Good evening. I'm calling to order the meeting of the Township Council of West Windsor Township for July 14th, 2025. Um Allison, if you can call the role Dawas Jvers
here. Weiss here. Whitfield. Oh, I'm sorry. Gawas, Chvers, Mandel here, Weiss here, Whitfield. And have we adequately noticed? Yes, we were adequately noticed on January 17th, 2025 to the Times in the
Princeton packet, posted here at the Township Municipal Building, filed with the municipal clerk, and posted on the township website. Please stand for the salute to the flag. for each flag of the United States of America to the republic which stands one
nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We have uh two ceremonial matters tonight. Uh the first one is a presentation by Dr. Fry Bs who is the
chair of our environmental commission. Um the environmental commission um is currently working on the uh sustainable Jersey certification and the uh environ and the diversity on boards and commissions report is part of that. Dr.
BS if you'd like to get up. Thank you. So my name is Afrian BS and I'm chairman of the environmental commission. My address 26 Indian Run Road. I'm pleased to present you get a little closer to the mic. Thank you. I'm pleased to present the
report. You have a copy of that. Uh first of all, I want to acknowledge contribution of uh township administration Francis Guzik who is liazone with administration and worked very hard and member of environmental commission lizone with the with this
body council is Andrea Mandel. And so the summary of the report first of all why the report is needed. Uh this is uh as we know uh sustainable jersey that uh West Windsor is certified by requires in
threeear cycle resubmit lots of materials. Unfortunately the prior materials that have been submitted do not stay forever. In other words, the sustainable jersey uh constantly changes the priority and the items involved. For
example, recycling three or four or five years ago was very big. But at the end of the year, township which submit any material and recycling it doesn't get any points. Now the number of points, you know, it's like in in a high school or in the college, you submit your
essay, you get points. But actually here it works a little bit differently. uh they classify a lots of subcategories and some of them considered higher rated and they given more points and some less rated but still you get points like for
example idling in the town you know so police department enforces and since we have a policy approved by the council and the mayor we get five points from year to year um new things is of course renewable energy solar energy EV V
charges and so on. Now coming strongly into the into the picture. The puzzling aspect from the environmental commission point of view that there are issue which are not rel related to environment at all. For example, health senior citizens
arts in the community and so on. I think we could do a little bit more with arts. Um but here's another things. I'm sure we are doing much more than we are reporting but the commission requires submitting of formal documents
um ordinances uh resolution passed by by the council sometimes environmental commission and other bodies of the township. So it requires a lots of planning. Many major towns have staff who work on that
constantly and they obviously rated higher but West Windsor being silver certified I believe it's within 20% of townships in state of New Jersey. The last resertification took place in 2022
and um 93 township received reertification 36 silver and 57 bronze. So those are two major point major categories bronze silver. There is also gold but that's for the specific area whether it sells
water and so on and most townships really do not uh have um efforts in this in this direction. Well maybe in the future they will but this is what's going on. So quickly going back to the report this is example of report diversity. So it's not related to the
environmental issue and sustainability but it's very important part of the community activities and so basically report I will not go line by line but puts emphasis on three maybe or four categories that demographics of our
township is changing has been changing and currently we have a high concentration or population representing Asian-Americans So the the point therefore uh that's
obviously we know and it's reflected in various communities meetings and community days but sustainable Jersey would like to see that the makeup uh ethnic makeup of the community is
reflected in the membership of boards and committees. So whenever new openings would be announced uh we will have uh to make sure that uh all the members of the community are aware and maybe perhaps
recruit some outstanding. This does not negate the key and most important principle that the mayor and and the council when they have to make a decision should really be uh guided by the individual education experience and
qualities and of course a record of accomplishment. Another line that stands out is seniors. So we have a lots of seniors who are active in the community and they indeed have a higher representation in the community and
boards. On the other hand, they obviously are very experienced. They've been around for many years, very successful. No rules and regulation. Please remember that serving on the committee on the board is just it requires a lots of knowledge and
requires people to learn it and apply it for the for the interest of the township and so on. So it's it's not an easy task and those who have been trained for many years are extremely valuable. I read somewhere in report that 70% or 80% of
the township work is being carried out by volunteers specifically members of the boards and the committees. So the next point are so um I would say I covered the the seniors um
if yes I cannot speak right in the microphone. Um so as far as bringing younger population into uh memberships and this is the last point I want to to point out we're
actually doing quite a lot of work in this regards because we are working certainly environmental commission is working with the scouts boy scouts girl scouts and their parents that population also has been increased because west winds schools attracting parents with
young children and so that population could participate also in the township development and participation in the committees and the boards. So through um scouts and their projects we obviously attract parents to to know what the
township issues are, what are priority and we got quite number of members uh who participate join the boards and so on. And in Romel commission for example today probably represents fully
the um ethnic makeup of the community thanks to the mayor's recent appointments. uh we have four uh members representing Asian community out of seven. So I hope that we will address that issue in the future and by the fact
that I am presenting to you report and hopefully you will have some questions and comments. I am I I hope and I'm sure they will satisfy sustainable Jersey requirement for our for our reertification 2025. Thank you very much
for attention. If you have any questions, I I will try to answer. Thank you. Does anybody on the council have any question? I just want to remind everyone um that there is a volunteer application form that's um on our municipal website. So,
if you'd like to volunteer, there's a number of categories. You can check off several, you can check off one, just fill it out and send it in to uh the township clerk and she'll distribute it. Okay. Um mayor, did you have anything?
Um, thank you for for the report and information. I have a question about So, it looks like there are three categories of of diversity that were included in this report. There was gender, there's age, and ethnicity. Uh, were those categories predetermined by sustainable
New Jersey or is that something that we decided? uh as a report in introduction states, lots of things were determined by the township administration because sustainable Jersey gives you basically
um a report a general assignment and then the township administration has to fill the blanks as they see fit. In this particular case, we use the guidelines of the census. So as you seen in the
table, we just took all the lines from the census related to West Windsor population broken down by gender, ethnic origin and age. There were no other issues mentioned there. So this way we
were able to go back to the source and compare uh formally the numbers that were posted by by the census. Now, as it mentioned in the introductory part of the report, our assessment is
probably have arrow bars because some I I don't think that the township, excuse me, members of the committees and and the boards identify their age or their well, you know, all
other factors that were taking the report. So there was assessment guess to sort of put some numbers. That's why you see also huge deviations. That's why I said arrow bars because in in in the
range I think I believe from in the age category from 0 to 34 uh we identified only one person. Uh probably that is a small number. Probably we could add more student advisors that mayor and the
council nominates. Probably that number would be a little bit higher but still percentage would be very small compared. I think we um when they talk about board members they talk about voting members and so that usually has to be adults not not like student advisors. So um but the
sustainable Jersey provides various templates. Um I did this back in 2019. So somewhat familiar with it. Um sustainable Jersey will provide some various samples templates and they basically are check looking up against
what the census numbers are. So this is more of a a numbers game in terms of what they're asking for. And it's really just um a sample an idea so that since you can take a look at this and say hey am I leaving anybody anybody out or or
is it possible we're not including anyone? There's no attempt here to um create a quotota system or anything like that. And I'm certain that we wouldn't want to be taking people and we too tend to have people who stay on boards a long
time and I'm sure nobody would want us to take any good performing people off of boards. So it becomes a slow process. And I think what happens from what I've seen in the numbers as we move along, as people retire, as people move out, um
people are replaced, they tend to be replaced fairly representative of um of who's in the community that's available to do this kind of work. So, uh we have been progressing. We've been doing
better. Um, I I remember back in 2019, um, I I think I figured out that I was actually adding a huge percent. I think I had gotten on planning board and and environmental commission and I actually, uh, was enough to change the percentage
for women because of the of the way the numbers worked. Um, and and make it better just as one person. Uh, so these are these are and these are estimates. We don't go and ask people what they are. um and there so they're estimates and in
general I think we're moving in a in a good direction that way. The reason I asked about diversity is because diversity means a lot of different things, right? And these are certainly three valid categories, but there's also diversity in education, there's diversity in socioeconomic status, there's diversity whether you're
a homeowner or a renter. So there's a lot of different things that you could look at to kind of figure out whether you have an appropriate representation. I was really just curious how you landed on those three and it sounds like it was via it was easy data to get via the census needs. Well, and it was it's also what they
tend to want from this is exactly how the township doing that. This is a template that was given by sustainable Jersey for those who are willing to address that point. And it's by the way not required as I said in my introduction lots of subjects
could be picked up based on whatever information township keeps records of. Right. This is um this is a priority action, but there's something like 15 priority actions and you can get silver with only three of them. So, we've done
this for a few few times. We did it this year, 2019. I think we did it three years before, but there's no requirement that we do this. Um it's just something we've been taking a look at. So to conclude my presentation, we expect to
get 350 points required for silver certification and the submission of the final report of pre-final report is the end of the months and Dander Bilski now consultant our consultant is working on this project together with uh Francis.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for um uh mayor you want to say something? I don't have comments. I just have questions on I don't have questions. I just have comments on the report. So first thank you very much Ephraim and
the envir uh environmental commission for doing this and the sustainable justice certification. It's a heavy lifting lot of paperwork. Um I did read the report uh not surprising u everything makes uh logical sense which
I like to do uh as engineer. Um uh and it's very easy to explain. I'm glad that we are moving in the right direction. Um generally since I became mayor 8 years ago, my philosophy has been to reappoint every person who has been interested in
uh continuing in the position whether it was appointed by me or appointed by mayor she or even before. Uh so if you look at even the major planning board, zoning board, I don't think zoning board you have appointed anybody for a very long time. you just reappoint everybody.
Uh we have not replaced you and planning board. I haven't replaced any member who wanted to be reappointed. Just one member decided to retire and then everybody else uh there's some rotations because of environmental commission but other than everybody is reappointed. So
I can explain why the movement is slow and that's a good thing. even about the uh uh age um I can understand that too and that's both good and bad younger folks have younger kids more difficult to uh more difficult to volunteer too
many things to do too many places to drive them and stuff like that and it's also good that people have been serving on these commissions for a long time which means even after kids have graduated from school they are still here perfect example gentleman behind
you and we really appreciate that paying taxes for years and years after the kids have graduated. Uh thank you from the taxpayers. So uh that is that is uh that is a good sign not a bad sign that people feel committed to the township even after um uh the most of them move
here because of the school but even after the kids have moved out they feel committed to the township. So all in all this is good. We will continue to make progress and anybody who is interested in applying to any of these positions as Linda said go on the township website
and fill out the form indicate which commissions committees you are interested in. I only ask that you focus on the township. This is township. It's not a position to do uh uh politics out of township uh state level committee
level. The only person I appointed and uh then disappointed was the person not interested in the township was trying to uh do politics using these positions. As long as you don't do that, I I won't ask you your uh uh any questions about uh
your preferences. Um and you will get the things. So again, thank you very much for doing it. Thanks. And and I just want to recognize since we're doing Dave Paris who has also been on the board for quite a long time is now an adviser for the
environmental commission. So Paris also thank you for paying taxes all these years with no kids in school. Thank you very much. And the lady next to you too. Hey, what about all of us up here?
Um okay. Thank you. Uh if we're done with that topic, I guess we'll move right along to the um the next uh priority consideration ceremonial matter, a summer safety tips presentation. Linder, I know you did a
lot with that. Would you like to? Yeah. So, so tonight we have um fire and emergency management services chief Timothy Lynch is with us and I thought it's uh came up with this idea few weeks ago and it's summer and there's a lot of
safety tips and we see all sorts of news reports about rip tides and emergencies happening. Uh there's obviously flooding issues ongoing, um pool safety issues, uh fireworks, thunderstorms. So there's a lot. So y uh
with the mayor's uh permission there. We have the chief here tonight to talk about all those topics for uh thank thank you very much. Thanks for happen having having me. Thank you for the invitation. Um I said to the mayor when he had talked to me about this, anybody who's willing to give me a microphone and let me talk
about safety, you're going to have to listen to me drone on and on and on. So thanks for the invitation. I'm happy to be here and give some tips about some safety items for the summer. Uh if we can skip to the next slide. I wanted to start with something that's incredibly important and under um undereducated.
The public's very undereducated about and that's the difference in the National Weather Services warning system. So what is the difference between a watch and a warning? Because everybody gets the notifications on their phone. Oh, right now our township is under a flood watch. Well, what's the difference between here and Lawrence,
Hopewell, Princeton, and Euing where they're under a flash flood warning? A watch of any type, tornado watch, severe thunderstorm watch, a flood watch means that this the conditions are right that the situation may occur. So, you need to pay attention, watch your forecast, keep
an eye on what's going outside, and have some sort of plan of what to do in case that type of emergency occurs. A warning means that that is actually happening. So right now there's a flash flood warning on the other side of the county where they're having extreme amounts of
rain and there are roadways flooding already. So if you have a flash flood warning that means that the flooding is happening. This is not a something might occur at some point. There is flooding somewhere. So if you can go to the next slide. Speaking of flash flooding um
flash flooding is called flash flooding for a reason. Everybody unfortunately has been witnessed to the worst case of flash flooding and what's going on in Texas right now. It's water that comes from somewhere else. It doesn't necessarily have to be even raining
where you are, but water is coming towards you in a level that you cannot deal with. So, um, a lot of people get misconceptions about the power of water because of the ways that we are exposed to it as a society. You go to a swimming pool, you go down to the beach where you
can step in, you can step out. Flood water is not the same as anything else that we deal with. It's rapidly moving. There's debris in it. And one of the things that I like to teach in all the water rescue classes that we I'm fortunate enough to teach is flood water
is not the water that we play in. This water has pesticides, sewers, gasoline, oil, anything that's on the roadway, in your garage or in your grass is floating in this water. So, when I see people swimming in flood waters or suading into
flood water, that's a great way to get infections and diseases, it's really, really gross. So, on top of it being dangerous, as you can see on this infographic from the uh from Noah, the uh 6 in of water can move a car. um 12
inches if it's moving fast enough, but 18 to 24 will move a large SUV or a truck. And the most important thing to point out about that is you have absolutely no idea how deep that water is. You may be familiar with the roadway and have
driven down that roadway a million times. That roadway might not be there anymore. So when you drive into the water, you know, well, I can see the line. I can see the level. I know that road's 6 in deep. It was 6 in deep before the rain came. It might not be
now. Um, for those of you who remember Hurricane Ida a few years ago, uh, over on the other side of the county in Hope Township, we had fatalities due to flooding. It started with people driving into flood water and then, uh, the water rose further, swept their vehicles away,
they got trapped in the vehicle, and there's very few things that we can do to come and help you. Um, so please do not drive into the water. It's not worth it. Turn around, find another way. Park in the high ground and stay safe. It's not worth driving into the water. So,
uh, moving on from flood water down into rip currents. Everybody here in New Jersey, we like going down to the shore. Um, rip currents, they're usually visible from the beach. It's when, uh, an excess in water reaches the the beach and needs to find a way back out into the ocean. So, it's usually um I'm I'm
not a meteorologist, but it usually occurs during uh title changes. And the big thing about rip currents that is not undertoe. It is on the surface. You can see it. So, it's not going to pull you under. It'll hold you up, but pull you away from the shore. So, the easiest way
to survive it is to swim parallel to the shore. Swim out of the rip current and then you can make your way back to the shore in the waves. If you can't do that, just stay afloat, yell for help, and uh if you're not comfortable swimming out of a rip current and getting your way back to the shore, swim where there's a lifeguard. If you don't
swim where there's a lifeguard, you're on your own and nobody's coming to help you. Um we've had uh it was last year down at the Jersey Shore, there were a couple of people that were caught in the rip currents and by the time that uh Surf Rescue got out there from Surf Side, uh they were gone. There was
nothing that anybody could do. So, if you're not comfortable swimming, swim near a lifeguard where someone can come help you immediately. Uh, heat exhaustion. It's incredibly hot. This summer is hotter than uh most of our recent summers have been. So, I
want to explain the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. For the most part, it doesn't matter. If somebody's outside in the heat and they're having some sort of emergency, you can take them inside, but feel free to call 911. we will be happy to come out and at a bare minimum evaluate and tell you whether or not this person is
having a major medical emergency. The most important symptom that will show you the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke is the person's sweating just stops. Their skin will start to look waxy. They have run out of moisture to perspirate. So, they
are in a very bad way. Uh they need medical attention. They need IV fluids. They need to get to a hospital. Heat exhaustion. When somebody's hot, flush, sweating, they may start to get altered a little bit, not really know where they are, they can start to get um nauseous
and start vomiting. Those people, you need to get them into cool environments. Let them sip water. You don't want to have them start chugging water down, especially with the nausea. They'll start vomiting, and the vomiting makes you more dehydrated, which exacerbates your heat emergency. So, sip water, sit
in the cold, cool off. It's a gradual process. You're not going to bring somebody back from heat exhaustion in 10 minutes. It takes some time. Uh so uh but always remember if you in any doubt at all, call 911. We'll come out and check you up.
Fireworks, the bane of my existence as a fire marshal. Uh fireworks are legal in New Jersey. Now the um caveat to that is no aerial fireworks are allowed. If it leaves the
ground and explodes, it's not allowed. If it straight up explodes, meaning firecrackers, M80s, Roman candles, none of those things are allowed. Sparklers, ground fountains, uh ground displays, those are allowed.
Uh couple of general fireworks uh advice. Number one, don't buy them, don't use them, go to a professional show. That's the my official thing as a fire marshal. That being said, I know nobody's going to listen to me. So, moving on. Um, make sure that you're a sober, responsible
adult who is igniting and using the fireworks. Make sure that they are in a safe place where no one is going to interact with them. Have some sort of safety contingency plan. What happens if this goes wrong? If my fountain sparkler tips over and starts short shooting
towards my audience, if it I light it and it doesn't go off, what am I gonna do? Uh, have a contingency. personally have a garden hose and a 5gallon bucket full of water. Spray it down with the hose and then put it in the bucket of water. Just leave it there, let it be
saturated for a couple of days, then throw it away. Um I we have had more accidents because of fireworks in the state of New Jersey since they've been legalized than in the 15 years prior to that. Um the most common cause of the the injuries now are actually from
sparklers. So, sparklers seem really really um mundane. They seem easy. You can give them to the kids. It's just going to sparkle. That metal is melting at over 1,800°. So, all it takes is one touch and you're going to have a full thickness or
thirdderee burn wherever you touch that thing. So, please, please, please be careful with fireworks. Um I think this might be the last one that I I I was given 10 or 15 minutes. I'm trying to keep it going here. So, um, lightning safety. We are having a
lot of thunderstorms, a lot of lightning. Uh, if you know that lightning is coming, have a plan. Plan to be inside. Don't be outside. Um, try and stay in your car. If you are outside and unable to get to some sort of shelter, find a low-lying area. If
you're on a, you know, say a soccer field in the middle of a park, something like that, find the lowest area you can. Get as low to the ground as you possibly can, and try not to present a target to the lightning. Um, if you take a take shelter and go inside, do not go back out until 30 minutes after the last time that you hear the lightning. That's the
National Weather Service recommendation for how long you should wait for it to be safe after a lightning storm. Um, one thing I did want to bring up because I have had a several questions about this is, uh, what if I'm out driving down a road and there's a thunderstorm and a
telephone pole comes down and power lines land on top of my car? Stay in your car. Do not get out of the car. If for some reason you have to get out, which the only reason I can think of would be the car is on fire or some other horrible thing is coming your
direction that's going to be worse than getting electrocuted. If that's the case, jump from your car. Try not to touch your car and the ground at the same time. Electricity is always going to try and take the path of least resistance. Do not be that path. Let it
go through the car. Um, but jump as far away from it as you can. But if you have any doubt, just stay in the car. If you're safe and you can sit in there for a few minutes, just stay in the car. And uh we'll come. We work with PSEG and
JCPNL. Uh they do I know that JCPNL and PSEG have their limitations about restoring power but uh knockwood every time that we've called them with some sort of emergency where we had a a wire on a car or on a vehicle they have been there within minutes. So there's always
a crew somewhere around that will come and help us. You you don't have to wait long. Just stay in the car. Um the last thing I don't have a slide for it but I did want to talk about this pool safety. Uh pools are one of the leading causes
of death for infants and toddlers. The biggest always always if you're missing a kid, check the water first. If you have a pool, check the water first. Get them out of the pool as quickly as possible. Uh we have unfortunately had a couple of
drownings here in West Windsor from of children that drowned in a pool and the two that I have been on were at house parties where there were 100 people at the house. Everybody always assumes someone else is watching the kid. So if
it's your kid, make sure that you know who is watching them, who's responsible for them. Even if you're at a party with a bunch of a bunch of people, everybody already assumes that it's someone else who's going to be responsible. So, uh, watch your kids. Keep them away from the
pool unless they know how to swim. Get your kids swim lessons as early as you possibly can. If they don't know how to swim, get them some sort of flotation device so that they can swim in the pool. Uh, strongly recommend that everybody take a CPR class. Uh, they're
easy. It's available to everyone. And uh the the more quickly that a drowning victim gets CPR, the more likely they are to survive. So get them out of the water. Anyone who knows CPR, get them CPR as quickly as possible. I think that was
basically all I had. If anybody has any questions or any other topics they'd like to talk about, I'll be happy to do so. council. Um I know u from friends on our our block um they they had a pool when the kids were young they in they would have
parties and it's the adults and the kids they're all everybody's having a fun but they did hire a lifeguard smart and I think that was very very good thing to do because it's always that one second you turn your back you get distracted with something and then a
tragedy occurs because everybody's looking all over and they're you know kids are bouncing the balls roll over and and doesn't take long at all. No, no, not not at all. Um, no CPR courses are do we have a schedule for
residents if they wanted to take it? We don't offer the courses to residents anymore. We had a a a retirement outflux of our CPR instructors. So, um, American Red Cross, Princeton Occupational Health, the Mercer County College continuing education system, they all
offer CPR course courses. If anybody would like help finding a course, they can reach out to me or anyone in my office and we will be happy to get them courses. We are actively working on getting instructors back, but it takes some time. So, uh, when we do, we can offer courses to the public as well.
That's not a problem, but Good. Well, that's good. I mean, is there a way in our municipal website to post some of that information? Sure. Yeah, I I can work with the administration people. Yeah. Right. Right. And also, you mentioned about thunderstorms, downed wires and all. I think we recently had that occur
where there was wires on top of somebody's car in town. We've had that twice in the last couple of months. Once with a car and once with a dump truck. Yeah. Inside. They should stay inside. Yes. Um cell phones. Can they use a cell phone? Yes, absolutely. You can use your cell phone. Call for help. Let us know, you
know, when you contact the dispatchers, let them know, I'm in my car. I think there's a wire on top of it and I can't get out. that will help us to expedite the right people coming to help us get you out of the car. So, um, use your cell phone. Absolutely. And make sure that everybody that you can talk to
knows what's going on, right? And just stay in the car. Again, stay in the car. You out there live or not live. Why? You just don't risk that. And you're going to hear me or one of my people yelling at with you bull with yelling at you with a bullhorn from as far away as it can. Stay in your car.
We'll come get you in a minute. Yeah. So, charred cell phone. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Everything, as long as you remain in your car and everything's still working, you should be fine. Uh, but granted, I'm not an electrician, so take that with grain.
Is there anything you shouldn't touch the ground? Well, I mean, if you're in other than that, I don't I don't think so. Nothing that I've ever heard of, but uh the all of the electrician electrocutions that I've ever heard of from a motor vehicle accident like that are when someone leaves the car because
the wheels on the car act as an insulator. So the power is generally usually stuck in the vehicle. So when you step out and you bridge that connection from your car to the ground, the electricity then travels through you to the ground. So you do not want to be
in contact with the ground and your car at the same time. if there's a wire sitting on top of it. We also encourage everyone to sign up for the Nixel alerts. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that up. Yes, sign up for the Nixel alerts. Uh they are automatically
set up that you will receive any National Weather Service emergency alert uh for West Windsor Township. So, if you don't get that through a push notification on your cell phone, we'll send it to you. We also give updates on road closures, when they're open, if there's any areas of town that are flooded or where to stay away from. And
uh in the emer event that we do have uh widespread power outages, we do open heating and cooling centers. We can offer water and ice to people who are without power. All of the information about the distribution of that, where those centers are. Everything gets sent out by the NIXLE. So, um strongly
recommend every resident in town sign up for the NIXLE. That's the best way to get the most up-to-date information. Thank you. And one other quick question. Is there any need in any areas of town for uh like a a fire alarm alarm system to go off?
You mean like a public addressing alarm system? Well, just any something whatever. I mean the Nixel alerts, but if someone turns off their cell phone or cell phone dies, they lose power, there's let's say there's like flooding that would be occurring. Is there some sort of warning
siren or anything like that that would I had never thought about that before, but I will I actually I had reached out to Carrie a week ago that we need to have discussions about our alerting alerting and warning system. So, we'll add that to the discussion about how we're going to notify people. It's
always a constant battle of what's the best way to, you know, we can advertise the Nixel all we want, but you know, there there's some people we we have to find better ways to get the communication out there. So, we're we're trying actively to find new ways to make sure we get the right information to the right people all the time.
There's always those tornado warnings that they put out Midwest that they with the sirens. Yeah. Uh with Well, history, we used to have that here in town. Both fire companies, Prince Junction and West Windsor, used to have alerting sirens on the stations uh for
the communities and those would be used for that that was the call and the volunteers. Yeah. That wasn't the only thing. Those were also the the problem was that it wasn't a very effective community warning because everybody just assumed that it was a fire or an EMS call. So, uh yeah, perfect example. Hope Township,
they had them as well. They also used them for as an escape siren for the prison. And uh the one time they had someone escape, they alerted the sirens and everybody in the community just kept calling 911 to turn the siren off. So, uh it only works if people understand the alert, too. So
any other Thank you so much. May anything? Yeah. Uh thanks again. I mean a couple of comments. First Thanksgiving. Um it's deceptively quiet inside. When you go out, I don't know how the weather is as he will uh as he mentioned at the
beginning. Every town around us is in worse shape. We locked out. Uh so when you so far so when you go out especially the young kids, be very careful. Uh couple of things. If you see a wire down, even if you're not in the car,
don't approach it. You don't know whether it's live or not. Just let the professionals do their job. As he said, if you are in the car, the rubber is good insulator. You're all four tires are rubber. You are safe. You can sit there whole day. Nothing is going to happen to you. Um and then last thing is
even with little water, you may not die. You may not get swept, but your your car engine will die if you drive in it. I don't know how many cars in front of Linda's house have seized because the water looks deceptively very little and
the cars enters there and that's it. And I I'd just like to add something to that that you driving into the water and abandoning your car is dangerous for me and my staff. Michael Kenwood was an EMT in Princeton who died in 2011 searching an abandoned car in Floodwaters after
Hurricane Irene and he got swept away and they didn't know that the vehicle was abandoned. It was just empty in the water and they went to check it. So, you know, you driving into the water and walking away is still not safe for everyone. So, just don't drive in the water. Yeah. So I mean it's deceptively looks
very little outside or there's a dip in the road and so many cars have been totaled in last 30 years every flood that happens. So again thank you and hopefully you will get rest of the night off and you don't have to worry. Yeah, I remember that. And just one other comment. If it stops raining, it
looks great, rainbows are out, sunny, that doesn't mean that the rivers have crested. Correct. The water's still coming. The water is still coming from up there to Milstone, and it's still coming down. And it's between that and the um uh it's
and and the uh high uh water level, you may wind up with a flood six hours later or something. So, uh, always keep keep aware of all that's going on. Real quick, Texas is a great example of that. Everybody's seen all the videos floating around in the news and on
social media of, oh, look, here comes this wall of water. And none of those videos was it raining and then all of a sudden here comes tons of water to wipe everybody away. So, yeah. And most of our floods are because of what's going on upstream. So, thank you very, very much. I think this was
very good. Um, we're planning on taking this slides, putting it on and perhaps we can get a um piece of the YouTube and we can offer the slides and the YouTube presentation and I think that Yeah, I think that would be nice for everybody and then um put it on the website and
then we can um put you know push people to watch it who haven't been here. Great. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, now we're going to go into the public comment portion. Allison, did you want to say anything?
Yes. Who has a list? Um, public comment. There's a 30 minute p comment period. There's a three limit um per person and the comments are individuals. So, please state your name and uh address. There is
a list. So, whoever put their name on the list will get to go first. Do you have a Sugi? So, please state your name and address. Of course. Hi, my name is Sugi. I live at 23 Jinny Lane in West Windsor and I'm a rising senior at WWP High School
North. So, I've lived in West Windsor for a very long time. very much appreciate this town. And I'm the director for a local student organization along with my other members here called the Sunrise Movement. And basically what we do is focus on local environmental issues. So one of our more
longunning campaigns has been centered on recycling regulation, educating residents about what to put in and what not to put in because we know that's something that can be very confusing and we want to make sure that their effort doesn't go to waste. But recently, we've also been focusing on making West
Windsor more a more walkable city. I know when I moved here, my parents didn't own a car, and we soon realized that it's not feasible to live in West Windsor, any sort of neighboring town, without having a vehicle. So, that problem was resolved quickly. But, as we know, with greenhouse gas emissions
going up and more people just generally wanting to walk around the neighborhood, we've noticed that a lot of residents have complained about the lack of sidewalks in some roads. But I know that it's gotten better since I've lived here, including with the recent great investment that this council promised to make for Cranberry Road and the building
of sidewalks along that road. Now, in working to increase the walkability of West Windsor, we partnered with the WWBPA to seek their advice and sort of the next steps that we can take. And of course, they were the ones that
spearheaded this Cranberry Road project. But a shared concern that we have with the WWBPA is the fact that we haven't really seen any sort of contract or RFP being made to start construction on a sidewalk between Vaness Park and the
Triline Trail. And as we know, Cranberry Road as a whole is incredibly important for residents to go to the train station or even for kids to go between their neighbors houses without the possibility of being involved in a fatal accident. from the cars that may be speeding down
that road. So, we'd greatly appreciate both us and the WWBPA if the council could share any sort of plans that they have for that contract for that road specifically to fill in the sidewalk gaps and any sort of future construction
plans to ensure that this again great investment is executed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I have a another one. Saha. Hi, my name is Sahana Vivu. I am also a rising high school senior at WWP High
School North. I'm also a part of Sunrise Movement. I'm one of the um members of the chapter and I wanted to also talk about um sidewalk extension programs. As Sigi previously mentioned, Cranberry Road is one of the sidewalk extension
programs that has already been at works. And um we wanted to talk about Milstone Road, which is a very popular road amongst a lot of students at High School North and middle school students as well. Um there are a lot of um popular places like Wuri Mar and Mango Mango,
places that we love to go to, me and fellow students. And one of the main issues is that there isn't proper sidewalk infrastructure to support us walking there. And because we are um supporting walkable infrastructure, I we believe that it's important to um
construct these sidewalks along these areas. One of the main um issues in along these roads is that there's a lot of speeding going on there. So, not only is this an issue of um helping us students, but also increasing safety in these areas. And so constructing
sidewalks would benefit that. And while we were doing our research, we saw that there was bud budget allocation for annual sidewalk extension programs around 200,000 I believe. And we were just wondering what sort of budget all what this budget allocation would be
going towards, what future and current plans there are for sidewalk extensions because this is a very important safety concern and also generally a concern for students who just want to walk um to their favorite places. Thank you. Next.
Okay. Anybody else would like to come up for a public comment? Good evening. John Church, you live in Princeton Place. I appreciated the presentation by my good friend Dr. Books and I'll look forward to reading the summary that's out on the in the lobby. Uh just wanted to say one thing about
the zoning board. I've been a member of the zoning board for 10 years. when a vacancy does come up, I would encourage people who want to be on the board to come to some of our meetings ahead of time and and learn how the process works and see us in action. I think that's
that's essential. I mean, that that's actually what I did. I went to meetings a couple of years before I applied for membership and I it it was very helpful and because it's not a it's not a simple operation. It's complex, lots of rules and regulations. So, I would by all
means I would encourage anyone who wants to uh to to apply for that when there is a vacancy. Uh, moving on. Uh, I appreciate the fact that the township did replace those signs about engine breaking and now the signs have now been
correctly spelled. So, visitors may think now that maybe we can spell after all. So, thank you for taking care of that. Uh, maybe the mayor would want to comment on Avalon Bay. The back exit still isn't open. the Bond drive exit. Uh I've been hearing for quite a while
that it would open because that's needed in case of an emergency for police to get in, fire get in, and for people to get out, but it's still blocked off by big concrete blocks. So, I would hope to see that that exit gets open soon because it is it really is needed. Uh
finally, on the subject of lightning storms, I had an interesting experience of my own many years ago driving through Nevada by myself. A huge thunderstorm came up. Lightning was hitting the car just at like 10 or 15 yards away from me. Scared me to death. But then I
remembered from my boy scout years. They said if if this happens, do not ever get out of the car because there are rubber tires and that serves as an insulation. I was really panicked. I thought I got to get out of the car and get to a ditch or something. I would have been dead meat. So you stay in the car. The advice
to do that is is absolutely correct. Okay. Anyway, that's what I have for now. So, thank you for your attention. Thank you. Does anybody else wish to speak to me? Hello. Uh, my name is Rohit Shua Jane. I live at 1692 Old Trenton Road. So, thank
you so much uh for my junior workshop here and it seems my lucky day because I'm here for the same request. I came in touch during the farmers market on a Saturday with S Sylvia who
works for WWBPA and I am representing myself number one. I am a runner, avid runner, recreational I would say and I'm representing all the bikers and running community within West
Windsor, Robbinsville and Mercer County. I really enjoy my place and I've been here for 10 years, 5 years as an empty neester paying taxes. Just wanted to remind you. So, what I would love to see
is a sidewalk at the old Trenton Road. And I see you have a uh 2025 R158 which is an approval to submit a grant application to New Jersey Department of Transportation for bike 2026 Edinburg
Road bikeway connector. So I hope this goes from the old Trenton road because point is my house is located just at the junction of Robinsville, Edinburg and Old Trenton and I have seen numerous
accidents and I actually feel heart I I I heart my neighbors and the courage. Uh there's a Chabad family who walks every Saturday because they have to get to the Chabad house. you know the uh these for
the Saturday prayers and they have to go through our lawn. I don't have a problem with that. But the whole thing is they do get off on the road and there are no sidewalks and old Tenton Road. Thanks for bringing the speed limit down.
Firstly, I would also that is my second request is from my house just before the immersy the speed limit is still reading 45. So immediately after that signal people race at 60. We all know that and
I am a culprit myself that people drive tend to drive 10 over the limit specified. So I would request the council if we can bring that down to 35 because there are children who go to schools next in my neighborhood. I'm an
empty neester but I see all of them. And so getting that walkway like the kids said yeah out here. I'm sorry I'm using that terminology generally, but I'm grateful you brought that up because having that walkway would help a lot of
bikers and runners getting to Mercer County if we could connect the east entrance to the west entrance. And if the council needs any help for convincing all the neighbors, I would
gladly like to do that. So that is my request over here. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else wish to speak? Oh, if you could sign in on the sign-in sheet when you get a chance for the record.
We we need the spelling of the names. Um, okay. If nobody else wants to speak, I will close public comments at this point. And mayor, can you address some of the questions? Yeah. Yeah. I have few comments uh that Marina would generally make, but before
that I will answer. Yeah. Can we if we could do the questions in case the anybody wants to leave? Thank you. I let him finish signing up. So, um the young ladies wanted to know about the sidewalk extension program including
I think one of the ones in the budget when that's going to start. So, um people will people at the desk will tell you I have hearing issues. So if I didn't hear or mis misrepresent or
misunderstood your comments, I apologize. Um sir, the R 158 that is only between east entrance of Mercer County Park and the intersection of Old Trenton Road and that's a grant
application. That's the that's the phase if we get awarded that that we would build between east entrance and the old Trenton road. Um, in general, building a sidewalk is a very, very tough project. Everybody other than the homeowner whose
house it goes in front of wants it. The homeowner doesn't want it because they don't want to clean the snow. It becomes their responsibility once we uh the Cranberry Road sidewalks. I don't know how long it it took uh started in May
10 years I may time and now it's moving forward. But sidewalk construction even if everybody agrees is a very very long-term project. So even if you build it mostly it won't help you. You will be past college by the time any side work
is done. That's the reality. Uh Milstone Road is a very tough challenge. We did try to lower the speed limit on that road but people drive very fast and unfortunately the law says that you can only lower the speed limit to 85% of the
average speed in that on that road. So even after spending money to do the study um uh we couldn't lower the speed limit because I have a lot of friends who live along that road and they tell me how fast um how how fast people drive
and that's what happens when the houses turn over. Younger families come with younger kids and their issues become more uh more dire. Um the sidewalk on Milstone Road, it ends on our boundary. There has to be a sidewalk on the other side that a Plainsboro is willing to
build. We generally generally hate build a sidewalk to nowhere. We will not build a sidewalk and just let leave it hanging. Uh so that road to be very honest is much tougher than any other road to deal with the sidewalk and I'm
not sure exactly between Vanes Park and and the trolley line trail that has been approved. I mean somebody is working on the design of that sidewalk. So um that will happen. I don't know when money has been allocated in the budget. So it's a
matter of designing that sidewalk and hopefully hopefully there are only very few people uh from whom we need to get the u get the easement and we have already talked to them. But when it's time to actually build it, it takes much
longer than anybody expects, you or me, because they like to do some things, we can't do certain things and all that thing. But that sidewalk will be done hopefully in my uh while I'm still mayor. So um that's the comments and sidewalk. So thank you for coming. Thank
you for advocating. We try to do as much as we can. Um and the money in the money in the budget you refer to I think that are to mainly to fix the sidewalks that are uprooted by the tree. Although it's not legally township's require
responsibility it has always been the practice since the previous mayor and I have continued that if the your the slab in front of your house is uprooted by a street tree uh we will replace it. I I think they were talking about the extension program,
not the not the replacement. The the ones you were talking about like the um the one over in uh Cranberry. Oh, that that money that's a separate money that has been allocated. Yeah, that I said already. But there's also a money $175,000 or something. I don't
remember what. It should be in the bond ordinance that you are going to introduce tonight. That's for the the sidewalk uh replacement program. Uh and the other thing that you might want to look at um is uh there's a plan in place
to uh make contiguous sidewalks on uh Princeton Heightstown Road. So that's going to help more of the kids who get to go to South. Uh but eventually there'll be a contiguous sidewalks on both sides from um High School South up
until um where Clark not Clarksville um Cranberry Cranberry Cranberry Road and Wallace is on that corner there. So that will that will take it past all the new stores and all the new places on
both the um Rury and the other side. So that so that's coming a little that the county is actually doing the work on that. We've um our staff has helped a lot with that. Um and hopefully that will be starting within the next year. I'd say
they were supposed to meet it out this summer. They didn't do it. So hopefully early next year. That has been in uh they're going to do it in two phases. First between Cranberry and uh Alexander and then between Alexander and Clarksville. That whole 571 will become
a threelane road with the turning lane. And I forgot to address your comment about the speed limit on Old Tenton Road. That will be done. The county is doing a study on the entire Old Trenton road from Hamilton border up to East Winsa border and they will do several
improvements on that road. Won't happen overnight, but they are taking it very seriously. They will lower the speed limit. So they may will they be adding any sidewalks on that road? No. The county doesn't build sidewalks. County won't pay for sidewalk. So any sidewalk if we have to build we have to
pay for houses. County has never paid for sidewalk. Okay. Um and Mr. Church had a question about that Avalon vo drive coming out of the back of Avalon there. One of these days I've promised you one
of these days it will open. They have to make sure everything is fine. I as I told you I before they closed it I drove it myself. It works. I have driven over it myself. Uh but it will it will they need a they need a co soon. So it will
open. I have promised you it will open and trust me it works. I've driven it. So Okay. I have other four other comments that Marina would generally do. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Go ahead. Uh so thanks. Uh so the
Westminster uh Leo Club um is conducting a a drive to collect uh or used gently used shoes for souls for souls. Um therefore three locations where you can drop the uh shoes off till July 27, 2025
either at the municipal building, at the senior center or the police department. So hope um if you want to get rid of your shoes and don't want to throw in garbage, they're usable. Please do donate them. Um, DPW is currently in zone 2. Hopefully, they won't be
distracted by whatever happens tonight, but if you're in zone one, don't put the leaves. Don't put any garbage out uh at this point. Um, I also want to thank the county for uh applying for a grant that
give uh buses for use by seniors for many townships in West Windsor. So now last year they were very kind to lend us a bus to use because our old bus wasn't working. This bus is permanent. This bus is brand new with almost zero mileage.
So hopefully it will last for a very very long time and we learned from the last storm. We don't park it under the tree. So uh uh so hopefully it will last us for a very very long time. And I want to thank uh uh Benson and all the county
commissioners for u thinking of us and giving us uh getting us that bus um at no cost to the taxpayers. And lastly uh the couple of kids Arjun and Rowan Kana who have been running Alex Lemonade stand for at least last 11 years. They
will be hosting their lemonade stand on Sun Sunday, August 10th. Um um at 7 Haskell Drive between 11:00 a.m. and 2 p.m. I hope you stop by and encourage them. And I'm really impressed by their commitments. Most of the kids don't they
do it for a few years and then uh they get tired of it. These kids have been doing it since uh for past 11 years since they were kids. Now they are in high school. So again hope uh you can join them. from August 10th, 7L drive between 11 and 2. Thank you.
Thank you. Curry, did you have anything to add? No, nothing to add. Okay, then we can move on to council member comments. Dan, did you have something? I just wanted to thank everybody for making their comments today. It's really important for us to hear from you and uh
this is a great mechanism to do that. You could also email us. Um it's another way to to communicate your needs. Um, as the mayor said, you know, sidewalks are a complex issue that take a long time, but, um,
the future generations here are going to thank the people today for the work they're doing now. So, um, keep up the advocacy. Um, we do hear you. Thank you. Thank you, Linda. And I'd just like to say to our rising seniors, uh, it's exciting year, your senior year, and I'm
sure figuring out which colleges you're going to be applying to. So, all the best with that. Um, I I would be glad if if you wanted to sit down with you and we have a budget books, the municipal operating um budget and the capital budget, which we are introducing the
capital budget tonight. It's about this thick, the binder, but we can get through it, you know, pretty quickly. Um, so I I can show you the different programs. Um, has has some pictures in it. Uh, what we're planning for for the for the upcoming year. It's not every
single exact project, but it's, you know, it's funding for various projects. So, um, and also talk about, you know, the process for the budget and the timing and and that might be helpful to learn whether it's this township or somewhere else in in the future. It's
it's um, you know, often a consistent type of process. So, so, um, if you want to meet, just just contact me. You can call me or send me an email. Okay. Um, Andrea and I will be, uh, holding open
house, uh, office hours from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in room B here in the municipal building on Thursday, July 24th. So, if there's anything that is on your mind, um, please come out and and, uh, join us. We'll be happy to talk with
you. Uh, mayor already uh mentioned Alex's lemonade stand. So, that that is um a lot of fun. A lot of people in town, especially with younger children, come, they see the fire trucks, the emergency vehicles. Um, so they they get a little tour, sometimes they can jump
in the trucks and all. So, that that's a lot of fun and certainly uh a worthy cause because the money um goes to pediatric cancer research. Uh as we talked a lot about uh commissions and boards, there is uh two openings on a shade tree commission in case anyone's
interested. And again, fill out those volunteer forms and and that starts the process. Okay, that's it. Okay. I'd also like to thank everyone who came to talk about sidewalks. Um if you've watched any of the budget meetings for the last few years, you'll
know that that's been a very very high priority item for uh administration and for the council. We've been putting in more money. We've been working with the county where necessary. Um, one of the things I think I had mentioned to the
ladies and to and that the mayor mentioned is that when we want to put a sidewalk in new places, that involves going to each particular property owner and convincing them that this is a good thing to do. Um, I think it took years
and years for Cranberry Road because of that. And um if you student if you're still here or you're coming back and that kind of of uh discussion or or um talking to to people is needed, you
might want to help with with that. um for the um for the 571 sidewalks, even though it was county. Uh Sonia Gowas and I went up and down 571 and stopped at various uh uh homeowners
and tried to get them to come in to to make deals. We did get a number of people to come in to make a deal. each each one is an individual um contract and an individual ordinance in order to pay people for whatever they may be losing in property. It's it's a very
painstaking uh and time consuming, but it's very worthwhile because once you do that, you get a sidewalk. And there's other small things like for instance, we're redoing Lwan Boulevard. Um we're re resurfacing and at the same time there was a spot on
Ron right off of Lan and um Edinburg where the sidewalk ends on one side, ends on the other side, but there was no crosswalk or any way to actually get across it. So, it's not really contiguous. And the design um based on
council request um when that was redone, that's actually being done with a crosswalk section in there now. So, we will have a continuous way to walk along there. So, as as we redo things and as we look at new projects, we're always looking to
improve that. Um, as Linda mentioned, we will be having a um little openhouse talk with the uh council for a couple hours on um the 24th. So, everybody's invited to that. August 5th, which is
also before our next meeting is National Night Out, which is held by the police department. Um and on August 10th, there is Alex's lemonade stand. And I wore the t-shirt today just to um give a give the the free ad for Alex and the lemonade
stand. I uh those kids are very very uh dedicated. I've seen them every year out there in the sun and and uh each year they've collected more thousands of dollars than you would imagine you could get from from Lemonade. So, um they do a
terrific job. And um that's all I've got for council comments. Allison, do you have clerk comments? I do. Um, just want to remind everybody that the candidate petition request forms are available in the clerk's office um or are on our website on the
election page for mayor and the two council positions that are going to be on the ballot this year for the November 4th general election. Uh just a reminder, the petitions are due back to the clerk's office no later than August 21st at 400 p.m. sharp. Um, if you have
any questions, please contact the clerk's office or see our election page on the township website. And that's it. Thank you. There are no public hearings, so let's move on to the consent agenda. And we have bills and claims.
That's it. Can I get Anybody want me to pull anything out of the bulls and claims first? Can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. Okay. Roll call, please. Gawas. Jivers. Yes. Weiss. Yes.
Whitfield. And yes. Okay. And recommendations from administration. Council clerk. Okay. 2025-R1 153 authorizing the refund of property tax overpayment. 2025-R154
approval of the persontoerson transfer of plenary retail consumption license 1113-33-00003-011 from TGI Fridays Inc. to BLG West Windsor LLC 2025-R155 approving the submission of a hazardous
discharge site remediation fund grant application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 2025-R156 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation under the municipal aid
category MA-2026- Southpost Roads Reservicing 005. 523 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. 2025-R157
approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the MA 2026 Southfield Road reconstruction 00510 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system
2025-R158 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the bike 2026 ED Edinburg Road bikeway connector 00041 project and authorizing the mayor and
clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system 2025-R159 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the TV 2026 West Windsor Township Wallace Road Park and
Parking 000015 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agree agreement through the PMRS system 2025-R160 approval to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of
Transportation for the SST206 Wallace Road sidewalk reconstruction 00052 project and authorizing the mayor and clerk to execute the electronic grant agreement through the PMRS system. 2025-R161
authorizing the mayor to execute a services agreement with visual computer solutions inc jobs for blue for the coordination scheduling billing and payment processing of offduty duty police employment of police officers.
Does anybody wish anything pulled? No. Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve? It's a motion to approve 2025-R1 153 through 2025-R1 161.
Second. Roll call, please. Gwas Jvers, yes. Weiss, yes. Whitfield Mandel, yes. Thank you. And we have introduction of ordinances 2025-10 bond ordinance providing for various
capital improvements in and by the township of West Windsor in the county of Mercer, New Jersey, appropriating 11,579,962 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 10,561,000 bonds or notes to the township to
finance part of the cost thereof. We get a motion to introduce motion. Second. Okay. Gawas Gvers. Yes. Weiss. Yes. Whitfield Indel. Yes.
Okay. Public hearing will be August 11th, 2025. 2025-11 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 $455,000. Motion to introduce Motion to introduce 2025-11. Second. Gawas Jvers. Yes.
Weiss. Yes. Whitfield Mandela. Yes. Public hearing will be August 11th, 2025. Okay. And now we have additional second public comment period. Same rules as before. It's a 15-minute maximum. 3
minutes per person. If anybody wishes to come up and give their name and address for the second public comment period. Seeing none, I will close the second public comment period and we'll go to
council reports and discussions. Um, Linda, uh, yeah, I attended um for Sonia uh the July 9th West Windsor Parking Authority meeting. The parking authority is looking at buying additional security cameras in an effort to cover almost all
areas of the various lots. Abalon has agreed uh to allowing the parking authority to put cameras on top of their residential buildings which face the train tracks. As for the redevelopment of the old bus depot property on Wallace Road by Route 571, uh the parking
authority hopes that in August there will be bid openings for the oil tank removal and a demolition of the building uh that currently exists there. If that occurs, then work would begin in the fall and may be completed in May of next
year. Uh the parking authority expresses their thanks for the passage of resolutions um for various grants. Uh the Alexander Basin was uh cleared out and repairs completed while water was getting backed up uh in this area. The
Sha Tree Commission meets next on Wednesday, July 23rd at 6:30 p.m. in room B. Thank you, Tan. Uh, neither the parks or wreck or report of ed met since their last meeting, so no updates.
Thank you. Uh, environmental commission met and I think you've um we're working on sustainable Jersey. I think you heard a lot about that today and uh the final submission um is going to be on July 31st.
So hopefully that goes well. Thank you. Any additional administration updates at this point? No. Allison? No. Okay. We have no closed session. So, if no one has anything more, I entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second.
All in favor? I. Okay. Thank you. We are adjourned. Hey, thank you for everybody that