I'm scared. So, we'll see if we can do the rest. Madame Clerk, the time is now 7 p.m. Thank you, Madam Mayor. is now 7 p.m. I'd like to call this regular township council meeting to order. Roll call. Councilwoman Peron, present. C. Uh, Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy,
present. Mayor Whitfield, present. Um, let the record show that Councilman Anderson and Councilwoman Macintosh are um absent this evening. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Um, can we go on to the prayer?
I'd like to invite Chaplain to uh Thompson to lead us in tonight's prayer. Mr. Harris, what are you doing? Good evening. Let us all bow our heads. Dear heavenly father, God almighty, we just thank you Lord for just another day and another opportunity to experience
this thing called life. God, we just ask that you just bless our gathering this evening. That everything that is done here is done in in in order with purpose and soundness for the development and growth of this community that we love
called Willingboro Township. We ask your continued guidance and blessing on the members of this governing body that they guide with wisdom and fortitude and give us all the strength and courage to do the things that are necessary to continue to grow this community and
the people that are here within. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Harris, for stepping in. Madam clerk, please rise for the flag salute. 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 liberty and justice for all. Compliance statement notice was provided in compliance with
chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 to the Burlington County Times, Trenton Times, and Philadelphia Inquirer, seeing the date, time, place, and the agenda to the extent it was known. Additionally, notice was filed in the office of the township clerk. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Good evening,
Willing. Thank you for joining us this evening. Um, we have quite a extensive agenda this evening. Um but we will jump right on into it. We'll start with the park proclamation for parks and
recreation month. Um read by deputy mayor worthy. Thank you madame mayor. Proclamation designation of July as park and recreation month. Whereas parks and recreation are an integral part of communities throughout this country including Willingboro. And whereas parks
and recreation promote health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health of people who live near parks. And whereas parks and recreation promote time spent in nature, which positively impacts mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being, and alleviating illnesses
such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. And whereas parks and recreation encourage physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles.
And whereas parks and recreation programming and education activities such as camps, youth sports, and environmental education are critical to childhood development. And whereas parks and recreation increase a community's economic prosperity through increased
property values, expansion of the local tax base, the attraction and retention of businesses and crime reduction. And whereas parks and recreation are fundamental to the environmental well-being of our community. And whereas parks and recreation are essential and
adaptable infrastructure that makes our communities resilient in the face of natural disasters and climate change. And whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect
with nature and recreate outdoors. And whereas the United States House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month and Willingboro recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation resources. Now therefore, be it resolved
that on this 15th day of July, 2025, Samantha E. Whitfield, mayor of the township of Willingboro, on behalf of the council and the citizens of Willingboroough Township, do hereby proclaim the month July as parks and recreation month in the township of
Willingboro and encourages all residents to celebrate and support our local parks, trails, recreation facilities, and programs. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Worthy. Um, we hope that all of our residents here in Willingboro take uh
immense pleasure in all of our parks that we have locally. We have a tremendous amount of green spaces um that is all accessible for resources and we have recently put in some accessible playgrounds for children um with
disabilities. So, I hope that gives more access to the residents here in Willingboro and um we hope to see you at our burrow barbecue um on the 19th this weekend. And I'm sure you'll hear a little more about that from Miss Jackson
in her update. As we move on with our meeting on a more somber note, um I do want to take a moment to acknowledge the life of one of our longtime Willingboro employees, Miss
Gloria Johnson. Um we do have a resolution for her. So I will read that into the record. Whereas the township of Willingboro pauses to reflect on the life of Gloria Johnson, a beloved community servant, spiritual mother, and longtime employee
of the township who dedicated 24 years of faithful service. And whereas Gloria Johnson served with excellence, humility, and unwavering spirit of kindness at the Reva Foster Senior Center, where her radiant smile,
comforting presence, and gracious heart touched the lives of countless residents, colleagues, and visitors. And whereas Gloria was more than an employee, she was a pillar of love, grace, strength, and faith in willing in
the Willingboro community. Her acts of compassion extended far beyond her duties as she lovingly provided food, comfort, and spiritual nourishment to individuals and families, especially during the hardship of the pandemic. And
whereas Gloria Johnson embodied compassion, adopting many in faith as her own, including the children and families of those she mentored and embraced. To know Gloria was to know
true compassion, dignity, and wisdom. She walked in confidence, spoke with courage, and lived with a heart that reflected grace. And whereas many remember her not only as a colleague, but as a mother, mentor, and friend. A
woman who lifted spirits, encouraged responsibility, and extended a hand to those in need. Often treating others as her very own family. From heartfelt conversations to tender embraces, her legacy of kindness and community care
will live on. And whereas Gloria Johnson has been described as a warrior, a provider, a teacher, and a light to all who had the privilege to cross her path, she embraced people from every walk of life, including those she had never met
as though she had known them for years. Her life was a living testimony of strength and generosity. And whereas although her physical presence will be sorely missed, her legacy will forever remain in the hearts of her loved ones,
including her cherished family, dear friends, her community, and all who were blessed by her nurturing spirit. Now therefore, be it resolved on this day, the township of Willingboro and I, Willing Mayor Samantha E. Whitfield
along with the township council on on behalf of the entire Willingboro community do here honor the life and memory of Gloria Johnson and recognize with deep appreciation the light she brought to our community. Um can we
please have just a moment of silence for Miss Gloria Johnson? Thank you. All right. Continuing on with our meeting, um we will have the manager's municipal updates that will be given via
our deputy manager, Mr. Gary Li this evening. Thank you, mayor. Um before I give my update um and get into the resolutions, I've asked Miss Jackson if she can just come and provide um updates on the upcoming things happening in the township.
Good evening, mayor, deputy mayor, council members, and all those assembled. I hope you are well. Thank you for mentioning the Burough Barbecue. That will be our next big event, which will be on Saturday, July 19th. We're so excited about it. will be from 12:00 noon until 3 at Milreek Park. And we are
planning an afternoon of barbecue fun and festivities. We will be offering hamburgers and hot dogs while supplies last and inviting um families to come with their barbecue sides, chairs, blankets, and whatever you need to have a good time. We will have a DJ, line
dancing, a moon bounce for the kids, relay races, and if anyone is up to a good game of space, we have that, too. So, we welcome you. Um it looks like the weather's going to be great. So we're looking forward to a good event for the entire family. We do want to thank
everyone for who attended our um last Friday Night Live music on Friday, July 13. I'm July 12th. Last Friday, let's say that our next event um and final event for this series will be held on Friday, July 25th, and
feature the Wise Touch who will be offering smooth jazz for all in attendance. Same time, same place. And we always hope for good weather. The National Night Out event will be held on Monday, August 4th at Mil Creek Park. Another a great event hosted by Willenboro Police Department.
Join us for a great community event of fun games and so much more as we work alongside our Willenboro Police Department. Our Jazz Fest will be held on Sunday, August 10th. This year's featured guests include Stokeley, Norman
Brown, and Avery Sunshine. The park will open for all at 11:00 a.m. The festival begins at noon and ends with fireworks at dusk. Sponsored by Senator Troy Singleton. Remember, this is a free event to all. Parking is $20 for cars
and 20 and $30 for RVs. And we look forward to seeing everyone there. Our annual touch a truck event will be held on Thursday, August 21st. This is a great event for the entire family. We invite you to join us for auto sensory
sensitive event. Children will have an opportunity to touch, feel, climb, and enjoy the township trucks and more. And then we will close out our summer activities with our third annual burrow on Blanc, which is scheduled for Saturday, September 6th. More information will be forthcoming. And as
always, we encourage you to uh get more information on our website, social media fa platforms, our YouTube channel, and by subscribing to William Weekly. Thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Jackson. Thank you, Miss Jackson. Um, our township engineer should be joining us
online uh to give his update. And if we can't find him, we will move on to our OEM who will be giving us a presentation tonight on the emergency management plan. Good evening, council.
Ma'am, um we have submitted an operation emergency operation plan for the township of William um to be approved um with the county and the state is all compliance with county and the state that we may go forward with this. This
has been submitted uh previously prior to me coming in to fill your position. Um it was looked over by the county and approved for it. We just need the signatures from council and all those that's
what it is is set up for the um emergency situation throughout our local community and we see many things are happening when it comes to storms and what have you and it's all about being prepared for it which each department had their
responsibility for being ready for this and this is our hope here. All right. and you've reviewed the plan and are astutely familiar with it and yes operations reviewed the plan and working with the county um
coordinator um they ensured us that everything was in compliance and we are ready for that okay thank you thank you Mr. Frier um and Mr. Mr. Apollo, our engineer is now ready.
Mr. Chipola, it may be easier if you just raise your hand to speak and then it'll be easy to find you. Can you hear me now? There we go. Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank
you, Mr. Lori. Uh, good evening, mayor, council, and solicitor. Uh, thank you for having me speak this evening. I I'd like to start with the bikeway grant application. Uh there were some questions I believe council had on this. If you don't mind, I'll start with that.
I spoke with the project manager at Penoni this morning who said the reason for Van Skyver Parkway and JFK Way being selected was that the grant required bike lanes that are off-road and
separated from traffic with some type of a median. They also required the uh new bike and land mileage uh not something that's uh pre-existing. This was a specific requirement for the 2026
application that is uh done annually. The previous application uh that was performed by another engineer back in 2021 evidently subitted the bike routes that were for existing bike path improvements
which did not meet the requirements for bike paths that should have been separated by a median um and from traffic. Um, do do you have that? Um, is that clear to council?
Um, so that's why the location was chosen. Yes, that's that's correct, mayor. Okay. and and they also said that there are additional funds in 2026 this coming year and there's more chances for us to
get approval and there's more projects that I anticipate being approved. So they said that we think he said we think we have a better chance this year um to get approved and the project value was just under $410,000.
Okay. And Mr. Mr. Chipola, does that um is there any matching funds required with this grant? I do not believe so. He did not mention that, but I I can verify that tomorrow if you'd like, mayor, um we're voting tonight.
Yeah. Is there is there a deadline that this needs to be submitted tonight? We're supposed to have it within 30 days of the applications and we're just about there. Yes. But if we don't if we're not aware
if there's matching funds required for this, then how are we supposed to make an informed decision? Okay. Well, I can certainly see if we can, you know, have an extension to the what is it? August 5th, the ne the next meeting.
I can see if we August 5th. When is the next meeting? August 19th. Oh, 19th. I'm sorry. So, I can certainly see if that's possible if you'd like. I understand your position. Okay. If you um would just correspond
with uh the staff if if we can get an answer to that during the during this meeting, that would be uh greatly appreciated. Sure. I I probably won't be able to get a hold of the gentleman from Penoni, but I can do that. I can do that tomorrow
and get it to the staff on it tonight though. No, I understand, you know, and I don't you know, I wasn't of aware of that that question that would be posed, so I I didn't I don't have an answer. I apologize. Okay. Um, Deputy Mayor Worthy, you had a
question. Yes, I had a question. Um sometimes with these grants um they're beyond the matching um the grant doesn't cover the full expense of the project. So I was curious to know what percentage of the
project will the grant funds actually cover. As far as I know it it would be 100%. They they came up with an estimated value. That's a true estimated value and that's what we're going for. So, as far as I know, would be 100% of the value of
the project. Okay. I'm just asking because when the council approved prior to your arrival, we approved a grant for an amphitheater and we ended up having not just a match, but we had to pay a significant amount um towards a project where we had
already received an estimated amount um and the cost of the project was well beyond the grant. So, I'm just concerned because I don't believe that the sitting council requested the project. Here we are trying to hurry up to get all the information to vote on it. And I'm just
I'm just concerned because I want to make sure that we're not um over overspending for this particular project. Sure. And and I there's no guarantee that we're going to get the $410,000 total grant either to your point.
you know, if we get it, you know, it will cover the project, but if we don't get that full amount, then it looks like we would have to kick in the balance. Thank you. And my final question is how did this grant application come about? What was the the impetus for it?
U we had um our consultant um has done these u every year from as far as I know and I had uh they approached us if we wanted to apply again and I um you know approached uh Mr. Harris our township
manager and you know got his permission to move forward to you know provide another application. So, I spoke with them early on and you know, they had pretty much given me the same reasons that I'm giving you tonight that they feel that we have a pretty good chance
of getting some grant money this year. So, I mentioned that to Mr. Harris and you know, we decided to move forward with a grant application. Thank you. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chapola. Do you have any other updates?
Sure. I'll just go through them very quickly. I know you have a lot on your agenda. Uh Buckingham Drive, we held a pre-construction meeting last week with Earl Construction, a CME engineers project manager, and myself with Mr. Chapman from DPW. We're trying to start
the project and finish the project before school starts in the beginning of September. I'll know more about that probably at the next uh township meeting. Uh the performing arts center phase 2 is out for bids. Uh we expect to
receive bids on July 31st. Phase one, we have a meeting this week for some aisle lighting. That has to be discussed, but otherwise that is in good shape. Eagle Lane reconstruction project. Our plans are 90% complete. Currently going
through NJD review process. The aquatic center. I've contacted three fabric structure companies and suppliers for preliminary pricing. I'm going to calculate a rough area and size of the building that's needed for the aquatic
center based on an Olympic size pool, splash pad area, offices, bathrooms, locker rooms, and an entry area. And I'm going to contact several references of owners of similar structures throughout the country to get some rough idea of
cost, operation, opinions of how they like the building, if they don't like the building, and other ideas that could be beneficial to our township. The fitness court uh finally got completed last week with a concrete sealer and punch list items and we are ready for
equipment installations during the week of August 4th. Uh we have some issues with the rooftop unit HVAC um installations on the JFK center building and municipal building. I'm
currently uh in the process of investigating the mounting of these units to see if they were done properly and I'll have a further uh information on that at the next council meeting. Uh the JFK walking track DPW received some
quotes for a competitive track reconstruction, but that cost is significantly high. It was around $400,000. I'm going to investigate alternate reconstruction for a non-competitive use, which will hopefully bring the cost down very much. We don't need a a
high-tech surface for, you know, for our use for just walking. And um I will contact some other townships in the area to see if they have done similar projects in their walking tracks to get a feel for the type of construction and costs. I personally walked the track
last week to verify conditions and it is um in fair condition. There are some areas of deterioration which we you know if allowed to continue um you know will definitely be a detriment and increase the cost of the reconstruction. So we
should probably move forward with this as soon as possible. our municipal storm water management plan. Our updates are underway by Remington and Vernick engineers and they are currently coordinating with the planning board to get the items that need to be included
in the storm water management plan. I'm going to apply for NJ DOT an NJ DOT infrastructure grant for three locations. Uh first one is Plum Tree Lane for out outfall collapse ballad
lane for groundwater remediation and Shetland Lane for potential pipe failures. Uh for the Babot Lane drainage basin area rehabilitation, I recommended to the township manager that we select TNM Associates. That is based on project
understanding, their scope of work, and the lowest fee of $84,250. Uh lastly, uh PSENG various road paving in 2026. I'm in the process of setting up a meeting with PSENG project manager, Penoni engineers, and myself to
determine exactly which roads they will be paving in 2026. This is part of a a project where we did roads this year and it was supposedly their turn next year to do a significant number of roads. So I am working out which roads will be
slated for con repaving next year 2026 and this excludes the roads that we already had included in the Ibank application which we have on hold until January 2026. Uh that is all I have.
Thank you Mr. Chapola. Are there any questions for our engineer? Seeing none Mr. Lowry. Great. I'll begin my report um with the finance department. Um as of January, excuse me, as of June 3rd, as of June
30th, 2025, the township generated 1,72,395 in revenue with $752,461.51 from tax collection. Um a $3.2 $2 million payment was made to the board of education and June expenses total $2.9
million including nearly $1.7 million in salaries and $423,711729 in healthcare in healthcare. Uh we're close to resolving outstanding claims with former uh processor performance health reducing liabilities from 314,000
$11 to about 136,000 which is already reserved. The township has already has received $25,000 um $25,2726 from the national opioid settlement. Um, we expect to we expect additional funds
from a new settlement in late 2025. Um, just this year alone, this summer alone, we'll receive an additional like over $100,000 in new settlement money. For the police department, the department remains at 70 sworn officers
and is preparing the 15th class of the youth police academy with 20 cadets registered. Four of our recently graduated officers who were administered their oaths of office at the last council meeting are now in phase one of the field officer training and one
recruit is returning back to the Camden County Police Academy on July 7th. Officer Wilcox and uh Herman uh completed a two-week crash investigation course. And notably, lead traffic guard Kathleen
Pantner retired after 30 years of distinguished service, leaving a legacy of dedication to the community's youth and safety. We wish her well in her retirement from Willingboro. uh for police community engagement. The department hosted outreach events like
Kona with a cop, serving 274 residents with resources on addiction treatment, the youth police academy, and community policing. Officers engaged residents during a safety session uh for preschoolers at Cathedral of Love. Food and security remains a priority, so
officers continue weekend food deliveries to families for our fire and emergency services. Wingboro Fire responded to several significant incidents, including a house fire and vehicle fires, as well as multiple rescues of trapped vehicle
occupants. Fire incidents were managed both within the town and through mutual aid agreements with nearby municipalities uh like Burlington Township, Mount Laurel, and Beverly. On June 30th, a lighting a lightning cause roof fire was swiftly
put under control for DPW. Several capital projects progressed in late June and early July. The DPW pole barn permit is now active after receiving sealed blueprints. A $35,25
valve leak was found at Penny Packer Pool, but due to high costs, um, alternative solutions are being explored. Roofing was completed at the Vans Skyver Ballfield snack check and plans are underway to relocate the born leaders uh baseball equipment to the DPW
um so the DPW can finish um interior upgrades to the snack check. Renovations have started at the proposed food bank near the library though delayed by contractor issues. Um the renovations have uh began, the process
has begun. Um the JFK track, as Mr. um Sapola um said, it's under uh evaluation for reconstruction. Um and fencing and an oil tank replacements are in procurement phases um for the DPW.
DPW also collected 177 bags of trash, emptied over 375 waste recepticles, and completed 62 pothole repairs in June. For the inspections department, um they conducted 1,561 total inspections, issued 875
violations, and resolved 627 compliance cases. A total of 230 construction permits and 174 zoning permits were issued with a revenue collection of $77,765. The department continues to maintain
rigorous oversight on property standards, rentals, and resell certifications. There were 24 new foreclosures and seven vacant property registrations, which caused alarm and require continued proactive management of these vacant spaces.
For community affairs and senior services, the Reva Foster Senior Center saw an attendance of 2565 residents with over 330 transportation services provided. Over 400 pounds of fresh food were distribute distributed
weekly through the mobile pantry and Ruckards University's weekly nutrition workshops which educated residents on healthy eating habits. June also saw proclamations recognizing older Americans month and osteoporosis
awareness month. For human resources, the the department facilitated key personnel hires, including a deputy court administrator and two summer interns in finance and communications. HR continues to ensure all employment actions comply with civil service rules
while managing personnel files and operational needs. For the recreation department, the department supported multiple summer events, including the Friday night music series and the highly attended Junth celebration. Programming and facility rentals continue to bring
residents together while youth engagement through sports, dance, and enrichment activities remain a top priority. Uh, Camp Sun and Fund commenced on July 25th with 93 campers. Um and campers began enrichment uh classes, morning enrichment classes
yesterday morning. Providal statistics. In June, the township issued 119 birth certificates, 33 marriage certificates, and 10 death certificates. A total of 13 marriage ceremonies were performed by the mayor. And that is all for this report. Mayor,
thank you, Mr. Lowry. Are there any questions for Mr. Lowry on his report? Okay. There was one thing I did want to um just highlight and have you make a note of, Mr. Lowry. As we um with your
foreclosure uh notice in your report, I want to make sure that we are evaluating what options we have to fulfill our rehab obligations according to the affordable um housing
plan. So, um, just put that on your radar and I look forward to any suggestions for, uh, our ability to rehab those 17, I believe, units that we're obligated to. Yes, ma'am. All right. If there's nothing else, you
can go on to the ordinances and resolutions. Okay. For your consideration tonight, we have ordinance 25-14. It's an ordinance amending chapter 130 of the code of the township of Willingboro entitled convenience stores, specifically chapter
130-2 operating hours adding a subsection permitting 24-hour operation for convenience stores within the B1 business zone located along the route along the route, excuse me, along route 130. Messed up
over here. um corridor in the code of the township of Willing. Um this ordinance amends the recently passed ordinance uh 25-11 which introduced a chapter in the code regulating convenience stores. Um if adopted, this ordinance would allow convenience stores
to operate 24 hours a day in the B1 district along Route 130. Ordinance 25-15 is an ordinance of the township of Wellingboro, County of Burlington, state of New Jersey, creating article 20 uh three of the
township code titled deputy township manager. This ordinance outlines the general duties of the deputy township manager after subsequent discussion during the last council meeting. Um we've decided to separate um that from ordinance 25-12
and we'll talk about that when we get there. Um, ordinance 25-16 is an ordinance of the township of Willingboroough, County of Burlington, New County of Burlington, New Jersey, providing for the reappropriation of $86,500
um proceeds of obligations not needed for the original purpose in order to provide for various capital projects purchases for the Department of Public Works. For this ordinance, we're looking to reappropriate unused capital money for the purpose of purchasing a new compact swing excavator. This will give
DPW the in-house ability to repair various sidewalks throughout the town. This also includes money to replace old street signage throughout the town. Ordinance 25-12 um is an ordinance of the township of Welling County of Burlington, state of
New Jersey, amending article four of the township code regarding the powers and duties of the township manager. We originally introduced this ordinance um at the last council meeting. However, as I just stated with the ordinance um the previous ordinance, we're removing the
deputy uh manager information. We're putting that in a separate ordinance and I believe the clerk um will be working on amending that for tonight so that you guys can vote on the amendment. That's taking it out. However, we still have the um ordinance for your consideration
because we are leaving the section C um that gives the township manager the ability to negotiate contracts on behalf of the township. Um ordinance 25-13 is an ordinance of the township of Willingboro County of Burlington, New Jersey, adopting the
4284 Route 130 redevelopment plan dated July 25th, July 2025. This is public hearing for the redevelopment plan that was introduced at the LA council meeting. Um it designates certain blocks and lots along 130 as areas in need of redevelopment.
For the resolutions under consideration for tonight, we have resolution 25-176. It's a resolution authorizing um the approval of vouchers for payment and ratification. This is approving the bills list. Resolution 25-177
is a resolution authorizing refunds for overpayment of taxes. Resolution 25-178 is a resolution authorizing the township of Willingboro to place municipal charges on certain properties for failing to address property maintenance violations. This
resolution authorizes the town to place charges on certain properties uh for violations that we abated. Resolution 25-179 is a resolution to amend the adopted budget for additional items of revenue and offsetting appropriations of chapter
159. We received $500,000 grant from the DCA to support upgrades and renovations at the Kennedy Center and we need to amend our adopted budget to include these funds. Resolution 25-180 is a resolution authorizing a change order for a contract with Think Pavers um
Heartscaping LLC for the 2023 multilocation storm water infrastructure repairs. Last year we awarded a bid to Think Pavers for our multilocation storm water infrastructure repair project. Due to a reduction in cost related to the scope of materials, the contract is
being reduced by $33,941.64. that represents a 7% decrease in the price of that contract. Resolution 25-181 is a resolution for approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation
for the fiscal year 26 uh Willingboro bike route extension grant program. Um, this is the uh grant program that our engineer just spoke about during his update. Resolution 25-1882 is a resolution authorizing the township
of Willing to establish a not to exceed amount for South Jersey glass and door for the replacement of the steel doors at the Country Club Pool and Penny Packer pool locations. Um, this resolution was originally presented, I want to say, at the last
meeting. um that was for a meeting before, but that was before we made the decision that we weren't going to um open the Penny Packer pool for this season. Um so right now we're asking that we just strike the Penny Packer pool from this resolution so that we
just move forward with country club and replacing the steel doors there. Resolution 25-183 is a res resolution authorizing a contract with certain approved uh state contract vendors for electrical vehicle charging stations
pursuant to NJSA4A1 11-12A. In this resolution, this will allow us to use money allocated in the capital budget and will grant money to install three new dualport charging stations at Mil Creek Park. Those charging stations will be located near the future
warehouse. Resolution 25-184 is a resolution authorizing the township of Willingboro to award a contract to Northeast Mechanical Services, Inc., a contract that participate in the New Jersey state approved purchasing cooperative contract
T 1372 for HBA services, HVAC services, excuse me. This resolution authorizes us to establish the not to exceed within HBAC vendor to support our HVAC needs here at the municipal complex JFK DPW,
the firehouse, and the library. Resolution 25-185 is a resolution authorizing a not is authorizing an increase to a not to exceed amount for Serenian, Edwards, Buzzark, and Nolan, Inc. for the
provision of affordable housing. KOA um attorney services to the township of Willingboro. We previously established not to exceed for affordable housing attorney at $10,000. The previous not to exceed was insufficient in covering the expenses for this year. Um including the
estimated billing for matters currently under review. Um in consider in consideration of that, um we're increasing the not to exceed by $20,000. Resolution 25-186 is a resolution authorizing the township of Willingboro to award a contract to W Timberman to
purchase a trailer mounted self-contained vacuum debris uh debris collector. This resolution authorizes the purchase of a new leafac. Um we currently have two uh good leafs in our service and two older ones that um have needed various
maintenance. Um this will increase our ability to collect leaves. This purchase will increase our ability to collect leaves during leaf season. Um, with this purchase, we're replacing a 22-y old unit. Um, yeah. So, that unit is 2002 and we're
just replacing them. Resolution 25-187 is a resolution authorizing an increase to the not to exceed amount for Home Depot for building supplies and materials to meet the township's operational needs. DPW regularly goes to
Home Depot to purchase um supplies for uh the yard to you know maintain our operations. So we're just increasing the not to exceed so that they can continue to do their work. Resolution 25-188 is a resolution authorizing the township
of Willingboro to establish a not to exceed amount for a for a deart and suns for the purchase of two salt dog pro 3000 3 cubic yard salt spreaders. Um this will upfit the current dump trucks um to
increase our ability to salt during snow season. Resolution 25-189 is a resolution authorizing the township of Wellingboro to national cooperative purchasing agreement known as Sourcewell
Cooperative Pricing System Sourcewell to RJ Sherman and Associates Inc. uh DB Vermeier North Atlantic sales and service to purchase a 2025 Vmir BC 18
uh000 XL chipper. Um the chipper is a needed replacement for a 24 year old chipper that we currently have. Um it's replacing a 2001 and the chippers are used to chip up all the brush and debris that you know when we cut down trees and
other materials. That's what that is for. Resolution 25-190 is a resolution authorizing the township of Willingboroough to award a contract under a national cooperative purchasing agreement known as Sourcewell Cooperative
um to Allegiance Truck to purchase a 2025 International HV507SF hook lift dump truck. Um this truck is a multi-use and multi-season truck. Um, we had it equipped with a spread hook lift body so it can be used as a big salt
truck during during the winter operations. Um, as well as other uh in multiple uses. Let me take a sip of water. Resolution 25-191 is a resolution authorizing the chief of
police to sign a memorandum of understanding between Willing Township Police Department and Legacy Treatment Services and Oaks Integrated Care for the Arrive Together program to enhance and support response to certain behavioral health crisises.
Our police department has been working with Oaks integrated um and legacy treatment services. So, when an officer responds to a mental health um situation, they're partnered with a mental health um expert to tag along for that call to support.
Resolution 25-192 is a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a shared services agreement between the township of Bowling Brow and the County of Burlington for emergency 911 services. This is a shared service with the county for emergency services. when someone calls for 911 um emergency
assistance, uh the call their calls are answered um at the county's 911 center. Um resolution 25-193, we're asking for it to be pulled from consideration. Um resolution 25-194
is a resolution authorizing the township of Willingboro to award a contract to route 23 automill a contract of participant in the New Jersey state approved purchasing cooperative contract T363
for purchase for purchase of a Ford 5 F550 Mason dump truck. Um, this is a capital purchase that was included in the recently passed capital budget. And this, uh, truck will replace a 17-year-old truck.
Resolution 25-195 is a resolution for member participation in a cooperative purchasing system, a resolution authorizing the township of William to enter into a co-op uh, pricing agreement. Um, this resolution authorizes us to uh, participate in a
new co-op for uh, various per purchases. Resolution 25-196, we're also asking for that to be pulled uh from consideration. Resolution 25-1977 is a resolution authorizing the township
of Willingboro to execute an agreement with Mobile Stage LLC to provide staging services at the 2025 Jazz Festival. Resolution 25-198 is a resolution of the township of Willingboroough authorizing the fireworks display by DNM fireworks
for the 2025 Jazz Festival. These are the firework displays that's uh provided sponsored by uh Senator Troy Singleton. Resolution 25-199 is a resolution of the township of Willingboro, County of Burlington, State of New Jersey,
appointing members to various boards and commissions. Resolution 25-200 is a resolution authorizing the renewal and amendment of the agreement with Ducket Entertainment uh group LLC for the management of the township
performing arts center and consulting services for various program opportunities. Um, we're renewing, we're looking to renew, um, and amend that contract with Ducket Entertainment um, to include um, services related to sponsorships and also providing support
for our jazz festival and our Friday Night Live music series. Resolution 25-201 is a resolution amending resolution 2025-168 to revise the condemnation um, redevelopment area by dddes designating
block 5.01. 01 lot 2 which is 4226 Route 130. Block 5.01 lot 3 which is 4228 Route 130. Block 5.01
lot 3 qualifier Q fararm which is 4228 Route 130 and block 11.01 lot 14 which is 36 Rose Street. Resolution 25-202 is a resolution designating Willingboroough
AHJV LLC as a conditional redeveloper for a portion of property known as block 5.02 02 lot 8 Route 130 9 Route 130 10 4292 Route 130 and 174284
Route 130 on the tax maps of the township authorizing the execution of a conditional redevelopment agreement with respect there too. And finally, resolution 25-203 is a resolution authorizing the township of
Willingboro to award an information technology consulting and management services contract. As you know, we've recently went out to bid for IT consulting um and management services. This resolution will allow us to award that contract to Balia Tech LLC. That's
all for consideration tonight, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Lowry. Thank you, Mr. Lowry. All right. With that being said, we will move on to our first public comment. This public comment is for agenda items only. If you have a comment or a
question on any of the ordinances or resolutions that were just explained by our deputy township manager, you will have two minutes um to state your question or comment. Um, please state your name and address when you come to
the mic or raise your hand online. Public comment is now open for agenda items only. Is there any public comment online? My name is Sarah Holly. I reside at nine kayog lane almost 50 years. So a
question that I have pertaining to I don't know whether it was a res resolution or an ordinance ordinance but it has to do with the uh responsibilities and duties of the township manager. Was there a collective
disc discussion about these u uh recommendations for amendment to the duties and responsibility? Did all council members have input or did a special group of council member decide what the new responsibilities and duties
are going to be? Does that conclude your comment? Yes, it does tonight. Thank you, Miss Ali. Any other public comment? Seeing none, public comment is now closed. Um, Mr. Lowry, can you please um give an
explanation or an answer to Miss Holly's question? To my knowledge, there were no subcommittees that met regarding this uh ordinance. Now, regarding ordinance uh 25-12, that one, there's no subcommittees or
any meetings regarding that. Um that provision that's in there, C is uh establish established by statute by statute, excuse me. Um but it's not in our code and we're just adding it into our code. Those are duties that the township manager already has by New
Jersey statute, but it was not present in our code. That's correct. Okay. Thank you, Sari. All right, that said, madame clerk, will you please continue with the ordinances for introduction?
Yes, madam mayor. All right, so ordinance ordinances for introduction. Our first one up is ordinance 2025-14. Can I get a motion to introduce ordinance 2025-14 titled an ordinance amending chapter 130 of the code of the township of
Willingboro entitled convenience stores specifically chapter 130-2 operating hours adding a subsection permitting 24-hour operations for convenience stores within the B1 business zone located along the Route 130 corridor in
the code of the township of Willingboro. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, call the role. Councilwoman Peron, yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy, yes. Mayor Whitfield,
yes. Thank you. Uh, next up is 20 ordinance 2025-15. Can I get a motion to introduce ordinance 2025-15 titled ordinance of the township of Willingboro, County of Burlington, state of New Jersey, creating article
23 of the township code um titled deputy township manager. So moved. Second. It's been moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call. Council
PM. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. And finally for ordinance for introduction. Can I get a motion to introduce ordinance 2025-16 titled ordinance of the township of Willingboro
and the county of Burlington, New Jersey, providing for the reappropriation of $86,500 proceeds of obligations not needed for their original per purposes in order to provide for various capital projects projects slash purchases for the
Department of Public Works. So moved. Second move by W. Mayor Worthy seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Any discussion? Roll call. Councilwoman Pum. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy.
Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. And all three of these ordinances, their public hearings will be on August 19th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Um, all right. And then ordinance for public hearing and final adoption.
Ordinance 2025-12. This is the old township man. Well, this is the ordinance we already introduced regarding the township manager. Um, we still have to have the public hearing because I advertise to have the public hearing on this specific ordinance. I
did provide you guys with a proposed um ordinance with the amendment. It just takes out what um deputy manager discussed uh the deputy manager um wording, but it leaves that C if you see. Um, so we do still need to pass it
because there was information. Um, because it is an amendment, I'll have the public hearing on the original one, then we can vote if you um would like to amend it and we can go from there. There doesn't have to be another public hearing, but there does have to be, I believe, a week um before we can pass
it. So, we'll pass at the next meeting. Um, with that said, I'd like to open the public hearing on ordinance 12 titled ordinance of the township of Willingboroough, County of Burlington, State of New Jersey, amending article 4 of the township code regarding the powers and duties of the township
manager. Anyone wishing to come forward to comment on this ordinance, please do so. Anyone online? Seeing none, I'd like to close public comment on this ordinance. Um, if you would like to amend it, I'm going to
need a motion to amend the ordinance as um, Joan, I make it to you, I guess. Sorry. I make a motion to amend ordinance 2025-12 as provided. Second.
Any discussion? That uh ordinance has been or that amendment has been moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Uh Madame Clerk, please call the pull the board. Councilwoman Peron. Yes.
Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. Finally, for ordinance for public hearing and final adoption, we have ordinance 2023-13. I'd like to open the public hearing on ordinance uh 2025-13
titled ordinance of the township of Willingboro, County of Burlington, New Jersey, adopting the 4284 Route 130 redevelopment plan dated July 2025. Anyone wishing to come forward to comment on this ordinance, please do so.
Good evening. Good evening. My name is Damian Deluka. I'm the attorney for the proposed conditional redeveloper, which is Willing AH JV LLC. A lot of initials. Uh they are the contract purchaser of the property, which you know is the former Burlington County Toms property. Uh I know this is
a public hearing for the adoption of the ordinance. First and foremost, I'd like to thank the governing body for considering the adoption of this ordinance. I really have nothing substantive to add except one thing and that is that uh we received a copy of a letter from the planning board attorney
Mr. Ducri to the governing body. The planning board reviewed the ordinance for consistency with the master plan last night and they recommended adoption and they adopted an ordinance recommend excuse me a resolution recommending adoption. They also sent a letter from
Mr. delivery for you to consider some changes to the redevelopment plan that would be approved if you adopt this ordinance. And um we didn't have any problem with any of those comments, but I did want to have the opportunity if the governing body chooses to consider
those changes. I think they're already uh generally speaking they're already addressed and I'd be happy to go through that letter with you and and tell you uh point by point uh what our position is on that. So a little background there's two components to the redevelopment
plan. One is uh for the portion clo of the property closest to Route 130 which is proposed to be developed for uh 60 uh affordable housing residential dwelling units. uh that'll be restricted to people who meet the income limitations.
There'll be affordable uh dwelling units. The second portion is for a town home for sale town home community which is in the back. The more time uh sensitive aspect is the affordable community because that type of community
is financed through the New Jersey Housing Mortgage Finance Agency. It's a very competitive process. In order to get that financing, it's called tax credit financing. You have to file an application by September 2nd and in order to do that you have to achieve certain things locally with the
municipality. One of which is the adoption of the redevelopment plan. Excuse me. Um that's the most timesensitive aspect. Your planner chose to do the overall redevelopment plan not only for the affordable community. Thank you very much. Uh but also for the town homes in
the back. The town home um proposed community is not nearly as time-sensitive. In fact, your redevelopment attorney, Tiana Capone, mentioned, I think at the time of introduction of the ordinance, that that aspect of the redevelopment plan may need to be amended in the future. We acknowledge, agree, and embrace the fact
that you have the right to amend the plan. We have no intention of filing a site plan application in the near future relating to the town home community. We do intend to file a site plan application with your planning board as soon as possible, hopefully within the next week or so for the affordable
community because that's the time-sensitive aspect of this um development process. So, with that in mind, some of the comments in here that relate to the town homes, I I would suggest that you don't need to consider because we need to have the
redevelopment plan approved tonight if we're going to make the September 2nd deadline for um the HMFA financing. And so those changes relating to the town home can be deferred until your next meeting or a month from now or or so. We
certainly stipulate that we'll work with the town to collaborate on those amendments and we will not file the site plan application without telling you first so that you have the opportunity to amend the redevelopment plan. There's not going to be any cuteness relating to that. Um as for the affordable community
the only comment um that I think was substantive or there were two u that relates just to the affordable community. One is uh comment number two which says the plan should include provisions to maximize number of units with three or more bedrooms to accommodate families and to establish
appropriate minimum sizes for all units if not already established by statute or regulations. And I'm here just to say that as you can imagine this this uh affordable housing development u industry is heavily regulated and so
there are regulations called the uh hack uniform housing affordability controls that regulate how many threebedrooms you have to have and uh it's 25%. So that would be out of 60 units 15 would be three-bedroom units. That's not a choice
that any of us have. we have to comply U-Hack and we're happy to do so. So, that's already addressed. And the the the U-Hack and HMFA, it may be both or it's either one, has a minimum uh unit size requirement. For example, it's my
understanding that the onebedrooms have to be at least 650 ft, two bedrooms 875, three bedrooms, 1150 ft. So, that's already provided for. So, I don't believe you need to amend the redevelopment plan tonight to include that because it's already provided for
and it already says in the redevelopment plan uh that we have to comply with the U-Hack requirements. So, you're covered there. And then the next comment, I think the only other comment I had was comment number three, which says that the redevelopment plan should be modified to note more explicitly that is
creating an overlay district and to include a maximum building height expressed in feet as well as stories. So, those are actually two comments. One, we have we're fine with a motion tonight if you vote to approve it that
it be conditioned upon the planner clarifying that this is an overlay redevelopment plan as opposed to a superseding redevelopment plan. A redevelopment plan has to be either or. And I think the intent of this comment was the redevel redevelopment plan could be a little clearer on that. And we're,
you know, it's not my decision, of course, but we're fine with that. Um, and I think that can be done by just moving to amend the plan to include that. And then lastly, the maximum building height. The plan uh expresses a limit in terms of stories. I think it
says three stories. Uh, if you choose to include a building height, you can. I don't know that it's necessary because we have no intention of building a community with extraordinarily high ceiling. So, it's going to increase the building height beyond beyond a normal three-story building. We submitted
renderings or architectural elevations to show you what the building is going to look like. We think your planner was happy with that and that's what we're going to propose. But if you choose to do it, we would ask that it be 42 feet. Uh because the way you define building height for a pitched roof, it's
essentially the average height between the uh between the uh the top of the plate and the pitch of the roof. So essentially, you take the midpoint of that angle or pitched roof. And if you're going to do that, we would ask it to be 42 feet. We think it's going to be
closer to 38, but we'd like to leave a little room. And just in case our calculations are wrong because we just got this letter, and that's not a complaint, but we that's the the best we could do in the time permitted. Um, so if you want to do it, we would ask be 42 feet. And those are our my only
comments. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Deluka. Thank you. Is there any other uh anyone else that would like to speak during this public hearing? Is there anyone online?
Mr. Dr. Colbert, do you have any um other comments that you'd like to make during this public hearing? Hi there. I'm Michael Colber. I am uh director of planning for BRS and I'm your uh planning board planner. Um I would just say that I would concur with the comments that were just made about
the necessity of changes for the redevelopment plan. I don't see them as being a strong necessity. Um we can address them in the future. I would note that this city that the township is protected um for this a little bit because you also have the option the a requirement in the redevelopment plan to
enter into a redevelopment agreement with the redeveloper before proceeding with the with the plan and you can delay the redevelopment agreement until any desired changes are are done to the redevelopment area plan. So that's not you're protected about that going forward. So I think that you are safe to approve the redevelopment plan today and
then consider potential changes going forward. Um I would say that I would agree that I don't think these changes are completely necessary that um the requirements uh that the expressed need desires of the planning board um are addressed within the bounds of the redevelopment area plan. I do uh having
the the more specific information tonight about the requirements for the affordable housing is what we suspected yesterday and it's just good to have that clarified. Um so it does meet the intentions of the planning board. So I think we're good to go. All right. Thank you Mr. Cber.
If there's no one else for this public hearing, this public hearing is now closed. Madame clerk. Um, with that being said, I'd like um to ask for a motion to finally adopt ordinance 2025-13.
Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Roll call or discussion? No discussion. Roll call. Councilwoman Pum abstain. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy.
Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Um I do not believe I think we need three votes for that right now. So for an ordinance on the ordinance do you Now this is just for clarification um
for Councilwoman Peron. I know you had some conflict with some of the other resolutions that were at the last meeting. This is the redevelopment plan. This has nothing to do with the HFA HMF HMFA. Okay. So, I changed my vote. So, yes.
With that being said, um we do have enough votes to pass and it does pass. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We can move on to the resolution. Um, I would like to
make a motion for a consent agenda for Well, first before we do that, is there any other resolutions that would like to pull from this agenda? Yes. Pull um 181.
Yes. Okay. And I would also like to pull 182 as well as 199. Um 199 is appointing to boards and commissions. So we need to designate those members. And um our
deputy township manager has asked that the Penny Packer pool location be removed from resolution 182. So I'd like to make a motion for a consent agenda for resolutions 2025-1
176 through 2025-180. 2025-183 through 2025- 192 2025-194 through 2025 dash 2024 2025 5-194
and 195 and then also 2025-1 197 198 and then 2025-200 through 2025-203 second.
Thank you. Moved by Mayor Whitfield, seconded by Deputy Mayor Worthy. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk. Councilwoman Pon, yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy, yes. Mayor Whitfield,
yes. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Any discussion?
Roll call. Councilwoman Per. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. With that being said, we have a couple resolutions for separate discussion tonight. Um, let me try and keep it in
order. Uh, our first resolution is 2025-181 resolution for approval to submit a grant application and execute a grant contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for the uh FY2026 Willing Brow Bike
Route Extension Bikeway Grant Program. Can I get a motion to discuss? So moved. Secondy, seconded by discussion. Deputy Mayor Worthy.
Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, I just want to share I have a few concerns about the not the project itself. I think it's a great initiative. My concern is um if the grant funding is going to cover the cost of the project and also if there's
a match component, if so, what that match looks like. Um, and then how this came about because we have a number of projects going on right now. Um, I'm just concerned about the timing of the of the project and the unforeseen cost.
Um, and it's really based on just past experience working with various firms who um are very proactive to go find these grants so that they're able to award them, not award themselves, but it's worked for them. It's worked for the engineers. Um, and so I'm just
concerned about it because it wasn't something that the council said, "Hey, we need to go do this right now. We don't have all the information and I just don't want to see us in a situation where a project that we didn't ask for is something now we're trying to find funding for um the timing of it. I just
have a lot of concerns. It seems a bit rushed. I understand that the deadline um is to file tonight or they need a vote tonight, but it's also the first time we've we've seen it and had an opportunity to discuss it. So, with that, I just have several concerns about this. Um, and I understand it's the will
of the council. I'm happy to support, but I just wanted to voice my concerns um based on what's been presented. Yes. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Worthy. Um, as I stated in my question to our engineer, I do have questions about the
matching funds that may be required with this grant. Um, I don't want We have a number of projects that are um pending and a pressing aquatic situation that needs addressing. Um, and I don't want to overextend ourselves into any
contracts or any other projects um that we weren't intending on spending additional money to help complete. So with that, um I until we can get the information that was asked for by our
uh or from our engineer, I'd like to uh table this uh agenda item or ask council to consider tableabling this agenda item. Is there anyone opposed to that?
No. And this is this is the topic that he said he would not be able to get the answer tonight. Yes, this is the only topic that he was referring to. Yeah, this is the bikeway grant application. I think he said he might be able to get it extended the deadline. I'm okay with that.
Okay. All right. So, with that, I will resend my motion. Did I make the motion? We need to rescend in order to table. Oh, in the in the current motion. Okay. All right. So, I'd like to make a motion
to table this agenda item resolution 2025-181 until the August 19th meeting. So, moved. Second. Oh, you second. Okay. Moved by Mayor Whitfield, seconded by Councilwoman
Peron. Any discussion on that? Roll call, please. Councilwoman Pon, yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy, yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. Our next resolution um up for separate discussion which I
believe just needs an amendment is resolution authorizing the town or sorry 2025-182 resolution authorizing the township of Willingboro to establish a not to exceed amount for South Jersey glass and doors for the replacement of steel doors at the country club and Penny Packer pool
locations. Can I get a motion? I'd like to make a motion to amend this agenda to remove the Penny Packer pool location from this resolution. So, move.
I made second. Second. I'm sorry. Second. No worries. Um, it's been moved by Mayor Whitfield, seconded by Councilwoman Pon. Roll call on the amendment. Councilwoman Pone. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield.
Yes. Thank you. I need a motion um to approve the amended resolution. Correct. I just made a motion to amend. To amend. Okay. Yes. So, make a motion to approve the resolution. Um can I get
a motion to approve 2025-182? So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Councilwoman Peron. Any discussion? Being none, madame clerk,
councilwoman Pon, yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy, yes. Mayor Whitfield, yes. Thank you. Our next resolution up for discussion is resolution 199
2025-19 resolution of the township of Willingboroough, County of Burlington, state of New Jersey appointing members to various boards and commissions. We have two uh residents up for appointment tonight. Um for the
economic development committee, we have um Gail Fontaine, who would be appointed as a resident member for an unexpired term to expire December 31st, 2025 to the economic development committee. Can I get a motion in a second? So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor
Worthy, seconded by Councilwoman Pon. Would you like a roll call for this? Uh, Councilwoman Per. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. And our second resident for, and I apologize, there's a typo on the
resolution, but it will be correct for the actual record, is for the municipal alliance committee for Titus Welcome, who's hereby appointed as a resident member of an unexpired term to expire December 31st, 2026. Um, and this again is for the municipal alliance committee.
So moved. Second. Moved by Councilwoman Peron, seconded by Deputy Mayor Worthy. Roll call. Councilwoman Peron. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. And again, I'll
Thank you, Madam Clerk. And I believe that is all the resolutions for separate consideration tonight. Yes. Can we move on to the treasurer's report? Can I get a motion, a second to approve
the treasures report date, June 30th, 2025? So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy. Seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Coun Council Peron. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy.
Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Um and then we have three meeting minutes up for approval tonight. Um that I'm asking for approval tonight. Can I get a motion in a second to approve the regular meeting minutes and executive
session minutes from June 17th and the special meeting minutes from July 1st? So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy. Seconded by Mayor Whitfield. Any discussion? Roll call. Councilwoman Peron.
Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Your updates, please. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, so a couple updates for you this evening. We will be hosting a shred event in the back parking lot of the library on Saturday,
September 13th, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The first hour will just be for state approved documents um for destruction that we have accumulated in the municipality. And then um after that from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the truck will be open from to anyone in the
public for anyone that would like to pull up and shred their documents. I'm waiting on a few more confirmation details from the actual shred company before I get with communications to get that flyer, but it should be out in the next week or so. Um, our digital filing system is up and running for the clerk's
office. We had our first training on the web-based software today. Um, and we will start incorporating it immediately into our daily routines. I will be utilizing the help of our intern that just started today to continue the digitization of the various records in our office that we were unable to get
digitized in this phase of filing. Um this will keep us on track for phase two hopefully next year and um also save us some um some money. Uh we have also implemented our online permitting module through gov. My team has been training on it for the past couple weeks to
familiarize themselves with the new program. I'd like to release the module to the public by the end of the month so the public can start applying for permits online. Um, at the moment the only permits that we have available through GOG gov are merkantile and dog licenses, but we are um also hoping to
get food trucks and solicitation permits and maybe uh no knock uh the no knock list as well um in the next month. Um, as for the solicitors in town, we had one new company come and
apply and get approved for 23 23 new solicitor licenses uh in the past month. So, the approved solicitors in town at this time are Allied Experts, who has three people, Home Solutions, who has one person, Green Exterior Solutions,
who has one person, Homes Smart has one person, Eco Shield has 11 people, Topline Roofing has three people, The Fruit of Islam has one person person. Um, this is a nonprofit license that they um they applied for. They also have
to go through um some of the same uh stuff just to make sure they're safe walking the streets. And then Vivant Security is the newest company. They um have 23 people walking around. If you have a no knock sticker or if you would
like a no knock sticker, feel free to contact my office. Um we also do take um the complaints really seriously. If if you have a no sticker and they're coming to your house, um feel free to either contact us or you could go right to the police. But we um straight away go to
the company and say, "Hey, like you need to make sure you are following our um you know, our ordinances and our codes. Um so please keep it up. we do have people come and um you know show us their Ring doorbell
camera footage and everything and we do um investigate it and we do reach out to them. So um and again if you do want a no knock um you can either go online and do it or um come directly to my office. Um
with that I have been working on a draft update of the solicitation ordinance for council's consideration if you would like to limit the amount of solicitors. I know it's kind of a hot topic right now. Um, if it's something council would is interested in, I can um have
something prepare prepared for the next meeting. It it doesn't hurt my office. I mean, we can do it either way. But, um, if if it's something council thinks is concerning, I can bring it to you. Um, and then the other the other ordinance
I'm working on is updating our taxi cab ordinance. Um, I'm going to go over the duties of the police department with Chief Bucks on Thursday to ensure the ordinance we have on the books is being maintained and enforced correctly. Um,
so it's just one of the many ordinances I'm kind of going through as I um go through the department and making sure that, you know, we're consistently have the correct procedures matching with the correct ordinances. Um, so I will have
more updates for you on that in the next month or so. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Any questions for our clerk? I just had one question, Madame Clerk. Um, with the new Gov permit platform, is
that platform able to take payments online as well? It does have the ability to. Um, it's not set up right now. Um, I'm working with the finance department to make sure we are doing it correctly, um, when it comes to state statutes because they
have specific rules we have to follow, but it does have the ability to. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? Just, um, to piggyback off of your question, uh, mayor, which was a good question. Um, while you're working with that, is it possible, and this might be
a legal question, to have the MUA also incorporate that into the pay online? Like I know they're a different entity, but if it's available, can the sites be merged where people can actually pay their water bills through that or is that a conflict? And that might be a Jason question.
The MUA does have the ability to pay your water bill online. It's it is separate. So I don't think we can co-mingle finances in that way but especially because they also collect um
monies from outside from other townships that they provide with right they have that's what I meant because they have a third party like you pay a fee to pay it depending on so I was thinking more like you would for gov you would pay a fee for this it's going to be the same thing and it
doesn't go like it goes right to it's a processing fee or it's going to be the Same thing like MUA then. Okay. I was thinking more like PSEG. You just pay it. Yeah. Okay. That's all. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman.
All right. If there are no other questions for our clerk, we'll move on to unfinished business. We didn't have anything that was brought up um prior to the meeting. Um so, we will move on to new business.
Is there any new business? I have something council member. So I had um received a few phone calls from a few different residents. Um this is a concern and I did speak with Mr. Harris about this as well as Mr. uh Lori
and uh Mr. Chapman. This is concerning the um immediate sidewalk repair project that's going on. I understand that um some of the sidewalks have been zoned to
be repaired to prevent tripping hazards and I received pictures from residents whereby the street sidewalk was repaired so this way someone wouldn't trip. However, now the street looks like
streets in Camden or Trenton. It looks really bad. So with my conversation um with Mr. trap man. He did explain why the pavement looked so bad. The way I would describe it, it looks like somebody splashed white paint on your
concrete, but he did explain what's happened is that they shaved down the concrete. When they shaved it, it's like shaving a rock, so you're getting a discoloration. So, with that said, um the last that I spoke to him was to find
out if there's um some sort of remedy to make the street look better. Um I understand why it happened. Um but I want to know from Mr. Harris or Mr. Chapman, do we have and I also wanted to bring it to the council's attention. uh
do we have um resolution to make sure our streets are not looking to um because it happens. I mean, if you think about it, you know, when you go places like and I hate to say it, but like when you go places like Hampton and Trenton and you and you walk down the
streets and you wonder why, how did this all happen? It happens one one stone at a time. So before we get to the entire community where our streets look destroyed, something I I'm deeply concerned that something needs to be
done. I don't want the streets to be a tripping hazard, but what can be done to make the streets look better? Mr. Larry. Well, I'll invite Mr. uh Chapman up, but I think we just approved um the purchase
of an ex excavator, which would that would be a solution for that. Um but I'll allow him to go more in detail of what concern for that. All right. Good evening everybody. Good evening, Mr. Chapman. So to piggyback, yes, we did have conversations and I did not forget you.
So I've been looking through different solutions. Um, currently the only other solution outside of just ripping and replacing it, what I want to do is try to get I located a product on Home Depot. It's I guess you could say like a concrete Oh, sorry, a concrete sealer type
finisher type thing. Um, so I want to try that. Uh, we can get it I think roughly $65 a gallon just to start there to see what it will be. Only thing is we'll have to paint um both of those concrete sections. So it will make it look different than the other sections,
but it won't look manner. Yeah. Right now. So that's the first option. The second option is no longer grinding down the sidewalks because it's obviously not aesthetically pleasing to the council or the community members. Um when we chose that option, it wasn't for aesthetics. It was for
safety. Um because trip hazards, especially when it comes to ripping and replacing, is a lot more expensive to rip and replace something that can easily be treated with like a machine where you grind it down. Um and that's what we did do. However, over time that look that you're referring to, which is
the exposed unfinished concrete, will weather away when rain and just the natural walking and the natural elements of weathering process would happen. However, residents might not want to wait that long. So, we are looking to address that. So, I'm going to try the Home Depot option to try that one area,
see how it looks, and I'll send you pictures as well. There's just been so much going on. I have to get double back with you, but I have not forgotten you. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you for the update. That's excellent. I will report that to the individuals as well. All righty. Thank you, Mr. Chapman.
Is there any other um new business? Seeing none, we will move on to public comment. This public comment is the general public comment. It will be for four minutes um each. Please uh come up to the mic, state your name and address
at the time of your comment. You can also raise your hand online as our IT um and streaming capability is working properly this evening. Um please uh raise your hand to comment. Remember to
state your name and address. And this public comment, general public comment is now open. you can just come up and if anyone else wants to, you can start to form a line over by Chief Bster. Um, my name is Astra Augustus. I live at
86 East Lane. Can you speak directly into the mic? You can pull it down some if need be. There we go. My name is Astra Augustus. I live at 86 Eastbrook Lane. Um maybe a couple years ago the township sent something about we
should um get um warranties on our water lines and this the sewer line and it would home serve. So it came upon that I kept getting um letters from the township. They got an alarm that I might be something is wrong with with my
water. Is it my, you know, is it my toilet running, you know, am I washing too too many clothes? So the the letter came March, April, May, and June. And I did everything I could to figure out what what is the the issue. They gave me
some example that might be the cause. So I work for a Jewish own business and they have a whole week off. So I now I can take the time to figure out what is this. It was the water line. And only way they know that, they told me I had to check the the the the water meter. If
it's floating, then they know you must have a an an an issue with the the the water line. So I said, "Okay, let me um let me uh call home serve." And I said, "Yeah, I forgot." So anyway, they gave
me a plumber and he came out and but the water plants there, they can't open up anything. They have to be be the one to to do it. So I should have known there was something wrong when he said I don't pay any attention to what they say I'll carry something he opened up anyway anyway. So I went to call the home
service to see now what's next and um that the line was busy. So I said well let me just do some background check because I work for full election for 28 years and we usually do a background check on businesses. So I did that that particular one that I I remember the
name but it had a F rating. Oh my god. So when they finally called me back, I told him what my issue was. The F rating plumber. He said, "But they bring us a lot of business." I said, "Well, they feel that way about this company that bring a lot of business.
Let let me do some background check on home serves." I Googled it. There's 972 complaints. Oh, no. I'm sorry. There's a a class action suit against them. 972 complaints in the last three years and
373 more in the last 12 months. I said I don't I'm not I'm not going to go with these people and they don't seem to care. So I found some company that had a A+ rating. Matter of fact, I found them before they start to advertise. So the option to figure out where this
leak is coming from is three. And they offer that, but they wouldn't give me what I wanted. They give me what they wanted. Let me tearing up my lawn, chopping up my dining room, go through my kitchen. I said that's not going to happen. So I spent $700 700 of my money
to get a leak detector and they found where the leak supposed to be. Then I spent $3,500 to have them drilling down. So So actually the the water line leak was underneath my kitchen sink, the um the slab.
So I'm driving around. I have I have a coworker that work with with me and we go to the to the same church. He said other people having the same issue digging up their lawn but they don't give them the option. There's a red aer red way to find out where the leak is the leech detector. That company with
the f rating got all three. You can chop up your your lawn or you could do but I chose I don't want my lawn tore up. So that was my my issue and I'm you know that's my concern. The other one that I have is that one side of my my yard is a
4 feet. I'm only 41. So the somebody I can talk to is a short like a it's a chain fence. So it's short. The other one on other side of my ma'am your time is up. Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. No, it's okay. We I just had the issue because now I have
to and Miss Go. Miss Augusta, your time is up. But please do reach out to the clerk's office to continue your um public comment and we'll take that all under um consideration and we'll respond to all public comments at the end of the
session. Thank you. My name is Olivia Freeman 101 Hazlewood Circle, New Jersey. I have a strong issue with
the water company and I came here to be able to present my issue about the water company. I have sent emails into the township here also emails into Emmanuel
those that's at the water company. I have very high water bills. I have on this water bill for the second quarter is $257. Now I have had four certified
contractors to come in from home sir. They started as a march during leak detection. Nothing was found on my property that
was leaking, nor were the toilets or anything. Also, um at the water company, Bill Lake has did his testing with the die count. Nothing is leaking. I have my uh
pictures to prove my plumbers coming in. I even with furer is to have like a new faucet put on fill valve. Also the flappers in the toilet hoping that this will lower the water bill. The first
quarter was $337. This one came in higher. I started doing my investigation with my neighbors, talking to them. How high is your water bill? My neighbor across the street said, "Mine is about in the flat rate 16
something." My neighbor on the side of me when Jim that worked with the water company, he pulled up their bill with five in the home for $174. I am by myself. So from that standpoint
on I said I'm only going to pay the flat rate myself because I'm not using all this water that they are saying I'm using. So I did $169 plus I never had n a bill like that. So
what I did was this. I'm going to take the money in. But before I took the money in, I received this letter from the water company telling me they're going to put a lean on my property. I've been here ever since 1980.
And this is what it reads here, which the residents of Willingberg is not aware of this, nor did we receive any notice. And it reads, it said here, accounts over, can you hear me? Accounts overdue.
Wait. Uh it says accounts overdue for 90 days with balances over 200 um should be notified and in the township by putting a tax sale on their
property. This is not justice. And also I'm so pleased to meet you. You know where I'm coming from. Okay. And I have sent this in by my family too because I deal with the table. I was so shocked I had to come in
here and pay $886 for something I did not use. During more investigations of the water company, I never knew they were spying on the Will uh Willenberg resident. for proof of this.
This is my protocol from them. Proving every move I make in my home over here. They do 24hour service on you. Like Mrs. Freeman, that's your time. Sorry, we all Freeman, your time is up.
Okay. All right, then. But we will respond to the public comments at the end of the public comment session. Wonderful. All right. Thank you. Good evening, mayor, council members. My name is Dr. Samira Tate at 248 Penny
Packer Drive, and I'm the principal at United Hearts Islamic Academy here in Willingboro. So, thank you so much for allowing me to speak tonight. First, I want to express how grateful we are to be a part of the Willingboroough community.
Our school has been educating children here for four years, serving families who deeply value both strong academics and the nurturing Islamic environment that we provide. We came before you in 2023
to request approval to expand our school building so we can include middle and high school grades. While we appreciated your careful review, we understand that traffic on Penny Packa Drive was a major concern. Therefore, we redesigned our plan to
directly address that issue. Since we have scheduled a zoning meeting with you on a August 6, those specifics of our plans for the school building will be provided at that time. But our goal isn't simply to grow for
the sake of size. We want to build a facility that meets the needs of our students and provides a safe, modern, and effective learning environment. Our existing building is simply not equipped to handle the needs of older
grades and specialized programs. By expanding, we can provide dedicated spaces for science labs, technology, and enrichment activities, maintain small class sizes that support individualized attention,
keep our students in Willenboro rather than families having to send their children to schools in other towns or counties for middle and high school. we can continue uh continue contributing to the local economy and remain stable a
stable part of this township's community fabric. We believe our new plan is a solution that balances the township's concerns with our community's educational needs. We ask
for your partnership and support to make this vision uh this vision a reality. Also, I want to thank our parents, families, and nested community me community members that are here and on the call.
Their support for this project reflect uh reflects how deeply they care about their children's futures and in some cases their commitment to Willingboro as their home. I respectfully ask that you reconsider our request for the school building
expansion and allow United Hearts Islamic Academy to continue serving the children and families to the fullest extent. This project would not only benefit our students, our school, but also
contribute positively to the broader Willingboro community. I believe deeply that our students deserve the best that we can give them. We hope that you'll take what you hear tonight into consideration and support us in our expansion efforts
and hope we can work together to make this happen for the community. Again, thank you for your time and your dedication to this township of Willenboro. Thank you, Miss Tate. Good evening, council members. I'm Tabby
Tame Hedi Humplush and at 248 Penny Packer Drive. I'm a former student of UHIA and I have a lot of memories and enjoyed being going there. Sadly, I have to go 1 hour away for another Islamic school. It will mean a lot to me and the Islamic community if you grant the
school expansion and I get to attend UHIA this year and beyond. I will also we will also be part of the Willing B community and I would really enjoy that. That is all. I hope this finds you well and thank you for your time. Thank you, Damian.
Good evening, uh, council members. My name is Malik Ammer at 248 248 Penny Back Penny Backer Drive. Thank you for giving me the chance to speak tonight. I would like to to start by saying asalam allayikum, which is the Islamic greeting that means peace be upon you. It's a way
of showing kindness and respect, and that's something really important to me. Today, I want to talk about why Muslim schools are important and how they help uh kids like me grow in a safe and supportive place. I believe that every student should be able to go to a school where their beliefs and cultures are
respected. Muslim schools give kids a chance to learn all the regular school subjects while also learning about their religious religion and values. These schools teach math, science, reading, and everything else. but in a way that also respects our faith. They help
students feel comfortable, proud of who they are, and teach us to be good people. Having schools like this also uh shows that everyone should be treated fairly and be free to practice their religion. For the past 2 years, I've gone to an Islamic school called UHIA
and it's been a great experience. Every day, I felt safe and happy to be there. The teachers were all always kind and respectful and they made me feel like I mattered. I also have made friends who had the same values as me, which helped me feel included. At UHIA, we were
taught to be respectful, honest, and caring. It was nice to be in a place where everyone treated every uh each other with kindness. I'm really thankful for the time I spent there. Now that more families are joining our community, UHIA is getting fuller, and we need more space. That's why I think it's important
to expand the school. We need more classrooms, places for activities, and a bigger prayer area. If we grow the school, more students can have the same great experience I had. It would also help us have more programs and learning opportunities for everyone. Expanding
UHIA means building a better future for Muslim students like me. In conclusion, Muslim schools like UHIA help kids learn uh while also staying connected to their faith. They teach us how to be good students and good people. I hope we can support and grow the grow and grow these
schools so more kids can have a place where they feel safe, respected, and proud of who they are. Thank you for listening and allaykum. Peace be upon you. Thank you, Malik. How you doing? Um Daryl Coleman, um Petian Lane. Um, I'm calling coming up
here to speak in response to my last time being up here and the emails that we responded that we were sent. Um, the one email from Mr. Harris and one email from you. Um, the email we got from Mr. Harris basically stated that
he makes it up as he goes. he sees it on Facebook, teach it as law, and he'll make his decision to put it out there as to the effects of the event or what the event is going to do. Um, there was no
clarity in the email as far as what we're allowed allowed not to do. It was just basically um I don't have an answer for you, but when something comes up, I'll distribute it and let people know. No, let us know
what we can and can't do and ordinance so that we can get everything corrected. Um to your email, that's what I came and said, that the two paperworks are different. All we're asking council to do is to accept and
allow us to know why we can't have the social affairs permits. The special affairs social special events permits have nothing to do with us unless another entity throws an event at our space unless we're notified that something is
different. But we're trying to figure out what can we do so that we can operate at our full capacity for what we signed up for on our um resolution in front of the planning board. Um we still haven't gotten that. We haven't gotten
to um any of the false accusations that have been placed against our organization and our business. Um saying we're having events that we aren't having, misclassifying events.
um policy changes. Um we were doing social affairs permits one way. I guess once it got found out that we were doing social affairs permits they now all of a sudden they had to go in front of council.
Mike Bird has been doing this event for 11 years before he got with us. Now all of a sudden new paperwork is needed. All we asking for is some clarity on how we can operate at our uh maximum capacity
and the lack of communication is disheartening. We've communicated with everyone that we feel has the power to give us some honest opinion on what we need to do to get better. We're not uh above criticism, but we're not getting
that. We're getting silence and everything that's happening regarding us is happening back door. Why aren't we privy to any of the information that's being distributed about us so that we can at least fix it or
uh dispel the false claims? There's multiple false claims that keep going on and it's like we have to fight a laundry list of things before we get to what we need and there's no communication on how to get these things fixed. Um, I know
that we're supposed to send a protocol to two members and I don't know that's not working. We sent sent it to all the members in different two combinations on how we felt we can get some resolution
and all we was was able to respond is I can't give you anything concrete but when I feel like you've done something wrong I'll let you guys know and all you did was tell me what I already told you. There were claims made that the two paperworks were the same and that when
we were in violation that we were in violation of having events. We were only in violation of being able to serve. Time is up, Mr. Coleman. I'm sorry. Thank you, Mr. Coleman. Greetings, Council William Weston, 44 Bossworth Lane. Uh, first I'm just
speaking to you as a resident. I do appreciate uh seeing ordinance 202514 uh concerning the convenience stores. Uh you know, we do want to be open to business, but I do think it's more appropriate to have uh 24-hour
businesses on the 130 corridor. And secondly, I'm going to speak as a WMUA commissioner. And tomorrow there is a WMUA meeting uh where the residents who had their their issue can speak about those issues. I'll say that I haven't
heard about these things, but I definitely want them addressed and we did change our policy, but I would like to hear how the public u feels about it. And they can express that at the meeting tomorrow, which will be at 6:00, excuse
me. And there's a link at wua.info wmua.info if they would like to join the meeting. And that concludes my comments. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wson. How y'all doing? Derek Dick, Senior, uh 20 Paddock Lane. Um first and foremost,
Mr. Lie, proud of you. All right. Um I'm not originally from here. Originally from Trenton. Um moved out here, met up with a group of brothers, has like ideas. We started this uh business.
Now the things that we were doing or that we had in our mind to do was networking. It was it was stuff to benefit the community. And since we've started, it seems like, you know, we've been going through hurdle after hurdle. And I don't
mind hurdles. It is what it is. However, when we get stuck at things where it's like we haven't we communicating things and we not getting that same feedback back and then then there's no progress. It's like what is the problem with it?
Because at the end of the day, all we want to do is have our business succeed. We want to we want to put the stuff out in the community. We want to have our networking. We want to we want to host and we just wanted to we want it
to thrive and it seems like we can't do that because of politics. And I'm hoping that it ain't politics. I'm hoping that it's something real. And if it is something real, we need to know. That's all. All we asking for is to know what
it is that we need to do to get ourself or get our our business in line to what the uh Willing Bro needs from us because until we know that, what what are we supposed to do? We can only operate the way we know how to operate. Now, if if
y'all was to tell us something that we needed to do, we can do that. We can fix that. if it's something broken. But until that time, we can't. But during that time, we can't operate. So we stagnant right now because we don't have any information. So all I'm asking for
is the information and hear us out. And if anybody had like we can sit down and talk about anything. It's not it's not like we trying to hide anything or it's what we can have a conversation. That's all we asking for. I'm not going to get
old too. Have a good one. Thank you. Good evening. I do not like public speak, but I feel like I need to say a little something tonight. So, my name is Cynthia Coleman.
I live at 26 Edgewater Lane. I'm a 35-y year resident. I'm also the uh chairperson of the Providence House Advisory Board. I also am the manager uh
member of the Giving Mobile, which is a uh mobile food pantry that serves Willingboro and Burlington County. And we also do a farm to cable fresh produce uh giveaway, free giveaway at u the
social elite club. So that's mainly what I'm here to talk about. I have two sons who are part of the owners and there are eight young black men who have come together with a
a purpose. I know what kind of events they give. They give baby showers, weddings. They let us host our events there. Uh they've had political events there. So the
gambit is wise. Why? And I've listened to some of the meetings where the council has been denying the events and I just feel like they have not been asking the right right questions because you all are
denying the events. So my question is why? Why can't they succeed there? I also understand that Councilman Anderson and I believe Mr. Harris are part of Fosters. And I think there seems
to be a little conflict between the two because they're kind of the same business, but there shouldn't be a conflict. We're a community. We're all here to serve a purpose and we should be supporting each other. And it feels it
feels like me as a mother, as a resident, that you guys are targeting and profiling them. So, I hope that you guys will sit down and resolve this because I've heard this
again and again. It's not resolved. The other thing is uh I've listened to the TNR come before you guys six months ago. Uh last meeting, still hadn't come to a resolution about that. I have a cat that
I got. The cat was supposed to be neutered and I had three litters and I own that cat. So I can imagine what the feral cats are doing. So I hope that you will sit down and come to a decision
about that also. Thank you. Thank you Miss Coleman. Greetings, council, madame mayor, madame deputy mayor, council woman, town solicitor, township manager, township clerk, friends,
family. My name is Anthony Noel. I live at 19 Marian Lane. I'm also the president of Willingboro Muslim Educational Circle. We've been operating in Willingber for approximately 10 years. But I moved here
35 years ago when our Muslim population was very small. And at one point to get my kids educated within religion, I drove every day all the way up to South Brunswick.
So I'm I'm making a direct appeal that through whatever has to be done, whatever support uh you need or help you need from the Muslim community um that some way somehow this project with
Islamic University of the Hearts, if I got your name right, uh can get done because we have a growing Muslim population here in Willingboro. As you can see, we now have three institutions where we had zero. So, please consider
what has to be done. Take their information um whatever proposals they have and grant them a increase in their facility. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. No. Good evening, council members. Uh my
name is Dr. Marwell Toil. I'm an obstitrician and gynecologist serving the Burlington and Wenboroough area uh 651 High Street. Um I'm here uh because not as a physician, as a parent. Um, my kids go to United Hearts Islamic Academy
School and I'm here to um in support of their request or the the request that's submitted for expanding the school. Um, I've been here for three years when we moved to New Jersey. Um I'm I'm I proudly serve my patients in the area
and one of the as we all know our kids are our priority and um the fact that I found a school that meets my uh cultural and religious needs um nearby is very important. I would not want to relocate
elsewhere uh because uh of for school reasons. Now, if for any reason now my kids, one of my kids are has grown out of the the the grades that's supported by the school at this point and now we're searching for schools nearby. I'm looking for 40-minute drive as a
physician, as someone who um does not want to have to relocate because I'm serving the community in a way, not just myself. There are other parents at the school who also h play an integral role in the community. Um, I don't want to have to relocate and leave the people
that I serve just because of schooling. Uh, expansion will help significantly improve and and and uh attract uh people who serve our community to the area in a in a beneficial way for sure. Uh, thank you so much for um listening to uh what
our concerns tonight. Thank you. Hi, good evening. Thank you so much for your time for us today. I'm also here on behalf of uh UHIA United Hearts as a parent. I am Can you state your name and address please? Oh, sure. Sure. I I apologize. My first
name is Karam, last name is Mktar representing UHIA at 248 Penny Packer and um I am a revenue agent actually working with the uh US government uh here as a parent. I have two kids age
four and five and uh I have been actually I don't live in this township. I live in Pensaken Township since 1998 and um ever since my daughter was born in 2020, we have been considering to look for Islamic schools in the area.
There are none really u for the most part. We have considered moving to northern Jersey about 60 mi away. We have considered Chicago to move to where there are decent Islamic schools 800 miles away. We have even considered text. I'm really hoping that they in
this uh my wife is an eligible teacher currently not working hoping for an opportunity to work at UHIA and uh I would just respectfully request any consideration you can give to granting their their request. I have been driving
about 25 miles uh daily to drop my kids off here and never encountered any traffic issues mainly because we're not deep into residential area. We're right off of Route 130 and the only troubling traffic pattern I see there is people trying to make a U-turn directly from
our parking lot in the school. So other than that, I have never encountered any um any traffic issues, but hopefully you'll consider and grant us our uh our request. Appreciate your time today. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any public comment online?
Hello. Yes, we can hear you. Good evening. Uh my good evening everyone. Uh I am a resident of Wellenboro for more than 40 years. My name is Terry Abney. Dress please.
My name is Terry Abney. I live at 18 Tempo Lane. Um, I want to thank Councilwoman Peron for bringing up the issue about the sidewalk. I did speak with her in regards to that
issue. Um, and it's not a thing. I listened to the gentleman who spoke about the cosmetic issue. That is one part of it because I think it depreciates my property. But the other
part is it did not rectify the tripping hazard. Um it's still a trip hazard and from what it looks like um eventually the stones are going to
start wearing and the the the concrete it'll be a hole. So for the job that they did, they didn't rectify an issue. They promoted a bigger one. I don't know what the
gentleman was speaking of about a sealant. I don't know if that's going to rectify. It's it's more the depreciation and of the concrete over time and yeah,
the depreciation of my property. It it it looks bad and it didn't resolve the issue that they claimed they set out to do. So, I I would like that addressed. That's my comment.
Thank you, Miss Antne. Thank you. We have one more here in the courtroom. Yes. Good evening, council members, uh, neighbors, and madame clerk. Uh, madame mayor, uh, I'm here. My name is Hazam
Munir. I live at 12 Plymouth Court. I'm residing in Mount Holly, which is the neighboring community to, uh, Willing Barrow. I'm um a father of three young people who I've uh raised and graduated, but I'm also a 25 26-year veteran
teacher from Treton public schools. And I'm here to bolster the interest of the uh University of the Heart School because as a 26-year veteran of education, I've witnessed myself how important it is to have educational
programs and institutions that value the diverse communities that we uh find ourselves in. Um, I'm convinced that the school is invaluable to the students who will be served there and I sincerely hope that
you will support the uh efforts and aims to expand that institution. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go back to comments from online. Good evening. Good evening. Um, uh, my name is Karima
Andrews and I'm speaking on behalf of United Hearts Islamic Academy. First, I want to thank you all for hearing us out this evening. Um, I'd like to say our school plays a vital role in providing a strong Islamic education paired with academic
excellence and moral development by but despite our best efforts, we are limited in the physical space we currently have. Our current facility is no longer adequate to meet the needs of our students or our growing number of families seeking this kind of education.
Our children have no lunchroom to gather and to eat comfortably. No gym to exercise and release exercise uh uh energy during the day and no auditorium for assemblies, performances or community events. These are not just amenities. They're essential parts of
the complete education experience. Without these spaces, students eat in their lunchrooms with which disturbs their lunch their lunchtime and leaves them with little little time for recess. They miss out on physical education during the cold months and inclement
weather which impacts both their mental health, physical health and ability to focus during class and the lack of auditorium makes it difficult to host schoolwide fost withinity. Expanding not just the classrooms more classroom it's about giving our opportunity to in an
environment that reflects their values that respects their identity and per and uh prepares them for the future. We are seeking the opportunity to expand our Not just for accommodate our students, but to give our current stu students a
well-rounded environment they deserve. They're eager and bright and full of potential. And with your support, we can provide them with the facility they need to grow into. We kindly ask your support and to help us create a better and more functional space for our children. Thank you very much and thank you for your
consideration. Thank you, Miss Andrews. You're welcome. Good evening. My name is Good evening. My name is Martine Joseph. I live in Spinewood Court. I'm here on behalf of Diamond
Dust, um who's um located on JFK at the building formerly known as um um the Knights of Columbus. I've been working um with this amazing group for
the past three months helping them making sure they are making sure that they follow every laws every policies that um for the in the f federal federal
government and state and also local and I this is a I'm here to ask that they really support this group um as they are very focused on helping bringing some a
good environment to the community. Their their focus is to have um events that will enrich the organiz the community, bring out some awareness to the community. having um different type of
gathering that are family events that can help uh businesses that can help um different type of of um groups in the community. The president Daryl Coleman as we all know has been a pillar in the
community helping the youth with the sports. Now he is bringing his his um he is taking it even further to help the community and we are at justice also for everybody else the youngers that they
can have a place they can come and relax and have some and have families good families gathering. I'm h I'm asking the township to help them. Uh and they've been having a lot of type of problems where there's a lot of confusions and
not clarity of what they need to do to maintain to have their proper documents and I've been working with them as their accountant and I will tell you that they are very serious. They want to make sure they do the right thing. they just need
to have clarity from from their own township to help them succeed. and have I'm I've been um I was a Willingboro resident for years and one thing I know
um that Willingboro always help always make sure that there they have um good um citizen doing everything they could for the community and this organization is a nonprofit organization and are the
community that's their focus if they can it can meet them halfway and help them succeed. That'll be great. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Joseph. The iPhone 7 user. Hello.
Hello. Can you hear me? Hello. Yes, we can hear you. How you doing? My name is Robert Mason from Elite Social Club. I was calling just or reaching out to find I was there last month in conversation with you guys with council to find out again where is
the disconnect with requirements that need to be met with the township. Uh we received the email as um one of the members Daryl Coleman has spoke about earlier with Mr. Paris
regarding events and proper documentation and permits which he in the email has replied and said he's not ready to give us an answer on what is allowed and what is not allowed. As the township manager, we're asking for guidance. We're asking
for what he sees a problem and for him not to respond to give us what he sees is not a problem or what events that we're not allowed to have or certain events that we need to have per permits for. We need clarification. We're not rocket
scientists. We need to understand what Mr. Harris has a problem with with what we're doing. if he has a problem with anything. And it seems to be that every time we have an event that is publicized through social media, which is today's platform of advertising different
events, Mr. Harris has a problem with it. So, I would like clarification again on what he sees or what the council sees is a problem that we're having. And we do all kinds of events and we're
just trying to get clarity. Again, we was there last month and we still have no clarity from the council or the township manager. And I don't this is not acceptable for organization to keep coming back to a meeting just asking for clarity on
what you guys need for us to proceed and thrive. And I just again I'm asking the township for clarity on what they need from us to be compliant and not have any issues. And that's all. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mason. Good evening, council. Good evening. Hello. Hear you? Hi, this is Jacquine Mack 70 Maple Wicklane. Um, there were just a couple of things I'd like to mention here. One is um
I am very impressed with the monuments that the township has put into the various corners. Well, they've yeah put them at various corners in the township. Um, the monuments I think are great. The only problem I have is that the one that
is in the uh on the main roads going into the township seems to be so small. I want to say have a little oomph to it. Now maybe you're um just restricted because of the size of the um area
underneath. I don't know. Maybe you don't want to block traffic. But they all look very good. Thank you very much. Uh the other thing is I would like to say thank you very much to Mr. Lowry um and the rest of council for I this and
the IT department. They did a great job with this meeting and being a well making sure that everyone talked into the microphones and that's real important. Uh Samantha, I would have to ask you to slow down a little bit. Honey, my old old ears don't listen that
fast to you or go that fast. But thank you all very much. It was good meeting and I hope you all have a nice summer. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Good night. Good evening, Sarah Holly again. Uh I'm not going to take time with minute uh to
be read to the minutes referencing title 2 ADA American with disability accommodate uh 42 USC-12131 also NJSA uh 10 semicolon 4-6. So I will expect both those letters to be read verbatim
and the minutes I sent the information to uh the township manager. Now Mr. Coleman, I know you're very active in the community. I know who you are, but I have a couple comments relative to the comments that you made tonight. One, I
think your concern is misplaced. Mr. Harris has to follow the uh state statutes. However, Mr. Harris takes his direction from council. So, if I were you, my suggestion, Mr. Coleman is that
I would turn my attention to council and see what they're doing. As a matter of fact, with your organization, you are presenting events in town. You have a council member who needs to recuse herself from the discuss from that
discussion because she also has a building that houses or host events. So that Mr. Coleman should be a concern for you and you really should address that. As it relates to the water bill, uh the young lady that spoke about the water bill, one of the reasons why we have
such high water bills here in town is that people are not paying their water bill. So those of us who pay our water bill, we are supplementing the dead beats. Yes, I use the word deadbeats because we are paying their bills for
them and that should not be um so and I guess that's all that I have tonight. I'm just waiting for my two letters to be read verbatim into the minutes and uh if not I'll just be back on next
month. My concerns. Thank you, Miss Holly. Great night. Good evening, Maddie Mallerie. I see we're still dealing with a uh black screen, so I have uh I have no idea how much time I have, but I will try to get
in my comments. Uh the first one is positive. I do like the uh new signs around town uh identifying the different parks, but I think that a nice finishing touch to those signs would be to include
the year uh that the park was actually built. Um there seems to be a plate uh beneath the name and maybe uh that year could be placed on that plate. Uh my big
concern was um Fourth of July week when uh the trash dates were changed. Uh the residents were not informed. Um and by that I'm saying I'm holding in my hand a mailer that came out that said
hello summer. And this mailer includes seven different events that are taking place or have taken place in the town. But not one time does it mention the
fact that the trash days during the Fourth of July holiday would be changed. When I asked about it, I was told that it was on the website. Well, I'm an
oxygenarian and this town is made up of a lot of oxygenarians and people do not go on the website. So, I think this is a very poor excuse as to why the residents were not informed that
the trash days would be changed. If your trash was picked up on normally on Thursday, it was changed to Wednesday. And if your trash day was normally on Friday, it was changed to Thursday. So, a very poor job in identifying and
notifying the residents. Uh my other comment has to do with taxes and uh I have a tendency to hold on to my tax bills and I'm looking at one from the year 22-
2022-2023. And on this bill, there is an explanation of taxes. And this explanation includes the county tax, the district school tax, the farmland tax, and all of the taxes that are paid. And it breaks
down the percentages or the rate that is paid for each of these. I looked at my present tax bill and it does not give an explanation. So going forward, I think to clear up the matter as to the fact
that we have a flat tax rate, if this information is cluded on future tax bills, there is less confusion as to where the change is. people can actually see that it is the school taxes or the
county taxes and not the municipal taxes that are that will be making the change in their tax. Uh one other comment um on the website next door a resident posted
the other day that if you go to the pool in country club take your own toilet paper. Well, I hope this is not true, but her um posting stated that she talked to I think the person that's in
charge there and then she was told that they had no toilet paper. Suppose to believe we don't have toilet paper. Well, I have no because my screen but
thanks anyway. Thank you, Miss Mallerie. Good evening. Uh, my name is Jerry Charles Reid. I'm here as an advocate advocate for 609 Elite Social Club. Um, I was a longtime resident of Willenboro, graduated from Willenboro High School,
and I was ecstatic to find out that a group of um, black men started this organization for the community. Um I just want to say that in this climate where anything relating to diversity and inclusion um
is being removed from all levels that we should be proud that there is a place where our children, our people, ourselves can find a comfort in an organization such as um 609 Elite Social
Club. Um once I became a member, I was very ecstatic to start putting events together. I assisted in the community day that they had. I was also part of the vendor event that they hosted and um
many other events. I am looking forward to their progression in providing a safe space for our high schoolers that are right across the street. Um, as we all know, we watch the news every single day in every single city. There are fights,
there are crimes, there are crazy guns, um, pe homicides happening. Um, and we're fortunate in Willenboro that we're not one of those cities. However, if we don't assist them in doing what it is they need to do, if it's paperwork, if
it's ordinance, if it's laws, anything like that, I believe that guidance um and patience should definitely be executed because these men, you know, didn't have to do this and they chose to and they're trying to help our community. And I believe that we should
do everything in our power to help them make this a successful organization. And if not for ourselves, excuse me, if not for ourselves, at least for the children in our community to help save them, to keep them in Willenboro so they in turn
will grow and have businesses and give back to our community. Um, I just would hope that the manager, um, I briefly had an encounter with him at a team building training and I would hope that you encourage your counterparts, um, and
perhaps discuss with them what you learned in the team building so that we can all team build and help 609 Elite Social Club in um, becoming a organization that the town can be proud of and that will be here for the next
generations to carry on and help their community to grow and prosper. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Miss Charles. Hello. Yes, I can hear you. Hi, good evening. My name is Es Shakur
and I'm speaking on behalf of United Heart Islamic Academy on 248 Penny Packer Drive. Being able to expand the school would allow more of our children to be able to continue attending as well as the many children that are on the waiting list to attend the school but are not able to because of limited
space. There are a lot of there are not many options there are not many options for great quality as schools where me as a parent of three sons feel comfortable with my sons attending benefiting and loving learning. UHI, United Heart Systemic Academy and their staff truly love their
students and are committed to improving the quality of education that they provide and granting us permission to expand will allow us to do that and so much more. Thank you for your time. Thank you. All right, seeing no more public
comments were brought this I'll start Astraus and Miss Olivia Freeman for Thank you for your comments regarding your water situations. As Commissioner Weston stated, there is the WUA meeting
tomorrow. It does happen online. Um, and you can access that link through wmua.info. Um, the mua is a separate authority from the council. So, unfortunately, the
council has no bearing over the water bills, but we will um make sure that we relay the information. I've spoken um or I've sent an email to you, Miss Freeman, and I've also um left you a voicemail. So, we have been in contact and I am
fully aware of your situation and I know that um the MUA is working on resolving that. So, if you don't have anything, please con um contact the clerk's office and um if there's any followup from the council that's needed.
What? Okay. Okay. Okay, we can't have any more any back and forth, but um I also did hear that both of you use Homeserve and I will um work with the township manager to see um if there are any township agreements with home serve
um and evaluate that and what we can do um regarding their service. All right. We had a number of members of the United Hearts Islamic Academy come before us and state their um desires and application that is before the zoning
board um for an expansion of their school. Um again that is a separate uh jurisdiction. The zoning board is a quasi judicial quasi an independent um board from the
council. So the council has no representation on the zoning board as well as um they we we don't consult them um or they don't consult us for their uh
applications that come before them. So, with that being said, um I will direct the clerk's office to send a copy of the meeting minutes and the comments that were stated here tonight to the zoning
board chair so that they are um they are currently a part of public record. Um and we will um make sure that they receive all of the comments that were stated here tonight. All right. We also had um some comments
from Daryl Coleman, um Miss Cynthia Coleman, Derek Dixs, and a number of others about the elite social elite 609 social club. Um so this has been an ongoing issue. We
are aware of it. Um, I have been in constant uh conversation with the township manager and all the other parties involved code enforcement inspections um to try to get to the bottom of this issue. We just had a
conversation at the planning board meeting last night where I think I got the final piece of the puzzle and I will ask the clerk to set up a meeting um between um myself uh Mr. Harris and Diamond Dogs for next week if possible
so that we can discuss. Did you have anything? Oh, Mr. Harris. Absolutely. So members of the governing body, members of the public, you know, my name has been presented many times over as being vindictive, um having some type of
grudge, some um forming some activities against Diamond Dogs or Elite Social Club specifically. I they have accused me of sending emails and and communications regarding their activities. I have not one time
communicated any anything about Diamond Dogs or Elite Social Club to the general public. All of my communications regarding elite social clubs have been internal communications between members of the governing body or members of my office staff. So where they're getting
this information about things that I've been saying and things that I've been doing, not only is it factually incorrect, it's just wrong, untrue. I have no grudge. I have no objection to Diamond Dogs. I have no objections to
what they do. All that I ask is that if a permit is required, they get a permit. What the law is, what the law states that they they follow. They are saying that I am doing these things. I have not denied them one permit. I have not
inspected their property one time. Uh Miss Coleman alleged that I am a member of uh Fosters. I have only stepped into Fosters two times and both of those times have been for veteran celebrations on behalf of the municipality.
These allegations and these what almost what I consider to be almost slandish remarks are totally unfounded. I have not had one conversation with Mr. Coleman. I have not had one conversation with any member of the D of the Elite Social Club board. All I am hearing is
allegations about things that I have been doing and things that I have been saying and they are not true. Mr. Coleman or somebody did pass on to me a an email asking me for a comprehensive list of what they can do and what they
cannot do. My response to them were was this. I cannot sit down and systematically just list everything that they are allowed to do or or not allowed to do in Willing Barrow. But what I did do was I sent them the definition of
what the requirements for a social affairs permit. And if if anything that they were going to do fall within those guidelines, they would need to go and get a permit from the inspections department. They don't come to my office. they go to the inspections
department and if a permit is granted or denied, it gets granted or denied in the inspections department. I have no bearing on alcoholic beverage permits. Those come from the clerk's office. And as far as my my response to Diamond
Dogs or Elite Social Club's activities, those are only responses that I receive from residents in Willingboro Township about the activities at that location since they have been
and I have received 56 noise complaints about the activities at Diamond Dogs. And I have the reports. If you want to see them, I will show them to you. 56 noise complaints coming from the residents of Willing Barrow. My
communications with the police is just informative. This is what I've heard. Keep an eye out. They do their jobs. I don't believe there has been any types of issues. And Captain Books, he can come and speak to him speak to that u on
his his own accord. If he chooses to or not to, that's fine. But these allegations about what I'm doing, what I'm saying, uh, communications, uh, trying to destroy their good name, totally untrue. And that's all I want to say.
Madame Mayor, if I can council, I want to I was going to wait till the end of your I do have other comments. Let me know how you want to do you want to go through everything. But since he spoke, um, I I did write the email. Um, I was I think you're referring to an email that I wrote following our our
last council meeting. um because I find that um the elite social club club came and presented themselves and I found that they were generally just trying to do whatever is needed in order for them to hold events. Um I did also compare it
to um Councilman Worthy's um facilities at the ATAPs or Epicenter and basically the email that I wrote that I sent was I think I believe to the mayor and all of council not sure Mr. Harris wrote on the
email um to provide events that are um substantial to the the type of business that they currently have. not for you to list they can have a Halloween party versus a baby shower. That's not what I was me that's not what I meant. What I
meant is that um based off of the events that they did share with us and they shared a few events tonight that they hold they are being stopped or blocked or being told that they're I think some of the language was that they're um
going against um policies or procedures and going above what they're allowed to do. So, it's not clear to what types of events they can have. And then when it comes to the um I I've heard um the
language of social affairs versus special events, you know, um it's they're they're not being and I I also wanted to invite them to a meeting. I asked the mayor if we could have a sit down just to clear up what types of events. So, the response that I received
was, "It's too long of a list to give you, and it was very vague response. It still didn't really answer the question." Like, I'm sure um if Councilman Worthy wanted to have an event at the Epicenter, she wouldn't need a list of events that she had because she already went through the
procedures of opening her establishment. I know she mentioned before it's not a 50C type of event, but these are the type of languages I'm I'm asking to be clear on the table. They've already went through the procedures to open up the
establishment to my understanding and now they're putting the events on and there's some sort of hiccup or mixup of confusion social affairs versus special events permits. So, well, if I may, Councilwoman, um I would
like to see one communication where I have denied them anything, just one. And I excuse me. We can't have comment from the public at this time. Exactly. That's the problem. They've been told a lot of things and I don't
know who's doing the telling, but show me just one that I denied them anything. I don't there was one event just recently that that it was brought to my attention through an email communication and the
only thing that I asked and I sent the communications to inspections if they're going to have this event all they need to do is apply for a social affairs permit. Mr. Tonsl who was the inspection of the department of of inspections
communicated with a person there I don't know their name or who and told them that they would be required to get a social affairs permit what type of events I mean a special affairs permit special events social affairs permit and special
affairs are related to alcohol consumption special events permits are related to just broader events where members of the general public they were having some kind of fair or so like a special event. You're you're saying special event, not social event, right? Social affairs.
They need a social affairs permit. No. Okay. Not that one. The other one was the special events. Special events. Depending on the type of event they're holding. Yes. So like be can you be specific type of events? A funeral? A wedding? No. Right. That's what I mean. These are
events. They're both events. And again, if they're having a we can't have comments from the public at this time. And again, they're having baby showers, funerals, weddings. Those events, those are innocuous to me. The only event that
was brought to my attention and it was referred to the inspections department and was asked that the if this is what was presented and they would have required to have a special events permit. that information was communicated, but
because of the timing of when they were the event was supposed to be held and when the information was communicated, it would have been impossible for them to have obtained a special events permit. What kind of event? Okay. Um, Dr.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. So, I wanted to add some clarity around the special events permit because I too a few years ago had several questions about when a special events permit would be needed. And the explanation I received then was
if I'm hosting an event that's open to the general public and I don't know how many people are coming, I'm targeting a large group. So, if I wanted to have um like a parade, we could do a parade. Or if I wanted to have like if I wanted to host the
melanin market at the epicenter, we're not just saying, but if we were to do the melanin market because I'm drawing the general public, I have no idea how many people are coming. I don't know where they're coming from. Um then because I'm
broadcasting to the general public, I would then need a special events permit. The police would have to do a risk assessment, figure out if I need EMS, figure out it's some other calculations. Do I need security? They go through a whole risk matrix because I'm targeting the whole community or I'm targeting,
you know, a large demographic. The types of events at the epicenter are curated events by small groups. So, we have Greek letter organizations. They're having a business meeting. It's a certain number of people. They know who's coming. They know who's on the roster. It's not open to the general public. Um, so it's a different type of
event. But if we were to just open up and say we want to have a carnival or we want to have a bazaar or we want to have something that's open to the general public and you don't you're advertising to the general public then I would have to go and get a special events uh permit
and that's the explanation that I was given and that's what we use to help make decisions of if we need to get a special events permit or not. But we don't host the epicenter itself is a venue but we don't host um we don't host events. Those are the same standards
that are in place now. And the requirements for the social affairs permit. Um, Madame Clerk, could you be able to shed a little more light on that? Yes. So, a social affairs permit is issued. Um, those go through the alcohol
beverage control, which is under the attorney general's office. Um, those are the ones that do come in front of council. Um, because our council is listed as the municipal issuing authority. All social affairs permits or applications have to be approved by the
municipal municipal issuing authority. So those are the resolutions you're seeing. It has nothing to do with the special events permit. Um you are approving those. Someone would put an application for a social affairs permit if they are a nonprofit who wants to
serve alcohol at one like a single event. that's what you would be going through and that's why you get that application and it has the date on it and what um what they plan to do. Um and that's specifically just for the ABC and
that goes I put that right into it's called POSI. It's the attorney general's permitting system. I take that resolution whether it's passed or failed and I put it into the system and that's for the ABC requires that.
Mhm. Um, do you have to have a club license in order to get a social affairment? Okay. And what about if you're not selling alcohol, but it's BYOB, like you bring your own. So, in that case, would that be would that be permitted or not permitted? And if so, why?
No, you have to have uh if you are a nonprofit, you have to have a club license in order to have alcohol on the premises or a social affairs permit because they're nonprofit for profit. Yes.
And that's information that I just got saying at the planning board meeting last night. So that's why I was saying I put some of the last pieces in place. So I'd like to set up a meeting um with you all next week just to go over everything
that um I found out and my understanding of um any issues. Okay. And so what uh councilman worthy had described earlier it was helpful for me to understand the special events and if that is the case then if they were to have an event and set RSVP by only now
this event has limited space advertisement on the flyer would that all would that be allowed whereby if the flyer was somewhere there's a contact person they are space is limited so or something like that I'm just speculating
if it is a private event and not open to just the general public. They can have whatever private event. So if it's a private event and it's somebody posts it on Facebook, it doesn't mean that everybody's invited. Just because like somebody can post a baby shower flyer on Facebook, but they don't intend
everybody to come. But it's specifically I mean I'm just right. Is that what you're saying? Is that what you're saying? Like it's not that it's because it's on Facebook. It's that that you can tell that it's a private event and not such as like she said the melanin market event or parade.
Okay. But also there's there are some other caveats that do go into that which I will discuss with them. All right. Um we also had some comment from Miss Jackie Mack. Thank you for your comment on the signs.
Um our administration has worked very hard to get those installed. I also agree with you that the ones at the entrances are a little small. Um, but I will um turn it over to Mr. Lowry for that. So, for
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Harris. For when it comes to the community signs, um, we did put a community survey out um that gave options for the community to pick which signs that they like the most. Um, we didn't arbitrarily pick any of those signs. um we use the responses that we got back
from the community to pick the signs that um that we installed and those were the ones that the community picked the majority and that's what we have. Okay. And the sizing of those ones at the entrance is that because of obstructed view regulations.
Those are the same sizes as the um they're the same height as the signs that we replaced. They are a little skinny. They are skinny. Yeah. Yes. It's actually six foot. Oh, it's just tall and skinny. Yeah. All right. And the other ones we had
were wide. They were wider. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um and also, Miss Mac, thank you. Um we have been working very diligently um to improve the online participation
at at our meetings. As you saw tonight, we did pass an ordin or a resolution um for an IT contract which um should improve the further improve the um IT
capacity of the township. Uh Miss Holly, thank you for uh your comments. I did receive your emails. Um they will be um recorded um with tonight's meetings. I will um
direct the clerk to include those emails um correspondence within um the minutes for this evening and into the public record. Um I guess Mr.
fault. Uh do you have any um or could you comment about the ADA or the regulations and obligations of the township um as per
the open public meetings act? It's Yes. With regard to the Open Public Meetings Act, the obligation With regard to the Open Public Meetings Act, the obligation is to conduct a
meeting that has adequate notice that allows for participation by the public as per the statute. Uh you're also um required to have accessibility by the public. There's no
specific mandate that you have virtual meetings, but the council has decided to have virtual meetings. You've expanded the requirement. Um, you've expanded the ability for members of the
public to speak because you have two opportunities to speak and that is uh certainly in compliance with the statute. With regard to the ADA, at least generally speaking, it would appear as if the building is ADA
compliant and the council chambers are ADA compliant as well. Okay. And do does the council have any requirement to host or stream the meetings online? You do not have a requirement, but
you've taken the step to host the or stream the meetings online, which I believe also has telephone access. Mhm. Um is there because we have taken that step to um stream and host the meetings
online, does that um mandate any other does that enforce or are there any other additional requirements because we do online meetings? Oh, you're having online meetings. You should allow the public to have access
and to make comments as appropriate. um with the understanding that there may be technical difficulties from time to time unless there's a pattern or a practice to disregard or not allow members of the public. It
would appear as if you're in compliance. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Hall. The only I would like to add one thing. The only thing that I will say is that if we're advertising that you will be allowed to ask questions virtually, it is our judicial responsibility to make
sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure that happens. Tonight is a good meeting because we were able to speak. I know that one of the residents said there's still a black screen which means they cannot see the time clock. So that needs to be fixed. I know we're we
just did the whole IT department thing that's going to be happening soon. But I want to say if we're advertising something then we must provide what we're saying we're going to allow the community to do. And we did we do say you can attend virtually and you will be allowed to speak during a certain time.
And those are the two times. I just wanted to add that. And in the advertisement, if I'm correct, Madam Clerk, do we mention anything about public comment virtually in the advertisement? I have to look. Um we do our annual advertisement in
It does say that January. I I remember it says if you want to speak in order how to do it. It tell it gives instruction on how to speak virtually. It says it. So that's all. I mean I just wanted to say we just it's not our fault the technology wasn't working but it is I want us to make sure that if we're
advertising something and then we're not allowing for the person to speak. So now they stayed home or maybe they're in a hospital and they think that they can speak maybe they would have wrote their letter in beforehand to put their concern to the counselor's attention. So, I just want to put that on the table
that we either we're going to advertise virtually or we're not or we're going to say we're going to advertise and not allow speaking. But make sure that that's clear and that we're following through what we're saying. And I just want to clarify that did happen um at a few meetings. I think it
was one meeting. There was like three two I think it was two meetings um that we did have some IT issues um where the public was not allowed to speak virtually. Um it is unfortunate that
that happened. Um but as Mr. Holt said sometimes technical difficulties do happen. As you can see at this tonight's meeting we have taken steps to rectify that issue. Um, and we should be okay
moving forward, especially with the IT contract, but things happen sometimes. Um, and we cannot stop the um the business of the township from going forward because we're not able to allow public comment virtually at a particular
time. All right. Um, any other comment on that? I not on that. I didn't want to interrupt you. Did you get through everything? No, I still have a few. Madame Mayor, it's Yeah, let's get through this. Um the trash change um for
July 4th. Mr. Lowry, do you have any comments on that? Yeah, so as um I believe that was Miss Mallerie um we did send that information out the week before um in the Willing Weekly. Um it was included on the website, it was included on Facebook. Um
to her point, you know, and it also sent out on um the William Connect app, which I personally assisted Miss Mallerie two years ago at the Junth Festival and downloading that on her phone. Um, but again, I I get it.
Um, it's really expensive to send out a bunch of notices. Um, but we will do our best to make sure that all of our residents are um accommodated and that they get the information that they need um when those issues do arise. Now, Madame Mayor, I did speak to Mr. Lauria when the issue issue had happened
because I got a few calls about the trash situation. Now apparently this took place because July 4th was falling on a weekday. Um so just going forward some of the suggestions that I gave to Mr. Li is it's like Christmas. We know what's going to come right. So like
maybe like at the next calendar that we produce let's try to look for those type of things that may happen. Um but the second thing I wanted to make sure is that we are we cannot only communicate virtually through tech technology text
messaging. Um the robocalls have been taken out. Um a lot of the residents say why didn't they give a robocall at least and I know Mr. Lori said that at some point it's been stopped on the council. I don't remember why it was stopped but we have to and council can I just pause you for a
second because we're going to need to end the meeting. I'd like to make a motion to extend um this meeting until 10:15. Thank you. Moved by Mayor Whitfield, seconded by Deputy Mayor Worthy.
Roll call. Councilwoman Pome. Yes. Deputy Mayor Dr. Worthy. Yes. Mayor Whitfield. Yes. Thank you. You can continue. council. I just I'll that's what I wanted to say. Um is that I talked to him about that. Another option I had given um I know he
said some of it was expensive is paper boys. You know we have high school students perhaps hey you know looking reaching out to our students. Do you want to do a paper route for us? Pay them a few bucks. Another suggestion but getting the information to every house especially when it's going to be a major
change such as the trash is not going to be picked up on a regular day. So, that's all I just wanted to share that my conversation with Gary with the rest of council. Um, but we do need to do better with communicating with all of our residents and not just the ones that are on social media or familiar with
text messaging and, you know, so forth. Thank you, Councilman Pran. Um, Mr. Larry, also um there was the comment on the tax bills. Are we able to um reinstate that breakdown on the tax bills?
I'll have to check um I'll check with finance and the tax um collector. I I wasn't aware that anything had changed with that. So, I will make sure that um we are consistent. Okay, great. Um and then I believe the plate beneath the new park signs is for
a sponsorship opportunity, correct? Correct. Yeah. All right. Um there was also a a comment about no toilet paper at the country cup pool. I know I personally got um a call about
that issue. Um and I did um speak with someone at public works that um over the weekend they did check there was toilet paper in all of the stalls on the day that um I had checked at that time. Um
but is there any further comment on that? Yeah. Um I did have communications with the acting director of recreations. Um at some point we did run out of toilet paper at um and we are working with our cleaning uh company uh to make sure that that doesn't happen again. Um we're also
going to be purchasing uh reserves so again to make sure that that does not happen again. Okay. Thank you. And I think that was all the comments. I just wanted to add um that I thought would be helpful to the people who came and spoke about the
school and you did mention that it's a zoning board meeting. Perhaps we can provide the date and time that the zoning board meets so they can attend there. And um I know we're going to let the zoning board know what we heard tonight, but maybe announce what time they meet so they can attend that
meeting as well as the MUA issue. Um I know um one of the representatives of the commissioners were here tonight and said that they're meeting tomorrow, but maybe just kind of like put that out there again. But I will say about the water issue, I will be attending that meeting tomorrow, too, because I too
have experienced an extremely high water bill. My family size has not increased, but I did move. I do live in a different area. And one of the comments I think somebody made about sharing somebody else's water bill, I I've heard that a few times. I'm not sure if that's
factual. I would like to get some more information. So, Mr. West and I'll be attending the meeting. Um, so just advance. I'm going to I want to know about um this uh topic. Um my like I said, my family size is the same. My water bill is now close to $300. It used
to be 120. Um something's going on and um I maybe we can I'll we'll speak about it then. I won't go into the MUA meeting, but I will I'll be there tomorrow attending that meeting. But that's all I wanted to ask. Mayor, if we could just let people know what time those meetings are happening. Okay. And madame clerk, do you happen to
have the zoning board meeting date on hand? Yes. The next zoning board meeting is August 6th, 2025 at 7 p.m. It is virtual. Um, so that information is on the website. So the next meeting is August 6th at what time? 7 p.m.
7 p.m. And it's virtually only. Yeah. Okay. And then where can they find the meeting information? Um, it's on the website. It's on our website under the township clerk. Under township clerk. Yeah. And also, I believe when the calendar is
or when the agenda is complete. It's also on the calendar. I'm sorry. It's on the calendar and it will be on the bulletin board here when the agenda is complete. Okay. Can we put it on our um You said it's on the township website. Okay. And it's on the calendar, the
community calendar that's on the app as well and on the website. Okay. And MUA again, I know he miss Mr. Weston stated is tomorrow at 7 p.m. Oh, sorry, 6 p.m. And it's only virtual as well. And that information is, I guess, is on the website, too.
Yes. But that's on the WUA's website. That website is wua.info. All right. Um I think those that is all the business that we have for tonight. Um we do not need executive session. Um
so we will move to council comments. Council woman I will raise my hand if I have a comment. I trust trust me I will say I have a comment. Oh okay we'll let you know. All right. Um I just want to thank everyone for coming out. We had very
spirited discussion. Thank you for continuing to be um engaged in the business of the township. Um I promise you this council is committed to doing um right by all of our residents and businesses that are here in town. Um
there are some follow-ups that we need to do those meetings. And um I do want to say a happy belated birthday to Deputy Mayor Worthy. Her birthday was yesterday. Um
and I hope to see everyone at the Burough Barbecue this weekend on July 19th from 12 to 3 at Mil Creek Park. Um I hope you all have a great night and thank you for joining this evening.
I'll entertain a motion for adjintment. So moved. Second. Moved by Deputy Mayor Worthy, seconded by Mayor Whitfield. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? The time is now 10:05. We are now
adjourned. Thank you.