this meeting is being excuse me conducted in compliance with the open public meetings act adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by advertisement in the Cape May star and wave on the township website and posted on the bulleon boards of township hall we request anyone wishing to address Council please wait for the mayor to recognize you please state your name and address for the record and please remember all comments must be kept to three minutes or less well thank you please stand for pledge of leading some moment of silence I pledge allei to FL FL of the United States of America to The Republic stands na indivisible andice for all roll call please council member Conrad yeah council member kums here council member Roy here Deputy Mayor Parry here mayor sippo here okay we have a pretty busy agenda today we're going to swear officer romantino in we're going to recognize K Sheek and also recognize Noah plan but before we start I just want to thank the police department in a great week last week with the police Youth Camp um you know we started that camp several years ago with 25 kids and it was 3 days now we're 60 plus kids for 5 days and I want to thank everybody that was involved and I know uh officer or Corporal um Jen L was big with that school resource officer I want to thank her personally but there's a lot of other folks in this room here that worked hard and I want to thank you for that the only thing I think could make that camp any better if the Phillies would beat the Yankees that they took the kids there but uh I should have made the chief state but uh anyway uh great job I want to thank you for that I want to recognize one of our past manager Mr Jim rway Jim thanks for coming out today I know you miss us you're welcome to come in all these meetings if you want to come back so thanks for being here uh with that being said I'll ask the chief to come up and bring your staff and um your officer will swear amen bio yep okay you do do the bio first yep patrolman Nicholas romantino is a resident of veg Harbor Township he graduated from the American Military University in 2022 with an associates degree in fire science and again in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in intelligence studies with a concentration and criminal intelligence patrolman romantino completed the basic course for police officer training in 2016 at the Camden County Police Academy he worked as a police officer for the Camden County Police Department from 2016 to 2020 in May of 2023 he began working as a police officer for the Elmer Police Department until recently being hired as a police officer by the lower Township Police Department patrolman romantino has worked as an EMT in Egg Harbor Township and Avalon and is also a firefighter in Egg Harbor Township as well as a New Jersey state forest fire service trolman Reno's girlfriend Alexis oconnell Lexi will be holding the Bible for the oath of office and his father Mark romantino who's a retired lieutenant from the eggh Harbor police department will be pinning his badge over your left hand no bot raise your right hand I did ask uh officer romantino if you going to memorize this oath of office before you got here tonight I'm not sure how well you did with that but we'll let you go we'll read off the piece of paper Okay so uh just repeat to me I state your name swear I support the Constitution supp of the United States United States and the Constitution ofit the state of New Jersey I bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the government established the United States and in this state under the authority to people people I will Faithfully will and partially and justly perform all the duties of position of police officer for the township of lower Police Department according to best of my ability help me God congratulations [Applause] there you go sure thank you for coming down proud of your son you want you want to get together for a little photo come on over good dad come over here you're more than important we are right now yes you are right you to say that conratulations thank [Applause] right good and family that's you Joe we know you've been retired for a while but come on now come on there where you want to be right here once you come over here then Chief will bring it you bring it over here when you're done sure okay all right I'm going to read this certificate but first I want to preface it by saying it's not very often we get a call from a police department or a fire department in Florida saying hi preaching hi uh words about one of our officers who was on vacation and as I read this you'll understand why distinguished service award for life saving is proudly presented to Corporal Jonathan Sheek in recognition of your decisive actions on the 16th of July 20124 while off duty in the State of Florida after witnessing a severe motor vehicle accident Corporal Shea quickly jumped into action after a vehicle behind his was struck by a drunk driver both vehicles caught fire and the drivers and the passenger with the drivers and the passengers still inside Corporal Sheek immediately began extracting the drivers from the burning Vehicles R risking his own life selfishly to save the lives of of others at this as the scene continued to unfold Corporal Sheek assisted responding EMS and fire Personnel in controlling the seing and ensuring the safety of other citizens as the vehicles burned without these Brave actions by Corporal Shea more lives would have been lost to this tragedy therefore be it resolved that your actions shall not go unrecognized and you are to be commended for a job well done distinguished service award issued on this fifth day of August 2024 [Applause] conratulations young man proud of you okay while you're here we also have a proclamation to give Corporal is basically the word for work the chief uh put out so I'm I'm not going to read it but behalf of myself and all Council we're very proud of you okay you should be you know you should you're a great asset to the township and uh uh you know going to do good things for the township years to come I know you will so thank you very much okayer good job L all right that we're going give like couple minutes yeah two we're going to make it take a two-minute break to let the folks clear out the police department get back on the street and we'll continue the meeting right okay we'll move on for the meeting and I'll ask Noah when come up please your family grandfather father whoever else wants to come up Mitch stop growing or what up young man good good how we doing right better yeah we've all been better I think before we start councilman is going to read the proclamation for Noah you know but uh I remember Noah playing sports when he was this big now he's kind of this big okay so he's done a great job uh he moved on he had a pretty good career go through high school now he's going be starting College uh his grandfather Mr Mary Glen reached out for me V email about some accomplishments knowah had I said yeah we need to bring him in here and recognize him because you can tell by the size of his room here how many people really care about him okay so uh I want to thank his grandfather retired coast guard for being here okay and his family so with that being said I ask councilman to read the proclamation sure thing this is a proclamation congratulating Noah plen whereas Noah plen was born and raised in the Irma section of lower Township and attended lower Township Elementary School and the Richard M titlan middle school and whereas Noah grew up playing basketball soccer and Lacrosse through the lower Township parks and recreation department and whereas Noah recently graduated from St Augustine Preparatory School in Richland New Jersey and will be attending the University of Delaware this fall as a scholarship student athlete in the NCAA division 1 men's lacrosse program and whereas a few of Noah's accompl accomplishments include two time USA lacrosse All-American two time New Jersey state inter Scholastic lacrosse coaches association first team non-public a All State player uh member of the 2022 njsi AA nonpublic a boy state championship team scoring the game-winning goal St Augustine Preparatory class of 2024 scholar athlete athlete of the year and was on the Deans List 2021 2022 2023 and 2024 now therefore it is with great pleasure that I that mayor Frank Sipple and the lower Township council do hereby congratulate Noah on his many accomplishments and wish him the best of luck on his road to [Applause] success get your family in here come on over sirar come over here here on right here I know I know that's all good there we go we'll see you when you're done College you come back here okay all right y congratulations proud want come up he come on come on all right everybody please give us about two minutes Mr ridway went to address the group I first off I'd like to thank the uh Council for continuing in recognizing our young folks as they become adults in the community I had an opportunity this week to spend an entire day with Matt Caesar which you know ever since that particular time it's like the beat goes on but when I found out about Noah tonight I felt obligated to come here because he took a real big chance in life and taking a chances when you have friends in an area and then you want to upgrade if possible to an institution that's very revered in the league I coached for 34 years and I could tell you how many games and contests we played but I still remember beating St Augustine in G when their coach had 200 wins and three losses secondly when we beat him in basketball it was just incredible well I went to see him play basketball several times in the past two years and it was a tough environment for him this man is a gladiator he fought through negativism I was upset few of the games in the bleachers at what was taking place and at the end of the day there's an infinitesimal amount of people that get scholarships to go to college the cost today are mindboggling and the fact that he I know he received over 20 offers and so many schools would wue folks that want to know including Yale University so I want you to know this gentleman is a champion thank you and all the best [Applause] sir I want to make sure I want to make sure I wasn't recing that basketball game was I all right okay nice turn out for [Music] should we roll call it we move the resolution to roll call make a motion to when we amend the we amend the uh s resolution e okay we move down to the consent agenda on the agenda and I'll ask is there any Council comments reactions with consent agenda uh yeah I'd like to make a motion that resolution 2024 D 262 be removed second motion it's actually 263 uh Deputy Mayor three 263 oh I'm sorry it's incorrect oh no I'm sorry it's 262 I apologize I had it I had I was correct okay it's 38a West Virginia yes yep councilman Roy yes I'll second a motion that's correct okay councilman Conrad yes councilman yes councilman Roy yes Deputy Deputy Mayor yes mayor yes okay I also like to amend the ordinance 2024-the assessor position from the supervised Union up to the non-union administrative management Personnel section that's unclassified position and I think it should be up top not the bottom there so i' like to make that uh amend Amendment on that ordinance I'll second that okay we're going to um open this up to the public do we excuse me solic do we need a roll call on the amendment yeah you'd have to do a motion to amend Amendment and then a second then a roll okay we got it okay so we have the motion by uh the mayor the second by the deputy mayor councilman Conrad yes councilman yes councilman Roy yes Deputy Mayor per yes mayor SLE yes okay now we'll up to the public may want to make any comments with the consent agenda only I see none approval of the minutes from July 15 2024 resolutions number 2024 247 through 2024 261 2024 263 through 202 4 269 ordinance 2411 an ordinance of the township below are vacating surrendering and extinguishing the public right of a portion of Middle Road ordinance 20 2412 and ordinance amending chapter 7 traffic of the municipal code of the township below to install stop signs at the intersection of East Weber and malry Avenue amended ordinance 2024 13 an ordinance I'm sorry the amended ordinance is 14 13 is an ordinance amending chapter 7 traffic of the municipal code of the township beler to modify no parking designation within the township beler and amended ordinance 2020 414 the salary and benefit ordinance of the township okay is there a motion move forward motion second council member Conrad yes council member yes council member Roy yes Deputy Mayor Perry yes mayor s yes ordinance number 202 2409 an ordinance amending chapter 600 Towing and storage area requirements specifically subsection 6 A1 Towing and storage fee schedule of the code of the township beler this is the second reading and public hearing of this ordinance this ordinance has been published posted and made available to the public thank you any Council comments on this ordinance no no open to the public I may from the public would a comment on this ordinance I see an on close the public portion is there a motion to move forward motion a second a motion council member Conrad yes council member KS yes council member Roy yes Deputy Mayor par yes mayor C yes ordinance 20 2410 an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 523 rental properties of the code of the township of lower in order to provide lead based paint inspections of certain rental properties and to enact inspection fees in compliance with public law 2021 chapter 182 this is the second reading and public hearing of this ordinance this ordinance has been published posted and made available to the public any Council comments on this ordinance none I hear none anybody want to comment from the public on this ordinance I close the public portion I make a motion to move forward with this I'll second council member Conrad yes council member Coons yes council member Roy yes Deputy Mayor Parry yes mayor SE yes okay at this point we're going to open up the meeting to the general public and from the public when it comes to the microphone to address Council on any issues even my name's Kevin my name's Kevin Gore I live on Village Road and I know earlier in this year you took a little bit of grief about washing out and there's a little bit of you know with it got closed and people were worried about the rentals and all that and I just wanted to thank the council for taking care of that right now I don't know who's responsible if you sub it out or for Public Works did it themselves but I just wanted to tell them thank that I want to thank them they did a good job and let not over engineer it it's it's it's really nice just the way it is I don't know if they brought in a lot of sand or whatever but it good me and my 15-year-old dog can get down the air there you go hoping to hear that thank you for coming out thank you for the kind remarks anybody else from the public want to address Council anything no okay we'll close the public portion and we'll go around the council we'll go Deputy Mayor Perry first I'd like to uh say what a great job has has been done on Wildwood Avenue and Bay Drive um I live back in that area as you know and uh especially this time of year gets really busy with pedestrians bicycles along with the vehicles and uh what was done up there not just the the drainage but the paving uh the crosswalks where the uh Beach passs are and and also the signs and I I've seen some remarks about uh why do we have all these crosswalk markings and it's ridiculous so on and so forth it is not it is uh safety it's a safety issue back there I know the speed limit we reduced it to 25 but you know and the police have been doing a great job policing it you know with radar using the radar and stopping quite a few cars back there there are cars that that still do 30 40 miles hour on that road at times uh you know police can't be there all the time but they are doing a good job but the paving job the markings it it was an excellent job so uh to be commended to our engineer who uh designed it and the contractor that that uh did the did the work did a great job the only problem that I saw with the whole project is the lack of notification of the residents in the area when the roads were closed off for for doing the work uh there was a little communication lack but other than that uh the project just turned out great so it was uh project well done do you commend it thank you Deputy Mayor councilman Roy nothing to council MCS nothing to add council MC Conrad um I want to give a shout out to the rec department and everybody involved with the concert series and the drba getting it back was a wonderful thing the concerts are going very good don't know what's happening this Wednesday but that's not our fault but it's good to get out um also just to get it out there DP regulations that we talked about a couple weeks ago are possibly going to be published shortly I just want to keep that fresh in everyone's mind because that does affect a lot of people in this town especially in the Villas well anybody along the bay and anywhere near water we have to stay alert and we have to be ready to respond other than that right thank you I just have a couple things the reminder National Night Out is tomorrow night at the lower K Regional High School from 5: to 8:00 pm I already talked about the police camp did a great job last week with that uh the you soccer boys and girls signups have already started it runs from August 8th August 3rd I'm sorry to August 17th and I see the playgrounds come along pretty good behind us Mr lafy uh direct Center looks good back here and we add another one to her what's that end of the month open the end of the month good it's looking really good so that's all I have is there a motion to adjourn commission adjourn second motion all in favor