for February 11 2025 may I have a roll call please County Commissioners Bartlett Cruz here D'Or here Duffy here and for the record um County Commissioner Duffy is on the
phone right here he's hears me uh and we will try to get his uh Voice through the system as best as we can but he is uh he has joined the meeting telephonically uh County Commissioners James uh deputy director Lazar here director
leor here can I have the announcement of the open public meeting law ladies and gentlemen notice requirement that open public meetings law has been satisfied with respect to this meeting specifying the time date and location including the anual notice adopted a reorganization meeting filed with the county clerk and posted in
administration building mail to two newspapers in accordance with provisions of the law please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I ask Sheriff Adam delus everybody please place face the flag you your heart and join me as we
honor this great nation I to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God invisible liy and justice for all please remain standing for a moment
of silence first to remember our County historian for 50 years who just passed away at smike and also remember all the men and women have died while serving in the United States armed forces and who have died from covid-19 especially the
2322 residents of the state county thank you approval of minutes a motion for January 21 2025 so moved second Cruz second by D'Or roll call count County Commissioners
Bartlett I'm sorry Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes that's a yes from uh Duffy James yes deputy director lazara yes director Laur yes have a motion to approve the proclamations so moved
second by divor second by Cruz roll call county commissioner Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes yes from Duffy James deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes administrator's report thank you
director uh tonight we have our Black History Month celebration and I'm going to turn things over to our Master of Ceremonies commissioner [Applause] D'Or guy good evening everyone evening oh my voice carries I apologize bring it down
a little bit we want to welcome you to the Black History Month celebration of the board of County Commissioners for 2025 they make sure I said to keep it brief and keep it moving so I have a little thing I want to read real quick
uh the theme for this particular year is Black History Month for 2025 is African-American ANS in labor and as you can see throughout the program we have three that that are here but we have four great individuals who has
contributed their work ethics and their perseverance and relevance to pade county in the labor union as well as in their work ethics so we are honored to have these four individuals be honored today and as we go forward you'll see
who they are Black History Month serves as an essential reminder of the profound impact that black individuals have had on the world throughout history and who are continuing to fulfill the dream today is it a time to dedicate to
recognize the struggles resilience and accomplishments of black communities whose contributions have been overlooked or forgotten the purpose of this month is not only to celebrate the richness of Black Culture but also to Foster awareness understanding and educate
about the going fight for for racial equality and justice by spotlighting the achievements and challenges of black people black history month provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made while acknowledging the work still
needed to create a more just Society it encourages us to learn from history honor the past and actively shape a future where everyone regardless of whatever their race is treated with dignity and respect
so thank you for joining us as we celebrate Black History Month [Applause] 2025 we will now have an invitation by Reverend Jason Mitchell who will be
introduced by Father Patrick Ryan following that we will have the techone choir sing the black national anthem and after their selection no no wait give me a minute not yet all right following the
invocation we will have the choir sing and after the choir gets up they will have suit two selections and we will honor our honores thank you very much now you can Father Ryan [Music] am I okay yes thank
you I'm honored always to be the the chaplain to our County Commissioners and I just wanted to put a plugin for commissioner Duffy who is not here tonight and he is recovering and we I ask you to keep him
in your prayer that this recovery keep going are you amen I like that we don't say that in church amen you know and I always say this when I see a crowd I see a collection you know
amen all right so it's it's my great privilege to introduce uh the Reverend Jason Mitchell who is the senior pastor of people's Missionary Baptist Church and Reverend if you'd come up oh oh you were up
already you want that collection come [Applause] on we could bow our head and close our eyes Sweet Hour of Prayer Sweet Hour of Prayer that calls us from a world of care bids us at our father's Throne
makes all our wants and wishes known seasons of distress and grief our souls have often found relief and of escaped the tempter snare by thy return Sweet Hour of Prayer let us pray God of our weary ear God of our silent tears thou
who has brought us thus far along the way gracious God in your name we come first of all just to say thank you before we ask for anything we want to thank you for everything we thank you for our lying down last night then early this morning you decided to touch us with a finger of Love allow us back here
in the land of the dying while awaiting to be in the land of the living for that Lord we say thank you we thank you for this occasion for this program to celebrate black history for your word has told us how good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell
together in unity over the years we have experienced things that have not been good nor pleasant we thank you for today today to be able to celebrate that which once was a reality that is now somewhat black history we understand God that
there's still work to be done so we ask that you continue to endow us with your strength uh as we continue to plow forward to do the work that you have called us to do we thank you for it today we thank you for every commissioner every leader that is in the room every Honore we pray that you will
move and super move as we know that you can as we know that you will we pray this prayer in your name let everyone say Amen am amen may we all stand for the black national anthem [Music]
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[Applause] thank you Tech tone choir uh let's give a round of applause to our co-directors Mr Jose Martinez uh accompanied by Mr Parker and my true black Excellence my
good thing Dr Deanna d'Or [Music] I got to go home so I got to make sure I take care of business so once again we thank you for being here um we're going to ask our
colleagues to come in colleague commissioner Cruz to give the first proclamation of our first Honore and he's going to introduce her and we're going to follow followed by him we're going to ask director leor to have the second Proclamation and I'll follow up
and end without third proclamation in at order thank you very much guys hello everyone good evening good evening let me just Begin by saying black history is American history it is a story of pioneers activists entrepreneurs Educators and everyday
Heroes who have shaped our nation and continue to shape our communities their legacy will be woven into the fabric of our societ society and it's our duty not only today but always to acknowledge that and those who carry it forward with
action equality and justice and so I have the distinct honor of leading us off this evening with an individual who meets and has uh you know proven all of those qualities uh throughout their career and so at this time I'll ask our first Honore uh Miss theres khoun to
please come up and join me [Applause] whereas the month of February has been designated as Black History Month and in recognition of the unbounded contributions and achievements made by exceptional African-Americans that have
shaped and continue to shape our nation and our County's rich rich history and bright future the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake deems it fitting and appropriate at this time to honor and recognize theres Calhoun whereas theres C received an
associates degree in science in Business Administration from Essex County College in Newark New Jersey and a bachelor's degree and applied management from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix Arizona whereas theres kahoun in 2008 departed from the East Orange School District as
a community outreach coordinator to join the Jersey nurses economic security organization as a community organizer she spearheaded a community campaign to avoid the closing of St Mary's Hospital in P New Jersey to date saving over
1,500 jobs yeah and the success of that campaign ended with the Coalition members receiving a proclamation from the city of Pake whereas theres kahoun collaborated with organizations and City officials to independently organize and
Implement Community drives such as coat collections with Jersey cares three kings in Newark and Pake back to school supplies in the city of p and NASA's place that serve children and families affected by autism Christmas celebrations with selected families in
Newark elementary school and served the homeless at St James Church in Newark just to name a few things that she's done whereas Theresa's September of 2014 work closely with the New York Health Department to chair the first annual lead awareness walk that consisted of
150 D daycare AG children along with the healthc care providers of the jneso members and the Newark Health Department employees and whereas theres is married to her husband David and together have raised two sons Adisa and
galani and now for let it be further proclaimed by the pay County Board of County Commissioners to hereby publicly recognize and applaud theres coun for the significant contribution she has made to the county of Pake and the community and let it be further proclaimed that this board wishes Tes
health and happiness and all her future endeavors congratulations thank you thank [Applause] you so each honor each honor is also getting proclamations and recognitions uh one from our uh B County Clerk
Danielle Ireland imhof and from the New Jersey state legislator as well nice nice wow is have any more [Laughter] hands I would like to first thank the Commissioners for
honoring the four of us for something that we all love doing I mean what it it can't be no better than that and um I will also like to thank my family for over the
years I'm out there in the community and they would say where are you going now where you going now but they was always there when we was fighting in St Mike's in nework to save the hospital because they want to change it to emergency only
my husband came with me in the morning 6:00 in the morning dunking donuts getting donuts for the nurses so that when they came on the line they had Donuts they had they had coffee everybody like coffee they needed coffee
to start the day um but I want to mention first I didn't always go into Community First I chased the dollar I'mma say it I did I was an internal auditor and a financial analyst in New
York but my DNA kicked in after a while and said no no more pushing papers no more me deadlines it is time to roll your sleeves up and touch people okay so that's when I came back across the water
into New Jersey and I said where should I start I said in the schools where my my son's attend so I joined the PTA asked a lot of questions and it was like the principal said you asked too many
questions guess what they have a opening a job for you to work in the schools that's to shut me up okay okay but little did they know they still going to have somebody fighting and sure enough
that's what I did what we did was as parent coordinators and that's that was in all the Abbot districts it was in per um Patterson everywhere and we would educate the parents on what their rights are and
they got so educated that the administration didn't like it so they tried to get rid of us but little did they know that we had already reached out to the community we reached out to legislators we already organized the
parents so elected officials everyone came out and they said no you're not going to get rid of them they are helping the parent I mean we filled the auditorium with parents this was in the East thn School
District we had all kind of elective officials come out and support us so we saved our job but it was time to go to another destination where is that the
union the union so what I did from there is went to work for a healthc Care Union saving hospitals going out in the community getting our nurses out in the community and along the way when you
doing these things you meet people and and I met some wonderful folks when I first came to pic and that was to save St Mary's her name was zider
Palo I came to her someone sent me to her someone from upo I don't know if anyone on up they sent me to her and she said Teresa anything you need I'm here so therefore it opened up the Board of
Education everybody we galvanized everybody fill the auditorium with Mayors from different cities to come to save St Mary's it was three hospitals it became one and I was charged to save
that hospital thanks to zider and all the other people that open their doors we saved the hospital going forward it was another hospital St Mike
in North so it was always a fight but along the way you meet wonderful people and you cannot do this alone and that's when I'm going to speak on theic labor Council oh my
God they are like a family but that comes from leadership Tom is our leader the president of the paic labor Council [Applause] he you're GNA cry I know you're GNA Cry
he's a cry you may see him he seemed tough and all that stuff but his heart is as large as this room he cares about everybody anything is say t all of us he say whatever you need I'm here she did he bought some flowers that well he said
they was rented so I'm just going to have them tonight then he going to take them back yeah and that and so I just want to say yes the job is great I love what I do and I don't see it as a job I see it as
a mission a mission but is in My DNA cuz my family Miss they they did stuff like this so I want to thank you all thank the oh you guys were great you guys were great and also I want to thank my family
I have to come back to them because they was they there with me all the time I really really appreciate it and thank you all thank you want to take a picture with the Commissioners maybe have your husband and your family come
yeah don't join us for a photo [Music] [Music] congratulations again right all right everybody a second [Music] here okay uh once again good evening
everyone um it is my job uh to honor Michael Hall Michael would you join me up [Applause] here whereas the month of February has been designated as Black History Month
and in recognition of the unbounded contributions and achievements made by exceptional African-Americans that shaped and continue to shape our nation and the County's Rich history and bright future the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake seems it fitting and
appropriate at this time to honor and recognize Michael Hall Michael Hall was born and ra and raised in Patterson New Jersey he is a husband a father a small business owner and Michael Hall has been a dedicated public servant in the
community for the last 20 years and in 2024 he was promoted as the first African-American deputy chief for patteron fire department in charge of train [Applause]
in charge of training and EMS Michael Hall is a member and vice president of bronze heat the patteron chapter of the International Association of black professional firefighters under this organization he participates in many community services that include
carnivals book bag giveaways school and Community cookouts donations to women and children at various shelters throughout the City and holiday parties for the children of Patterson Michael Hall along with his organization takes part in visiting children the pediatric
oncology unit of St Joseph hospital where they deliver gifts and Host Pizza parties to uplift the children's Spirits Michael Hall enjoys being an advocate for Education visiting various public schools to educate children and young adults on fire safety and shares
information on becoming future firefighters he's also also a football and baseball coach for the kids Michael continues his patronage by putting together an old school jam in Eastside park for the patteron community every
summer which has become a huge success and continues to grow each year whereas Michael Hall in 2012 received the New Jersey state fmba Patterson Valor 2 award receiving a Black History Month resolution from the city of Patterson
for community service in 2018 received the Dr Martin Luther King Jr community service award in 2018 along with countless awards from Brown from Browns heat now therefore be proclaimed by the St County Board of County
Commissioners that it hereby publicly recognizes and applauds Michael Hall for the significant contributions that he has made to the county of Pake and to the community be further proclaimed that this board wishes Michael Hall health and happiness in all of your future
endeavors [Applause] congratulations um going to be very short compared to all the accolades that she had I can't I can't fill her shoes with everything that she's
done but um following you up is it's a tough crowd here with this one but um thank you to the County Commissioners I appreciate this award um again I don't I don't do this for awards honestly um thank you to my family they've always supported me everybody Chief ala back
there everybody who's here to support me the Bron he president Alton Dixon is here ly everybody I appreciate you guys um again I don't do this for awards I was born and raised in this city you know it seemed very easy to me to give back because we all know people always have negative things to say about p and
all time they don't know what goes on here they don't know the history they don't know the people you start counting how many people come from this city that did great things I don't care if they're athletes if they're teachers if they're whatever Pon has a rich genuine history and to be a small part of that you know I appreciate it but again I don't do it
for awards um just uh like to thank president Dixon like I said when I joined the bronze heat he accelerated my you know Community give back you know service here I was doing it already I wasn't a member at the time and he just said you might as well come on over man you're already out here with us you know
as it is and you know again doing the community cookout that he mentioned is a huge thing because like I said everybody talks about patteron Patterson always you know gets a negative vibe but we've been doing that cookout now for eight nine years something like that never had one incident not one thing has went
wrong in that Park everybody comes out they see us in the street you guys having a cookout people just want to have a you know come and have a good time that's all they want to do and I you know I appreciate the fact that everybody enjoys that and they come out there and have a good time but again talking to the kids is great I love talking to the kids they want to be
firemen and it's it's good to see them you know they look up to you and they want to be like you which I never thought anybody want to be like me but you know it's just kind of cool giving back but again thank you Chief ala back there always supporting me I appreciate you Chief um thank you very
much but um again thank you and thank you I appreciate it hold onit um just so you know this family picture is going to be pretty
big uh Michael we also have a proclamation from our County Clerk Danielle Ireland mhop and from the New Jersey legislature they all get thank you all right pictures come on up well my family is
here whatever Wherever You Are people thank you [Applause] you're doing I apologize I give you a sh
up our next Honore we're going to call of Mr Jackson um when I first met this gentleman I was actually a campaigning but I talked to you on the phone prior to that Tom Kelly
harassed me and gave him my number and he he called me about an issue prior to me actually meeting you face to face and when I met the I met you at Brownstone yes and um ever since then this guy
speaking of heart and willing to work he's the epitome of that so Mr Jackson it was it was a pleasure to to select you as as honor today thank you all right so the board of County Commissioners County Pake New Jersey whereas the month of Fe February has
been designated as Black History Month and in the recognition of the Unbound contributions and achievements made by exceptional African-Americans that shaped and continue to shape our nation in the County's Rich history and bright future the board of County commissioners of pade County deems it feeding and
appropriate at this time to honor and recognize Brian Jackson and whereas Brian Jackson was born and raised in Patterson New Jersey and attended John F Kennedy no problem sorry and whereas Brian Jackson has been
an active member of the community coaching Little League over for over 15 years and whereas Brian Jackson was honored as a Grand Marshal of the Labor Day parade and was voted top 50 labor leaders in New Jersey and whereas you
can applaud and whereas Brian Jackson was introduced to The Apprentice program for uh for composition Roofers Local 10 in 2006 since then he has held many positions that included Journeymen
Foreman Executive Board member vice president recording secretary and president and whereas Brian Jackson is now the business manager and financial secretary treasurer for rofer local 10 and in 2023 became the president of the
pay County building and Construction Construction trade and Council and [Applause] whereas and whereas Brian Jackson has has been happily married to his high school
sweetheart jash Jackson for over 23 years and together they have three children briyan Bri Asia Bri Asia and beloved four-legged member
Jordan and now therefore let it be proclaimed I got it oh jir jir stand up jir all right can't forget the Legacy now therefore being proclaimed by pay County AB Board of County
Commissioners it is thereby publicly recognized and applaud Brian Jackson for his significant contribution he has made to the Pake County Pake and the community and be it further proclaimed that the board wishes Brian Jackson health and happiness and his Futures
Endeavors God bless you [Applause] congratulations wow thank you everybody by the way J here your name is on this
uh on a proclamation I would not I would your mother would kill me if I forgot you but no thank you this is this is a um a huge honor and I and I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight I want to start off with thanking the Commissioners thank you Mr D'Or he gave
a uh a short um a short uh memo of how we met and um it was crazy because we played phone tag back and forth for a couple months and then you know like he I chased him in a brownstone and um I cornered him and I
got him and so um and we have been um we have been close ever since so I I consider Rodney as as a friend and everybody on this board um I I I really appreciate you
guys I'm not going to be long-winded like uh my young lady over here and um I don't have again um he stole my uh he stole my thunder when I was going to say that but however um I don't have as many accolades I I
I've been on this job for a very short stent so my uh Speech is not going to be that long as well but um I'm here to say that I'm going to be here for a while so get used to seeing [Applause] me I am deeply honored to stand before
you today as we celebrate BR History Month this this this month is is a time to reflect on incredible contribution achievement of African-Americans through history and to recognize a yo Journey towards equal equality and and
Justice as someone who was born and raised in Patterson I've always been inspired by the strength of our community I'm proud to serve as the president of Pate County building and construction trades Council business manager Financial secretary treasur the
roofers these roles has allowed me to witness firsthand the dedication and hard work of so many individual uals who strive to make a difference every day this is my Council a few members of my Council back here I like to recognize my vice president Scott La
Morella Chad Frankie Jim I appreciate you [Applause] guys I'm particularly proud I'm particularly proud of the work we have done to support and uplift our community from coaching Little League over 15
years like Rodney mentioned to being honored as a Grand Marshal again with my my good friend Tom Kelly um and Sue Butterfield who's not here tonight who who um we a part of this um thing like uh the big three we call ourselves
um and I'm grateful for the love and and support of my family who um I would not be standing here today if it was not for them they keep me going they keep me busy and um I just want to thank them and my my beautiful wife Justa like
Rodney I got to go home tonight my my oldest son Brian and uh God willing my future daughter-in-law [Applause] jayen Jer will not uh be uh forgotten
and my beautiful daughter Bri Asia as we celebrate black history let us remember the sacrifices and triumphs of those who came before us let's continue to work together and build a brighter future for all I thank you
[Applause] all make sure we some pictures oh thanks get the front [Music] this can we have M Jack Mr Jackson we
come up for photos [Music] [Applause] [Music] we will now have two more selections by The techone Choir let give a round of applause they come forward P
back no um commission asked us he said you please take us to church today so that is what we're doing and in case you want us to the secret to Black Excellence for many African amans it's power that's
above you and idea of higher Providence that gives you peace in the midst of turmoil so for those of you who may be feeling like we are now in a little bit of turmoil we're going to bring some peace
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listed on the back of our program and we want to also invite everyone here to uh partake of some food downstairs hosted by John Jax sofa restaurant Lobby first floor welcome thank you very much have a good
night but commissioner before uh before we conclude oh before y we just want to recognize a lot a lot of dignitaries came out uh for this celebration we want to make sure we recognize all of them commissioner we have a Marilyn Frierson representing assemblywoman shvona
suer we have uh we have our Sheriff uh Thomas Adamo thanks for being with us Sheriff under Sheriff nard aacha our our newest captain in the Sheriff's Office Captain Katie Bon welcome Chief I'm sorry chief chief Bia
sorry everybody's favorite Reverend from Seminary Baptist Reverend steel who is getting down uh P County Improvement Authority commissioner Mike raglia Deputy County Clerk noisa tawit noisa Still
Here Pay County School Board member Christina shatz welcome Christina I don't think I miss anyone and that's it now commissioner thank you Mr administrator now you can partake of some food downstairs first floor hosted by John jackon hu restaurant thank you
very much get home safely e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e forward um to offset um loss of revenues in Prior years or in in that current
year um and and that's what we tried to do moving forward so because we had to obligate all of the AR funding by December 31st of last last year it means we started this year in a $30 million Revenue hole um so we had to figure out
a way to build a balanced budget starting down $30 million so talk a lot about stabilizing taxes um this is the ninth consecutive year that uh the county tax rate has been lowered um basically what this well
I'll let Rich get into what the county tax rate is so so the county tax rate is basically uh it's a formula right it's it's the tax levy divided by the equalized values um and you can see over time the the tax rate has gone down and
and that's a function of two things one we've had a a very stable tax levy uh increase each year or no increases in the number of years so the levy overall has been relatively stable but um the second part of that are the property
values each year uh equalized values of the county have RIS dramatically and the uh tax levy divided by the equalized value has resulted in net decrease decrease every year in the overall tax rate so if I was better at using
PowerPoint there'd be another lineup here showing that the apprais value is going up and the tax rate going down and and that's what we want that means there's there's growth and and and stable um budget in B County just just along with the the property values you know with the the continue rise in
property values it just shows that people are interested in investing in in pade County they they're building businesses they're making improvements um it's centrally located you know near New York um it's just a great County to
be located in so responsible budgeting um and and stabilized taxes um our average tax levy increase over the last nine years is 64% um we had a number of years where we held taxes completely flat and when we
do increase taxes it's at a very low rate um you know basically what this slide is showing you that is that you know right now in 2025 we're operating the budget with the same amount of money as we did nine years ago which I mean I'm sure you all put together budgets
and as the years go by things things cost more but we're continuing to do more with less there's a lot of investment in a lot of things all while operating on dollars from 2017 Rich can you just touch on um looking at
the graph that shows five years in a row with no tax increase but that doesn't mean that some municipalities didn't have an increase County increase Now isn't that because of the value right value of the Town keeps shifting so the the county tax levy is
allocated across the municipalities based on the equalized values the equalized values within each Town changes each year and because of that um um you could have one town that pays a little bit more one year and the next year they could pay a little less depending on how those values shift so
it's kind of all allocated proportionally any question thank you so uh as I said at the start um one of the things we have collectively are having a lot of conversations about um is maintaining the highest ever credit
rating SE County's achieved um at aa1 um it's our fifth year at a A1 um this is a a snippet from a press release from when um we sold uh bonds last year for the state County Community College
um there's a variety of things that are going to go into um this uh credit rating um the growth in fund balance which we're going to talk about how important our fund balance is to give us Financial flexibility um our conservative budget practices um you
know we're not we're not playing games there's there's no gimmicks in this budget we're very conservative with our Revenue projections um so that we make sure that we're regenerating um Surplus um we're not using one shot sales of property or things like that to balance
this budget we're relying on sustainable Revenue sources that that we know are going to be there if we're projecting that they're going to be there and again speaking to what rich is talking about what this credit rating is showing is that people want to invest in Bay County
um and that the county is continuing to grow they did if I might interject for a second because you know I hate to be quiet this is the validation of everything that this this
and previous boards have done over the last 12 or 14 years for the county and for the taxpayers this is a third party independent these guys won't even take a cup of
coffee from a government or a client this is the validation that everything that's happened Youth Detention Center closing now more recently the decision not to spend 800 or a billion do to
build a new jail and close the jail and contract with other counties to house the prisoners this is the validation that everything that the commissioners before you the freeholders have
done was the right thing to do and I think each and every one of you especially we call him the budget Hawk mostly because he's got short hands um that all the things that have been done
and discussed and and all sometimes the painful things that that everybody went through this validates that everything that you did was the right thing to do and we're
here with 64 of 1% average tax increase over the last nine years and we have the highest rating and continue to maintain getting getting the rating is one thing maintaining the rating is a
whole different animal the rating agencies are very slow and and very cautious in terms of upgrading a credit but they'll downgrade you in 10 seconds all you need is a
blip and we've been very successful you guys been gals guys have been very successful over the years doing the right thing and Steve's right it's a testament to this board over the last 20 years
that you know the previous administrator and and um Steve and Rich and um the people in these positions often come to the Commissioners to make hard decisions that aren't popular but make Financial sense and are the right decisions for the taxpayers whether they know it or
not um and often times you've made those hard decisions and this is the product of those hard decisions of how far we've come as a County from you know Steve can tell you what it was like in the 90s to where we are now it's night and day well he was a in high school in the 90s or I
was gramar school or something we I was here yeah so uh we continue to increase fund balance uh to keep us on sound financial footing as you see in 2015 we had a little over 34 million in fund balance we ended last year with over 113
million um you know another question we talk about a lot is you know when is enough enough and if covid if the public health emergency showed us anything that you never know and um you know if you remember the the press release from from Moody's from before one of the things
they talked about you know continuing to improve even though it was a credit strength is increasing our fund balance so what this does is it gives us Financial flexibility and Steve can tell you you know he walks he works across the state about governments that aren't in this position and they weren't able
to deal with crisis like we are um you know there was a reason why we were the first County in New Jersey to set up a covid testing site U it's because we had flexibility and we could deal with emergencies that no one was exped the the question over the years
has always been how much is enough and it was a tough question because there there was no definitive thing you could point to to say well that's enough or that's too much or what we learned as Matt said
during covid It's never enough you can never have too much money you can never have too much Financial flexibility it it's again the governments that were in good shape I mean at the end of 2019 he had $ 77.5
million of of fund balance it helped do the things that you needed to do when you needed to do it other governments that weren't as fiscally prudent and conservative as pay
county has been had their struggles and they were doing emergencies and special emergencies and pushing money off from from 2020 to 2021 to 2022 you didn't have to do that we were
able to write out the the uh the pandemic and still not raise taxes and still help the taxpayers of the county and and so the answer to the question is now it's never enough well if I can add to that um
you're right Steve the uh shape that the county was in yes shape that the county was in uh at the start of the pandemic enabled us to get through it um but I caution everyone even though you know we have a healthy number there right now
with the chaos coming out of Washington right now with the I don't know what's going to happen and I'm afraid that this this money here won't be enough in the event that the chaos Works its way down to the states
and the counties uh I mean I'm very very nervous about this I'm nervous for you know things like Meals on Wheels I'm I'm nervous for things like Eva's kitchen I'm nervous for the Board of Social Services and all the the U good things that they do uh I'm worried about the
infrastructure the way they cut off the money there and everything stops and and the legal chaos that comes from that so hopefully we'll never see another pandemic but I think some sort of pandemic is brewing in Washington that
you know they work its way down and and and you have to remember that a lot of the state money that we get like Dot and what have you that's money that's funneled from the federal government to the state to the counties
and municipalities so even though it's been appropriated I'll leave it there again it speaks to the unknowns you know we don't know we don't know if a recession's coming um you know we don't know what what going to happen with the federal government um but we're prepared and you know that's what this growth in
fund balance is we're we're prepared 20 years ago something un unknown happened in the budget you were bonding you were doing all kinds of games to try and figure out how to pay for it we don't have to play those games because our budget is strong has a strong
Foundation okay speaking of a strong P Foundation we continue to replenish and maintain our budget Reserves um as you know there's a number of different reserves that that we've created that we maintain maintain balances on for a number of different things health health
benefits liability insurance um workers compensation um you know we're self-insured so um it's important that if we have to settle a lawsuit or if Health claims run above um what we had projected that you know we
have the means again we are prepared to deal with the unexpected yeah and we we try to manage these reserves and it would almost be irresponsible not to be prepared for a bad claims year um knowing that we're self-insured um it it's important to us
to know that we have money in place to to protect us and to cover Us in in any event that something catastrophic happens in terms of claims and actually one of these accounts other outside of insurance we have this snow removal slash storm trust um it it again it it's
money that's available to us should there be you know we're in the middle of winter a crazy snowstorm um a hurricane comes through a flooding event anything that along those lines we have a foundation to to uh act quickly and the
resources to uh to to react so one of the ways we're building this budget is through responsible and sustainable negotiations with our with our County's unions um this past year year the board ratified uh six different successor agreements for uh various
employees from from par transit to Sheriff's officers prosecutors investigators press employees um I I under the guidance of the former administrator of pattern he developed that I've continued um is emphasizing a few key points um keeping the financial
packages within two to 3% so that we can make sure that we live within the property tax cap and make sure that we're not having spikes in our um and in our our tax levy but also maintaining essential services and recognizing all of the good work that our employees are
doing for um the residents of P County um and and the two big things that um we are definitely keyed on in negotiations is containing the cost of both health benefits and prescription benefits so um there's a number of ways we've done that through
negotiations um with prescription benefits we've um leveraged our relationship with CVS KARK who's our um prescription uh benefits manager to uh incentivize the use of generic prescriptions um what we had seen was that in a lot of cases employees were
using um name brand drugs when a much cheaper generic existed so we're now incentivizing employees to use generic drugs um and um getting under control the County's traditional healthcare plan um it's richer than the richest plan
offered to employees in the the state of New Jersey um so we've either eliminated it um or placed Cost Containment um provisions on it so that the outof network claims which are really the ones that can drive up the the price in our budget are are are capped at the
Medicare rate um and we've eliminated it for new employees going back to 2015 so shared service agreements um we've focused a lot on this because I do think it's an important tool for the County government but also our local governments to provide more efficient
Services um um for our municipalities and for our shared constituents um at the beginning of this year we brought um Bloomingdale on um it's now the sixth town where we serve um as the health officer um that's projected to save Bloomingdale um
$350,000 over 10 years um and and the flip side of that is you know a lot of these towns have very small Health departments one or two employes emplo small budgets you know our health department has six divisions it has 56 employees it has a $6 million budget um
and you know that's a contrast and it it's not only are we saving these towns money but we're also providing a higher level of service so to me it's a win for the towns it's a win for us um you know as you'll see here from from West
Milford to Woodland Park um there there's Mayors providing testimonials to the good work our health department seing and we're hoping to build on that um a few years ago we secured a grant TI a shared service coordinator who's focused on nothing but figuring out ways
where we can work with our local governments with other counties to do more shared service agreements to save money and provide more efficient Services um I'm going to get into the what I started with the the human element of this budget um and one thing
um this board has done a lot of uh especially under commissioner Lazar leadership is recognize our veterans um we are just you know on the tail ends of of two major conflicts we had a lot of veterans come home and and we've done this on a number of fronts so um as you
all know we're breaking ground or about to break ground in the next 30 days after we get our permits on 65 units of senior and Veterans housing um so making sure that our veterans have access to affordable housing in Pay County um we dedicated a replica of the Vietnam
veterans memorial wall so it's not only providing services and housing and programs but also recognizing the sacrifice that uh these PA County veterans made um and then its services um you know I I pulled one out uh operation Helping Hands for homeless
veterans there's a number of programs that we're working in partnership with Catholic Charities and and other veteran stakeholders to make sure that um we're we're taking care of our veterans and we now have a full-time veteran officer um on staff surewood English who's been
doing a fantastic job he's got a a monthly uh a weekly meeting with with a V with veterans in Pay County um and finally you know we um working in partnership with County Clerk Daniel Ireland imhoff and Governor Murphy we
were the first uh County in New Jersey to bring a veteran service officer um into our County building on the first floor so veterans uh from across P County can come right here and and um get the veteran services that um you
know they've earned on both the federal state and County levels providing essential services for our seniors and um you know maybe I'll jump right to this because you you talked about it director leor but um last year we we delivered through our
Meals on Wheels program 180,000 meals uh we served 40,000 meals at congregate senior sites um and we did a approximately 31,000 Paratransit trips that's bringing seniors to doctor's appointments um and things like that and
to me this is um you know one of the most important things that we do you have homebound seniors that have no other access to food and sometimes no other human contact but the you know the Bay County Driver that's that's bringing them their meals um
and yeah yeah and and you know surely Forest our senior services director isn't here because she's in the office working late but you know when a snowstorm happens you know Shirley FR is on the phone with me at 10:00 at night figuring out how we're going to make sure we deliver shelf stabled meals um
and and making sure that our seniors are fed so I I think one of the most important programs we we do um I talked a bit about parat Transit um last year we secured um grant funding with the help of uh assemblyman uh Gary Sher and our other legislators in SE County um to
start a microtransit uh parat Transit service it's going to be a pilot progam program um in the city of p in city of Clifton it's going to be basically like a lowcost uber um where within the Zone um you can get lowcost rides to to work
to doctor's appointments to train stations um and and and what but this also does is um now that our our Paratransit staff is or our Paratransit staff is is fully staffed and we had had a shortage um but we're now fully staffed it it frees them up to do more
rides outside the zone so I'm I'm what I'm hoping happens is this creates more opportunity to do more rides for seniors outside of this Zone um the board has spent $5.3 million to create an upcounty satellite office um it's going to have
three different departments um the the health department the human services department and the nutrition senior congregate site um we currently are um leasing space at a firehouse we're now going to bring that all Under
One Roof um and provide expanded services to to our seniors so when when they're coming for meals um we're going to we're going to be offering them flu shots and and other services that our health department does and our human services department does so what I'm hoping is bringing all these departments
Under One Roof we're be able to offer more for seniors who are coming for meals and to play Bingo and to do all those types of things and we've also emphasize programming um the one I pulled out here was our our annual senior picnic at r Rifle Camp Park um
where there was over 430 seniors um we continue to do programs like that throughout the year uh especially at Camp hope but also at all of our senior congregate sites around the county to make sure that seniors have access to activities and Recreation
food and then the SE County Matt if I may just really quick that uh the Health site up in West Milford once fully operational will'll be fully Grant funded operating on Grant funds yep so um the the $5.3 million was uh cobbled
together from a number of different uh Grant funds we used American Rescue plan money we used um uh New Jersey Department of Health um grant that uh Dr Gill had previously secured um there was some trust fund
money um par Transit we use some par Transit trust fund money we Ed some opioid settlement money for the the Human Services element of it um so yeah that a fully grant-funded um facility yeah just another another example of uh
expanding the services without burdening the taxpayers right and Beyond the building of the facility that the services themselves will be Grant funded moving for operational moving forward yes thank you so our Park system over the last um
10 years has seen historic investment um not only are we improving the parks we had before we're expanding um last year uh we broke around on the highlands rail trail which will be the first Recreational facility in the burough of wanu um as you all know we recently created a
dundy Island Park in the city of pic um every one of our Parks um has gotten uh has had Improvement projects completed um our our Golf Course um in my opinion is the best
public facility the best government Run Golf of course for sure in New Jersey and I think that's evidenced by um the New Jersey State Golf Association hosting its public links Championship uh in 2031 um at our facility I think it's a testament to all the work Daryl and his
team is doing to make sure that's a championship level course um I'm also going to break a little bit of news here um we've been in discussions and we are now in agreement with uh William Patterson to make pness Valley their home Golf Course for this upcoming
season which I also think speaks to the level uh of of play and the shape that that facility is in and more to come on that um and we continue to um invest in
our historic sites um mayor vergano and Wayne um had come to us a year or so ago they they were the owners of The Scholar kofax house and um basically said that he didn't think the town had the resources to fix up the scholar kfax
house and he had what we had done um at the at the ray house at at the die mansion and other historic sites and asked if the county could do anything we ended up taking ownership um we're we're now um in the middle of a rehabilitation project there um we have historic sites
uh undergoing rehab rehabilitation projects across the county the the veland house in Ringwood um our historic courthouse is going to undergo a almost 122 million exterior restoration um and lamber Castle which um we've been through many times um I'm not even sure
which phase we're on I think we're in Phase five but there's been significant um investment um in lamber uh castle and the grounds um and and for me uh Improvement to the pay County Park
system is an economic development tool um it's driving tourism it's creating jobs sustaining our small businesses and it's increasing property values and the example I always use if you go across the Hudson River in New York where is the most valuable property it's all of the property around Central Park so if
you create good open space Green Space especially especially in our dense urban areas it's going to increase property values and make say County a place where people want to live and they want to work and they want to play so as as our auditor talked about
um this board made a decision in 2021 to to close our jail um and and to do a shared service agreement with both Bergen and Hudson County um what we've seen since 2020 is uh $10
million in in in savings um you'll see a significant decrease um in in both the the salaries um and the operating from 2020 we were appropriating over $37 million this year we're appropriating about $1 million um in operating we had
appropriated over 9.4 million this year it's 42 28,000 um and and this doesn't even factor in The Fringe benefit savings which is generally 75% of the employees salary this doesn't factor in the capital expenses that were tied into the
pay County Jail tens of millions of dollars um that were spent um keeping that facility um uh yeah open um as well I don't know if all of you know but I know director leapor and Commissioner James know the
you know but the ACLU lawsuit and all the all of the money that had to be um put into that facility to get the the living standards up you know we don't have to worry about that anymore um we've seen a significant decrease in in workers compensation matters um Savings
in attorney's fees and a reduction in liability you know jails are generally bad places and you know bad things can happen in them and you know we still have a lot of lawsuits that we're dealing with from when the jail was open um but we don't have that liability anymore they they did go down but it was still a
a driving source of a lot of liability for the county and that we don't have anymore and and the thing I you know director you alluded to it um the expense to build a new facility was you know close to a billion dollars um and it couldn't be where it is now because
jails don't go up anymore they have to go out so we would have had to buy property somewhere which would have been uh a cost um and I can tell you because you know I was in these meetings and we had a lot of meetings with Mayors there's not one mayor in Pay County that wants a jail in their Community um and
then we would have had to have spend six 700 you know million dollars to build a new facility so you know in my opinion you know we made the right decision here and consolidating um with Bergen County and Hudson County and uh not having to
absorb those costs on the pay County taxpayers and then finally um you know putting P County residents to work um last year this board adopted a project Labor uh agreement policy which means that any Public Works contract that that we did
had to include a project labor agreement um which is an agreement with theate County Construction and building traits Council I think president Jackson left um but I did tell him that he was featured in my presentation um that means they're hiring um you know you
know men and women that that live in in Pay County to to work on pay County projects um you know it's um increased opportunities for for women and minorities there's apprenticeship programs um there's um a lot of
protections built in there to make sure that you know the contractor is paying the men and women working for him you know fair living wages um since then we've had three uh contracts awarded with project labor agreements and and you know I'm I'm proud to say that they
were all within budget um you know one of my concerns when we adopted this policy and I had this conversation with a lot of you is that it would cost more money but three bids in um that hasn't been the case with with a fourth bid pending for the work on the historic Courthouse um and then lastly the Direct
Tire program which was another partnership with the building and construction trades Council which uh allowed us to hire uh Union men and women from the various trades as seasonal employees um to do projects inhouse and and really where we focused
here is um those projects between 50 and $500,000 where it's very hard for us to get a competitive price and you know we're just not getting good bids and we're not getting fair prices so so what we can do with this program is we
can bring on two plumbers two Carpenters two laborers pay them as seasonal employees buy the materials and do the projects in house and essentially cut out the overhead of of a general contractor and the other very important part of all of this is we're only hiring pay County
residents to do these jobs and hiring them as seasonal employees so we're putting our residents to work to make sure that they can provide for their families um you know a couple of examples um last year following one of the storms um we had some trail clean up at the the highlands preserve up in up
in West Milford and they all got a quote and uh was over 110 $120,000 for our contractor to come out and clean the trails up we ended up hiring three laborers from from local 3 three pay County residents they used our tools
they used our machines um they got it done for less than $20,000 in salaries so you know we're seeing that for a lot of these projects whether it's you know remodeling um bathrooms at prance healthare Center or our our supervisor of Roads hiring laborers to create a
swing shift to help with our snow removal operation it's been a very valuable program um to save us money and allow us to do more Capital Improvement programs um but also to put the state County residents to work so that's all I have if there's any questions we bring the tech tones
back mat uhor I have a question I'm sorry I have a question Matt the last part um any protected amount of jobs are created in that particularly putting pay County residents to work um with the direct
hire program or with the project labor agreement the project labor agreement I don't have those numbers um I can get those numbers for you I don't know the number uh I I don't know the number off hand but I can that
number I I just want you know had the honor of being the budget chair this year I learned a lot I think your idea of of um and I guess I could probably say the campaign of us humanizing the budget I know Lindsay's there and there's going to be a series of social
media um programs that are going to be put together to really uh bring this budget to the people so that they can understand it a lot better it's a lot easier than looking at a spreadsheet and trying to comb through the numbers when you have V visual examples and
highlights as you highlighted in in this PowerPoint of the the real concrete projects of really where the money is going to so I just want to commend that work and I look forward to continuing driving this message of where our County
dollars are being uh used um to the community so that they understand it a lot better and the fact that we're able to maintain that stability uh is also commendable so I want to commend you guys and really the staff as well for executing this plan that our
administrator puts forward and ensuring that we stay within budget and still um provide the utmost service to our residents so thank you guys as well thank you director the in the uh weeks leading up to the final budget vote um the county will
highlight how this budget supports residence piggy back in on what the budget sherff said expanding health services and shared programs with local towns supporting veterans and their families strengthening Senior Services like Meals on Wheels and parro Transit investing in our Parks historic sites
and recreational spaces these updates will provide residents with a closer look how the county is using resources to address their needs by showcasing these efforts we aim to foster a greater understanding of the work being done to strengthen our community we're making
sure that Bay County is financially strong while continuing to invest in service and programs that matter most to our residents by keeping the a excuse me by keeping a healthy fund balance and managing our budget wisely we are preparing for a future while maintaining
the quality of life that our residents come to expect and we've learned that even though I've learned my lesson with the five years in a row um no tax increase unheard of unprecedented we just didn't didn't do a good job of
getting that out there and making the residents understand I should say we we could have done a better job did we thought we did a good job we could have done a better job of having the residents understand of how the budget works that's why these updates that uh you're going to do in the future there
prior to our final budget vode is important the more towns that we bring on board and get to understand how the process works the better will be so that's all I have and great job guys thank you all appreciate you
turnor I'll take a motion to suspend the regular order of business yeah I'll make that motion move by second by D'Or roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy Comm Duffy you with
us no he's he's I'm here okay all right good thank you uh James deputy director Lazar here director laor yes um budget matters uh number one
resolution to exceed the county budget appropriation limits and to establish a c bank pursuant to njsa 4A colum 4- 45 period 15 at s so moved second Cruz
second second by lazara roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes Dore yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes number two resolution introducing the P County budget for FY
uh fiscal year 2025 and adopting the same on the first reading in accordance with the requirement of the local budget law so moved move by Cruz second second second by Lazar roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy
yes James yes deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes got read I'll I'll read it I'll read it for you director um I'd like to read into the record the public notice calling for the public hearing for the cap resolution and the
pay County budget for 2025 uh will be held on on March 11th 2025 at 5:30 motion okay we go into the bond want me to read it okay all right uh
Bond ordinance 2025-the the making of various uh public improvements and Acquisitions uh of new Communications and Signal systems equipment and new addition additional or replacement equipment or Machinery in by and for the
county of P state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of uh 15,400 th000 to pay the cost thereof to appropriate Capital Surplus to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such Appropriations and to
provide for the issuance of bond participation notes and anticip of the issuance of such Bond notices a motion to open a public hearing on bond ordinance 20251 moved by James second second by
lazara roll call County Commissioner is Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes is anyone present with desire to be heard on bond ordinance 2025-the
by Cruz second second by Duffy roll call County Commissioner is Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes motion to adopt Bond ordinance 2025 d01 I'll make
that motion motion made by Duffy second by Cruz sure roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes dvor yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director laor yes motion to
resume the regular order of business move move by Cruz second second byor roll call okay County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy
director Lazar yes director leor yes um have County committee reports anyone I'll just uh if I may director just uh really quick uh it is only fitting that we're celebrating black Excellence tonight and uh on this agenda
for our vote is the reappointment of our County Council so I I look forward to that vote and look forward to continuing uh the great work that you have done and that will you will continue to do after the vote uh so you know thank you nadesh
that's it I told him to say that yeah hear me a great uh great guy at Smith Smith um he's a great County historian I don't know if it was mentioned earlier
or not here miss L of knowledge for the county and a real gentleman so I just want to make that Mo just make that mention okay thank you director I just want to say thank you again for everyone collectively making the 25 Black History
Month celebration AA success all the hard work and great job great job teamw work thank you trial by fire appreciate it director thank you okay um anybody else
Bruce okay um I'll take a motion to open the public portion of the meeting so moved second moved by James second by Cruz roll call James second by who sorry
Cruz yeah Rodney it was dvor sound the same okay um County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes anyone from the public wishing to be
heard uh during public portion um please step forward state your name and address and be mindful that everything you say is a matter of public record [Laughter] anyone I'll second that motion made by yeah we'll we'll
take it we'll take it second by you're watching on Facebook uh County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy James deputy director Lazar yes director leor yes Council we have a late
starter yes director through you we have one late starter tonight it's a resolution authorizing Award of contract to ZN Construction LLC for the site improvements of the Lamberg Castle Carriage House complex per bid
c257 pursuant to njsa 48 11-1 Etc uh please add resolution 050 to the consent agenda okay take a motion to add 050 50 so moved moved by Cruz second second by D'Or roll
call County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director uh laor yes uh before we uh take a motion is there anyone has a anything want to be voted
on okay I will take a motion uh to approve the consent agenda 01 to 050 moveed by James second second by D'Or roll call County Commissioners Cruz
yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deput director Lazar yes direct laor yes under new business U receipt of the supplemental debt statement by the CFO received it right
yes received and filed received and filed okay um number two tion um Bond um Bond ordinance uh 2012-02 Bond Wars to authorize the undertaking of various public improvements for the Bay County
Community College in by and for the county of pic state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $4 million to pay the cost thereof to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such Appropriations and to provide for the
issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds I'll take a motion for Bond ordance 2025 D2 I'll make that motion motion by Cruz second second by D'Or in
discussion roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or yes Duffy yes James deputy director lar yes director leor yes ordinance 20253 B ordinance to authorize the making of
various public improvements and the acquisition of new additional or replacement equipment and Machinery uh new additional furnishings and the information technology and Telecommunications equipment for p County Community College in by and for
the county of P state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of 23875 to pay the cost thereof to authorize the issue isance of bonds to finance such Appropriations and to provide for the issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of
the issuance of such bonds take a motion to approve Bond ordinance 2025 d03 on first reading move it move by Lara second by Duffy any discussion roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes dor
yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director four yes take a motion on the Personnel move move by Cruz second second by D'Or roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes dor yes
Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes direct all four yes take a motion on the bills move the Bills second move by Cruz second second by lazara roll call County Commissioners Cruz yes dor yes Duffy yes
James deputy director Lazar yes director yes before we adjourn I just want to take this opportunity to thank all the Departments who are here and being good stakeholders in the budget um this is as much your budget as everyone else's so thank you again for all your work take a
motion to adjourn so move okay motion made by James Duffy Duffy second by dvor Duffy by Duffy second by D'Or second by D'Or okay call County Commissioners Cruz yes D'Or
yes Duffy yes James deputy director Lazar yes director four yes thank you good night everyone safe trip home thank you thank you commissioner all right thank you all right