we don't do that for again no to call the regular meeting order is now 7:00 requirement of the Sunshine Law have been met this meeting was advertised in Bron County Times on January 7 20124 electronic notice was given uh pursuant to the njac 5on 39- 1.5 we will now wait on the pleasure Allegiance for special special member our principle that stolen our heart come on May on our heart it's right here see for you I'm glad you're here well sit down you ready huh you sure yeah to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic it stands one nation god with liberty and justice for all you will now have a moment of silence R call committee woman president committee man Carr president committee woman president committee woman right mayor Henley pres also president Township solicitor Township administrator clerk police chief and Fire EMS Chief we will now read the proclamation for Martin Luther King Day Jr Martin Luther King Jr Day excuse me whereas Dr King Dr Martin Luther King devoted his life in advance in equality social justice and the opportunity for All In challenged all Americans to participate in the never-ending work of building a more perfect union and whereas Dr King's teachings can continue to guide and Inspire Us in addressing challenges in our community and whereas the King holiday and Service Act enact enacted in 1994 designated the King holiday as a national day of volunteer service and challenged the corporation of n of national and community service with lending the effort and whereas since 1994 millions of Americans have been inspired by the life and work of Dr Martin Luther King Jr to serve their neighbors and communities on the King holiday and whereas serving on the King holiday is appropriate is an appropriate way to honor Dr King meet local and National needs bring our citizens together and strengthen our communities and nation and whereas The King The King Day of Service is the only federal holiday commemorated as a national day of service and offers an opportunity for Americans to give back to their communities on the holiday and make an ongoing commitment to service throughout the year and where as King holiday of service projects projects are being organized by a wide range of nonprofi and Community organizations educational institutions public agencies private businesses and organizations Across the Nation and now therefore the Westampton Community the West Hampton Township committee does hereby Proclaim Monday January 15 2024 as Martin Luther King Jr day and com commend its observation through participation in the Day of Service approval of minutes December 19th 2023 executive session minutes so Mo Berkeley second any discussion roll call Berkeley yes car yes yes mayor Henley yes motion carries score zero December 19th 20 2023 regular meeting minutes motion second any discussion like to clarify something mayor I know that we don't have a transcript of what happened um but when I was looking at the minutes uh I had talked about the new uh handbook and the procedure in the cell phones uh I want to make it clear I was not I was not recommending that we buy cell phones for all the employees that would be a huge expense but what I was saying is that we have several several employees especially Public Works uh fire police uh EMTs that do not work at Recreation that do not work in the building and use their their cell phones we are very fortunate they're willing to use their cell phones when they need to get information and do things so my recommendation was that we look at that and allow people when they need to do business based on their job and not just person any kind of thing that personally yes we can cut that down but if it relates to their job they should be able to use their cell phones and that was my point not to um buy cell phones for everybody we can't take it also the same with marijuana yes it's true that I said we we don't need to have anybody working when they're high on marijuana or at the drugs but my point also was there are ways of uh testing that we need to be careful of you could test someone's hair and the marijuana they had 3 or four weeks ago would still be test positive in their hair uh blood is is longer they could they could be very much working and not be under the influence but come up with a positive test if we don't carefully go through how we test them and we need to be fair and that just when to clarify what I meant by those things does they designate how we test them or no excuse me does it designate how we test it roll call berley yes car yes yes mayor Henley yes motion carries 40 January 2nd 2024 reorganization meeting minutes we have a motion make a motion second any discussion Roll Call Berkley yes car yes hungo yes mayor Henley yes Carri 4 Z monthly reports we have construction police public words Court Fire EMS and tax collector we will now open the meeting for public commment and agenda items only please remember to state your name and address for the record and remember this is for comment only all in favor to close hi I I ordinances first reading 1- 2024 an ordinance amending chapter 250 of the Township Code of Westampton zoning fa have a motion I make a motion to amend chapter 250 of the Township Code second any discussion roll call Berkeley yes bar yes yes mayor Henley yes motion carries for Z 2 d224 an ordinance of the township of West Hampton to fix the salaries wages and compensation of certain officials and employees of the township of West Hampton for the years of 2024 to 2025 do we have a motion motion second any discussion yes um I'm glad we're getting these now so if we need to amend something we don't have to go back and have a first reading again uh if our clerk slash administrator has the numbers uh I noticed that the assistant tax collector which is in the union is not in here it's a new job it's probably easy to forget to put that in but because we get audited on this um I would like to amend to add that but I'm not sure if we have the numbers for that tonight I would hate to put it on and not be able to pass it there's no one in the building that holds that title assistant tax collector yes ma'am I thought we had been told that no okay we will talk about that later thank you roll call Berkeley yes car yes Fungo yes mayor Henley yes motion carries 4 Z resolutions 20 I mean 2025 d24 payment of vouchers this resolution approves the payment of bills through 1116 2024 we have a motion say move second any discussion nope roll call Berkeley yes car yeso yes mayor Henley yes motion carries for zero consent agenda items are well consent agenda resolutions consent agenda items are considered to be routine and will be enacted with a single motion any items requiring expenditure are supported by a certification of availability of funds any items requiring discussion will be removed from the consent agenda is there anything that we wish to remove or anyone wishes to remove Mr Mayor yes I'd like to remove 26-24 I make a motion to approve 2427 through 33 have second to motion I'm sorry on any discussion roll call Berkeley yes car yes yes mayor Henley yes motion carries 4 z uh motion to approve 26-24 for uh resolution to appoint Land Development board secretary do we have a motion motion second any discussion roll call Berkeley yes carain  yes mayor Henley yes motion carries 301 open meeting for public comment please remember to state your name and address for the record this particular section is for comment only almost almost got you good evening uh Robert Foltz 19 F Cris Drive Westampton uh just checking in on the fence ordinance for Spring Meadows if anything is being done with that I know we've talked about the last couple of meetings um the ordinance got pushed at the end of 2023 was going to get reintroduced in 2024 so I'm just checking the status of that I think we're still working on it still working on yeah we had some questions so okay didn't we pass it first read that's this one on we passed the first reading but we didn't do right we just introduced it yeah we just introduced okay with the changes involved we didn't finalize it we just introduced it today so reintroduce it'll be a public document as of tomorrow awesome great thank you very much my apologies problem sorry all in favor to close public comment days to remember next Township meeting is February 6th at 7:00 p.m. historic commission February 28th at 700 p.m. Land Development board meeting is February 7th at 700 p.m. Recreation committee meeting is February the 14th at 7:00 p.m. note free rabies clinic was scheduled is was rescheduled for February 17 2024 we have the administrator report I just wanted to extend a public thank you to our director of Public Works Chris Taylor I think he did a f fantastic job making sure that all of the roads in West Hampton were properly plowed his team did a wonderful job all of the employees really kicked in and did what they needed to do to keep West Hampton safe and clean for all the residents and I can tell you by comparison to the town that I live in Weston was aund times better than my C so I want to just say a huge thank you to our public work department and everything to thank you common reports and comments I agree about Public Works they did a fantastic job and unfortunately it was not one of the Snows that came in 3 hours and left it snowed from 9 what it 9:00 in the morning no 9 5:00 one morning till 9 whatever it was it was almost the day and they've come back several times and then they salted several times and uh the comments on Facebook were absolutely wonderful uh they get a lot of support from the residents and I just also want to thank them they they did a great job uh ran cookus Valley High School has an environmental club and they are collecting single-use plastic bags to turn in and recycle and turn that I know that they turned them into uh things like park benches and things I was wondering I did not actually call them until I talked to you but I'm wondering if we could support that and maybe have a container in our lobby that people could bring the single user bags in and then we could help RV uh maybe even Jamie uh when she talks to the superintendent could get the Middle School to help and they could be feel like they're helping our environment um that would be really good so that's about it thank you do we do we have store like so question like that's a New Jersey Law do we have other stores like outside that will help us that we can get help from like maybe how shop right is in New Jersey but they may be able to get back bags for the school like that I don't know jersey stores have those recycl places to bring your bags like your used bags and stuff too is that what you mean yeah more or less I was just trying to think outside the box thank you Jamie for help what about you um no I don't have any comments but I do want to Echo um the public works you know I was out there shoveling myself and just the the streets were great and we went out early that day and I again want to thank for them for clearing and being so like they as Nancy said they came around multiple times so thank you it's all I also Echo that on Public Works they were out very early that morning uh plowing and out through the evening plowing as well I'd like to also extend that to our fire and uh police departments as they were very busy on those icy roads with the accidents and people getting injured so thank you um again I don't know how much we can say it but it was a lot of positive feedback um through our community on the job to have Public Works did and EMS and fire and just everyone working together as a team and even um I've seen neighbors help out other neighbors so you know neighborly being able to help out each other especially if someone's not able to shovel or you know or they don't have you know as snug they have the Machinery to be able to do it but we do so um as as fellow neighbors to be able to help um secondly I had a my comment actually has it's a question for the committee because I want to make sure that we discussed it in open form um the 200 Club sent out um tickets to purchase the 200 Club is for fallen police officers Fallen um firefighters and you know I feel like we should be able to support them my thoughts are is that that they have a table that would be the table would be $1,200 the table allow both Chiefs to come which I think that you've been at you guys have been asked about um the committee is able to go as well um and then department heads whoever department heads choose to go everyone's not obligated to go but you can go and that you know would be the support I think that was show the township is behind not only from our guys but the guys throughout the county and throughout South Jersey New Jersey Etc now what I would say is that we had funds set aside that we use for legal municipalities most of us have paid that ourselves I think that we used $135 maybe $136 of that and maybe using some funds that we set aside from that to buy the table and put toward word something you know something as as as good as Fallen police officers and Fallen firefighters right to contribute to them so um I just want to know what you guys thought about that and if you thought that made sense or no uh Mr May I'm absolutely supportive of supporting our 200 Club it's a longstanding organization of Bron County um one of our fire department lieutenants uh Vincent not is a member there uh I devote my full-f support to that organization and our member who's a member of that organization anyone else I think it's a good idea um I just would like um our Legal Eagles over there to talk about are we allowed to donate money for nonprofit organizations we are I talked about right about it before even coming up here okay I know the school board is not allowed to but we are not the school board no um I fully support it as well I think it's a great idea I think that we you know we continue to see transparency so want to make sure that we brought that out discussed it out in the open and made sure that you know and also that everyone knows that we're attempting to do what we can to support our guys you know they all put their lives on the line every day for us one way or another and for the guys that didn't make it they deserve as much support as all the guys who did make it for them before after and Etc so thank you I appreciate you guys support the board um going along with that we all said Thank you to public works but I think thank you also need to go to our Emergency Services who were out that day on 295 and 38 and all places they have you had multiple calls didn't you and you were out in the snow and uh you did a good job thank you probably our police too so now we will go into resolution number 116 20124 resolution authorizing the township Committee in staff support to meeting private session and authorizing the exclusion of the public from that portion of the meeting dealing with specific issue requiring non-public discussion attorney attorney client privilege uh property acquisition do we have a motion motion second any discussion Roll Call Berkley yes car yes Mungo yes may Henley yes car 4 thank you