good evening everyone uh this meeting is being held with the benefit of public notice as required by the open public meetings act um Madam clerk would you call the role Mr Carabelli here miss Phillips here Mr wh president Mr PaPeRo here Mr T here would everyone please
rise for the flag salute and the invocation flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stand One Nation God indiv andice for all dear God bless our Hamilton
Community may we continue to assist our seniors encourage our youth and build all neighborhoods with the love that you taught us may we also pray for those confronted with Despair and loss may you be their source of Hope in these most difficult times and we may and we as a
government may we always assist those in need we make all these things in your name amen amen amen there has been an amendment to the agenda since uh the agenda was posted on the website we are going to be removing
ca4 25-1 184 which was a resolution amending resolution 25-80 for the township of Hamilton confirming the fourth round of affordable housing obligations pursuant
to PL 2024 C2 and the fair share Housing Act njsa 5227 d-32 uh we have an agreement on our fair share uh Housing Act commitment um but
they are still finalizing uh some of the verbage on that so we're going to do that in two weeks uh we are also adding ca16 25-1 197 a resolution of the township of Hamilton in the county of Mercer authorizing the
sale of uh 28,9 2,000 principal amount of General Improvement bonds series 2025 and authorizing other matters relating there to can I please have a motion on the
amendments to the agenda I'll make that motion second Madam CL Mr caravelli yes M Phillips Mr wh yeso yes Mr Ty yes next we have communication C1 is receed a documentation for a change in corporate
structure to ABC license 113 32008 um corporate name is AABB Inc trading is Happ Hamilton super by rate this is a change in corporate officer C2 and C3 are both joint proclamations recognizing April 2025 as Child Abuse
Prevention prevention month with the theme powered by Hope strengthened by preven ition and also Autism Awareness Month their theme is celebrating differences for your consideration can I get a motion to pass Communications C1 through C3 I'll move
C1 through C3 I'll second Madam clerk Mr carabell yes Phillips yes Mr whan yeso yes Mr Ty yes next we have resolution 12517 n resolution authorizing the issuance of a Hamilton Township Cannabis
Testing laboratory per 1103 tl001 002 uh this is to trading as integrated analytical Solutions this is for a one-year term any questions or comments from members of council no any members of the public
wishing to ask any questions or make any comments on resolution one seeing no members of the public wishing to comment can I have a motion I'll make a motion to close the public comment on resolution one and move on resolution 12 125-1 179 I'll
second motion Madam clerk Mr Carabelli yes Miss Phillips yes Mr whan yes Mr paparo yes Mr Ty I'm going to abstain due to my work with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority next for your consideration resolution
22518 is a resolution authorizing the person of person transfer of alcoholic beverage inactive pocket license 103 33014 from deara NBL LLC to a a lock Inc any
questions or comments from Council no any members of the public wishing to ask questions or make comments see none I make the motion to close the public comment portion and move resolution
225 180 I'll second Madam clerk Mr Carabelli yes Miss Phillips yes Mr whan yes Mr vapo yes Mr Ty yes next for your consideration we have consent agenda item ca1 through ca16 with the uh exception of CA 4 which
was removed any questions or comments from members of Council on the consent agenda items no sir no sir I just I just still mention that I um want to thank the babit family uh for donate for Their
donation on 25-1 181 um uh two flags one uh for the service that was given to um the father-in-law and then the father uh of the gentleman that's uh Mr babbit I I don't have his first name here in front of me if
someone has that I just wanted to acknowledge Earl babbit I just want to thank the family and Earl uh for his donation um allowing us to fly these flags at Veterans Park um and I appreciate uh his family service
thank you any other questions or comments from members of council seeing none I'll open it up to members of the public on any consent agenda item see no members of the public
wishing to ask a question or make a comment I'll entertain a motion I'll close the public comment uh portion and uh move consent agenda items ca1 through CA 15 with the exception of
uh number four [Music] 16 oh ca 16 my apolog CA 1 through ca1 16 with the exception of number four I'll second it Madam cler Mr Carelli yes M Phillips
yes Mr whan yes Mr caparo yes Mr Ty yes next we have ordinance 1 25-4 this is an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a c Bank pursuing to njsa 48.4
4.14 this is first reading and introduction any questions or comments from members of council sir we look forward to going through the budget um we have a series of budget
workshops that probably the council president you were going to highlight um I won't no but that's the next one yes one yeah the next one yeah I'm not I'm not commenting on this budget uh cuz it's first time I'm taking a look okay oh we what we say
I'll move on ordinance number 125004 for First reading and introduction thanks I just want to check with members of the public first reading uh okay thank you do I have a second
second Mr Carelli yes Miss Phillips yes Mr whan yes Mr PaPeRo yes Mr Todd yes next we have resolution 125-1 196 this is a resolution of introduction and approval of the calendar year 2025 Municipal budget and
this is the introduction of the uh 2025 Municipal budget that you were referring to councilman Carelli yeah I can reiterate what I just said if you yeah we're going to we're going to be having our uh budget hearings we've just received this budget uh so um the public
is welcome to join us April 7th 14th 16th and the 21st uh we set a start time of 6: p.m. uh we're going to be taking a close look at the entire budget um and the public is welcome to join
us so on the resolution any other questions or comments from and we'll open it up to the public any questions or comments from members of the public seeing no members of the public wishing to comment I'll entertain a
motion I'll make that motion um on resolution Number 25-1 96 I'll second Madam clerk Mr Carabelli yes M Philip yes Mr whan yes Mr pero yes
Mr to yes so that concludes uh the printed agenda and we have one person who has signed up Ellen Co coyote coyote
coyote Miss to come back I just C The Ellen I'm sorry can you start with your name and your address I'm sorry Ellen coyot thank you 30 years resident um I was wondering whether they accept the
one the brush be picked up in the Sunset Park Woods I I thought that they had cleared that out so if you recall there's been some issue with a Township property that sits landlocked in between um Miss Coyote's property and a few others that
are on um they're on Shaunie right which is together with them um we had our Public Works crew go out on March 20th and clear C the property and they picked up um from what I understood they
cleaned up all the dead limbs the tree trunks and all of the things that happened during the the winter months and all of that because I think the last time they were out there was sometime last fall if I recall um they also went out 5 days later and then put up the no
dumping signs that had been either taken down or faded in years past so that we're hoping that that but they didn't see any evidence this time of other dumping this looked like natural falling of the wooded area back there um they
gained access through one of the properties on on shaune and um evidently that Resident also cleaned up a little bit in their yard of uh on their property right some of the things that I think they called
it uh what did he say his Whimsical yard decorations that decided to put those away I think or clean some of those up so it should look better they sent some pictures over if I if you want I can share you those pictures with you to see I don't know if
I sent pictures that I just took Sunday and the brush from last year is still there and what another a second tree fell sometime in the last month on my next door neighbor behind her fence that disappeared and S and the tree they took
down that fell down several months ago that you just cut up through there they came and picked up all of that cuz I thought I was going to have to do it own the smaller branch and I couldn't take the big trunk so all they seem to do was take take away the two trees that had fallen okay um um I'll share with you uh
the pictures that I got and could you share with me the ones that you took from Sunday because I'll I'll bring it up with I'm sorry you should have gotten them I sent them at 12:32 this morning oh what's yeah who did you send you didn't send that to all of us who did I did I didn't get it did I have my them I
didn't get it either so I apologize uh I just copied and pasted the addresses maybe I'll put the addresses back and manually may go through are they pictures eight pictures now he's squatting more land behind his property with all kinds of looks like garden soil
all kinds of big logs more firewood so more fuel the fire and it it's nothing that um I'm sorry how did De classify it things that had fallen down there was nothing it it's clear human dumping that
they took and they just piled on top of pile it's giant FR pile okay I'd love to see those pictures because I'm getting a completely different message from our our crew so you have the email on your phone or was it on your computer I put it on my computer if you have it on your phone I was going to say if you see if
you can resend it to us so that we can see it just so we'll be a little more informed mhm yeah yeah sure is there any way my phone can make that go on this thing no no can't do that okay um yeah I'd
like to see what they say what clean up because they obviously don't walk into Woods 10t that's the last 3 four weeks with sou South Jersey being on fire again and North Carolina when Helena hit now they're having the fires because all the dead
wood that's there is just adding fuels to the fire so that's what and then so it's like if the brush hasn't been cleaned up from last year still how are we going to really differentiate if he's dumping more um you know start going out there with rulers and stuff and the number 28 you
starting to throw um slates uh gray slate slabs back there so okay all right I'll try to do it while sit down and and could you give me a favor you said that they put up um a sign on near your property oh yeah thanks did they put any signs up near the the offender's
property now you're sure that's yeah I look and I forgot to take a picture of the whole thing looking down but I'll do that too even my T down he went and looked around he goes why is there a sign your property don't know maybe the sign was moved from Theirs to
yours you're you're on senica is it senica drive sen lane lane sen Lane and so I don't know why um I wish I've been consulted because the sign should have been put between the properties of number seven and number five so none of those three people dumped their grass
back there and one or two signs on shy behind 24 and 28 the dumpers there there's no no dumping signs back there they're the dumpers it was put behind my house so again I I don't think it was targeted to put near anyone's property
but just on the township property that's there so it should be visible and I think they put up two signs but I'm not positive of that either I can look back at that problem three houses down from him it's not visible to him and he could just claim I never saw I understand but it's still the law
ignorance of the law doesn't make it so that it's not a violation and but I'm telling you that the message that I got from our Public Works crw and from the supervisor was that there was no evidence of dumping there the when they went out on March 20th so we'll get to
the bottom of it I want you to send me what you have so that then I have something to bring to them and say you har said the same thing cuz he did take one step into the wood well he's a police officer he's not a public works crew so he's not going to be there to
clean up no he was there to verify that there was illegal dumping going on and he never set foot in the woods so it's like just standing on reme property that he M of the township you can't have to walk in 10 ft see Miss coyote uh you're
out of time for now you're welcome to come back up after other no that's cool I don't want to take any more blood pressure pills you guys understand I'm sorry you didn't get the pictures I was agonizing over which on to and now they another one went through okay but thanks
thanks for listening thank for trying to help I hope we get it resolved yeah and that's uh technically that's a public park so whoever's dumping is dumping on Parkland I agree and so but I'm you know yeah and be it's been addressed but we need to
see yeah okay okay any other members of the public with questions or comments tonight seeing no members of the public wishing to
uh fair enough like to welcome the uh Gallery class for Nottingham tonight thank you for joining us um okay we'll move to council comments I'll be really brief this evening guys um thank you all for
attending uh we're we're very short this evening uh very brief meeting but wanted to uh just allude to the dates that uh council president mentioned uh for upcoming budget workshops they'll be publicized uh advertised um I think our first one's
the 7th you mentioned in the 14th 16th and 21st 21st so uh they're at 6:00 not 6:30 um so feel free there's going to be uh specific departments and I always enjoy the time that we get to speak to the cabinet members um about you know
their department and their their vision for that department um just want to also allude to uh a great accomplishment by uh the Thrive Charter School located here in Hamilton Township uh formerly tcpa uh they won the uh njsa group uh
tournament uh Champions uh for the state on March 15th so uh kudos to them in that Squad group one group one I think it is yeah uh so exciting news for them um and uh also wanted to just mention a really nice article in the Hamilton post
this this month regarding um the Bowers socks family uh across in Shamrock and their 40 Years of uh being a um established business here in um in Hamilton Township just goes to show you we have some of the mom and pops but we
also have some of the franchises so we have a good mix and blend of um businesses here in um in Hamilton one of the you know the vence of the town really uh is remarkable so and and we we thank the Bowers Soxs for their uh for
their commitment to Hamilton and the the people that they serve so thank you great it thank you C you want more no no um good to see uh
um the N inham um uh crew here tonight and uh shame it wasn't a little longer meeting but uh come back to the come back to the budget meeting I'm sure you'll get a lot out of the budget meeting but uh as uh extra credit for that as my as my colleague say you know
we look forward you know to this time of year we're going to go over the budget meet with all the directors and go over line item by line item in some cases right Anthony and uh you know hopefully uh we'll get through the budget and be able to present it to the public in a
timely manner and uh appreciate everybody coming out tonight so thank you thank you for coming tonight we're sorry we don't have more of a uh a long a better meeting uh for you stay we can keep you listen we can do
questions and answers after the meeting I'll stay you're welcome to do all come up with a quiz I am a teacher I mean thank thank you for coming thank you for the public uh for coming Mrs KY hopefully we can help uh remedy your
situation once we get those pictures U got it mine's to if you can share it with us as we as we kick off our uh spring Sports a the little leagues and soccer uh Spring football and everything else going on uh
softball leagues hopefully they have a good season we'll be out at all the opening days this weekend and um save the other event for you to talk about so hopefully uh everybody has a great season have a great night we'll see you on Monday all right I'll keep my comments
brief um but thank you also um as an addingham parent love to see you guys and um hopefully I'll make it to your class I'm a teacher so it makes it very difficult to come um so we'll we'll try to work something out definitely but um yeah I'm looking forward to the budget workshops and I definitely encourage you
guys to come back and check out one of those because you do get to hear directly from our directors and some of the details um but other than that I don't really have anything else just thanks for coming out and have a good night and uh I'd like to thank everybody for joining us uh tonight uh we there's one
other event this weekend it's the uh Bramley cleanup uh at the CYO building in Bramley uh do we have the time on that I was looking forward but it's not on my calendar I think it's 9 to 12 I 9 to 12 I thought it was in the morning and the environmental commission has
their cleanup coming up but not the same day so a couple of cleanups spring is in the air uh so uh enjoy the weather hopefully we get good weather for the little Leaguers and otherwise we'll see everybody on April 7th and have a good
night you're setting records I mean really you guys