Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much uh for coming without a reminder. So I really appreciate that.
Um and uh you know I will do whatever um I can do to help make it a easy and uh you know uh quick meeting and um so we'll call
the meeting in to um session um and Uh, I guess the fir I'm I'm just looking here. The first one um is can we have a volunteer to take
the minutes? Um, uh, I guess I can do it if no one I signed up for a later one, but if we don't have someone for today, I can do it. Okay, Dr. Paula, did anyone sign up for that
for taking the minutes? Okay. All right. No, not for today. All right. You know what? Uh maybe my maybe we can do is before we close the meeting we'll get volunteers for next month's meeting and that might be
I don't know a little smoother. Let's see. Okay. I can share the spreadsheet when you come to that part of the agenda. Okay. Wonderful. Wonderful. Okay. And first off, um, Councilwoman, uh,
Deputy Mayor Oh, I always want to still call you Deputy Mayor G. Danielle. Oh, she might come back. She did say that she was I have all my kids here. Sorry. It's all right. It'll be short. Uh short
and sweet update. We have a council meeting tomorrow. Um it feels like it's been forever since we had our last council meeting. Um I think we are introducing the operating budget or approving the operating budget tomorrow. Um trying to think about what else stands
out on the agenda, but uh those are sort of the key highlights uh off the top of my head. Awesome. Wonderful. Oh, go ahead, Colleen. Oh, I just I was there an update about empathy training?
I have not received an update on empathy training. Let me ping Jackie right now. Actually, we we just saw her today. We should have asked her. Yeah, I was at I wasn't at the last meeting, so I didn't know if that there had been one at the last meeting about it. Yeah, I'll ping her.
Oh, there was an update at the last meeting. Colleen, we're definitely You missed that update. Sorry. Yeah. Okay. Would you like to Well, I thought it was on the agenda for today, too. I had noticed it, but no. Sorry about that. I I forgot that you weren't here. So, they did end up postponing it. Um I did share
feedback with council that that was very frustrating as people had changed their calendars and rescheduled meetings so that they could participate um and to, you know, cancel at the last minute was very frustrating. So, that feedback was shared. um they do want to reschedu the
empathy training, but um just I think for for staff and for this group, not no longer including council members, which I honestly I think it's probably for for the best. Um I think it's a strange dynamic to have the council members doing it with ABCR anyway. Um so I think
it it's better off that way. So that was the decision that was made. I don't know that she's actually scheduled a new date, though. Okay. I I I saw her at the um was it Memorial Day or it was one of the other events
um I'm trying to think if it was prior or something and she said she hadn't scheduled anything [Music] uh yet but that she was that again um I saw her at an like one of the township events either Memorial Day or
Pride died. Um, and she said she hadn't scheduled anything yet, but she's working on it. I believe it was Memorial Day now that I think about it. So, so the training would be for ABC, but not the council.
Correct. Correct. That's ridiculous. That's literally the point is for the council to receive this training. Um well I agree that council members would definitely benefit from this training. The initial purpose of this
was to allow ABCR to be sort of it was supposed to be let's get the training then also potentially get to train the trainer so that we could go out well not we you all can go out into the community and facilitate um uh discussions um with uh with with with a goal of like
community building. Um I think the initially actually it wasn't supposed to include all the council members. It was just going to be me and the mayor in like the first initial um iteration of this. But to your point, I do think there are council members who I mean any
anyone would benefit from this training. As our liaison, you wear two hats. Are you going to train with us, Danielle? I would love to, but I don't want to cause any drama because if I go, then they're like, why does she get to
go and I didn't get to go? So, I'm like, could have a whole good welfare about that. No, we'll let you guys cook together and we will support from the sidelines. Mhm.
Well, hopefully we can get something, you know, in the works uh soon. I I had also mentioned to Jackie, I think when scheduling that maybe if she could take into consideration some of our schedules
and vacations or just ask, you know, we would greatly appreciate that because people already have trips planned at this point. So, um heard I will send that reminder. Thank
you. Okay. Did anyone else have any questions about uh the report or Okay. So, at this point, uh we can hear from the public, although I don't see anyone
um right now. Uh um maybe if that I don't know if does anyone have something you know very very short random that's not listed on the agenda.
Carol, do we have the minutes from the last meeting? Uh no we do not. Um uh in all honesty, I didn't I wasn't after, you know, to to ask anyone for the minutes um from the
last meeting. Um and who was it that uh Oh, I took them. I thought I emailed I took them. I thought I emailed you. Let me send them over. My apologies. Oh, okay. All right. So, okay. So, we will um resend that. Um you know, it um
Leticia, if you can send it to everybody, that would be great. Um uh if not that's okay and then we can we can look at it at the next meeting as well. Sure. Thank you. Yes. Uh Dr. Paula,
sorry I forgot to lower my hand. Oh no, it's okay. All right. I know we have a lot of Junth uh activities. um set up for this coming Thursday. It's
going to be a very very busy day um from the morning till uh the evening. There are several flyers out and maybe I I think someone did a nice flyer of all the towns. I just got that literally like sometime this afternoon when I uh
was in the doctor's office. I saw it. So maybe I can forward that to you um later on and and um everybody would be most welcome at all of the events. Okay. So uh without any other questions I'll close this uh session of good and
welfare and now we can go right into the next thing is the fourth of July parade um for ABC. So, someone gave me an idea because I can't walk.
Definitely not right now. Um, that maybe we could ask Doug about using a car, you know, and driving a car um in the parade because other people do that as well.
Um, but I don't know how many people uh, and we really do need a commitment, you know, or a thought tonight as to who would be willing to be in the Fourth of July parade so that I can give that
information to Doug. This would be for ABCR. Uh, Cheryl, what are the hours for the parade? I think lineup is at nine. Nine. Yeah, that's what I was Yeah. Yeah. I'm walking with my church, so I'm not able
to. Yeah, this I know. I did I did it before, but this year I'm not in town, so I can't do it this year. I would be able to walk it. I do I do not want to drive a car, but I would need I would need a second person to
hold a banner. Thank you so much, Colleen. I really appreciate that. And you know, a lot of times sometimes when we have when we're like really, you know, we're committed to a bunch of different things. Um, someone gave me the idea of, you know,
doing different ones each year, you know. So, uh, you know, just trying to share it. So, um, I really do appreciate that very much. Well, I can only do it if somebody else does it with me, though. Someone does it with Can't hold the banner with one person. I'm so thanking you for being willing to
be the, you know, first person to say. Is there anyone else that would uh hold the other side of the banner with um Colleen? I would love to, but I work at a sleepaway camp and we will not be around the whole summer. Um
I but I I really wish I could. I'm sorry. No, I understand. Just uh for me, I'm going to be away that that uh day as well. I won't be in town. Oh, thank you. The police department, we have a whole bunch of people. I'm I'm going to be out
on that one. Obviously, I'm walking with council. So, yeah. Yeah. You're on a float. We walk. We throw the candy or whatever it is or flags. We give out flags. The board of ed does candy.
Um, okay. So, it really does sound like there are a lot of nos at this point. So, well, unless I unless you're going to drive a car I could ride with you, but I I I don't want to be
driving in a parade. That Oh, you don't want to be the one? Oh, I wouldn't want to. No, I don't. No, I have to buy a car. I'm not that good a driver. I don't want to drive in the rain. Um, Cheryl, did you is there any um well actually probably even the conversation for
Danielle actually a response from her actually since all these advisory boards are technically Tina council advisory boards are is there any way that um any of the employees in the township are walking it and they can help carry the
flag with her? I'm not sure what the what the parameters are are who's walking from the township. Is it just council? is employees that day like I don't know. So is there is there any type of support that they can get to help carry the flag?
Um sorry I'm trying to feed the kids dinner. Um I don't know. Typically there's Doug and a handful of other township employees. Um I don't know that they would be available to help carry the flag. Yeah.
Okay. All right. Well, maybe you could just get back, Cheryl. I hope the car is a an option. I could consider. Again, I I would want to be Maybe I don't know if the high school does community service hours over the summer. Maybe I don't know the forum. Maybe if
someone reaches out to the forum. I know it's a stretch, but does anyone have high schoolers or friends that might be willing to volunteer? I don't know. Okay. All right. Sorry, I have to finish plating this food. I'm going to be off camera, but I'm listening. Thank you. Thank you, Daniel. Thank you. So, what
I'll do is um I guess we can just follow it up through email and we'll get back. You know, we definitely do even, you know, if if I uh get a car to drive. I I wouldn't drive mine, the current one
I have right now. Um but by then I might be in a different situation. Um uh you know uh maybe a couple of you can think about it you know um because this is a part of reaching out to the
township um and the community. So you might want to think about it and uh you know we'll we'll talk about it I guess through email and get back. Does that sound good to everyone? Okay. Do other advisory boards march?
Maybe they can all march together and someone can help um Colleen with the the banner. Yeah, I know. Always walks. Um they meet at different places though. I don't know if they're all together, but um I know there are other ones that
walk. That's uh Yes, Lieutenant. I know obviously the police department's working in twofold. We're going to be helping out obviously with traffic on one end and then people will be
marching. Um something we're hopefully going to try to do uh if if we have enough volunteers is going to be able to have our our junior police academy cadets march. Um that might be something if I can have them help out or I don't know if you guys are familiar we have the auxiliary police officers which are
um basically volunteers but they are able to do traffic and stuff like that. Um, it might be something where we could use them uh if if they were willing to to volunteer to maybe drive the car that you're speaking about. Um, I can definitely work with uh Officer Gloria here, see if I can grab anyone. Uh, I kind of feel bad cuz with all that stuff
going on, like I said, I'm going to be kind of out, you know, taking a break from town on this one. But uh, you know, I can at least see of those couple options if that's something that's possible. Might be able to help out. That sounds wonderful. You are. You deserve the the the break. Definitely.
All right, so let's keep it going. Like, you know, um I I I I don't know what Doug's deadline is on, but he already sent out an email, you know, wanting to hear back from people. So, um and that might have been was it today or was it I
might have been Friday. Um but, uh you know, we'll we'll keep the discussion going uh via email. Great. All right. So, I guess I'll move on to
Oh, I wanted to see just an update on the Google signups. And I guess this is the part where I'll ask for our next meeting is on the 21st. Would someone like to co-lead this meeting?
I signed up to Oh, you did? Okay. Great, Colleen. Great. you sharing access. I can show you. I can share the form. It's not too many signups, though. Okay. All right. But if you make me a co-host, I can share the form. Oh, okay. Let me do
that right now. Um, it asked me to allow you and I clicked allow so you can Okay, guys. Great. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. So, let's see if we have minutes as well.
So, Colleen is taking minutes tonight, right? Yeah. So, maybe you could take me off the uh minutes for the September one then. Thank you so much. I did sign up.
So, Colleen is going uh I'm reading this one the 16th. Colleen is gonna leave the the July 21st. So I'm assuming then you want me to see what goes on the agenda. So like what if people have stuff they want to put on
the agenda they should send it to me for that meeting or how do you Well or they could send it to everyone. They could send it to you know copy you know whatever. Um I know for sure the Matthew Feldman will be a large part of that
meeting. Um just cuz we haven't had the time to really digest. um you know so you know to vote tonight I think um you know if we could I think it would be
probably more thoughtful um if we could put it in for um the 21st um you know like a final vote um type of thing um and uh so we just need someone for minutes
next I I can take minutes next time. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. And I also did um get your email about the pens and the um
table uh cloth, which I'll be going over with Doug. So, thank you so much for sending me some um some, you know, ideas and thoughts there. You're welcome. And um I'm sorry to keep asking, but like how long is the
parade march exactly? Is it like an hour, hour and a half? Like what did you guys It's not long. It's not long. I don't think Yeah, you line up at 9. It goes It depends on where you are. Yeah, I think you're done
by 11. 20 minutes to start. Yeah, I I can I I'll be available uh to to march with the committee that day. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome.
Woohoo. So, Cheryl, will you let um them know because I I now that I think about it, the deadline might have been Friday because the reason I'm available as age family team, I could not get two margers. So, that's why I can usually I
know I march with them. So, right. No. Can we um still reserve a spot? Okay, I'll find out as soon. I'll reply to that email as soon as possible.
Um yeah, I sure will. Definitely. Um okay, so the next thing uh and the last topic is uh to discuss I'm going to stop sharing this then. Oh. Um, would you like to continue sharing the Matthew
Feldman changes and stuff? Sure. Let me just pull it up on the Zoom. Yeah. And this is the final topic. So, um I I'll just go ahead and tell you one
thing I did see is that it still has me as the person to send it to and that it needs to be the uh township clerk. Like we don't want to mention the chair at all. It would just me, you know, send
it to the township clerk and then when he's ready, he'll make his decision. Um, so yeah. Okay. We did say ABC via township clerk. So we can just say township clerk's office. Yeah. And you might even want to
put that at the top because people are already asking, you know, about it. Like take off his What's his email? Is it clerk at I believe it is clerk. I'm not 100% sure. So, we can put that for
now and then double check it. Yeah, it's clerk@tac new jersey.gov. Okay. I thought it was it. Okay. Wonderful. And so, if anyone uh you know reaches out to me, I'm going to say that's not the proper format. you need to send it
to the clerk and here is where you can find um information etc. So this is sharing the screen now just so I can put that in the minutes. H who is sharing this? Oh Paula Paula it
is still Paula. Okay. Mhm. And I'll go down in case anyone has any other questions. Okay. I have one question. Um I see at the top of the second page you have group individual
or youth. Um I don't know if your uh subcommittee discussed whether or not we are going to be um is it are we giving three awards or are
we just wondering what we may be what whatever we're given if if we have if we're given enough for three awards then there'll be three awards. I don't know. Didn't we say that that we were going to depending on how many things we got nominations we got in would determine
it? Right. That's what we did say. Yes. Okay. Do we I'm sorry. If we're going to have that change, do we need to have a sentence of explanation
to anyone nominating to say what? Well, this year the the ABCR board may consider a separate award for a group if if there are a number of groups
nominated. I don't know whatever I I I I just will that confuse people without an explanation. It doesn't seem to me like there's anything different, right? It just I think we just want to know who's being
nominated and then once we get all the nominees then we see if there's enough to nominate from each category or to create different categories right is that isn't that what's been happened in well like last year we we
had a dilemma because a number of people had nominated organizations and individuals and we had to choose They were in the same category either they were an indivi. So we had adult or youth
and we a lot of us were like well it's hard to compare an organization to an individual. I feel like we had all three last year. I think we um we did but we um didn't have I think there was but we didn't have enough for
the member for the organization to react as it so we we didn't do it. We just did the um youth and we did the adult. So that's always been on the on the application. I don't think we changed that.
Oh, I I thought that we weren't allowed to give a separate award for an organization like we had to choose between an individual or an organ and I thought that was a confusion. No, there the year before we did an
organization. Yeah, we're allowed organizations whatever we want really, you know, but I think it was the number, you know. So if you only put in one
organization is that really uh u I think that it was you know in terms of fair but I think the crossover that you might be thinking about Colleen was because one
organization was a youth organization but I yeah I just I just recall that we were a little baffled on how to handle that like it included youth. Yeah. Yeah. And I I'm still What would you I guess
at the time when we read the n the nominations, we could make a call as to which pile it it fits best with, right? I don't know. Yeah. There was like somebody nominated if you remember like the the Teneuke
soccer. Exactly. Like is that a youth or I I I don't remember. And that's I thought we were going to add category for organization where we could give three awards instead of two. That's what I That would be the same as a group. An organization would
be the same as a group. Yeah. But last year we only gave two. A youth and an adult is what I'm saying. We only gave two awards. So, we had to put the organizations in one of the two category, youth or
youth or adult. Are we just going to But didn't the application already have it? We just didn't get anyone for it. So, we didn't acknowledge it that year. So, is that the same concept we're going to follow? Like we have it in case organizations are submitted and then if there no one submits then we just kind
of like there's no award that year. Yeah, I mean that'd be fine. I'm just saying are we allowed to give three? One for youth, one for adults. I I think it actually had this discussual but I thought we had this discussion
last year and there was no limitation on how many we could get. So if we get 10 in each category, say um if we wanted to give three, wouldn't we give three? because we're shar correct if I'm wrong. Um well, my
understanding is that we could do whatever we want to do. With that said, I mean, obviously, you know, people are going to see this, you know, just to make sure we don't put the township at any legal liability or anything. Um, but
my understanding is that if we wanted to do three, we could, but that was an understanding that I did not have until last year. Um, pre in previous years, we've always done like two awards or something like I I don't even know. In
previous years, I think we only did one a award and then we finally decided we wanted to do a youth award, right? and then it went to a youth award to you know including groups. So uh my understanding la as a as of last year
was that we could do three if we wanted to. Um and you know obviously everything's going to be confirmed before it goes up on a on the website but that is my understanding now but I didn't always have that understanding.
Um, in previous years, Colleen, I thought exactly what you were thinking. Yeah, that's what I remember because I've this been on the board a few years like you have, Cheryl, and we only gave two, but if you're saying that like we can give three, I think that that would
have made it a lot better last year because we had a number of organizations. Yes. Yes. Um, but by the way, I guess I think that should probably say adult instead of individual. A youth is an indiv just grammatically a
youth is an individual. Excellent point, Colleen. Okay. Excellent. Well, okay. So then, um I guess we have to also
decide it's just going to be one adult. Let's say it's two adults that do something together. Um, would they go in the group category then? Yes, they would be a group. Individual is one. Yeah, it's not individual anymore. We
We're using the term adult. If it's two people, it would be a group. Yeah. Maybe you should put youth individual, adult individual. So there it's there it's more clear. Honestly, I don't know that we should make like I think that
having it be a little vague might be to our benefit because then we can see who applies and then we can make the C like categories as it makes sense. So,
you know, maybe if we have not that many, you know, individuals, but we have two adults who apply and also a group, then maybe those two adults who are just two would go under the adult category and then the group would go under a
group category. Just might be easier to have some flexibility based on how many applications we get and who applies. then maybe isolate the group to say group is three or more or four or more. So then anyone under that would fall into the individual category. We could
but I think we're probably reading into this I mean and maybe not but I think that we're probably reading into this a little bit more than agreed. I think we just you could also change the word to organization. You could change the word to organization maybe. Is that a little more clear? Yeah. Well remember two
years ago we had the two young ladies. They weren't necessarily an organization, but they could have been two people who did something together and they won the youth the two of them, but we gave it to both of them as a youth award, I think. Yes. Yes, ma'am.
The other thing is that I mean what is what is uh we could also take out these little check boxes entirely and then um
maybe have like another line like it just says like nominees name and then just like describe um maybe it's just that they have to then describe who the nominee is. So, it's not necessarily a checkbox because then maybe that is a little bit too specific.
They have to they do it and then once we get the nominations we can kind of see how we want to categorize the different awards. Like maybe we could have a line that says like describe um your nominee and then in parenthesis
um you know group individual group youth adults etc. Like I mean then we would have to sift through that and try and figure it out.
Yeah. It would just be another line. But yeah, I mean I also think we could keep it this way. I just I think that we don't I think that we just don't want to make it too specific because then we might limit ourselves on the other end. Um
I I guess where things got like difficult for us in the I'm just going by the last time which was difficult for some reason. And we got a huge number of nominations and they were nominating like a like organiza like there were organizations the only one I remember is
the soccer league but there were a few others that were like the entire organization was nominated and we just thought like you're sort of comparing apples to oranges to to compare an organization to its contribution to the community to like an individual
and and and so like the soccer league was nominated under the youth category against like individual young people who had done. So it just didn't feel like there were people who wanted to acknowledge the good work of the organization as
well as the individuals. So that's why what this is what I recall of why we raised the issue. We could always just define what they are on the form as well. Like a an
individual can be a group of one or two doing one separate task or one you know one set task and then a group is a organization or you know kind of just predefine it. That might help us also once we determine what it is as well.
I don't remember what the actual specifics were for the award. So that's that's why I'm trying to just think if it was I think it's just an award, right? There was no like amount for I should say for a type of for a specific person or group if I remember right.
I have to tell you, I think we'll be lucky if we, you know, at how many submissions that we do get that we get. Last year, I think was a special year. Um, and you know, I did
share widely, you know, at every council meeting, you know, that the ABCR is doing the Matthew Feldman and um, you know, I I put it out there that we were really we were doing this award.
Um, you know, so that won't be the same case this year. Um, so, uh, I I think I I don't know how many The thing the thing is please just think of this what you put in writing then you
are held to all right so if you put a lot of details where you're you know you'll be legally held to you know so if you put a lot of restrictions it may make things just as difficult I
think things might have been vague for so long for a reason you know um so that's just something to think about. Um, but I can see that this is probably the the hardest decision out of everything
that we have to reflect on. Well, then I mean I you're you're right. We that might have been a fluke that we got so many last year and um I I'm I guess I'm okay with just leaving it as
is and and then we decide if if others are okay with that. Then we decide if we award a third category or not based on the numbers like like somebody had said earlier. I think I think last meeting we had also
discussed you like well what if we get you know a youth um individual youth nom nominee that's that is a great nominee and also a youth group and then also an adult nominee and then an adult group and so I
think that there was this feeling of if we really are getting so many great nominees and so many you know great uh you individuals and groups who we can honor um
then we can have the flexibility. like I don't know again and again this is you know this is my first time to being a part of this so I defer to those of you with more experience but there then we have also the ability to maybe do four
you know if if that feels right um not necessarily that it needs to be um three or two or we just basically and and again I don't know exactly how this works but then when we see the the nominations and we evaluate we're not
necess really evaluating I mean it can be but we don't necessarily need to evaluate it as all the youth compared to the youth. We just kind of evaluate it as who do we feel is you know the top the top candidates to get this award and then and then figure
it out from there like well what categories do those people fall into. Yeah. I mean that that's okay with me. I think that flexibility would be helpful. We didn't we didn't feel we had it last year was the problem. So,
I think um if if everyone else is is good with that um and and it's not and the town is okay with us potentially having four plaques instead of two plaques. That's really I think last year
we thought we could only pick two and there we were seeking some clarity on it. Yeah. I I'll definitely check with the, you know, confirm that with the township attorney, but I would think that if we
decided that we wanted to give out four awards this year from what I was told or from this current understanding because that wasn't the understanding three years ago, right? Um, this current
understanding is that we could do that. So, um, no, I will confirm that though. Absolutely. Um, so that we're not into any type of liability. Yes, Will, please unmute yourself. Yes, sorry if we talked about this
already, but um, how are we reaching the community to let them know to vote? And is it an equitable um, channel to reach everyone? Um, so that we really have the we really have all different
opportunities for everybody to be able to to vote somebody in or, you know, win an award. Boy, well, that's an excellent question. Last year, I went everywhere like to the point of exhaustion. I went to groups
uh different groups that I knew, MLK committee group, uh this, you know, different groups, uh block association groups, anywhere that I could that people would let me stand up, I I said it. Um and at every single council
meeting, both um Councilwoman G and myself, I used my three minutes to mention that as well. Um, and so, uh, you know, I mean, I think that's the best that we can do, but this year I I I
can't do that, you know. Um, I I just can't don't have uh the the time. I will share and do my part, but I can't do it to the level that I did last year. Um, and and I think it was also on the um
the emails that come out from the from the township. if you're on those emails. I know I remember receiving those emails quite often. Yes. Yeah. I was going to say we can certainly have the town send a nixel. I think word of mouth is really powerful. I think you all represent a very diverse
um uh group, you know, neighborh groups of neighbor geographically um and beyond. And so I think if you just tell everyone, you know, the different groups that you're a part of, that helps as well. Um and then I just want to clarify um will that it's a nomination, not a vote. So, the public doesn't vote on the
candidates. They just nominate the candidates. I just wanted to clarify that piece. And then, um, I just want to apologize in advance. I do need to hop off. Um, if you have any questions for me, feel free to shoot me an email or send me a text. Um, but great discussion and I know you guys, this is phenomenal.
I'm really looking forward to this next iteration of the of the award. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you. Um, all right. So I I um have some homework. You I I I from what I'm hearing is that
you definitely want me to confirm along with this along with uh you know everything else um to make sure that we are you know legally able to do these things and and I I will do that. Um,
and uh, what I I just don't know. I I I want I have to take a hard vote on where we're at in terms of uh, leaving it, I guess, the way it is.
Um, so that we have f flexibility. Um, or actually, you know what? I don't have to take a hard vote cuz this isn't the final this isn't the the final draft that's going to be posted online. We're not going to post until, you know, pop.
We don't have to vote until July. Um, how does that sound to everybody? Just so that we have more time to look at it and make sure just to see if there's some anything, you know? So,
if we vote in July, then I'm assuming it would take what, a week or two after to get it up. And we're saying that this submission date is September 3rd. That just leaves us a little bit over just about a month. Is
that enough time? Oh, one month is is definitely enough time, but we may want to change that date next month. We may want to change uh the submission date. We can definitely vote on that. Um because
we've had some real excellent discussion. So maybe that's something you all want to think about and we can uh you know talk about um uh you know the the documents via email back and forth um now that we've seen these you
know that everyone's seen these drafts um and you know I I would love to have a full committee um you know to take the vote as well but we might not be able to Um,
yes. Okay. So, well, just for clarification, cuz this is this is like the third month we've discussed it and I I think we shared it last month as well. So, now are we changing the entire timeline? Just so we're clear cuz if we bring it back another month, what are we
voting differently in another month? Yeah, that was my question, too. because if the award is supposed to done in September, we're not giving ourselves enough time to really get submissions, review them, and vote as a group.
Um, you can look to the next week. Well, I never talked about a um reward awarding it in October being that if the nominations were due by September, we would review them at our September meeting, which would be midepptember,
and then award the nomination at the October council meeting. So, if we have to push it back, then that just pushes it back another month to November, and then we start getting tricky into the holidays and the cold weather. I think we've we've already discussed
this at nauseium. I I mean also like unless there's anything other than that specific thing that I mean I think this looks great. So unless there's anything I don't think I mean I certainly don't feel very very strongly about it. So I'm happy to defer to anyone else. Um if
like you know I I would say let's just make a decision finish this off here and and then because to to push it off just for this you know the group adult child thing doesn't necessarily seem worth it to me. Um yeah I would agree with that.
I I it was just a Cheryl was going to get clarification that it's okay for us to get more than two plaques, but we don't need to hold up approval of the form to get that clarification. We can, like you said, leave it vague so that we have more
discretion to decide when we vote. I'm okay with that. So, I'm okay with voting on this as is. Okay. All right. So everybody feels they've had because I I'm not sure that I saw this document be uh it might have been
shared at the last meeting but I didn't get like a you know a physical copy. So as as long as everybody feels uh comfortable um I'm fine with it. Okay. All right. Let's
do it. Um Okay. Um okay. So, I uh those of you that are You got to ask for a motion to adopt it.
Yes. Yes. I Yes. But I just wanted to figure out we do have people that are um what's the word? Uh not standby, but um they're not voting members unless we're down. Alternate, which we are. Yeah,
alternates. Thank you. Uh we are down one. So who I just so that I can see right here. Um do you know if you're an alternate in the group? Yeah, I think Sherukq and I are the alternates. Am I right about
that, Sheruk? Yeah, Leak is alternate one on alternate two. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, so uh Shook, you've done a wonderful job and I guess Leette gets the vote tonight. And um if you'd like to vote, I'm happy
to def if I'm allowed. I don't know. I'm happy to defer my vote to you. I don't know if you're allowed to do that. So, okay. I log off really quickly. Okay. So, for the minutes, I need someone making a motion and someone
seconding it. Okay. We'll have someone I'll make a motion to vote on the Matthew File. I think that's fine. I'll second. I'll second. I'm sorry. I I couldn't figure out who
said what though. Would he motion? Okay. And and Paula seconded. Okay. Okay. And then you call the vote, Cheryl. Okay. All right. So, Dr. Paula
We're doing it individually. Say all in favor. You're supposed to say all in favor. Yeah. Oh. Um I think we have to do like this one one by one. Okay. We have to um so that's why I was calling the vote individually because it is you know the Matthew Feldman award. It it's
um but we can do it really quick. Um Dr. Paula. Yay. Yes. Okay. Wonderful. Uh Will. Yay. All right, Joseph. Yes.
Wonderful. Colleen, yes. Leticia, yes. Leah, yes. Wonderful. Okay, you got to record your
vote. Are you My vote is a yes. My vote is a yes. So, we're good. Okay. All right. So, um at this point um in the meeting
um the rubric is a little bit more right um meeting I'm wondering if we would like to hold off on on going through that until next month. Oh, the Oh, yeah. That's that's fine.
Yeah, I sent it out to everyone. So, if you have any you can send it back before next meeting. Thank you so much, Dr. Paula. We and we really appreciate everyone's wonderful work, the entire subcommittee.
And with that, um there is Does anyone have anything? I just I do actually. Um just the township website, Colleen, if you can just document this in the meeting minutes. Um the advisory board meeting is not on November 27th. It's on
November 17th. That's the listing date. That's incorrect. The the November 17th is the correct date according to our schedule. Yes. And they have it as the 27th. So which date is correct? Actually, yeah. Actually, let's look real quick.
Actually, that Yeah, that they probably put a two instead of a one. That's all. Exactly. Yeah, cuz the 24th is a Monday. That's just a typo. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, we'll mention that to Doug as well. And then for us internally, Tenic Day is September 15th, but we have a meeting
that day. I doubt we can do both. So, we have to change that September meeting because that's Tenic Day. Yes. I think when we had started though, we weren't sure when the town was going to or we had scheduled it. We weren't sure when the town was going to do Yeah.
They're going to do day on a Monday. Not a weekend. No, it's always a weekday after it is. We have to change that September meeting which also um I know that's Matthew Felman deliberations. So, yes. And we
also need to look at the holidays. So, we'll make those uh you know, we'll talk about that um at our next meeting and and send an email to Doug about that. And we can also discuss back and forth through email as well if you um
especially for something like a date um if we so choose. Okay. And then my last thing to ask was um because our November meeting is the 17th, the week prior, I think it's the week of Thanksgiving, um
as the community relations advisory board, are you guys interested in maybe doing a turkey drive where we're just giving out turkeys that are donated to us? I know a lot of other organizations do it, but in this economy, everyone needs a meal and it would be, you know, even
we just give out like 50 turkeys. It's not like crazy, but if I can get like the Shopright, local shop right or stop and shop to donate the frozen turkeys for free. Are we interested in doing something like that? As a community relations advisory board, who should be in the community doing things? I mean,
that's the holiday time. A lot of other organizations do it, but but us. Uh, I'm open. Is it what what would be the setup for that? Is that mobile or would it be like a stationary kind of No, we could do it right in the parking lot at the at the township in this building. People
would just stop by and pick up a turkey if they if you know if we can organize this. Is it something like I can look into? Is anyone opposed to it? Um not. Would we be better off partnering with another group or you want to do this
never alone again advisory group by ourselves? I mean we can do both. That's what I'm saying. We can do it. we can just are we interested in getting like the turkeys and yeah we can hook up with local town organizations like never alone or the center of food action and you know join and partake in that. I'm
just asking are we interested in doing that? Um I think it's a good idea. I mean we should be doing more things as an advisory board in the community. Yeah. Absolutely. I agree. And I and I think to your to your point, Leticia, if we
can and um Paula, if we can also get some of the organizations so that we can really boost the engagement and, you know, really diversify the approach there. I I already know some people I can get to kind of help with that if we need to get if we all decide that that's
what we want to do. Okay. Well, where we can connect and I mean, everyone's in agreeance. Maybe you and I can figure something out. Um, I know the NAACP does a big one at Brian School. Exactly. They always sell out give out their turkey so quickly.
So, I was like, do we need insurance for that? Do we what do we need any kind of insurance or anything? Um, I don't think we need insurance. I don't think so. We don't need insurance. Just do it on the township's property. Okay. No, I mean it's a question to ask. We can ask, hey,
can we do it in their parking lot? Um, but I'm just like obviously logistics need to be worked out, but I'm just saying the holiday's coming. Everything's, you know, different now for a lot of people. It's something as a community relations maybe we can look at doing so we're our presence is here and
people know of us. It definitely sounds great. We we should definitely put it on the list. Um maybe we can do some research um and can talk about it um you know in July and Sounds great. Definitely that
if we're doing it on the township grounds that's something that has to be approved by the town manager. So you know we do have to run it through there but yeah we can definitely um sounds wonderful and we can um talk about that
at our uh at our July meeting. I was just going to say if we maybe want to consider the stop and shell parking lot. Um and also Never Alone is right there. That might be a good place to just kind of collaborate together on that. Yeah. Actually, Never Alone is um
going out of business. She's kind of mobile. Yeah. Well, she's she's she's lo losing the space. She's I heard that also. She's out of those. I know she's kind of going to be mobile, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's unfortunate.
Yeah, it really is cuz she helped so many people. But thank you so much everyone. I guess so we we have some thing you know some things that we can be working on and um you know we'll come back uh for our July
meeting. Okay. And with that I make a a a motion to end the meeting at 8:33. Thank you. Any second? Second.
Okay, everybody's okay with that, right? No, I'm not okay. You want to stay a little longer? You want to stay a little longer? Have a good night. Good night, guys. Bye. Bye.