times as well as posted on the bulleon board in the mpal building fire exits are located through the double doors to your left and right please silence all mobile devices this meeting is being videotaped anyone who does not wish to be seen on television may be excused this will be shown on Channel 9 every week Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday at
7:00 p.m. Friday at 10 p.m. and Saturday at 10 p.m. we continue until the next meeting this meeting is also being live streamed and you can check that out right on our on our on our YouTube site please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance flag United States of America
the rep stands one nation God indivisible and justice for all roll call please councilman Bennett here Council vice president Brown here councilman Harris here councilman yurus
present council president deell here mayor delpia Mr Russo Mr Rooney pres okay now we're gonna move on pres our presentation actually unfortunately our mayor is sick tonight so we we hope he gets better he wanted to be here but he wasn't feeling well move our
presentations our first presentation is uh recognitions of the Washington Township teachers of the year so we're going to come down here when we call your name please come up here so we can recognize you so for our first teacher of the year tonight will be Melissa herley hope I said that
right Sandy fit Patrick Megan Fitz mayor Laura Coniglio she's absent Amanda excuse me Amanda hwood Shir John she's absent Shannon Malloy that's
yeah J I'm sorry Dan Jed wanbi he's abs and then we have administrative assistant of the Year Sandy FZ Fen Mayer I'm councilman Bennett so I'm the ladies on to the school board and go to
every school board meeting and I was at the uh high school when they uh honored uh the teachers it is a great night when that happens I mean for 2 hours of uh of people giving a good tribute to
you the teachers and staff support people it's it's an honor it really is and it really shows a lot of U school spirit on the adult um I'm Mike dilio I I represent Washington Township Public Schools
tonight I'm the director of community outreach registration and data technology and it's a very very big pleasure I want to Echo what Mr Bennett said um to see my colleagues up here many I've known for a very long time in
various ways um but I'm I'm so proud of all of you you uh you make such a difference and you make uh Washington Township sign so thank you very much and and I I appreciate the Town Council recognizing these wonderful Educators today so thank you very much
you great said kmg I will okay got the Williams family has served the special needs community of Washington Township as directors of the Challenger sports league for 25 years under the
department of Parks and Recreation these leagues are for the special needs children who want to play sports these leagues allow children to play soccer in the fall and ba uh in in the fall and basketball in the winter for 25
years Ron Flo Mike and Shawn Williams have organized and served as directors and coaches of our Challenger athletes this family is welld deserving of our appreciation and their dedication
service to Washington Township and its special needs Community congratulations on the retirement on your retirement and we wish you all the best in the years that lie ahead Ron Williams please Flo
Williams Mike Williams and Shawn Williams sh Sean's working today let have a round of applause for these beautiful people sir also want to thank Nick as well Nick is the one that reached out to me and let me know about the Williams family so it
just goes to show there's so many great people in our town doing great things and if you know please reach out to us let us know we want to recognize them same thing with our teachers I mean they're just amazing so let's give them one more round of applause thank you okay can I get a a motion to approve the bill list for February 22nd 2025
motion second roll call please councilman yoris yes councilman Harris yes councilman Bennett yes vice president Brown yes president deell yes can I get
a motion to approve the regular minutes for February February 12th 2025 motion roll call please councilman yurin yes councilman Harris yes councilman Bennett yes vice president Brown yes
president Zella I would abstain I was I was sick and out at that meeting moving on to ordinances moving on 00001 2025 ordinance amending permit uses within the neighborhood commercial and Highway commercial districts chapter of the code of the township of Washington entitled zoning this
ordinance is up for adoption after public hearing can I get a motion to open to the public onance 00125 second all in favor I is anyone here who speaking on on the behalf of this ordinance seeing none can I get a motion to close motion second can I get
it uh all in favor I can I get a motion to adopt ORD 00 1-25 second roll call please councilman Yus yes councilman Harris yes councilman Bennett yes councilman Brown yes
president deell yes moving on the resolutions the following resolutions are by consent agenda only and all require a vote for all listed each one must be read by can be read by the title if any member of the council wishes to have one removed and heard separately they need to indicate prior to the reading of the titles anyone anything removed and read separately seeing none
Madam clerk can you please read the resolutions resolution 74 resolution resending resolution r067 2025 authorizing the issue of a duplicate tax sales certificate pursuant to njsa 54 p5-
52.1 75 resolution authorizing refund of tax overpayments 76 resolution authorizing a change order and accepting a maintenance guarantee from R maslowski Escavating Inc for Lebanon Street drainage
improvements 77 resolution authorizing a change order and accepting a main incident guarantee from Dutchman Contracting LLC for Washington Township please pbar 78 resolution authorizing a change order and accepting a maintenance
guarantee from arak Paving Co for 2023 Washington Township Road program phase one 79 resolution awarding a contract for the purchase of trash receptacles for Washington Township through Houston galvaston area Council Cooperative
contract RC 0-21 80 resolution appoint appointing Alfred Morgan as full-time zoning officer for the township of Washington 80 81 resolution appointing conditional redeveloper and authorizing
execution of a memorandum of understanding 82 resolution amending resolution r030 d225 resolution consenting to the appointment of Christopher sorus Esquire of kg Law Group as prosecutor and
authorizing the proper officials to execute an agreement for professional service for a ter one year thank you madam clerk can I get a motion to approve resolutions r74 d225 to r822 2025 Mo roll call please councilman
yurz yes councilman Harris yes councilman Bennett yes vice president Brown yes president deell yes moving on all business we'll move on to uh councilman Bennett okay a couple of things are going on
um as as usual the old Stonehouse Village car show will be the end of April it's last Saturday in April every year uh the HBC the historical preservation commission uh runs that uh it's a great event it's a fundraiser uh
for the benefit of the village and also the benefit of the Morgan house and then hopefully with that we get matching funds from the town um sap the sports Advisory Board uh there's right now is
uh uh spring baseball signups and spring softball signups so they're available if your kids are looking to do that uh on the end of the schools there's a couple musicals coming up so I just want to
make sure that people in town are aware of it the high school has Shrek uh 313 to 315 uh Bunker Hill has Legally Blonde 320 to 322 witer Valley has Beetlejuice 320 to
322 and then chest Ridge has uh Sister Act 43 to 45 you also can check those out also on uh wpts um web page so that just gives you an idea of what's going on that same
thank you councilman councilman Harris yes great to be here tonight um had a uh very productive meeting today uh met with uh Mike diso as well as our superintendent um Dr Hibbs uh regarding a a program that that uh we're trying to
put together with uh local high school students uh and connecting them with some local business people we have business people in town that are probably very good or I know that they're very good at what they do uh they may not necessarily be um that uh
Savvy with social media and marketing and we have a lot of students that are enrolled in the uh business and marketing programs uh that are Savvy in that kind of thing so um we kind of put our our heads together and um you know we're looking to get put together something similar to a uh an intern program and uh again Mike dilio was at
at the meeting today uh Mike would you like to get up and kind of share or elaborate on what we're talking about thank you councilman Harris um again Mike dilio Washington Township Public Schools um this is actually something that um you know we're it's in its
infancy stages we're just kind of it's just in the talking points right now um one of the things is um Dr Hibbs and I are making plans to in inform the board they were informed the board today that we were having these discussions so um just looking forward to the partnership
I'm I'm really pleased with um the council and the school district being able to communicate very well it's it's a real um breath of fresh year and I I really thank councilman Harris for wanting to bring the kids on board and stuff and I just appreciate the partnership so thank
you very much absolutely yeah thank you Mike appreciate it and and in future we're going to do a lot more uh functional and uh stuff together with the school board be Ro on anything report
mayored yes as we all do yes that heed under yeah he was definitely not a legal opinion or a medic yes look forward to having him back on spe absolutely Council Yus thank you um I wanted to give a shout out to Harry Adams Harry
has been a member of the MUA board off and on for over 20 years um Harry uh stepped down the other day retired he's going to enjoy Joy retirement and I want to wish him all the best of health and
uh uh Good Fortune um he he'll be sadly missed he was a great guy he contributed a lot to the MUA over those years and um just talking to the chief tonight please don't leave your keys in the car take the keys with you and lock the
car you're making it too easy for these thieves that's all I have to say thank you Council vice president yes um from the library front um they are having a stay in play for children
Friday February 28th 10:15 uh a bag pipe demonstration Saturday March 15th at 12:00 p.m. uh it's open to everybody but priority is given to the hegan call um card holders
and don't miss or forget to look at the heing happenings up on the table here and what's posted on their website um and a reminder for those uh we are pushing out notifications for emergencies and other
important Township notifications on the everbridge site the flyer is up there to scan a QR code so that you can actually get on and um set up the site uh on our Facebook page you can also find my phone number or on the township website if you
need help in setting it up that's it thank you so much I just have a couple things as well we had some good business openings we we actually been busy both in the zoning and also our our planning departments so the meetings have been busy we have a lot of people want to bring new ideas just want to say something funny too the other day I came
home and Peter said dad he said listen he said you know who the two most important people in this town are I'm not goingon to lie I thought he might say me he said Santa Claus and chief gersick so yeah it was not the mayor and council president it was Chief Gerson can Santa Claus so Chief continue to do
what you're doing because OB obviously you're making a great impact on on our our children so I just want you to know that it was it was cute that that he said that and again thank you so much to our teachers that came tonight and those that couldn't make it you know we really want to recognize you and and thank you Mike for all you do as well it really has been a great partnership we've really been trying to do a lot more this
year with the schools so you and DRS have really been instrumental and moving that forward and we got so much great talent in our schools and we do have so many great teachers and and it really shows I mean we've really had some really good meetings we have some really good things coming up they're working with our students and because we're all really one entity let's be be honest
we're all we're all we're all here together we want the best you saw these teachers tonight they're here because they they believe too they're the ones teaching our children so thank you so much to them other news also uh all dogs in the township are required to be registered and and vaccinated uh please stop in the clerk's office to register
your dog for 2025 we'll be holding a free rabies clinic on Saturday that gets pretty packed it starts at 10: a.m. you might want to get there a little early it it does get a lot of people it closes at at 11:30 a.m. and they'll be at the Public Works garage at two MCL drive also Daylight Savings Time begin on
March 9th please make sure you set your clocks ahead 1 hour and change the batter on your smoke detectors all right moving on now to public participation please follow the public form posted which is also attached to the public agenda limit your comments of five minutes once you've completed your comments I'll or question I'll ask if any member of the governing body or the designate wishes to address your
question or comments can I get a motion open to public motion all in favor I we're now open to public anyone like to speak Barb Jim no nobody all right all right we'll take it I know I haven't seen you in a while
you looking good how's everything good hi uh Robert Davis uh col snck in Su and uh let's see forget what I have to what else I have to say but anyway my
question is about the schools uh I know I'm a big fan of the stem uh subjects and now you see with artificial intelligence how their Tim Cook is going to hire 20,000 more people uh for AI and
other organizations the same thing and I was wondering what uh this our school could do with do we have any any training at all with AI uh is that it to you come on please
um Mr Davis we are actually in the process of having our um artificial intelligence policy vetted by our school attorney so that's in the works and then we are also uh Dr hibs just uh did a training for the staff about the use of artificial intelligence and things so um
we are it's actually hard to actually find a robust policy on artificial intelligence because it's just new coming into the schools but um that's something that we're currently working on right now so thanks for bringing it up thank you Mr Davis thanks Mike my get to come every meeting you were really helpful
ton thank you very thank you Mr Davis good to see you again all right good to be here anyone else can I get a motion to PO close to the public all in favor anything else go to go yeah sure um speaking about students uh
Monday night I happen to be at theeran Assistant Living facility and uh five graduating seniors from Washington Township High School who each play a an instrument mosty violins aella forget
the name of the other uh instrument uh out of their own time they serated the residents there which was so nice it was beautiful for an hour um these students took time out of their busy schedules uh preparing for exams this spring uh
getting uh resumés out to colleges and I just want to give a big shout out I have invited them to a future council meeting to maybe play one or two in somos sering us and show us what talents they have there again the wonderful students from
Washington Township High School uh participants in the community um and uh adding to it and it was really touching they did a great job and U you could tell they they've been playing since fourth grade together they said so
uh my hats off to them thanks again thank youc anyone else close all in favor e