Mhm. Roll. Uh, good evening everyone. This meeting is being held with the benefit of public notice as required by the open public meetings act. Madam clerk, would you call the role? Mr. Farrell here. Mr. Phillips here. Mr. Whan here. Mr. Farah
here. Mr. Ty here. And would everyone rise for the flag salute and the invocation 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. Heavenly Father, as the world blossoms in spring, let our hearts be renewed with God's love. May he bring comfort in uncertainty, strength in weariness, and hope that never fades. Let us pray for our township as well. May we deliberate
tonight justly, and will we always serve with integrity. We ask, we ask all these things in your name. Amen. Amen. For your consideration, we have minutes for the meetings of March 18th and April 1st. I have a motion regarding the
minutes. I'll make that motion. Second, Madame Clerk. Mr. Carabelli? Yes. Miss Phillips? Yes. Mr. Whan? Yes. Yes. Mr. Ty, yes. Yes. 5-0. For consideration, we have communications
C1. Joint proclamation recognizing May as a proxy awareness month. Create. The theme is creating community connections. The second is joint proclamation recognizing May is mental health awareness month. The theme is turn awareness into action. And the
third is the joint proclamation recognizing May 17th as Armed Forces Day. Do I have a motion to recognize these joint proclamations? I'll make Go ahead. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Madam Clerk, Mr. Parabelli, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Mr.
Whan, yes. Mr. Petero, yes. Mr. Todd, yes. Now, there has been an amendment to the agenda since it was posted on the website. Uh there is an additional there is an additional communication that has been added. Uh
it's an acknowledgement of a receipt of a of documentation regarding the results of uh the bond sale and note sale of April 20th, 2025 by Eugeneia Polos, the our director of finance and CFO.
So make a motion that motion. I'll second. Madam clerk. Mr. Caraval. Yes. M. Phillips. Yes. Mr. Whan. Yes. Yes. Mr. Cod. Yes. Resolution 125-221 is a resolution of
Hamilton Township County, Mercer State of New Jersey, supporting JSN Tulsi LLC doing business at a sweet spot dispensary application to the Cannabis Regulatory Commission for a class 5 cannabis retail and dispensary
license. Any comments or questions from council? No. Any members of the public wishing to comment or ask any questions? Would you like to comment? I
think I think I saw a hand. I'm sorry. We can't hear back here up here. All right. Come on. We don't. So, can everyone hear me better? Right.
All right. Oh, yeah. We have new because the air is broke. So, we have no units. Oh, okay. Great. So, all right. I'll we'll do our best everyone. Uh we'll we'll try to be mindful and speak into our microphones
tonight. Uh normally we can um keep a little distance between ourselves and the microphones, but not tonight. Okay. So, we are uh let's see, we're on resolution one, which is a resolution
uh in support of the uh application to the Cannabis Regulatory Commission by uh Sweet Spot JSN Tulsi LLC's doing business uh Sweet Spot dispensary. So, once again, uh do
any members of council wish to comment on this? Any members of the public wish to comment on this? Seeing none, um, I'll entertain a motion. I'll move resolution 125-221. I'll second.
Madame clerk. Mr. Parabell. Yes. Phillips. Yes. Mr. Whan. Yes. Mr. Perrell. Yes. Mr. Yes. Or actually, I need to abstain on that due to my work with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Resolution
225-222 is a resolution authorizing the place of place transfer of an active alcohol beverage control license 10333038os Enterprises LLC trading as Italian beastro and Pizzeria. Any members of council wishing to
comment or ask a question? I I just I guess my only question is this going to activate a liquor license for that that location? That's great. Okay. Any members of the public wishing to comment or ask a question? Do they?
No. Things are just All right. I'll make the motion to move resolution to 25. I'll second. Madam clerk. Mr. Parelli. Yes. Phillips. Yes. Mr. Whan. Yes. Mr. Papero. Yes. Mr. Ty. Yes.
And we will move on to the consent agenda. Consent agenda items CA1 through CA11 for your consideration. questions or comments from council members. It's a pretty straightforwarded uh consent agenda today. We're appointing
someone to the Hamilton Economic Development Advisory Committee. Um refunds. Yeah, some refunds on it. So, um wording some contracts, but straightforward. So, I don't have any questions. Any members of the public wishing to make any comments or ask any
questions? Seeing none, uh, council president, I'll make a motion to close the public comment and move on consent agenda items CA1 through CA11. I'll second a motion. Madame Clerk, Mr. Carelli, yes. Phillips, yes.
Mr. Whan, yes. Mr. Pero, yes. Mr. Tai, yes. Next for consideration, we have ordinance 125-005 for ordinance accepting a deed restriction for a deed restricted affordable housing property with restrictions on resale and refinancing.
The project name is Cross Lake News at Hamilton. Property address is 3332 South Cross Street, lot 2527, part of lot 17. The property owner is 3332 Hamilton Real Estate Inc. First reading and
introduction. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion on first reading and introduction to ordinance number 125-00005. Second, Madame Clerk. Mr. Mr. Caribell. Yes. Miss Phillips. Yes. Mr. R. Yes. Mr.
Pero. Yes. Mr. S. Yes. Uh, ordinance 225006, an ordinance accepting a a utility easement and dedication of public utility agreement. Project name Spark Car Wash. Property address is 1030
State Highway 33, block 1828, part of lot 49. The property owner is Williams Trading Company, Inc. First, we need an introduction. Any questions or comments? Actually, we just go to the motion. I'll make a motion to move on ordinance
number 225-006. I'll second it, Madam Clerk. Mr. Carelli? Yes. Miss Phillips? Yes. Mr. Wh? Yes, Mr. Pero. Yes, Mr. Yes. Next, we have resolution
125-234, the resolution authorizing the municipal clerk to read the state calendar year 2025 municipal budget resolution by title only. I'll make the motion uh to move resolution 125234. I'll second. Mr. Parabelli? Yes. M
Phillips? Yes. Mr. Whero? Yes. Mr. Ty, yes. Now we move on to the public hearing on the municipal budget. Okay. Comments from council. I reserve one. Same. Same. Same.
Okay. Questions or comments from the public? I got comment questions. How's everyone doing tonight? Good. Good evening. State your name and address, please. Yes. Bill Barnes, uh, 1980 Arena Drive,
lifetime longtime Hamilton resident. Um, question about the budget. Um, I didn't notice it including anything about any possible tax increases for homeowners. Is that something anticipated? Yes. Yes. Yep.
Do you know any idea roughly by how much? About 4%. 4% tax increase.99. 4.99. So 5%. So it accounts to Noah $3 a week.
$3 $4 a week on a average household. Okay. And that's mainly reflected we went through the budget with a fine tooth comb over our budget workshops. It's mainly reflected in the healthc care increases and the health care costs that impacted uh every
municipality. So that's what we're faced with. So yeah, that's that's a good point. Our health care costs have gone up by several million dollars for the township this year. Uh our garbage costs
have gone up by 50% I believe this year. There are several uh costs that um we're not going to cut from the budget that have just gone up. Right. And then another question about um legislative
and the mayoral salaries increasing. Um, the number I saw was it's increasing from $343,000 to $419,000. That's a $76,000 increase or 22% increase. Is that for um the mayor and all the
members of the council? Are there more people included in that? No, that's incorrect. We're our salaries aren't going up if that's what you're saying. No, our salaries have stayed the same, but it may What do you think that is? Our our CFO has Can you come can you come over? Can Can
she borrow your Absolutely. In the budget, the council the mayor no longer studies have increased. However, there are other staff that were paid by the grant and that those rent funds have gone away as of this year. They were
added to the budget. Okay. Thank you so much. And my questions, thank you. Any other members of the public wishing to ask any questions or make any comments? So, um, yeah. So, name address, please.
Oh, I'm sorry. Rich Valen, 55 Church Street, Hamilton, New Jersey, 08620 9546. Um, so anyway, um, we we're going to be having a new municipal building. Okay. Is there anything in the budget to
address any issues with the, uh, the building maintenance that this this building? No, the new not this new the municipal building is under construction now. So, it'll be it'll be completely the goal is like, you know, the fe fall of next year, 2026. We're
looking at one way that you're seeing us address the new municipal building is in how um frugal the administration is uh in our capital budget this year. Uh you'll see there were very few uh
increases. Uh our capital budget went down. The capital budget went down uh in preparation for the fact that we do have this big uh project coming up. I so uh another
question I think it's just you have what are we giving them four minutes building is being built to lean silver standards that correct gold that's the goal yeah silver we're familiar I think we're familiar with it
okay so is it gold or silver we're we're aiming our Fred's going to answer that actually we're going to we're going to let our community de developer director speak to that um and I can understand why certain people why you wouldn't
come on up so um building will be uh silver silver we were going for gold but gold raises the costly and u so we think this is the best option uh we're asking everybody uh right by
the building it's going as good as a project can go. And for me personally, I can't hear this building because we don't have any air conditioning now. So, we have all these temporary units now. Don't get on the elevator. Don't mind the rodents run all through
this building. So, uh this is such a needed asset. It's unbelievable. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. So just to comp comment on that, I really do compliment the passion for building this new building to lead standards even if it
leads platin the highest. And Fred is right. The more things you do to get the higher certification, the more it costs. But all that does is you're going to save money. It's going to extend the payback period. But common weed standards, which are environmentally
friendly standards, sustainability standards, you could use like rain water that you collect on the roof to help flush your toilets and irrigate your uh plants, all kinds of stuff. So, um I actually drafted a a lead ordinance with I was director of public works. It did
go through American takes businesses way. Yeah, it is it is exciting that uh at the new facility uh we're going to have um a large number of electrical charging stations. We're going to have
the entire uh and this is to to what Fred was take talking about. Uh although we're not uh completely finishing the work, we're starting the work to have the entire parking lot. It'll be stubbed out for electrical charging stations.
It's going to be stubbed out so that we can have overhead uh solar uh panels. So, we are doing the work. We may continue to do peacemeal work uh after to after the uh building is occupied. Uh
there will be additional projects coming to make the the an environmentally friendly building much more environmentally friendly than this building and we will continue to make improvements beyond the point that we occupy that building. So thank you uh for for pointing that out. And I again I
compliment the town very very beneficial and lead it involves everything from the carpets you use the wood you're using in the building coming from sustainable wood you know like teeth and all stuff. So and then the final question and I'm
going to sit down is um so I was watching I was I always look at all the public work stuff. So I'm seeing all these new trucks out there and I'm saying so I written I'm not bragging on it. I wrote the green I wrote the complete
replacement schedule and it's perpetual and it's looking at mileage age of the vehicle that type of thing and so it's something that you sustainable. So, as a vehicle gets to a certain age and miles, it needs to be replaced. But I've been seeing all these dump trucks. Yeah. And
stuff. And then I see all these like uh Ford Escalades and stuff sitting in the parking lot that look like they're almost brand new. Okay. Ford Ford doesn't make Ford doesn't make Escalades. So, let's let's What kind of car was a skate? Maybe. Okay. Yeah. I
don't know. I said, that's okay. So, the cars the cars appear to be in good shape. That's good. They're in great shape. Glad to hear they're, you know, that could maybe that's maintaining them. Well, so what's your actual question? My question is there's a lot of new vehicles out there. Where did the
money come from? Well, I I got my my speculation is and I could because I could give you an actual answer, but go ahead and speculate. No. Uh, so that's all I need to know. So, one of one of the answers to your
questions is uh for example, uh for the police department, uh in this year's budget, we have zero new vehicles for the police department, despite the fact that there are, I want to say, 10 of the
vehicles in our fleet with over 100,000 miles on those vehicles. Um there are several vehicles that have over 150,000 miles. Uh one of the things that the township does is repurposes vehicles. So there's kind of been a handme-down
system uh so that we get maximum use of the vehicles. Uh you're probably familiar with that. Uh, one of one of the innovations that I'm proud of that this council working with the administration, uh, we were able to find money, uh, to provide our police with
three new vehicles. They're not in the capital budget. Uh, we found funding to provide those in order to um, uh, provide for public safety. So, it's important uh, that we continue to replace these vehicles that have this
high mileage on them. Uh, and that's something that we were able to work together to do without adding to the capital budget. I thank you so much for educating me. So that's why I asked the question and one more and then you're over time. Let's let's do this.
Come back. Let's see if any other members of the public want to uh ask any other questions and then we we can bring you back. Right. Janice, do you want to come up and make any questions or comments? Any other budget? budget about the budget about the budget in particular. No, not about
the budget. All right. Any other members of the public? All right. Seeing that no other members of the public, if you can come up and have, uh, we'll give you two more minutes, Rich. All right. So, um, so I know when I worked here, this was
one of my favorite places to work. No question about it. I love working. So much things we can do, make it better. My question is, and I was always looking for ways to save money, improve services, cut costs. What are we trying to do? Is there anything like monumental
that we're trying to do to improve services? I believe we can improve services, cut costs at the same time in many areas. Sure. I can give you a couple examples. Okay. No, you go ahead. It's your time. So, for example, what do we spend? What's where do we budget for
solid waste? Uh, I don't have a lot. It went up by 50%. It went up by 50%. Last year and then so it was what's our total budget now
for solid for everything 1795 million. No, it's 1795. So solid waste at one point and I can't say if this is essentially 10% of the entire budget and there's absolutely ways that
you can cut the cost significantly. I met with the mayor and talking about these. Um so that's just I'm not going to get in here cuz I don't have enough time. Um the other thing is there's things that you can do to facilities like the wastewater treatment plant. directly there for a while after 11%.
Um, but why are we allowing the methane to just be burned off to the atmosphere? Actually, they've looked at they've looked at methane capture and there's we do provide some of it um some of it is I know. Yeah. So, and and again that is
great idea to do for the environment and everything else but it also um doesn't affect our current fund budget, our tax budget, right? They're separate. I'm just saying here's a way to quote improve the environment and are we going to replace that waste treatment plant?
Replace it? No, there are no plans to replace it. So, anyway, I know I'm still So, I went to a um an American public system. You know how much that would cost? Oh, yeah. We'll get Robinsville. Thank you. By the way, we have a great and and we I'll give you I'll give you
back 30 seconds. We have a great uh director of of the water pollution and she's um working on uh constantly working on a 10-year plan. Uh we are, you know, that's those are expenses uh
that we approved were uh the replacement of vital uh equipment for for the uh water pollution uh control. She's very very good. Very good. when I went when I was going to environmental commission meetings, she was there and we could
talk and she's very very good. Um, so the other thing though and I'm going to just and then I'm done. Talk about my trip to China. I back in I think it was like 2009 went on a trip to China, American Public Works Association and why the wives and everything were off looking at all the sites. We were
meeting with government officials and things like that. So one of the places we went was the Beijing wastewater treatment plant and they there was a modern uh plant. They captured all the methane and even the gray water that we
dumped into the cross street creek they captured that and they sent it out to under the pipes parts and stuff to irrigate. So they captured all their methane and the methane was used to power onethird of the entire plant. And
um I even went to some dirt for Chinese villages and they were super proud of this little system they put in. So Rich, you're you're I'm done. I'm done. You're out of time. Regulator on the wall. They had a hole in a sh in a in a little shed next to um their house and they pushed
in hog poop and put a lid on it and it decomposed and they used the methane and meth to heat their homes. Thanks again. One thing we recently did do cuz you were asking the question about what are we doing, you know, at the wastewater
treatment plant to cut cost, right? One of the things that we did is that we for years, right, many years, we paid to have our sludge hauled off, right? So recently we we bought a truck um for rolloffs and we're going to haul it
ourselves. So, you know, the initial investment might have been a little bit of money. Um, but at the end, it's going to pay off down the road, right? So, I mean, Rich, you need to let the public I don't I don't disagree that infrastructure, but you know it and I know it, right? You you came from that
world. I came from that world. Okay. At the end of the day, yeah, it'd be great to build a brand new wastewater treatment plant, right? To treat our sewage, but at what cost? We'll get Robinsville. Well Well, Robinfield's paying their fair share now. Oh, they
are. Yeah. People don't know that. Yeah. Well, that's good. That's great. They They pay their fair share. That's fantastic. Yeah. You got to get the word out. I believe we're Here's here's another thing you can help us get the word out about this, Rich. Uh is I believe we're going to be breaking
ground on the uh solar field that we're building this year. uh that's going to be uh providing the township with revenue. It's the old McCry's landfill and it's patter and and it's been a focus for this uh council
and for this administration to redevelop uh these types of brownfields. There's been a lot of work uh by our economic development team looking at redeveloping. We have a lot of brown fields um you know in in and there's
been a focus on uh bringing those back online uh creating productive uh revenue generating properties jobs generating properties um and I'm I'm proud of the work that we've done uh when you think about some of the properties uh the
Neapara site there's progress being made there uh to get that cleaned up uh using the um using the uh former dump as as a solar field. Uh it's going to not only
provide us with revenue, but it's going to provide us with discount discounted uh electricity energy for the new building. So really great agreement. If if you ever want to if you want me to share some thoughts about solid waste conversation, I will share. Yeah, I'm
done. I'll do it. Thank you. We appreciate that. So, uh, with that, uh, any other members of the public wishing to ask questions or make comments regarding the budget? Seeing none,
uh, we'll entertain a close the public hearing and then adopt the budget. Yeah, we're you need to Well, you're going to close a public hearing and then you're going to adopt. So, I need a motion. I'll make a motion to close the public uh hearing and uh move on resolution 1 25-2. No,
resolution two. We approve of 2025-235. Very good. I'll second the motion. Madam clerk. Mr. Carol. Yes. Mr. Phillips. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Todd. Yes. Okay. Uh, first up is Helen Coyote.
Hi everyone. We're so grateful for gracious and listening to me and um understanding the situation and above all that taking action on this matter. I just wanted to personally come and thank you very much for what you've done and it's 85% improvement. I did you guys get
my email that was this morning. I did see some residual that was left behind, but um and he started a a fire uh a fire p firewood pile behind number 28. So, he just doesn't want to follow
along no matter what. So, um I was talking to Rich cuz I was mentioning that I was thinking of getting those hunting cameras. So, I took pictures to make sure like no more dumping was going to happen anymore. But, and so he was 30 yards away from me. I noticed him cuz I didn't want to I was just hiding in the
walls taking pictures. He was filming me. So I just and I saw that there was three more signs put there. So I appreciate that. And um oh and here have cur curiosity of who done it. I forgot to mention that when they they they
hired a bulldozer they rented they al the number 28 also had a backhup and he dug a hole that was I don't know 4t long 3t deep 3 ft wide and I asked number 28 when I 24 what's that all about cuz he had a
chicken wire fence around it and these two metal doors in the hole to cover the hole and he said oh he's going to use it as a compost and I was like okay and I didn't think anything of it I'm thinking you know, compost should be above the ground, so you till it and then it ferments, whatever. So, I've noticed
about a year later, that's all that's covered over. So, if you want to um if you have a metal detector or an average dog, I have the area that you might want to be searching to see what people or not, but just thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Ellen. Rich, you got four more minutes, Rich. This this again this is just a question that hopefully you educate me. So um old Europe road um out in
u cross. Okay. One day I'm driving down the road and here's a farmer digging out this ditch. This is between u uh uh Broad Street and Allentown or
whatever going towards Allentown. So he's digging this ditch out. is right next to the road and there's no guardrail there, nothing like that. But he what he did was create a dangerous condition there because if any vehicle just goes off the edge a little bit, he
they're flipping over. I didn't take any pictures, but they're flipping over the ditch about a quarter of a mile and then the next thing I know there's guide rail up there and there was never guide rail there before. WB guide rail with crash
worthy entry is and my question is who paid for that? Oh, we'd have to look into absolutely had to have been a contract. Do you happen to know about $35,000? It's a it's a county road. It's it's a county road. And when do you know
when did the road when Yeah. When did the uh the ditch digging happened? About a year and a half. Yeah, it was a while ago. and we got complaints on that and we went out and addressed it with whoever the farmer was that does that that piece of property. So the guard
rail went up sometime after that. So I and we don't know what the source of that was. It would have been the county farmer who were cutting permit right now. Correct. Sometimes we think they're all roads and they end up being the counties, right?
Right. I should have known that. I should have known that. So, so just to bounce off what she was saying, when Beno was born, he had problems with the legal company, vandalism, things like that. So, we put these cameras, solar power truck cameras
out up in like who's your mansion and uh they worked and um those are something I don't know if the council still doing something like that but uh every place he le I need to take them down somewhere else. They were counters bunch of detective counters and um so clear you
would get the license plate number was all done years ago and um something to consider. interesting so that the public doesn't have to run by. So, and then the other thing that I was going to say before if you want to ever talk about solid waste and what we can absolutely
do to significantly cut our solid waste cost because we paid a tremendous amount because of the transfer station and all that other stuff. I can tell you how to do it and um I wrote a proposal to do that and I discussed it with so you might want to talk about it. It's going
to take too long. Thank you, Rich. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Thanks. Thanks. Any other members of the public? Janice Rich is a little taller than you. It's just the new air conditioning. You like it? You like it? That's where we're
going to put it. The new building. Can't hear anything. Even people, they don't speak loud enough. We can't see apparently. It's It's temporary. They're having a problem with the these Sano or whatever these um split systems and uh I guess they're working on still waiting
on parts. So So these are only temporary. Sorry they're loud. We know that they're loud. They're the best option that we have to keep it cooler here. So next two weeks now I guess I won't I won't wear neck tie. We like uniforms
like Okay. Um, I had read that eventually trying to water works, we're going to have our own water reserve tank in Hamilton. You guys doing away with one
on Pennington or whatever it is that Oh, the reservoir on Pennington Road. Well, I did hear that they're going to uh do something with I don't know what the final disposition was of the reservoir. I mean, it's in Trenton. It's Trenton Waterworks. Uh they were because they were talking about they'd rather have a
covered right uh reservoir rather than that one's open air two tanks there and they were going to get rid of that and then each township was going to have their own reservoir according to the last update from I don't think we've received a proposal on placement of any
such facility at this point. So, it's it's early for us to have any details. If I'm if if I'm correct or if I'm wrong, let me know. But my understanding is is probably a year year and a half away from even finalizing
regionalization of that facility. So, it might even take longer. Um, but you know, it's a work in progress. And, uh, you know, it looks like there's finally people that have signed on, correct? including the mayor of
Trenton. Not necessarily, but they're getting closer. But it it's still a lot of work in progress. Poker face. The the biggest update for Trenton Waterworks is that on Friday, uh the NJ will be releasing their final study, the 360°
final study. So, um if you've got nothing better to do over the weekend, she didn't mean that the way it sounded. You can read hundreds of pages of analysis. I know that's what I'll be doing. If you like Alyssa, have nothing better
to do this weekend. And then what is the tree cake? Are they um It looks like they're not the openers. I mean, they've been for sale for years. We don't have anything coming there oriented. I think with the house
in buying that for anything. Fred's not here right now, but I I know that, you know, uh there have been rumors of them looking to do some sort of development outside the actual retail location that they have at the intersection there. Um
what that looks like, um you know, does it include housing? Does it include like a mixed use? We that hasn't been solidified yet. Um you know, there's ongoing discussions. Obviously, they they have opened up that the retail floral and um and you
know, you can get your shrubs and bushes there during the during the given year and during the Christmas season. I know that they're busy, but I haven't seen any. Yeah, I I haven't either. So, there was nothing. So, they might be moving in that direction where they're looking really to pursue something.
So, but there have been ideas floated about and I've heard, you know, through the rumor mill several, but I haven't nothing has been solidified as of my conversation with the administration not too long, maybe like two weeks ago. So, I'm curious on that site as well. Sits right across from the new municipal
building. It's a it's a you know, needed more parking or something like that. Put a bridge over the road over there, come over, you know, and uh you know, it's right ideal. You need something else to go with invisible building. That's property right there. So, uh,
okay, that's it. Thanks. And, uh, that's what we were talking about. Here, uh, solar panels bring up Sweet Brier Avenue done. Do you like your new road? Well, I
you're you have eyes on Sweet Brier every day. What do you see happening? Nothing there. Okay. They have a 10-year window to start construction from the time it was approved. So, how long has it been now? About a year. So, they have they have
like nine more years or eight more years to build it. So, they could start at any time. Just keep our fingers crossed, I guess. Okay. We haven't heard anything though. I mean, we haven't gotten permitting requests that we're aware of. So, Janice, um, quick question because
you brought this up one of the meetings. I know they did some real work. They repaved obviously that stretch right there on sweeper the bridge right up to the bridge. Did the um was there any improvements to the fallen trees that you had mentioned the fallen trees? I
think you mentioned Okay. Well, we'll look into that. There there was a lot of debris out there recently too that I I noticed one day and and called up uh the county about it and uh spoke to Dan Benson and he sent somebody out there immediately to clean it up. So there was
I happened to be riding by getting closer to the the the fire site and um on the left hand side there was a ton of debris. Looks like somebody dumped something there. So it was nice to you know be able to call Dan up and immediately he sent somebody out that day and got it cleaned up. So there's a
lot of debris a lot of times. I wonder if the garbage trucks are going to be covered or something. I I suspect that's true because uh we see that on like Asen Pink Boulevard we see accumulations of
debris and that's right on the way to the waste management facility in Lawrence. So I I I suspect the same thing. We don't have a little and that's that's the tough part.
Okay. Thank you, J. Thank you. Any other members of the public? Any questions or comments? Seeing none, we'll move to council comments. I'll just uh I have just three quick
ones. We have um the Iselia Festival on May 10th. Council President Park probably is going to announce that one. Uh from 10 to 4, we're at St. Guards, always a really great event. And that coincides obviously with um Mother's Day. So for all the moms out there and
um grandmoms and aunts and um whatever role you play as a mother, thank you so much. And um um hope hopefully you have a wonderful day. Um and then in addition to that, um we mentioned Armed Forces
Day. Uh that's May 17th. um really a nice event at 11 o'clock over at uh Veterans Park. So looking forward to that event as well. So that's all. Thank you for coming out this evening. Only something real quick. Um just want to
thank our uh administration, the staff, the directors uh with providing us with all the information that we needed um as we went through the workshops. um you're a big help and uh you know the staff as always does a tremendous job um
preparing us for the meeting. So uh I want to thank you and as Anthony said I want to wish all the moms, you know, happy Mother's Day. Enjoy your time with your family and uh hopefully it's a nice sunny day. It looks like it's supposed to be beautiful out. So enjoy it. Thank
you. Um I'll start. I was of course going to mention Mother's Day and Hazelu Festival. Hopefully we won't get rained out this year. It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day because we had quite a few years there. Um I just also want to recognize teacher appreciation week. I want to say thank you from the
township for their public appreciation, but also to thank all the great Hamilton teachers that work with our kids every day here in this township. We have an amazing school system. Um and building upon that, we have some teachers from all the high schools who will be heading
to Florida on the 18th to um commend their season by marching at Disney. So, it's going to be marching band, color guard, and they'll be able to uh be celebrated down there in Disney as long as Newark gets their act together. That's my only worry. Um but
again, thank you so much for coming out. I wish all the mothers a happy Mother's Day and um hoping for dry weather this weekend. So, thank you again. Yeah. And uh I'd like to thank everyone for coming out. I'd like to congratulate the Councilman. All right. I'm going to let
our vice president go last. We're going to save the Bez for last tonight. Our vice president will go. I I want to congratulate the uh Nottingham High School Consumer Ball team uh for once again winning the We'll
have them in next next Consumer Ball title. We're going to we're going to celebrate that victory. Uh it shows the uh academic strength of our school district. Uh so kudos to the Nottingham kids. Um I also want to thank the
administration for uh the transparency, the responsiveness uh throughout uh the budget uh process and uh it was a very tight budget. um and appreciated working with with you
all uh to get it done for the residents for this year. And happy Mother's Day to everybody. Another go. I'm going to not yet. Uh first, please express our uh thanks. I think everybody here is
very thankful for uh all the work that everybody put in for the budget. All the directors came in with very tight budgets. Uh they knew it was going to be a tough year. Um, we appreciate that. To the clerk's office, thank you for all the time you put in. I know it was a lot of extra
days with us, so we appreciate that. To our extended staff, Janice, thank you for always being here, for supporting us, for letting us know that we're doing right and wrong. Uh, to our other Hamilton residents, we appreciate the compliments. We must be doing something right if you came here giving us compliments. We appreciate that very
much and and we appreciate that. We know you're a good guy. So, thank you to all the moms. Without you, uh, nothing happens. So, we appreciate everything you do. I'm proud to have you on our team. And, um, I don't get to say this
very often, meaning