OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
AGENDA MEETING
December 2, 2002
An Agenda meeting of the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge was held on Monday, December 2, 2002 in the Municipal Complex. The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by President Butler who invited all in attendance to participate in a salute to the flag which was followed by a short prayer.
Deputy Clerk Stella Ward announced that this meeting was being held in conformance with the Open Public Meetings Act and was published in the newspaper. Roll call by Deputy Clerk Ward showed the following answering present: Councilmen Baker, Green, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler. Councilman Calogera was absent.
Guest Presentation
Michael Caffrey - Open Space Committee
Mr. Caffrey: I want to thank everyone for the opportunity to appear before you and talk about work the Open Space Committee has done this year and will do next year. I am sure that you know the role of the committee is to advise the Council and the Mayor on open space preservation issue. The first half of this year we made some recommendations in conjunction with the County seeking some recommendations for use of their trust fund. We made recommendations for properties that should be acquired by the Township as well as by the County. These properties included various little league and football sport complexes that were not owned by the town as well as some open space parcels including the Nike/Runyon tract and Madison Farm, which is another tract off of Route 34. Also, this year we made a recommendation in connection with the Gasperchek Farm to have it included in the farmland preservation program next year. Over the last six months, and we do not meet over the summer, we have been trying to come up with ways we can preserve open space in these economic times.
Money is not as available to the extent that it was in years past and I think that we are going to focus on next year and how we can help the township preserve open space with less money.
President Butler: I just want to thank Mike and his committee because they have been doing an outstanding job and we really appreciate your time and efforts.
Councilman Redmond: I just want you to know that Mike is not one of these stay at home chairman, he actually flew over Old Bridge in a helicopter to look at open space.
Councilman Maher: Who paid for that helicopter?
Councilman Redmond: National Forestry Service with federal tax dollars.
Councilman Greene: I would like to comment that my own personal preference would be that the Open Space Committee report be given at a regular meeting and not an agenda meeting so that the residents could be informed of what is going on. I think a lot is lost at an agenda meeting.
Michael Caffrey: Actually, Councilman Greene is correct, we are supposed to report four times a year and this report was scheduled for a regular meeting date, but due to conflicting schedules and a busy schedule, the original date was postponed.
Councilman Greene: Do you have a list of properties?
Michael Caffrey: We have several lists, the most recent is that which we recommended to the Council in June, where we recommended five parcels for the town to acquire, namely in order of priority:
Cheesequake Little League Complex, currently owned by Brunetti, which consists of approximately 56 acres; Madison Park Little League and Raritan Bay Football Association Complexes, currently owned by Manzo, approximately 135 acres; Cheesequake Farm, currently owned by Brunetti about 120 acres; Madison Farmers approximately 170 acres; Cedar Ridge out parcels which are landlocked parcels in Cedar Ridge development - 14 acres all toll. We also recommended that the following parcels be acquired by the County: Sayrewoods South Rebels Football Association; Old Bridge Little League Complex; the Nike/Runyon Tract; and several tracts owned by Saffron, which is approximately 70 and 116 acres; several fills preserve out parcels, which I am not sure of their size.
Councilman Greene: I would like to see this list on a map. I think that it would really help to see the parcels laid out because you mentioned some properties that I am really not familiar with.
Michael Caffery: If you want, I can certainly appear before you in February or March and at that time I will have a presentation with a map to identify where these parcels are located.
Councilman Greene: That would be great. I would like to see all the committees appear before the Council on a quarterly basis.
Guest Presentation - (12/09/02)
Frank Piccilo & Annette Hopman - (Common grants - Council & Board of Education)
Proclamations - (12/09/02)
Pearl Harbor Proclamation
Certificates of Appreciation - (12/09/02)
Awards of appreciation to sponsors of the Annual Old Bridge Fair
Certificate
"Recreation volunteer 4th Quarter, 2002" (Recreation Advisory Board award to a deserving volunteer - Award to be presented quarterly)
Councilman Baker: When we make these proclamations, it is reasonable to have them go out from Administration and Council? I personally would think more of that watching from the home that these certificates going out jointly would show that we are united on some fronts.
Mayor Cannon: I think that they do state both Administration and Council.
Tom Badcock: We have three Council liaisons to the Rec Board and our intention was that the Board would vote on the person, but the Council liaisons would be there for the presentation.
President Butler: That sounds good.
Councilman Baker: At times it seems that the Council gives the presentation and excludes the Mayor and vice-versa, which I think is wrong. I think that anything presented should reflect both Mayor and Council.
President Butler: So what you would like to see is any proclamations going forward from now on should be from both Mayor and Council, am I correct?
Councilman Baker: That is what I would like to see.
President Butler: That's the way it will be, does anyone have any problems with that?
Hearings (12/09/02)
H-1 Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - Wawa, Inc. (Rt. 18 & Maple Street)
Pinder Sumal: It was postponed from the last meeting because of problems with the notices and we did recommend the release at that time. The problem is corrected and should be okay for the next meeting.
H-2 Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - Lowe's Development
Pinder Sumal: We have some outstanding work which needs to be done and we are not sure whether or not he will be able to do it by next week, they are mostly punch list items. There is also the problem of the fair share contribution for traffic provider which has to be resolved before the meeting.
President Butler: Have we touched base with the homeowner's association in reference to Lowe's, because they were having some major problems with Lowe's and I don't think those problems have been cleared up?
Pinder Sumal: I have not personally gotten in touch with them, John may have.
President Butler: Can you check with John to make sure that everything has been taken care of?
Pinder Sumal: I certainly will do that.
Consent Agenda
RESOLUTION #575-03
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey that:
WHEREAS, the following organizations have made application to hold, operate and conduct a Bingo/Raffle; said applications being in accordance with the statutes relating thereto:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge that the Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue to the applicants, the following licenses:
RA14-03 - St. Thomas School
RA15-03 - St. Thomas Senior Citizens Club
RA16-03 - St. Thomas Holy Name Society
RA17-03 - St. Thomas Church
RA18-03 - St. Thomas Altar Rosary Society
BA24-03 - St. Thomas the Apostle Home School Association
Moved by Councilman Hoff, seconded by Councilman Redmond and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, President Butler
NAYS: None.
ABSTAIN: Councilwoman Panos
ABSENT PODIUM: Councilman Baker
ABSENT: Councilman Calogera
RESOLUTION #576-03
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey that:
WHEREAS, the following organizations have made application to hold, operate and conduct a Bingo/Raffle; said applications being in accordance with the statutes relating thereto:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge that the Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue to the applicants, the following licenses:
RA19-03 St. Bernadette Knights of Columbus
RA20-03 St. Bernadette Knights of Columbus
BA21-03 St. Bernadette Church
BA22-03 St. Bernadette Seniors
Moved by Councilman Greene, seconded by Councilman Hoff and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler
NAYS: None.
ABSENT PODIUM: Councilman Baker
ABSENT: Councilman Calogera
Prior to the roll call vote the following discussion took place:
Councilman Hoff: I think that Bingo/Raffle resolutions should be able to be approved this evening. There is no reason to carry them over to the regular meeting and I don't think anyone here has objections.
Councilman Redmond: I agree that we should move this matter up this evening.
Ordinances For Second Reading
ORD. #60-02 Bond Ordinance - Emergency Notification Systems in the amount of $75,000.00 - $5,000.00 down payment.
Tabled
Motion
Motion to table Ordinance #60-02 made by Councilman Maher, seconded by Councilman Baker and so moved on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, President Butler.
NAYS: Councilman Greene, Councilwoman Panos
ABSENT: Councilman Calogera
Prior to the roll call vote the following discussion took place:
Himanshu Shah: This is for the emergency notification system that has been requested by Emergency Management several weeks back.
Alayne Shepler: This is the same system that we have been talking about for some time, it used to be called reverse 911. Capt. Bonfante and Sergeant Weiss came and made a presentation to you and you also received an e-mail from Dom Cicio urging you to acquire this system. As of today, I spoke with the Deputy Attorney General who is handling the grant application that I submitted and they still have no word as to whether or not this will be approved. Mr. Cicio has also applied for a grant for the same system through another source under FEMA and they have no notification either.
Councilman Baker: I am just wondering why this was not on our original budget.
Mayor Cannon: As Alayne explained we have applied for funding which is a reimbursable grant and we are going to fund the money hoping that we will be reimbursed.. It was always thought to be a part of the bonding and then it was requested by Council that we put together a whole bonding list which we have submitted, but that seems to be stalled, and we would like to get this thing moving.
Councilman Maher: I have similar questions and concerns, who keeps putting this up, is it Administration that wants us to do it?
Mayor Cannon: Yes.
Councilman Maher: I believe that we tabled this.
Mayor Cannon: Yes, but it came back up because once we got the information regarding the grant. We have been talking about this for three years, and obviously after what happened with 911, we got together with the police department, LEPC , etc., with putting in some type of alert system in town. We talked about sirens, but it would be too costly and there was no real uniformity and you still would need some type of message system to go with it to inform the people and everyone felt that we should go with this method because it would notify everyone in the community within a reasonable time frame.
Councilman Maher: I am not questioning the value or the intent of this, but when we reviewed the public safety budget with Chief Palumbo and Capt. Cerra, this was not one of their priorities. As a matter of fact Rich Greene asked the question and they did not even know where this was and they were not even aware that there was a presentation. I think it is a lack of priorities here with respect to this item. There are a lot of questions, such as who is going to be the process owner of this system; who is going to run this; what is the number of employees; what is the cost to the township for these outbound telephone calls?
Mayor Cannon: I don't think that is true, Sgt. Weiss gave you a detailed presentation and breakdown of the cost. There is no intention of hiring any additional personnel.
Councilman Maher: I don't know that. Chief Palumbo and Capt. Cerra are not aware of this.
Mayor Cannon: This project was delegated to Capt. Bonfante, who does work for them so I find it hard to believe that they are unaware of it.
Councilman Maher: I find it hard to believe that this has gotten this far. I think it is a lack of priority here.
Mayor Cannon: In other words, you don't think this is a priority and we should not be addressing it at this time?
Councilman Maher: Exactly. I would like to table this.
President Butler: I don't think you can table this tonight.
Mayor Cannon: I just want to clarify this, you do not want to do anything with this, so I am not going to keep having meetings and we will drop our application for the grant and we will forget about it or do you just wish not to discuss it this year?
Alayne Shepler: This was introduced and passed for first reading.
Councilman Hoff: There is justification for wanting to table this in order for them to get more information and documentation from the people who support it.
Mayor Cannon: Sgt. Weiss and Capt. Bonfante put together a whole packet and it was given to you several weeks ago and now you are asking questions today that were answered in that packet.
Councilman Hoff: It is an expensive thing and the fact that you made an application is notable. Maybe we should have another meeting with the people who are proposing this. I am not opposed to it, but if Dennis feels we should know more about it then we should.
Councilman Maher: I would like to see a business case for this, it is just not $75,000.00 and what is the race to do this now, why can't we wait until we get the grants?
Mayor Cannon: Why are we applying for a grant if you don't think it is important? How do we justify asking for it?
Councilman Maher: We are facing a 12 cent municipal tax increase; 17 cent tax increase for the school board and perhaps 4 cents on the county level for a possible 33 cent tax increase this year. Let me ask everyone up here if they got a 33 cent pay increase this year, not me. We have the payroll schedule here and we have 26 employees who through November 2002 have made $100,000.00 or more. We have one employee who has made $158,000.00 and we have 22 more employees who have made $90,000.00 or more. Ten percent of our workforce will be make over $100,000.00. This is terrible.
Councilwoman Panos: I think with all respect, Mr. Maher, you are getting off track. You are talking about peoples salary vs. public safety. This was a presentation made by the police and if the Chief chose not to be here and not to know about it, that is his choice. The questions that you are asking have been answered and I don't think that it should have been tabled and salaries have nothing to do with this matter.
Councilman Maher: I asked the Chief at the Public Safety workshop if he knew the status of this and he was bewildered and said he did not know.
Councilwoman Panos: I asked the Chief for criteria on a test and they don't know. They don't seem to know too much these days.
Councilman Maher: I would like to see a letter from Public Safety stating that this is one of their priorities.
President Butler: We need to have the police department come back and do another presentation and answer all the questions.
Mayor Cannon: I think that if you want answers to these questions, then you request them directly. We have 99% of what you are asking and it is in the information that you have received. Sergeant Weiss spent a lot of time putting that together, if you choose not to look at it that is your prerogative.
Alayne Shepler: If we were to receive any one of the two grants that we applied for we would be reimbursed, but there is no guarantee that we would get the grant, but Administration still supports purchasing the system regardless of the grant being received.
President Butler: So what is your pleasure Council?
Councilman Baker: Basically the Council has expressed their desire by voting to table the ordinance and basically we should not be talking about it again.
Councilman Greene: We tabled this in lieu of getting additional information and I think a process should be put in place to get the answers. I was upset about the process because when we tabled it based on the fact that we wanted to do all the bonding together. I am concerned that now it has appeared on the agenda again without any follow-up information and I would have appreciated getting a phone call from Administration stating that the ordinance was being put on and for what reason. A number of people I spoke to from Administration had concerns about this and then it was back on the agenda. Ultimately, I feel that this system is needed and I do support going forward on it as soon as the questions raised here tonight are answered.
President Butler: I would like to recommend that we get the answers to Mr. Maher?
Alayne Shepler: I will be happy to send out a copy of the report once again.
ORD. #61-02 Bond Ordinance - Acquisition of land for Lambertson Road amending the sum to $3,650, 000.00.
Move-up
Councilman Hoff: What kind of world do we live in? We put offers in for land and the price keeps jumping up. It was originally $3,100,000.00 and now it is $3,650,000.00 for the acquisition of the land and I want to know how come.
Attorney Ruggierio: Mrs. Smith passed away and caused the Lambertson's heirs to exercise the option that was set forth in that agreement that we negotiated. The fact that Mrs. Smith died so close in time to the time we entered into the agreement really means that we do not pay much inflation amount as outlined in the original agreement. The long and short of it is that we are funding the acquisition price and there is some additional amounts of money in the bond ordinance for purpose of additional monies for surveys and closing costs.
Councilman Hoff: When will it end, how do we know this is the final number?
Attorney Ruggierio: This is the final number. We have never previously funded this sale. We have had full access to this property without putting out a nickel. Now you are going to put out your nickel and purchase the property. You may be thinking of Woodland Trails as I was, but the long and short of it is that there will be improvement costs with this property at some point, but the acquisition which is scheduled to happen in mid January and yet we have full rights to the property except for the house that Mrs. Smith lived in until the time of her death.
Councilman Hoff: What are you going to do with the house?
Attorney Ruggierio: We have an obligation to move the house if it interferes with our plans, but we have to preserve it. In terms of moving it, some of that will depend on the plan that made for the developing the golf course. My understanding is that it is located in a place that is inappropriate to the development of the golf course so it would have to be moved on the property or approximate to it under our agreement. We have to preserve the property.
Councilman Hoff: Although the golf course sounds very nice it is not written in blood is it?
Attorney Ruggierio: I believe Mr. Testino and the Golf Committee are writing it in blood right now.
Tom Badcock: The original fair market value on this was much lower and the price has gone up in the last couple of years and the fair market value right now is $3 million dollars, but then we got into negotiations with Mrs. Smith's heirs and Bill negotiated a good deal for us. When Mrs. Smith died the price was established and the only thing that would change is figuring out the ratio of the percentage that was part of the agreement and the inflation factor that was done between Bill and their attorneys, which was very reasonable. That amount was factored into the amount of money that Himanshu had to add to this. This is the final number and the agreement stands. They have a call on this property and they can have us purchase this property within 60-90 days, which takes us into January. At that point, we are going to have to come up with the money to buy the property as per the agreement.
Attorney Ruggierio: Just so nothing that Tom said should be misunderstood by Council, I don't think that there is a question that the amount of money that you are paying even with the inflation factor is the full worth of this property.
Tom Badcock: The other thing you have to remember is that we are locked into Green Acres and we will be receiving 50% of the value of this property. This is a free grant as was with the Rose Farm where we received 50% of the value of the final purchase price of the land as a straight outright grant.
Budget:
President Butler: Mr. Shah are we going to get into this budget thing?
Himanshu Shah: Ron Amorino is going to give you some information. He distributed a memo and gave you some information on the budget and I think he will explain it to you now.
Ron Amorino: We have analyzed some of the budget numbers and you can see that some of the items are familiar to you. Specifically in the required amendment section are necessary. If you refer to the bottom listing other amendments, these are questionable. This report is in response to Mr. Butler's memo about the budget. The window is closing quickly, we are at the end of the year and the goal is to try to amend the budget on December 9th and then have a hearing on December 16th and adopt the budget. These are some items that you may want to review and include in the amendments. Again, the first part are the required amendments and the bottom lists the other items that you may want to include or have questions on. You probably will want to study these and hopefully act on at the next meeting.
Himanshu Shah: There are a couple of additional items not on the list that need to be done. We just learned that they raised the JIF insurance amount by $100,000 and because we did not get the grant to hold off the down payments, we need money for the down payments for Lambertson, Cedar Ridge and Bill will tell us when we have to deposit money with the court. That will use up the down payments in the budget so we will an additional $150,000 - $200,000 for down payments added to the budget.
Councilman Redmond: So you are up another penny with just this.
Himanshu Shah: Yes. The current fund item listed in other amendments is sort of questioned but requires action by the Council which has not been taken, for example the Animal Contro lWardens, the first section talks about the first half of the fiscal year and the second section talks about the second half and if you don't fund that, then you have to do something to eliminate the positions otherwise you have to put that money in the budget. The same thing applies to the other two items under "other amendments". I just want to make sure that again everyone aware that the cars are not in the budget too.
President Butler: We need all the amendments by the end of the week so they can be advertised. If the Council has any other amendments in addition to those listed, then they have to submit them, the longer you wait the worse it becomes.
Himanshu Shah: You also are aware of the fact that we received a letter from the State and they are asking for the adoption of the budget. The plan is to introduce the amendments on December 9th and adopt the budget on December 16th . In order for this to happen, I need all of the amendments we discussed plus any other amendments that Council may want to propose, and I would like to have everything by Friday.
President Butler: We need to get this done otherwise I will have to call an emergency meeting for December 23rd.
Councilman Testino: The $68,287.00 we have been including in the budget for years as revenue and now all of a sudden the auditors are bumping it out right before we get ready to adopt this year's budget.
Himanshu Shah: The amount that was anticipated in the budget was an incorrect amount when it comes to the revenue side. We have a five year lease/purchase plan with the School Board. This years we are adjusting by $68,000.00 because of over anticipation there was a mistake by my department and that is why we need to correct it. That is the reason we need to adjust the revenue because it was over anticipated.
Councilman Testino: Do you mean we over anticipated in prior years too?
Himanshu Shah: No, this was the final payment and there was a mistake in the final amount that we anticipated. It was a bookkeeping error.
Councilman Testino: Can we anticipate the liquor license sale as a revenue?
Himanshu Shah: I don't know when the auction is scheduled for.
Deputy Ward: We do not have a date yet. The clerk wanted to discuss it further with you on Wednesday night after the codification meeting because there were certain items that she had to discuss with Mr. Ruggierio as well regarding advertisement.
Councilman Testino: The Council wanted to include this as a revenue item, how come it is not being moved on?
Deputy Ward: I can talk to Rose-Marie in the morning, but I know that she wanted to speak with Bill first and she had to talk further with the Council.
Councilman Testino: I am asking that the Council President follow-up on this tomorrow, because it is my intention to include it as a revenue item.
President Butler: I will make a note and speak with Rose-Marie tomorrow.
Himanshu Shah: You need a contract of sale before you can include it in the budget.
Councilman Testino: I don't know why it is so difficult to get anything done around here.
Councilman Maher: If it is anticipated revenue as Mr. Testino has stated why can't we put that in the budget?
Himanshu Shah: Because you need a contract of sale and you have not even advertised the auction to date. Last year, and it was a surprise, the State allowed you to anticipate amended budget. In the past, the law was that you had to have a contract of sale prior to introduction of the budget. Now they allow you to include an item prior to amending the budget, but you have to have a contract of sale.
Councilman Maher: Did we have a contract of sale with the Ferry Road property?
Mayor Cannon: Yes we did.
Councilman Testino: So you're telling me now that I did all that work on the liquor license introduction and now it is going to be dropped into surplus next year?
President Butler: I'm telling you that I will be at the Clerk's office in the morning and I will discuss it with the Clerk.
Alayne Shepler: Just so that Council knows, but this item was presented to Council well over a year ago when it became known after the 2000 census that we could in fact sell these licenses. Council just gave us permission a meeting ago to go ahead with the sale. The Clerk had the responsibility to work with myself to come up with a date. Obviously, Rose-Marie has been researching it since neither of us was quite sure of the procedure because it had not been done since the 1970's what the actual requirements were for advertising under the ABC Laws and our laws. I am assuming that Rose-Marie has come up with questions that she needs to ask our attorney and that I think that is what the hold-up would be.
Councilman Testino: You can negotiate these things, you don't have to bid them.
Alayne Shepler: You can, but you end up with less money. However, there still is an advertising process even if you negotiate the sale and there is a legal requirement to notify the public of such a sale.
Councilman Testino: Do I need to state that this is a priority of the Council to get that money into the budget, otherwise I am going to move to table the sale next Monday.
Councilwoman Panos: What happened to the schedule of meetings for the year, why are we doing it month by month?
Deputy Ward: The schedule for the meetings was tabled. We have to do the month of January so we know when we can set dates and have the January meetings. The full schedule given to you by the Clerk was tabled by the Council.
Councilwoman Panos: The first month of the year, we are combining meetings. I don't know whether or not this is an attempt to leave out the public or shove things through.
Deputy Ward: Combined meetings include the public.
Councilwoman Panos: The last combined meeting we had was confusing. You get something on the agenda and then it changes to the first reading, it is confusing and there is not enough public input. I really resent these combined meetings, not only is it confusing up here, but it is an attempt to push thing through and I resent it.
Attorney Ruggierio: I just think that we should address the schedule of the annual calendar of meetings so that the Council is aware that we have to adopt this in the early part of the year so that the Clerk does not have to advertise for every single meeting. If it is part of our regular schedule of meetings, then we are relieved of certain responsibility of advertising.
Councilwoman Panos: I remember when I was part of the public who liked to attend Council meetings and if there was holiday on a Monday, there was generally a meeting on the next day, why all of sudden does it have to be combined now?
Councilman Baker: I had suggested the possibility of combining the meetings. As you can tell by this evening how fruitful this event has been. Maybe all of us could think about a pilot program whether or not this is necessary. There is no hidden agenda to push anything through. The question is whether or not it is of value to bring twenty people here to discuss the same thing that we discuss the following Monday and I thought we all agreed that we were going to pilot it for a few months and if the Council needs a memory check we can have the Clerk pull the minutes.
Councilwoman Panos: Maybe we should because I don't remember everybody agreeing to it and I think that we did accomplish a lot tonight. I think there was some open discussion that is necessary to have good government.
President Butler: Tell the Clerk to put it back up for next meeting.
Discussion Resolution
DR-1 Memorialize Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee - J.L.R.S. (Heilbrunn Bldg.) T.J.B.F.B. Realty Application #12-85, Lot 35.18
Move-up
DR-2 Memorialize Release/Reduction Performance Guarantee Renaissance at 516
Move-up
DR-3 Authorization for Change Order #1 in the amount of $2,000.00 to Leon S. Avakin, Inc. Consulting Engineers to increase contract amount from $55,100.00 to $57,100.00 to cover fee to submit revised plans to Freehold Soil Conservation District (Improvements to Marlboro Road)
Move-up
DR-4 Temporary Budget Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2003 - Current Budget in the Amount of $230,000.00
Move-up
DR-5 Rescind Resolution #536-02 Awarding of turf Vacuum Power Unit vendor being Storr Tractor. The vendor cannot supply the model quoted; discontinued alternate model too expensive.
Move-up
DR-6 Park Equipment purchase in the amount of $11,579.00 from Sweepstar V-62 athletic field turf vacuum - Wilfred MacDonald, Inc. (Item replaces that which is to be rescinded from Storr Tractor) - unit available.
Move-up
DR-7 Award of contract to J. Manzo, Inc. for the paving of the Sayrewoods South Little League Parking Lot in the amount of $17,325.00
Move-up
DR-8 Resolution authorizing removal of Woodland Trails/Cedar Ridge II also known as
Block #12261, Lots 19Q, 20Q, 28Q, 82 and 84 from the tax rolls.
Move-up
DR-9 Schedule of meetings for the month of January 2003
January 6, 2003 - Reorganization Meeting
January 13, 2002 - Combined Meeting
January 27, 2002 - Combined Meeting
Move-up
Liquor License - (12/02/02)
LL-1 Plenary Consumption Person to Person Transfer N.J. Wines & Sprits, Inc. to Breakfast Club 80 (LLC #1209-33-025-003 (Attorney Requests postponement until December 9, 2002)
Discussion
D-1 Master Plan (PARC Ordinance)
Councilman Testino: I think we got a memo stating they are waiting for prices on the PARC ordinance section. I don't see John here, but he told me we were pretty close.
Mayor Cannon: Yes, it should be done hopefully by the end of the year.
Councilman Testino: Then I will move the balance of the Master Plan to the next agenda.
Reports:
R-1 Stop Street - Jennifer Lane/Ellen Circle
Alayne Shepler - I don't have the report back yet I will forward it to Council as soon as I get it.
President Butler: Do we have any other business before we go into Executive Session?
Councilman Hoff: I just want to give you an update about the problem we had at the shore area. They are rebuilding the jetties along the shore line, and part of the work was the replacement of a sluice valve which takes rain water from Rt. 35, and the gate that controls it is being replaced. The cost is being funded by the State, the County and the Township. I have talked with John about this and since the water is backing up badly, I thought that we could move this along. Our engineers are on top of it and it is under contract and hopefully it will be completed this month.
Councilman Greene: We were asked to give recommendations on the structure of Council meetings and I wonder what is going on with it such as public participation within an Agenda meeting; limiting public portion to 3 minutes at the end of a regular meeting.
President Butler: I think that we are going to adopt that and in light of that I am going to open this meeting to the public. Seeing no hands I will close this public portion.
Executive Session
ES-1 Re: Frank, Cherney, Thompson, Sciola, Popek vs. Township of Old Bridge
ES-2 Potential purchase of Nike Site from GSA
Resolution #577-02
Be it resolved by the Township Council of the Township of Old Bridge, County of Middlesex, State of 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:
ES-1 RE: Frank, Cherney, Thompson, Sicola, Popek vs. Township
ES-2 Potential purchase of Nike Site from GSA
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this meeting shall reconvene in public session in Fifteen (15) 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 Maher, seconded by Councilman Greene and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Councilman Calogera
Agenda Meeting resumed at 9:45 p.m.
Motion to Adjourn at 9:45 p.m. made by Councilman Testino, seconded by Councilman Redmond and so ordered on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Greene, Hoff, Maher, Redmond, Testino, Councilwoman Panos, President Butler.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Councilman Calogera
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Reginald Butler, Council President
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Rose-Marie Saracino, Township Clerk
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