[Music] [Music] at this time I will call this meeting to order Clerk of the board please call the role certainly chairwoman commissioner Baker president commissioner bodc here commissioner delis for present commissioner granados here commissioner Kowalski here commissioner Mirabella commissioner Williams here Vice chairwoman Leon here and chairwoman pal mudad here let the record reflect you have eight Commissioners present for this evening's agenda setting session thank you Clerk of the board please lead us in the prayer and salute to the flag humbly we ask God The Giver of peace and lover of Charity to give the entire family of Nations true agreement with his will to Grant the light of his Spirit on all who work for justice and peace amen pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all cler of the board please read the statement of compliance with the open public meetings act the chair wishes to announce that pursuing to the requirements of the New Jersey statutes annotated title 10 chapter 4 section 10 of the open public meetings act adequate notice of this meeting the board of County commissioners of the county Union has been given by mailing the annual meeting schedule for the year 2024 along with periodic changes necessitated by circumstance to the newspapers circulating within the county of Union who are designated to receive such notice and by posting the annual meeting scheduled for the year 2024 in the administration building and further by following the annual meeting schedule for the year 2024 with the office of the county clerk thank you we will adopt the communications and the minutes during tonight's regular meeting at this time I will first call upon our County Clerk Joanne Ry to present her resolution good evening Madam chair commission Commissioners um the county clerk's office has one resolution for your consideration tonight and I'd be happy to answer any questions okay thank you you're welcome Office of the Union County prosecutor William Daniel County prosecutor thank you very much good evening Commissioners uh the County prosecutor's office has two resolutions on for this for your consideration for tonight if you have any uh questions at all I'd be happy to answer them seeing n thank you thank you Department of administrative Services Laura scari good evening the department of administrative Services has one resolution on the agenda be happy to answer any questions thank you thank you Department of Economic Development Amy Wagner Deputy County Manager good evening Commissioners the Department of Economic Development has two resolutions for your consideration and I'd be happy to answer any questions thank you department of engineering Public Works and Facilities Management Joe P good evening to our your person and Commissioners the department of engineering Public Works and Facilities Management has seven Rel resolutions on the agenda be try happy to try and answer any questions you have thank you Department of Finance director BB tayor good evening chairwoman Paul Mar mooded and members of the board of County Commissioners the Department of Finance has one resolution for your consideration this evening and happy to answer any questions thank you thank you Department of Human Services Debian Anderson good evening chairwoman and members of the board the Department of Human Services has three resolutions on and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have thank you thank you Department of parks and recreations uh Victoria Durban Drake good evening chair and Commissioners the department has five items on the agenda and I would be happy to attempt to answer any questions you may have hi can you uh just give a little bit of back ground on uh just number one um yes so this is a regant the county receives funding from the state and they go through a selection process they um you know it's open to all and they offer the grants through the regant process okay thank you and this is for our uh cultural and Heritage programs it is through the cultural and Heritage division correct thank you U Madam chairman commissioner Baker go ahead if excuse me could you explain um the resolution number two uh when it comes to the the active for U explaining the for active seasonal months um and the management aspect of of those park or pools rather yes sir thank you for the question um the county made a decision this year to turn over the management of the pool in the spray park to keer as you know they already manage other of our recreational facilities including our golf courses and uh wo Sports Center and um you know the pool and Spray Park are very seasonal in nature so this is going to allow us to have a full-time presence for th those months only resulting in a cost savings okay all right thank you thank you uh director in terms of number three and number four um the ice rink that is for the second sheet of ice we will be putting in yes it is chair it is for the second sheet of ice which is going to be enclosed which will allow us to service our communities um 12 months a year great it's much needed yeah I it is I know we we heard we're very excited by by this project that is great do we have any timeline estimated timeline we do if things go as they should and as we anticipate we should be receiving bids back October of this year okay great great thank you okay thank you Department of Public Safety Dennis Burke good evening chairman members of the the board uh Public Safety has one item on the agenda for your consideration be happy to take any questions you may have thank you thank you office of County Council Bruce Bergen thank you chair the office of the County Council has two resolutions tonight I'll be happy to answer any questions commissioner uh Williams uh yeah can you just give us a little bit of background on number one yes um this is a small piece of land part of one of our Parks which um we we sort of we got ownership by accident if you will it was a a municipal street that was vacated and they automatically give half to us and half to the commercial uh Enterprise next door which caus a lot of uh pollution including on our land this is costing uh the county nothing in fact we're getting paid for the land but the polluter next door has paid for the subdivision for all of the approvals from the state um so we we will technically need to put it up to auction but they're the only ones who are going to bid there's a minimum price uh and then they will be responsible for cleaning it up thank you thank you uh Office of the County Manager uh County Manager Ed opman uh thank you chair I have one item on tonight's agenda and I'd be happy to answer any questions thank you thank you uh there are seven uh business resolutions from the board approving sponsorships do any Commissioners have any questions regarding these resolutions all laor laudatory resolutions and resolutions of condolence are from the entire board are there any comments from my colleagues okay seeing none may I have a motion to adjourn some move may I have a second second a motion was made by commissioner Williams seconded by commissioner Baker all in favor I I okay [Music] [Music]