Yeah. All right. In compliance with the open public meeting law, I wish to state that on July 11th, 2025, notice this meeting of the Upper Township Committee was posted on the official township bulletin board, the Upper Township website,
emailed to the Atlantic City Press, the Ocean City Sentinel Ledger, the Herald Times, and followed the township clerk. Tonight's meeting is being video recorded up until the close session portion of this meeting and will be available on the upper township website.
I hereby direct this announcement to be made part of the minutes of the meeting. Would everyone please stand for the pledgece to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it
stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please go to Mr. Cassaceio here Mr. Mappen here Mr. Sam Palumbo is absent Mr. Zach Palumbo here. Mayor Corson pres
four members. Um we're going to start with the report of governing body. F. Do you have anything for us tonight? I sure do. Good evening everybody. Thanks so much for coming out on this hot day. It was a nice community event last week, the Strathmir parade. Um everybody from the committee was there,
our families were there. Uh we got to ride in the back of that really cool truck that was kindly donated by Tyler's family. So it was a great day for Upper Township. Um EMS. Uh I do want to read this because this is a pretty um interesting situation that happened and
I want to thank Chief John Britain for sending this to me. Um, this past Saturday night, emergency responders were dispatched to the Shoemaker Holly rest area on the Garden State Parkway following reports of two adults found unconscious with shallow breathing suspected to be the result of a heroin
overdose. EMS Chief Britain was the first to arrive and immediately initiated life-saving treatment along the Seville Fire DC Aliggretto. They were soon joined by Seabville Fire Department's engine and two upper township ambulances and Atlantic Care paramedics. Thanks to the swift
coordinated efforts of all agencies involved, both individuals regained their consciousness on scene were transported to the hospital in stable condition. This incident highlights critical importance of rapid response and teamwork among our region's first responders and is what makes our upper
township public safety great. Uh, one more, during the final week of June, EMS department hosted their annual week-long youth camp. 30 local middle school age youth experienced a full day uh with our community's first responders. Engaging activities were done including fire and
rescue demos, team building challenges, daily mentorship. Participants developed key life skills, leadership, communication, responsibility. This camp fostered meaningful connections between our youth and promoted respect for our safety roles and left a positive impact
on everybody involved. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and we look to continue to keep that program going strong. And as far as it is concerned, we'll be releasing our June recap through all social media very soon and we're working on uh some other positions
in IT as well. That's it. Thank you. Welcome. Zach, do you have anything? Yeah, I have a few things. All right. I also want I want to thank public works and uh the rec department uh kicking off the summer celebration as good as it went. I think we definitely had a
successful uh you know event that night and I think it was safely attended and honestly I think it was as smooth as it possibly could go. Got a lot of positive feedback from community members in the in our area. Uh you know they got to do an event uh prior to Fourth of July. Got
to do the parade and then also got to get another dose if need be. So that was some of the feedback I got. Um I know uh Mr. Cole put out a advisory to parents about ebikes because we've been having issues obviously you know students
aren't in school right now. Uh parents just said as advisory just make sure that your child has helmet on while they're on there and that they're obeying uh traffic laws you know and I know the state troopers uh follow you know is with that as well. Uh last Tuesday we had the wreck advisory
committee. Uh you know, we put a hard deadline on our uh uh athletics uh groups to get their uh uh paperwork in by August uh 8. Uh just so that way that we understand that there's a lot of
transition that goes on during the summer. You know, some people move on to high school. We're also they have the elections, but we do need to have that reliability as aspect. So that paperwork had to be done. Also want to thank uh the public works uh for keeping the boat ramps as clean as they have been. I know
that they've been overly subscribed uh this summer, which is great. And then not to take uh anything away from your committee uh group, but I also want to thank the lifeguards uh for being prepared uh this past summer or this the last couple weeks of the summer. They're
actively out there. You and I attended a uh lifeguard race down in North Wildwood. It's good to see them out there. they're in full full competition. I also personally want to thank Upper Township's lifeguards because they're going to be helping out uh one of my uh
colleagues at West Kate May. He's attempting to paddle from Kate May Point to Sandy Hook over the this upcoming weekend and they're going to give a support crew. So, they'll be sending out rations, liquids for for the the team that is going to be paddling out there
and they're going to help them cross uh the inlet. Uh, so you know, a lot of stuff going on in Upper Township and couldn't be happier with our employees. Do we know what time that's going to be off? He is leaving at sunrise from Kate May Point. So I have no idea what the time
frame is going to be, but I do know that there there's a website. He's paddling for Cow's pals. It's for uh supporting for parents who don't have the financial means for premature babies to like, you know, get back and forth from the hospital and everything. So, uh, if you
take a look at Cow's Pals, uh, Google search on there and get on the website, you can see what it's all about. But, yeah, a lot of the local, uh, beach patrols are pitching in to help out, you know, making sure that, uh, Tom and Becky can attempt this, uh, great ordeal
by going from, like I said, KMA point all the way to Sandy Hook over two days time. So, wish him the best of luck. Kyle, do you have anything for us? I do, Mr. Mayor. Uh, At the end of June, I attended a small business association mixer at Misty Meadows out in
Petersburg. Uh met the owners there. They just purchased the property. They also can see the future daycare in town. Um it's very exciting to see the plans they have for Missy Meadow and how they're going to make it a lot more kid-friendly and upgrade the camps and things like that
are already currently in place. It's also good to be out there with a bunch of other local residents and local business association members uh hearing their complaints and concerns as well. Uh, I want to congratulate public works and uh, Department of Recreation on a wonderful summer event. Uh, it was nice
to have double fireworks backto-back weekends. I know my kids certainly enjoyed it and I want to congratulate Sam on a great event there. Same thing too. I had a great time with my colleagues at the Fourth of July parade in Strathmir. Uh, very cool to have all of us participate. Great with our kids
and our family. and uh having the mayor lead the way the tractor there was with the street bridge right behind it was a nice visual for for us. Um lastly, uh Linda from Shore Animal Control contacted me this week. Uh in the summer there's always a kitten problem. You
have lots of tourists bringing kittens down that they don't want and leaving them behind. Uh she would advise residents that not to pick them up, not to bring them into your house, not to keep them for yourself. Just immediately call animal control. aerobic patrols all throughout
the county and they will be they'll respond properly. Uh takes a variable out of there where you're not worrying about injuring yourself or encountering animal unvaccinated. But other than that, that's all I have for tonight there. All right. Thanks. Um just want to echo
my colleagues thoughts. Fourth of July went off very smooth. Our employees were happy. They enjoyed it because they actually got to take the fourth off and go to the boardwalk and not work. The parade was absolutely fantastic. We couldn't have ordered up a better day
for weather. Not too hot, not too cold, no humidity, and it was a great day to ride the tractor because the tractor gets a little bit warm. So, uh, lifeguards been attending a few races. North Wildwood pretty much, uh, that was
Zach's old patrol. They pretty much handed us our hat there the other day. Um they did very good. Well, Avalon ended up winning though. So, but yeah. Yes. But your old department out of the township, but we do represent pretty
well in the states or in counties. Counties for our small department. We do hold our own and then we have a good group of group of guys and anybody I can tell you. I used to think the races I wasn't a big fan of it, but I can tell you if you're race ready, you're rescue
ready. It's just like people with the firet trucks. Fire trucks, they complain about the parade crew. Well, if you're parade ready, you're fire ready. So, and I will say the same thing with the guards. I I also want to give Logan Manning a shout out. At 16 years old, he won his
first swim race at the at Bess. So, congratulations to him as well. Yes. So, we have a great back bunch of athletes and it's a pleasure watching them. And I can tell you if any of you haven't been to a race, it's a lot of fun. And uh that's all I have at this time.
Jim, do you have anything for us? I think you've been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. Maybe you have something. Yeah. Good evening, uh Mr. Mayor, Committee Man. Uh first thing I have is uh I saw you on that tractor and I think we could do better. Right. There's OD green ones out there. We can There's
still hope we may be able to camouflage and get in something a little bit more modern. more modern at them. So, I like the old ones. Hey, so uh just a rundown over the last couple weeks. I conducted several uh meet and greets and got out there to meet community partners, whether
adjacent municipalities or my back, you know, my awesome battle buddies here at the New Jersey State Police where we discussed um shared equities and uh you know, ways to support each other. Uh one of our discussions uh you know, we're kind of patrolling the streets of Strathmir and uh making sure public
safety is sound. and uh great partnership with our members of the state police and uh yeah just look forward to to to many more meetings and and keeping things fruitful. Um additionally I've been uh engaging the engineering community. You might notice that Charlie Norcas is here with Delasio Engineers
uh working with them hand and glove uh on all things engineer. Um I you know he might even say I I have what it takes to be a municipal engineer by the end of this thing. But some things we've been working on is uh making sure our dune and m uh dune and beach maintenance
permit uh GP2 through department of DP is uh is squared away by the end of the summer. Um and then making sure we put an end to these emergency dune maintenance situations we found ourselves this summer. Um and then lastly uh just working uh common sense
changes um here in the municipal uh uh organization the the team and the town hall right and that that looks like changes with the personnel policy maybe some changes to hiring actions uh on the horizon and basically ensuring the town hall of today is posture to fix the
issues of tomorrow. So another good day in Upper Township and uh glad to be here. All right. Thank you. Joan, do you have anything else? I have nothing. Thank you. John, do you have anything? Not the mayor. Just a reminder to we skipped over approval of the minutes. We can go back to doing that. Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll get that.
That's it. Or the meeting can be changed the direction of township committee, but thank you. Do you have any? I have nothing this evening. Thank you. Charlie, do you have any questions? Um, we've been pretty busy, I guess, over the last couple weeks, but we just
got appointed shortly, you know, not that long ago. And uh so we hit the ground running pretty well and we're tackling some things, some older things, some newer things and uh it's been interesting. So u you know, I'm not going to go over the entire report, but uh again, grants are important. Grants
are important and we know that municipality and so we're pursuing a couple of them. The the DOT one is for Clans Lane. Uh that one is uh no match, no local match for if we get that grant to the state. Uh it's just you have your inind services. of you know whatever
employees work on it and the engineering but all the work in the field it might be $150 $200,000 is will be covered by that grant if we get it and then there's the open space grant and um the county has you know a project for the green acres that they you do projects every
year and you know you look into seeing if there's a project that you want to do then put it in get in the queue and uh you know see what the county has to offer for you and each levels of funding for that is a little Um, get back to the the uh plans one. We
should hear from them at about uh in fall. So, we should know whether we have that grant or not in the fall. Um, I don't know if I need to go over all the other ones. Uh, skate park and the well the resiliency action plan that that that's interesting because u you know
you know it's important into itself but a lot of grants that you get down the road will rely on whether you have a resil resiliency that's hard to say plan. So um it it's good to do that. Uh it was originally done in 2023 by
Collers. They have itemized a bunch of the items. We work with administration and I think that we're moving ahead with a list of what we should do. And the list was kind of consolidated by things that we might be able to get grand funding in the future. you know, if you
just do a study without anything at the end of that, then, you know, I think you're better off trying to get some something that will lead to potentially a grant down the road. So, that that was our take on that. And uh I guess there's really not much else to, you know, got the list. If you got any questions, I'll be glad to answer them.
All right. Thanks, John. Thank you. All right. Um, moving on to the approval of the minutes. Would somebody like to make a recommendation on the minutes? Motion to approve June 2023 regular and close session minutes. Second. Please call the roll. Mr. Cassaceio, yes. Mr. Nappen,
yes. Mr. Palumbo, yes. Mayor Corson, yes. Motion carried. At this time, we're going to open it up to the public. Is there anyone that would like to comment on anything on our agenda in the upcoming agenda?
Natalie Niece, uh, 759 50 in Petersburg. Um, could you explain number 13, please? Well, because we had people come to our meeting
January, February, I believe it was. Um, you were one of them. The gentleman that owns the stand was one of them. and somebody else spoke and I I'll probably remember later, but
I forget who it was off the top of my head about the speed limits on Route 50. So, the township committee did their due diligence, asked the state of New Jersey to look at it. They're making recommendations to us. They're looking for a resolution of
support to lower the speed limits in sections of Route 50. That's the explanation. So, whose conclusion was it to lower the speed limits on Highway 50? State of New Jerseyy's Department of Transportation Engineering Division. I
don't know the particular gentleman's name trolley deal. No. No. It's a state road. So, was their determination. Right. But I believe Mr. person just said that it was at the request of the
township committee to study it. Request an investigation. We took the speed limit. I I could boil it down pretty simply. I think we the request came from the audience to address it. You were one of the people in the audience that piggybacked with
it. So this is partially because of a request you made. Right. I did use the term piggyback. And yes, I do remember meetings and my daughter was almost killed out there and um
I'm not so sure that changing the speed limit on one side of the road in front of my house from 45 to 40 is going to make a big difference because the other side of the highway sides of the road.
It's both sides, but there's also we can't do anything about this. We can put a resolution in support of the reduction, which is what we're doing, but we don't ultimately determine how fast you can go or not. We have no control over that. Yep. That's what you said when Osprey Cove came in here, too. Yeah. It's real funny.
It's both sides of the road. They're lowering it to 40 miles an hour. The one side of the road was already 40 miles per hour, so now the other side will be. And like I said, I'm not sure I'm in agreement with this. I think that um there should have been a more
thorough investigation and I did work in land planning in Pennsylvania and I did mention to Mr. Corson that possibly trees could be put in the center of the road. They investigated the entirey of
they investigated Route 50 from Route 9 to the border of Corbin City. The entirety of the road they investigated. I don't think planting trees in the middle of the road is going to solve the problem. They're they're not going to put a vegetative strip down the middle of Route 9. It's not going to happen.
So, do you have anything else for Do you think that the uh new speed limits are going to be enforced and who might enforce them? The New Jersey State Police enforce the speed limit in the township.
Cuz like I said, my daughter almost got killed out there. There's there was an accident last night on Route 9 or Route 50. There's accidents almost weekly. It's probably I don't know, Brian, how many or Mr.
Britain might be able to tell you a report. State police could issue a report. I don't I know there was one last night. I don't know how many there are, but there's more than one. So no, I I know I had three in front of my house within 20 foot of each other
within two years. Two within seven months the same pole was hit and my trees are being damaged out there. And that's the only thing from keeping the vehicles running off the road over my house. And widening the road is not the
solution. If we widen the road and vegetate the middle, you're the road's already wide. there's a um a setback, an easement, a rightaway. All right. I'm just saying I'm not necessarily in agreement with this. I think there
should have been an investigation, not a committee asking the um DOT to go out there and observe and, you know, lower the speed limit because I'm not even sure some of it might be higher than it was before. We could put we could put together a committee to study it and all
that and it doesn't matter because it it's a state highway. It's not our road. We could it's like us studying the parkway. It doesn't matter. So you don't have any input to the state and you don't have anything in um input to the state police to enforce the speed
limit either. But you can have the state police go into Strathmore. All right. We can say please hear your concern and I'm sure they're going to address anyone else from the public like comment on our agenda.
Bill Ro from Petersburg regarding item 13. If you can ask the state to address an anomaly. If you go north 150 at Tyler road speed goes up to 50. At 610 it drops to 45. If
you go old Tucker road south it's 45. Through Petersburg it's 45 all the way to Greenfield it's 45 green. You've got two different speed limits on the same road. They they are correcting that. So that's equal on both sides. Yes. That's one of the things they're
correcting. Okay. Also, I support dropping the speed limit in Petersburg down to 40. They're blind curves. They're blind driveways. It can be very dangerous. Traffic, especially trucks, speed up to go up the railroad bridge. They speed up
coming down the railroad bridge. At the bottom of the bridge is Amanda's Field. I would remind you for whom that was deemed and why. Yes. Thank you, Bill. Is there anyone else who would like to comment on the
agenda items? Hearing no more comments, we'll close the public portion and move to the consent agenda. I'd like to make a motion that we approve tonight's consent agenda. Second, please call the roll. Mr. Cassaceio, yes. Mr. Nap, yes.
Mr. Pondo, yes. Mayor Corson, yes. Motion carried. We have one resolution to be acted on separately authorizing the award of a contract with Seashore Asphalt Corp for concrete and road supplies. Move the resolution.
Move the resolution. Second. Please call the RO. Mr. Caceio, same. Mr. Nappen. Yes. Mr. Zach Palano. Yes. Mayor Corson. Yes. Carried. Under ordinances, we have a public hearing and final adoption of ordinance number two, 2022. an ordinance
establishing salary ranges for the township of Upper for the calendar year of 2025. This time, would any of my colleagues like to comment? Okay, at this time we're going to open it to the public. We're going to have a a public hearing over ordinance number
two, 2025. Is there anybody like to comment on ordinance two of 2025? Natalie me 759 Route 50 in Petersburg. Um I don't have the resolution in front of me, but um do we have a personnel director?
Well, it's an ordinance. Um no, we do not have a personnel director. Our acting administrator is or our administrator is the acting personnel officer with his job title and description. I'm sorry. Our administrator part of his job duties
and descriptions includes personnel. So he is the personel director. Yes. Is there anyone else from the public that would like to comment on ordinance number two of 2025? Hearing no more comments. We'll close
the public portion and move for uh motion to adopt. Like to make a motion to adopt. Second, please call the RO. Mr. Cassaceio, yes. Mr. Nappen, yes. Mr. Palumbo, yes. May Coren, yes. Motion carried. Number 27, public hearing and final adoption of ordinance
number 3, 2025, an ordin ordinance authorizing sale of lands to wet block 802, lot one. At this time, we'll open it to the public. Is there anyone in the public that would like to comment on ordinance number three of 2025?
Hearing no public comment, we will close the public portion. Any of my colleagues have any comments or anything? No. This time we'll look for a motion to adopt. I'll make the motion. Second. Please call the role.
Mr. Cassaceio, yes. Mr. Nappen, yes. Mr. Palumbo, yes. Mayor Corson, yes. Motion carried. Number 28, public hearing and final adoption of ordinance number 4, 2025, an ordinance authorizing sale of lands to
at block 10, lot 175. Any of my colleagues have any comments? No. At this time, we'll open it to the public. Is there anybody in the audience who would like to comment on ordinance number four of 2025?
Hearing no public comment, we will close public portion of ordinance number four of 2025 and entertain a motion to adopt. Motion to adopt. Second. Please call a RO. Mr. Casaceio. Yes. Mr. Nappen. Yes. Mr. Palumbo. Yes. Mayor Corson. Yes.
Motion carried. Under new business, we have the resilience action plan. What is our action we need to take on this? John, we're both so much. Do you want to talk about this at all?
The resiliency action plan? No. The letter came from your office. For which item? Yeah, this is for the first item number 29, the resiliency action plan. Yeah, we handle that. I'll take for a swing on it.
I'm I'm an engineer in the wings, right? Um so circa 2022 2023 callers came out and uh evaluated uh the township um area for items that will improve our climate resiliency, right? So things like uh
evacuation of storm water or um you know reduction of erosion and they identified a list of probably 45 different items uh for which we can then implement into you know take from action a recommended action to an implementation phase. And
so in working with Delasio and the team uh Charlie here, we we distilled it down to about six things that we can extract from the list of 45 in which case the D will will do followup um anticipated grant funding. Um none of it is
construction, all of it is uh studies, analysis, um data collections, those type things. Um, another thing to consider is uh the six items that we are anticipating doing um uh contribute to our CRS rating in which case there's an
actionable thing on the back end which is the reduction in flood insurance for uh those in the FEMA flood plan. So um 45 things down to six. We're taking the six things if approved by resolution to Collers, the the engineer who who has uh
the action plan um and to D to consult to see which things we can get money for, which things we can't. Um could be all six, could be two, right? And at the end of the day, free money is free money as they say and uh we are doing our due diligence to get after it.
Charlie, I think that nailed it. Under I remember there's no cost to the down. That's the best thing. But I do want to add though that all the work has to be done and you got to submit the collers are prepared. You submit the application with a
budget. The he'll approve it or not approve it and then decide which ones you want to do. But all the work one of those things has to be done by coller by the end of March of 2026. So it's not that you know far away with all the steps you got to take. So uh I guess that's why it's on today's agenda.
All right. So there's no action we need to take on it. That's just for everybody's information, right? All right, moving right along. Number 30, we have the Ocean City Canteen request to become a registered and licensed vendor for the sale of ice cream on township beaches.
Okay. Um, we already have somebody on the beach selling ice cream. I'm aware of that. But our ordinance we put in place last year does not include more than one. So, our by ordinance, there was a time
one-year permit. We do not want to do a one-year permit on this. We want to make it a conditional for the rest of the summer permit. Maybe October 1st. I don't know what date you want to pick. November 1st because but next year I do think
this will be the second or third venue tonight that we'll have on the beach. A lot of municipalities bid these jobs out and it can be significant more than our vendor fee that we are charging so the
township can actually make money. So this is on the agenda. Um, I think we should grant it because we didn't How many is enough? The market obear, but I think it's uh there's already one vendor
and signed up and I think they have three three vendors. Yeah. I don't know how many of these people proposed, but I mean, how can you grant one and not the other? So, I think next year we need to go to the bid process to make it fair. I agree. Yeah, I agree. Because at a certain
point if you have too many businesses doing the same thing, you're ending up cannibalizing each other. So you want to keep it well they will but that they're also going to get a taste of the market and then they bid next year might be able to make more money or they also might reinvent themselves to a different
business other than just ice cream. Yes, understandable. So uh I I'll make a motion to approve number 30. 30 and 31 in one elsewhere or should we separate condition upon
just the rest of the year not next year right not a full calendar not a full calendar year just the rest of this year yeah I don't October 15th November 1 November 1st it is all right Mr. uh second yeah
Mr. Cassaceio yes Mr. Nappen yes Mr. Palumbo, yes. Mayor Corson, yes. Motion carried. Okay. That was 30 and 31 combined. So, we can uh What's your question? The bills, gentlemen. I hereby move all claims submitted for
payment this meeting be approved and then incorporated in full in the minutes of this meeting. I've sent them stateain for one bill tonight, gentlemen. 25-00615. And I'll second the motion. Please call the RO. Mr. Paceio, yes. Mr. Nappen. Yes. Mr. Pomo, yes.
May Corson, yes. Motion carried. At this time, we'll open it up to the public. Is there anyone in the public that would like to address the township committee? The floor is yours. No subjects off limits.
Hi, uh, Barbara Liry Seville. Just a quick question. Do you have any developmental updates regarding V England or the Verizon property? Those are two prime, you know, opportunities here in Upper Township and just haven't heard anything lately. So,
um, little kiss on the cheek. I No, I think we're going to let Mr. Aheiser handle this because we did have a meeting today with Beley's point and yeah, we we did have a meeting today. Um, obviously they there's redevelopment
agreements going back quite a ways with with that entity. The townships is in the process of discussing a potential renewal of that with them. So, it's a it's a contract negotiation right now that I wouldn't recommend you guys talk further. Uh, but I can tell you that there are development discussions ongoing. Uh, that is a process going to
have to go through obviously multiple layers before it even comes back here, including planning, potentially zoning board depending on what it is that they're looking to do back there. So, I nothing ultimately all that new in terms of what we know, but they are in the process of continuing on with their
plans and and we're looking to continue to work with them in hopes that come to fruition. Did they give you a hint as to when they would do a public presentation if if at all? They may not at all. There's there's still certain things contractually that we have to get through before I think we'd even allow that to happen. So, I don't think we could give you a definitive time frame
at this point when it'll happen. Talking with our redevelopment attorney today. I mean, he basically said it'll probably be September before there's a publication. That's our basis point. And my opinion is that's that's hopeful. I don't think that there's anything to
say that'll be set in stone. that if things move quickly with them. Okay. How about the Verizon property? Um anything on you heard I mean there's things floating around in the community and I thought maybe you would have some kind of was a meeting what was the meeting two weeks ago. Yeah, we we we met with them. Uh that's
another one though that we'll before we have any say in it. We'll have to go before our planning and or zoning boards for any sort of approval. So I'd again recommend that you guys don't talk about specifics on that. But they again are are certainly in the process of developing a plan. Nothing's been finalized though. Yeah, they're just two prime
opportunities for the township. Just curious. Thank you. Sure. Yes. Thank you, Barb. Colleen Jones from Strathmir. I want to thank the mayor and Mr. Vanzam for attending our general meeting. It was had we had very positive feedback and
everyone was very happy with um the attention and the answers to their questions. Thank you also for getting right on with a resolution to look at the uh speed limit study on Commonwealth. That's much appreciated by
us. Um we are a little bit dismayed about letting two more vendors on the beach. Um, a lot of people, which I I would have never thought of this from this perspective before, but a lot of people are not happy that there
are people hawking things on our narrow beaches that they sort of considered wild. Um, but there are pe just if you heard I've heard both sides. I I there's people that are absolutely established. So I I I just want to represent the people
that are not happy about it. I think we're worried that there's little shifts going on in Strathmir that don't look alike a lot as they're in a moment in time, but cumulatively they will change the culture and the
uniqueness of Strathmir. No, that's that bill has run a long time. I I know you've said that multiple times, but I think we can still put a little bit of a rein on it and I hope that this committee takes the opportunity to be to do something that
the leaders of Seisle and Ocean City didn't and that's protect the character of a town before it's completely lost. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Uh Natalie N 759 Route 50 Petersburg. Um that meeting today in the conference room from 3 to 4. What was
the purpose of that meeting? I I would caution you not. It was a meeting uh with Beasley regarding the Beasley's Point redevelopment project. But I'm just going to caution you not to speak on that. It's pending contract negotiations that we discussed. Well, for first of all, it was a township
business meeting. We don't have to. There was no violation of open public meeting. There was only two of us. We do not have to tell you what the meeting was about or what transpired. What do you mean there were only two of you? We do not need to tell you what we were meeting about. Well, who were the two?
Oh, what what I I can tell you. It was two two members of this committee or a part of a subcommittee related to redevelopment in this township. The two of them met with amongst others myself, the administrator and our other uh specialized council that's involved redevelopment, our
municipal planner, etc. to go over pending redevelopment projects related to Beasley's point particularly this afternoon. Daniel, correct? Special legal counsel as I mentioned, Mr. Corson. There was there was people on Zoom. We're under no obligation to tell you
who was at the meeting. Was there a quorum there? I I'm going to take it from there was not a quorum of the governing body president. I think I answered that already when I said two of the members were there. It's two out of five. It's not a quorum.
Well, I mean it could have been on executive session tonight. No, it couldn't. It we have we've formed a subcommittee to discuss these things which is completely allowable and fine. It's done as every municipality. That's what that was today. Every municipality
has something. It got it. Yeah. If you have questions, please present them. Otherwise, we're wasting time. I'm wasting your time. Yeah. At this point. Interesting. Um, Mr. C, I was talking to you in the
hallway today and you talked about a shed out back. What happened to the climate control shed that was ordered? Obviously, you know something. I don't know. Was there a climate control shed?
No, I don't think there was coordinator chief financial officer. No. So, what's the shed out back that you were referring to? There's numerous sheds out back. Okay. The one I was specifically talking to you about from the engineers office
and you said the mice and the wind were out there with a few other choice words. You said you were looking for some paperwork. It was in the engineer's office. I said it probably stored in the shed out back being might have mice in
there and squirrels. Okay. Thank you. Which I just to clarify, I don't think township paperwork should be stored in the shed out loud. That happened under the last administration. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the
public that would like to say? Hearing no more public, we will close the public portion, take a short adjournment to go into close session. If somebody would like to I hereby move that a resolution be incorporated in the minutes authorizing the township and committee to enter into executive session for the following
matters pursuant to open public meetings. Act matters. One, personnel. Two, litigation to Marzo versus Upper Township. Three, litigation, township of upper versus 315 Washington Avenue LLC. Four, contract negotiation EMS billing
services. Five, contract negotiation EMS services. Six, contract negotiation municipal court services. Contract negotiation block 382 lots 1.01 and 11.02.
Also included my motion that the estimated time and circumstances under which the discussion conducted in the closed session can be disclosed to the public as follows. A is anticipated the matters discussed in public in close session may be disclosed to the public upon the determination of township
committee that the public interest will no longer be served by such confidentiality be with respect to the employment and personnel matters. such discussions will be made public if and when formal action is taken or when the individuals involved uh consent that the
it can be made public. C with respect to contract negotiations such matters will be made public when negotiations have ceased and there are no longer a reason for confidentiality. And D with respect to litigation matters such discussions will be made public when litigation is
complete and all the applicable appeal period has expired. Second, please call the role. Mr. Cassaceio, yes. Mr. Nappen, yes. Mr. Palumbo, yes. Mayor Corson, yes. Motion carried.