick yes mrs tory yes uh Miss Evans yes mr montgomery yes mayor Gilmore yes resolution
2025-59-3 authorizing the execution of a redevelopment agreement for the Hannes mobile park redevelopment area i need a motion and a second so moved second mr montgomery yes yes miss Adams
yes mr dick yes mayor Dmore yes resolution 2025-68-3 supporting the publishing of legal notices on the official government websites i need a motion in a second motion
second mrs evans yes missy yes mr montgomery yes mr vic yes mayor Gilmore yes resolution 2025-69-3 authorizing Kush Express LLC to receive an annual class 3 wholesaler
license motion in the second please motion second miss Evans yes mr dick yes mr montgomery yes yes yes businesses we have
um some mobile home park license 2025-2-m we need a motion and a second so moved second miss yes mr montgomery yes m yes mr dick yes yes we have some correspondence to accept and
file with regards to a social affair permit for the Ark of Broning County they have a new pavilion i need a motion and a second motion second miss Dick yes miss Evans yes mr montgomery yes missy
yes mayor Gilmore yes we are now open for comments from the public comments are limited to five minutes anyone in the room no one in the room anyone online good evening this is Samantha Lman hi Sam good evening hi Sam
okay excellent you can hear me uh 2514 Creek Road um I just I saw on the agenda that the Creek Turn Park um was on there and I just wanted to mention that as a resident of Hansport I am against the storm water drain being put through the
park um I just wanted it noted that's all thank you thank you thanks Sam anyone else there's no one else online being none close public comment comments from the
administrator uh so the Pinelands Preservation Alliance who spearheaded the rain garden project next to the municipal pavilion uh reached out to me and asked if we would be interested in partnering with them uh for another uh program uh collaboration through the
American Water Charitable Foundation grant um it would be used for another environmentally sustainable green space here at the municipal park uh letters of support were drafted and submitted by Mayor Gilmore as well as the environmental commission last week and
uh the proposed project includes a micro forest a rain garden and a pollinator garden which I have to say I made sure that that was put in because I know um previous committeemen uh Levenson as well as some members of the environmental commission were working on trying to get that established here at
the municipal park so hopefully we can get that to the finish line um with the Pine Lands Preservation Alliance um and this would be near the um open area it'll be on off of the walking path kind of encompassing the walking path near the pickle ball courts just to the north
of it where it's just that big open space so hopefully we'll find out within the next couple months if that grant uh was awarded um to us with the Pine Land Preservation Alliance um over the past week I've attended a couple online
meetings with representatives of the New Jersey municipalities who challenged the fourth round um affordable housing obligation number which was derived by DCA uh mediations began this week um with certain towns as well as fair
share housing and the New Jersey Builders Association who filed uh the loan objection to 100% of those municipalities who put in their request to reduce their number um Fair Share Housing did not object to our perspective need obligation reduction
from 77 to 62 um so uh John Leah and I will continue monitoring the feedback uh from those who have municipal mediations over this week and next week um and we are waiting for our mediation to be scheduled and again that will that is simply because the New Jersey Builders
Association filed an objection against 100% of the municipalities it's about 183 I think it is 170 yeah in that area um that that submitted a reduction in in DCA's number um so we'll keep you posted
on on that i suspect we'll have a more more formal information at our next meeting and potentially discussions in close session so even though we were it was accepted we still may have to go to mediation correct because there was an objector so Fair Share Housing did not object to our
reduction they did object to some of the other municipalities reductions they did not object to ours and it does seem at this point like I stated um in an email earlier that um the judges who are hearing these mediations through the
program seem to be showing deference to the fair share housing um and those municipalities who have fair share housing's object objection to those municipalities not necessarily the builders association's objection but it's very early u we're
going to sit back and just let things shake out um over the next week or two and and then we'll report back to you okay good job thank you welcome one more thing um so a couple meetings and classes this past month uh we did hold a developer escrow procedure meeting
internally with John and our staff uh we also had our budget meeting with the CFO and and the liaison from the governing body our street scan software meeting u with our municipal engineer to get him acclimated to that particular program um and we also held our first quarter
safety meeting Jen and I uh which our fire company attended which I'm super excited that they were there um representing their company nice so that was really nice um I also attended a LEA New Jersey LEAP grant webinar uh to explore available grant funds for shared service studies um I also attended an
in-depth shared service class this past month that's it you are educated i'm overly busy yeah I'm not really busy overly so comments from the solicitor nothing from us thank you comments from the committee mr
svens yes i was delighted that Hannesport was designated a healthy town to watch by the New Jersey um healthcare quality institute this is a result of several years of hard work by the mayor's wellness committee and then some recent contributions by Hannesport's
green team uh the green teams and the environmental commission submitted the two grant applications to the sustainable Jersey cycle and we expect to hear back in miday we can only get one of them hopefully we'll get the big one if not hopefully the smaller one uh along with
the mayor and the deputy mayor I attended the Hesport school talent show on March the 7th and I was just knocked out by how much hard work the kids had put in it was a very joyful occasion happy St patrick's Day to everyone i'll be heading to England on Sunday so I'll
be celebrating it in the United Kingdom thank you okay thank you Mr dick um I guess first off uh just want to let everyone know Vintage Florists who've been around a while they're closing up their shop where they currently are they're moving to another spot in Hannesport in a couple weeks so they'll
be right on 38 as well so if you see them closed just look for them right off the road on 38 wish them well um want to thank Tenacity Fitness also a Hannesport company um they were nice enough to without even thinking about it offer a real nice package to everyone in the
Hannesport Fire Department to work out for free for a couple months free training and then highly discounted rates from there on forward so all they got to do is go in and say they're with the fire department and they're going to get hooked up so want to thank Tenacity for that um to Anna's point of the PTO
event I do want to publicly apologize to them i said yes I was going and I just did not put it on my calendar and I noticed when they all started posting that they were there on Facebook while I was sitting around watching TV doing literally nothing so I apologize to them i already sent them an email but I do want to put it on the record that I did
not mean to um to say yes and then not show up and lastly I want to just kind of introduce everyone to something we're going to hopefully as a committee roll out in the next couple days is a new volunteer group where we'll open up kind of a portal of sorts for teenage volunteers that are residents of the
town to sign up to be volunteers for various events and then also for various residents to sign up for various things our initial roll out will be a spring cleanup at one of um the Glenn um we'll we're going to do some um some light landscaping and things like that so hopefully we'll get that out there
that'll be a nice little roll out it'll get us a chance to see what works and doesn't and that we can grow on that as a town to really engage our younger to get more involved and to come up with their own ideas as well as to help the community with a lot of little projects and happy St patrick's Day okay thank
you Mr montgomery yes um a couple different things um just really happy that um it looks like the resurfacing of the athletic courts and and the municipal park as well as Hansport Chase are just about done i guess we still have to just put some
lines down so happy that that is um almost finished um also uh like the fact that um we're Hinsport Mobile Park uh they're expanding and um offering deed restricted for three affordable housing there which is great um thank you
Sergeant and uh the rest of your force and the fire departments for um the hard work in getting the two young adults and the three juveniles who started uh a fire uh they call it the big rusty fire I guess but really risking a
catastrophe um that was so scary and people from all around the country were calling and saying "What is going on in Hannesport it looks like your town is burning down." And um I uh pray that um these individuals while I um I don't want anyone to lives to be ruined they
almost ruined many many lives and I just really uh pray that um there's restitution um so that they learn from it and other people learn from it and uh don't don't play around with matches i mean we learned that a long time ago um
want to congratulate Anthony Watson as a volunteer for our fire department and the long list that was there um including uh Levenson as a as a um fire police uh look forward to the Easter egg hunt and um also um the Creek Turner
Park um that's moving along with the funding i just like to say is that I'm happy Hansport is um developing this green space because our state is losing green space um we talked about just a little while ago about the affordable housing mandate that's forcing
communities municipalities to um to build where maybe they don't want to build um I'm all for um finding affordable housing for people but being forced upon is uh is difficult um so I'm happy that we have this uh creek turn
park um preserve space um great job with hopefully we can move forward with the Pine Land preservation grant and that will work out and um would also like to thank um Tenacity Fitness for offering a discounted program so good job by you
Andy to uh talk to them and to get that for our fire department and uh as uh my great great-grandfather immigrated from uh Ireland a long long time ago I'm wearing my uh St patrick's Day tie today um happy St patrick's Day to everyone
everyone who's Irish and those who wish they were god bless America and God bless our beloved town of Hannesport thank you Jordy okay um the fire department had a Valentine
Day sale roses and uh chocolatecovered strawberries it was the first time that I participated and bought some and I have to say they were absolutely beautiful they lasted for over a week opened up beautifully so I really encourage everybody to support them next
year here here and the strawberries were delicious as well agreed um we have had some meetings andy is our liaison and I'm just the deputy leazison with the fire department so hopefully we're moving forward to maybe talking about getting them a new truck that they
desperately need so there'll be more information coming on that in the future and I want to commend Annie for all your work and energy that you've been doing working on this so hard um in in recognizing the needs and their requests for volunteers I submitted my
application to the ladies auxiliary so we shall see if I'm accepted or not but um I hope I can help in any way that I can there um now being a liazison to the rec department Donna and Sue keep me so very very busy they have so many things
on the line um on the 22nd we held our second movie in the fire hall the attendance was very low and that's a shame because the children that were there had such a great time they had a really really nice time and so did the parents so we're hoping that maybe next year i don't think we're having any more
this year but maybe next year maybe we can try it again and I hopefully we'll um encourage more people to come um so as you can see outside Donna has been actively busy forming a committee to identify services needed by our veterans
and Sue and Donna have placed information outside and a box outside where those hopefully people that need um any kind of help or assistance or have any suggestions for our veterans they can put any kind of notes in there that they um suggest and we'll see what
we can do to help them um Donna has put a great great committee together we have wonderful veterans who are working hard and are dedicated to this so we look forward to maybe helping our veterans a little bit more in our community um when
Irish Eyes Are Smiling is our adult dinner dance coming up on March 29th in the fire hall so um there will be prizes for the people that wear the best green costumes and um and there's lots lots of fun and lots of surprises so if you
haven't gotten your tickets really really it's going to be a great event a good community um event for us yeah so $40 and by Friday I think it's due right $4 a ticket unless you know somebody maybe you know if there's tickets left on this so tomorrow night at 6:30 at the
Kenneth Street Center there'll be a presentation um on our past history as we celebrate our oneyear birthday 101 one year from last year we're counting over it's right in front of you isn't it yeah the Easter It's We're counting over from
one and the Easter event will be held on April 12th so that's always a good time all right so that's it for the wreck department um the school last Friday evening we went to the talent show and we all agreed it was fantastic it was so nice we had such a good time you're
welcome and um we all agreed that Hannesport has talent um I'd also like to mention that Harvard Baptist School who has supported us in so many of our events is having a basket raffle on Friday from 4 to 6 with drawing at 6:30
please look online for information on that for details so if we can get over and maybe buy a couple raffle tickets to support them that would be really really nice the basket raffle will be on Saturday um oh no wait let me go ahead no that's the school never mind that okay let's go back so the school is
presenting I have so much stuff i'm so sorry am I over my five minutes here okay the school is presenting a play this weekend Alice in Wonderland um and it will be on Thursday Friday and Saturday evening at 7:00 with a matinea
at 2:00 and I've been told that tickets can be purchased at the door um they will also be having a basket raffle on April 5th from 4:00 to 5:00 if you can get over and buy some tickets um Leela and I and Paula had already finished this
5hour course for the um joint land use board training so we are continuing our education um I don't know if we've had any um updates on the election or what happened with the election i was told that they got one report and they didn't like it so they were they hired an
outside they did hire outside people i I'm going to go to the commissioner's meeting tomorrow so I will So this Yeah bad timing for you huh this like I'm asking you today tomorrow you'll have the answer um so just curious about that um and this is the delay we only got two booths is that what this is yes there's
all kind of rumors out there but I don't want to spread them but anyway um and I just want to make one more point i'll spread a couple come no that's okay um I want to make one more point that um when you're considering our elections that all of our utility bills are going up
this summer from procedures policies coming down from the state level so I just wanted to point that out to you be ready be prepared and um consider that when you're voting and other than that I wish you a a very very happy St patrick's Day i remember when I used to
like I used to when I was in college I worked in a bar and I was the bartender in grad school and uh the Irish day was the biggest day ever from the green beard to everything from 7 in the morning till 3 at night so it's a big day yeah a lot of tips so um anyway I
hope you guys all have a safe happy and enjoyable St patrick's Day so with that I say God bless you God bless Hannesport and God bless America thank you thank you so um I'm not going to repeat a lot of the
uh other things that were already said that I did attend i haven't attend i'm attending and um everywhere Leela you are everywhere at all the time yes but um this year's been uh an extremely
tough one we've lost an awful lot of friends um this year including uh a dear friend and um one of the biggest reasons why the mayor's wellness um campaign has gone as
far as it it has so far and that's um Betty Forbes so um I do want to uh recognize her this year during the mayor's wellness day
um we uh in on another hand uh we have some good news here in the township and one of our um residents Marge Galam turned 100 on Sunday and um we hereby
recognize her and celebrate her happy birthday and her birthday i did attend on uh Sunday I went to church um to Christian faith assembly uh where they had received a donation
from Amazon due to um their uh representatives reaching out they had unfortunately a loss in their congregation recently and felt that had they had an AED in the
building they could have saved their life they reached out to Amazon and they were able to um negotiate a fully brand new state-of-the-art AED machine and
they only requested that the township acknowledge the fact and accept the donation with them so I attended um services and it was quite quite a uh
an event quite quite quite an event an event and a service and and a service all stories on in there Leela yes there were unfortunately I couldn't say the entire day but um it it was a lovely
service and two that's one of the reasons why we have been um nominate have been accepted as a healthy town to watch and um I'm very proud of that uh fact that in the short period of time that we started the mayor's wellness
campaign that it we have reached this uh goal and hopefully we'll continue to go on it gets a little harder from here and it'll be a little harder without Betty but um she we have a we have a good team uh and
everybody is more than willing to help so I'm I'm quite grateful the responses we've had in this town and I'm hoping that the volunteers from the young people will start to come in and Yeah yeah i I agree that'll be you know it
just it just helps make us more of a hometown without a downtown so anyway with that um let's pay some bills i make a motion that we pay our bills i'll second that mr montgomery yes yes
mr d yes m yes yes i don't believe we have an executive session no we do not but may I add one more thing with regards to the Green Acres grant i just think it's important that you know we put it out um on the record now okay um
we'll highlight it more when we do our bud budget presentation next month but because you guys just authorized a bond right um you know people might think we can't say "Oh we're debtree anymore." But in all reality
um we this is a zero so the way the Green Acres funding works um it's we receive just about a 50/50 split on this and it's um a grant and then it's also a loan and it's a uh interestfree loan
payable over 20 years so our repayment to the state will be a little over $18,000 a year um but it's again a zero interest loan so by accepting this we're going to be able to keep these funds in our own interestbearing account earning
4.27% so we're actually gaining money on this loan um so I just want to make sure that it's not misconstrued out there that we are no longer going to be debtree because of the way the semantics of this particular loan is um we really still are debtree thank you for bringing
that up you're welcome good job okay thank you so much okay so there's no executive session ly confirmed and uh therefore I'd like a motion to adjurnn i'll make that motion second all in
favor i I 70:01 is that a record i'm sure it's not no really 31 minutes i don't think we even started at at at 6:30