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The town called a meeting to order the roll call please. >> Mr. Learner >> here. >> Miss Dolan >> here. >> Mayor Morgan >> here. >> Mr. Kamiski >> I am here. >> Mrs. Mcnite >> here. >> Mr. Gardner >> here.

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Let's salute the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. This is a public meeting council bur in the

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Providence County Union state, New Jersey. Adequate notice has been given in accordance with PL 1975 chapter 231 that honorable notice of revision was made in conformance with section 13 of the act. Um, tonight's a good night

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because we're going to be hiring uh two police officers. Uh resolution uh 186 is uh resolution appointing uh Cayla Picks as a probationary police officer and he

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will be enrolled in the uh John H. Stanler Police Academy to complete waiver training. Can I have a motion please? >> So move a second. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Learner, >> I >> Miss Dolan.

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>> I Mr. Kamisky. >> I >> Mrs. Mcnite. Yes, Mr. Gardner. >> I >> the second is resolution 187 which is appointing Quinn Lan as a probationary officer and will be enrolled in the John

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H. Stanley Police Academy to complete basic course of police officer training. I have a motion please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All call please. >> Mr. Learner. >> Hi. >> Miss Dolan. >> Hi. >> Mr. Kamisky. >> Hi.

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>> Mrs. Mcnite. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gardner. Hi, >> nice. that I will support the United States and the state of New Jersey.

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I will bear true faith >> and the same government established >> in the United States in this state under the authority of the people

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and justly performed duties of police officulations. pictures. >> Don't you got pictures? testing you already. United States >> and I will bear true

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>> to the same to the government established >> in the United States >> and in this state >> under the authority of the people >> under the authority of the people >> and that I will faithfully >> and I will faithfully

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>> and partially All the duties. >> A police officer. >> Police offic Hi Lindsay. >> Hello Mayor. Hello council. >> Okay, this is >> the TV.

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Maybe that was it. We had luck before. There was no crazy >> they go to sleep after >> and Lindsay's going to talk about our community energy clean. >> Yes. We should picture in our mind. >> Yeah. Just envision

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solar clean energy. Is there a laptop laptop you all have used before that doesn't make the >> scary sound? >> It depends on the day. We'll just give you a quick overview before we get the slides up. Like the

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mayor shared, I'm Lindseay Msia with the firm Hire Grul and Associates and we were brought on by the burough to put together your community energy plan. Met with a couple of you to discuss it a few months back. So excited to share the final product or at least some snippets of it. Uh some background, the bureau

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did receive a grant from the board of public utilities to put together the community energy plan. And for the past few years, the BPU, the board of public utilities, and the nonprofit sustainable Jersey, they've been working to provide resources for municipalities across the

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state to put together these community energy plans. One of those is a template which includes strategies and initiatives to choose from. So that was really the basis of this plan and of course informed by the burrow and a survey that we put together. So I'll share bit about all that good stuff.

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>> Should I try again? >> Second time. cell phone. A little better. Any other stops as soon as I laptop? muted. >> Okay,

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>> I think we're good. >> Okay, we won't touch except to progress the slides. So, I already gave you the the background why I'm here tonight. So, I'll just move forward. Some more background. Back in 2019, New Jersey adopted the statewide energy master plan

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called the pathway to 2050, which outlines a variety of strategies for the state to that the state should pursue to meet its goals of achieving 100% clean energy and a reduction of carbon emissions to 80% by 2050.

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So in this plan outlines seven strategy areas which is the basis of local community energy uh community energy plans as well. The seven strategies cover reducing energy consumption and emissions from the transportation sector reducing energy consumption

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accelerating deployment of renewable energy and distributed energy resources. Maximizing energy efficiency and conservation reducing consumption emissions from the building sector. decarbonizing and modernize modernizing New Jersey's energy system, supporting community energy planning, which is what

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I'm here tonight talking about, and expanding the clean energy innovation economy. One of the key takeaways from the plan is that you need local action to support state action. So, community energy plans are structured to align with state strategies. So, just some

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background. What are the benefits of a community energy plan? Other than supporting the state's goals, there are co- benefits like improved air quality, energy cost savings, job creation, but it also opens doors for funding throughout the energy plan. Under each initiative, when we

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were able to identify funding sources, um having a community energy plan is a prerequisite to a lot of state funding. So, it unlocks funding from the BPU and from D. Specifically, BPU has a community energy plan implementation

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grant program which awards municipalities for projects up to $250,000 and a c a community energy plan is required to unlock that funding. So that's a direct benefit of adopting a community energy plan. This is how the plan is structured. The first half is

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introduction background. For example, there's some background on the bureau's involvement with sustainable Jersey. If you're not familiar, it's the certification program. The bureau has been involved since 2009 and you all achieved silver certification back in September of 2025

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and a community energy plan will help you Yes. Very exciting. Um and a community energy plan will help you maintain that certification and also leads you towards eligibility to be gold certified toward so they for gold

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certification it's based on category. There is an opportunity to become gold certified for water and energy and climate. So this allows you to get closer to being gold certified for energy. And we also go into population, electricity and gas usage, greenhouse

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gas emissions and transportation characteristics of the bureau. And then the second half is the action plan which has all those strategies and initiatives. Total there's 33 initiatives. So I'm not going to go through all of those, but at the end I do have a a highlight of one of them. There was a survey as part of this

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effort. It was open for about one month. There were 97 responses and the survey responses are summarized in the plan. But a couple of key takeaways that did influence the initiatives that were selected and how they were prioritized. 62% of respondents said increased the

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use of renewable energy like solar as the most important strategy for the burough. 20% of respond respondents owned an electric vehicle and those that didn't cited the fear of not being able to find a charger as one of the main barriers. Most did not use renewable energy at their home or business and

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cost was the main barrier as far as the top local programs that they would support. Most responses related to tree plantings and energy efficiency upgrades for municipal buildings. So just a few takeaways from from the survey results.

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Some other key findings this slide summarizes more so related to the building um makeup of the burrow. The burrow is characterized by single family detached homes. The majority of built were built pre-1970. Homes are mainly

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powered by utility gas. And according to the New Jersey clean energy program data, there are over there 101 residential energy efficiency incentive programs that were completed between 2008 and 2021. Those are things like energy star. The state has some funding for weatherization projects. So things

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like that that the state tracks for all municipalities in New Jersey. We also used Google project sunroof which anybody is able to access to assess the viability of solar for their property for their town. We found that 57% of properties in the burrow are solar viable. This image here I know it's a

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little harder to see. I know there's a couple screens around but anything in the orange hue in the lighter color is more viable for solar. There's less those properties are less um aren't as shaded. So properties along Central, South and Mountain A have more of the

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clusters of of structures that are most solar viable and those there are already 42 existing solar installations in the burrow. 10 are commercial, 30 are residential and two are categorized as other which includes farms, government government

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facilities, nonprofits and schools. And this next slide focuses on the transportation sector. I just pulled a couple things from the plan. This section is a lot more in depth. Uh, similar to other towns in New Jersey, on-road vehicles are the top greenhouse gas emission source, followed by

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residential, natural gas, and residential electricity. Something I found interesting, the number of electric vehicles in the burrow went from five vehicles in 2015 to 617 in 2025 in just a 10-year stretch. And this might not be all of

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them, but there are four documented public charging stations in the burrow. For example, the image here is a new EV charger installed at your rescue squad lot on Academy Street. This was not mapped on D's data, so there there may be a couple that are missing. So, moving on to the action plan. Like I

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said in the beginning, all the strategies come from the state energy plan. So, there are seven strategies, but we don't include strategy five. No municipalities do because municipalities don't have control any regulatory control over the the grid system.

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So like I said the action plan is based on seven strategies in the state community energy plan and under each strategy there are a number of initiatives. So like there are of all the strategies there are to 33 total initiatives in the plan. Like I said before I'm not going

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to go through all of them. I'll give you a little bit of insight on how we selected the initiatives and prioritized them because they're ranked low to high priority. So we looked at Well, one, we considered all the data we collected. We considered

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the survey that went out and we also met with some burough officials. We evaluated each initiative based on how difficult they are to implement. What's the anticipated impact? Are there funding sources available? Who are the stakeholders? And what are the potential obstacles? There's this overlap with

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these. Obviously, a potential obstacle could be there's no funding source, for example. And then for each initiative, there's an implementation plan which covers who's the point person, who's the department in charge, what's the priority level, what other department should be involved, what's a potential

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plan start date or timeline, and if there was funding available, we highlighted that in the plan as well. So, like I said, there are 33 initiatives. I'm just going to highlight one. This is from strategy one. This is initiative 1.6, install public EV

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charging infrastructure. Also wanted to highlight this one because of that drastic increase in electric vehicles in the burrow, the fact that you already have public stations and there's funding opportunities for um the installation of public EV charging infrastructure. So

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this is an example. There's a summary. So for this the summary for the initiative is install electric vehicle charging infrastructure including chargers, signage and safety and accessibility features for public use. I shared before because of the survey and data this was listed as high priority.

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The initiative lead is public works but there are other departments involved. This is an ongoing initiative since you already have public chargers. And terms of costs and funding D has it pays to plugin grant program where they provide grants for municipalities to

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install level two charging stations and that's a rolling grant. There's also the BPU clean fleet electric vehicle incentive program. I I don't believe that one's a rolling deadline, but that's more for a municipal fleet. Provides chargers, fast and level two chargers. Um, and also could fund just

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the provide a grant for you to purchase an electric fleet vehicle for the burough. And then each initiative has next steps. So, example, the next step would be identifying strategic locations for future chargers. determine if the burough wants to own and maintain it or

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is this more of a public private partnership, so secure partners, if that makes sense, and also educating the public regarding the location of these chargers. So maybe creating an interactive map on your website so people can go and see where there are public chargers in town. So again, this

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is just one example of the 33 initiatives in the plan, but happy to answer any questions if you guys have specific questions about the initiatives. So, as far as next steps, it's my understanding the plan won't be adopted tonight. So, there's some opportunity if there's some feedback, we can make some changes. And this plan

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will allow you to gain sustainable Jersey certification points and then move on to implementing priority actions applying for funding through D, BPU, and sustainable Jersey. And in the plan, it cites to revisit the plan every 10 years

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at a minimum. So every you'll have to reapply for sustainable certification every three years. So that'll be an opportunity to revisit even sooner if changes are are required. So I'm going to stop there. If anyone has any questions or comments, I'd be happy to

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address them. >> Question. The uh the D grants uh the levels recharges is that for commercial or residential levels? >> They would have to be in a public location. Typically they're located at train stations, shopping centers rather

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than a residential development. >> So it's not like the D is funding the grant for like people to obtain level two charges. >> No, it's only nonprofits and local governments are eligible to apply. >> Yeah, good question. Sorry.

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>> Um, for the 33 initiatives, um, do you have some kind of, and I'm sorry, I should have like clicked on every link in the plan just to say, do you have some kind of like table that lists them all in a way that you can tell like what where we're

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headed like first, second, third in terms of the timing of it. Um, >> like when the grants are opening. >> No, just the plan itself. initiatives that have been identified. Is there one document that >> that shows these are the high priority

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items? >> Yeah. Sort of like any kind of timing associated with them. I'm just trying to get a feel for the cadence and how how we might be working through them. >> Yeah, good question. That's not included in the plan, but I could easily put a document together that just lists the

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title of each initiative in order of priority if that's helpful. >> Sure. Yeah. Great. >> Okay. >> We include that as appendix to the plan. >> Yeah. >> And like the leading department, you know, so we know where the bulk of the

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effort is. >> Okay. So, a list of initiatives in priority order with the lead department next to it. Okay. Say who to who to ping and ask. >> Exactly. >> Sounds good.

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>> That was my question as well. I initiatives and I didn't see I don't think I saw any listed in the plan itself. So the way it's organized is by this well six strategies and under each strategy there's a list of initiatives.

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Each initiative is about almost an entire page. As you could see from this slide there's a lot of content. >> So six strate So the 33 initiatives are divided amongst the six strategies. >> Yes. Sorry. When I'm using words like strategy initiative a bunch of times it

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kind of stops making sense. So >> yeah the numbers like 2.6 strategy six initiative in that strategy. >> Yeah, like this one up here is 1.6. So strategy one is tied to the transportation sector. So all EV related

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actions are under the transportation strategy. >> Like I just see like 1.9 community EV. >> Yeah. So that's kind of tied to this to for example like sustainable new providence work with the burrow to put together that interactive map to show

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where the u the chargers are located. because some are low hanging fruit because a lot of these overlap. Some are just adopting an ordinance where some are get funding to install solar on top of your municipal building. So >> they're all pretty different. >> Got it.

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All the way down. Um so so all of these initiatives, right? All these strategies, all these initiatives. I I know asked about a timeline, but what it like realistically I mean it's a lot.

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>> I know. Realistically, what's the state thinking that how is this going to happen and how long is it going to take? And um is it realistic to work on one initiative like per year? That's not realistic. And then that would take us

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33 years. Like so like it just seems like a lot to wrap your head around. >> I think the the list of just having them all in front of you with the priority because we don't list everything as high priority. Not listed as a start date within the next year or two. Just

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acknowledging that things take time and we're already, this is crazy to say, we're already pretty much halfway through this year. Um, so yeah, it's a good question. I don't necessarily have a direct answer, but it depends on what funding is available and what's the capacity of each department

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that's assigned to each action. Maybe there's some reworking need and you're not tied to this priority list. Sorry. >> Having the plan is the important part, right? So having a plan allows you to apply for for certain things that are obvious in

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>> you received a grant to prepare a plan to be eligible for other grants. >> A plant can also sit and collect dust. You know, >> I was just saying like, you know, we've we've identified all these they're not going to they're not going to go into

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like a all right this is going to get done year one, year two, year three or four. This is just this is the plan of all the actions that we can take based on the Right. But it also allows you now to pluck funding as things come up. Like you said, some of these are lowlying

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fruit that we may want to early, some are bigger initiatives that may take years of that nature. >> It's also tied to the sustainable Jersey program. So, it does have that added layer of eyes on the plan. You have sustainable new providence. I believe you have a committee and folks on your council assigned to sustainability

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initiatives. Think like, okay, what should we do? When you have this plan to point to, like I shared before, uh, every three years you're required to reapply for certification and you would be submitting community energy plan. You'll have eyes on it again. Maybe that's an opportunity to make any

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changes, shuffle things around. It's a living document. You just have to put something in there that says you need to revisit this at least every 10 years. Like you were alluding to, things change all the time at the state level. You kind of have there's some flexibility that needs to be built in as always. >> Well, a lot has to do with cost and

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funing and the state's always up with different ways to fund things. So, you know, we just have to keep an eye on it and take advantage of whatever comes along. >> And does it matter if it's, you know, the fund the grant process is done through public works or is it done

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through sustainability or both? >> Are you asking who would apply for the grants? Um, I'm not sure. >> It's always through us. So, I have a couple of questions and the the first one dubtales kind of off what Lisa and Kathleen were talking about.

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So, in in the plan, like I know some of the them have a plan start date of they're ongoing or 26 or 28 or 29 or something like that. Some of some of the items in there seem to be pretty high impact and low resource and friction points. So, so what's the best way for

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us to kind of go through this and provide feedback if something seems like maybe it could be an earlier priority, you know, like like Matt said, low hanging fruit, doesn't cost a lot, is good thing for the borrow to get ahead of. What's the best way for us to provide that feedback? >> I think seeing that list with everything

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consolidated with all without all of the details you see up here could help you all provide solid feedback. I know we don't have too much time between now and the next meeting. Are there specific initiatives that you could think of off the top of your head that should be prior? >> I mean, there's a couple in there that

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like, you know, may maybe passing an ordinance that that helps us get ready for something and maybe that's a thing that could be sooner rather than later. I mean, you know, that like I said, I I went through all 33. There's there's a lot of good stuff in there. Some of it just seemed like it would be good sooner rather than later, especially since there's no obstacles, relatively low

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impact and effort, you know. So, I was wondering if we could if we could adjust the priority on some of those. I mean, I I can I can write it up. I I think it's important to know that it's your plan, right? So, it is living and you you can address them in any order that you want.

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They they've been prioritized as for how we think they should roll out or could roll out, but it's not it it doesn't mean that that's the only way it can happen. >> Okay. Okay. Fair enough. Um I was curious about the the the the various levels. How close are we to gold and

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what's the merit of of of going for gold in this particular case? >> Well, I'm not sure where you are with your points. What does that lie with sustainable new providence? Are they managing that or is that recreation internal? >> So, it's sustainable new providence Ellison is um you know their assigned

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person um for reference um the fact that we just got silver and it was it was a monument a monumental uh lift um to get to there. Um, right now Sustainable Jersey has suspended um anything moving forward because they're revamping their

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program. So, we're in a holding pattern. >> Okay. >> Oh, yeah. They're changing their actions. They're removing some. They're shifting things around right now. So, I think it's like a hold >> hold tight for right now situation. >> Is this going to be shared with the public?

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>> Um, It's on the agenda right now. >> No, this Yeah, >> the plan is the plan is on the agenda. It's public. >> Yeah, she's asking about the slide deck. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Um, and how would we be monitoring and reporting back on the plan as it goes through the next, you know, 10 years? What mechanism is that? >> That would be my job. >> Okay. >> Would that fall under the sustainability committee to back on or >> they'll be working in conjunction with

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the bureau. >> So there's different aspects that go into it, right? So you know, as you guys are are planning for next year's budget, you know, there's budgetary considerations that have to be taken into consideration. So you know, sustainable our sustainability committee

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may be driving the actions, but you're controlling the levers, if you know what I mean. >> Yeah, makes sense. And and and by the way, I I I should have started with I love the plan. You know, I I I think, you know, there there's a lot there's a lot of good in here. So, I'm very excited about it. I guess maybe my last question would be how how do we tie this

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into our other plans, >> you know, that that that we have uh you know, I don't know if that's that's an US question or or you question >> like your master plan like open space. >> Yeah. Master plan, capital planning, forestry plan, uh you know, open space

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plan, so on so forth. So every 10 years, every municipality is required to re-examine their master plan. I believe your last re-exam was almost 10 years ago. So that's probably on the horizon anyway next year. >> Next year. So >> we'll start looking at that in September. >> Perfect.

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>> Thank you. >> I'll open up to the public. Anybody have a question? >> Yes. >> I have to give your name. Sustainable Jersey. >> Hi everybody. I'm Tracy Woods from Sustainable Jersey and I just wanted to

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uh tell you that I'm so glad to be here tonight and hear about your plan and um I'm looking forward to supporting throughout the entire process. One of the things that makes us so glad and the people that have done uh this planning process before you is I can tell you that once we get a sense of what you're

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looking for as funding becomes available from any source, we go, "Oh, great. We've got this grant. Who wanted to do that again?" and then we let you know and um you know say like there's an application can we support you in pulling this together. This goes uh the support for you completing these

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projects goes beyond this one-time effort and we're really glad to have you guys as part of that ongoing process. >> Thank you for coming. >> It's good to know Swanson 47 Over Hill Road. I just have a question. What's the next step for this?

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Do we know >> we have to prioritize? >> I think >> Go ahead. >> I think I think specifically it it goes on the agenda for next month to get adopted. >> Correct. >> Well, I I mean after it's adopted is what's what adopting it is there's a lot

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there as you as you point out. I'm just wondering how you're going to tackle it, I guess, is what I mean. >> We'll have to put like a strategy. >> We asked for the list of all the different initiatives with priorities, right? So, and we also Matt mentioned some lowlying fruit. So, I I don't think

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that we're going to like take them in numerical order, but we will, you know, start looking at it and see maybe what can we take off or what can we what's a shorter term plan versus a longer term plan. What do we have money for now versus maybe allocating some money for

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next year. I think there's going to be a lot of a lot of balls up in the air with us. It's not going to be black and white. I think what we have to do is have the sustainability committee look at this whole thing. >> Okay, >> that's what I was

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>> make your recommendations uh give them to Bernardet and then we can all look around it and discuss our priorities. >> I think we kind of already started that process, right? I think >> the committee helped kind of prioritize or or

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>> they contributed. >> They gave their input into the plan. And some of the items are already in process. >> Will be an interesting process. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Right out of my mouth. You have uh well, first I want to thank Allison Smith. The

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sustainability uh silver certification couldn't be done without her. Uh we have John FX who's been on the committee as well. You have a wonderful resource on the sustainable committee, a lot of expertise so we can take a look at this, prioritize it for

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you. You have free consultation if you really need it. So I urge you and you've all said it, so just wanted to repeat. Thank you. Thank you. >> And thank you. >> Yeah. >> Anyone else? No.

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>> Oh, wait. Sorry. ongoing and so we look at it not just stagnant it's ongoing and this help and of course it's not static and I just want to say continue to look at it

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>> thank you >> step one step >> anything else thank you I appreciate the opportunity to present and to put this together with all of appreciate the stat for most

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amazing. >> You have a good rest of your meeting. >> Good to see you. >> Yeah, you as well. >> Okay, we need approval of minutes of May 12th, please. >> So move. >> Second.

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>> All in favor? >> I I >> Okay, we have correspondence. I'll just go back up to the ordinance before that. >> It's right above minutes. >> Right above the minutes. >> I don't want to skip that.

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>> Public hearing. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. We got rid of minutes anyway. >> Okay. Public hearing of ordinance of four. Please read the title. An ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 257 of the code of the bureau of

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new providence entitled vehicles and traffic. >> Have a motion, please. >> So move. >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay. What this ordinance is is there will be no parking on Park Place between

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um what is it 6:00 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon on Saturdays. Um recycling is uh taking place. Okay. Anybody wishing to uh comment on that?

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>> See nobody. >> What's that? >> She wants you to talk into the microphone like me. >> Okay. She's right. >> Mr. Dolan. Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Learner,

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I'm looking at her. >> Mr. Learner. >> Hi, >> Miss Dolan. >> Hi. >> Mr. Kamiski. >> I >> Mrs. Mcnite. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gardner. >> Hi. >> Okay. We'll go to correspondence. New Jersey American Water following a

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hearing for increased tariff rates. Uh notice of filing distribution motor system and improvement changes. Um new providence fire department junior memberships for Ali Aidi

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uh Reese Cooper uh resignation for Kellan. We have Alan Swanson about the hometown family. Hometown Hero Banners and the County of

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Union uh Department of Economic Development opening Union County uh housing choice vouchers. Any comments? Seeing none, um okay, let's go to

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uh committee activities. Uh Matt, >> thank you, Mr. Mayor. Resolution 2026-188 is a salary resolution for the recreation approving a summer camp counselor. >> Okay, engineering, keep going.

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>> Resolution 189 is a resolution approving final payment to current elevator technology incount $7,500 for the project commonly known as Elizabeth Barabash Manor elevator replacement. This is a final payment in the elevator project at the Barab Bash

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across the street. >> Okay. Finance. What is it? >> Thank you, mayor. Uh, we have an introduction to ordinance 20265. This is a bond ordinance providing for various capital improvements in and by

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the burrow of New Providence in the county of Union uh County of Union, New Jersey appropriating 2,910,215 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $2,416 of bonds or notes of the bureau to

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finance part of the cost thereof. Um so back when we approved the budget part of the budget was the capital budget. These were the projects that were um spoken of at that time. Uh so this introduction of the bond ordinance to fund the capital

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projects in the burrow for 2026. Uh the ordinance does include various um projects that we spoke about previously. road paving, pedestrian safety upgrades, storm water remediation, sewer lining,

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sewer jet cameras. One of the things that we wanted to mention is that you notice we appropriated 2.9 million, but we're going out for 2.4. Um, approximately $500,000 is going to be coming from the sewer fee connections

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that we we kind of upped the price on those um last year. So that's your, you know, your your developments that are coming in. They were paying pretty much rock bottom. We up the price on that. So that $500,000 is going to offset what we

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need to go out for bond. Um that $500,000 also is used for pretty specific things. U for instance, sewer lining um and that type of those type of projects. So if you see that discrepancy

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there, that's what that is. Um, so then we're going to move on to resolution 190. This is a resolution authorizing payment of the attached bills payable list in the amount of 4,717,63467. Some of the most significant items are

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to the county of union 3,219,773 for our second quarter taxes. The depository trust 620,000 for the payment of bond principle. Tower spring gardens 266,6671.

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That's a tax court judgement. Uh county of union 142,281. Second quarter open space taxes. Mark Anthony Chevrolet 56,550 for a patrol vehicle. Suburban disposal

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$49,83 for our April garbage and interstate waste services. 34,420 for our May recycle. Resolution 191 is a resolution providing for the insertion of any special item of

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revenue in the 2026 budget pursuant of NJSSA4A 4-87 chapter 159 PL1948 state of New Jersey 2026 clean communities grant. Uh this New Jersey

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clean community grant is a statewide comprehensive litter abatement program. Um it's it is funded through user fee on manufacturer and distributors of litter generating products that um it provides

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annual grants to municipalities and counties to fund cleanup events, public education, volunteer programs, and local enforcement of anti-litter laws. This year, the bureau is going to be receiving $33,48326. Um

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This is very specific uh as to what the these dollars can be used for. Um and typically Ralph or RDPW will go ahead and um make some recommendations, but some of the things that it can be used

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for are leaf facts, fixing the leafax, um those type of of projects. Um, resolution 192 is a resolution providing for the insertion of any special item of revenue

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in the 2026 budget pursuant of NJSA 4A4-87 chapter 159 PL1948 Summit Elks armored vest donation. Uh, this is I love this. Um this um so the

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Summit Elks has donated $3,000 to our police department for the purchase of bulletproof vests and they have done this for quite a few years. So hopefully they keep they keep doing it and we we thank the Summit Elks for that of which I'm a member.

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>> It's part of part of my dues. >> Okay. Legal uh Brian. >> All right. Resolution 193, resolution relative to issuance of plenary retail consumption license to Murray Hill in licensed services LLC for 2026 2027

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license year and resolution 194 resolution relative to issuance of club license to Hilltop Social Club Inc. for 2026 2027 license year. This is uh the Murray Hill Inn and Lantern Hill

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renewing their liquor licenses. personnel. I'll I'll fill in for >> uh we have resolution 195. This is a resolution accepting written resignation from Brian Flynn as the tax assessor for the Burough of the Providence. His

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resignation is effective June 1st uh 2026. He worked for the bur since 2015 as both deputy tax assessor and later as the tax assessor. >> Okay. Um resolution 196 is approving a

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requisition for a new um Tahoe for the fire department for $61,000. And um I think the other one was 2013 the chiefs and the chief is going to

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rotate that down to the deputy chief. So um you know we don't we just keep rotating things around. Uh 197 is a requisition from Ford for Tahoe police vehicle for 45,000

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and that's part of our replacement program for the police department. Um, resolution 198 is um for an elite emergency uplift Chevy Tahoe Patrol vehicle not to exceed $8,000

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um $8,741 and this is a specific request for emergency management. Uh 199 is a resolution for island touch

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services for the MTT uh computers for and for the new new vehicle. Uh resolution 200 is a resolution approving Harington moving in storage and that's to move uh the equipment and all the

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furniture from this police department to across the street where it'll be housed for a year or so while this facility is going to be upgraded. uh resolution 2001. Um it's for the new Providence Police

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Department to uh participate in the Defense Logistics Agency law enforcement support. As you know, we had the five ton truck uh which we use during emergency situations like floods or

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whatever. And thank God for that vehicle because we've had over 15 life sates being able to have that vehicle. The engine is shot on it. Uh so we're going to request another vehicle, but you have to participate in this program.

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>> It's basically no cost to the >> No, super. It's free. And they they over the years they put on a new lift gate, things like that on that vehicle will all come up and be vehicle. So, it's all good.

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>> Okay. Um, public works. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Uh, resolution 202. This is a resolution approving requisition R261157 for FOIA Trinity Electric LLC in the amount not to exceed $6,650

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for electric restoration of wastewater treatment plant summit meter. This is a restoration of uh conduits, lighting, outlets, heater, thermostat, and a float alarm at the summit pump station after a service strap broke from the pipe on a 12in force man which resulted in

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flooding. Uh resolution 203 uh resolution authorizing an agreement between the burough of the Providence and Gear Give for goods collection bins. This is approving the agreement with gear give to collect used sporting equipment as part of the

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DPW recycling days at the yard. On the first and third Saturday of the month, the burrow will receive $100 per month for placement of the collection box. >> Okay, let's go to uh

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reports. Um, I'll start off last uh last meeting I forgot to recognize the community service association because they got a uh a uh award from the let me get it county human relations commission

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annual unity achievement award. Um CSA is a great organization. You were president for a lot of years >> Lisa and I was I was remembered many years ago and they do great work for the community. Um,

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as we wrap up uh uh mental health awareness month, we'd like to thank everyone who helped paint the town green, promote mental wellness, and uh reduce stigma. It's very

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important. And you know, there's a there's a lot of things going on, a lot of stress out there. And hopefully this will make a difference and guide people to the right right way to uh help everybody.

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And as we head into June, it seems like June is is a is a month has has a a name tag. And June is pride month in Providence. And we proudly support uh pride month and continue to strive to

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be a welcoming and inclusive community. And I think uh that's all I have except that I met with with new assemblyman Andrew Mccertie, his chief of staff, and we talked about

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certain uh projects that were going on here, certain concerns, and couple of them I already talked to uh the assembly member down in Trenton, but uh you know, they're very eager to help us out in any

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way we can. So, it was a it was a good meeting. >> Yeah. And did she leave? >> She left. I just want to say the Memorial Day parade, even though it was wet. Um it was nice being cool. I've

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been in those 95 degree ones. But um I just want to thank everybody for participating and uh you know whoever was there I I just want to say uh that's what you know hometown America is

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all about is a Memorial Day parade and we honor our veterans. We honor the ones especially who are former and um you know we've done a lot for the the veterans over the years. Um we're one of the first towns to ever be hometown

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heroes. Um we've uh made specific parking places for them to make make things easy. We were awarded a a veterans uh group awarded us a uh certificate of excellence for our

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participation in veteran activities. So um yeah, they're very grateful and you know the guys over here at the American Legion big group of guys and girls and uh they do a great job and we thank them for all

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their sacrifice. Okay. Uh, >> status quo. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh, for the diversity committee, just a reminder, uh, that there will be the unity day being held over at the New Providence High School

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on June 6th in the gym. Uh, the diversity committee will have a table there and it's looking like it's going to be the biggest uh, event yet for the day group. It's really being run by the students uh for the most part. Um and I

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think there's right now almost 30 organizations that are going to have tables there. So I encourage everybody to make plan to come out. It's from 3 to 6 on June 6th. Um the Municipal Alliance Every 15 minutes production will be filmed tomorrow.

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I'm very excited to see the final cut when it's ready. I don't really know how long it takes them to to put it together, but that'll be great when that's available. Uh the historical society held their salt box craft fair that was well attended on its rain,

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which was last weekend, and the garden club plant sale plant sale went very well that day as well. And then again, just a reminder that there will be a storm water town hall on June 4th uh at 7 PM here in council

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chambers and uh there will be time for questions. So, we encourage all residents to come by if they have concerns. That's it. And I think that's a good point because we want people to come if you have questions about the storm order. You have the professional

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engineers here to ask the questions and you get the correct answers. Uh the other thing is that we got a little over 2.5 inches of rain over the weekend. There were no problems that that were

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reported. So, like I have indicated many many times before, you only have the problems when you get a vast amount of rain in a certain time period. When you get five, six, seven inches of rain in two hours, there's nothing that's going

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to hold that back. So, um you know, it's uh something that that we're working on. We're checking all outlets. We're checking roadways. We're checking a lot of different things in town. So, but you

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know, it's important that people come June 4th if you have concerns. And we were we're finding people that put in uh the pipes and outlets are clogged because uh garden debris is in the in

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the sewers. Uh there's a lot of a lot of things that are going on out there that we're going to have to uh try and educate people with. Uh there's a lot of people put in illegal pipes without permits and going under people's patios

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and we can't fix people's yards because there's no easements. So it's important that you get the permits and and you know they're going to require engineering drawings and up to code. So, um

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we'll move on to Matt. >> So, no committee reports. Uh I just I do want to mention the parade. Uh thank Allison, the recreation department, thank the burough administration uh and all the veterans that uh showed up for the for the parade. I say this a lot.

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It's like one of my favorite traditions, you know, the parade, you know, Fourth of July, fireworks on the third every every year, things like that. Um, you know, I thoroughly enjoy getting my hot dog and and Budweiser at the American Legion. You know, can't get any

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more American than that. Um, but, you know, I I really enjoy over the last eight years, you know, walking the parade with you, you know, Mr. Morgan there. Uh, just a hometown pioneer, all all the residents, you know, uh, very happy to see you and I'm proud to walk

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next to you during that parade as well. So, uh, it's a great tradition and you know, an honor tradition and I'm glad that we continue to do it. And we were one of, uh, few communities in the area that didn't cancel due to rain. So, >> that's great. >> So, uh, so thank you again to everyone.

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>> They weren't all waving at me. >> They were at me. >> Ryan says, "Is there anybody in this town you don't know?" >> Yeah, it was a great day. Really, I I love the parade. I remember marching it when I was Cub Scout.

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>> Okay. >> And now your grandchildren are marching it. Yeah. Yeah. >> Anyhow, um so the library board met on April 19th. Um as usual, the friends of the library gave their report. They have

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so much going on all the time. Uh they had an accessory sale. They had the Concord singers there, which are pretty popular singing group. Um they performed, but they had the vinyl record um sale and they I think they said was like

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started outside like before it was even open. They had 1,800 people come through >> to buy vinyl records. >> My son's collecting them and I'll be honest with you, I'm a little upset that I'm I'm spending money again on things >> that you had and gave away and buying it

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again. >> Um so a lot of things going on uh over at the library. One of the things that I thought was interesting was um they received a $3,000 grant from Dollar General which they're going to put

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towards their summer reading program. Um the summer reading program starts hold on starts on um June 18th. Uh they're launching Read White and Blue. Okay, that's cute. Read, White, Blue.

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And so the summer reading program, I don't if you remember from last year, it's not just for little kids. They have a summer reading program for adults. You can like So, and there's prizes. That's what the $3,000 is going to be used for to kind of um you know provide prizes to

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the kids and the adults. Um so, if you don't have a library card, go get one and you could start with the uh the summer reading program. >> Um >> I vote that they had the best float. >> Yeah, right. They did have that was >> the dragon.

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>> Yeah. Yeah, that was that was cool. um le for they h the library has um is hired a law firm to work with and uh Stacy is going to be meeting with them and they're going to start working on

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establishing the library foundation which we're going to need. We want to raise dollars for the expansion. So if anybody's interested in being on the library foundation always use extra hands. um and extra brains. So

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that's all I got. >> It's a big undertaking. So it's going to take a long time and um that's why we need help. >> Yeah. And it it never happens if you don't start. So >> yeah, it's got to start somewhere. >> Okay, Brian, you're up. >> All right. Um everything's normal, but I'm going to use more words to say it.

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Um no, so I just want to echo what my what my colleague said about the Memorial Day parade. It was really a great event, you know, and I love the focus on remembering and honoring the fallen, you know, and and just, you know, those who have sacrificed to make this country what it is. And and and I agree with with it was just such a great

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hometown. Like, you know, you see the scouts marching, you see the band marching, all of that fun stuff. So, that that was definitely a very good time. Uh let's see, committee updates. Uh communication committee, we have a big meeting coming up on Friday, so I'm very excited about that. Yes, I am

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excited about a meeting. um um mental health advisory. Um you know, Mayor May Mayor Morgan uh said said most of it, but just to to kind of bookend the the the month, it really was a great month. Really, a huge shout out to Naen and uh

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to to Debbie Merrick and you know, Lisa was very key in getting this off the ground. U you know, and I think you were at most of the events >> and painting. >> Yeah. Yeah. You you were at like everything. uh and just you know a real nice cross-section of the community and and one of the things that that's

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exciting is that um I think you know the the the group is looking at continuing programming so it's not just a month and you know so so you know there's a real message behind it so keep an eye out for ongoing programming over the course of the next couple months and every third Wednesday at Burrow Hall uh please come

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join us uh let's see uh cable TV uh we're we're working on creating a plan for getting that up and running. So, I'm very hopeful on that. Uh, board of education has a big meeting on uh Thursday. Uh, so I definitely encourage

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all interested parties to attend that. And I think that's that. >> You're up. >> Thank you, Mayor Morgan. I I just wanted to provide council with a quick update on what's going on uh with the municipal

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annex across the street as well as where we are with the police department um construction project. So across the street um I I think I remember telling you guys that the asbestous disabatement has been completed. Um they started

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doing the electrical work and um ceiling replacement. So, on the second floor, I was over there before the meeting and um the second floor, all the electricity is intact and in place. The ceiling tiles have been reinstalled. They're going to

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start painting the second floor tomorrow. Um once the painting is is finished, we're trying to get the flooring guys in to come and and finish that so we can start looking at um that space to move them over. The ground

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floor, not as in great shape. Um, so the ground floor, they're still working on the electricity. Um, as well as the, um, ceiling tiles. Um, there's a few walls that need to be put in place. Um, certainly there's still no flooring or

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painting or anything like that, but they are still on track to be moving into that building sometime midsummer. So, everything is kind of going according to plan. Um, you know, unfortunately, you know, there were a lot of unexpected things that we found over there. Well, unexpected, expected.

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>> You uncover a lot of sins when you start taking >> it has been like any other home renovation I've ever done. Um so as far as where we are with um the Union County Improvement Authority uh moving forward with the construction of

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the new building, we've been um working with them for the last two weeks going through documents that were provided by Musual um matching up what they need as and and what was provided. Um so we're

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in the process of Dan um Chief Hen giving a final approval on the schematics um to just make sure that they were where we left off with the mutual group. Um they gave us a preliminary timeline of um having the bid package ready to go out on November

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17th of this year uh with bids due um back in January of 27 and awarded in February of 27. Um they're looking then to um give a notice to proceed midFebruary

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and final completion is estimated someplace around July of 28. So that's where we are with that. Um the DPW building replacement Collier's um has been coordinating with the engineering and planning and developing development people as well as Ralph and

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his guys um to establish um a scope of work um for replacing that building. Um they're looking, as you know, we've had a start and a stop down there. So we thought we were going in one direction and that um

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turned out to not um be viable for us at the time. um it would have come in over cost and we it it increasingly became more um >> thank you more sorry it's a late day

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more evident that um much of much of the work would have been done outside of um the scope that they had originally proposed. Um, so when we broke off contact with that vendor, we were already more than $400,000 over what

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they had originally quoted us. So we reached out to Collers. Collars is going to put together um a proposal for moving forward and putting it out to bid and they hope to have that to you guys um by next month, one of the

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two meetings next month. And lastly, I just wanted to let you know that callers did um submit our mandatory annual storm water report to the DP um on time and intact. So that's all I have. >> Great.

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>> Thank you. >> Okay, at this time we have public comments. Anybody wishing to address council, please come up, give your name and address. >> Swanson, 47 over Hill Road. Uh I'm just wondering is there a response to my

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correspondence about banners? >> The banners they uh they're not done by the bureau. All we do is >> I you know I I'm fully aware of all of the application process and all of that. So I understand that it's a private organization. Do you believe for a

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minute that the people walking down the street believe that this is a private thing? It's not something sponsored by the town. This isn't something the town is going to get involved with except donating our our our process to hang them, take them down, and stole the

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brackets. Okay, we the police department has been gracious enough to take in the applications. Some families may not want to do it. Some people are out of town. You know, they've moved.

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We have no way to trace all this. I'm not >> I don't suppose yours has it up there. >> I'm I I I'm I actually This is my two my DD214. You asked about DD214s just uh

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>> Monday. Yesterday. >> Yep. As long as >> this is this is a DD214. My DD14. I don't want to have a banner. >> That's the reason. >> But but you but the difference is this. Memorial Day is not about veterans. It's

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not about me. It's not about people. who were serving in the armed forces. They have armed forces day. Um Memorial Day is came into existence and exists for one purpose and that one purpose is to remember and honor the people who have

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died so that all of us can function today doing what we're doing. And that's a distinction that I think should be recognized by the council and by the town and that there shouldn't be a

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memorial day which is dedicated solely to that purpose that doesn't include honoring those people with a banner. We we have the names. I don't I'm sure you didn't ask the

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those who died the seven who died in World War II from New Providence. Did you ask the families is it okay to put their names on the memorial in front of the library? Was it I mean I just it just I just don't understand it. When I was looking

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into this and it was wanting to get the names and to to honor those specific people who died, the the the nine who died in conflicts and I added on the six who died in September 11th.

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I was to say that I was surprised that only two of those uh people are honored with a with their a banner. Uh it just seems to me that if

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we're going to have a parade where we're marching down the street that those people should be set aside specially and I believe that the town should take a role in that just just to facilitate

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it happening. I don't think you need permission that people and then there's another reason for this. I I'm 78 years old. I still have there aren't a lot of us around anymore who have well I I don't have parents who remember World

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War II and soon there's going to be really nobody around that's going to remember that and then it'll just it'll fade away and in our remembrance and sure we'll have plaques here and there and those kinds of things.

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We need people need to know why we have Memorial Day and and the sacrifice that people paid for that. I didn't pay any sacrifice for it. In fact, I'm opposed to killing in war. Strangely as it

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sounds that I was in the infantry. Um I mean I I think there have been a couple of discussions about, you know, different ways and options to to to make it happen. maybe maybe not through through the burrow but maybe through through other options or working with the burrow like like you know they they they have a piece to play in it but

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working with the PVA. So I think there are a couple of good options to maybe to do the research get the you know find contacts for the families if that's appropriate. Yeah, I was actually I meant to um connect with the historical society

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president and vice president yesterday and I just wasn't able to. But I am we were just at a meeting with them and they have high school students who are looking uh to get some community service hours by doing projects over the summer

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and I was going to suggest to them maybe they might get somebody who would be willing to take on take on this investigation to locate as Brian said the families of these um missing seven and see if we can get some information

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and and see what we can do from I think it has to start with actually trying to identify and find somebody that you can work with in order to proceed with with this banner. >> Sounds like a >> three comments, three questions. Thank

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you for your service. Um on the two projects, this may be for Bernardet, uh the DPW and the police department. I know we didn't when I was up there, we talked about having a um sustainability element. If you don't put it in the specifications, it's never

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going to get done. So, just a reminder on that. Uh on the storm water meeting that's happening, is there going to be an agenda for that? Can people send in questions ahead of time or what what do you guys think? Is that going to be recorded? >> I would suggest I would suggest a matter of fact I was gonna say that if someone

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has a question I would highly suggest sending it in in advance of the meeting so that we could be prepared to answer it. >> No surprises. >> I mean and that's surprises but I mean some of this stuff's a little bit difficult right and to have some research done in advance would be great. So you have a question send it in.

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Something pops up >> a draft agenda to call yours. with like the Rise NP folks have that or maybe >> they would I mean it's it's related to all the things you've been talking about in these meetings. Yeah, for sure.

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>> And is that meeting recorded or not? No public meeting. >> I think it's going to record it. >> Okay. Last last comment. Thank you. It's personal to me. Wanted to know everyone's opinion and people talk in my neighborhood about these skeletons that

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are on people's lungs. Is there any kind of ordinance in place? I I'm I'm the biggest fan of decorations. I really am. But decorations have a time and a place. Some of these are just they're 10 12t structures that are on people's lawns. And when it comes to your personal

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property, I'm a libertarian. You should do whatever you want, but these things are a little obtrusive. It's the first thing you see when you drive in. Um just wondering if there's an ordinance in place. It's become it's become people are asking what can we do about it but

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>> may this be the worst problem that we have to deal with. I agree with you. >> The uh I I don't believe there is an ordinance. >> There is not >> and I don't think we came out. >> I remember one time a guy >> came out. >> He upset his neighbor and the neighbor

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came in. He was actually a contractor. He did a bathroom renovation and put a toilet bowl and put flowers in it. Yeah. >> Lawyer said there's nothing you can do about it. >> Yeah. >> Well, I mean it gets to the question if somebody wants to put a statue of somebody up or uh that's controversial

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or or a a bill I think we have something for billboards but >> but eventually we might have to do something about it before it gets out of hand. >> We'll do the skeleton ordinance. >> Skeleton >> I I've suggested I've provided >> spend $600 on a skeleton like you want

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everyone >> back to store it and is only $20 on >> there. Thank you. >> Alex, before you go um >> back to what you were talking about with the police department, I had a meeting with Chief Han, you know, a couple months ago and there was any sustainable elements that were going to be implemented in the new, you know, the

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new building coming up. You know, there's not a lot of shade there if they're going to be putting any sort of solar. I know we have a huge generator out front and just something to maybe offset, you know, our footprint. So, you know, I have mentioned something to him and, you know, he was going to he was going to speak with, you know, the the

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architects and the the plan is pretty much already done, but it's ongoing. But I I share your sentiment about trying to get as much sustainable elements. I think you have, as you heard from the community plan, there there's going to be opportunities for big grant money when it comes to construction

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>> and it's really just materials and the the materials, high energy efficient equipment, HVAC equipment, uh build. >> Yeah. On a new build. Exactly. And if you start, it doesn't people think it's going to cost a lot of money. It does not cost a lot of money. >> No, it's more like a retrofit after the

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fact to start. and solar sometimes I'm a big fan of solar but sometimes it's not the right uh opportunity. So it might work, it might not work. I just want people to at least check the box to say we looked at it. Maybe financial elements come into play but >> well there may for commercial solar

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notion so that's why it may be more beneficial. >> But just as a shout out to Bernardet and the sustainability committee two of the 33 action items are each of those projects. So so it is so it is in the plan. So I would expect that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Just don't forget. Oh yeah. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else?

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Seeing no one under public hearing close, >> I need a motion for items 1 through >> 17. >> 17. >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> Roll, please, >> Mr. Mr. Learner. >> I, >> Miss Dolan. >> I, >> Mr. Kaminsky. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Mcnite. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gardner. >> I >> Okay. Um, motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> Second.

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>> All in favor? >> No. So be it. And we want to wish our Muslim community uh a nice Eid Mubarak. >> And um, you know, sometimes we forget the

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holidays. There's so many now, but uh I want to make sure we that we covered that as it is today. So, thank you and uh be safe out there. >> That's good.