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Adequate notice of the July 9th, 2026 regular meeting of the township committee has been provided in accordance with the open public meetings act by posting written notice and agenda of the meeting on the bulletin board in the municipal building 1000 route 10 township of Hannover and by posting the

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same on the official website and by delivering such notice to the following newspapers. Morris County Daily Record, Hannover Eagle, and by following the scene with the township clerk. >> Roll call. Committeeman Cahill >> here. >> Committee mana here. >> Commandment Fioli here. >> Deputy Mayor Mahalo here.

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>> Mayor Gallagher here. >> Five members in attendance. >> Okay. If you would please join us for the pledge of allegiance and please remain standing for a prayer led by Deputy Mayor Mike Malco. I aliance to the flag of the United

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States of America to the standy and justice for all. Almighty God, please watch over and guide this governing body with abundance of wisdom and understanding to help make the best decisions for our residents. Please bless our first responders and township volunteers who help keep us all

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safe. also bless our township employees and residents. Lastly, please let us pray for the men and women of the US armed forces who stand vigil over us always. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, Michael. Joe, would you like to begin with the presentation? That would be great. Thank

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you. So, we're honored to have with us yours. >> We're honored to have with us a very distinguished member of the township

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family, Barbara Davis, who's worked with the township, the township committee for over 27 years as being our professional technical consultant dealing with open space and the environment. So Barbara,

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it gives us great pleasure to welcome you and your husband Glenn so that the township committee and the staff can honor you this evening. So the first thing we have, mayor, members of the township committee is a plaque for

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Barbara and it reads as follows. Hanover Township Distinguished Community Service Award presented to Barbara Davis, professional planner, vice president programs, the Land Conservancy of New Jersey upon her retirement in

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grateful recognition of 27 years of exemplary service to Hanover Township and in high esteem of her leadership, stewardship, and commitment in protecting and preserving the township.

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trips, open space and environmental resources. Congratulations as you begin a new career, a new chapter in life's journey. Presented by the township committee. Thank you very much.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. nearly 200 mic was my first

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space when I started in 1999 and township follows a really unique open space objective they proceed carefully thoughtfully and innovatively

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township for 10 years um least the New Jersey Department of Transportation property right behind Sh forest way at some point maybe a trail and it took 10 years and they purchased it from the

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government of New Jersey took two attorney generals in two different departments took a complicated survey end up being fully paid for by the state of New Jersey. one department made another one in $164 because that's when they acquired it.

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And I've been really proud to be part of working with handover. I work with Jerry on your um trails program. I work with Joe on numerous open space acquisitions. You have more in the works. Handover is a beautiful town because of each one of

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you and your community farm is really a model for all the other towns in the county. So I'm really proud to be able to live here. I recreat. Thank you, Barbara. Byeber. Bye. Bye.

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>> Bye. >> Okay. You all ready to continue? >> Ready. >> Okay. Next on the agenda, we have a proclamation. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Just want you to shut your mic off for a second.

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a proclamation of the township committee of the township of handover designating the month of July as park and recreation month within handover township. And we have a proclamation. We will give that to me and I'll give it to you. I thought you're going to read the title.

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>> I do. That was the title. >> Oh, proclamation of the township committee of the township of handover designated the month of July as park and recreation month within handover township. >> Christian, can I read that one more time? >> Sure. And it again. >> Thank you. And thank you, Mike.

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>> Thank you. Okay. Next on the agenda, we have three letters of resignation. The first is a resignation from Department of Public Works sanitation driver, laborer Jesse Lorenzo Mosca, effective July 15, 2026.

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Next is a letter of resignation from Keith Holler, the part-time plumbing inspector for the building department, effective July 9th, 2026. And lastly, we have a letter of resignation from David Doyle, the digital evidence coordinator for the Hanover Township Police

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Department, effective July 15, 2026. May I please have a motion to accept three letters of resignation? >> So move second. >> All in favor? >> I. And next on the agenda, we have the approval of the township committee

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meeting minutes of June 11th and June 25th. May I please have a motion to approve the meeting minutes? >> So moved. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I approve of the meeting notes of June 11th. I move to abstain. >> Thank you.

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>> Crystal same by me. >> Thank you. Make that note. Next is a public hearing and adoption of ordinance number 28-2026. Proof of publication that the ordinance and the notice of introduction appear in full on the township's website under

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legal ads on June 12, 2026 in accordance with the law. At this time, I have a motion to convene the public hearing on ordinance number 28, 2026. >> Make a motion. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Is there anybody in chambers wishing to

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be heard concerning ordinance number 20? Thatch 2026. If so, please state your name and address for the record. Hearing none, seeing none, may I have a motion to close the public hearing on >> second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Now on adoption, may I have a motion to

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adopt ordinance number 28-2026. >> Make a motion. Second. >> On roll call. >> Committeeman Cahill. >> Hi. >> Committeeman Faramosa. >> Committeeman Francioli. Hi, >> Deputy Mayor Mahalo. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gallagher. So adopted.

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>> Next is the approval of resolutions as a consent agenda. Resolution numbers 146 2026 through 160-2026. Does any member of the committee have any questions or comments regarding these resolutions?

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May I please have a motion to approve the resolutions as a consent agenda? May I have a second? >> Yes. I'm sorry. >> Sorry. 147. >> I'm sorry. 147. I apologize. It's on you.

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>> I'm sorry. I apologize. Thank you for the correction. May I take a motion to to approve? Let me double check what I have here. Resolutions number 147206 through 160-2026.

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So move. >> Thank you. Second. >> All in favor? >> So approved. Next we have to pay our bills in the amount of 10,336,7346. May I please have a motion? >> Motion for the esteemed CFO to pay our bills. >> Thank you. May I have a second? >> Second.

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>> All in favor to pay the bills? >> I. >> So passed. Mayor and the members of the committee. That clears the agenda. and I thank you and I'm sorry for the little mistake. >> Christie, great job. Thank you. >> Okay, I'd like to motion uh make a motion to open the public. All

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>> in favor? I >> I >> Okay, anyone from the public that would like to address the governing body, please step up to the podium, state your name and address, and you have four minutes. Gary Kaiser, Harry Township. I just have a question and the first question is

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what's the story on 1255 Route 10. I know you've been working on trying to retain that property that red carpet. Um what's the status Joe?

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Well, this this property Gary is in litigation. So this this property is in litigation. So, um I think that our esteemed uh township attorney would say we're limited in what we could say. >> Correct.

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>> We aren't doing um because we may be in negotiations with the property owner. What we do is a due diligence report to review and and analyze that property, but I don't think we can say any more than that because of

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the sensitivity of the litigation. Okay. I I'll defer to Fred if he wants to start. >> I I understand that. >> Yeah, I I think what Mr. Giorgio said is everything we we can say at this point. I think that's a excellent summary.

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>> Okay. Thank I just want to make clear to you Gary that um this has been a focus for quite a bit of time in Hannah Township and there was the infamous 115 days, 7 days a week that four of us worked on it tirelessly. So, uh, this is our focus and we're going to work

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continue to work very hard but very limited. >> Thank you guys. You got Gary as as a follow up on that. The reason why I asked now putting another hat on as being chairman of the board of fire commissioners district 3 EMS people go there frequently.

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It's our job to go to emergencies. But when you go to emergencies and you see a lot of things going on, uh for instance, say some infest infest people being infested with uh rice all

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over their bodies that affects our police department flexes of us. We come back, we got to contaminate our uh decon, our ambulance, which takes an hour and a half. There's a lot of other things I know you're aware of what's going on there. It affects our EMS

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people that that goes there for the first responders and the police as part of the first responders. That's why I asked that question. Fred, you're going to be very happy with how I'm going to answer this. I'm going to ask Fred to say something about this because I want to be very careful.

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Yeah, it we continue to take note of all of these concerns and that's uh been something that the governing body has, you know, has tried to address through the hotel ordinance and there's, as Mr.

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Giorgio said, litigation, as the mayor said, the the time period 24/7 uh so with state agencies. So, we just continue to to try to make things things better. >> I know there's a lot I know there's a

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big push on that property and still the litigation that could take a little while. And I just want to say I appreciate you bringing this information to us again because if it wasn't for detail we got from a lot of residents, uh we wouldn't have the information that

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we have. So, it's very helpful. >> Okay. Thank you. The other thing is uh we had a heat wave. We had the 4th of July. We had a storm. The serals fire department first day squad fire

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district 3 from 6:00 a.m. July 3rd through 6:00 a.m. July 5th. We responded to 51 calls. 27 were EMS, 24 were fire, one was a

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serious accident. On 24 were involved uh 10 patients. So that span the the chief, our administrator, myself sat down, we brought extra people in because of the heat wave to protect our

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residents. We have a lot of elderly people in our town. We want to make sure they be adequately attended to. But that 51 calls, a lot of calls and that's stand. I just wanted to bring that up to your attention. >> Thank you, Gary. >> Thank you, Gary. Bro, do you want to say

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anything for that? No, I was going to save it for comments later. Okay, good. All right, Gary. Okay. Uh, one more thing. Mr. Mr. Galler, I read your post about the trees. Yes. Back in Sandy, they suspended cutting up

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the trees for and tying them when we had a lot of debris down. JCPNL comes in, they'll cut the lines, don't cut the power lines, they leave everything there. So, the homeowner needs to clean that up. The town just can't come pick up that brush. I will address that at the end. But what I will tell you is the

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explanation was very, very clear. It's breaking it's broken down into three pieces and uh I'll get into that at the very end, but >> Okay. Very good. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Anyone else? Terry Beard from the Whippony section of

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Hanner Township. Um, I have a question about the website. Who is in charge of the actual website? >> Christa, is that James or you? >> Well, actually, it's a shared website.

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It's done by administration office and township clerk and even recreation. >> But is there like an overall like web master person for the >> It would be James the assistant town. >> It would be James.

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>> Okay. Cuz I have some questions about the um about the agendas and how they are posted because um they you'll post one and then there'll be five more posted,

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but I never get notification of the other ones being posted. And I always joke to myself that, you know, I go down the barn, feed the horses, I come back up before the meeting, and then I check to see if it's changed again, you know, before we've, you know, come to the meeting because a lot of things get

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thrown in like at the last minute and I don't know because I don't get a notification. And I've signed up for all the notifications. I'm stupid, but I did. I signed up for all the notifications. I got one of those accounts. I signed up. But it happens a lot. Like there's a lot of the the

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agendas have they have the same date and time, but yet they're not post. I check it every day and like one more's there, one more's there. Like it's updated and I'm not getting notifications about it. So I get a notification for the first one. So are you referring to like the

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township committee agendas for that agenda? So sometimes when it's updated, I don't believe that it's a notification. So if there was a change to a title or something, we would just go in and change that. But if it is a relevant change, we do then blast it out

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again. So you should get the draft agendas are always blasted out and always the final agendas are always blasted out. I don't get it. Okay. Well, we'll make note of that and we'll make sure that that happens. Sorry about that, but and I guess I'll get in touch with James because there's a couple of other things. I mean it's not it just

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>> you could just give an email to send an email to him with all your comments and then we'll take care of that. >> Okay. >> Thank you Terry. It's been happening for quite a while. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you Terry. Anyone else? >> My name is Mark Kak. I live on Betal Parkway. I'd like to address the police

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officer here. Um, B Middle Parkway is known to be a throughway now, just like Route 10 or Route 46. And I don't see that much being done by the police department. They should think it's there. >> I uh it should be hit more often.

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I I even see township vehicles speeding, which is unconscionable. It's a 25 mile speed limit on that particular street. There's more and more kids living on that street, playing in our front yards. If a ball comes out or deer runs out,

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god forbid. I mean, just past Christmas, my um sister-in-law came from Delaware to spend Christmas Eve with us. We all ran out. Boom. Quiet. Okay, that's if the police department

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could be a little bit more proactive there, be greatly appreciated. Maybe put some signs, flashing signs like they have these standards. Okay, >> I'm a volunteer. I'm semi-retired. I can help you out. Okay, just, you know, give me a badge.

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My my radar is my eye. Trust me. Uh number two, uh to your knowledge on this committee, are there any um buildings being built in in the township that have a direction for

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data centers? I can answer that. Go ahead, please. There's currently one, there was two, one of them left, and that's the big talk right now, data centers. uh we're looking at how to regulate them

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at or allow them at all. We understand all the information that's going out there. We understand the public outcry. We live here. We don't just work here. And I want you to know that we began discussing it as our due diligence and we probably feel and think the same way

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that you do because we have access to all the same power that they be coming in at 5 megawatt, 10 megawatt, 15. We're well aware. Okay. And will they be bu building their own power supply? And the only thing that's good about our

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situation with data centers is the people that want to build them require so much property. We don't have that available property in Hover Township. So we're we have a no. They could have a building that's 150,000 ft. They could

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put a data center. >> They can if we allow it. But the big companies are going for the big parcels that we don't have available in Hbert Township, right? Correct. >> Which is a good thing. >> Correct. >> All right. And I'll keep an eye on that. We're available offline all the time. We could be a little more candid with you.

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>> Okay. Fine. Um, last thing came to my attention that there's a big piece of land that was sold behind Bayer, which I think you're all aware of. Did those developers submit plans for building already? What was that? Did those developers

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submit plans for building? >> Uh well Jerry's not here. Yeah, you're Jerry. Did we get plans yet for that? >> Well, as you know, it did receive planning board approval. Those plans have been approved and uh they are submitting a developer agreements which

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lays out the responsibilities that the town has and also the the contract. >> Okay. As far as the responsibility, >> but in terms of uh building permits, those have not been issued yet. has a town entice that particular developer with any property taxes of maintenance

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to build it. >> This the bare extension, right? >> Yes. Yeah. No, there's there's no enticements to that extent. Uh as a matter of fact, that development is going to be at six uh units an acre and

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affordable housing development throughout the county is around 16 or 17 units an acre. So what you know what that could have been and what it is going to be is is much more manageable under the circumstances but there are no

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abatements. There's certain uh what I'd call agreements with respect to the affordable units you know when it comes to >> so there is affordable housing going in there. >> Well there's some by law everywhere you have to have you know 20%. So, but but

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no, there's no other incentives or tax breaks or anything like that. >> Okay. Just want to make that clear because I know that there other cities and townships do entice the particular developer coming with property tax abatements and who takes the fall the taxpayers of that particular township.

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Thank you for your meeting. Thank you. Anyone else? >> John Rio, two legs to court whippity. Um, since it was brought up just out of curiosity, the assumption is that the state

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approved the affordable housing program that you guys put in. Yeah, >> Fred. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. This is the fourth round and it's really a state mandate. you know, we get our numbers and the township

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pushed back a great deal and also within the law minimized what the total buildout would be for the fourth round. So, at this point, we still have challengers who want the township to build more, but under this round and the

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plan the township's put forward, so far that plan has been met with um approvals of the court. Right. So this the state has approved your plans. >> Well, it's the courts, you know, through the state's numbers, >> you know, and things of that nature, the

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state mandate. Um, but this was by far um minimal compared to what the other rounds were, even though the requirements of the state were really high. >> I I am I'mware well aware of that. I was just asking whether they did approve it.

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Yes, it at this point it's approved and there are some parties who have challenged because they'd like it to be more right >> and so the townships oppose that but at this point we are compliant >> right >> with the state program and we we uh do

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not have uh any uh so to speak that builder's remedy >> right >> that would be available because we're a compliant municipal >> okay so you guys should be proud of yourselves then I'm assuming. Yeah. >> Well, should we be given a hand for

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should be given a hand for ourselves right now? >> You should be given a hand for that. Yeah. >> Okay. >> John, I've said many times and and I'm going to give credit to everybody up on this day and there's always moving parts and we can get a call any day from Fred or Jeff or Joe, but the program that we

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put forth is pretty much the best program in North Jersey, >> right? and and and we do feel good about that and we work very hard to get that result. But again, until Fred calls and says everything's finished, um you're still holding your breath. I hold my breath quite a bit.

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>> Okay. Okay. Um second question is, well, not second question is, as you recall the last committee meeting, I was talking about the prophylactics on the fire hydrants um in our neighborhood. Well, our neighborhood's the only one that has

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them on it. And I've realized why. And that's because they're redoing the dips of the sidewalks in our entire neighborhood. So, I'm assuming that the water company put those on so this way the contractors

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don't use the hydrants. Am I correct or incorrect? Well, after the meeting, Mr. Kaiser and and Mike discussed quite a bit about that with us because we didn't know about it. Mike, would you like to say anything about that or that's a good assumption. I haven't been in touch with the water

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company. I don't know exactly where they're putting them and why. Well, you know, I I've got a lot I mean I've driven around and there's, you know, a ton of hydrants around the area. There's at least two on

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each lane. Mhm. >> Right. um on the south side of Whippy Road and then there's no running lane on the north side. Okay. Which do not have them on them. So my assumption is is that the

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water company put them on there as a deterrent for the contractors in using that water. Sounds like a reasonable assumption. John, I'm going to tell you two things. When I was young, we used to clear land and we were always on sightes and in the summertime when you get a drought all day long you see water

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trucks going through to keep the dust down. In some of my private due diligence, there's two pieces of a trade. This these trades that most people don't understand or have seen where they haul away tandemss of dirt all day long so they don't simply push it out and change

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the grade. Then they have to water the dirt so it doesn't turn into dust. So, I think that could be a pretty reasonable explanation or assumption on that's why it's only in that neighborhood. Okay. All right. And then the next question I

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have is a technical question. Um, in light of the flooding that New Jersey has had, it's been hit and you've seen it on the news and other portions. Um, do you know who I mean I

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looked on the website and according to the website the Hannah Township sewage authority is in charge of monitoring the water tables. Monitoring what? >> The water table.

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>> I couldn't hear you. >> The water table. >> Okay. >> Okay. I'm sorry. The water table. However, I don't but I've called them and they're telling me that they don't. So, can you just tell me who's in charge

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of monitoring the water table? Well, if you want to talk about flooding and not the sewage authority, I could tell you that we created the Whippony Pate Flood Remediation Task Force right in this building, >> right? >> We received $3.2 million from Mikey Cheryl when she was the congresswoman.

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We we took out 150 yards behind PC Richards, 175 behind play auto. We had downstream service behind Stemus Lane in Clear Road. 14 solid days. A month ago, we got approval for 16 more sites from the USDA from Marstown to 280 from

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Chadam down to Reillas in East Hannover. Since then, Governor Cheryl said 3/4 of our problem was working to circumvent the D. We had a very high level meeting in East Hanover. I'm personally working with the commissioner of the New Jersey

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D and the deputy commissioner. They're going to take our program, two pieces of it, d snagging and bank reestablishment, put it into a best practice, a template, and we're looking at permitting. So, we are going in in the next 30 to 45 days

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and cleaning out 16 more sites. And also we're tying that into the mosquito commission because when water runs it's a lot healthier. There's a lot less mosquitoes. So the neglect for 50 to 60 years of these waterways, we're paying a freight on it and we're making a big move on it. As far as the sewage

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authority, I I've never talked to them at all about water table or flooding. Never. Well, well, that's fine. But the the only reason that I'm asking the question is is because I tried to find out um how

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often, you know, uh do we do water table checks? All right. And according to the website, the handover sewage authority is in charge of the water table with the

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assistance of the Department of Public Works. according to hanover.com or hamover township.com whatever whatever that's why I asked the question because I went to them and they said I

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know nothing about it and it seems like you know somebody's saying no go see them go see them go see them put it this way we have 52 members that are whippy for safe plug remediation we're speaking to groups of

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five five and six towns right? >> Many different areas. We're working lock step with local municipal engineers and Collier's engineering which is national. >> Right. And nobody's ever mentioned the storage authority once to me about water table or being involved in any kind of

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flood flood remediation or water table or monitoring of the water table. No, I've never heard that until tonight. Okay. Well, I can share the reference. I'll look into that. Okay. All right. Thank you, John. Thank you. Anyone else?

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Seeing that hearing none, motion to close. All in favor? I. Does anybody want to address the public for a minute or so? I have Mr. Mayor, just one comment. Uh, and it came from John at the last meeting and the concerns over locked

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fire hydrants. I think it just came up again. uh had a discussion with OEM uh on that and uh regarding our fire companies and the locked hydrants and the water cover SMC MUA uh in locking the hydrants informs the fire company

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and provides the proper tools for them to open hydrants. There's no jeopardy to the public safety with them having the right tools to open those hydrants. But you're correct in that they are closed for reasons that they're being used for less than fire protection. So, uh, just wanted the public in general to know

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that, uh, we are a safe community where the fire hydrants are concerned. They can be accessed by any of our fire companies and and open. Thank you. >> Thank you, Rob. Johnny, you have anything? >> Yeah. Township committee has really made roads a priority. And the good news is

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we're seeing all roads being paved and we hope to complete the paving projects this year by August 1st. So that's an improvement. Beautiful. Right. Uh well, first I just again I was going

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to mention it uh at this moment, but uh thank you very much to the police department, fire departments, OEM. I spoke with uh uh the director of OEM. I spoke with the chief today, let the dust settle just to get some more details on on how they handled everything. Uh DPW

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as well. I mean, apparently it was a very very wellcoordinated weekend. Everybody was very very busy, a lot of hours. So, I'll just say, you know, thank you very much. These storms come up once in a while where it's just crazy and and uh it's really really encouraging to see the way the people

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that work for this town uh come together and and and and uh help where we can, wherever we can. So, I'll stop with that. Um I did also, since we're talking about first responders, I a couple of things I just wanted to mention. Uh congratulations to Officer Trevor Smith.

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He's one of our new police officers. He just graduated the Mars County uh police academy, so he's going to be continuing his development here, working in town and getting some uh first hands-on training. Also, uh Sammy Tam Tammy uh officially started with the department,

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another new officer, and he will begin uh some training here prior to starting at the police academy in July. So two new officers as the our police department continues to evolve and and grow uh you know continues to evolve and and help help us to maintain our traffic division actually which is very

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important. Uh one other note of congratulations officer Tim Telg Delgower was selected to be a part-time member of the Mars County Sheriff's Emergency Response Team or SIR. Um this is kind of the only thing I can equate it to in layman's term is a it's a group

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of officers from different departments that help out in extreme situations. think of uh just real emergencies. Uh think of SWAT if you will almost, you know, if there's a um any sort of major crimes going on or anything like that. Uh they would get involved in that. But to become a member of this, I looked

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over what's required both physically and mentally and everything. It's outstanding. I mean, for Tim, I understand he's the first one to in this department uh to make this sort of team. Um but it was truly a effort and it is a testament to uh to his capability. So,

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congratulations to Tim. Lastly, I just also want to mention you've probably seen a lot of activity and some soccer team, FIFA soccer team buses going up and down Route 10. Uh, a lot of police cars, a lot of security over on Melanie Lane. That is ongoing.

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Um, the question came up uh from one of our residents. Uh, you know, who's paying for all that? So, I just wanted to make it clear that uh the township chief lock uh um the administration uh applies for grant money from the government to help pay for that. Uh

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right now, currently, we are entitled to about $10,500 uh in reimbursement to help pay for whatever overtime and whatever additional expenses we had. That's not the end of it. Obviously, the tournament is is not over yet either. Um so, the plan will be to actually apply for some

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more dollars to reimburse us for that. So we see all that activity. Just know it's it's not all on the taxpayers. Uh we do get reimbured. >> Yes, sir. Thank you, Brian. Michael, >> uh just real quick, thank you all. We um couple things. Hopefully, you made it to

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the patriotic celebration, our fireworks we had on July 1st. It was a terrific night. It was a little warm, but we had a great time. Uh hopefully got to meet George Washington and Roambo and some other reenactors that came out. They were terrific also. Uh we we got our picture taken. We chatted with them for

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a little bit. They were in in costume and in character. Uh it was really really nice. Really fun night. Um we also had uh Cultural Arts had sponsored a concert a couple weeks back and that was also patriotic themed. Uh hopefully you guys made that. It was virtually a

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sellout crowd that had uh you know snacks and and other other events going on. That was another fun night that we just had. Um, and then we also uh cut the ribbon on the uh skating rink that's now open open to the public. Um, it's a big hit. I've driven by there many times

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and there's I was really pleased to see a lot of people participating and using it and young kids out there skating around and uh practicing their hockey and even just just rollerblading around. And again, in the winter time, we'll be able to flood that, freeze it, and uh ice skate on it. So, really looking for

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that in the winter time. Also, uh, another note, Splash Pad is up and going. It's running great. We have, uh, some of our best numbers in years for pool registrations. Um, and it's been a huge hit. Also drove by there, stopped in there a couple times, and, uh, it's

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great to see the kids playing on it and and adults and seniors, too. It's kind of funny when when it's kids in the in the pool, the seniors kind of go to the splash pad and then it reverses when it's adult swim. Uh, but it's great to have that, too. Um, so it we're still accepting registrations. So if anybody

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is uh if you're interested, come on out to the pool. It's a ter terrific amenity. Um, you know, they got a snack stand, they've got noodle nights, they've got concerts, they got bingo, ma jang, I think. So a lot of stuff going on. You can still, uh, you can still apply. And I believe in in the beginning

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of August, we offer a reduced rate for the second half of the year. So uh, you know, come on out. It's a lot of people and, uh, uh, again, a terrific amenity. Um, also I don't know if you've noticed, we got new art in the hall. Check it out on your way out. Uh, we rotate that.

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They're in for about two months and then they rotate out. But we have a new artist out there. It's some really interesting stuff. Um, one thing coming up, uh, Park in the Dark. We've done it a couple times now. We're going to do it again on uh, July 29th, Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. over at B

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Meadow Park. Uh, bring your flashlights, put on some bug spray. Um, I wind up usually leading it, which I really enjoy doing. We go and I've also invited a couple uh people in the past, Lenny Farello has come and uh he's a local historian and talk about handover and

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and the park system and it's a nice night out and um please come on out. It's it's nice to enjoy that amenity. Also, the paths are terrific. Uh especially on a hot hot day, the nights are cool back there. It's uh nice to come out. So, uh again, that was on the

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29th uh Wednesday 8:00. So, thank you, Mike. >> Fishing contest was a great success. Great job on that. >> So much going on. Yeah. And I can't tell you how personally warm I felt to see a toddler in rollerblades on our new

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hockey rink on that hot day, which means that rink is going to get use. >> Yeah. >> Absolutely. 165 days. Yeah. Again, a terrific amenity that we've opened up. Um, and Handover, as you know, is really for as small of a town as we are, we've got a big hockey following, a lot of

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good hockey players come up through the ranks and, uh, we're here to support, you know, support our youth and and and me up. So, great. >> Thank you, Mike. First of all, Fred, it's great to have you back on a day with us. Uh, thank you

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very much for everything. I know you're feeling a lot better. >> Thank you. >> And I'd say you're about I think you're just about 100%. So, thank you very much, man. God bless you and your family. >> Thanks a lot. Thank you very much. >> Sir, I'd like to address you for a second. I think that what happened tonight with you talking about B Meadow

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and one of our great great Hannover Township policeman, Eric Woodruff, is um we are always available to listen and learn and provide better service. And I appreciated the fact that you took to you two took a few minutes and discussed it. Any comment, concern, or

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constructive criticism never falls on deaf ears in this room or in Hanover Township. And Eric's sharp is attacking him. >> You're you're dying. >> Duly noted. >> And the last thing I want to say is

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about the storm. When things get rough, you get to look around and really see what people are made of. And I think a a lot of people in Hannover Township really stepped up and I'm very proud. It's been a very very tough day series of days, but that's what we signed up for. That's what we want to do. And

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again, quite a few people stepped up and I'm very very proud. I'm not going to single anybody out. I'm not going to single out any organization. But Hannover right now is in a pretty good place and a lot of people work very hard to get it to be there. On that note,

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motion journ. Motion adjourned. All in favor? I Yes, we Here we