e e e e e e e e good evening um this meeting is being held in
accordance with the public laws of 1975 chapter 231 and adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a noce sent to the Star Ledger the local source and posted in the main lobby of the municipal building on the township
website those of Allegiance the chief would lead us by allegiance algi 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 remain standing for a serviceman here in abroad thank you call Mayor Yuber yes Deputy Mayor laer here committee man capes here committee man Kaiser pres committee men Weber
here proclamations and announc uh you want to a proclamation first sure all right one Proclamation on on the woman's history
month so uh before I read it I want to say hi Mrs jerac uh it's pleasure seeing you at the DAR reception last year looking forward to it this year and uh let's dive into the proclamation whereas women's history
month was established by the 100th Congress in 1987 and is now making its 38th anniversary in March 2025 and whereas recognizing American women of every race class ethnic background have made
historical contributions to the growth and strength of the nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways and whereas American women have played and continue to play a critical economic cultural and social role in every sphere of our
nation's Life by continuing significant portion of the labor force working in and outside of the home and whereas American women have played a unique role throughout history by providing a majority of the nation's volunteer labor force and have been particularly
important in the establishment of early charitable philanthropic and cultural institutions in this country and whereas American women of every race class and ethnic background served as early leaders in the Forefront of every major Progressive social change movement not
not only to secure their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the Abolitionist Movement the Emancipation movement and the industrial labor movement the civil rights movement and other movements to create a more fair and just Society for all and
whereas American women have served our country courageously in the military and whereas these contributions the role of American women in history have been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the body of American American history
and whereas more than 1 million women have joined the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution since its founding on October 11th 1890 as a nonprofit nonpolitical Women's Service organization dedicated to promoting historic preservation
education and patriotism and whose members volunteered more than 7 million service hours in 2024 now therefore it be resolved that I you Richard Huber mayor of the township of Springfield on behalf of the township committee do
hereby designate March as women's history month and this month should be observed with appropriate programs ceremonies and activities picture by all means rich tell me about it it
how [Applause] big um okay Springfield 55 plus residence calendar March 2025 is in is out and it's
full all right coffee with a cop H rooster Tuesday April 1st 99 to 11 stop by we'll be there a blood driver scheduled uh schedule a Chism community
center on Friday March 21st 2025 1 to 7 please contact Genevie at 732 672
5281 with any questions okay now public comment on agenda items only name Anthony Anthony lcio 180 Short Hills Avenue I just I won't take much of your time I just want to thank everybody for uh considering looking at that petition we sent about the street light
for Short Hills Avenue um it's very dark at night in front of our house recently we had had a Breakin our neighbor had a Breakin just before Christmas and we're just hoping maybe the light could just illuminate something to maybe deter
future activities in the neighborhood um and that's really all the time I was going to take from you guys Tony is there is there a light existing there there's a light if you're if you're facing my house if you're looking at my house to the left there's a light it's
almost on the property it's on the property of the office building but there's a lot of trees in front of it and even when it's like now this time of season when there's not a lot of leaves it's still not bright enough to light up the corner like another 70 yards down it's one of
those it's one of those street that goes down into the off um the apartment houses it's one of those dimly lit street lights it's very dim and then the next one is down like like two houses down and um you know I called uh JC pnl
responded like immediately like a day later and they said I have to you know submit it from the town um so I got signatures from everybody adjacent to my area and um they were all on board with they're like yeah it is very dark going down into that like making that turn um
I asked them jcpnl if they could look at that light if it was too dim if they could brighten it or whatever but even if they did it's still not going to light up that corner where you know where you know my neighbor's house all that took
place that's it sorry you said 181 180 180 180 it's the Pole right in front on the corner of my house I'm going to check on it for you right now and and I spoke with Mike disco our engineer and he told me this was the way to go to to do a petition
and then he gives it to DPW and there was a whole step to than okay yeah we we yeah we're going to look into itk give us a couple days and then call callor give us a couple days and then call
Linda or John okay all right thank you thank you anyone else public portion of the agenda is is closed all right we have the administrator's report thank you Mr
Mayor couple of items I'd like to touch on we've been working on a ceiling library in HVAC we were over there again today we got quotes um we're probably hoping to have that begin shortly probably within the
next probably three or four weeks we got a couple things that we need to put in place before we can start the project actually one of them is Diane's they've got a name Diane as their QP what are your what are your total letters
there qpa so we got to put her on so that we can take care of that um so I'll keep you updated on that shortly uh we have a meeting tomorrow at Oakland Park committee and Weber and I we're GNA
we're going to start looking at that to do something to get that open quickly leaving the configuration basically as it is just clean it up get it open so the residents can use it Patriots way which is the development
down the End of the Street on Church mall it's going along fantastic they're making great progress they're probably I'm guessing 30% 40% done already they're really really flying along our friend up the street Gomes our next
meeting is April 9th uh in the meantime we're up there on a regular basis but uh we haven't seen a tremendous amount happening outside they are working on the inside we've got a couple of businesses that actually we
brought to them that were interested on the corner properties in Gomes so we're hoping that we're going to help him get those rented immediately any of them are restaurant one of them is actually a guy that specializes in breakfast and
lunches good and we said you know what that's not a bad idea in the center of town so let's see don't know if it's going to go anywhere it really is going to depend on you know we're kind of we can bring them together but at that point we're kind of out of it you know it depends on what the rent is can the
proprietor afford it and you know does he think he can make a business out of it so he's got other places this wouldn't be his first so uh we did have Starbucks come into town we drove them around for several hours unfortunately at this point we do not
have a location that fits for them they want a minimum of one acre of land level in order to put a Starbucks up they want to put a drive through yes they do they don't do non- drivethru at this point the new CEO his orders are to the field
no Drive drive-thru no deal but they still got a write on the cups yeah so that that you know I I won't say it's not going to go anywhere but it's it's very very difficult so we're still exploring it though uh Scotties we're
waiting on a a revised drawing because Mike MRE and I the planner we asked them to make a couple of changes is just visually to the roof line we we kind of thought it was getting too blocky it kind of looks like a uh I would describe it you know again more of a just a block
building we we they took out some of the design on the roof so we want them to put that back in we should have those hopefully by the next meeting to bring every somebody's playing Minecraft Too Much W that went over everybody's head in this room yes
unfortunately uh update on this dispatch they're actually going to be here the county will be here this week to install some additional software as far as we know right now we're still on schedule we'll get a further update from them when they're actually on site to see when they're going to be able to flip us
over and then we're out of it and and they're going to take over dispatch cool I have nothing further yet on that couple other items that I'd like to bring up we're in the middle right now of luckily winter equipment maintenance everything has to be cleaned cleaned up
now and put away salt spreaders plows they all have to be stored inspected and repaired after the winter anytime we find any broken parts or anything we want to make sure that they're taken care of before they're put up for the summer because if anything you know happens early we don't want to get
caught that we take a plow out or something that's not serviceable uh Spring Park cleanup has begun we got 14 Municipal parks in town each park has to be inspected for hazards and then General cleanup process so that's that's occurring now curbside
cleanup you can begin to place vegetative waste at the curb starting April 1st all vegetated waste must be contained in a can or biodegradable bag DPW Crews will canvas a town daily but will not follow a set schedule so if you
know if they don't happen to be on your street and see them on the street over don't think we missed you it's just that we keep looping the town uh Milburn shared services uh we've taken dely of the new sewer jet truck that just came in that replaces our 2001 and actually
that truck is still in service it's 24 years old but you know the problem with this type of equipment is once it starts to break down the bills are incredible they mount up very very quickly having the the new truck now it allows us to use this as a backup if it starts giving
us any problems we'll put it on gov deals before it starts eating our lunch we don't want to get in that situation um we're looking at some exploring some ways to enhance our Sports programs through shared service with Milburn also
we do a lot of shared service with them we also help out Mountainside and a lot of the surrounding towns we share services with everyone again trying to improve our services and keep our costs down and I think that's all I have for the moment unless there's any questions or comments I got a couple sure uh next
year's the 250th anniversary yep um can we see if there are any volunteers in the town that would be willing to serve on a committee to help organize festivities yep I think that'd be a good project for a public information officer um do stuff on
social media try and get it out tomorrow yep that'd be great um and uh I wanted to talk about uh the citizen budget Review Committee we did it last year it was I think it was a success I would like to do it again Alex if you be so
gracious uh as our chairman but I think we should do it again those are my two things very good I agree yes you and I have already discuss that and yes I will double check it we've already looked at it but I will
make sure The Mulch is here and we'll have that spread I don't know I haven't been down there maybe tomorrow I'll take a ride over and see where we are actually I will double check I'll see if Adam can tell me right away we may be able to
find out right now it really yeah when I was there all of the the new equipment was there I'm not sure if everything is in place and all the mulch and everything is down I'll check for you right away
okay I'll make a motion to adopt the the regular and executive meeting minutes of January 14th 2025 as emailed we are so CLA second I have all in favor I new
business second reading there's none okay we have a first reading for ordinance 20258 this ordinance is to establish a cap bank for the Jor 2025 pursuant to njsa 48 colon
44514 I will make a motion to adopt ordinance 20 202-828-8303 every year yep every year we have C Bank all right okay good a roll call uh commit man Kaiser yes Deputy Mayor laer yes
minman capes yes minman Weber yes mayor Yuber yes ordinance 20259 this ordinance of the township of Springfield County of Union New Jersey is to introduce the Redevelopment plan for 175 Mars Avenue identified as block
8 10 lock 10 within the township of Springfield Mr Mayor I make a motion to approve uh ordinance 20 25-9 on first reading as read by Madden Clerk and publicized in the local Source March 20th 2025 with final hearing on April
8th 2025 I will second discussion no no no this is just redoing it because the planning board was unable to uh uh fit it into the schedule as the
last hearing of planning board went uh way over with uh the Ross store all right okay committeeman capes yes committee men Kaiser yes committee Min Weber yes Deputy Mayor laer yes
mayor Yuber yes thank you resolutions go through them you want one taken out let me know 2025 5 88 89 90
91 91 uh 25 92 93 94 95 96 97
98 99 I'll pull that 99 yeah 20 25 100 MH 101 102 103 I have a motion I will make a motion to adopt the following resolutions by
consent agenda resolutions 2025-the man Kaiser yes Deputy Mayor laer yes committee Min capes yes committee Min Weber yes mayor Yuber yes okay Okay resolution 20 2599 this resolution authorizes a
license agreement with student transportation of America to utilize certain Township parking facilities on a temporary basis I make a motion to approve resolution 20 2599 uh second um the only reason that I
pulled this was just to highlight uh you know not the number of resolutions here today whether they're joining with a a shared service agreement with Milburn but just showing that we're always trying to bring in as much revenue
outside Revenue as possible to help offset the costs of uh of running our government resolution [Music] 2025-the uh uh the pool lot uh which it's vacant
mostly in the fall winter and spring uh months we joined uh with a busing company to park their buses on that unused piece of property bringing us in I I I I know it's well over
$100,000 a year so uh uh 1265 so we wanted to just I just wanted to highlight that 1265 um in that making sure that we aren't just sitting idly by and letting uh uh pieces of property go vacant and that's
a testament to the administration who who continues to find these Avenues so with that I just wanted to make that point we'll do a roll call committee Min cities yes committee Min Kaiser yes committee Weber yes Deputy Mayor laer
yes M man Uber yes okay Mr Mayor can I interrupt you one second to answer commit Weber's question on Alvin Park uh Alvin Park is completely done except for the rule sign we're waiting for that to come in so
it's usable right now and as soon as that comes in we'll get it installed and then we are finished thank you thank you all right Mo in action residents of Short Hills Avenue requested additional
street light to install 180 Short Hills Avenue we discuss that in the beginning of the meeting you'll have answers hopefully tomorrow John yes I will discuss that with our DPW director tomorrow see if we
can call jcpnl what do we need to do motion to adopt it yeah I I I would go through the okay um committee man Weber yes committee men capes yes committee men Kaiser yes deputy mayor
laer yes committee man Uber thank you I'm committee now okay mayor sorry oh yeah um pay some payroll I was going to say that uh I'll make a motion to adopt payroll invoices
for the period of February 26 2025 through March 11th 2025 in the amount of 4,788 599 no sense that's pretty cool who even number
second okay committee man Kaiser yes Deputy Mayor laer yes committee man capes yes Min Weber yes mayor Yuber yes okay correspondence public comment on any
governmental issue anybody have any any problems all right seeing none those public comment okay uh this is a resolution for an executive session resolution 31125 whereas article 6 of the open
public meetings act provides that a public body May hold a closed session and whereas the township committee will during this meeting enter into discussion of the following matters attorney client privilege and Personnel attorney client privilege and contract
negotiations Employment contract whereas the matters to be discussed in close session are to remain in the strictest of confidence by all Township committee members in furtherance of their fiduciary duties to the township now therefore be it resolved matters discussed at this meeting will be
released to the public when reasons for discussing and acting upon them in close session no longer exists motion you second okay thank you and we will take no action no action no
action before we go into executive section I did get one email from Michael um he's saying that the county has allowed towns to
stop TR traffic on certain streets I'm going to I'm going to try and find out if that's true you know we're we're get in touch with the county I'll stop and see you John tomorrow and we'll go over okay all right I don't want Mike to
think that we didn't I didn't read his email good catch okay uh we take no action and that's it closed e
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e e e where they still talk they ain't changing nothing in there I just spoke to a woman about youe motion to adjourn second all in favor