okay good evening and welcome to the meeting of the mayor and Council of Princeton New Jersey it is June 10th 2024 uh could we have the meeting statement please adequate notice of this meeting was provided in accordance with the requirements of the open public meetings act including the time date and location of the meeting in addition the agenda and all related materials were posted electronically and made available to the public on Princeton's meeting portal in advance of the meeting thank you um okay let me do the land acknowledgement sorry We Gather today on the land of lenni and lapi as members of the Princeton Community we aspire to show appreciation respect and concern for all peoples in our environment we honor the lenapi and other indigenous caretakers of these lands and Waters the elders who lived here before the indigenous today and the generations to come can we have roll call please miss Peron lambrose here miss Neer gang Mr Cohen here miss saxs here miss Fraga here Mr nulan here mayor Freda here you have Quorum thank you if you'd like to stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right we'll start with Council announcements and reports any members of council with any great reports updates or okay good that's a good sign that tonight's meeting will be less than four hours I'm Sor oh you up I'm sorry L go ahead yes mayor thank you very much I do have two announcements the first is from Princeton integrated Behavioral Health shout out to Jeff CER and his team uh they are going to have an open house on June 13th the location one Monument Drive Princeton New Jersey time frame from 1: p.m. to 400 p.m. discussion will be on Mental Health substance use treatment basic needs like food and housing I want to read a brief statement we are excited to announce the grand opening of Princeton integrated Behavioral Health pbh and invite you to help us celebrate a new partnership providing Same Day Access let me say that again same day access to mental health and crisis Services pbh provides individual and group counseling medication management and sub substance use treatment pbh can also connect Princeton residents to our other vital services including comprehensive outpatient Mental Health Services and help acquiring basic necessities like food clothing and housing be advised again Prince and integrated Behavioral Health openhouse June 13th 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 1 one Monument Drive thank you that's the first announcement the second is in the category of affordable housing the Alice Princeton thank you to our Redevelopment team thank you again to our Redevelopment Team new affordable housing rental Lottery 25 affordable apartments you can apply now for December 2024 move in the Alice is accepting rental pre-applications between June 1st through June 30th you must be received on or before June 30th a virtual information session will be recorded and posted on the website for reference the lottery will be held on January I'm sorry on July 15 2024 at 3 p.m. applications may be returned by mail to 330 North Harrison Street s 1 Princeton New Jersey Jersey 08540 I know I've shared a lot of information about this but if you need further information please go to the Alice at WinCo W nn.com or go to www.live thee alice.com for further information thank you thank you Leon other any other Council announcements or reports Bernie anything down there okay all right next up is approval of minutes from the mayor and Council close session of April 2nd 2024 if someone would move that thank you Michelle is there a second thank you David is that a second or just Okay uh any questions or comments on the minutes see none all in favor please say I I I I okay now it's comments from the public for anything not on the agenda come on up yes have just say your name and your address and then we have a little timer that's going to go on you have 3 minutes to okay say whatever thank you Council for listening to my remark remarks tonight can you all hear me yes um my name is Joanne Marshall uh I've lived here for 30 years I currently live at uh 23 Broad Ripple Drive I would like the council to reconsider opening a can cannabis dispensary in Princeton I would like the council to open discuss discussion on the current ordinance that prohibits sale of cannabis in Princeton I believe the ordinance was passed based on Mis misinformation from a small group of people and not representative of the 75 75% of P princetonian who voted on the ballot approving legality and cannabis sales in New Jersey I invite the council to evaluate the success of other towns who have dispensaries for two years including the impact on their comp community and total monies made on legal cannabis sales I believe the Princeton Board of Health was overly involved this is not a health issue it's a zoning issue just like Zoning for liquor stores which we have at mcaffrey and throughout town uh cigar stores which we actually have one opposite the library and I use medical cannabis as do others in Princeton I have chronic pain and I have to travel 20 minutes to Cranbury and 20 minutes back to purchase my medical Mar medical cannabis I wanted to just add further some information that I pulled off uh the government page for the um from the the government page for cannabis recreational Cannabis cells in New Jersey and it's a recent report that said um out of the 130 licensed dispensary cannabis sales for the first quarter of 2024 they took a total of more than $200 a million from sales of cannabis that's a 38% increase over last years I'm sure our local community would like to have some monies from Cannabis sales reduce their tax bills that are coming out just recently uh that's all I had to say um I hope you can consider this and thank you for your time thank you very much appreciate you being here anyone else in the room have a comment for something not on the agenda all right um mayor I'm sorry yeah are are we able to comment on public comment we usually don't but that's up to you then then I'll defer I'm sorry all right yeah um okay and I don't I only see one person on Zoom I don't see a hand up so we'll close the I can leave you my number on here and then if you want to contact me afterwards I would indeed appreciate that okay thank you all right so we'll close that part of the meeting next up is a public hearing on ordinance 2024-25 um oh okay hang on a second actually we're not not going to have the the public hearing on this the public hearing is adjourned till July 8th 2024 it was going to be a public hearing on the ordinance um concerning the green development checklist and information statement but we had a timing problem with uh the planning board being able to review that and being able to notice that they were going to review it so they weren't able to review it in time so that review will happen um at a later date and so the public hearing is adjourned to July 8th 2024 four so there you go uh next up is an ordinance introduction ordinance 2024 D28 an ordinance of the municipality of Princeton regarding flood plane management and amending chapter 14a of the code of the burrow of Princeton New Jersey 1974 public hearing will be June 24th 2024 uh is there a motion to on that thank you David Mia has the second uh it's a roll call vote Miss Peron lambrose yes Mr Cohen yes Miss saxs yes Miss Fraga yes Mr nulan yes Carri thank you very much next up are the resolutions the first resolution um I just wanted to give a little bit of an explanation it's similar to how we do our own uh budget resolutions so um let me read it and then I'll tell you what's happening 24174 resolution of the mayor and Council of Princeton 1 introduced Ing and approving we're not actually approving it tonight we're approving that we are going to notice it and make it public that we will have a public hearing introducing and approving the 2024 2025 budget of the Princeton special improvement district uh two directing the municipal clerk to publicly advertise the budget and schedule a public hearing and three directing the tax assessor to prepare an assessment role of properties within the district based upon the budget public hearing scheduled for July jly 8 2024 so we're going to handle this the same as we would an ordinance introduction which means we simply going to vote on the introduction and we don't discuss it till the public hearing so if someone would like to Michelle thank you very much and Mia has the second and that's a roll call vote Miss Peron lambrose yes Mr Cohen yes Miss saxs yes Miss Fraga yes Mr Nan yes carried thank you 24175 resolution of the mayor and count coun of Princeton authorizing the award of a contract to G gabelli truck sales for a 2025 Kenworth t480 compactor truck for $279,800 utilizing sourcewell National Cooperative purchasing contract number 06920 dktc is there a motion on that thank you David leighton's got the second questions or comments on the motion I see none all in favor please say I I I 24176 resolution of the mayor and Council of Princeton authorizing the assistant Municipal engineer to execute treatment works approval applications thank you Leighton David's got the second any questions or comments i' seeing none all in favor please say I hi hi 24177 resolution of the mayor and Council of Princeton authorizing the Award of a contract to G G I keep saying that wrong so whoever it is truck sales for a 2025 Kenworth t480 dump truck for $265,800 32 utilizing sourcewell National Cooperative purchasing contract number 06920 dktc is there a thank you Leighton David's got the second questions or comments all right all in favor please say I I I 24178 resolution of the mayor and Council of Princeton authorizing a payment of $168,000 to the Princeton public schools for 2023-2024 school year hazardous busting Transportation cost thank you Leighton Leticia has got the second questions or comments all right seeing none all in favor please say I I 24179 resolution of the mayor and Council of Princeton authorizing the award of two contracts to All State office Interiors flooring materials for $69548 utilizing sourcewell National Cooperative contract number 080819 dsii carpet and floor covering and flooring installation for 8,262 62 utilizing New Jersey state contract 23- f0000 D- 4776 4 carpet and Floor Covering Supplies and installation is there Leticia thank you is there a second David questions or comments very nice that we're replacing some of the stuff that's from y when the building was built got our money's worth out of all of that all right all in favor please say I hi hi next up is the consent agenda if no one has anything they need pulled from the consent agenda someone could move the entire consent agenda Leticia has moving the entire consent agenda agenda Leighton has the second all favor please say I I I I okay David do you have a motion I'll move to a journ is there a second thank you Michelle all in favor say I I we're done that was