Good evening. A notice of this meeting is being held accordance Oh, wait. This meeting is being held accordance with the public law of 1975 chapter 231. An adequate notice of this meeting has been provided
by a notice sent to Star Ledger, the local source posted in the main lobby of the municipal building and our township website. We'll have the pledge of allegiance led by Carl Oster. Right.
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. Please remain standing for uh uh
servicemen here and abroad. Thank you. Roll call. Mayor Huber here. Deputy Mayor Laugher here. Committeeman Capid here. Committeeman Kaiser. Weber
here. Springfield 55 plus residents calendar for August is out. Uh week garbage collection ends on August 29th
or Mr. Wes are closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 1st. Uh mobile shedding Saturday, September 6th from 9:00 a.m. to 1 Springfield pool 44
Morrison Avenue. Now, no businesses are allowed to bring their stuff, right? Correct. Correct. Okay. The next committee meeting is Tuesday, September 9th. All right. I have one thing uh a sad
note. The township extends its condolences to the family of longtime resident Tommy J. Smith was 84. He passed away on August 11th. Tommy was a Coast Guard veteran, a Melbourne fireman
firefighter for 30 years, preceded by his his wife Nancy. Tommy survived by his daughters Heather and Megan and their spouses and six grandchildren. The wake is at uh Smith and Smith and uh
in Springfield tomorrow from 7 to 4. Bradley Smith and Smith, I'm sorry. And then there's the mass is on St. Rose alignments and Short Hills Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Tommy lived in Springfield
for a long time. I knew him personally. He was always there with the for the kids. He baseball, anything it was all right. Now,
public comment on agenda items only. Anybody want to come up and talk? Seeing none, closer to the public. Reports, administrators, thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Uh, we have a few things for this meeting. Uh the cameras at the pool are up and operational now. They include nighttime vision. So if you go on and and I'll show you if anybody wants to see, but you can go on anytime, day or night, and
it's like middle of the day. So you can see everything can color. It's clear. We have a license plate reader. So any illegal dumping now, it also records. So we can go back and look at it and uh go after who's ever dumping illegally there. So, those are up and running as
we speak. You will be prosecuted. Yes, you will. Uh, we have a guardrail on Boltus Raw Way that in 1966 it was deemed that it was a township's responsibility. The state took uh responsibility for 5 years and then it
was turned over to the town. Well, somebody hit the guardrail and we're looking at $18,000 to fix it. I'm trying to see if we can buy the material and maybe do it ourselves somehow. So, we don't know. We don't catch them, then we're stuck with it. So, uh I want to
show show everybody a couple of pictures of the Johann pumping station. The pumps and motors were installed on July 24th. We flooded the well last week and performed the test, found that both pumps are working. We also had out the manufacturer of the pumps because like
your car tires, they have to be balanced. If they run and are wobbling in any way, you end up wearing the pumps out. So they were they were checked. They're they're working perfect right now. We don't have this gives you an idea. The pumps are about 40 foot long. So there was a crane that picked them up
and and actually through the roof dropped them into the building into the wet well. So they were installed. Go ahead, Tamar. Go to the next one. Let's see what we got. That's the pump laying on the ground. Go to the next one, please. That's just You can see the pump on the
left hand side being held up. So they were installed. The only thing we're missing now is the connection on the electric. The generator is hooked up. The generator is working. So, if we get a storm, nobody has to be concerned. The pumps are working. It's not a problem, but they will be hooked up. We
need a transformer from JCP and all we're waiting for. Uh the next thing is will be the pumping stations at Marion. All the material is in. We're ahead of schedule, but the engineering needs to be done. That probably won't happen till sometime next year. So, we're we're
actually in very good shape. PSCG paving, two areas of county roads disturbed by their main upgrade. Mountain Avenue from Mars to Clinton curb to curb and South Springfield a to Mountain to Shunpike will be done curb to curb. We've requested all of that
work be done at night and before the start of the school year. As soon as we get a firm schedule, we'll make sure that it's posted so everybody's aware. We thought the work on the covert over on Caldwell was supposed to start two weeks ago. We got a phone call at the last minute and it was like, ah, yeah,
we're not going to be there tomorrow. We haven't heard anything further at this point. So, we're in a holding pattern. When we get more info, we'll make sure that everybody is aware of that. Can we try and talk them or going doing it at night instead of during the day?
I don't know if that actually pays us to do it night as opposed to during the day there. Well, we're going to have to see a if it can be done and if it's to our advantage to do it. We will ask whatever you think. Couple other things. I think everybody probably has seen on the corner of
mountain in Mars. We had that hole in the ground that that's been there for seven or eight years. Um I got a hold of Verizon and told them that we had a resident that actually fell at that location. They were out the next day.
They cordoned it off and they come out the following day, filled it with stone, so at least it's level. I talked to their construction department. You got to go through channels. You know, we only do this a little bit, then they hand it off. Who hands it off? So, I got
to the construction department. They're waiting for the um DOT permits to come back because it's on a state highway. Uh what I didn't realize they're they're telling me is that that wire actually runs under Mars Avenue and come comes up on the other side.
So that's I thought those wires were just stuck in the ground to be honest with you, but they're telling me no, they're alive. So we're waiting to see. Uh there's a picture of what they accomplished. That only took seven years from them. So
there's an actual pole that needs to be replaced there, which I didn't realize that. So, we're missing a we're missing a telephone pole there. And I'm going to assume they had nothing to say about all the wires that were by um the Gomes building. Actually, I sent the pictures to them
again and said we need those raised. I actually met with Gomes today on the new development and that's one of the things we brought up. I gave Gomes the name and number of the two people that I dealt with both construction and the the general manager that's down in central
Jersey. So Gomes is going to call him also. They're they're actually their attorney. Tamari, go to the next picture, please. So I know this isn't a home run. I I appreciate that. But as I think everyone knows, we've been meeting with the
owners in the center uh trying to get them to at least do something with their buildings. Those two buildings have been painted now. The white one and the gray one and the black on the bottom has been painted. So at least they're clean. I I know it's not a home run, but it's a
it's an improvement. So, we've got a meeting on Friday with the owner of the white building on the corner of Morrison Mount because that building needs a lot of updating or something. So, we're going to continue to meet with the owners. I don't know if
anybody noticed, but the chiropractor that that's across the street from these two buildings, he started on the facade of his building ran into some trouble. A brick started coming away from the building. So, he's got to get somebody in to to fix that. But again, at least
we are getting some work done. It's getting cleaned up a little bit. So, I know it's not exactly what we want, but you know, it's kind of baby steps, so we got to do what we got to do. Um, other than that, if anybody has any questions or comments, I'd be happy to answer.
I have two things. Yes, sir. Number one, on the corner of Laurel and Meiselle, right? They did work. They did work there. It's probably a year ago. They dug up that whole guy's front yard,
broke the street up. The street was fine previously. For about three months, we had a sign that said dip there. That dip is still there. I I thought I'll check with Robbie, but I thought they had come out. Let us look at that tomorrow. We'll go out. That dip is still there. If you turn
that corner, we will the bottom of your bumper on that. That's number one. Number two, tell the guy on Mountain and Mars that at least one person up here is ready to condemn his building and and take it over. We've we've discussed that and I will
discuss with you the procedure to do that. Yeah. Um, going to the I this is like the never- ending saga, the uh the boxes on the streets, the electrical boxes on the streets. I actually had a great
conversation with uh leadership of the first aid squad. And I think it'd be a great idea for us to put a volunteer for the first aid squad uh box over there. So, can you please reach out to Liz or somebody from FAS uh to get a
high-res image? And I think that would be at least one hightraic box would be great. Um, and any other community organizations, historical society, Chief Cook, um, you know, things like that, I think would be credits to the town and
it brings some uniqueness. Um, back to the boxes. I go to Maplewood train station almost every day and they had the high school come out and paint, you know, murals or
I think when school opens up, we should ask art teachers, you know, school if they can everybody choose their one bucket. I mean, we it has to get approved. Absolutely. Put on there like digital photography. Absolutely. Yeah. you know, paint it and all that. I was 100%
good for the kids. 100%. It's funny you say that because I was actually traveling and I was going through another school district that's quite a distance away from where we are now and I saw a very ornate design on a bigger box. And I meant to, you know,
share it with you, text it with you all and and I never did that. But I thought that's that could be a nice idea, too. when they see the Yes. work that goes into it, they'll think twice about the kids would enjoy it, too. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Committee min Weber, I have a followup
for you on Mountain and Meisel and Laurel. Yeah. Um that dip that's at that's there was actually designed to uh move the water out. That's the way it is designed. Uh we constantly had water puddling there and it was freezing in the winter. That
was a way to divert that water away from there. That's why that was done. Absolutely not. They they got to fix that because because that was actually performed by the county. Well, they call the county up because I want you to turn that corner and tell me if you don't hit the bottom of your B. I I'm not disagreeing with you, but
I'm hearing you. But that that I that is that is the biggest lie I've ever heard in my life. There is no way. Okay. Absolutely not. That thing that dip just goes straight in there. They paved it. ground sunk afterwards and that's it. I will
call him to a meeting. I'll call him a whatever. Okay? Absolutely not. Well, first off, did the county do the work there? That's what Robbie said. That was performed by the county, not us. Because they took apart, if I remember right, we all passed it every day. His
front, that front yard was taken up from the house all the way down. And I thought they were replacing a sewer line, a water line, something some line was replaced there which caused them to dig into that. Absolutely not. No way.
They might have been doing uh uh when you divert water, what do you uh co something like that? Or or they might have been putting like a catch basin. I don't know. That water the way that dip is now, then that's going to be like a little pond right there in in the water there. I
don't I I I'm not well familiar with the moral. Please take a look at it tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow I will get you an answer. Okay. Anything else, honey? Minutes.
Oh, my favorite part. I'll make a motion. I'll make I'll make a motion to adopt the regular and executive meeting minutes of May 13th, May's 27th, 2025, and the regular meeting minutes of June
11th, and June 24th, 2025 as emailed. Second. All in favor? I. New business. Okay. We have a second reading for ordinance 202516.
And this ordinance amends chapter 22 solid waste management of the township code regarding the use of the township's residential recycling convenience center to update the violation provisions thereof.
Mayor, I move to approve on second reading ordinance 202516 as read by madame clerk for publication in the local source August 14, 2025. Second. Anybody go public public uh public hearing first? Open open open to the
public. Anybody want to say anything about this? Can we get a Craig? We we raised we raised the fines for illegal dumping because what we were finding was that most of it was occurring by outside contractors, not residents. And the fine was so low that
it paid them to dump. Even if they got caught, it was cheaper than taking it and disposing of it properly. Now they So what are the new fines? I think we raised it to a,000 from 500. From 500. Okay. There's Yeah. The minimum for first time violation, the minimum went from 300 to
500. The minimum for the uh second and subsequent violations went from 500 to a,000 as a minimum. Good. Okay. Is that a little light or is that normal? Is that fine a little light still or is
that normal? I mean, we have statutory guidelines. So, you know, 2,000 is the maximum. So, you know, we I worked with uh the municipal prosecutor to try and find a, you know, an appropriate deterrent level, but one that also gives them flexibility in
court to, you know, appropriately process complaints. The bottom line is is we just want to stop people from doing it. Just don't don't do it. We don't want your money. We just want the illegal dumping to stop because it cost us so much to get rid of
what they're leaving there. It's costing the town a ton of money. Roll call. Committeeman Capid. Yes. Deputy Mayor Laer. Yes. Kaiser. Yes. Minman Weber. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes. And a first reading ordinance
202517. This ordinance amends the land use provisions at chapter 35 of the township code. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we adopt ordinance 2025-17 as read by madame clerk publicized in
local source August 14, 2025 with final hearing on September 9th, 2025. Second discussion. All right. Um, this is about the new place on 22.
This uh yeah, this ordinance, you know, basically creates and and defines um this particular type of industry which is it's been described as an indoor sports facility. We don't want to have it on the books. We want to put it on the books and yep create a conditional use
for it in the industrial zones both the I20 and the I40. And and this is already for a a just so everybody knows this is for a project that's going to be very close to being operational soon. Very quickly.
Yeah. So Okay. All right. Roll call. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Deputy Mayor Laugher. Yes. Committeeman Capid. Yes. Miniser. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes.
All right. Resolutions. Just tell me if you want to poll. 20 252 213 214 215 216 217
218 219 220 221 I have a motion. Mr. Mayor, I would like to move ordinance
numbers 212 through 221 as you read. Second. I will second that. Deputy Mayor Laer. Yes. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Committeeman Capid. Yes. Kaiser. Yes.
Mayor Yuber. Yes. Um discussion and actions items. National Night Out was uh an unqualified success. A great time was had by all. Kudos to Jen Law, Jen Sherman, OEM, uh
and Jay Spanelli for coordinating it. It was um finance treasury report. Okay, let's uh I'll I'll make a motion to adopt payroll invoices for the period of July 16th, 2025 through August 12th, 25
of 25 in the amount of $3,564,9925. Second. Committeeman Kaiser. Yes. Deputy Mayor Laugher. Yes. Captain, yes. Weber, yes. Mayor Yuber, yes. We have no correspondence.
Public comment on any government item issue. Anyone have a motion? Mr. Mayor, I move to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I I oppose.
The rest of the summer. Wonderful.