Good evening. Welcome to the April 22nd, 2025 meeting of the Bakquana Township Council. Oh boy, this is going to be a tough one. This is Lisa. In accordance with the requirements of New Jersey Open Public Meetings Acts,
notice of this meeting was included in the annual meeting notice which was filed in the office of the township clerk, posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building, published as a legal notice in the suburban trends and daily record newspapers and distributed to all persons requiring requesting
notice in accordance with the township policy. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of prayer and a moment of uh uh by a prayer and a moment of thanks for individuals serving our nation. I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Most gracious providence, we ask that you bless this governing body with an abundance of wisdom and understanding so that every deliberation will result in
actions which will promote the common good and the general welfare for all the people of the township. All of the township res employees, including all of us here this evening, would like to extend our deepest condolences to our friend and township clerk Carol Marsh
and her family. Our prayers and thoughts are with all of them during this difficult time. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. The clerk will please call the role. Miss Orange Lynch here.
Mr. Cole here. Mrs. Russell absent. Mr. Syracuse here. Mayor Duressie here. Moving on with the agenda. There are no presentations scheduled for this evening.
Um, number six. At this time, are there any reports or comments from the volunteers serving our community? Yes. Come on up. Uh, good evening everyone. Randy Shamber. Um, I'm here on behalf of
Propel for Quanic. Uh I was here last meeting uh to talk about our upcoming Pride Festival. I'm here for a couple of reasons to follow up on that meeting. Uh, one is I'd like to um get a commitment from the town council on um
the again proposed uh pride month proclamation which is for the month of June as well as the pride flags out in front of town hall which have been approved uh by first reform church. So
I'd like to get that discussion going and get that approved. the Pride Month proclamation. This would be the fifth year in which you'd be issuing that. And uh our community is very grateful for the previous four years. Um I will tell
you that the first year that that was issued, I had people come to me in tears of joy for your support for the community here in Puquanic. Um and then the other item that uh I did not bring to your attention the last time because
uh um I got information after the meeting uh we are asking for uh police car and patrolman to be at the festival all day long uh this year. Um we feel it
would be prudent for the township to provide this service um as there's been increased uh threats against Pridefest as well as the LGBTQ community and um as
in the prayer says uh we hope that the town council can act uh for the welfare um of the community and safety of the community with this. Uh we have reached out. Um the police department um has said that they can provide that and I
believe the cost for that to Propel would be $750. Um just so you know, uh Propel is a 100% nonprofit organization. We have nobody
on a payroll. It is 100% volunteer from the township of Kquanic. Um, so no one's drawing a salary everything or anything. Our Pridefest is our primary fundraiser for the year and we raise that money that goes right back into the community.
I think last time I shared an update on our QR code program, which is the mailer that went out to every home in the township, which someone can go ahead and scan the QR code. It leads to the website that we've developed that uh
lists nearly 100 local, regional, state, and national mental health providers of all kinds um that are needed for all kinds of mental health support. Um so
that's our primary fundraiser is the Pridefest. That's one of the things we do with the money. The other thing we do is we support our youth. We have two scholarships that we issue and have been issuing for the last several years for graduating seniors at Pquanic Township
High School. We make donations to local organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, uh the New Bridge Services as well, uh many other local um nonprofits as well. So, I'm here to ask uh the
township if they can uh go ahead and absorb the costs of the police uh for that day of the Pride Fest. Is that something that you discuss? Now, if you want to ask me some questions. Well, I think let's get through the full
volunteer peer reports and we'll try. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Any other volunteers reports for volunteers serving our community? Nope. Okay. Um, any comments on
the uh what what Mr. Chamber brought up? Um, go ahead. Well, in Carol's absence, I'll just jump in. I know with respect to the or my recollection with respect to the proclamation was that it was issued at the event. Um, and I understand it's being prepared uh for the potential
signature of the members of council who wish to sign it. Um, regarding the flags, in 2024, they were authorized for a week, and I believe that was initiated the day of the event and then the week thereafter. It's the council's decision whether they want to stay consistent with what was done last year, other
years, or something completely of their own um, initiative. And then with respect to Mr. Shammer's request, yes, I know he's been working with Chief Commune. The request was supplied. The chief responded as he does. And uh, the only group, as the council's aware, that can wave that is the council. I'm okay
with waving the fee for the police officer and I'm okay whatever we did last year for the flags again this year. I totally agree with that as well. Uh we do it for other organizations. So I think that we should provide the police and I'm fine with the flags as well.
I totally agree with you. Fully support it. Agree. Agree. So we'll absorb the cost for for the police for the day and the flags as M Mr. Brewer mentioned. Okay. Great. The next item on the agenda,
thank you, is public comment. Um, this comment period will be limited to a total of 30 minutes. An additional period for public comment reserved for later in the meeting. We welcome comment, suggestions, and questions during the comment period. However, the purpose is to allow public comment not to engage in a dialogue. If you have a
specific question, please feel free to pose it and then follow up with staff via telephone or email. As a reminder, comments are limited to 3 minutes. Please, if anyone wishes to address the council, please wait to be recognized and come to the microphone and provide your name for the record. Is there
anybody that will Yes. Come on up. Good evening. My name is Peter Schmidt. Um, full disclosure, I'm a registered Democrat. Um um I there's a lot of divisiveness in
this country and I noticed in this community that let's say the Republicans and the Democrats they don't talk to each other. I think there is a sort of a a barrier in between them. Um, and I'm
fortunate to have many Republican friends, you know, and discussing with them, I I see that the values are overwhelmingly the same, you know, we are just discussing how to get there or how to get there. Um, of course, now I
have to get my curve. I think getting the country back together is not coming from our government or our leaders of the Democratic Party in Washington. It has to come from us. has to come from a local level. Now, of course, what does
that mean? Um, I I was scratching my head for ideas. The only idea that I came up with and I want to propose that is couldn't we put the Democratic tent and the Republican tent next to each other at the next hold down. So, at least we have to look each other in the
eye and and maybe something good comes out of it. You see that? And I want to float this as an idea. However, who am I to have all ideas? If you or somebody else have similar ideas how to bring the community together, then then by all
means, we should try to do that. I think we have an obligation to do that. Okay. My comment. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. Any other public comment? Come on up. Her
name is uh Jeff Sbert. Um I have a couple things. Uh actually one just happened today, but the dog park, the new dog park in Lyman Park. Um none of us were notified that it was
even going to go in. I thought we should have been notified. Uh and it's huge. It took the whole field. And I'm be honest with you, I mean, it's really close to my house, so Mhm. I'm not very happy about it being
looking out my front door and I I see this big dog park and actually my neighbors here too. Their kids played in that field and there's no field to play in anymore. Um, I know there's really not I've been researching
there's not too many like laws on dog parks, but there's a lot of suggestions and we did of what to do with a dog park. And it seems like our town did the opposite of everything. Um, it says it suggests that you should
tell your if you have like neighbors or community people that live close to it, they should be notified. Okay. Um, it also states that it should be like a 100 yards from a
swing, like a park, like a swing set park and it's literally like 10 ft from the swings. I me I would be concerned if a dog gets all excited and is playing with other dogs and there's a kid on the swing set and they come out and they get bit cuz they're on the swings.
But somebody from your town, I'm not going to say any names, when I called about it, told me they weren't concerned about the town getting sued if a dog bites a kid. I was like, really? So, my my concern is yes, I don't like
it where it is cuz it's quiet back by me. Yes, there's only three houses back there. It's probably going to be a quiet dog park. It's probably too late now for it to to come out, but it is a flood zone, which
whatever. Um, it just seems like everything on the suggestion thing was the opposite. I mean, you're really not supposed to walk a dog through a park with a swing set with kids playing there. Look, if it's
your own kid, it's one thing, but if some other kids are playing on the swings and they don't know the dog doesn't know when you're swinging on the swings, I mean, it's it could be a good dog, but you know, he's going to she's going to jump. I mean, especially they even suggested that in the stuff I was
reading about like if you have like a few dogs in the dog park and they're all excited, they come out and what are they going to do? I'm not saying it's going to happen. It's they're going to be quiet. It just seemed like I think I us
in the surrounding area should have been mentioned. My wife saw on Facebook later on that the Boy Scouts were doing something for it. They were trying to get donations. They needed like $8,500 to do it. She saw on Facebook and they
only raised $2,500. So I came home one day looking for work and there's this big fence taking the whole thing. I didn't even know about it except for what you saw on Facebook. I don't even know what's happening. I mean, kind of crazy to me that who
paid for the rest of that, you know? I guess obviously they're not totally done with it. It's just grass right now. But I don't know. Do you guys would you any of you would you want a dog park 100 ft from the front of your house?
I'm just being honest. Let's be honest. No, I get it. I get it. I mean I mean especially I mean literally one I don't know if anybody was down there at all. Literally the whole grass area is gone like there's nothing. You can't even you
know and then today now I don't know I mean just been years I I don't know if anybody knows I live down here. I I try to keep it clean. I literally blow the parking lot. I blow the street cuz I like to see it
clean. So if there's leaves now I have curbs I got to fight with cuz they just put curbs in. But uh regardless um I'm fighting for potholes for 4 months to get potholes filled. I was going to fill them myself and my wife yelled at me not to because they didn't
want to fill potholes. The kids were driving their bikes over them. I was told, "Oh, they know where they are. Don't worry about it. They'll just drive around them." You know, it's a park. But anyway, so today I come home now just last week cuz it's Easter. I have people coming over. I blew everything. Like all
the pebbles are there from when they did the the curbs and they they paid they did, you know, they patched it. It was okay. But the dr potholes, but the all the little pebbles in the rocks, I mean, nuts for saying anything, but we I have nice cars. My son has nice cars and all
those rocks just kick up. So finally I blew everything, but I couldn't get over the curbs obviously. But anyway, it was clean. So on my ring today, I come home and the parking lot is a mess. All those rocks that I cleaned all in the middle
of the street, piles of them down the whole street. I got pictures I can show you. Okay, so I went on my ring. What did they do? Here comes a street sweeper 25 mph down the street doing the sweep street sweeping. and drive it all over the place and made
a mess. You know, my son's right now cuz of his car, he's got a nice mus Mustang that he drives and it all kicks up. He's home cleaning it again cuz I I think the back in the day it was
Rich was a mayor. He saw anything you need cuz you saw me on a Sunday cleaning the parking lot. He thought I worked for the town. I said, "No, I just try to keep it clean." I says, you know, I was here one other meeting when they were trying to find parks. I says, you know, the town can't keep up with all these
parks. I get it. I don't know why, but why, you know, why now? We're making more work. I have another dog park. So, literally, I have pictures of the gravel all over that my son is blowing on the street right now from the street sweeper today. It's crazy. We can talk to the
DPW and try to get them to pick that up. I mean, it's too late now. He's doing it now. He doesn't want a driver on it. Maybe they could do it by the curbs. So, so and one of the DPW guy said he wasn't
worried about being sued, the town being sued, not the dog getting bit. I mean, how do you feel about it? What have you been down there? I have not been down there recently. No. You just see how big it is. You just see how close it is to the swing set where little babies going though. You know, a little baby swing
set. I don't think it's a good area. Look, it's a quiet area, but there could have been somewhere else that had a bigger area, not as close to houses. I get foothills. That's it's it's commercial area. I get they're
having problems there, but I guess we're taxpayers are paying for the rest of that dog park. That's I don't know that supposedly the voice captain that we saw. But I think I should have I
think our neighbors should have been told so we had a set a little bit of a say. I think they just let's put it up and get asked for forgiveness later on. Now it's too late. I don't know if that was the reason, but
and they told me well here's another one. that that same DPW got called when I called says the town owns the park. The town could do whatever they want. Is that true? I know the town owns the park. That piece is true.
Yeah, I know that. So, I've been knocked down for doing stuff. So, so now I own my property. I guess I can do whatever I want. Is that true? I I don't know. I don't know how to take answer that question. I I know it's not true, but I that's basically what he's
saying. You know, I I don't know any Well, when we're done, I'll ask I'll ask the man the manager if he can provide an update. I mean, I I know the fence is up. They haven't done anything else since the fence. I mean, there's gaps
that the a small dog could get under the fence anyway or mediumsized dog. So, I know it's a I know it's a flood zone cuz I've been told by the town and uh cuz I can't do anything. So, you can't fill it.
So, what are they going to do about that? Are they going to fill it? I mean, I guess you guys have to have permits and all that stuff for that, especially in the flood zone. Um, and I was am I considered I was going to call the flood thing, but am I considered still a floodway after that
whole lawsuit against the state? what was going on or am I considered what's that floodway back there or is it flood zone? It's like like two different things. It's crazy. Just whatever the new map say. Yeah. I don't know what the new map say. I know it just got solved or something, right? Or no, but it still didn't get
solved. August 2025. Oh, it'll be Yeah. Oh, then they'll then they'll decide when it's it'll be adopted, I guess, is the thing. Yeah. Obviously, I had work 12 years ago. Um but just a thing about the dog park now.
Sorry. We'll ask the um the township manager provide an update. There's a there's a procedure. So we just got to follow the procedure. So they didn't. Well, they didn't I can't answer to that. I was not there. So
yeah. No, thank thank you for for your concerns and concern. A lot of kids want not a lot of kids come down there but you know see kids fall in the pothole and I mean I don't know that's funny and the gravel is all over the place. I mean
our neighbor actually was driving her little Hummer thing or whatever. It was all rocks. Crazy. I I my son's clean whatever. Um I can show you I can show you pictures or we can show you the video just flying
through there like doing nothing. All right. So, let me let me get an update from the man the manager. Okay. Once we're through that compound about the dog park and everything and everything, whatever. I don't want to be a complainer, but I try to keep it nice back there as much as I understood.
Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. Anybody else for public comment? Yes. Come on up. Hi, my name is Wanda Ramirez. Um, sorry, I apologize. This is my first time doing this. Welcome. Take your time. I just want to collaborate what he said.
I'm Jeff U neighbor. Um, I got three kids. Um, I understand we only three houses around there. Um, however, it's a quiet area. So a lot of family around there use that park to do play
football, Batman. So they do not consider that they taking that space from the children and just put out the park. I understand they do need their own space but they should think also and the family using that park around the area. Um I understand we only three
houses so we don't have to say but it's not only affecting the three houses but also affect the other area there all the kids going there. parents is allowing kids to go there and play um ride their bikes because it's a open field behind the playset. Also, you got
family with baby strollers going there to do piki and now they cannot do that. If you also think on the waste, the dog waste um the animal waste who want to go to do that pikney in a park that smell. We have to be realistic. Um the town do
not go there to clean the street. We doing it. Who going to clean that park? There's a sign that is been down uh since the last flooding. The town had done nothing about it. So who going to clean that park? We going to clean it.
So now you take the the space from the children to play and now we had to clean this part because it's going to smell and we don't have no saint on it. So, I really think we should think about that. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else for public comment? Okay. There'll be no additional public comment. We'll we'll continue with the agenda. Mr. Bur, can you address some of these? So, I'll I'll do my best. Mayor. Yes. Thank you. Um, as the council's
aware, there was an issue with the dog park at Foothills and staff undertook a review of available spaces. recommendations were made. Ultimately, the governing body approved the location along with the project associated with Boy Scouts. Um the goal really as with
Green View, as with Foothills, as with Lyman, is to improve these things and make them better. So, the curbing is going to be followed with paving uh the dog park, it's going to be a more improved area. So, the goal is to make it a better park. Um with respect to the notice, I I can offer no excuse, but
say, "You're right. There should be communication." So I I can't argue that one away or dance past that. There there should have been. Um I don't know what impact that would or wouldn't have had, but it should have happened. So that's that's I can say that about that. Um with respect to the flood zone
questions, my recommendation be um all the information is on the township's website, but you're also welcome to call Kevin uh the flood resilience officer, and he can walk you through interpreting the map and understanding it, and that way you can best understand exactly what's there. um with respect to the
um floodway or flood hazard area etc. whatever is required is being abided by so there are zero net fill options and other dynamics that I know um public works and engineering have reviewed. So uh there are no violations that I'm aware of and I know that they were
cognizant of that as they were playing. Any other comments from council? I I drove down that street the other day. That street we paved. I'm happy to hear that we're it's on the schedule to get paid. They we're trying to put more money to the planes.
Um and uh with regards to Peter's comments, yes, we definitely got to talk more. No, I get it. But but both sides have to listen as well, right? We got to talk, but we got we should we have two ears, one mouth. So that means we should listen twice as much as we talk, right?
So um I agree. uh putting the test next to each other. I'm not going to I'm not going to go there. If they want to, they're certainly more than welcome to do that. More than welcome to do that. All right. Moving on with the agenda is the
managers report. Mr. Bro, I'd like to open with thanking Mrs. Vivy, who was the actual manager last week during my period of absence. So, I appreciate everything that she did. And that's when you'll notice the report is signed by the parties as she was in that capacity
when this was disseminated. Uh three quick things on there. Uh all three are scheduled for potential legislative action this evening. The first we have an ordinance that's the subject of a public hearing uh based upon a request and recommendation of the fire chiefs to increase the closing allowance for those
members of the fire department to participate. Uh with respect to ordinance introduction, there are two ordinances, one being the general capital, the other being the water capital ordinance. These are consistent with the capital plans that were approved as a component of the 2025 budget. Normally, we introduce these
when we adopt the budget, but because we lost a couple weeks um trying to cheat a little bit to give staff more time to get stuff done, they will not be or cannot be adopted until after the budget is adopted, presumably adopted on May 13th. Uh as in past years, none of these
ordinances or capital programs include the issuance of any debt. They are fully cash funded. So uh kudos to again the staff and everyone involved with preparing this and thank you to the council for the approvals thus far. Unless there's any questions. That concludes Mrs. Rzy's report. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Brew. Any comments from council? Right. Moving on. Moving on with public next uh public hearings. Next on the agenda is public hearing on ordinance number 2025-05. Miss Lisa, ordinance authorizing compensation in
the form of clothing allowance or stripping from members of the fire department of the township of the Are there any comments from councel? Hearing none. Is there a motion to open the public hearing? I'll make that motion to open the public
hearing for 2025-05. Second. All in favor? I All right. If anyone in the audience has any questions or comments on this ordinance, please come to the microphone and identify yourself for the record. Seeing none, is there a motion to close the public hearing?
I'll make that motion. I'll second. All right. Is there a motion to adopt this ordinance? I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance number 2025-05. I'll second. All right. Roll call, please. Miss Florence Lynch. Yes. Mr. Cole.
Yes. Uh, Mr. Syracus, yes. Mayor Darcy, yes. Item number 10, next on the agenda, is the introduction of ordinances. This is Lisa. Ordinance number 202506, ordinance providing for various capital
improvements in and by the township of Aquonic and the county of Mars, state of New Jersey, and the appropriating the sum of 1,524,350 for financing thereof. Mr. Brewer, any comments? Nothing further unless there are questions.
Any comments from councel? Hearing? None. Is there a motion to introduce this ordinance on first reading? I'll make a motion to introduce ordinance 2025-06. I'll second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Florence Lynch, yes. Mr. Cole,
yes. Mr. Sarah Cusa, yes. Mayor Jesi, yes. Next on next is the introduction of ordinance number 2025-07. Miss Lisa ordinance providing for various capital improvements in by the township of
aquanic water utility in the county of Morris state of New Jersey and appropriating the sum of 300,000 for financing thereof. Mr. Ber any comments? Uh nothing further unless question. Okay. Any comment from councel? No. That'll do it.
Hearing none. Is there a motion to introduce this ordinance on first reading? I'll make a motion to introduce ordinance number 2025-07. Second. No second. Roll call, please. Miss Florence Lynch. Yes. Mr. Cole. Yes.
Mr. Sarrausa. Yes. Mayor Dy. Yes. The next agenda item is resolutions. Mrs. Lisa. R2025-101 supporting the submission of the request for community project funding to the
office of US Congressman Mikey Cheryl for the project to upgrade the Brook the Brooklyn sanitary sewer pump station or 2025-102 authorizing release of the deposit for
construction in the township right away R2025-103 authorizing tax office refunds overpayments or cancellations. Part 2025-104 approving payments of the itemized
claims as set forth on the April 17, 2025 bills list and 2018 FEMA elevation escrow list. Question 102 loose different
for a street opening. Is this right? Is this right or wrong? 102 authorizing release of deposits for construction in the project right away. No, that's right. Okay. My bad. All right. Sorry. Um, are there any comments
on resolutions from council? Hearing none. Is there a motion to adopt these resolutions? Go for it, Dan. Go ahead, man. All right. Uh, make a motion to adopt resolutions for approval R 2025101
through R 2025 uh 104. Thank you. Is there a second? I'll second. Roll call, please. Miss Lawrence Lynch, yes. Mr. Cole, yes. Mr. Sarah, sure. Mayor Dy,
sure again. Uh, item number 12, there are no items listed for discussion. 13, there's no reports and notices. Item number 14 is council reports and announcements. Councilwoman Florence Slinch. Okay. Uh, couple of things. The flood
committee met. Um, they don't meet every month. They're meeting like when needed or at least quarterly. So, um, they did meet. They talked a little bit about I I understand we're going to talk about this later. They were talking about where we were with
the elevations and and and whatnot with the flood elevation. So I told them I would get an update for the next meeting cuz I know everything's pretty much halted. Um this was their first meeting of the year. So they did do their
reorganization meeting and uh Ken Hardacre is the chair and Nick uh Deano is the vice chair. Um, more to come on that. They want to come to a future council meeting
probably next time. I'll let you know. Uh, the senior advisory committee, um, they met as well. And just a couple of uh things they wanted me to remind people of that the senior Olympics um
this year um has dropped the age down to 60 to get more participation. So anybody that wants to um sign up for Junior Olympics, they can um contact Parks and Rec. Um I'm trying to think what the
date is. I think we does anybody have the date handy? I I forgot to write on here, but I know it's on the uh the website. You can sign up through parks and rec. Um tonight we went to uh a grand
reopening of Carney Bank on Route 23. They're located at 917 Route 23 South. Beautiful new building. Um apparently they had to re redo the whole building cuz there was a electrical fire or something a while ago, right? which
caused them to re power surge the power surge and so that made them redo the entire bank. It was beautiful. Um what else? There is a grand opening coming up um for Cafe Classico. They're located in
the Fireside Plaza on uh Route 23. And um I was putting my rooms together on the date of that if anybody has a date. Saturday, April 26th. Saturday, April 1:00 at 10:00.
Yes. Go get coffee. Oh, and it's also it's going to be after our little league parade. So, the little league parade starts about 8 8:15. We should be done in time to then just pop over there real quick. All right. Uh, what else do I have here?
I plan I don't know if you guys saw this. I plan to attend a uh municipal roundt um put on by the Morris County Chamber of Commerce. It's uh regarding um available grants and initiatives for
small business. Uh what else? Uh the Chamber of Commerce, they're looking at some business grant opportunities. Um and specifically things that we can do to possibly beautify the town. Um
there have been some programs in the past called Main Street Community. It it was through the uh Department of Community Affairs, but it seems like everything's kind of like halted right now. like we don't even have a new date for the grants or if there's going to be
grants, but it's something that we're keeping an eye on and it's something that would be not initiated by the town but from an organization such as the Chamber of Commerce. So, more to come on that hopefully. um
the 200 club of Morris County um they announced 21 scholarships uh scholarship recipients and one student is from Pquanic Shawn Moore. So congratulations to Shawn Moore for his scholarship. There's going to be a um an event a
separate event for all the scholarship winners on May 12th at the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy. Uh what else did I want to say? Uh, Bquantonic Valley Rotary. Thank you um to DPW and those that work to get the
rotary bike rack installed at um the lake. It looks good. Uh we all you might have more to say on this, mayor, but we went to your cleanup a week ago and got wet. It was it rained out. It was
cold, but they still had a good turnout. Lot of people. I don't have the number of how much we collected, but um maybe you do. Um the New Bridge Gala, I wanted to bring this up. The New Bridge Gala is Thursday, May 8th. Now, this is
something I just thought of. I should have thought of it before. I thought it would be nice if the council if they wanted to uh take out an ad journal whether it be can do either a quarter page a half page a full page but they're
honoring Sheriff Ganon and Newbridge is in our town they do um you know a lot you know so much for our community and then Sheriff Ganon does a lot so I remember years ago we had done some similar things like we had taken before
you were around John Um, we had all decided to do a banner for FBLA at the field. You know, this was just something else I thought maybe we could just do. I don't know how you guys feel about it. Kyle's not here, so I'd have to make a phone call to her, but um, you know,
just saying, you know, um, congratulations, Sheriff Ganon, and thank you Services for all you do. I don't know. How does everybody feel? I've never done one. Is that something different prices? All right. So, basically the prices were
for a quarter page, it's $125. So, we would each chip in $25. If we want to do a half page, it would be 50 bucks a piece. And if we wanted a full page, it would be 80. I don't know how you guys feel about it. And I'd have to reach out to Kyle. It's a good cause. Of course,
mental health. Um, Sheriff Canon's always page. What are you leaning towards? What page? size page. Yeah, it better make sense. Spend your We'll do the full page. Do it do it right. I'm good. 80 bucks.
Check the new bridge. Yeah. I I'll pass around the thing right now. I have it on my email and um I'll work on getting something together right away because I want to get it in right away. It's due tomorrow. It's due tomorrow, but I'll get it done.
Oh, I'll know. It's just going to be a page. We could get it done. I'll give you a charge. Yeah. No, I'm not worried about the money. I'm worried about the ad, you know, like cuz we can get the money from it. So, everybody's okay with that. All
right. Um, what else? Oh, and John, I saw that you put the link out for the Relay for Life on June 7th. Yeah, we got to do that. So, I don't know again if we're just donating or if we're actually going to go that day. I did see a wall.
Okay. So, think about that, guys. You look at me for that. But I'm sorry. I know I'm going on that weekend. Put it in your calendar. And the other When is it?
It's uh June 7th. I'm in Cape May for a wedding. Well, for those that for those that can go, it starts at 5:00. So, okay, two more quick things. Uh, don't forget Unico is having Taste of
the Town May 6th and that's going to be at Holy Spirit. So, I think you can still get tickets for that. And um last but not least, Bonic Valley Rotary is holding a senior lunchon on May 21st. You can sign up at
the senior house. Um or call me. What's the answer for that? You can come, Dave. But yeah, that's it. All right. Thank you, Melissa. Councilman Cole. All right, I'll cut mine short. uh traps uh middle all the
fifth grade elementary schools did the traps thing and I heard the mayor was there to cut the ribbon. What a tremendous turnout. It was at PE school. The place was packed. A lot of great uh ideas that these kids came up with uh and sold their goods. So very nice. Uh
company 2 fish and chips was on 411. That was a great uh job by the company 2. Uh 416 we went to the Mars County League municipalities dinner. uh listen to uh the prosecutor Robert Carroll about uh vehicle thefts.
BMWs are the hot hot ticket. Uh and they are uh they they you know they they are breaking into homes now for key fob. So they are um you know they you know say you know put your key fob somewhere other than just leaving it right near the the back
door or something. So, um, again, little league parade this Saturday 8:00 8:00 a.m. and, uh, we'll go to the ribbon cutting after. And if you don't know what the 200 club is, you can, uh, come and ask me. I've been a member for a number of years. It's a great organization. So, if you don't know what
it is, feel free to ask. Thank you, Councilman Sarah. So, let's see. Paro met at the beginning of the month. I missed the open space meeting as I was traveling this month. So, I have a do out to you as far as uh any significant um conversational
reference. That's it. That's it. All right, guys. Thank you. Um yeah, I did want to bring up the river cleanup. It was a great day. A lot of people out there for a nice rainy day. So, but um we collected a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. So, it was it was good to clean up. Mr. Cole,
thank you for reminding me about traps. That was it was pretty neat. And so far, that was the best thing I've done as mayor. Um there was 72 72 groups of kids that made some something. So I ended up spending a lot of money. Yeah.
It was uh it was it was it was very very very nice. It's good to see the entrepreneurial spirit start young and I I got to give a shout out to the teachers that are involved in that cuz it's completely an after school thing. Um the board of education, you know,
allowing that to go down. Um um our our our superintendent was there was talking to him. So that was that was definitely a great a great event. Um I want to say thank you Alicia for stepping in today um for the meeting putting everything together. Thank thank you very much. Um,
yes, Carne Bank had their grand opening and one of the comments was is it was very nice dealing with your building the department, right? We submitted our stuff, they gave us a permit, we did the work, they came out for inspections, and that's nice to hear. Everything kind of works out good. So, like we're supposed
to. Um, the Relay for Life. Yes. Sign up, donate, and we're going to go for a walk. And the other thing that just kind of happened to me today is kids on on these little electric scooters doing 25 20 25 miles an hour down the sidewalk. Please, when people are making
right-hand turns and kids are flying up the street on these things. It's It's not a good scenario. So, please just talk to your children, have them slow down, stop at streets, you know, just kind of the same thing with a bike. Don't go flying across streets cuz I almost hit one tonight. If I didn't look
in my rearview mirror, it could have been a bit different. So, um just please be careful. Also, driving, you know, you're making a righthand turn, please check your mirror. Um, we don't need any um accidents. We don't need any accidents. So, just be careful. And I
think that's all I got. So, sorry it was longer than yours. Uh, next item on the agenda is public comment. As a reminder, we welcome comments, suggestions, questions rather than dialogue during the public comment period. Comments are limited to three minutes. Please, if anyone wishes to
address the council, please wait to be recognized and come to the microphone and provide your name for the record. Seeing none, um, moving on to 16. There were no minutes for approval. Um, item number 17 is, uh, is close session discussion. Is there a motion to approve
a resolution authorizing the township council to meet an executive session to discuss litigation of the past Sky Valley Learning Center versus Township of Aquanic in matters of client attorney privilege. I'll make that motion. Second. All in favor? I
opposed. At this time, the public portion of the meeting is recessed for the close session. Thank you.