--------- this is compliance with the open public La I wish to state that on February 7th 2025 the notice of this meeting that the Upper Township committee was posted on the official Township bulletin board Upper Township website emailed to the Atlantic City Press the Ocean City Sentinel Ledger the heral times and follow with the township CL tonight's meeting is being video recorded up to until the close
session portion of this meeting and will be available on the township website I hereby direct this announcement be made part of the minister of this meeting Joan will you please call the role Mr caceo yes Mr nappin is absent Mr here Mr Zach Palumbo here may Corson and we all will need to stand for the flight the United States of America
for stands na indivisible andice has everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes for our meeting to include the closed session yes would somebody entertain a motion I'll make the motion second please call the role Mr Casio yes Mr Sam palbo yes Mr Zach Palumbo yes may course
yes Mo okay going down the list here we're going to do a report of government body uh Sam we're gonna start with you well nice blar to be here U my close collaborator on Parks and W um we had to make the difficult decision together to uh unfortunately get rid of the Easter egg hunt that the township normally does uh it's a budgetary issue uh as well as Manpower issue so uh we unfortunately
the tough decision that we won't be doing that any longer and then as you mentioned mayor uh figuring out July 4th and how we're going to kind of attack that through either finding a vendor or changing the date uh of when we would celebrate that we had reached out to the rescue squad the resue squad uh about doing the Easter event for fundraiser how do you make out with that John is that the works maybe discussed okay so we are looking for
somebody in the private sector or fundraising sector that would like to do it and we want to continue to Celebration but in a different venue absolutely yeah um and those are those that's really all I have this time there all right Sam thank you Z do you have anything for tonight well uh if you have been looking at the news there's a uh pending a snowstorm that's on our way and Craig and I have been in back and forth shooting TXS everything so we
should be good to go hoping that uh for all of us that starts a little bit later than anticipated and that uh everything's cleared good good to go and it changes over to rain you know that's the the hopeful optimistic but well I I'm pretty sure our streets are still going to be better than most places in the county know with our capabilities yes Tyler do you have any tonight um yeah I have a couple things actually we have our last r Clinic of the year
coming up on the February 22nd from 1 to 3 at the shore uh Shore vets there bottom of the Corson road in route 50 um and mayor and I had a meeting with the Beasley Point Redevelopment group this week last week excuse me and uh was very very good meeting they're in the last stage of the remediation of the project up there and they're looking forward to moving forward with their development plan and what they have planned up there uh can't go into too
much detail right now about what they have planned but they are planning some great things to put up there and really make uh the head of Beasley's point a popular destination going forward for people of the town and for tourists coming in that's it all right thank and like I was talking earlier in our budget Workshop uh tonight Ty and I met with a a solar power company that is looking at maybe uh
formulating an agreement with us to utilize our old landfill so that's a working progress in uh we have to look at every Revenue stream we possibly can and it's uh we have to think a little bit outside the box and I'm glad this opportunity came to us and maybe we can uh hopefully get something moving there as a possible income Source two big Revenue sources yes that' be and it'd be a long-term Revenue Source if wouldn't be Dr
be annual income for multiple years just like our cell phone towers are so at this time I want to take a I'm going to go to administrative overview and I want to take a minute to introduce Joe Ry he's our acting administrator so Joe the floor is yours sir well thank you thank you it's nice to be here um again I'm Joe Veron um I work for Jersey Professional Management we're a local government Consulting agency
uh and we've been hired to do the recruitment for uh uh for the uh Township of upper um I'm a temporary appointment here so uh I will be uh helping with the recruitment process and uh that's just one of the things that Jersey Professional Management does we're a firm that's been in business for over 30 years here in New Jersey um again recruitment uh temporary positions um department head positions and or a management consulting firm
efficiency studies salary surveys Etc so as such I just want to give Council uh committee Township committee and uh and the public a quick overview of what we believe the process is and what the process normally encompasses uh we've done it hundreds of times over the last 30 years and and uh we we've kind of narrowed it down but um our we believe our schedule in Upper Township is uh uh this week individual interviews with the
governing body I think most of you have been contacted by the president of the company to set up a a time frame to speak about what your desires are um and um uh Tom treni the president of Jersey Professional will be talking to every member of the governing body and um we should be placing an advertisement uh job opportunity in a general advertisements and uh uh various uh Regional
management uh periodicals New Jersey League of municipalities Pennsylvania municipal Managers Association and uh International City Managers Association uh that gets the biggest turnout we also have a a pretty large database a list serve through Jersey Professional Management so the notice will go out to over 500 uh managers uh administrators assistance uh in in New Jersey and in uh Southeast p
Pennsylvania uh and a number of nonprofits get it as well um so that'll be happening this week uh next week we'll we'll hopefully begin collecting resumés uh and some come in immediately and then some lag but over the next week or so uh uh Tom will also be reaching out to our senior staff members uh to gauge their uh uh their desires for for uh uh fulltime uh Township administrator
and then um after that we will establish the uh during the week of February 24th to the 17th uh we'll distribute questionnaires to all the interested applicants and we're hopeful uh that uh on March 10th Tom try can come and make a presentation at that meeting to give you a status update as to uh where we stand with number of applicants uh the screening process and then establish uh
uh interviews and then ultimately the selection uh process the week of March 17th to April 4th um I'd like to really thank May and Township committee for helping out it it makes it faster easier uh you know I've done this a couple dozen times myself and uh and getting everybody together and getting you folks have been very Cooperative thank you uh mayor was kind enough to take me around a a very detailed tour of uh uh of Upper
Township um and uh you have a beautiful Township here uh even though I was uh inventer and Atlantic City for a number of years I I I was not down in Upper Township that much but uh uh it's certainly a beautiful a beautiful setting and I think you're going to have a a process uh uh a politically neutral and very open process to select uh select a good applicant that'll be a good fit for Upper Township so that's kind of where we are with the with the
process mayor and committee but uh we want to try to stick to these time frames um because at the end of the time frame it may be a person moving up it may be a person that uh has recently uh uh left their their municipality uh so one may have to give a lot of notice to to theirs or want to give a lot of notice and another may be available uh quickly so we just don't know so we want to get through the the initial part of the process uh um on time so we're going to start you folks
are going to start the work this week and uh with Tom and uh we'll begin the advertisement this week as well so we are start getting some uh traction on the replacement thank you're welcome Joan you have any question I just want to uh thank Joe and welcome him his presence has been very calming and welcome this past two weeks um also the fire district elections will be held on Saturday February 15th from 2: to 9: and the rescue squad is having their
rast sale I gave my cheat sheet too for for some of us who forgot about Valentine's Day that definitely isn't me this year um you're able to get roses from the rescue squad uh I'll definitely be calling them this week so thank you it's the 12th 13th and 14th yes that's all John do you have anything tonight nothing at this time thank you m and if John has to leave he's hope not hope not but he's he's got a wife and a child do any any second so
if John door we know why bar do you have anything for us tonight I have nothing this evening thank you thank you Mr Mayor um first one up some great news for the township uh we were just approved for our annual community rating uh system recertification so that allows us to maintain our 25% discount on flood insurance rates for the township residents so some some
great news that happened over the last week um and adding to that we have our cycle visit which is every five years and that's scheduled for July with uh CRS next one athletic Court uh resurfacing project as discussed at the last meeting we have now finalized the scope of work to include additional pickle ball courts um I've received a few of the quotes back from our Co-op contractors and it looks like if we
remove the basketball court from the scope of work as discussed we will fall right in uh under our project budget um removing that and doing that on a separate or future project um so by the next committee meeting I'll have additional information on the final costs of the project before we move forward with signing Co-op contracts and getting into construction last one I have uh reconstruction of putam Avenue this is our do Municipal a gr project uh we
submitted last week to NJ do for review um we are also submitting this week to Cape Atlantic Conservation District and we're anticipating to get the reviews back and approvals uh really mid to end of March and then we'll go out to bid in April and then the the resolution of award will be on our May 12th agenda um for that project we will hold construction until after uh the summit um to start in the fall in
Shir that's all I had for tonight thank you Ryan okay under presentations we have in recognition and appreciation of Melissa Coker on the occasion of her retirement from the township of upper I could just get a motion real quick to adopt that I'd make motion we approve second Mr caceo yes Mr s Palumbo yes Mr Zach Palumbo yes may Corson yes
yeah listen we're going to have to get you up here I on come on around and get a picture we're not going to there's not enough you can say positive about she's been here a long time with Upper Township and come on up you're coming up stand right here next to me
so Melissa's been here a long time she walked up through the ranks and became our chief it's been an honor for sering years and I'm not going to go down story actually made me look pretty St she gave me a ride to the hospital one night after got a sketchy Melissa thank you and thank you and we wish you well with everything you
do thank you this is a resolution toship everybody get a picture
that wasn't too bad was it okay next we have a donation from the Southshore stitchers to the Township buer Recreation trust make a motion second we have to make happily accepted yes we have a motion to
accept it we we call the r show Mr Casio Mr Sam Palo Mr Zack Palo yes coron yes and I believe there's representation here from the south door stitches we'd like you to come on up we'll get the same photo opportunity if you want it's not one of those big checks is it
misser this is this is an honor for people like this to donate their time your energy and giv back to the community that's what that's
what makes people like you and the hard work for our community thank you very much like we're
said that's what makes our pretention great people giving back to the community wonderful thank you okay we do have the one item we've removed item 12 from our consent agenda um we will have that coming back to us in another date so did you want to
public comment comment oh yes but item 12 has been removed so at this time we'll open it up to the public is anyone would like to comment on our pending agenda hearing no public comment on our pending agenda we will close the public portion of this consent agenda and move forward Joanne all consent agenda items listed
below are routine in nature and will be enacted by one motion if the mayor or any Committee Member wishes a particular agenda item to be considered separately it will be removed from the consent agenda and act on separately gentlemen would your pleasure on the consent agenda make a motion I'll second please call the role Mr Cacho yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zach Palumbo yes Corson yes motion Carri
under new business we have Cape Regional Medical Center auxiliary request to hold raffle ra 586 and bingo ba 587 at the Upper Township community center 1790 rk50 on April 25th 2025 somebody like I'll make make the motion I'll second please call a roll Mr caceo yes Mr s Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palo yes may Corson yes motion carried 21 American Legion Post 39 Aaron M cwell
request to hold raffle ra 588 at the Heritage Links Golf Course 1375 Route 9 on July 26 2025 I'll make the motion I'll second please call a roll Mr caceo yes Mr s Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes M Corson yes motion carried what is everyone is pleasure on the bills make let's pay the bill yeah somebody
reads a little statement there I hereby move all claims submitted for payment at this meeting to be approved and Incorporated full the minutes of this meeting I'll make a motion I'll second please call Mr casassa yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zach Palumbo yes mayor Corson yes motion carried at this time we will open it up to the public is there anyone in the public that would like to address the town
committee yes yes Natalie n block 456 L 13 block 476 l29 I'm an interested party in the state of New Jersey like you mayor Corson my father bought the farm 1968 when I was only 17 Friday uh February 7th 2025 I had an impromptu meeting with uh Joseph
Brun um he asked me what can I do and I said Run for the hills over the weekend and with some consideration Mr Rooney it's my opinion you could look to reinstate Gary esoro as Upper Township business administrator um the $10,000 for the three months would be um a $35,000 savings to the tax tax payers for a year along with your three Monon
salary and the money's now going to attorney blay donu Kate May County would be then saved Kate May County Herold article dated 25 2025 and I have a copy for um the record tonight it is still my opinion mayor Corson is strong arming the rest of the board page A3 Upper Township s noted paragraph 10 lines 1 through four Mr Corson Jr you order Victor nappen uh
Deputy Mayor plaque November of 2024 you build the taxpayers December of 2024 and that was before the reorganizational meeting January 3rd 2025 so noted I am also requesting to know the head count on 13 2025 the reorganizational meeting um and I
have I don't know what the head count I guess you could look back the video and count the people if you want I don't think there was anybody at the door County so you don't know I have no clue how many people were in the room now no clue NOP you don't keep a record no I don't believe we have anybody counting people coming in the door I mean is that position you think we may need to put it on the record I don't know I should we hire an employee
to do that many years ago I requested that you have a signin log so we didn't know who was present in the meetings I don't think that's mandatory or required by state tatue but it does say um the Mac maximum occupancy is 110 is that for um insurance purposes health and safety perh Fire Marshal regulates
um I also request a meeting with the business administrator and the Planning and Zoning official to discuss and review the file status of the pond wetlands and driveway um block 639 Lots 1501 1502 and 1503 um 49 Acres former Shaw Farm marora noted in the Press of Atlantic City July 12th 2011 14 years
ago I put that on my Oprah um my Oprah 025 d225 dated February 4th 2025 was the resolution for employee salaries 2025 uh number 012 d225 the employees salaries noted do not include five salaries or your mayor coures salary at 19.5 th000 and the other four
committee members at 135,000 a total I believe of $73,500 was not included in the employee salaries and um why is it is it a secret it's not a secret obviously you found it it's public information but you don't have it in the resolution it's not
required so um do you have the salaries listed anywhere in the salary ordinance that's what I'm talking about I open the salary ordinance the salary has the the committee members listed their salaries okay thank you thank you is there anyone else in public yes sir can you speak about anything has to do with the township yes
thank you my name is Andy kok I live I'm a resident of Upper Township I live on Route 50 across from D General my wife and I have a small farm market over there there's two things that I we seem to have a problem with number one the speed limit is 50 miles an hour on that stretch of Route 50 there in the in the summertime need needless to say there's a lot of shore traffic over there a lot of shore traffic there but also this time of year during the week there's a lot of heavy trucks come through there
loaded they're going over I assumed at a concrete plant and these trucks are like 80,000 lbs and I'm afraid sooner or later we've already had quite a few accidents in that neighborhood there mostly rear Enders but I'm worried in the future there could be a really bad accident around the corner there by the bar because these trucks the speed limit is 50 but a lot of them try and beat the light so they're going over 50 m an hour I had spoke to Mr Jeff Andrew last fall about possibly lowering the speed limit
in there and he said you'd have I'd have to come here to present it to you and you would have to possibly pass a resolution then he would take over and try and get it done there so that's one thing if the speed limit could be lowered to 30 35 I think it would be a lot safer for everybody I mean speeding is a problem and we have a very um diverse Township as you know and that's something I think we could probably I would be willing to send a resolution up
to the the state of New Jersey and actually have them look at it and copy our legislators and Mr vanre the other the other issue is there within a quarter mile radius more or less there's six businesses there there's first there's if you're going north there's us there's do General you go a little bit further there's the pizzeria there's the storage unit you go a little bit further there's a place that sells it with boat trailers I believe and across from there is the plumber I don't know if there your business but the signs are all still there and then you've got
developments in between there traffic going there for that all right there is a turning lane it starts by our driveway going south to the corner there if you want to make a left turn come by here however if you're going north towards tuckaho for example and you want to turn into our place legally you can't get in that turning lane because it's got a double yellow line here if you get in that turning lane and have an accident I would assume you're going to be sighted what I'm asking if possible would it be
possible to to extend that turning lane like maybe a quarter of a mile and include it with all the businesses especially in the summertime there was an accident about two years ago Memorial to day I was in the greenhouse I heard it I come out and I was the one called 911 and it was the traffic was heavy and somebody everybody's in a hurry that's the problem they're always in a hurry no matter what time of the day what time of night over there but if had the turning lane extended like I say all the
businesses if you were making a left or making a right you would have a chance to get in there and would possibly you know they do it on Dy drive and line and there's a lot of traffic over there and there's places where they have turning Lanes there and you can get in the middle there and it's I I think good observation on your part where on paper they probably didn't see it but you observe it in the field so it's something we could probably put in a resolution along with lowering the speed limit and we could actually work with our uh engineer and our legal and we can
architect something and we will have something and I'd like to see something in our next meetings if we could I called excuse me I tried calling the do and you push numbers and and you get a a voicemail please leave your name and message we'll call you back I'm still waiting for my call my call back here so well that's why I came here and like I say Jeff was very you know he was very very accommodating on it there he says go to the township and he says if they
pass a resolution either you or them get in touch with me and I'll definitely help you make it happen he said there and so that's good and we can get this started and that's actually a good observation that you've noticed in the field there which is things get done thank thank you if you need any more information feel free to stop over I'm in and out but yeah sooner or later you'll catch me over there I'll be I think Ryan might want to maybe do a look at it so we can get the wording right for what you need or what would make sense because I mean
okay I I think it would be definitely a safety issue both both things that we could get it done over there so and I'm sure over the years you've seen a number of traffic accidents I've seen a few over there trust me the last one was pretty bad there they took the person away in the namland over there so so there's there was a tremendous amount of traffic over there even this time of year early in the morning you go there like 7 8:00 in the morning and then you go like 4 5:00 at night the traffic is still pretty pretty pretty heavy over there and the worst thing is trucks and
nerve yeah it's not easy to stop an 80,000 an 880,000 lb truck as a farmer I know a little bit about trucks and so forth and it's not very easy to stop trucks there so and people think you're moving slow and they feel compelled to pull out and part of you right thank you very much for your thank you for your time thank you for coming up is there anyone else in the public yes good evening Mr Mayer and everyone
on the board my name is Lou barbuto I live at 38 Francis Drive in Woodbine Petersburg and um at times I spend time on route nine and I like to walk and route nine is I guess a dangerous uh place to do walking there's sidewalks in front of buildings and then there's just grass
and mud and I was wondering uh what the stipulation for um you know sidewalks or if that's a law or how they determine whether sidewalks go in because half of the say from uh uh from Taho to uh poo half of the uh
places have sidewalks the other half don't I was just wondering if that's Township or state or how that gets decided and what the laws are a lot of those sidewalks correct me if I'm when we're putting 80s and 90s during development processes some of these properties have not been in front of the development or had the opportunity to be redeveloped so as they've come along these things have
been had sidewalks put in we just obtained a grant to put sidewalks in route nine uh area in Beasley's point from basically the Tako into our school and that was a safe rout School Grant so Ryan am I right with that or yeah that's absolutely correct um so it is a state road under jurisdiction of NJ do so typically any new commercial project that comes in uh then they require
sidewalks at that time so okay so the older establishments don't there's no reason for them to put in sidewalks as far as U the current laws are concerned yeah it's not a requirement to have the sidewalks of law okay uh is uh there a place is is this a state issue uh because it's a state road so it's state right away they would make the decision
to either install the sidewalks okay so what you're saying is basically I have to talk to the state to um voice that concern yeah yeah exactly they would make that decision all right I didn't know who was in charge of that and some of those uh Mr Mayor some of those sidewalks are are are new sidewalks well they the state when they did their Paving project what they did is they replaced existing sidewalks and curves
so if there was a sidewalk there and it was in the state of disrepair they replaced it okay all right because it's a it's a dangerous place to uh I know not too many people walk but I like to exercise and you know sometimes I go down there and and walk in that area and and you know you you're you're basically at times you have to walk on a state highway and that that my concern thank you B all right thank
you is there anyone else in the public uh I'm Joan kler 138 butter Road uh pmo um my concern is with um the road it's takaho Road and all the PO that are going up Taho road all the way
up to the uh the middle school I'm just afraid somebody's going to blow a tire and there's going to be a really severe accident I have called a couple of times about it been told yeah they're going to go up there and they're going to fill Pock holes in but it really needs to be resurface I also live on the corner of Old Stage Coach and butter and when you drive off a stage
coach a left or a right going to uh to butter toward route nine just that area is so bad that last night I found myself you know kind of like weaving and I live right there right on that corner so there are some areas in the township that really need to be a address yes uh Joan the roads you have given us are all County Roads yeah so how do we do that well very simple we're going to have
Ryan reach out toor to the County engineer okay and and there is podles on tuo road I'm very familiar with him because I wrode down it today same road down today there's actually a bad one in the middle of the intersection it Rose about Boulevard yeah which is so we will reach out to the county Mr Foster or Mr church is the County engineer here I don't anticipate or see anything
being done till after the snowstorm but yeah but we will reach out to him and we'll have something so thank you if you'd like us to reach out to you and let us know let you know what the outcome was with DOs reaching out if you want to share your contact information with me after the meeting or you can email me at Upper Township and I will get back to you okay thank you does that include um butter road yeah yes okay great thank you very much all right
thank you is there anyone else in the public like to comment not close public portion and want motion to go in close session make motion a second well we got to got to read the I hear by a resolution to be incorporated in the minutes authorizing the township committee to enter into executive session for the following matters pursuant to the open public
meetings act matters one Personnel two contract negotiations living Shoreline three contract negotiation special legal counsel four contract negotiation Engineering Services five contract negotiation of prial services six litigation on Prescott Avenue I also included my motion that the estimated time and circumstances under which the discussion conducted in closed session can be disclosed as public as followed it is anticipated that the matters discussed in close session may be
disclosed to the public upon the determination of the township committee that the public interest will no longer serve it such confidential confidentially with the respect to the employment and Personnel matters such decisions will be made public if and when formal action is taken or when the individuals involved consent that it has been made public with the respect to contract negotiation negotiations such matters will be made public when negotiations have ceased and there are
no longer reasons for confidentiality and with respect to litigation matters such discussions will be made public when litigation is complete and the applicable appeal period has expired okay we're looking for a second to that motion second please call the roll Mr caceo yes Mr Sam Palo yes Mr zumbo yes coron yes motion carried I we take a couple minutes here Part: 2
I wish to state that on February 7th notice of this budget Workshop meeting of the Upper Township committee was posted on the official Township Bulls board the upper town City website emailed to the Atlantic City Press the Ocean City Sentinel Ledger The Herald times and F with the township CL tonight me meeting is being video recorded and will be available on the Upper Township website by hereby direct this announcement to be made part of the minutes of this meeting Joan will you please call the RO
Mr Casio here Mr nappin is absent Mr Sam Palumbo here Mr Zach Palo here may Corson present um obviously this is a budget Workshop there not a whole lot to go over tonight we will introduce our budget at our next meeting and we will have public comments on our budget when the opportunity affords itself and we will not be to I mean
obviously during public comments anybody is more than welcome to say anything they want or bring approach any subject but um each committee person here has taken the opportunity and has sat down with our auditor and going over the budget asked numerous questions and I want to thank you guys for putting the time in because I it was a lot of time and it was uh a lot of dedication and I
appreciate that um we have a very solid budget there is going to be an increase in our spending obviously we've lost state aid approximately 640,000 in state aid we had to make it up somewhere so that it's the bulk of our increase um and I want to thank everyone who did put the time in from our department
heads on down to to help formulate the budget I think we've got a lot of stuff covered in there that uh is good does anybody on the committee have any questions or comments obviously uh the governor pulling our funding did not help things and uh be good to get rid of him at the end of this year and uh I said M's got come somewhere
Zach sh do you have any comments or um obviously it's very challenging to overcome $600,000 um it's unfortunate we had to raise obviously but um it's just a necessary evil right now um economically for the township um really happy where everything's going uh being able to meet with the auditor himself and him doing a complete forensic accounting of everything we're spending money on um
you know I think it's an trying to balance cutting spending while also making Sage decisions for the future of the township um so it's a difficult Balancing Act always and that's a hard thing in being responsible is you have to look long term if we have a zero now it's going to impact this down the road and it does carry forward and it is huge I mean fonding capacity everything it's a and
there is a surplus our Surplus is growing it as it should just like any want at home you all want a surplus in your savings account that's why you have a savings account not all your Che but but just to be noted too um we do depend on our Surplus to fund our budget um so it's we have a healthy fund balance or Surplus um but we use that
each year to part part of it to fund our budget the only thing I'm going to say is we're going to have to work on one you know small project at a time to bring uh bring back that you know nugget that we lost to $645,000 yes and there is some things going on that uh we have budgeted that we may not spend the money on because we have problems with a couple of our vendors Maybe you're not being able to provide
some of these Services we've had in the past and the LA the latest one is at Fourth of July that we're having problems with our vendor I'll be straight up we might not be able to get a vendor here for the 4th of July so we might have to forgo the fireworks just for lack of a vendor which I hate to see it cancelled because of that reason but none of us can set up or manufacture
set off fireworks so it's a out of our control um Joe you well only been here a few days and yes I've enjoyed the experience so far uh a great staff and uh I did have the opportunity to meet with your auditor when uh um when uh when we last spoke uh last week and uh again as you mentioned that your loses $645,000 in the municipal Relief
Fund that you've had over over o over a couple years so it it it's hard to balance the budget on that uh you want to make sure that you recoup your uh any of the Surplus that you use to offset increases um so that it it regenerates itself so that you have it for future years and you know subsequent years here but uh my brief experience with your budget you're it's very complete and uh
I think your department are doing a good job thank and I said the big thing is in our end I think we need to look at we have to think a little outside the box we have to start thinking how can we generate revenue for the township which we've talked about numerous things amongst ourselves different times I had a conversation with Sam and one of those was about the community center in pickle ball we have an indoor pickle ball system we don't charge money and we're
going to do some investigating we're going to find out what kind of Revenue maybe we can generate with that uh Tyler and I met today would Ryan and Joe would people interested in uh leasing our old landfill for a solar field it's a revenue stream it's all part of the big picture I mean it's 20,000 here 40,000 there next thing you know we've made up a penny in taxes and we've we're getting closer to the 600 40,000 that the
governor decided to take away from us yeah I think you just like you just said like the smaller the projects as we start collecting them up we'll end up getting that money back yes you know I think just may have take a little bit extra work but we can Correll a bunch of different projects and get money out of it for to it work it itself out and I think every Department there's we need to look and we we need to listen to our employees and L there might be multiple
revenue streams out there that maybe they can help us find and just like we charge for our boat rampant fees I mean we charge other things and the other thing we have is Gamu away convenience account I mean I know why it was put in place but it does cost the township money but it then again it alleviates a lot for f trash so there there's pros and cons to everything we have but these things that
cost money we need to look at and if we can justify their existence and keep it and it makes sense yes and our convenience count because we H what we've done is I want to say it started in 86 or 87 we the lill opened in ' 84 and illegal dumping became a problem in our Township so the township took it upon themselves and we have uh you register your vehicle and we allow up to 1,000 pound a month
at the landfill free well it's not free because the township pays it and I convenience account how much do that cost us a year um we pay probably on an average maybe $6,000 a month so for that and that's we're just paying the dump fees and 6,000 a month the dump fees if people curved it isn't going to go away it's actually that cost would probably go up to 8 to 9,000
because we're going to put labor involved to picking it up so so there's pros and cons I mean it's uh is this I don't think that program is abused I think we've had it in the past abused but I think the CL off does a great job of keeping that under control so I think this is all stuff we need to look at everything every department and try to find some cost savings analyze what we're doing and let's see if we're doing it properly or we might be able to do it
better you're here so Barb do you have anything else to my budget um no um I just appreciate all the department heads giving their input so I can put it together for you folks um you know again losing the aid um did did hurt the budget um but I I think we did a good job in um putting it together
um and this process starts just so everybody knows this process started and Gary was our administrator at the time and he started this process I believe in August or September and this is this is most months of working with our department had sharpening penil figured and sorten through it and so it's h I think it's a very good budget we've actually made a few changes since we all had our down they just pending um we
have a settlement we brief maybe and so I put that in here and uh that we'll talk about that in the CL session because what the settlement is real and it's going to happen so it needs to be budgeted that that's all I had if if you have any questions um for me about any detail in the budget I could I'd be happy to answer
them we went over pretty extensively the auditor with you um got a pretty good handle on how things are going how things are moving Joan maybe you could update the committee on when the public hearing when the introduction is and when the public hearing is it would be uh introduction is February 24th and then the public hearing would be March 24th correct and at our 5:30 meeting yes both both meetings will be
5:30 um our auditor will be here for both of those meetings so just introduced introduced on February 24th and then adopt March 24th okay and public hearing and public hearing for well okay the the introduction um is just the introduction um but the adoption we will have a public hearing well the introduction into Public's available to see right now this is a working document for our
personnel only it'll be posted on the website and user friendly as well so all right it's time then I guess unless anybody has any more questions we're going to take a intervention need to close we need to close do you want to adjourn the budget workj the budget this point or somebody like to make a motion to adour the meeting I'll make the motion I'll second it please roll Mr pachio yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr
Zach Palumbo yes may Corson yes motion car all right see you all in 13 minutes you do how all good so far wait sweet