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Part 1 (Video ID: kmgySQ-1YfE):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:01:59: Proclamation: Recognizing National Police Week 2026
- 00:04:50: Police Department New Hiring and Promotion Ceremony
- 00:14:18: Presentation: Police Department Accreditation Award
- 00:20:35: Approval of Meeting Minutes and Letter of Resignation
- 00:21:13: Public Hearing: Ordinances 21, 22, 23, and 24
- 00:23:57: Public Comment: Stanley Klein, Traffic Concerns
- 00:29:50: Public Comment: Tony Lefredo, Retail and Commercial Development
- 00:38:39: Adoption of Ordinances 21, 22, 23, and 24
- 00:38:56: Introduction of Ordinances 25, 26, and 27
- 00:44:59: Public Comment: Diana Plaza, Bond Ordinance Inquiry
- 00:56:56: Public Comment: Bill Miller, Garden and Spraying Concerns
- 01:04:43: Public Comment: Terry Beard, JCPNL Spraying Mitigation
- 01:08:56: Public Comment: Stony Brook Park Tick Concerns
- 01:09:57: Committee Updates: Roads, Parks, Shred Day, EDAC


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All right. Thank everyone for their patience. Uh welcome to the township uh Howard Township Committee meeting of May 14, 2026 and adequate notice of the May 14, 2026 regular meeting of the township of townships committee has been provided in

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accordance with the open public meetings act by posting written notice and agenda in the meeting agenda of the meeting on the bulletin board in the municipal building 1000 route 10 township of Hanover by posting the same on the official township website and by delivering such notice to

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the following newspapers. Morris County Daily Record, Hannover Eagle, and by filing the same with the township clerk. >> Roll call. Command Cahill here. >> Committeeman Faroska here. Committee man Francioli >> here. >> Deputy Mayor Mahalo here. Mayor Galler is excused this evening. Four members in attendance.

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>> At this time, please stand if you're able to pledge allegiance. And please remain standing for the prayer by uh committee administrator Masca. I pledge allegiance to the to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Almighty God, please watch over and guide this governing body with an abundance of wisdom and understanding to help make

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the best decision for our residents. Please bless our first responders and township volunteers who help to keep us all safe. Also, bless our township employees and residents. Lastly,

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please let us pray for the men and women of the US armed forces who stand vigil over us always. Amen. Sure. >> Good evening everyone. Uh we're going to

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just switch up the agenda a little bit. We're going to start with the proclamation. Kill, can you read that into the record for us, please? >> Yes. Thank you. two. This proclamation is to recognize National Police Week 2026 and to honor

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the service of all law enforcement officers, including the Hannover Township Police Department, and the sacrifices of the men and women killed in the line of duty in 2025 while guarding our communities and defending our democracy. Whereas the township committee of Hanover Township salute the men and women who do the difficult and

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dangerous work of safeguarding our communities. Police officers around the nation understand the tremendous responsibility bestowed upon them in protecting the freedom and liberty of all citizens. And whereas the men and women of the Han Township Police Department are dedicated to protecting

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all township residents and visitors with respect and dignity against deception, violence, and disorder. And whereas the residents and visitors of the township of Hannibal recognize the dangers of the dangers of the law enforcement profession and understand the difficulties in performing the duties

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and responsibilities of a law enforcement officer. And whereas more than 800,000 law enforcement officers serve communities across the United States, including the 36 sworn police officers of Hannover Township Police Department. And whereas police officers

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continue to serve with courage and selflessness. And in 2025 alone, 111 officers made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, joining more than 27 thou 27,000 officers lost since the first recorded line of duty death in

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1786. And now therefore, be it resolved that the township committee of the township of handover in the county of Mars in the state of New Jersey call upon all residents to observe May 10th, 2026 to May 16th, 2026 as National Police Week

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and show support to law enforcement officers who devote themselves to delivering exceptional service to this community and in communities across this great nation. So bring Chief. Okay, Chief Rock, if you can come up, please. So, thank you for

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that uh those kind words. And as you can tell, the uh police department here is very grateful for your support. So, thank you very much for that. Uh this year we did have detective participate in the uh police tour which is which is a bicycle ride from here in Mor County

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all the way down to Washington DC in recognition of police week and those that have lost their life. So thank you very much for that. Um thank you everybody for coming tonight. We're going to uh celebrate a few uh special

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uh hirings and a promotion and then an accreditation presentation as well. So, thank you everybody for joining us uh for all of these ceremonies. So, first I'm going to call John up. John, I'm going to read a few words about you on

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your way up here and then we're going to do the balls. So, John graduated from Memorial High School which is part of the Woodbridge School District. After high school, John State University where he earned a bachelor's of science degree. Shortly thereafter, John was

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hired by the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission as a correctional police officer. Upon graduating from the training academy, John was assigned to a correctional facility and carried out his job responsibilities which included transportation of facility residents,

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conducting searches, maintaining a safe and secure environment, and responding to emergencies throughout the facility. During his time there, John completed the police bicycle patrol force and the law enforcement active shooter emergency

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response program. In September of 2023, John was recognized by the commission as officer of the month. In the spring of 2025, John began the hiring process here in Township. John was subsequently hired and then started the Mor County Police

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Training Academy to complete the waiver process as part of the 15th basic course for police officers. Since completing that course, John has continued his training within the department as part of the field training program. We look

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forward to John being a proactive member of the Hover Town Police Department and our extended community throughout. So congratulations John. YEAH. HEAT. for the constitution

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of United States governmentally and just perform duties of the Officer officer Heat. Heat. CONGRATULATION GOD. God bless you.

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Okay, next is Mo Assan. Come on up. So, Mo graduated from Parcipany Hills High School and then earned an associates degree from the County College of Morris. Mo enrolled at Monontlair State

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University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in justice studies. Mo was then hired by the Morris County Sheriff's Office and graduated as part of the 103rd basic course for police officers at the Morris County Public Safety Academy. Upon graduation, Mo was

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assigned to the Morris County Courthouse where his responsibilities included courtroom security, transportation of prisoners, and responding to emergencies throughout the facility. Since joining the Hanover Township Police Department, Mo has been assigned to the patrol division where he completed the field

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training program. We look forward to Mo being a proactive member of the Handover Township Police Department and our extended community in Handover Township. CONGRATULATIONS. HEAT. HEAT. Emergency officer.

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Yeah. HEAT. SO, next is the oath of office for Michael Huskus III. So Mike graduated from the High Point Regional High School and then earned a bachelor's degree from Montlair State University. During that time, he became

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certified as an emergency medical technician and was then enrolled in the alternate route program within the 81st basic course for police officers at the Morris County Public Safety Academy. Shortly after graduating, Mike was hired by the Randolph Township Police

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Department, where he worked from 2014 until being hired by Hanover Township in 2018. During his career, Mike has earned multiple life-saving awards, an exceptional duty award, along with professional certifications, which include motor officer. Additionally,

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Mike successfully completed the rigorous selection process to become a member of the Morris County Office of Emergency Management Special Operations Group, which provides tactical medical care throughout the county. Mike has also been assigned as a field training officer, which has been instrumental in

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the training and evaluation of new officers here in the department. These skills have allowed Mike to better prepare as a frontline supervisor. And with his promotion to sergeant, Mike will continue his assignment in the patrol division. Congratulations, and we look forward to many more contributions

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that you will make to the department. Heat. Heat. I support the constitution. United States. Establish the United States. United States under the authority under the

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faithfully faithfully >> and justly perform. >> All the duties of >> all the duties of >> the office of police. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. So, next we're going to uh have the presentation from Harry Delgado, who is

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the executive director of the New Jersey State Chiefs Association Accreditation Commission. Um so our department has uh been going through accreditation the accreditation process and uh Harry is here to present our certificate and give us a few words about the department and

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the process. >> Thank you chief actually uh the the presentation tonight is truly special. uh to add context to what I'm about to say about 54% of all the agencies in the state of New Jersey, excuse me, out of 54% out of all the uh

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uh law enforcement agencies in the state of New Jersey that will be eligible to participate in our program have actually achieved accreditation once you consider those that have done it twice that that percentage drops to about 32%. Three times 12% four times 7.89%. The handover

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police department has actually gone through this cycle five times. They are actually a members of a very elite group of law enforcement agencies of less than 4% in fact 3.6%. So it's quite remarkable their commitment to adhere to best practices. So if you indulge me for

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2 minutes, I'd like to share with you the significance of the achievement. So, the handover police uh the handover time police department have once again made a commitment to adhering to best practices at the state and national level in a highly regarded statewide law enforcement accreditation program. This program administered to the New Jersey

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State Association of Chiefs of Police and New Jersey Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission has helped to transparently demonstrate the professionalism, transparency, and preparedness of state law enforcement agencies in the state's police safety system. Now, accreditation is more than

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a professional distinction. It is a strategic investment in organizational excellence. It positions law enforcement agencies to operate at the highest levels of professionalism while enhancing public trust, reducing risk, and promoting long-term operational success. Accreditation status represents

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this significant professional achievement. And this prestigious fifth reacredited status demonstrates Chief Michael Lux firm commitment to state and national standards and the continued expectations for quality professional and ethical policing of the Hanover Township Police Department. So it is

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clearly that under the leadership of Chief Michael Luck, a high level of competence, leadership and professionalism is evident within the agency as we saw here tonight. So it is our opinion that the Hanover Township Police Department is a highly professional and committed agency which exemplifies all the tenants of law

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enforcement at the state and national level. Therefore, it is indeed my honor here tonight on behalf of the New Jersey State Association Chiefs of Police and the New Jersey Law Enforcement Commission. Congratulations, Michael Luck, gradation manager, Lieutenant Lover, Cap Carpenter, the members of the Hanover Township Police Department, the

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mayor, the council, and those cities that they so proudly serve for having achieved their fifth the fifth reacredititation, joining a very explosive group of law enforcement and agencies that makes these long-term commitment to his employees to congratulations.

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This is where you get the clutter. Yeah. Heat. So, chief, if I could just add just a comment, I was actually I had something written down. had a lot of those statistics cuz that's what I was most amazed by is just just the the the fact that you've accomplished this five times

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and and you know just it says so much to not only you and your command staff but the entire department. So since we've already gone through the numbers I won't do that but I what did come to mind is you know we we swore in two new officers uh new promotion uh but we also have a lot of younger guys on the force and I

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just hope you understand that the this is where the bar is and has been set for a long long time. So, I hope that you're really proud about, you know, the kind of department you work for. Um, and and I really look forward to seeing accreditation 6, seven, and 8. No pressure. But thank you. You guys just

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do a great job. Thank you for your support, but also the the men and women of the National Police Department. There's probably some part of this process that you guys may not agree with or it may seem a little cumbersome, but you know it it is the best practices that we have in law enforcement and I

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think this is a testament to your hard work throughout your careers here. So, thank you all for that and thank you for your support. Happy birthday. >> Thank you. >> Happy birthday. Thank you.

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Thank you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday, dear. speech.

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>> So bad. Thank you. Okay, leave now. >> Yeah. Thank you everyone. Have a good night. >> Thank you all. >> Okay, now we're going to start the regular meeting tonight. Uh, next on the agenda is the approval of the township committee meeting

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minutes of April 9th. May I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes? So move. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> So approved. >> NOPE. >> Next on the agenda, we have a letter of resignation from Edwin Rivera from the

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Department of Public Works effective 8 May 8th, 2026. May I have a motion to approve the letter of communication? So move. >> May I have a second? All in favor? I. >> So approved. Next is the public hearing and adoption of ordinance 212026,

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22, 2022, and 23 2026, and 24, 2026. Proof of publication that the ordinances and the notice of introduction appeared in full on the township's website under legal notices on April 9th. I'd like to state for the record that ordinance 24

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is a land use ordinance and therefore was sent to the Mars County Planning and Preservation Office as required by the municipal land use law and addition the law to the law. It also required me to submit the ordinance to the five contiguous municipalities and it was

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also sent via certified and regular mail to all property owners within 200 ft of that zone. Ordinance 24, 2022 was also referred to the planning board for their recommendation and referral. In a letter dated April 21st, 2026 from planning

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board chairman Michael Critchley, it is stated that if adopted, ordinance 24, 2026 would one eliminate the requirements that automotive repair and maintenance uses in the IB3 zone be part of the

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large-scale retail development. Two, eliminate the requirement that drive-in restaurants in the IB3 zone be part of a large-scale retail development. Three, restate and clarify the existency policy regarding individual lots within a

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larger development. Four, revise a lot area and lot width requirements to permit retail developments on smaller lots. Five, eliminate the requirement for a minimum floor area for retail development. And six, eliminate the

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requirement that drive-in restaurants have access only within interval driveways on a shopping center. It is also stated that the board notes, however, the AHI zone is adjacent to the

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IB3 zone. Ordinance 2024 2026 does not reduce or eliminate the increased setbacks or buffer requirements for development adjacent to a residential zone. So in summary, the board believes that ordinance 24 recognizes the changing character of the zone and is in

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intended to promote the primary purpose of the zone to promote the redevelopment or readapt useful or vacant and or unutilized properties in the area in a manner that is compatible with the character of the area. So, at this time,

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may I please have a motion to convene the public hearing on ordinances 21, 22, 23, and 24? >> Motion second. >> All in favor? >> Is there anyone in chambers wishing to be heard concerning ordinances 21, 22,

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23, or 24? If so, please state your name and address for the record and which ordinance you would like to make comment about. Can we go to the podium? Please state your name and address. >> I'm Stanley Klein. I live at 802 Chelsea

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Drive, C Mills, New Jersey. >> Can you tilt that microphone up? >> Sure. >> Can you hear me better now? >> Um, I understand that this is very interesting and very good development and progressive for the area. My major

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concern as a resident, I've lived here 8 years and I've seen the development of the shopping centers and all the business that's come in. We have a major traffic problem. I don't know if any of you had a chance to drive in the area in the late

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afternoon between about 4:00 to about 6:00 7:00 p.m. I suggest you take the time and look at the congestion on Horse Hill Road. Look at the congestion on

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Ridgale Avenue and look and look at the congestion on East Hanover. That should be a major consideration. Now, the plan here is to put more retail environment in on Hanover Avenue. I

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don't get it. I like the idea of development. Something has to be done about the traffic. You cannot get around this neighborhood. Horse Hill Road is a major thoroughare. It's not maintained. We're not even talking about the maintenance of it. You

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can have bumps. You can't get down that road during the period of between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. You cannot get down Ridgedale on the way to Route 10. Between 4 and 6 p.m.

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Um, Cedol's Road is backed up coming into Ridgedale Avenue right near the high school backed up three or four traffic lights. This needs to be taken into consideration. So, that's my point of view. I love the retail. It's great. I live nearby. The

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shopping's great. Except we don't have the roads to support it. Do you want to build things on Ridgedale? Ridgedale is a four-lane road. That could work, but feeding it is a problem for the residents and getting around the

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neighborhood. So, that's my whole point of view. That's why I came tonight. And I thank you for the time. Thank you. Thank you for coming out. And you know, we we could list all this all the roads all day long. Uh you know, my my my children

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in high school just trying to get back and forth. Whippony road backs up, recipro backs up. Uh it's an ongoing problem and we we wrestle with it constantly. Um what what does the administration wasn't addressed. So, I'm not I'm not

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understood. Understood. Yeah. >> The benefactors of a regional issue. Um and uh most of the traffic that we're seeing, by the way, 110% agree with you. uh living as I do in the uh Slope Drive area trying to get out to Richdale

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Avenue at 3:00 as a bear. I literally have to go right to go left. So I go down the stairs and make my turn to the light. Um but all that traffic is coming in from the Morristown area. All that traffic is coming up from the Floren Park area. Uh so as I said, we're the

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benefactor of all the development that's going on down there and uh the hours of businesses that release their traffic. Um, there should be many things that could be done. Flex time isn't being used properly uh to try and adjust that. And God bless it if there's an accident

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on 287. Don't go home. I mean, uh, Jefferson Road just seizes up. Uh, can Hanover do something about it? Uh, we're trying to do our share with the county, having been a member of the Mars County Transportation Board. Uh, we're trying

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to make some expansions on Horseshoe Road at the top. Uh, >> yeah. We're we're we we have to acquire more lanes uh to relieve it where uh the connection uh goes up to 202 and there's

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an opportunity for us to do that. The county is looking at it right now. If we can get a dedicated right-hand turn, we could relieve some of that. Do I have the answers for the for the other massive traffics that we come into town? I don't. More traffic lights. Is that

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the solution? I don't think so. No. advanc coming off of Horse Hill onto Rdale. >> Yeah, >> there there is room for a second lane there. It's not delineated with

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>> We can take We could take that off. We can take that. Good suggestion. >> Good suggestion. Thank you. Thank you. >> Would anyone else like to make a comment regarding one of these ordinances? >> Tony Lefredo. Uh they have a 503 Spring

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Hollow Drive in Sedan. My question is, is this uh precipitated because we have found retail and commercial companies are interested in coming into our community or we're just thinking about doing this and hopefully attracting

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commercial uh and retail companies to come into the community. And then also to piggyback on that, what is the timeline of um whatever you whatever the board I believe uh is

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anticipating for a change in the environment and being able to uh uh entertain commercial facilities and so on especially on Horso Road which that's what would immediately affect us who live in on Vieira Drive and Hano and

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condo Ver Hanover condominiums I I didn't hear half the last question, but >> yeah. Uh I think I can give you a little bit of background on this one. If we could turn the clock back maybe 12 years ago, 15 years ago, Handover Avenue was a

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ghost town. Handover Avenue was an environmental wasteland of old commercial entities that were out of business and we were left to clean up the environmental disaster that we inherited. Fortunately, the planning

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board worked very very hard to come up with the strategy which has been heralded by many as the miracle on handover avenue which precipitated taking it from tumble tumble weeds closed facilities and just pure decay

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and turning it into something that's very productive while at the same time we've done massive environmental cleanup. It's worked on Handover Avenue. So, we were able to attract what they would call large entities, many of them national in terms

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of scope. So, that has worked. The issue tonight that we're talking about is what we would call infill. There are certain spots along that Hanover and Ridgedale area that lend themselves to

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being redeveloped. there was development there. This was not pasture land at all any of this and we're trying to facilitate that to do it in a way that will be productive. Are we doing it what I would call on a speculative basis? We

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don't plan on speculation. We plan based upon what's good for the zone and we see in that zone that there's opportunity to further develop in the zone and we do believe that there will be interested

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parties that will come to make application once they're aware of it because of just the popularity of that whole area. So that's from a planning standpoint, from a traffic management standpoint, which is the earlier question. Much of

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this is done. The traffic volume increases are a function of how the state of New Jersey, the court system puts mandates on this township committee. And what the court system says is, handover, you're required to build x amount of units. It's not

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handover, we'd like you to build x amount of units. It's hand over here's an edict that you're going to build x amount of units. With those units come increased populations. Morris County probably is in the process of seeing a

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20% increase in its population. 20% increase. That increase in population is going to have more cars. This is a wellbuilt out area as we all know. We can expand these roads. we can come up with some strategies like the

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gentleman in the red shirt came up with and he said, "Hey, Hanover Avenue as it travels towards Richdale Avenue, why don't we see if we can optimize that a bit? Why can't we put a dedicated right turn lane in so that we can move the queue faster?" Committee man Francoli,

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he spoke about something he's working on with the county. Handover Avenue when you go west is a disaster after 3:30 at night. You can't get there. well aware of this. You can't get there. So, as a result of it, what he's been championing on behalf of this township committee is

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trying to get a right-hand turn lane established. So, if I were traveling from here and I got on handover from Bridgeell Avenue and we were all going together in a bus and we wanted to go to Arthur's cuz we want to have

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Arthur's burgers, well, you'd be in a huge queue. But if we had that right turn lane established, we could provide >> my understanding that that's already been planned. I believe that right-hand turn where it's not in the plan. It's it's being worked on. The uh uh county

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engineering department is looking at their properties available to create that right hand lane. So that's just one little part of what we're trying to do. >> We we share we share your concerns. We agree with you. We're doing the best we can to manage it

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in a way that's productive for Hanover Township and it's safe for Hanover Township residents on uh I was looking at the map that you provided within with the ordinance with Christa provided and there is quite a bit of land that's focused on terms of changing to IB3

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along road where I believe there's a currently a Verizon facility. There are um solar panels there in that area. It's right next to shop right now. Not sure what goes behind it, but it's all part of the change in IP3. Do you anticipate

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that area? Also, I believe Noardis is back there as well in that same location. Do you anticipate commercial and retail facilities in that particular location as well? Because that does renew a border horseill. We know of no

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interest at this time for any further commercial development on that part of course of road that you're speaking about. The Verizon facility is what they would call a long line center. That's not going anywhere. That's that's part of the

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infrastructure. Okay. That's not going to happen. Those solar panels have been put up. They're not going to go away. So, I don't I don't I don't know of any issue that's been brought to this township committee. There might be rumors, speculation, but

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we know of nothing. There's a couple of retailers, but they're being looked at that are for uh for sale, but they're being looked at from an institutional use, which is low impact. So, John's right. There's nothing really that's going to explode going to improve in

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that area. >> All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. >> Thank you. appreciate this and the factory building. >> Yeah. What we what we talked about tonight in terms of zoning the old Allen

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Paper facility which has has been defunct. Uh originally there was interest on the part of a a leading national retailer food retailer come to that area. they withdrew their application and what we're doing is we

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are fine-tuning that zone to allow that zone to participate in the growth that's gone on on Hano Avenue. >> Are we going to add more traffic? >> More retail stores.

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>> The the retail stores in all fairness, you don't need any more traffic if you're a retailer to survive in this area. You've got enough eyeballs passing that location. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, let's let's let's rein this back in. But to your point, if we

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don't go retail, it's going to go residential. It's going to get built. And our preference tends to be uh bring in bring in a retail, bring in uh a raidable um you know, to limit the number of people that are coming in if possible. Uh, and these are specific areas that are are best suited for for

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retail or commercial use. Um, but we live here, too. We're stuck in traffic, too. So, uh, anyone else? Anyone else on this matter? >> Motion close. >> Motion to close. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. And now an adoption. May I have a

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motion to adopt ordinances 1 21 2026 22 2026 23 2026 and 2024 26. So move second. >> A roll call. Committ Cahill. >> Hi. >> Committ Barasa. >> Hi. >> Committ Grantoli. Hi. >> And deputy mayor Malco.

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>> Yes. So adopted. Next on the agenda, I'd like to introduce Ordinance 25 2026, 26 2026, and 27 2026. I'd like to read each one into the record, please. Ordinance 252026 is a

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bond ordinance appropriating $2,300,000 and authorizing the issuance of $2,189,000 bond or notes of the township for various improvements or purpose authorized to be undertaken by the township of handover in the county of

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Mars, New Jersey. Orinance number 26, 2026 is an ordinance of the township of handover, county of Mars, state of New Jersey, extending the affordability controls for all very low, low, and moderate income rental units within the

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Metro West inclusionary development. Ordinance number 27, 2026. It's an ordinance of the township of handover, county of Morris, state of New Jersey, extending the affordability controls on all very low, low, and moderate income rental units within the Sterling Park at

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handover inclusionary development. I'd like to state for the record that the ordinances and their respective notices of introduction will be published in full in the township's website under the legal notes according with the law. Public hearing is scheduled for June 11th, 2026, 8:00 p.m. If any member of

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the public would like to be heard regarding these ordinances, they will be given the opportunity to do so that evening. May I now have a motion to introduce ordinance 2526, 26 2026, and 27 2026. >> Make a motion.

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>> May I have a second? >> Second. >> And deputy mayor, may I just make a comment on on these ordinances for each each one of them? 2026 is a bond ordinance for $2.189 million. And I think it's important to note that the township sold the tax

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sales certificate that for years was we didn't get paid for a property that was contaminated and the highest bidder came in at $3 million. 3 million like $25,000. We expect to get paid on that certificate and close that transaction.

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for some reason that transaction doesn't go through. There were two other biders. So the point is for this particular transaction, this is to basically it's like a bridge loan. You're borrowing funds but not long-term. It's short-term because at

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the end of the day and hopefully by the end of the year, you'll have more than enough capital to pay the entire principle of the bond off. And I just want to point that out for the record because on a standalone it may look like a bond ordinance, but it's short-term notes and it's because you're

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anticipating that you will have the closing and the funds to pay this off. So, you can use that those funds now for your capital improvement projects as opposed to losing a year. And for the other two ordinances, it's the extension

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of affordability controls. And here again, this year we had the fourth round affordable housing settlement and the township came in with less than 200 new units for the next 10 years, which is a record out of all the prior rounds of

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affordable housing as to what you're going to see for the next 10 years. That is a fraction of what has occurred in the past because you've taken certain steps what's known as extending affordability control. So if you have an affordable housing unit, they have a

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year's life of 30. After 30 years, the intent of the statute was they could be extended. Well, the township did that when it came to Eden Woods. They extended those affordability controls. That was challenged and upheld by the

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court. And what you get for that is you get to reuse these affordable units without building four new market units. So here's two more projects that the affordability the affordability is going

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to expire. Uh they're actually rental units that are owned by one entity and one is by Metro West. There's approximately I believe 66 units that are going to expire. So, the township by way of the affordable housing

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regulations and we've really looked at ways to maximize the affordability of these units and to minimize the development of new multifamily housing. So, with this ordinance, it's 66 potential units that

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will be extended and reused again. So you don't have to build four market units to ever get back those 66 whether it's over the next 10 years or thereafter. And the second one is Sterling Park that has approximately 33

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affordable units that are going to expire. And the law says that we can take this action and expand those the life of 30 years beyond that. And if there's any kind of financial obligation that were to come forward here, that would come out of the affordable housing

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trust fund and that is not taxpayer dollars. That's money that developers had to put into the trust fund for the benefit of projects like these. But it so in total you could spare almost 600 multifamily units by uh considering

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these two ordinances. And even more importantly for the residents that live in these units, and we've seen this, instead of them getting a letter that their rent is going to triple, now they're protected going forward if the units are extended, uh they won't have to move out or they won't have to pay

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three times the amount of rent. So, thank you, Deputy Mayor. >> Yeah, thank you. No, excellent, excellent explanation. Can >> I ask question? >> Oh, please. >> Yeah, please. >> Diana Plaza to Brierwood Court. I just had a question about the bond ordinance and there's a significant uh cost

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associated $2.3 million allocated to that and do you already know what all of these various improvements are? Are they listed somewhere? Do you have contracts with them? Like what's what's the status of them or are they just just in case we need to fix a pothole kind of thing?

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>> No, it is uh there are several different Do we have the list? >> Yeah, it's listed actually on the ordinance. >> Yeah. have everything from the uh $500,000 to repair the HVAC um the police dispatch dispatch number of trucks

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>> resurfacing roads yeah it's all listed >> yeah we we felt at best you know when when uh we were working on our budget uh it was a very difficult budget year and we had a couple options you know first option was to do nothing um which means not repair not repair the HBA not repair

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the the police desk um that's not really an opt option, right? We can't do nothing. We've done enough of that. We need to keep moving our town forward. Uh second option would be to just raise our taxes. Um I think we were talking somewhere 15% something crazy crazy

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number that none of us agreed with. Um then we kind of looked dug a little deeper, trimmed our trimmed our fat a little bit as best we could. We went line by line. um we knew that we had this uh tax uh certificate

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>> tax certificate coming to us uh within about a year to 18 months. So we felt it best not to kick the can on some of these events that are going to be happening again HBAC the the the let's let's use that money now so on tomorrow's dollar that's coming back. We

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felt it best not to uh you know expand or or increase the taxes so dramatically. I believe we still kept it about 3 and a quarter I think is where we we've sat around 3 and a quarter rather than going up as high. Um again yes we will have to pay some interest on

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that money but I think it was 4% interest 3 to 4% interest on that. Uh but again we felt it best let's use those dollars now. let's solve these problems now knowing that we have that money coming not too long off. It's not a 30 years we're not going to wind up

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paying $2 million in interest back. I would I would vehemently object to that. And again, I I I'm not a big fan of of debt, but there are times where it does actually work. Um just the just add to your point, one of the things that compelled us to make this decision because it's not easy. Yeah. You know,

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because of the perception of the public and the tradition of the township and you know, to our attorney's point, it's not a long-term bond. We've done this before. This has been done when we added on to the municipal building years ago. But my point is, uh, we may be paying a little interest for sure. Um, but what

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we were looking at is some of the things that we didn't do that perhaps we should have done a few years ago. I'll give only one example. Um, the one armed garbage trucks that drive around town and collect our trash, right? Two years ago, a new one of those new one of those would have cost $400,000. Last year, the price for a new one is $480,000.

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I think we can all agree prices are still going up on a lot of things. And that was also true with the air conditioning systems and getting the types of systems that we need for this building. Uh people don't keep those in inventory anymore. So they have to be ordered and the prices are just skyrocketing. So really at the end of the day, while we may be paying some

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interest, the benefit in savings uh will probably be pretty obvious if we look next year and say, "Hey, I wonder what those things would have cost had we had waited." So >> I'll tell you, the air conditioning system is working just fine. In fact, I'm freezing to death. So I I don't know if we need to really spend that money

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this year. But then come in the afternoon when we're all sweating or have jackets on. We don't know if it's hot or cold. >> I don't feel a problem right now. It's good. Feels good. >> And then the other question is what if that three uh million whatever doesn't come through? Is there a risk? And is

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there a mitigation to that risk though? >> Yeah. There there's two other biders that bid for this certificate. So it would be very easy to go back to either one of them for them to to uh to make that that offer and buy it. But this particular bidder now is about to make

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its second installment payment and take all the steps going forward. And I just add cuz I heard the committee ever talk about this that as opposed to maybe in the past to just wait. The other difference too is I think there's five was always the goal for roads and I

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think there's 12 that you're looking at and if you pave the roads in October or after the studies show and Jerry can help me that that they don't last as well as doing it earlier in the year. So all of that was somewhere along the line

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in the discussion to utilize that anticipation of the revenue uh and and at this point take this short-term loan. >> Yeah. So so part of the resolutions tonight are approval of a lot of that paving getting that rolling. So thank

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you. >> Anyone else? >> Motion to close. >> Second. >> Okay. >> I think we did our motion of introduction. So I think we just have to vote. I don't know where we're at. I keep having friends. >> Good thing I have notes. Okay. On roll

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call to introduce ordinances 25, 26, and 27. Roll call. Committeeman Cahill. >> Yes. >> Committeeman Faramosa. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Francioli. Hi. >> And Deputy Mayor Mahalo. >> Yes. So introduced. >> Our next order of business is the approval of resolutions as a consent

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agenda. Resolutions 93 2026 through 116 2026. I have one additional item that did not make the agenda and I apologize but I will read the title into the record. It will be resolution 117-2026 and it's a resolution of the township

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committee of the township of handover authorizing a second addendum to the public health shared service agreement by and between the township of handover and the county of Morris concerning the assignment of county public health nurses employees and providing service

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to the township of handover during the balance of the 2026 year and further authorizing the mayor and township clerk to execute the agreement all in accordance with NJSA4A65-4 and NJSA 26 3A2-1

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and NJAC 8 col 52-1.1. Does any member of the governing body have any questions regarding any of the mentioned resolutions? >> I think it's uh uh really uh should be noted that the for the board of health

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and with the addition of the county and Dr. Perez, the overall amount of dollars that Pan Township saved by going in with County Board of Health and this resolution memorializing some of that uh has been incredible over the last 12 14

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years. So, eye on that. Okay. May I have a motion to approve the resolutions as a consent agenda including resolution number 117? >> Make a motion. >> May I second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. So approved. Thank you. Next, we have

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to pay our bills in the amount of $6,635,86421. May please have a motion to pay the bills. >> Motion for the CFO to pay the bills. >> Thank you, John. May I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor to pay the bills. >> I may deputy mayor and the members of the committee. That clears the agenda

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and I thank you very much. I'm sorry it was a long one. >> No. No. Thank you, Christa. Excellent job. >> Thank you. Okay. Yeah. May I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? I'll move. Second. All >> in favor? I.

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>> All right. Door is open. If anyone like to speak, you have four minutes. Please step up. State your name and your address. Charg to Lexington Court. um

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answered a couple of questions about the ordinance 25 2026 that I already have. Um and I understand uh the purp the purpose of taking out the bond. That's how

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towns work. Take out the bond and you do whatever you got to do and you pay it off over time. Now you said the interest rates your anticipated 3 or 4%. Okay. Now, you're balance, you stated that you're balancing this off against a tax

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rebate off of a property that is being sold. Correct. >> Correct. >> Okay. Um, so the assumption is the duration of this um bill is going to be a year >> approximately

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>> possible or you haven't decided yet. >> When you say the bill, what do you mean? Well, >> the duration I'm talking about duration >> duration of >> of this note >> of the note. >> Okay. Because if it's if it's a year,

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it's a bill. If it's more than a year, it's a note. >> So, my question is, have you anticipated the duration of it? >> Hopefully, we'll get it taken care of within a year. >> Within a year. Okay. Um, now we all know that there's always risk

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involved. And you said that there's two other biders. the other two other builders may turn around and say, "Forget it." Okay. So, my question is, what happens? How what happens if they don't? And how are you going to service it? >> No, we have to continue bond or we'll have to keep funding it that way.

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>> Okay. So, you're going to roll it over? >> We would have to Yeah. >> Okay. >> Or again, the converse is raise taxes, pay it off. >> Okay. Um and who's going to be the underwriter of this? Uh, has it gone out to >> No, it I don't believe there be an

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underwriter. You go out to bid. >> Yeah. >> And when you bid, the lowest interest rate is the one that prevails. And there's >> even the town's insurance fund now bids to keep the rates down. So, the town gets a, you know, very competitive

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rates. And I and I have to say, deputy mayor, I know the mayor had said to me, there were two people who called him about um this property and this tax sale note even in the last year. And I said, "No, you can't negotiate with them right now." Like they're on

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>> I they've taken steps, significant steps to close on this certificate and this transaction. It's a contract. So I'm nothing's for certain, but and that had acred interest at 18%. you know, during this time. So, it's um

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it's it's a positive hopefully a positive cash flow event, you know. >> Yeah, we're we're very confident this is going to follow through as planned. It's not like we're rolling the dice 50/50. This is this is a pretty >> It's not a it's not it's not a question

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of uh you know, me assuming that you guys are rolling the dice. I'm just asking the question as to how are you going to service it if it all falls through? That that's that's all I'm asking. >> Yeah. >> And you you stated I'm sorry. You stated

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that um you guys are putting it out to bid. >> It went out to bid already. When you mean no the actual bond itself, I'm going to ask about the underwriter. >> Oh, yeah. The the bond goes out. The underwriter is whoever our our bond

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council is who puts it out, but not that they underwrite, but they put it out to bid. And then the lowest bidder for the interest rate is that's who it's awarded to. So, and we'll be able to report on that once once that occurs, you know, what the rate of interest is.

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>> Okay. All right. Um, so I'm assuming it's like one entity that's taking the entire the entire lot. >> I think it would be. Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you.

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>> You're welcome. Anyone else? >> Yeah. My name is Bill Miller. I live in 16 Fanic Road. I've been a resident of town 40 years. I just want to say you run a good town and it's very impressive

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and thank you very much. Now to my little corner of the world on Fanatic Road. Um I have several concerns. I was here a couple of months ago and brought up the fact of the spraying along the power lines and I haven't received any

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input on that. Uh, Mayor Gallagher came over my house last week and we talked about my concerns with the spraying and also the community garden and I have some questions concerning all of that.

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Um, community garden. Start with that. Um, I saw the whole budget for it and it runs basically Can you hear me? Okay. I >> I'm having a tough time hearing today. I don't know if it's just me or me. >> Okay. It's me. >> Okay.

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>> I'm just kidding. Anyhow, um the garden uh the budget I looked at and basically talking $60 to $70,000. I'm not against the garden, but I brought up the fact that the expansion

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of it goes right in my front yard. And I brought up the fact that the garden is not wellmaintained. In fact, 6 months a year, 7 months a year, it looks like a dump because the tenant gardeners

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pack up and leave and they leave everything all around the place. And Mayor Gallagher saw that for himself and he said, "This should be cleaned up." But it's not. And this is what I look at from my front porch 7 months a year.

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And there's no money in that budget to put any buffer zone between my neighborhood and that uncared for a garden. And I certainly think that town should be addressed. I mean, if we're going to take pride in our community garden, then

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let's make it look like it's it's part of Hanover Township and have some pride in it. >> But right now, it's it's not taken care of. >> Yeah. What What's the input? What's what's the status of the of the garden? Are we uh just an update everyone? Um the administrator uh uh brought in the

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bids this past week and informed me of them and we uh are going to reject the bid. So as far as the expansion is concerned, um it's my opinion that we're not going to do any expansion until other improvements within the garden

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take place. Um there will be a review with the garden committee. They're coming next uh two weeks from now uh along with our uh uh public works department. Take a look at it. U don't disagree with you. There are certain areas of the garden that have to be

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cleaned up. Um I don't like to see pallets behind the shed. I don't like to see uh other areas that are that are overgrown. Um we have certain issues in the garden that we're trying to address where weeds are concerned. Since the garden's organic, it's not a matter of

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just spraying anything to kill. Um certain areas of the garden that were expanded for the interface food pantry, etc. are not in conformity. Um I brought that to the committee's attention. We'll be taking a look at that. Uh what does

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conformity mean? We're limiting the gardens to 4T x 16 ft uh uh plots of land where the gardeners can go and those are maintained by wood chips in between here through this. The rear of the garden by you uh has grass growing

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all through there and u uh it's um in my opinion it's foolish to allow the grass to grow that we have to mow the grass. I I have no problem with that. So, I'd say there should be some sort of buffer so that we don't pick up the trash for a

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while of what we have. Uh, we'll redo our inventory right now. Uh, all the gardens are accounted for for where we are, but there'll be no expansion in my opinion until there are additional uh improvements to the present garden.

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>> Okay. Just as as a point of reference, as of yesterday, there's was 79 plots out of the 148 plots there, 79 were accounted for. So almost 50% of the garden isn't used. And I I you you you

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can't do the math that way because several gardeners have two or three gardens. >> So most of the 244 have some open for expansion. >> Direct department. I can only go by what I'm told. direct department woman told me that there's 79 plots.

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>> This this garden for this garden overall uh while it does need some improvement along the way uh because uh in looking at the gardens that I've reviewed in Mars Plains in Danville, Morris Town, which has three beautiful gardens, have all contributed to the community in so

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many different ways. We've given over a,000 pounds of vegetables to the interference. There's more we can do. Had we not built the garden and left the land in its present state and it isn't purchased by Green Acres, so it's not covered up. >> If I went in that garden and picked up

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all the trees, >> we got about 64 more housing units. >> Would you like that? >> No. >> But the housing units, I never said I was against the garden. I said I would be interested in having a buffer zone. >> Thank you.

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>> And one other fact is the spraying. I asked about the spraying that goes along there. All my residents on my street, the five homes all have wells. Some of them are shallow wells. That's wet lands over there.

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>> JCPNL sprays that >> I think Joe can talk to that. >> Okay. Back in March, I send you information from First Energy Corporation, which was a booklet on the type of

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>> What's that? >> I never received it. >> You never got the email? >> March 18th. >> I'll be glad to send it to you tomorrow. >> I think you sent it by email. Okay. I thought >> I sent it by email. You even had the health officer check it out with uh

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JCPNL and your own claim that you understand that the EPA, the US EPA approves that type of spraying. In fact, it's stated in that um booklet that I send you. So,

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First Energy Corporation to the best of our knowledge is using insecticides or pesticides that have been approved by the federal government. But I'll be glad to send it to you again. I I know you have a difference of opinion on that based on your own relatives who are

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going through some some issues. I understand that. But I did send you them information back in March, March 18th. I'll be glad to send it to you again. >> Okay. Okay. Well, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mill. >> We'll keep you updated on the cleanup

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bill. >> We'll keep you updated once we're done with our tour of the arch. I'll see it every day. I'm holding it all. Thank you. >> Good evening, Miss Beard. >> Good evening, Terry Beard, the Whippony section of Hannover Township. See, I can

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hear >> my voice just fine. Thank you. >> Taught North for 25 years. Um, and I'm going to address Bill's concern about the uh JCPNL having only lived where I live over 60

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years. Um, I have dealt with the power line for all my life. And back in the 70s when they sprayed, I lost my whole flock of goats cuz they had died. And um, so I made it

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my mission uh, when I, you know, was a teenager that I was not going to let them ever spray on my property again. They don't spray on my property. Okay. You can request that they don't spray. They can come through and clear

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cut it, but they don't have to spray. But you have to get them uh what I usually do is usually in the newspaper there's a an article, you know, a square a public notice gives an 800 number, whatever. It's usually the one over on

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uh Madison Nav and I call them. I try to find out who the contractor is. They might even be on my phone. uh I get in touch with them. I meet with them there at the location. Show them where my boundaries are and that I don't want any spraying from the top of Precipany Road

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all the way down to the bottom of my hill cuz I don't want any runoff on my property here. And uh usually they're very cooperative uh with that. So same thing around the community garden, around your wells. If the guys don't know, they're not told, they don't know.

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So I would definitely and if you see them out there, just stop them. That's what I do. You know, I go if I see them, they've already marked the areas that they've already uh tagged the trees. So, the um climbers will be coming soon. But

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usually after that is when they they um go through and do um what they do is they um will cut down the hardwood down and then they'll spray the stubs, whatever you want to call, but it's all even though it's EPA approved, it's still an herbicide. It's usually some

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some derivative of glyphosphate. It's not something you want to be spraying willy-nilly around, you know, in your fields, at least for me anyway. And I've had very good luck with that. So, if you want to touch base. Okay. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. It should be noted as it is in the bylaws for the garden and every gardener is briefed on it. Um, it is totally organic. You're now allowed to use any inorganic chemicals in your garden or around the garden. And the

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same thing is true for us maintaining the perimeter. We use combinations of vinegar with with dish water etc to kill weeds. Uh we have a new product that we're taking a look at now which is supposed to be totally uh inert and

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safe. Uh we will investigate that as well. Uh, but the garden in general and the vegetables and all the product coming off of that are totally forgotten. In addition to this, I've been over at the pool when they've gone and sprayed

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whatever the DPW hires out for them to come in do um so-called um fertilizing and then they'll they'll also do uh you know, so you don't have your dandelions and that your broad leaves. Um that same

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thing. They shouldn't be doing that because the stuff that they told me cuz I asked them specifically what it was it really it shouldn't be anywhere near if you want to get really truly organic organic certification even the fence posts that you have over there that are treated you can't have. So um any kind

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of chemical like that shouldn't be anywhere near that sort of thing. So, just so you know that even the town that you have, you know, that nice green lawn in front of the pawn, in front of the pool, that's got chemicals on it and people walk their dogs there.

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>> Hi, one more quick question. Are there any plans to any plans plans to do anything at Stony Brook Park over here? There's quite a number of ticks all over that park and it's scary to walk your dog there. I get very nervous when I see

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children playing soccer there, but there's quite a number of ticks there. I don't know if anyone can go out there and do some kind of an investigation and perhaps treat that field. I don't feel safe with children playing soccer there with all those ticks in the place. So, just wanted to bring that to your attention cuz maybe you guys don't, you

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know, walk in the park um during the uh during your workday, but just so you know, there's a lot of ticks there. No, thank you for bring it to our attention. We'll pass that on. Thank you. Anyone else? Hearing none. Seeing none, motion to

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close. Second. >> All in favor? >> All right. Uh any my fellow committee? I know we have a little bit more work to do. You want to give a just a quick quick springtime's roads. You saw tonight that

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we have a number of roads going out. Um it's basically in the in addition to popppler it's the the heritage wood section of independence

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heritage constitution Lexington bunker hill brain line concord road so significant road activity will be occurring there was talking about our parks there was a major uh corporate cleanup done

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Warwack the Whippony River Water Action Committee in conjunction with green team work with our corporations and we thank Bayer Farley's Marzetti Falcon and Biometrics for participating. They

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helped clean up over six of our parks and did a fantastic job and and we truly thank them for all of that work. The green team will have shred day on September 19th. I know it's popular, so put it in your book now. September 19th,

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Hanover Township residents, all you can bring. EDAC will be conducting what it's called. It's a business networking event on October 7th. And this is the time of year when we're all out and about walking, enjoying the

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the daylight. As you're walking and you see street lights that are out, I want to deputize you along with the township committee to help us get those lights to work. And the best way you can do it is either call in this number 888544877

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or report it on the JCPNL website so that we can get those street lights fixed. Deputy Mayor, that concludes my remarks. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes, and on our Hamilton Township website as well. Thank you, Mr. Franci.

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Just don't stop your car in the middle of the road to get the ideal street. Hopefully, uh we frown on that. Um uh very briefly, uh Mr. Mayor uh this past Wednesday at the Morris County College

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uh the county commissioners uh provided uh a wonderful reception to all of the Mars County volunteers who give their time in so many different ways uh on so many different committees and uh and save the county countless

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thousands and thousands of dollars. I just want to say thank you on the part of myself, Hanover Township, etc. Commissioners for a great job they're doing up there. Certainly want to thank uh the culinary arts students who are up there that provided uh the reception for

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all of these volunteers as well. Beautifully done, well done. Um we're very very proud of the county college uh engineering areas, new buildings that are going up. Um I'm very proud of a concept that they're using which

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involves their own students from both engineering uh and uh architectural design uh to work on the very buildings that they're putting up on the campus. So I think that that's fantastic in itself. Uh they're one of the best

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county colleges in the state. So uh commissioners, you're doing a great job. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just want to again congratulate uh new officers Kiska and Hassan as well as

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motion Sergeant Puscus. Uh also congratulations to the entire department again on that incredation. It's a really really a huge accomplishment and worthy of repeating again. Um there was an ordinance or or on our agenda today had to do with a uh a grant that was

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provided by the state of New Jersey. I probably talked about this last meeting, but we received a $7,000 grant uh to the police department for a program called Put the Phone Away or Pay um that took place starting at the beginning of April and they did at the end of April. So, I don't have any stats yet on on exactly uh what was done with the money and and

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what the results were, but I'll have that in the future. I wanted to take a moment to thank uh Jane Trader during our work session uh this evening at 7. Uh she presented to us some work that she had done. It only took her about 265 hours. expect a little little more effort

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moving forward if you don't mind, Jane, but um just kidding. Um but she basically inventoried and and and documented virtually the entire archive room and the archive room in Annach is a a small room in the rec center that is

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jam-packed and uh could often be in in disarray and and Jamie did a fantastic job on that. um and looking forward to more your great work, but then also hopefully there'll be some things that we can do in the future to uh get that out to the public so we can actually share this great treasure with the

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public. Uh last time we did talk about Memorial Day I was elaborate, but Memorial Day parade Monday, May 25th, starts at the high school. Uh we kick it off at 9:30 a.m. If you keep an eye on the website next early next week, uh there'll be more

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logistics information regarding parking. uh bus service. There'll be bus service again uh from the parade route to the le for the ceremony there. Um it'll be very much similar to the way we've done it last year. So hopefully if it is like last year, we also have the same weather that we've had for the past few years as

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well. We've been very lucky. But anyway, welcome. No, thank you. Thank you. Um yeah, again, Memorial Day parade is coming up. I want to thank uh all the committee men. They're part of the uh the uh parade committee and uh we got a great group that brings this to you

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guys. Um so roads will be closing down at 900 a.m. You will not be able to drive down those roads near the high school. They will get shut down. Uh it's don't I don't want to be a surprise. So, just so you know, uh, step off is 9:30 and then there will be buses that will

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shuttle you after the parade to the American Legion and then back to, uh, the church and then to the high school to OLM and then back to the high school afterwards. So, you can get a get a ride there and back. Uh, so please come out. Uh, you know, everybody says, "Oh, half of half our chapter goes down the shore

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that weekend." Yeah, but the other half is still here and we have a great turnout. uh thousands of people come out and support all of our local clubs and and really support our our our veterans and the fallen veterans. And that's what we uh that's what we're doing is honoring them. So, thank you. Um just a

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couple things real quick. Uh the seniors have their spring lunchon coming up. If you're of age and want to get involved, our seniors are a terrific group. Uh information is on the website. It's $10, I think, to come to to sign up for a senior. Uh last year we had 400 the

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400th member sitting in the back and uh so so it's it's a great group. Uh almost every Wednesday there's something going on. So again, please uh sign up um come meet some people. Uh there's always programs going on. Um this Sunday we

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have uh cultural arts put together Ukrainian cultural uh event uh at our rec summer rec center, excuse me. Um, that's another terrific uh event that's coming up. Again, Jane and Blanch here. Uh, two great members of our cultural arts. Um, again, come out and and check

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it out. There'll be food, there'll be dancing, there'll be uh other other cultural uh Ukrainian cultural things. Um, recreation, we had uh touch a truck last weekend. It was fantastic. We had a lot of kids come out. Uh, got to honk the horns and blast the sirens and climb

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all over the vehicles. Uh, it was really a great event. We had a beautiful day. Uh probably one of probably one of our biggest touch of trucks. Uh it was really really good to see uh again a lot of young kids coming out. Um couple things coming up. Central Park

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hopefully by the end of the month should be ready to go. We'll be painting next week, weather permitting, and then shortly after that we'll be able to go on. Um June 20th, I believe we're going to have a ribbon cutting. Correct. Yeah. So, June 20th, I'll get you more information as we get closer, but we're going to have a ribbon cutting with uh

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uh we have rumors that we're going to have some of the uh participants from the Devils coming down, some uh of the clubs coming out and supporting. So, as we get more information, we'll uh we'll keep you posted. Um Memorial Day weekend is right around the

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corner. Um it brings us to the Meadow Pool. It will be opening. Fingers crossed about the splash pad. I think we got a little glitch, but I was assured that we're going to get close. We're trying. So, uh uh we're getting there. It will be it it'll definitely be ready.

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Spot will definitely be ready for full season uh if not the second week in uh that opening in in uh in June. It'll definitely be ready for them. Uh but we're we're crossing our fingers. It's uh we've been over there. If you've seen the Facebook posts, uh really some

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terrific pictures. Uh great amenity. uh doing a lot of lot of upgrades to the pool over there. You know, even just uh you know, more than just a coat of paint. Uh we're really sprucing things up. Uh new flooring, stuff like that. Um believe we have a new vendor uh running the concession stand this year. Um so

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we're really anxious for that, too. So, uh that's it. I want to keep it short and sweet cuz we got some more work to do. Thank you all. Have a safe and uh uh safe and happy Memorial Day. Hopefully we see you out there for the parade. Motion to second. Whatever my HEY

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