just I'm read what this Greg rowski there okay in compliance with the open public meeting laws I wish to state that on March 21st 2025 the notices
meeting of the Upper Township committee was posted on the official Township bulletin board the Upper Township website emailed to the Atlantic City Press the Ocean City Sentinel Ledger Herald times and f with the township Clark tonight's meeting is being video
recorded up until the Clos session portion of this meeting and will be available on the Upper Township website I hereby direct this announcement to be made part of the minutes of this meeting everyone please stand for the
flag the United States of America the for it stands one nation God indivisible andice for all please call a roll Mr casasso here Mr nain here Mr s palbo here Mr Zach
Palo here may Corson here all members are present everybody reviewed the minutes from our previous meeting yes I make a motion second please call a roll Mr caceo Mr Napp Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zach
Palumbo yes M Corson yes motion carried okay we're moving on to uh report of government body um Sam do you have any tonight I do um so me and Craig Rees talked about so and uh basically
someone from the public uh his name is Chris Scott reached out offering to pay for cement for our disc golf facility at Amanda field um I can't say I'm too familiar with disc golf but people that do it are big fans of it similar to pickle ball um and basically that we
don't have tea boxes right now uh it's kind of just a starting point so these this cement that would be poured would basically become t- boxes so um yeah I'd like to actually kind of make a motion to approve Public Works basically taking
the cement that's being offered to the Township for free to kind of pour this for them so they can have their T boxes for disc golf that's a motion yes second please call a rooll Mr Casio
yes Mr napin yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zach Palo yes M Corson yes motion carried perfect and that's a that's a nice example of an organization or sport sping with our community and it's a it's fine thing
because it'll feel a nice Improvement for our community that's great that's all you got mayor that's all you got okay uh Vic do you have anything good evening everybody thank you so much for coming out as always although I know most of you are here tonight for John which is a great night for John and a great night for EMS to
have him sworn in as our next chief we're very proud of of him and the work that he's done and are looking forward to that resolution coming up uh this week uh Tyler and I attended a ribbon cutting for a new business bu in town as we continue to support small businesses
coming into the town restore Health by science which is being owned and operated by CNP Carrick harpon it's a really cool it's a for-profit medical um program you go in there they do a a full blood work of you and um the facility is
really great it's located on Roosevelt Boulevard great husband and wife owners and a great addition to the town uh I do have one I think very good update on the wellwater contamination issue uh we received an email from Greg brazowski uh
as you may remember he was part of the Mercury groundwater contamination investigation which back in October found that there was no uh contamination in in the wells um he States as part of the NJ D's ongoing effort to protect the
health and environment we uh them are continuing uh conducting additional portable well sampling at properties along Homestead Court Garner's Lane and Bay a Avenue the purpose of this sampling is to ensure the validity of data collected by Cape environmental
such as properties will be sampled for one or more of the following compounds Mercury pfas and or synthetic organic compounds uh they sent letters to those individuals believe one of the last couple meetings somebody wanted an update on that so it's still working and
the water as far as we know continues to be safe and that's all I have for tonight thanks you're welcome uh yeah so we're gonna take a look at the video that uh I mentioned at the last meeting this is a Strath Mir on
March 8th uh about 20 minutes before high tide it was a West Wind day you can see already the cutout on the dunes uh that's you know the biggest concern is you're GNA have the drop off on there uh again so as we're coming up on that
Jetty or not Jetty that that Fallout line you actually the rock pile that's right there is already covered so you know there's significant water on top of that this is Williams comeing correct that's right where the headquarters would be you can see emergency access and you can see
this the cut off from the pathway on there and it's definitely a steep drop on there we saw you know people trying to walk their dogs and then realizing they got disc scared and they went to an another pathway but then we get to the inlet area you can
see that there's going to be limited access uh you know from at the North End and you know that you have that one uh pathway that skated up and then just coming back from the inlet you can see there just another flyby you know just significant
cut so right now access is going to be very limited if if any if Limited at all uh you know coming for the summer so we're going to have to definitely figure out how to properly manage you know the summer crowds coming in and then also you know how we're going to get Public
Safety and access to uh to the beach well like Zach was saying last meeting he and I met with Representatives with Joe from the D and we have a couple ideas but we are trying to work with the D and
it's going to be interesting and we can't we're very limited to what we can do obviously we're months if not years away from a beat replenishment so it's a so this this is actually right at high
tide and as I said it was a West Wind day you know so you're not going to have that much more water coming up on high tide and actually the wind will help you like keep the ocean at at Bay so to speak but I mean we have a Northeast wind that's just going to start start
taking that sand out and you know we have to really think about what we're going to do with lifeguards and all the other like just Beach patrons on a regular basis to two years ago we were in a similar situation and the whole North End was closed and the
lifeguards were uh there was beaches closed but there was lifeguards are prepared to deal with it and we'll be able to deal with it but it does affect the First Responders correct so we you know there's definitely some caution and we have had
uh someone from stra volunteer fire department reach out to us and we we understand their concerns we're gonna have to be very tactful how we're going to get get down down Beach we had an emergency down there as well that's what you have that's pretty
much it I mean a nice flyby it was definitely a beautiful March day on the beach but I you can definitely see the significant erosion that's going to happen there and it'd be great if we could get some sort of emergency action on this but you know like I said we're
Memorial Day is quickly approaching so yes problem is emergency and D don't you have any I do May um with Dennis Township's impending uh departure here from our court system uh our court administrator Lauren and I have been
trying to find created ways to make up for the loss uh from them leaving I had a uh productive but preliminary discussion with mayor Gillian this week about potentially having them rent our Courthouse space while their courthouse in Ocean City gets refurbished and
renovated here um working out some timings and just seeing if it'll work for both parties and positive discussion overall though for the first discussion well that would be good yep so we're uh like I said followup to come but very good first meeting all right keep us in
the loop you bet is that it that's all I got for all right thank you Tyler I I do have a couple things um I did meet at the the pre holders hosted the mayor's round table and that was I think Tuesday or Wednesday um they have committed in this
year's budget $80 million to the bridges um refurbishing remodeling taking care of the bridges the ones Ocean City the ones across the in the Strat miror and obviously the SE all want to affect us because that's how we get back and forth so they have made that commitment to
bridge repairs and uh they have plans to replace most if not all the bridges they they they will oversee the uh 27 or 28 bridges in the county which
is H it was quite interesting but they are also so uh looking at repaving this year 25 miles of County Roads at a cost of $40 million so the Freeholder board is spending some money here in Upper Township and I don't know what roads
they but they are spending a lot of money and that'll be a good thing for uh upper towns because there's some on the listed are getting new service uh coming up this week March 28th there's the conference of Mayor that I'll be attending which will be just comparing notes seem what
different communities have round TBL bit and how we can solve problems and help each other also Thursday at 10: am Joe I don't know if you'll be there or not
Tyler and uh John amuser and myself we were having a uh meeting with the principles of the Cedar Square shopping center to address some of their uh ongoing issues they have so I hope some positive can come out of that and we can lead them to path of uh getting it back
on the right track so that's all I have at this time we're moving right along Joe do you have anything just a couple updates mayor uh one we'd like permission for the tax collector to uh to attend the annual Tax Collector's conference in Atlantic City uh it
exceeds the $250 Benchmark that uh the committee has put in place years prior and uh it's a beneficial conference and like a motion to make that in form of a motion
second Mr caceo yes Mr nappin yes Mr Sam Palo yes Mr Z Palo yes mayor Corson yes motion cared mayor as you know we just had a meeting a little while ago with the you deputy mayor uh nap uh uh John Brit
who's being elevated tonight Barbara and uh and Bill from the beach Patrol and we're talking about some changes in how we operate the Emergency Services on the beach this summer um Zach is say we're not going to have much Beach and I agree with you on that but we still have to
prare and figure out a way that there may be another a new position created to but have a a beach EMS person there and we're cooperating with the lifeguards that are EMTs there so I think we had a good meeting and I and I think we resolved some of those problems um we
have to figure out a way to provide the a at Beasley Point Beach uh I think we're on our way to doing that providing that there we we need to have one with that beach um I know that Sam and Larry Cole have been very active in getting
the Easter egg hunt on track and we got noticed today that some 10,000 eggs were delivered yes they sure were so I'm not quite sure where they put 10,000 egg but Larry probably found a spot for him so so that's going as planned and U uh just
one other item um the township needs to appoint a municipal representative an employee to the uh for the bike and pedestrian safety Grant um it probably ought to be uh my replacement when the time comes but we need a Municipal
Employee Ryan's going to find out if we can just put a employee there as a placeholder and then change it over at the appropriate time but this is the second or third memo they're requesting from us to did you get do you know if we can just put someone in there for so we
we have meeting set up uh April 7th where we'll really determine whether we could have a temporary uh it's called LPA in place uh we won't have that answer until um
do uh confirms Federal elig eligibility for the crank um so it we'll know a lot more after the April 7th meeting thank you Brian that's all I have with thank Joan do you have anything first toight nothing thank
you John do you have any nothing Mr Mayor thank you Barbara do you have I have nothing thank you and we'll move Ryan you have thank you Mr Mayor just have a quick update for tonight uh regarding reconstruction of putam Avenue it's our
DOT Municipal aid grant funded project um we just resubmitted plans and specs the do for final review and approval hoping if all goes well within a couple weeks we'll have the that approval from do and then still on target to send out
the project to bid mid April in order to award the project by miday uh based on the do's deadline to award the project and that's all I had for tonight than okay think I it at this time we'll open
it up to the public would anybody in the public like to comment on our agenda our agenda items only good evening uh Natalie nce Highway 50 in Petersburg um could you please speak to uh number six under
resolutions please explain that that's a liquor license transfer I believe it's a Cil Tavern from one establishment to another one license holder to another one license holder to another it's actually the state we just
have to approve it so it's staying at the seille tavern excuse me it's staying at the seille tavern yes the same place it's new owners of the they may change the owner they're changing the ownership of it they may rename it they I don't know if it's going to stay as a Cil
Tavern but it's going to stay as it on that location okay thank you and um can you speak to um I just heard about 10,000 Easter eggs um what can you speak to the costs involved in that t you cost
no I I can't I don't think it cost us anything Sam would you like to elaborate no there was a cost to it I don't recall off the top of my head what the cost was but um we did pay for the filed Easter eggs I think it was I think it was
2,800 yeah I I want to say in the $2,000 range but um to to be exact I'm not sure I don't have it in front of me we can have that number for you tomorrow if you wanted to stop in or call in barar could give you the exact number so do you know
um who who it was paid to a business or it was Jersey Cape diagnostic I believe okay thank you is there anyone else who like to comment on our J yes please yeah I have a question about the number three designating the first
Thursday in May a day of prayer in upper town can you just put your your name on the record first I'm sorry my name is Bonnie Collins want my address phone number email you just uh usually State your city that's all Ocean View Ocean View technically seille who knows um I
have a question about designating a day of prayer in Upper Township I was under the impression that government and religion were supposed to be separated why is it necessary to designate a day of prayer people can pray anytime they want that's something that's happened National Day of Prayer is been on the
records and on the book since Ronald Reagan was President I believe I might have the history a little wrong um the township is always recognized National Day of Prayer and we invite the local clergy to our building and they hold a
prayer service outside and if people want to attend they can attend if they don't they don't attend well I'm just one resident that objects to officially designating prayer as a government body we're not requiring anybody to to
participate in prayer that day we're just acknowledging the existence of that day thank you for your input anyone else would like to comment on agenda all right moving right along
guess big doing now we're going to have to call Mr Brit forward May if we could have if we could adop the resolu resolution what adopted first this like the second time
you don't have to sit down as long as you can do it in the microphone Mr Casio Mr Casio yes Mr nappin yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes may Corson yes motion Carri
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you not very wel very I did want to sayef words I just want first of all thank everybody that's here supp me and my family family
support our department as a always app I also just wanted to to say if you looked at my 10 years you know I've spent here starting as a volunteer still in high school that God sing
[Music] almost as old as you yeah right yeah thank you everyone for coming I'm sorry you can't stay for our meeting but we're glad you were here I'm sure you have duties okay all consent agenda is Spill
a routine in nature and will be enacted by one motion if the mayor or any Committee Member wishes a particular agenda item to be considered separately it will be removed from the consent agenda and acted on separately motion to approve the consent agenda second please call the role Mr caceo yes Mr nappin yes
Mr s Palo yes Columbo yes may Corson yes motion carried under new business we have the Parish of St maximilan Colby request the use of strainger beach for an Easter Sunrise Mass on April 20th 2025 motion to approve second and just for the record is there are not using
the Williams Avenue they're using the 14400 because the Williams Avenue I think is about a 5 foot drop one so uh they are using the 1400 Mr caceo yes Mr nappin yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zach Palumbo yes mayor
Corson yes motion carried number eight Ocean City crew boosters request to hold Raffles ra 592 and 593 and bingo 594 at the Upper Township community center on May 31st 2025 make the motion second please call a roll Mr caceo yes Mr
nappin yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes M Corson yes motion carried nine Ocean City career boosters request to hold raffle 595 at the EM Hayes Boat House 34th Street Bridge Mar on various States beginning May 1st through May
29th 2025 make a motion second Mr CAO yes Mr nain yes Mr s Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes M Corson yes motion carried 10 extension of shared services agreement with the township of Dennis for municipal court
services motion to approve second please call W Mr Casio yes Mr nain yes s Palumbo yes Zack Palumbo yes M Corson yes Mo Carri I'm sorry
okay so uh at this time we're going to open it to the public again wait oh bills what's your on the bill I hear I move that all claims submitted for payment this meeting be approved and then incorporate in the full minutes of this meeting second please call the ball
Mr Casio Mr na yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes M Corson yes motion carried okay this time we're going to open to the public is there anyone in the public would like to address the township committee okay hearing no public motion
we'll entertain a motion to go into close session who's got it tonight I got it I hereby move that a resolution be incorporated in the minutes authorizing the township committee to enter into executive session for the following matters pursuant to open public meetings Act One Personnel two P potential
litigation Harriet lean LLC three potential litigation Prescott Avenue four litigation demaro vers Upper Township at all five contract negotiation CMC mua host Community benefit agreement six contract negotiation hearing officer seven
contract negotiation code inspections eight contract negotiation Affordable Care Act reporting Services nine contract negotiation Payroll Services 10 contract negotiation Information Technology Services I also include in my motion the estimated time and
circumstances under which the discussion conducted in the closed session can be disclosed to the public as followed a is anticipated that the matters uh discussed in Clos session may be disclosed to the public upon the determination of Township committee that the public interest will no longer be
served with such confidentiality B with dis respect to the employment and Personnel matters such discussions will be made public if and when formal action is taken or when the individuals involve consent that make it can be public C with respect to contract negotiations
such matters will be made public when negotiations have ceased and there is no longer a reason for confidentiality and D with respect to litigation matters such discussions will be made public when litigation is complete and all applicable appeal period has been
expired second please call a roll Mr casasso yes Mr nappin yes Mr Sam Palumbo yes Mr Zack Palumbo yes Corson yes motion carry this time we're going to take you five minutes