Good evening everyone. Welcome to the regular meeting of Vinland City Council on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. >> Dr. Arthur >> here. >> Council member English >> here. >> Council member Vargas >> here. Vice President Gomez >> here. >> President Scelli >> here. Please stand for the pledge of
allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Public notice of this meeting pursuant to the open public meeting act has been
given by the city clerk on December 12, 2025 in the following manner. Posting written notice on the official bulletin board of the lobby of city hall providing written notices to the office of the daily journal press of Atlantic City Band Boyce and publishing electronically on the city's official website and filing written notice in the office of the city clerk of the city of
Milin. >> Chains a motion that the premeating conference regular meeting of June 9th and the work session of June 16th be approved as submitted. >> So move >> second >> discussion by council. Seeing none >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes.
>> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Open up the general public comment portion. >> Public comment provides an opportunity for members of the public to inform the governing body about their views. The governing body prescribes the city council's bylaws in New Jersey statutes
and open public meetings when engaging during public comment. As such, each individual shall have a three-minute limit to comment, cannot yield time to another individual, may only approach the podium once during public comment for any one topic, and city council will not engage in dialogue with the public during this time. Disruptive conduct by
audience members may result in removal following a warning and all participants are expected to adhere to professional decorum. Governing body maintains model courtesy and respect and requires the members of the public to do the same. >> Before we get started, Mr. Uh Francetta, just a public announcement that um data
1 has sent the administration a link, anformational link that if anyone has questions that they want to ask about data one uh regarding anything pretty much that they uh would like to ask um you can go on our website, you can
attach the link and you can ask whatever you like to them. Uh they can answer your questions. most of what you have been asking us uh constantly has changed. So therefore we cannot continue uh or answer the questions that that
you're asking us in many cases. Uh so that'll give you an opportunity to directly talk to data one and get whatever answers that they uh are giving out. Thank you very much. Okay, >> Mr. Mr. Mr. Chairman, if I may, uh, before we start the meeting, I'd like to have a moment of silence for our passing
of our former Councilman Michael Panton. >> Moment of for Michael Pantleó. Moment of silence, please. >> Thank you, >> Mr. President. I have Raone Moa Jr.
Ramon Moa Jr. would like to speak. >> Hello, my name is Raone Mora Jr. um president of Violin. Um I'm coming to continue the discussion that we I I've brought up to you twice now with the uh the cooling issue being kind of cemented
into city ordinance or city law. Um, I actually had drafted a ordinance of my own that rivals that of the heating ordinances that we have and the uh hab habitability of residents in violin. Um,
that I would like to submit to anybody. Should you guys be inclined to accept that? Um, it >> Okay. Um, >> no. No, but I I can submit it via email. Um I I would like to pass something
that's a little bit more substantiative than um what kind of was already dealt with regarding the war of manners. Um because it's to my knowledge that when the city inspector had gone out there,
they had given a loophole for future tenants. And I think we need to make sure that we close loopholes and we make violin a place that we uphold the standards um for living in violin. >> Uh Ramon, before you leave, make sure
you you give your email to Mr. Tanetta. >> Yep. >> And he will look at the uh the ordinance that you wrote. I did speak with the zoning officer who was in charge of that and did say that they were telling people or new tenants that they didn't
have to provide it. He stated that was wrong by state statute that if it was built to have air conditioning in it by state statute, they would still have to provide it. But we will look at yours as well. >> Correct. So like uh if if it's built in there, however, if there's a new tenant
and they're um fixing up the apartment for a new tenant prior to moving in, they can actually take out the unit um and take out the box, seal it up, and it's no longer provided for the new tenant. Um, and then you have an issue where the the tenants are dis
discouraged into putting window units. Um, and when they do put in window units because they want some type of cooling, they're now um punished by uh basically taking money from their security deposit, right? So having something more on the books can make sure that people
who are living in violin are um protected and have safe and humane living conditions because uh we focus a lot on uh heat in the winter but heat related illnesses is one of the number one killers in America and I think we
need to also address that aspect of it. Um I only have 30 seconds left. Uh there is, you know, um at last time we talked in last week about the or during the work session, there was room or kind of consideration as to what um you guys
want to do over by Magnolia. Um I suggest looking into possibly installing a skate park. I know there has been demand for that. Um and if you guys don't know what you plan on doing over there besides another pickle ball court or something, I suggest doing something a little different that we don't have in
in violin. Just for your edification, I actually was in Brigantine and I did go look at theirs and uh we'll bring stuff back to the administration and see what we can come up with. Again, it's got to be approved by our insurance company. That's the biggest issue. >> Sure.
>> But make sure you get Mr. Tennet your information. >> Sure. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else that hasn't signed would like to come up and speak? Anyone else? Hi, my name is Helen Petritus and I live
in Vinand. My first concern or or saying is thank you to the police department of Island for the incident on June 13th where there was a rowdy party. I was attending mass at St. Barbers Chapel and
it was way out of control and I commend the police department for what they did and how they handled it. And secondly, um I'm here because at the last budget amendment meeting that I we I I was here
for, you were talking about the water, okay, and usage and how it was going to be distributed. And I still don't have a clear idea what that was. Now, I read the a I've read the proposal. Okay. You it it was read
the first time and tonight it's going to be voted on, but I'm sure I'm still not sure what it's about. Are you trying to like make the water usage for the data center and pass it on to us? Let me just
clarify what we did was in the past um if there was an a an increase in cost of of water whether it's because of chemicals or whatever it was it was automatically um added to the bill so that everybody would share the added
cost but it was never in our books. So, the director um suggested that we codify it so that if somebody wants to know why the rate went up, it's it's it's it's explained in that ordinance. It's there's coverage costs that you know,
whether it's chemicals that increased, cost of electric that might have increased or anything else. And so, it gives them the opportunity to to raise that rate to cover all the added costs that we might be incurring as money go as a cost goes up. >> Okay. All right. Thank you.
>> It has nothing to do with flow. Okay. I didn't know. I wasn't sure. >> I wanted to make it clear so if somebody said, "Why did my bill go up?" They could look in it and see how it went up and why. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> State your name where you live, please. Municipality.
>> Yeah. Uh my name is Mary Gaunt and I live in Vineland. Um I'm here to talk about the idea of like a skate or bike park uh in the city. So um I was here few months ago when they when you guys
put out the recreation survey and I'm back. Um, so, uh, according to the responses from the city's recreation survey that was posted earlier this year, skateboarding came in at number four, which is only six responses less than gardening and 24 less than pickle
ball. I teach at one of Vineland's public middle schools, and some of my students participated in the survey. They were disappointed to hear that pickle ball and gardening may be prioritized over their interests, especially because there are already pickle ball courts in Vinland.
Um, and as of recently, there are even more that have been proposed. Um, they asked me to speak at the previous meeting, and I'm kind of bringing their concerns uh to you again. Um, they're concerned about the limited access to available space for nonstructured sports in the city. Uh they would like you to
consider building a place where skateboarding, biking, roller skating, and scootering can be prioritized, such as a skate park or bike park, whatever. Um kind of falls under the same thing. Um I'd also like to take this opportunity to expand on the positive outcomes that skateboarding in
particular can bring to a community. According to a recent University of Southern California study, skaters develop the ability to communicate and build relationships with people from diverse backgrounds. and skaters are excellent critical thinkers and problem solvers who view success from a more
communal perspective. These findings are directly related to the key competencies outlined in the Vinand Public Schools portrait of a graduate initiative uh which include communication, critical thinking, adaptability, and perseverance to name a few.
Skateboarding also has positive effects on the mental health and well-being of people with and without disabilities. The same study shows that a majority of skateboarders site that they escape to relieve stress, an essay featured in Attitude, ADHD, Science and Strategy.
Uh, Strategies highlights the author's experience as a teen and adult with ADHD, stating that when he is skateboarding, his head feels lighter and he can just be in the moment and not have to think about his trauma. Additionally, a study published by the National Library of Medicine found that when skateboarding
was used as an intervention for students with ADHD, children with ADHD were able to improve their cognitive and motor test performance. Um, as our city has been focusing, uh, focused on including people of all abilities in recreational activities, uh, like with our inclusive
park and with the senior um, accessible outdoor work workout station proposal or the plans for that. Um, I think it should be noted that there are even more ways to get people of varying abilities involved in the community via recreation. Uh, as I touched on a minute
ago, skateboarding can be extremely beneficial for young people with ADHD, a population that's sometimes forgotten about. Oh crap, sorry. Or written off as unruly. In a time when social media targets young people, young men especially, we need to make sure there are places in our city where they can
take healthy risks, build relationships, and get out their excess energy safely. I was going to also talk about the economic impact um that that could bring and some of the problems that uh were cited about the one that was closed in like the 2010s um and how those issues
were dealt with in Atlantic City and Ocean City, but I don't have time. Um if you would like to hear about them, I have >> Okay. Thank you. If you have something you want to give them, give it to the clerk right here. >> Sure. It looks a little teetery. I fixed it with my red pen and I didn't keep
>> That's all right. >> Citations because I was just going to read. Yeah, you can have it. It's just not my >> I wouldn't turn it in. >> Thank you. >> Please state your name, municipality, where you live. >> My name is Ashley. I am from Vinland, New Jersey.
>> Speaking into the mic so it picks you up, please. >> Is that >> okay? Um, I run the Vinand skatepark project, which is a page in a group where we're trying to get a public skatepark built in Vinand, New Jersey. Since 2013, we have not had a skatepark in Vinland at all. This means everybody
from skateboarders, BMX riders, scooter riders, roller skaters have had no dedicated place to go. This leads to us spilling out into places like the streets, random spots we can find, and parking lots and a lot of people just quitting, especially the people who would benefit the most, which tend to be
younger people who don't have the ability to drive to somewhere like Cooper River or Pensalen Skatepark. Last week, I decided to restart the Vine Skatepark project after taking a break because I was talking to some local sks and they told me how much a park would
benefit them. And since talking with people both in real life and online, I found that a lot of people who don't skate or aren't involved in the community are very supportive of it. Like I've talked with a lot of people where they don't skate or they don't have kids that skateboard, but they truly see the benefit that they would have on our community to have a park
built. It's more than just a place for us to ride. It's a place where we can stay active, make friends, and you have a very good community built around the skate park. You know, we make I'm sorry. All right. People
keep each other in check at the skate park. We watch out for our own and we're very self-p policing at the skatepark as well. And it's very common for people to pick up other interests which which can translate to things like future jobs. Like it's very common for people to learn how to video edit take v do
photography videoing stuff like that is very common to be picked up at the skatepark. It's also a really um affordable recreational activity to get into for the price of a pretty good setup in a helmet. Covers the fee to just sign the registration papers for most structured
sports. And let's be honest, a lot of people don't do well in structured sports or activities. So, this gives them a place where they can still participate, stay active, and have the community they get from structured sports, but without the part that doesn't work for them, per se. And
there's no traveling, nothing like that. So anybody can afford it. So the kids who are most at risk tend to be kids from poorer communities from lower economic backgrounds. This gives them a way to have that community that can help them stay on the correct track. As someone who spent all their 19 years
living in violin, New Jersey, I as long along with many other people truly believe this is the best possible thing for our community to add as a recreational activity. I think the best course of action from here would be figuring out where we could put it, funding, and ways that we can work
alongside the city to make this happen. Pretty much every major sport has a place in violin for people to learn and train in it. Skateboarding is in the Olympics at this point. I think it's time that we have our own place as well. Thanks for listening. >> Thank you. >> State your name, please. Municipality
where you live. Haley Purich, Vinland resident, here to speak on ordinance 202642 concerning water sewer utility rates, specifically the recovery cost clause. Currently, city code allows for an increase of about 44 cents per thousand gallons of water used when deemed
necessary to cover increased operational costs of the water utility. The proposed ordinance removes this 44 cent cap and would allow the city to increase the cost per gallon by whatever amount is deemed necessary to cover the increased operational cost. A significant problem
with the code as it stands uh which will only be made worse by the passage of this ordinance is that this increased cost is applied evenly to all consumers even when significant increases to operational costs may be exclusively the fault of one or a few high volume
consumers. Essentially, when we approve large-scale industrial projects which require massive amounts of water, that necessitates massive expansion of infrastructure to supply that water, which can result in massive increases to operational cost for the utility, which are then subsidized through this per
gallon cost increase on everyday residential consumers, not just the industrial consumers who benefit. Another prong of this problem is our system of regressive charges for water use which lowers the cost per gallon significantly the more water a user a
consumer uses. Uh this policy inarguably serves to benefit industrial and commercial users as the price reduction doesn't kick in until 25,000 gallons per month. Uh meanwhile the average household uses between 9 to10,000 gallons. Um, while a family using only
10,000 gallons would pay a rate of $316 per thousand gallons, a high volume consumer such as data 1, which has requested an aotment of 2.2 million gallons per day um not per month, per day, would pay only about uh $159 per
thousand gallons for the vast majority of the water that they use. Uh this policy effectively rewards and encourages excessive use by high volume industrial consumers and guarantees that residential consumers will will bear the brunt of increases to operational costs. Think about this. Even if this ordinance
is not passed, if um even if the recovery cost clause remained at 44 cents per thousand gallons, and even if that increase were only applied to the industrial users, the highest volume consumers would still be paying about a third less of their um third less for
their water than a Vinland resident. Um I don't know about anyone else here, but I personally don't profit from my residential water use. uh these industrial users are I think they should be paying their fair share. I also want to note the absurdity of a regressive cost system that encourages excessive
use of a our most vital natural resource contributing to the depletion of the Kirkwood Cohen aquifer when we are still in a prolonged and chronic drought. Um, as such, I implore our council to vote no on the ordinance in front of them today and to seriously consider amending
our municipal code. Um, specifically by creating separate industrial and commercial versus residential consumer classes. Um, and then possibly re-evaluating our regressive charge system and requiring industrial and commercial users to be the ones that are
paying the increase uh to the operational costs of the water utility. Um, also, uh, just as a tenant attorney, uh, who deals with a lot of habitability cases in this county as well as Salem County, I just want to second everything Ramon said. >> Thanks. >> Thank you.
>> We will speak to our utility director about looking at those charges. >> How we doing? >> State your name, where you live, please. Victor Faustst, a resident of Milville, and I am here tonight to also speak on your ordinance concerning the uh the
plot of land that some people have already spoken on potentially for a skate park. Um the people that came before me did a great job, I think, laying it out. Awesome. You got to go to Brigantine. Um there's some awesome parks out in Atlantic City as well, and Penn Sawin's a good example to look at
as well. Uh I'm here tonight to talk to you as a as a skater in his mid-30s, you know. Um, and I also own and operate my own small skate brand for South Jersey. We've been doing it for 5 years. There's actually some other people in Cumberland County doing the same thing. You know, we work with a lot of other
organizations and brands all throughout pretty much, you know, all the counties of South Jersey. In terms of putting on events for the youth and things of that, I want to bring to a couple things to attention. If you guys do decide to go this route, start listening to the public and maybe bring a park. Uh, a couple things that I would highly
suggest. I know you guys had a park a couple years ago. it closed down for whatever, you know, reasons. I wasn't a resident of the county at the time. I do know it was a prefab metal park. So, two reasons why to not do that in the future. One, skaters don't like to do that, and you can actually get a lot more hurt on that than you would a
concrete park. Second thing, a concrete park is going to be a heck of a lot less to maintain in the future for you guys. And as you know, one of the people said before me, Ash, you know, skaters tend to police. I can't tell you how many times kids have come in one of the AC parks and just graffitied everywhere.
and friends of mine have, you know, gone up to $1,000 out of their own pocket throughout the course of a couple years and put money out for paint to just keep stuff clean. We do police. Um, so those two things to keep in mind. Also, it does create inner county and, you know, inner county and, you know, just
crossount commerce. You know, if people come up here, come down here from like the Pensalen Park, Hampton County or even Philly or New York or Tom's River, they're going to spend money. You know, they got to get gas, they got to get food, they got they might go shop. So, you know, and if Landis starts doing what I see happen on High Street in
Millville and new businesses are popping up and this and that, you can bet that people are going to they're going to want to come even if it's a detour to something like Atlantic City or Sea Ale or Wildwood or or wherever they might be going, whether it's to another park or vacation. Um, another thing to keep in mind, if you do go a concrete route, it
it doesn't need to be millions of dollars. there, you know, people like myself and other people that I can introduce you to. There are other builders and companies out there that will do it for a fraction. And that doesn't mean that it's going to cut down on the aesthetic or on the, you know,
liability of it, you know, just how good it is to skate. It just means that you guys don't have to do what the short towns have done and hire these super high-end, you know, companies like Spawn Ranch, for example, that have done CI and Long Branch, beautiful parks, but they've cost like 1.5 or more. You know
what I mean? and those towns do have that. So, there's ways to work around that. Um, my brand's name is Community. There's another brand in Cumberland County called Shiitakei. Again, uh, there's other builders. Uh, Meg's DIY used to be a place out in An Harbor Township. You know, we policed our own. We did our own thing. Either way, um, if
you guys ever want to talk, you know, uh, I'm sure we can connect and, you know, introduce you to the right people, the right builders and whatnot. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. name, please, where you live. >> Hello, I'm Bert Brewster. I live in Cumberland County down the street
actually in Vinland. Um, I'm here to talk about the new website for the data oneformational uh you know the one that you just got a link for today and uploaded today. I was wondering who approved that being added to the website like is there somebody to
oversee that type of decision? business administrator and the mayor. >> Okay. Um, so I'm wondering why a business has their stuff on a government website when sure
you can like link it, but it's you have concerns about AI data center whole entire banner. Um, I was wondering if it's specifically because of the concerns that the residents have, even though they could Google this information since everything
listed on that website is already public knowledge. Um, that has been said before. So, I'm just wondering what the point of it is. Is it to placeate people? Because that's basically what it looks like. Um,
and I think that's just such a bold move. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> There Larry. >> I've been here enough. Um, I'm Larry from Vinand. I'm just gonna bring up
real quick that uh Ice is was staging at Wawwa across from the high school. This is like a little eerie because this is a year and a half after they were stopping high school students and IDing them. Um the lies from the town hall from January from data one. Why are we going to trust
data one now? Cuz there's been so many things like he never said he wanted to go to one gig. He was going to create 75 million gallons of water. I I just there was so much bull in there. I don't know why anybody we would even put that anywhere near us because why are we trusting this guy? I don't even know.
the city doesn't know what's going on with some of the stuff he's doing, right? Because like the closed loop system, uh, people reached out to him and asked what they're going to do with the waste water because when the water runs through the system, it's going to become candidated. You have to do something with it. This water cannot go back into the aquafer. It will contaminate the aquifer that 8 to nine
counties drink from. He the city and data one did not have an answer for what they'll do with the water, how they'll treat it, how they'll get rid of it, no answers. Um, the 2.2 2 million gallons of water a day from the Oproquest, which is just insane when that was that was
not the number we got in January. Um, there's more than 60 generators on site. This is more than doubled in the permit. And somebody did reach out to one of the city officials and he had no clue. I I don't know what's going on. Like,
uh, it's just insane. Um, but I will close on the skate park. So, I'm gonna go back to something I talked about previously, which is Ed's Bike Shop used to be owned by Ed Abbott. Um, Ed's Bike Shop was legendary. Like, I don't know how else to explain. You go to Delaware, you go to Pennsylvania, you go anywhere. You go to West Virginia and people probably know what Ed's bike shop was.
It was a BMX spot. Huge. Ed put on the annual games. It's the easiest thing in the world. You build a skate park, you name it after Ed, you kick off, you go back to Ed, you talk to Ed, and kick off the Ed's games again. Something to get the youth out because the youth is at Waw Wa just literally trashing it almost every single day. They need programs. The stuff is going to get worse
nationally. You need to get soft to get the youth involved. Youth centers, skate parks, aim at the kids, community programs, you know. Cool. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Seeing no one, we'll close that portion of the meeting.
Mr. President, I present ordinance number 2026-39, ordinance amending ordinance number 2025-94 so as to authorize the purchase of approximately 108 acres of vacant land known as 1100 College Drive from South
Jersey Health Systems replacing the contribution from the Cumberland County Improvement Authority with a 50% contribution from the Vinland Development Corporation which is ready for public hearing. Chair entertains a motion to ordinance number 2026-39 be taken up for public hearing public for discussion. >> So move
>> second. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. Anyone in the audience wish to be heard on ordinance number 2026-39. Seeing no one. Chair will entertain a
motion public hearing on ordinance number 202639 be closed. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Garthur. >> Yes. Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-39
be taken up final reading and adopted according to law. >> So move. >> Second. >> Discussion by council. >> Seeing none. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 2026-39.
Ordinance amending ordinance number 2025-94 so as to authorize the purchase of approximately 108 acres of vacant land known as 1100 College Drive from South Jersey Health Systems replacing the contribution from the Kerland County Improvement Authority with 50%
contribution from the Vinand Development Corporation with a vote of 5 years. This ordinance is hereby adopted. >> Grand Chetta, please submit ordinance number 202639 to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Present ordinance number 2026-40, ordinance releasing, vacating, and
extinguishing any public rights in portions of certain paper streets known as Columbia Avenue and Washington Avenue, which is ready for a public hearing. >> Chertains a motion that ordinance number 2026-40 be taken up for public hearing and open to public for discussion. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes.
>> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. Is there anyone in the audience who wish to be heard on ordinance number 2026-40? >> Seeing no one chair on a tand motion public hearing on window number 2026-40
be closed. >> So move >> second. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-4 to be taken up for final reading adopted according to law. So >> move.
>> Second. >> Discussion by councel. Seeing none, >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. >> Ordinance 2026-40. Ordinance releasing, vacating, and extinguishing any public
rights and portions of certain paper streets known as Columbia Avenue and Washington Avenue. The vote of five yays. This ordinance is hereby adopted. >> Mr. Francetta, please submit ordinance number 2026-40 to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Present ordinance number 2026-41,
ordinance amending ordinance 2026-1 authorizing the purchase of 440 Westlannis Avenue to correct clerical errors which is ready for a public hearing. >> Chains a motion ordinance number 2026-41 be taken up for public hearing and open to public for discussion. >> So move second. >> Dr. Arthur,
>> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spino, >> yes. Is there anyone in the audience who wish to be heard on 2026-41? Seeing no one, chair will entertains a motion the public hearing on window
number 2026-41 be closed. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-41 be taken up for final reading adopted
according to law. >> So move. >> Second. Discussion by council. >> Seeing none. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. >> Ordinance 2026-41,
ordinance amending ordinance 2026-1 authorizing the purchase of 440 West Lannis Avenue to correct clerical errors. For the vote of 5 years, this ordinance is hereby adopted. >> Mr. Francetta, please submit ordinance number 2026-41 to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. >> Yes.
>> Thank you. Present ordinance number 2026-42, ordinance amending ordinance 2025-20. An ordinance amending ordinance 2019-57 and an ordinance 2022-49 is amended chapter 687 part 4 article 18 of the
code of the city of Binland entitled water sewer utility rights reserved rates which is ready for a public hearing. >> Chan entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-42 be taken up for public hearing open to public for discussion. So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes.
>> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Margas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. Is there anyone in the audience who wish to be heard on ordinance number 2026-42? >> Please state your name, where you live. >> Council, that's uh Matt Williams. I live
in Vinland. Um, so yeah, I discussed this ordinance um, you know, with our utility director and like being solicitor explained like effectively it doesn't change anything uh, right now. It's how it's always been done. Um, I understand that. Um but with the costs directly associated to treatment and
delivery and after learning that significant water request that was mentioned earlier, how can we be sure that those costs you know any um you know any infrastructure upgrades regarding you know a large scale
development such as that um you know wouldn't be burdened by anybody else. Um you know it's known that even then with that number that the water calculation methods um you know and I have sources about this with a water usage effectiveness um you know they grossly
misrepresent how much water is used up to uh 10,000 times um from that ratio um you know a study completed by uh you know researchers in University of California, Illinois and Berkeley laboratories they examined data center
water usage um from 2021 1 to 2024 and it was found and this is a direct quote that these metrics fall short in measuring water use at the workload level as a whole. Um that's my addition but which is the ideal basis for understanding and comparing water use in
data centers. Um so the concern comes from you know as it was mentioned earlier you know we've asked about um you know you know treatment of the the system um so if there's any like pas in that system that needs to get filtered and treatment needs we need upgrades for
that treatment you know are those costs going to be burdened by residents I would ask you as city council to explore methods that ensure strict protections from your average rate payers um you know regarding these types of upgrades. Um, you know, even if there's such as
like uh, you know, the well or something. Um, that's all I have. >> Rick, >> just answer some of your questions. And the director is here too. He can uh, also >> Rick, make sure your mics pick picking up. >> The first issue you brought up was the
cost of infrastructure. Um, that infrastructure is paid by way of connection fees. There's a formula based upon the number of gallons that a corporation or business is going to use. There's a connection fee and we have a three-year look back period. So, if they come in with their engineering and say
we're using 20 million gallons a year and we found that they're using 40, we can automatically increase a connection fee which covers the cost of the infrastructure. So, that's not passed on to the residents or any other person or user within the city of Vinland. And it's my understanding and director if
you can help us out here in terms of the cost. I'm going to come on up. Um the cost associated with the um uh the recovery fee um to asssure that u businesses such as
a commercial user is not paying less than a residential user. >> I'm sorry. Can you explain how that works? >> Um the recovery cost and and I know there was some discussion from some people about um the residents will pay
more of the recovery cost than a than a uh uh commercial user. >> No, the the recovery cost will be spread evenly across everything. It's not based upon one using more than the other. It's basically just the cost. And right now the the data center doesn't have any
water from the city. It's just to recover if we pump more because of certain times of year there's droughts or there's less rain. Our pump stations just have to operate higher. If we see the increase in energy cost because we ran longer, chemicals
that we have to input into the water to treat it more because we're pumping more, just because a regular farmer might need it. Those recovery costs have always just been added. We didn't feel that it was right not to give justification. Like I told you, we by the way, Matt and I had spoke on the
phone a week and a half ago, give or take. >> For a good while, about half hour. It was a nice conversation. I felt, >> huh? >> 30 minutes. 30 seconds. >> Oh, three three minutes. >> Three minutes. >> I didn't see the timer. I apologize. Thanks, Marian.
>> No, we went over a lot of that in in some some length on the phone that day. Um, forget where I was at, but >> we were talking about the cost associated with recovery costs are not going to be more. >> No, for residents. Um, >> absolutely not. It's not fair to the
public. It's it doesn't get passed on to you what somebody else might use. It's the the recovery cost is put evenly, but like you said that like Rick said that the connection fees are what is based upon building that foundation for the
large end users. Customers don't pay with the the regular beneficial residential when you hook up to New Water. There is none. If you buy a house that's existing, there is no a new cost for that. Um no they you got a residents wouldn't b be burdened by someone like the data center specifically that was
mentioned earlier. >> You have a residential user down here commercial allocation up here >> and then you're squashing that in the middle. So it's that that makeup cost from your in >> No, I know what you're saying but and and to someone else alluded earlier that
they use 9 to 10,000 gallons a month. A 1 in service is a lot at 10,000. The 316 doesn't come on until you pass the 10,000 to 25,000. And you're right with the up to 25 and then you're right over the two and a half million it's a much
cheaper rate >> per month. >> Yeah, >> there aren't any I don't know that there's many customers other than two that might use that much water in a month anyway to be honest with you at this point. So >> I'm not sure. >> No, I think that there's two.
>> Not sure. Um I just have like one final comment on that. My concern >> I can reject sign but uh my concern you know with that is you know after the winter time you know we experienced the rider rates and tariff B um related to infrastructure upgrades you know specifically for the gas systems as
well. So I know it's a tackon cost on top of your average rate. Um and that's kind of where you know my line of thinking goes. So but thank you for your response Dennis. Um thank you. >> I think Matt that's the difference between public and private. Private is forprofit there and we're trying to make
it fair for everybody. >> Chair entertains a motion to public hearing on ordinance number 2026-42 be closed. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli.
>> Yes. Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-42 be taken up for final reading adopted according to law. So move. >> Second. Discussion. Seeing none. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. Yes.
>> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 2026-42. Ordinance amending Ordinance 2025-20. An ordinance amending Ordinance 20- 2019-57 and Ordinance 2022-49 is amended. Chapter 687. Part four, article 18 of
the code of the city of Vinland entitled water sewer utility rights reserved rates with a vote of 5 days. This ordinance is hereby adopted. >> Granchetta, please submit ordinance number 2026-42 to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. >> Yes, I >> Mr. President, I present ordinance
number 2026-43 which is ready for first reading. >> Entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-43 be taken up for first reading. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli,
>> yes. >> Ordinance 2026-43, ordinance authorizing the execution of a contract of sale and other documents necessary for the acquisition of certain property in the city of Binland, known as 1467 Spring Road, block 5223, lot one of the tax map of the city of Binland.
>> J enterains a motion ordinance number 2026-43 be passed for first reading. that a public hearing be held on Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. >> So move. >> Second >> discussion. >> Seeing none, >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English,
>> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> And President Spanelli, >> yes, >> present ordinance number 2026-44, which is ready for first reading. >> Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-44 be taken up for first reading.
>> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur. Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 2026-44. An ordinance amending and supplementing ordinance number 130 as amended chapter
56 of the code of the city of Ireland entitled an ordinance creating and establishing the fire department for the city of Ireland and promulgating rules and regulations. Therefore, Chains a motion ordinance number 2026-44 be passed for first reading. that a public hearing be held on Tuesday, July 14th,
2026 at 5:30 p.m. >> So move. >> Second >> discussion. Seeing none. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> And President Spanelli. >> Yes.
>> Present ordinance number 2026-45 which is ready for first reading. >> Okay. Entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-45 be taken up for first reading. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes.
>> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 2026-45. Ordinance approving purchase of 2040 Maple Avenue, block 252, lot 51 for 150,000 even for recreational use or such other use as the city deems
proper. >> Chair entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-45 be passed for first reading. that a public hearing be held on July 14th, 2026 at 5:30m. >> So move >> second >> discussion being none. >> Dr. Arthur,
>> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. >> Present ordinance number 2026-46, which is ready for first reading. >> She entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-45
be taken up for first reading. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur. Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 2026-46. Ordinance amending ordinance 2004-25 is
amended entitled an ordinance adopting the center city redevelopment plan consistent with resolution 5203 of the planning board of the city of Binland so as to amend block 3802 lot 7225 West Landis Avenue consistent with resolution 6662 of the planning board. Chan
entertains a motion ordinance number 2026-46 be passed for first reading public hearing be held on Tuesday July 14th 2026 at 5:30 p.m. >> So move >> second >> discussion seeing none >> Dr. Arthur
>> yes >> council member English >> yes >> council member Vargas >> yes >> vice president Gomez >> yes >> presidentelli >> yes >> Mr. President, I present a public hearing on the calendar year 2026 amended municipal budget. >> She entertains a motion to open the public hearing on the calendar year 2026
amended municipal budget and open for discussion. >> The move >> second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. Is there anyone in the audience who wish to be heard on the public hearing
on 2026 amended municipal budget? Seeing no one, Jan entertains a motion to close the public hearing. >> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes.
>> President Spanelli. >> Yes. >> Mr. President, I present resolution number 2026-288, a resolution to adopt the calendar year 2026 budget as amended of the city of Bland. He entertains a motion that resolution number 2026-288 be adopted according to law.
>> So move. >> Second. >> Discussion. Seeing none. >> Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. >> Council member English. >> Yes. >> Council member Vargas. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gomez. >> Yes. >> And President Spanelli? >> Yes. And I'd like to thank our finance department doing a great job getting
everything done. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, sir. >> Yes. City Council has approved that all matters listed on tonight's consent agenda considered to be routine and non-controversial will be adopted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member so to request in which
case the item will be removed and considered with an individual vote. All matters on the consent agenda have been presented to city council during either a work session or premeating conference and appear on the consent agenda without objection. Their titles will not be individually read into the record but will be properly memorialized in the
meeting minutes. entertains a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda. >> So move >> second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, >> yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> And President Spanelli, >> yes.
>> You have privilege of the floor, council members. Dr. Arthur. >> Yes. I'd like to express my condolences to Michael Pantleion's family in the passing in his passing um this week. So, just remember his family and prayer.
>> Councilman Vargas, >> not at this time. Thank you, >> Councilman English. >> Yeah, just real quick. Um I'm going to think back um I'm going to probably date myself a little bit. Um I think back to this when I started skateboarding. um names like Alvok, I think it was, uh
Christian Hosoy, um um Tony Hawk, of course. Um we used to have the skateboard park behind um Sears and Road Buck and and it was really unique thing. I ran I met a guy named Darren Burke who was the most phenomenal skater come around violin. He actually runs Preps
Pizza in Ocean City now. But um I could never do the things he could do with it. And growing up, I played a lot of the recreational sports. And I remember cutting some lawn and doing some chores and saving some money. And uh the unique thing was my mom didn't
want no parts of that skateboard in the house. So, oh, I still had it, but she never knew I had it. And some of the friends that I made in that junior high school span, it was just a different breed of kid totally that I'm still friends with today end up being customers of mine through uh the
plumbing business. So, you know, when you guys talk about it's just a different avenue, I I I walked that avenue many moons ago. Um so, um it's good to see that that the fever is still there for that. And if if in um deed that comes fruition fruition
someday, um it definitely will have my support as a council member. So, um thanks for coming and speaking about that because it's, you know, is about the kids when you think about it and the adults, too. But I think I would probably have one of them 4footers with maybe eight wheels on it now. Well, I don't know. But thanks for coming out
tonight, >> McGome. >> Yeah, I just want to thank uh Sheena Santiago and the staff for an amazing Junth celebration. Um we had a great time. Thanks for the public for coming out. Um we had a it was a great turnout.
>> All right. Definitely Sheen has done a great job with our special events. We thank her and uh congratulations to Kla Christian. they just had their se 80th anniversary of helping and uh working out working the community with our youth
uh etc. and we went there for that as well. Um, and um, my grandson is a skateboarder, so he's he doesn't live in New Jersey, but >> um, which is one of the reasons why when it
was brought up and we did get a couple emails on it, uh, I used to live in Brigantine for a while before I met my wife and um, so I knew it was there. I wanted to go look at it to see what possibilities there are of trying
to regen rejuvenate what we used to have. I know the insurance gives us a really tough time with it as far as trying to get insurance for it, but we'll uh see what we can work out and hopefully we can come up with something positive. That being said, we will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting.
>> So move. >> Second. >> Dr. Arthur, >> yes. >> Council member English, >> yes. >> Council member Vargas, yes. >> Vice President Gomez, >> yes. >> President Spanelli, >> yes. Have a good night everyone. Be careful going