Good evening. This is a meeting of the township committee May 12th, 2025. The notice requirements provided for in the open public meetings act have been satisfied. Notice of this meeting was properly given by transmission to the Asbury Park Press and the two of her times and by posting at the Middletown Township Municipal Building and filing
with the Township Clerk all on January 11, 2025. Committeeman Clark here. Committeewoman Kratz here. Committeeman Senino here. Deputy Mayor Hibell here. Mayor Perry here. I jumped the gun. Sorry. But you're here. 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. At this time, I ask for a moment of silence to honor the troops serving
worldwide, defending our constitutions, freedoms, and way of life. Thank you. Our first item on tonight's agenda, we have proclamations and presentations. We have a presentation recognizing June 7th, 2025 as Relay for Life Day in the Township of
Middletown. At this time, I'd like to invite Amy Nolan from Relay for Life event leadership team to join Mayor Perry at the front of the room for our annual appeal, right? Our Uh, he's pointing to you. Don't worry.
But the really life is such an emotional survivor. Um, and this year, um, you know, we're really just leaning into this 40 years of of impact and, uh, the impact that we have when we participate in Relay for Life and raise funds for this great cause. Um, so we'll be doing, uh, a 5K
walk on the track. Uh, we'll have lots of games and activities. We'll have some food trucks and music. Um it'll be lots of fun, but it also will be really impactful. Uh like Mayor Perry said, we will uh recognize any cancer survivor or caregiver uh from Middletown or surrounding towns who wants to come and
join us. You're uh everyone is welcome. Uh and our cancer survivors and caregivers walk the first lap of our event to really uh put that meeting right out in front of everybody. Uh and then we'll continue to walk laps. Like I said, we'll have games and activities and team laps and um it's all to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Uh some of the things that we help to fund are uh a 247 helpline. So if someone's diagnosed with cancer, uh their family, they can call and get help. Um we have uh a new app called ACS Cares where someone can go in and get uh content that they need. Uh peer-to-peer
support um like Mayor Perry said, rides to treatment, uh somewhere to stay when someone has to travel for treatment. Uh just so many amazing resources and everything's available at cancer.org uh for anyone who may be impacted and who needs help. Uh, and of course, you know, we're here too. You can reach out to us and we'll be here to help you as well.
Teal for the shirts this year. Yes, for our green for for the committee, but teal for everybody else. Teal. Anyone who raises $100 will get a teal t-shirt just like this one. I looks pretty teal. And survivors, all cancer survivors get a purple shirt just like this. So, well,
with that being said, uh, Amy, thanks again for everything that you do. Um, hope everybody can go to miltownj.orgre /relay forlife um to uh learn more about the the event June 7th 6 to 10 um at
South this year. So, uh, I, Mayor Tony Perry, and the Middletown Township Committee do hereby proclaim that June 7th, 2025 be known as Relay for Life Day in the Township of Middletown and call upon all residents to support this inspirational event and we encourage our community to support the American Cancer
Society in their efforts to help everyone who has been touched by cancer. Amy, thanks for everything that you do. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. No problem. Thank you. Thanks everyone. This is good things about walking too because our next our next group we're
walking for them as well. Right, Alex? All right. Our next presentation recognizing May 2025 as mental health awareness month in the township of Middletown. At this time, I'd like to invite Be the Difference managing director, Alex Tado,
to join Mayor Perry at the front of the room. So this year our new our new head of the be the difference uh Alex took over for Piper Wyman who uh was kind of led this but Alex was right there uh through the
last what two years two years for the walk. If you don't know about the Be the Difference Walk, uh it starts out with a great little um ceremony at the Middletown Arts Center and walks right up uh right up church, down King's Highway, and right here to Town Hall.
And it's all about uh ensuring that people that are in need of help uh have the resources to ask for help. Um so, Alex, you want to tell everybody about the the walk this year? Yeah. Firstly, I wanted to thank Mayor Perry for the opportunity to recognize Be the
Difference, the walk for suicide awareness in our community during the proclamation for mental health in the month of May. As well, I want to thank those who have supported me and made this walk possible. I'm a senior at Middletown South and proud to call myself managing director of Be the Difference. This has been the first collaborative year with former South
student Piper Wyman, who's found the difference. this year. It will take place ne this Sunday, May 18th, at the Middletown Art Center from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. There will be raffles, food, um, games, and all that. So, I hope you guys are able to come. If you want more
information, visit on Instagram, be the difference_j. I love it. So, be the difference_j. I love that there's that you knew that right off the bat because I had to read it and I was like, what is that little line right there? Not realizing. But um obviously that you
know the statistic that sits out sticks out every year for me is that nearly one in five Americans um experience mental health in a given year. Um and while that is sounds small when you say one in five and you realize um it's not not
small. It's not small at all. And we need to be able to provide uh every single person that is in need of mental health resources. why Middletown is so proud that we created the wellness wheels program um that will provide free
Ubers use it utilizing the opioid settlements so that individuals with mental health issues can call up town hall and get a ride free of charge utilizing our opioid settlement money to get to the to the resources that that
they need. Um that's this paired with all the other activities that you're doing with Be the Difference. Um when you when you need help, just ask somebody. And uh Alex, I'm proud that you uh took up this effort. Um proud that you've been a part
of it for the for the entire time, but so proud that it's coming up this uh this Sunday and and I look forward to marching down Kings Highway with you. All right. So, thank you very much, Alex. So therefore, Mayor I, Mayor Tony Perry, and the Middletown Township Committee do hereby proclaim that May
2025 and every May going forward as mental health awareness month in the township of Middletown in order to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around mental health. And we encourage students to register for the Be the Difference Walk and join the community in taking a stand. Remember, visit Instagram account
be the difference_J. Alex, thanks for everything. Congratulations. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Let's give it another round. Okay. So, where is Tara? Tara. Kim. Yep. So, we're gonna have the
members of the township committee come down, too, so you guys can help us pick. This is not So, this is for Kim. This is for our This is for our student Middletown Alliance. Okay. So we apologize today, but what she did was
she worked with our student assistance coordinators in the high schools and they u have an initiative initiative that our um students could take a pledge with their parents to pledge not to be drink before, after I mean excuse me before, during and after their proms
just to make sure that everyone was safe. And so, um, we're going to choose two winners from each high school and, um, who will receive a $50 gift card as as as a winner for taking our pledge. So, really great stuff. So, I'm going to
have you guys each I'll have each of you uh take a bag. All right. What do you Which one you want? Hi, picking two names. Alex, is your name in here? Okay. The right the right answer I think is
yes. If I didn't pull it, we're gonna keep on looking till we get it. All right. Two names. Two names. Two names. Two names. All right. Starting with Middletown High School. Middletown High School North seniors.
Good school. Grace Mitchell and James Mela. All right. $50. And if the promise is not to drink the day after, I was doubling up the $50
gift. I wanted to double this up. My turn. Yep. Your turn. Okay, great. High school. Okay. High School South James. No, no, good. This is good. Uh James Sysler and Taylor Higgins.
So this is High School North Juniors. First one is Victoriaio and the second is Leah Felman. So, High School South Juniors with Christopher Morel and Nick Moro.
All right. So, thank you and the Middletown Alliance for putting on this program. Um, congratulations to our winners. um don't spend the $50 too quickly um for your gift certificates, but everyone stay safe for prom and I
appreciate the Middletown Alliance putting this together. So, Kim, thank you so much. And thank you to our student um assistant counselors too at the high school. So, thank you everyone. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Next on tonight's agenda, we have a
proclamation recognizing May 11th through 17th, 2025 as police week in the Township of Middletown. We have another proclamation for the record recognizing May 18th through 24th, 2025 as EMS week in the township of Middletown.
A proclamation recognizing May 26, 2025 as Memorial Day in the Township of Middletown and a proclamation recognizing May 2025 as Older Americans Month in the Township of Middletown and a proclamation recognizing May 2025 as
Jewish American Heritage Month in the Township of Middletown and a proclamation recognizing June 2025 as Pride Month in the Township of Middletown. Next, we have public hearing on proposed ordinances. Our first ordinance for public hearing is
2025-3462, an ordinance approving disposition of the township's real property interests in block 255, lot 2 and block 534, lot 7 to the county of Mammoth and related actions. Any member of the public wishing to speak on public ordinance number
2025-3462? Seeing no member of the public stepping forward, move to close public portion and approve. Second. Committeeman Clark. Yes. Committeewoman Kratz. Yes. Committeeman Senino. Yes. Deputy Mayor Hibell. Yes. Mayor Perry. Yes. Motion carries to pass this
ordinance on second and final reading. Next we have introduction of proposed ordinances 2025-3463 and ordinance amendment chapter 240 of the code of the township of Middletown governing certain fee schedules for planning and development.
Motion to introduce. Second. Committeeman Clark, yes. Committeewoman Kratz, yes. Committ Senino, yes. Deputy Mayor Hibbell, yes. Mayor Perry, yes. Motion carries to pass this ordinance on first reading with a public hearing to be held May 28th, 2025.
We have ordinance 2025-3464, an ordinance amendment for chapter 540 of the code of the township of Middletown governing certain fee schedules for planning and development. Motion to introduce. Second. Committee Clark, yes. Committeewoman Kratz, yes.
Committeeman Senino, yes. Deputy Mayor Hibbo, yes. Mayor Perry, yes. Motion carries pass this ordinance on first reading with a public hearing to be held May 28th, 2025. Our final ordinance for introduc uh for introduction. We have
2025-3465, an ordinance establishing the fair market value of permanent roadway easement upon a portion of block 1072, lot 41, 642, Newman Springs Road, within the township of Middletown and authorizing acquisition of deed of
permanent roadway easement by purchase or eminent domain for the purpose of enhancing roadway circulation and improving traffic conditions. Motion to introduce. Second. Committeeman Clark. Yes. Committeewoman Kratz, yes. Committeeman Senino, yes. Deputy Mayor
Hibbell, yes. Mayor Perry, yes. Motion carries to pass this ordinance on first reading with a public hearing to be held May 28th, 2025. At this time, I'd like to ask the township committee to adopt a consent agenda. Motion to approve. Second.
Um, Committ Clark, yes. Committ Kratz, yes. Committ Sino, yes. Deputy Mayor Hibbo, yes. Mayor Perry, yes. Motion carries to adopt consent agenda. At this time, we have uh township committee comments. All right, Committee Clark.
That you come back to me. And yes, I did. Now, I got stuff to say even though normally at the workshop, we don't. Um just real quick, uh the uh mental health awareness month and uh the walk that go the be the difference walk and everything goes along with that. Um,
some people don't realize, but I've had this mask card in my pocket for three years now. And this was one of my best friends who happens to live used to live near the train station who struggled with mental health for a good portion of his life and unfortunately took his own
life at one point uh three almost three years ago in July. So that that event, the events like it and the stuff that brings awareness to it, if it makes a difference in one person's life to not take their own
life, uh it's beyond important. So uh I'm just really glad that there's groups like be the difference and otherwise that are out there. And like I said, it's in my pocket in every single meeting because Allan was a big part of my life. Um, and then secondly, uh, and I have
to, she's not a Middletown resident, but she's a a young lady. She's nine years old, and, uh, she was just put on hospice, uh, last Thursday. Um, and I had to I was lucky enough to be able to go see her on Friday when I landed from,
uh, a business trip before I came here for a meeting actually. and her parents had to make a decision to allow her to live out her last days as comfortable as she possibly could. Um, her name is Cameron and uh, she's she's been fighting this for
three years and uh, I've unfortunately I've been around this and the reason I'm bringing it up, everybody at this day knows and some people out the audience know that pediatric cancer's been something that I've been an advocate uh, for finding a cure for for a long time
and Cammy is just another she's another kid who's got taken by this jerk of a disease. Um, and uh I just I want her name to be in our history because she deserves to be recognized wherever she can. So,
um, that's that's all I got tonight. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Committeeman Clark. Appreciate those words. Uh, Committeeman Senator Brino. So, Mayor, those are tough comments to follow. Um, and the um that the best that I could do and the best that we can
do here is lend our support um and um volunteer the deputy mayor to do the walk. Uh we'll do the 5K walk and not the run. I'll do the run. I'm ready. What? Uh no, no, I'm volunteering you to do the walk. Okay. Um, so, uh, that that
is that's the least we can do to show our support. That's all I have for this evening. Mayor, thank you. Thank you, Committ. Uh, thank you, Mayor. Um, just again, thank you to our students for participating in in the raffle. Um, and and wishing everyone to be safe and
enjoy their proms this season. Um, it's it's such a a pivotal time for for our young people. And um we also will be uh having a rooe awakening event at the high schools um with our EMS. So also to just reiterate the importance of of
being responsible and and making good choices and and and all of that while having fun at the same time. So we're real excited about about them having going through their proms and and wish them all well. Also, um wanted to give a shout out to our police department. Uh
today begins national uh police week and we are beyond thankful and grateful for the men and women who serve here in Middletown. We um are blessed to have exceptional people beginning with our leaders uh and Craig Weber and um I have the privilege of working with our
officers who in turn uh work with our alliance for our young people and they are exceptionally dedicated. they come out as as volunteers when they don't have to and they um take so much pleasure and pride in graduating. We graduate nearly 500 students every year.
So, just want to give a big shout out to Sergeant Sergeants Heaton and and um K9 Titan and uh all of our all of our officers for sure. So, just thank you again to everyone and um Ryan, your heart is uh is big is is really big. So,
we certainly keep her in our prayers. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Well, uh, I want to talk about these bags here. These bags had I don't know, I guess, would you all say about 30 to 50 names in each one? It's a lot of
Yeah, a lot of names for high school kids wanting to to take a chance on uh the $50. So, that that's that's a that's good. That's very good. I'm very excited to see that. Happy for the winners. Um was hoping it was gonna be more, but uh Merid didn't uh go in his pocket deep
enough. But uh good stuff. Uh I I don't know if everyone was in town last weekend, but we had a um we had a we had a couple great things, but just one of the the things that I have to um I I know because I know there's a few complaints at the the drive-thru at McDonald's. I don't know if everyone got
the opportunity to see the long line of cars stacking on 35. That only happened when the mayor was working a drive-through line. So, just so there's anyone that's complaining, he handled about what about three orders or whatever. Three orders. Um, got yelled
at for two of them. You know, again, this is we we always talk about uh redevelopment of uh of existing sites. Uh this is a good thing here. This is this site is uh from what I understand, not a premium site for McDonald's because of its location. Uh
but it's been there for a long time and it's a very busy site. So, I'm glad that they decided to stay in Middletown. I'm glad they decided to redevelop a site that was uh very old. Um and uh I'm glad that they're hiring 50 people in that store. 50 people. 50 people in that
store. And let me tell you, I I sometimes I go to McDonald's for people often. Um and I I had no idea that it was uh I don't eat it myself, but I'm only kidding. I do eat it. But uh it's it's impressive. It's an operation in there. I mean, it's really it's really
something to see and I'm I'm glad I got to see it. So, glad to hear, mayor. That's all I have. But if you do have complaints, please uh talk to uh the mayor about it. Okay. All right. Well, I see you. I see you. Um just want to give uh I echo all
the the members of the committee's comments. Um certainly uh Committ Clark, yours, um especially um given how how heavy of a toll that is for the family um and and for yourself obviously. So um
we'll keep we'll keep her in in in our prayers certainly. Um just want to uh give a shout out to Middletown Recreation. Um they had their annual fishing derby uh two weekends ago and uh
I I w the the person I want to give a big shout out to is Vinnie Moran who is not here tonight. Um but Vinnie uh was there on his own accord as a volunteer to just help kids do what he loves to do
and that's to fish. Um, and you know, as as some of you know, Vinnie's had a tough stretch. Um, but he was there and it was a combination, I think, of two things that kept a smile on his face.
Number one was that, um, we did not, Grant and I did not catch anything. Um, number two was seeing more than 50 moms and sons, dads and daughters and every
combination in between going out without their cell phones and just casting a line out onto firemen's pond. Um, it was uh great to see. And so I just want to give recreation a shout out. I want to give Vinnie a shout out and uh and and
thank him for for just being there to pass along tips of of the the trade um that he's gained along the way. So um with that being said, I'll open it up for public comment. Any member of the public wishing to make a public comment may do so. Ask that you state your name
and address and your name for the record and that you keep your comments to five minutes. At four minutes, I'll let you know that you have one minute remaining. And by this point, they basically know that I'm laxed on the time. So, I don't know why I always repeat that. Um, any member of the public wishing to make a public
comment? Okay. I didn't know if you were deferring back to Melanie, Don, or Okay. All right. Yeah. Thank you. I know. You ready? Yeah. You got a Hey, fresh. I know. I thought I was going to
be late tonight because I had to do my hair, but I walked in and there was nobody here but Karen. What's up with that? Anyway, my name's Don Watson. We wanted to make sure you looked your best, Don. Oh, thanks. You got it.
Anyway, my name's Don Watson, living at One Collinsson Drive. And um I have a few things I want to point out here. I saw a electronic sign up by the white church on New Mammoth in Leonardville over
there advertising a um a runw walk for um the Saturday the St. Mary's the St. Mary's thing. Yeah. Anyway, um Saturday is also the townwide yard sale, which is going to prohibit a lot
of people from getting around. And the the run is from 8 to 11, which is like prime yard sale time. Um, I think that a little bit better planning should have been in going into that because um, I've
heard it from my yard sale friends that um, we're going to have trouble getting around especially getting to Milbrook or going down Wilson. I'm not a part of that group. So I I No, he's not. So this is the first he's hearing about the first time I'm hearing about the yard
sales. That's why I wanted to bring it. You think so? I'll have to reel that information. Thanks, Ryan. You can you can combine the run and the yard sale. I think that's run to the yard sales in between each one.
Yeah. Run up Milbrook and come back down and yeah, head down Wilson and check them out. And you never know. I think that's what happened in an episode of The Office, right? I don't know. I've never watched The Office. Go check it out. It's a good All
right. Um, this fishing derby over at the Navink Pond, is there fish in that pond? They stock it. I didn't believe it. I didn't believe it. And then I went I had to go back that like two days later and we did catch a fish. So, okay. There are
fish in the pond. Uh, no. But there there was plenty of fish caught that day. Really? Just not on Grant's hook. I couldn't believe it. Stock. What do they stock her with? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I just remember going ice skating there
when I was a kid. You know, they they did it over the over this winter. They were ice skating out there. Yeah. I'm sure they do it every winter if the ice is they haven't been able to do it the last couple because they never got a like a true thick ice. Yeah. Thick enough ice. Yeah. To be able to do it, right? Be like a polar bear plunge.
Yeah. Exactly. Trying to avoid that even even though even though I do feel bad for the two kids that did end up in the pond during the fishing event, but my kid was not one of them. But anyway, anyway, um also I wanted to get an
update from Ted on um Main Street over in Port Mammoth by Crystal Lake or Crystal Pond. In what respect, Don? When it's going to be paved. Um it's not really on the list right now. We have what? It's really, it's on our overall list, but we haven't gone through the capital this year. Overall list, I think
every road in town should be on the overall list. Eventually, they will be, but All right. I was just wondering, we had a project to pave that road from 36 to Palmer Avenue, and there's that one section that got missed. Yeah, that was not that wasn't the worst section really, but you know, it's still on
there. When we look at capital again this year, we'll look at it, but unfortunately, we have roads that are probably in worse shape. So, we'll sit down and talk about capital in the next two weeks, I think. So, but it is still on the list. Great. Thank you. Great.
Make a few people pacified at least. Um I think that's all I got for tonight. Thank you. Oh, no. One more thing. Yeah. um when you adopted a resolution at the beginning of the year, you identified um
May 5th as a date for a meeting, which was last Monday. Yes. And when I came here, the door was locked and the janitor came out and says, "Ain't nothing happening around here tonight." And I didn't see any notice. I
used to get notifications about meetings and um agendas and stuff like that and I just don't get that anymore. Is that something that we discontinued? Maybe Heidi could help me. Yeah, actually um we're going to be setting something back up. We changed
vendors for the agendas and I believe they're going to um set that up actually in the next week or two to be able to subscribe again to the agendas. Oh, we have to resubscribe. You'll have to resubscribe. That's that's the unfortunate part about it. I subscribe
right now. No, you'll have to wait till it opens up. But the reason why there's a new portal on the I'm gonna forget about it now. You know, I'm an old guy and I can't remember. Wait a minute. Let me write this down. What can I reapply? I just want to know who these s But I
will tell you that it person was posted on the website that the meeting was canled. Just the website, but next time I'll make sure I put a note on the door. I'm sorry. All right. Thank you. No problem. Appreciate your concern. I'll keep looking. I'll keep
looking. There should There should be a notice about re-registering. Yeah, we can work on that. Groovy Melanie, come on down. Uh Melanie Elmar, Green Tree Terrace in Linraftoft. Um I'm here as a director with the LRA Village Green Association.
And I just wanted to bring forward two issues that were uh presented to us by uh membership. Um the first one is um Mayor Perry in some previous meetings had um really spoken his case about
sidewalks and the difficulties um in getting participation and getting through the process of that. And I um he explained it very well. But um that's with sidewalks. But my question is, how do you get crosswalks? And I don't know if I direct that to Ted, like what is
the process on any road, whether it's county, township, um, ADA, like how how does that work? What is what is the process for that? Because we have a families on Swimming River Road on the east side. There's so much broken up
sidewalk, they'd have to cross the road twice to get to downtown. They'd have to cross to the west side, walk up to Oak, cross back, and and the first time it starts again is at the LRO liquors. Like there's there's broken up spots for whatever reason. Um from Rose Street up.
So like if you take Masterson, you cannot walk on the side of Masterson, you'd have to cross twice to stay on sidewalk, otherwise you're on personal property or too close to the road. So, um, people are looking for a way to be
able to, you know, get sidewalks are, I think, are harder, right, than crosswalks. So, what would be the process? Who should people be petitioning? Do they start with the county or the town? Should there should I mean, depending on the road, obviously, it's a swimming river road. Yeah. county. But if you're asking about
the process depending on the depending on the roadway directing it to that government government agency that has oversight, if it is the county, they are also going to come to the town anyway to request whether or not the town is in favor or opposed to that. Um, but like
almost everything else when it comes to roadways, there are set DOT standards both federally and state that are, you know, the the holy bible basically for whether or not something fits the criteria. uh for crosswalks, for
example. Um there was always a push right here on King's Highway to have a crosswalk uh going from the parking lot for Christ Church, which is set down lower, and then folks have to climb the steps, and then having a crosswalk right there. The problem with that is there's
two crosswalks too close within the vicinity to be able to make it uh uh adhere to the standards of of the Department of Transportation. So, you have a stop, start, stop, start type of situation where um you you're getting
traffic eaten up too much by the different crosswalks. Can crosswalks be uh you know, evaluated for different areas? Sure. Um, they absolutely can be, but those requests should come to the township committee and to the township, whether directed to the committee itself
or to to to Tony or to Ted, okay, to evaluate whether or not a uh crosswalk is number one needed and number two, is it able to be placed uh where um the the individuals are requesting it? Okay. So,
so contact the township at the same time as the county or start with the township? I would CC them on on the letter. Okay. Yeah. All right. Great. Um the second thing is um also about signs. Um Ted and I were exchanging emails about the Linkrath Little League and you're right um people are coming are
being directed by Google uh maps to go in the exit of the Little League fields. And I think by the time they get there and they're just like this, they're like, "Oh, there's two do not enter" signs and there's a one way, if but if they're coming from the westerly
direction, they or yeah, east going west. Uh they can't really see that one way. So my my question is, can we have on 520 at the post office, at the LR little league fields, um maybe
Linkraftoft school? Uh most likely. Yes. and um Dunkin Donuts. Can we have every oneway have a one-way sign on both sides of the sign itself on both sides of the road itself? Because I I've last year it
was something that the county engineer uh traffic division pointed out like you're missing all these one-way signs. People are very confused. They're always going in the wrong way of the Dunkin Donuts, the um post office. I go to the post office every day. It's happened to me at least three times that someone's
trying to go in the exit, which is a oneway due to the roundabout. So, I'm wondering if that's something that the township since the sign would be something that the township would have to ask the property owners to do even like the board of ed. I don't think I don't think they have to. They don't
have to. So, you can if you warrant Well, see, that's where I get confused because the county engineer said to me, "Well, you have to give that to the township." And we gave them a whole list of all the signs that are bad. I think it's just got to be a cooperative between the two. Okay. Yeah.
I don't Okay. Yeah. I think I think as long as everybody is, which in this situation it's it's not probably a big deal. Okay. Um, you know, I I say that and then someone gives me a reason why we can't do something that I find so
simple and it and then I find their rationale ridiculous. But in this situation, I I don't think it's all that big of a deal. And tomorrow when when Joe is here, I I'll certainly bring it up to him. Okay, great. Because I I kind of get confused as to who really has
jurisdiction and who's who actually takes the action. And a lot of times you don't know is it the property owner, is it the township, is it the county? And it kind of goes round and% of the time for directional signs and traffic bearing signs, it's always going to be the the government agencies. There's
there's there's no need for us to consult with or ask permission if it's an existing sign, but the property owner has the right to do it themselves if it's an appropriate sign. Like for instance, with the post office,
they can Okay, that that's why I'm saying for for 520 the if you you have now brought this to the township. So now Ted is gonna go to Joe and Jo is gonna say, "Hey, we we're we're we want to add these signs." And then Joe is gonna say,
"Yep, no problem." And then either they're going to supply the signs or and we install them or vice versa. Maybe they do both. It it it depends on just what each other is working on. But for directional sign purposes um like that where it's oneway stop yields whatever
even if they're on private property we still have the right to to put them up there because traffic is is is for us. Uh the property owners aren't aren't worrying about traffic like that. Yes. Okay. All right. Great. And I just wanted to thank Ted for um his
attendance at the um May 2nd meeting with the county about the um two-way Acme Road. Um and then my uh last comment is on today's agenda with the three introductions of proposed ordinances. There were no attachments
online. Is that normal with introductions? I I'm I'm not sure. Oh, so the so the detail of number 14 is that for that little strip along the Jersey Pride. Yep. Okay. So I when I first read it because I I couldn't remember if it was 642 or 644. I wasn't
sure if it was the easement for Louise. Yeah. Brian um finalized the terms of of that to for for the in basically for the entirety of the Acme roadway the the new access roadway that has will grant us the easement to be able to complete that
project. Okay. So as far as getting into the Luigi's um is that being worked on as well like that easement cross that one that one is that we already own that we already have that that's all part of it. the ingress egress of behind Luigi's is already the
township already has that. We don't have to worry about that. I didn't realize that when we discussed it on the second um it seemed like that was still a conversation that had to take place that they would have to talk to the property owner of the le already agreed to it.
Oh, like behind Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Correct. We already have that. That is news to me and we've we've it's come up in conversation and meeting so many times. Luigi's never opposed doing it.
Objected. Yeah. The other property owner who didn't want to connect it. So now that we have Oh, you're going back to the original. So now that we have control of the easement, we can grant them access to it. Correct. Oh my gosh. That's like poof. Wow. Okay. That's fantastic. I thought we were going to
have to wait and wait and wait and it was going to go around and round and round. The the while the acme is certainly beneficial, the Luigi's strip part of it is even the more critical in my opinion because it it's that much
closer to the light. There's no other access other than going across, right? You can't do phase two without that one. Yeah. Um, and I just want to thank you for um, you're organizing tomorrow's meeting for the 520 info session. So, no problem. Thank you. Thank you so much, Melanie. Any other member of the public
wish to make a public comment? Seeing no other member of the public stepping forward, move to close the public portion and adjourn. Second. Committ Clark. Yes. Committ Kratz. Yes. Committ Seno, yes. Deputy Mayor Hibell, yes. Mayor Perry, yes.
Motion carries to adjurnn. Have a great night, everybody. Thank you all so much.