Okay. >> Thank you. I'm calling to order this meeting of the council town council of West Windsor for October 27th, 2025. Allison, can you please call the role? >> Gawas here. Jivers here. >> Mando here.
>> Weiss here. Whitfield >> and have we adequately noticed? >> Yes, we were adequately noticed to the times in the Princeton packet on January 17th, 2025 filed with the municipal clerk posted here at the township municipal building and on the township website. Please stand for the salute to
the flag >> of the United States of America to the republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everybody. Tonight we have two
ceremonial matters. Chief Somebody please get the police chief in here. Um, Chief Gara Folo is going to present a black to Mrs. Hodes. So, Chief, take it away.
>> No. >> Uh, no. Speak. No. Uh, you can take that mic out and speak in it if you want. >> No, you need the mic. >> You have to You can You have to Okay. Take you can take it out and walk with it a little. >> It's like karaoke night. Okay.
>> I didn't want to rip it out. So, >> okay. Thank you for allowing us this little bit of time tonight. We have a very, very important dedication. We have a lifelong resident, friend, and companion of the
police department, Leona Haj, is here today. And what her and her husband have done for this police department, for multiple police departments across Mercer County, and for all of us is just legendary for everything they have done.
Not only have they have, and I I apologize for giving my back to you, but I'll turn. uh not only have they protected us but the public for so many years and so many different ways that most people did not even know. So Peter had the have the funeral home the Mather
Hodgej funeral home and for many many years gez what we're talking about from the 70s that Peter and Leona would fund all of our bulletproof vests. So they would do it for us they would do it for Princeton I I don't even know how many other agencies.
Yeah. And it's just they would so the only way we were able to get vests was through their generosity for many many years including myself. I remember my first vest came uh from Peter. I remember him coming and thanking him personally for what he has done for us.
So he has kept us literally kept us alive and safe for all these years. And in 2019, the owner decided to give a donation to the police department for our K-9, our drug K9, uh, K9 Hodgej. So
today, I'm here to dedicate a plaque in memory of K9 Hodgej. And I'm going to read it. It's very brief. In memory of K9 Hodgej, to Mrs. Leona Hajj, who faithfully served the West Windsor Police Department from 2019 to 2025.
Your generosity made his service possible. Named in honor of your late husband, Peter Hajj, K9 Hodgej came became our department's first narcotics K-9 responsible for major seizures, arrests, and countless contributions to the safety of our community. And I could
probably read for about 20 minutes. We talked about it briefly uh during when we ulogized him at one of our last council meetings, how many different drug arrests and how many different arrests he has made through the state police, through West Windsor, and through other agencies keeping our
residents safe. And we're not talking about marijuana. We're talking about serious drugs throughout the entire state. So, no, that's not a drug problem in West Windsor. There's a problem everywhere. And that's what he was responsible for over and over and over
again. Peter and Leona Haj's lifelong commitment to law enforcement from providing bulletproof vests for our officers to gifting us with K9 Hodgej has safeguarded generations and I mean literal generations of West
Windsor officers and residents. Your family's legacy lives on in the service, protection, and sacrifice of K9 Hajj. With eternal gratitude from all of us at the West Windsor Police Department, we we can
never thank you enough for everything your family has done. Okay. >> U Chief, did you want the council up or do you want one first and then we'll come up? What would you like? >> Yeah. >> Great. >> Yeah.
>> Thank you. >> I appreciate it. Put this back so you can talk about Thanks. You're welcome. Is that one more? I don't have the last time.
Thank you for your >> and thank you because we all have wonderful memories of K9 Hunch. >> I remember it was a fairly happy event when we found out that uh he had passed away. So it was a it was a kind of a
downer at that point. Okay. Um, tonight we also do what we've done for a number of years. Alison, do you have any idea how many years? Maybe Gay knows >> the
25 years. I know Gay Yuber who's in the audience was um very very instrumental in in working on this. Um, this is a proclamation for unity which used to be known as woman's space. So, I'll read
the me read the proclamation and then we'll get up and present it. Uh this is the 2025 and 25th year communities of light proclamation where it is the policy of West Windsor
Township to recognize organizations that have contributed to the overall benefit of the community and whereas Unity formerly known as Women's Space founded in 1977 has demonstrated a unique ability to provide comfort, support services,
crisis intervention, and safety to women, men, and children who are victims of sexual assault and strangulation. And whereas unity in the belief that peace begins at home has asked the Mercer Counter community to join them in their struggle against violence towards
women by participating in their annual communities of light project. in whereas Unity has provided emergency shelter in secure locations and comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence since 1977
and sexual assault since 2002 and strangulation since 2002 for more than 130,24 women, 17,782 children and 9,900
Sorry, 9,397 men. Additionally, Unity has assisted more than 332,296 hotline callers over the last 48 years. And West Windsor Township commends Unity
for their efforts to bring an end to the cycle of interpersonal violence imposed on women, men, and children. Whereas Mayor Marathi and the township council members urge each and every household to demonstrate their support of the concept
that peace begins at home by placing luminaries along their driveways and sidewalks on Monday, October 27th, 2025 as a visible symbol of that support. And whereas the proceeds from Communities of Light 2025 will be used to fund vital
services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, strangulation, and human trafficking. Now therefore be it resolved that Mayor Morathy, he met Marathy and the township council of the township of West Windsor County of Mercer, state of New Jersey to hereby be
proclaim October 27th, 2025 as Communities of Light day and hereby honor Unity on their many accomplishments and wish them continued success with Communities of Light in the years to come. We're going to call up um
the Reverend Susan Victor that um I had the pleasure with a couple of others meeting uh earlier. If you'll notice when you came in, we have some lights out there in the um in the front. Uh and she's the chief operating officer of and
client and community service director. So, we're going to uh come up and present this to you and thank you for the amazing work that you do. Thanks. Thank you. >> Oh, thank you for coming. Okay, now that we've done the ceremonial
part, we're going to open up public comment. Allison, did you want to give uh some background on that? >> Well, before we before we start, um public comment is a three minute limit
per person. um a possible maximal minute of 30 minute comment period together and um uh just limit your comments. There's a clock in the back which will let you know as your three minutes times turn
down come down. Who's on the um >> off the list? Does Andy Braber? >> Was there someone else on the list? I thought there was another name there >> up or first or second public comment. Um I I think he misunderstood that that um
when what was an agenda item. So I think he wanted first public comment. >> Hello, I'm Andy Bramberg, 24 Providence Drive. Uh today I'm talking about uh situation at the senior center. Uh as everyone knows, we have a great senior
center and um recently we lost our bus driver um who was very qualified but uh is no longer with us. I actually use the bus service and um for a few weeks I've
been brainstorming with some friends um and um what I'm going to announce is not an original idea but it's just what we some of the suggestions we came up with. Um is it possible that we could
reach out to and it's not my idea but it's a good idea. Um, could we reach out to Rick's bus service and get a bus driver from Rick's bus service? Now, um,
if if common sense is I see buses in front of my house 7:00 a.m., 7:30, 8:00, and then I see buses at 3 and 3:30 and so what are they doing during the day?
Um, could some of them be assigned temporarily uh to help us out at the senior center? Now, um, I'm usually picked up, let's say my scheduled time is 9:05.
Sometimes, uh, they show up at 5 to 9. So, I'm still waiting there. But maybe we at the senior center, we could adjust our schedules to go out a little later. So maybe we could be picked up at 9:30 or
10:00 and then we could be dropped off at 1:00, something like that, because it sounds like there's a lot of bus drivers, but during the day they might not be that busy. So that's my suggestion. contact um and maybe someone
could comment on it because um since I've not gone to the senior center, people are not showing up to play pool. So, so uh so it we need that bus. Thank
you. >> Thank you, Andy. Yeah, Mr. Kawaja. Hi, thanks for having me. Uh, my name is Van Kawaja. Uh, I live in Princeton. Um, though I'm not a West Windsor resident, I have in the past uh, worked in West
Windsor and as a commuter, I'm in West Windsor uh, every day, twice a day. So, I've read with interest about your upcoming election and in particular paid attention to some of the questions asked of the candidates, but it seems to me that one question has gone unasked, which I'd like to ask, which is, would
the mayor and council be willing to pass a municipal resolution in favor of the immigrant trust act? Such resolutions have been passed by some 20 municipalities in the state including Princeton, Trenton, Montgomery, and possibly Cranberry, which is putting it
up for a vote, and three counties, including Essex, Hudson, and Union. Now, as you all know, there's an ongoing controversy in West Windsor about the Bridge.8 warehouse proposal, which I understand is going forward. But lost in this controversy are some little noticed, but to my mind, highly
significant facts. First, much of the frontline staff in warehouses of this kind consists of immigrant workers, including undocumented ones. Second, these workers are on the receiving end of a severe and systematic set of assaults by federal law enforcement. And
third, these operations have taken on an increasingly brutal and lawless character. Some of us have seen these um close at hand. So the ITA would codify and extend the protections of the existing immigrant trust directive to
protect such workers. The push for local resolutions is intended to press state legislature legislators to pass the act before it's too late. Now in speaking before local bodies across the state, I've often heard the objection that state level legislation like the ITA is
beyond the purview of a given local body. Local bodies, we're often told, would prefer to focus on exclusively local matters. But this seems to me unrealistic and in any case contradicts standard practice. So every council meeting begins with a pledge of allegiance to the flag of the nation and
the republic, neither of which are local matters. The pledge itself is a reminder that local matters are wider than merely local. On a more practical note, when grants are at issue, local and regional politics come together. localities look to the broader community for support and
vice versa and West Windsor is no exception in this respect. So given all that uh I think that West Windsor like any other locality owes the larger community a modest duty of reciprocity and the pro-ITA resolution is just that.
It expresses support for migrants and joins the wider struggle for them without imposing a binding legal obligation on the town or costing anything. So, I hope that you will give it serious thought. Thank you. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else on the list?
>> No. No one else on the list. >> Is there anybody else that wishes to get up and do public comment today? Nobody. Um, there'll be one more public comment available later in the meeting. Not seeing anybody who wishes to make
public comment. I will now close the public comment. Jim. Um, mayor, do you have any comment on the bus? Uh, on Andy's question. >> Yeah, I'll answer later. Finish in my comment. I'll answer.
>> Yeah. Okay. Um, opening it now up to administration comments. >> Yes, I have several announcements. Um, brush and leaf collection is occurring in zone 4 this week. Um, the Historical Society of West
Windsor will be um holding um two visitations to explore the Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church's Cemetery featuring over,200 burial plots.
There are two times, 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. It will be on November 2nd, free uh to anyone who wishes to register, but you have to go online and register through the historical society's website.
Uh, also on November 2nd from 1 to 4:00 pm, um, the historical society will be, um, offering a tour of several historic buildings at the 18th 18th century skank
farmstead. It's free to the public and it will be held at um, 50 Southfield Road here in West Windsor Township. There's information on that event as well on the
historic society's website. Um, there will be a flu clinic here in West Windsor at the Senior Center, 271 Clarksville Road on Wednesday, November 5th from 4 to 5:00 p.m. It's open to
West Windsor, Robinsville, and Heightstown residents three years and older. You can register online or you can um come the day of the flu clinic and uh get your flu shot.
The West Windsor Health Department will hold its rabies vaccination clinic on Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Princeton Junction Firehouse, 245 Clarksville Road. Um,
animal owners are asked to register their pets online. If you have more than one pet in your household, please register each pet separately. Each pet should be accompanied with an with an individual adult. All pets must be
secured on leashes. No retractable leashes. Dogs and cats must be healthy at least three months of 12 weeks of age to be vaccinated. And finally, um there will be a COVID 19 vaccination clinic. Um
it will be the Mona Spike Vax. This too will be at the West Windsor Senior Center on Thursday, November 13th from 10:00 a.m. to noon. It's open to individuals aged 12 and older. Um,
and for individuals six months and older who are uninsured and underinsured can call the West Windsor Health Department. Uh, residents can also register online um through the health department web page. That's all I have.
>> Thank you. >> Uh, thanks Andrea. Um I'll first answer the question and you know bus is very near and dear to my heart. My mom rides it. So I get a status report every day. Unfortunately the bus driver was very
competent. She had a personal issue. She had to resign. You need a CDL otherwise I offered to ride the bus. I don't have a CDL and you see the problem with CDS licenses in the US. But we do have we do have identified a person but the person
needs to give notice to the existing so we can't disclose until that's all resolved. So we are very optimistic that soon you will get your bus back. Your suggestion is good. I was thinking about it probably between 9 and 2 because the
high school ends at 2:42. So they have to go back to the high school at 2:15 at 2:30 at least. So they probably have to end the last one by two and they can't start before 9. I believe the elementary
school starts around 9 8:50 whatever >> 8:45 elementary school. So I I can check we may maybe they can do one run or so our bus does but there's lot of demand for buses. I know there are people waiting to get on the bus. So I will
talk to the superintendent and see if that's a possibility. I mean they can even use their own bus the school school district bus we can pay them uh that will save them some time. So I will look into it but I'm optimistic that as soon as that driver's other obligation is
taken care of we will have a driver again. So that's one. Um second I just want to thank the uh uh west of bicycle pedestrian alliance. you know, they are very active in putting up signs, the 4ft
minimum clearance signs and uh through their leadership uh not only just in Westminster but throughout Mercer County, they are putting about 18 signs uh that are paid for um this their permanent sign not like uh the banner
that they did the 4T min uh minimum clearance. So I just want to uh thank them for uh their leadership uh in this regard. Um, I'm also happy to announce that Wester has received a 2500 grant as
a participant into the residential energy efficiency outreach campaign on behalf of sustainable Jersey and PSEG uh energy efficiency partnership program. Uh, this grant will provide 2500 and additional resources to promote
PSENG cost savings program that benefit Westminster residents. All residents are eligible and lower income residents will learn for opportunities to save money on the cost savings project. Um, we received this uh grant uh as a benefit
of being uh a sustainable Jersey municipality and I uh we just got certified as a silver level thing and to be very honest uh I have to thank the um
EC chair Ephraim Burks uh the new adviser Pulim Magupta and Andrea Mandel who has been always after me to apply for grants like this. So through their leadership they did most of the work or all of the work to apply for the grant and uh I'm very happy that we received
it. So thank you to all all three of them. And finally um just want to talk a little bit about rec department. Uh um they held a very successful uh trunk or treat event uh last Saturday at uh uh
the skank farm. Um that event was almost about to be cancelled and historical society stepped up to uh hold um agree to host the event and thanks to rec department historical society uh the police DPW and both fire departments
professional and volunteer um it was a great success. I mean they ran out of parking spaces. So that's a sign of a great success and hopefully it will keep increasing. So just want to thank the rec department and historical society for making that event possible. The rec
department is also hosting a uh Diwali uh festival of light events at uh Grower Middle School this Saturday from 1- 6 p.m. All are uh invited. There's no fee. It's just fun and food. And Indian
sweets are always the best. They don't have any calories during Diwali season. So you can eat as much as you want. So, hope to see you there. And lastly, um the drone show was very successful last year. Uh last year it was done because
we couldn't do fireworks due to um restrictions from the state. Uh but the drone show was so successful that nobody wants fireworks now. Everybody wants drone show. Uh drone show is far more expensive than fireworks. Um I just want to clarify because some of the people
have been asking uh online that uh both the fireworks and drone show are 100% sponsored by rec department. The money for that comes through um the profit if you want to call that profit of the programs that they run. whatever income
they generate out of those programs are put in a trust fund and that trust fund um has always I mean as far long back as I remember they've always sponsored the fireworks uh since I moved in town I don't know when it started um and they
will also sponsor the uh uh sponsor the uh drone show there's no line item in uh Westminster budget uh for that event it's not funded by taxpayers but they do need your help to raise funds. They will
publish um uh a fundraising appeal. They need to raise about $10,000 to um they will pay whatever they used to pay for fireworks, but the additional expense they're hoping to raise through donations from uh businesses and uh
local people. So, please do donate. It was a great success. It was a great opportunity for the community to come together and u appreciate what we have and again as we are the first in Mercer county to do it. I'm sure after people
see that other towns will start uh doing it. So again you will see the appeal between now and uh uh December. Please do donate generously as much as you can uh to make it possible. So thank you. >> Thank you mayor. Moving on to council
comments. Linda, would you like to go first? >> Well, earlier today, several of us um including Gay Huber, Allison, she and our township clerk, Chief Gafallow, Andrea, and I uh lit the luminaries for unity outside the municipal building.
Each light is a sign of courage, connection, and healing. We all stand in solidarity um with the victims, survivors of domestic and sexual uh violence. We remember those we lost and reaffirm our shared commitment to end abuse in all
its forms. I attended uh this past Sunday the morning there was a kickoff for the Martian bike ride uh which started at Grover's uh Mill Coffee House. So, thanks to the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance and the Historical Society of West Windsor uh
for organizing this fun event. Uh this past Saturday, there was another fun event as the mayor mentioned at the Skank Farmstead. So, the rec department's uh trunk or treat along with the uh historical society of West Windsor uh was well attended and the kids had uh a lot of fun running around
in their costumes and playing games. So, that was that was also a big success. Uh, Veg VEG ER for pets is now open in West Windsor. Its location is next to Lowe's on Route One. There is an ER trained team for veterinarian
emergencies for dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and exotic animals. So, you can walk in or you can call 609257 2281 and they are open 247. So, it was very interesting to take the tour there and it's very um open
concept. So, um you can you can stay with your pet and and get the uh necessary treatment. Sidewalks. If your sidewalk is broken or uplifted by township tree roots, uh please call the engineering community development department to get on our sidewalk
replacement list. Each year we budget for this in the capital budget. Um I think some people are just not aware of it. It is by ordinance the homeowner's responsibility to fix broken sidewalks. However, if there are um street trees that were put in by a developer, the
township um and they're causing u the problems with the sidewalks um please take advantage of this program. Thank you. >> Thank you, Linda. Uh Dan just >> Thank you, Chair. Uh I wanted to
acknowledge a gentleman who um talked about the immigrant trust act. Uh thank you for bringing that to our attention. Uh I'm very much in support of that act and I would certainly support a resolution from the council um in support of it as well. Earlier this year I actually wrote a story about my
support of it and uh I have been chatting with our legislative representatives here at the state level, our assembly and and state senator uh to get their support. So thank you. um for your comments about
uh the differentiation between what happens at the local level and how that really is integrated into much larger views. Um I I if you've been here before, you've heard me talk about how I think it's the responsibility of our council to raise the voice of the people
who live in our community and um I think that's a a very worthwhile effort to take. So, thank you. I wanted to pick up on uh the mayor's comment about the recreation committee recreation commission's um fundraiser.
They've uh formally announced and launched a fundraiser for the drone show. There's a couple different aspects of it. One is on the commercial side to look for large likely commercial organizations within the township or the greater community to
make sponsorship donations which could include an image of their business or logo up in the sky as as part there's there's actually two two slots available for that. That's the highest level, but
there's a couple of lower tiers uh for other businesses uh to put um their banners up on our stage to be uh included in our email blasts and other advertisements. So, >> and then >> how much for the for the two
>> 2500 >> 2500 All right, guys. >> So, I actually already speaking to one organization, one um business in West Windsor that is looking into uh doing that. So hopefully we got one out of the two and I'm going to continue to to to chat with other folks
about um filling up those two slots because that would take care of basically half of the fundraising if we got both of those two. But there's also the community aspect of this. Um so there's the ability uh they've announced a link on our website for any person to
make a donation as little as $10 or $20 $5 or $50, however much you think uh it's worth. perhaps um especially for pet owners who uh want to protect their pets, this is a great way to donate on their behalf. Um hey, if we find 100
people that are willing to give us $25, that's, you know, a significant amount. So, um uh I'm going to be promoting uh this. I encourage everybody on on the council and within our community to promote it as well. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dan. Sonia. >> Well, I saw that um rec department announced it this morning. I was just about to uh message Ken and you asking because there were many residents who were already reaching out to me asking.
So, and right before I was ready to type the email, I saw the flyer go up and I took that and forwarded it to everybody who reached out to me. So, hopefully some um donations will be coming that that way. Um, I have people asking me
about it from other towns if we are going to do the drone show again this year. So, we may have more more people show up to watch the show, mayor, this year. So, we may need extra enforcements maybe. Who knows?
>> I'm just um I don't have much to say. Um this is that time of the year when um um I always um make a request to all our residents to be careful um you know the daytime um daylight savings ends um this
coming weekend. So you know it's getting darker sooner and with the time change it will be darker earlier um especially when people are returning back from um work school. Please make yourself visible if you're a pedestrian. Um I
really I am a pedestrian. My son runs all the time and I think it's on to us pedestrians to make sure that we are visible to the to the cars and vehicles on the roads. Um it's very important to do that. Um because if you are wearing
all black and walking in dark, guess what? The cars can't see you. So I really really encourage everyone um to do that. um uh our bicycle pedestrian alliance does a wonderful job um educating everybody. I'm actually um
having having them over at High School North um this week to talk to our um new drivers, our senior high school students who are driving. So, you know, I think um education begins there and hopefully they can bring some education back to
their parents. But um cuz um I live right off of Cranberry Road and many times um I have come across that one person who's wearing all dark and walking in the dark. So let's just be careful and
keep ourselves safe and others safe. So, and just be mindful of all the speed limits because um we are getting a lot of messages of people not following speed limits and just being late and rushing. So, just be careful about that.
Um the other thing I wanted to request everybody is um to follow the red blinking lights when the school bus stops um stops to pick up um our kids. Um please don't go around them. that it's illegal um a but um more so keeping
our kids safe is really really important. So please please follow that. Um that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. So and that's such a simple thing asking people not to wear all dark when they're walking in the dark. And uh
I invite everybody to go outside and look at somebody else that's standing there in the dark and see how far away you can actually see them because it's very difficult. >> You know, when you leave for work in the morning and you're waiting all dark, you're not thinking about it. But at after 4:00 when it gets dark and you're
returning back at let's say 5 6:00 all you need is something small that reflect like reflective tape or a a light or something on you that shows people that there's somebody in on the street. So you know >> All right. Um I want to thank the mayor
for mentioning um this uh sustainable Jersey grant and for helping apply for it. Uh tonight we're going to vote on resolution 2025-R231 which supports this our grant application to sustainable Jersey uh for
what's called the residential energy efficiency outreach campaign uh which is part of the sustainable Jersey PSENG energy efficiency partnership program. Uh the preliminary application was received and I've been told once we pass
the resolution that it will be accepted. The grant will provide us $2,500 in additional resources such as a website and mailings to promote the PSEG cost savings programs that are available to West Windsor residents. The program from
PSEG provides free inspections and more to help residents save energy, which is both good for the environment and helps defay some of the price increases that we're all experiencing. All residents are eligible and the lower income residents will learn of opportunities to save on some or all of the costs of some
of the energy saving projects in their home. This the mayor mentioned the ability to receive the grant from sustainable Jersey is only for those who are part of the sustainable Jersey program of which we have just gotten our
renewal on our silver level and I'm glad we can take advantage of the opportunity. Uh I also want to thank the chair of Brian Books books and our new adviser Punima Guptter in the environmental commission and the mayor for approving and helping uh us to apply
for this useful program. And they'll probably give us a bunch of literature and that'll be another thing we can put on our council table also when we're doing uh council at national night out and and a few other activities. Uh there's been a bunch of activities over
the last couple weeks. Early voting started on Saturday and almost 800 West Windsor voters have already taken advantage over the weekend of this of of early voting. It's fast and convenient and even better this year. You could do
it locally. Thank you to our township clerk Allison Sheen, the mayor, Councilwoman Jever who worked I knew I was with that too to make this happen and to the county for approving it. All West Windsor and Mercer County voters can go to the West Windsor Library
between now and November 2nd between 10 to 8 or 10 to 6 on Sunday to vote. Now, please go out and vote. Let's let's make this the best voter turnout uh particularly for an off-year election uh that we've ever had. Um I've also
attended the PET uh ER grand opening on 1016. I'm happy since I'm somebody who tends to be allergic to uh to fur in in the host. I'm kind of happy to see a vet ER that handles things that have uh uh
fins and um and um feathers and uh and yeah, I've had reptiles, I've had amphibians, I've had all kinds of stuff. Right now I've got feathers. Um, and I walked at the JF JFCS Wheels for
Meals bike run walk fundraiser on Sunday morning. This group provides meals for those in need to over 1,900 Mercer area households each month including 270 West Windsor residents. Trunk or treat on Saturday. Everybody's talked about that.
Thank you to everyone. It was a smashing hit. I was particularly touched that uh Kay Reid, who was one of the founders of the historical society from back in the 80s, told me that she'd always dreamed of seeing a community turnout at the historical society buildings like she
saw this weekend. So, I'm glad we all made that dream come true and um I think it was uh just a wonderful community event that was great for kids and just for everybody. I was at a robotics open house at Learning Roof Ravi talking to
members of their new first tech cha challenge team and reviewing their robot designs. Their uh War of the Worlds was big this weekend. There was a ham radio event I stopped at at Vaness Park. And I
also saw Hysteria, which is a new original staged uh reading play of the War of the Worlds at the Arts Council on Sunday evening. And there that was another pretty much sold out house with people um sitting in the back and
everything. And uh so uh this was a really heavy community weekend. I just wish every weekend could could be like this. It was uh just one heavy Martian but community and in all different aspects. People were just happy to come to everything in town. Um looking
forward to the Dwali celebration uh this weekend. Um, and also I'm kind of looking forward to the elections being over so that we can kind of get back to a little bit more normaly. And >> yes, >> I just had one update.
>> Mhm. >> Um, since Linda mentioned sidewalks in there, I forgotten earlier. Um, we just opened the bid for the $150,000 that you give us to fix the sidewalks for 2025.
Um that will fix roughly about 7,000 square ft of sidewalk which is roughly about 434 slabs. Um after we do that uh use the 150,000 uh dollars only 87 uh
requests remain on our list um people that have submitted the oldest request that who just got cut out of this uh round was August 1, 2024. So roughly about a year it's taking uh to fix the u
fix the request once it's made. So that will probably August 1224 probably will take 2 years because it will be included in next year's budget which means it won't be done sometime later next year. So probably around 2 years. So there's
only 87 place on the um 87 um individual slabs on the list and the oldest is uh from August 1st, 2024. >> So basically we're with a little bit of an exception only taking a year as of
now. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean year plus after you do the bond ordinance bond ordinance get approved. So actually once the slab is replaced it's probably two years but it's not an exorbitant list. >> Well if somebody's on there from August the 1st 2024 that's just a little more
than a year ago. So >> yeah but that that was not done. So that will be in 26 budget right by the time 26 budget you pass the bond ordinance it gets out and set now to bid the bids come back. I mean >> whoever that one is will everybody
everybody before that got a good deal. I just like to caution people it's not automatic. I mean as soon as the budget is passed it still takes six months after the budget is passed to do any project in the budget. So >> you don't want to overpromise. I understand. >> So basically you're saying after um in
this budget after the 434 slabs gets fixed we have 87 left in the rest for >> yeah everything that was submitted before August of 24 will be fixed in this bid that's we are about to about to award. We just opened the bid >> and and where that's assuming that we
get the bid at what we're what you're looking at right now. >> No, no, no. The bid is we opened the bid. So, we now know it's open. >> Yeah, we bit. That's why I'm saying we opened the bid. So, we know roughly >> uh 7,000 square ft, which is roughly 434
slabs >> approximately, give or take. >> Yeah. So, we got a decent bid against >> Yeah. Yeah. Um that's if anyone I guess has priced this out, we could um the way we do it is substantially less than if somebody went and tried to hire a
reputable. >> Yeah, absolutely. Indeed. >> Okay. Well, that's good news. Thank you. Um okay, at this point, Alison, announcements. >> Let's see. in addition to um early
voting um that runs through Sunday, November 2nd with the addition of the West Windsor location at the Mercer County Library here at 333 North uh Poster Road. Um we tomorrow is the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot
by mail. Um, however, the deadline to apply in person for a mail-in ballot is November 3rd by 300 p.m. Um, and we will also have a link on our election website page uh that links to the county clerk's
page that will show election results. Um, that'll start getting updated at the close of polls on election day starting at 8:00 p.m. >> Okay, that's it. >> Sounds good. They link to an outside company, I believe, to that does all
that. So, >> that does their Yeah. Yeah. makes pretty charts. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And thank you for all your help getting that early voting location. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. With public hearing.
>> Okay. 2025-17 an ordinance to amend and supplement chapter 168 traffic and parking of the revised general ordinances of the township of West Windsor 1999 article 5 traffic and parking regulations on
private property article 7 schedules and article 7 schedules for Princeton Greens okay I'm going to open the public hearing on this particular ordinance uh 202517 17. Is there anybody that wishes
to come up and speak on this ordinance? This is this is your time to speak on it. Seeing none, I'm going to entertain a motion to close the public hearing. >> So move. So moved. >> Second.
>> Roll call, please. >> Garas, >> yes. >> Jivers, >> yes. Weiss, >> yes. >> Whitfield Mando, >> yes. Thank you. And now I'm going to ask for a motion to adopt 2025-17. >> Salute.
>> Second. >> Is there any comment uh from council on it? >> No, just to say that this came about uh from the Princeton Greens Homeowners Association Board of Trustees. So that's where this originated from, >> right? And I understand they did have a
vote on it and uh which did pass and um that's uh that's how we got it. Any other comments from council on the um >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I just have one concern specific to the speed limit sign that's part of the
whole package. Um my concern is that there's been no study to validate that that is an appropriate speed limit for that area. Um the comments that I've received from
residents is that that's a very dense children occupied area and likely the speed the average speed now this is conjecture of course is probably less than the 25 miles and by putting up a
sign sort of permitting people to go as fast as 25 they feel is actually going to create the opposite problem of what they're trying to do which is to increase safety. Um, so it's it's challenging for me to um
vote for something that doesn't have the underlying data to substantiate um the need to put that sign up. And that's just for the speed of >> my apologies. You probably didn't see my email. >> I did see your email. >> Yeah. Okay. So 25 is the minimum you can
go and you can't go any lower than that. If you don't want the sign, you can say take the sign out. But this everything was done with the approval of the HOA. So you always have to uh weigh whether one resident says carries more weight or
something that's approved by the HOA carries more weight. So we have done everything um that the HOA agreed to. Whatever is in the audience is what the HOA agreed to. If you don't vote for it, it stays whatever it is. And >> so right now there's no speed limit
sign. That's my understanding. And so we're actually putting in a speed limit. >> I mean you see again speed limit sign as I outlined is not part of the ordinance. The ordinance doesn't say put so many speed limit sign. >> But it's in all right. So why is it in
the package? >> Because that's what they plan to do. But that's again up to us. If if the engineer says don't put any speed limit sign, we won't put any speed limit sign. But because some one person who is not
uh professional traffic engineer says don't put sign, we will have take it out and then somebody else says put two signs, we go next week and put sign. That's not how it works. So >> I understand that. >> Right. So again, I mean, >> again, my point is that I'm fine with
putting a sign in, but show me the data that that sign is actually going to be effective. And I think actually we're better off not putting a sign in. So >> I think that's that's a that's a professional judgment of the engineer, right? I mean, then it's impossible to
do a study that you put a sign and see how fast people drive, then you take the sign out and see. I mean, >> it's more and it's it's less than that. It's what is the current average speed of the road today? There's no sign there today. So, what is the average speed? I'd like to know that. I'd like to know
that before I make a decision about putting a side up. That's all. >> Okay. I mean, that's that's your choice. I mean, whichever way council wants to vote, they can vote. But, uh, we are doing it based on what the professional traffic engineer is saying, not one
person who may everybody has their own opinion. And uh so again that's that's we have given you everything you need to know. 25 is the minimum speed limit. We can't go below that. And if council
feels I mean when unfortunate accident happens there was all you and cry there are not enough signs. Then we put a sign and person says oh not my outside my house. Why you put sign outside my house? He harassed me for three months to take the sign outside his house out.
I mean to get past that there is no reason there is no winning. So all I'm saying is I've given you a package that is that is approved by the howus association and that's approved by the township professionals. Now if somebody
wants to second guessess them be my guest. That's your choice. It's free country. If I'm understand it, the the pictures that we saw are basically an outline of what they're they're not necessarily a piece of the ordinance itself. They're basically showing us
where these things are and where they may put signs. But >> yeah, and I mean we change I mean on on Alexander Road we changed signs number of times because the tra the engineer thought that was reasonable things to do. I mean, Alexander Road, we get 50
requests to change this sign from this location to that location. If we keep doing that, we just need one person to just keep moving signs around. So, again, I mean, it's a professional opinion. It's approved by HOA. Now, the ball is in your court.
>> Uh, most of the time I've seen where people, you know, basically it's uh Mike, did you want to say something first by the way? concern enforcement as well. >> Mike, Mike, speak in the mic. >> Really concerned enforcement. Somebody
was speeding in there and there was no sign, enforcement may be an issue. >> Um, usually like my neighborhood, most neighborhoods don't even get signs. Uh, 25 miles per hour is sort of statutory for certain types of roads, the way I've
always understood it. And in and in a local neighborhood, you're supposed to know. And there sometimes people complain that people don't understand that that somebody's riding say on New Village Road and they're going 40 and then they make a turn into your
neighborhood and they don't understand that they're really supposed to. >> You don't see a sign, it's 50 on a residential road. You don't see a sign, >> right? >> You don't need to have a sign that you should understand that as a driver. But
but people do say, "Can you please put us on?" >> Yeah. >> I I bet most people don't know that. >> Yeah. >> 90% of people don't know. >> Which which is why >> it is. >> It is. But which is why people do argue
and they say, "Why won't you put >> 30 years ago?" >> Yeah. >> I won't I'm not going to say how long ago mine was. So um >> Okay. So anyway, um >> have no other comments.
>> Fine then we will go ahead and um can we uh call the role? >> Okay. Gallas, >> yes. >> Jivers, >> yes. We >> I abstain. >> Whitfield. >> Mando, >> yes. Thank you.
Moving along. Consent agenda. >> Consent agenda. June 25th, 2025. Special session June 30th 2025 business session bills and claims. >> Does anybody need anything pull? >> Nope.
>> Can I get a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Gowas. >> Yes. >> Jivers. >> Yes. >> Weiss. >> Yes. >> Whitfield. Vando. >> Yes. Recommendations from administration and council clerk. 2025-R224
authorizing the tax collector to conduct an electronic tax sale. 2025-R225 authorizing the business administrator to purchase one 2023 Ford F550 ambulance chassis from VCI Emergency Vehicle
Specialists through the Houston Galveastston area Council National Council H-GAC by $270,476 2025-R226 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the master service agreement of
a state accreditation implementation policy management and online training software platform from Lexipole LLC through the Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract 011822-LxP86,39910 2025-R227
authorizing the business administrator to purchase upgrades and installation to the mobile digital video recording system for one police vehicle from Axon Enterprises, Inc. under New Jersey State Contract 17, Fleet 00738,
$17,445.80 2025-R228 authorizing the bit the mayor and clerk to execute a one-year contract with Shidler Excavating Company, Inc. for snow removal services through October 31st, 2026,
$70,000. 2025-R229 authorizing the business administrator to execute change order number one final with US Athletic Fields, Inc. for the project known as winter 2025 street tree
removal and stump grinding for an increase of $4,855 for a total not to exceed $31,135. 2025-R230 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute a license and use agreement with
Boston Properties Limited Partnership for a fire safety event on November 1st, 2025. 2025-R231 resolution in support from local governing body authorizing participation
in the 2025 2026 sustainable Jersey PSENG energy efficiency partnership program. >> Thank you Allison. Does anybody wish anything pulled? Seeing none, can I get a motion to
approve? Hi. Um motion to approve resolutions 2025 R 224 through >> R 231. >> 231. >> Yes. >> Second. >> Gwas. >> Yes. >> Jivers. >> Yes. >> Weiss. >> Yes.
>> Woodfield. Mandal. >> Yes. >> Okay. We now going to introduce ordinance. It's >> 2025-14. an ordinance establishing chapter 166 entitled towing and storage of vehicles
of the code of the township of West Windsor 1999. >> Can I get a motion to introduce? >> Motion to introduce. >> Second. >> Garwas, >> yes. >> Jvers, >> yes. Weiss, >> yes. >> Whitfield Mandel, >> yes. >> Thank you.
>> Public hearing will be November 10th, 2025. >> Okay. I'll now open the second public comment period. um three minute limit per person as before. Is there anybody who would wishes to get up and make a public comment?
Nope. Oh, you do? Okay. Take your time. Andy Brownberg, 24 Providence Drive. Uh my left side is my weak side, so I am a little under I'm under control. So if I look like I'm not
um coordinated or whatever, I I'm conscious of my weaknesses. But beside that, um I love the council meetings and I try to come to as many as I can. I mean, we could talk to you and you
listen to us and I'm surprised that only uh Mr. Charles is here. Um, it's this is how we communicate and this is how we get action. So, I'm surprised u that it's not too crowded
just a few days before the election and um and I see Joe Charles in the audience. Thank you. Thank you, Andy. We always welcome everybody to our council meetings. Is there anybody else who wishes to make
a public comment tonight? Seeing none, I will close the second public comment and move to council reports. Miss Sonia, you like to start? >> I have nothing to report. I haven't um the leazison haven't u the committees haven't had any meetings until since
last meeting. So, good. Um, the only thing I want to say is happy Halloween to everyone um, that's later this week and just be safe um, on the roads and watch for kids running um, around trying
to go get uh, that best candy at that one particular house on the street. So, just be careful. >> Oh, can you publish that one house? We we have one house that gives big bars and everybody >> wants to make it there before they run
out. So, you know. >> Okay. I know. Stay safe. >> Keep it to our neighborhood. >> Okay. Dan. >> Um there were no meetings since um our last meeting. The next board of ed meeting is this coming Tuesday and then the recreation commission will be the
following week. And uh comment about Halloween. It's funny. We spend our entire life teaching our children not talk to strangers or take food from strangers and except for this weekend where we tell them the opposite. So, go figure. >> All right. Okay.
Linda, >> right? Well, I hope on Halloween the weather will be rainy because it gets more dangerous, >> but the kids are going out, right? They're going to be out there. Uh, the Shade Tree Commission met on October 22nd. the permit application counts
under chapter 170 or 11 per permits for October and 73 total so far this year. Discussion and edits to the draft new bamboo ordinance uh were done. The Shade Tree Commission will cancel its November
26th meeting, but will notice a special meeting for November 19th at 6:30 p.m. uh where it expects to finalize its proposed bamboo ordinance and uh also finalize its expenditures for this year's budget. Uh, all the tree saplings
in the open space on Ellsworth Drive have been removed and will be cared for by Shade Tree Commission members over the winter and future plantings will be determined at another time. A municipal flyer for residents for the maintenance of new street trees uh was discussed and
also discussed uh was a themes for the 2026 Arbor Day student art contest. >> Thank you, Linda. Um EC has not met since last time. Um they do have a
proposed uh gas leaf blower uh ordinance uh that they did submit to administration or at least the bones of an ordinance. Um, I've got a number of other related meetings coming up, including the uh county EV steering committee and a
couple of meetings with the watershed um, uh, group on their Asie Pink and Milstone watershed MS4 joint projects. Um, moving along, is there any other administration updates at this point?
>> No. >> No. Allison, anything? We're all good. There's no closed session. So I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. We are adjourned at 8:06.
Thank you to everybody that came out.