y yep now we're get mother y thank you whenever you're ready May good evening everyone I'd like to call the regular meeting of Mayor and Council of the burough of Glassboro for January 23rd 2024 to order Karen could you please read the opening statement pursuing to the open public meetings act I hereby announce that adequate notice of this meeting as required by set act has been provided by adopting a schedule of regular meetings for the year 2024 which schedule was posted on the bur H bulletin board as well as the bough website and forwarded to with the South Jersey Times And The Sentinel of Gloucester County and fil with the burough clerk on January 6 2024 thank you can we all rise and salute the flag please I pledge aliance 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 karen roll call please mayor Wallace here Mr Brown here Mr coone presid Mrs garlic here Mr halter yes Mrs Spence Mr milandro Mr scapi Mr Brun and let the record reflect that Miller is excused for this evening thank you uh the agenda calls for a presentation portion so I'm going to step down from the dice this is one of the most enjoyable parts of my job uh I've always said that um I've always you know me I believe that glb is the greatest place on Earth and we have some of the greatest people and I also believe that our young people are the absolutely best people that we have great young people we have nothing like a buld and I have the opportunity tonight to honor and showcase a couple of the student or a few of the student athletes and mark their achievements so first I would like to call up uh Elijah Whitaker please I think the letter will will explain exactly the accomplishment of this young man and uh I want you want to know the letter that I have that I will be reading to Elijah he will be receiving and it reads this greetings Elijah Whitaker I am very proud to honor you for your outstanding 2023 cross country Championship season your achievements include a first place finish in the glosser county Championship a first place finish in the Tri County showcase a first place finish in the sectionals and wrapping it up with a first place finish in the New Jersey state group one championship in addition you are are the first state cross country champion from Glassboro in 28 [Applause] years a person does not achieve such accolades without hard work and dedication you exemplify the character of a Glassboro High School athlete proud talented hardworking with an unparalleled desire to win on behalf of myself and the B of Glassboro congratulations Elijah 2023 New Jersey state cross country group one Champion go B I tell you what you got to be an outstanding athlete cross country oh J sorry neigh [Applause] so we go from one outstanding student athlete to a group of student athletes our 2023 Glassboro Bulldog football team the letter will be a letter to all of the athletes each of the athletes will get their own letter because you deserve your own letter and the letter reads like this greetings it is with great pride that I honor you as a member of the 2023 Glassboro high school football team your amazing 9 and3 season that culminated in an exciting group one Championship win to the Bulldog's first appearance in the New Jersey state championship in school history your your incredible journey to the championship exemplifies the character of you as a player and of all of you as a team Talent self- pride and teamwork is what led to this successful season you have shown the entire state of New Jersey that we are the Glassboro High School bulldogs and on behalf behalf of myself and the burrow of Glassboro congratulations on your history making season go bulldog I understand that there's uh a lot of our student athletes that played on the football team also are other athletes so I'm going to call each of them out by name uh because they all deserve to be recognized and they're going to be in alphabetical order so here we go uh Devon bar won't be here that's okay Dominic bar tashen Butler Desa cousins Marley crra don't get to CL Maurice Davis DEA day Aiden evangelisti Ren Ferguson Jerome Foster Christopher Foster Jace Grace dve I Gunther Joseph hadrick Aiden Harris lamir hug Corey James Kenneth Johnson Jeremiah Jones Jonah key Ian ke deir L always say the best for last cartell Moore Idris Mosley taon Robinson Anthony Ross Mari sa Xavier s we have yeah where he at oh he playing basketball that's right Junior Serano Brandon Simmons Jr zier tapate Jam Townsen Kyle Williams Arman Wright and Kuran Wright perfect [Applause] I football team coach breaker who is also a quite accomplished football player his day as a bulldog his first year as a head coach uh bringing such a young team to the state championship is something I know that only the people in Glassboro believe that could be done and the players so congratulations to you all get it next year that's right let's get yeah Co m the that couldn't be here guys well thank you very much that does conclude the presentation portion of this meeting you all are more than welcome to stay for the remainder of the meeting but please know that you're not forced to stay you you are more than welcome to go about your evening if you so choose take care congratulations again boys El well done well done okay we will proceed on and we'll turn the meeting over to our burrow solicitor yes thank you mayor this part of the meeting it is our scheduled public uh land sale uh the land sale is for property known as block 481 lot 7 uh located on Truman Avenue uh the public bidding will begin at the sum of $5,000 which offer was made by D Michael Miner so the beginning uh bid price for this property is $5,000 is there anyone else with conditions as outlined in the notice of sale with that said is there anyone in the audience who wishes to offer more than $5,000 for the purchase of block 481 lot 7 vacant land located on Truman Avenue if so please uh stand up identify yourself for the record and explain your offer price or provide your offer price anyone in the audience tonight wishing to make an offer more than the $5,000 as we say in the auction business once you're here for Mr Miner right yep you're good the offer is from Mr Miner at five grand so he has the offer at 5 so absent someone else if there's no other offers first first second hearing no one else a motion to approve the sale of the land to D Michael Miner for $5,000 if Council moves there'll be a resolution approving the sale at the next meeting but we would require a motion to confirm the sale tonight motion to approve second I have a motion and a second this requires a roll call am I correct Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr Cas yes Mrs Garing yes Mr halter Miss fence yes motion carries so just just for informational purposes there's no reason to have to stay around there'll be a resolution on the next agenda that confirms the sale officially and then uh I think they already gave 10% or yep y you're good originally yes with the land offer so at the next meeting we'll have a resolution confirming the sale and once that's done we'll prepare the deeds and uh but uh there's no need that you have to say he is a successful bitter yep thank you uh two weeks from now you're welcome you're welcome congratulations I'm sorry three weeks from now we have an extra week the the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month you're welcome thanks de uh well you still have have sir it is a public hearing tonight scheduled on ordinance number 24-1 ordinance authorizing execution of deed of sanitary sewer easement for property known as block 410 lot 2.03 between 5B 3G Enterprises LLC and the bar of Glassboro for the Lio bakery at 557 North Dy Drive the council moves for the public portion motion to approve the public portion second I have a motion in a second all in favor State I I opposed any extensions motion carries the floor is now open to anyone from the public who wishes to come forward and address this proposed ordinance see n I'll make a motion to close the public portion and adopt this ordinance as written I have a motion and a second uh Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr CR yes Mrs Scarlet yes Mr halter yes Mrs Spence yes motion carries at this time I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the reorganization meeting of January 6 2024 so move I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries uh Karen can we go over Communications please yes mayor I have one communication this evening from Denise brush she is resigning from the Green Team thank you I'll entertain a motion to approve that resignation motion to approve I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I oppos extensions motion carries uh at this time I'll move to committee reports and begin with councilman Brown yes mayor thank you just to advise I'm in receipt of all the burough of Finance reports for the month of December that'll be the end of my report very nice thank you very much sir councilman cabone yes thank you mayor I'd like to congratulate to Glassboro high school football team I know they have a great future ahead of them I mean I know they're young from what I hear they're freshman in sophomore so we look forward to another standing up here with another championship I like to congratulate Elijah Whitaker uh for his accomplishments I know cross country is is a very very tough sport I know I ran it I ran cross country when I was in high school but I never got an award I got award for Last Place on I hung in there that's all I have now thank you thank you very much Sarah uh councilwoman garlic I have no reports at this time thank you very much ma'am uh councilman hater yeah good evening Mr Mayor and hello to everyone the Water and Sewer Department continues their work of uh lead bike Replacements and keeping with the terrific state of New Jersey requirements for d uh also I know the crews have been out a number of times doing some repair works and things like that so in this brid weather we thank them for all their efforts out there and being out ready for us at all times here in the B and that's all thank you thank you very much sir and councilwoman Spence thank you mayor you're welcome I just wanted to um make a comment on the great job that our B did clearing the streets in this recent snowstorm we really did a nice job keeping things up very nice and safe for all of us and I just wanted to give them a little shout out for that and that's all I have very very nice thank you very much uh we have no unfinished business Karen can we go over our new business please yes mayor I need authorization to go out the RFP for co-hosting the glora cornhall tournament I'll make a motion to uh authorize the I have a motion in a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries uh at this time I'll ask for the engineers report please mark weather fair enough thank you very much sir any questions for Mark thank you again Mark at this time I will again turn the meeting over to our burough solicitor yes thank you mayor at this time we have a following uh items under our consent agenda under resolutions beginning with 5824 resolution authorizing execution of collection location local government unit lgu semiannual report form for the bar of Glassboro resolution 59 resolution authorizing the glassor planning board to review an additional plan Amendment to the Redevelopment plan Amendment to the Third Amendment to the Glasper Central business district nearby Environ Redevelopment plan a plan for the revitalization of the East High Street area for the purposes of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots 1 2 3 4.02 13 black 44 Lots 2021 block 44 Lots 2 2.03 23 24 25 26 26.0 one the project area in the bar of Glassboro County of Gloucester state New Jersey adopted by ordinance 23-24 and resolution 6024 authorizing execution of a Redevelopment agreement with Nexus parking Systems LLC they are the two resolution on our consent agenda also for the purposes noted on the agenda Council moves for approval roll call motion for approval I have a motion and a second car roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr C yes Mrs gar yes Mr alter yes Mrs Spence yes motion carries thank you mayor and tonight we have ordinances on first reading by title only I'll read all of them and the motion would be to introduce them uh by that motion the first being ordinance 2402 ordinance amending chapter 445 vehicles and traffic by adding a new section to be entitled parking on Library Municipal parking lot to be located at 58 North Main Street ordinance number 2403 amending the water and sewer manual WSM of the code of the burrow of Glassboro ordinance 24-4 Here We Go Again an ordinance amending ordinance 2324 which adopted a Redevelopment plan Amendment to the Third Amendment to the glasow central business district and nearby environs Redevelopment plan a plan for the revitalization of the East High Street area for the purpose of the Redevelopment of block 40 Lots 1 2 3 4.02 and 13 block 44 4 last 2021 block 44 last 22.03% again for the record it would be ordinances number 24203 0405 uh if so move by council tonight roll call vote for introduction motion for approval second I have a motion and a second Karen roll call please Mr Brown yes Mr cos yes Mr Mrs gar yes Mr halter yes Mrs Spence yes motion carries at this time entertain a motion to open up the public portion move to open up the public portion second I have a motion in a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries the floor is now open to anyone from the public who wishes to come forward and address mayor and councel seeing none I I'm sorry us we accept it uh upon uh uh for the record you can bring it up you can bring it up for the record note that a check has been delivered to the bar for the sum of $5,000 which is the sale price of the public bid yep thank you it's for 5,000 we already have 10% yep it's wrong then yep it's a cashier check all right K is pulling the file I already have it in there doing it we can give him the other check back if you want yeah do we want to address this after we we're good mayor we're good we're good okay no we're good we're good yep thank you we're good yep we're good all right thank you very much we're good nobody else yep thank you sir all right again move to ption be closed second I have a motion in a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions motion carries at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve all duly authorized bills let's get them bills approved second I have a motion and a second all in favor State I I opposed extensions iions May 24- 00164 00232 and 0057 anything else yes thank you any other extensions they've been noted motion still carries uh any closing comments from our administrator sir all right um I will first again congratulate so proud of our stud athletes um congratulate them again and their coach um I would like to recognize as councilwoman Spence did um our First Responders our Public Safety police fire and uh Highway water and SE for all those that were out during this the recent snowstorm and for those that were out there on the Storm at our last council meeting on the believe was the 9th um I was out there in that storm with them after our meeting and uh they're the best of the best and I want to thank them and recognize them for uh all that they've done um and continue to do thanks to those that came out this evening to support and participate in the burrow I continue to encourage you to come out uh and with that I will turn the meeting over again to our burough solicitor yep thank you mayor thank you mayor oh and as well as the police department if I did not say that if I left them out the Police Department is always aces in my book thank you sir you wel he's ready to arrest you I'd have a talk later all right ladies and gentlemen for the record I would note that uh councilman Andrew halter is excusing himself from the D and will not be participating in the use Varian appeal in his capacity as a commissioner for the glasow Housing Authority another title which he holds uh but this is the scheduled uh use variance appeal of the use variance that was granted by the zoning board uh to The Entity uh known as uh uh independent Freight that was granted a use variance by the zoning board uh we received a notice of appeal from an interested party and that party uh was the Glassboro Housing Authority through their Council uh following this notice requesting appeal of the use f it was gr granted by the zoning board under State statutes uh the applicant had the right to appeal this that decision to the governing body and the governing body has an obligation to consider the appeal the consideration of the appeal is based upon the record that was established at the zoning board and for that purpose we will Mark exhibit a which is the transcript of the actual Zoning Board hearing that has already been provided to the governing body uh which they have reviewed in anticipation of the hearing but that will be marked exhibit a dated 12324 also uh there is an opportunity afforded to the applicant that's filed the appeal and anyone else and I don't see for the record is there anyone here representing independent Freight tonight uh with regard to this use variance appeal uh for the record uh no one has come forward uh the applicant the Housing Authority that made the appeal we received a letter hand delivered today from their in-house Council indicating that he was unable to make the meeting tonight uh but P pursuant the statute they have a right to present oral or written argument they chose to submit written argument again reiterating their reasons why they believe the used variant should be denied uh that document was received it was forwarded to uh the council uh today to give them an opportunity also to review that letter as well for an anticipation of this hearing we'll mark that as exhibit B dated 123 2024 for the record and at this point uh it's somewhat of an abbreviated hearing and that uh the the governing body has had an opportunity to review uh rather than the person reading or presenting their argument they've re read the app the appellant uh letter they've had an opportunity to review the transcript the question now that the governing body has to decide is whether or not the use variance that was granted by the zoning board should be sustained or uh reversed or denied uh in making that decision they are acting in somewhat of a capacity as a zoning board and that the law similar to the zoning board uh would be reasons why they would if they choose to Grant it or not Grant it does the application meet the positive or negative criteria uh for the granting of the use variants based on all the facts that they have now reviewed the testimony of uh concerned residents testimony that they've read of the planners of the engineers uh specific to this project again this was a request to operate a pallet recycling uh operation at the existing facility uh located at 20 War uh work a in Glassboro so it's somewhat quick uh because everything has been done in anticipation of it so at this time I'll turn it back to the mayor wherein uh it would be up to the governing body Council to move forward either to uh approve the granting of it uh to deny the use variant or to do nothing and then the use variance would uh remain uh as approved Mr Mayor okay at this time I will entertain a motion okay mayor after reviewing all the facts that were presented to me I'll make the motion to deny the youth variance second it okay I have a motion on the floor to deny the youth variance and second uh Karen roll call please Mr Brown uh yes deny for the fact that it's a residential neighborhood I believe it needs to remain a residential neighborhood this time thank you Mr cabon like I said after reviewing these facts I I it's it's a yes to deny Mrs garlic I would like to deny it based on the fact that this used variance would place a very active buiness in the middle of a res Mr halter he's off the DAT sorry he's I apologize Mrs Spence um I vote to deny this variance as this business is highly disruptive to the neighborhood um while I'm not in uh against businesses operating in our town this was not the right location it was definitely not the right type of business to exist coexist with residents and neighbors so that's i v yes to the denial of the vs thank you very much uh that motion to deny the variance carries thank you mayor and I will prepare a resolution to Encompass this uh governing body's decision that will be adopted for the record uh and that would conclude the proceeding thank you everyone thank very much good job yep thank you didn't have too much soon as my man gets back on the DAT got to have everybody vote hey you all comfortable now sir all right at this time I will entertain make a motion to adjourn second I have a motion to adjourn and a second all in favor State I opposed exstension motion carries this meeting is now adjourned thank you everyone the next regular meeting will be February 13th 2024 6:30 have a great evening everybody stay well