poverty rate, which is 7%. Uh just for context, the poverty threshold is income that's around $16,000 for one person, 20,000 for two, and with each additional family member is $5,000 increase. Uh I chose the following social groups. Those 80 years and older, those living with a
disability, those below the federal poverty line, uh those receiving SNAP and food stamps, and those that speak English less than very well. Each social group I identify may disproportionately face communication and engagement barriers. Those those age 80 or up are
most likely to experience reduced hearing capacity and diminished eyesight. Disabled residents may have a vision, hearing, cognitive, ambulatory or self-care difficulty. Those below the US federal poverty limit can be underrepresented, unemployed, or working for poverty wages creating limited time
to engage with the municipality. Those receiving food stamps or SNAP are overburdened because they are dealing with food insecurity and households that speak English less than very well are dealing with the language barrier. Um steps the municipality can take uh when doing any outreach, we can start
providing resources in different languages. We can continue to work closely with the apartment complexes to try to get renters more involved in the community and township decision-making. If there's an inability to get renters involved in the community, we can start looking for initiatives that will help turn our renters into homeowners.
uh when we re-evaluate our master plan in 2026, we can ensure we partner with the apartment complexes like Fox Meadows, which I believe has around a quarter of our Maple Shades population to try to ensure we balance 10ear visions of renters with 10ear visions of homeowners. Uh with any new policy or
township program, it will be important to consider these social groups to maximize communication and engagement between residents, local organizations, and the municipality. Um, if anyone listening is interested in growing a more just and fair community and wants to take action to prioritize
equity, please reach out uh via the contact us page on sustainable maples.org. Uh, we have lots of opportunities and projects that I am more than happy to partner with you on. We can try to expand our boards and commissions by increasing inclusivity. We can create
opportunities to integrate environmental justice issues into our community master plan and land development ordinances and policies. And we can help improve education and outreach programs to grow our audience to ensure important information like lead education is heard by everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Emma.
Thank you. [Applause] Okay, we have another presentation. Karen, wherever you are. Sure. Here. Here. Where? Doesn't matter. Right. The table
is easier for them. Give it a minute. Donuts. You brought donuts. Damn. You can just state your name and address just for the record. Will Gay, 927 Elk Road, Elk Township.
Thank you. It takes a minute. There I brought back up copies cuz it cuz it it crapped out on us last year. It's a copy of our annual report. really the trees sustainable.
[Applause] I think it's he was trying to hide. Go ahead. As soon as it pops up, I will start. I'll catch up. Okay. Uh my name is Will Grant. the manager for uh Maple Street Utilities, Water and Kern, your partner with the water and sewer
operations for the town. Um Robert Gzi, assistant project manager manager. Ryan Sullivan's our area manager, new ops leader, and Fred is uh senior client manager. He helps with the funding team.
And I'm the sewer utility engineer, Dennis Yoder, and I make sure they're doing their job and reviewing their contract. Well, welcome everybody. Thank you. Thank you. So, just a quick agenda. Uh presentation will probably take 5 to seven minutes
tops unless Dennis rambles. Heather said six and a half. You're getting cut off like So, there's our there's our agenda and we're just going to work our way through it. Um this is Woodart and current on business as a whole. Um we're very strategic with the business that we
pick up. We want to grow and maintain long partnerships with our clients. Um, so in 2024, we brought on three new partners and four so far this year. We are expanding, but I said, like I said, we are strategic with our business. Um,
that's about it for that slide. Um, annual review, no staffing changes at 2024. We did have three new people come on in 2023. So, just having stability is great. Uh we had four operators increase their license levels. Uh out of the
whole entire staff of 11, nine are now certified with at least one license. Here's our health and safety uh statistics for our company. Um for Maple Shade itself, we we went 10 years 10 and a half years without an
injury. It's pretty impressive. the statistics you see on the on the right hand side, the the pyramid, um you want your numbers to be close to zero or nothing when you get to the very top. Those are severe um injuries.
In 2024, we had 10 injuries as a company in whole that needed medical attention. Um we we do safety training every month. We have training that has to be done on an annual basis and a triannual basis. Um, all of our employees are certified
in forklift, confined space, qualified electric, uh, first aid CPR. There's a lot of stuff that goes into a day-to-day operation being a water wastewater operator. Um, we get thrown in all kinds of stuff. We have electrical hazards. We
have open tanks. We have confined spaces we have to go into maintain equipment. Um, so all that training, make sure we are properly trained and we know what we're doing. Here we go. It's stopping. Okay. Go ahead. So, moving on. Uh, part of our
pump station safety improvements. Uh, we recently had a catwalk and stainless steel cages um fabricated and installed around our We have a couple stations with drive shaft that go from one floor down to our drywall uh pumps. Uh, to
make it easier and more safe for the guys, we added the catwalk and the safety cages around the shafts. Gives them better access to work on one pump while another pump is running. So, that's one of our uh pump station safety improvements. Uh employee development. Uh Wood and
Kern really cares about their employees. We consider ourselves a family. Uh we do everything we can to help the guys uh progress in their career or uh we actually have one employee right now that's going to college. He wants to get an engineering degree. Uh so that um so
whatever the guys need, we pay for their classes. we allow some time off to go to seminars and training classes. Um, and the previous couple slides ago, those are just the three employees that that increased their license or obtained a new license in the last year. Um,
and the last bullet in training, whenever we had training that that we think public works may need or or if it's beneficial to them, we offer it to them. So, every two years, first aid in CPR comes up. Um, we had, I think, nine in 2023 take the
training. We had another nine last month take the training. Uh, compliance. There's a lot on here. Uh, everything's good. Um, the only major issue we have in the town when it comes to compliance is with our wastewater plant and the collection
system. uh when it rains, it inundates the collection system and then inundates the wastewater plant. So you'll see right there, we're under an administrative order with the EPA. Um Dennis, we work together. We do the reporting that's
through semiannual. So everything on that page is good except for the 10 SSOs. SSO is a sewer system overflow. That's when the sewer system, the collection system or the wastewater plant gets beyond its capacity and there's nowhere else for it to go except
for coming out of a man. Do you guys have an estimated amount of water through the storms to infiltrate into the system that overruns it? We have a pretty good idea and we just finished up
a project last month where we were putting a flow meter at our largest pump station. So we'll have a better idea going forward. Well, because the flooding on the roads becomes an issue because the storm the sewer system is not a sealed unit. So when it floods
that water's going in the sump pumps some pumps. Yeah. And Dennis and I spoke about when the roads are getting redone to have you know, a box there that ties into the storm system to eliminate it from going
into the sewer system on all the road projects. Our first project and we're doing that we're reaching out to the neighbors to get buy in to make sure that it becomes an educational thing, right? You know, instead of penalizing them,
they have to understand that it has to tie into that storm system. It's it it eventually it'll be in front of every house and it just has to get connected which eliminates the problem for our water system at the end of the day. All
that water you know is not going into the system right? How I mean guess how many millions of gallons? Um last last year just a guess off the top of my head last winter when probably 20 million
gallons months. Yeah. Okay. So that's that's a lot. Yeah, I know. And it happens in a spur. Yeah. Doesn't happen over time. So what we're seeing happen and you can't and the system can't handle it. It wasn't designed for it. So what we're seeing happening is when we have these severe rain events, we have a
big spike in flow and then it drops off when the rain stops. But then everybody's some pumps start kicking in and that flow goes back up and it stays there. It can stay there for one to two days. It can stay there for a week. Yeah. And that's why the
the the uh inlets at the houses is important, you know, then there's no excuse, you know, it just gets done. I totally agree. I totally agree with you. When we had the drought uh last year is the best the wastewater plant ran.
So, you know, we needed rain for everything else and we had 20 20 ines of rain. So, okay. Do you know if there's any programs for the for the residents? I know this is a municipality, but is there anything out there that you guys know of uh for our residents if they
they need a little extra money to get this done to try to get everybody compliant? You know, looking outside the box, you know, for for our residents, that would be a council decision because right now there's not funding of we can talk about what's Maple Shade has
as of July 1st is going to be now eligible for principally getting this through the eye bank. uh every three years they evaluate the communities in the in the state and you just drop below the the 25% threshold of of the lowest
income communities. And by doing that now you're eligible for up to $2 million dollars in planning and design grants and then that each year possibly two million for for water projects and two million for sewer projects. So that's that's a very positive thing that we're
tracking. We actually have a meeting set up middle of July to get the program uh initiated. But uh that's going to really help out in and trying to initiate some of these uh projects. Yeah. Just to try to help the residents. We do have the
lead the lead service lines. We're about ready to get authorization on that. We're hoping to have principal forgiveness or full payment on that. Right. U we should be possibly getting approval even as early as next month on that. And that's something we're actually going to the the remaining lead
servers and galvanized lines in the the township are going to be replaced and that goes all the way to the meter in the house. Is that money in addition to capital outlay money if we were doing roads and infrastructure? Yes. All right. So it's got nothing to do with our cap. Yeah. That's that's over and
above the utility capital which you guys have been pretty good about systematically right allowing for. So, but at least there's something possible out there to try it out. Yes, I think yeah, this will be a positive here
if you can get this for some of the water plant improvements and also addressing some of the sewing needs. Thank you. Uh so, back to water and current as a company, one of our core values is
community outreach. Um we enjoy it. Uh whenever we have the opportunity to get involved in the communities that we serve, we take the opportunity to do that. Um one thing we do every year is sustainable maple shade. We run a table there at their green fair. Try to
educate the public on uh what we do. Um so national night out, we always have a table there. We're always searching for more volunteer events. Uh Wood Current gives our employees eight hours a year for volunteer work paid. So, if you guys
know of anything, anybody needs help with something, uh, please reach out. Um, just email you. Yes. The other part of community outreach, uh, a lot of sponsorship and donations, um, there's a list of them
there. Just about every youth organization in the town, uh, we try to help out if it's a donation or or anything else like that. Um, same thing with National Sustainable Maple Shade. Uh sustainable maple shade got a grant from the
woodturn Foundation I believe two years ago that helped them uh construct the community garden. Jen reached out last year. She had a need for a water service uh for irrigation. You know we're in a drought. You don't want everybody's plants to die. I talked to Susan. We
both agreed that was needed. Um water and kern paid for the materials and the generosity of Booth Mechanical installed all those materials. So it was a joint venture. Um, tour. You're welcome. Tours. Tours.
Tours. Um, we held a tour with Rowan Engineering students, uh, last year. Um, Maple Shade Scouts, Sustainable Maple Shade, and, uh, we reached out to our first responders
to make sure they were aware what what hazards were on the site and to educate them. So, we did a couple tours uh last summer at at the evening to catch all four shifts of the police officers. So, that's a picture right there of the railing students.
There's the scouts. So, the first pictures of the water plant. Second and third pictures of the wastewater plant. If you look at the third picture, you can see one of the little boys holding his nose. I don't think he liked the way it smelled there. That's kind of how I was a part.
Um, okay. Next, please. Yeah. Uh, National Ball Hockey. Uh, two of our guys are on this league and we, uh, give a donation every year to help them out. I think they won the South Jersey at least two to three years in a
row now. So, proud of that. These are value added, professional services. These are things we we go above and beyond our contract uh with the township and uh we don't receive any monies for it. We're not asking for it. We do it because it's the right thing to
do. So the first thing is a P the PAS class action lawsuit. Um I talked to Susan, she allowed me to complete the claim on behalf of the township. The claim started in November of 2023. So this is just how lawsuits
go. We finally got um the first check I believe two weeks ago. So it's a year and a half. But I'm happy to announce that the township through four or five installment payments something to that effect will re receive 1.71 $1.713
million. Will did a lot of work in putting that and follow through with that. So credit for initiating that and following through on that. Thank you. It's really a nice, you know, 3M and DAO and a few others that are paying out a lot of money for that POS issue. Yeah.
So, the the class action lawsuit was actually put into two phases. The first phase was against uh DuPont and 3M. Somehow or another, DuPont claim was zero, but the 3M part of it was the $ 1.713 million.
And then I guess there was two other companies they decided they can go after, and that was Tao and BASF. So, we don't know what we're getting for that yet. Um, probably know towards the end of the year. So, hopefully some more needed money for treatment.
Um, permit the wastewater plant permit was renewed last year. RV did most of the heavy lifting, but we helped them. Uh, we conducted a tour with the D permit light writers. And then the lead service line, I believe Dennis already
spoke touched on it. This is a big lift for any utility to do. There's a lot of water systems in New Jersey that just didn't even do it because it takes so much time. So, you're supposed to in Maple Shade, there's like over 4,500 water service lines. So, you have to identify each one of them. And then if
they're galvanized, you have to send letters to them every year. And galvanized is the lead service line replacement program that Dennis referred to. And we we're mandated to do that, right? Well, we're mandated. Yes. It was be done by the end of 29, but I think they've been put an extension out
to 39 at this time. I think we're fairly limited in terms of those that in in the town, right, that are either galvanized or or we've identified most of them. So, you're either lead, non-LED, or unknown. So, of the 45 over 4,500 services we
have, uh, we only have 170 that are galvanized. We have no lead. We have known galvanized lines that come into people's homes and I believe we have like 220 unknowns. So with the help of Susan and Karen, we send out waves of
letters and then they would call the utility. We would go there quick like two, three minute visit and just see what kind of pipes coming into their basement or their crawl space. So that's part of Dennis's project that he was talking about. He's getting ready to go out to bed. We have to dig up the unknowns. If if we knock on the people's
doors, we send them letters, they're not answering, last thing I do to identify those unknowns is to dig up their curb stop. That's how you tell if it's copper on both sides or plastic. Um, but of over the 4,500, we're only dealing with
170 right now. Of those 200 unknowns, maybe two or three more will be galvanized is our hope. So the lead service line inventory and identification app that's a big lift and we continue to make I think there's actually nine submitts that need to be
submitted every year to the DUP. So it's it's pretty intensive. Says the value added services and on&m projects um these are small projects we try to get done overseen by us and the staff completed through quote awards
with the township. In 2024 we led several projects that improved equipment system reliability and costsaving for the township. With that, we replaced uh three variable frequency drives at our Kings Highway pump station that controls the FDS control the pumps.
Um that's was a proactive move move to redo the other two after one had failed because of their age. uh saves a lot of money in the future due to failure and uh so that's why they were replaced along with the BFDs at the water
treatment wastewater treatment plant on our return activated sludge pumps. We replaced water mane on 100 block of West Gradwell. Placed 100 foot of water mane on West Front Street that was prone to multiple
brakes. Uh we did tank repairs at our waste water treatment plant, our plate collector number two. At the wastewater treatment plant, our clarifiers, we had a coding project and the wastewater treatment plant, our final tank center channel coding project
that was provided and oversaw bypass pumping and alternate decoration. That was all done by water and current staff. Excuse me. And there you see the uh wastewater treatment plant. There are the new VFDs for our RAS pumps. Next
picture is our Kings Highway pump station VFDs and a 8 inch God bypass pump that was uh we got that for our screw pump project. Uh that was a lot cheaper and cost effective to buy one because if not we
would have had to rent the same pump for over a year which would have been pretty much double the cost of what we paid for that. And the 8 in pump u just benefits the township. It can be used at other pump stations the event of failure. So
it was a good addition to uh the township. Yeah. That same pump, the 8 in pump that Robert was talking about was initially bought for the screw pump project because we were receiving bids. We had bypass pumping in the bids and it was a
lot of money. So, we we discussed it and we thought it was a good idea to purchase the pump and then after that screw project was completed, we use that pump to bypass the chlorine contact tank. So, it's very beneficial piece of
equipment. So water and current uh we we do everything electronic now. We do data collection with tablets. Um we integrated and migrated to a new computerized maintenance system last year. This same slide was in last year. Just wanted to
touch on it. Every time we go to a a resident's house, every time there's a call for need, a call for help. Uh, every piece of equipment, you see this service record. Everything's digitized. Everything comes out at on frequency, uh, monthly PMS,
annual PMS. Um, the other thing, uh, we have a 247 answering service. So if you call 856488-7450 247365, someone from an answering service will answer your call. Um we have certain verbiage written into how they respond
to calls when we're not there. Uh certain emergency keywords. So if it's deemed an emergency, we'll get patched to the on call operator or Robert and I. Uh but every one of those calls comes in as an email and we make sure uh we
follow up with all power calls. It's very efficient. Very. It's great. So these are just a couple projects uh all three of the parties together accomplished in the last year year and a half. Um the wastewater plant chlorine
contact tank which we touched on briefly. the influence screw popups which everybody was aware when they were fixed because or at least when they were taken out because it didn't sound like a like a train going down Maple Shade anymore. But uh the other one was the
wastewater plant plate collector we spoke of and then a valve actuator job at the water plant. Some photos some of the improvements we did that before on the left hand side is our uh chlorine contact tank. You can see the finish, the blue and the after
photo along with the overview of the whole chlorine uh contact tanks. Part of that project was safety orientated because the railings were all ready to fall over in some spots. So, part of this project was to have all the
handrails set, reset. They're all safe now, nice and sturdy. and the coatings on the cement walls of the uh chlorine tanks. It's just going to prolong the life of the concrete and we're going to get a lot more years out of them since this project.
Uh you can see that's our screw pump project in progress. Crane's pulling the uh screw pumps. You see in the other photos uh the screw pumps are gone. We have two bypass pumps set up in that 6 in was our pump along with the 8 in that we had purchased for
that. uh project, the beginning of that. Uh this photo is at the water treatment plant. Um all the little gray boxes on there, they're all valve actuators. They're all automatic, all controlled by computer system. So now when there's four filters
at the water treatment plant and need to be backwashed, water needs to be sent to other portions of the tanks. These valves are all controlled automatic now through a skater system. uh everything's run through a program and pretty much takes the operator out of the equation
with that other than overseeing that all the valves are working properly. Uh this is the bottom of one of our iron sludge tanks uh at the water treatment plant. We had a bad failure there. One of the tanks started leaking on the bottom due to uh
moving parts. The bottom that's back and forth all the time. You see they're the welded plates that were installed during the repairs. And you can see on the after the epoxy coating on the tank brought it up to brand new tank standards.
Um this is a blower and raft pump projects that we had. We had our blowers for digtor aation system. They were replaced with new along with two of our raft pumps. More a more efficient pumps. Uh oh no
that's okay. Um these two pictures here are headwork screening process. One is a new grit system we had installed that stops a lot of grit from getting in into our oval tank. Uh it's a lot better for uh our
systems um process and the other are barcreen removes all the rags and heavy debris before they even get into the plant. I'll take this one. This is an example of uh working with the township and uh Dennis to get quota
awards done and and doing some stuff in house. So the first picture is polymer blending units. This is all in our belt filter press building. That building is our sledge handling building. So uh to keep the biological process happy, you have to get rid of some of it. It goes
into a tank. It gets mixed and airrated. Then the pre the next day we process it actually comes out looking like top soil goes to the landfill. They heat it, treat it and they resell it as fertilizer. So these were improvements to this building. Um the power blending
units uh we installed the uh grinder we installed and the sledge flow meters we had a mechanical coordinator or contractor install for us. So our future recommendations uh it's kind of like uh nothing's really changed since last year. A couple of projects
are into construction which is good. uh Kings Highway water treatment plant. Uh replace the line system at the Main Street water plant. I believe the bid opening is tomorrow. Uh lead service lines. Dennis spoke on that. Um
annual water main and hydrant uh hydrant replacement projects. Rose Avis being uh installed right now. New water man. And we have a hydrant project going out the bid soon, I believe. We're waiting for the DOT permits.
at the wastewater plant. Replace or upgrade equipment to ensure reliability. Most of the equipment there has been replaced. We have a couple pieces that we might want to consider. Uh remove the buildup grit from the orable tank. I believe that's proposed for this year's capital. It's in 2020.
Yeah, it's in the capital. That'll be here in August. Um coat concrete tanks to extend a life. Concrete will last forever if you take care of it. Um that was one of the examples of that coding project that Robert was talking about the chlorine contact tank. Uh the
collection system uh replace Main Street pump station force main. We've had several breaks on that line. Phase I'm happy to announce that phase one was just completed where we had the majority of our breaks. Um and then the other stuff we already
touched on the INI is a problem. um some pump ordinance. They they kind of go hand in hand. And then the grease ordinance, we um we're using a company now named Quorum that uses biological tablets in areas that are prone to
grease and uh Yes. And it's and it's helping us uh greatly. Since we started using them about a year and a half ago, we haven't had any overflows in those areas from Greece. So these next three slides is just talking about Wood and Current's uh
funding team. Wood and Current has I believe five to six people. That's all they do is they search for grant money, uh congressional earmarks, any type of additional money that their clients could use. um support their clients through planning, funding, and
financial consulting. In 2024, uh they secured 1 billion dollars for their clients in several different uh areas. We just worked with them here this last year. We put in for a congressional grant. So, right now, we're in running
for 3.4 million towards the Kings Highway project. And if we supplement that with uh expected I bank funding uh we should be in good shape with that project. If we can ever buy the land companies right the first
oh boy so these these three funding slides um I'm just going to do a high level overview of them. I believe we we submitted helped the township submit two different uh earmarks this year. I think one went to Senator Kim and one went to
Norcross. Uh it'll be a while before we hear anything back from that if our project is selected or what the analogy heard from Norcross that we're in. Okay. Not from Okay.
So there's some timelines there. It looks like sometime next year, early year. And then uh funding recommendations uh continue to pursue through IBank like Dennis spoke on and to see whatever else the D has to offer us. Um
and just to let you know that they're monitoring the everchanging landscape for everybody. So if something comes up, we'll make sure everybody's aware of it. emerging contaminants. Um 14 dioxane, unfortunately, we have that
in our wells and there are proposed limits that that may be coming out uh will be something that you'll be subject to. The actual timing of that, we don't know. I know we just for mercy that all their plants we've added
UV peroxide with followed up with with carbon to take out the peroxide. Um, so they're being proactive. Obviously, if we do the Kings Highway plant, we're going to put this feature in it. We already have a plan down here for Main
Street. If we do the the carbon filters for the the PAS, which we're giving some funding for and so forth, we have a plan in place how we can uh allow for the UV peroxide to be there for the the oxyane treatment. Right now, we're like
right where the proposed limits are. That's where we are on all these different parameters. We're like almost in compliance where you're not, you know, so it's it's u but it's an emergency contaminant that's coming out.
U TCP um that was regulated about three years ago. We know that we have the one source over Mortown that gets drawn in our in our direction every now and then, but we have been in complant with those annual requirements. But again, it's
something we have to monitor. If they ever shut down their North Church uh plant, the plume then tends to drift our way. But right now, we've been pretty much in compliance under that regulation. As far as the PAS, we do
have some wells that are out of compliance with the regs that uh are going to be effective in 2029 or it may be pushed to 31 at this point in time. Right now the state has a a limit of 12 parts per per
billion billion but there are new regulations are going to drop that down to four. So we're right at four with a couple of our wells. That's why we qualified for the u lawsuit funding. Um
but we're again we're we're monitoring that and if we do um when we have these meetings with the state we're going to talk about them funding because they'll give 100% funding for tier 2 communities for those uh treatment processes. So we
know we have a three-year window that we wanted to capture and uh and get these projects done if the states want to fund them. Are the levels pretty consistent across the board? Yes, for reasons the for our wells so
that we get the funding is where I was going with that. Yeah. The bizarre thing is wells 11 and 12 are at the main street plant are in the same aer almost the same same depth depth but they're maybe I don't know 500 feet apart and
one has it the other one doesn't. So it's it's really hit or miss a little bit uh with that. So you would think that they'd be pretty consistent but they're not. So there might be hot spots or different things out there that cause one to be a little bit higher than the other. Yeah. The really the really great
thing of this PA settlement is with all these emerging contaminants, it puts it on the water system owner to remove it, but the water system owner didn't cause the pollution. So with this PA settlement, I think it's one of the first major things that have benefited
drinkable water systems in the United States forever. So they're going after these companies and holding them liable, which is what they hopefully do with all the other emerging contaminants. If you can find the source
of the pollution, go after them. And I do have a question about your confined space. Where do you guys get your training at? Uh, we have a health and safety manager. Okay. Comes down and does hands-on. You have SCBAs on location. We don't. You don't? No, we're
not training with them. What do you think about the training with them? You think that would benefit you in the future? I I know because we've been down there and toured. Yeah. I know what you are up against the chlorine. It might have a benefit. I think that was I think that was a stance
to get rid of the one ton cylinders and we went to the 150 lb cylinders. So if there was ever a leak in 150 lb cylinder, it wouldn't be catastrophic for the site or for the or for the town. It would probably dissipate and go out to the atmosphere before you're able
even try to cap it. So um I'm not sure we could talk about it. All right. Appreciate it. Any questions? Sorry it was six and a half minutes. I know you were a little over. I mean, I was I was too. I expect to
continue education. I'll sign I'll sign your sheet for you. Um, these are hot all the presses. I'll leave them here. Whoever wants to pick one up. This is the annual consumer confidence report we just had printed. Um, it shows all the samples that we
took in 2024. Happy to announce that everything's in compliance. Um, so there's hard copies there if anybody wants to take one and it's also posted on our website. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Have a great
see you next year. Well, here thank you. Thank you. Bye. Thank. All right. So, moving over to the ordinance introduction and first reading. Ordinance number 2025-06 is an ordinance of the township of Maple
Shade, County of Burlington, State of New Jersey, establishing a recreation committee and defining its purpose, composition, duties, and goals. Do we have a motion for introduction? Certainly. Do we have a second? Second. Comments.
Um, as far as the, uh, ordinance goes, um, I read it, the draft, uh, there's a lot of things, um, that I would like to talk about. So, is it possible that we table it until
next month since it's already been a long meeting that we can uh, discuss the things that I have concerns with? Um, does anybody else have anything else? Is that a motion to table? Are you
making a motion to table? I'm making a motion to table it until next month. I'll second that. I'll second that. So, I want to read it a little better myself. Okay. Anybody else comments?
Okay. So, we have a first and a second to table. Roll call. Okay. Mr. Kaufman. No. Miss Nunes? No. Mr. Simon? Yes. Mr. Madnick? Yes. Mayor Jgo. No. So now we go back to the motion for
introduction. Yep. Do we have to make another one? Motion for introduction. You have to go back because it's new one. So move. Okay. Second. All right. Roll call.
Yes. So this is just the introduction of this. It's not just the introduction. Not a vote. Does not does not adopt it. You still can go over it. If there's a question when we have the public hearing, that's where you can Yep. Mayor Ro call. Yes. Mr. Kaufman. Yes.
Miss News? Yes. Mr. Simon? No. Mr. Saratnik? Yes. We'll have discussion time for it. Yes. Okay. Ordinance number 2025. Oh, do I have to say publication date July 5th?
July 1st, 2025. public hearing July 17th, 2025. Ordinance number 2025-07 is an ordinance of the township of Maple Shake County of Burlington, state of New Jersey, amending the township code chapter 154, rental properties. Motion
for introduction made. Second comments. This is the um the Airbnb. Yes. Thing. And this is also an just an introduction, correct? Introduction. Yes. for uh basically it's to the short-term rentals is what we're prohibiting. We're putting those in
place so that we can we can monitor and enforce those. I have a couple questions. Um do we have like written police reports of complaints like of Airbnbs versus I know we had the one with the swimming pool. I mean what's the police department normally will keep those? That's how we know they follow
them. Is it like five or is it like 30? Is there like on average a year during like the summertime is what we have we probably get between anywhere between five and 10 is what we get. Um what we're finding and the reason for this ordinance is that there's large parties that are being advertised and that's how
we're finding out about it. Okay. Um there's also no inspections that are being done on these properties because we don't know because they're single family homes or town homes or anything and they're not part of the rental registration program. So, for instance, the one that came up uh this year so far
is we had a property that was adverti they advertised under Swimply, which they rent the pools. Um the homeowners didn't know that out on the internet, the people that they were running to was having a huge Memorial Day party. It was all over South Jersey. It was all in the whatever the police look at on their
social media sites. Um we were able to get the resident. The resident came in and he said, "I had no clue." Okay. Well, it had the view it had over the on social media. It had over 3,000 views. So, so we would have had a large party there. You're you're you know, it's it affects the residents. It affects home.
It affects our first responders. So, that's why we're we're at Is it Is there a way to split it up? Um I read the sample and it kind of had like Airbnb like everything in one. Is there a way to like because right now I think it reads as you're just prohibiting everything, right? Anything that's a short-term rental under that that time
frame. Yes. So, daily rentals cannot happen. Okay. because I was looking at different towns around us and up in North Jersey which seem to have more of them. Um and it was like given like a certain amount of days like for less than 14 days or less than 90 days. So I didn't know. Yeah. So our rental ordinance now too currently pro
prohibits um rentals under six months. So you can't have that short term. So this is specifically saying that you can't have these daily rentals. So our rental ordinance already does have that short-term because then there was also some like you have you can have up to 60 a year. So yeah, just I didn't know if
we wanted to prohibit complete Airbnbs. So if those changes want to be made, obviously they can be made um we post it this way, but that at the hearing then we can have those comments and then if there's substantial changes at the hearing, then we will make those changes
and reintroduce the ordinance. So Susan, you just said that right now we do have an ordinance against short-term rentals. Yes. Under our rental registration program, you cannot rent your property out for less than six months. That's already on the books. Already on the books. This is this is specifically
we're addressing the Airbnbs, the verbos, the swimies where people are renting them out for a day at a time or um you know it's a couple nights at a time is what it is. And it's going under the wire, right? They have no rental inspection. Basically, it would be you running your house out to somebody for
an event for a weekend, but there's no there's been no there's been no inspection to say that the electrical is good, the plumbing is good, that that fits into our rental ordinance. So, that's why we're asking for why we're asking for this part of the ordinance to be amended and added. And of course, the
residents are impacted by anything that happens. I can give you another example. So last year, um, we had an Airbnb in town and our first responders were called out there. They were called out in a weekend, like four times out in a weekend for emergency services. And
we're like, what's going on? We found out that it was an Airbnb. You know, who pays for those? Those are services. Again, I I understand, you know, that the that the homeowner is paying for those services, but it comes down to it's taxing our system is what it is. So that's why we're that's why we're looking at it. Okay. Thank you for
explaining that. So we have a motion for introduction on the floor. So roll call unless anybody else has any more comments. Sorry. No more comments. Roll call. Mr. Kaufman. Yes. Miss Nunes. Yes. Mr. Senic. Yes. Mr. Znick. Yes. Mayor Telerico. Yes.
Publication date July 1st, 2025. Public hearing July 17th, 2025. Ordinance for second reading and public hearing. Ordinance number 2025-05 is an ordinance amending chapter 142 peace and good order of the revised general ordinance of the township of Maple Shade
County of Burlington, New Jersey regarding prohibited items at township sponsored events. Uh we're going to open this up to the public. Anybody from the public have any comments on this ordinance? Seeing none, can I get a motion to close? Some move. I'll second comments.
All in favor? I motion to adopt? So second comments roll call Mr. Cauman. Yes. Miss Nunes. Yes. Mr. Simon. Yes. Mr. Rnik. Yes. Mayor Chico. Yes. Okay. This is the public portion for the consent agenda items only. Anybody from
the public wishing to uh speak on the consent agenda? This is on the consent agenda. Consent agenda items only. Okay. Motion to close. Some second. All in favor? I. Okay. We're going to do this in bulk. Resolution number 2025-R112
through resolution number 2025-R128. Can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So made second. Comments. Roll call. Mr. Kaufman. Yes. Miss Nunes. Yes. Mr. Sonic. Yes. Mr. Sadnick. Yes.
Mayor Jeler Rico. Yes. All right. Approval of the expenditure list. Current fund bill is $2,929,3203. Utility fund $352,8884 general capital fund $675,885.74. Utility capital fund $263,7219 trust fund $961,273.73
and the grant fund is $6,837.34. I have reviewed the above bills as submitted and recommend payment when funds are available. Thank you. Motion to approve. Anybody? I'll make the motion. Second comments. Roll call. Mr. Kaufman. Yes. Miss Nunes. Yes. Mr.
Simon. Yes. Mr. Rednick. Yes. Mayor Del Rico. Yes. Approval of the May 2025 minutes. Can I have a motion to approve? So move. I'll second. Comments. Roll call. Mr. Kaufman. Yes. Miss News? Yes. Mr. Simon? Yes. Mr. Sernik? Yes.
Mayor Terrio. Yes, this is the public portion. Anybody from the public wishes to come up, please state come up. You can come up here, Dennis. Just state your name and address for the record. Uh Dennis Weaver, 324 South
Living Avenue. Could you pass these around? There's There's eight of them there. Uh I wrote everything down so I can just like get get it done. minutes otherwise I might not be able to. I'm the
president of the Maple Shave Historical Society and these are all about sort of the same topic. Three things concerning maintaining a reminder to the Maple Shade Brickyards background. A brickyard first appears on
1858 and 1860 maps. Maple Shade had two brick yards, one on each side of the railroad tracks near North Pine Avenue. The front yard went through many owners then went out of business during the depression. Its land would go across
Main Street, exempting out the Robert's Monument Lot. The back brickyard was the Seline Brickyard, then Graham Brickyard. Oh, Bob Sauceline couldn't be here tonight because it's his 81st birthday
today. It went out in 1956 when the when the clay supply was exhausted. A portion of the front brickyard known as the clay pits remains undeveloped as Upland Marsh land. That's on uh North Pine Avenue in
the railroad tracks. Several years ago, it was advertised for sale. I would like to see this land remain undeveloped and purchased under the open space program as a memorial to the brickyards.
A roadside marker plaque to be put curbside in front of the John Muffet and Sun Brick and Tile Yard House circa 1863 if not for no other reason to make the owners respect and keep it maintained.
Three, the rule for historical houses is you do not want them on commercially zoned property as that highly increases the chances of them being torn down for newer business buildings. Right now, a company is using the land that's 919
East Main Street. We're right across from the Route 73 ramps. It's all hidden from trees, but there's a brick house in there. Uh right now, a company is using the and several families are living in the house. Also, not too good all the heavy
trucks driving around. They're not really driving right next to the house, but there's nonetheless heavy trucks. I was in the house when Mrs. Senior lived there two times in the kitchen having tea and talking. She showed me the state report they have to do when they did the
Route 73 overpass on Main Street. The house was altered from a double house to a single. So it cannot be put on the national register, but it can still go under the national register under a lesser cause clause
something about it affects the community or something like that its impact or whatever. Anyhow, and then Mrs. Senior said they got that house cheap because Maple Shade Township had it condemned. That's that's the kind of stuff that was
happening after the depression times. They just something couldn't pay the tax and condemn it and tear it down. Anyhow, point three is when these people are moving out, maybe have a regulation that the zoning convert from commercial to
residential. Now, I know it's like the worst place to live right near Route 73 and Main Street, but I don't know what the answers are. older brick buildings and maple shaded bricks from our brickyards buildings in other towns such as the
more stamp post office and if you want to see a big cluster the Kwick development in Chevy Hill Dennis Weaver president Shade Historical Society. Thank you Dennis. Thank you. Anybody else from the public? Seeing
none seeing one back there. I don't see anybody. Good evening. Steve Schmidt, 520 Sunset. Good evening. Um, after watching the last few council meetings, uh, I'd like to just present this. If you can hand it
out, can you throw it? You got it. It's just a municipal code. Excuse me. It's a township municipal code. If any residents want to look it up, I'm not going to read it. It's 40 col 69a-91. Uh I think a few of the town council
members need to read that and understand. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else from the public? Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion to close? Move. Second. All in favor? I I All right. Moving over to staff and
professional comments. Councilman Simon, we'll start with you tonight. uh the food truck event they had up in the uh large parking lot. Um I went to it, attended it. Seemed like there was a lot of people up there. The
food was good and seemed like uh everyone had a good time there that night. So I hope it was a success for Main Street. Okay. Is that all? Yep. Councilman's ready. Um the fireworks are coming up. Everybody
be safe. Um everybody stays cool. And that's all the comments. Happy 4th of July because we won't see anybody. Okay, you're up. I'm up. Okay. I just wanted to respectfully thank all of our staff
members for all of their hard work, their knowledge, and dedication to keeping our town running. And also to all the volunteers, all the organizations in town, which we have many, you know, whether it's uh sports, whether it's Rotary, whether it's Lions,
there are so many different organizations, Main Street, uh that make this town, you know, run. It's a good town. It's a great town. And I thank everyone uh for putting in the time and
doing what they can to make this a great place to live. So, thank you. Thank you. Me have a few things. I think you're next. Uh like to report that all the graffiti at Collins Park is gone and has not returned. Of course, now I haven't
been down there because it's been pretty hot. So hopefully nobody else has been down there putting up graffiti down there. Oh good. So it looks good for now. Uh the farmers uh market is uh tomorrow up at Gazebo Park. I was at the last one I guess was two weeks ago. Um
there were a fair amount of people there. I was uh a little disappointed that was only one farm that was there. So uh but uh she had a few I have a few more. I think we'd have a few more as as as the crops start coming in. So So that
was good. Um I was there a couple weeks ago I guess for the concert in the park uh Bonjobi I guess it was. Bonjobi said not only was I there but I heard it at my house too. So, that's what brought me to go up there. And um finally, a little
a little uh note on Rotary. Rotary will be installing their new officers this Tuesday. Um new incoming president. It's Joyce Compton. And Joyce will be uh little did she know that when she joined Rotary in
about four years, she was going to be president. So uh so Joyce will be there and it'll be held at the uh at Fontana's in the back room. Uh Rotary is also then uh will be moving from Fontana's uh to
here at the township building. Okay. Um starting in August um as a result of the fact that Fontana could not afford to maintain us in the back Sterling room which is named after Sterling Martin. um
couldn't maintain that and continue to increase prices for us. We'll be moving here to the township where there's no cost for the use of the facilities. Okay. And the only cost we have will be our food that we have to have catered. So that's it. Thank you. You're welcome. Susan Terry
Amanda. No, I don't have everything. Just everybody uh enjoy the fireworks and the parade and have a great fourth. Uh moving over to old business operations. Thanks. Why are we getting so much feedback? I don't know what's going on. Um, on June 13th, Deputy Mayor Zoradnick
and I met with representatives from the county board of health and the director of Burlington County Animal Shelter. We discussed the county's new pilot trap, neuter, and release program. Maple Shade has been invited to participate in this initiative, which aims to help manage the local feral cat population while also offering education and resources to
support responsible community efforts. So, in the next several months, we'll be putting something together, teaming up with them to uh to help the feral cat population in town. The pre-construction meeting for Fork Landing and Yokum school area is going to be held on June 30th. So, that's Monday. We were uh
informed by our township auditor that our 2024 audit report is going to be filed Monday as required by uh by state law. There are again no findings in the report. Our audit exit conference will be scheduled in the next few weeks. There's some scheduling conflicts with vacations and whatnot. Um, summer hours
here in our municipal building began this week for our administrative staff. So, the administrative offices will close at 1:30 every Friday starting tomorrow and it ends on August 29th, the Labor Day holiday. The BEEDC is in efforts in its efforts to promote the arts throughout the community is working
on a proposal to present to council for a new mural. Hope is to have something to you all by late August. The hen committee also met and we've agreed on what we would like to present to council. We anticipate having our suggestions and recommendations recommendations for the meeting in July. Just quickly, I want to run down some
numbers from our department heads uh from the department head reports that I received. Uh there have been 229 total calls for service for the Maple Shade Fire Department so far this year. 47 calls were in May. Our EMS had has so far had 1,352 calls for service this
year. 265 calls in May. and the Maple Shade Police Department have had 11,152 total calls for service through May of this this year. In May or yeah, through May. In May alone, there were 2,275. So, uh, our first responders are keeping
very, very busy. Um, also, as it's already been mentioned, this weekend is our annual Fourth of July festivities. Chief Fletcher issued a statement earlier in the week regarding changes this year that are being implemented to ensure public safety. There will be an increased presence in police. We have fixed camera systems that were going to
be deployed along with uh drones around the entire area. But the most noticeable change will be the no backpacks or face covering rules. That was the ordinance this this evening that you all adopted. As the chief had stated in his letter, while many neighboring communities have chosen to cancel their Independence Day
fa festivities due to certain events that have been occurring, we stand committed to continuing this long-standing tradition in Maple Shade. For years, your township staff, first responders, and community partners have worked tirelessly to ensure that this event can be delivered bigger and better each year. We are committed to bringing
our residents an event that is filled with old-fashioned family fun, but we are just as committed committed to ensuring the safety of everyone in attendance. And therefore, we will not tolerate behavior that threatens those who attend this event. We want everyone to have a great time as we celebrate our
Independence Day. And we want this event to be memorable for all the right reasons. So, we look forward to seeing everyone starting at 12:00 noon on Saturday for the parade and then again that evening for fireworks. Thank you, Susan. Is there a rain gate? I don't think there's rain. There is a rain
Sunday. Um, right now we do the no rain just like we do the no snow dance up here. Um, so yeah, it looks like it's going to be pretty good. There'll be some showers during the day, but by the evening it should be okay. Thank you. Thanks, Cyclan. uh the uh June 5th meeting, we had uh
two applicants come in. One of the applicants was uh supposed to be in the May meeting, but never showed up. Um it just showed up to the June meeting, and that was on uh Main Street next to uh Select Seafood. Uh gentleman's proposing
to um have a gold buying business there uh for people to come in and sell their gold and buy it. Um, we went over everything, his operations, uh, security issues that we had. Um, and
there was still a couple questions that he needed to get answered. Uh, so he's planning on coming back to finalize it before he would go to, uh, the uh, planning to uh, get approval for it. And
then the second one was uh, Route 73 South 7031. uh the Sinoco gas station on the corner of um I think it's Fifth Avenue in 73. They have a convenience store there now and they were they were proposing to
have a deli uh with the ability to ser uh serve sandwiches out of it. So, uh there was also a couple things that they had to get done um and come back before they move on with uh with their applications.
That's it. And the next meeting is July 2nd. Okay. Thank you. Moving over to the green team sustainable. The only thing we have uh we're off for the summer other than the farmers market which will be tomorrow as discussed. Uh moving over to new business. RFP results are in
special council fire law. Guess we can discuss those. Did everybody have a chance to look at? Yeah. I I have a question. Why are we doing this? Oh, you weren't here. No. um I want to say last month or maybe the month maybe the April meeting we were in
close session regarding the ordinance that we currently have in place right so in order since we're not getting a response back we were talking about getting a uh new ordinance so we put it out for special counsel due
to conf well my question is why would we hire a special counsel why don't we hire an attorney that can handle all our Chuck, we have our solicitor that could handle it. They chose not to use our solicitor. So,
well, that's where the conflict was. Is that what you're asking about? Why not use Ellen? No. Oh, no. No, no, no. I know we can't use that one. That's not But since Ellen can't handle it, why don't we hire a a solicitor that can handle all our
business? I think it's the same reason we have multiple solicitors to do other jobs like we have labor attorneys. One solicitor cannot do the job. So, we were looking for extra help. And I that's not exactly it. But and Sandy, correct me or John, correct me if I'm wrong, we were
in close sessions, didn't um when we were talking to Weren't we advised to go to special counsel? Yes, absolutely. Yes. Not sure exactly what I can say. I'll stop. I'll stop. Um just seems to me that we're
we're incurring an expense to the tax taxpayers of something that we already have a solicitor. Uh and if our solicitor that we currently have under our account can't do the work, then we need to hire another solicitor can do all the work. Absolutely. And either way we're hire I mean either way we're
paying somebody, right? Well, he's saying that if we had someone that didn't have a conflict, I think that's what you're saying. Yes. then we wouldn't have to go out for special counsel if we had somebody that didn't have a conflict. So that's what you're trying to get. What is Could you please tell me what the conflict is?
Well, you're saying there's a conflict and there isn't a conflict. We're we're writing an ordinance and there is no conflict for them that ordinance to be written. it gets approved by us and we make that law because of the con uh could because of
the litigation that is still pending. Yeah, we just got something with the fire department now or arguments. So, I just think there's a lot that's all in this. I think it's going to cost us more. Well, as far as the litigation
goes that should have been dropped. Well, it's not council. Well, I'd defer to Amanda as to whether or not this conversation if we can have this conversation as far as I I don't think we need to have this conversation right now. Yeah. Talking
about the the RFP results for special counsel for fire law. So, the reason that council had chosen Chuck was that it was felt that there was a conflict. So, that's and then we were advised to to go outside. So, the three of us decided that was the right thing to do.
So this So we did get two that came back. Did anybody have a chance to educate themselves on those two? Yes. Okay. And opinions, comments? They're both very knowledgeable.
Yes, they both seem very good, but So does what does council want to do? Do you want to tonight vote on if you've all read through the through the RFPs? Did you want to look at that? No. You need time? No. Um or do you want to have
an interview with them? We can do that as well. Um you know, if this comes down to the urgency of, you know, when you want to start working on the ordinance. Well, we're pretty much in the urgent stage, aren't we, at this point? Yeah. I mean, I did I did personally set up a Zoom with each of them and um I I did
try to educ I did try to educate myself on their experience. What was your opinion? Um the one I mean they were both really good, but the one I would go with is Rin Reinhand. I don't have them in front of me. Sorry. Um they're out of New York, I believe. North Jersey
Warren. Yeah, Warren. Yeah. And um what's the name? Bernstein. Bernstein. No, not Bernstein. the other one I remember the other one and then um they were it seems like they deal with this a lot. The other one was more fire districts that you dealt with. Um the
group I think there was four names. They uh I don't know if you're asking my opinion that's who I would go with because I think that they have a lot of experience. They they actually I was on the phone with them for an hour um going over different is going to excuse herself just so we have the names correctly because one name is similar. Yeah, they're both similar similar.
That's why I'm like stretching my head. One's Bernstein, one's like Reinstein or something. Yeah. So, let's just make sure that we're we're on the same page. Yeah. So, I I like I like them better just because like I said, they had the experience and they um they have dealt with different
whether it's fire districts or paid fire department or volunteer and paid like with the stipen program which we have in place now. Yeah. I was just impressed by that. There was two of them on there. There's four of them on there, but two of them spoke. All right. Let's see what the what the names are since they're so
single. I have it in my phone. The one is the one is Eric Bernstein. Bernstein. That's the single guy. Then there's then there's a that's in Warren. He's in or Warren. Yeah. But I believe he's also down this way too. They have Yeah, but I mean it was Eric Bernstein and Dominic Deanna. Deanna. That's the name. Yeah.
Rothstein. Rothstein. Right. Rothstein is the group. Yes. That's the one with with Dominic Deanna. And then the other one is Eric Bernstein. Eric Bernstein. I put it Well, since you have talked to, you know, talked to both of them. I I thought they were both excellent. So, I
would I would, you know, I would agree with you if you feel that since you talked to them, you feel comfortable with that. I was comfortable with that one. Like I said, the other one I was comfortable with both of them, but that one I really like. The other one was more like fire districts. Okay.
This one was took the time out. Like I said, I spent an hour. They educated themselves, educated me. That works for me. Okay. Closer than New York. No, they're both one was Tom's River and one was Warren, I think it was. Yeah. Tom's Tom's River is the um
Tom's River River is the partner group. That's the uh Rothstein, Mandel, Strom, Palm, and Cypriyani. Yeah. And then Eric Bernstein is out. His firm is out of Warren. Warren. Yeah. Okay. So, do we want to make a motion?
Andrew, do you have anything? John, do you just No, I didn't interview. I read I read the RFPs, but if they want to do it tonight, they can award tonight. Oh, they can. We can award tonight. You can award this evening. Yep. You'll need a motion to award or if you want to wait till the
July meeting, but you would need a motion to award and who to award to and then we can write the uh the resolution up. Okay. John, did you I'll make the motion for the group. Stein, Mandel, Strom, Palm, and
Cypriyani. Yes. Is that That's the group out of Warren. Eric Bernstein and Dominic. I second. Just to make sure we have the right one. Yeah, that's the one out of Tom's River. Okay. We don't want the one out of Tom's River. We want the one out of Warren,
right? No, he's just Eric Bernstein and Dominic Deiani was the one I had to zoom with. Okay. Wherever they're from, that's who you want. Yes. Okay. So, that is different. That's different. No. What? What now? So Eric Bernstein is from Warren, right? Yes. So not the
group. You don't want the group. No. No. Eric Bernstein. I like that. Okay. Eric Bernstein. They're Warren out of Warren. So it's Warren. So that's the one you Okay. Okay. So Warren say Warren. You said the other one, but that's okay. Warren. Okay. Okay. Eric
Bernstein. That's what I said. Motion toward to Bernstein. To Eric Bernstein. John made the motion. Sandy second. Okay. For Bernstein. Yeah. So, can we have a roll call, please? Yes. Mr. Kaufman. No. Miss Nunes? Yes. Mr. Simick? No. Mr.
Sernik? Yes. Mayor Telerico? Yes. I thought it could. Okay. Okay. Um, so motion carries. Motion carries. Yes. So, underneath business, I just have two things. Go ahead. Um there's uh the
concern with uh my colleagues maybe I don't know but uh I'm just making a statement and putting on on record uh for future considerations. Um, there seems to be a feeling that I'm
going to return to the fire department if uh independent was to uh be put back into service and take it over or become the chief again. Um, and as long as I'm on council, I'm not going to be involved
with the fire department. So, it's public record now. If something other than that changes, then you have recourse to come after me. Um, I don't know where this is stemming from, but I'm on counsel now and that's
my priority. Um, so if anyone has any questions about it, they can call me and talk to me. I also next month I didn't bring them with me, I'll bring my resignation letter that I produced to the council members and to
Susan and give them out to you so that you have a copy of them. Um, but I just wanted to get that put on record. The uh the other thing too is um I noticed and and this is just a uh I
guess a liability issue to me um the road department superintendent apparently has an old police car that has tenant windows um and still kind of looks like a police car. Um my concern is that uh it doesn't have any markings
on it and uh you know the world we live in is not a a hospital hospital. Um and I I fear that he may be staken for a police officer especially since he's dressed sometimes like
detectives look. Um, and it's just I I just want to go on record uh that uh I really think that the car should be, you know, the tenant windows should be taken out of it, that it should be lettered and made into a car that's going to be
used, you know, as a road department car. Um, you know, cuz if something happens and he's mistaken for a police officer, you know, that's not going to look good for the township as far as having a worker injured mistaken for for
something that he is not. So, I'm just putting it out there and putting it on record. Who Who is this? Pet director super public works. Yep. So, and it is a former police car is what I said. We pass those vehicles down, but we certainly can have that lettered without
a problem. and I'll look at having well the wood department had to have it done so fair is fair as far as I'm concerned all of them normally are lettered so the old Tahoe is lettered so I'll get with Pat and I'll go do that it's a safety issue to me for him okay anything else
under new business yeah I do that's it yeah I would like to see an RFP next week next council meeting uh for a solicitor that can handle all our All business. Any comments on that from anybody else?
I would agree. Anybody else on this side? Nope. Okay. So, do we need a motion for that? To put an RFP out. We do it, right? Yes. Yep. Bernard put that in motion form. Yeah. So move.
Second. So Chuck's making a motion. Second. Call. Mr. Kaufman. Yes. Miss Nunes. Yes. Mr. Simon. No. Mr. Radnik. No. Mayor Tico. No.
Motion carries. Motion. Motion denied. Motion denied. Is that all? Anything else? That is all. Um, okay. And we don't have close session tonight. So, um, I would like somebody make a motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor? All
right. Okay. We're going to adjourn.