mean don't they have to scan that? That's going to go electronically. >> Yeah, we have to create a PDF of this. Um, okay. >> 7 o'clock. >> Right. I call to order um the business
um session meeting of um April 13th. Roll call, please. >> Charles, >> here. >> Gawas, >> here. >> Jivers here. >> Lando >> here. >> Weiss >> here. >> Uh are we adequately noticed? Yes, we were adequately noticed on January 23rd, 2026 to the Times in the Princeton
packet filed with the municipal clerk and posted here at the municipal building and on the township website. Please stand for the salute to the flag 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. Okay. Um we don't have any ceremonial matters today. Um so we move on to the first um public comment period. Um it's a three uh 3 minute limit per person. 30 minutes comment period. Um do we have
anybody? I don't have anyone on the list. Okay. Um is there anybody in the audience who want to say anything? No. All right. So I would close the public comment period. Administration. >> Yes. Um, public works is uh still
working in zone 4 and will move to zone one in the near uh in the next day and will remain there until they finish zone 4. Um, you can check for updates on the
zone uh on the website and uh the Arbor Day celebration will be Saturday, April 25th at 10:00 a.m. Uh, it'll be held at the Ron Rogers Arboritum across from West Windsor PL
Plainsboro High School South. In the event of inclement weather, it will be moved inside to senior center at 271 Clarksville Road and um theme of Arbor
Day celebration is revolutionary roots. And then the deadline has been extended for Arbor Day art contest to Monday, April 13th, um which was the end of today.
>> That's all I have. Okay, mayor. >> Yeah, I have uh just one small item and then my regular update about the bridge. So, um we're working with the Westminster bicycle and pedestrian alliance to uh try to improve situation
on Fisher and um Fair View. As everybody knows, Fisher is used as a bypass road. I use it twice a day, so I'm as guilty. So, we are going to um I'm scheduling a meeting at uh this room 7:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 29th to discuss some of the options that bicycle and pedestrian lines have suggested. Um based on the feedback from people living on those two streets, uh we will decide how to proceed and but essentially we at least
go trying to do um lane striping by making the lanes narrower so people will drive slower and then there are some other um suggested changes that uh uh we will talk to the residents and figure out if uh uh they are in support of it.
We will do whatever helps uh uh whatever is the um opinion of majority of Fisher and Fairview place. Uh so we will present options and then move from there. And then coming up to the bridge
um uh the good news is that um I'm in constant touch with the duty commissioner Priya. She does call even on weekends. She did call on Saturday. We did play phone tag. Uh but I finally did talk to her on Monday. She did tell
me that she is not quite ready to uh present um suggestions but they continue to work on it. Uh uh they are um looking at the data that they collected when they did the bridge inspection. I
did check with uh somebody working in private sector in bridges civil engineer. uh they did tell me that it does take four to 5 weeks. So it's not that NDOT is uh just stringing me along. It does take that long to look at the data once it's collected uh to come up
with possible options. I did talk to her today. She did promise me that once um she's ready, she will bring the engineers. And I did tell her to just come down here and forget about Zoom and meet face to face uh with Francis and
John and uh look at the options and then we'll go from there. So I'm optimistic that she will um she will uh bring the engineers and come here sooner rather than later with some of the options based on the data that they have
collected. Um I mean she's reachable. I mean nothing more I can ask. I mean she's more reachable than PR people at NJ dot. Uh she calls on the weekends and every time I call she does return the call if she doesn't pick up. So uh
that's the good news. The bad news is not significant progress to report or no timeline that I can give as of today as to what uh exactly needs to be done and when it would be done. So thanks.
>> Um last I had spoken to um governor's office uh representative for governor's office. They had mentioned to me that after NJ dot um comes with finishes their assessment and comes with their plan, Amtrak has to um have their own
assessment done. Is that something that you >> No, Amtrak has to approve to the plan to fix the bridge. I mean it's the same nonsense pro process but they are working on Amtrak simultaneously because I did talk to her about that but Amtrak
has to has to approve the it's the same you need a separate permit I don't know why you need zillion permits but you need a separate permit to do whatever work you are going to do but right now they don't know what work they are going to do so they don't um they have don't
have the permit but they're working with Amtrak as Well, she did reach out to somebody in Amtrak to stress that we need to move it very fast. So, >> okay. All right. Thank you. >> Um, council member comments, let's start
with Linda. >> Thanks, Mayor. Um, you've been on top of the whole bridge project. Uh that's good news that we have a developing relationship uh with the new DOT commissioner and because we have more than one bridge that may have issues but
right now that's the main focus. So it's good that um all of us have been talking with different elected officials, different state officials uh because I think that's um that's going to help us down the road on on projects that need to be done in the future. So good. And thanks um
Andrea and Sonia for um working very closely with many of the businesses and helping them get some grant money. Uh it's been very tough on them, but uh you've been doing a great job with that. Uh on April 1st, I interviewed with a couple of students from cool name
pending, which is a first tech challenge robotics team based in West Windsor. uh their new initiative is called uh Bourge Alli which focuses on neuro divergent students, women interested in STEM and students from underserved communities.
So the team is uh composed of 15 middle school and high school students. If you're interested in finding out more about this group, you can contact them at coolamepending.fttcaphubeducation.org. Shay Tree Commission um as Mishmid uh mentioned is having its revolutionary
roots themed Arbor Day celebration Saturday April 25th. So it's always uh a fun event for for the residents and the children. There's lots of information uh being given out about uh trees and student awards will also be uh giving
out for the art contest. I attended the watershed institute's public meeting here in room A on April 7th. Uh they have a grant from New Jersey D to develop a watershed management plan for the Asen Pink wershed. Public comments
can be sent to the watershed uh to Mike Pasaro, policy director at M as in Mary M Pauro at the watershed.org. I believe they had a QR code that night that that if we can get that up, people
could click on. Yeah, >> administration has that. >> Um, I know Francis was talking about putting that QR code up for us, the one they had shown from the >> the information from Watershed that we received that day. >> So, it'll it'll go on the website >> because it's um it's due like the last
week of April. I forget which exact date they want all of the all the commentary from all the different townships by then. So, could you just check whether he needs anything more to to put that up? >> I will ask. No, thanks. >> Thanks. that. >> Um, Dan,
>> hi. Just wanted to mention this coming Saturday that the Junior League of Greater Princeton is holding an event at the Volunteer Fire um station on South Mil Road. It's in support of the Trenton
Area Soup Kitchen. It's called the the Great Sandwich Shuffle. This is the second year that they've done this. I went last year uh where um over the course of two hours a whole set of teams contributed to the creation of over 3,000 peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches. Um it's a fun event. Doesn't take a whole lot of time and it's a a great cause. So you have an hour to spare next Saturday. I hope to see you there. >> Okay. Great. I think most of the council people are planning on going. >> Yeah, we're joining you. >> Yep.
>> Yeah. Um, Andrea. >> Okay. Um, Linda mentioned cool name pending. I also interviewed with them and I believe they came here last uh last meeting and they um took inspire one in the New
Jersey state championships which is the highest award and they will be going to the world championships. So uh this project I'm sure which is um which is a very good project uh is is going to be helpful to them. I'm sure the Asipink
watershed meeting on Tuesday evening April 7th 2026 the watershed institute held what was the first asped management plan public meeting in uh the council room here. Uh the townships involved include West Windsor, Milstone, Rosevelt
Burough, Hopewell Township, Lawrence Township, Robbinsville, and Trent. These are seven municipalities that are part of the group that have formally agreed to pursue projects together for improved water quality and flood control. Uh it's
been almost four years in the making. I've been part of the uh watershed institutees as pink committee since since that started about four years ago and I'm thrilled to be part of its success. Um we're also moving forward with a similar program for the upper
Milstone watershed. Uh joint projects across borders will provide better opportunities to both improve water quality and reduce flooding for the entire watershed area. There will also be better opportunities to obtain the muchneeded D grant money for our
projects. I want to thank the mayor, our township council, and our engineering department for supporting this innovative and critical environmental move forward. Thank you to everyone who came or watched on Zoom. And as we just discussed, the township will be posting
the link for reporting any flooding and water quality issues to help with the initial report preparation shortly. Uh they will be asking you when you fill that out what um what uh location you are, whether you're in the asup or
whether you're in the upper millstone. Uh two of the selections are as pink. One of them is asupank, the up the other's upper millstone. That particular questionnaire is for the ASUP pink, but we're also in the upper Millstone and we
expect that to be occurring shortly. So, please just go ahead and state which one you are. There should be a map that uh they're preparing that goes up and if you get it wrong, I'm sure they can figure out where on the location you are. >> For this one, it's mostly as pink. The
>> Well, the thing is we are we are actually very heavily in the upper Mstone. So people from Washington Road may get on there and they're going to want to say, "Hey, I've got a flooding problem." Uh they can still go on there, click um upper Millstone and uh the
location and that'll >> there's a map that there will be a map you can check with you belong to. >> There is there's a place to pick it out and there's also engineering is preparing a slightly better map uh I believe so that you can um figure it out. But if you do put the location,
>> uh, they know they'll know where it is and hopefully they'll be able to adjust for that. And the reason for this is they're looking at projects and they're looking at what locations, they know what problems are, where problems might be occurring, but they're not local experts. They don't necessarily know if
there's some particular location. And and it's not just for flooding. It's also for if you think there's some source of pollution or there is a small stream and you see that the small stream has um it's flowing too fast, too slowly, it's uh it's got too much silt
in it. Um anything that you might see that you think is an issue that could be addressed by these projects, uh please enter those in. I also attended on March 31st the Upper Milstone watershed group meeting. they're they don't have a D
grant. So there's a little less enthusiasm amongst uh other towns because it's not going to be free. Um so and some towns that were in the group were still concerned that the cost was higher than predicted because less towns were prod participating than they'd
hoped. So the um watershed did uh and and Princeton Hydro and I think there's one other co company involved presented some revised costs and those out submitted and those costs were a lot better. I think there was one town where
they still needed to work a little bit on it and hopefully it'll be acceptable to all towns and we'll be able to do a similar project for the upper Millstone. other things. Um Sonia and I went to um the 15th anniversary of the learning
experience child care center on Friday. So uh that's um that's over uh behind where the CVS is across from Macaffies and and near Classical Pizza. Um and it was nice to see uh see the um what's the
name of the elephant again? Mr. Bubbles. >> Mr. Bubble. Yes, Mr. Bubbles the elephant again. Um, we also did a village square visit with the county. Um, we met with some county business advocates and business owners and uh and
and had them answer some questions. And I do want to make a comment that this past Monday we lost Dr. Dana Garcia Buches who was a former Shade Tree Commission member. She um when she started getting sick she had to um
resign from the Shade Tree Commission. Um, and she's also the wife of our environmental commission chair, Fry Books, and that's a loss to the community. Um, and and to Dr. Buches and to all of us and, uh, I just wanted to
mention that she passed away. Thank you. >> Okay, Joe. >> Uh, yeah, regarding the Clarksville Road Bridge, uh, do want to say thank you to Mercer County for announcing some assistance to the businesses in Village Square. I know Sonia and Andrea, I know you've both been working very hard uh to
to help with that and and get that accomplished. So, thank you for all your your efforts on that. I know the businesses there really appreciate it. Uh the other thing I'd just like to give a quick shout out to an organization called F3. Uh it's part of an it's a national network started in 2011 which
get does free peer-led outdoor workout groups uh for men. Anyone can participate regarding of your your fitness level. Uh seven years ago, one of our own local residents, Curtis Hobberman, started a chapter here. Uh I participated on Saturday in their 7th annual anniversary event as as did the
mayor who was there as well. Uh it was a great workout. I still got some sore sore muscles today actually. Um but really it was a welcoming um very welcoming atmosphere, a lot of camaraderie. Everything was very uplifting and positive. Uh so I'm actually plan on on going again this
Saturday and plan to attend regularly going forward. and I just encourage others to uh you know consider it as well and congratulations to Curtis on his leadership to make it a very successful program here locally in the greater greater West Windsor area. So thanks. >> Okay. >> What what's your secret name?
>> Uh I don't have one yet. You need to go to another uh one of the smaller workouts. Uh yeah, >> I know yours. >> They only give you second time. Want to make sure you show up again. >> So he showed up first time. I've gone few times. So I have a name.
No, that's a great program actually. Um I've seen them work out um and it's very friendly. Um they also do I think annually they do a um a family day so you can bring your >> No I mean >> and kids >> serious note they would have given name
but there were like 90 plus people there because it was seven >> it was a seventh somebody came from Idaho to participate so >> yeah know I think I think it's a great a great program um you know if you can if you're an early bird on Saturday morning
>> yeah my son didn't want to get up at 6:30 am too uh >> cuz they you know >> the the middle school and high schoolers get Saturday and Sunday to sleep in. So I understand that. Um anyway my turn. I think everybody has covered everything
that I would like to speak. Um um we did on Friday as Andrea mentioned we did meet um um the one of the business um administrators from the um county. um they have uh assigned three different um
representatives um for for the businesses. So they can um h each have five businesses to work with and help them uh figure out brands and all the applications and everything else and anything going forward for them to help through this difficult time
because of the bridge closure. Um those businesses have been struggling. Um but thanks to the community I think um there has been some movement. Shupe recently um two weeks ago was it two weeks ago 10 about 10 days ago did a um fundraiser
there. Um so it was uh I think it was March 27th when it was half day for most of the schools. um the or ordered food for all the staff because staff was still even though it was half day for the students, staff was still present in
school and um a percentage of the sales um was gone was given back to Shupe. So, it was a win-win for both. They got some some business and Shupe got some fundraisers. >> I heard Shupe raised about $900.
>> Shup raised about close to $900 um for that day. Shup is also working on another community um fair style event at Village Square. So, more details to come for for that. Um what else? Um oh, I
just want to give a shout out to High School North and High School South track and field team. This weekend they had the um MCTA relays event um in Euing. Um and I think both the schools did very well. Um, I did see Joe's daughter on
the field as well. So, I think she I think many many of our kids came back home with at least two medals is what I've been told. So, that is really great. Um, I overheard some coach and some of the other um um teams talking
about saying that North and South should sit down and let others win. So, we have some great athletes from our towns participating and it was fun to watch um north parents cheering south kids and south parents cheering north kids because it's all from our town. So, it
was it was fun. It was really um weather was nice. It was a little chilly and windy, but it was really great. But anyway, um moving on. Um do you have any comments? >> I do. Um uh reminder, May 12th is um the voter registration deadline for the
primary election. Uh the primary election will was is on June 2nd. Um also the Memorial Day parade will be on May 25th at 11:00 a.m. Um more information is on our website, including a parade participant sign up form.
>> Okay, that's it. >> Okay, we don't have any public hearings today. Um consent agenda. Okay. February 24th, 2026, business session. March 9th, 2026, business session, bills and
claims. >> Um, can I get a motion to >> approve? Approve. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Charles, >> yes. >> Chvers. Uh, yes, but I'll abstain from um the
February 24th um minutes >> because >> Oh, because I wasn't present. You were present for that. Okay. Mando. >> Yes. >> Weiss. >> Yes. >> That was um Yes. Same thing. Um abstain from March 9th because I was not present that day.
>> Okay. >> Right. Recommendations from administration and council. >> 2026-R081 approving the refund of limousine license fees to A1 Limousine, Inc. in the amount of $100. 2026-R082
authorizing reimbursement to the West Windsor Parking Authority for project costs associated with environmental investigation and remediation of a new parking lot and pocket park block 59 lots 1 and two for an amount not to exceed $100,000.
2026-R083 authorizing the business administrator to purchase new automatic external defibrillators AEDs for public use at various locations in the township through Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Program. Contract number is
041824-sty 23,216.99 2026-R084 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute a tender agreement with Western Surid Company for completion of the Dark Forest Park at Carlton Place project
2026-R085 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute an easement modification agreement for 10 Wallingford 5 2026-R086 granting reservation of sewer capacity to VCC Princeton Junction ZB18-05SP
2026-R087 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute amendment number two to the agreement for professional professional services with Robert's Engineering Group LLC to provide supplemental work for the project known as Penmile and New Village
Road Pedestrian Safety Improve. improvements in the amount of $11,500 for a total not to exceed $34,500. 2026-R088 authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute a professional services agreement with Remington and Vernick
Engineers for engineering construction administration and inspection services for the Woodmir Way roadway resurfacing project $29,950 2026-R089 authorizing the local examination of the
2026 budget 2026-R090 certifying compliance with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance on the consideration of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions under
title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in accordance with NJSA4A 4-5 as amended by PL 2000 2017 C1 183. >> All right. Um motion to
>> Oh, sorry. Does anybody want to pull anything? >> All right. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve 2026-81 through 2026-90. >> Second. >> Um roll.
>> I'm sorry. Who's who? >> Uh Linda and um Dan. >> Dan. Okay. >> Charles. >> Yes. >> Jivers. >> Yes. Mando. >> Yes. Weiss. >> Yes. >> Gas. >> Yes. >> Introduction of ordinances. >> 2026-12. An ordinance amending and supplementing
the code of the township of West Windsor. Chapter 168 traffic and parking. Article 6 parking authority property. Section 168-39 general regulations. Section 168-40 definitions. Section 168-41
permit parking. section 168-43 time limit parking section 168-44 handicap parking section 168-51 enforcement and section 168-55 permit parking
>> okay motion to introduce >> so moved >> second >> Charles >> yes >> jvers >> yes >> Mando >> yes >> yes >> gawas >> yes >> the public hearing will be on April 27th 2026 26
2026-13 calendar year 2026 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank NJSA4A 4-45.14. >> Can I get a motion to introduce?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> Charles, >> yes. >> Givers, >> yes. Mandel, >> yes. >> Weiss, >> yes. >> Gawas, >> yes. The public hearing will be on May 11th, 2026. 2026
uh budget introduction. There's no um except to read here. Municipal budget of the township of West Windsor County and Mercer for the fiscal year 2026. Be it resolved that the following statements of revenues and appreciate appropriations shall constitute the
municipal budget for the year 2026. Be it further resolved that said budget be published on the official township website on April 14th, 2026. And be it further resolved, it will be advertised in the following online production of the Weston Township a public notice
website page on May 12th, 2026. and four general total general appropriations are 57,685,64981 and the local tax for municipal purposes including reserve for uncollected taxes
28,550,27518. Okay. >> Um can I get a motion to introduce? >> So move. Second. >> Charles, >> yes. >> Jivers, >> yes. >> Sandown, >> yes. >> Weiss, >> yes. >> Gawas, >> yes. >> Okay. And
>> and the public hearing, >> yes. May >> a hearing on the budget and tax resolution will be held at 271 Clarksville Road on May 11th, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at which time in place objections to said budget and tax
resolution for the year 2026 may be presented to taxpayers or other interested persons. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Um second round of public comment uh 15 minutes um comment period 3 minute limit
per person. Does anybody in the audience want to have say anything? Please um please um say your name and address for records. I tell you here
closure two busy lines of trans >> Oh um hold on the mic is not working it's not on there's a button on there's a make sure the buttons
Testing testing y >> you may you may just have to speak directly into it if you want to raise it up that's great thank you >> is that >> yeah go ahead >> this is my first time here >> if you want to just restart >> I just I was too busy working for Amtrak
here >> can we just restart >> my name is V Mulkar I'm resident of Wester for last uh 25 years uh and coming to West Windsor was uh I was managing two offices one in New York and
Philadelphia for Amtrak as director of their program management and before that I worked with the Luis Burgger in Morristown did lots of international projects as well as work with New Jersey Transit path after hurricane Sandy Hood
did some evaluation of that and then uh built the rail projects in Saudi Arabia Before that I was a director of uh engineering uh on the operations of MBTA in Boston and did lots of uh
construction work managed big dig part of the work related to MBTA near South Station and then before that I was with Becttel running the highspeed rail program in England. So my my all my career I've
been chasing big projects, bigger the project, bigger the challenge. Uh that's what brings me here. I've been reading these articles in the paper regarding the closure of the Clark Street uh bridge road. uh and there were some
comments made that uh Amtrak is holding the back for this and from my experience and I left some material of some of the similar work that I did in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, you really have to pull together all the
players of stakeholders to come up with a good plan that everybody's going to be responsible for. Otherwise this will drag on and thing that I worry about is not only the safety of the motorists of the for citizens of a town but highspeed
line of Amtrak and New Jersey state transit underneath. I'm surprised that the condition of the bridge has been let go that that bad all these years and it's not a unusual problem just for West Windsor or New Jersey. Same thing happened in
Massachusetts with Boston and Maine where our chief engineer and with Conrail there were 400 bridges like that what we call the orphan bridges that railroads did not want to maintain didn't have the resources to maintain and basically they were road bridges like here
now funding situation is not great uh lot of big projects are sucking up the money like the portal bridge or the tunnel you know they are in billions of dollars And these pro small projects like this
get ignored to be honest with you. What you really have to do as a user of that of that overhead road bridge is pull all the key players together. Also the state people they are loaded with problems like this and you really have to have a
task force of partnering of all the players involved otherwise it will not get anywhere because you'll have difficulties in getting inspectors or flagmen or protecting the work from from down underneath when your consultants or
contractors are doing evaluation up above and I'm telling you from my own experiences >> Mr. I your time is up now. We we can only give you 3 minutes. Thank you for your I think maybe um >> I'll be happy to meet with you. I think
mayor can uh or mayor and I can um schedule some time to meet with you. >> Last thing is I have got contacts working with the NG as well as uh the executive side of the of the NG and also in Washington. I have worked with FRA
and D before to get the funding for this project. So, >> so if you um if you don't mind um leaving your contact information um we we can reach out and we can schedule something to meet. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Do we have anybody else? Nope. All
right. Um so we close the public comment now. Uh moving on to council reports. Let's start with Joe. >> Uh yes. So report on the rec commission. I think as I had reported at some prior meetings, the commission Ken Jacobs had been reporting to the commission at the
last several meetings about a proposed or potential change in rates to be char hourly rates to be charged by the school district for direct department to use their facilities for for programs. Um what was originally proposed was a pretty very significant increase from 30
something dollars an hour to about $150 an hour. So almost a five times increase. Um Ken had been discussing the topic with his counterpart in the school administration trying to get the rate lowered. uh the reccomission members had
uh reported that you know asked him to report back on the status of that um you know as it went at some point prior to last week's meeting the BOE liaison to the rec commission brought the topic to the attention of the superintendent
and the superintendent came uh unannounced to the the rec commission meeting last week. He informed the rec commission that he was um unhappy that he had heard about the topic via a BOE member. He informed the rec commission
that there would no longer be a BOE liaison to the rec commission effective immediately and he and the BOE liazison left the meeting together. Um after they left the meeting, you know, the meeting did continue. Ken informed us, you know, so that the we had further discussion
with Ken. He informed us that um the latest on the rates was it was now expected to be about 50 $52 an hour I believe. Uh still significantly higher than the old rate but much less of an increase. So um the may I know the mayor's aware uh of the topic. I don't
know if the removal of the BOE liazison had been discussed with or approved by other BOE members or not. Um but that's uh that's what occurred at the meeting. >> Okay. I'd still have thought.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Um my thoughts are a little bit more activity than a than a typical meeting. Yeah. >> Yeah. And that 150 was never going to happen. So um I don't want it seem like oh I went from 150 down to 50. 150 is what is it like 65 68% something like
that. >> That that's that's a lot of increase. Taxpayers are paying for those buildings and different things. So, uh I don't know whether that was the final end of that negotiation. Uh >> uh yeah, that that I don't know. Uh you know, the superintendent did speak
about, you know, rising costs for facilities at the schools and the need to cover costs and things like that. Um so where it ends up um but I can't say right now. Yeah. >> Okay. Andrea
>> environmental commission met. Uh meeting was chaired by vice chair Elliot Gordon. There were some public comments on deer management and also save soil day which will be coming up on April 26. Uh and that's going to be at 9:00 a.m.
at Mercer County um park east picnic area. The sustainable Jersey PSENG energy grant program update was given by Pornima Gupta. I've been working with her to finalize the um the website for the uh grant and I hope we have it can
have it launched by the Arbor Day which will be our first public event where we'll have a display table for for the um PSN ENG uh sustainable Jersey energy project. Uh Francis Guzik reviewed the ASU Pink water uh watershed management
plan public meeting with the group and um one of our student advisors Yu Chang uh had discussed putting in a $1,500 dollar grant application with ANject, which is the Association of um New
Jersey um environmental commissions uh for a pollinator project in our community park which we're looking to possibly do if we get the grant improving our little echo demonstration area and try to unify in that area with
some signs and perhaps do some additions to it. Uh Joe uh couldn't be in two places in one time and uh so I did the parking authority meeting for him this month. Um I believe you were at the
education you were at the rec commission meeting, right? Um there was a discussion of the bus depot. They're waiting a few final permits and we'll be beginning demolition soon. Uh then uh they after demolition they're going to go into remediation and then they'll be
starting the construction of the new parking lot with the small park. So we expect all that to be happening within a few months. They also discussed a farmers market beautifification and improvements project. They're going to planning to improving sidewalks around
the uh music performance area, adding some picnic tables and benches and clearing out some brush and bushes uh to make some good comfortable meeting spots for the farmers market. There was also a discussion on solar power. They're now
looking to cover both the Upperv and Wallace lot, which would give them more than just Wallace, which I believe was the original um plan. and there could perhaps sell power to West Windsor Township or if there's enough power that could be generated, there's the
possibility of a community solar project. And that's it. >> Thank you. >> Oh, and thank you. I see Andy is is here and sitting quietly and he's the Andy Lup is the uh chair of the West Windsor Parking Authority. So, welcome.
>> All right. Thank you. Um Dan, >> the affordable housing committee met uh the other other week and there wasn't really a whole lot um to come back to us. Most of the discussion was um reviewing the ordinances that were just
passed which um they've been working with with Jerry on. So really >> nothing a whole lot to report there. Uh and the next board of ed meeting is tomorrow evening at 7:30. >> All right, Linda. Yeah, the planning board will meet this Wednesday, April
15th, at 6:30 p.m. in room A. Application PB19-13rd amendment, senior living at Bayer Creek, aka Axria, Inc., is for an amended final site plan. The principal change is to
have the first floor raised 1.5 ft and the basement garage area to be reconfigured and lowered so that there are no longer intermediate floors. the pavilion size uh would be reduced slightly. Uh but there will be fire pits
and barbecue will be added. So I'm also saddened along with all the other Sha Tree um committee members about the loss of of Dana Garcia. I've served with her um a couple years on the Sha Tree um commission and lovely woman. Always
always had some great ideas um full of energy. Um so our sympathies to um Ephrian Bues uh and his family. >> Right. Thank you. Um my turn. Human relations um met on April 7th. Um they
are busy working on the diversity day picnic uh which is scheduled for June 13th with June 14th as their rain date. Um they um are asking for any um um any
um local schools um if they want to uh present any um art or um any multicultural dance forum or music forum um for the diversity day picnic to reach out to um
to reach out to them or reach out to me and I can forward the um information along. Um, human relations is also, um, mayor, human relations council is planning on applying for the Mercer County 250th um,
implementation mini grant. I have forwarded that. I think Allison, we forwarded that email along. >> Um, I think they were asking for some information if uh, from the administration to fill that application. So, if we can take a look at that. >> Can you repeat that again, please? uh
human relations council is planning to uh apply for 250th implementation mini grant from Merca County. Um >> the email just came in today. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. Okay.
>> Yeah. If you can I think they have a deadline is it end of this week for that application form. So if they if if that is something that we can help with them >> with it. >> All right. Thank you. Um any other
administration updates? >> No updates. Okay. Um we do have a close session, Allison. Okay. Um so we take a motion and a second. Um so can I get a motion to go into close session? >> So moved. >> Second.
Um Joe and Dan. Dan. Okay. Uh whereas NJSA 104-12 allows for a public body to go into close session during a public meeting. And whereas the township council of Westminster Township has deemed it necessary to go into close session to discuss certain matters which
are exempted from the public. And whereas the regular meeting of this township council will reconvene. And whereas the below stated subject matter shall be made available at such time as the issues discussed there and are resolved and its disclosure would not subvert any particular exemption for convening a close session. Now therefore
it be resolved that the township council of the township of West Windsor will go into close session for the following reasons as outlined in NJSA 104-12 for the discussion of affordable h affordable housing litigation and there'll be no action taken when we reconvene. >> Okay.
>> All right. Thank you.