--------- I'd like to order the work session meeting to order. Roll call, please. Mayor Romick, here. Commissioner Hwitt, here. Commissioner Suie, here. Vice Mayor Watson, here. Commissioner Kasabun, here. May you please stand and salute the flag. 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. This meeting is being conducted in accordance with the open public meetings act of 1975. Was advertised, posted, and
made available to the public as required by statute. The municipal clerk is directed to include a statement in the minutes of this meeting. Madame clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? Yes, mayor. We have a resolution authorizing a close session for discussion on council 18OU.
Thank you. presentation. Seeing none, public comment on agenda items only. If anyone from the public would like to comment on agenda items, please come to the podium, state your name, address your concerns, and please limit those comments to approximately 5 minutes. Seeing no one, I will close public
comment on agenda items only. Discussions on commissioners. Commissioner Huitt, go ahead. Nothing at this time, Mayor. Thank you. Commissioner Suie, go ahead. Yeah, we seem to have a little problem getting bid spec specs done for a couple of UEZ projects totaling them I don't know almost half a million dollars. I don't
know if the problem lies in engineering or in purchasing but I'd appreciate it Mr. Watson if you could look into that and see if you could get that expedited a little bit before we lose the money. Got that? That's all I have. Thank you, Commissioner Suie. Commissioner
Kasamoon. Nothing at this time. Vice Mayor Watson, for the UEE projects, what uh what should I be looking for? There's bid specs for improvements to Walton Park and bid specs for the rest of the PA project includes fencing, uh benches,
stuff like that. I don't know if the parking lots have been done yet or not as far as bid specs go. There's emails. I'll try to get to forward the email to you. I thought I forwarded it to you once, but I'll check and see if I can find it and send it again. Yes, please.
All good. Um I just want to thanks everybody's department heads um just with uh you know they were just efficient with correspondence when we were trying to put together the capital budget uh should be coming on for next meeting. So thank you to everybody. That's all I have. Thank you vice mayor.
I would just like to bring uh uh all the commissioners in the ordinance of the first reading item number four. Um this is just to be uh brought up and inspect. This is currently uh zoned improperly I believe and it's going to be reszoned as uh highway commercial district. Um had a
lot of business inquiries on that piece of property and uh you know it's saving those businesses a trip to the zoning board asking for specific variances for what's it's going to be. Obviously there's a bank right there right now. Um but other than a bank that's the only
thing that could go there because of the current zoning is what's it going to be? So I just ask for your support on changing this. Um and then in accordance with the law, it does need to go back to planning board for a consistency review. Um regarding that, that'll be the Trish Bank, right? Correct. Okay. That was the
recommendation of the planning board, correct? It's a Yeah, a courtesy review. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Other than that, that's all I have. Your business? Seeing none, we've reached public comment of our portion of our meeting. Anyone who would like to address the commission, please
go to the podium, state your name, and address your concerns. Please limit your comments to approximately five minutes. Thank you. Uh Tamara Davis, Milville. Um I'm here to uh just discuss something real quick.
At the last uh work session, I was here discussing a uh an event that was approved. And I'm not here to discuss that event um per se. What I am here is to discuss is the way it was handled um and the approvals
that I believe um probably lack a little bit of transparency probably it did not doesn't even seem to follow any procedures. It just kind of appeared on the agenda and I just want to bring it to light so it could be
discussed and not happen again. So first off on the application there are specific signatures that are asked for. Signature of department of parks and public property, signature of traffic safety bureau, signature of chief of police, signature of fire chief,
signature of s uh city clerk. There was none. Now we can consider an email approving an event. I can understand that as a signature and that's fine. I understand that because from public records request I got that the fire chief approved the event and we'll have
to perform a uh a fire inspection. Then it was uh we were told the public was told that the uh director or the uh department parks and public property approved the event. There is no such approval. Um according to again to
public records it says from the department the director of not the director but Samantha Cruz says no request which requires parks to be involved. That doesn't even seem like an approval or disapproval at all. There is no um record of any signature from the
fire chief. I understand you had a discussion but if he approved it there should be a signature. There's no signature um from the traffic safety bureau, which I guess could be the same person as the chief of police, and it's none there. Now, I think I'm
missing a page from the um Oprah request, and that's okay. But there seems to be at least two pages of applications that they were received, reviewed, and then of course denied or approved. And the city engineer is included in that should there have been a buildout. That's a little bothersome
because probably none of you would even have known that this was on the agenda had it not been brought up light by the public. And the other thing was a board member came up here and asked if there was a discussion with the school board regarding the parking lot being used as
an uh emergency exit and such and if whether they were included on the insurance. There was simply not one single discussion with the school board regarding the use of the parking lot or that they even know. There is an informal agreement with the school board in that church because they do park
their cars on Sunday. And what's worse, when this was asked by the particular uh school board member, a commissioner said, "Yep." There never was such a discussion because I took it upon myself to have it um to to contact the business
administrator at the school board. They weren't even aware that their parking lot is being used as an emergency uh part of an emergency plan. nor did they expect that they have to even submit one because I guess it's not um required by any type of ordinance or
anything like that. So, this is a little troubling because I'm beginning to wonder and and this kind of makes me wonder and understand why there was a $19 million oversight for the budget because if you're not even following
procedures for a basic event, what else have you not following procedures for? Okay. And this should have been a no-brainer. The public should not have brought this to your attention. You should have known about it that was going to be on the on
the agenda. Okay. Probably many of you didn't even know until it was brought up that night. This is a liability issue. This is a problem. If something should happen on any of these events, what are you going to do? Who Who's going to be pointing
fingers at who? because then they can all turn around say I didn't know about it. I didn't sign it. I didn't know about it. I didn't sign it. So there's this this is procedure has been in place. You're the final approval. All right. Obviously, you need to to, you know, talk with your
particular departments and and and understand that your departments, you know, know what going on. But if you don't see a signature on there from them, how do you know? And don't tell me that you had a discussion because if you had a discussion, you could have gotten a signature. There's not even a a signature of the
city clerk on here, which that's it starts with the city clerk. So, I think there needs to be um a little bit of discussion, understanding, review. I
don't know what you need to do and make sure that these procedures are done correctly. Okay? because if it's not, you're going to continue undermining the public trust, which you are already as as a commission. All right? And then we may we were wondering what kind of other
procedural shortcuts are there that could put the city in a liability. So, thank you. Seeing no one else, I will close public comment portion of this meeting. Closing comments of commissioners. Commissioner
Hwitt. Yeah, just real quick. Uh I will add uh should have said it earlier. Uh engine 30 is right now being re-equipped and to be put back in service. We have finally gotten that one of the trucks we took out of service with one of the
larger fires in town. So C shift is taking care of that right now as we are here. That's all. Mayor, thank you Commissioner Huitt. Commissioner Suie, nothing else. Commissioner Cosmoon. Nothing. Vice
Mayor Watson? No. Thank you. I have nothing further resolutions. Resolution authorizing close session for the following matter. Discussion on council 18OU negotiation and attorney client privilege. Make a motion. Second. Motion second.
Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasaboon? Yes. Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Romick? Yes. Can't take the shortcut. Part: 2
I'd like to call the regular session meeting to order. Roll call, please. Mayor Romick here. Commissioner Huitt here. Commissioner Suie here. Vice Mayor Watson here. Commissioner Kasaboon here. May I please have Do we have pastor in the house? No pastor. Oh yeah. Sir, can
you please join us and please can we public can we please stand for invocation followed by a saluda flag? Let's pray. Creator God, we are just blessed to be here in your presence tonight. I thank
you for a group of leaders that starts a meeting in prayer. Father, we call on you for your wisdom. We call on you for your guidance. We thank you for who you are and we pray your anointing over these leaders and over this time. Be in the conversations. Be in the decisions
that are made. For we ask that your glory be shown in this city of Milville, in Cumberland County, and in this great state. We ask it all in your holy name. Amen. Amen. 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. This meeting is being conducted in accordance with the open public meetings act of 1975. Was advertised, posted, and
made available to the public as required by statute. The admissible clerk is directed to include a statement of the minutes of this meeting. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? Yes, mayor. We have an ordinance amending Milville code chapter 30 land use and development regulations to reszone block 290 lot one to HC highway
commercial district as recommended in the 2025 land use element of the master plan and resolution to award a non-fair and open contract reliable power plus LLC. Thank you madam clerk. Public comment on agenda items only. If anybody from the public would like to comment on
agenda items, please come to the podium, state your name, address your concerns, and please limit your concerns to approximately five minutes. Mr. Aronoff, just five minutes. My name's Ethan Arinoff. I live on East Main Street and have for a long time, as
some people know. I'm here in support of the international short film festival which I've seen most of them for the three years that they've occurred and it's a truly an educational experience.
I'm a former educator so I can appreciate that. But there's just these tremendous films. And last year, get my notes right. There were 132 submissions from 31 countries and they
ended up showing 58 of them and they were tremendous and they come from all over the world and they cover almost every conceivable subject you can think of. And that's the very interesting part. Each one, even though it might not be a
subject you like, can be appreciated for the artistic creativity that went into it. The scripts and the posing. I'm I'm not a movie expert, but I know what I like when I see it. And most of the films
are terrific in that you would learn something. Might not be very helpful information. Some of it is purely entertainment. And that's good too. A lot of um comedies, a lot of documentary type films and they
they run the gamut from about one minute, I think one was one minute to 20 minutes. So you u you can sit through a lot of these and I did I sat through all of them last last time because I get
something out of it and I think the people in Milville will get something out of it and we're looking for your support if you can do that. It's a terrific thing. Mr. Horn has worked very hard on this and I think it's an honor
that we have it in Milville and so I hope you'll support it. Thank you, Mr. Arnoff. Hi, Diane Rogers in uh from the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the
Arts at the moment. Uh just the same thing supporting the the film festival sponsorship from the city and how important it is to our our nice city of Millville here. Um it is the fourth year which is great. So we've had a real good
foundation to build that film festival on. It's very professionally done, very enjoyable and with the short films they're grouped in uh sections so you can come and go and see some take some time in between. And that leads me to why it's beneficial, too. Um, we it also
is the Friday the 19th of September and Saturday the 20th. That 19th is also our third Friday event downtown where we all participate in that. So, people coming in for the film festival from different places will be around. Same thing for
Saturday. We are open on Saturday. So, our other vendors and places like the DC Gallery, the Village on High, Colonial Flowers, and the restaurants. So, um they put together a beautiful map that goes with the film festival um agenda
and film list and that helps everyone find things they can go do in between. We tried to offer a few extra things at our facility because of the film festival being in town. So, it's really worth supporting and I hope the city is
one of the big sponsors. Thanks. Thank you, Miss Rogers. John Worthington, Milville. I'm here to speak u briefly on U resolution 18.8. Uh I want to applaud the uh city and the resolution to seek uh NJ funding for a
study to bring public water to Laurel Lake section of the city uh where everyone of course relies on wells. Um, I also want to encourage you to continue to seek state funding to extend sewer service to the area, which is our
biggest problem. Uh, the size of the lots make it difficult for septic systems there. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Warthingington. Hello everyone. My name is Marcus Graves. I am here to
speak in regards to the cut international film festival. Uh I am a filmmaker and my film screened at cut international film festival in September last year. After 10 years of being a filmmaker was actually my first time
ever seeing one of my films in a theater setting and that was a fantastic experience. I I want to speak with you tonight briefly regarding Cut International, what they're about and what they cultivate for the local community, but also the filmmaking community at large. They cultivate
architects, mathematicians, scientists, biologists, historians, and mythologists. I see some of you looking at me look kind of weird like how do they do that? Because we as filmmakers construct and design stories. No, not in
height, but in laying foundations to a premise and an idea. Building upon those foundations, making sure that it has function, meaning so that a story, a beginning, middle, and end can be told. We crunch numbers, conducting business in the construction of these stories,
managing resources, personnel, production, logistics, all so that everything seen on screen is precisely what is needed to tell the story. We observe the world like a scientist, how it works, how people operate within it,
so that we can either recreate that world or create entirely new ones that could ever otherwise exist. We tell the tales of impactful and inu and influential people and/or events. As
a painter paints on a canvas, we paint on our canvas, that being a large silver screen. And on this screen, on this wall, we create moving and auditory hieroglyphics as those you would see in Greek and Egyptian artifacts. Yes, the
great museums are filled with artifacts or artwork that was done by filmmakers before film existed. They were known then as what we still are known as now, storytellers. storytellers that would express and
recount the historical life of a pharaoh or create their own world when telling of Zeus in the pantheon of Mount Olympus. The only difference we now use theater screens such as the Lavoy Theater as opposed to clay.
We are also one other thing and that is magicians. We can take the imagination and through construction, through engineering and math, through observation, we can take it and make it real. Without film, you would never see that a superman could fly. Because of
film, we can know what happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away during a war amongst the stars. And because of film, a multi-billion dollar company can be established on the foundation of four words. I am Iron Man.
That is what Cut International Film Festival is about. It is about cultivating and showcasing the stories built by architects, the logistics of mathematicians, observing data about our world, or presenting the discovery of a new one. Cut International is about what
history has been about. Storytellers, I will leave you with this final thought. Remember back to 5 years ago. Remember back to when everyone was shut in. Remember back to when teachers, engineers, governmental officials, the
whole world was on lockdown. Remember that when the whole world stopped, everyone had two things as the world held its breath. Family and film. Remember that Cut Film Festival doesn't just host an event. They prize,
cultivate, and build up the storytellers needed when the world stops. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Hey, commissioners. Eric Nyman Wildflower. I also would like to speak in favor of the cut international film
festival. The downtown benefits greatly from the business it brings in. And as the gentleman who just spoke mentioned, you never know what's going to happen with film and the media. And you know, we might get some young filmmakers who fall in love with this city and want to
contribute to it. So five grand that comes back to the local economy from the hotels and restaurants here. It's a safe investment. You're invested in the future. My business benefits from it and all the money that comes from my business goes right back into the local economy as many other local businesses
do. So thank you. Thank you, Eric. See you and no one else. I will close public comment on agenda items only presentations. There are none. Mayor Bills, please make a motion to pay the bills. Second motion. Roll call, please. Commissioner
Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romik, yes. Petitions and letters, please. We need a motion to receive and file a letter from Atlantic City Electric regarding vegetation management activities. Make a motion.
Second a motion. Motion and second on petition and letters item number one. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romick, yes. Reports of commissioners. Commissioner
Huitt, go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, first off, I want to start letting people know by letting people know that as everybody should remember, we lost some fire trucks recently. Engine 30 is being re-equipped right now in our firehouse and it will be should be back
in service tonight, maybe tomorrow at the latest. Uh, had another pretty big fire. Nobody was hurt, personnel or residents. I need to give a big shout out again.
First off to Milville Fire Department, Milville Police Department, Milville Rescue Squad coverage. As you all know and anybody out there watching knows, we need help.
Uh Vinand, Rosenhane, and Downtownship along with Cedarville were on scene at the fire with us. Vinand, another station in Vineland sent a unit along with Port Nars and Ghoul
Town to stand by and protect the city in case we had anything else go off. Uh along with Cedarville, Milville OEM, big shout out as said Milville PD. We had to call New Jersey Forest fire in because there was fire
along railroad tracks. Atlantic City Electric, South Jersey Gas, and I'd be remiss if I did not mention our county. Most people don't know we have a county fire police team. Uh, we even had
personnel on shift last night to block the area of the fire for all of the Facebook commentators that wanted to go live and drive down into the fire scene. So, big shout out to everybody. Once again, big shout out to Mobile Public
Safety team. Uh, it's about it, Mayor. Uh, thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Hwitt, and thank you to all that Commissioner Huitt said that helped uh the city out last night um during that uh intense blaze that happened.
Commissioner Suie. All right. On June 5th, we had our annual Philly home run derby and the winners were as follows. Girls 7 to8, first place was Isabelle Adams. Second place was Ryland Tabolski. Third place Abigail Godfrey. Girls 9 to 10, first
place Emma Salah. Second place, Elena Fera. Third place, Isabella Thompson. Girls 11 to 12. First place, Lucy Priestley. Second place, Aubry String. Third place, Elena Kinsland. Boys, first
place Quint Hart, 7 8-year-olds. Second place, Colton Bruno. Third place, Dawson Shelton. Boys 9 to 10, first place Chase Ripper. Second place, Khalib Montinez. Third place, Frankie Rivera. and boys 11
to 12. First place Noah Rodriguez. Second place Nathan Shelton. Third place Cameron Pots. Some more up and cominging hopefully a professional baseball player in there somewhere. On June 7th we had our annual fishing tournament and the winners were as follows. Ages 5 to nine
biggest fish Timmy Wade Wills. Age 5 to nine most fish Max Wade Wills. Ages 10 to 14 biggest fish Lewis Rodriguez. Ages 10 to 14, most fish, Mike Wade Wills. Ages 15 to 18, biggest and most fish,
James Harris. I want to thank huge thank you to Big Day's Tackles for donating the worms and congratulations to winner of all the events. Between yesterday and today, the men of the parks department have been cleaning up abandoned homeless encampments. I'm going to spare you the details because they're pretty gross,
but the areas are pretty undesirable, left very undesirable. So, I want to thank these guys for cleaning those areas up. I had the opportunity to walk through the other day, yesterday actually, and it was messy. Our next event coming up is Fourth Friday on June
27th, 5 to 8 at Buck Park. Hope everyone comes out and joins us for some family fun in the park. Then the following week, come and join us for a Fourth of July celebration at Union Lake Park. Music will start at 6:00 and the fireworks will take place at 9:00. There will be food and vendors for everyone's
enjoyment. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Commissioner Zooie. Commissioner Kaspoon. All right. The streets and roads department have a couple projects that they're working on along with the city engineering department. Uh storm drainage problem issue that we've had
and there's a couple of road improvements that we're working on. That's about it. They've just been busy busy. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Kasaboon. Vice Mayor Watson. Yes. What's up?
Yeah. Hold on one sec. Lost my place. First, I want to make a a motion to receive and file the tax collector's report for May of 2025. Second motion. Motion and second under receive and file the tax collector's report for the month of May of this year. Roll call, please.
Commissioner Huitt. Yes. Vice Mayor Watson. Yes. Commissioner Kasabun. Yes. Commissioner Suie. Yes. Mayor Romick. Yes. Uh on tonight's agenda, the Council 18 MOA. Um just want to thank Mr. Blay, our business administrator, our human
resources. Um and also our council 18 and their representatives. Uh it's been a long negotiation, but I'm glad to see it on tonight's agenda. Um, this Thursday we're going to be meeting with the S SOA representatives to further discuss their contract. Um,
here's some good news. The I want to congratulate Michelle Noft. Um, she just received her engineering license. So to professional engineer Michelle, congratulations. for the wastewater treatment upgrade. Um site work is expected to start in July.
Um for the dewatering project that keeps getting brought up um we received proposals from ACOM um to complete the necessary design engineering to take the drawings from 90 to 100%. Uh this proposal was recently received and it is under uh review
for the force main project on Ireland Avenue. Um crews are installing force main during the week and then installing temporary paving at the end of each week. Project has been running smoothly up to race street as opposed to construction in narrow alleys originally
planned for the project. Force man work will end at the terminal manhole at infton uh where transition to gravity 18inch PVC Garrison has completed all water man and services for the project for Woodland Yep. Woodland Avenue. Um one hydrant
needs to be removed at South A Street and the line needs to be cut and capped. paving restoration uh is required for the project and I think that's all I had highlighted but just to be sure that's all I have. Thank you, Vice Mayor
Watson. Zoning board of adjustments will take place at 6 PM on July 2nd, which is a Wednesday. Please take note of that. Planning board will then take place on July 14th at 6:30 p.m. here at the commission chambers. First draft of the 2025 to 2029 5-year
consolidated plan and 2025 annual plan for the community development block grant and home HOME investment partnership act is available for public review through July 2nd. Sorry, excuse me through July 12th. Copies of the draft plan are currently located in the
community development office at city hall. The draft plan is also on the city website on the housing and community development page. A public hearing on the draft plan will be held on Thursday, June 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the city
commission chambers at city hall. Citizens are invited to submit written or verbal comments at or prior to the hearing. All interested individuals and organizations are invited to be encouraged to attend the public hearing. New housing inspector began work on Monday, June
16th. Today I attended the state development and redevelopment plan. It's not news to many of you, but southern New Jersey is underutilized and underlooked. I didn't have many questions from this two-hour long meeting today in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. I had many concerns. Why? How? What? You can ask me personally on my personal feelings on this, but out of that I just was discouraged on most that we do not have certain relationships set in place for
South Jersey in general, but for the city of Milville and for Cland County to be utilized the best throughout the state of New Jersey. Ordinances in the second reading. Ordinance for second reading item number one, an ordinance approving and authorizing an application to the Cumberland County Roadway Department for
Millville Girls Softball League to hold a coin drop on July 19th and 20th, 2025 at the intersections of Buck Shoot Road and Cedarville Road. Make a motion. Second motion and second on ordinance in the second reading item number one. There's a public hearing on this. If anybody from the public would like to
comment on this ordinance for a second reading, please come to the podium. Seeing no one, I will close public hearing. Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romik, yes.
Ordinance for second reading item number two, an ordinance approving and authorizing an application to the Cumberland County Roadway Department for Holly City Youth Football to hold a coin drop on July 26th, 26th, and 27th, 25 at the intersections of Buck Shoot Road and Cedarville Road. Make a motion. Second.
Motion to second an ordinance for the second reading item number two. I will open up public hearing for this if anybody from the public would like to comment on this ordinance in the second reading. Don't feel feel free to run. Seeing that
a closed public hearing. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasapun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romik, yes. Ordinance for second reading item number three, an ordinance accepting the dedication of
certain streets located in Laurel Lake. Make a motion. Second motion. We have a motion and second for the ordinance and the second reading item number three. I would now open up public hearing. If anybody from the public like to come and comment, please state your name, address your comments, and please limit them to approximately 5 minutes. Mr.
Worthington. Hi, my name is John Worthington uh in Milville. Uh I'm also secretary of Laurel Lake Property Owners Association. Uh I just wanted to note that these particular roads that you that we signed over I think we signed the deeds last week uh were from not
from the most recent round of of improvements but from the prior round before that uh I think three years ago for some whatever reason they were never accepted by the city at that point. Um, so as soon as the city is ready to
accept the latest round, we'll be able to sign those over as well. Thank you, John. Thank you, Mr. Warthingington. Seeing no one further, I would close public hearing. Any comments of commissioners? Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt,
yes. Place Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasaboon? Yes. Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Romnick, yes. Ordinances in the first reading. Ordinance for first reading item number one. An ordinance to amend the salary. Ordinance. Make motion. Second motion. We have a motion in second. An ordinance
in the first reading item number one. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt. Yes. Vice Mayor Watson. Yes. Commissioner Kasaboon. Yes. Commissioner Suie. Yes. Mayor Romnick. Yes. Ordinance for first reading item number two. An ordinance authorizing the city of Milville to acquire property
known as 24 East Oak Street. Make a motion. Second. We have a motion in the second. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romik, yes. Ordinance for first reading item
number three, an ordinance approving an agreement of sale that would authorize the city of Milville to convey a deed of easement to the state of New Jersey. May commission. Second motion. We have motion second. An ordinance for the first reading item number three. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Hewitt. Yes. Vice Mayor
Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romnik, yes. Ordinance for first reading item number four, an ordinance amending Milville Code Chapter 30, land use and development regulations to reszone block 290 lot one to HC highway commercial
district as recommended in the 2025 land use element of the master plan. Make a motion. Second motion. We have a motion second for ordinance and first reading item number four. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt. Yes. Vice Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasaboon? Yes. Commissioner Suie? Yes.
Mayor Romnick? Yes. Resolutions, please. Resolution item number one, resolution approving the city of Milville to sponsor Cut International Short Film Festival. Make a motion. Second a motion. Certification of funds. And with that, I have certification of funds from
Sunnis Cornones for $5,000 from the UEES second gen revolving fund account. We have a motion and second on resolution item number one. Any comments? Yes, I'm I'm glad to see everyone speak um on behalf of it. It's
a success for Millville. It regenerates uee money to Milville which is very important and I hope everyone supports it. Exactly. I appreciate everyone from from seeing Bill here to Eric to the sir the uh the filmmaker himself explaining
the you know your trials and how film is produced in today in 2025. Um I would not believe it but it's it's amazing of all that the filmmakers do and how the cut international film festival is viewed and perceived by the public here in the city of Melville. So I thank you
for explaining your story and I think after you spoke I think everybody was on board. But very interesting. Yes. Thank you. Let's see. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romnik, yes. Resolution item number two,
resolution authorizing discharge of mortgage 308 East Main Street. Make motion. Second motion. We have a motion to second on resolution item number two. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasavoon? Yes.
Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Romick? Yes. Resolution item number three, resolution authorizing tax and utility adjustments. Make a motion. Second motion. Motion in a second. Resolution item number three. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun? Yes.
Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Romnick. Yes. Resolution item number four, resolution appointing zoning board of adjustment alternate one. Jared Carl. Make a motion. Second motion. Motion in a second on resolution item number four. Any comments? Roll call, please.
Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romik, yes. Resolution item number five, resolution awarding a professional services contract for conflict foreclosure attorney McMad in Scotland and Balman LLC.
Make motion on resolution item number five. With that, I do have certification of availability of funds in the amount of $5,000 signed by our CFO, Susan Quinones. Second motion. We have motion second with certification of funds on resolution item number five. Any comments? Roll call, please.
Commissioner Huitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Ramik, yes. Resolution item number six, resolution appointing William Stnick III as municipal emergency management coordinator. John Wetstein, Kevin Hall,
and Lawrence Faucet as deputy emergency management coordinators. Make a motion. Second. motion and second on resolution item number six. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes.
Mayor Romnick, yes. Resolution item number seven, resolution authorizing the award of a state contract annual library software for the police department. Make motion. And with that, I have certification of funds in the amount of $23,630
signed by our chief financial officer, Susan Kenonas. Second motion. We have a motion second with certification of funds on resolution item number seven. Any comments? Just keeping our uh processing equipment and everything up to date.
Thank you. Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romnik, yes. Resolution item number eight, resolution authorizing the city of Milville to apply for NJ DP technical design assistance to supply the Laurel
Lake community safe drinking water. Make motion. Motion. We have a motion second resolution item number eight. Any comments? Yeah, I want to thank engineering department. This was one of the grants that they were working on. Uh Remington and Vernick uh is the engineering uh that they're our
engineering department is going to be working with. Uh it's for design assistance um as they have the contract with the state. Uh it's for planning and design grant for the Laurel Lake area. Uh we should we could be able to get up to $2 million per year for the design assistance and it's 100% free to the
city. I also have a comment. Okay. Um when I came up with this idea about three years ago and started working with engineering and Mr. Mingle came in and got involved, we knew it was a good project there. I want to thank Mr. Watson for continuing that project. Um, I'm ecstatic that it's
on the agenda. As you can see, it took three years to get to this point from concept to getting the design started. So, projects take a long time, and I hope stuff like this continues. Yeah, you're right. It is a good project. Um, and I have a
couple emails here from uh July 20th, 2023, uh, where I brought it to your attention. So, it's a good move. as you I'm you know smiling quizzically here because you know the way that government moves expectantly and qu and fastly and
swiftly is uh uh never true. So uh thank you Mr. Warthingington for your uh comments and there's more truth with that that I'd like to talk to you later about. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner
Suie, yes. Mayor Romnick, yes. Resolution item number nine, resolution authorizing approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract upon reward with the NJ DOT for the project entitled Ninth Street 9th Street Corridor Roadway Improvements. Make a
motion. Second, budget. Motion second and resolution item number nine. Any comments? Yes. Uh again, this is one of the grants that the engineering department's been working on. The grant does have an expiration date uh which is at the end of this month. Uh we did have a meeting a little while ago with Mr. Kasabun, Wayne Gresman and engineering
department. Want to thank them for uh you know putting this together. Thank you. No, thank you. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Ramen, yes. Resolution item number
10, resolution authorizing purchase of temporary utility and construction easements regarding the South 49 bridge over the Morris River superstructure replacement. Make motion. Second motion. We have a motion and second resolution item number 10. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt,
yes. Vice Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasaboon? Yes. Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Romnick? Yes. Resolution item number 11. Resolution authorizing the city of Milville to enter into a memorandum of agreement. Council 18. Make a motion. Second
motion. Motion second. Resolution item number 11. Any comments? Hey, I just want to thank council 18 for their patience again and working with the city and thank those that represented the city. Yes, I go ahead commissioner. Yeah, I just want everybody to realize that, you know, a lot of the stuff in this
contract that was needed does come at a cost over the course of the five years. It's an increase of a million dollars approximately 947 that will be reflected in your tax bill unless we allow development to continue. So I hope everybody keeps that in mind as things
move down the road. Um whoever sits up here next time. So that's it. Thank you. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson? Yes. Commissioner Kasabun? Yes. Commissioner Suie? Yes. Mayor Ramik,
yes. Resolution item number 12, resolution approving alcoholic beverage club license renewals for the 2025 2026 license year. Make a motion. Second. Motion to second on resolution item number 12. Any comments? Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice
Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Ramik, yes. Resolution item number 13, resolution approving alcoholic beverage license renewals for the 2025 2026 license year. Make a motion. Second. Motion to second on resolution
item number 13. Roll call, please. Commissioner Hwitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasaboon, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romick, yes. Resolution item number 14, resolution to award a non-fair and open contract to Reliable Power Plus LLC.
Make motion on resolution item number 14. And with that, I do have certification availability in the funds in the amount of $25,750 signed by our CFO, Susan Quinones. Second a motion. Motion and a second and certification of funds for that
resolution item number 14. Any comments? Yeah, this is for the uh the main plant generator at the wastewater facility. Uh we lose power down road. Um it's our only source of uh supplying the plant with uh electric.
Very good. Deleted. Roll call, please. Commissioner Huitt, yes. Vice Mayor Watson, yes. Commissioner Kasabun, yes. Commissioner Suie, yes. Mayor Romnik, yes. New business, seeing none, we have now reached the public comment portion of our meeting. Anyone who would like to
address the commission, please go to the podium, state your name, and address your concerns. Please limit your comments to approximately five minutes. Thank you. My name is Gary Meyer. I own uh Gem Enterprises on Columbia Avenue. I came
here in 2013, bought a commercial property, and now have almost three acres and a uh a building that I was trying to sell to the city. And I am here to tell you that this government has been weaponized against me.
absolutely weaponized in selling my building. There were some people that were opposed to buying my building from the city. No problem. I get it. I appreciate that. You know, there's opposition. Not everybody has to agree. We have a sitting commissioner, Kirk Huitt, who told another
commissioner that I had a dishonorable discharge from the military. Now, if you want to give me my papers over there, I assure you I served. You could pull my records from the National Archives. Now, if you'll wave that that didn't happen, I won't play the recordings because it's
embarrassing as hell to you what you did. There's my honorable discharge. Right. So, I'm also really upset because I do veterans affairs as a volunteer for disabled American veterans. I'm judge advocate. I'm on the state uh
legislation committee for DAV. I'm judge advocate. I'm benefits officer for my chapter. I'm heavily involved in veterans affairs. And if I put this out on the internet, this would go nuts. The day before the vote for the other
property, the fire inspectors came in. The same fire inspectors that I fixed their 911 system for free. I volunteered to be a firefighter there. Fix laptops for them for free. I get a fire inspection the day before. Never had a
fire inspection. No problem, right? if that was above board, but if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, it's a rat. So, I go and say, "What's what's the issue?" Well, I tried to talk with Kirk and he
said, "Oh, talk to talk to Chief Lepincott." Okay. I talked to Chief Lepincott. He said, "Get a piece of paper when you got from zoning or something when you came in business occupancy." And I got to tell you, Tim Shannon was great and I dealt with Don Aries economic development. Guess what
happened to my file? It's all missing. My file's missing. Stuff I even have copies of stamped. It's missing. Someone threw away my files in this city. This is a warning to you all. Deprivations of
rights. You don't even own your property because they can come after you here. It's weaponized. What happened to all my records on my building? I have nothing here. This is a building where I was offered 1.5 million. A lot of people don't know
that. So I was trying to get 1.7 million from the city. Was all public all public knowledge. So now I can't rent my building. I can't sell my building. I'm told to go to zoning, reszone it, reszone it. And I'm paying construction.
Do this. They still got my building all held up. I can't rent my building. I can't sell my building. And I'm a disabled vet. I'm really jacked up. If I like start showing you on chemical injections and everything else, my life isn't going to be as long as it should
because of my service. I am furious. This is an absolute abuse of law under the color of law to weaponize government against their own people. And it happened here. It happened right here and it's still happening. You need to resign. Absolutely need to resign. And
if you don't say that, you didn't say it. I'll play it. Everything you said is recorded. All the things that you say about the police, the police write for him. He says it. I got it recording. If you want, I'll have it on YouTube. I already have it uploaded. I just have it unlisted right now. So, everything
you're doing with the police, the chief of police, according to you is writing it. What the heck? You said it. I don't care what you say. It's on tape. Single party consent. You're going to know the law. I'm going to school your ass. I'm telling you. I'm going to school you.
You messed with the wrong guy. I tried playing ball. I tried getting my place. What kind of place is this to invest or live, have a business? What happened here can happen to any one of you? Now, I don't have a problem. Commissioner
Watson was against my problem. You've never done nothing to me. Nothing at all. And whether you supported or didn't support, nothing. Miss Kuboom, I don't know you at all. Never did anything to me. Mr. Suie, I do know you. No problems. You you you did support the building, but no thing. Mr. Rominic, I
really don't know you, but you supported it. Kirk didn't support it. What is your motive? Cuz you don't like Sue. This is nonsense. What happened? Then you have official misconduct where you say, "Don't worry, tear it up. You don't need to do anything." That's recorded and I
can play it right here. If you say you didn't do it, I'll hit play on here. I have snippets of all the you said. Mr. Myers, please control your attitude. Sorry. It's it's passionate because everything I worked for coming out of the military is to build my
business 29 and a half years and we have weaponization. This is some I'm in Southeast Asia 5 months a year. This is some crap that would happen in Philippines or Laos. Mr. Wrap it up. I'll wrap it up at how to wrap this up.
You guys want to litigate this and you absolutely slander. absolutely slander. But then we have a federal thing, USC uh title 18, deprivation of rights under the color of law. This FBI needs to come
down and blow this place apart. This is corruption personified. And I can play you all the audio clips. Unbelievable what's happening here. I've supported this city. I've been on the radio and TV because I do different things for
animals. I do things for veterans as a volunteer. This should never happen here. Never happen here. You need to resign. Absolutely step down. Do yourself the favor. And as far as legal liability, you really need to step down. You already got lawsuits. Mr. Myers,
thank you. Have a nice day. Yes. Um, excuse me. Uh, Greg Kes for Nine Peach Drive. Um, I guess first just Well, take a breath for a second. Um, second, um, I
just wanted to give a shout out. I saw Mayor Romnick walking in there on Saturday, but he forgot to mention he went. Um, the ribbon cutting because it's just a largely largely unloved organization in this town. Thank you. Full disclosure, I used to be a for a
former board member, so I am a little, you know, I do enjoy it. But the Milville Historic Society unveiled the Whitaker Ice Wagon this weekend, which over 20 almost $20,000 was raised by citizens in the town to preserve this piece of history. It's actually one of
the ice wagons that would take the ice from around town that was cut on Union Lake for people when they still had the ice boxes. So, thank you, Mr. mayor for showing up for stuff like that because it really does matter when elected officials show up and just highlight the
good things that are happening in this town because you know we all got to breathe sometimes and good things help us breathe. Thank you Greg and thank you for the remembrance and I will allude more to that closing comments. Thank you Greg. Brian Griffith unrepresented taxpayer
from fourth street Millville. Is the elevator fixed? Yes. Yeah. Uh, how about the fire hydrant and all for in the railroad? Never was broken. Is that fixed? It never was broken.
Excuse me, sir. Please ask all your questions and we'll answer them at closing comments of commissioners. Okay. Well, I just was trying to figure out where the priorities were on what, you know, what's important here. Uh any uh improvement going on for Wade Boulevard
with the flooding? We're working on it right now. Any word on when the bridge is to be redone over on Route 47 over Manatico when that construction is supposed to start? Uh is there anything any legislation or
ordinances against all the panhandling at the traffic lights on Route 49 and 47? Uh and also as I I'm questioning the legality and validity of being able to be certain violation
for the same thing that the city is in violation of which would be 1111B. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Griffin. I'm just waiting for answers. We will answer that at closing comments commissioners once public comment
portion is done. John Worthington again. I'm here tonight to talk about lawsuits. Milville has had more than its share in recent years, but in most cases, the public is largely kept in the dark. Thousands of dollars are spent,
million-doll settlements are risked, and in most cases, it's nearly totally opaque to the taxpayers. Eventually, some information comes out, usually buried in budgetary lines, usually well after the fact. But all too often, unless a citizen happens to find out
about a suit and then makes the effort to publicize it themselves, the taxpayers are left in the dark. Aside from the direct cost, these suits also leave the city open to the possibility that unelected judges instead of the residents and their representatives will have the ultimate say in major
development decisions affecting our town. Now, the city is being sued again by the developer who wants to build an asphalt and concrete recycling plant on attractive environmentally sensitive land that had been set aside for years in the master plan for conservation. the
same developer against whom the taxpayers already paid to defend a suit in superior court last year. Now they're in federal court and they're making serious accusations. These accusations were the basis of the previous suit which the city won. Not
because the judge ruled the city was innocent, but because the developer had not yet expended other options to hold the city accountable. These are serious accusations and have the potential for serious and expensive consequences. The public has a right to be kept informed
about them as they are happening so we can understand both how our tax dollars are being used and what the people representing us are doing behind closed doors. I'm not going to go into the specifics tonight about the allegations, but I am asking that the city adopt a more
taxpayer centric posture towards lawsuits. It's the public's money. It's the public's business. And public business with all of its warts, wins, and loses, losses, needs to be conducted openly in the public view. Please be
clear, I'm not expecting that the city discuss its legal arguments prior to going to court. But what I am asking is that when the city is sued, that a notice be made at the next public meeting that the city has been sued and that a copy of the suit, which is public
information, be posted to the city website. And more importantly, when the case is over, that the results be announced and the costs listed. That way, the public can see for themselves in real time where their tax dollars are going, and they can decide
based on the facts whether they get where they're getting the type of representation that they should expect from their elected officials. This new openness could even save serve to save us money that is currently being spent responding to multiple OPER requests for
information on lawsuits. And because I'm not just here to complain without offering solutions, I'm willing to offer my experience and my time to work with the city staff in setting up such a system as a service to the city. Thank you and good evening.
Thank you, Mr. Worthington. Seeing no one else, I will close public comment portion of our agenda. Comments of commissioners. Commissioner Gwick, go ahead. Thank you, mayor. Uh, I got it. Gary,
uh, we talked many times before Mike left, chief, and I tried to do as much as I could for you for finding your records. We talked right on city hall steps. Uh, we talked a lot. I talked to you the day
after I heard about the conversation that we just that you just had with your discharge. Did I not call you? I I called you. We had a good long talk. Uh that you said I had Sir, it's sir Mr.
Myers. Mr. Myers. Mr. Mr. Myers, it's his time to talk. Kurt, just please answer the question as you may. I do understand uh about the uh now you have had another inspection
as the commissioner as any of us commissioners up here. We don't walk into our departments and tell them to stop. Now I I imagine that you do know you have the right to take this to the board of appeals. You named some some folks that you had talked to outside of
the city. Uh I have a instant message here from Facebook from you uh that I saved just for in case this happened to come up uh in time in the last 11 meetings. I have 10 after tonight. Uh
and in I'm not going to read the IM out of respect to you. Uh but I will say that I did end the IM by requesting that any conversation written or otherwise uh
and conversation about inspections and such be Oprah and conversed with properly and your final reply was to that was I didn't think you would want anything opened.
I'm not afraid of Opus. Uh am I correct? You can answer questions then you're inviting him to speak. Okay. But but that's how that went. Uh and as far as the last violations went, yes, please,
you're back. You're you're back home. Apply to the Board of Appeals. I can't walk into a fire inspector and say, "Throw this away." None of us can tell our people to do
that. Uh that's all that that's all I have there. Uh, Mr. Griffith, uh, I think there will be backup from the commissioner of the department. There was nothing wrong with the fire hydrant at Fourth and Railroad.
The fire hydrant had water flow. Uh, I'm not going to say much more because there is legal things going on. I will end this with the Mobile Fire Department and any departments on the scene never were out of water during that fire. Thank
you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner Hwitt. Commissioner Suie, let's see where to start. First, I'm glad the uh film festival got approved. Uh at the last meeting, there was a lot of talk about grants and how we should apply for more grants. And people kind
of made it sound like it was easy. Uh you know, and I I mentioned about after you get the grant, it's all the stuff you did you have to do to make sure that you stay in compliance. So I pulled up a case where people weren't in compliance and that
was in a FEMA grant to downtownship and the uh office inspector general department of homeland security audited that grant and it said they didn't always follow procurement standards. We recommended FEMA disallow 832,000 of the
2.5 million in grant funds. township didn't have support for 445,000 questions cost blah blah blah. Anyway, you get the idea. So, if you don't follow through and it's very it's a lot of it's technical, it's a lot of reports. So, it's just not a matter of applying grants and getting them. You
have to have that follow through and that does require someone that's very dedicated to do that. Um, I'll address the lawsuits. Since we've been in office this time, I believe we have settled two lawsuits. I
think I don't know about the police department for everything else. One was settled by the insurance company which we did not have a say in. The other one was an employee lawsuit that occurred under the last commission. Since then, we haven't settled any. We did have one lawyer that proceeded with
a lawsuit when he was instructed not to, which we lost. He sent us the bill and we got rid of the attorney and did not have to pay the bill. As for allegation that things aren't done in the open, I will tell you this. We meet with developers all the time.
Sometimes it's me and the administrator. Some, it could be any of us. And people come to us with plans ranging from, I don't know, some absurd stuff like growing marijuana in a shed to putting an asphalt plan in. We listen to everybody. We have to listen to
everybody. Now, when you have a seasoned developer making allegations that one guy made a backroom deal, first of all, he knows one guy can't make a backroom deal. And after this lawsuit's over, I'll explain the whole the whole thing. I don't want to
litigation away. I mean, he lost once. I believe he's going to lose again. Um, everything we do gets voted on, whether it's a redevelopment agreement, a change to an ordinance, or something we send before the planning board. We vote on it. No one person can do that. The system's designed so that no one
person could do it. If I could do it and I did it, that's if I could and if I did, I wouldn't be sitting here. I'd be on vacation somewhere on a nice warm island somewhere. So, you know, the lawsuits have been pretty
under control. We've been very fortunate. We can't stop people from suing. They can sue for anything they want to sue for. So, there's that. Now, the next thing I'm going to address, since Mr. I wasn't ever going to bring
it up in public, but I am since Mr. Meyer brought it up. So, I had a conversation with Mr. Huitt and he had told me that Mr. Meyer received a dishonorable discharge. I was pretty upset about that because I'd known Mr. Meyer for a long time.
Knew he was involved in veterans affairs and stuff like that. And being a vet myself, that upset me. I confronted him. I went right over there and I asked him and he's like, "Dude, it's on the wall. You see it?" And Mr. Mr. Hwitt called him up and had a conversation with him later.
So that doesn't make me happy. I wasn't going to make that public, but it's already public. You've already said it publicly tonight. He said it publicly. So that did happen and that's unfortunate. You know, that that really irritated me as an honorably discharged veteran
myself. Uh other than that, um you can see, you know, the time it took to get the planning phase done for the roads in Laurel Lake. So, I'm going to address the water one more time with the roads and then I'm not going to bring it up
again. So, when we did Woodland Avenue, I don't know. I think that project got completed a couple a couple weeks ago. You can actually run a water line next to a road and mow or board under the road to connect it so that you don't have to disturb the black top. And that's what we should be doing in Laurel
Lake so that we can pave the roads and provide the water particularly since the the uh money to do that is in place and with that progress. Thank you, Commissioner Suie. Commissioner Kasibu. All right, Mr. Griffith, to address your
issue about the Wade Boulevard, we are currently working on that. That is one of the projects that my department is taking over and looking into and we are going to repair it. Uh thank you Mr. Worthington for your kind words
um and willingness to meet and form some kind of a group. Also, I want to say congratulations to the upcoming graduates that are be graduating from high school shortly in the next few days. Congratulations to Michelle in engineering for getting her diploma or
her degree or her certificate or license. I look forward uh for the film festival. It sounds very interesting. And last but lot um rem just a reminder remember a smile is a very powerful
thing. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Kasaboon. Mor Watson. Yeah, I got the opportunity to speak with engineering um about Laurel Lake and kind of seeing like where we were going to end up after we, you know, try to get these grants through. You know, there's a grant that we applied for it that had 4,700 square
feet, you know, that's a or linear feet, I'm sorry. Um you know, it's a pretty pretty big project, you know, to apply for that grant and the deadline coming in June. I mean, obviously that kind of took priority. We had to get more funding and secure it. Um but for Laurel Lake the asphalting project um kind of
go over it with him like hey you know what's our options if we can hire an engineering consultant um basically I was told it was you know we're kind of restricted if we go that way obviously we're using funds for the engineering cost you know to complete the project but also it's whatever the engineering does so it could be like the width of
the road or the you know depth of the asphalt that they're putting down. um performing the work in house, uh we can make the roads, you know, the way we want them, maybe wider, maybe thicker. Um and also use that money for actual asphalt that's getting put down on the
road and not for engineering costs. Um there's also some more work that needs to be done. Um drainage still needs to be worked on. Um and they're also pushing back the roads. Um and that's we're also doing that in house. So thank you to Streets and Roads for doing that for us down Little Lake.
So, as soon as we get done with a couple things off our list, we're going to proceed with Laura Lake project. Um, with what transpired in this meeting, I didn't know if I was going to bring it up or not. Um, but it means a lot to me
to bring it up. Um, my grandma, Vera Watson, she passed away on a Friday, June 6th. Um, the reason why I'm bringing her up and how she's associated with the city is my grandom served for the city of Milville for 35 years. Um, she retired in 2010.
Uh, she worked for the police department and dispatch and records. Um, so part of this commission, I just wanted to tell her thank you for the years that she served. And, uh, as a grandson, I just wanted to tell her I loved her. But that's all I have. Thank you, Vice
Mayor Watson. Thank you for sharing your personal and uh God bless your grandmother. Thank you for allowing me to bring it up. Film festival. Bill, continue doing a great job. I know you'll do a great job for the ArtC Film Festival. I look forward
to attending it as I had in the past. Mr. Curious, thank you for reminding me of event that I missed when I looked through my calendars of events. What events did I go to? Yes. On Flag Day on the Army's 250th birthday, June 14th,
the Wood family mansion on Colombia Avenue celebrated Flag Day. And by so being there, the immediately the first thing you when you came to the Wood family mansion, they handed you American flag. And that's what we know America of, our flag of the United States of
America. But to have the Whitaker ice box there to learn of all the history, not just of ice, but of the history of ice cream in the city of Milville. I'm only 30 years old. The history that has predescased me is knowledgeable and exceptional in the city of Milville. And
I implore each and every one of you to go to the Millville Historical Society when they're open and go there and ask about ice cream. It was over a year that in the talks with Linda and I um at the Woodde family
mansion, over a year they put into the research and printing all the tablets and photos and making them high resolution for you to see and read and understand all the great things that Milville had in its past and I was met
with remorse and saying that Milville's past is the greatest thing that ever happened. And I implored them that we are working to make Milville a better and brighter future. all of Milville, all of the 40ome square miles, whether it's 42 that the county says we have or the 44 that I like to say we have.
We're here to make a positive difference and to see the history that the Millville Historical Society did provide to us on Flag Day and to continue that history here in Milville. Um I just appreciate what the Millville Historical Society system does and you cannot go there with an open mind because you'll
be there all day or all four hours when they are open. Um, go there with a topic. Go there with something to see. If you want to see a yearbook from 1956 or 1944, you can see a yearbook from Milville Senior High School. With that, I do congratulate the upcoming graduates of
the class of 2025. I did see the great group picture that Miss Lambert did take for the graduating seniors and graduation will be held on the 23rd of June. Mr. Griffith, you had a violation to cut your grass. You cut your grass and your
violation has been abated on South 47. The bridge discussion will be happening soon. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is a and is as friendly to
the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison, I wish each and every one of you a great night. I wish all of you a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you all here on June 1st as we start brand new month and welcome our nation. July July.
Thank you. July 1st as we welcome our nation's birthday. Motion for adjournment, please. So moved. Second. All in favor? I I