now four evening everyone uh we've already begun the meeting uh we in close session now we're back in uh open public session and I will begin this evening as we do every meeting with Rising for the Pledge of Allegiance and I would ask everybody to remain standing for a moment silence and
honor of our troops [Music] thank you please be seated uh we'll have our first public participation constitu concerns uh session uh we would ask you if you have mobility issues to step to the podium
state your name and address you have 3 minutes of uninterrupted time to make your comments Council may or may not respond and uh viny will'll give you a 30 second wi hi there I'm Jim Brant I live at 13th Coral Street right next to tles the White House the marriot's old
house um I'm here to talk about what's happening or will be happening shortly on Coral Street a development uh I don't know if you're aware of it I know the mayor's talked to the developer Andy
about it about a 40 room Hotel um a banquet hall um three stories uh we we saw the sketch uh obviously they'll come to you and go through the process uh it be
three stories right next to our home from the beginning of our house from the curve to the backyard and past that um just want you to consider in the next couple of months maybe years to think about it's also residential area as well
as a business district uh we're homeowners there there's also proposed uh a a parking garage an Uber station um as you know he owns most of
that that street um the theater the lighting house the boat house counting Grill where the store lamber and hope is the parking lot and the Finkles where they had the party uh last weekend so um
just want you to know that as as a resident I want you to consider the residents as well and not just the tax base and and getting tax income from that um that's all thank
youim uh so yeah you're right I did meet brief with uh Andy and uh did take a look at the they didn't have any plans they were really just sort of elevations and sketches more than anything so the sketches what we saw yeah that that's what I saw as well and and he offered
that to me as courtesy uh and so I I was appreciative of that certainly uh you know it's my understanding that they're probably going to move right to the planning board I I don't know we'll see uh I can't speak I we haven't seen any plans yet so it's going to be really hard for for for us to kind of but it's
a residential area and it locks Us in with No Light No Air and there always the intrinsic value of your home and the extrinsic value of your home and we're concerned about both mostly our intrinsic Light sun air um all our
windows are on that side of the house and we have a porch on the side of the house and so facing three stores of wall I don't think anyone would like to live up against that thanks well as I've said to uh people in the
neighborhood if you want me to keep you updated uh as things come to me I'll certainly be happy to do that so uh anybody wants to drop me an email I'll start a list and we will uh we will update you as as information comes to us I I would like to say that I think
it's really important that um we we continue to share information on this because it is um quite a large and expand Ive project as we all only know by heay and we have to look at that
versus you know the the permitted uses that are in the ordinance and and I think what you know some of the determinations that are made just in terms of whether or not it's a conforming use or not will be um instructive down the line particularly
when you're talking about things like a ballroom in the size of the hotel where I don't see a ballroom in the exist ordinance so um there's a lot of other things to be considered I you know I
well full disclosure I live a street away um but just it's just the downtown there's traffic and I think what everyone is concerned with or that I know that I will say you know I'm concerned with is that we protect our
neighbors and you know we we are good stewards of the community because um you know I'm all four people coming to lamberville chopping here living here you know we we love it you know you love to see in the magazine that people you know lamberville number one place to
visit number one place to shop but I but there is a a balance of someone's like I'll call it like Boutique experience infringing upon our community experience and our community life and that's a line and that's a balance that I think that I
you know feel you go wedding C in you got it but sympatico in that but I just want to you know underline that and but I I really am concerned because there's a lot of Shifting sance there
about you know Ballroom as opposed to something else and yeah that's a lot you know it's a lot to focus on these folks coming down a little Corel Street we could barely you can't even get by going you know you can only really go one way
you know cars waiting another way over the rickety bridge and like you know again our experience versus the we experience there's a line um i' just like to support what councilwoman said uh I think it's I I
always come back to why I ran for city council and it is really to try to retain as much of the character and feel and sense of community that Drew us all
here um and that's really important and I and I I'm I would be concerned about an overwhelming presence in such a small space big for them but you know small in the sense of people live there
and you know people know their neighbors and the trauma of losing Finkles is bad enough but to have it kind of with the traffic and honestly if I lived on Lambert Lane I'd probably be concerned too so anyway
I just wanted to support uh Council woman yeah U I agree with the councilwoman of Lambert and Kaminsky is that you know people love the city they love they love it here and then when they move here they want to
change it so I think we've all experienced some of some of that you know in in my almost 22 years sitting behind a microphone um they have to examine the
zoning they have they have they will have full access to the zoning I mean as any developer would coming in doing something there'll be several public hearings not only here but would should it proceed to the planning board everyone is welcome to come to a public
hearing there I would be surprised if they could do what they want to do without variances and you know a bunch of other other steps they would have to take before they you know the plan would be finalized I think that when it starts
that every that as a mayor it's kind enough to get everybody who wants to be on the contact l uh so uh the meetings not only here but with the with the planning board our public meetings so people could come in
and and talk about a project that hope will hopefully uh support the city from not only an economic level but also a personal level when You' buil something this big in a
spot that no one has experienced before so this is pretty much you know land that has had uh a completely different use uh and the the changes to that area
will be Monumental no matter what happens because it's all not going to be what it looks like or what it what it uh functions at now or through the fle ownership so there's a lot of step speak me this and
I share the concerns it's got to be a balance um I often say I encourage economic development but it's got to be balanced with the residential needs of the city and that's kind of been my
guiding guiding Mission when anything like this comes forward so it it um you know we we'll just have to be patient and work through this the process uh and just a followup or just
something I forgot to say uh when I did meet with Mr chosy I did emphasize the importance of uh talking to the neighbors uh always important to bring them in uh regardless of what you're doing and where you're doing it we should always be uh talking to the neighbors first step I know that he talked to a few of the neighbors and I
encouraged him to talk to more of the neighbors and uh you know I'm happy to act as an intermediary uh if need be uh because I think that that's relationships this is going to you know this is going to evolve and it's important that everybody is being Mindful and sensitive to the fact that
uh as everybody on the day except for C who I'm sure shares my view or our view um that uh you know we need to be mindful of of everything around us as things as things change right so uh to to the extent that
I can act as an intermediary I will absolutely do that for the residents and we also have another step that's got to be taken this has to be approved by the canal commission and I
say good luck something that's it's going to be along most of the canal and then we can all get ready for when the Black River and Western Rail I TOA not that long ago All Aboard
All Aboard they have no plans yes uh hi everyone my name is Matt Lo neighbor here at Canal Street sitting right behind Finkles um thank you so much for bringing up this topic and your support um I share the concern of the
council and everyone here a couple of days ago I do know that there were surveyors in our driveway that put a survey stake about 5 foot uh off of my front door
um so I Echo uh what the mayor is saying that I do think the developer needs to be a little bit more forthcoming with the residents that live adjacent to the property and what their plans are and
especially if they are encroaching on um property that is in use um from you know our our house and our town houses and parking and all of that um so I know there's a process in place I'm
sure that will be followed but I I do know that there have been several conversations and proposals that have um come up in meetings um and I wish the developer would bring in um the the
neighbors that are surrounding and the property that are surrounding um especially the very very close um neighbors of this property um I know that that property also used to be
massie's fullard um which is concerning um before they developed uh Finkles on that property so I'm sure there will need to be some environmental remediation work um and what that looks like um is something that you know we
want to make sure that we we're kept as that je TI 33 Wilson Street I think this is probably one of the most critical days this Council and this community has faced as long as I've been here maybe probably longer because the future of
our community is at stake between um the filings in court today and Builders remed lawsuit coming from hannanian to try to open up our town for more development that's one threat that we're facing and I hope this Council puts up
the resources are necessary and prosecutes this to the fullest I've been through a Builders remedy law suit and it's not a pretty site it takes a lot of time and a lot of work I did meet my wife and what during that period though and the town's at stake because if they win it's going to start off a whole
Cascade the same time now you have a large commercial Development coming in to a small area where you had a a nice neighborhood store and a yard selling things and I know one time there was a movie theater but happens there will also affect the town forever um 50 years
ago this week I was sworn into the planning board in Hillside they had to wait till my 18th birthday and the wice chairman of the board said to me kid you screw up it's going to take us 40 years to fix it and we may not be able to do it so be careful and I think that's what I think now especially here with the
binkle site because it really has to be an open and transparent process I think the public needs to see what's happening not just the neighbors but everyone because the traffic from a site like that will affect all of us um and so to me uh I I tend to think
we've got to get on top of this and bring people in to see what the impacts are there's going to be a lot of environmental impacts you got environmental cleanup you've got a you got a drinking water source for a million and a half people running right past the bik at the canal got you know State Park uh you know so we've got
everything that this town is about while we're here the rivers close by and I also noticed you're talking about the HPC tonight about making you know about changes to to it so one of the things I would suggest is the Redevelopment section of that plan should be Rewritten so that when come people come in to
redevelop they have to meet our not only architectural and historic guidelines where we're not going to be putting in massive buildings next to small homes we're not you know many towns that have historic districts and parking decks within those historic districts if you have it if they have them in a downtown
commercial they make them pit in with you know with the first floor having a shop and then the other has to fit in look like a factory building or something else but this is a critical time because our ordinances need to be updated and I think the uh the historic part of this because this is a historic
area has to be looked at we and we may get other Redevelopment projects coming into the community um this may be this is the first of potentially many the other thing too is how we handle parking you know and also How We Do deliveries you know some of the areas
they require fitting alleys and other things like that so you're not bloing the streets with trucks because we do have some ability to work the site because it's fairly large so you have to think about the big picture as well as the small picture but also and more importantly
the town that we love the future is up to us and it's right now and we may not have the town that we all here moved to be in and we may be we may turn into another Hampton we may turn into another aspman and and basically our systems will be overwhelmed with uh with traffic
and sewage and storm water and so it's up to I hope you do your job hi Beth O'Brien to Hancock Street I'm going to piggy back on what Jeff just mentioned today is March 6 and I know that today was our deadline to submit to the
court um since kadian redeveloper of the hill is bringing us to court to interv and I'm wondering what did we present to the court today and what's our plan uh our excellent attorneys
presented a brief to the court this afternoon uh I didn't read the final brief but we all read the draft uh I felt very confident that uh that in the draft it was very strongly uh the city was very strongly protected opposition was uh very uh forcefully I thought uh
argued and so uh we'll see that we'll see the council will have access to the to the brief that was submitted uh that'll be sent to us tomorrow morning the date is March 14th is that the for the return date for the motion so that's a motion day so it doesn't necessarily
mean it's going to be decided that day the Court decides probably the Wednesday or Thursday before um and you know there could be supplemental briefings so uh you know on paper now it's show on the 14th but as someone who follow a lot of
motions we find out the Thursday before what's going forward and what's getting carried so when we know something I can make you know too thank you very much if anyone wants to read it too you can go on eort public access and you can type in the doc number and you can read all the all the documents and if anybody
wants them they're happy to email me and I'm happy to provide them so thank you hi I'm Mara Tucker um 19 Douglas Street so there banian is now suing us I take it has the New Jersey D ever
assessed the hill for all the clastic materials that are on there I have a reason for asking has anyone ever had a remediation of that Hill I'm sorry what was the question Mar the question is has it njde ever been up
on that hill to assess all of the chemicals that are out there not that I'm aware of well this needs to happen because we have water tested for pepas we had it tested by cyclop pure and we have um
[Music] 166.370 care of because any kind of disruption to the to the containers holding this stuff lber bill is going to be on the hook for it just to say that is the way it works unless we know what's going on we're going to be
financially responsible I want to thank you all for trying to you know keep this reasonable Have you shared those results with us I do i' be glad to give it to it to the department because you know that's a whole new this the whole new
part of town with testing that that high now the DP has came in and said that they were going to do a posos examination so that would be great to have an update we haven't had one but but just to also say one of the substances is in the P family and it's
not regularly tested could we not talk uh please so that we can hear what the speaker is saying and it causes fatty liver problems so I've lived it for 32 years and we're going to install a filter we love our water even with all the problems but it's it's a real issue
and and the other thing is you wouldn't think we would have a problem we're way away from it and the only other source might be a pck of f no that's not it Mar if you could um email if you're able to email us a copy of so just a couple of
things here uh as as we do get results from residents we are uh sending them both to the county and to the the state so that we have a database of Who's got what and so I do have an update so if you uh if you're all set I'll just kind of tell everybody what uh I had a
conversation with Greg brosowski today he's the DP uh Bureau in the bureau ofite management so uh the the D did sampling in December um and uh as of uh just recently 14 Wells came back with
exceedances um and the D mailed letters to all of those uh Property Owners yesterday so those letters will be kind of hitting their boxes uh you know the next day or two um kind of next steps about uh you know
applying for the spill fund and that kind of thing um you did also just talk a little bit about um uh so they the the D does plan on doing some additional testing but they don't have the new sampling dates yet um and who are they they have committed to
doing a a source investigation but again uh you know they need to do more testing to get the recept what's called their receptor evaluations um and once they've done more sampling uh that will the receptor evaluation fad to the source investigation so uh the D is aware of it
we are saying them things as they come in and having conversations and you know you could not could not be more specific about the dates I'll continue to check in with them and hopefully uh get dates uh soon is he sampling the wealth that
like we reported or they sampling there if you submit your your data because there's been a number of people in Lambertville and West amall that submitted their own their own test right but now are those is D going back and
testing them or yes they're retesting them they're retesting it's unfortunate please if you could uh they're testing new wells is what is what these are 14 in addition to the 2 that we already know that's
correct they aren't retesting the wells that already did the sampling they're testing everybody else well all right you I'm gonna ask you guys to not speak we're just I'm trying to go through the information here so
the 14 property owners that have exceedances uh from the December testing uh will get letters that's uh let's just leave it at that because I don't want him to speak so uh we are having conversations with the DP and uh that's the latest St of today thank you
n uh Judy gleon 86 North Union Street I'm not going to speak to any of the specifics that have come up so far tonight although I agree with the speakers that have already gone forward but I am going to say Lambertville matters is a communication that nearly
everyone sees and either reads all of it or reads some of it many people I know including me don't do a lot of Social Media stuff but the way to get information in this town that's pretty surely going to reach a lot of people is
Lambertville matters so coming here tonight to hear about whatever there is to hear about in terms of the formerly thinkl property I'm not saying details I'm not saying take a position I'm not saying give a lot of details we don't have
I'm saying there's there's information out there the elevations I mean I know what elevations are they're not the blueprints but they're important their information we would benefit as a community to know what can be known even
if it's not a lot because the rumors will be the rumors the other point that's been brought up tonight about the papers that were filed today well sure that was mentioned a while ago but some information we talk about open and transparent and everything else lamber
fil managers comes out every week we should have some information doesn't have to be the position of the mayor doesn't have to be the position of the council but this is sort of information and so I'm just asking please use the
tools that you have to tell people what you can tell them doesn't have to be huge but it can be something more than we're getting and then you would have much more more likely understanding by residents in the community because they
would have some clue I mean I come to these meetings all the time and I don't know half this stuff because I'm not on social media so so think of the people who never come I mean if we want people to know and be learning and be on the
side of what you all are trying to do move the ball on bring us in in the one tour you have for sure because it goes out every week and people mostly at it thank you thanks um couple thoughts about that so I hope people aren't getting their information from social media they should be getting their
information from the public record if they're curious about what's happening in the city so that's uh public record is available meeting minutes uh videos all of that so you can shake your head all you want but I I do not encourage people to get their news from social
media um so no no that's not what she was saying well all right so whatever however you think you're getting you know information what's happening in the city the second thing I would say is that uh you know when I write the lamberville matters poem every week I do my best to sort of hit some of the
things that are happening I can't hit everything and uh it takes it actually takes a surprising amount of time to write that and I I also have a a philosophy that I try not to um I I try not to express my opinion I occasionally
sometimes it comes out because that's it's my right but I try to be very moderate in terms of what I'm uh expressing uh in lamberville matters and I would say that in respect to a a situation uh like thinkal I'm glad to see everybody here tonight I'm happy to
talk about this we're all we're all always here uh during public meetings to address these concerns but I'm not going to write about Finkles uh my sort of my brief conversation with a look at some plans that don't that may or may not
change I think that that could be uh improper and dangerous I don't want to I only want to put out what I know is true and in the in in terms of pingles I I only had a short meeting I looked at some pictures I looked at and I have no idea kind of what's going to happen with
that site so I I try to be very careful about what I write and I can't always write I'm not always going to write about sensitive legal matters uh in Lambertville matters uh for example uh so you know there was a uh a few weeks ago when I wanted to write about something even just about the brief and
I felt like it was important to go through both councilman lied and the City attorney to make sure the language was appropriate so you know I do my best to get news out on regular basis people can call me if they have a question uh and we have these public meetings so that's uh that's all I'm going to say
about that thank you in In fairness mayor In fairness I come to these things I don't read all the minutes all the time I don't do social media I didn't say people should use social media that was a misunderstanding by you and in
fairness I thought Lambertville matters was supposed to let people know what was going on in a general way I didn't know it was for you to so I didn't realize that I thought it was a news thing for the town please step
away okay let me step away have you used your three minutes three minutes I must have used more than my 3 minutes because I was instructed to step away thank you I didn't think I saw any of the warning however no I I stopped it because she
was finished and you think I think the point that Judy's trying to make and I think it's a good point which is why I'm going to say it is people rely too much on social media for their information and that's a problem and I think everyone would agree on that and I think what Judy was trying to say was using lamoral matters even if you put the link
to the video that way people instead of reading something on Facebook they can get the information themselves because it's right there so I am in support of that um I think that you know it's tough for people to come to every meeting we've got Zoom obviously but you know people have lives and they're busy and
all this does is it just shows them a reminder hey this is what's going on I don't think it needs to be a column by the mayor where he's saying what's going on because I think sometimes that can be an issue you can't talk about some of those things but could we include the links to the the meetings think we already do okay we've included the links
to meetings for more than a year so every meeting every public meeting we have those are link to it uh in lamberville matters so uh I'm just looking at the one from today there's no link in there looking for I just think here we're
we're sinking into I'd like to do one thing you know a lot of what people come to say here is from their hearts and it's positive communication and they're only trying to help so in that spirit I would like the information to received
like that and just like your suggestion Evan just let's take the information check what we're doing and see if we can make what we're the product that we're putting out better but let's not check everybody and disagree with them all the
time I just want more positive you know for me I want more positive like thanks for coming thanks for what you have to say I'm going to try to make my product better every time I he from John Ellis 21
beler um I want to just start by uh saying that in the in whatever happens with the chanian lawsuit I think that we should not consider settling I think we need to take it to the end and we need
to fight it as hard as we possibly can and um I'm interested in seeing that that filing uh because I think think you know we really do need to have a strong case and a strong rebuttal and a really solid plan to be able to fight it so um
I do appreciate everything that everybody has been doing to toward that goal um and so you know thank you for that um the other thing
is I I've been in touch with Greg brazowski as well um from the D and we tried to get them to sample other homes in December that had not been tested already and um because we had already
done a whole bunch of fundraising and raised $7,000 to get people Wells tested and they came in and they just retested a lot of those homes and I you know even though they knew that they were already tested and had positive results um we
don't even know the extent of the contamination this point I've been keeping a database uh with a West D well resident we've been working on this and you know there are Wells on Old New York Road and across 179 and those are all positive we don't
even have a perimeter yet for how far this goes so um I would like if if you all could maybe reach out to them and organize another public uh meeting so that they can
update us it's that was in December this is now we're in you know mid-march um we haven't heard anything you know and so an update would be great I installed my my filtration system in
October early October I still have not been reimbursed by The Spill fund I'm out over $5,000 um you know and I was the first one to do it so this is this is a big problem
um people still do not have drinkable water up there they a lot of them are city employees um who were trucks down to the our water is worth it award ceremony for V promo photos meanwhile they can't even
drink their own water like embarrassing and not embarrassing it's cruel cruel to do that to those people who are working for all of us at the lowest
possible wages that somebody's decided to pay them um it's I don't even have words seriously thank you I I will write and ask request another meeting to the D and I'll follow
up at the next the March 20th meeting is there anyone else in the room just say something about Sean you were talking about settling you know just so everyone knows there's a long process for this and I think you know I'm an attorney I have a lot of trust in the
judicial system we have great judges in Hunton County judges that know the issues here um so there are safeguards built in and ultimately if the trial judge in hunterton doesn't rule our way there's an Appel Division and after that there's a supreme court so we have lots
of options and um I know personally I don't want any developers to come in here and tell us what we're going to do you know that isn't for the town so we will fight for that anyone else in the [Music]
room oh I'm sorry go ahead I sat here and I watched the mayor of this city tell a resident to shut up and I think that was misspoken on your part to say step away from the
microphone you're done talking about it I I agree with Karen's point I know it's frustrating up here from time to time there's a lot on everybody's plate as I'm sure there is on your plates as well and I respect
that but to communicate at a meeting and ask someone to get away from the microphone is a is to my core it doesn't sound right so I I would hope that there is more communication in a POS positive
way going forward mayor that's I understand everyone's frustration believe me I understand everybody but shutting down someone at that Podium because you don't like what they're saying is not necessarily the
best way to run a railroad thank you is there anyone online there is um Cindy Yan Cindy go ahead and and state your name and then ask your question question or make your comment hi Cindy can you
hear me yes 89 North Union Street yeah I just want to say um given everything that's going on uh in our country right now and the whole uh discourse that nobody can come
together I I kind of I'm I'm kind of um embarrassed about what's going on with at these meeting we all should be coming together and working together we all want what's best for Lambertville to a person I have
no um no reason to think otherwise I know everybody here is trying to do what's best for lamill so if we need to tone down the um tone down I don't know the
fervor tone down whatever tone down our voices even please um it's about communication and whether it's you know through lamberville matters or you get the U links to the meetings or
whatever um I think we're all trying to communicate with each other and that's really what's important and you know I'm just kind of um really disappointed in what I've just witnessed for the last I don't know 15 or so minutes thank you
people okay I have a motion to close the public commentary please move all in favor please say I I uh we're move on to discussion items uh first uh on the list is Sparkle
week and um cind Lind I'm can I turn this over to you a little bit sure um we we actually worked with public works this year um and and there really won't be a lot of changes to spark a week um but the environmental commission is
working with parks and wreck and they're holding a fair on Saturday April 12th and as part of that fair they're going to have an electronics recycling and this is at the old LPs which is South Hunton Regional School District so you
could take any recycling you had for electronics then then starting on Monday April 28th through Friday May 2nd Sparkle will be in zone three and four which is in the flat part of the city um zone three is Thursday zone four
is Friday pickup um and then Wednesday May 7th people in Zone 3 and four would obtain permits for anything that they didn't get rid of or they you know they any big items that they want to throw away um and then let's see then Thursday
May um 8th and Friday May 9th Public Works will pick up whoever got permit then the following week which would be Monday May 5th through Friday May 9th will be in zones one and two Zone one is Tuesday zone two is a Wednesday pickup
Monday May 12th people in zones one and two will get permits for big items to throw away and then on Tuesday May 13th and May 14th their spark ball items would be picked up you're still paying for big items but anything that's a small item you know that that they'll
pick up it's ideally the same as last year we just swapped the weeks for the zones because Thursday um Saturday May 17th is pride parade in the downtown and we wanted to make sure everything was off the street for then and then um you
know we have Memorial Day that follows on May 26 so it just gives the Department of Public Works time to pick up those items and get them off the street before the holidays is that online yet this not yet it will be
that's something dare I say is for Lal matters every week that's a matrix have to put on my refrigerator the electronics recycling is really um you know
exciting so much stuff that like used to go and now you know it's like yeah I got sort my debris it's all my basement me too go but that would be awesome I have
a box in my garage we'll make sure it's in Lam matters and it's on the website we just didn't want to do it until after the night's council meeting and it was discussed thank you thank you are there any other questions or it's like a sparkle week is now fun again too so thank your work that
yeah um okay just a few things about affordable housing tonight um our next affordable housing advisor committee meeting is Monday at what is it 8:30 8:30 8:30 uh here in this room if you're interested uh public is welcome meetings are recorded um this coming meeting
we'll be talking about uh the timeline all of the deliverables and and uh the deadlines uh before the end of June so uh Cindy thank you very much and uh Cindy and I worked with uh Elaine and Crystal to make sure that all of the
deadlines everything's lined up just so um so uh that should be a good meeting I've met uh you know we've been talking about properties in the city we've had a map uh that's been available to see it's the map is actually in City Hall the conference room if you want to stop in you take a look at the map we've got
about 40 properties on the map that we've been discussing publicly um as potential mechanisms for fourth and third third and fourth round um compliance mechanisms so we're having these public uh these discussions very publicly and uh I've met with um
at least half a dozen maybe 10 Property Owners since the last meeting and having conversations about um you know potential sites and what a particular site might uh what might be the appropriate mechanism what the level of interest is and property uh Property
Owners to partner with the city um to to accomplish our goals so um I said everyone's invited the council's invited as well um so I hope to see some of you here on uh on this coming Monday two other notes uh in particular about
affordable housing uh on the 20th March 20th meeting I do intend to uh introduce an ordinance to deed restrict the apartment in the library um and I'd like to move forward with that um that's a we've used that U we rented that uh
apartment for for years now and uh I think it's time to De restricted we can put that into the affordable housing uh number um also the CC and I've talked a little bit about uh the potential of Habitat for Humanity U properties up on
Hon Park um we've met now with um the executive director uh we putting forth the resolution uh on the 20th that will basically just say that we are the council in support of moving forward on this uh and the next step would be to uh
craft a a memorandum of understanding with habitat that they would probably provide first and then we would sort of uh review and the pen return Le so that that's the next step in that um process um so stay tuned um we wanted to talk I wanted to
talk a little bit tonight about um proposed amendments to the historic preservation commission ordinance uh those haven't been released to the public because they're still in draft form I wanted the council to have a chance to read through those and to um
have an understanding about what that ordinance would do uh the reason why we are looking at amending ordinances to become a what's called a certified local government um that is a uh designation that is made in part by the National Park Service um working with individual
states that provide municipalities with um the ability to craft uh a set of rules and guide guidelines and and uh ordinances to uh promote and continue to build on um resources of historic nature
it also opens up uh a pretty significant door to funding um grant funding for historic properties in town um so we are looking at that um and and so I wanted to just have a brief discussion uh with the council tonight uh to see you know
one if everybody's so one thing I I will I've said to the council I I will be happy to do the new the proposed ordinances more than twice as long as the existing ordinance on paper and some of that is just for practical reasons
like uh there are now definitions in the proposed ordinance where there are no definitions on our existing ordinance uh a number of things would stay the same uh a few things would be new and a few things would be kind of just fleshed out uh in meaning so the the the proposed
ordinance that we'll be talking about a little bit tonight and which we'll probably come back to uh is uh has been sent down by the state I worked on this ordinance uh we started talking about this I think about a year and a half when we were drafting the uh the flood damage prevention ordinance so we were
thinking about ways in which um we might have greater control over flood prevention or flood uh uh protecting historic homes um so that's what got the conversation started and I know it's been something that the historic preservation commission has been wanting to to talk about um for some time
largely through the lens of additional funding and support at the state level so the the ordinance uh the draft ordinance uh Cindy and I worked on we we worked on with Debbie Kelly uh and uh uh members from the DDP uh and so is here
tonight one of the things I'd like to do uh probably in the next couple of weeks is have um maybe somebody from the staff go through this a little bit more closely um perhaps uh Crystal lton who's the the chair of the plan of the historic preservation commission and
just highlight for the council what's new what's the same and uh kind of you know what uh what's different um so that's where we are on this and uh you know we may not be prepared it sounds like to have an in-depth discussion
about this tonight um but I wanted to open the floor up to the council for some uh for some prison thoughts is it possible to get someone at one point up from uh historical preservation for the state to talk about
this as well rather than rely on crystal only rely on crystal get for us to have a presentation because I would think that just in the uh you know we started this process with going back to this to to a flood issue but it certainly does
impact a lot of other things in the city particularly as we think about even some of the development even you know in the we in the downtown is the historic district you know that we just covered in public participation at Finkles and
and so I would think that it would be important not only for us to see the markup but for the public to see the markup and to see you know the a draft ordinance so everyone could you know kind of consider what you know what you
know what what's happening and get for us all to get a level of comfort with that don't completely haven't gone through it you know my bad you know but but trying to understand it particularly with those things in mind I began to to think about as as well so I think it's
you know a group think as much as we need to be informed um and be good stewards that you know we give the public every opportunity give them a lot of information because I have a hard time reading an ordinance necessarily and understanding what it's going to do
you know um without reading it a couple times getting a little help you know get a little extra help I think it's a great idea to uh whenever we can get the tra out to the public so we can discuss it because this is going to affect a lot of people we want to make sure everyone sees it understands it as we're learning
it as well um you know I think it's a a good thing I think it's certainly something we need to move towards I think some of the language I think we could work on um you know I I think my initial concern is what's required from the state what do we need in the ordinance um as we look at as we create
our own and so I think we need a couple more answers about that um but I think ultimately getting it out in the public is the best thing as we continue to discuss it yeah the what actually the mayor had said but was the impetus for This was um
people after either were concerned about whether their house or not was historic because that meant whether it should stay or go or change to the house or fill a Basement or raise it and everything and after we looked at some existing documents that were done in the
70s talking about it's got to be over a thousand houses when that was done it's so outdated now and the state would not accept that at that point as a valid report so that
started uh thinking about how how do we uh how do we protect historic houses and not leave the decision of to an employee to make the decision so that's basically uh I've read it a couple of times
um I look forward to reading it again and when we're ready to get everybody's input um yeah I haven't read it all the way through yet so uh I would benefit certainly from you know presentation of
material kind of you know the story like the backstory how we you know why why are we here like what's the problem what's our current situation and what do we anticipate this particular ordinance how does it help us along the way um I
also agree that this um this does need uh some does need scrutiny by the public sooner rather than later because many people will be affected by it and it you know it's important to be transparent with the community and let them you know
have the opportunity to read it over you know but also to here M here um you know a a you know kind of a um synopsis of you know what's going
on and kind of explanation bring it down to a a little more of a a Common Language uh you know setting well if I could just that on to yes to you
um there there there's going to be I'm not I don't want to start this all from a negative point of view there's going to be a lot of new things that we're all going to have to think about and and graft the way we're comfortable
with it everybody here and and the public before we pass something like this so um it's it's interesting it could be just what we're looking for to protect uh
the look and feel of the city that why everybody comes here and and that's why we got that's why we're in magazines and travel logs and you know one of the top 10 or the top 20 of
whatever we seem to get involved with so um so it you know it it's a big shift in our Focus to do something that would really protect the historic Integrity of the city entire
city um so it'll be an interesting process to go through I'm really open-minded about it I'm ex I'm excited about leaving this kind of uh if we all agree with what's going on leaving leaving this behind as something
that we all worked on to to reinforce why people love living here so thank you um okay it sounds like the next step should be for me to clarify with the DP that this is uh the required
ordinance so you know it's been my understanding that the the language generally is uh is pretty tightly crafted by the state um it was certainly our experience in talking with the state we had a two-hour meeting we went through it Point by point and a lot of
the elements that are in this proposed ordinance are required so this may end up being simply is a something that we're going to commit to right so um why don't I send this back to the state and make sure that they're to to ask there's
any flexibility in some of these points um and then you know possibly even see if somebody from the state historic preservation office would uh join us either online or in person for uh for meing to talk about this there are only I think 43
municipalities in the state that are certified local governments and because it's a it's a tough process to go and it's a commitment right it's uh really a commitment for municipalities to take this level of
um you commitment to historical uh preservation and uh resources um to to to this level so uh why don't I start with that and just one opportunity too that and turning the glass over is that we don't want to take miss the
opportunity not to be told from his s preservation what we certainly we have to do what we need to do but is there anything that we can add or something and I'm just talking out of air so don't expect magic but you know there is if
we're GNA do it you know you know it's interesting if there's all these other towns have done it kind of interesting to see what they did to their ordinance as well to see if there's any you know well flourish that our flourish so we we
were directed to a couple of mun IP alties to look at language that they had incorporated into their into their ordinances that got them to the CLG status so we did use I don't remember the name of the there were two municipalities I may have them I I have them but I don't have them with me um so
so we did use some some draft language it was approved by the state so um and then we did go through the state we went through this point by point and there were there were quite a few things that were you know non-negotiables yes and and for memory so hopefully I me but
this is like over six months old we have a document I think that the state provided us that has like some strong language or something in it I'll see what I'll see what we have from back then so that we can share it with you so um I think that we will move on
that sounds like we're ready to move on from that so stay tuned we will have more discussion on the the proposed ordinance um once talk a little bit about a potential uh Farm Market at the library on Sundays uh during the summer
um so talk to the counc a little bit about this and Cindy's been uh uh wonderful in terms of getting some information and I just wanted to kind of get this out here to see if the council will give me leave to do a little bit more exploration and possibly move
forward so um Cindy got a Cindy had a really wonderful communication with somebody from the DCA Who provided a lot of resources and along this to potential vendors um did she provide the initial letter or did you write that to vendors I I wrote that the initial letter so so
we have along with the vendors we've gotten some resources about what it what it means to start a farm market um and uh written a letter that we would send to potential vendors and it's uh you know gives gives your information what
what's your level of interest do you want to talk a little bit sure sure so you know for markets can it be anywhere from fresh food produce to uh flowers to homemade soaps and and candles and things like that and even baked goods so uh we talked to both the County Board of
Health as well as it was DP they have a section for far markets and you know certain things have to be licensed and certain things don't um so we were we put together a letter um Marlton actually has a wonderful Farm Market and so I took a look at that um and so it
would begin like June 7th and end like the end of September so it would be a very short window Sundays only from uh like say 8 to two yeah so it would be a short period of time uh vendors we would
send out a letter to people in hund part 100 and part of Mercer County we kind of tried to pick a certain radius um I'm not convinced that there um list is up to date because they still have Homestead market on it but um that's why
why if we're going to do it we should jump on it soon so we can get the letters out to see if there's interest um and that people would just bring in You' just have people bring in like four limit to four to six vendors that would bring in their produce or whatever they
had they would um we would solicit for it they would send back the form first year we said we wouldn't charge a fee because setting it up we want to get it going and um you know we would just manage it ourselves that way and C also
uh at my uh direction or my asking uh heard a letter to local residents regarding the parking right so we would need to clear the parking lot out of the library at probably 7:30 in the morning on Sunday and it wouldn't be available until about 2 o'clock so I think it's 14
spaces um so um you know we're prepared I'm prepared to you know sign that letter and send it off to everybody in the radius of the library and see uh you know what concerns there might be about the loss of parking in that in that lot for a few hours on Sunday morning the
library is of course closed on Sundays so it wouldn't affect the library hours in of itself and we also uh notify the businesses there too because they may have some patrons that par there just so they're aware of it sure sure of course
question for Cindy uh did you reach out to somebody or or can you New Jersey Fresh that's who I spoke with yeah oh good yeah good well her name is Christine I don't remember her last name but she was fabulous right away boom got right back to us yeah they're they're really great to work with from my
experience in my past life lot loads of resources yeah right I'm glad you did that than and and one question very important will we have an egg auction we have an eggegg uh last point is that uh City check with
the our city insurance company uh would be covered without any issues so um what does con think I just want to make sure I want to check in miss everybody out there yeah thumbs
up and a thumbs up from the audience okay people spoke and I feel like they G all they gave us the finger I if you're uh looking for comments from the public I would 100% support the idea to foreign market I don't know that the
library is the right place because where are the customers going to park so yeah so without getting into it back and forth I did look at a number of different possibilities right so you know there's not there's not a lot of space in the city and we are a walking
Community right so I I me we talked a little bit about Al field which is uh you know not in my mind not as practical um there is some limited parking there um the the the the Cherry Street Park is Park it's not really designed to take a wear and chair of U Farm Market at
trucks um cabala Park is obviously off limits these days so not a lot of space so and this is really I think kind of a test case right so start small make sure that there's a lot of community buying this is not a big this is not a heavy lift for us um you know I can probably
send I can most of this myself there are a couple of uh residents who are interested in volunteering and making sure that you know things go smoothly so I think it's worth just giving it a start seeing seeing where it goes you know if it turns out that it's jam-packed every Sunday you know we'll
we'll look at doing it expanding it somehow somewhere else I don't know but I think I think starting small is a is a good way to go um so all right so I'm going to continue to do a little research on that Cindy and I are going to get cracking on sending out letters uh on Monday to vendors and residents um
and uh more than happy to to hear your thoughts comments on just one just one other thought Cindy I know you you work really closely with the Shad Festival Food vendors so there are certain things that you already know that if someone
sets up and they want to have propane that's right or generators or anything like that so it's nothing that someone's going to be cooking on site right so like if they if they have a cottage license or whatever they may have bring um pies and things like that cakes maybe
but we're not looking we're looking mostly produced and and homemade things um so if it's a pie or anything somebody's baking they have to have a license within the state of New Jersey and we have to send it to the county honey doesn't have to be licensed
produce doesn't have to be licensed um and like I said no one's going to be cooking on site it's hopefully well yeah no no no they're not not the vendors that we're looking for for it but you know when we
downloaded the list it's all from New Jersey Fresh oh good yeah and these are farmers I'm personally interested in supporting 100 C Farmers um and uh as local as possible so we we'll see where we go I'll keep everybody uh informed of
what our part ISS um so thanks for that y I think hoping Hing it go well be a lot of fun um uh discussion these not some of these aren't really discussion items the library I'm going to talk a couple minutes about the library the the library is going to be closing for
probably at least four to six weeks beginning at the end of March um simultaneous to the lead paint uh mitigation the LI interior of the library is getting is going to be freshened up they're going to do some painting in the library rep place of carpeting um put gets a new furniture so
they're going to be closed for about six I think she said five to six weeks I'm working with the library uh and the and the library board to um make sure that you know programming is still available so you know we're looking at uh doing some bouncy book
time here uh in the mornings uh we're going to do a popup Library uh in the conference room at City Hall there'll be a library staff there most of the week so you'll have a you'll be able to come in and get a book or return books so there'll still be uh Library services
and I'll have more information uh on those in the weeks ahead but I'm uh working with the library to make sure that as much Pro that we can accommodate in other City municipal buildings as much programming as possible um so stay tuned on that and mayor will will there be access to the internet at the
satellites there will be like yeah because that's a big draw for the library for the population that doesn't have internet computers oh I see what you're saying mayor he's asking for okay y there will be for the for the public yeah yeah
there'll be one or two computers available in uh the comp City Hall um at a space it'll be part of the popup so there'll be a library staff uh to uh to run circulation software one to two computers for public use there'll be a
small printer for like copy work um and then uh so already confirmed with Lindsay that uh we certainly have enough capability in terms of Wi-Fi inunction to to accommodate this so um stay tuned the the I don't have the the date for um
the the uh the start of the lead remediation um that should be fairly soon I should get that date fairly soon my I think it's the 13th that no that's the so that's the that's the bid opening for the painting I'm talking about the SP date for the remediation of the lead
paint so a couple of things are happening at the library a remediation project uh that students start sometime probably in the next month not not sure on the date yet um but I'll definitely have information about that next time um we meet uh and then we have a bid uh currently a bid
out right now for painting the library so repointing and painting after the after the lead paint has been remediated we have a bid opening on March 13th for that um we also have a bid opening on April 3rd for the firehouse storm water management project um Powerhouse is
going to be very happy to see that uh underway um just about Church Street so um that section of church between North Franklin and North Main is uh due to be resurfaced and returned to oneway
traffic flow um this spring the specs are now being reviewed by the department of transportation we should be able to go to bit on that in the next five to six weeks so that is definitely a a springtime project um we have other road work happening a little bit later in the year so I'm not going to concentrate on
that at the moment uh and also um just a couple notes about the budget um our current intention is to introduce the budget at our April 3rd meeting um the April 17th council meeting uh voting session we will uh devote a special
period of time for questions about the budget uh and then the budget uh the second reading and the um proposed adoption will be on May 1st so uh we'll be talking more about that in in the weeks ahead any questions about the library
closure from anybody uh just one thing about Third Street yeah uh obviously we're not going to do that during chat Fest I hope of course yeah make sure I just actually have a public service announcement that um came to my
attention is that you know on May 7th you know is the deadline to have a real ID you know so you take your like you got to go to DMV and because otherwise they're going to use it they're going to check you for a real ID to get on to board a plane either that or a passport
and and I know that we we are going to have right DMV come back the end of May right to they'll have the mobile unit here at least so if you forget and don't make May we'll have the mobile unit from the generosity at Chrisman putting this
on the list um to to do that um because uh but it's going to I I've been having my child to do it because otherwise his passport expired he's not going to be able to get on plane St Louis but um that's my problem but
just you know but just so everybody knows so now is the time you can go online make an appointment at DMV and get your real ID I know I did it the last time that they were here with the mobile unit and yeah it went it went relatively good well second time the
second time time first time nature it was it was new for everyone including them and but they worked it out yeah no yeah no mobile unit make a yeah it's a lot it's very convenient so thanks for that I got mine today as a matter of fact I went up toon office and it's it's
very quick there I always give them a lot of credit I think they move very efficiently through that uh through that office personal the same documentation as for your license you know go I yes but if you go online they tell you exactly what to
bring yeah so it's better to check they have a checklist yeah six points so if you pass score points the current driver's license that you have that you needed six points you now need to present the six points again and your driver's license can't be part right
yeah but they they do have a checklist for youl it doesn't roll it's like it's like you never had it yeah yeah mayor could you bring us up to date on the uh on on the
Park oh uh no I can't uh there there's no new information so cavalo park um at the March 20th meeting we will have a second reading public hearing for Bond ordinance for um testing and possible
remediation of uh contaminated soils at cabalo Park um we have a we have one uh bid in I'm getting a second bid in for Professional Services there I expect to be able to award that at that same meeting forward so that's all the
information I have at the moment um and while we're talking about projects uh I was up at hul Park uh this week with the surveyors and city engineer um doing the survey uh survey lines for um uh
the lost my ability to talk um the fisherman's mark project so the surveyors have laid that out um and we've also laid out um the right of way which is going to be required from the street all the way up to the law cabin as part of our Green
Acres funding that's the last thing we have to do before we Green Acres bless you we have to dedicate a roadway and in order for us to dedicate a road a public road we have to have it survey and um so I'm in the process of doing all of that so that we can move
forward um it's a it's a complicated project as I said last time the this for Fisherman's Mark the survey gets done once we approve the survey the survey company goes back and they do a subdivision once the subdivision is done Fishman's Mark can kind of lay their
plans on the subdivision the city will then begin to craft its uh Redevelopment ordinance for for the site um and then once the Redevelopment ordinance has been adopted I we'll be able to move uh fairly quickly forward with Sal Fishman
l so I'll continue to update you as I have information on that um all right we're GNA move on to board appointments um so I would like to have one board appointment tonight Christine paluso is stepping off the zoning board after a few years of excellent service she's been a wonderful
addition to that board um and uh I propose to move Monique pcel who is um an alternate into Christine's U uh space and uh Point Sharon henan into the alternate to space Sharon is a well-known um person here in
Lambertville um very very dedicated to the community and I think she'll make an excellent uh app to that board so what she wants to do what's that I'm happy she wants to do it yeah she does yeah wonderful yeah so unless there are any questions from the council I would
entertain a motion uh to uh adop that so second all right favor please say I hi thank you um just a couple of announcements Street sing begins on the 24th um the sweeper will be up on the Hills before
the 24th when my walks up there with the dog last few days I've noticed how much leaves are on uh some of some of our Hill streets so um he'll get up there I've asked Lester to get him up there next week um so that we've got enough time to hit all the hills and clear all
the drains um uh will it be regular what's that sorry will it be a regular or just a one time it it'll be from time to time yeah um and there will be no ticketing for cars that may be parked on those streets we don't have an ordinance in place for the hills at some point we may uh we may
want to change that um I'm always ready to talk about storm water and and the ms4 TR permit um so uh um that's something that we'll we'll want to consider at some point we do have a storm water management coordinator who's now 16 hours a week and she's going to generate a first report for the Council
she's been out clearing uh drains and taking pictures and doing all kinds of wonderful work already so I'm super happy about that um Britney cerr um so streets would noted landlord and short-term rental applications must be completed by March
31st the electric did you want to say oh yes I did so we the resident stop into City Hall this week um because her bill her electric jcpnl bill was seemed uh unusually high so cind did some research
with jcpnl this week um and kind of came up with some general information that may explain why your own electric bills may have increased um so she notes that so far this winter um from December to January residential consumption is is at its highest it's been in more than six
years um we have the coldest January in 11 years uh the 22nd coldest on record and 5 fre below average at the same time customers are using more energy the cost of electricity has risen uh 8.6% impact from Supply rates and 3.6%
impact from delivery rates uh therefore it's consumption and rates impacting your bills um and if you've got a payment plan reconciliation of the payment plan was completed in February and that was added to your consumption bill that's what triggered this particular residence very high bill so
um we're always happy to you know make uh calls and and investigate these kinds of things so if you ever have a question about gas or utilities uh you know feel free to give us a call or check in with us and we also have a list of resources for anybody who may uh qualify so if you
need anything please call lindsy or I and we'll send you a list and you can start calling them to the places to see if you can get some type of refund or some you know assistance in paying the bill just in case anybody's interested the CEO of First Energy which owns jcpnl
made $26 Million last year the rcre maybe your gas bill went up just a little the gas went up that's more money than what Bob Iger at Disney made well it's not just electric cars um
you know apparently well electric cars you know make a lot but obviously consume that commodity but um crypto generating cryptocurrency is extremely um resource intensive and
consumes vast amounts of electricity read not on Facebook but I read it good I read it on anal media myself antis an all right we'll move on to our
second public participation um session same R before three minutes not interr your time please say your name and address and on respond 249 sou um just in reference to the uh
electricity thing I went from 300 to 800 for this month uh and it was significantly larger last month I don't know what's going on but I know they put in the Star Energy things and they're doing some kind of reading without reading I don't know why that's going on
but my neighbor above me has the same problem she went and she wasn't even there this month we weren't even there most of the month and she was at 800 so we've got a big problem going on with the electric I don't know what they're doing I don't know exactly how to you have a payment plan I'm not on payment
plan that that was the only thing that made sense to me was because they're on a payment plan for the whole year and then anything that's in excess they they bill you in February for it so yeah I'm not on a payment plan and they weren't on a payment plan they also requested
this is Nancy and Carol above me uh they requested that they didn't put in the new meter we as we requested that as well but they did um and all I can say it's it's out of control and that's it's the smart theer yeah something so there's problems
going on with that thank you really hello Michelle glassberg 601 Court I just wanted to kind of circle back to the ordinance for the historic preservation I'm on the HPC commission
I'm not an expert on the ordinance but um Lisa Easton and Debbie Kelly are and have working on that so they were both literally on vacation out of the state and out of the country tonight or if they would have been here so all I ask on behalf of the commissions is that
before you do anything else or even consider things that you get a presentation from them they are incredible experts they both serve on the historic preservation trust there's only 10 citizen board members on that state board and we've got two of them
right on our HPC so they are incredibly knowledgeable they have experience with clgs with um other municipalities so I highly recommend that it not be put on an agenda until at least one of them could be present at
the meeting or that you're welcome to attend and that maybe I will make I will talk to Crystal and ask her to please make sure it's on the HPC agenda which meets they meet the first Tuesday of it first or second Tuesday my God I think
it's second they're meeting on Tuesday same as the library it's the same as the library so it's 7:30 though so I highly recommend they are ex ex I mean all of them they are extraordinarily competent and knowledgeable on that ordinance and
I highly recommend that discussion doesn't go anywhere without them being fully consulted and in the loop on this thank you we they were slated to come the night we uh we ended up not discussing it right so just check with their schedule they're both especially
Lisa is very kind of busy with thank you um Sean Ellis 21 beler Avenue uh I have two questions one is just a followup from my previous question because uh I I didn't get an answer for
it will somebody follow up with the D about holding another public I said I would okay Miss Sor um and then did has West andwell been notified about payan
filing not not for me I don't know if anybody else's I it's concerning to me because you know talking about talking to your neighbors you know I don't think we've talked to West HW well for the entirety
of that project and it's in our master plan mayor you just said we you know about the fingles property need to be talking to our neighbors I think we should be you know and involving them and collaborating with them and working with them um because I can't believe
that yeah that they're they should know about this stuff so interesting that's a good point we should give them a copy of the filing that well that was filed on us right no
I know it's it's us but right at the border yeah yeah that's a good point particularly maybe they I don't know if they have any recourse but they you know definitely involes you know and their
thought and and it would could be beneficial I think so yeah Sean a couple people have asked me too if they could write a letter to the judge and that's something I want to ask our attorney if there's an ability for that and if there is obviously we let people know because those letters could be part of the
public record people the judge could so yeah in fact we talked about that at the prior meeting and and the remember because and about the because there was this discussion about how do you file you know how do you send a letter because in
other instances when we've had uh you know affordable housing litigation that citizens did file and there was the question because nobody knew what judge that how to file but it's yeah cuz it's different judge Miller we would send it but down it's a little bit different so
we just is it he's the he's the presiding judge but I think it's actually assigned to another judge there but the court will be able to give us an email address so we I presume I was told snail mail okay so email would be wonderful but you have
to like to put the docket number on your comments y right but we have to them provide the docket number we have to know that right right no but yeah we so I guess if people want to f right
that they should you know so citizens would I'm just trying to come up with a way to do this so you know like for us in the subject line yeah but then you got to address it to the court if they want to know how how to do it you know
like who it goes to you know that's we don't have that I think our attorney probably call find that out and then give it Direction and then that available might be an appropriate timeing not just right now
on right so we could put it on the website you know and L there you along Spark all right Jeff TI 33 Wilson Street a couple
of little things so the former CEO of First Energy we call worst energy went to jail for paying off the speak of the Ohio State just so you know that so that's why I had to pay this guy more money the other point is that um energy
deregulation which we never talk about in 1999 myself and many other the consumer and labor groups spot it and passed by one vote and the problem that we have in New Jersey is that we have deregulated monopolies but we don't have competition
and this was something that was being fear for for years and this may not go away it's not just the winter so the last pjm auction was a 14% increase so even though you stood s and three it's heading up so and so the one thing I
will mention from a town perspective we really need to start looking more I know you try to do as much you can for energy conservation but we really need to maybe the environmental commission too could actually talk to people in the community to more on energy conservation because the only way you can lower your bill is
you lose yet less you know uh LED lights are much cheaper you know and so on and so forth or having your TV off on strip and then putting it on when you're starting it saves you by the way about 10% on your bill per television so I mean I I'll go I wanted to talk about some other things but I just wanted to
put that up because I did a lot of work I've done a lot of work on energy um since we were talking about problems in coella park and we got problems with the library again um and the hill with hul has hul been tested as well yeah yeah
okay because that's may be a concern because it was a farm there may be arsic and another um at the other point I just kind of want to go back on that you know when you when Sean asked the question I've been through towns and help
overwhelmed and then they want to settle in fact that's how I got involved in my town was that the town was going to settle with the developer and League of con the League of Women Voters and concerned citizens took the suit over and then forced the town on this is going to be a very complicated and
expensive thing and in our case Builders Association also came in because this is going to be a major fight and the more we can prepare now and the more we can put our ducks in a row um I mean some of the things we were talking about for for months we really need to get done uh you
know because these battles can be pretty tough and uh I just want to make sure that you know you kind of understand what you're going to go go through and uh ofan will do whatever they can and use everything you know they can find against you and they will come in and say they can meet the goals for this
community and they can do it you've not done it both all this luxury have you've done all this you have a real plan in place and then they're going to try to come in and take over so and if they do it then others may follow so uh Judy 86 North Union Street I I always say and I always say that I
always say so I wanted to say tonight I don't know if we have directed our planner yet to look at other sites for affordable housing I know we've talked to different people the mayor said you have talked to different people about it and stuff but I think part of the process has to be actually doing some
planning with the planner and actually doing some stuff so assuming that it's possible that we will not lose this court thing and that we will not want led up with 200 units or 11 160 units up on the hill we will still need to know
where we can have affordable housing units so I don't know if we have directed our planner to do that yet but I'm just again as I always do asking please direct the planner to do that if they haven't done that yet or better when I sit down say we have done that
and they're doing the planning because we're going to have to do it we're going to have to do it this year for three we're going to have to do it for four so please let's do it let's not be where we are right now with a suit that if we've done things a year ago maybe we wouldn't be
so thank you thanks uh I did have a conversation with the planner last week and uh we have begun to discuss the 40 something sites I'll be meeting with them next week we you know in order for us to move forward by the end of March with uh our plan uh we need to have kind
of a lot of information in place about uh overlays and uh Market to afford possibilities all these things so it's going to be a a very intense March for me uh because I I've got to be having all these conversations with the planner
and with the property owners so uh I can can assure you that there are a lot of conversations happening um this month uh because we have deadlines that we coming up against and uh the planner already you know knows I think to to a large
extent what some of the Key properties are uh and has already begun to think about those properties uh and uh you know have a deadline here I'm going to say I because I'm I'm going to be the one who's uh feet are held to the fire um in terms of bringing forth these uh
all the mechanisms in the next mon so that have to be agreed on by the council and have to be Ved by the public and the affordable housing advisory committee so um it's uh it's happening I promise you that it's happening now and it's going to be happening throughout the month I
expect to have a very busy March Judy can come Monday 8:30 we're going to be talking more about it that's right yeah no coffee it's it's that's right it's also avilable but the committee really has
been great and we've got a lot of great people in the community what I love about it is we've got people that have not have the opportunity to be part of this discussion really are um I know Paul reached out to West and you know they're coming in on Monday to talk to us about possibilities of affortable
housing in lamberville in the future uh so it's been great we had a lot of really uh good people that are working hard to try to make sure that we meet this obligation in a meaningful way that we haven't done before yeah absolutely I mean we have a master spreadsheet now of
of basically any property anybody wants to add um and whether or not it's a property that gets uh onto the fourth round or the third round uh it'll be on the spreadsheet uh we'll have notes uh and then we we see this as a living document I said in the last meting if
you were here you know 1.2 square miles so you know we can we can create a database uh and track what we've talked about in public and that database can be made available to the public so that when somebody walks by a site and says well I wonder if they consider that they
can go to the they can go to the spreadsheet see that we have considered it and the reason why it did or did not what kind of mechanism it would be and why it did or did not and if it has a resolution there'll be a link to it so it's going to be uh an impressive database and and uh you know it's all
the work of the committee um and Cindy and Julia Taylor Julia Taylor in particular do we have anybody online who would like to make a comment I don't have any hands up I have a motion toose public a comment per please
Mo okay favor please say I I I I think uh now I would entertain do all in [Music] favor thank you