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I hereby call the meeting of how Township Council to orderan will you please read the opening statement and call the role yes this meeting is being held in accordance with public law 1975 chapter 231 open public
meetings act adequate notice has been provided in the manner prescribed by this agenda is complete to the extent known and formal action will be taken councilwoman Fischer is absent this evening councilman Nal here councilwoman odonnell here Deputy Mayor gager here
mayor legio here thank you so we are mayor ask manager is there a reason for us to go into the executive session Jo yes it is Mayor we have a number of topics to discuss including litigation uh and ordinances and our co-
obligation may I have a motion to answer executive Mo you go exec second councilman Nell yes Council odonnell yes Deputy Mayor gajer yes mayor Lego yes thank you reconvene meeting I'll begin with the roll call
councilwoman Fischer is out this evening councilman Nel here Council Odon here Deputy Mayor gazer here mayor legio here thank you everyone stand Pledge of Allegiance individual prayer to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible Li and justice for all thank you thank you oh thank you all right we have a couple par
proclamations here for Quinn and JJ could you please come forward Billy ready are these shut up I just left you I'm sorry where's the two young men here I'm
JJ JJ and your Quin Quinn all right stand over here that's fine where you're at I don't need the microphone this Proclamation is in
recognition of congenital heart effect awareness whereas the health and well-being of all children throughout how are of param Paramount importance to our C's families and community and whereas each year the week of February
7th through the 14th is known as congenital heart defect of Awareness Week approximately 40,000 children in the united states begin their life with one or more than 35 identified forms of con
congenital heart defects and wherehouse congenital heart defects are the most common birth effect in the United States sadly about 4,000 children die each year from complications of their congenital heart defects and whereas
the origins and symptoms ofal heart defects are becoming more readily identifiable and the range of surgical options are expanding thanks to doctors and scientists diligent research efforts and experience that extend our body of
knowledge every day and whereas it is important for the parents family members pediatricians nurses to know the warning signs associated with congenital heart defects among newborns so they may provide proper treatment as early as
possible and whereas many of our community families are directly affected by their child's illness caused by congenital heart defects and we applaud the efforts of the doctors and the scientists everywhere who work diligently to improve their quality of
life now therefore the governing body of Township of Howell does hereby encourage all residents to increase their awareness of congenital heart defects and support research and medical advancements to treat them so to
JJ yes that's all you for when you were baby and how you doing now with this as ever you playing playing sports yeah I do wrestling fantastic you want to go a great wrestler you want to go right now take it down right now I might
not get up well I'll let you win if you want this is yours and your sir and same with you you're healthy everything everything's going good for you yeah very I just graduated high school and where you head uh I was going to go to college I'm just working right now so
get you got a plan yeah I'll sit home do hang out just watch some of your friends are going hang out and going keep hanging out at 25 and 30 yourself up all right that's fantastic uh 400 local oh sir that's
great good what's her name Elie van her husband was a huge and you young man what grade you in what school T ton how is it over there
you friends yes no bullies right any bullies in your class no my number good did you want to talk about your pictures see pictur you want talk about hold for you let's
go so these are some of the pictures that we took of Quinn when he was in the hospital and when he came out of surgery when he was 5 weeks old he was born with a huge hole in his heart um the doctor that saved his life and we go back to
New York Columbia Presbyterian to say hello to everybody every now and then and donate some stuff and then here we used to live in raway so we used to do the proclamation with them um we also do the a walk with the
CHD Coalition that is in North Jersey every year we've been doing it since he was about 9 months old so here are some pictures from the walk that we've done but this is probably the craziest picture that we
had because that's a picture of Quinn right after he came out of open heart surgery that's the first thing we saw well we've come a long way young man yeah and I see you're you're friends with one of my friends Mr Stanton that I means you're rolling around the the map
on a regular basis correct yeah that's fantastic go ahead I just want to bring a of My lightsaber over here Trevor if you guys don't know he performed CPR on me when I
uh entered Cardiac Arrest at his house at uh on a Friday morning May 10th of 2024 and he saved my life straight up there's no other way to put it he did CPR on me him and one of my other buddies Giovanni he's not here right now
but the the both of them gave me enough air and to to stay alive and uh make it to the hospital and and I don't think about there's not a day that goes by where I don't think and and pray for them because without them I would not be
here and I just wanted to shout them out and uh say thank you I guess so you [Applause]
who else is oh yeah Marina is hiding over there uh she's our 911 caller yes she called 911 she witnessed the whole scene and it's traumatic as it is um it's a good thing
that she was there because no one called 911 faster so yeah yeah Trevor didn't know he was going to be a hero when he went to bed that night wake up and get out of bed and perform CPR It Go Trevor thank
you defitely thank you for doing that hold right come on squish squish squish squish squish to get all right ready [Applause]
yeah that's you got itti [Applause] boys thank you so much [Applause] I asked him I asked him if he uh thank you thank you thank you
acceptance I have a motion for the acceptance of minutes of January 21st and February 4th uh 2025 meeting minutes may have a I'll make a motion to accept both dates
second councilman Nell yes Council oddon yes Deputy Mayor gazer yes mayor Le you yes thank you our uh professionals Mr Clark uh a couple of quick announcements
the 2025 how business directory and Community guide that we put out in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce is now available uh we have a bunch of them up here on the table for anybody they're free for the taking um and they
are out now second thing is paper shredding we have one coming up mark your calendars this is pretty far out in advance July 14th it's going to be at Memorial Adelphia school it's going to be on Monday from 4: to 8:00 p.m.
so finally March 1st 2025 we're going to have a rabies clinic from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Public Works garage 278 Old tver Road in Howell the inclement
weather date will be March 88th of 2025 Mr Howard um just want to give a quick update on some of our ordinances that we've been working on uh with some local farmers in town um happy to report that we do have an ordinance up for introduction tonight for on Farm direct
marketing um it's a very broad ordinance that models the county Right to Farm laws and the the state right to farm laws very few changes and tweaks to it just some minor things um ultimately it's being added to our right to farm ordinance which means it's an as of
right activity um if you can stay within compliance of the county and the state rules then it's an as of right activity no permit needed and um you're going to be able to do those activities now um we're also putting some tweaks on our special events on farms ordinances um we
had a very positive meeting last week uh with the group of local farmers and we hope that we could tweak out and iron out the last few issues and maybe as early as next meeting be introducing uh it'll be a group of ordinances for those but we hope to have that included next
meeting Kay uh just one update we are um getting ready to go out to bid on our one remaining liquor license uh Council previously approved d a minimum base bid of $275,000 so we will be publishing our
bid requirements uh within the next week or so um and we will be accepting applications for the bid packages 275 is the base minimum bid so it could we could get more than that um from interested
biders and we expect uh probably uh the award or bid timeline will be through March and uh submitted in early April that's
it uh I would like would like now to open the floor for the hearing of citizens and public comments each person shall first give their name and address to the clerk the council should be addressed as a collective body and not as individual members each person shall have one turn to address the council and
comments shall not exceed a total of 5 minutes speaker shall be notified when their time has run and no time extension shall be extend uh excuse me shall be permitted P the button then Betty valz gimbal Squam Brook Farm
97 Victory Road on behalf of Howell Farmers united we support ordinance 2506 we are pleased our Township has aligned the direct marketing ordinance with the state's Right to Farm Act thank you Mr
Howard and Mr Clark at times we seem to be speaking different languages but we kept at it and so we appreciate your efforts the Right to Farm Act provides eligible responsible Farmers with protection from rest restrictive local government ordinances as well as the
public and private nuisance actions provided those Farmers operate in accordance with agricultural management practices the County's policy six contradicts the right to farm law we are grateful the township acknowledged this in the ordinance being introduced this
evening the delegates to the 110th State agricultural convention assembled in Atlantic City February 5th and 6th of this year strongly support New Jersey's Right to Farm Act and oppose policy 6 in resolution 16 of the right to farm
program the delegates call for the sadc to request reafir information from the attorney general regarding the jurisdiction of the cadb they also support measures to increase the capacity of cadb and call to reaffirm the policy that farmers have the right
to go directly to the cadb for determination of Right to Farm eligibility or site specific amp instead of being forced to proceed through the municipal land use process in essence we are pushing back against policy 6 and calling for it to be rescinded at the
county level the onire direct marketing organ uh ordinance tonight has restored our faith in Howell Township as a farm friendly municipality we asked nothing more than what was established in the
right to farm law we would like to thank mayor leio for taking the time to listen to the farmers and understand the situation and we are grateful to councilman Ian Nell for his support through the process collaboration resumed because of you both we look
forward to our next meeting with the administration regard regarding the special occasion events ordinance which also seems to mirror the Township's friendly Farm approach on behalf of Theresa Reed Stephanie Glock and myself thank you for the appoint uh consideration to appoint us to the
farmers advisory committee thank you anyone else I'm not seeing anyone so I may make a motion to close public comment motion to close public second all in favor I I I just have one quick respon or just
um regarding policy six uh it's a it's obviously something even Administration has spoken to the county about extensively we don't necessarily agree that sending everybody our way for Right to Farm activity is always the easiest um it obviously puts us in a position to
have ordinances covering things that are otherwise covered under right to farm um I just and not to say that U Miss gimbal had put any words in her mouth we're not opposed to it pretty much if that policy exists we're going to follow it the county puts a policy out we're going to follow it state says we have to do something we're going to try and follow
it so whether it exists or not we're going to try and follow the ordinance definitely cuts that out as a middle as a deterrent as any type of red tape so we're we're happy to move forward with it we think it's going to be um a good thing for the township it's very broad um but I just don't want anyone to think
that we're taking a stance against the county or anything it's just this is the way we're choosing to permit it in light of that policy six being in existence so I'll Echo what Mr Howard said first well uh thank you to the farmers I I knew that we would get
across the Finish Line eventually and I think the last meeting was probably the most Pleasant we've all had and I'm I see Betty nodding already so she's in agreement um the agreements keep coming um I just did want to note for the record and just to make sure credit
where credits do every everybody on Council wanted to see this across the finish line so we were getting pressure from every quarter um to make sure that we worked to do what was right for the town and for the farmers so that's it for more
professionals uh council members Mrs Donald any comments um no I think I'm good thank you uh NE Mr G uh I'm just happy that the farmers thing
is finally settled that's all well I got a few things to say so but it's listen very positive tonight uh last last meeting you guys finally you know came to pass on this entire thing
you know I don't want any credit all all I was was uh an ear listening you know during the campaign and I learned a lot reading the or you know what was on books and what was on wasn't on the books and I was actually confused too Mr Clark and Mr Howard I was a little confused with the whole thing um why it
went the direction it went in a few in a few areas but it like I said it all came around and everybody's happy and that's that's great so Betty I have a new nickname for you it's the Betty the bully
bz because your work your tireless effort and I don't know how many hours of of sitting there and going through these ordinances with the state and at the county level and sitting with your group and coming back and forth and you know whatever went all went down um you
know you stuck up for what you thought was right and in the end it all came to where we are tonight and uh your efforts are were fantastic you sticking up for what for what our Farmers deserve in town that was already
on the books anyway so you know whatever mishaps happen I'm just happy guys I really am being new here and this is over for now and hopefully we get the next stage you know finished and I'm confident Mr Clark and Mr Howard are uh
going to make that happen too so that's it what is it BBV got a you got initials now Betty BBV I don't know if you like that or not sorry if you don't like it take off the
The Bull you don't have the got the horns all right all right guys we're up to um vote on consent agenda items does anyone wish to vote on anything separate no so we have resolutions um here we go approve the consent agas
items excuse me r25 d85 through r25 d94 like a motion to approve resolutions r25 d85 through resolutions 25 through- 94 second councilman n yes Council odonnell
yes Deputy Mayor gazer yes mayor leio yes thank you the consent resolutions pass okay now we have um public hearing uh this ordinance 0-22 an ordinance of the township of how
County of Mammoth state of New Jersey amending and supplementing Article 5 of chapter 223 of the Township Code entitlement cening and soliciting of real estate any uh public like to speak on
this I'm seeing none I have a motion motion to close public second all in favor I I okay no hearing if anyone wishes to come they don't
I have a a motion to adopt 252 motion to adopt ordinances 25-2 second councilman Nell yes councilwoman odonnell yes Deputy Mayor gaser yes mayor legio yes thank you the ordinance is
adopted ordinance 0-23 an ordinance of the township of Hell chapter 139 section 69 facility fees of the Township Code would anyone from the
public like to speak on this I'm seeing none motion to close public second all in favor I I may I make a motion to adopt
25-3 motion to adopt ordinance 253 second councilman Nal yes Council no Donnell yes Deputy Mayor gager yes mayor legio yes thank you the ordinance is adopted ordinance 0- 25-4 an ordinance setting forth and
amending the supplement of the salary range schedule for the salaries of certain officers and employees of the township of Howell would anyone from the public like to speak on this I'm seeing none may I have a motion to motion to close public okay second
all in favor I I motion to adopt 2504 like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 25-4 second councilman Nell yes Council nodon yes Deputy Mayor gazer yes mayor legio
yes thank you the ordinance is adopted all right ordinance 0-255 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap Bank motion introduce ordinance 255
second councilman Nell yes councilwoman odonnell yes Deputy Mayor gazer yes mayor legio yes thank you the ordinance is properly introduced ordinance 0- 25-06 an ordinance amending chapter 2
244 Right to Farm article uh one right to farm supplementing with article two on on Farm direct marketing activities and the revised General ordinance of the township of Howell make a motion to introduce second
councilman Nell yes councilman odono yes Deputy Mayor gaser yes mayor legio yes thank you the ordinance is properly introduced ordinance 0- 2507 an ordinance amending article X of the Township Code entitled zones
revising section 188 d845 entitled moderate and low income housing overlay Zone 15 known as ml-1 15 Zone motion introduce ordinance
25-7 second councilman Nell yes Council noono yes Deputy Mayor gazer yes mayor leio yes thank you the ordinance is properly introduced all right the next regular scheduled council meeting will take
place on March 4th 2025 executive session begins at 6 p.m. regular session will begin at 7 7 p.m. uh seeing no further business I have a motion to adjourn motion to
adjourn second all in favor I