good evening and welcome to the September 24th 2024 meeting of the pay County Board of County Commissioners we're going to begin as we always do with me talking a little slower while mat and Lou work out whatever they're working out and then I will ask Lewis to
do a uh roll call and announcement of the open public meeting uh County Commissioners Cruz here Duffy here Gallow here James here leapor deputy director Lazar here director Bartlett
here okay ladies and gentlemen the noce requirement of the open public meetings law has been satisfied with respect to this meeting specifying the dime date location including the annual notice adopted the reorganization meeting filed with the county clerk posted in the
administration building and mailed to two newspapers in accordance with the provisions of the law please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by an invocation and a moment of silence please join me aled Al to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy Father Patrick Ryan would you do the honors God our Father we ask you to bring us
your peace we look throughout the world and see how warart taor it is how many people are suffering how many people are dying how many people are homeless fatherless motherless let us be bearers of Peace of
good news let us start with our families in the county and allow it to spread from there you also remember tonight Father Bill Norton who was so instrumental in so many programs with straight and arrow who worked very
closely with our County Commissioners give him peace and all those who were addicted or are addicted are struggling with their lives allow him to intercede with you in heaven on behalf of them
bring us your peace you are our God forever and ever amen amen thank you Father please remain standing for a moment of silence as we always do to remember all the men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed forces and all who died
from covid-19 especially the 2,310 residents of P County we also pause this evening to remember the late Burl IES Humphries former pay County prosecutor Superior Court judge and an extraordinary civil rights litigator for
decades judge humph uh passed away last week the age of 97 thank you all right may I have a motion for approval of the minutes of September 10 2024 second County Commissioners Cruz Duffy
yes Gallow yes Jes yes deputy director lozar yes director Bartlett yes may have a motion to approve proclamations 1 through 23 I'll make that motion County Commissioners Cruz yes Duffy yes Gallow yes James deputy
director lozar yes director bartett yes that brings us to our administrator's report Matthew oh thank you director we're going to go a little out of order first I'm going to call up uh Ken Simpson our supervisor of Roads um the road department at the pay County Fair has raffled off a truck um un
fortunately because of the weather we um weren't able to raffle it off so he's going to be coming up with Gus klicki a student to pull the raffle let's see who won hope it's we are
Che that's the truck I can fit in that you have to drive it around the room did they tell you that Yow does that's it I would so good evening Commissioners uh County Council uh clerk to the board and
administrator uh thank you for allowing us to do this because of the inclement weather on the Sunday at our Fair we were unable to pull the on the raffle so we're excited to do this here tonight uh so just to give you a little explanation about our toy truck it's a electric
motorized ride on uh and it actually has a official road department number R 113 so you'll never see a snowplow truck with that number we go right to 114 uh we're also giving away a hard hat and hopefully a young lucky kid gets to
enjoy this for the rest of the year so here we go you have to be at work before 8 o00 if it's snowing so take all that okay from Clifton New Jersey we have Brian aguire from uh 28 Hudson
street so we'll give the lucky kid a call thank you you going to drive that you're gonna drive that out to Ryan in one of the big and while you're up here oh nice I hope folks here have gotten to come to our County Fair I got to say Touch a Truck and the chance that kids have to climb up in there and honk the
horn uh may be aggravating to the wildlife but it's one of the favorite things of uh everybody so thank you Ken for you and your team's work always thank you Ken and uh congratulations to Brian um your new truck um next we have a presentation of proclamations uh
recognizing our golf superintendent uh Charles mc mc Manago Vincent Spano Doug vogle and Sam Giuliano G to call up our Parks director Daryl Sparta [Applause]
[Music] all right so good evening everyone I want to start out first off with a big thank you to Matt and to our commissioners uh for the opportunity to say a few words here tonight regarding our golf courses and our staff um I I also want to say thank you
to Matt and all the current Commissioners all the previous Commissioners um and especially Tony denova for the tremendous support that I've been given over the last 23 years or so that I've worked for the county so tonight we'll be recognizing
Doug vogle Chuck mcmonagle Sam Giuliano and Vinnie Spano you're going to hear more about them when they get their actual proclamations um so right now I just want to I want to take this opportunity to to talk talk about the rest of the
staff um you know in addition to recognizing these four individuals it's an entire team effort that um has allowed us to to get to where we are um so everything we do within our department is is a team effort like I
said so maintaining our golf courses it involves everyone that's in our department at one point or another in in one aspect in one way or another um so right now I just want to point out that our you know our office staff our mechanics
our irrigation specialist our Golf Shop operations manager and his staff um our seasonal labors our full-time labors our equipment operators our applicators our Horticultural team our arborist our assistant Rec and I'm sorry our assistant superintendence um and last but
certainly not least Greg Moore who's our assistant director in the audience tonight um so under the leadership and direct supervision here of Doug Vinnie Sam and Chuck um Golf Course facility has become one of the most successful and busiest golf courses in the entire
Northeast region of the United States um so everyone on this team deserves uh a lot of credit a lot of recognition for their hard work and their dedication over the years um I'm I know I can say I'm truly grateful and thankful each and every day to be able to work with these four guys and the
entire team in the parks department um and as I said earlier can't say enough how thankful I am for the tremendous support over the last 23 years from the current Commissioners previous Commissioners you know we could go out every day and do what we do but without
the support of being able to to hire and to be able to to you know fund projects and to fund our operating budget to supply us with what we need our efforts you know we wouldn't be able to succeed so thank you thank you thank
you Cruz first all right guys we're going to present these proclamations to each of you uh welld deserved recognitions I myself as a frequent golfer and very uh proud when I step on that golf course
and know uh the commentary that we get from people outside of even pay County that come and play on our course and express how how wonderful the conditions are and and how pleasant it is to play there I actually today was down in Ben mster at on a country club golf course
and I had a county shirt on and someone pulled me to the side and said man I've played on that course up there by you guys and I love it and they're a member at the at the club so that that really says a lot uh so I will start by recognizing Charles Chuck um
mcmonagle uh whereas the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake has the desire to recognize superintendent Charles mcmonagle prance Valley Golf Course in Wayne New Jersey whereas Charles is a graduate of Delaware Valley University with a degree in Agronomy and
attended Ruckers University two-year golf turf management program whereas Charles was the growing Superintendent at ran Landing Golf Course in Piscataway New Jersey he worked with the golf course architect on the construction of the golf course and successfully opened
the golf course on time to a positive public reception Charles spent time in woodrest Country Club in Cherry Hill New Jersey Laurel Creek Country Club in Mount Laurel Township where he learned the basics of Gold golf turf management Charles was employed at nickach Country
Club in tenly his responsibilities at nickach included managing a staff of 15 or more employees and help manage the construction of a new practice facility which included a 9,000 foot putting green Charles is married to his wife Patricia together they are the proud
parents of twins their son John is an eagle scout and in his first year at Ropo College in MAA and their daughter Jessica is a talented artist in her first year at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan New York whereas due to the hard work and daily dedication and
professionalism by Mr mcmonagle and the entire team this year prnis Valley Golf Course was able to host a qualifying round for the New Jersey State Golf Association Championship since the qualifying round was such a success the tournament Committee of New Jersey State Golf Association is considering pness
Valley Golf Course to host their 97th New Jersey public links championship in August of 2031 now therefore let it be proclaimed by the pay County Board of County Commissioners who publicly recognizes and applauds Charles mcmonagle for the significant
contribution he has made to the county of Pake and to the community and let it be further proclaimed by this board that it extends its sincere best wishes to Charles for many more years of success congratulations Charles uh like darl said earlier without your
help we can't accomplish anything we do and we just hope for your continued support so we can be successful thank you [Applause] so
Vincent this is for you I'm not a golf player but I I got to tell you that Golf Course is like second to none and I get compliments all the time and it wouldn't look the way it does and the people wouldn't be so happy if it wasn't for all of you and you know what as much as
you appreciate us we appreciate everything you do so I have uh the opportunity to read this Proclamation for you and your daughter and would you didn't you have your son here oh he
decision so whereas the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake has a desire to recognize scoff facility manager Vincent Spano of pregnant Valley Golf Course in Wayne Vincent honed his
expertise during his tenure with Bergen County Park system where he served primarily as an assistant superintendent Vincent studied at Mammoth University and completed the turf management program at Rucker University further solidifying his
Knowledge and Skills in the field Vincent with over 15 years of experience in the Parks and Recreation industry he oversees the daily operation of both a golf course and athletic fields and whereas Vincent is dedicated
to developing and monitoring agronomic programs that uphold the highest standards of turth management and facility maintenance his passion for the sport inherited from his father a PGA professional that drives his commitment
to Excellence in every aspect of his work he is a certified pesticide operator and an active member of the golf course superintendent Association of America Vincent is married to his wife Deborah and together they are
raising their three amazing children age seven five and a newborn I guess your daughter's the seven-year-old due to the hard work daily dedication and professionalism by Mr Spano and the entire team this year
practice Valley Golf Course was able to host a qualifying round for the New Jersey State Golf Association championship since the qualifying round was such a success the tournament Committee of New Jersey State Golf
Association is considering pnus Valley Golf Course to host their 97th New Jersey public links championship in August of 2031 so now therefore let it be proclaimed by the pay County Board of
County Commissioners we publicly recognize and applaud Vincent Spano for the significant contributions he has made to the county of Pake and to the community and be a further Proclaim that this board extends his sincerest best
wishes to Vincent Spano for many more successful years we appreciate you thank [Applause] you you must be very you want to say
I wasn't expecting this um thank you very much um like they said before us um you know everything that we want to do is be you know capable and we're able to do it because of what you give us um there's a lot of bright stuff that
working up for the future and uh I really look forward to to seeing that through and to see where we're going to be and 2031 sounds like it's happening so yeah good that's awesome thank you very much thank
[Applause] you good evening everyone I guess I should start taking golf CU that that course is absolutely gorgeous it really is it's almost um
Club material pristine 100% all right where as the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake has the desire to recognize superintendent Samuel I'm sorry
one all right whereas the board of County commissioners of Pake county has a the desire to recognize golf facility manager Doug vogle of pness Valley Golf Course in Wayne New Jersey and whereas Doug vogle is a lifelong resident of
Wayne New Jersey graduated Wayne Valley high school and received as Associates of applied science in Horticulture and turf management from the state of New J the State University of New York in farming Deal New York and
whereas Doug worked worked at packan golf course Club in Wayne New Jersey as a golf course superintendent for 24 years worked at High Mountain Golf Club in Franklin Lakes New Jersey as an
assistant Golf Course superintendent for two years worked at Valley Crest landscape development in New York City as a growing superintendent for three years and now works at pness Valley Golf Course in Wayne New Jersey where he
started as a goth superintendent and after 5 years was promoted to go facility manager and whereas Doug received the two the 2013 distinguished service award the 2000
member of the year and the 2009 member of the Year from the New Jersey Turf Association he is a chairman of the historic prevention committee preservation committee and the editor
writer of the green Greener Side of golf course superintendent Association of New Jersey newsletter and Doug in 2001 and in 2007 was a featured speaker at the golf course superintendent Association
of America International Conference and show in Orlando Florida and whereas Doug is a credential press member of the PGA tour the PGA of America and the United States Golf Association and covers major
golf tournaments with an emphasis of golf course tournament preparation and whereas Doug and his wife Susan have been married for 39 years and have three children Noah Emily and faith and
whereas due to his the hard work daily dedication and professionalism by Mr vogle and the entire team this year pness Valley Golf Course was able to host the qualifying round of the New Jersey Golf Association Championship
since the qualifying round was such a success the tournament Committee of the New Jersey State Golf Association is considering pness Valley Golf Course Association to host their 97th New Jersey public links championship
in August of 2031 now therefore let it be proclaimed by the state County Board of Commissioners public publicly recognize and applauds Doug vogle for significant contribution he has made to the county of Pake and to
the community and be it further proclaimed that the board extends its sincere best wishes to Doug vogle for many more successful years thank you um Commissioners for allowing
us to do all this fun work uh Administration uh my fellow uh co-workers that do all the hard work um one thing I want to address is the the amount of uh work
that we do with other departments within the county to make everyone's job better we work well with the billing the grounds Department uh the road department and uh to help us get our jobs done and especially we get a lot of
help from uh Greg in the parks department when we need extra workers to do all our big jobs which this week we relied heavily on them and we got a lot of work done this week uh and without all the help from all our employees
things just don't get done and I'd like to recognize all of them thank [Applause] you now it's
your that's right oh you meant you just kidding um you know one of the things I'm struck by before I start reading in this Proclamation is all the different paths that led the group of
you here and all the different other things that you do uh in terms of Journalism and other types of of community service and so forth alongside your careers and I'm really glad that we have all of our 2024 youth leadership uh participants here to get a glimpse not
only of what County government does but about all the different ways that different Paths of Education can lead you into different kinds of uh care careers and service opportunities so with that whereas the board of County commissioners of the county of pic has the desire to recognize superintendent
Samuel Giuliano of pness Valley Golf Course in Wayne New Jersey and whereas Samuel is a graduate of Delaware Valley University doown Pennsylvania in 1985 with the Bachelor of Science in Agronomy emphasis in turf grass and a minor in business and where Samuel began working
as a caddy at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont Pennsylvania and later transition to working on the grounds crew during the Summers of 1982 and 1983 while on semester break from college one of the highlights of employment at Oakmont Was preparing the course for the 1983 US Open
championship and whereas Samuel spent the summer of 1984 as a foreman at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club in Bedminster New Jersey and upon graduating returned to Fiddler's Elbow as an assistant superintendent and where Samuel Giuliano in 1986 moved on to become assistant
superintendent at nicker berer Country Club in tenly New Jersey and two years later at the age of 24 was named superintendent and whereas Samuel during his 34 years as superintendent hosted two US Open qualifiers the New Jersey state PGA senior Championship the New
Jersey State open the New Jersey state amateur Championship as well as other various state qualifiers and championships and whereas Samuel Juliano in 2020 moved on from the nicker bucker Country Club and gained employment at pnus Valley Golf course as part of the agronomic team where he currently holds
the title of superintendent and whereas Samuel has been married to his wife PJ for 35 years and they have two sons a grandson a granddaughter and one more grandchild on the way and whereas due to hard work daily dedication and professionalism by
Mr Juliano and the entire team this year pness Valley Golf Course was able to host a qualifying round for the New Jersey State Golf Association Championship since the qualifying round was such a success the the tournament Committee of New Jersey State Golf Association is considering pness Valley
Golf Course Association to host their 97th New Jersey public links championship in August of 2031 now therefore be it proclaimed by the P pay County Board of County Commissioners that we publicly recognize and applaud Samuel Giuliano for his significant
contributions he has made to the county of pic and the community and be it further proclaimed that this board extends its sincere best wishes to Samuel Giuliano and his family from many more successful [Applause]
years I actually prepare to spech darl I think we need that truck on the golf course that toy truck I think it'll go over well if any you can drive it all right um I first I want to thank
the County Commissioners for allowing me to say a few tonight I I came to pness Valley four years ago after a 25 year 35y year career at a private high-end golf course in Bergen County and I came here with some apprehensions uh how will
I transition from a private golf course to a public golf course how will I adapt to a union shop and how will I be received by my uh fellow staff members and subordinates well all those questions weighed on me one thing I quickly found
out is that se County Parks Department department is a professionally run and well-managed Department staffed by highquality and talented indiv individuals it's an organization that I rapidly ass simulated to and I am proud
to be associated with as a side benefit my wife PJ who's in the audience happy B happy anniversary hun she she noticed that uh a significant stress reduction in me and I've become pretty much more of a happier person so you know thanks for
that um with that said I uh would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the commissioners of P County for this wonderful recognition and it's something I truly treasure thank you we we're gonna gather and take a picture with everybody thank you all
again for everything that you do up there to make us look so good I Sam I hope you have dinner reservations for after this this can't be the highlight of your anniversary in the middle we charge [Laughter]
[Applause] conrat congratulations I shake your hand all right if if if I could just break a little news uh since those proclamations were written the new New Jersey State Golf
Association um has informed us that on our 100th anniversary the pness Valley Golf Course will in fact be hosting the uh New Jersey public links Championship um which is a great recognition and 2031 it's a a big amateur golf
tournament and I just want to recognize uh Daryl Sparta to our Parks director um when he came to US 23 years ago it was as a superintendent from Ridgewood Country Club which is one of the Premier golf courses in the country maybe the world um and he told the former
administrator that you know he wanted to come here because he was tired of maintaining Perfection and uh in his 23 years here he's transformed our Golf Course to one of the best public golf courses in New Jersey and I think it speaks to his character that when we talked about um recognizing all the good
things we were doing at the golf course um his first inclination was to recognize his staff so Daryl congratulations on all hard work um next up we have Commissioner James to um present the proclamation recognizing uh ovarian cancer awareness
month so I hate to be the downer of the night but uh you know 20 years ago uh when I moved my mother in with me she a thin little lady very thin little lady and all of a sudden she was getting happy because she was gaining weight and
she thought that was a good thing uh it wasn't she was at stage four ovarian cancer and I can tell you the journey for that entire year was horrific you know um she had survived breast
cancer uh uh and thought that she was fine she went to doctors every single month followed every regimen that there was to stay healthy and yet she still wound up with ovarian cancer they didn't do genetic testing at the time so she
had no way of knowing that her breast cancer would lead to ovarian cancer and it was it was just tough for her and it was tough for us and uh you know the treatments were barbaric to say the least and we no further along than we were back then and
that's 20 years ago and we need to be better we need to have screening tools which we don't have at the moment we need women to get tested on uh you know for the genetic uh weakness that you may
have because to know what you're fighting is to give you a shot at winning the earlier you detect cancer the faster it gets cured and so that really m matters that you have uh tests that really show where you
are because that gives you the best chance at all and we have some pretty horrible statistics I'm not going to read them because it really is depressing but there are there is hope for anybody who has aov Varian cancer it's curable if you catch it early enough and I think our goal and Charlene
you can correct me if I'm wrong I think our goal is to make sure that we have tests that actually identify it so you can fight it earlier cuz if you fight it earlier you're going to win and you're going to be alive and that's what the whole goal of this is so uh this Proclamation is recognizing uh that the
battle is not over that we still have quite a few people in New Jersey who are battling uh that particular cancer and I think that all of us there's if you look every single year there are fundraisers to fight ovarian cancer if you see them
join them help out with them and you know get on board for trying to make this the curable cancer where we don't lose women every single year to a cancer that should be curable so uh I hope that didn't depress anybody but I but there is hope and
every time there's hope you got something to look forward to and I know you're all young so you're probably not uh worried about this and I agree you shouldn't be right now but when tests become available later on get them doesn't hurt
it's not going to kill you it'll help you it may save your life so uh I'm going to leave it at that we have a lot more to do by the way thank you guys for everything you did at the golf course really I I I beautiful Bruce let's bring the Sackets
up to yeah John can I get there sure sorry come on up so John's saying this this Proclamation is this is Lois sacket and Lura sacket and uh they are going to be receiving
this Proclamation about ovarian cancer so thank you there you go and feel free to say whatever you want to say we got involved with ovarian cancer in 2020 when everybody was fighting covid my daughter was diagnosed with
ovarian cancer uh she ended up having surgery it was a rare type and then she also ended up having breast cancer a different type of Gene she fought that too um she didn't have chemo or anything
as he said there is no test now available there's a test called CA uh which the insurance companies will not pay for um that you can get but you also have to request it it does see your
risk factors but her her journey after she stopped better she got involved with ovarian cancer and she realized that ovarian cancer doesn't discriminate it gets uh black people white people Asian
people Muslim people uh Hispanic people so all women can get it um the symptoms tend to be bloating and stuff and as he said they do not pick up the symptoms till it's basically a stage
four and what she did and she got very involved after she got better she wanted people to know about this the governor of New Jersey signed this as ovarian cancer month and different towns all across the state have been doing these
proclamations for ovarian cancer we um which is why we came here for her because she lives in Arizona but I thank you very much for uh doing the proclamation it means a lot she's putting a whole thing together for all
the proclamations she took a a lemon in her life and turned it into lemonade which uh a lot which to me is means a lot of strength on her part
[Applause] did you guys to stay up you want you want to stay up so that we have a record that you're here and are supporting this no don't be sorry at all I stand
by yeah yeah I'm going to stand next to Terry because he's tall let me tell you something don't pretend you don't like it I don't like [Applause] you uh next we have a uh presentation of
certificates recognizing the students that participated in the 2024 youth Leadership Retreat at Camp hope we have commissioner Cruz and and Carrie clug our rec supervisor I think he's here is that right oh he's already up here all right he's very fast I had a whole like
story intro for Carrie but he just sprung up on me now so I don't have to say it no thank you Carrie for joining us um so to the young people that we have here present and those that are not I'm sure they can have the opportunity to watch
this back but you can see what government um kind of not not what it's all about but the the different facets and the different There's No Boundaries there's no limits to what County government touches I I think County government is the one layer of government that touches every um
function of everyday life of of everyone whether it's driving through a county road crossing a bridge uh so all the infrastructure in our Parks you heard the golf course uh and even our health rated issues uh that affect the most vulnerable populations in our community
so it's a wide range of services uh that impact our residents um that affect um you know everyone in Pay County and All Counties throughout the state of New Jersey and and in the nation but these are real life issues uh everyday functions that people have to um you
know deal with whether they're commuting to work or uh just dealing with their loved ones at home and and so this is was part of the idea that I had with Carrie when I had the opportunity to participate in this year's uh youth Leadership Retreat up at Camp hope uh
and and had a chance to listen to the stories of our young people and what they experienced as they went through this U uh phenomenal phenomenal put together retreat with the different programs uh the agenda that was laid out in 12 weeks or 10 weeks the
program the length of the program three days three four days yeah well so three-day program but there's about 10 different topics right that get covered uh over those three days it feels like a whole like year worth of stuff but um you know and and what what you heard
about and what you may have experienced while you spent your time in Camp hope this kind of puts it in perspective when you get to see uh all that stuff that you heard and and might have learned about you get to actually see it in action when you come here and so I thought that it was fitting uh to let Carrie know to let you guys to come and
kind of see your County government in work and and see the sto you know see the interactions and and the actions that we take uh as Commissioners uh and hear the stories of County employees and and just how everyone is impacted by County government so uh want to thank you guys uh first and foremost and thank
your families for bringing you out here and allowing them uh allow them allowing you to participate in this program uh and so at this time we're going to call up our young people that are here present and present them with an official County certificate for participating in the program um so when
I read your name please come up Reem Muhammad ream [Applause] muhammd Mia Alvarez no ST stay here so we can take a
yeah we're going to do you guys get a group picture too with everybody Shon [Applause] Fields okay Ariana George I'll give this to your
assist yep Augustus [Applause] Marielle Jordan
[Applause] Moss all right Leila palano [Applause] Kiara [Applause]
Marie yep and Alexis [Applause] Smith there about four or five of of our young people that weren't able to be here tonight we'll make sure they get their certificate and get their acknowledgement as well and I think one
of the most important pieces that I was able to experience myself being up there is listening to the stories of these young people and the impact that this program had on them how a lot of them just came in um kind of enclosed in a shell of shyness or not being able to
understand the skills and and values that they had inside that they were able to express to everyone and and that this program uh one of the biggest things was allowing them to express themselves and be more vocal and and not be shy and speaking to a crowd so I'm gonna I'm going to ask if one of them is brave
enough to come up to this Podium and just kind of briefly let us know how that experience was up there and just share share just some brief thoughts who's going to be the brave one all right there you
[Applause] go talk about your experience at the program and and what you what you thought most about it what's the most you got out of it um when I was at the program program it was just like At first I was kind of scared and like I
didn't know like who was these people and I was just like okay but like it was like when we all like started getting together and like we all like opened up our out of our shell and like this the
activities they had us doing was like expressing our self more and like we all bonded and like it wasn't like nobody that was there like they was like everybody was talking and like it was just a fun experience because you got to
learn more and know other people and it was just like I liked it cuz like I met friends like I had got into the room and like everybody was on one side and the other bed was on the other side and like they was like we can't leave you out
because everybody over here and you not going to just sit over there so they move my bed and help me but like I feel like it was a fun experience [Applause] you you you uh you ultimately have a
group of young people that would probably normally not interact with each other if they saw each other in the same school or in the same camp or in the same anything and and now you have uh about 15 kids that have uh forged a bond of friendship that will hopefully uh
last a lifetime and that those skills and knowledges that they Acquired and learned about can hopefully come back and reciprocate to our residents ofic County so let's give them another big round of [Applause] applause and As We Gather for this photo I would be remissed if we don't
acknowledge Carrie for all the hard work and his entire [Applause] staff and uh and a special shout out to Dr Jovin Fernandez right she is uh one of the uh Camp counselors up there and uh the
rockar of this program over this way Center it a bit yeah let's get a try get you guys C see good job everybody good thank you appreciate see you next year yeah yeah we'll do this again
uh director the only other thing I want to add is to remind everyone about our senior picnics uh this Friday at Rifle Camp Park I know Shirley Force has been working hard she was here late uh putting together goodie bags for our seniors so everyone this Friday at what time Shirley 9:30 to 1:30 9:30 to 130 at
Rifle Camp Park for rpay county seniors so that's all I have tonight thank you all right so our senior members of the board take note free lunch on Friday um thank you uh Matt that was it's not what
I anyway Matt thank you that was a terrific uh administrator's program and I appreciate it um so let's move on for those of you following along in the agenda to letter i uh and I need a motion to suspend the regular order of business make that
motion County Commissioners Cruz yes Duffy yes Gallow James deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes can I have a motion to open the public hearing on Capital ordinance 202 24-8 I'll move
it County Commissioners Cruz Duffy yes Gallow yes James deput director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes Lou would you just read the title of the yes uh Capital ordinance 20 24-8 uh of the county of B New Jersey
authorizing heating ventilation air conditioning also known as HVAC improvements to the pness uh pness Health Care Center and appropriating $4 million from the general Capital fund balance of the county thank you does
anyone present desire to be heard on Capital ordinance 20248 seeing no one at the podium I move to close public portion County Commissioners Cruz yes Duffy yes Gallow yes James deputy director lozar yes director Bartlett yes
can I have a motion to adopt Capital ordinance 2024 second County Commissioners Cruz Duffy yes Gallow yes s deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes and finally can I have a motion to resume the
regular order of this move it seconded by Lazaro County Commissioners Cruz Duffy yes Gallow yes James deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes okay that brings us to county
commissioner reports I will begin and I'll be brief uh looking forward to all kinds of great upcoming events here in Pay County uh pause in the park is coming up soon uh this weekend for those of you who take advantage of our free recycling Friday and Saturday we'll be in North
Halden with our electronics recycling so computers flat screen TVs all that stuff that if you discard it uh in your trash puts heavy metals into our water system instead come out and recycle it for free courtesy of pay County um also want to
remind folks as election day approaches what are we 42 days out now something like that um the election uh voter registration deadline will be coming up around mid October if you're 17 now but turning 18 by November 5th you can register to vote and you'll be
able to vote in this year's presidential election whatever decision you make please be sure to have the opportunity to make your voice heard so deputy director lazara yeah I just want to bring your attention to resolution number four uh congresswoman Mikey
Cheryl is uh in is presenting a bill to Congress for the safe storage of guns basically and what she wants to do is tighten up the laws she's not saying you can't have one she's asking
that Congress pass a law that says you have to secure it much better than it's being done today so I support congresswoman Mikey Cheryl in this endeavor and as a whole we are actually
passing this resolution in connection with the legislation that she's trying to pass so with any luck it'll happen and we'll have safer gun storage throughout at least New Jersey well this
a really an important thing and I wanted to bring your attention to it thank you uh Sandy commissioner Cruz commissioner Duffy uh just a few items on the agenda here you have all an opportunity to review them just ask for your support and that's about
it thank you commissioner Gallow I have nothing director Comm James I just want to thank Carrie you know we have a camp hope commission so Terry's on it and I'm on it and we're proud to be on it but K's done an incredible job he took over
for other people that retired but he's been a driving force at that whole Camp it's revitalized a lot of things going on there uh we've had vets events there we've had senior events there and uh they continue to be a a food source for
a lot of the people who live in that area so um you know Camp is a gift that we got years ago and it's still given today you know through the chair uh just to you know uh to support what you just
said I've been on Camp commission Camp hope commission for a long time with with Bruce as well I think you were a camper back then weren't you well we TR to stay away from you but it was all right right we've come a long way but we can't forget where we came from because
uh uh Karen Cisco did a hell of a job she did she did and we put some money into the parks because of some of the free olders are not here and some of the free olders are here and made uh made that place a gy and it truly is and I
give kudos to carry as well we can't forget started on this Pro process what 10 years ago eight years ago whatever it was put some money into the parks and the golf course and that so glad you mention that thank you all right terrific thank you both
very much I totally agree so with no Communications we reached the oral portion of the meeting can I have a motion to open the public portion of the meeting I'll move it sir County Commissioners Cruz yes Duffy yes Gallow yes James deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes this is
the part where we publicly participate you've got three minutes to begin with your name and address and take note that whatever you have to say will become part of the public record see no one at the podium I moved the close the public portion County Commissioners Cruz Duffy
yes Gallow yes James yes deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes that brings us to our consented agenda at letter N um I understand from Council that there are no late starters no need for executive session so it is N1 through
n60 uh are there any Commissioners that want any of these items removed and voted separately are there any that we need to pull for any reason okay in that case can I have a motion to adopt our consent agenda N1 through
n60 second County Commissioners Cruz Duffy yes Gallow yes James yes deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes that brings us to new business can I have a motion on Personnel I'll move Personnel County Commissioners Cruz
Duffy yes Gallow yes James deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes can I have a motion on the bills I'll move it secondy Commissioners Cruz Duffy Gallow yes James deputy director Lazar yes
director Bartlett yes sadly that brings us to the end of our meeting can I have a motion Jour we all made County Commissioners Cruz Duffy yes Gallow yes James deput director Lazar yes director Barlett yes thank you
everybody see you next time