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preparation of minutes and shall be the official record of the township Council meetings Madam cler may have a roll call please Mr here Mrs Mr Nash he is ill Walter wers Mr marado pres Mr car here Mr ctis here Chief arkins here Mr Miguel here we have a resolution resolution 2501 d039 to go into a Clos session uh I'm going to ask my colleagues we have at the end of the meeting like to move to the front of the meeting uh Mr Bach who is the planning board uh planner and also works with us on affordable housing issues for the township is here and I like to have that move to the front of the meeting so I can have a motion to go into close session the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs Trel yes Mrs Grace Mrs Walters yes uh this should take approximately 15 minutes when we return thank [Music] you sorry okay it is it [Music] three [Music] spe [Music] [Music] ja e [Music] [Music] spe spe for [Music] [Music] [Music] it's a [Music] I called him up after Christmas he said you still have 50% 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discuss our fourth round affordable housing fair share obligation and what steps the town has to take to move forward with that and that's a continuing process we now go to our uh first public comment uh portion uh before we go to that uh just to remind anyone remind folks that please follow the rules of order for our Council meetings if you are unfamiliar with them they are posted on the back of the bulletin board located to my left on the wall please limit your comments to three minutes for the first public comment portion on agenda items only for the second public portion and I'll read this again is to limit your comments to five minutes for the second public comment part of the meeting once you have completed your com comments or questions and the public comment period has concluded the council president will then ask any member of the governing body or their designate uh to address the comments or questions asked by the persons who just spoke We Now open up the first public comment anyone like to speak of that Mr [Music] leader leader Glend D good evening good evening thank you um when uh 02501 there's a typo it says OD instead of O when there is an error like that what is the rule of procedure we respond we respond after you have three minutes of uninterrupted we respond after public comment is concluded thank you um I was pleased to see 25121 that the document had physically been reorganized so in the past I said from two what does this mean and Council said that as long as the two numbers on the bottom were equal uh that that it was in balanced um anybody Works in finance would say this is not a balance sheet it's been reworked to have one column but the text doesn't say where the money is coming from the text introducing the um bill should say that it's coming from the general fund which is what you told me last time uh I have a note here says with Helen it says class two Lea on class three Le on I don't know what class three is I don't know what class two or one is I'd like to know that and I think that is the end of my questions thank you thank you Mr leader is there anyone else like to speak Miss coin Miss smithman will be after Miss coin I saw you to right chose good evening good evening the executive session you just had for the affordable housing I'd like to know why that was held in exec s thank you Miss smithman good evening my name is dep comp is it possible you can speak up I'm having a hard time hearing are you able to move it to the side of the Lector she has EXC careful behind well no one should be coming up behind you excuse me no one should be coming up behind you could you please please continue could you please tell that person that please continue please no shouting from the audience please please continue well good evening Council my name is Shaun C smithman I live in the SDK M guardians of apartment complex in apartment 341 it's located on milbrook Court it's been of clementin New Jersey but I'm told I'm to utilize the ler Township New Jersey municipality the resolution for this agenda is today still uh Monday January the 13th the year 2025 we we respond after the public comment you can keep with your question your line of questioning or comment right for on the agenda r25 01- 036 let ask who who is who is the woster township planning board who was going to be who was the person appointed to that can you repeat that I'm having a hard time hearing you uh resolution r251 High 036 okay it's a question we will respond at the end of the public comment did you hear my comments at the beginning Council will respond after the public comment has been completed that's right thank you there anything thank you is there anyone else would like to speak seeing close the public uh comment uh Mr leader thank you for uh bringing up the OD uh of I saw that today I take a look at it on Thursday um sometimes I missed a couple words there but thank you for bringing that to our attention uh you said what remedies are put in place uh to to change that um if I come across or anyone comes across that we notify the clerk and we have that updated but thank you for bringing that to our attention uh in regards to the transfers um I appreciate your comments that you now know that it goes from One Fund to another fund uh is that something that will continue Mr cars that give greater Clarity when there's transfers yeah um with regard to transer Res yes wasn't sure I say I don't want to be accused of shouting out can you clarify Mr I had you said resolution 21 21 is a bill that's what we're talking about Mr car that is not transer that is bills I would not be a front of two that is just listing from each F how much was distributed okay that help if that helps I understand what you say thank you thank you Mr cars in regards to uh the resolution to appoint uh Mrs Albright Troxel uh there are certain classes of planning board members there's people from the general public uh there is a representative from the township uh there's a Township employee and then there is a class two which is uh Miss alright Troxel as a member of B stship Council and she is a full voting member of the plan board Mr car anything else you want to add that's correct that's the class designation set out by the plane statutes in New Jersey okay uh Miss coret asked why was uh the executive session regarding the affordable housing ground four uh discussed and close session so the for housing foral housing is now governed by by the New Jersey DCA has been changing statute there some legal issues that have to come out we under a time frame to move a resolution the end of this month and 48 hours after the resolution is approved it has to be set and file for us to be in compliance with the new statutory regulations there's a whole procedure for affordable housing designation that we're going to be following for the fourth round so some of the legal issues had to be discussed uh at this closed session at this point in time and that's I gave that recommendation to council president as well as our professional St thank you and uh Miss smithman regarding the date yesterday is Monday January 13 uh 2025 and yes the start of this meeting was at 7 o'clock pm uh and sorry I can't read my own handwriting what was a planning board appointment um that is to appoint Mrs Albright Trel uh Council has a uh representative that sits on there a full voting member on the planning board and uh she is the uh on the resolution to be appointed to that she has served that capacity for the last few years so thank you very much we'll now go to the ordinance second reading uh there will be a public hearing this ordinance amending chapter 81 of the code of Township Blosser titled vehicles and traffic to designate a portion of little gluster road County Road 759 as a mid block crosswalk this ordinance uh uh is designates a mid block crosswalk from the center line of Quail Ridge Road heading north along the Eastern curve line on little Gloucester Road We Now open up this to a public heing anyone wish to speak on this matter seeing none we'll close the public hearing may I have a motion to uh approve this uh ordinance on the question roll call please Mr yes Mrs yes Mrs Grace love yes Mrs Walters yes yes Mr marado yes next is ordinance 0-25 d01 this is a first reading introduction uh and this there will be a hearing at its second reading ordinance amending chapter 47 of the code of the township of bler entitled pet and animal abuse of the code book of the town of glester County of can and the state of New Jersey uh this identifies chapter 474 entitled fees for license registration late fee expiration date that it has the fees Associated for person applying for license of registration uh tag for their pets dog or cat and also indicates a discount senior discount for residents age 65 or older uh for fees for their cat and dog that indicates late fees and the date that they must apply for that may I have a motion please on the question roll call please Mr yes yes M yes M Walter yes M yes Mr yes next is our consent agenda any council member like to have any item removed or amended please speak up hearing none I entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented on the question roll call please Mr M yes m Joel yes M Grace love yes M Walters um yes to all but I'm obtaining from an item on the bill list um number 25-13 and yes to the remainder of the bill list this wers yes Mr marado yes resolution 38 resolution adopting a temporary budget for the township of woster for 2025 may I have a motion please [Music] SEC SEC thank you on the question roll call please yesel yes MCE love yes Mrs Walters yes Mrs wers yes Mr Mar yes resolution 39 we move I'm sorry we used that at the beginning of the meeting we moved it up yes so thank you uh now we'll go to our GTE go access emails we have one email from Mr David leer Mr leer would you like me to read it would you like to read it read it okay if I'm reading it counts towards any time that you may have during the second public portion uh David leader from uh glendor New Jersey question for councel what is the what is your exact definition of a straw poll and how does that compare to you and other Council voting thanks in advance Dave we'll answer that the end of the public comment portion uh This Is We Now open up the second public comment portion uh there's five minutes for each speaker you can speak one time once you've completed your comments and questions the public comment period has concluded council president then ask any colleagues or myself if we want to address the comments or questions about the person uh that the questions and comments that are brought up by the person just spoke we're now open up that second public portion anyone wish to speak Miss uh Mr leader I just want to make I'm going to let you speak but there's only one Speaking opportunity that consider speaking but come on we'll have you first followed by Mr Vern Miss coin was your hand up as well okay uh Miss Danny and then miss smithman okay so keep that in mind Mr leer next time yes do e be you thank you so much at the last council meeting Dave leor at the last council meeting I was discouraged and demotivated you caused this issue the desire to limit the time the public can speak flies in the face of the first amendment of our constitution limiting two two-way dialogue will accomplish nothing you will not learn how the public truly feels without open transparent and two-way dialogue your oath States under the authority of the public I'm not sure you all believe that to be true certainly your actions do not support that you believe it if if it is just me i' question myself but appears that are many of the public who share my observations so I want to be proactive in resolving issues where I can believe believe I can make a difference I don't believe in zero defects I do believe in continuous Improvement I started coming to Council meetings because I didn't understand the pros and cons of the GT dissolution issue as a result of attending the meetings I realized there are issues I have dealt with these kind of issues in my work history one of the issues before us is the failure to document action items assigned at these meetings 25 years ago I had a financial setback and our retirement accounts were needed to pay our bills for many years and we are in a social security fixed income recently we sold a car my dream car and I cashed in a life insurance policy I suspect more financial problems will be in the future I can't afford to print documents to bring forth the Council to hand out the printing is too expensive for us I made an exception in this time I've had an interesting career and I've learned a de about running a business service management product management and profit and loss I've also learned program management project management problem management vendor management and sales I am proposing that the GTM GT Council adopt action items list here's why every two weeks action items are spoken with no deadline sometimes no assignment mostly no followup and never timely documented having the minutes approved a month later is not an an action item that's a slow item action items are something that are signed that needs to be addressed before the next meeting so it can be reported at the next meeting I am proposing that we use an action item list and review it and update it at every meeting a completed action item is removed from the list and in business it is recorded on a closed action item list I don't think that is needed here I don't think we need to close the action item list I ask you to review this document provide feedback Corrections deletions Etc and advise me how this could be used to keep our actions item on track if you look at the list you see that you closed one action item tonight you now have the Dave leader Memorial leum available to the public so I handw wrote that that action item is closed I'd like your comments relative to whether an action item list is something that you would be willing to adopt as part of Council meetings and if not why and and if you have any action items that I've recorded that you want to add description discussion resolution to I'm available to take that information thank you thank you Mr Burns good evening Council Brian Burns solw Drive in Ariel um I'm just kind of digesting the new protocol here um and I wanted to say I got a message from Helen Hayes um I think it was Friday and she told me that the closing on her property is scheduled for Tuesday tomorrow so I wanted to confirm that that is indeed true and thank Council for their efforts in preserving this incredibly diverse uh largest piece of undeveloped land in the township um it's amazing what can be done persistence and and recognition that you know we need to save open space and I just got done looking at the uh the GPS map of this area and and by far this is the last undeveloped track of land and to know that in 20 years I may not be here some of you guys may not be there but this land will be there for future generations to enjoy and take advantage of and preserve our our natural resources and the springs that create trout stream that originate here is is kudos to you guys so my question is is this indeed closing of the Hayes property scheduled for tomorrow and what is the current progress of the Murray uh property as well thank you thank you Mr burn and we we have answers for you on that Miss coin Denise Co choose landing at your January second meeting you approved new subjective rules of conduct for the public during that same meeting I pointed out that there are currently no corresponding rules of conduct in place for Council Members or the administration in light of this I want to inform you that the Gloucester Township Observer will be posting rules of conduct for council members and the administration these rules will be posted and will serve as a standard for evaluating your actions and performance during meetings we will use these rules to assess for conduct at each meeting and to compile our findings into an annual report this report will be shared with the community before each election providing residents with clear and objective information to help them make informed decisions about their boots if you would like to review the standards by which you will be evaluated the list is available on our website there is no need for cross Dialogue on this matter I'm only providing this information to you as a curreny thank you thank you Miss Paris I want to congratulate you guys today on something that I've been helping you with for a while and I told them exactly where the other place is they were in M Paris can you address Council here no no I was addressing no everything get addressed to council president thank you can we have your name and and your address please okay first of all um I would like you know we have your name and address please Paris Marin and I live at mbridge okay thank you thank you I like to know how many um marijuana stores are in this cwn and how many went through this zoning and planning board and this Council and this room to be accepted and actually were went through the whole state of New Jersey to be actually put into here because I've actually gone through how many marijuana places that are here that I've never heard in these meetings and when I wasn't here I was watching on my phone so I want to know every single one which starts with the honey grow and it started as medicinal so don't tell me it didn't because I researched it and how did you get a from medicinal to recreational without a license second was flower and Flame a 601 College Drive another one that's just you just agreed to open it up with that I've never heard it and I don't think anybody's heard it here on uh what's it called right Coss from shop right puff ging dispensary which just opened up or about to open up with your approval which I haven't heard any means lately and there's a couple more so in two and one of me okay so that's number one and MPX medical and prevention and recreational on Cross Keys Rose in sio so I have never heard them in any meetings next I would just just like to ask um the council and the police there was something that was going around called the New Jersey uh State consol was investigating on street cop training and this went back to 2021 to 2022 and gster Township was involved inent a lot of their officers up there and actually was involved in last year 2024 they spent a million dollars for corrupt and wrong training where was that million dollars from I looked it up it's actually on daily voice mail tonight and gler Township and where did the million dollars come and how come that wasn't brought up at any meetings and plus that million dollars was given to mostly bler Township 22 counties in this state but gler Township was one of so those are the answers I'd like to have that oh by the way also Church Street should be one of your next um thoughts about redoing where the railroad thing is and then they got that big curve because there's been many accidents between Church Street and that I don't know what that street is that goes towards glasg church and whatever that street goes that way it's your property it's lost your Township I actually had an accident somebody hit me there and almost total my car should have a light maybe you should have somebody come out and look there because there's 20 million accidents there every day I go by there because I go to see my mother and every time I go there's an accident or there cars two cars crashed and they're sitting on the uh the dirt road or the dirt spot that's across the street so I think somebody should send somebody out and look at that area either a light traffic signs stop signs and that whole road is broken up thank you okay ises there anyone else like to speak Miss [Music] SM hi good evening Council good evening my name is Shaun C smithman I live in the SDK milb Gardens apartment complex on milb court it's apartment 341 it's considered clementin New Jersey according to the United States Postal Service but I'm told I'm to utilize the gler Township New Jersey municipality um I I don't drive right now I I don't have a vehicle on my walk here today I utilize Kelly driver Road identified as Kelly Driver Lane on the New Jersey Transit bus schedule at the intersection of Laurelwood Court there is a a street light that was not fully lit was not fully illuminated if it would be possible for the council to um alert maintenance whoever does the street maintenance for that um previously before I was considered permanently disabled which I still do not agree with um but previously I was employed with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Local Union 98 in construction they utilize a certain time in the morning for something called a coffee break it's a break in the work once you begin the day and the construction workers typically utilize that opportunity to uh discuss the the job at hand previous work it it's a break but it is not um you're still being paid for it so the mind is still on the job while I did not attend the work session for today of Monday January 13th 20125 I could only assume it would have been at 6 PM I'm not sure I was not here I did not arrive until 6:30 p.m. and I don't know if president marado misspoke when he said that yesterday was Monday but as far as I'm aware today is Monday January 13 2025 while waiting for this gler Township council meeting to begin I heard the discussion that um there was a gentleman that had an affair and him and his mistress are now spending a life in prison um that was a discussion I heard between President Orlando Mado and um Mr Thomas CIS I find it very odd because at the previous Council meetings um I can't it was within the past month and a half uh I heard Chief David Harkins discussed a new a new tool that they had to identify drugs through a plastic bag and that they have had to noram fellow officers who I can can only assume that apparent overdid opioid inflicted coma type situation type of Overdose yeah the discussion wasn't on that the discussion was on somebody spending a life in prison for having a mistress um I was affected by the same situation I I brought it up at previous Council meetings uh while I was never married um there was a situation where I I had to figure things out in a non-conventional way as a single mom and to continue on if someone is going to spend a life in prison for having a mistress and that's the discussion at gler Township New Jersey is everyone free of this the same situation has everyone not been involved in a situation like that and whatever the circumstances around it were they not also involved since I have pled begged while I have not screamed in this room I have screamed as loud as anybody possibly could in Terror and fear and frustration nobody came to help uh I tried to ask this Council what am I to do I fear that I am a victim of identity theft I was told by the gler Township New Jersey Police Department that they opened and closed my possible fraud case yet I can never know how much money was actually stolen from the Social Security Administration because that was never actually given the amount that was actually deposited and they said that I'm no longer under the care of southy Behavior Health Resources yet the transfer was missing approximately $90,000 um good day thank you for your time is there anyone else would like to speak with that will close the second public portion uh Mr leer thank you thank you very much for providing those action items I'm sure my colleagues will have some comments and uh we'll address that at our next meeting Mr Burns you are correct the H the hay property is closing tomorrow uh Mr Carl informed me that and in regards to the Murray property you have an update on the Murray property there's still some issues with the site clean up remediation that's still being going to process it seems to be moving very positively we're all happy at least thank you for your work on that Mr FS I do appreciate it uh Miss coin in regards to your uh annual report thanks for advising that uh Miss Paris uh how many marijuana stores um what council does council provides a resolution to those individuals to go through the process the vetting process to get a license uh off the top of my head Chief or or Mr Carla mayor I believe there are four that are operating currently without uh without looking specific that's Pro that's that's I would say four four that are operating okay in regards to uh the gler township spending a million dollars I believe a question came in last year on an eov about sending police officers to Atlantic City uh for this is I is is that what you're referring to no Florida FL oh we had nothing to do with that I can address it pleas okay if you'd like I can address in my director's report at the end or but we never we didn't send anyone to that we certainly didn't spend a million dollars I don't know where that figure uh the news report came from the com trollers I believe that was inclusive of agencies from across New Jersey and it also wasn't public funds as I understand uh they just had uh billing from that street cop company we've been fully cleared and in full compliance with attorney general directive uh the Attorney General's office as well as can County prosecutor's office U for anyone we never attended those conferences we did use that company they had specific trainings that uh various instructors did for various topics and uh uh none of those were found to be unsound or unconstitutional to my know thank you Chief and her last uh Miss Paris talked about Church Street um has there been more occurrence of of accidents so if and again I can get off uh after the meeting with Miss uh Miss Paris M know uh the intersection I believe I think she mentioned passed Blackwood lake is Blackwood Barnes B Road and good intent that is bler Count's jurisdiction not bler town okay thank you uh and Miss smithman regarding the street light Mr Caris can can you inform Public Works about the street light on the intersection of Laur Wood Court we'll take care of that'll take care that a Corporal Muse going to check it and report it through our okay and Miss Smith your statement uh myself and Mr Carla and Mr cars were talking about restaurants in Philadelphia and I spoke about La Familia which is located on Front Street and sadly in late 90s there was an individual that had dinner there uh with another individual and she uh her life was taking and that was the discussion that we had we were talking about restaurants so thank you is there anyone else excuse me well so that we close the second public portion uh polling of directors Mr car nothing to report Mr ctis nothing Chief par so I was not able to attend uh the reorganization deput chief I just want to congratulate president ricado vice president uhon and Council all right Trel again and all Council we appreciate the support and we uh thank we look forward to contining to work for uh Miss uh Paris Marino thank you for uh assistance that you've provided us uh through community policing initiatives that we had and uh I also wanted to just bring uh Council up the speed of the complaint that we had a couple weeks ago uh from a resident on the old Black Horse Pike that is an act active uh um you know project that we are working between Public Works Administration Mr Mill uh and the Traffic Unit Police Department we've been in regular contact with the complaintant uh we've been been in contact with the county officials uh we have made the recommendation to lower the speed limit um as it's a continuation Summerdale road is actually 35 miles an hour we feel that uh with the curves the hills and things like that on the old blackor Pipe Plus the D it that it would comply be best to go along there we're also uh the mayor authoriz us to change we have these speed traffic signs that uh go up they're powered by solar um we had them sloted for another location uh for uh 2024 and uh We've switched that because of the need on that from the traffic studies that we've done uh so Mr McGill is in the final stages of uh we provideing with traffic data he will then provide it uh that information to the county for the final approvals and then we'll go through a process you of lowering the speed limit there'll be a race period signage and whatnot but uh when we're in the meantime we're doing active enforcement every morning that's when it's the main issues and uh we have a couple other uh uh traffic Comming measures that we're taking uh we we have a meeting scheduled in the near future with Mr Mill and and the Traffic Unit so I'll keep you appr prized as that goes but um just wanted to bring you up to speed since we haven't had an update uh and uh the complaintant is we email weekly the complaintant uh in constant contact I know she's concerned and I want to make sure that she knows that we're it's being actively worked on as well as Council being for thank you have a good night thank you Chief [Music] MRK Mr have a great this is auy I think I want to thank you for br board I'm not sure yet a lot of work in fact I just finished another seminar usually down two sometimes little but the job have to be educated in it keep up to dat that are happening St storm it's amazing I cover storm so I want to thank for support over the years and I wish everyone a Happy 202 and I hope this becomes your best year yet and I hope special this this Grace love everyone have a great night Mrs Walters um I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight I also want to thank um please all those involved um on the incident in January 5th um at dog park um the young lady and her link so I want to thank the police especially fire um for saving her um want thank everyone for coming out this evening uh just to remind those that are here or those who are watching from home that MLK Day of Service is this uh upcoming Monday January 20th at CW Lewis school that starts at 9:15 and projects start at 10 we have over 350 people that have registered to volunteer for over 20 plus projects throughout the township uh so if you have some time you want to spend some time volunteering your time that day please feel free to go to the Township's website and register in addition to that uh we will be selling Black History Month uh at at our second meeting in February we're now accepting nominations for individuals that have made outstanding contributions to our community with that I in a motion to adjourn there a second all those in favor have a great evening everyone