Township regular monthly meeting Tuesday December 16th 2025 picture. >> Okay. Ready. Mayor has to be a guy's phone was terrible. >> Isn't that all right? Where did you go?
>> Uh we went to Huelet Wyoming. >> Mayor Northeast. Montana's down below. >> Good. >> That's why. >> All right. I'll call this meeting to order. Adequate notice has been given to
the Express Times and the Star Ledger satisfying the requirements of the Oakland Public Means Act. If we could stand for a moment of silence. Flight. 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. I apologize for the late start. We were having a meeting prior for our farmland preservation program.
Okay, we have some uh minutes we need to approve from the November 18th meeting. Everybody have a chance to uh review those minutes? >> I'll move you forward.
>> Second. >> Okay. He is absent for the vote. Okay. So, Zetti, >> yes. >> Melvin, >> yes. >> And >> yes. >> Okay. And names like you were absent. >> Yep. I'll abstain.
All right. Motion to pay bills. Payment of bills presented in proper form signed by the director of each department and approved by the majority of the members and listed on the bill list. Anybody have any questions, comments? >> Just a I guess I saw the DEA we have to
supply with a vehicle. Is that assumed? I saw that there was a purchase. >> Yeah, that was approved by you guys uh to purchase a a a car. >> Yeah. >> Not to exceed the uh 41,000 or whatever, >> right? >> That's what that was. But that's part of the deal is we have to give him a
>> for for this new group that he's in. >> Yeah, we we provide the we provide the car. >> Okay. >> The old group, they provided a car, but the new group doesn't. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> And what was so expensive about that light they fixed? Maybe I should work that way. >> Which one?
>> The like the second or third one on the bill list was uh it said a police budget there was a light fixed for like >> Oh, that was for like four cars. It was four cars. >> It was more than one car. Yeah. That was >> No, no, it was a combination of like four cars >> we got going there.
>> That's it from the mayor. >> All right. Anybody else have any questions? If not, can we move them forward? >> So, second, Melvin. >> Okay. Been >> what you were talking about. >> The bills.
>> Okay. >> Yes. >> Melvin, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Slack. >> Yes. Okay. Public comments. Anybody have any public comments they'd like to bring forward? Um agenda items and agenda items only.
If so, come forward and sign in. Seeing none, we're going to insert our uh >> do we need to um approve the executive session minutes, too? >> No, we did them both together. >> Okay, my bad. Uh we're going to insert our uh
preservation person that's here tonight from the land conservancy, Barb Davis. She's going to give us a quick rundown on what her group's going to do for our preservation plan uh moving forward. Our old plan was dated what 2015 and it's 10
years old. It has expired. So we need to um renew our plan to maintain our ability uh to preserve farms yet in the township. Barb to you. >> Thank you. So, my name is Barbara
Heskins Davis. I'm vice president of programs for the Land Conservancy of New Jersey and I'm a licensed planner. The Land Conservancy of New Jersey worked on HACOM's earlier farmland integration plan back in the day. You updated it in 2015 and as the mayor said, it's now out
of date. The plans are good for 10 years. to give you an idea of why the plan is so important to the municipality. Um, we've spent the last couple of months confirming what's actually preserved through the farmland program. You have 34 farms that are
preserved through the farmland program, that equals 3,156 acres. And I told the mayor that if I was the mayor of Hapcom, I would want to be able to say that 88% of all the funding used to preserve those farms
came from the state and county and not from the municipality. So, you've done a really good job leveraging your municipal open space trust fund to preserve over 3,000 acres within the municipality. The state has funding for
preservation and this plan will help you continue to access that for the next 10 years. The plan is divided into eight chapters. I consider chapters four and five the most critical. So when you get the plan, don't think less of me. It's
too long. It's too laborious. It's not my fault. Look at chapters four and five. Chapter 4 is your existing program. What you've preserved, how you've preserved it, and where it is. Chapter five is what is it that you want
to preserve? Why can you preserve it? And how are you going to do it? And those are the two key chapters. What are your candidate farms for preservation? And how are you going to protect them? So that's why we met with the farmland preservation committee before this
meeting. Um, and you should have a draft of that plan, I'd say, in the spring of 2026, which will give you plenty of time to look it over. Um, in terms of process, the farmland preservation committee will review it. They'll be my
primary people that I work with. Um, and then the ladies board actually adopts it. Once your municipality has adopted it, we'll send it on to the county and state for their approval. the state will review the draft plan and it's good that
they do. They have um a lot of information at their fingertips and you want them to have Hapcom's information at their fingertips as well. >> Um we'll do everything on a GIS platform and we'll provide all of that mapping
data to the state. the count town will be copied on it. So if your planner or engineer wanted that they you can just forward it on to them for their use. I was mentioning to the farmland preservation committee and your administrator and your clerk that the
farmland plan is completely funded through a grant from the SADC and matching grant through the Highlands Council. So the town has no cost to do this which is great. Um, the Highlands
Council has changed their granting program. It used to be a little more punitive. You had to do X in order to get Y. Um, I'd say over the last 5 years, they've made a seismic shift in how they fund um, their grant program.
And what they're really looking to do is to fund municipal planning that's consistent with their goals and preserving land is consistent with their goals. And so Hackcom has excellent farmland and you have amazing natural
resources. So I wasn't surprised that they funded your farmland plan. Now my recommendation to the town is that you consider updating your open space and recreation plan. I think that's even older. It might be from 2004. It's not
even close to being um you know in to date anymore. Greenacres has recently updated their requirements of course. Um, but I think the Highlands Council will fund our work to do the open space
plan and if the land conservancy does both at the same time, there's a cost savings to you because there's a clearly a time savings for us to do that work. Um, so my recommendation is that if you have interest to, you know, allow us to
provide a proposal that you can review, um, and then to submit that to the Highlands Council to see if they'll fund it. If they fund it, great. And if they don't, it's okay. You can decide at some point if you want to move forward with it. You don't have to do it now. It just
seems like a good, you know, timing for it. So, with that, I'm happy to answer questions from the township committee um about what we're we're doing for you. >> I I just I just is um is Paul Heckon
eligible? I know that under the new way they evaluate at least Warren County properties, if you if a farm owner agrees like to a a smaller house size on like their their non-servable exception
that the per acre values can go up. Is that is Oklahoma farmers going to be eligible for that type of incentive? >> Glad you asked about that. So this here the state is what they call the formula based value. Um I am becoming a huge fan
of the farmland program. Um the state agricultural development committee was getting a lot of complaints all across the state from farmers that the values that they were offering them for their farms were too low and were not taking into account the actual value of the
land. The appraisals are based on the highest and best use. So depending on the zoning is what your farm is being assessed at. it would be appraised at and the the value that you're being offered by the state. This year they updated that and they released what they
call a formula based value which gives a bump in credit and it's dependent upon um you know your soils, how productive the farm is, what the natural resources are that are on that farm. And as your attorney mentioned, it also gives a bump
up if you agree that you're going to um have a smaller um footprint in terms of your house and there's other bumps up in value. So you can actually get like 20% higher >> seen 20% >> um what the appraised value is. So our
office is seeing much higher values being offered um to local farmers throughout the state including in Warren County if if owners now apply and go through the formula based value. So if there's a farmer that's interested um
encourage them to you know they can talk to us to you um they can talk directly to the state. doing this plan, what it does is it gets more money for the municipality to be able to cost share on that. And the state the state SADC is
really doing a great job. They've increased the minimum thresholds that they'll fund. So, it's making a big difference all the way around. They want to see projects close and they want to see them close at a higher value for the
land owner and I'm really hoping faster than the program is now because you have to be very patient. >> Two years most of this time, isn't it? >> It is two years and um they're really looking to try to get that down and I hope they can.
>> Anybody else have any questions? cost our cost share could drop down to around 10% instead of 20. Right. >> Right. >> So that's Yeah. That's that's really good. program you've um put in 12% state 71 counties to teach you know over the
program >> but traditionally for the municipal farmer program it's 60 2020 20 60 state 2020 county and town but they're looking to increase the state participation to 80 and then 10 10 so that's great put a
big uh thank you to Steve Khaz on this thing >> Steve Khe was the the guru behind this thing in our township. I I feel he was amazing. >> Well, we could certainly add that motion at the end. I think that'd be a great
idea, you know, to update all these things and if we get the grant, we get the grant. So, we can put that on our motions calendar. >> We'll we'll add that as a motion. >> Yeah. >> What's the source for the map? >> So, we created the map. Um, if I start
to tell you the source and that's not what you meant, just tell me to stop and rephrase the question. Is that fair? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, the map um is on the tax assessor database. So, Wanda provided us with your current farmland assessment. Anything that's light brown is farm
assessed. Anything that's dark brown is permanently preserved. the layer for permanently preserved we got through the county and the state and we had to go back to deeds for a lot of it um because there was discrepancies in the block and lots between the county and the state.
So we're pretty confident about that layer that's on there now. >> Yeah, because I'm looking I'm looking at my parcel and it's wrong. >> Okay, good. >> So, and I know that um my neighbor has been foreign lands assessed and is not showing here. Um, so I just
>> I know. >> Is there any chance you could mark that on the map and give? >> Absolutely. Absolutely. But you know what else he's got? They have Piper's property on there as farmland assessed and >> sheriffs. I would think it could be because it's green houses, you know. But
how about Rose and Carlos? Why would they be farmland? >> They are. >> They are. Yeah. >> They have enough land behind them. >> Behind them. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And they and it is active. >> There's Yeah. Yeah. >> But I know that the Phenomores who bought uh Drains Place. Yeah. Yeah. And he bought the parcel next to it between
him and Briglia, too. >> And they've been forming that. >> Yeah. >> But I I mean, this looks like the old Hartung property. I bought half of that. >> Okay. >> So, >> yeah. So, just um I'm writing down the note
>> so I can follow up with >> Hey, you're not even coming up. It's farmland assessed. You're right here, right? >> No, I'm the on the shade right there. That's the old Hartung property, but I bought seven acres off of them. So mom basically that and he slivered down and now he bought that but his foreign land
assessed for this. So I understand >> yeah the property between Brrigley is and and his >> he just picked that up. >> Yeah. >> I mean I think it's good to get that map as accurate as possible but I think it's also fair to say nothing on that map um would preclude if there's an error if
somebody wants to apply and they're eligible. So, it's not going to affect eligibility of the map, although it's nice to get >> it's going to give us a target of larger tracks that we want to target as potential preservation properties. >> Yeah. What I explained to the farmland
preservation committee is that this is your base map, right? >> There's going to be another map um that's going to identify the candidate farms for the program. That's the key map. If something's missing on that map, I really need to know because that's
what the state's going to use as their base for determining what's eligible. >> So, okay, I'll have to double check that. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you very much for coming out, Barb. >> Thank you. >> Safe travels back.
>> Yeah. Merry Christmas. >> Safe home. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on. Uh we'll start with the attorney's report. Kevin, >> short tonight, mayor. Uh first, hope you guys all had a merry Christmas, happy new year, and all that stuff. Um I
really not much since my last written report as I indicated to Scott, but uh there was uh one little bit of late breaking thing. I I have sent a draft uh of a developers agreement or I should say a form really of what I prefer for a developers agreement to Ingramman and I
did have a conversation with Jeff Long, their project manager and um I think I was talking to Wayne before the meeting got started. He's also been he's also been contacted. So I think you guys can expect to see that moving very rapidly
next year. Um they're in Clinton right now with what Jeff Long referred to as his a team and that thing is going up as fast as any project I've ever seen right there on 31. And he said as soon as that team's done there, they're coming here. So you're going to you're going to see
construction um late winter, early spring. That's my pitch. And um John was asking me and I know they gave us some information to me about the formulas for the tiering of the qualifications for income qualifications to get in there. Is that is it possible to get that from
there? >> Oh yeah, that's that's a state data. >> Is it state? >> I have the table. Oh well it's state well it's region by region. It's state published but I don't know what region we're in but I can get that. >> Yeah I know I asked them I had written some notes down in the landing board meeting but >> if you I'll send it to you. You'll see
the charts. It breaks down 20 30 50 60 70% of median income. Then it has one bedroom, two bedroom. You can just go right there and you can see. >> Yeah, great. >> I'll get that for you. >> Cool. >> It's higher. It's going to be a little higher than you think. >> No, I know that it was higher than >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yep. I think other than that, um, quiet between last month and this month for for me. >> Scott, do you anything else from me? Okay. >> All right. Thank you, Kevin. Wayne, engineers report. >> Sure. So, um, first up is our current
local aid grants, uh, for last year and this year. Uh, we were just awarded another 88,000 uh, for guide rail. Uh, which puts us pretty close to 180,000 total. Uh, the, uh, budget that we originally submitted was 235. So now
with two years of grants, we're pretty close to that. And if we go through the co-op, we could probably get most, if not everything that was on that list uh, complete. Uh other good part of that was uh in that submission we had put at Still Valley Road. So now we don't need to pay any money to do a change uh to
swap it out. We can just include that in the overall uh you know project. So thinking there is that you know if we do this uh the design work now you know we can be looking like an early spring uh submission to the to the co-op and you know hopefully get all that rolling hay
on me. Um, >> so I I can tell the guy on Still Valley Road by next summer we should have something in place. >> Yeah, we got the money. So, and and on these because these are local aid, we can even request uh I think 75% up front. So, you know, we can have the
money in our pockets when we do the job. >> Okay. >> Uh on Persing Avenue, that's been done for a little while now. I just need I mean, basically at this point, I just need a copy of the paid uh invoices. Um you know, and and then we can make that submission to DOT for reimbursement.
That's all done. Um, Ohio Avenue is the it's on here as your second resolution of the night to make the uh final change order request. Um, the if we didn't have the prior change order, this wouldn't even have to come back for a resolution, but because what
they found when they opened the thing up required uh them to exceed the 20%, inherently this one's over. Um, also what we did here is we kind of pushed um I think we're kind of lucky in the fact that we got the culvert job and we had the paving job by the same contract at
the same time which allows us to move things around to improve our um reimbursement. So that's kind of what we're doing there. Um basically we have and we have 400,000 in the grant. The you know everything pushed under that contract is about 200. So you know we're
all covered under the grant note on that. um our local freight grants submitted. Uh should hear that back in the next 2 months is my guess. Um and that would be for improvements to River Road and those tend to be very large awards. Uh so
hopefully we could, you know, if we get that we'll we'll have a lot we could do with it. Um park and wreck, that's the third resolution you have here. Uh the uh grant window just opened up uh this week. Um, and I think the idea there is
we'll, you know, we'll submit again for the sports fields project to do further improvements over there. Um, so we're hoping to get the resolution to allow us to make that submission. Uh, our tax maps are submitted to the state. Uh, we've started to get the
comments trickling in on that. Um, which is always fun as they kind of go back through, you know, 20, 30 years of history to, um, you know, kind of update these maps. So, uh, that remains in process. Uh, getting over the kind of the
relevant ones. Uh, Alpha Warehouse, uh, on Edge Road. Um, Jeff and I met with the developer, um, last week. Um, and what they're planning to do to remedy this drainage issue is basically
construct a swale along the entire length of roadway down to the river. um to basically keep the water off the road. Um they have installed new um outlets in the uh in the basin. So basically the you know as long as these
things don't overflow basically it's a 2 and 1/2 in pipe that heads out of there. So it should drastically reduce what comes out of it to begin with and obviously the capacity of the swale will exceed that. So, you know, I I think this will hopefully
remedy the situation um you know, on the road there. Still, nobody's ever gotten to the bottom of why the water's there in the first place, but I mean, this at least keeps it off the uh you know, the roadway. And, you know, they're they're still insisting that, you know, this
long-term this is going to resolve as the water level dissipates on the property now that they have these relief valves in. Only time will tell. it still remains Alpha's problem. But if this creates a conveyance that we don't currently have and keeps the water off
the road and you know, frankly, we have no drainage on the road. So, no matter what, this is an improvement and makes it better for us. So, um you know, we're telling them to basically submit their road opening permits to install that. Um they're going to get uh pipe crossings
anywhere that, you know, there's a farm field that needs access. Um, so that, you know, that should be forthcoming in the next couple weeks. They seemed pretty anxious to, you know, get this uh get this passed. >> Uh, but in the in the meantime, there's a sheet of ice with all that water.
>> Yeah. I mean, it's it's not like crossing the road, but the I would say there's a twoft strip on the side that's got some ice on it. It's not flowing at the moment. I mean, we were out there, there was no flow. >> Um, what happens when we get a storm? >> Anybody anybody's got rain again
tomorrow? The water level in that basin is way down from where from where it was over the summer to now it's way down. But, you know, I I can't tell you it's not going to rise up pretty quick. We They don't They still don't know the cause of the problem. >> Are they concerned? Are they going to
look into it or they're just going to >> They're Their engineers are insisting that um now that the sediment basin's removed that basically that the whole site's saturated and that's going to reduce the water level on the property. I'm not convinced of that. Um, but they
also have their own liability at risk. So, they're, you know, I think that's their they're crossing their fingers, hopes, and dreams. But, you know, only time's going to tell if it really does dewater like that. >> At the end of the day, like you said, it's alpha's problem, not ours, though, in that aspect. They just need to >> all we really control at this point is
is how they come across our right away. And you know, the fact that we don't have a a swale or any drainage there, I can't I can't see a drawback to letting them do this. You know, this is only going to keep the road drier irrespective of their problem.
>> And I did put them on notice and I copied that guy. I copied the whole world. >> I don't know if you ever heard from DP. Did you ever hear from them when I >> I heard from D. They were, you know, they were monitoring the the result is all you really get out of them. >> And short palming it off on us basically
right there. I mean, and the only other advantage is by doing this, they're posting an escrow and they're posting a bond. So, it means that no more communication on this, you know, it becomes town prom. I can bill it to that. Right. >> So,
um, Shimemer School, um, that should be heading back to the land use board here early, um, possibly as early as January. Um, we've received multiple submissions over the last three or four. um it's finally to the point that the engineering issues are essentially
resolved. So, you know, the application, you know, on its face, you know, is complete in what the board would be looking at would be an accurate representation of what they're going to do. Um so, basically, it's just it's going to go back to the board's hands. Now,
um, and I guess the last item just to mention is that last time we, uh, did a resolution, I think, uh, asking for a six-month extension of our Highlands grant, which they granted. Um, so, you know, that's that's approved and we're, you know, hopefully be able to wrap up the majority of that work and make the
submissions for the reimbursements. Um, basically at this point, we've been held up by their review. We can't we can't tell you you have a finished product which allows the reimbursement because they're procrastinating on their review. That's why we ask for extension. So, um
soon as they get back to us on that, we can finish up the rest of the work. And then any remaining money in there would go back to our pot basically in Highlands, which may even help you um get your funding for the other, you know, park and recck plan that was mentioned tonight. Um because there will
be money left over. That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you, Wayne. Down to Scott with our administrator's report. >> Uh for the court, Hakan Pohakan had 109 new cases, 98 disposed, uh $4,53.90
to the municipal deposit. Greenwich had 181 new cases, 161 disposed, $5,649.90 to the municipal deposit for the month. Um that puts them at just about 80. It puts them at 836
for the year um at the end of November. Last year they were at 8 a little over 84. So they're just about right on target to where they were last year. They'll be a little bit above. Um and last year I think they owed us like 74,000 at the end. So it'll probably be a little less than that for the true uh
once the numbers are in for the end of the year. Uh Lacon had 143 new cases. uh and 113 disposed. $5,171.60 for the deposit. Um I have to finalize the numbers for them to make sure that
they have uh paid us what they owe us uh under the contract shared service. Um and then I just have to send them a true up letter if they owe anything. Uh there's no formula to that except for they owe a flat rate and if it didn't come in to the 95,000 then they have to
pay us a tip for that. Um the I I I have no report from the fire department. The police department had 990 incidents, 13 motor vehicle accidents, four arrests, 199 traffic stops, 118 summones issued, and uh I believe Chief Barson would like
to you want to do that? >> Sure. about a couple accommodations for the officers. >> Yeah, we had uh four accommodation letters go out to four officers for uh excelling in the performance of their
duties. Um the first one was for uh patrolman Marcelo and patrolman Horvath. Uh they assisted Lakhan Township with an incident. So I received a letter from Lakhan Township Police Department and I'll just read it to you.
I would like to take this opportunity to commend each of you on your extraordinary call for service on November 30th, 2025 when you were called to the report of a suicidal male with a knife. Upon your arrival, you quickly located a male party who was suffering from a mental episode that was holding a
knife to his neck. You all remained calm despite how intense and difficult these types of calls can be. Collectively, you each used your training and experience to speak with the male, slowly building a rapport and gaining his trust. After almost an hour, you convinced the male
to drop the knife, at which time you were able to safely transport him for a mental health evaluation. This call ended with the best possible outcome due to your professionalism and patience. Again, I would like to recognize you all on a job well done and applaud you on how you responded with
yourself and your respective agency during this incident. So, kudos to patrolman Marcelo and patrolman Horvath. The second one was done by uh our department for patrolman Marcelo and
patrolman Tinsman. They did a tour and uh respect uh like presentation with the Girl Scout troop last Saturday.
Um so it was a very successful um event uh to to to for lack of better terms. On Saturday, December 6, 2025, you participated and conducted a tour and a presentation pertaining to respect to the local Girl
Scout troop at police headquarters. You are hereby commended for your extraordinary performance, for partaking in the presentation and your personal and professional delivery. You created a truly wonderful experience for the youth members of the Girl Scout troop. It was a very successful um event. Like I said,
they were very excited about the things that our guys did on their own as far as the presentation for respect. They did a tour of the building, took them out to the police cars. They really enjoyed being a part of it, holding the shields and vests and seeing everything. So, it
was uh we got a lot of great feedback from them. So, thank you. >> Uh the road department um honestly this time of the year is their winter prep time. Um so they uh did fi the final leaf pickup was there. Final tub
grinding. Uh the brush dump was closed. Uh turning off all the waters in the parks with the uh and then they used the uh sewer jet to blow out the uh lowlying areas of the township sewer lines uh just to get ready for winter. They had some uh storms that they were out on uh
that they did a great job on. Um and I sent you the rest of the report. I mean if you want I could read it but I'll refrain. So, but no, they did they do a lot. So, um but I sent you the rest, but those are the uh main ones.
>> Um I have here added the uh squad um for the month of November had 44 calls for Pohakhan Township. It's about 10.5% of their call volume for the month of November. Uh year to date would be 418
calls uh for Pohakhan Township plus 11 for the lower end. uh bringing it to 8.5% of their call volume um for for the year of 2025. Is there anything else to that? Okay. Uh nothing for tax uh assessors or sewer
um finance. We're starting a budget prep for 26. Um it's looking a lot better than it has in the past few years to be honest with you. Um, so that'll be a good thing. Um, I do need a resolution added tonight for um,
uh, to allow the CFO to make a budget transfer before December 31st uh, in salaries and wages only. Um, so that way we can uh, uh, be up to date for the auditing. Uh, but we have to do salaries and wages before December 31st. Everything else can go up till March for
budget transfers. But the one that we do need is that. I don't have a number yet because we have to close out the books um for the last payroll which is coming up next week once I have that but I'm just asking if you can authorize us to do that once we know the number we're not over budget it's just we have to
take from some places and put it to others just so that we we we're all together >> but that this tax test I saw a lot of people that were build too much was that just a glitch or what a lot of people reimbured for for taxes and they said um
due to overpayment >> for for tax assessment. >> Uh tax collector. >> It's for the tax resolution. Yeah. >> Yeah. Collector. >> Yeah. So cuz we did switch over to Edmonds this year. So there was a um
>> a change in it. So there we knew that there was going to be some reimbursement going on. >> Did you tell them they found on their own? >> Some found out on their own. Uh they called us and when they called then Carrie looked at it and she found everything and then she worked on everything together.
>> Yes. Good question. >> Wanda, that's correct. Right. >> Those are standard. You see some of those tax overp payment refunds almost every year. They just >> But I think this year was a little extra because of the system that we uh we transferred to. >> Yeah. Cuz Vital Vital went the put.
>> Yep. >> Um that's the rest for me. Uh I I I think at this point we should go to executive session. >> Um I just have a question about the zoning report. >> Oh, sorry I didn't do that one yet. Sorry. Uh so there was three
applications for the month. Uh all three were approved. Um three inspections for the month. Uh like new inspections. A total of $75 was collected for 2400 for the year. a total of 16 zoning complaints or followup uh on the
complaints were either brought to the township or were reinspected. Um so some of them were uh remaining that they gave a 30-day notice to and then they had to go out back out and reinspect. >> Yeah. My my question, Scott, and this this report was very helpful and
thorough. Thank you. page five of five for the inspection blog, it mentions these um preliminary areawide, initial area wide, final area wide. I don't know what those mean. >> Let me look real quick.
>> Like it's not doesn't say it's related to a complaint or an application. So, I'm trying to figure out what it is. >> What page did you say? >> 505. The last one with text on it. I just don't have any context for this
preliminary area wide stuff. And there's the one on the bottom of page 452. >> I have no idea. I'll find out for you though. Yeah, >> I just don't know if it's related to a application, a complaint or whatever >> for the initial the ones that say either preliminary or initial area wide.
>> And there's even there's a final one in there too. >> And final >> box lots attached to them or no? >> Yeah, there's addresses. >> It's got addresses and names. >> I'm trying to think of the addresses there of what if I remember any of them, but >> just doesn't say
>> I don't know what initial area wide is or >> I'll find out. It sounds followup inspections or preliminary inspections on complaints maybe. >> Yeah, but the other complaints have complaint numbers noted. Right. >> Right. If they maybe that them ones he
was already out initially and cited them. Maybe the other ones are all new. >> Yeah. That see that where it says count 16. >> Yeah. >> That's part of the 16 either inspections or new complaints or reinspections on complaints. >> So I but I'll find out exactly what they mean.
>> Yeah. But if you look on four or five, you can see all the complaints have complaint number associated with it. >> Correct. I know what you mean. >> That was it for me. >> All right. >> If I could, I just wanted to add on our report. We had another successful uh
annual tree lighting. >> Absolutely. >> Thank the mayor for coming out. Psburg Emergency Squad, the DPW helped out a lot. But uh another good turnout even with the chilly weather. So it >> was well attended. >> Yes, it was.
That's all. >> Anything else, Scott? >> Uh no. Everything else will be into executive session. >> Okay. Anybody from council have anything they'd like to report on? just um from the land use board meeting.
Um I missed the meeting, but uh I was told that the um application for the cannabis retailer at the former Slack Electric was approved. Um
and so that that's already on its way. >> I don't think we ever approved the license for anybody yet. >> No, they're coming. >> So they'll have to come here. Okay. Wanda, have we heard anything more from Mr. Mandre on that property? >> No. >> No, not nothing.
>> Just that initial letter he sent us and that was it. >> Yeah. >> Do we send back their application? >> The gentleman told me to keep it that they intend to move forward. So, >> well, they're working out something with Mandering. >> We have to take action on that because we said last meeting that we would let
them have 30 days, right? And if it wasn't if there was nothing decided within 30 days on a new address that they we we are saying withdraw that application and they'll have to reapply. >> That's what I was getting at. Yeah. So one we should just send that back at this point. >> All right. Um how about if we make a
motion to authorize >> motions? Yeah. Motions. So, you'll be able to get your chocolate, your bagel, and and your I mean, a great spot. This is one >> all in walking distance.
>> Serious onetop shop. >> Onetop shop. >> Onetop shop. >> And if you really want to work it off, you can go do Pilates across the street. >> Yeah. >> Maybe we need to put a community parking lot in somewhere up there so they got enough parking. >> A deck. >> I'll tell you what,
I I do go out for bagels. It's like wine. You can't get in there. You can. >> And the bagels are fantastic. >> They are very good. >> Yeah, it's the parking for us. >> And now you get everything else. So, you're definitely leaving that area in good mood. >> Do you want me to return their uh deposit check? >> Yes. Yes. Everything should go back. We don't want to hold that. We don't want
to deposit it. >> Okay. >> All right. If there's no other uh comments from council, we'll move on to our resolutions. We have three resolutions. Anybody have any issues? Wayne explain
the fourth. The fourth is going to be per Scott. I would say Scott title will be just generically resolution authorizing budget line item transfers and the amounts to be established by the CFO and administrator. >> Yes. So we're for December 31st. Y
>> All right. So now we have four. Anybody have any issues taking them all together? >> So move still. >> I'll second that. >> Okay. >> Yes. Lizetti, >> yes. >> Melvin, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Swack, >> yes.
>> Ordinances, we have nothing for first or second reading tonight. So, we'll move on to motions. We have four. >> If we could do executive session before the motions. >> Absolutely. You'd like me to call it right now then?
>> If you don't mind. >> All right. Then we need a motion for that. So, make a motion session. Second. >> Okay. I >> I action action will be taken, Scott,
after or not. >> I think so. >> Okay. What uh what do we want to do here? We want to get down in >> I think we should go down in the room. >> All right. >> So be it. >> Merry Christmas.
>> Grabing my legs here. >> Merry Christmas. >> Thank you. and you and your kid want >> you want to get it in six. I've been here a while. >> You know how she is. >> I know she's like it's us. >> Okay. We want to make a motion to
return. >> So move second. >> I I >> All right. You want to give us a rundown, Kevin? >> Uh we we discussed uh contracts in executive session. one being a uh
contract that we're trying to work out with our new chief. Uh we talked about uh the contract with the DPW. We have a motion on the agenda for that. Um Chief, you and Scott will get together on yours and try to get that wrapped up. Yep. And
um we talked about budget issues, fire department issues and uh issues relating to um lawnmowing and other budget item issues for next year and potential hires. And that was it.
>> All right. How many motions did we want to add tonight? >> Just we have to just add >> two more. One for land conservancy and chief, did you need one more? >> Oh, yeah. No, we >> huh. >> The resolution was done for >> Yeah, we did the resolution. It's just the land conservancy and the motion to
return the uh >> cannabis application. >> Cannabis application check. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, we have >> conservy is a thing for the open space. >> We Yep, we have that. >> Yep. >> One, two, three, four. Land conservies five and that other one to refund is six. >> Six. All right. Anybody have any issues taking all six motions together?
>> I'll move them along, Mayor. >> All right. Second stone. >> Okay. Binsky, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Melvin, >> yes. >> Still, >> yes. >> Slack, >> yes. >> All right. We have an announcement. Uh, the rabies clinic will be held at the
municipal building on Saturday, January 3rd, uh, from 10 to noon. That's a little earlier in the year than it usually is, Jeff. No. Yes. >> No. First week. >> First week. >> Can I bring my sheet
>> for rabies? Probably could. I don't know. See, why not? >> Go ahead. >> All right. >> When's reorder? >> January 20th. >> So, that will be our next formal meeting then. Correct. >> Correct.
>> All right. Any public comments? Any other business we need to discuss this evening? >> No, sir. >> Hearing none, entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So, move second. >> Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody. >> Yes.
>> Merry Christmas. >> Jeff, great job with the roads. Tell your crew.