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[clears throat] >> I'm calling to order the meeting of the West Windsor Township Township Council for June 22nd, 2026. Can you please call the roll, Allison? >> Charles >> Here. >> Dalton Givers

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>> Here. >> Mandel >> Here. >> Weiss >> Here. >> And salute to the flag. >> Are we Sorry. >> Have we added the notice? >> Yeah. >> The notice was actually noticed on January 23rd, 2026 to the times in the Princeton Packet, filed with the

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municipal clerk, and posted here at the municipal building and on the Township website. Please stand for the salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

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liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Um our first order of business is a ceremonial order of business. Um Sarah Cutis is a state finalist in the New Jersey League of Municipalities Louis Bay Future Municipal Leader

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Scholarship Competition. The essays were about what I like about my hometown. Uh Sarah Cutis is a rising senior at West Windsor Plainsboro High School South and a resident of West Windsor Township. She's passionate about

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leadership, community engagement, and storytelling. Uh although I I I think the goodness about the town isn't quite storytelling, I think it's just telling. Um Sarah serves as president of the Westrick Music Academy Youth Council,

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co-president of Small Step Loans West Windsor, and a co-president of the High School South Newspaper. She has also been an active Girl Scout in West Windsor for over 12 years and is currently working toward her Girl Scout Gold Award.

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And if I could have the mayor and the council get up, we're going to present her with the award. >> Okay, we'll now move into public comment. Uh 30-minute public comment period, three limit per person. I'm opening the public comment. Allison, has anybody

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signed up? >> Uh yes, I have a Heather Lurch. Hello. I'm Heather Lurch, 1720 Old Trenton Road. Um I've already discussed this a few times. I just wanted to see if the town could review the process for

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inspecting housing rentals, residential rentals. As I understand it, the only thing that's needed is a smoke alarm certification. And one of the ways to acquire that is just simply to fill out a self-inspect

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affidavit. And it just seems to leave a lot of room for people to, you know, take the freedom to just fill out the form. So, I just wanted to, you know, just review it.

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That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you. Does anybody else wish to give public comment tonight? Uh this is the first public comment. Uh there are no hearings tonight, so if you wish to comment on anything we will be

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voting on, this would be the comment to make it. Hearing none, seeing none, I am going to close public comment. And I'm going to move into administration comments. I see Melina's not here, so Mayor?

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>> Yeah, thanks, uh Andy. Yeah, Melina is transportation challenged, her car broke down, so that's why she's not here. Um Uh so, um the general uh thing she would have said uh the

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Um, bus garage demolition the the school district bus garage demolition is scheduled for Tuesday. That's the project where the garage will be converted into a pocket park and uh uh parking lot. The demolition is

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scheduled for Tuesday and then the work on the they're working on getting the pocket park started as well. Um Uh there were a lot of questions came out about sidewalk repairs. See, everybody was expecting the

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uh sidewalk to be already repaired by now. Generally, the way things work is uh the council has allocated $150,000 every year for sidewalk repairs. On tonight's agenda is the

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bond ordinance. It's introduction today. Next council meeting they will vote on it. If they pass the bond ordinance, it becomes effective 20 days from that date. Then that money becomes available. Whatever was allocated last year was

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already used to fix the sidewalks that were on the list last year. So, once that money becomes available then later this year we will start fixing the sidewalk. We fix it based on first-come, first-serve basis. I know certain developments had submitted a

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list last year. They are already on the list. There's no need to submit. But they will be fixed once the money becomes available and we go out to bid and depending on how the bids come in, we keep fixing the sidewalks until

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the money runs out. So, a lot of people were asking why they haven't been fixed. This is the schedule we uh follow every year. There's nothing uh nothing unusual. Um

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I generally don't talk about events and stuff. Uh the council does a wonderful job of various events that happen around town and uh that they attend, but I do want to talk a little bit about the picnic that happened on June 13th. Um

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uh put on by Human Relations Council. Uh they did a really a wonderful job of uh putting a picnic putting out the play that was written and produced by uh young man local person. Thanks Joe for acting. He was game. He spent a lot of hours. Um

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it was a chance for people to see George Washington move through West Windsor those who didn't see him 200 years ago. Uh what I was very disappointed was the turnout. Very few people turned out. Uh this girl wrote a wonderful essay how

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how wonderful our town is and I I wish more people had turned out for the picnic. So, please let us know what we can do. Uh all the council members were here. So, thanks to all of them. Everybody was here there, but uh not as many people as

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I expected turned out. There was uh food available for purchase. There was games and a lot of fun could could have been had. So, I would really like to understand uh because people worked uh did a lot of work to make that picnic

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happen and would like to understand what we can do to uh make it better in future. And lastly, I was thinking of what Bridget did. Um I was going to give and uh state bail me out literally at 6:35 they sent me. Supposed to come last Friday,

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uh but last Friday being Juneteenth and holiday, they just sent it today. Um so uh okay this is the update. A coordination meeting was held between NJDOT subject matter experts and county engineer to decide

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uh where the temporary traffic light would go. They looked at the traffic conditions and they are reviewing several potential alternatives. It's a little tricky because the road curves and then there is a jug handle at that end. But

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the county has kindly agreed to pay for the traffic light so we can have a both ways traffic. So that is going to happen. NJDOT has submitted the plan to Amtrak to approve so they can actually do the work. It was supposed to be submitted

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Thursday 18th. This is 22nd so I assume it was submitted. Amtrak does take time to review it but in that time they are continuing the process of producing or forming whatever steel

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structures they need to form to put it on as soon as they get Amtrak inspection okay for the plan. And then the high rail equipment that will be used to put the

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steel structures up is scheduled for inspection this week. Hopefully once that inspection is passed and as soon as Amtrak passes the plan, they will start putting stuff in. I didn't get a chance to go to the bridge

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today but people have told me that there's somebody working there almost every day. They have pulled a party there and there's somebody working there almost every day for the last week. I mean there's several township employees who pass that way and they keep an eye on whether somebody working or not and

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if we don't see anybody for two three days, we'll call the state and ask ask them what's going on. So hopefully everything is on schedule and I keep telling them they have to meet their own deadline that they have given us and I'm optimistic that they will do that. So

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thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mayor. We'll move on to council comments. Dan, would you like to go? >> Congratulations, Sarah. Um it's great to see our young people participating and

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working um in various civic uh taking civic responsibility seriously or so. Um thank you. You're great role model um for all your peers in this township. That's all I have today. >> Linda?

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>> And congratulations, Sarah, too. It's nice to read an essay about how wonderful life is growing up in in West Windsor. And I hope that you always keep those memories uh dear to your heart as you grow up. So thanks for thanks for all your expressions.

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Um on June 9th, I attended uh County Executive uh Dan Benson's State of the County Address. We were all pleased to hear Dan Benson reaffirming his commitment to working closely with the township on the Clarksville Road Bridge Replacement Project. So that that's

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good. Uh thanks to EMS Chief Timothy Lynch for giving council an informative tour of Station 45. Uh it's amazing to see all the trucks and the ambulance uh you know, all this equipment and all of that does require a tremendous amount

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of training. Uh thanks to Station 45 employees for keeping us safe. Uh June 13th, as the mention as the mayor mentioned, in Community Park the Human Relations Council members um put on a play with actors commemorating the birth of our country.

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So thanks to all the members for getting a grant and participating um and for all the other activities that they put together uh for that day. Uh early on June 13th, I helped the Shade Tree Commission plant six trees uh near the parking lot at Water Works.

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So thanks for the DPW for digging the holes and placing the trees in the holes. And we uh were very busy for a couple of hours just shoveling the dirt back in around the trees and then putting down the mulch. So, that was a very nice project. On June

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17th, Sonia and I met with the property manager and some EPJ board members to review issues there. The mayor administration now um have a list of concerns and potential projects for this development. One of the one of the issues is the

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mayor the mayor brought up before is about sidewalk replacements because the township trees up the roots are uplifting the sidewalk, right? So, what what I'd like to see is that the township have somewhere on our township website

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where homeowner can instead of calling in the township can just, you know, write in um you know, in some memo to let the township know their address and what's going on with that. So, that way there

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is a record and sidewalks, mayor, there's a the record for sidewalks if we can use our township website and people can just go on that and give their name and address and what's going on with the sidewalk and they request replacement, then they will know from the township back that that we've received it and any

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other notifications like when it might possibly get fixed like this year or next year, that kind of information. The shade tree commission sent a new draft ordinance to the administration time frame late December, early January

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on the bamboo trees. So, it's been 6 months. That's a bamboo tree ordinance. So, we're getting complaints about bamboo spreading from one property to the next. So, I would request that at July's council meeting the draft ordinance be placed for discussion on

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council's business meeting agenda. And maybe this will help move along the process. Happy Father's Day to all who were celebrating um, yesterday. And our 9-month-old grandson um, had a lot of fun yesterday with with

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the his grandpa in the family, so happy Father's Day. Hope you had a good one. Uh, finally, happy 4th of July as our country celebrates our 250th birthday, so God bless America. >> Thank you, Linda. Joe?

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>> Yeah, thanks, Andrew. Uh, congrats, Sarah, on your uh, essay. Really really well done. Really great to read about all the great things in West Windsor. Uh, I liked how you highlighted one of the first items. Uh, one of your first things was marching in the uh, in the parade with [snorts] the Girl Scouts.

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I'm pretty sure my daughter was uh, marching in that parade with you, so uh, pretty cool. And uh, yeah, great job and congratulations on the recognition for that. Uh, do hope everybody had a great Father's Day. I know I did. I uh, a bit of a whiplash on Saturday. Uh, you

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know, you know how teenagers can be. My 14-year-old told me I was the worst dad uh, ever. And then on Sunday I got a card from him and a big hug and told me that I was his best dad ever. So I'm I'm going to go with the latter, but um, I hope everybody had a great Father's Day. Um, regarding the community picnic,

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yeah, I agree with with T 1 your comments. Great job by the volunteers and and Jan May on the reenactment. There will be a recording of the reenactment available, so folks will be able to watch it if they didn't make it. I'm not sure I want folks necessarily watching my acting ability, but it will be there, so uh, I

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know they're going to, you know, they're working on some video editing. Uh, last day of school is coming up Wednesday. The Rec Commission does have a lot of uh, summer camp opportunities, so any parents with uh, you know, with kids and you're looking for something for your kids to do, get them off the screen. Um,

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lots of opportunities for summer camps out there. Uh, you can also still buy seasonal memberships for Waterworks or Township Pool. And uh, speaking of Waterworks, there is an event this Friday, Dive into Summer. Um it's only $5 entry at the door, and it's a it's a benefit the West Windsor

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Little League. So, hope to see many of you there uh this Friday. And then, since we won't meet again before July 4th, the Historical Society is has collected items for a time capsule to be opened in 50 years. I know uh Sonia submitted some items on behalf of the council.

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Um and some other I know a number of other folks submitted items. So, hopefully folks can be there July 4th at 1:30 at the Historical Society. Thanks. >> Thank you, Joe. Um I'd like to congratulate Sarah again, and I do note that a lot of your

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favorite things are some of my favorite things, and uh the Memorial Day parade. I'm sure no matter what age you were, I probably ran it for Girl Scouts. And um you know, and and all of all the different things this town has to offer. It I always wonder the kids are writing

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these writing these essays, and there's just so many things to to choose from. Um I also want to remind everybody about Dive into Summer, only $5 admission, and the Little League will benefit. I hope everyone had a good Juneteenth,

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celebrating the final end of slavery in the United States. I went to the 8:00 a.m. flag raising in Mercer County Park, along with other elected officials, including Sonia and Linda. Yes, I'm mentioning for you, not leaving you out. Uh but perhaps even more meaningful was

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the festival that started at noon for everybody by the Mercer County African American Cultural Collaborative. I've been going pretty much every year, and I enjoyed the entertainment and talking to people around the fair. On June 19th, Sonia and I had open office hours. I want to thank everybody

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that attended. We had a good turnout. And we always uh learn something new, and uh one of the things we did learn this time was about uh how um some of our uh approvals for apartments are done based on the

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honor of the owner of the property, which can sometimes be problematic. So, we always do learn something new from from residents on these things. On Wednesday, June 17th, I attended the

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county's presentation of the Old Trenton Road Improvement Study. Much of Old Trenton Road within West Windsor goes along Old Trenton Road from Princeton Hightstown Road to Quaker Bridge Road. The presentation include various safety

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improvements on the road for vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles is an emphasis on what they're planning on doing on the road. I urge everyone to stay aware of these potential plans and to contact Mercer County with any comments on that.

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I also attended the State of the County Address by Dan Benson on June 9th. As a matter of fact, our whole council was there to hear about the progress made in the county's finances and to cheer on the progress on the Clarksville Bridge so that we can

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encourage Dan Benson, if he didn't already know it, which I doubt that's true, that we are really really looking forward to that bridge being being fixed. I want to thank everybody who who donated to SHUP, which is Send Hunger Packing, during during our food

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collection at the township shredding event on Saturday, June 13th. And thank you to the DPW employees who are working cheerfully there in the heat to handle the shredding. And I we do appreciate that no matter how busy they are, they do help us out in various ways when

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we're collecting for for Send Hunger Packing. And I want to congratulate Chair Jodemer Prasad and the whole Human Relations Council for the first annual township pic- picnic. Thanks to Yeymay and everyone who was in the play, including our Joe here.

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Uh who performed music and otherwise worked to make this happen. We would have We would have liked to have seen more people there. There was a lot of work put into it. And the more the merrier at events like this. So, um if you do see something like where there's an event like that coming up, say maybe

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dive into summer. Um I'd suggest that you uh please do look at it and come, you know, think about coming to it cuz it's great family or individual event. And finally, happy July 4th. I can't believe that this is

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the 250th. I actually remember the 200th. Um re- remember uh what um was in a town I was actually lived in East Brunswick at the time. I remember um it was pretty uh celebratory. Everybody uh

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was all excited about it. And I hope that everybody's got some exciting uh plans and things to do to celebrate the 250th cuz these things don't come around that often. Um thank you. And now,

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um Allison, do you have any comments? >> Um I do not. >> Okay. Uh we have no public hearings, and so we can go to the consent agenda, please. >> Okay. May 26th, 2026 business session as amended, bills and claims.

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>> And uh anybody want to pull anything? Seeing none, can I get a motion to adopt? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All Roll Carlos. >> Yes. >> Javers. >> Yes. >> Mandal. >> Yes. >> Weiss. >> Yes. >> Gomez.

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>> Okay. And now, recommendations from administration and council clerk. >> 2026-R126 approving the refund of an application fee for one temporary food establishment license to Black Swan Cottage Bakery in

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the amount of $15. 2026-R127 authorizing the business administrator to purchase annual renewal of the IntelliShift GPS vehicle tracking licensing from SHI International through New Jersey Cooperative Purchasing

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Alliance Contract No. CK04 Subcontract 24-38 with the County of Bergen $11,890.79. 2026-R128 authorizing the business administrator to purchase one Crestline CCL 150 Type 1

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ambulance mounted on a 2025 Ford F350 chassis from First Priority Emergency Vehicles DBA First Priority Group through the Houston-Galveston Area Council H-GAC by contract number AM10-23

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$341,908. 2026-R129 authorizing the Mayor and Clerk to execute a contract with SDW Construction Inc. for the Canal Point Boulevard retaining wall construction project $131,035.

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2026-R130 authorizing the Mayor and Clerk to execute a professional services agreement with Van Cleef Engineering Associates for professional engineering services for construction administration and construction inspection for the Canal Point Boulevard retaining wall

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reconstruction project $10,593. 2026-R131 authorizing the Mayor and Clerk to execute a contract with Sunset Creations Inc. for the 2026 public land maintenance street tree maintenance and replacement $43,050.

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2026-R132 authorizing the business administrator to to dispose of surplus personal property no longer required for public use through online auction using GovDeals Inc. an authorized vendor through Sourcewell Cooperative

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Purchasing Contract No. 114224-GDI 2026-R133 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the bike-2027-Edinburgh Road Bikeway Connector 00018

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project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. 2026-R134 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the TV-2027

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Lower Vaughn Commuter Lot Picnic Grove 00017 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. 2026-R135 approval to submit a grant application

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to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the MA 2027 North Post Road Repaving 2027 two sections 00450 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant

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agreement through the PMRS system. 2026-R136 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the MA 2027 South Post Road Resurfacing 00438 project and authorizing the mayor and

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clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. 2026-R137 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the SST 2027 Wallace

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Road Sidewalk Reconstruction 00042 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. In 2026-R138, authorizing the employment of Lilly Shea

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to fill the unexpired term as member of the Shade Tree Commission with a term to expire on January 14th, 2029. >> Okay. Does anybody wish to pull anything out of this? >> Uh yes, 2026-R133.

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>> Thank you, Bridget. Okay. Um does anybody wish to pull anything else out? Seeing Seeing none, I'm going to ask that we

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uh for a motion to adopt 2026 to R126 to 2026-R132 and then 2026 R134 to 2026 R138.

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> Allison? >> Charles? >> Yes. >> Gievers? >> Yes. >> Mendel? >> Yes. >> Weiss? >> Yes. >> Gawalis? >> Okay, Linda, since you've um pulled 2026 R133,

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um if you want to speak about it. >> Yeah, I had some questions. I'm just trying to better understand this project. Um So, I'll go through my questions. So, why is West Windsor submitting this grant application as Edinburg Road is a

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county road? >> Yeah, Dick, uh one of the things that happened was when we had um meeting with the >> Could you get a little closer? >> Yep. >> Yeah, you're okay, but you get a little You got a little closer.

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>> That's what I generally tell people. Um when we had um meeting with the county uh, at the at the thing um at that park entrance, one of the thing that was clear or one of the things that people

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complained was there was bike path up up to the east entrance of the Mercer County Park, but there was nothing going to going to Old Trenton Road. Uh, this is not the first time we have applied for this grant. We this is I think I believe the third time, but we

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haven't received it funded last two time. Uh, the county won't fund it, so we are going to try to get grant and and do the project because that's that's important for our residents. >> So So the county county won't pay?

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Is what you're saying? >> Uh, yeah. I mean, see you can put put in I mean, you can put in for 10 grants, but the chances of getting is one is maximum. So we generally put try to put the best uh, based on our

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professionals opinion, whatever is the best chance of getting. So they can look at all the options that all the things we want to do and whatever they think has the best chance of getting it and what we want, they will put in. So we generally put in only

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for one or two in each category. So those three four grants you see on the agenda, they are in different categories and uh, generally we don't get funded in every category. Uh, we get funded in one or two. We are rich town, so uh,

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um, we get what we can get. >> Yeah. With this project is um, does it require the taking of any land in front of the affected residents home or is the right of way being used or does it would the township have to have agreements um

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with the resident property owners and like like we do with Cranbury Road? >> No, well, uh, we believe that uh we are not going to do sidewalk. It's mainly bike lanes, right? We believe that we have the easement if we need to.

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If you know me, I am very much against taking anybody's land or property. Every project we do I we try to avoid that as much as possible. And since I got the email, I did take my bike there

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this evening. And then I was reminded that was the same thing that was obvious when we walked that path. If you go there the electrical poles are very close to the very close to the road. So, there's not much space left. And moving electrical

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poles is very expensive, so we don't generally move electrical poles. So, we don't believe, but once if we do get the grant and if we do do do the design, once we do the design, I can tell you with certainty that oh, no, we don't need anything other

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than our easement, but I spoke to John and he doesn't think we need anything more. >> Has anyone engineering community development department like talked to any of the residents? >> No, no, we haven't talked to the residents. >> I'm just concerned that

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you know, if you're going to put in an 8-ft multi-use path in front of their house. >> Yeah, they they See, there are there are three there are three houses there. I went and saw that, and I

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went and saw also that they're not very close to the road. I mean, they are at least two of them are fairly set back. If they were very close to the road, and if we think we are taking too much, we won't do it.

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I'm very very cognizant of the fact simple rule I use is if I live in that house and I won't like it, then I won't do it. So, um that's that's for public good. Um if you want to have uh there's no safe path to go to uh and there's a

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lot of traffic on that road, especially now we turn made the right-hand turn lane on that that road. There's a lot of traffic on that road and lot of people asked that if they want to go to uh Old Trenton Road, they need that path. We have now path up to the park

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entrance. There's nothing there's nothing after that. >> Yeah, well, one of the houses is at the corner of Edinburgh Road and Old Trenton Road. >> Yeah, I mean >> Old Trenton Old Trenton Road, but it that's for sale.

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>> I know, I saw that. We have no interest in buying that that that that house is now actually in the corner. Uh that was not the corner house. You were on council and I was on council when we bought the house right next to it for

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road for road expansion. So, now it became the corner house, but it wasn't corner house. I don't know if we used if we used everything that we bought, I mean the house property for right-hand turn lane. We may still own a uh

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sliver of that corner. I Yeah, it's tied, but I don't know how much how much we own, but we bought that corner house and we knocked it down to make room for that right-hand turn. So, I mean, that's engineer's job. I mean, that's not my job. So,

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uh but uh again, if we get the grant, then those questions come up and but we have no interest in buying that house. That house is not the grant doesn't include uh buying the house, and I have no interest in buying the house. >> But see, at the bottom of the resolution

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it says that your your signature and the clerk's seal serve to acknowledge the above resolution and constitute acceptance of the terms and conditions of the grant agreement and approve the execution of the grant agreement as authorized by the resolution above. So,

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we apply for it and it's and it's granted, then that forces our hand to >> Not at all. Not at all. You You voted against the grant that was approved on us.

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Sidewalk or bike path on Conover Road. It doesn't force you into do anything. That was similar grant. You voted against it. >> What percentage did that one? >> No, I I know, but >> Can we stick to the Can we Can we stick to this particular

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>> We don't have to follow through if we don't like >> We Procedurally we don't have to follow through. For example, if it comes back and it turns out that we need to acquire property from somebody, it doesn't fit in the grant money, we will just turn it down.

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>> Okay. Um procedurally though, I believe the council is agreeing. Mike, um voting on this is the council agreeing to accept the grant and to allow them to accept the grant without coming back to council. Now, we could presumably, once we see a

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contract of execute, I assume we could vote against the contract if we didn't like something further, but you're going to be accepting the grant, but then if we can't meet the conditions of the grant, we wind up losing it later. Is that correct? How that works so that we

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still we sort of get another bite at the apple at that point even though we don't get it at the point of acceptance. Am I correct with that? Thank you. >> I mean, I can give you >> What? >> I can give you another example, recent example. >> Yeah. Um well, let the SNA go through

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war stories. Um what Um then is anybody else, by the way, on the council wish to ask any questions or comment and then I'll let you go back cuz I don't want to leave anyone out on this. Okay. Linda, did you have any more questions? >> Those were Those were my main questions. >> No, I mean

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If we get If we get the If we get the grant, we will do a proper design and if I don't like it or you don't like it, we don't have to do it. Uh if you don't get the grant, it's a moot point, but that that section of the

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road needs safety improvement if you're going to bike. I mean, I won't bike. I'm not a professional biker. I go to the park, but I go in east entrance. But if you're a professional biker, it needs it needs uh safety. It's not safe to

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bike there or walk there. >> And I do want to point out that the county is working on Old Trenton Road, so uh there should hopefully at some point be some improvements there. So, if you actually can get to it, I'm hoping there's a something you can do

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afterwards. >> So, they're not They're talking a lot about that intersection. >> So, it's uh you know, if you look at the intersection now you'd say, "Well, what's somebody going to do once they get to it?" But presumably after the county makes the

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other improvements to Old Trenton Road, then that side of it would would become bikeable. Um and I I expect that's that's going to take a while. I expect all of this is going to take a while to come together. Yeah. >> Yeah, but county paid

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county paid half and we paid half to make that that right hand turn lane. We County paid half to buy the house, too. County paid half to cost of the project included buying the house and constructing that right hand

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turn lane and we paid 50/50. I wasn't the mayor then, but I was on council and I had to fight to get it approved. >> But just a legal question because that house on the corner there is now listed for sale. I

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So, does the township have any have any obligation to let the owners and or the realtor know that this is possibly, you know, getting indoors? Nothing? >> At At this point, it's an application for a grant. So,

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Um Okay. Any other questions on that? Any other comments, Mayor? No? >> No, I mean, if we get the grant, that that section is not safe. We're going to reduce the speed also on that section. County has agreed to remove reduce the

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speed from 15 to 15 to 15 to 15. That the bolts and then rest we control, so we will figure out how to do that. Okay. >> When do you think we'll hear back? Like

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2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months later, whatever. >> She's She signed all the PMRS. >> Take a minute to find out. >> You know what? I'm not sure. It's not too long. It doesn't I don't think it takes months. They They follow through their steps in that PMRS system.

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>> Yeah, we have to sign two three times on PMRS. She knows I mean two two three times we have to sign online before we know whether we get it or not get it. >> Okay. >> Can somebody notify us if we get it or don't get it so we we do know?

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>> Well, I can notify you cuz I'll be the one that will be one of the signers. >> Thank you. Uh yeah, that that's enough. We should We should get notifications one way or the other. Um okay. If everybody's finished discussing, can I get >> Motion to approve 2026 R1.

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>> Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Charles? >> Yes. >> Gievers? >> Yes. >> Mandel? >> Yes. >> Weiss? >> Yes. >> Gawas? >> Thank you. Here we now have introduction of ordinances. This bond ordinance.

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>> 2026-14 capital improvement ordinance providing for various capital improvements and other related expenses in and for the Township of West Windsor, County of Mercer, State of New Jersey appropriating the amount of $465,000.

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>> Can I get a motion to introduce? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Charles? >> Yes. >> Gievers? >> Yes. >> Mandel? >> Yes. >> Weiss? >> Yes. >> Gawas? Public hearing will be July 13th, 2026.

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Okay. 2026-15 bond ordinance providing for various capital improvements in and by the Township of West Windsor in the County of Mercer, New Jersey appropriating a 12,881,234 dollars therefore and authorizing the

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issuance of 11,613,000 bonds or notes of the Township to finance part of the cost thereof. >> Can I get a motion to introduce? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Charles? >> Yes. >> Gievers? >> Yes. >> Mandel? >> Yes.

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>> Weiss? >> Yes. >> Gawas? Public hearing will be July 13th, 2026. >> Thank you. And now I'm going to up open up the second public comment. 15-minute comment period, 3-minute limit

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per person, just like the first one. Uh is anybody signed up for that? >> Um no. >> No. Um would if anybody would like to get up and make a second public comment on whatever you would like to discuss, please get up now. Thank you. >> Ann Clifton.

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>> 18 Gulston Drive. With regard to the comment about when we might find out about a grant, I just did a quick look on Bike Ways 2025 grant notification. It was public this in December 10th, 2025.

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So, it might not you might not find out in another month is what I'm starting to say. Um also, I want to thank the township for submitting the Bicycle Friendly Community Renewal application. We're going for silver. Uh we have currently bronze status, so I

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want to thank the mayor for your support, uh as well as the administration, Francis Guzik for his review and plugging in some holes that the Bike Pedestrian Alliance had, help from John Taylor, traffic sergeants uh

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Walt Silcox, Anthony Esposito at Department of Public Works, one of my colleagues at GMTMA, colleagues on WWBPA, and also um council members Amanda and Andrea for your help in answering some of the questions. This is

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We didn't get a chance to submit it last year because engineering was short-handed on one of the pieces that needed some work. The League of American Bicyclists has made this application more involved each time we apply. It's kind of a We're on a

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4-year cycle. So, we needed to provide a spreadsheet with all of the bike facilities on the different roads, different mile different speed limits. Um whether it was a multi-use path, bike

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lanes, protected, etc. So, we had to say how many miles we had at 25 mph or less, etc. all the way up to over 45. So, we needed some help from engineering. Some of my colleagues did it with some high school students using AI, but that was a

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big piece that engineering wasn't able to do last year. Anyway, we won't find out until December. I expect we'll get some kind of a survey sent to us or sent to Francis probably in July or early August, which we will send out to

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everybody to offer input and then they make their decision. So thank you again for your assistance with that and for the support. Thanks. >> Thank you Anne and good luck in getting the silver. Okay, does anybody else wish to make

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public comment? Seeing none, I will close the second public comment and go to council reports. Joe, would you like to start? >> [clears throat] >> Uh yeah, parking authority met a couple weeks ago. The mayor commented on the demolition of the the bus garage. The

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the other hope is that they I think they're going to publicly solicit construction bids fairly soon in in the coming days or weeks. Uh they are going to also pursue a transit village grant application primarily for some improvements at lower bond, which would include a include a

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removable canopy in the middle of the lot, uh some additional picnic tables and electrical improvements that would help benefit the the farmers market there. And they will as part of that grant application, they're also going to look at including in there a canopy for some of the bike racks over by the train

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tracks. That was a good suggestion that came in from a resident who who attended the last meeting. Um with respect to parking apps, um right now we have the ParkMobile app that's that's used. They will consider

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uh possibly allowing another parking app vendor to to participate, so that's under some review and discussion. And another thing they talked about was evaluating where to put up additional security cameras, so just evaluating the specific locations and sightlines of of

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those cameras to improve uh and safety there. So, that's it. >> Thank you, Linda. >> Uh the Planning Board held a nearly 4-hour meeting on June 17th. PB 26-05 Woodstone Residential Annex LLC was

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approved. This site is on the uh 200 Harber Road, and the property is zoned R-5F District. The site was previously approved for a retail commercial building, but is now approved with a four-story 35-unit apartment building.

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There will be nine affordable housing units spread throughout the building. This application will help satisfy the township's fourth-round affordable housing obligations. Second application the board approved was PB 26-06 Clark Plaza. The new larger sign will

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replace the old existing sign at the Village Square Plaza Shopping Center on Clarksville Road. The new sign will be internally illuminated and include 14 spaces for the tenants. So, hopefully that will bring um more attraction of

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people on Clarksville Road, even though the bridge is still closed, but I think this this sign will certainly um help them. Uh the third application PB 26-03 Princeton Ascend Development LLC was approved by the board. This uh is

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located at 43 Princeton Hightstown Road. After much discussion, the board approved an 80-square-foot sign rather than the 100-square-foot sign proposed. The board's July 1st and July 15th meetings are canceled. The Shade Tree Commission meets this

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Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Details are on the commission's section uh on the township website. There will be continued discussion on the draft community forestry management plan due to the DEP by the end of September. >> Thank you, Dan.

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>> Uh the Board of Ed met last week. It was actually a fairly brief meeting. Not nearly 4 hours, although it was preceded by a celeb- their annual celebratory end-of-year recognition of staff and and and

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members. At the meeting itself, um the there was some interesting discussion about personnel movement, some principals moving on, moving around. Um We're we're um we're lucky that we're in a in a

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district that has just great talent and that we have the ability to fill gaps as they become available. >> Thank you. Environmental Commission met on Thursday, June 11th. Uh we heard from Lindsey Brubaker who presented a DEP

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Duke Farms mapping tool project for wildlife habitats that can be used for reviewing development applications in the future. Um Kavia, one of our green team students, reviewed her project with Mercer County Community College on paint

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that can reflect heat islands. The ANJEC grant application for the Echo Hub Garden area was discussed, and on Friday, June 19th, we met with student advisor Young Wang, engineering, our landscape architect, um and

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representatives from DPW and Rec departments at Community Park to lay out a new pollinator rain garden in that area and to discuss uh some improved signage to explain the various projects that we have there. Um the EC requested that I make the

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application to Sustainable Jersey's Success Stories contest, and so I filled out the application last week, uh and I used our West Windsor Eco-Scape Garden Hub in the Community Park. And last but not least, thank you to the

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newest video stars, Mayor Marathi and the EC chair uh from Brooks for taking part in our Sustainable Jersey Energy Project online video production today. Uh they were both fantastic. I I enjoyed every minute.

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>> We We'll wait till the final video. >> They're going to cut 98% out of that and they're going to and you're going to be saying two words at the end. Uh it's going to go on our West Windsor Sustainable Jersey PSE&G special project page uh soon after after they edit it all down.

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Uh the next meeting of the Environmental Commission and all are welcome uh is on July 9th, 2026. Thank you. So on that note, are there any other administration updates Mr. >> Yeah, yeah.

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My fault. I forgot what Marlena usually reads. So um update 2026 yard waste collection update. Uh DPW will start zone four on Monday, June 22nd. Uh municipal offices will be closed on

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Friday, July 3rd in observance of Independence Day. Trash will not be collected. Uh please uh check our home page for updates and call public works for that week's adjusted schedule. Uh the public works facility two will be

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closed on Independence Day holiday on Friday, the 3rd and Saturday, the 4th. So those are the announcement I should have read at the beginning of the meeting. And I just want to thank Anne and Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance for applying and far far more important,

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keeping after us for giving them the information that they need. And what she said is true. Francis finished that after the planning in the long planning board meeting Linda talked about. Luckily, he didn't have to stay for the last two applications. So he

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went downstairs to his office and finished that in time. Midnight was the deadline to apply. So hopefully it'll be all set. So thank you very much. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. We have no closed sessions. So, if there's no reason not to, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. Okay, we are adjourned at 7:52. Thank you.