[Music] all right wait i just before you start Aubrey can you hear us yes okay yes I can thank you thank you all right please guys oh heat
sorry Mr mayor that's fine all right now we can go all right we like the call to order the April 9th 2025 Long Township Committee meeting please rise for the pledge of allegiance i 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 madame clerk in compliance with the open public meetings act of New Jersey adequate notice of this meeting specifically the
time date and public call and information were included in the meeting that was electronically sent to the Echo Sentinel Morris daily record and posted on the township website the agenda and public handouts for this meeting can be viewed online at www.longhillj.gov a public comment period will be held in the order it is
listed on the meeting agenda committeeman Lavender present committee woman Riker Elign she gave me present can I yeah present from remote i don't know how to say that yes but you will not have voting privileges thank you
committeeman Verlesa present deputy Mayor Peria present mayor Dorsy here all right so first thing we have ordinance well we're doing pro yeah do you want to just Yeah we were going to do proclamations today for some of the kids
in town that won that got their posters on the fire safety statewide calendar however two of them can't make it tonight so we rather do it when they're all here and so we can all celebrate the same day so that's why that got adjourned so moving along we have ordinance 567-25 it's a first reading eliminating
the position of public safety director um that's basically all it does right Jeff yes just cleaning up the ordinance okay okay so can I have a motion to introduce and pass ordinance 567-25 on first reading so move second committ Lavender yes committ Blesa yes
deputy Mayor Persian yes mayor Dorsy yes next is 561-25 it's a second reading it's about the prom police promotional process jack if you will yes could someone make a motion to continue the public hearing on this ordinance until the May 28th
meeting with no further notice of publication so moved second committeeman Lavender yes committeeman Verlesa yes deputy Mayor Bertia yes mayor Dorsy yes all right consent agenda resolutions
anybody need to abstain or want to pull out any to further discuss seeing none uh I have a motion to pass uh resolutions 25108 to 25-115 so moved second committeeman Lavender yes committeeman
Verza yes deputy Mayor Peria yes mayor Dorsy yes all right committee reports vic we'll start with you she started with Scott last time all right hold on let us queue it up all right the recreation liaison report for
Wednesday a uh April 9th is as follows if you attended the Caner Park Playground grand opening on March 26th please visit the website to see photos that Chuckaritz took at the event and also a video from the event that LHTV
put together go to the community tab and look under photo albums to find these mark your calendars for these upcoming events we have our annual egg hunt at Caner Park on 4:12 at 10:00 a.m
sharp it is a free event please note we will advi we will advertise on the website on Friday if we have to move this event due to the rain date which is April 19th we also have movie in the park at Caner Park on 4:16th spring
break for the kids is the movie 5:00 pm and this is also a free event we have a new program running on Saturday May 17th come to Town Hall Park the parking lot and learn some basics about the car you drive and depend on
taught by a verified auto mechanic register on community pass for the class the cost is $45 registration for Sterling Lake is open now on Community Pass register for by May 31st in order to receive early
bird pricing all right sterling Lake Dance Friday June 6th from 7:30 p.m to 9:30 p.m chaperones are needed so please call the recreation office if you can help all right slide seven enter enter
our free photography contest by June 1st snap photos of what spring in Long Hill looks like and enter on Community Pass winners will be announced in June moving right along registration is open now for summer wreck camp and our
Little Explorers prek camp check out the website for more details and register on community pass by 5:31 don't forget Oscar the Grouch and his daily message to keep our parks clean and last but not least remember
our recreation advisory committee is always looking for new members want to join contacts the contact the parks and recreation department for more information and this concludes my Wednesday April 9th recreation update
thank you uh I will be doing the uh board of health and library for Miss Eli Health Matters if you have any questions or comments go to bernardshealth.org they have all the information on there library update um oh there we go the
library is looking forward to lots of fun this month for kids we have chess lessons art classes and STEM projects for adults they also have art classes meditation ma jang and line dancing two please find here the library's kid and adult schedule for the
week it's on their website we also have it posted there if you want to look quickly three uh they show movies every week uh Wednesday at 2 PM and Thursday at 1 PM they're for adults we have kid movies for spring break after the Dogman movie or welcome to Stay for the Dog Man
Party that's a That movie's uh recently out so it's probably a good hit to get there for free i assume you're free and the kids like it so you might as well go uh mark your calendars april 25th at 5:00 p p.m cake and games
uh Saturday the 26th the Hickory Tree concert at 11:30 with cupcake decorating and they have Owl Talk which is their mascot on Tuesday April 29th 6:30 in person and finally they offer lots of classes for adults over Zoom they have
26 folks on their Zoom talk this week with the Ruters Master Gardeners about growing irises and their talks are mostly held during lunchtime or after work hours but most importantly they're free and finally there's one more thing here ah May 10th save the date it's
Earth Day and most importantly the shredder is coming i know it's very popular it's a fundraiser for the library plus it's good to uh shred and get rid of old documents you don't need so May 10th at 10 to 1 at the library and there's also a friends in the library fundraiser they're doing spring
family photo sessions you can book a 30 minute in-person photo session there's no sitting fee it's a professional photographer and um for more information you go to the library web page or you can scan a Q QR code which I can't show you now anyway but it's May 3rd at the
library thank you guy got anything no i I apologize matt did you did you save the Long Hill Senior's White Elephant sale no no i thank No now if you know it tell us please april 26th I believe 9 to3 9 to3 april 26th
all right long Senior's White Elephant uh sale that's that's the only one can you put that on the agenda for next next meeting so remember to announce it and Sterling Elks nope sterling Elks is May 10th same day same day as the shred
right uh yes that's a shred day yeah so the Sterling Elks craft fair is 10 to 3 which overlaps of course with shredding but shredding once you get there you give it give it in pay your fee and you'll be gone so you can go to the Elks that's it thank you Scott okay first
planning board uh planning board met yesterday um reviewed the uh fence and signed ordinance that had come before us it'll be coming back i think there's one minor change on one of them uh and uh the ordinance u um review process
continues as we update ordinances to get them uh to align with the new master plan so um Jack that'll be coming your way okay great all right next um in addition to health um last meeting I mentioned um Dr terresa Redling prepared
a an article on measles which wound up on the website uh she recently put together one on bird flu that will be going up as well talks a little bit about um how bird where bird flu comes from how it's transmitted what the symptoms are like and how to avoid it so
keep an eye out for that and like lastly historical uh preservation advisory committee uh attended that last week uh they're looking for new members uh so if there's anybody in the public that would like to volunteer their time and participate in HPAC uh you can uh reach
out to me or Fred Hunt um conductor fhaol.com i'll never forget that it's burned into my memory that's it thank you uh Mr administrator Uh yes ma'am i have a um February report from the
police department for the uh calls of service for February 2025 they had 2,157 for a year to date of 4,73 uh they had six motor vehicle accidents during the month of uh
February with no injuries that's always good um training uh continues uh uh several uh police officers um throughout the uh year um we had a couple notable events in in uh February uh police
detective bureau did a fraud presentation to the senior center on February 19th um we do have I believe we do have that on our uh website as as a video so we can we can you can look at
the video uh on our website if you want any kind of update and we also had uh Sergeant Thompson spent the portion of the day reading uh to children at the at the Longill Library i think they were they they not only adored the reading
but adored him they were climbing all over him and uh having a grand old time with him so uh uh that's it for that's all that I have right now mayor thank you sir oh yeah well Northfield um as luck would have it uh weather is not
cooperating with us too much uh but uh they are just finishing up some punch lists on another project and and hopefully I know it's going to be a wash out this weekend but hopefully Monday they'll start uh mobilizing and starting uh with all the concrete work which
they'll do first and then the paving um afterwards so um so we can bear with us we can say to the public that the utility work has been completed we're just waiting on a break in the weather and yeah the I I act I know that the utility work at
the south end at Valley of Northfield has been done i believe they have done the work at the railroad but I will double check on that and we'll we'll get something on the website yeah it's in it's in motion it's um but we'll we'll get an update on the website for
everybody to uh to take a look at so So Northfield will get paid northfield will get paid milton Bay so what's what's a what's a worst case having this done end of May I would say so yeah that would be I think that would be a
lot of rain if it if it goes that long all right but next week it doesn't look too good either so yeah you know unfortunately they they do have to work uh you know they could do some stuff during the rain as far as demolition and so forth but as far as uh you know pouring concrete they if it's not a lot
they can pour it and and cover it up and everything but uh paving you know they prefer not to do in the rain obviously so best case end of April best case end of April uh which is pushing it but definitely by the end of May it should be complete and done yeah and and we
recognize it's been a long and winding road for for everybody uh but it really was out of the hands of of uh of the town well of course the utilities did it all right that's R it's all you got yep all
right under old business it came Sorry it came to our attention that Lounberry is doing a major project and we had to discuss the uh fees for the inspection fees and it's what 55 units over there and they're renovating everything so I know it's a significant amount of work
uh for our construction department because they inspect everything in every apartment so how do you want to introduce this Jack we we discussed it yeah I think a motion to uh set the construction uh office fees at $75,000 for all the inspections and permits for
the local local fees not we don't control the state so the local fees a flat fee of $75,000 um for all the inspections that need done as they periodically get to work i don't even know when they're starting but I know they have to get applications in for grants so that's
that's the issue right now so what do we do a resolution i think somebody can move it oh and second it all right yeah so so I move that um we cap the uh construction fees for all vary to 75,000
uh which does not include the additional state fees so move second i apologize committeeman Lavender yes committeeman Velesa yes deputy Mayor Peria yes mayor Dorsy yes all right announcements i know
Guy hit some of them we have the e the uh egg hunt on Saturday 10:00 at Caner so with the Easter Bunny will be there and plenty at Chamber of Commerce it was fun there's a ton of kids go fishing derby is next Saturday at 8 a.m starts at the lake it'll be fully stocked so
come on down the PBA running it uh then we have Shredded Day May 10th the library memorial day parade the May 26th and the wetdown for the new fire trucks is the 31st any other announcements that guy didn't cover street Fair oh yeah the
street fair yeah April 27th and there's a big banner out for it too and then May coming up in May as they believe it's mental health awareness month which I know uh Miss Riker Eline's been uh dutifully working on with neighboring towns any other announcements seeing none open mic night
so uh meeting's open to the public you have three minutes anybody that wants any questions comments problems come on [Music] up all right anybody from the public seeing none is anybody online anybody on Zoom
would like to make a public comment please raise your hand now I don't see anyone mayor all right well then I'll may make a motion to adjourn the meeting it took back to executive session with no further action possible second oh possible further action just as I wasn't in there so I don't know
what just just as a cautionary not expected but possible actionary okay which is I I I second U Megan's motion okay i didn't make the motion all right all in favor of adjourning to exact session who made the motion i'll make
the motion i'll second it thank you everybody thank you everybody have a great week that was stunning [Music] it is 8:26 the township committee has
concluded executive session and there is no further action thank you have a great night [Music]