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OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
AGENDA MEETING
SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
An Agenda meeting of the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge was held on September 3, 2002 in the Municipal Complex. The meeting was called to order by President Butler who asked all present to participate in a salute to the flag which was followed by a short prayer.
Deputy Clerk Stella Ward announced that this meeting is being held in conformance with the open public meetings act, notice has been given to the newspaper and notice of the meeting has been posted in public places. The next meeting will be September 9, 2002 at 8:00 p.m.
Roll call at 8:02 p.m. by Deputy Clerk Stella Ward, showed the following members present: Councilmen Calogera, Maher, Redmond, Councilwoman Panos, Councilmen Baker, Greene. Councilmen Hoff and Testino arrived late.
Guest - Jersey Central Power & Light - Jerry Riccardi (Update on Power Outages in Old Bridge)
Councilman Calogera: I have a list prepared by George Lerner of Society Hill Homeowners Association which documents all the power outages. I would like to give this to the gentlemen for JCP&L.
Mr. Riccardi: I am attending tonight's council meeting as a follow-up to my appearance on July 8th. I committed to having an extensive engineering study done on our distribution sub-station and transmission system. Jersey Central Power & Light has a vested interest in your community and we strive to provide a safe, reliable and economical electric system. I am always available, 24 hours to all of the council members and administration. I was not able to attend the August 12th meeting because of the severe storm that we had on August 2nd that effected over 100,000 customers in central Jersey. Bob Kellaher (who is here tonight) has a written report that he will present to council. Aside from reliability, I have a financial concern, JCP&L expects to be paid for services rendered. Withholding payment is never a good business choice. I have demonstrated my commitment to you by being available whenever you need me. My recommendation to you is to, satisfy your financial responsibilities, otherwise collection activities will begin.
Mr. Bob Kellaher: I have two fold report that indicate the reliability analysis that was done on the Browntown circuit and it also determines that load that is coming into your area.
Councilman Maher: Why did you only bring two reports, when there are nine councilmen?
Mr. Kellaher: It is pretty in-depth and I will go through it and will be happy to answer any questions, nine copies of this would of been.....
Councilman Maher: I asked Alayne Shepler to make this meeting more productive by getting this report in advance. I was assured by Alayne that we would have this report this evening. I didn't expect two copies.
Mr. Kellaher: I apologize for not having more copies, my thought was that only two were required. We looked at the 47747 circuit from the Browntown substation; which is the area that is in question. The history is that this system has been a troublesome circuit from the year 2000-2001.
Councilman Maher: We have had 15 outages since January, is that a significant number?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes. We had this on a radar as a troublesome unit and we have finished some heavy tree trimming on the entire circuit which was completed in November. We also installed additional animal guards and we fused any lateral that was not fused before. These are devices that will help sectionalize the problem which will minimize the customers that are affected by the outage. We should of seen a significant improvement with those things being done. We have seen a slight improvement, there were 18 outages in 2001 and as of August 26, 2002 we have had 13. This is not where we want to be. We have inspected the transmission line that feeds the substation and did some preventative maintenance. We also inspected the distribution line and that showed up pretty good. Where we feel that we will back significant improvements are in three areas. 1.) We will change the relays at the circuit and have it done within a 2 months period. The relays are what sense a problem on the lines, the relays that are in there now, we feel are over sensitive, they are set for an instantaneous lock out.
Councilman Calogera: According to your analysis circuit 47747 is running at 90% actual capacity, is that the peak?
Mr. Kellaher: That is at peak.
Councilman Calogera: Is that common?
Mr. Kellaher: You have your Towne Center that was put on that circuit.
Councilman Calogera: What is your policy with actual load to capacity on the line?
Mr. Kellaher: We look to off load the circuit when it nears almost 100%.
Councilman Calogera: So, 90% is not a problem.
Mr. Kellaher: We are fine with this at 90%.
Councilman Calogera: Why is this district the only one throughout the town that suffers from this constant outage problem?
Mr. Kellaher: That is where I was getting to with the relays. We want to put a different relay in so that if there is a contact on the line you will get a localized outage and when the lineman comes out it will be a lot easier for him to spot.
Councilman Calogera: Why has it taken two and half years to get to the point that we are at now?
Mr. Kellaher: This isn't an exact science and we did what we thought would cure this problem and as we monitored it over the past seven months, it hasn't fixed it. 90% of the time, the tree trimming is what cures the problem.
Councilman Baker: Would you like to finish your report before you take questions?
Mr. Kellaher: I will leave that decision to the council.
Councilman Baker: I would like you to finish what you came here prepared to say and then perhaps some of the council questions will be answered.
Mr. Kellaher: The second part of the plan is the installation of a "recloser" which we will put on Cottrell Road. This has the ability to sense power outages and sectionalize the lines on a individual per phase basis. I think that this will give us a lot more sectionalizing capability. The third recommendation is to complete load balancing and phase balancing of the circuit, which will be done in the next three months. I don't see this as a big issue for the outages.
Councilman Greene: What is that?
Mr. Kellaher: We run a three phased system and as we hook up developments; which is singled phased, commercial developments are usually three phased and if there are more commercials then developments the system can get out of balance. I do not think it is a problem but we are going to make sure that it doesn't crop up next year. I personally inspected the circuit and saw tremendous line clearance with the tree trimming. The problem that we will be incurring with any tree conditions are going to be things that are non-preventable. Ticetown Road has some heavy trees that tower over our lines and when a branch comes down, it will cause an outage even after we do all this. The second part of the analysis is the capacity. At the Browntown substation is set up with two 20 "mva" transformers which are typically loaded to 125% of their capacity, so each of them combined gives us a total loading of 46 "mva". As an example the shopping center across the street is 1 "mva". Right now the loading on each one of those banks is approximately half of what it could be loaded to.
Councilman Maher: What happened about a week and a half ago, with the light rain that we had?
Mr. Kellaher: We have noted that on August 26th there was a tree limb on the lines.
Councilman Calogera: What constitutes an outage?
Mr. Kellaher: We categorize them in two areas, we have momentary outages; less then 5 minutes and sustained outages, which are over 5 minutes.
Councilman Calogera: The number that you gave us of 18 outages are sustained, what are the numbers of momentary?
Mr. Kellaher: I do not have that information.
Councilman Calogera: I would like that in the near future.
Mr. Kellaher: The relays that we are going to be putting in will take away any momentary outages that were there before.
Councilman Redmond: How does Old Bridge rate compared with other towns this size on the number of outages?
Mr. Kellaher: Right now you are higher then normal.
Councilman Redmond: Is the new relay similar to what the railroad does, where it automatically resets itself and if it happens again, it will lock out?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes. I think that this will really help.
Councilman Baker: Is this plan A?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes.
Councilman Baker: Do you have a plan B?
Mr. Kellaher: No.
Councilman Baker: Is there a higher authority that you report to?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes, the Board of Public Utilities.
Councilman Baker: Do you measure the complaints that you get from Townships?
Mr. Kellaher: The Board monitors it.
Councilman Baker: Is that important to you?
Mr. Kellaher: Of course it is.
Councilman Baker: If plan A doesn't work, and you don't have a plan B, we don't have any other option than to go to the Board of Public Utilities.
Mr. Kellaher: Based on our assessment, this should work.
Councilman Maher: What actions after our July actions took place? When will the relays be changed?
Mr. Kellaher: Two months from a week ago, the engineer that was doing this assessment ordered these already.
Councilman Maher: The relays will be changed November 2002. So actually nothing took place after our July action. You said the reclosure will take place over four months, does the clock start tonight?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes.
Councilman Maher: So the reclosures will be finished by January 2003. The balancing load will be completed in November 2002.
Mr. Kellaher: Yes.
Councilman Maher: Has service suffered since your recent merger with First Energy of Ohio?
Mr. Riccardi: We have had a blend of cultures. JCP&L was acquired by First Energy, which took about 18 months to complete and during that time we had a blending of cultures. Workers from GPU (which was JCP&L) traveled to Ohio and workers from Ohio came here and we saw how they did business and they saw how we did business. We shared the best practices. Having this company in Ohio, gives us a lot more resources that we can pull from. On the August 2nd storm we had crews come from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. One of the new practices that we learned from First Energy was having people do untraditional jobs. For example we have a group called the UC&M group that we assign to do just services on 110 and 220 volts. This group went up and got those services up even before the rest of the power was restored to the neighborhood.
Councilman Maher: Can we send a copy of your report to the Board of Public Utilities for the record regarding your corrective action plan?
Mr. Riccardi: The Board received your resolution and asked us how we planned to handle this. I told them that we would be putting together a report and we will provide this to them.
Councilman Maher: With the time-frames that you mentioned?
Mr. Riccardi: Yes.
Councilman Maher: So there will be a post-mortem after the relays are changed, and the other two changes. You will monitor this and make sure that all the fixes are working?
Mr. Kellaher: Yes.
President Butler: The balancing and the relays will be done in November 2002. I suggest that you keep in contact with Ms. Shepler to make sure that you are on schedule. If you have problems, I suggest that you come back before us.
Ms. Shepler: Can we have council's permission to release the checks that we have been holding for payment to JCP&L? It is over $200,000.00
MOTION
by Councilman Testino to release the payment for services to JCP&L, seconded by Councilman Greene and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Calogera, Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: None.
PRESENTATION - (9/9/02)
Michael Caffrey - Open Space Committee
No discussion.
PROCLAMATION (9/9/02)
Commemorating the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States. (BC)
No Discussion.
HEARINGS - (9/9/02)
H-1 Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - Wawa Store # 940 (Subdivision Bond #103361440-various site improvements.)
No discussion.
H-2 Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - Courtco/Jack Aaronson.
Councilman Hoff: Where is this located?
President Butler: We will find out for you by Monday.
H-3 Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - Oxford Estates.
No discussion.
H-4 Developers of Cedar Ridge to show cause - default of performance guarantee for construction of recreation area.
No discussion.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES Combined - July 8, 2002 Combined July 22, 2002
No discussion.
ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING
ORD. #41-02 Amend Land Development Ordinance - Section 4-3M (Sign Posting) (Hold for Planning Board approval until 9/17/02 Meeting)
No discussion.
ORD. #42-02 Amendments to Towing Ordinance #37-02.
No discussion.
ORD. #43-02 Ordinance requiring a person convicted of selling cigarettes to minors to display a sign publishing the conviction.
No discussion.
DISCUSSION
D-1 Mannino Park easement access. (BC)
Councilman Redmond: I attended a press conference in New Brunswick with the Freeholders. The Freeholders were closing the deal on buying the watershed property, in the course of the conversation, I had the opportunity to meet with Mayor Vas of Perth Amboy and I am happy to report that the Mayor has agreed to sell us the access piece to Mannino Park. Not only did we get this piece, but I think that the whole sale is a win win situation for Old Bridge. Perth Amboy is still maintaining some property that they are going to be paying taxes on. Our little leagues will come under the control of the County and they have agreed to work out deals with the Sayrewoods South Rebels and the little league, so that they can stay there as long as they want. We get the access to Mannino Park as soon as the Mayor and Mr. Ruggierio get the all the paperwork together.
DISCUSSION ORDINANCE
DO-1 Ordinance amending fees - Police Department (changing fees to be consistent with the State Statute.)
Move it up.
DO-2 Ordinance establishing Permit Parking on both sides of Rockhill Road. (JPC)
Move it up.
DO-3 Ordinance exempting certain businesses from payment of Retail Food Establishment licensing fees. (RA)
Russell Azzarello, Economic Development Corporation Director: Awhile back the Health Department issued fees by virtue of a letter to various food establishments and they lumped in a number of businesses where food is a incidental part of their business. An example is a local drugstore where there is a candy display by the register. A local establishment contacted me because he has a 7,000 square foot store and was charged based on that square footage to the tune of $300.00. I spoke with Mickey Gross about this and also the legal department and we would like to amend the ordinance to make it dependent on the size of the area where food might be sold, this is to protect us from stores such as CVS or Eckerd's, where food is a huge part of their business.
Mayor Cannon: Does this include milk and dairy?
Mr. Azzarello: The stores that I am referring to, don't sell that.
Mayor Cannon: There could be dated products if we just go by square footage.
Mr. Azzarello: The dated products are usually inspected by the manufacturer.
Mayor Cannon: Would these stores be exempt if they are below 20 square feet?
Mr. Azzarello: I don't think that you would find a dairy case that is below 20 square feet.
Mayor Cannon: How many stores would be affected by this?
Mr. Azzarello: About three or four. It doesn't really affect the licensing situation, it really affects a small business man.
Mayor Cannon: I understand that Home Depot only sells bottled water, what would happen with them?
Mr. Azzarello: They are already packaged, they don't sell by the bottle, do they?
Mayor Cannon: I don't know, I know that they are assessed on the whole size of the store.
Mr. Azzarello: There is a real situation. A retail food license is meant for restaurant and grocery stores. This is the council prerogative in handling this. The local stores thought the $300.00 fee was unfair, when they would never sell $300.00 worth of food.
Councilman Greene: What about a video store?
Mr. Azzarello: That is a good example. I don't think they should be charged.
Councilman Calogera: I think that we should consider adding in dry goods and refrigerated items.
Mr. Azzarello: I have no problem with that. This is not something that needs to be done tonight.
Attorney Ruggierio: If you sell things that are refrigerated or frozen you wouldn't be covered by this exemption.
Mr. Azzarello: Yes.
Councilman Hoff: Unintelligible.
Mr. Azzarello: The health department thinks that this amendment fits.
Councilman Hoff: The small stores are just trying to make a living.
Mr. Azzarello: Economic development can't just be for big business.
Councilman Maher: Should we be concerned about lost revenue?
Mr. Shah: I think it is only about $1,200.00
Mr. Azzarello: I was going to see if we could rescind the fee, but the gentleman who brought this to my attention was just happy that we were considering this.
Attorney Ruggierio: By the time we introduce this we will have all the concerns addressed.
ADDED DURING THE MEETING
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF TOWNSHIP'S GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY DOWNTOWN AND BUSINESS DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT FUND
RESOLUTION #441-02
BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, New Jersey that:
WHEREAS, Township of Old Bridge wishes to apply for the Middlesex County Downtown and Business District Improvement Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Middlesex County Downtown and Business District Improvement Fund offers funds to municipalities for specific public projects aimed at revitalizing, renewing and creating downtowns, central business district, town centers and commercial centers; and
WHEREAS, each grant application may request a grant in the maximum amount of $100,000.00; and
WHEREAS, the grant may be used to fund streetscape improvements, public spaces improvements or public facade or building renovations.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey as follows:
1. Application by the Township of Old Bridge in support of applying for a grant application for the Middlesex County Downtown and Business District Improvements Funds is hereby approved.
- The Mayor and the Township Clerk are hereby authorized to sign the documents necessary to effectuate the award of this grant. The Township Attorney shall review any and all contractual documents prepaid in furtherance of this grant.
Moved by Councilman Baker, seconded by President Butler and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Calogera, Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT PODIUM: Councilman Testino.
Prior to the vote the following discussion took place
President Butler: This is not on the agenda and I am adding this for action tonight.
Mr. Azzarello: John Vincenti and I have been working on this. The county has a grant fund the goes to the downtown development and revitalization. We have never been able to secure any of this money. We have now decided that we may be eligible, and there may be some places in town that are applicable. There is a road in front of Rocky's that you can cross and get to the town center. The planning department came up with they thought might be a future courtyard (indicated on a map). We don't know if that is the site specific. We know that we want the access to the stores across the street to be better and we should have access from the municipal complex. We decided to apply for this grant because we think this will qualify for this grant. I spoke to the county and they acknowledged they we never asked for this kind of grant before and that we should. I have gotten the support of Carl Spataro, who is the county economic development guy and he will come and take a look at this area. In the meantime, we should get the application in. It requires a resolution of the council stating that you support applying for the grant.
Councilman Calogera: Can we decide to use this money to build a courtyard elsewhere?
Mr. Azzarello: Yes. We just have to prove a case that it is economic growth and development.
Councilman Hoff: I object to anything going south of Cottrell Road.
Mr. Azzarello: The area that we are looking at is down by Rocky's, but we do not have to be site specific.
Councilman Greene: How do get from a plaza and courtyard to access across the street?
Mr. Azzarello: The map was developed by Sam Rizzo, and he was looking at where he wanted to put a grant. I told him that we may not be doing those specific areas, however we know that we want better access from the Municipal Center to those areas across the way.
Councilman Greene: How do you do that?
Mr. Vincenti: Brick paver walkways along Route 516 and cross the street.
Councilman Greene: Without a light?
Mr. Vincenti: It is my intention to have a walkway all the way to the County traffic light.
DO-4 Bond Ordinance in the amount of $65,000.00 for Reverse 911 System
Captain Bob Bonfante: We have discussed this on several occasions over the years.
Sergeant Weiss: This systems takes technology using the computer and telephone lines and allows any type of emergency management, police department or community service type announcements and allows us to work backwards, where people would normally dial 911, we will have the ability to call them. The corporation that we have been dealing with is called Dialogic Communication Corporation. If there is an emergency in town the police will have the ability to call the residents and let them know. Some examples are chemical spills, any accident where we might want residents to stay in. If there was a missing child in town, the police department can notify the immediate neighborhood, it is sort of an "Amber Alert". The company is currently being used by Federal, State and Local agencies. Our county and Franklin Township has this system. I have been in touch with Sergeant Eisner in Franklin and he has nothing but praises for the system. A spin off of this system is a notification system where we are able to call lists, such as a particular shift or captains, we have the ability to enter these scenarios in the computer and send it out to those people as opposed to the phone tag system. This can be used to do the notification for our traffic jobs, we generally tie up a lieutenant full time to handle that. If we are short on a shift, we can go down a list and call officers. The system has the capability to know when it is being picked up an answering machine. In an emergency, should we lose communications in town, via our radio, we will have the ability to contact all of our fire and first aid members to advise them. It can become a back-up to many of the things that we are doing manually now and some things that we do not have a solid plan for. I suspect that the board of education and possibly public works and the MUA might want to use this. We believe that the overall system for the capital purchase of this will be about $65,000.00. There are some continuing operating costs that will run about $15,000.00 a year. Most of these are for maintenance contracts with the provider and also upgrades to Verizon. We need to get an additional T1 line in. I have spoken to Tom Sommers and he thinks that the numbers seem accurate. There is also another example that I want to give you that I think the system will help us out greatly. When it snows, our police department communications center is overwhelmed with calls from parents wanting to know if school is canceled. The Board of Education could use this system for a recorded message letting parents and also teachers know if school is closed. The police department is now asking the council to approve this money so that we can purchase this system.
President Butler: Is the bottom line $80,000.00?
Sergeant Weiss: The initial cost would be $65,000.00, and then about $15,000.00 every year after.
Councilwoman Panos: What does the $15,000.00 cover?
Sergeant Weiss: The continuing operating cost, the contract with the provider is $3,500.00 a year, we estimate the phone line extension we would need from Verizon which is about $700.00 a month, the remainder of the money; $2,500.00 is for a quarterly purchase of the mapping and commercial phone data. If we use the 911 numbers we are strictly limited on how we can use the system. I think that school closing would be stretching the term emergency.
Councilwoman Panos: Is there a charge per call?
Sergeant Weiss: No. That is captured in the T1 line.
Councilman Maher: Himanshu, have you certified this?
Mr. Shah: No.
Councilman Maher: I would like someone from finance to take a look at this business case.
Mr. Shah: There is a tremendous amount of work involved in getting this system up and running and I don't know if this will require additional over time in the police department. I think that the hard costs that he mentioned are in the ballpark. I don't think that we have budgeted any of the operating costs in our budget.
Councilman Maher: Can you take a look at this business case and give me a better feeling about these numbers before next week. Is there anyway that we can piggy back on the county's system?
Sergeant Weiss: We looked at that and there are some draw backs. Franklin also looked at it and said that they don't really have a handle on it, they put some strange customized programs in there. I couldn't repeat to you in public what Franklin said of the County' use of the system. The county could be putting out notices on mosquito spraying that would take precedent over our missing child. They have control on how and when the system is used. The T1 connection that we are going to add will add 24 phone lines to our systems. The county has 24 lines with their system.
Councilman Maher: I want to make sure that we have analyzed all the avenues in terms of optimizing what we are trying to do here. Will you continue to speak with the county? Have you approached the school systems? Will they share in the one time capital out lay of $65,000.00.
Sergeant Weiss: No, I came up with the snow emergency on my own. The superintendent does notify us when the schools are closed and I thought that possibly they could share in some of the operating expenses.
Councilman Maher: Are there any out bound calling charges for this? Who would pay if you called someone in Toms River?
Sergeant Weiss: We would pay either way, just as if we picked up the phone and made the call.
Mr. Shah: I think that the benefit outweighs the cost. I would like to know the real cost of the manpower to input the work and if there will be overtime issues.
Captain Bonfante: That will be the Chief's decision. There is no reason that we couldn't take Sergeant Weiss off the road for a couple of weeks to get the system on line.
Sergeant Weiss: I actually asked Franklin Township what the manpower was to get this going. They were very positive about Dialogic, they remained until the system was up and included in the cost of purchase if four days of training. Sergeant Eisen said it takes about five hours a week to do the management on the system, which is in addition to his secretary who does a lot of the data entry.
Captain Bonfante: We already have the secretary ready to take it over.
Mayor Cannon: I would like to commend Sergeant Weiss and Captain Bonfante for doing all the research. I think that we really need some type of notification system. We looked at the siren system and radio's and they were really inaccurate. We also looked into going with the County, but I think that with the size of our town, we would be at the short end of the stick. I think that this is affordable and necessary now but I think that we need to look into some of Himanshu's concerns.
Councilman Testino: I think that we have been working on this for about three years. I would like to ask where is the rest of the bonding for this year? Why are we piece-mealing this?
Mr. Shah: You have a book that has the current year capital project request. We typically do not prepare a list of recommendations of the capital ordinance until the budget is adopted. Council does not need to wait, but once you adopt the ordinance you are locked into funding at least the down payment portion and there was reluctance for this.
Councilman Testino: I have been asking for the last five years for you to give us the capital budget while we are still working on the rest of the budget.
Mr. Shah: You do have it. There were two books that were given to you with the department requests.
Councilman Testino: So you want us to take this without the Mayor's recommendation?
Mr. Shah: Every item is not the recommendation of the Mayor, but you can open the discussion. I don't know if this particular item is on their list.
Councilman Testino: That is what I want to know.
Captain Bonfante: It isn't.
Mr. Shah: If you want to adopt a bond ordinance prior to the budget, we will put together a list of all the capital.
Councilman Testino: I would request that.
Mayor Cannon: Historically, you have always done this after but I don't have a problem with doing it early.
Councilman Testino: I would like to get the system up and running but I cannot say that it is an emergency after waiting for it for three years. I think that this should stay with the capital ordinance.
Mr. Shah: I think that this came up now because Emergency Management has been reviewing this and they are recommending going forward, it has nothing to do with us segregating this.
Councilman Testino: Is your recommendation on the cap on the capital projects going to change?
Mr. Shah: No.
Captain Bonfante: We have really been working on this since September 11, 2001. If we had, had this system then the notifications that we needed to make to the police officers and other emergency workers on that day would have really helped. I also sit on the County Counter Intelligence on Terrorism Task Force and we are gearing up for something to happen and this system will put us ahead of all the other police departments in the county. I ask that seriously consider this and get it done as soon as possible.
Councilman Greene: When the presentation was made three years ago, I think the price was around $40,000.00.
Sergeant Weiss: This is my analysis of this. These finance people suggested that we were not including other expenses in the $35,000.00 figure. The base price for the system is $34,000.00 but not included in that price isn't maintenance contracts and additional management seats. We would like to operate it from the command vehicle and also by mobile, so if Captain Bonfante gets a call at home, he can open a lap top and use it. The phone line expansion is not included in the price. We think that $65,000.00 will cover all these expenses along with inflation.
Councilman Greene: Are the management seats going to be filled with current personnel?
Sergeant Weiss: We are going to train our people. We may train 20 people for the four seats.
Councilman Greene: Do you think that you will have to add personnel for this system?
Captain Bonfante: Current personnel.
Sergeant Weiss: There are two big parts to this that we need to keep in mind. There is the Geo notify and then the second system is the communicator. I think that you buy this system for the emergency management capabilities and the services we can provide and then we get as a big bonus some management tools that we can use. Even if you didn't have the list management the $65,000.00 is well worth it to get the information out to the community. As it stands today, the police department is ready to take this system in.
Councilman Calogera: Are you confident that this system is going to work?
Captain Bonfante: We looked into other things and we think that this gives the best response.
Councilman Calogera: I don't think that we should be talking about this for three years; I think that we have approved capital projects before for much more money which were not anywhere near as important. I would like to see this council put the money in place now.
Sergeant Weiss: I think that we may find that is a great tool to manage the township and I think that there will be other departments and agencies that will want to use this. I think it is a win all around.
PRIOR VOTE ON THE 2003 MUNICIPAL BUDGET
Councilman Redmond: I have been in contact with Mr. Ruggierio a number of times and on Thursday I sent a letter to the clerk asking her to change my vote to an abstention. She informed me that she was unable to do that without the council's consent. I would ask that the council indulge me and allow me to change my vote on those amendments. I want to make it clear that I believe that we need more police officers, I believe that what we voted for was the right thing. In light of the information that Mr. Ruggierio has shared with me and in talking this over with other attorneys, I have decided to see if the council will allow me to change my vote to an abstention.
President Butler: How do we do this?
Attorney Ruggierio: Someone who voted in the affirmative would need to move to reconsider.
MOTION
by Councilman Hoff to open the question for further discussion, seconded by President Butler
Prior to the vote the following discussion took place
Councilman Calogera: Is this just for Councilman Redmond to reconsider his vote? We do not have to re-vote the issue.
Attorney Ruggierio: After there is an affirmative vote to reconsider then the next step would be to reconsider your vote and to take.....
President Butler: Aren't we just taking one vote?
Councilman Hoff: I assumed that we would allow a re-vote on the questions.
POINT OF ORDER
Councilman Calogera: Is a re-vote necessary of the whole council or just have Mr. Redmond rescind his vote?
Attorney Ruggierio: I think this can be looked at from two directions. I've written an opinion that indicates that there was a legal conflict and that the vote was not valid. Under those circumstances, I don't know what the implications of that would be in terms of how Local Government Services would deal with our budget. I am sure that it is very complicated and I am sure that the finance director is going to do his best to minimize whatever impact it might have. Mr. Redmond is asking as a matter of courtesy, that the council allow the record to be changed to incorporate with the record of these of proceedings, his request that his vote be modified. If you follow strictly Robert's Rules of Order in order for a matter to be revisited, there has to be a motion by someone who voted in the affirmative on it, to have it reconsidered; a vote is taken and if there is a majority of ayes for reconsideration, then there would be a second vote on the original question. That is what I think that you should be doing in order to come up with an outcome on how many votes you will end up having on this question; which requires a statutory majority. I will go one step further and say that once the budget is introduced, you don't have that requirement for the super majority; you only need 5 votes as opposed to 2/y that's how that plays into how Local Government Services will look at this, I am sure is complicated. I am not sure that either Mr. Shah or myself can figure out what they will do. I know that Mr. Shah will make some inquiries after I formally issue this opinion. At this point I think that the correct procedural way to go at it, is to move for reconsideration (of Mr. Redmond's vote). If that gets a majority, then to have the vote actually reconsidered, and there be a formal vote, then you have what you have and we will have to deal with whatever Local Government Services decides.
POINT OF ORDER
Councilman Testino: I want to know what our position is vis-a-vis the introduction of this budget and the state of the emergency application. If we have blown it and we are going to reconsider this, then I choose not to introduce the budget tonight.
Mr. Shah: After the discussion with Bill, I made a phone call to the Division and spoke to Judy Tripodi (Deputy Director). I mentioned the situation and her point was that we have to reintroduce the budget. I asked about the deadline of August 30th. She told me, and I do not have it in writing, that the application will not be in jeopardy because we are reintroducing, technically we have already introduced the budget. They will need an opinion of the attorney as to why we have to reintroduce the budget. If you are going to change the budget, you have to reintroduce. They will not automatically change the amount in the budget. Our application is safe.
Councilman Calogera: What constitutes a majority vote?
Attorney Ruggierio: It is a majority of the members present on a reconsideration.
Councilman Greene: As far as the amendment for the police officers, does that require 6 or 5?
Attorney Ruggierio: That is an interesting questions. I have looked at this statute and my judgment is the way you did it was absolutely correct. You have these votes on additions and reductions on the mayor's recommended budget, and then you vote by majority vote for the introduction of the budget. That is what I believe is appropriate.
Mr. Shah: The question is about the vote to increase the appropriation in the police department which we understood took 6 votes. I think that is his question.
Attorney Ruggierio: If the question is for the additional amount beyond the mayor's recommended budget, would you need six votes to make it pass, the answer is yes. Once the budget is introduced, you can amend it with five votes, but I know that it has some financial consequences.
Mr. Shah: I think that I made council aware that any changes you made; because we are for the aid application and that the purpose of the aid from the state is to reduce the taxes. If you are going to increase the expenses and not reduce taxes, you may have a problem with the aid that you receive and the state may object changing the budget after the fact. We have to get state approval for all the changes.
Attorney Ruggierio: As long as we are reintroducing, if it is going to add appropriation or revenues, that must have six votes.
Councilman Calogera: Reintroduction is not adding anything. It was introduced with the addition to begin with.
Attorney Ruggierio: No.
Mr. Shah: No, once you make these changes, you are going to have to rescind the introduction and reintroduce the budget, like it was never introduced.
Councilman Testino: So we need a vote to rescind budget.
Attorney Ruggierio: That may be the simplest way to do this. We will need to have a new budget document prepared by Monday.
Councilman Redmond: You should already have the document because it would of been the document before we made the changes.
Councilman Testino: I thought you weren't participating in this.
Mr. Shah: There are some changes...
Attorney Ruggierio: It might make sense at this time to have a motion at this time to rescind the originally introduced budget and introduce it with all items except the one that is in dispute.
Mr. Shah: Yes.
Councilman Testino: We have to re-vote everything.
President Butler: What about the reconsideration?
Attorney Ruggierio: The advice that Mr. Shah got....if this council voted as a separate action tonight to rescind the budget vote so that it could be re-introduced with these other items we wouldn't have to get to the item of reconsideration.
Mr. Shah: If you are going to rescind, I would like you to reintroduce tonight. If you are not going to reintroduce tonight please wait until......
Attorney Ruggierio: It sounds like we are on the track to do three votes tonight; a motion to reconsider; if that passes, then to reconsider the vote (that Mr. Redmond) has been referring to, where he voted in the majority - that would be rescinded and reconsidered and then a third vote to rescind the introduction and reintroduce. We are talking about three votes tonight.
President Butler: The first vote is reconsideration...
Attorney Ruggierio: The second vote is to reconsider the vote that Mr. Redmond has asked you to modify.
President Butler: The third is to rescind.
Attorney Ruggierio: To rescind and to reintroduce the budget without that item.
Councilwoman Panos: Mr. Ruggierio, you just issued a ruling. What would happen if we voted nothing, your ruling would just go down and then what would happen. You just negated his vote. It is nice to be nice and let him reconsider but what if we just did nothing and you just put down your ruling? What would happen at the state?
Attorney Ruggierio: I think that you have a budget that is introduced that is not valid in terms of its financial calculation. The third part of this certainly has to be done, the first parts seem to me to be things that we are doing to accommodate Mr. Redmond's request.
Councilman Hoff: I don't believe the people at the state department are all "Easter Bunnies" if we straighten it out now, okay. I don't think that we should delay a week. I think that we should vote on the budget and vote now to amend it, even if it is only five votes. Vote on the budget, excuse Larry and re-vote all the questions.
Councilman Maher: I trust that Himanshu had a conversation with someone in the state but I want to see this in writing from the state, that gives us this dispensation that we've missed the August 30th deadline and that it is okay for us to do what you are suggesting that we do tonight or Monday. I want to see that in writing. I was here when we converted the calendar year budget to the state fiscal budget and there were letters of accusation going back and forth. I don't want to see that happen again. I want to see the conversation in writing that clearly the director of the DCA will let us do this. I would like to see Mr. Ruggierio opinion that he said he wrote. I am not comfortable in doing anything with respect to the vote.
Councilman Baker: It is 10:00. I would like to ask the administration with the 47 million dollars that we have in the budget, to put the police officers money back in the budget.
Councilwoman Panos: What are you talking about?
Councilman Baker: I am asking the administration to put the money back in for the police officers.
Mayor Cannon: It is not my budget now, I gave it to council. I don't have the ability to do that now.
Councilman Baker: If we are re-doing the budget all over again, you can present the budget again with the money in it.
Mayor Cannon: First of all the budget is not $47,000,000.00 and second of all I don't think that I have the ability because it is no longer my budget.
Councilwoman Panos: Isn't there a motion on the table?
Councilman Baker: I would like to ask my colleagues Mr. Greene, Mr. Calogera and Ms. Panos (who is so passionate about the bond ordinance for $65,000.00 for helping the police officers) to reconsider their votes, if the administration does not put the money in. I would like to get a non-biased (with all due respect to Mr. Ruggierio) review on whether or not Mr. Redmond can vote on adding new police officers.
President Butler: We got that already.
Councilman Baker: No we didn't.
Councilman Hoff: The clerk just handed it out.
Councilman Baker: Who is it from?
Councilman Calogera: Mr. Ruggierio.
Councilman Baker: I am looking for another legal...
Mayor Cannon: From who, your township attorney has...
Councilman Baker: Besides the township attorney.
Councilwoman Panos: So hire one.
Attorney Ruggierio: We have been through this before you were here Mr. Baker but I am the only township attorney and I think that you have to live with my opinions, whether they are good or bad.
Councilman Redmond: I just want to make a comment, that I sent my letter to the clerk on Thursday. We have waited until tonight to do this. I want you to know that this is not something that I decided on after seeing Mr. Ruggierio's report. This was something that I did on Thursday.
Attorney Ruggierio: I will confirm that, you will see in the cover letter it indicates that Mr. Redmond asked me about this before tonight.
President Butler: We have a motion on the floor to reconsider...
Councilman Greene: What are we reconsidering?
Councilman Maher: I want to make sure that we haven't put the entire budget in jeopardy.
Councilman Testino: I don't know what we are doing here but I would certainly like to accommodate Mr. Redmond because I think that he was in a situation where he voted his conscience and then he got some legal opinions afterwards and all he is trying to do is follow the legal advice. I can't fault him for that. At the same time, I will be damned if I am going to re-vote the budget and introduce it at this time, without having all the budget workshops and if we can't get the state aid. The only reason that we rushed along this whole thing, in the middle of everyone's vacation was to meet the state deadline. I think that we need to know that because then we can do what Mr. Greene had asked and sit down and find out where we can chop and replace and find cuts in order to fund these other officers, if that is what the majority wants to do. I have no problem reconsidering it tonight, but I am not ready introduce tonight, unless we have that answer.
Councilman Maher: I agree, I want to see it in writing.
Councilman Testino: I am willing to support Mr. Redmond because I think, without the advice of counsel and the objection being raised after the vote, that he is in a precarious position and he needs to make the record clear for himself, regardless of that, we usually don't introduce until November or December. I don't where we are going and I don't know what the rush is for if we have blown the deadline.
President Butler: I think that Mr. Shah addressed that.
Mr. Shah: I will request in writing, although the timing may be a problem with that because I can guarantee a response by Monday, but I will certainly get confirmation of our verbal conversations. I think that if you wait until next Monday, I agree with Mr. Maher, that we should have something in writing, although I do trust Judy, that she will not change what she told me. It is up to Bill to rule if you have to do it tonight or next Monday.
Attorney Ruggierio: I know of no reason, why we have to do it tonight. If the council feels more comfortable with having something in writing, I know from other experiences that this type of advice is given to Finance Directors informally and it can be relied upon. In delaying we may perhaps be prejudicing our ability to get the money. This is outside my field. If Mr. Shah says that we can get something by Monday, that may be the way to go.
Mr. Shah: I cannot guarantee that but if I was not comfortable, I would not have made that statement tonight.
President Butler: Procedurally, we do the reconsideration, we do the 12 officers, then we rescind and reintroduce. Is that how you understood the conversation with Judy?
Mr. Shah: If you re-vote and do not have enough votes to add the 12 officers, you certainly, now have a problem with the budget as introduced, so you have to rescind it and reintroduce it. The only thing that remains is our aid application, which I was told is not in jeopardy, and that we have a legal opinion.
Councilwoman Panos: I would like to respond to Mr. Baker's request of me. Mr. Baker requested that I change my vote, he mentioned that I am passionate about an amount of money. Let me state this Mr. Baker, the one thing that I am passionate about, is that we are ethical in our voting on this council and that we represent all the people of this township. Let's not sugarcoat what happened here. There was a mistake made and an apology should be brought forth. I would like to............
Councilman Baker: I was giving you an opportunity to hire 12 new police officers.
Councilwoman Panos: I have the floor...
Councilman Baker: You've changed your votes before, I just gave you another chance.
Councilwoman Panos: Let's not sugar coat this...
Councilman Baker: There is no sugar when I talk. I gave you a chance to change your vote because we need 12 more cops...
Councilwoman Panos: It is well known and well understood that Mr. Redmond did speak to our township attorney; Mr. Ruggierio, before he voted. So let's not sugarcoat that either. Mr. Testino, this was not brought up after the vote, this was brought up well before the vote. The thing that I am passionate about is that we hold ourselves about it. If the matter is gray, the vote should be nay.
Mayor Cannon: I am sure that each of you can call Judy Tropodi and get the verbal confirmation and Himanshu will get the written. I would hate to see our opportunity jeopardized for getting this aid because we really need a substantial amount of aid to reduce the tax rate.
President Butler: The procedure is that we have a motion and a second on the reconsideration and we have to re-vote the 12 officers, we have to vote to rescind and reintroduce. That's the procedure that Mr. Shah understands it from Local Government Services. We have a motion and a second, let's do the reconsideration first. Roll Call.
MOTION TABLE
by Councilman Greene to table the matter until Monday, seconded by Councilman Baker and so TABLED on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, *Calogera, Greene, Maher, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: Councilmen Hoff.
NO PARTICIPATION: **Councilman Redmond
*During the vote Councilman Calogera passed and then voted aye.
** Councilman Redmond voted no, then changed his vote to a no participation.
CONSENT AGENDA
C-1 Bingo/Raffle RA 52-02 Mid Madison Women's Club RA 53-02 Mid Madison Women's Club
Pro forma.
C-2 Block Party - Carrie Drive - Sunday, September 15, 2002 from 10:00 to 6:00 (No rain date)
Pro forma.
DISCUSSION RESOLUTION
DR-1 Memorialize Release of Performance Guarantee DCH Investments, Inc. N.J./Academy Honda Property.
Move up.
DR-2 Memorialize Release of Performance Guarantee Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc.
Move up.
DR-3 Memorialize Reduction Performance Guarantee Public Storage.
Move up.
DR-4 Memorialize Release Performance Guarantee Plato's Inc. d/b/a Bridgeway Diner.
Move up.
DR-5 Refund of fees for construction permits in the amount of $447.00 for Congregation Beth Ohr.
Move up.
DR-6 Resolution supporting A-273 to return polling hours to times that existed prior to 2002. (Return polling hours to 7:00 A.M. instead of 6:00 A.M.)
Move up.
DR-7 Resolution requesting permission for a Dedication by Rider for Snow Removal Reserve. (HS)
Councilman Testino: Is this a new statute that allows you to do this?
Mr. Shah: Yes.
Councilman Testino: Will this still appear on the bill list?
Mr. Shah: Yes, this is just to move it out of reserve, so we can use it if we have a problem with the current budget.
Councilman Testino: Will this still be a line item?
Mr. Shah: There will be a continuing line item in the budget and if there is...our current budget does not have sufficient funds and there is money in the reserve, we will draw on the reserve.
Councilman Testino: Isn't there a resolution on tonight to do that. Is that from last year?
Mr. Shah: Yes. DR7 & DR8 is for setting up the dedication as required by the state.
Councilman Testino: The law just came into effect, so we are still allowed to take last year's fund and move them into the reserve.
Mr. Shah: We put the $150,000.00 in the account and if we have a major snow storm, as you know that is not enough and we can draw upon that reserve.
DR-8 Resolution authorizing a Budget Transfer in the amount of $42,168.17 be made from the SFY 2003 Budget Appropriate Reserve. (HS) (ACTION MUST BE TAKEN 9/3)
Deputy Clerk Ward: This has to be done tonight.
Councilman Testino: Why?
Mr. Shah: This doesn't have to be done tonight. I don't know why the clerk's office was given instructions to do this tonight.
DR-9 Award Contract # 02-20 to Pabco Industries for the purchase of 125,000 Biodegradable Leaf Bags in the amount of $39,900.00. (CERT. #1078) (AFFIRM. ACT.) (RD)
Councilman Redmond: Is the same amount of bags that we got in previous years?
Ms. Shepler: Yes.
Councilman Redmond: Will we need to get more?
Ms. Shepler: We don't buy them until we need them.
Councilman Redmond: Is it the same price as last year?
Ms. Shepler: It is cheaper.
DR-10 Change Order #1 to Reduce Contract # 02-02 Morganville Road Resurfacing (State aided) from $122,729.66 to $119,084.06.(Change of $3,645.60) Mark Paving Co., Inc. (JV)
Move up.
DR-11 Contract for computer services for tax assessment to Vital Computer Resources, Inc., in the amount of $30,000.00. (CERT. #1079) (AFFIRM. ACT.) (BE)
Move up.
DR-12 Resolution rejecting all bids received for the Library Roof Repairs. All the bids received exceeded the consultant's estimate. (MC)
Councilman Hoff: I was uncomfortable the whole time because they hired a mechanical engineer to supervise architectural work. This was put on by MC, who is that?
Ms. Shepler: Marjorie Cyr, who is the Library Director.
Councilman Hoff: This should be part of the Community Development department, we are spending township funds.
Ms. Shepler: They have an outside consultant on this project. This recommendation was done by Cummings and Company, you authorized the contract. They are a roofing company.
Councilman Hoff: The job is supervise by a mechanical engineer.
Ms. Shepler: I have no idea what you are referring to.
Councilman Hoff: The point is that this all belongs in the township budget.
Ms. Shepler: This is from an escrow account from the original construction of the library.
Councilman Hoff: So anyone who wants to fix it shouldn't be under the Community Development department.
Ms. Shepler: You authorized a contract for a consultant to prepare a set of specification.
Councilman Hoff: We did not.
President Butler: Yes we did.
Ms. Shepler: This is just rejecting the bids because they came in too high.
Councilman Hoff: Unintelligible.
Ms. Shepler: No, if you are referring to Mr. Heims...
Councilman Hoff: Unintelligible.
Ms. Shepler: We paid the consultant to do the specs. The consultant is advising you to throw out all the bids.
Councilman Hoff: It should of been done by the Department of Community Affairs.
President Butler: You can either vote it up or down on Monday.
DR-13 Temporary Budget Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 - Current Budget in the amount of $3,111,534.06, Arena Utility in the amount of $49,048.00 all totaling $3,160,582.06. (HS)
Move up.
DR-14 Resolution authorizing contract for Joseph Benedict Esq., in the amount of $2,000.00 Re: State vs. LaVigne. (CERT. #1080) (AFFIRM. ACT.) (WSR)
Move up.
DR-15 Resolution to cancel real estate taxes for two 100% disabled veterans. (Kitson, 3 Arden Ct. in the amount of $2,480.03 & Franchino, 438 Brookside Ave. in the amount of $1,142.87 and refund payment of $571.44). (KS)
Move up.
DR-16 Carter's Tent Sale - Highway 34, Marketplace II - Sept. 18th - 22nd, 2002.
Move up.
DR-17 Payment of Accumulated Time - Retirement Miriam Landau in the amount of $23,410.91.(AS)
Move up.
DR-18 Authorization of Leave of Absence due to personal leave Gerald Bruno. (AS)
Move up.
DR-19 Resolution to purchase live scan fingerprint system from Special Legislative Grant State Contract #A50329 in the amount of $39,200.00 (CERT. #1081) (AFFIRM. ACT.) (AS)
Ms. Shepler: This is a grant and I have until December to spend it.
DISCUSSION
D-1 Mannino Park easement access. (BC)
President Butler: This was already done.
D-2 Cablevision (potential settlement) (WSR)
Attorney Ruggierio: I will do this Monday and I will send a letter to the people on the cable committee and I don't know if the council will indulge them with remarks that I know they will want to make.
D-3 Matzel Development Land Use Covington Village Adult Community. (RB)
President Butler: We should have all received a letter on this. This is for the vacation. They would like to sit down with us to see if we can resolve this, if not, they are going to sue us. We can discuss this on Monday.
D-4 Additional funding for Cedar Ridge II from Middlesex County Open Space Fund. (BC)
Councilman Testino: Have we gotten a decision from the commissioners yet?
Attorney Ruggierio: No.
Councilman Testino: I have seen some of the briefs going back and forth. The numbers from the other side are stifling.
Ms. Shepler: The mayor has felt all along that the $2,000,000.00 is a generous amount from the county, however, she was going to ask them to reconsider and give us an additional $2,000,000.00.
Councilman Testino: I think that we should ask of all sources again because it looks like the numbers are going to come in way over what was expected.
Attorney Ruggierio: I wouldn't make that assumption, you may be right, but I don't like saying it out loud.
Councilman Testino: Does anyone have any other ideas? Can we go to the trust fund for money?
Mr. Shah: We have and we just signed all the papers today, as of now we are going for $4,200,000.00. The reason that we didn't go for the entire amount is because if we do get it, we will not have a reason to request a grant from the state and county. We can certainly go to the trust fund next year for the balance.
Attorney Ruggierio: I think that it is important to realize that the amount that is being requested of the county, given the increased amount that our appraisals came in, is relatively consistent with what they were in for, in the first instance.
Councilman Testino: So we should make that argument.
D-5 Waiver of Lowe's Development Transportation Pro-Rata contribution of $206,826.00. (JV)
Mr. Vincenti: This is a matter that needs to be resolved between now and the middle of October when we move to release the bond. It was a recommendation of the prior engineer to waive this. It was formalized by resolution by the board of adjustment. Any move to waive the pro rata has to be done by the council. It is a lot of money and we should discuss it.
Councilman Baker: What is your recommendation?
Councilman Testino: I objected to this before.
Mr. Vincenti: The thinking of the prior engineer was to give the developer credit for improvements that he did along the Route 9 corridor. Those improvements were done as required by the NJDOT. Lowe's would not have been able to build and occupy the center without doing those improvements. I agree with your position, it was not a recommendation that I made, however, it was made and the board of adjustment went along with. There may be some legal ramifications down the road if we choose to go against prior recommendation of a quasi judicial body.
LIQUOR LICENSE - (9/9/02)
President Butler: Do we have everything that we need on this licenses for Monday?
Deputy Clerk Ward: Yes.
Renewal of 2002-2003 Plenary Consumption License - English Pub, Inc. (Former "Jilly's"; Special Ruling to Renew Inactive License.)
Person to Person and Place to Place Transfer of Plenary Retail Consumption License #1209-33-018-006 Eugene O'Rourke, Inc. to Daniel Markow. (License to remain inactive status.)
Person to Person and Place to Place Transfer of Plenary Consumption License #1209-33-019-004 Billy Bud Associates to Sarthi Corp.
Person to Person and Place to Place Transfer of Plenary Consumption License #1209-33-011-006 Rosenblum to Raphico, Inc.
SPECIAL REPORT
SP-1 After Dark (Reports from Police Dept. & Township Attorney).
No discussion.
RESOLUTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION @ 10:25 p.m.
RESOLUTION #442-02
BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, New Jersey that:
the public be excluded from this meeting pursuant to NJSA 10:4-13 for the discussion of the following matter or matters:
Woodland Trails
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this meeting shall reconvene in public session in ten (10) minutes and that the minutes or other record of these discussions shall be available to be disclosed to the public in sixty (60) months unless a sooner date is determined by vote of the governing body at a public session.
Moved by Councilman Baker, seconded by President Butler and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Greene, Maher, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT PODIUM: Councilmen Calogera, Hoff, Redmond, Testino.
Meeting Reconvened at 10:34 p.m.
MOTION
to adjourn at 10:35 p.m. by Councilman Baker, seconded by Councilman Testino and so ordered on an all aye vote.
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Reginald Butler, Council President
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Rose-Marie Saracino, Township Clerk
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