regular monthly meeting Tuesday, June 17th, 2025. All could stand for a moment of silence and a flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Adequate notice has been given to the Express Times and the Star Gazette satisfying the requirements of the open public meetings act. Wanda, where does that stand with the electronic stuff at this point? Are we still through June?
Time says they'll do it through June. So, I don't know. There's no other publication. That's the problem. All right. All right. We need an approval of the regular and executive session minutes of the May 20th meeting.
Second case, yes. Metti, yes. Yes. Slack, yes. Motion to pay the bills, payment of bills presented in proper form and signed by the director of each department and approved by the majority and the members and listed on the bill list. Anybody
have any questions on their bills? There was just one. It was um historical bill. It said on the a line item was to NJC or something like that. Does that ring a bill? The the How much was it for? I
don't know. Like $500 or something like that. 410. Hold on. NJC. It was anjac, right? There was an NJ for uh for the environmental commission. Yeah, that that was on there. But that's what that's what you're talking about. I
just didn't know. Yeah, that would come out of that account. Yeah, the line item said historical data, so I didn't understand what that was. Yeah, that would come out of there then. That was for that. Yes, that's our membership for the environmental commission. Well, that's the only question I had. So, I move to approve. Okay. Second.
Okay. Gray. Yes. Yes. Yes. Slack. Yes. All right. Public comments. Any public comments pertaining to agenda items and agenda items only? If so, please come
forward. Uh, sign in, be recognized. Seeing none. I need a uh I have a motion here. We're going to go to approve the hire of three new officers officer trainees, Eric Jorski, Alexander Cunningham, and
Anthony Pazoise. uh with the effective date of July 2025 and when they will start the police academy. So July 2025. Is that July 1st? Is that what seven? Sorry. Seven must
have fell off. Okay. Well, I move for that. Second. Okay. Gray. Yes. Letti. Yes. Still, yes. Yes. So, we're going to swear you guys in if you want to come forward one at a time. We'll start with Mr. Cunningham.
[Music] going to be like [Music] [Music] I I Alexander J. do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the
United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established to
the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people. So help me God. So help me God. I do further solemnly swear I do further
solemnly swear that I will impartially and justly perform that I will impartially and justly perform all the duties of all the duties of the office of police officer the office of police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my
ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. I only gave you one day. Okay. Well, we'll we'll [Music] listen. [Music] I I Jorski do solemnly swear do solemnly
swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance. And I will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same and to the governments established to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people. So help me God.
So help me God. I do f further solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will impartially and justly perform that I will impartially and justly perform all the duties of the office of all the duties of the office of police officer
police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [Music] Sorry, that's okay. It had a German name. I probably
All right. I I Anthony Graziosi do further or do solemnly swear do solemn swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey
and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under
the authority of the people. So help me God. So help me God. I do further solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will impartially and justly perform that I will impartially and justly perform all the duties of the office of
all the duties of the office of police office police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations Mr. Mayor Seal smile.
Good night. [Music] I swear I swear I half of the guys and 3/4 of the guys ready that we have something 14. [Music]
Yeah, cuz we can get down to they don't have to hang out if they don't. No, but then sure. Do we have anybody here from Ann's not here, right? For the budget. No, we're not paying nobody, right? I have
all the notes. Yeah. All right. [Music] Yeah, we'll try to make it quick. I don't know what it's about to be honest. Kevin, no action. No action taken. Says tell me who signed who held the Bible for.
Yeah. What's your name? Why don't we make a motion to do that? Yeah, we'll tell you guys might take pictures or whatever. That's Scotts. Thank you. Welcome aboard. Just wait until she gets done.
You're going to make him neglow. They were able to play at the same time. I think they just did that pretty big without the same thing happened about it. I mean, are you good down there? just
need lots of different We're going to call a brief executive session. We'll take it down to our other meeting room. You guys can have this room to take all the pictures you want. Um, so I need a motion to adjourn to executive session. Motion. Second. All
those in favor. No action will be taken. Correct, Scott. Correct. [Music] Hey, I'll see you later. You too. Like a motion to come out of executive session. Second.
Okay. All in favor? I um just pitch we had a discussion with the our administrator. Uh there's been I guess some confusion or questions from certain staff with respect to our present sick leave policy. So we've
authorized administrator to put together a memo clarifying uh the policy along the lines that the council would like. That was one issue. Um second issue and I guess we could add it to a motion there for the public agenda. We had we
got a request um just to reconfirm that um we're going on the Highlands council a commission application for the parcel behind the existing mall. Uh we agreed to basically not object to that provided they deed restricted for preservation
our side of that property. Um, and they're asking us to reconfirm that same letter uh just with a new date because they're going to be making a new application. So, we could put that on for motions. And we had a generalized discussion about um police personnel and
interaction with uh federal law enforcement. No action taken on that. I think that was it. Scott, did I miss any? Yeah. No. All right. Thank you, Kevin. All right. Let's move on to the hearing
and adoption of the 2025 budget as approved by mayor and council May the 20th 2025. I move to open the hearing. Second. All in favor? I. Do we have any discussion? Everybody
clear on our budget? Anything you'd like to add, Scott? Uh the lo local tax levy is uh $5,574,160. local tax rate is 1.62 uh which is an increase of 0045
uh from 2024. Uh the assessed value of home of the average home right now is $172,298. And the uh increase on the uh from the average home is $82 annually or $7
monthly with this tax uh with this uh uh proposed budget. Okay. Anybody have any questions? If not, I make a here have a motion to close and adopt. Second.
First. Okay. You'll be the first. Go first. Sorry. Ingred, you be the second. Sure. All right. Okay. Gray. Yes. Rosetti? Yes. Stella? Yes. Slack? Yes. All right. Moving on to uh reports.
We'll start with uh Kevin with the attorney's report. I'm good tonight. We talked about the couple things in executive I wanted to talk about and everything else is on the agenda. Mayor. Okay. I I just had the question about Mark Peek. Did he respond? Uh I I did after the last meeting ask
Mark to reach out to uh his client with to Greek with respect to putting a tarp on that old historic building. And I did copy you. Uh I I haven't I made a note to follow up because I don't think he's responded on that. He has not done that. Yeah. No, still on tarp. Yeah. So I'll
follow up. Deterioration continues. Yeah. I I have a note right here to follow up. Thank you. All right. Moving on to engineers report. Wayne. Sure. Uh so in a prior uh session, we approved the uh application for 2024 uh local aid
grant. Um that'll be going in probably next week or so. Uh we got the final resolution uh from Wanda. So uh once we get that submitted then we'll talk about shifting where the guide rails done to deal with the more urgent issues on Still Valley. But we just have to have
that submitted first and under review. Um on the on that what is the uh what's a time frame if we wanted to get like a the guide rail company to come out and do something quick? Uh I mean we have a you know we have two years to execute on
it. I mean, we can come up with a plan relatively quickly and if you just want to go through the co-op, I mean, we can just we just show them the links and they give you the price. Okay. I mean, so the the due date is like in July, so we could do it right after that. And if
we had something of uh urgency and we could do it, pay for it, and take it out of the grant later if we do a change order. you would just be risking that they wouldn't appro they would if they have to approve shifting
it. So, are they going to not do that? Highly unlikely, but you you technically would need them to approve the shift first um you know to to move it over to that other one. But, I mean, we can again we can't really submit that till July till we get the first one in. Okay.
But we could do that immediately upon submission. Okay. But I we're already in the middle of June so I guess that's not terrible, right? No. No. So, we'll just keep an eye on it. And Oh, yeah. If you if if we could just add a motion for as soon as it comes in that Wayne has the
approval to make that change for Still Valley Road for that section there. We did it the last meeting, I think. Okay. We specified where though. Uh I know we talked about Still Valley. I don't know specifically in there. I thought last month we dealt with that.
We we said we were going to make Yeah. Yeah. authorize uh Wayne Ingram to amend the DOT guide rail grant to reallocate a portion of that funding to install guide rails on Still Valley Road. Right. Okay. So, I just can't actually do it until I get next year's end. So, but we will take care of that. Okay. Um I'll just
skip to the to the ones really of uh you know relevance. Um Bangelli Park, I've reached out to the contractor again to get an update from him. So, just awaiting to hear back when he can finalize those couple things. I know I did hear from Adam. Oh, you did? Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. Um, he said he
has all the material. He's waiting to go, but first it was the cold. Now it's rain. He said by the uh by end of July he'll be done. Okay. Daniel, uh, Pinchers Point Road. I would love to
get the town reimbursement on that. The DOT is horribly behind. We've been pushing that for months. There is nothing they need from us. They're just not getting to it. Um, DPW roof. uh we were going to get uh updated repair quotes instead of
replacement. Um we're just waiting one one from the co-op contractor and then what we're going to use that scope to get the uh the other two necessary to keep that uh to try and get that that cost to more of a repair cost rather than a complete replacement. Um we met
uh the other day with Larkin regarding the final close out of the property there. They were fighting us with one issue which you see in the fort. Um well I think when Jeff, myself and Scott went out there, they they kind of finally conceded and uh they're going to um pave Bomber Street uh in the areas that
they've disturbed. So that'll put that back where it should be. Um and that really to me is really the only issue they had. It was the only public improvement uh from the town perspective they really made. Um I got a followup today actually from uh the railroad on River Road. So now they have the
corrected uh uh traffic control plans to do um the curve where there's all the accidents. So that's you know scheduled for July 14th. We're going to have a meeting with them the week before um as kind of a pre-construction. Um but that
should be proceeding ahead. There doesn't seem to be any more delays on that. Okay. Can I ask you said that the EOT was going to start at the quarry crossing and then move to the accident crossing. They h they have submitted the
the accident crossing and said July 14th. So they appear to be prioritizing that one. Super. Do we have any detour information with the traffic plan that we reviewed that today? Uh we gave them comments on things we wanted to see revised and presumably they'll be doing
that and then issuing the final. So, I can provide you guys the the plan of of what they're going to propose, but what they sent wasn't wasn't the way it needed to be yet. Please send it to me. Yep. Thank you. That's really all I have. All right. Thank you, Wayne. Anybody
have any questions for Wayne? The only other one was um if we could for the uh sewer and the INI. Um, mayor and council, uh, the plan with an and I was to take like the, uh, take our
sewer connection fees that we're getting from the developments, um, and utilize that to pay for the first phase, which is like I think like 98,000 or something like that just to start the development, right? Yeah. That's what's going to help us quantify the the real expensive
portion of the work, right? Yeah. Um, so if I could, as long as I uh sit down with Ann and she says the money's there through all those sewer connections, uh, it would mayor and council be okay with a motion to approve that so that we can at least start the first phase without
having to take any bond money. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right with that. I'm fine with that. Me, too. Can I do it? I'll add it as a motion. Yes, please. that I actually got a call from that from a
reporter if you guys saw any recent articles in the paper or something, but they were asking about um negotiations with between Khakan and Philipsburg. Anybody reached out to you that I saw was there something in the newspaper that Yeah. And I said to him, I said,
"Well, our our our agreement hasn't expired yet, you know, our current agreement." I said, "So, you got a couple years a couple years left. We're not negotiating that, but I did mention the INI." I said, "Maybe we're thinking about that." And I explained we participated in the study and would be doing some stuff there. But I don't know
where that came from. I didn't know if you uh I didn't get Paul. Juan P. Did you see something in the paper wand? Yes, I did. Yeah. Hope it looked okay then. Yes, we did. And the other thing with the in reference to the sewer is Kevin I know
in the past we've talked about the uh possibility of the COA money. Oh yeah, I'm definitely planning on using that. Okay. Is there is there something Ann asked is there something from like the judge that we have that says we can utilize that or that's pro uh
I I think well I think all we need to do with that that's not explicitly in our judgment of propose okay but the way that we're going to we were going to deal with that was within a um as soon as we had the money to do a spending plan Jim Kyle would throw together we'll
submit that to the court we'll copy fair share And then we can put that right in. Okay. Absolutely. That that has been long discussed. Okay. Josh Bower, the attorney that negotiated that with is still there, still doing it. So we should be fine. So then that's a possibility to have to bond it off.
Right. Okay. I mean that that was the whole reason really to participate in this round was to keep that affordable housing trust fund money here so we could spend on that. Okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if you need justification, but we can even get some from like EPA if you want because they did their inspection saying how we need to do things to make upgrades because of
the violations at the plant. Okay. If that's helpful for for the cause. Well, Ann was totally fine with it as long as we knew we had something and the spending plan sounds like it'll be perfect once it's sub. Absolutely. We will definitely have something in writing. Okay. No question.
That would all have. All right. Moving on. Uh Scott, do you want to do this this evening with the new Yeah, I I'm ready. Mhm. All right. So, Scott and I have had some discussions. He's had meetings with all department heads.
Instead of having all each and every council member go down the line and give us a report each month on their department, Scott is going to give us a summary of everything with just the highlights of the important big things.
Yes. So instead of everybody going through tonight, we're just going to ask Scott give us one one report on his uh meeting with everybody. Before I started though, I Ingred if did you want to do did you have anything from the health department or anything that the health department is quarterly. Oh, okay. All
right. Cuz I just did I didn't want to do this before you had anything you wanted to. But I guess if there was anything I do have my own meetings that I go to, so I will go after you. Okay, perfect. And and as as with that being said, I have the environmental commission as well. So there are certain
things, Scott, that some of us will still have to and and Kevin uh council me, right? This is mainly in-house stuff is what this is going to be. Correct. Y uh All right. So the court will we'll make it simple. Poacon, uh they had 144
cases disposed, $5,863 uh 97 deposited. Green Witch 200 248 cases disposed, $9,1581 deposited. Vaccon 150 cases uh disposed
and $4,227.98. Um the fire department for the month of May, there was 20 fire and EMS related calls. Uh they have firefighter uh Vinnie Todd, who has passed the uh firefighter 1 program, is currently enrolled in firefighter 2. Uh they did
have a resignation of uh Captain Justin Juul uh on June 11th. Um they will be having a special meeting to uh replace him as captain. Um I'm not sure will we need a motion to accept his resignation here at the since we approve their um
backgrounds and applications here? No, because we don't approve their officers. Okay. No, I'm saying he just resigned completely from the fire department, not just as a captain. If I'm if is that correct? Right. So he he he he gave a letter of
resignation. I didn't know if we had to take any action on that to accept it. Okay. Um they also will be assisting 76 fire at the Warren County bicesentennial day uh at Warren County Community
College. Um they had multiple other trainings uh throughout the month. I think um as well uh the police department um Last month, uh the chief wanted us to know that there was an uptake in uh violent crimes in like the Walmart area. Um this is directly linked
to an ongoing uh area issue in the area uh with other jurisdictions. Uh the police department has been conducting additional premise checks and has been working with the surrounding departments to gather intel on all the uh individuals involved. At this time though, the cases are still under
investigation. So no further information will be able to be released on that. So I read your um report ahead of time and I was curious about the violence involved in that report. What kind of violence? Yeah. So right now uh there is there from what talking to the chief there is no it's violence
between individuals themselves. It's not to the public. So right now there's really no threat to the public. Chief, correct me if I'm wrong on that. No, it's Yeah, it's based out of other jurisdictions. However, we're in the middle of all of it and there happen to
be some employees that work at Walmart that are involved but not directly involved. So, it's kind of like a meeting place. So, we're just trying to be proactive and make, you know, have to increase the uh police presence to try to proactively
prevent um something from occurring. Okay. Thank you. So, it's Green Witch, it's Low Pat, and it's Peabberg and we're in the middle and it's kind of like a meeting. Nothing super violent or anything, but just we're just trying to be proactive. Thank you. Okay. Uh the police
department had 1174 incidents for the month, 94 radar details, 31 motor vehicle accidents, 17 arrests, which two involved weapons, uh 221 traffic stops, and 116 summones issued. Um the road
department, uh they did, um uh as for storm water management, they repaired catch basins 126, 132, 133, and 143. uh cleaned out uh sections of the drain uh near the Flynn residence on Spring
Street. Um that was uh the ditch was collapsed and they fixed that. It was in the rightway of the township. Uh they repaired police vehicles, hydraulic cable on the the Bomb mower. Uh replaced and added street signs on Mountain Road, Pinterest Point, River, Carpentersville,
Mount Joy, and Creek Road. an inventory of uh other all other damaged or missing um signs is being gathered so replacement could take place um in additional locations within the township. Um also in reference to that
uh the um there's a motion on tonight we were able to find better financing for the dump truck. Uh we went from 28% to 14%. Um and we're able to drop it from a 7-year term to a 5-year term and it
still fits within the budget. Super. Um the tax assessor, she uh she reported that all tax appeals are settled um and that she will have a 5-year plan ready for our next department head meeting um that will uh outline tax map
finalization and re-evaluation outlook. uh the tax and sewer just in case anybody gets any complaints. The uh Carrie's been working really hard with Edmonds because MSI uh got bought out. So, we have a new uh sewer billing
system and there's been some growing pains with it. So, the first round of bills went out. Um we just asked that if anybody has a complaint or questions, please bear with us. it it's you know it's a computer system so there are
going to be some computer glitches at times um and just have her have whoever it is reach out and we will look at it to make sure that everything's rectified in the correct manner. Um the finance obviously we did the budget for 25 we finished the audit with the auditors uh
and then we were able to take all of the capital project funding and streamline it um so that we know what we have for future projects uh for the next couple years. uh zone the zoning um from January of this year to May there was 28
uh zoning applications for various projects. Out of those five were denied. Um most of them look like they were because they had they were for new builds and stuff. So they had to go to DCA prior to getting us. So that's why there were there was a denial. Five applications were approved with
conditions and a total of $675 in fees were collected year-to date. Um, so the only other thing I have is some things that I've done uh since I started in May um with trying to organize things
with the town again. Um we had our first department head meeting. Uh it was the Wednesday after our last meeting. I I think it went really well. Um we talked about five-year plans for all departments. Um this way we can start having a financial plan for everyone. um
starting to put capital aside, starting to know what their needs are for purchases, uh employment, uh um future manpower or you know, so on and so forth. Um they uh everybody is going to
be handing in monthly reports now. Um at least if if there is minimal, they'll just give me something minimal. Um but they'll be doing that. Uh we talked about having open lines of communication. It's very important so that we can all uh be on the same page, you know. Um and then we also went over
a lot of the purchasing rules just so we can um streamline those and get so we don't have any audit hiccups uh in the future. Um met with uh we finished the uh truck finalization with me and Jeff finished that. Um we were able to find
the lease. Uh we also went over and designed a uh DPW yard fence for the um the DPW yard. Right now with what it is, it's like $70 a linear foot with the co-op. Um and it it would it would cost
us probably about $17,000 to put a fence an 8ft fence with two 20ft gates in uh rolling gates in there to secure our uh fence or our DPW yard. I'm still waiting for the company to come out. They haven't they've communicated with me, but they haven't come out on site yet.
Um, uh, Wayne reported about the DPW fix for the roof, which we're going to do the initial, uh, the repair, put the band-aid on it for now, so then we can start prepping for budgetary in 26 to to replace that completely. Um, so the
sports fields project, uh, we we made the first, uh, purchases. We we purchased a field goals post for the field uh the digital scoreboard and then we had to purchase a fence uh for a round to protect from the ATBs coming in. Um so that will actually be
installed tomorrow um so that we can protect uh the you know we put a lot of money into that. We need to protect that. So that was that was a priority. How did you make out on your easements for the utilities? Um all good. We got one or was it Dian manry sent us the school board voted on
it at the last meeting so we're all good with with everything so we can start once the weather starts to get right now we're kind of a little delay with the weather getting the truck back there and stuff like that so we're going to start we're waiting for school to let out so we'll be able to start the summer
um so I also I know there's been talks a lot of talks about a dog park um I sent a sketch out to everybody uh it's just a basic sketch of what I went down and measured The uh the baseball field fencing is in great condition. It's 6T high. It's got
a rail on the top and the bottom. We can utilize that. So that will give us it's like 127 ft one way and 100 ft the other. And then we could just link up the uh additional fencing to that. So we'd only have to put a half a fence up instead of what we thought would be a
whole fence. Um, I think the basketball court should have some up, you know, uh, upgrades to it. Um, put some benches in. There'll be, uh, pooper bags, boxes, those things. Um, we I also Jeff met me
down or we talked about me and Jeff talked about uh, putting off street parking in. Um, so there's a section where we want to take a tree down and then put stone in um, with maybe some railroad ties. Is that right? to or something like that to to to stop the
stone from running. But that way it'll give us like six to eight parking spots um uh off streetet parking and then the rest would be on street parking for that. So I'm in the process of getting prices for everything. But I'm getting prices based off the sketch that I provided everyone if that's something
that's feasible. If everybody like the sketch, I'll get the prices off of that. Jeeoff, is there water down there yet in the uh bathroom or not? There's water there that would have to go through the college for a lot of
testing cuz that water hasn't ran any. Well, just for the dogs, it's probably okay. Is is it a private? It's our well or it's so we could get water on site cuz we're going to have to have water there for the dogs. Absolutely.
And where that is the the water hook the water uh hook up there. It's what 10 foot from the fence line at the it's right at the old concession stand. We wouldn't open up the concession stand. Me and Jeff talked about that cuz there's bathrooms in there. We wouldn't
open up that. We' just get a portaotti. Porta potty. But if you could trench the water out to the park, that would be Mhm. be beneficial. Yeah. There's already an outside spot. Uh, like a like a frost proof hydrant or a No, no, but
it would just have to be upgraded. How hard would it be to link into that and put a frost proof hydrant? I mean, it would be work, but not terrible, I would think. No, I don't know. I mean, none of it's really frozen proof. Yeah, I got to repair one guy at
Glen Park. In my time, three of them. Yeah. Because if the water's in the building itself, it still has a chance of freezing. What do you do now? Is the water shut off? Mhm. Probably shut off in the winter time, can't you? Get a valve to shut up in the
winter time. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Mhm. Drain. It honestly won't be a lot to to make it right. It It's right there. We just have to do No, but I know what he's saying. Once we get water in the building, if there's no heat in the building without heat tapes, it's going to freeze in the building in the winter
time. Right. Electric heater, is there? Well, they're all the devil stole out of there, but in there heater and all our honey and down there. That devil's in the details. I guess that's minor to worry about, I
guess, at this point. Um, and then the only other thing I have is uh I I did a lot of driving around and meeting people with some complaints this this past couple weeks. Um, so I'm just going to continue that. Um, if if you guys have
anybody that makes a complaint, just let me know. I can go out and see what it is and then I can forward it to the proper department head um so that they there can be action taken. Uh we had a lot couple complaints of zoning and everything else, but I shipped you guys everything uh of my findings on that. Um
just unfortunately some people are just unhappy that um no they don't like the answers you give them. That's all. So just keep me on the loop so I don't get blindsided by somebody if you know complaint comes into you or Andrew that I think you and I have discussed most
all the ones that we've gotten recently. Yes. Facebook page. Yes. Uh I asked if I could create a Facebook page for for the town. Everybody said yes. Um so I will be starting that the uh next week. Um and then we'll go from there with it.
I'm assuming you'll be the admin on it. Yes. And that's all I have. All right. Thank you, Scott. We'll go down each of us now. John, do you have anything for Wreck or anything? Ingred, anything from historical or board of health? Uh I do.
Board of Health is quarterly, so not that at this time. Um, the historic commission tried to meet in May, but only two members showed up. We did not have a quorum. Um, regarding the lower Delaware Management Council, right now,
the Delaware Sojourn is occurring where there's this giant flotilla of people involved in paddling down the Delaware, and that will end this Saturday, which is neat. I I was on that a couple years ago. Um there will be a free community
festival celebrating the Delaware River in Strazburg at the Miniync Park on June 18th from 2 to 8:00 p.m. rain or shine. Our next lower Delaware Management Council is in June on the 26 at 10:00
a.m. And the cool thing is I'm going to show you this book. If you've not seen this book, Devastation on the Delaware, if you're not familiar with it, it's a really neat recounting of the
devastating flood of 1955. And there's going to be a program by the author presented by the Lower Delaware Management Council on June 26th at 7:30 p.m. online that you can
pre-register for and she will synthesize the events that happen in this book. It's absolutely fascinating what happened back in 1955. So, I'd like to get that posted online for uh residents that might be interested in learning
about how that affected our community. Um I think I'll talk about my traffic concerns when we get to the motions for the traffic. You have some sort of traffic ordinance coming up, right? It was to add the stop sign. was just the
one because we found the ordinance is already there for the other she put the signs up. Yeah. So, uh a neighbor had a good suggestion where Snider's road comes down and then you have River Road, right? River Road
where you have them coming north, they go over the tracks, they come around the corner there, then they step on the gas and they blow through. Even though the speed limit is 25, they blow through that until they get to the railroad crossing over by Lake Cozy
South by the quarry. And then we also have the quarry trucks that are constantly coming out of the quarry. What they do when they get to the corner of River Road and they want to turn up Sniders, they step on the gas so they can do that thing, go up with
the energy to go up the incline on Snider's Road. So, we uh this neighbor suggested maybe we put stop signs on River Road. One here, one here at the base of where the county road comes down to deter this racing
and to have the truck slow down and then to make the turns. Where is the stop sign now? There's only one stop sign on Snider Road coming down. Correct. At the end of the county road. And there's no stop signs on
either other ones. No. Wayne, is that something you could to take a look at? Isn't that the similar to the issue we had on a still value where if we wanted to change something, the county wanted input because it was in our intersection? So, kind of what I recall, but I mean,
you could look into it. you you're supposed to have I mean technically when when you add stop signs and things you're supposed to meet the required warrants for adding them and converting you know something to a three-way stop. So it would have to you know technically have to meet those criteria but if it
did that and the county didn't have an objection. Yes. What are the steps necessary to pursue this? I'd have to check with my traffic department on what what you need to qualify for the warrants. I mean asking the county is simple. We can just get getting response from the county is not
simple, but the request to the county is simple. We can just email them, show them a little, you know, what we want to do and see if they have any feedback. Okay. You think a timeline like month? Yeah, it's reasonable. Yep. Okay. Well, I'd like to just officially put that forward. That's fine. You can look into
it, Wayne. Okay. Nobody has an issue with that. It would just turn that intersection into a three-way stop. And I agree with It would slow the trucks down from gooseing around that corner. I mean, have we had any accidents at that intersection, Ryan, in the last 6
months? Just a lot of complaints about stone getting rolled off of trucks that were too full there. Um, the last thing I got a complaint from a neighbor who was taking Edge Road down through the tunnel on Distill
Valley going over the bridge where the new stop signs are. And apparently she stopped for the stop sign and somebody almost rear ended her. And the point she was making is this is a new traffic pattern and there aren't any
signs indicating that new traffic patterns at least stop signs are there. So that was her suggestion and I'm just passing it on to you guys. Can we paint something on the road? Maybe stop ahead. kind of narrow. Very narrow
in the middle of the road. I mean, to put up another sign, if they're not paying attention to the sign, it's not really going to do much good. It's not going to be new. No, I mean, it's been in for a long time, but anybody that doesn't know the area
I mean, it is kind of an odd spot for a stop sign. Yeah, but it's been working though. I do it every day. It's been working. Should we just get one of those stop sign ahead signs? The yellow ones. Stop ahead for edge road only. I mean not edge road. Snider or valley. Still
valley coming from edge to tunnel like prior. Thank you. Okay, that's all I have. H before. Yeah, like before the stop sign. So like people the first one's on the other side of the Yeah, there's no room for that, right? But on the but stop
sign stop sign and then stop sign. No, I'm not. I think ignorant where you're talking is between the tunnel and the bridge. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Oh. Oh, there's no room there. That's what I'm saying. It's going to be a stop sign. Go through the tunnel. Stop sign. Yeah. Stop ahead.
Stop sign. Yeah. Yeah. See, I can only relay the resident's concern. I'm just bringing it forth. Everybody texting. They can't see the car because they're complaining about the trees. Trees. And I don't know how we're going to address that because that's private property. Well, he wanted them. I know he wanted
them. And that's what I'd like to say to him. Hey, can you help us out here? Yeah. But and maybe that's a conversation I need to have at the next meeting. I know. You can't see. I'll have to win, you know, you can see through that. Yeah. That when it's snow on the ground.
Absolutely. But now there's foliage. You can't see a damn thing. And if they don't have their lights on, it makes it even worse yet. I'll uh do that. I'll talk to
um what the hell is his name now again? Ain't that terrible? No. Ingred, what what's the gentleman's name that lives there? He's all He chairs my environmental Tyler. Tyler Greenfield.
Correct. I'm terrible with names. Phone numbers I can remember. Anyhow, I'll talk to Tyler at my next environmental meeting and see if we can address any of the field of view things with his vehicles and brush and so forth. He would be very cooperative. I would hope
so. Okay, that's all I have. David. All right, thank you. Ingred Nelson, do you have anything from the Musk Connect or anything along those lines? Uh, no, nothing from the Musk Connect. um they were a little bit, you know, at at hold
with the budget concerns and slowdowns and all that. They had they're optimistic that that will resume again, but not yet. Um but so there's nothing new on that. Um and as far as the uh DPW,
uh I think Scott Scott covered it all. Yeah, pretty pretty good. Okay. So that's all I have as far as our environmental commission. Uh we did meet here at the beginning of the month. The only thing of noteworthiness um the
chair wants to continue meeting in July and August. He does not want to take a hiatus. Did we advertise that way uh Wanda or not? You have to readvertised in two newspapers again, right? How how did we
initially advertise? Skip July and August. Right. And that's what I said to him. So if he wants to meet in July, he's got to put public notice out how how much prior? At least 10 days prior. July and August.
You want to reach out to Tyler tomorrow and remind him of that and see what he would like to do. Sure. And I guess if do do the rest of the members want to do it? I I was um either
way I it didn't matter to me, but I think Les would would come. I'm sure Dominic would. No, I'm just saying if you're not going to have a quorum, then I would think we could probably get a quorum. I'll ask him. H All right, that's it for me. As said,
Scott touched on pretty much all the complaints we got um over the past month. resolutions. We have one, two. What about John? John didn't have anything. Oh, that's John. John had nothing. Number one.
I didn't skip. I'm good. Mayor's mixing it up. Okay. Sorry. I'm trying to think. The only thing I will ask, Wayne, is there anything of noteworthiness on the land use board being Mr. Melvin's not here? Uh, I mean, at the at the last meeting
was all completenesses. So, we uh at the end of the month, we have a very busy meeting uh a small residential case. Uh we have an application to convert the abandoned bank uh the corner of St. James into a medical office. And who
who's doing that? The company's called AFC Backcom. I don't know who the like that's probably the Oh, it's it's the abandoned bank uh in the plaza. Not not the Bank of America one on Unity. Okay. Yep. Okay. Yes. They're going to rip off
the the drive-thru, convert parking, otherwise we talked about that a little at the last meeting because they wanted to use third party inspectors. Yep. And I think they ran into their own roadblocks with that or something, but we did our part. Yeah. We said we didn't care. Whatever. Uh so yeah, so that's
that was deemed complete. So that'll be going to the meeting. And then the other big one is uh it'll be the first discussion of uh EI Hampton Ridge uh for their um their additional 40ome units that they want to put over there. And then I think we're having the uh the
affordable housing plan is being put forth by Jim Kyle. Uh and then I think we were trying to delay till July or August. Um we'll see when it falls, but Shimer was uh deemed complete. Um, I just asked for additional time on that because it's
going to be a lengthy review. Um, so that'll be, you know, the following month or, you know, push into August at least for the first meeting. They did all the things you guys requested as far as studies and such. Yep. So, those are the kind of the pending applications at the moment. Okay. Thank
you, Wayne. Yep. All right. Now, we're going to move on to resolutions. I have one more thing. Sorry. Go ahead, Scott. There was a I got a report of a for sale sign at the Finesville Automotive on Yeah, there was a for sale sign out
there. They don't own it like like a a a realer or a No, it was a just a for sale sign. So So I got the call and I went down and it's Ted the the tenant that doesn't Right. Right right. We know he's
he's selling off his stuff. Oh, okay. That's what it's for in case anybody asks. He's not selling the place. He knows he doesn't own it. Um but yeah, so he but I do think though that maybe we should look at a time frame to give him,
right? Uh it's pretty cleared out. But then at least we can figure out what we're going to do with it. But he's still there and has the electric going and has his stuff going. He was playing a nice game of solitire while I was when I went in there. So, um, but I
definitely think we should maybe give some kind of notice of like a time frame for like to get out. Yeah, because I' I'd like to do something with that once we do whatever environmental studies we need to just starting to do the second phase now. We
got to approve for the grant. I have to send for a tax clearance certificate and then the what is the EDA? NJA that does that grant, they will review it and make their determination about
doing the additional study that we haven't gotten that far yet. So maybe this is past council wanted to let Ted stay as long as he wanted to. So as long as the place looked occupied, he didn't have to worry about a vacant or abandoned building and what that may
draw. So that's a council decision. I see Scott's point, but I don't think you're going to be ready. I think we'll wait and see once we get closer to all this stuff being completed. Yeah. I mean, he's not doing anything but selling off his stuff. It was I told he
he sort of wanted to know like when he'd have to get out, too, cuz he goes, "I haven't heard anything." So, I told him that I would follow up with him after the meeting. Yeah. I mean, what do you think one to six months? I was going to say a year myself. even if you got approved for the money, which is a I
mean, it's a great thing because the more you get, the more value you're putting into the property, but I mean, you know, I would say it probably a year's worth of work, but you know, by the time they There there's your answer. No rush. Okay. I should probably also I mean, mention that we have an
application in front of the board um that I don't know if it's an auto repair or whatever it is on 22 next to the mall, that big gray building. I don't know what they're um anybody else that used to be Euroch. Yeah. Before that it
was the tile or the slate granite granite to Euroch and they they have stalled their application for their their violations. Um you know I know I think one of the resolutions or the ordinances tonight is to reszone that property but which wasn't the reason for
it. That's just happening because of the other properties. But, um, you know, I drove by there again today and and they have they just don't submit anything to resolve this and now they just seem to be putting more stuff out there. Now there's a a shipping container, a co, you know, covered car garage. I mean,
it's getting out of hand. I I had told Andrew before, I think we've given them enough time and, you know, he should consider issuing them, you know, summons because not only are they not responding at this point, they're just kind of thumbing their nose and just making it worse. But I'll follow with Andrew.
Jeff did Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. Should have been with that guy down there some trying to sell off his stuff. I think there's two lifts in there that were there from the other guy. There
isn't anymore. I was just in there. Yeah. The the garage. No lifts at all in there. I went in the other day. He gave me a little tour and he has some tool chests and everything else, but the lifts are gone. your thoughts? I mean, what were you
thinking, Jeff? Move on them lifts down on the back building where police are. You're sure they're all gone? I'll double check when I go down and talk to him, but they I mean, he would have had old school lifts, right? That that would have been right on the floor. No, he had
a four post lift in there and two post lift. Yeah, that it was there was like three tool boxes up against everything was against the wall. There was the bays were wide open. That's a shame because if that was bolted down to the floor that should
have went with the real estate. Well, I'll double check though. Look into it and see. But I agree with Jeff. That would be great to have for for especially the police cars. Any word on the pipe, the water problem down on Edge Road,
too? We discussed that a little bit in executive. Um, no answer yet. Until they get the rest of the detention basins online, I think we're still going to deal with the problem. When I was in there,
I don't know, two weeks ago, all the rest of the detention basins are empty yet. They don't have them tied into the system for whatever reason. That main detention basin is supposed to take all the water from the site as a sediment basin to settle out the dirt. And I
guess once they get all the other basins online, that one's not supposed to be as full, but they don't have it paved yet either. Is it still doing it as bad as it was before? Oh, yeah. I thought that I mean I mean I can go back to them. I I
thought the first solution they employed was raising the outlet so it didn't they didn't move you out. roll. They didn't do anything. They didn't raise it up two feet. Nope. They were doing some work on the edge around the edge of the top. I think that's just because they're removing leftover dirt from the far side. Yeah. I
can follow up with the engineer if you want. It's up to you. But like I said, I know the rest of the basins as of two weeks ago when I was on site weren't on online. They were all empty. In fact, they were just starting to put the vegetation in the bottom of them.
whatever they were going to plant. They were just starting to pour concrete, too, on the this side closer to 78. Okay. Where those other ponds are. Okay. That was just last week. Yeah. I mean, they're moving right along. That's for sure. They were doing
concrete inside, you know, when I was there as well. But like I said, you can you can look into it, Wayne, but they didn't change anything with the outlet. Okay. I mean, that's what they were instructed to do by their town engineer. So, you know, I I I can follow up with him. It's it's
not something we have the authority to fix other than we can tell him to, you know, to enforce their job, but after that, I mean, you know, if it's causing damage, I mean, that's a, you know, that's a separate issue. But really, they should be the ones to address their own problem. And they know they have
them. I mean, I think that the best thing might be is let's have an off meeting conversation about it to come up with a punch list. Sure. of where we what we need to review and maybe what action needs to be taken. Yep. Okay.
All right. Resolutions. We have it looks like four on the first page and one more on the second page. Mayor, that that last one on the top of the second page is you we're just doing a resolution to approve
um authorize you to sign the the wastewater management plan consent for the Ingramman project. And if we just do those by resolution now so we don't have another one of these Larkin issues where they do I need to sign off then on it once we do the resolution sign it. Yeah.
Anybody have any issues taking all the resolutions together? N move second. Okay. Ray, yes. Yes. Still, yes. Yes. Ordinances. We have one ordinance for
first reading 257 amending U code to vehicles and traffic. Is this for stop? Fourway stop signs. Say, didn't we introduce this last month by name only? We did, but I didn't get
it advertised in time to have second reading. So, I thought I'd put it on again. All right. So, when I get the email about it, I can tell the resident that what happened. So, that's going to be on for next month for second reading. By the way, when I checked the
ordinance, the second intersection already isn't is in the book for four-way stop. So, those signs can go up. Yes. Pose and virgin. Yeah. Yeah. Paic and Sussex. They can go up. I don't know who does that, but I didn't
know any of that. Well, the Sussex is for the next meeting to adopt Pic and Persian. Sean and Persian. You can put signs up now. That's been I guess they were just missed at some point because that's been in the books looks like for a while. I think that was part of the original. Yeah. I don't know. You you
and Jeff coordinate so they know where they're going. Can't you just put them all up at once? Yeah, you can. Well, you can put an open in advance. We're invite a ticket on the other intersection to get the second reading.
Second. I'm sorry. Who made a motion? Sean. John did. And the second reading will be July 15th. Okay. Ray. Yes. Rosetti. Yes. Still. Yes. Yes. Ordinances for second
reading. We have one, two, three, four ordinances. Um, I make a motion to open them all up to public hearing unless somebody has one they want to single out. Anyone down
there? Kevin, anything in there of I think these are all pretty straightforward. The only one again, we we we know what we're doing with the zoning map. Uh that was by the way that ordinance was reviewed and approved um for uh master
plan compliance by our land use board 253 and they found it to be compliant. It's just to correct that wacky residential zoning we have for those few properties right on 22 which never should have been zoned that so and
Landishport was on board with that. Everything else is just uh fairly standard form. We already talked about the sewer stop. That's it. I need a motion to open those four up to public hearing. Move. Second. All in favor? I I
The fire department is still allowed third party billing. Correct. That's the other one. That was the one Mr. Melvin was working on. Kevin, myself, and the chief worked on. All right. Anybody have any public comment on any one of those four ordinances? If so, come forward.
Seeing none, motion to close and adopt. I move to close and adopt. Second. Okay. Gray. Yes. Miss Eddie. Yes. Still. Yes. Yes. Motions. We have two on the docket
and we're going to add the uh motion to uh mayor resupport the Yeah. mo motion to authorize me to resubmit the uh letter uh with respect to deed restricting block one lot one for the uh
highland center that will pack soon but our side's going to de restrict same letter just updating the date did we have another motion we wanted to add I thought yes allow as long as me and an saw the finances were available to uh give Wayne permission to start phase one
of the sewer ini okay that's $200,000 $ though. What we have here? What is it? The entire It was just a 98,000. Yeah. We don't It's not the entirety of the scope. It's just the uh It was like phase one. It was called Okay. So, I'll
say task 98,000. Yeah. Yeah. What was the name of that one, Lane? But uh evaluation and design. Yes. For that, that way we could start the at least getting everything in order. Okay. All right. So, let's take those four uh
motions together. Unless somebody has an issue with any of them. I have no issue and I make the motion that we take them. Okay. Second. Okay. Still out. Yes. Yes. Great. Yes. Great. Sorry, I'm not letting flag. Yes.
All right. That's our docket. Anybody have any public comments? Any general public comment? Come forward, sign, and be recognized. Seeing none, any other business before the board tonight? I'm good. I make a
motion to adjourn. I'll second it. All right. Good. Boo. Chief by next meeting. Not bad. Jeez. How long is this stuff? The wheels grind slow. See you guys. Did they
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