it's very intimidating you can move it off to the side if you like have Elise tell you about her experience yeah it's pretty she just bought one online I mean between I think well not exactly she brought the new name brand I guess yeah I can only imagine who is this from oh yeah oh did you get a right oh I guess it's election letter Josh got pimer in the Fifth District don't know I don't know but it's you know who was the um member of Congress Congress oh so no Ken yet huh he'll be here well the point is is that Jerry's water ready to rock and roll sure Jerry you can you put your water down I can't see thank you she's all contorted disted oh maybe it's better that way no no no Aqua delusion okay this meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law this meeting of February 13 2024 with instructions for internet access was included in a meeting notice sent to the Brony County Times and Courier Post on January 4th 2024 and advertised in said newspapers on January 7th 2024 and January 11th 2024 respectively posted on the website and the bulletin board in the municipal building on January 4th 2024 and has remained continuously posted as required under the St statue in addition a copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the municipal clerk would you please rise for the flag salute I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America stand indivisible withy for all ter roll call Mayor Gilmore here Mr Montgomery Mrs Evans here Mr clouse here Mrs Tori here okay minutes and we have the regular committee minutes of January 30th 2024 I'll make a motion to approve here a second oh second Mrs Evans yes Mrs Tori yes Mr clouse obain May Gilmore yes okay reports we have I don't see our um police person so we have reports from the um tax collector code enforcement Fire official constructions and Emergency Services can I uh get a motion to receive second Mr clous yes Mrs Tori yes Mrs Evans yes mayor Gilmore yes okay so we are open for comments from the public on agenda items only anyone anyone online no okay let's close comments ordinances we have ordinance 202 24-2 this is the public hearing and final adoption option we are open for public hearing any comments from the public any comments online okay I close public comments could I have a motion in a second please so moved second Mr K Claus yes Mrs Tori yes Mrs Evans yes May Moore yes okay I have an ordinance for first reading and introduction um ordinance [Music] 2024-25 37 yes to add affordable housing uh L is on and that would then hold a where is my my range 7500 to 15 correct so do I need to amend actually a motion to introduce with that revision with that addition okay so could I have a motion to amend and accept I'll mean that motion I'll second Mrs Evans yes Mrs py yes Mr clous yes Mr Montgomery alstein mayor Gilmore yes okay so that um will be up for public hearing and final adoption on March 12th 2024 um mayor if I may ask uh the body if they would uh consider amending the agenda to add an ordinance um it would be ordinance 20 24-4 and that uh is the annual Cola ordinance that's presented to the body each year uh so it would read ordinance 2024-25 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank and that would be for first reading and introdu ction with uh public hearing and final adoption on March 12th 2024 um I do believe you all have that in your binders um just for your information um again that's to add the 1% to the 2.5% budget appropriation cap um so it would enable us to go 35% uh last year's um it's based on last year's budget appropriation so the 1% represents $9,888 per represents $4,525 roduce on first reading public hearing March 12 okay need a motion I can make that motion too second Mrs Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Mr CLA yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gore yes thank you okay we have this evening four cons ument a resolutions 2024 46-2 to 2024 49 -2 can I have a motion in a second so moved second Mr CLA yes Mrs Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gilmore yes resolution 2024 D50 D2 granting permission to commence preliminary site work um would you like to elaborate on that please yeah sure this is a um this is the two Warehouse development behind Mall Nissan and uh the motel on Route 38 it also has uh just behind property that's on the uh bypass as well um they have prelimary final site plan approval they received that some time ago they've been working with the do to one improve The Jug Handle to they're doing a land swap with the do that has now been approved everything the do takes forever right um so they're still waiting on one thing from the do which is the major highway access permit the do has signed the has approved the agreement for the swap but they just haven't gotten the permit so they would like to get started on site work they actually wanted to do more work and we kind of said to them no we can't recommend that to you yet to see how the site work goes so it's really just moving dirt around so they can get that started um the conditions would be they can't go out tomorrow they've got a post a bond right they've got a post inspection escros for the engineer to go out and make sure that they're doing it correctly right I me I don't know it's involved in moving dirt but apparently there's some stuff involved in moving dirt and he's got to look at it so that's all got to be done before they can do anything but it but but it all the approvals when the Plenty War grants an approval join the L board it's conditioned upon all other agency approvals so the highway access permit is one of those approvals but we know it's coming it's just it's the dot and we probably would even recommended this to you had we not known that they had now approved the land swap so we were pretty comfortable saying to you radically protected we put language in there that says we can we can issue a stop work order whenever we want if we see something going wrong right um and but it's just moving dirt okay any other questions from the committee can I have a motion in a second please so moved second Mr clouse yes Mrs 4y yes Mrs Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes mayor Gilmore yes resolution 202 24- 51-2 this has to do with our fireworks display I need a motion in a second so moved second Mr Montgomery yes Mrs Evans yes Mr clouse yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gilmore yes I think that one could have been on the consent agenda really well you know it's our 100th anniversary we have it's interesting it's Department of Labor yeah I guess it's the St work place standards I guess but yeah you got it there you go all the rules Department of Labor regulates electricians too so and plumbers so we have several business licenses before we get carried away ladies and gentlemen you want hear with um we have several business licenses to approve and I have that motion in second I want to P so moved I hear a second Mrs tordy yes Mrs Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Mr clouse yes mayor Gilmore yes approval of charitable clothing bin licenses there are three of them so moved second Mr Montgomery yes Mrs Evans yes Mr clouse yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gilmore yes correspondents we have one from The Joint land use board uh it's their annual report from 2023 we need to accept I'll make that motion I'll second that Mrs Evans yes Mr Montgomery yes Mr clous yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gilmore yes okay we are now open for comments from the public comments are limited to five minutes is there anyone in the room that needs wants to speak anyone online close public comments comments from the administrator okay I have a few things to report out um we are our project engineer is currently working on uh project estimate phase for the hockey rank and Tennis Court resurfacing project project here at the municipal building in addition to the tennis and basketball court resurfacing at the chase uh so we do expect to advertise in one to two months for those projects uh second our uh New Jersey Department of Transportation Grant projects 2022 and 2023 for palowski fenmore and Laurel Ridge uh we are having the bid opening for that on February 28th and uh we want to present to you at the March 12th meeting um resolution to award that contract for that uh Road resurfacing project um I have been working on uh Don and I have been working on the budget so we hope to have a meeting with the finance Liaisons um over the next few weeks and hopefully be able to present um to you an introduction at the March meeting if not we would be fine and in terms of um deadlines with the state if we were to introduce um in April and adopt in May but the goal is March April um if not we would be fine if we do April and May okay thank you thank you Mr Gillespie comment other than to say it's good to see you all I don't have anything else thanks John got a long close session I'm saving it up yeah right all right comments from the committee Miss Evans yes I just wanted to thank all of our residents who donated to the heart to give program there was a nice stack of shoe boxes in there um so always grateful for the generosity of our good people and I'm happy to report that the green team is getting ready to submit its preliminary application for bronze certification on February the 25th although we're doing it largely for feedback we're not really expecting to be awarded the certification we've got the whole of the rest of until July to firm up our documents and get ourselves into into gear but it's all going very well uh Happy Valentine's Day and thanks for coming thank you Mrs Tori yes I'd like to thank you all for coming tonight um and I would like to commend Liz and Donna on the upcoming senior Winter Dance coming up on Friday that will kick off our 100th anniversary celebration they've been working hard on it and I'm sure it's going to be a wonderful night and um also mention the fashion show I believe both events are sold out so um the the fashion show is coming along very very nicely it's going to be a lovely event and I hope we raise a lot of money for our celebration that's the goal so um God bless you all uh I want to thank you all for coming tomorrow we start our Lenton season with Ash Wednesday day and we have Valentine's Day on the same day which is wonderful so hopefully you all support our town and going to dinner in hesport for Valentine's Day other than that everybody have a good evening okay thank you Mr Montgomery I should probably just say ditto but um specifically to my wife mea Happy Valentine's Day and to my daughters and to all the Valentines of hesport out there enjoy and uh you know for Lent I guess uh giving something up and taking something on um want to also thank um Donna Lynn Casey and Liz for their work with the whenn her dinner dance and 100th anniversary uh continue celebration with the fashion show and the um and the tea um number of us will be there helping out and apparently there are 60 baskets to be raffled off there so uh tremendous tremendous outpouring of donations from the public and and um um and everyone so uh thank you um and God bless hesport indeed um so one thing I did want to bring up was um I believe it was last month um Paula told us about the um fact that the legislator sure was talking about the Oprah and um changing the uh open public records act uh slimming it down and making some changes to it and I um did have the privilege of signing my name to a letter in support of doing just that to our um legislatures um I also want to mention the fact that we were all well almost all of us were at the um banquet for the uh fire department and the uh ear Emergency Services uh group and we're I was asked to swear in the officers of both companies and and we were all witnessed to some of the special awards that were given out um one that was really quite nice and we had intended on doing something for him uh this evening but unfortunately he wasn't able to attend in Don Platt on over 50 years of service and they gave him an award that was made from one of the uh backboards that he used during that service you're here to Da yes yes indeed it was quite emotional quite moving yes it was it was and yes the shoe box collection did go very well there was over a hundred boxes collected and uh Friday night is sold out and March 3rd the tea and Fashion Show is sold out there's a weight list now that exists for that event um the Walk Drive brochure is going to be published shortly it's part of our 100th um events going on and uh Donna and some others well a lot of people were involved with the 100th anniversary working on pictures and speakers that are going to be talking at the um Street Community Center I also wanted to just mention that um due to the fact that is Valentine's Day that flowers are being sold by the Ladies Auxiliary um if you're really hurry you have 10 minutes to get there tonight otherwise tomorrow from 10: to 7: yeah it's at the fire department yes and it's a great deal yes super deal so I got mine good glad to hear it so um other than that thank everybody for coming that was able to Brave the weather and hopefully we won't see any more snow I'm s SI of it already so with that we have some bills to pay I make a motion that we pay our bills I appreciate that second Mr Montgomery yes Mrs Evans yes Mr clous yes Mrs Tori yes mayor Gilmore yes so I understand we have an executive session this evening um it looks like it might take a little while hold minutes half an hour to 45 minutes and do you expect any action to be taken afterwards I don't think so so with that resolution 22452 D2 is a resolution to enter into executive session can I have a motion please so moved second second Mr Montgomery yes Mr JY yes Mrs Evans yes Mr clous yes may G yes pict I didn't have to use we want to stay here