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 the Azer Park press and a beacon was posted on a bolton board showing the time and place of the meeting. Please rise to please the flag followed by a moment of silence. Pledge >> allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Oh god. >> Item one, storage pod extension request 227 Luwellyn Parkway.
>> This resident is um requesting an extension to their pod permit. Their permit expires at the end of the week. Um they're requesting to extend it until April 13th to allow the renovation to complete and then give themselves enough time to unload the items back into the property. Motion.
>> Move it. >> Second. >> Sorry. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Item two, storage pod extension 713 Buista Road. >> This resident's permit also expires this week. Um, and their renovations have been on hold due to the weather. Um, not
just the snow, but also the extreme cold. So, they're asking for an extension until June 1st. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. storage pod extension 720 Buista Road. >> Another one that has been delayed due to the weather. Um they also have had some
contractor changes um which put some delays in it. So their project is going to restart in March um and take about three months. So they're also asking for a June 1st removal date. >> Move it. >> Second. All >> in favor? >> I Okay. Uh moving to the township to adjurnn. >> Oh yeah. Motion to adjurnn.
>> Move it. Second. All >> in favor. >> Moving right to the township meeting. Anyway, um adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the old public meetings act pursuant to the public laws of 1975. Said notice advertising as park press and the beacon
and was posted on the bolton board showing the time and place of the meeting. Um item one, first reading ordinance 202602 amending and supplementing chapter 335 entitled zoning. an ordinance of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey amending and supplementing chapter 335
entitled zoning. Um all three first reading ordinances that we have tonight relate to the fair share housing settlement. Um so they're all various code book amendments to um be in line with the fourth round requirements. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Certo.
>> Yes. >> Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kenneth. >> Yes. First reading ordinance 20263 amending its entirety chapter 127 entitled affordable housing program. >> An ordinance to the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey amending in its entirety chapter 127 of
the township code entitled affordable housing program. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Curutoo. >> Yes. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kennes. >> Yes. First reading ordinance 2020 604 amending chapter 211 entitled land development fees, escro deposits, and
inspection fees. An ordinance of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey amending chapter 211 entitled land development fees, escro deposits, and inspection fees. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mrs. Juliano, >> yes. >> Mr. Laay, >> yes. >> Mr. McDonald, >> yes. >> Mr. Cutollo, >> yes. >> Mayor Penn.
>> Yes. Resolution 202681 authorizing an interlocal services agreement um with the county with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, the fatal accident. Resolution of the township of Lacy, County of Ocean, state of New Jersey, authorizing the execution of an interlocal service agreement with the
county of Ocean for the prosecutor's program for the fatal accident support team. >> Move it. >> Move it. >> Mrs. Juliano, >> yes. >> Mr. Kto, >> yes. >> Mr. McDonald, >> yes. >> Mr. Laray, >> yes. >> Mayor C. >> Yes. Resolution 202682 authorizing an interlocal services agreement with the
county prosecutor's office for the regional SWAT team. Resolution of the Township of Lacy, County of Ocean, state of New Jersey, authorizing the execution of an interlocal service agreement with the county of Ocean for the prosecutor's program regional SWAT team. >> Move it. >> Second, >> Mrs. Juliano, >> yes. >> Mr. Laray,
>> yes. >> Mr. McDonald, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mayor K. >> Yes. Resolution 202683 authorizing an interlocal services agreement with the burrow of Tucker. Resolution of the towns of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey authorizing the execution of a uniform shared services act agreement
in accordance with NJSA4A65-1 with the bureau of Tucker for tax collector services. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mrs. Juliano, >> yes. >> Mr. McDonald, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Laray, >> yes. >> Mr. Pertolo, >> yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. Resolution 202684, accepting the
retirement of an employee. Resolution of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey accepting the retirement of a municipal employee. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Laay. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kutoo. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kenneth. >> Yes. Resolution 202685 authorizing
extension to a leave of absence. >> Resolution of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State, New Jersey authorizing an extension to the leave of absence for Deborah Simpson. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cutoo. >> Yes. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. Yes. >> Mayor Kenneth.
>> Yes. Resolution 202686 authorizing an extension um to a leave of absence. >> Resolution at the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey authorizing an extension to the leave of absence for John Kelly. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. >> Yes. >> Mr. Klo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Leo.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Kennis. >> Yes. Resolution 202687 authorizing a leave of absence. >> Resolution of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State of New Jersey authorizing a leave of absence for Taylor Riley. Movement. Second, >> Mr. Laay. >> Yes. >> Mr. McDonald,
>> yes. Mr. >> Certo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Juliano, >> yes. And congratulations to him. >> Mayor Kennes, >> yes. Resolution 202688, 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. McDonald. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. >> Yes. >> Mr. Klo. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kenn. >> Yes. Resolution 22689 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. >> Move it. >> Second. >> Uh Mrs. Juliano. >> Yes. >> Mr. McDonald. >> Yes. And I'll abstain on T0035. >> Mr. Terutoo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kenn.
>> Yes. Monthly reports >> for the municipal court office for the month of January. Collect receipts in the amount of $15,859.66. 66. For the month of January, the municipal clerk's office collected receipts in the amount of $35,394.73. For the month of December, the municipal
court office collected receipts in the amount of $12,547.73. Recycling uh commodities collected for the month of January, 2026 in the amount of $24. Uh it road opening permits in the amount of $2,835 and truck parking in the amount of $50.
Community Development for the month of December collected receipts in the amount of $112,181. For the month of January, they collected receipts in the amount of $72,519 72,519. For the tax uh sale report from 2026, um
we held our tax sale January 13th of 2026. 302 various accounts went for tax sale which were in a variation of tax, water, sewer, and maintenance cleanup leans. Of the 302 delinquencies, 39 leans were retained by the township. Of the total of the $1,556,621
cents collected uh were distributed as follows. Taxes $196,88452. Preparation costs $20,152.92. Water leans $82,618.30. Sewer leans $77,950.97.
Maintenance leans $255.50. Premiums paid against those leads 1,178,200 for a total of the1,556,621. We also realized $45,55820 in costs prior to the sale on January
13th. Motion to accept the reports is ready. >> Second. >> All in favor? All in favor? >> Motion to approve caucus meeting minutes of January 22nd, 2026. >> Move it. >> Second. All >> in favor? I. >> Motion to approve township meeting minutes of January 22nd, 2026. >> Move it.
>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion to approve executive session meeting minutes of January 22nd, 2026. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Comments from the public. >> Forgot my time. >> I have it on my phone. >> I got it on my comments.
>> We don't have a whole lot going on. >> I do have a question about number seven. Is it a secret he's retiring or >> um our municipal court administrator has put in her retirement after 40 years. She'll be going on June 1st. Yes.
>> There's only three of us that have that record right now and I'll be the last one standing come June 1st. >> That's what I was thinking when you said 40 years. Wow. Um so, um I do go to the MUA meetings and I know there's a liaison, but I'm not sure who you
>> I am. um haven't seen anyone regularly attending the LMU way meeting. So ar don't you call someone else to go if you're not able to come or >> Well, yeah, but they there was reasons I wasn't there. So that's I'm talking about all the last year. >> There's two there is two liazison
department. >> There is two. >> There's a a liaison and a co. >> Okay. Well, there's no no one's been coming for like a long time. Well, I talked to Jim, you know, I was there a couple times last year, but I I mean, >> and I was absent a couple of times, but
>> So, it happens. Yeah. >> But I thought someone else has to attend. >> No, no, we don't have to attend at all. Okay. Okay. >> It's the same thing like with the school school board and other things. We are constantly in touch. >> Miss
I miss some. But when there's >> business that's got to be discussed between the two entities, >> we call special meetings or they'll they'll set something up and we meet to them. I mean, we're constantly all of us are in constant in touch with them, but >> um yeah, it doesn't mean because we're
lison that we'll be at every meeting. >> That's true. Anything else from the public? >> Seeing none, make a motion to close the floor. >> Second. >> Second in favor. >> I'm sorry. Hi. >> Hi. >> Uh, comments from the committee. Deputy Mayor Lay.
>> I'm going to keep them short tonight. >> No way. >> No way. >> No way. >> Yes, I am. >> What's that? >> Uh, no. First thing I want to mention is um me and uh the mayor had the honor uh Monday night, Tuesday night to attend
the >> the uh Ocean County uh fire academyy's graduation and uh all the uh municipalities around Ocean County were represented and it was nice to see that uh here in Lacy we had four graduates uh
graduate this year. Three for Fork River and one for Lin Harbor. I want to congratulate them all. It was a nice affair. And that's all I have to say tonight. >> Thank you, Bob. Committee woman. Juliana, >> you thank me because I was short. >> Check and see if he has a temperature.
>> I can see if he has a temperature. >> Thank you, mayor. I'm just all I want to say is we went to um the Lacy Loka Harbor EMS dinner the other night and uh what a nice little showing they had and uh they're just group of wonderful
people. they have such a young group of people that are coming up in the ranks there. So, it was nice to see what a young group of people were working hard to, you know, become. But other than that, mayor, I'm good. Thank you, >> Peggy. >> Curello.
>> Yes. Thank you. Um, so I just wanted to uh mention in line with what committeeman uh Laray had said, uh, last Friday 19 EMTs graduated. the Ocean County Vocational Technical School saw a need uh because it's so difficult to get
uh fire volunteers, EMTs, and the like. Uh so they started to actually have a class and that yielded their first graduating class. Uh I don't know where the young men and women went to with municipalities, but they were Ocean County folks and they graduated 19 on
last Friday. So I congratulate our our county colleagues for recognizing that need and filling that void. Um, people often see me up here talking about affordability. U, unfortunately, we're still ranked 50th. When I say us, I mean
New Jersey. The average tax bill now is $10,570. Um, it's a dubious distinction, and it causes for the eighth year in a row, the largest exodus per capita out of any state, we are ranked number one. And
when you have the West Coast with Gavin Newsome and you have New York State, we still have them beat. So when we spend money up here, I look at it very, very seriously. I look at our seniors. I look at our fixed income people. When taxes go up, I take it
very, very ser. I take an especially hard look at it. And um it's something that I know that we're going to continue to need to do in the future because prices don't go down. I said last year the most important thing is our property value. If property
taxes go up too high that's going to have a direct correlation because then people won't be able and and they will leave and then that'll increase inventory and it starts a cascade effect and I'm sure Mr. Kenneth would agree with that as one of our resident land use professionals up here. So it's very
important the expenditure money. Uh lastly on a good note I've been talking with my colleagues around the county. you know, I'm with county uh health and we are starting a program. My colleagues at senior services are age well ocean county. So in May uh we'll be here and
thanks to Amy um we're going to be at uh one of the regional uh openings uh for when I say opening one of the regional events for Agewell Ocean County is going to take place at our community hall. Uh so there's going to be no shortage of
nurses there, our directors are myself. I'll have a speaking uh engagement over there with the permission of Mayor Kennes who essentially has said hey if it's health you you talk on it. So I said great. Um so we will have commissioners there as a commissioner
supported endeavor and anytime I could bring uh to bear resources here in our town for our people for our zip codes I'm damn well going to do it. Uh so we put a lot of work into that working with the county people and uh we'll have more on it as May approaches. That'll do it.
Mayor, thank you for the time. >> Thank you, Pete. Committeeman McDonald. >> Thank you, Mayor. Couple of things here. Um, I want to give a shout out to DPW with what they did during the last storm. Um, I was talking to Casey Parker about it.
He can't remember a storm like that where it was just snow and then all of a sudden instantly turned to ice. Um, and what a great job they did. You know, I I know myself had a hard time getting my driveway cleared and I went back to a my
physics teacher in high school. He told me about leverage. So, I ended up getting a hot water and dumping it on top of it to clear it out so I get to the bottom and start popping the ice up. So, but they did a great job. And we recently had the first uh budget meeting
and we had Forky River Fire was here and they went over their their budget request. But the most important thing was they had 11 new volunteers that came in and that's that's that's huge. That's huge. So, we're starting to see some more people volunteering like
committeeman Jul Committee woman, excuse me, committee woman Juliano said about Lenoka Harbor. If there was somebody over there 30 besides us old folks, uh I would I would be amazed. They were they were young and they were they were full
of full of energy. So, and they're doing a good job over there. They got some good leadership over there. Um, but I just want to thank DPW for the job that they did. And tell people tonight, look, yeah, we got a great day today and it's all melted and it's all water and it's
all nice and guess what? It's going to freeze tonight. So, just be careful at night until this whole thing clears out of here. All right, Mayor. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Tim. >> Thank you. So, I'm going to touch on some of the same stuff that everybody mentioned, but since our last meeting, I
do want to thank the DPW for um all the hard work they did during for the, you know, during that snowstorm. That was a difficult snowstorm. Um I was joking that we always get those bad snow storms either at like middle of the night or on weekends where it cost us twice as much, but um they did a lot of hard work and
uh we just want to thank them for all that. Um during that snowstorm, I did have contact with Governor Cheryl's office. Um so they um like the communication between all levels of government is is always there regardless of who's in party. So I did appreciate that contact.
Uh Peter and I um had a meeting with uh Flat Iron Energy which is um if there's three entities in the power plant property and it's there's a gas plant back there and they're possibly maybe looking to put a battery storage system
in. So that me and Pete met with them. Pete and I also met with JCPNL since the last meeting and JCPNL is doing a number of upgrades that are considered high priority for Lacy Township. They'll be doing upgrades for the sub with the substation um and their
section of the the power plant property that they own. And they will be doing um uh rerunning new poles. I don't know if all all new poles, but they said new poles and heavy duty wire um uh down uh from Lacy Road uh Route 9 south to Lacy
Road and then Lacy Road to the Parkway. That should be occurring over the next eight or nine months when the weather breaks. Um whoever said it, we did all go to the Lenoka EMS installation dinner. Um they had a record 1,600 calls this year. Um Bob and I did attend the Yosha County
Fire Academy graduation. We had four new volunteers graduated. Uh Lacy Township did. So it's always good to see that we're still getting volunteers. Tim mentioned the budget. Budget's always um my most depressing meeting during the year because uh the the the uh the list
of needs is is long and um we try to do our best with the resources that we have. And as a segue, we are from the county. We received a letter that we are no longer going to be receiving the recycling income. Um that number I guess
jumps back and forth. Some years we get it, some years we don't. It's not a whole lot of money, but it's I guess the difficulties in finding places to put recycling now is getting harder and harder. I guess we can't ship it to other countries, I suppose, is the problem there. So, those are my comments. And
what's next? >> I have uh resolution 2026-90, resolution of the township of Lacy County of Ocean State, New Jersey, authorizing the convening of an executive session in accordance with the open public meetings act. >> Move it. Second. Um, Mr. McDonald, >> yes. >> Mr. Lay,
>> yes. >> Mrs. Fto, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mayor C. >> Yes. >> Motion to adjourn. Move it. Second. All in favor? I I >> No further. No further business.