[Music] yeah e super everybody ready in accordance with Section Five of the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL 1975 notice of this meeting was posted on the bulletin board designed for that purpose and notice was transmitted to the official newspapers provided by resolution adopted January 6 2024 meeting notice has also been continually posted on the ver website may I have a roll call yes mayor um council president Morgan here councilwoman Phillips sorry absent but excused councilman erson councilwoman Russo is absent but excused councilman Pagan councilwoman Haron and mayor thank you all right thank you please rise for the um salute to the flighted Al to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice please remain standing for a moment of silence thank you please be seated I'll now open it up for public comment on agenda items only that's public comment on agenda items only not seeing any public comment we'll close the public comment portion we'll move into our caucus work session first we have elected officials risk management seminar training yes mayor um so so you might recall I believe we discussed at the March 19th meeting um the need for everybody to be trained and um solicitor long was gracious enough to be able to uh arrange to conduct it uh as one so that everybody didn't have to log in individually at home and spend you know at least I think it's about an hour or so um solicitor long checked with um the GIF to make sure that he was able to administer the training and then everybody will sign a um group signin sheet and we've arranged for that I did circulate an email to everyone and didn't hear anything back uh with regard to May 21st at 6:15 so we would just it wouldn't be the meeting the meeting will start at 7 pm however you all will gather and uh solicitor long will administer the training okay so just want to make sure everybody puts that on their calendars I'll certainly send something out as a reminder um but I think we're good right Howard yes um be ready to go it's a stellar presentation but must say so myself um it has to do with government ethics some of you should pay closer attention than others um thankfully Regina will be back by that point in time she'll critique your work heavily I'm sure I'm sure she will and but she's the one who needs to learn it the most I'm getting it all in while she's not here fight back we'll we we'll get through it I've done it might that's it oh my phone's going off yeah' be a little less um the other thing I wanted to mention that's not on the agenda is um I know everybody received the email from me regarding the uh annual filing of your financial disclosure statement just want to remind everybody about that um it is needs to be filed by uh April 30th so if you filed before which most of you if not all councilwoman Haren did it today um everybody it's easy enough to file because you've filed in years past so um you got that email from me I don't know couple weeks ago or last week um so that's it thank you there is I think it's a PIN number you got to find yeah all right uh next on caucus uh work session we have the tree removal replacement ordinance councilman oison all the municipalities [Music] ENT session commiss and I had a session outline doing that we need to Fashion General and then we have to implement a missile full permit process if we want to we have to have an application for for the requirements if we decide that we want to collect payment from the resid plan then we have to decide how we want the ordinance formulating an inspection process and setting viations there's a lot to this yeah we U as part of those storm water ordinances that we've been working on we were required by the state to do two additional ordinances one we're moving forward with and one we're not one we're moving forward with is private salt storage so that doesn't run off I mean municipals already regulated but the private places um so we have that ordinance on for consideration you may recall we also they've also sent around a template for a tree removal and replacement ordinance because of the benefits the trees has have to sucking up the groundwater and and taking that down so when I looked at the ordinance that they presented versus the ordinance that we already have we actually because of the formation of our shade tree commission have a pretty strenuous ordinance say protection right so it's do to say we can't change it to this because I just did what you're talking about because they have probably one of the more stringent tree replacement ordinances in South Jersey or maybe anywhere state so I'm familiar with what you're talking about Council um I did pull the model one that came from the state because it was really less restricted than our present so um I wrote in reading the regulations the reason behind why the state was mandating to do that they said that if you had this type of ordinance like we do and you have a shade tree commission that reviews these things you don't have to pass State mandated or so I sent them our certification of the of the um active nature of our shry commission which is recognized by the division of Forestry or whatever that is um the ordinance that we have presently and the ordinance that they wanted us to and um as I'm saying I believe we fit the exemption that don't have to do the one that the state has been circulating I guess this becomes a question of um you can do this yeah it becomes a question of how how much you want to encourage people to replace trees and then if they don't do it you want to have you have to set up a permit process for removeal you have to have application for do it then you have to have a system of enforcement and collecting fines for having repl the tree and then you have violations at this time it's a big process at this time don't we have the the ordinance currently has I thought like fees we don't enforce can I just get some clarification are we talking about just the street trees are we talking about any tree anywhere on anybody's property yes it's very very strenuous and what they did in Cherry Hill was they don't charge the homeowner you get like one one a year if it's dead it doesn't count otherwise you get one a year free you're filling an application describe what you're doing you do it creates work for somebody either expection sh if if you're a developer they would charge you like usually um in Li of plantings if it's not feasible $300 a tree and they establish tree replacement fund um there's not a lot of development that you see here um you're but you're going to be seeing some Redevelopment which could impact it um maybe but it you know it's up to you I can pull Cherry Hills and circulate it so you can get a handle on what's free what cost you know what it what the issues are what the permitting process is because we did exactly this and I mean I don't know if encompassed in your correspondence with but my understanding is shade our shade tree commission onlys to tree not trees that are on this this dis ordinance andin other towns passing is for all trees and most of municipalities set it around like the fact that kind we have but you have to have you know rules enfor to discourage people from just clear cutting the trees which are a benefit the storm would to run off plus you know water do what I mean I think the best thing can we circulate the additional information that you have like the presentation to the rest of council and then I think obviously we have to do something in regards to storm water management I don't think we do because of because of our I would respectfully disagree with councilman aison to one extent we have a shade tree commission that enforces thees the trees uh along the right rights most towns do not have that you're free to do whatever you want however you want take it down if it's raising your sidewalk take it down replace it don't ask anybody tell anybody you can just do it um the thing that came down from the state if we have a shade tree commission exempts us from doing this modest ordinance at the state saying you at least have to do this when I read that compared to ours I thought ours was a had a little bit more teeth to it frankly um what Tom is talking about is a good idea but it applies to every tree in your town whether it on private property public property everything is that the state mandating this the state is not mandating what Tom has it man it's mandating some sort of tree replacement idea um but it does not go as far as what we already have so I think headen Heights is because of the existence of a shade tree commission is slightly ahead of the game so I think think we're exempt from doing not that one but the one the one that I think we're Exempted from is a May 1 deadline this is something we would do it would be wider spread I mean there's an application process the idea here is put this in motion you have to ask to have rules so actually I think too there's some value here right out of the gate if if you require and I know other towns that do this because actually I think we had I had somebody call me about it and ask me do we have you have to pull a permanent Heights to cut down a tree in your own yard um this is an issue there's some H very honest tree work guys like Shoot actually is really good where a resident approaches him about shade tree he Flags it right away says do you even have permission for this right where you have others that you know these these smaller outfits that'll just they come on to the property and they say yeah no problem and they'll cut down the shade tree and they don't unless they get caught you knowe people yeah and they call them they call them R them out right but I think like if you put a basic you know if you put something in and you don't have to charge an exuberant fee I think permits we could set it whatever we want the idea not being to but really just to be able to track anyway yeah to track the fact that trees are being cut down in town and then my understanding what you're saying Tom the ordinance would also say is it something where you could do in L of the fee or whatever that and then the fee yeah I was gonna say and then it goes to am the max can do Under the LA is $300 yeah I think it's a good ide certain percentage can be used for administrative most has to go I can I can I can circulate this whole package and a presentation um that we did I didn't Cherry ho about a year ago um you take a look it's the same kind of thing Tom's talking about let's yeah I was say I have we can shift this around yeah if you want how about we circulate this Howard circulates he has and then everybody can Che on that and we'll let's revisit it at the uh the May meeting and then um and we'll uh we'll come back and kind of come up with a see where everybody stands on it what we do supposed to be well we're talking about two different things here so Howards Howards has to be done by the May meeting because that or or or be Exempted we'll be Exempted so that that's that's a whole separate issue which is what we wrote about today to say you I wrote and then you sent it to someone else so we'll see that in motion but then regardless of that regardless of that exactly Tom will circulate his presentation that he got and Howard will circulate his information that he passed with similar ordinances in the area we'll review that this is pertaining to all trees not shade trees all trees it has nothing to do necessarily with the storm water management plan have S we'll review that talking Howard is not that thatty that that was not there are the stre protection or we already have there are some protections that occur off off the off the line where the is overlap with I think both is what it's this is coming down to what what we're saying is legally the the legal end will be handled by Howard based on what the state says about our exemption yes right and then even if we are exempt there's there's an idea that there's a notion that I think there's a need to put something we would adopt another ordinance that or build on our current ordinances it was really popular in Cherry Hill because everybody was concerned a little concerned about they found out we were not charging the resident for on their private property that you were allowed to do one a year or a dead one obviously sense yeah there some situations we didn't charge the residents and that's what made it big but you had you have development going there where on if you saw on Crescent Road there you know exactly what I mean right I mean they just took a beautiful right just level everything they dealt with that man this app in Hill I know it applies to like the headquarters Firehouse had to we were only limited we actually they were like well that doesn't count it's dead to I added that in just to annoy you yeah thank you I appreciate do make your job a little harder um all right so we'll Tom's gonna circulate that information how will keep us updated to whether we're exempt from the legal end and the deadline of May 1 and either way we will still plan to explore all of this and discuss it further and now give us time to that all right Wonder uh moving on we got uh fountain at the railroad councilman I got aain hisory men's clothing business and when he passed away the business back in the mid I remember most recently brain but there have been times in the last couple years where the has failed toiz um used to be has it's constructed on 4 Bri with the PPS and tubs one of the problems is there's tree right overhead so drops organic Bean filter and maintain nobody seems to want to take responsibility so some ideas were thrown out there right now the P burn out last year P so the pump not operating so we can put a lower volume P we can make it run again then constant maintenance during the summer months has to be accommodated an so DPW they time to do it if they kind want to do it anymore so I guess we have to decide we talked about potentially they have self-contained FS it doesn't have waterr it what you do f up it just runsun back into and if you did that you could fill the uh the curent tub with oranic materi plant flowers in there too um it all depends on what you want the look to be I mean a lot of people like water you know some people wouldn't mind having in there do the water have that somebody that commit M right now now what I did is um we had all folks there and then I just recently reached out to to see if they had any interest in presenting some ideas I thought may they help create and then Kyle was to look at other pumps the next days but it should be able to get the pp off and running from now decide what we keep it running Council Tom I thank you for doing all this research and meeting with all the parties I know that is a that it's been a continued concern that it's a lot of work um not necessarily in a fountain that's not necessarily in the ideal location given that it's it's kind of in that tree covered region um there's no C I think the plan IDE but I know a lot of people might what the self-contained fountain that you're talking about what what would that that's I think what happens is water flows and then it flows back into a bowl like a smaller volume where it's not like right now when you look at it it's a pool you know up there so it's six foot diameter in the center is a two-tier fountain it's laid up on stack two two 4 in brakes so the pumps underneath and what happened before blew the water it blew out and drain now they're put a small triple down at the same time everything all the organic free get sucked into you Gotan right somebody's got be in there anybody to do that if we put a self-contained pump in the center surrounded by potentially planners then it would you know be probably couple so we're exploring those ideas so I thre it out to Heights Ros to see they actually have 8000 yeah let us know what they cuil all right um so I think we we'll waiting to hear we'll hear back from Heights grows and we're gonna open the fountain up this year we'll see we can maybe navigate this problem in the next few months as The Fountains open um as for care and maintenance um and then we'll explore our options to uh if we need to turn this into a a flower bed some type of contain that work you El it's definitely a different yeah right um moving out of the caucus work session we move into the approval of the minutes of the March 19th 2024 business meeting may have a motion for the approval of the minutes of the March 19th 2024 business meeting motion by councilman Pagan have a second seconded by councilwoman Haron all those in favor any opposed or abstained thank you next we have council member reports councilwoman Haron [Music] you you reach Magie she she did yes so okay and also share their wonderful sounds good your uh your website has a really nice link to that information currently it's stairs right in the face when you go on it looks right in the face when you go on to the main page good coun councilman Addison 6es [Music] did ready for hangers so anouncing that the trees are coming have we have [Music] comk wonderful thank you council president Morgan no reportan right and mayor report and I have nothing to report as well this Saturday what might be planned b um we had some mul all done on the side of building well um is it um is a retired U Chief kler still or is that uh or is it Scardino that is it that Nick Scardino that handles all the mulching and the flowers for us out here actually a DPW did it this I know in the past we've had uh retired Chief Scardino's brother took care of it for us before I thought I Chief try to have that that looking nice around at least a week or two before this this comes up every year know the prosecutor office on Thursday is actually going to be dedicating a roadway corre to officer so we're all going to be heading over there to show our support Heights other than that our officers and all the local retired officers usually go to John's grave site at 6 in the morning on the day just a little something that we do as the AL server show at 6 a.m due to shift changes where we try to get all the shifts that can make it get but we're not having anything as far as the Bike Tour usually comes through in May so we'll definitely let you know when that comes up but um you know this this year it's the 29th next year we probably doing something something big like we're going to do down right Co had other plans for us that year thank you Chief thank you k for remind unfinished business we have the public hearing and final adoption of ordinance 2024 1544 ordinance resending ordinance 2024 1541 and amending chapter 125 d2e of of Haden Heights entitled animal license Fe exemptions this reintroduction of ordinance 2024 1545 in ordinance okay that's sorry yeah I see that yeah yeah public hearing yep so may I have a motion to open the public hearing portion motion by councilman Morgan council president Morgan may I have a second second but I councilman Pagan all those in favor any opposed or abstain thank you the public hearing portion is now open if you like to make a comment please step up to the microphone state your name and address for the record not seeing any public comment may have a motion to close the public comment portion public hearing portion of the of the ordinance 2024 1544 motion by councilman Pagan may I have a second seconded by council president Morgan all those in favor any oppos or abstain thank you now may have a motion to adopt ordinance 2024 1544 an ordinance resending ordinance 2024 1541 and amending chapter exemptions I have a motion please motion by councilwoman Haron seconded by councilman odison I a roll call Vote Yes mayor council president Morgan yes councilman oton yes councilman pigon yes councilwoman Haron thank you thank you next we have reintroduction of ordinance 2024 1545 and ordinance amending chapter 100 the code of bar of Haden Heights entitled vehicles and traffic one-way conversion of Garden Street from first AV to Crest Avenue public hearing and final adoption of ordinance 2024 1545 is scheduled for Tuesday May 7th 2024 approximately 7 PM the municipal building located 625 station a Haden Heights New Jersey 08 035 uh may have a motion to introduce reintroduce ordinance 2024 1545 an ordinance amending chapter 100 the code of bar ad Heights entitled vehicles and traffic motion by councilman Pagan may I have a second seconded by councilwoman Haron may have a roll call vote please Morgan yes councilman aison yes councilman Pagan yes councilwoman Haring thank you thank you and again public hearing and final adoption is scheduled for Tuesday May 7th 2022 at approximately 7 PM new business we have introduction of ordinance 2024 1546 ordinance amending the code of bar pen Heights County of Camden state of New Jersey to include chapter 35 three entitled privately owned salt storage and public hearing and final adoption of this ordinance 2024 1546 is scheduled also for Tuesday May 7th 2024 approximately 7: p.m in the municipal building located at 625 station Aven Heights may have a motion to introduce ordinance 2024 1546 motion by councilman Pagan may have a second seconded by councilman Addison have a roll call Vote Yes mayor council president Morgan yes councilman aison yes counc Pagan councilwoman Haren thank you thank you next we have resolutions 2024 93 a resolution approving change order number one final for the fiscal year 2021 NJ do trust fund reconstruction of Devon a phase three resolution 2024 94 resolution approving Bingo licenses for Suns B Lodge 2311 for the purpose of conducting designer handbag Bingo Friday May 10th 2024 resolution 202495 a resolution supporting the submission of an application to the camp County open space Farmland Recreation and historic preservation trust fund for the purchase of a mobile sensory station and then resolution 202 2496 a resolution authorizing payment and bills of claims for the first half of April and I believe we are tabling 97 so Post 97 right okay yep and then it's resolution 2024 98 a resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of New Jersey open public meetings Act njsa 10 4-12 one matters relating to attorney client privilege two contract negotiations related to Police contract H discussions are expected to be about a half hour in duration formal action may be taken on the forging items following executive session specifically to articulate that resolution 202 2497 the resolution authorizing payment bills and claims for the second half of April will be handled post our closed session I have a motion for those resolutions please motion by councilman Pagan may have a second second by councilman Addison may have a roll call vote please council president Morgan yes councilman aison councilwoman I'm sorry coun councilman Pagan councilwoman Haron thank you thank you I'll now open it up for public comment that's public comment on anything anything at all just step up to the microphone you can state your name and address for the record good evening man' good evening I'm Judy buer I'm from Stanfield towers and we have a repres we have a president of the residents Association who is planning for a wreath to be presented on Memorial Day our wreath has been ordered and paid for and the only problem is uh we have no person to present it now he is trying to find people to present it I'm one of the people is willing to do it but uh we are still in the process it's going to take us a week or two to get I would like to know if you have any input if you have anything to say about presenting the wreath does it have to be a veteran or a friend of a veteran or relative of the veteran to present the wreath it can be anybody that anybody volunteers yep any Resident yep it's a gesture on on behalf of your organization to you know pay homage to okay because I have presented it with uh Al Branson who was our representative veteran last year and as you know he died the day after Memorial Day and so this year we have to kind of start over yeah okay well thank you for telling me yep of course no thank you ma'am can I get your last name please can you tell me your last name thank you got that thank you all right any other public comment not seeing any I'll close the public comment portion and we're going to recess into our executive session e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e Colorado yeah I go to California next week so I got but I'm planing on a red eye which is like did that back in January I have a motion to come out of Clos session motion by councilman Pagan may I have a second second by council president Morgan all those in favor any opposed or abstain thank you uh may I have a motion to adopt resolution 2024 97 resolution authorizing payment of and claims for the second half of April I have a motion please motion by councilman Pagan may have a second seconded by councilwoman Haren may have a roll call vote please yes mayor council president Morgan yes with the exception check 28749 thank you councilman Addison yes councilman pan yes uh count councilwoman Haren thank you thank you not seeing any other business I have a motion to adjourn the meeting a motion by councilman um Pagan and a second by councilman oison all those in favor any opposed or abstain thank you have a good night thank you everyone see all the