Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and please remain standing for the invocation by manscior Michael Manion. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Okay. I knew they go together somehow. Anyway, how are you? I wanted to start the prayer with a little bit of a American history reflection. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have a George Washington. Raise him in a poverty, you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious prejudice and you have Draeli. Spit on him and crucify him and you have Jesus. Label him too stupid to learn and you have Thomas Edison. Tell her she's too old to start pain at 80 and you have Grandma Moses. Lord, these people remind us Harry and Tubman, Martin Luther King, so many others that none of us has it all together, but together we have it all. And when we draw humbly from the goodness, the qualities, the vision, the insights of others, God can do the best with ourselves. Lord, we ask that you bless those that are honored tonight. They've worked hard and they've given so much beyond the call of duty to be here tonight. May we recognize them, Lord, for all they've done in the past. Thank him for the present and pray for them for the future. We ask you this, Lord, one God forever and ever. Amen. Thank you very much. Please be seated. This regular meeting of the township council is being held in accordance with the schedule of the meetings of the township council established and adopted by the township council which schedule

designate the time and date and place of this meeting. Adequate public notice of this meeting has been provided pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings act. We are using an electronic amplifying recording device in order to obtain a clear and audible record and request all those wishing to speak be recognized and state your name and address directly into the microphone. The recording device be so utilized by the township clerk's office for the preparation of the minutes and shall be the official record of the township council meetings. Madame clerk, may the roll call, please. Mr. Mone here. Mrs. Albreight Troxel here. Mrs. Grace Love here. Mr. Nash here. Mrs. Walters here. Mr. Castro here at a work commitment. Mr. Mr. Marcato present. Mr. Hutchson present. Mr. Cartis here. Chief Manazi here. Mr. McGill here. Miss Weiss

here. I'll now hand over our meeting to Chief Manazi. Uh and the swearing in of officers.

Thank you, President Marcato and Council for allowing us to continue this honored tradition. If uh Council President Marcato, if you could please come forward and Mayor Mayor, if you would be so kind as to step forward. Good evening everyone.

Family, friends, colleagues, and community. Tonight, you will see an important tradition here at Clawer Township PD. One very important to an officer. You will see them take their actual oath of office, which is very important during their journey. where they take the oath is when they swear to themselves, the community uh to the to the law and to the constitution uh as they embark on their journey. It's a very important uh tradition, one that they will carry through the years of service and uh it's we all appreciate everybody coming out here this evening. Anybody can wear a badge, but it's the oath that what makes them a great police officer. So, without further ado, if I could have Detective uh Craig Walls please come forward. With your family, please. With your family. New police officer in the making right there. Look at that. Detective Craig Walsh first began his career in law enforcement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections in December of 2008. He was hired with the Gloucester Township Police Department on March 4th, 2013 and attended the Gloucester County Police Academy basic class number 42 from March 4, 2013 to July 10, 2013. He was first assigned to the operations division patrol bureau as a patrol officer. And on February 2, 2017, he was assigned for his high performance to the operations response unit or RUB. On January 19th, 2015, he was assigned as a member of the Special Response Team. He serves as a member of the Glo Police Department honor guard unit from 2017 to 2023. on April 2nd, 2023, was assigned as an investigations bureau detective and

served in the special investigations unit. Detective Walsh was named assistant team leader of the special response team on 2000 uh September 3rd, 2024. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant on January 11, 2026 and currently serves as the operations division patrol bureau as a deputy platoon commander for the third platoon. Detective Walsh has been awarded the following departmental awards. An award for bravery, three for merit, one for life saving, nine distinguished unit citations, and a police service citation. And he has numerous outstanding police work letters in his file. He was also nominated for police officer of the year in 2022. He is joined tonight by his wife Sherry and his boys Karen and Callahan along with his mother Patty and his father Steven. Mayor Mayor Council President Marcato, I respectfully request that you swear in Detective Craig Walls as sergeant of police for the Gloucester Township Police Department. If you could please uh raise your right hand and place your left hand on the Bible. There you go. Good job. If you could please repeat after me. I state your name, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people. I further solemnly swear that I will faithfully, impartially, and justly perform all of my responsibilities as sergeant in the Gloucester Township Police Department to the best of my ability. So, help me God. Congratulations, SERGEANT.

SIR, if I could ask uh patrolman Tyler Schrader and patrolman William Fron to the front, please with your families. Patrolman Schrader graduated from the Camden County Technical School, class of 2022. He first began serving our community as a volunteer firefighter with the Blackwood Fire Company in 2019 and is currently serving. He then began his career in law enforcement as a class one special law enforcement officer in Gloucester Township September of 2022. He was hired as a full-time Gloucester Township Police Officer July 7, 2025 and graduated from the Camden County Police Academy number 92 on December 4, 2025. Patrolman Trader is currently assigned as the Operation Division Patrol Bureau Second Platoon as a patrol officer. His platoon commander, Lieutenant Bernard Dockerty, said, "Trowman Shrader continues to demonstrate genuine enthusiasm and a strong eagerness to learn. He takes great pride in carrying carrying on his family's tradition of public service, and that pride is evident in both his dedication and his performance." As field training officer, Patrolman Yakub, said, "Prolman Shrader reports to work daily with a positive attitude, quickly adapts to adverse situations, and demonstrates a strong eagerness to learn all aspects of police work." He represents our community, the GTPD, and his peers with professionalism. Patrolman Trader is joined tonight by his father, William, his mother, Andrea, his siblings, Alyssa and Logan, along with his girlfriend, Paige. Holding the Bible tonight will be his mother, and pinning the badge will be his father.

Next, we have Patrolman William Fran, badge number 352. Patrolman Fran graduated from Triton Regional High School, class of 2022. He first began his career in law enforcement as a Gloucester Township class one special law enforcement officer from May 23 to July 25. During that time, he was awarded a distinguished unit citation for his response to the Gloucester Township Day incident and also a life-saving award for saving the life of a motorist that had overdosed behind the wheel of a vehicle. He was then hired as a full-time Gloucester Township Police Officer on July 7, 2025 and graduated from the Camden County Police Academy class number 92 on December 4, 2025. He's currently assigned to the Operation Division Patrol Bureau as a patrol officer on the second platoon. His platoon commander, Lieutenant Evan Thistle, said patrolman Fron consistently shows up to work with enthusiasm, is empathetic with the community, and eager to learn new skills. He shows patience with the public, builds connections with the community, and wears the badge with pride. He shows respect to his superior supervisors and peers. Joined tonight by his mother, Patricia, his father, William, his brothers, Ryan, and Gloucester Township Police Sergeant Shane Fron, along with his girlfriend, Cassidy. Pinning the badge this evening will be his brother, Shane Fr, and holding the Bible will be be his girlfriend uh Cassidy. Mayor, mayor, council, president Marcato, I respectfully request that you swear in patrolman Schrader and patrolman Fron as police officers for Loster Township.

Thank you, Chief. If you could please raise your right hand and place your left hand on the Bible. Please repeat after me. I state your name. do solemnly swearn that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people under the I further solemnly swear I further that I will faithfully impartially

and justly perform all of my responsibilities all of my responsibility as a patrolman as in the Glosser Township Police Department to the best of my ability. So help me God.

Congratulations Well done and good luck on your journey. Mayor, would you like to if you'd like to

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because I'm only going to talk for 45 minutes. So, you better sit down. Well, good evening uh everyone. Uh thank you for being here uh this evening on a special night. Uh Sergeant, congratulations on your well-deserved promotion. Thank you so very much for your dedication to this department and to the residents of Gloucester Township. To our new uh patrol patrol officers, um first of all, thank you for choosing a career in law enforcement. Uh, and I know you will have a long and happy career here with the Gloucester Township Police Department, the finest police department I feel in the entire nation. And so you have a you have great mentors uh in this department that will teach you along the way uh and and uh you will then pass that down uh to future uh generations of police officers. So congratulations to to both of you and let me thank your families. Uh thank you for sharing your loved one with us. Um your support uh of your loved one is absolutely essential uh to support him uh along this journey uh in his career. Uh and I thank you so very much uh for doing that. Chief, I want to thank you and your command staff uh continuing to reach new levels with uh with this department. You know, there's a reason why our crime rate goes down year upon year. Um, there's a reason why other police departments look to the Glouester Township Police Department, look at the programs that we've established, and the reason is the men and women of this department. So, I can I thank all of you for your service to uh to our community uh and and we are very grateful to to have you serving this community. So, congratulations to to the three of you. uh wish you much uh success as you continue your career here in in the Gloucester Township Police Department. Thank you.

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Yeah, we have a resolution uh to go into close session to talk about four workers comp issues. Uh that should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Uh, that's resolution 2603-091. May I have a motion to go into close session? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second. On the question, roll call, please. Mr. Mone, yes. Mrs. Albreight Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. We'll be back in about 15 to 20 minutes.

Okay. Uh, can I have a roll call again, please? Madam clerk. Mr. Mo, here. Mrs. Aubrey Troxel, here. Mrs. Grace Love here. Mr. Nash, here. Mrs. Walters here. Mr. Marcato, yes. Mr. Hutcherson, present. Mr. Cartis here. Chief Manazi here. Mr. Miguel here. Miss Weiss here.

Those were four workers comp issues that are still ongoing. Uh and we're looking to settle those uh cases. Now, we'll open up our first public comment. Uh each speaker is entitled to three minutes on agenda items only. There's a total of 15 minutes for the public comment portion. Anyone like to speak during this time? Yes. Mr. Burns. Good evening, council. Brian Burn, Sawwood Drive, and Ariel. Good evening.

Um, I'm following up with the last meeting regarding the um, Haidider Road acquisition of 16 acres. I wanted to provide you some information that um, will go along with my comments regarding this purchase. Thank you. So you folks know that there's probably no stronger advocate in cost determinance than me for open space. And I support the idea of the hider lane being preserved. That's not an issue. But the resolution tonight that you guys are going to be voting on says that the the township can spend up to 2.8 million. 2.8 million for 16 acres. Now, I'm a muscle car fan, and my dream muscle car is a 68 convertible Olds 442, and I know that car goes ballpark about 100 grand. Would I ever pay 500 grand for it? Not in a million years. No matter how much I want that car, I'm not spending 500 grand. So the parallel here is 2.8 million respectively for 16 acres. On the other hand, I just gave you a handout. This property is currently for sale right

down the street from here, right down here, and it abrupts the uh Timber Creek dog park. So it could become part of the Timber Creek dog park. And if you look at it's it's eight acres for 590,000. Eight acres. So if you double that, you know what? We looking at one a little bit over a million for 16 acres if you break it down to cost per acre. And my question is, can't we do or purchase a lot more land open space with that 2.8 8 million than 16 acres. So, I'm running out of time. So, my questions are number one, are there any threatened or endangered species on the Haidider Lane property? Question two, is the site a natural heritage site? Question three, is there anything that is particularly unique about the property to justify the purchase price? And finally, number four, wouldn't it be better to use the funding to buy much more acreage using the same money throughout the township?

Thank you for your time. Thank you. I'm sorry on anyone else that would like to speak on agenda items. Okay, we'll close the first public comment. Uh Mr. Cardis. Um, to your knowledge, are there any endangered species on that particular property? I would imagine Green Acres would would have reviewed these things, but I'm going to ask the questions that Mr. Fern said. Not not to my knowledge. Or a national his national heritage site. Ne not to my knowledge.

Uh, and anything unique. I I guess unique. Yes. There there's body of water that that's Go ahead. Tell Well, I can't ignore the status of the property. What it was zoned for.

What it was zoned for. So, uh, one of the unique characteristics of the property is that it would become a three-story 60unit apartment. And I don't think that the people that live in that area would agree with Mr. earns as far as whether or not the priority should be to use Green Acres funds, which were already approved for $2 million, and we've applied for another 205,000 to use Green Acres money to acquire the property. And we used two approved Green Acres appraisers, which is required by law. We followed all the law uh from from the uh uh Department of Environmental Protection, Green Acres. And so that value is in fact the value based on the approvals that that property has. So that's the unique characteristic of that property and why we're looking to acquire it. Before we uh started our meeting, the solicitor and I were talking about he showed me what Mr. Burns had provided him and um I think Dan and I were the only ones on the count council at the time. Oh, no. Michael, I think you were there, but there was a property, I think, on the other side of of this uh property there on Cho Landing Road and uh that sold for multiple million dollars that was approved for housing uh high density housing uh in that particular area. Uh I don't know what the acres were or do you do you recall that Mr. Hutchinson, but it was a million, a couple million dollars, I believe, the transaction. Absolutely.

And you know, I'll get additional information on that. Um, so, uh, but thank you for your your questions and comments, Mr. Birds. Uh, bid report, Jake Law Playground and Valley Brook Complex. I have a motion. I'll make that motion. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mo, yes. Mrs. Albert Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love. Yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato,

yes. Next is ordinance 0-26-04. This is a second reading and there will be a public hearing. Uh, calendar year 2026, ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank. This permits the township to increase uh its appropriations up to three and a half% over the previous year's final appropriation. Is there anything you want to add to that, Mr. Carters?

Um, as you say, it incre as you said, it increases the percentage uh increase on the appropriations inside cap from 2% to 3 and a.5% uh in my mind uh in my eyes most importantly allows you to bank cap. Without this, you cannot bank cap. Okay, we'll now open up the public hearing on this ordinance. Anyone wish to speak on this? Seeing none, we close the public portion. May I have a motion, please? So moved. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Albreight Droxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato,

yes. Next is ordinance 0-26-05, ordinance of the township of Gloucester replacing repealing and replacing chapter 500, article 9, section 902, affordable housing fees and procedures. This is going to be a long summary so bear with me. Okay. Uh this uh addresses chapter 500 article 9 section 902 affordable housing fees and procedures of the general legislation township of Gloucester that it has to be repealed and replace in its entirety to comply with the fair housing act that was amended in 2024 and the newly adopted uniform housing affordability controls regulations and the newly adopted NJAC 599-1. So this establishes standards for the collection, maintenance and expenditure of development fees that are consistent with the regulations that are set forth. The fees that are collected are pursuant uh shall be used for the sole purpose of providing very low low and moderate income housing in accordance with a court approved spending plan. Uh there are standards that are set forth. Uh and let me just uh had some highlights here uh with and just talk about residential development fees imposed fees that residential developers except for developers of types of development specifically exempted below shall pay a fee of 1 and a half% of the equalized assessed value for residential development provided there's no increased densities permitted with non-residential development fees uh with all zoning districts non-residential developers except for developers of types of developments specifically exempted shall pay a fee equal to 2 and a.5% of the equalized assessed value of the land and improvements for all non excuse me for all new non-residential construction on improved lot or lots uh with collection procedures that there should be a granting of preliminary final or other applicable approval for a development that the uh approving

authority shall direct its staff to notify the construction official responsible for the issuance of a building permit and that there is an affordable housing trust fund that that should be maintained by the CFO of our municipality for the purpose of depositing development fees uh collected from residential non-residential developers and proceeds from the sale of the units with extinguish extinguishable controls and that the use of funds uh should be used for activities uh that are not limited to the uh there should be a grant or revolving loan program and activities not limited to the preservation or purchase of housing. for the purpose of maintaining or implementing affordability controls. Housing rehabilitation, new construction or or of affordable housing units and related costs, accessory apartments, market to affordable program, conversion of existing non-residential buildings to create new affordable units and green building strategies to be saved and costsaving. Uh there is a monitoring where on or before the February 15th of each year, the the municipality should provide annual electronic data reporting to the AHMS reporting system from January 1st to December 3 uh 1st of each year and that's what I have. Okay. So we'll now open up the public hearing on this ordinance. Anyone wish to speak on this? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. May I have a motion? So moved. There a second on the question. Roll call, please.

Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Alreza, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Mcado,

yes. Next is ordinance 0-26-06, an ordinance of the township of Gloucester County of Kansas State, New Jersey, repealing and replacing chapter 500, article 10, affordable housing procedural and eligibility requirements. Uh, this bear with me. Uh there's a long explanation on this. It's uh what it does is chapter 500 article 10 of the affordable housing procedural and eligibility requirements of the township of glosser has to be repealed and replace in its entirety to comply with the fair housing act that was amended in 2024. The newly adopted uniform housing affordability controls and the newly adopted NJAC 599-1 at seg. So, this establishes the townshipwide regulations and standards to govern the development of very low, low, and moderate income affordable units for sale and rental residential developments that may be approved by the township or the township's planning board. And it's designed to regulate these very low and low and moderate income units in a manner consistent with uh FHA, UHAC, NJAC 599-1 at SEC and applicable uh New Jersey Council on affordable housing COA regulations. So this section sets forth regulations regarding very low and low and moderate income housing units in our township. uh that's outlined in chapter two in the amended fair housing act as well as the department of community affairs division local planning services that upheld existing regulations on on the now defunct COA uh regulations the uniform housing affordability controls at NJACF excuse me 580-26.1 at se and as reflected as the adopted municipal fourth round housing element and fair share plan. So this ordinance again is intended to ensure that very low and low and moderate income units are created with controls on affordability over time and that very

low low and moderate income households shall occupy these units pursuant to statutory requirements. Uh so the planning board adopted the housing element and fair share plan pursuant to the municipal land use law and that addresses how as a municipality we address uh very low low and moderate income housing as approved by the spirit court and documented in the housing element. So this shall apply to all affordable housing developments and housing units. Uh the ordinance shall also apply to any unanticipated future developments that'll provide very low low and moderate income housing units. Bear with me. Uh we should provide elect the municipality shall provide electronic monitoring data uh with the department pursuant to chapter 2 NJAC 599 through the affordable housing monitoring system and that is uh provided and made public by the FHA on or before February 15th of each year we shall provide annual reporting to the affordable housing trust fund activity to the department of AHMS portal. Uh it requires there's a man municipalitywide mandatory set aside. It's required at 20% of affordable housing set aside where the affordable units are provided for sale and 15% where the affordable units are provided for rental whenever any residential development takes place including the residential portion of a mixeduse project if it consists of five or more new residential units at a density of greater than five units per acre. Uh let me see if I have any more that I want to highlight. Lastly, uh we as a municipality should also adopt uh a by resolution an affirmative marketing plan which is one of our resolutions at the end of our

consent agenda. Uh this is subject to approval of the spirit court complying with NJAC 580-26.16 and can be amended and supplemented. And this marketing plan is a regional marketing strategy to design to create attract to attract buyers or renters of all majority and minority groups regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital, familiar status, gender, affectional, sexual orientation, disability age or number of children. the housing units which are being marketed by a developer sponsor or owner of the affordable housing. And in our uh packets there was received a there's a comprehensive affordable marking plan and lists all the resources and agencies that will be notified of this. We now open up the public hearing. Anyone like to speak on this map? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. May I have a motion? So move. Is

there a second? Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Munoz, yes. Mrs. Aubry Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Next is ordinance of first reading introduction. There will be a hearing at its second reading.

Ordinance-26-07's ordinance amending chapter 81-34A of the code of the township of Glouster entitled vehicles and traffic. Uh this uh creates a handicap parking. Uh the location is amended uh on Coventry Place to the location of 1601 Coventry Place. Uh the Department of Works will provide install handicap parking signage and pavement markings uh with the Glosser Township Police Department having enforcement authority over handicap parking. May I have a motion, please? So move. There a second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Man. Yes. Mr. Sel. Yes. Mr. Grave, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes.

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yes. Next is ordinance 0-26-08 is the first reading and introduction. We will have a hearing at its second reading. Uh, this is a bond ordinance authorizing the completion of various capital improvements and the acquisition of various pieces of capital equipment in and for the township of Gloucester, county of Camden, New Jersey, appropriating a sum of 10,941,714. Therefore authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds or bond anticipation notes of the township of Gloucester County of Camden, New Jersey in the aggregate principal amount of up to 10,420,680 making certain determinations and covenants and authorizing certain related actions in connections with the foregoing. This is our annual uh capital budget that has been submitted to us by the administration. We spoke briefly about it during our workshop. This was provided to council uh this past Thursday. Uh this capital and budget includes the reconstruction and repaving of various sidewalks and curbs throughout the township, various drainage improvements through the township, improvements and upgrades to various parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities. Days like this when it's a sunny day in March and that park was jam-packed. You couldn't find any parking getting in here. Mr. Softy was out there already. All right. acquisition in installation of various traffic signs and signals. Improvements and upgrades to various township buildings. Acquisition of medium duty vehicles for the public works department. Uh they're not limited to a large transportation bus that will be utilized for our senior citizens and dump truck. Acquisition various vehicles and equipment for the public works department. A loader attachment, pickup trucks, plows, asphalt, pothole, patch trailer, welder and back hole restoration equipment. various equipment for parks and recreation department including mowers, fences, dugout roofs and top lot refurbishment equipment. Acquisition of various info information

technology equipment. Uh various equipment for the police department including but not limit to communications equipment, vehicles and tactical equipment. Acquisition of real property in the township. Uh this is addressing the former PNC Bank property drive-thru on Church Street uh and allocating money for that acquisition and then various improvements to the police department facilities uh the training center expansion off of Hickstown Road. I'll entertain a motion. So move. Is there a second on the question? Roll call, please. Thank you. Mr. Mo, yes. Mrs. Albert Troxel. Yes. Mrs. Grace Love. Yes, Mr. Nash. Yes, Mrs. Walters.

Yes, Mr. Mcato. Yes. Next is our consent agenda. Any council member would like to have any item removed, please speak up. Council President, I'd like to remove resolution- 26 col 03-100. There needs to be a correction to the amount of appropriate parking spaces. Okay. Is there anything else from anyone else? So, there's a motion to remove resolution 2603-100. Is there a second? Second on the question. This is to remove. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Ary Troxel, yes. Mr. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. To remove. I'll now accept a motion to accept the consent agenda as amended. So moved.

Second. On the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mango, yes. Mrs. Alrexel, yes. Mr. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Resolution 102, resolution at the township council of township of Gloucester, Camden County, New Jersey, adopting an updated affordable housing trust fund spending plan. May I have a motion? So move second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mongan, yes. Mrs. Albreight Troxell, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Resolution 103. Resolution of the township council of the township of Gloucester adopting an affirmative marketing plan for the township of Gloucester.

May I have a motion? Move. Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mone, yes. Mrs. Aubry Troxel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Resolution 104, resolution of the township council of town lost Camden County, New Jersey, adopting an affordability assistance program manual. May I have a motion, please? Second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Minion, yes. Mrs. Alrexel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato,

yes. Resolution 105, resolution of the governing body of the township of Gloucester endorsing the township's round four housing element and fair share plan. So move. May I have a motion? So move. Second. Second. On the question roll call, please. Mr. Muno. Yes. Mrs. Albreight Troxel. Yes. Mrs. Grace Love. Yes. Mr. Nash. Yes. Mrs. Walters. Yes. Mr. Marcato. Yes. Resolution 106. Resolution of the township council of township Camden County, New Jersey, adopting an operating manual for the administration of owner occupied and rental rehabilitation programs. May I have a motion? So move second on the question. Roll call, please. Mr. Mone, yes.

Mrs. Alrexel, yes. Mrs. Grace Love, yes. Mr. Nash, yes. Mrs. Walters, yes. Mr. Marcato, yes. Before we go to uh the rest of our agenda, I want to thank Mr. Bach and Miss Weiss for your work on make familiarizing us with this process. Um it's a lot uh and we appreciate the work that you did on it. Thank you very much. Uh we did not receive any gtegov access emails. We now open up our second public comment. Each speaker is entitled to five minutes. There's 30 minutes for the public comment. Any speakers entitled to speak one time during the public comment. Would anyone like to speak to the public comment? Mr. Burns.

Good evening again, council. Brian Burn, Sawwood Drive. Good evening.

Um, I had a question which was not addressed regarding the Haidider Lane, which was the fourth question, which was wouldn't it be better a better use of green acres funding to take that 2 to 2.8 8 million and buy a lot more acreage throughout the township as opposed to buying a 16 acre property. Um, and the other question was, would council entertain the purchase of the choose landing property? I plan to reach out to the property owner to see if they're interested in the green acres program, but I don't want to do that unless council shows an interest in the purchase of this property. Okay, it's 8 acres. The price is pretty darn good and is directly adjacent to the Timber Creek dog park, which could become part of the dog park, but I don't want to, you know, spend my time and energy reaching out to homeowners as council doesn't want to entertain this. So, those are my two questions. Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any other speakers like to speak? We'll close second public hearing. Uh the question would would that funding be better put to use and buying more acreage? Um I am comfortable with that uh Green Acres provided an appraisal of it. U anyone else was like to speak on it. U I know that when that uh project was uh brought forward a threetory high density property. There was concerns throughout uh this particular area of our township about having that uh as far as la last meeting you talked about uh possibly using money for the Hickstown property and then you tal acquiring that and now this meeting on on Choose Landing Road. I I my concern and this is me personally. Um you're a concerned resident but not an agent of the township and I know that you have you you've brokered deals for us and and and made sure that those deals moved forward on the Hill Murray property. Uh but it's not an official capacity when you do that. Now if someone approaches Mr. Burns and say, "Hey, Mr. Burns, I'm interested. I know you help folks do this. I think that's that's satisfactory, but I I think that when you approach someone, you know, you don't have the authority. You're a concerned resident and you care about sharing it. But that that's just my initial thoughts because if you're knocking on someone's door saying, "Hey, I'm would you like to sell it to the town?" Um you don't have that authority. Uh that authority lies with the township. But um I guess working closely uh with our administration if that's something you wanted to move forward with, we're always willing to entertain that. But I would just be hesitant in having those conversations um when you don't have the authority to

do so. They are speaking. Well, we close we closed the public hearing, sir. You know, we wouldn't have the marriage and we wouldn't have the haze and we wouldn't have the horizon bridge unless pipe reached out to the property owners. That was acknowledged in my statement that you brokered it, right? But now you're telling me that, you know, I really shouldn't be doing that. As I stated in my comments, in official capacity, I have a question. It's a free I can send a letter to whoever I'd like to send a letter. So, Mr. Burns, we don't have a back and forth and you're aware of that? Yeah, I'm

so the question I had is so what's the normal process where a property like this does become available? I'm sure we have staff and um a team put together that looks for these types of properties or are they normally brought to us? Does a seller approach us? What's the normal process? How does that normally come to our attention?

In in my time here, it's been a mixture of both. We've had people that have approached the township. Uh there was at one point uh billboards that were put on properties that say that this is a development project or a possible investment if you like to purchase it through the town. Um when Mr. Lechner was here, Mr. Lechner identified certain properties and would bring it to our attention. I know he he worked closely with Mr. Burns on on particular projects. Uh my concern is uh I could have any resident knock on someone's door and say, "Hey, would you like to sell your property to the town?" There's nothing personal here, Mr. Burns. It is just last week you get you brought a property to us uh that that property owner uh has other designs for and this property owner now you brought us another piece of property. So that is my concern. Uh but it has been a mixed bag of people that have approached the township over the years. Mr. Cars, is there anything you want to add to that?

No, you expressed it exactly. Okay. Anything else? Any questions? Any other questions? Uh we close public hearing. Uh polling of directors. Mr. Hutcherson, nothing. Mr. Cartis, nothing to report. Chief Manazi, nothing. Mr. Miguel, nothing. Thank you. Miss Weiss, Mr. you. Congratulations to Sergeant Walsh, Officer Shrader, and Officer France. Everybody, enjoy the weather. Have a great week. Thank you, Mrs. Albert Troxel.

Yes. Congratulations to all of the police officers that were inducted and the one that got a promotion. And I'd like to thank the chief for doing an excellent job in handling it his first time. And uh uh you made us all proud and it was nice that you spoke off the cuff about the gentlemen and means you know them. you understand them and that's very important for a chief to connect to his his employees as well as you do. So I want to compliment you on that and just have a wonderful evening and enjoy tonight's weather. Mrs. Grace Love, congratulations to all the officers and again thank you chief for your leadership and everyone have a great week.

Mr. Ash.

So, um, yeah, the, as you may know, this is the 250th anniversary of the country and our great people at the, uh, historical society. They're, uh, busily, uh, coming up with a calendar of events, uh, to kick off the, uh, celebration, but I wanted to mention one in particular. We've got a flyer here, but um, they're having a colonial life experience uh, coming up on April 18th and 19th. It's a free It's free for the entire family. They have a whole bunch of reenactors, blacksmith, you could shoot a bow and arrow. There's cannons going off. It's It's a fun little event. Uh but that's the first of many events that they're planning. So u I encourage you to follow them on uh Facebook at Glow Twip TWWP history and um yeah, give them a follow. Thanks,

Mrs. Walters. Uh thank you for everybody for coming. Congratulations to all the officers. Thank you, Chief, for um having the ceremony for them. Um, and just have a good week. Thank you, Mr. Mara.

Thank you for coming out this evening. Congratulations, Sergeant Walsh, Patrolman Trader, and patrolman France. I was doing some math. They were born the year I first got on council. That's tough. So, um, and I I'm sure they will follow. Uh, it starts at the top and your leadership. you exemplify great leadership and I'm sure that these officers will succeed along with you and your staff. Uh we are celebrating uh women's history month at our next council meeting. Uh there are I believe seven outstanding women who make a difference in our township that will be honored uh at our next meeting on March 23rd. That I entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Is there a

second? All those in favor? I have a great evening everyone.