##VIDEO ID:GkurZz3Zuu8## good evening everyone and Welcome to our Township committee meeting here this evening 6 PM I will read the statement on this evening January 9th 2025 adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meetings act pursuant to public laws 1975 said notice was advertised in Asbury Park Press in the beacon and was posted on the bulletin board showing the time and place of the meeting please follow in Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [Music] all item number one this evening permission to post signage fish Hawks annual flea market the fish Hawks organization is hosting their annual flea market on March 1st um at the Elks they request in to post signs across town to promote the event they would ask that the signs could be posted one week prior and they would remove them within 24 hours after the event moment second Mr McDonald yes Mr kenis yes M Juliano yes Mr lay yes mayor Turtle yes item number two storage pod extension request 2413 good luck Road uh the resident at 2413 good luck Road has been having constructions on on the home and he has two storage pods on the property um he is beyond what is allowed in the zoning permit the committee granted him a 90-day extension in late October and he's requesting an additional 60 days move it second Mr McDonald yes Mr lay yes Mr Kennis yes Mrs Juliana yes mayor K yes and I have an add-on um as you know the project for the South docks is underway as we speak and um they are seeking permission to be able to start on Saturdays 1 hour earlier than the normal um noise ordinance time so on Saturdays you can start at 9: the contractor is seeking to start at 8:00 a.m. um they would get be on site around 7 7:30 but they would not do any mechanical or noise until 8:00 a.m. move it it second thank you all in favor that is all I have motion to ad move it second all in favor I move right into our Township meeting read the statement adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meetings act pursuing of public laws 1975 said notice was advertised in the Asbury Park Press in the beacon and was posted in the bulletin board showing the time and date and place of the meeting have a salute to the flag please and a moment of silence pledge Alle pled allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all start with item number one ordinance 2025 d01 setting salaries for special Law Enforcement Officers ordinance of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey amending an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey a fixing and determining the salaries wages and comp compensation of the officers employees and members of the governing body of the township like um Mr K said this is for our special officers move it it second Mrs Juliano yes Mr Kenne yes Mr McDonald yes Mr lay yes mayor K yes I'm Number Two ordinance 20252 setting salaries for crossing guards ordinance of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey amending an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey a fixing and determining the salaries wages in compensation of the officers employees and members of the governing body of the township again this is for a crossing guard move second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kenne yes Mr Juliana yes Mr lay yes mayor K yes item number three resolution 2025-the the execution of a contract with the crossing guard Association resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the execution of a contract with the Lacy Township crossing guard Association second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr lay yes mayor K yes it number four resolution 2025 57 authorizing the tax assessor to file assessor appeals resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the tax assessor to file an Assessor's appeal to correct certain errors made on assessments for the year 2025 and authorizing the tax assessor as agent in filing Petition of appeals and roll back complaint forms this is standard order of business and it's required by the Ocean County Board of tax move it second Mrs Juliano yes Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Ray yes mayor K yes I'm number five resolution 2025-the yes mayor yes item number six resolution 2025 59 authorizing the cancellation of old outstanding checks from the Municipal Court bail account resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the cancellation of old outstanding checks from the Lacy Township Municipal Court bail account this is in the amount of $1,140 second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kenne yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr Laray yes mayor K yes I number 7 resolution 20256 authorizing the cancellation of old outstanding checks from the Municipal Court regular account resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the cancellation of old outstanding checks from the Lacy Township Municipal Court regular account this is in the amount of $100 move it second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr lay yes mayor K yes I'm Number Eight resolution 2025 61 appointing a recycling coordinator resolution of the township of Lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey appointing Matthew copac as recycling coordinator for the township of lacy second Mrs Juliana yes Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Mr lay yes mayor car yes I'm Number Nine resolution 202562 authorizing the employment of seasonal laborers resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the employment of snow seasonal laborers for the Department of Public Works move it second Mr lay yes Mr McDonald yes Mr Kenneth yes Mrs Julian yes mayor K abstained number 10 resolution 2025 63 authorizing the refund of deposit monies resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the refund of deposits held for the use of Municipal facilities move it second Mr lay yes Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes M julo yes mayor K yes item number 11 resolution 2025 d64 authorizing the payment of Township bills resolution of the township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the payment of Township Bills second Mrs Juliana yes Mr Kennis yes Mr McDonald yes and I'll stain on t35 Mr lay yes mayor K yes item number 12 monthly reports for the municipal clerk's office for the month of December uh receipts were collected in amount of $1,521 18 municipal court for the month of November receipts were collected in the amount of $2,993 2 month of December recycling Comm uh Department Road opening permits in the amount of $1,395 recycling commodity in the amount of $395 were collected and the Department of Community Development for the month of December collected receipts the amount of 83,7 motion to accept the reports is read second all in favor I number 13 motion approve approve budget meeting minutes of December 17th 2024 move it second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr L abstain I wasn't a member yet uh mayor Hera yes ad number 14 motion to approve executive session meeting minutes of December 17th 2024 move it second Mr McDonald yes Mr Kennis yes Mr Juliana yes Mr lay abstain mayor KERO yes I'm Number 15 motion to approve Township meeting minutes of December 23rd 2024 second Mr McDonald yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr Kennis abstain I wasn't here Mr lay mayor car yes item number 16 motion to approve executive session meeting minutes of December 23rd 2024 second Mr McDonald yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr kenis abstain Mr lay yes may I me no stain on that one mayor C yes M number 17th motion approve Township meeting minutes of January 1st 2025 second Mr McDonald uh one second before we uh do that one I had Amy make a correction on it on the January 1st is that executive or is that no that's you're here you're here you're good no no no no no it was on the swearing in yeah it was on the township meeting minutes there was one correction um the meeting minutes that were sent to you reflected that Mr lay was sworn in by Jack Chelli however he was sworn in by Miss lay so the minutes have been updated motion to approve Township meeting minutes of January 1st 2025 move it second second Mr McDonald yes Mrs Juliana yes Mr Kennis yes Mr yes mayor K yes M number 18 motion to approve auxiliary membership in the loka harbor fire company for Colleen caco second Mrs Juliano yes Mr L yes Mr pen yes Mr McDonald yes mayor yes any add-ons this evening thank you we'll have comments from the committee we'll begin this evening with Deputy Mayor Kennis thank you mayor um we had a fatal fire this week and I just want to offer condolences to the family and I also want to thank all our emergency services that um responded um it's a difficult time a year for anything of that uh you know that that nature um due to the you know it's cold out um you know it's just difficult anyway um so again just thanks all to all our Emergency Services um last year some business items um last year the township uh received $40 million in added assessments an added assessment is any new building that goes on in town whether that's additions uh housing um commercial so approximately that comes uh comes out to about $1 million in new property taxes that um and despite all the you know uh push back we get from traffic and all the other things that go on with new building it's that important to the township that that continues um are COA fees which or it's affordable housing fees I could talk about this for a while but I'll just briefly mention that they are um going UPS anywhere between 50% and 75% so it becomes uh diff so anybody that's doing any building any new building additions rehabs has to pay an affordable housing fee and that's significant right now um when I do a house it costs approximately between 5 and $6,000 um I'm anticipating it costing anywhere between 7 to $9,000 and so you know people complain about they can't you know that houses are too expensive and they can't afford them and uh that doesn't help so the government then takes that money that we put into a pot we buy we buy land for other builders the township purchases the land with our COA money it's essentially taxpayer money the builder then gets money from the state to build the affordable housing that's taxpayer money so the whole program is run and funded by taxpayers which I don't like those are my comments so Mr kenis if you could just clarify for our residents so you you have a parcel we'll call it 100% you off the top you have to make a carve out for affordable uh of a certain percentage anybody does if they're doing any any building permit um requires affordable housing fee okay thank you um command M McDonald thank you mam uh nothing nothing I hope everyone had a great holiday season uh I think 2025 is going to be a great year for us we will have some challenges but we will overcome them that's all I have thank you commit committee woman Juliano thank you mayor appreciate it first I'd like to say God bless our law enforcement it is their special day today though they should have a special day every day as far as I'm concerned um just to let you know that our fire companies both loka Harbor and fored River combined with our Bamber F friends um did 43 calls in the past month um and as Mr Kennis mentioned about our F fatality but let me tell you something you should walk around thanking them every day of the week because they're volunteers and they go out in the cold and the snow and the rain and anything else that's going on and they fight the fires and they deserve our total respect 24 hours a day 7 days a week we should also please put a prayer out out there for California everybody should be putting their arms out and extending a branch to them because it's it's not easy for what they're going through out there um that's all I have mayor thank you very much thank you so much commit julana committee L nice thing about going last is at least some of the things I was trying to think to say have been said but uh I I like that part uh I want to thank everybody for coming that came last week for the reorganization meeting which I mentioned a lot of my comments then but uh this past week I have had the opportunity to uh visit a couple of the Departments that I've been assigned to lay on too and I want to thank those departments for uh giving me the time and the uh warm welcome they gave me which was uh Community Development zoning and Department of Public Works I know after this is public public comment um I wanted to say something about the program coming up with the old schoolhouse Museum uh they were talking about the uh SE Cedar Bridge house of course I'm trying to get used to the technology I had it on my phone and now I so if anybody that's with the historical society that has information on that if you could definitely share it with the public when you come up cuz I do apologize I was planning on it and I'm trying to use technology instead of paper and it's not exactly working but uh I doo want to want to thank all the volunteers in in uh the town uh of all levels because not only is it the paid employees the elected employees but the volunteers are a huge part of what what makes a community great and we have a lot of great people in this town so thank you be able to read it that's going to be the problem now get the glasses I learned something last meeting I brought my glasses yes is on Wednesday January 22nd at 700 p.m. it's free of charge of course they do accept donations and it's the history of the Cedar Bridge Tavern home to the last squirmish of the American Revolution presented by Tim Hart of the Ocean County culture and Heritage commission and it's at the old schoolhouse Museum 126 Main Street Route uh Route 9 so I just wanted to make a mention of that to anybody that' be interested in attending this affair put on by the Historic Society thank you thank you Mr L um I too want to uh you know I can't imagine what it's like to see a fatal in the field it must change you you just I do not think you get numbed to it whether you're in EMS uh or fire or police and um it's not a good thing when we have tragedy in our town um so to I would never insult uh one of our our beloved volunteers and say I know what that's like I know I have no idea what that's like I work in an office I have no idea what that's like so to you who leave your families and do that work um I think I can speak this time for all of us we do support you we will support you and we are very appreciative of what you do because we know it's not easy so moving forward um one of the things I just take very personally and it's just always professional it's never personal I care about people's largest investment and that's your house and we've had a great runup in real estate value these last several years I want to keep that going I don't want to be the one sitting here in 2025 where there was a flop or a crash anything we can do to control our house I say was it there's always outside influences we control our house we take care of our own here in our ZIP codes uh so I give you my pledge that I will try to do that and every decision that we make that I make um that's top of mine that and our kids are First Responders and uh your dollars I care about that I know that we all care about that uh and to that end I called our CFO this week um she's gathering information together buttoning up last year uh and moving forward so that it's going to be a busy time all of us up here have been Mayors I have deep trust in all of the people up here mayor elected or not uh and I will tell you that that this is not a uh a situation that we take lightly as we welcome Senator Connors thank you so much for being here appreciate your time thank you thank you good see you too thank you and we are in compliance because we have a doctor of jurist prudence with us this entire evening so we're good so moving forward that's that's that's a high focus that's that's where the rubber hits the road it's the money I I know how hard that you work I know how hard we all work we we got a lot of brain power up here Mr McDonald's been uh business and uh financial services for a long long time we got licensed CFOs we get this is this is a good team we're going to take care of business with that I will open the floor for public comment yes please Mr szel this is a little high um okay I'm going to take it out I don't want to drop it again and try and catch it with my left arm because it doesn't work right yet um Regina descends the sunset D going to make you put it back because the wire is C you're going to shrink it for me that wire okay oh it makes noise oh we don't hear it though you do okay Regina descends a Sunset Drive Sunrise Beach um I have a question about the add-on from the south docks early work on a Saturday starting at 8 instead of 9 where exactly are the South docks and which neighbors are going to come in and complain is that down by the captain's in area it's across the river from the captain's in on the other side down Lakeside Drive East I sure hope it's not noisy because that's not going to be pleasant most people like to sleep late on a Saturday and I was really surprised that you lowered it by an hour cuz I have enough trouble with the hunting in my backyard I got shots fired at the crack of dawn almost every day I can never sleep past Dawn in the winter I know it's season but you know it sounds like it's right in my backyard even if it's 400 feet away so okay um if you could let the person or persons who did the salting in Riviera and Sunrise Beach know that their salt spreader must have been stuck or clumped because I saw salt four or five inches high on some streets big giant clumps of salt so it didn't get spread as evenly as it could have in some places and that's kind of a waste you know cuz extra salt comes out when that happens okay now here we are again 620 I got to tell you something there's a lot of people in this town that aren't home from work yet so they can't be here we kindly asked numerous times to move the meetings back to 6:30 or 7:00 and on January 1st what happened 6:00 happen again and that's why we here at 6 o'cl there's less than 20 people in this room we have 28,000 residents you're not giving the people in this Township a chance to come to these meetings by holding them so early and Mr Laray we had many conversations after other meetings that you attended as a private citizen and you had agreed with us on numerous nights that 6:00 was a little early working people cannot get here at 6:00 that work more than an hour from town and I know several people that cross the state every day to go to work Mr sensor put that on me not on Mr Laray Mr lay was advocating for a change oh he was but he didn't say that on January 1 yes I was going to correct you just now you were here yeah and when that came up for the dates and the time yeah I had spoke before we even voted on it that I was fighting for 6:30 I'm sorry I misunderstood you then that's why I was you you know you don't get too many spats back and forth but you were totally wrong with your comment I said it in public and I also mentioned that it's a democratic process and youn some lose some and I I I went through the whole thing so all right I'm sorry I misunderstood your comment then okay now this past Tuesday the Lacy Board of Education moved their reorganization meeting from Monday to Tuesday because it was a snow day so at this time Mr zalinski um named a time from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday January 28th for a Community Information Forum in the auditorium for the $92 million referend I'm pleading with the public to please attend this meeting to discuss and explain the $92 million referendum if you didn't think you already paid enough property taxes with a 99.9% School tax increase brace yourself because if this whole mcgilla passes we will have Guerilla taxes they will be so high you're making Lacy on affordable so many for sale signs went up in my neighborhood as soon as those 99.9% tax bills bills came out please be ready to vote on March 11th if you need a mailin ballot please get the form now it'll be here before you know it thank you Virginia what's what was the time again they changed it to um they didn't change it they named it on Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 he called it a Community Information forum and he said there would be various setups I don't know if it's just going to be a PowerPoint or I know the architect will probably be there and a finance person to talk about how the referendum is going to work and I know you do your research are they video in this one that's a good question Mr Lio might know but it would be nice because there has been nothing on TV mentioned other than my big mouth about the $92 million referendum and that's pretty damn sad because this has been talked about since August I will I will follow through and make sure that this is uh videoed because everybody needs to see it thank you for your comments any other comments from the floor tonight office oh she comes good evening hi good evening my name is Grace lar and I'm a senior at the Lacy Township High School and a member of the leadership academy of humanities the final step in this Academy is to come up with a Capstone project we were signed with finding an area of concern within our community and attempting to come up with a resolution is it okay if I gave you guys some information sure don't be nervous we won't bite promise you thank you thank you [Music] thanks after doing some research I came to the conclusion that our town would greatly benefit from having a sunscreen dispenser at one of its many recreational areas the majority of skin cancers 90% % to be exact are directly related to extensive sun exposure applying and reapplying sunscreen can dramatically decrease the likelihood of skin related cancers especially melanoma about 100,000 new melanomas will be diagnosed each calendar year and about 8,000 people are expected to lose their lives to melanoma the first step I took on this project was creating a survey to be able to understand if this would be something students in the high school would use as well as their opinions on whether or not this would be beneficial data gathered from the survey is that 133% of students reported that buying sunscreen had become a financial burden on their family additionally 80% of students reported that they've gotten sunburnt because they had either forgotten or ran out of sunscreen a free sunscreen dispenser would eliminate these issues Al together and an image is on page one of what the sunscreen dispenser would look like my next step was reaching out to the foundation who makes the sunscreen dispenser to determine pricing the Richard David Khan melanoma Foundation is a nonprofit organization involved in skin cancer education and prevention after a lot of communication with the foundation they agreed to donate one of these dispensers as well as a 2 L bottle of sunscreen free of charge this will last approximately 2,000 applications the 2 L bottle would last several months I would like to place the sunscreen dispenser at Lake barnegate Beach I believe this dispenser will be most utilized here to move forward I would need approval for someone to monitor sunscreen dispenser and long term the town would be responsible with repurchasing sunscreen to refill the dispenser the first bottle of sunscreen would be donated from the rgk melanoma Foundation but after that it would cost 125 to refill the machine each 2 L bottle will last approximately 2,000 applications I think this would be of great benefit for our town and Community thank you again for your time and consideration do you have any questions it's be wonderful I think it's something great idea it's a great idea I have a question is is that a mobile unit so like you could put it inside the wibbit shed every night yes okay okay so it could be secured at night so it doesn't get vandalized IDE and I think we've got a lot of beaches besides Lake Bar which by far is our busiest Beach because of the women no question about it we'll take into consideration maybe put it in some other some of our other beaches and maybe in Gilly Park we have a lot of people there so and and you're talking to the right group because I think every one of us what you're doing as a young person will benefit you as you get older because we've already not had the sunscreen we've gotten old and probably half of us up here have already had stuff removed from our skin so it's I got to give you a credit for coming up here and doing this one I know it's not comfortable to do when you're in 12th grade to come up in front of a Township committee but uh wonderful wonderful great idea and uh has it has the school committed to one yet um no I haven't really when I came up with this project I was thinking of doing it like more in the town so I hadn't really I haven't like talked to like really the school about getting one at the school but I could definitely do that well it might be something because of the fact that everybody plays Sports outside yeah so it's a you know it's a great idea to have something like that there too but we're definitely behind you this is wonderful I think I think the elementary schools because those kids you slap it on them well the funny thing is is when you think about this just real quick the education at an early age because I'll tell you I still with my dermatologist argue because she goes you're using sunscreen I go of course when I go on vacation or I'm out on the boat but it's not the same Sun as when I'm mowing the lawn doing other things so so it's really a big education to people too because who probably nobody in this room never played Sports who put on sunscreen to go play sports nobody nobody you know so this is a great start to probably something that be real beneficial in the future we have your number we have your email we'll reach out we'll have the recreation director right Jim be in touch with you and we'll set something up right mayor yes we will set something up if you could a value ad to that would be some of these bullet points you talked about if they could send with this dispenser a small sheet and have it laminated that people could see what it causes I mean we have voters here as well not just the wibbit Athletics Mr McDonald said the kids in in the earlier grades so yeah I mean if you could have some education with that that would be pretty good yes thank you thank you thank you very good good job anyone else this evening Mr Mr bner oh so he doesn't have to KNE right out tou it last time it really got screwed up sure did it sure did thank you very much um good evening mayor Township committee members happy New Year Happy New Year to all the people here tonight I didn't catch the name of the student what's your first name Grace Grace beautiful job I love seeing young people come up and do leadership type things like this encourage other students to do the same thing the Next Generation has s start moving forward so it's great to see thank you uh question number one I have about the time of these meetings at 6 PM why do they have to be at 6 PM uh Mr bidnick over the years and this is I've just started my 12th year we I believe we've had several different times we've had 6:30 we seven uh and now at six uh opinions abound and this will be a qualitative statement and it's very difficult to to base it in hard fact we don't take a headcount we've had more people here at the six o00 hour than we have had at the others so my argument to you sir would be that this is an inclusive time and this is well attended okay yes and we had numerous people in the last year get up here and explain this is the earliest I believe we've ever had it at 6:00 6:30 and at 7: we had numerous people people from all branches of our community get up here and question why they're at 6:00 now again I'm asking you the question why does it have to be at 6: p.m. was it collegial determination of this governing body that this is the time where we are able to be most we're all accessible to our our people here and our residents all the time this was the time slot meeting where we have the most participation and you know I I can promise you this Mr Benin I have respect for you I can promise you this we change this meeting time there'll be an equal amount of people up at that microphone saying why the hell did you do that I know I've been here during this past year during almost all the meetings and I've watched many people climb in the door late Miss part of the meeting uh because they're working and you know we talk about wanting citizen participation in our community my organization is all about that so 6: p.m. is really early for people who have to work a real job especially if they are commuting to a location it's not possible for them to get here and there are a lot of things happening in our community that people can't get to and they would like to speak I mean so my whole point about this is are you doing this for your benefit or are you doing it for the people who pay your salary and who you are elected to serve and that was the question I'm asking you're doing it for your benefit I want this yes it is for your benefit because we've had numerous people come and talk I can go through all the videos Sir and I'm not meaning to be disrespectful but the point is is that I have to remind you you are elected officials you are public servants servants to all the taxpayers who live in this town and the idea of having an inclusive government that is available for everyone not for your convenience but for the citizens of lacy Town who pay the taxes for this town to operate I ask you as the chair of the Lacy citizens for responsible government to reconsider the times of the meeting I don't think it's unfair for me to ask for that I think that it's fair and we can see what happens I mean do you want people to participate in this or do you not that's why we have it at this time there was the most people here at this time let me jump in so again we have to pick a time and we pick six o'clock that's what we agreed upon but in addition to that the town is available 24 hours a day anybody can email us at any time during the day so there's no lack of public participation if the public chooses to do so we get emails all the time and we all respond to any emails that are addressed to us individually and through Veronica um so there's there's no lack of anybody that wants to participate in the government I thought that from what I understood that was stated at a previous meeting that all the emails go to Veronica and then she sends them off to whoever is that correct we do that I do that for the sole purpose of there's you know it's a record it's a Township record so I don't want them to be deleting their email or not doing it so I capture it to make sure that it goes to a file and everything but their their emails are forwarded to them and they do either respond or they don't you know but further that's beside the point if you want to email the township you're available you you have the ability to do so 24 hours a day I understand that sir but you know what sometimes the only time we get any action is when we come to the stage and the deis if we email things to you we just saw somebody who was obviously emailing a couple at the last meeting that I attended uh with that Paradise Point area and it didn't become any he got the same response I said he would have got the he said that right you said you didn't know anything about it and we didn't now you we have got that in the email the email would have been said the same thing we'll look into it okay very good I'm just pointing this out right now that I'm just saying that if we're going to be an inclusive government that this is what we we should be doing okay and that's the point okay two I understand that the dasty law firm has had to recuse themselves concerning the Charles A Smith Grant lawsuit why did they have to recuse themselves not aware of that you're not aware of that okay a reminder question where did you get that information since you're bringing that out like saying something like that where did you get that information was it just on chatter no oh it must have been on Lacy online then no it wasn't it wasn't from probably one of those sites no it was not from anyone that was online okay I'm sure it was who no you're wrong but who who gave you that information you're not going to answer that you're are in charge of a committee that's designed for transparency that's correct but I am not I am not the person who's the name person on the lawsuit sir you understand my position no I don't okay all right I have a question for you you're you're in charge of this organization when do you meet and where do you meet so I'd like to attend okay you could when do you meet whenever we decide to meet most how do I get on the mailing list so I know when you're going to meet you are actually on our page but I haven't seen anything about meetings or well that's correct there hasn't been anything as of light do you plan on having a meeting in the near future we will and I'll let you know it'll be posted on there on the website so you'll be able to see I appreciate good enough absolutely a reminder a that as elected public officials you are held to a higher standard concerning following all laws and regulations in our town you are always expected to be accountable to the highest order so that you can set an example and a standard for us all members of this body constantly like to remind the public of how much they care about the town and all the time you put in let me remind you that many of us who are not elected officials put in a lot of time monitoring and doing research on what has been going on in our town we're not paid we only do this because we honestly care and love our Community dear head Lake Road sidewalk why isn't it shoveled when we have snow I get little for the taxes that I pay I walk four miles every day I would appreciate that that sidewalk is kept clear it has snow all over it and I shouldn't have to be walking all into the parking lot and everywhere else because the snow is not shoveled there and I want to know why the Public Works isn't taking care of that because somebody could fall on the ice and Sue the town and so this is an important issue and I don't know why it's happening but I'm expecting Our Town manager to make sure that it's taken care of and I thank you all again for your time good evening thank you any other comments from the floor this evening seeing none motion to close wait wait is a good one this is way too hot just don't touch it whatever you do I Thomas Jen IO leide Drive I just come to thank everyone for the reads Across America pegis Su as our former mayor um the committee also I have um Casey Parker in the public works Fork of ever Fire Department chief Kenny in the Police Department Jim from the recreation and a lacy School transportation and the residents also the many clubs organization that joined us we look forward to seeing everyone on December 13th of 25 yes first give numbers when I just tell them how many wreaths we put down this year 500 500 wath went down yeah it was just a beautiful thing again really was keeps the number just keeps going up we're so proud of the work you guys have done that's the sad part yes but it's amazing what you guys have done and we really appreciate it brings a bright star to our town you know when do they have to be removed on the 21st by the 21st by the 21st we planned on this weekend coming up but okay we'll see what happens the window open to order re for next year already Yes okay great great so we'd like to put it's not going to snow not gonna snow he's saying no snow please so thank you everybody thank you appreciate all the work you do so I have a question come the micophone come on up there you just have to give your name is all you got to do Don Lewis Donald Lewis live on D Road first of all thank you guys I've been in this town a very long time and I understand that there's there's issues and there are in every town but I'll tell you I've lived in a few places and this is a beautiful town and than thank you thank you um I do have a question though why don't we hang the stuff for Christmas anymore very good question okay so so it changed when we went to for Lanes but okay go ahead I'm sorry JCP now charges you $400 a poll each year to install them y so it's Christmas I know well I understand it's christmasin the Grinch that's it thank you we could always we could always ask jcpnl to give us a Christmas present I've tried that any other comments this evening seeing none motion to close the floor second all in favor I resolution 2025 65 resolution in Township of lacy County of ocean state of New Jersey authorizing the convening of an executive session in accordance with the open public meetings act discuss matters of personnel contractual matters and pending and anticipated litigation matters of real estate move it second all in favor I I to Move It I no further business