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          HMM WHAT'S THAT? GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING TONIGHT. THIS IS THE AGENDA FOR THE MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE MEETING OF APRIL 20TH 2023. THE TIME IS SEVEN P.M. IT IS THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE'S INTENTION TO CONCLUDE THIS MEETING NO LATER THAN 11. PM. ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 
          MHM HERE, DEPUTY MAYOR SING HERE . HURRICANE COMMITTEE PERSON TAUGHT HERE PERSON ON HERE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS, ACT NOTICE OF THE TIME AND PLACE OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED AND SENT TO THE OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED NEWSPAPERS. SALUTE TO THE FLAG, PLEASE. I PLAYED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. REPUBLIC. ONE NATION. LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. 
          I WANT TO, UM. I WISH EVERYONE A . AND TOMORROW TOMORROW EVENING, ALL MUSLIMS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND IN MONTGOMERY ARE CELEBRATING THE END OF RAMADAN, AND I JUST WANTED TO WISH 
          [1. PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE SAFETY MONTH]
EVERYONE A HAPPY, EAT AND ENJOY. THE NEXT ITEM IS THE PEDESTRIAN IN SAFE BIKE, BASICALLY SAFETY MONTH WHEREAS IN 2020, THERE WERE 6516 PEDESTRIANS KILLED IN THE UNITED STATES THAT IS 18 PEDESTRIANS A DAY AND 100 AND 25 PEDESTRIANS A WEEK. AND WHEREAS IN 2021 THERE WERE 220 PEDESTRIANS KILLED ON NEW JERSEY ROADWAYS, ACCOUNTING FOR APPROXIMATELY 30% OF ALL FATALITIES. AND WHEREAS NEW JERSEY EXPERIENCES A DIS APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF PEDESTRIAN INJURY CRASHES AND FATALITIES COMPARED TO THE NATION AS A WHOLE. WHEREAS THE MONTH OF MAY IS RECOGNIZED AS NATIONAL BICYCLE SAFETY MONTH. AND WHEREAS MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS SHALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE PLEASURE OF WALKING, RUNNING AND BIKE RIDING AS SOURCES OF HEALTH EXERCISE IN TRANSPORTATION AND WHEREAS MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP IS A GREAT PLACE TO WALK HIKE AND BIKE AND HAS EXTENSIVE PATHWAY SYSTEM GOING THROUGHOUT THE TOWNSHIP WITH MORE TO COME. AND WHERE IS THE TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY DESIRES TO CONDUCT A CAMPAIGN DURING THE MONTH OF MAY TO RAISE AWARENESS AND TO EDUCATE ITS RESIDENTS ON PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE SAFETY NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE HEREBY COMPLAINTS? SORRY PROCLAIMS MAY 2023 AS PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE SAFETY MONTH IN THE TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY AND ENCOURAGES MOTORISTS PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS TO SHARE THE ROAD AND OBEY ALL TRAFFIC SAFETY LAWS AND THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT THE GOVERNING BODY URGES ALL CITIZENS DESCRIBED TOWARDS TAKING ACTIVE ROLES IN REDUCING THE OCCURRENCE OF PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE. IT'S INJURIES AND FATALITIES ON TOWNSHIP ROAD WAYS AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. WE WILL BE HAVING A NUMBER OF EVENTS AND SAFETY, UM, EVENTS WITH THE POLICE. IN THE MONTH OF MAY. THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S 
          [2. 2022 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD RECIPIENTS]
WHY YOU'RE ALL HERE ARE THE 2022 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS. 
          GOOD EVENING. UH MAYOR KEENAN, UH, TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UH AND ASSORTED OTHERS FRANK DERBY FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION HERE INSTEAD OF. MARY RESTART CHAIRPERSON. SHE SNUCK IN BEHIND YOU NEVER IN PLACE OF ALONGSIDE MARY REESE, OUR CHAIRPERSON AND OF OUR OUR TREMENDOUS AID HERE IN THE MINISTRATIONS WARM WAS ALLOWED SCREEN. TO PRESENT THIS YEAR'S EDITION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIPS AWARD PROGRAM DESIGNED TO RECOGNIZE, UH CITIZENS OF PARTICULAR MERIT AND VALOR IN TERMS OF THE FIGHT TO MAINTAIN SOME ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS THROUGHOUT THE TOWNSHIP IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES . THE AWARDEES ARE ALL HERE I THINK WITH PERHAPS THEY ARE ALL HERE NOW, UH AND WE'D LIKE TO ASK THAT THE COMMITTEE RECOGNIZED HIM AS A UH, CALL THEM OUT. UM, THE FIRST UH, 
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AWARDEES OR NO STRANGERS. TO THE COMMITTEE. UH CYRIL ROBERTS AND LARRY KOPLIK HAVE DEVOTED COUNTLESS HOURS. UH AND THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT TO THE TOWNSHIP IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. SARAH, CERTAINLY WITH ALONGSIDE US ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION AND LARRY IS THE HEAD OF THE SHADE TREE COMMITTEE. UH BUT WHAT MANY PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW IS JUST WHAT THEIR EFFORTS MEAN ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY, WHICH IS A HAVEN OF, UH, VOTE AN IMMENSE NUMBER AND VARIETY OF NATIVE SPECIES. WHICH DECORATE THEIR FIVE ACRE PROPERTY TO, UH AH TO THE EXCLUSION OF MANY OR MOST OR ALL INVASIVE SPECIES, AND FRIDAY A HAVEN FOR POLLINATORS. AND SO I WOULD WE HAVE AWARDED SYRIA AND LARRY THE AWARD FOR LANDOWNER OF THE YEAR IF THEY WOULD STAND UP TO BE RECOGNIZED. 
          AWARDS HERE MADE OUT OF BAMBOO. SO WE'RE VERY NICE. WELL WHEN IT'S CUT OFF WITHOUT THE ROOTS, I THINK IT'S SUSTAINABLE. YES UH WELL, CONGRATULATIONS, ABILITY. YES, YES, OBVIOUSLY. 
          FEDERATIONS. HOLD IT. AT THE AT THE END COULD WELL HAVE EVERYBODY COME UP AND WE'LL TAKE A PICTURE. DON'T YOU THINK WE'LL TAKE A NICE PICTURE? THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE, UM MOVING RIGHT ALONG. WE HAVE, UH OTHER LONGTIME RESIDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THE BEAUTY OF MONTGOMERY. WE HAVE WITH US, UM UM ROBERT AND CAROLYN FINNEY FROM ORGANIC FARM. EXCUSE ME, ORCHARD FORM ORGANICS RIGHT HERE IN THE FRONT ROW, UH, IN THE CATEGORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLEAN AIR. UM WHAT WHAT PHINEAS HAVE PIONEERED, OR AT LEAST EMPLOYED HERE AND THEIR PROPERTY IS 61 ACRE FORM. AS A SERIES OF BIO DYNAMIC FARMING PRACTICES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS. THEY ALSO OF COURSE, BY PROMOTING FORM TO TABLE SUSTENANCE. THEY ARE KEEPING TRUCKS AND OTHER TRAFFIC OFF THE ROAD. AND THE FINAL. I THINK NOTEWORTHY CONTRIBUTION WOULD BE THE USE OF NO TILL AGRICULTURE, WHICH ALSO HELPS TO KEEP CARBON EMISSIONS WAY DOWN. 
          CAROLINE AND ROBERT FINNEY. IF YOU WOULD STAND UP, PLEASE. 
          UM. FOR WE'RE GOING TO TURN THE TABLE A LITTLE BIT NOW FOR PEOPLE THAT PERHAPS HAVEN'T BEEN WITH US AS LONG WE BREAK TO RECOGNIZE VICTORIA AND DANIEL LEOPOLD IN THE BACK THERE TO STUDENTS HERE IN THE MONTGOMERY SCHOOL SYSTEM, VICTORIAN DANIEL TOOK THE STEP OF, UM, ATTENDING THE WATERSHED INSTITUTES. AH UM ADVOCACY ACADEMY THIS SUMMER, WHEN IN PARTICULAR THEY FOCUSED ON WATER RESOURCE IS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT THEY MANAGED TO AFTER STUDYING THAT THEY MANAGED TO PREPARE A PRESENTATION AND COME TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION AND TELL US EXACTLY HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF MANAGING THE STORM WATER. AND FOR THAT WE'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THEM WITH THE AWARD IN THE CATEGORY OF WATER RESOURCES. 
          FOR THEIR RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF FLOODING AND WAYS WE MIGHT TAKE STEPS TO MITIGATE THOSE. 
          THANK YOU, VICTORIAN DANIEL. 
          IT WAS AFTERWARDS DO WELL, YOU CAN TAKE ONE. YOU TAKE THE HEADER MOUNTAIN. YEAH. COURSE. 
          HMM. UM WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE IT'S NOT JUST INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE MAKING THESE EFFORTS WITH BUSINESSES. AND WE WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR E SPORTS IN THE CATEGORY OF HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FOR PROVIDING AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW AN OPPORTUNITY TO REUSE SPORTING EQUIPMENT. AND ALSO, I THINK FOR MOST OF US PARENTS, ALLOWING OTHERS TO TRY SPORTS AT AN EFFICIENT PRICE. UM SO FOR R E SPORTS WE HAVE WITH US, I THINK 
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, UH, MARK BAROMETER. MARK WOULD YOU COME ON UP? AND I HAVE DELIBERATELY SAVED. 
          UH FOR LAST. UM UH, MY NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND AND, UH, TRULY A MAN ABOUT TOWN AND MEN ABOUT WORLD RENAISSANCE MAN IN MANY RESPECTS , BUT HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TOWN OR INNUMERABLE. UM, I START WITH THE FACT THAT WHEN WE CREATED AN OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE IN 1989, HE WAS APPOINTED THE CHAIR AND HE'S STILL SERVES IN THAT CAPACITY TODAY, WHICH IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF VOLUNTEERISM AND EFFORT ON HIS PART, BUT PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE ALSO SHOULD TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT OF THE LAND AREA IN THIS TOWN, ALMOST 30. EIGHT NEARLY 40. IS NOW PROTECTED OPEN SPACE OR GREEN SPACE, AND THAT IS LARGELY DUE TO HIS EFFORTS. NOT SOLELY. I THINK HE'D BE THE FIRST TO SAY THAT THERE ARE MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE HELPED ALONG THE WAY, BUT CERTAINLY UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP WITH HIS GUIDANCE. UH WE ARE A BETTER TOWN FOR HIS EFFORTS AND FOR THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT HE HAS PUT IN ON OUR ALL OF OUR BEHALF, SO I PRESENT CLEM FJORD , ALRIGHT. 
          YOU CAN MAKE A SPEECH, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT GONNA LEARN GOOD STARTED. YOU WANT JOKE? MADAM MAYOR THAT THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION THIS EVENING. I GIVE YOU ONCE AGAIN THE 2022 AWARD WINNERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS HERE. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH, FRANKLY, PAUSE FOR YOU ALL. EVENING. GOOD EVENING FROM. SKILLMAN NEW JERSEY AND THE CHAIR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION AS WELL AS SUSTAINABLE MONTGOMERY AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO PROVIDE THIS RECOGNITION TO THE STEWARDS OF OUR OUR LOCAL TOWNSHIP AND THOSE WHO ARE SO VERY SUPPORTIVE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT. AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOU'RE INTEREST AND RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK, AND IT JUST MAKES OUR TOWN A MUCH BETTER PLACE TO LIVE AS A RESULT OF THE WORK OF ALL OF THESE FOLKS. AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT AN AWARD, I MUST SAY THAT, UM MAYOR KEANE, YOU HAVE BEEN A TREMENDOUS STEWARD OF ALL THAT WE DO ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION SUSTAINABLE MONTGOMERY AS WELL AS FOR OUR OPEN SPACE EFFORTS. YOU'RE THERE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY WITH GREAT IDEAS AND MOST APPRECIATIVE AND WE CANNOT END THIS PRESENTATION WITHOUT THANKING OUR LAUREN HAS BEEN A. SHE IS A TERRIBLY WELL ORGANIZED BUT UBER BRIGHT WOMAN HAS REALLY PROVIDED US WITH, UM , INSPIRATION, GOOD RESOURCES, AND IS THERE WITH US ALL THE TIME, SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HELP THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US, AND FRANK WAS THE ONE WHO STEPPED UP A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND SAID, LET'S LET'S HAVE THESE AWARDS. LET'S CELEBRATE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS. SO WE THANK FRANK AS WELL. SO DO WE HAVE TO THANK YOU, FRANK. THANK YOU ALL. THE AWARD RECIPIENTS COME UP OR DO WE WANT TO? WE HAVE THE COME UP FOR A PICTURE COMMITTEE. LIKE TAKING PART OF IT. 
          MENTIONED. LET SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE. EVERYBODY EXPECTED. I THINK THAT WOULD. JUST ASK 
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SOMEONE STAND HERE AND TAKE IT. I DON'T KNOW. HELLO. RIGHT? WELL, THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. AWARDEES AND TOGETHER. 
          MONSTER. COMPANY. THANK YOU, NOT CAMERA. YEAH I GUESS. JUST THERE. YES OK , 70 ALRIGHT. SAFE. I LOVE GREEN. MM HMM. MEMORIES. HAVE PRETTY HONORED. 
          MY BEST IN THAT MESS WITH ELECTRONIC PUBLIC. THE WHEELS. 
          CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL THE AWARD WINNERS. UM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO TODAY AND EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE IN THE PAST AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO IN THE FUTURE. AND THANK YOU, MARY FOR YOUR STEWARDSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE AND FRANK AS WELL. YEAH. I DON'T HAVE A SECOND POINT. NO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE CERTAINLY WELCOME TO STAY. IT'S GOING TO BE THE Q ONE 
          [3. Q-1 FINANCIAL REPORT]
FINANCIAL REPORT. NOT AS EXCITING AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS, BUT YOU'RE SO WELL EVERYBODY. WE'RE DONE. THANK YOU AGAIN AND CONGRATULATIONS. YES. I KNOW. HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, MICHAEL? RIGHT JUST SAY Q ONE FINANCIAL BOOM. THAT'S A ROOM CLEAR. CLEAR THE ROOM. 
          CLEAR THE ROOM. YEAH. PEPPERS THAT'S GOOD IN THERE. I WAS WITH THE LEOPOLD'S THIS WEEKEND. WE WERE DOING THE STREAM CLEANUP. I THINK I THINK HE MAY HAVE FOUND THE HOT TUB. WE FOUND A HOT TUB OVER AND WRITE A LOT OF GOOD STUFF. YEAH, LOT OF GARBAGE. OKAY. SHALL WE TURN IT OVER? THANK YOU, MAYOR. RIGHT SO FOR THE QUARTER, ONE FINANCIAL REPORT, AS YOU KNOW, QUARTER ONE. MOST OF THE BIG TICKET ITEMS WAS REALLY WORKING ON THE BUDGET. YOU KNOW, FROM JANUARY TO ACTUALLY LAST LAST MEETING WHERE WE INTRODUCED THE BUDGET, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT OUR MAIN FOCUS WAS. BUT I WANT TO TALK A COUPLE OF ABOUT A COUPLE OF OUR REVENUES, WHICH IS IMPORTANT AS WE GO ON THROUGH THE YEARS SO WE CAN COMPARE TO PRIOR YEARS. SEE HOW WE'RE DOING COMPARED TO WHAT WE ANTICIPATED. SO THE FIRST AND FOREMOST IS OUR LARGEST REVENUE, OF COURSE, PROPERTY TAXES. IF WHOEVER SAW THE BUDGET PRESENTATION, LARRY I KNOW YOU WATCHED IT, RIGHT? YEAH TILL 
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LIKE, FOUR. IN THE MORNING. YOU HAVE TO BE WATCHING IT. PERFECT SO ONE OF THE LARGE INCREASES WE HAD IN THE BUDGET WAS OUR RESERVE FROM CLICK THE TAXES. WE HAD INCREASED THAT BY OVER $300,000. THAT'S BECAUSE OUR PERCENTAGE OF TAX COLLECTION DROPPED LAST YEAR. I'M HAPPY TO SAY AS OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2023. WE'RE AT 52.1% COMPARED TO 49.74. PRIOR YEAR. THIS IS ACTUALLY THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF COLLECTION SINCE PRE COVID SO OUR TAX NUMBERS ARE LOOKING GREAT ART COLLECTION NUMBERS ARE LOOKING GREAT. SECOND LARGE REVENUE ITEM THAT'S DOING BETTER THAN EXPECTED AS OUR INTEREST ON INVESTMENTS. LAST YEAR. WE'RE ONLY AT ABOUT $13,000 AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER THIS YEAR. WE'RE OVER. WE'RE ALMOST AT $300,000. THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE GAINING ABOUT 4/4 PERCENT ALMOST 5% ON SOME OF OUR INVESTMENTS, AS OPPOSED TO 50.1% IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF LAST YEAR, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS. ANOTHER ONE FEES AND PERMITS HAVE INCREASED YEAR YEAR BY $50,000 THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR RECREATION FEES OUT PASTING LAST YEAR. ONE OTHER REVENUE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT'S DOWN ABOUT $50,000 IS OUR CONSTRUCTION CODE FEES THAT WAS AT 262,000 LAST YEAR WERE AT 207,000 THIS YEAR. A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. WE'RE ONLY AT EIGHT THIS YEAR LAST YEAR WERE AT 14 OTHER THAN THAT ARE MAJOR REVENUES OR ON POWER TO LAST YEAR, IF NOT BETTER, SO THERE'S NO CONCERNS WITH THE REVENUE, SO I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THOSE FIRST QUARTER NUMBERS. QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION IS THAT BACK TO KIND OF PRE COVID LEVELS BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD A BIG BUMP DURING IT, SO IT'S KIND OF THAT'S WHERE IT WAS BEFORE THAT, EXACTLY RIGHT, ACTUALLY, AT EXPECTED, OKAY. SO AGAIN EVERY YEAR PRIOR TO COVID WE, YOU KNOW WHEN WE WOULD LOOK AT 950,000 $MILLION MILLION A YEAR. THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THAT. THAT THAT NUMBER THAT WORLD WAR VERY OFTEN SEEING SO WE'LL BE RIGHT AROUND THERE AGAIN THIS YEAR. UM A COUPLE OF NOTES OR A COUPLE OF EVENTS THAT ARE COMING UP. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT IS, OF COURSE, THE BUDGET MEETING BUDGET HEARING HOPEFULLY, BUDGET ADOPTION IS AT THE NEXT MEETING ON MAY 4TH MAY 1ST IS THE SECOND QUARTER TAXES AS WELL AS THE SECOND QUARTER SCHOOL SUPPLEMENTAL TAX BILL, AND ALSO ASSUMING THAT THE SEWER TAX UM THE SEWER RATES GET APPROVED AND ADOPTED TONIGHT. THE BILLS WILL GO OUT EARLY MAY 1ST HALF WILL BE JUNE. 1ST SECOND HALF WILL BE DUE IN SEPTEMBER. UM THAT IS THE REPORT I HAVE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER GREAT QUESTIONS FROM THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE. NO THANK YOU 
          [4. PUBLIC COMMENT]
VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. THE NEXT ITEM IS PUBLIC COMMENT. EACH SPEAKER WILL HAVE A MAXIMUM OF FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK AND SHOULD LIMIT COMMENTS TO MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE TOWNSHIP. 
          ADDITIONALLY IF YOUR COMMENTS ARE SIMILAR TO COMMENTS ALREADY MADE INSTEAD OF REPEATING THEM AT LENGTH, WE ASK THAT YOU INSTEAD INDICATE THAT YOU JOIN IN OR SUPPORT. THOSE COMMENTS PREVIOUSLY MADE GROUPS R S TO SELECT SPOKESPERSON TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO COME UP AND MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT? COME ON UP WHEN YOU DO , PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. YOU COME BEARING GIFTS NICE INDEED. SO I'M LARRY KOPLIK 48 HARLINGEN ROAD, BELLE MEADE AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE SHADE TREE COMMITTEE HAVE BEEN SINCE ZACH RETIRED IN 2007. I'M GONNA GET MY WATCH OUT FIVE MINUTES. JUST KEEP WELL, WE'RE TIMING ON THIS. 
          AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. SO I KNOW I'M GOING TO BE COMING BEFORE YOU FOR OFFICIAL PRESENTATION. I THINK IT'S YOUR NEXT MEETING, BUT I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF AND JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND. UM THE COMMITTEE GETS A BUDGET FROM THE TOWNSHIP. GLAD TO HEAR MONEY IS GOING UP. COULD USE MORE MONEY FOR TREES. AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE. A LOT OF DEAD ASHTRAYS IN TOWN. ON THE STREETS THAT WERE PLANTED YEARS AGO IN THE PARKS AND THE ARBORETUM. NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT. ASK FOR CAME AND WIPED HIM OUT. SO THOSE TREES NEED TO BE REPLACED. HE ALSO HAD A VERY SEVERE DROUGHT LAST SUMMER. WHICH KILLED A LOT OF OUR EVEN NOT JUST EVEN OUR NEWEST TREES, SOME TREES THAT HAVE BEEN IN FOR FIVE YEARS AND LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE ESTABLISHED. YOU NEVER KNOW WITH TREES. SO WE COULD USE MORE MONEY. I MEAN, THE TOWNSHIP HAS A GOAL LEAST ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION CAME UP WITH A GOAL FOR THE CANOPY. OF MONTGOMERY TO BE INCREASED. IT WAS MEASURED IN 2012 AND ABOUT 25. THEY STARTED GOLD 10 YEAR GOAL, WHICH WAS LAST YEAR. 2022 OF GETTING THE 50. WE'RE STILL AT 25. SO WE GOT A LONG WAYS TO GO. SO. AS YOU'RE 
          [00:25:01]
PROBABLY AWARE OF THE ISSUE THE ISSUE. THAT'S DEPENDING WHICH I'VE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS WITH WORRY ABOUT. IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT THE PROBLEM WITH SIDEWALKS BEING RAISED BY THE ROOTS TREES JUST DO DO THIS, AND WE HAVE. UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A VERY NARROW STRIP. PLANTING STRIP IN MONTGOMERY. IT'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE FT WIDE, WHICH IS PLENTY FOR A TREE, BUT AS THEY GROW UNLESS IT'S A VERY SMALL ORNAMENTAL TREE, WHICH IS NOT WHAT YOU PLANT AS A SHADE TREE ON THE STREET. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SIDEWALKS RAISED. IT'S JUST IT'S INEVITABLE. AND BUT IT'S EXPENSIVE. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, OUR TREES ARE MATURING NOW AND NO MARK HERMAN IS USING A LOT OF HIS BUDGET FOR SIDEWALK REPAIRS . SO WE'VE BEEN INVESTIGATING WAYS AROUND THAT THERE ARE ROOT BARRIERS WHICH CAN BE INSTALLED. WHICH IN THEORY WILL SEND THE ROOTS DOWN UNDERNEATH THE SIDEWALK AND PERHAPS INHIBIT THE RAISING. I DON'T REALLY KNOW. 
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
          I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE TOWNSHIP IS COMMITTED TO HAVING TREES AND ONE STREET TREES. AND YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE IF YOU WANTED YOU KNOW , I MEAN, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE SIDEWALKS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TREES, WHETHER IT'S TRYING TO ROOT AREAS OR JUST DEALING WITH THE SIDEWALKS BEING RAISED. PERHAPS YOU CAN DO WHAT PRINCETON DOES, WHICH IS WHERE THEY JUST SHAVE THEM DOWN. THEY DON'T REPLACE THE WHOLE SIDEWALK PANEL. THEY KNOW IT'S UP ON ONE EDGE. THEY COME ALONG, AND THEY HAVE SOME MACHINE. THANKS FOR BASICALLY SENDS IT DOWN. SO THAT'S ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE. SO THE OTHER ISSUE IS JUST. AND THIS HAS COME UP BECAUSE OF MY DISCUSSIONS WITH MARK AND LORI. AND OTHERS ON THE ADMINISTRATION. HOW MANY TREES ARE WE GOING TO PLANT A STATE STREET TREES? UM WE HAVE HAD A SORT OF A STANDARD. FOR DECADES . YOU KNOW THIS GOES BACK. THIS ORIGINAL PLANTING PLAN FOR ST STARTED 1988 UNDER EVA ZACK, AND WE'VE PLANTED ABOUT 2500. TREES IN THE TOWN. AND THEY WERE PLANNING ABOUT 40 FT APART, WHICH IS SORT OF A STANDARD DISTANCE FOR A SHADE TREE LIKE A MAPLE OR OAK OR BACK IN THE DAY IN ASH. SO WHEN I WENT TO ANALYZE ONE ST RECENTLY TO HEART , WHICH HAD A SECTION THAT WAS ASHTRAYS WITH THE ASHTRAYS HAVE BEEN REMOVED. SO YOU KNOW, FOR THE SAKE OF THE CONTINUITY OF THE TREES ALONG THE STREET AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HOMEOWNERS AND JUST FOR THE WHOLE REASON WHY WE PLANT TREES , AESTHETICS AS WELL AS ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS. YOU KNOW, LIKE MY MARKED OUT BASICALLY 21 TREES TO REPLACE THE 22. THAT HAD DIED. THE. I HAD A MEETING WITH LORI AND MARK THEY CAME UP WITH THIS SAID THAT'S TOO MANY. THERE'S NOT ROOM FOR THAT. WE'VE GOT ENOUGH TREES IN THE HOMEOWNERS. PROPERTY OVERHANGING AND WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A LOT OF , AND THEY CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO JUST PLANT FIVE INSTEAD OF MY 21. AND WHEN I WENT OUT THERE WITH MARK, HE ADMITTED. WELL OKAY, MAYBE WE COULD PUT ONE HERE AND HERE, BUT WE'RE NOT. WE'RE GETTING NOWHERE NEAR THE 21 THAT THE SHADE TREE WOULD RECOMMEND. AND AGAIN. THIS IS THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DISCUSS. BECAUSE MY AND MY JOB IS LET ME KNOW FROM YOU IS TO PLANT TREES AND I'M NOT GOING TO PLANT THEM. NO, I LEARNED FROM AVA HOW TO PICK OUT SPOTS AND YOU KNOW, WE DON'T PLANT A TREE IF THERE'S ONE RIGHT NEXT TO IT AND THE HOMEOWNER'S PROPERTY, BUT IF THERE'S A HOMEOWNER TREE HERE IN 
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A HOMEOWNER TREE HERE YOU CAN PUT A SHADE TREE IN BETWEEN. OR MAYBE EVEN TWO. AND THE GROUP TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE YOU KNOW IT'LL IT WILL HAVE THEM WRITE EFFECT ON THE STREET. HAVING YOU KNOW THE COLOR KIND OF A RHYTHM . ARE YOU GONNA SO NEXT? YOU'RE GONNA COMING NEXT IS THE NEXT YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PRESENTATION ON IT. SO WHY DON'T YOU DO RAP IT UP? OKAY SO JUST THIS IS JUST THE ISSUES THAT YOU THINK ABOUT BECAUSE YOU KNOW MARK HERMAN COMES OUT THERE AND HE LOOKS AND SAYS, WELL, YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH TREES, YOU KNOW, AND HE'S THINKING, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF TREES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO REDUCE THE FUTURE EXPENSES OF SIDEWALK REPAIR. COME OUT THERE AND THINKING WELL, WE'LL WE'LL WORK TOGETHER WITH YOU, BUT LET'S BRING IT UP TO. UM YOU'RE SO WHEN YOU COME AND DO YOUR PRESENTATION. WE CAN DEFINITELY TALK ABOUT THAT. BECAUSE I MEAN, IT IS A CONVERSATION. WE HAVE TO HAVE A OF, YOU KNOW, BALANCING OF UM, GIVE AND TAKE ON ON COST . AND THEN NOW IN THE FUTURE, SO DEFINITELY WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT . YOUR NEW I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING. MEANTIME, WE'RE NOT JUST THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE NOT ABLE TO PLANT ANY STREET TRANSITION YEAR BECAUSE THE COST SEEMS SO PROHIBITIVE. WE JUST YOU KNOW IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO SPEND YOU KNOW, SIX OR $700 A TREE TO PLANT A TREE AS OPPOSED TO 100 AND $50. SO WE'RE JUST GONNA LOWER YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT WE'RE JUST GOING TO REGROUP AND HOPEFULLY COME UP WITH SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND BETTER IN THE FALL OR NEXT SPRING. OKAY OKAY. THAT'S IT. OKAY. IF THERE'S A WAY WE CAN WE'LL TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT, LAURIE. THANKS, LARRY. TOMORROW. SWAMP CHESTNUT OAKS, MHM. ONE I'LL TAKE ONE TOMORROW. I'LL GET ONE TOMORROW. ALRIGHT THANK YOU VERY MUCH YET. I THINK A COUPLE OF US WILL BE AT THE ARBOR DAY AT THE SCHOOL TOMORROW, SO THAT WOULD BE GOOD BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY AS WELL? YES, ON SUNDAY. THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HMM. LOURDES HAD DOWN BRING COME A LITTLE CLOSER TO IT, THOUGH. IT'S A TERRIBLE MICRO. MY NAME IS GREG KAGANOVICH. I LIVE ON 2 93 GREAT STANDARD ROAD AND I CAME HERE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT RECENT PROPOSAL. BASICALLY TO TAKE AWAY THE DECISION WHERE TO PLANT STREET TREES FROM THE SHADE TREE COMMITTEE AND GIVE IT TO TRIP STAFF. BEFORE I SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL BRIEF HISTORY IN UNDER FIVE MINUTES. YOU GOT FIVE MINUTES, GREG. SO YEAH. WHEN WE MOVED TO THE TOWN OVER 40 YEARS AGO. IT WAS IN MIDST OF THE DEVELOPMENT BOOM. THE HOUSES WERE GROWING LIKE NOTHING ELSE. HOWEVER NO TREES WERE PLANTED NO STREETS, TREES WERE PLANTED. THE WOODED AREAS WOULD WERE STRIPPED CUT. TO PLANT NEW TREES LIKE MONTGOMERY, WOODS OR YORKSHIRE WOULD A ONE OF. ONE OF THE YEAR. I BELIEVE IT WAS ABOUT 84. 
          DEVELOPER WAS OLDER APPROVAL. PROPER APPROVAL CUT DOWN ABOUT TWO MILES OF MATURE HYDRO ON GREG STANDARD ROAD. THAT CREATED AN OUTRAGE ABOUT THE RESIDENTS. AND GENDER TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE APPOINTED SHADE TREE COMMITTEE TO LOOK ON THE INTERESTS OF TREES AND PLANT STREET TREES. 
          AND SO THEY DID OVER NEXT 35 YEARS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY WERE INSTRUMENTAL TO CHANGE OF THE LAND USE ORDINANCE IN ORDER TO FIRST TO PLANT 14TH 14TH STREET'S 14 THREES PER ACRE OF TRACKED AND SECOND MORE IMPORTANT. TO PLAN THE STREET TREES. NOW DEVELOPER. DO IT. 
          DEVELOPERS DO IT. BEFORE THEY DIDN'T SO OVER. THE 35 YEARS IN MY COUNTING, THEY SPENT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOURS DOING THAT. PLANNING. MAPPING WHERE TO PLANT . GOING TO THE NURSERIES CRUISING THE PROPER MATERIAL. SUPERVISING THE PLANTING. AND TRIMMING OF THE TREES. AS A RESULT. ABOUT 2500 STREET TREES WERE PLANTED BY THE STATE TO COMMITTEE AND PROBABLY WELL OVER 
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1000 BY DEVELOPMENT BY DEVELOPERS. SO NOW COMES. THIS SPRING AND WITHIN THE ALLOTTED BUDGET. THEY PLANTED THEY PLAN TO PLAN 21 THREES, REPLACEMENT TREES ON THE HEART. FOR REPLACING THE DEAD ASHTRAYS. NO ONE COULD EXPECT. THE THAT WE HAVE THE ASH TREE PLUG AND ALL THE ASH TREES IN THIS, THE UNITED STATES WILL DIE. SO THEY PLANNED IT. THE MARK THIS PLACES AND THEN CAME THE DECISION FROM THE STAFF. JET NO, YOU DON'T PLAN 21 THERESE AS THEY WERE BEFORE YOU PLAN ONLY PLANT ONLY FIVE. WHY ALL BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE MONEY IF I UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS. BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY FOR 25. 21 ST AND ONLY FOR FIVE PLANNED THEM ACCORDING TO THE STANDARDS HOW THE STREET TREES ARE PLANTED. NOT ONE HERE AND ONE THERE AND ONE SOMEWHERE ELSE. THAT'S NOT THE WAY OF DOING THINGS. SO. IF THAT SORT OF BASICALLY THE DECISION WERE TO PLANT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE STATE TO COMMITTEE WHO HAS THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN DOING SO IN DOING IT. IF. THAT'S SORT OF DECISION WILL CONTINUE. WHAT WILL HAPPEN THEN THERE ARE THREE MAIN RESULTS. OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT FIRST. SOME OF THE. RESIDENTS WERE THE LESS TWIST OR NO TREES WILL BE PLANTED WILL HAVE THEIR PROPERTY VALUE DIMINISHED. 
          THERE'S A KNOWN FACT. THAT WHEN , UH TERESA ON THE STREETS, THE PROPERTY VALUES ARE 5 TO 15% HIGHER THAN WHEN THE STREETS ARE BETTER. THE SECOND. ALL THE WORK THAT THE THERE HAS BEEN DONE BY THE SHADE TREE COMMITTEE. WILL BE DIMINISHED. BASICALLY THE DECISION WOULD SAY ALL WHAT YOU HAVE DONE OVER THE 35 YEARS WAS WRONG. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE CALLED, WILL TELL YOU HOW TO DO IT AND WHAT TO DO IT. THAT'S VERY MOTIVATING. AND I WON'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY IF THIS STAND YOU WON'T HAVE A SHAPE WITH COMMITTEE. HMM. AND THE LAST ONE. YOU PUT YOUR TAKE THE DECISION OF WHERE TO PLANT POSSIBLY WHAT TO PLANT FROM A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LEARNED IS KNOWLEDGEABLE AND GIVE IT TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO KNOWS VERY LITTLE ABOUT TREES. AND THEIR INTEREST IS IN PLANTING S FEW TREES AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE MORE TREES MORE WORK FOR THEM. SO YOU KNOW YOU YOU DON'T PUT A FOX TO GUARD THE CHICKEN. AND THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WELL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, GREG. I THINK AND LARRY, FIRST OF ALL, UM LOREAL CONNECT WITH LORI ON THIS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE PRESENTATION AND JUST KIND OF UNDERSTANDING IT A LITTLE BIT MORE SO THAT WE CAN REALLY FIND WHAT'S THE RIGHT UM , THE RIGHT BALANCE IN SOME WAY, GREG. SO YOU HAVE MY ASSURANCE THAT WILL TAKE A LOOK. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? GOING ONCE GOING TWICE, NOT TO COMMENT. IF THAT, UM WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. AGAIN. YOU HAVE MY ASSURANCE THAT WILL BE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK AT IT. I THINK GETTING A PLAN TOGETHER IS A GREAT THING FOR ALL OF US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THINGS ARE GOING AND THEN HAVING SOME MORE CONVERSATIONS AND REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE BEST PLACES SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF, UM, TRYING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN GET THE BEST VALUE OUT OF UM THE TREES TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE AND MAKING SURE DO WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH SIDEWALKS OR WHATEVER, BUT WE WILL DEFINITELY TAKE A LOOK AT IT. I AGREE, AND WILL SOON WE'LL HAVE OUR TREE ORDINANCE. I'M HOPING IT ONLY BEEN HOW WOULD TWO YEARS ARE WE GOING TO GET IT THIS YEAR? THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          WE'LL DEFINITELY TREATS ARE IMPORTANT, SO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE CONSENT AGENDA 
          [5. CONSENT AGENDA]
. ALL MATTERS LISTED HERE UNDER ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE IN NATURE AND WILL BE ENACTED IN ONE MOTION. UM AS ANY TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE PERSON MAY REQUEST THAT AND I'D BE REMOVED FOR 
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SEPARATE CONSIDERATION. DO WE HAVE ANY REQUESTS FROM THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OR ANY ANY NOTES THAT YOU HAVE TO ACCUSE YOURSELF OF MANY. CAN'T WE JUST MAKE SURE YOU GET SO WITH THAT? DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE CONSENT AGENDA COVERING RESOLUTIONS A OR ITEMS? A THROUGH K RESOLUTIONS? 23 DASH 4-101 THROUGH 10 ISSUES TO RECUSE YOURSELF. BEACH MYSELF FOR CAN YOU SPEAK INTO MY SPEAK IN THE MIC? THE FIRST FIGURE IT OUT ONE SECOND. OKAY, SO DENNIS, IT, UM COMMITMENT ON HAS SO WHICH ONE IS IT? LET'S SEE. YOU JUST PUT IN THERE? WHOLE THING, BUT I DON'T UNLESS YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THAT OUT. I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT IT COULD BE THE CUBAN HIMSELF OFF. IT'S NOT DISTRICT COMPLAINTS FROM THE WHOLE THING, RIGHT? HE'S JUST GONNA RECUSE FROM THE CONSIDERED AGENDA BECAUSE WE CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING HIMSELF FROM THE AGENDA BECAUSE CAREFUL LAST NIGHT, WHICH ONE TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM OKAY. OKAY SO WITH THAT THE REMAINING FOUR OF US DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE CONSENT AGENDA COVERING RESOLUTIONS. 23 DASH 4-104 THROUGH 23 DASH 4-114. I HAVE A MOTION TO MOVED . 2ND 2ND CALL PLEASE PERSON ON EXCUSE MYSELF. ANY PERSON. TODD YES, PERSON. BARICAN. DEPUTY MAYOR SING YES, YES. THE NEXT 
          [6. RESOLUTION #23-4-115 - AUTHORIZING MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP TO CONDUCT A SELF EXAMINATION OF THE 2023 BUDGET]
ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS RESOLUTION 23 DASH, 4-115 AUTHORING AUTHORIZING MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP TO CONDUCT A SELF EXAMINATION OF THE 2023 BUDGET. YES MAYOR. SO EVERY THIRD YEAR MUNICIPALITIES BUDGET IS REVIEWED BY THE STATE , WHICH MEANS AFTER WE INTRODUCED THE BUDGET, WE SEND IT OVER TO THE STATE. THEY COMPARED TO OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, MAKE SURE NUMBERS ARE ACCURATE AND TO THEIR LIKING. BUT WHAT THE STATE ALSO ALLOWS IS THOSE OTHER TWO YEARS THAT ALLOWS THE MUNICIPALITY TO PASS A RESOLUTION, WHICH WE USUALLY DO EVERY FOR THE TWO YEARS THAT WE'RE NOT UNDER SELF REVIEW TO ALLOW MY MYSELF AND MY STAFF TO MAKE, UH, BASICALLY REVIEW THE BUDGET, SAYING IT MEETS THE PARAMETERS OF THE STATE AND AS LONG AS WE AGAIN APPROVED THIS RESOLUTION THAT WOULD BE THE RAT WOULD GO AGAIN. IF NOT, WE'LL HAVE TO SEND IT TO THE STATE. LAST YEAR, WE WERE UNDER STATE REVIEW AND AGAIN AS YOU REMEMBER, IT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE FOR THEM TO COMPLETE THEIR REVIEW BECAUSE OF THE BACKLOG, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, MY STAFF HAS REVIEWED IT. UM WE DO MEET ALL THE PREMIERS IN THIS RESOLUTION AND WITHIN THE DETAILS OF THE STATUTES. OKAY, LET ME JUST ASK, UM FROM THE BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. 
          ANY CONCERNS AT ALL? OR YOU COULD THINK THIS IS A PART OF THE PROCESS. OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANKS. THANK YOU. SO, WITH THE WITH THAT DRIVER MOTION TO ADOPT MOVED. SECOND ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 
          COMMITTEE PERSON ON YES PERSON. TODD YES, PERSON. BARICAN. DEPUTY MAYOR SING YES. KEENAN? YES PUT DOWN THE TREES DON'T EAT LEAST BATON. OTHER DRIPPING. WHAT'D YOU SAY? I KNOW THAT'S SUCH A PROFESSIONAL. HMM OKAY. THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA RESOLUTION 23 DASH 4-116. OH, 
          [7. RESOLUTION #23-4-116 - RESOLUTION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY, IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY, DETERMINING THE FORM AND OTHER DETAILS OF ONE OR MORE NOTES RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION FINANCING LOAN PROGRAM OF THE NEW JERSEY INFRASTRUCTURE BANK, TO BE ISSUED IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF UP TO $17,000,000, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF SUCH NOTES TO THE NEW JERSEY INFRASTRUCTURE BANK, AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF SUCH NOTES BY THE TOWNSHIP IN FAVOR OF THE NEW JERSEY INFRASTRUCTURE BANK, ALL PURSUANT TO THE NEW JERSEY INFRASTRUCTURE BANK CONSTRUCTION FINANCING LOAN PROGRAM]
BOY, THIS IS LET'S SEE THIS IS ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION FINANCE LOAN PROGRAM FOR THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT UP TO 17. 17. $17 MILLION . IS THIS FOR THE STORMWATER CORRECT IS FOR STAGE TWO STAGE TWO, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE HAVE TO DO THIS AND PUT IT OUT TO BID. WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL THE MONEY EVEN THOUGH WE'RE BACK. WE'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER SOURCES. EXACTLY EVERYONE UNDERSTAND THAT FROM THE COMMITTEE. AND MAYBE I'LL JUST ADD BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AS SAYING, UM , WE DID HAVE A PRESENTATION. THERE'S A NUMBER OF OFFSETS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO PRESENT. SO I THINK AS WE AS WE DISCUSSED WHEN WE APPROVED THIS, UM THIS IS PRIOR LARGEST PROJECTS SO WE SHOULD HAVE REGULAR UPDATES AND HOW THAT'S GOING BOTH OPERATIONALLY BUT ALSO FINANCIALLY, SO WONDERFUL. BUT THAT DO HAVE EMOTION TO ADOPT ROUTE OK, 2ND 2ND ROLL CALL, PLEASE PERSON ON PERSON. TODD YES COMMITTEE PERSON. BARICAN MAYOR SING. YES, KEENAN. THE 
          [8. ORDINANCE #23-1699 – BOND - 2023 ANNUAL CURRENT FUND BOND ORDINANCE – Introduction]
NEXT ITEM IS ORDINANCE. 23 11. SORRY 1699. THIS IS A BOND FOR THE 2023 ANNUAL CURRENT FUND BOND ORDINANCE. THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION. YES MAYOR AGAIN. THIS TIES BACK TO OUR BUDGET. 
          [00:45:01]
INTRODUCTION FOR FROM LAST MEETING. WE SPOKE ABOUT THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE FOR 2023 WHEN IT COMES TO POLICE'S CAPITAL ENGINEERING ROADS. DPW THIS IS BASICALLY NOW THE NEXT STEP. IT'S THE BOND ORDINANCE BASICALLY SAYING THAT IN THE FUTURE, UM YOU KNOW WE'RE AUTHORIZED TO GO OUT TO DEBT FOR THESE CAPITAL PROJECTS. GREAT. I HAVE A MOTION TO INTRODUCE SOME MOVED. 2ND 2ND CALL PLEASE. COMMITTEE PERSON ON YES, PERSON , TODD PERSON GARRIGAN? YES DEPUTY MAYOR SING. YES, YES. THE NEXT IS ORDINANCE ITEM IS ORDINANCE 23-1697. THIS IS THE 2023 SEWER CAPACITY AND SERVICE RATES. THIS IS THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OOPS. SORRY. LET 
          [9. ORDINANCE #23-1700 – BOND - 2023 ANNUAL SEWER FUND BOND ORDINANCE – Introduction]
ME BACK UP. SORRY. I WAS TOO EXCITED ABOUT THE NEXT IS I WILL BACK THAT UP. SO REWIND ORDINANCE 23-170. BOND THIS IS FOR THE 2023 ANNUAL SEWER FUND BOND ORDINANCE, CORRECT AND THIS IS RELATED TO THE 2023 CAPITAL FOR SEWER THAT WE WENT OVER AT LAST MEETING FROM MAINTENANCE REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR $250,000 AND SAME THING. IT ALLOWS US TO IN THE FUTURE, GO OUT FOR EITHER NOTES OR BY PLANS TO FUND THESE PROJECTS. GREAT THANK YOU. DO I PROMOTION TO INTRODUCE THE 2ND 2ND ROLL CALL, PLEASE. PERSON ON YES, PERSON TIED. YES PERSON. BARRY AGAIN? YES DEPUTY MAYOR SING. YES MAYOR KEENAN? YES NO. TWO ORDINANCE 23 1697. THIS IS THE 2023 SEWER 
          [10. ORDINANCE #23-1697 – 2023 SEWER CAPACITY AND SERVICE RATES – Public Hearing]
CAPACITY AND SERVICE RATES. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. CAN I OPEN IT UP TO THE PUBLIC? NO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOVED SECONDS, ALL IN FAVOR POST. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO. MOTION TO ADAPT. SO MOVED SECOND. SORRY. ROLL CALL, PLEASE COMMITTEE PERSON ON COMMITTEE PERSON. TODD BARICAN. DEPUTY MAYOR SING YES. KEENAN? YEAH. DENNIS, IS YOUR MIKE WORKING? OH YEAH, IT'S WORKING. CAN YOU PULL IT TOWARDS YOU A BIT CAN HEAR YOU WERE HAVING 
          [11. ORDINANCE #23-1698 – DEER MANAGEMENT – Public Hearing]
PROBLEMS WITH MIX IN THIS ROOM, SO OKAY, THE NEXT ONE, DEAR. OKAY, ORDINANCE 23-1698 ABOUT DEER MANAGEMENT. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC? NOPE DO I HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? MOVED 2ND 2ND ALL IN FAVOR SAY I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT. MOVED 2ND 2ND ROLL CALL, PLEASE. COMMITTEE PERSON ON YES, PERSON TAUGHT PERSON. BARICAN DEPUTY MAYOR SING YES, MAYOR KEENAN? YES? DON'T YOU COME UP AND DO THE PRESENTATION NOW. HMM BECAUSE IS IT ABOUT THESE PROPERTIES OR ABOUT THE DEER MANAGEMENT? OKAY, GREAT. GREAT. 
          NO, IT'S NOT LIMITED TO FIVE MINUTES. SO UM, FOR FOLKS UP HERE WHO HAVEN'T MET JAMIE WAIT, HE'S THE CHAIR CHAIRPERSON OF THE WILDLIFE COMMITTEE DEER MANAGEMENT. LOOK AT ALL OF OUR PROPERTIES EVERY YEAR, AND THERE ARE CHANGES THAT WE DO, UM, NOT EVERY YEAR, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S THE NUMBER OF HUNTERS CHANGE THE , UM THE PROPERTIES THEMSELVES. WE BRING IN MORE AND SO FORTH. 
          SO, UM. YES. TO SEE THIS ONE. IT'S GOING TO BE UP THERE. IF YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE IT. LOOK. 
          TRYING TO GET THE. IS IT NOT WORKING? DONNA TEAM TABLE RIGHT TABLE TABLE LEFT, DEPENDING ON I THINK IT'S A TABLE RIGHT NOW. ALL RIGHT. YOU SHOULD COME ON. THAT'S RIGHT. TELL ME THIS ISN'T OUR A V WHAT BROKEN AGAIN? IS IT DIDN'T TEST OVER BECAUSE HE'S WORKED AT THEY WORKED AT THE 
          [00:50:05]
ATTACHED. DON'T WE DO THAT? WE'LL JUST PLUG IT UP LIKE THAT. OKAY? CHICKEN. MHM. AH, SOMETHING SOMETHING OF. MICHAEL . 
          GIVE ME THAT. OH, OKAY. GOOD. WE GO MONTGOMERY TOWN. SO GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JAMIE MAGUIRE. I'M THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE DEER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. UM I GOT A FEW SLIDES TO GO THROUGH. JUST KIND OF WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR FOR YOU NEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. UM I'M NOT USED TO THE MICROPHONE. I'M USED TO TRAINING PEOPLE WITHOUT A MICROPHONE, SO I DON'T ALSO VERY LOUD TALKER. SO AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, JUST WE'VE PUT A COUPLE OF THINGS TOGETHER A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR THE NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS SO THAT WE CAN EVERYBODY CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM. AND WHY THIS AND HOW THIS DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DEER MANAGEMENT, AND THERE'S SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT. WE TALKED ABOUT A PUBLIC HEALTH REASON THERE'S TICK BORNE DISEASES. WE HAVE LYME DISEASE IN THE TOWNSHIP. THAT'S UM I GUESS. RECORDED BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. IS THAT RIGHT? YES SO WE KNOW HOW MANY CASES OF LYME DISEASE ARE REPORTED. EVERY YEAR. WE TRACK THAT, AND I'LL SHOW YOU THAT IN A MINUTE. UM THERE'S ALSO SOME OTHER TICK BORNE DISEASES THAT I WON'T TRY AND PRONOUNCE. UM BECAUSE IT WILL BE EMBARRASSING. UM BUT WE ALSO HAVE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS WITH DEER VEHICLE COLLISIONS, AND I HAVE SOME DATA TO SHOW YOU THAT. WE DID HAVE TWO FATALITIES IN 2014 IN THE TOWNSHIP WITH DEER IN. I GUESS I'M NOT EXACTLY AWARE OF THE DETAILS, BUT THERE WERE TWO FATALITIES INVOLVING DEER AND VEHICLES, SO I MEAN, THERE'S ALSO A HUGE IMPACT OF THE FOREST ECOLOGY, AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IT. DEAR CAN REACH A CERTAIN HEIGHT. AND IF YOU LOOK AROUND, EVEN IF YOU LOOK OUT THE WINDOW WHEN IT'S NICE, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A BROWSE LINE WHERE THE DEER GET, TOO. AND THEY EAT THAT. AND IT REALLY IMPACTS THE NEXT GENERATION OF FORESTS. RIGHT, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THEY DO IS THEY EAT THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE KIND OF ADAPTED TO EAT THE NATIVE PLANTS AND WHAT THEY DON'T DO. AND WHAT THAT DOES ACTUALLY IS. IT CREATES SPACE FOR A LOT OF INVASIVES, AND THAT'S PROBABLY A BIG REASON WHY YOU HAVE A LOT OF INVASIVES AND NON NATIVE SPECIES. ONE THING THAT IS NOT ON THERE THAT I SHOULD REALLY QUICKLY MENTIONED. IT IS FREAKING OUT. OH I'M NOT TOUCHING ANYTHING. IT'S LAUREN. 
          LAUREN. I'M CLICKING. THAT'S WHY ALL RIGHT, ALRIGHT, THANKS. ALRIGHT NO, I GOT THIS. OKAY SO , UM, ONE OF THE OTHER IMPACTS IS WHEN THAT BROWSE LINE IS HIGH . THERE'S A LOT OF BIRDS AND THINGS THAT FLOURISHING THAT LOWER. UM SHRUBBERY, AND THAT IMPACTS THE DEER EATING THAT IMPACTS THEIR ABILITY TO PROLIFERATE AS WELL. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, BUT IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. ALL RIGHT, UM SO ORIGINALLY THE WILDLIFE COMMITTEE, AS IT'S CALLED NOW WAS FORMED IN 1992 AS A HUNTING COMMITTEE. I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANT, UM I KNOW THAT IT WAS THERE. I DON'T THINK THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE AROUND IT NO WOULD KNOW EXACTLY HOW IT FUNCTIONED. BUT WE'RE NOW KNOWN AS THE WILDLIFE COMMITTEE WERE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE. WE MEET A COUPLE OF TIMES A YEAR MAINLY TO GET READY FOR THIS. WE ALSO GET READY FOR THE SEASON. WE DO SOME TRAINING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM THE MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR. UM AND REMOVED BY THE MAYOR FOR BAD, UM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE LIAISONS WITH THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE, OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE MAYOR, OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE AND AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE , SO WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATE. NOT EVERYBODY COMES TO EVERY MEETING. WE DON'T NEED THEM AT EVERY MEETING. TO BE HONEST WITH THE HUNTING STUFF THAT'S GETS A LITTLE TEDIOUS. SO WE DON'T ASK EVERYBODY TO COME LISTEN TO THAT BECAUSE IT DOES GET VERY TEDIOUS BUT ANYWAY, SO WE WOULD MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE TO CONTROL THE DEER 
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POPULATION IN THE TOWNSHIP. WE TRACK HARVEST REPORTING AS IT HAPPENS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT'S RELATIVELY NEW HOW WE DO DO THINGS. UM WE ALSO REVIEW ANNUAL SURVEYS FROM THE HUNTERS AT THE END OF THE SEASON. WE GET SURVEYS IN AND WE LOOK AT THE SURVEYS. UM AND WE RECOMMEND NEW PROPERTIES IN THE CONSULTATION WITH LAUREN, THE OPEN SPACE AND STEWARDSHIP DIRECTOR. SO THE IDEA IS TO GET MORE PROPERTY AND YOU'LL SEE WHY WE NEED MORE PROPERTY AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT IN A MINUTE. UM SO THEY'RE HUNTING PROGRAM ACTUALLY BEGAN IN 2001 AND 2001. THEY DID AN INFRARED, LIKE A POPULATION SURVEY WITH A FIRM CALLED HOTSHOT. I BELIEVE THEY WERE OUT OF COLORADO. IS THAT RIGHT? AND THEY FOUND THAT THERE WERE 88 DEER PER SQUARE MILE, WHICH IS A LOT SUSTAINABLE LEVELS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE 10 TO 12 YEAR PER SQUARE MILE. SO WELL ABOVE THE CARRYING CAPACITY. THEREFORE YOU SEE ALL THE DAMAGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND. WE'RE WAY ABOVE THE CARRYING CAPACITY. UM SO STATEWIDE MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN 2001. THERE WAS A DISEASE THAT WENT THROUGH TOWN. AND IF YOU THINK BACK, YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T REMEMBER THE AWFUL SMELL. UM BUT THERE IS A DISEASE IN THE FALL THAT HAPPENED CALLED EPIZOOTIC CAMERA HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE. UM, IT WAS FOUND IN ALL THE NEW JERSEY COUNTIES, INCLUDING SOMERSET DEFINITELY IMPACTED SOME OF OUR PROPERTIES. SOME PROPERTIES WERE IMPACTED MORE THAN OTHERS. THERE WAS ALSO A HIGH MASS CROP. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? A HIGH MASK CROP ACORNS. WE HAVE A LOT OF ACORNS. THANK YOU, DEAR, TEND NOT TO COME TO MAKE SO. SO IT IMPACTS SOMEBODY WE CAN ACTUALLY GET RIGHT AND THERE WAS A LOT OF FLOODING AND I THINK THE FLOODING THAT YOU HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON THE DEER POPULATION AS WELL AS THE E H. D. UM AND ONE OF THE THINGS STATEWIDE. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PUBLICITY ABOUT PHD, AND THERE'S ONLY A FEW DEER LEFT. IF I SHOOT A DEER, THEN THERE'LL NEVER BE ANY MORE DEER IN THAT COURT OF SORT OF THING, AND THAT WAS REALLY PROLIFERATED , AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT'S TRUE. AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WENT OUT DIDN'T SEE A LOT OF DEER, MAYBE BECAUSE OF THE MASS CROP. UM AND ENDED UP STOPPING HUNTING FOR THE YEAR. WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT PRO PROBLEM AND OUR PROGRAM SO MUCH, BUT THAT'S A STATEWIDE ISSUE THAT YOU HEAR A LOT ABOUT. 
          AT LEAST I HEAR A LOT ABOUT IT. I'M SURE PROBABLY AREN'T THE SAME STUPID WEBSITES AND I AM THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO INTRODUCE IT TO US. UM THE LAST YEAR, HUNTER STATEWIDE RECORDED THE SECOND LOWEST HARVARD HARVEST RATES SINCE THE 19 EIGHTIES, WHICH IS NOT VERY GOOD. THIS YEAR. THE OVERALL STATEWIDE HARVEST WAS UP SLIGHTLY FROM THAT YEAR ON THE COVID YEAR. 
          BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WAS THE HIGHEST HARVESTING IN IN RECENT DECADES, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK OR WORK FROM HOME OR WORK FROM THEIR TREE STANDS OR WHATEVER THEY DID SPEND A LOT MORE TIME AT HOME AND HAD THE ABILITY TO GET OUT RIGHT. OOPS. CLICK IS CRAZY. ALRIGHT, SO. NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR TOWNSHIP PROGRAM OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS WE HAVE KILLED 2100 AND NINE DEAR. UM FOR AN AVERAGE OF 210 A YEAR, UM, LAST YEAR WAS OUR THIRD HIGHER, HIGHEST HARVARD ON HARVEST ON RECORD WITH 251. THE PREVIOUS YEAR WAS 2 52. AND THE YEAR BEFORE, THAT WAS 2 90. SO WHEN THE STATE'S NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN, HORDES ARE ACTUALLY GOING UP. WHICH IS REALLY GOOD. UM WE HARVEST WE TRY AND FOCUS ON ANTLERLESS DEER BECAUSE ANTLERLESS DEER ARE BASICALLY WHEN YOU TAKE ONE OUT OF THE POPULATION, YOU TAKE ONE AND TWO MORE FOR THE NEXT YEAR, SO WE REALLY FOCUSED ON ANTLERLESS DEER, AND WE REALLY PUSH PEOPLE THAT HARVEST ANTLERLESS DEER, AND YOU'LL SEE HOW WE DO A REALLY GOOD JOB OF THAT COMPARED TO ST NUMBERS IN A MINUTE AS WELL. UM SO OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE AVERAGED UM 202 ANTLERLESS DEER A YEAR, WHICH IS 83% OF THE TOTAL HARVEST, WHICH IS PRETTY GOOD. UM AND LAST YEAR WE 89% OF THE DEER WE HARVESTED WERE ANTLERLESS, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS THE HIGHEST WE RECORDED EVER. SO THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S GREAT. CURRENTLY THE PROGRAM IS COMPRISED OF 103 HUNTERS, OF WHICH 95 HAVE RETURNED THEIR END OF YEAR SURVEYS. SO WHAT WE FOUND THIS YEAR WHEN WE WERE DOING UM, THE SURVEYS. THERE WAS SOME PEOPLE THAT VIOLATED RULES AT THE END OF THE YEAR AND WE ASKED TO HAVE THEM REMOVED FROM THE PROGRAM. PART OF THE PROBLEM WAS THE SURVEY WAS NOT IN THE IN THE ORDINANCE. SO THAT'S WHY WE CHANGED THE ORDINANCE A LITTLE BIT. SO THAT HAPPENS NEXT YEAR. WE CAN HAVE THOSE PEOPLE REMOVED . WE WANT PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND ABIDE BY THE RULES. SO AND THAT FEEDBACK IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US AT THE END OF THE SEASON TO GET THAT SURVEY INFORMATION, SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE IN OUR PROGRAM ARE GIVING US THAT INFORMATION THAT WOULD MAKE IT MANDATORY AS PART OF THE PROGRAM. WE ALWAYS FELT THAT IT WAS MANDATORY. UM BUT WHEN IT CAME TO BEING ABLE TO ENACT ON THAT, UM WE FOUND OUT THAT IT WASN'T SO WE WANTED TO MAKE IT MANDATORY IN HAVE A LITTLE TEETH 
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BEHIND IT SO HAVE IT. THANK YOU FOR THAT, UM SO CHANGES IN 2022 23 SEASON, WE ADDED THREE NEW PROPERTIES. UM SO IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WE'VE INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF LAND BY 60, WHICH IS A LOT UM, WE USED THE TOWNSHIP SURVEY CONDUCTED IN 2021 TO INFORM DECISIONS SO MUCH LIKE I MENTIONED THE 20. 2001 SURVEY. WE REDID A SURVEY IN 2021. NOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT IN A MINUTE, BUT THAT SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED IN THE SPRING AND PHD HAPPENED IN THE FALL. SO THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED PRE HD. UM AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT SO THE RESULTS OF THAT SURVEY WERE 69 DEER PER SQUARE MILE. UM WHICH IS DOWN FROM THE 88. THAT WAS 2001. SO OUR PROGRAM IS DEFINITELY HAVING AN IMPACT. UM, WHICH IS GREAT. WE CONTINUE TO INCENTIVIZE THE HARVESTING EVENT PLURALIST EARS AS I MENTIONED. WE ALSO ENCOURAGED MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL TO BE INVOLVED WITH HAD A COUPLE OF PEOPLE, UM A COUPLE OF STUDENTS , RIGHT? WE HAD A STUDENT WRITE AN ARTICLE IN THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL PAPER, WHICH WAS REALLY NICE. UM WE'VE BEEN THEY'VE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR WEB PAGE. IT USED TO BE MORE OF A HUNTER FACING UM, WEB PAGE, AND NOW IT'S A MORE OF A ANYBODY CAN GO THERE FOR INTIMATE INFORMATION WOULD AND THAT WAS THE THEM AND THAT'S HELPFUL. AND I THINK IT WAS NEAT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE THAT SOME OF THESE STUDENTS CAME IN NOT HAVING ANY IDEA WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT, BUT THEY HAD AN IMPRESSION OF WHY WE DID IT AND WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND THEY LEFT WITH A VERY DIFFERENT IMPRESSION. IF YOU READ THE ARTICLES, UM, IT IT WAS CHANGING TO THEM. AND NOW THAT WAS KIND OF NEAT, AND THEY WERE ALL I THINK WHEN THEY LEFT HOLLAND SUPPORT, RIGHT. THEY CAME IN WITH AN OPEN MIND, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT. SO THAT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING. ALRIGHT SO NOW JUST A COUPLE OF CHARTS THAT ARE KIND OF MIND BLOWING AND NUMBING AT LEAST MAYBE, UM TOWNSHIP AND THIS ONE THE TOWNSHIP WIDE HARVESTS AND THIS IS THE PERCENT HARVEST AS WELL AS THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER. TOWNSHIP WITH THIS INCLUDES STATE COUNTY TOWNSHIP AND PRIVATE LANDS. SO THIS CHART IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, YOU CAN SEE THE BLUE BAR REPRESENTS TOWNSHIP WIDE AND THEN OUR PROGRAM IS REPRESENTED IN THE ORANGE THINGS SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT PERCENT ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF HOW WE'RE DOING. IN RELATION TO TOWNSHIP WIDE. IF YOU FOLLOW THE LINE CHART, YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT FOLLOWS UP TO ABOUT 60% OR 57. AND THAT'S KIND OF AN IMPORTANT NUMBER OF TALK ABOUT IN A FEW SLIDES AS WELL AS THE DIFFERENCE JUST SOMEONE HUNTING AND THEIR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY CAN HUNT ON THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY. BUT THERE'S A LOT OF I GUESS WHEN IT COMES TO MUNICIPAL PROPERTY WE HAVE ABOUT 8% OF THE PROPERTY. UM AND THEN THE REST OF THE PROPERTY WOULD FALL UNDER THAT TOWNSHIP WIDE WHETHER THEY CHOOSE DOT THERE OR NOT, SO OKAY. FOR EIGHT. IF MAYBE I'LL JUST SAY IT NOW, SO I DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT AGAIN. BUT 8% OF THE LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP IS WHAT WE HAD, AND WE ACCOUNT FOR 57% OF THE DEER IN THE TOWNSHIP, UM, TAKEN, SO THAT'S THAT'S A BIG NUMBER. IF YOU REALLY STOP AND THINK ABOUT THAT, UH. WHERE WAS I CAN'T BLAME LAUREN ON THAT ONE. NO. BEING A HEAVY THUMBED EITHER. UM ALRIGHT, SO THAT WAS THE TOWNSHIP OVER WIDE THIS. THIS IS THE PERCENTAGE ANTLERED VERSUS ANTLERLESS, AND THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND TOWNSHIP WIDE. THERE'S NOT AS BIG OF A FOCUS ON ANTLER VERSUS ANTLERLESS RIGHT, SO THERE'S NOT A AS BIG OF A COMMITMENT TO MANAGING IT AS THERE IS IN OUR PROGRAM, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY HAVE ABOUT SLIGHTLY OVER 20% ANTLER HARVEST, AND THEN THE REST IS ANTLERLESS VERSUS OURS, WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND 10% ANTLERED. AND THEN THE REST IS OVER. 80 LIKE I MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES 89% ANTLERLESS, WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND IT BENEFITS THE TOWN AND REDUCING THE DEER HERB SIGNIFICANTLY AND YOU CAN SEE THIS. THAT OVER THE YEARS, I THINK THE PROGRAM WAS MORE FACE. 
          I WAS MORE FOCUSED ON DEER AND HOLD AS A WHOLE. AND WE'VE REALLY CHANGED THAT IN THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS TO FOCUS ON THE HARVESTING OF ANTLER WAS THERE AND IT'S BEEN EFFECTIVE. 
          UM THIS IS JUST A STRAIGHT NUMBER FOR US. I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES. YOU CAN SEE THE TREND LINE IN THERE. HOW? HOW THE HARVEST HAS GONE UP OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. AND THE TREND CONTINUES TO GO UP IN SPITE OF BEING DOWN FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BUT AGAIN, THAT WAS THE COVID YEAR WHEN EVERYBODY WAS OUT IN THE WOODS SPENDING A LOT OF TIME. UM THIS IS A MAP OF WHERE THE DEER COLLISIONS HAPPEN MOST FREQUENTLY. UM THIS IS DATA TAKEN FROM 2005 TO 2022. AND ON THIS MAP, YOU CAN SEE THE LOCATIONS OF SOME OF THE PROPERTIES OR ALL OF THE PROPERTIES THAT WE HUNT, UM IN 
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THE PURPLE, SO THE PROPERTIES OUTLINED BY PURPLE YOU CAN SEE THAT. I DON'T KNOW THAT IT SHOWS A BIG DIFFERENCE BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF AREA IN THAT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE TO US. AROUND THOSE, SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, UM THIS IS HISTORICALLY ALMOST THE SAME YEAR AFTER YEAR, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT'S NOT A LOT OF THE HOTSPOTS JUST CORRESPOND TO OUR ROADWAYS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC VOLUME ANYWAY, LIKE 206 AND 601, AND SOME OF THE HOT SPOTS THAT YOU'LL SEE, PARTICULARLY ON 601 DUTCH TOWN, HARLINGEN ROAD AND NEAR, UM EAST MOUNTAIN ROAD ARE MORE SO INDICATED IN THOSE AREAS BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO CORRESPOND TRAFFIC COLLISION TOO, SO THEY USED THE CLOSEST INTERSECTION. OKAY SO IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE OH, THAT'S A BAD INTERSECTION, BUT REALLY, IT'S BEING PULLED FROM KIND OF THE WHOLE AREA AROUND THEM. THAT MAKES SENSE OR A GET IT SO THIS IS MAP. RECOMMEND ANY CHANGES LIKE LIKE WELL, WE HAVE, LIKE, LOOK AT THE MASS MORE HUNTING. UM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO WITH NOT ONLY THIS MAP, BUT ALSO THE MAP OF, UM THE 2021 SURVEYS. WE'VE TRIED TO CONCENTRATE ON THE AREAS OF TOWN. WE HAVE THESE PROPERTIES SO WE CONTINUE TO HUNT THESE, BUT WE'VE TRIED TO ADD PROPERTIES ON THE SIDE OF TOWN WHERE WE CAN UM, WHERE THE DEER DENSITY IS HIGHEST AND I'LL SHOW YOU GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. BUT, UM YOU'LL SEE. I THINK A LITTLE BIT BETTER WITH THE I HAVE A COUPLE OF SLIDES WHERE THEIR THEIR DEER DENSITY IS KIND OF ILLUMINATED. WE CALL THE LIKE THE EAST SIDE OF TWO. OH, SIX. IS BASICALLY THE EAST SIDE AND THEN THE OTHER SIDE IS DIVIDED, DIVIDED INTO THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST SECTOR IN THE IN THE STUDY, AND YOU'LL SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN DENSITY BETWEEN ALL THREE I PUSHED AT THAT TIME I KNOW IT. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS, UM IS ANOTHER WAY OF REPRESENTING THAT. YOU CAN SEE THAT AS OUR HARVEST IN WHICH IS INDICATED BY THE ORANGE LINE HAS GONE UP. THE AUTOMOBILE INCIDENTS ARE REPORTED AUTOMOBILE INCIDENTS HAVE GONE DOWN OR THEY KIND OF STABILIZED . THEY'VE GONE DOWN. THEY'VE STARTED TO GO DOWN AND STABILIZE . WHEN WE TALKED TO DP ABOUT THIS. IT WASN'T REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS STAT. BUT ACCORDING TO THEM BECAUSE IT'S ONLY SLIGHTLY INCREASING OR STAYING RELATIVELY CONSTANT OVER TIME, UM THEY CONSIDERED IT A GOOD INDICATOR THAT WE HAVE A SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. BECAUSE IT'S NOT INCREASING RIGHT? THEY THINK THAT MORE VEHICLES ARE GOING TO BE ON THE ROAD AS TIME HAS PROGRESSED. UM PARTICULARLY AFTER 2020. YOU WOULD THINK, UM, THERE WAS A GAP THERE. WE THOUGHT THAT YEAR WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DOWN HERE, BUT IT HAS CONTINUED TO DROP, WHICH IS GOOD. THEY WOULD EXPECT TO SEE LARGE INCREASE IN ACCIDENTS IF WE WEREN'T DOING OUR JOB. THAT'S STRAIGHT FROM DP, WHICH MADE ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT THIS, UM, LIME DISEASE. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE THIS DROP. TWO DEER MANAGEMENT, BUT IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE THERE'S SOME KIND OF TREND GOING ON, UM AS THE DEER MANAGEMENT NUMBERS GO HIGHER, THE LAND DISEASE DROPS. BUT I'M NOT MEANT TO MOLOCH GIST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO I CAN'T REALLY SAY OR SPEAK TO THAT. NUMBER MY GOD. ALRIGHT, SO THIS IS SOMETHING MORE FOR THE NEW PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND IN 1972 TO 2018 MONTGOMERY LOST 64% OF ITS AGRICULTURAL LAND. FOR THE SAME PERIOD. MONTGOMERY LOST 22.5% OF THE FOREST HAS LENT FORESTED LAND. URBAN LAND, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL HAS INCREASED BY 554. UM WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS TO US IS THAT THERE'S LESS OPPORTUNITY TO HUNT AND UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR DEAR TO LIVE ON EDGE COMMUNITY COMMUNITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WHERE THEY THROW TO SAY THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE DEER DENSITY SURVEY RESULTS THAT I THINK PEOPLE'S PERCEPTION IS ALL THE DEER LIVING UP IN THE SAUERLAND MOUNTAINS IN THE FOREST, BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY TRUE. THEY'RE LIVING IN THE SUBDIVISIONS. THEY'RE EATING YOUR GARDENS. THEY'RE EATING YOUR TREES, WHICH MANY OF YOU PROBABLY ALREADY GUESSED TO THAT RIGHT? THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE SORT OF HIDING OUT BECAUSE THERE ISN'T AN ABILITY TO REACH THEM WITH HUNTING AND THEY KNOW THAT AND THEY'RE SAFE THERE AND THEY'RE GETTING NICE AND HEALTHY AND FAT ON ALL OF YOUR DELICIOUS PLANTS. YEP, CORRECT. RIGHT? MAYBE I SHOULD GIVE THIS THING TO YOU. ALL RIGHT? UM SO I MENTIONED THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES AND IT'S THIS TO ME IS THE BIGGEST SUCCESS OF OUR PROGRAM, UM, WITH THE ONLY WITH ACCESS TO ONLY 8% OF THE LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP. OUR PROGRAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 57% OF THE OVERALL TOWNSHIP HARVEST. AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT THAT THAT WAS JUST IN 2022. THAT AVERAGE IN THE PAST NINE YEARS HAS BEEN 42% AND OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, IT'S 47. SO WE'RE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION HERE. UM WE REALLY ARE TAKING A TINY LITTLE LITTLE BIT OF LAND AND USING IT AS WELL AS WE CAN. I THINK WHICH IS GREAT, AND THAT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE GUYS IN THE PROGRAM. UM ANOTHER BENEFIT THAT NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IS WE HAVE 
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THE OPPORTUNITY TO DONATE, DEAR UM AND THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION CALLED HUNTERS HELPING THE HUNGRY. IT'S A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT BEGAN IN 1997 AND HAS DONATED OVER TWO MILLION MEALS SINCE THE INCEPTION. UM SO JUST IN COMPARISON, I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST. BUT STATEWIDE AND LAST YEAR, 984 DEER WERE DONATED, WHICH RESULTED IN ABOUT 30. £30,000 OF VENISON, WHICH IS ABOUT 124,000 SERVINGS TO FEED PEOPLE THAT ARE FOOD INSECURE, WHICH IS GREAT. 
          UM A DEER FROM OUR PROGRAM LAST YEAR WERE DONATED TO THAT, AND THAT'S ROUGHLY 8% OF THE DONATION STATEWIDE. AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, AND IN PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S THAT'S A PRETTY IMPRESSIVE STATISTIC, TOO. SO THAT'S THAT'S A GREAT BENEFIT OF THIS. UM. AGAIN MORE FOR THE NEW MEMBERS. BUT EVERY YEAR OFTEN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT HUNTING IN THE SAFETY ASPECTS OF HUNTING. UM BUT WE HAVE A ANNUAL SAFETY ORIENTATION. EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE PROGRAM IS REQUIRED TO COME. WE HAVE AN N J. D P COME AND GIVE A SAFETY TALK ABOUT SAFELY DISCHARGING FIREARMS IN MOST OF OUR PROPERTIES ARE BULK PROPERTIES. ARCHERY PROPERTIES, UH, SILVIO AND THE POLICE. COME. ADD SOME SOME CONTEXT OF WHAT THEY EXPECT , UM, WILDLIFE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF ARE THERE LAUREN DONNA COMES UH, HOPEFULLY DONNA COMES BACK FOR THAT. UM BUT WE HAVE WE HAVE LIKE A. A BRIEF CONVERSATION. I DO GO OVER THIS PRESENTATION, THE PART APPROPRIATE FOR THEM TO SEE. UM AND WE TALK ABOUT THINGS. WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE SURVEYS LAST YEAR WHY PEOPLE WERE REMOVED FROM THE PROGRAM BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL BE REMOVED FOR NOT DOING CERTAIN THINGS THE RIGHT WAY AND WHAT WE EXPECT MOVING FORWARD, SO I THINK THE MESSAGE IS OUT THERE. UM THEN IT GETS IT IS DEFINITELY HAMMERED HOME IN THE SAFETY WARRANT ATIONS SO WE TO DATE HAVE HAD NO INJURIES OR INCIDENTS, SO THAT'S GREAT. UM EACH OTHER ALSO HAS TO PROVIDE A PROOF OF INSURANCE SO EACH ALL OF US HAVE TO GIVE LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS SHOW THAT WE HAVE PROOF OF THE MILLION DOLLAR POLICY. THERE'S ALSO A BACKGROUND CHECK OF FISH AND GAME VIOLATIONS AS WELL AS JUST A GENERAL BACKGROUND CHECK. SO IF ANYBODY COULD BEEN CAUGHT DOING ANYTHING WRONG AND THIS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. WHEN WE GET NEW PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT ASKED, ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE, OR IF PEOPLE GOT IN TROUBLE FOR SOMETHING THEY DID IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THEY ARE REMOVED, SO WE DO KIND OF DO CHECKS AND BALANCES WITH THAT. UM OKAY, HERE'S THE DEAL. TRANSITION THEIR GREEN. QUICK QUESTION. UM WAS SUCH A NEED. ARE THERE ANY PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE DOING TO, UM INTRODUCE HUNTING TOO. MEMBERS OF THE POPULATION OR OR DO WE SIT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE HUNTING ALL THE TIME FOR THE LAST 10 TIMES? UNFORTUNATELY IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE I LIKE. I DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT. BUT WE ARE KIND OF A DYING BREED. UM AND WE DO HAVE SOME ABUSE IN THE IN THE PROGRAM. THIS PAST YEAR ONE. LITTLE GIRL IN PARTICULAR. I REMEMBER SEEING THE EMAIL FROM HER FATHER ABOUT HOW EXCITED SHE WAS. TO HARVEST OUR FIRST DEER AND LIKE A LOT OF I MEAN, YOU YOU SAW IT WAS GREAT . I MEAN, IT WAS IT WAS COOL. IT WAS REALLY COOL. SO WE HAVE A FEW PARTICIPATING EVERY YEAR. WE HAVE A COUPLE. WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BRING THEIR KIDS AS LONG AS THEY ARE LEGALLY LICENSED AND OVER THINK IT'S 16 , RIGHT? 16 15 OR 16 IS ALSO I MEAN, I'M MAYBE A LITTLE BIT PERSONAL, BUT NOT EVERYONE WAS RAISED IN AN AREA WHERE I GREW UP IN UNION COUNTY LIKE MAYBE DIFFERENT TYPES OF VERY DIFFERENT. DYNAMIC ANYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING IS ESPECIALLY AS NEW PEOPLE MOVE IN DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS. PEOPLE ARE IMMIGRANTS IN THIS AREA THAT YOU HAVE IDEAS. WE'LL TAKE THEM BECAUSE WE I MEAN, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS NATIONWIDE IS THE AGE OF HUNTING. THE AGING OF THE HUNTERS AND IT'S A PROBLEM. UM THERE ARE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS THAT THE STATE OFFERS, WHICH WOULD ALLOW SOMEONE TO COME OUT AND HUNT WITHOUT A LICENSE, BUT UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SOMEONE WHO'S THE MENTOR THAT COULD BE LIKE A LICENSED UNDER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE DON'T DO THAT IN THE PROGRAM. WE WANT EVERYBODY TO BE LICENSED SO WE CAN CHECK ON THERE. IS THERE A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF, UM ANIMALS THAT THEY CAN HARVEST. UM IN THIS ZONE. NOT REALLY. THERE'S A THERE'S A LIMIT ON BUCKS ON ANTLER DEER, BUT ON ANTLER LIST, IT'S PRETTY MUCH UNLIMITED. THAT WILL CHANGE IF YOU KNOW THE STATE LOOKS AT THIS AREA AND SAYS, OH, YOU GUYS NOT MHM. THE POPULATION IS SO SPARSE, THEY MANAGE THEIR QUOTAS BASED ON THE POPULATION, SO AND THAT'S AGAIN WE REPORT EVERY DEER THAT WE GET 
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. EVERY HUNTER IN THE STATE HAS TO REPORT IT TO THE STATES, SO THEY KNOW EXACTLY LIKE ALL THESE NUMBERS. I DIDN'T JUST PULL THEM OUT OF THE AIR. THEY CAME FROM THE STATE. SO THEY DO MONITOR AND THEY CHANGED THEIR HARVEST GOALS AND THINGS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. BUT THIS AREA I CAN'T SEE IT EVER CHANGING AT THIS POINT, IT'S PRETTY MUCH UNLIMITED. AT THIS MOMENT, HMM? I THINK. THIS SURVEY MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IF WE DID IT TODAY. THE 2021 WHEN WE DID IT, AS I MENTIONED THINGS WERE FINE. BUT IN THE FALL OF 2021 IS WHEN THE DISEASE HIT AND THIS IS TOWNSHIP WIDE. AND LIKE WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE. I BELIEVE THIS IS THE EAST PORTION OF TOWN WHERE IT'S LARGELY DEVELOPED. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF OPEN SPACE IN THE EAST PORTION OF TOWN AND OVER THERE, THE POPULATION IS STILL 88 DEER PER SQUARE MODEL. ALRIGHT. SO THAT'S AN AREA. LIKE I SAID, WE'VE FOCUSED ON, UM IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GET IN ONE OF THESE POCKETS TOWARDS WE'LL TRY AND DO THAT, BUT IT'S AGAIN. IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHO OWNS THE LAND, AND IT'S USUALLY RIGHT NOW WE'RE KIND OF LIMITED TO MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES. UM OKAY? ALL RIGHT. THIS IS THE NORTHWEST SECTION OF TOWN. AND I THINK, UM, TO LAWRENCE POINT LIKE EVERYBODY THINKS OF THIS OUR LENS AND THERE'S A TON OF EUROPE THERE, AND IT'S A BIG PROBLEM WHERE THEY FOUND ONLY 51 DEER PER SQUARE MILE IN THAT, AS OPPOSED TO THE EAST SIDE, RIGHT. AND THEN START IN THE SOUTHWEST. 
          OH, UM. WHICH ONE DID THAT GO TO? OKAY, SOUTHWEST. WE WENT TO 73. BUT WHEN YOU AVERAGE IT ALL OUT, IT COMES OUT TO 68, WHICH IS AGAIN LOWER THAN IT WAS. I GUESS 20 YEARS AGO IS ACTUALLY THE LOWEST DENSITY OF THE THREE REGIONS THAT WE KIND OF SURVEYED USED THE DRONE SURVEY. THEY HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT KIND OF TAKE OFF POINTS, SO IT WAS VERY HYPER LOCAL, AND THEN THEY COMPILED ALL THAT DATA INTO THE LARGER DATA SET. YEAH THERE'S NOT MUCH GROWING, I GUESS ON THE SAUERLAND AND WE PEOPLE ARE PLANTING NICE PLANTS FOR THEM TO EAT. I LOSE MY FLOWERS EVERY YEAR, SO I'M KIND OF SAD. I LIVE IN THE CENTRAL AND BELIEVE ME, THEY EVERYTHING YOU'RE JUST EAT. 
          I HAVE NOT FOUND ANYTHING THAT THEY WON'T EAT. EVEN THE DEER THEY SAY, OH, DEAR RESISTANT, HAS NOT WORKED FOR ME. ANY ANYWAY. THERE'S THIS SURVEY IS OUT THERE. I THINK IT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT RESULT. IF WE DID IT TODAY, AS OPPOSED TO WHEN WE DID IT. I THINK IT WOULD BE LOWER. 
          BUT THAT IS IN PART DUE TO THE DISEASE. BUT ALSO IN THE TOWN. WE'VE REALLY KINDA WE'VE DONE REALLY WELL IN THE LAST COUPLE OF A COUPLE OF THREE YEARS. UM JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW THE PROGRAMS RECEIVED BY OTHER TOWNSHIPS AROUND HERE WERE REALLY A MODEL PROGRAM. IT'S BEEN ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING PROGRAMS. WE DO NUMBERS WISE, WE DO REALLY WELL. COMPARATIVELY I ALSO PARTICIPATE IN HOPEWELL DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. UM WE MAKE. IT'S ALMOST EMBARRASSING TO GO TO THE AIR AND LISTEN TO THEIR PRESENTATIONS COMPARED TO WHAT WE DO THEY GOT, I THINK 70 DEAR THIS YEAR. UM AND THEY DO HAVE A REALLY HIGH DENSITY DEAR DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME. BUT UM, WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD PROGRAM. UM, WELL RESPECTED BY N J D P. WE HAVE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THEM. WE'VE HAD THEM DOWN TO TALK TO THE COMMITTEE. THEY'VE MADE RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WE'VE ADOPTED IN OUR PROGRAM. UM IT'S A COST VERY COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO MANAGE THE HERD. YOU ACTUALLY MAKE MONEY. IT COSTS EVERYBODY $100 TO BE IN THE PROGRAM FOR PERMIT, WHICH IS GREAT. UM IF YOU WERE IN A PRIVATE HUNTING CLUB, IT'S GOING TO COST YOU CLOSE TO $1000 A YEAR, SO IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. UM WE CONTINUOUSLY ARE ANALYZING THE PERMIT NUMBERS IN WAYS THAT WE CAN IMPROVE THINGS TO MAKE IT A BETTER PROCESS DONATION. UM TO TRY AND INFLUENCE THE RATES AND GET MORE PEOPLE. THE HARVEST THOSE WE DO THAT QUITE A BIT. WE THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME, AND WE'RE TRYING TO ENACT SLIGHTLY CHANGES TO THINGS EVERY YEAR TO TRY AND DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER. UM AND EVEN THOUGH LIKE WE'RE CONSIDERED A PRETTY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM BY DDP. THEY LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THIS PROGRAM IN PARTICULAR AND MODEL. OTHER I THINK I KNOW I'VE HAD CALLS FROM OTHER PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE DO THINGS. UM THERE'S STILL ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. SO I DON'T THINK WE'RE RESTING ON OUR LAURELS. I DON'T THINK WE'RE DOING ANYTHING. THAT IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. I THINK WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. UM, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS DO MORE WITH MORE RESOURCES. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RESOURCES, I THINK IN THIS PARTICULAR SETTING, WE'RE TALKING MORE ABOUT AREAS TO HUNT RIGHT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE LIMITED SOME OF THE SOME OF THE PERMITS ON PROPERTIES AND THAT WILL BE PART OF THE RESOLUTION TO FOLLOW. AND WHAT THAT DOES IS IT DECREASES THE PRESSURE ON THE DEER SO THAT DEER DON'T NECESSARILY FEEL PRESSURE AND MOVED TO ANOTHER 
          [01:20:03]
LOCATION. SO WE THINK IT'S SOME OF THOSE INSTANCES WILL BE ABLE TO INCREASE HARVEST ON THOSE PROPERTIES. UM THAT MUST BE IT. QUESTIONS. SORRY FOR TAKING UP SO MUCH TIME. YOU'RE GONNA DO THE CORN AGAIN THIS YEAR. OKAY? ABSOLUTELY. THAT'S BEEN LARGE DIDN'T REALLY DWELL ON IT OR TALK ABOUT TOO MUCH ABOUT IT. BUT, UM OUR DONATION LEVELS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. WE'VE INCENTIVIZED HARVESTING THOSE. SO WHEN WE PUT THOSE IN THE COOLER, WE HAVE A COOLER IN THE TOWN WHERE WE CAN DROP OUR DEAR OFF. WE ALSO HAVE A LOCATION FOR US TO GET CORN. AND IF YOU BRING AN ADULT DOUGH INTO TO DONATE THE DOUGH, TOO. HUNTERS HELPING THE HUNGARY WE SUBSIDIZE THAT WITH TWO BAGS OF CORN, WHICH THERE'S LIKE 20 BUCKS. HMM AGAIN , ALL THAT SELF FUNDED BY WHAT WE DO WE STILL WE'RE STILL REALLY I DON'T KNOW. WE'VE NEVER LOOKED FINANCIALLY AT IT, BUT I KNOW WE MAKE ABOUT 14. 20 14,000 YEARS. 140 PERMITS, I THINK. YEAH WELL, IT'S A GREAT IT'S A GREAT UM IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM AND I KNOW WHEN I FIRST CAME ON THE COMMITTEE, WE WERE, UM THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT DOING CULLING AND STUFF LIKE THAT. BRINGING IN A PRIVATE COMPANY TO DO THAT. SO WE, UM THERE WERE COMPANIES THAT WILL COME IN AND UM DO CALLINGS AND KIND OF MANAGE THE DEER IN THEIR WAY. SO WE, UM IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN DOING IT. WE LOOKED AT IT WAS, I THINK A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THEM TO COME IN AND DO IT. SO WE DID, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM SAFE PROGRAM, AND IT'S UM AND ALSO SOME OF THE TACTICS THAT THEY USED WERE A BIT INHUMANE. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE SO COMPLETELY. YES. 
          SO LIKE, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. I'M VERY HAPPY TO BE THE LIAISON TO IT, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE MAYBE THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE. WE CAN SWITCH IT UP A BIT BECAUSE I'VE LEARNED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT ABOUT IT, AND I'M SURE WHEN I FIRST JOINED, REMEMBER YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE, OH, CAUSE I SAID I'M A VEGETARIAN. HE SAID, MAN, WE GOT A PROBLEM HERE IN ONE OF THESE TOWNSHIP MEETINGS BEFORE YOU WERE MAYOR. AND YOU SAID YOU WERE A VEGETARIAN AND OH, BOY, I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THEIR MANAGEMENT IN A MINUTE, AND I'M GONNA GET IT, BUT BUT IT'S A IT'S BEEN A GREAT PARTNERSHIP, AND WE REALLY I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ANY OTHER QUESTION ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL? GREAT THANKS, JAMIE. THANKS FOR ALL THE HUNTERS IN THE PROGRAM AS WELL. AND DONNA. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE ON THE. YES I'VE HEARD OF THAT IN. 
          DONNA SAID SHE'D COME BACK FOR THE ONE OF THE DAYS. AH! MHM. OKAY SO WE MOVE ON. SO 
          [12. RESOLUTION #23-4-117 - DESIGNATING SPECIFIC TRACTS OF MUNICIPALLY-OWNED PARKS AND OPEN SPACES TO BE INCLUDED IN MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP’S DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM PURSUANT TO CHAPTER IX, SECTION 9 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY (1984) FOR THE HUNTING SEASON BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 2023 AND ENDING IN FEBRUARY 2024]
RESOLUTION 23 DASH 4-117 DESIGNATING SPECIFIC TRACKS OF MUNICIPALLY OWNED PARKS AND OPEN SPACE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP DEER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. THIS IS A WHOLE MISSING. I'M SURE EVERYONE HAS GONE THROUGH IT. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. DONNA AND LAUREN PUTTING UM ALL OF THIS DOWN AND MOVING THINGS AROUND THIS YEAR. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE? NO THAT DOOR. I HAVE A MOTION TO ADD UP. MOVED. 
          SECOND ROLL CALL, PLEASE. AH YES , PERSON. TODD YES, PERSON. BARICAN YES THING? YES KEENAN? YES? AH THE NEXT ITEM ARE THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES. SO LET'S SEE IF WE GET THIS RIGHT THIS 
          [13. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
TIME. WE HAD A LOT OF CHANGES. OKAY SO, UM, THE FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO DO IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE REGULAR SESSION MINUTES FOR APRIL. 6TH DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? 2ND 2ND, OKAY. AND THEN IF NO FOLLOWING IF THERE ARE NO CORRECTIONS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SOME EXECUTIVE SESSION MINUTES SETTING IN FOR 2021. AND THEY ARE FOR FEBRUARY 4TH MARCH 4TH AND 18TH, THE 15TH MAY 6TH AND 20TH, JUNE 3RD AND 17TH JULY 1ST AUGUST 8TH AND 19TH OCTOBER 1ST AND 21ST. OOPS! SORRY. OCTOBER 7TH AND 21ST, NOVEMBER 4TH DECEMBER 2ND AND 16TH. OKAY DO I HAVE A MOTION TO PROVE? CAN I JUST GET A CLARIFYING QUESTION? UM MM HMM. MADE FOR WENDY APPROVAL OF THESE MYTHS. UH IT'S ONLY TWO OF US THAT WERE HERE IN 2021. SO THANKS TO DIANA. WE WENT BACK AND CONFIRMED WITH THE WITH ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, AND IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT PRESENT AT THE MEETING. YOU'RE STILL ABLE TO MAKE COMMENTS AND APPROVED MINUTES YOU DID NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? MOVED A 2ND 2ND. OKAY 
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WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ALL THE PAPER ALL IN FAVOR. LET'S DO IT FOR YOU ON THIS SERVICE. I DON'T 
          [14. PAYMENT OF BILLS – Posted]
KNOW. IT DOESN'T SAY SO. ALL IN FAVOR. PAYMENT OF BILLS POSTED THE NEXT ITEM. YES, MAYOR. THE TOP THREE BILLS ON THIS BILL LIST OR ON THE FIRST PAGE OR HEALTH INSURANCE FUND. UM FOR 169,184 AGAIN IN THE HEALTH INSURANCE FUND, NOT TO STATE HEALTH BENEFITS, WHICH HAS SHOWED US SOME GREAT SAVINGS THIS YEAR ON PAGE TWO. BOARD OF EDUCATION, APRIL'S TAXES 7,113,000. AND THIS GOES BACK TO AGAIN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES, 70% OF THAT EVEN THOUGH WE COLLECT ALL OF IT. 70% OF WHAT WE COLLECT GOES TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEN ON PAGE 10. REPEATS TOWN HALL. OPEN SPACE TO VESTED LAND SERVICES FOR THE PROPERTY THAT WAS ACQUIRED FOR $159,493 AND 44 CENTS. ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE. OKAY WITH THAT DRIVE MOTION TO PROOF. MOVE. 2ND 2ND, PLEASE. ANY PERSON, TODD ANY PERSON. BARICAN YES, DEPUTY MAYOR SING. YES. KEENAN? YES? KEEP IS THERE ANY COMMITTEE CORRESPONDENCE, DONNA? NOPE OKAY, NEW AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS. NONE SO FAR, UH, ADMINISTRATORS REPORTING TURN 
          [ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT]
OVER TO YOU. UM I HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE ZION WARTS VILLE BRIDGE OVER ROCK. BROOKE THE COUNTY IS MOBILIZING MAY 1ST AND CONSTRUCTION WILL START MAY 18TH SORRY. MAY 8TH. SO THIS IS THE BRIDGE THAT HAS BEEN OUT FOR QUITE SOME TIME THEY NEEDED AFTER IDA. THEY NEEDED TO, UM, GET PERMITS OUT FOR THE ADDITIONAL WORK THEY NEEDED TO DO. AND SO THEY ARE, UM, SEASON IS BACK AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE STARTING MAY 8TH MAY 8TH. OKAY, GREAT. THANKS. MM THE ORCHARD ROAD WORK, WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY BE THE PAVING IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING, BUT ALSO THE SIDEWALK, THE IMPORTANT SIDEWALK CONNECTION THAT HAS STARTED UM, THAT WORK THAT YOU SEE RIGHT NOW IS JUST PREP WORK. UM AND SOME SITE WORK, SO YOU'LL SEE IT IN EARNEST IN THE COMING, YOU KNOW, MONTH, WEEKS AND MONTHS, BUT THAT HAS WORK HAS BEGUN. IF YOU'VE SEEN SOME CONES AND THINGS OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, UM, THE THAL PROPERTY. THIS IS THE BACON AUTO PARTS STORE ON 5 18. THERE WAS A BIT OF A HALT ON THEIR DEMOLITION PERMIT THEIR ENGINEER NEEDED TO REVIEW SOMETHING AND THAT HAS ALL BEEN WORKED OUT WITH OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND THE PROPERTY OWNER'S ENGINEER, AND THEY'RE BACK BEGINNING THE DISCONNECTION OF ALL THE UTILITIES, WHICH IS THE FIRST PHASE. PRIOR TO THE BUILDING COMING DOWN SO YOU WILL START TO SEE SOME ACTION ON THAT PROPERTY AS WELL AND FOR THE ABANDONED TEXACO PROPERLY ON THE CORNER OF 5, 18 AND TWO OH, SIX. 
          WE'RE IN COMMUNICATION, WEEKLY COMMUNICATION WITH THAT PROPERTY OWNER AND THEY ARE RECEIVING A SECOND QUOTE FOR DEMOLITION AND INTEND TO MOVE FORWARD ON DEMOLITION OF THAT BUILDING AS WELL. SO I CAN KEEP YOU UPDATED AS THINGS PROGRESS. UM WE'RE ALSO A ON WORKING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER AT 14 CAMP MEETING ROAD. UM WE HAVE UNFORTUNATELY HAD TO ISSUE A SUMMONS THROUGH OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT SO THAT WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE COURT SYSTEM TO GET THE PROPERTY OWNER TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONDITIONS OF THAT VACANT PROPERTY. UM AND SOME OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE ALSO WORKING WITH THAT PROPERTY OWNER . THERE'S AN UNPAID TAXES ISSUE. 
          UM AND A FEW OTHER THINGS, SO BUT BUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS THE KIND OF THE FIRST PHASE WHERE THEY WERE WORKING, HOPING THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER WOULD CLEAN UP THE PROPERTY ON THEIR OWN, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT IT'S HEADED TO COURT FOR THAT. THANK YOU. UM AND ON SOMETHING THAT COMMITTEE PERSON BARICAN HAD DISCUSSED ABOUT OUR STAGE TWO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT PROJECT AND I BANK THAT WE DID TONIGHT, ONE OF THOSE OUTSIDE PIECES OF FUNDING WAS ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA REGARDING THE HAVEN D AND THEY HAVE PAID THEIR SEWER CONNECTION FEE FOR $1.7 MILLION. SO THAT DOES HELP OFFSET THAT, UM, THAT UPGRADE OF THAT SEWER TREATMENT PLANT AND THE FLOOD WALL SO GREAT NEWS. THAT'S IT. GREAT. THANK YOU. COMMITTEE REPORTS. UM 
          [COMMITTEE REPORTS]
I'LL START DOWN AT THE END SO SHADE TREE. COMMITTEE THEY HAVE THE ARBOR DAY AT VILLAGE FPS SCHOOL 9 30 TOMORROW, UM. IN THE CAFETERIA. THEY ALSO HAVE A TREE PLANTING. WILLOW OAK, UM, WILLOW 
          [01:30:07]
OAK AT THE ARBOR. TERM AND 11 30. BIRTHDAY. IT IS ON SUNDAY 11 TO 2 AND THEN OVER HERE IN A MUNICIPAL COMPLEX. THE D. C. WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE FUN FEST COMING UP. FINALLY IT'S AGAIN BE ON SUNDAY, APRIL 30TH. FROM 23 SKILLMAN PARK. FINALLY MONTGOMERY ARTS COUNCIL IS DOING A SPRING CRAFT FAIR ON MAY 21ST. FROM 10 TO 2. LOCATION WILL BE PROVIDED AT NEXT MEETING. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. ANY PERSONAL, UM. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY OUT THERE. I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE INCLUSION EQUITY COMMITTEE FIRST, I'D LIKE TO WISH HE'D MUBARAK TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE. I CERTAINLY HOPE I PRONOUNCED THAT CORRECTLY. UM AND TO THANK ASSEMBLYWOMAN SIDE OF JAFFA FOR HOSTING A COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF THE LANTERN LIGHTING THIS EVENING AT THE AUTO KAUFFMAN CENTER. AH THE INCLUSION EQUITY COMMITTEE HAD ITS REGULAR MEETING ON APRIL 5TH . UM WE WILL BE BETWEEN THE TOWNSHIP AND THE COMMITTEE PARTNERING WITH THE STOUTS BERG SAUERLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN THEIR JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION, WHICH I BELIEVE WILL BE ON JUNE 17TH MORE INFORMATION TO COME, AND THE COMMITTEE IS CONTINUING TO WORK ON SPECIAL PROJECTS, INCLUDING INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITY OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY. AND THE COMMITTEE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOVERNOR MURPHY'S RECENT EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING NEW JERSEY AS A SAFE HAVEN FOR GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE AND ALSO LIKE TO REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE LANDMARK COMMISSION'S CURRENT ACTIVITIES . UM THE LANDMARK COMMISSION WILL BE SPONSORING ENTERTAINMENT AT THE FUN FEST ON APRIL 30TH. AS WELL AS A FAMILY FRIENDLY LIVE ANIMAL SHOW. UM AND A MARIACHI BAND IS THE ENTERTAINMENT TWO COMMISSION MEMBERS ARE NOW TAKING THEIR FOURTH COURSE. UM AT THE RUTGERS MID ATLANTIC REGIONAL CENTER FOR HUMANITY'S HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM. THE COURSES ENTITLED PRESERVATION CONTEXT, THE SUBURBS, SO IT'S A FIVE WEDNESDAY COURSE. UM WE APPLAUD THEIR DEDICATION, THEIR COMMITTEE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR PARTICIPATED IN THE INITIAL LISTENING AND INFORMATIONAL ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS FOR THE COUNTY'S PLANS ON CELEBRATING THE US SEMI SEMIS. QUESTION. TENIA WILL 250TH. DIDN'T I JUST SAY THAT BLEEDING AFTER 2026. AH THE ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES FOR MAY BEING NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH WILL CONTINUE THE COMMISSION CHAIR RICKY MASSON IS GOING TO ATTEND THE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT ON MAY 5TH AND HE HAD COMMISSION MEMBER LIZ POLICE WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE MAPPING PROGRAM. UH, ON MAY 18TH THE COMMITTEE'S REGULAR MEETING WAS ON LAST MEETING WAS ON MARCH 22ND AND IT'S NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE ON APRIL 26TH. THANK YOU. OKAY? CAN YOU PUT THEM BACK IN THE OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE MET LAST WEEK WHERE WE DID THREE MAIN THINGS AND UPDATE ON RECENT ACQUISITION. WE ALSO ALIGN ON LOCATION FOR TRAILS DAY. SO UM, TRYING TO GET EXACTLY WHAT WHAT'S THE TRILLS THAT SENSORY BEHIND US? THE LINK THE LINK THE ORCHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE BACK TOWARDS HERE. 
          MURDERERS LIKE THAT ONE SCHOOL, ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE, SO AT LEAST WE LOCKED DOWN, THEN ABSOLUTELY DOING MORE MORE PUBLICIZING OF THAT AS WE GET CLOSER. AND IT WAS REALLY EXCITED THAT WE STARTED DOING SOME DISCUSSIONS ON THE OPEN SPACE PORTION OF THE MASTER PLANNING, AND SO WE WENT THROUGH , YOU KNOW, SEVERAL PAGES OF ITEMS, AND I THINK THAT'S ALSO A LINK WITH THE RECREATION COMMITTEE. I THINK THOSE ARE BOTH COMING AT THE SAME TIME, SO IT WAS A GOOD THING. WE REVIEWED IT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE KIND OF BRING BACK MORE FEEDBACK AT THE NEXT MEETING. TO REALLY TRY TO MAKE OUR FINAL RECOMMENDATION WHICH YOU GET INCLUDED, AND SAID OVERALL MASTER PLAN. AH THE VETERANS COMMITTEE MET THIS WEEK. WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT FUN FEST. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A TABLE AS PART OF LIKE THE BROADER MUNICIPAL PRESENCE THERE. UM WE ALSO HAVE INVITED TWO OF THE OF OUR I'LL CALL IT A NEIGHBORING VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS, SO THEY THE HOPE OF VALERIE HOPEFUL VALLEY AMERICAN LEGION AS WELL AS THE HILLSBOROUGH DFW POST, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE, UM MONTGOMERY MEMBERS WHO SERVED IN BOTH OF THEM SINCE WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A VETERAN SERVICE ORGANIZATION BASED IN MONTGOMERY . I THINK IT'S ALSO A PART OF SOME OF THE LONGER TERM THINKING IS HOW DO WE TRY TO BRANCH OUT A 
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LITTLE BIT MORE TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW, WE MEET ALL OF OUR VETERANS NEED SOME WHERE THEY'RE AT. WITH MORAL DAY PLANNING, SO WE WILL HAVE A MEMORIAL DAY. UH SHORT EVENT AND THEN IN THE MORNING, UH, THE AT THE MONTGOMERY VETERANS MORE PARK. THE BACKUP IS ACTUALLY HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN CASE THERE'S IMPLEMENT WEATHER, AND THEN WE DID START HAVING SOME PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS THAT THEY MENTIONED I DID GIVE HIM THE PREVIOUS MEETING ON YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE REALLY GOOD JOB ON ESTABLISHING THAT BURNS MORAL SETTING THE VETERANS DAY IT'S BEEN DONE FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES. NOW. THE QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW IS THERE A IS THERE SHOULD WE START LOOKING AT EVOLVING THE SCOPE OF THE VETERANS COMMITTEE AND SO WE STARTED PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS FOR PERHAPS SOME FURTHER DISCUSSIONS AS MAYOR AND LOOK TO BRING SOMETHING BACK TO THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE AFTER SUMMER BREAK. WONDERFUL. THANKS AND JUST ONE LAST THING I DO WANNA ON APRIL 11TH. THERE WAS A THERE WAS A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON ORCHARD ROAD RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, ACTUALLY, BETWEEN HERE AND MONTGOMERY RIDGE. UH MORE VEHICLE. I THINK QUESTION TO A UTILITY POLE. I REALLY WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR PHONE LIKE WORKERS. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE E. M S FOR JUST DOING A REALLY GREAT JOB. OBVIOUSLY, THE ROAD HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN FOR MOST OF THE DAY. BUT UM, I WENT BY THERE A NUMBER OF TIMES IN AS AS YOU CAN IMAGINE ALL THE WORKERS INCREDIBLY PROFESSIONAL. MANAGING A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, IMPATIENT RESIDENTS WHO JUST TRYING TO GET HOME AND THE PSN G . YOU GOT THE POWER BACK REALLY QUICKLY. SO, CAPTAIN BAD, JUST REALLY WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO THE OFFICERS WHO ARE ON SCENE THAT DAY. THANK YOU , DEPUTY MAYOR. YES UM, HI. I'M GOING TO START WITH FIRST OF ALL GOOD EVENING, AND I WOULD ACTUALLY SECOND WHAT VINCE SAID, BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO GET HERE FOR THE RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING AND IT WAS VERY HARD TO BUT YES, I THINK THEY WERE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB AT THE CLOSURES AND MAKING SURE EVERYBODY WAS SAFE. SO UM, YES. UM, 11TH OF THIS MONTH WE HAD OUR RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING. LORI WAS THERE TO DISCUSS THE MASTER PLAN , WHICH WAS VERY HELPFUL. SEEMS LIKE WE NEED TO DO SOME UPDATING , WHICH WILL BE DISCUSSED AT EC LEVEL, I GUESS AND, UM, THE TWO THINGS THAT WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AT INDY RECREATION IS PICKLEBALL COURTS. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WE ARE BEING ASKED. AND I KNOW JOHN GROGAN ER AND THE RECREATION COMMITTEE IS TRYING TO FIND WAYS WE HAVE GOTTEN SOME COATS, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE QUITE HIGH, SO WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT, AND WE ASKED PATIENTS FROM OUR RESIDENTS WHO DO REACH OUT, UM QUITE OFTEN. AND ALSO THE OTHER THING THAT THE REOCCUPATION COMMITTEE IS WORKING WITH JOHN GROGAN IS THE CRICKET PITCH. WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE IN BROADWAY, WHICH IT GETS A LITTLE WATER AND IT GETS FLOODED. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT THE DIRECT DEPARTMENT IS WORKING AND THE RECREATION COMMITTEES, YOU KNOW, GIVING THEIR INPUT ON THAT. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ON THE 11TH. THEN WE DID HAVE OUR YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL MEETING THIS PAST SUNDAY AND WE HAD ASSEMBLY WHEN WOMAN SADAF JAFFA AS A GUEST, AND SHE TALKED ABOUT WHAT LEADERSHIP MEANS AND, YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGED THE STUDENTS FROM MONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL, UM WITH IDEAS AND ASK THEM IF THEY WANTED TO, IN FACT, INVITED THEM TO COME AND TOURED THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY , WHICH WAS REALLY NICE OF HER, SO I'M HOPING THAT THE KIDS TAKE HER UP ON IT. AND I WE DISCUSSED THAT THE SHADE TREE COMMITTEE IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS. I BELIEVE THE WILD. HE WILL COME THERE THEY WERE. TWO OF THEM WERE THERE AT THE STREAM CLEANING AND I UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ALSO WANTS SOMEONE FROM THE WILD C. SO THAT WAS A DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD AT THE MEETING AND I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT ELSE HAPPENED WITH US. UM AND THEN I'LL JUST GO INTO. I GOT A LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE ABOUT, UM UH, THE SAKE, WHICH IS THE SIKH CELEBRATION, WHICH HAPPENED ON APRIL 14TH AS A SIKH IMMIGRANTS. I WAS TOUCHED , AND IT'S REALLY NICE THAT THEY HAVE PROCLAIMED APRIL 14TH IN NEW JERSEY AS SICK DAY. AND HE SENT A LONG PROCLAMATION. BUT I'M JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE SIKH COMMUNITY PLAYS AN INTEGRAL AND OFTEN OVERLOOKED ROLE IN STRENGTHENING THE RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FABRIC OF THE STATE. AND THE SAKE IS A SPECIAL OCCASION WHICH SIX SEEKS REMEMBER THE FOUNDING OF IN 19 AND 16 99, OF COURSE OF THE CALLS UPON THE FELLOWSHIP OF DEVOUT SAINT SOLDIERS, WHICH PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SHAPING THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND IDENTITY. AND IN THAT, THE GOVERNOR SAID, IS FITTING AND PROPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW 
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JERSEY TO CELEBRATE THE DAY OF THE SAKE ALONGSIDE THE SIKHS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND TO ENSURE THE LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY C COMMUNITY IN THE STATE . I WANT TO WISH EVERYBODY IN MONTGOMERY AND AROUND THE STATE HAPPY THE SAKE, WHICH WAS APRIL 14TH AND ALSO AS MENTIONED EARLIER, I'D MUBARAK TO OUR MUSLIM RESIDENTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. THANK YOU. MOST OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS IN COMING OUT HERE. THERE'S A LOT OF PREPARATION BEING DONE FOR BIRTHDAY, WHICH IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING HERE ON SUNDAY, SO I HOPE EVERYONE COMES OUT FOR THAT. THERE WILL BE SOME TREES THERE THAT THEY SHADE FREE COMMITTEE IS GIVING AS WELL SO AND THANKS FOR EVERYONE TO CAME OUT FOR THE STREAM CLEANUP THAT WE DID ON THE ROCK, BROOKE, IT WAS, UM QUITE WELL ATTENDED AND WE FOUND A LOT OF LOT OF GARBAGE. I DON'T I DON'T KNOW IF THEY CAME UP WITH THE FINAL, UM WAIT. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY EVER DID, BUT IT WAS THERE WERE THREE PLACES AND I LOOKED AT ALL OF THEM AFTERWARDS OVER IT. LIKE I SAID OVER AT THE BETSY GROVER , WE FOUND A HOT TUB. WE FOUND TIRES. WE FOUND ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. YEAH WELL, IT'S IDA STUFF FROM ITEM AND ALSO, UM, EVEN SOME OLDER STUFF THERE, SO THERE'S STILL A LOT MORE TO DO THERE AND YEP. SO THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT. I KNOW THE I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO GO TO THE, UM, AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAD A QUORUM OR NOT, BUT I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE OR THEY MIGHT BE LOOKING AT THEIR MASTER PLAN AS WELL I DO BELIEVE THERE'S THE BASEBALL OPENING AS WELL. MONTGOMERY BASEBALL, SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO HEAD OUT THERE AND TOLD THEM BECAUSE IT WILL BRING MEMORIES OF SERVING IN THAT CANTEEN, GIVING WHAT YOU HAD TO VOLUNTEER. WELL, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO THROW OUT THE FIRST PITCH THIS YEAR THEN, OKAY, I'LL SAW THE PITCH. IF THEY GIVE ME THE PIZZA, THEY ORDERED THE BEST PEOPLE THINK THERE'S ALSO SPRING FLAG FOOTBALL ALSO IS OPENING ON SUNDAY GOING ON. ACTUALLY I JUST WANTED TO ALSO MENTION THAT SPRING FLING IS COMING UP MAY 6TH WILL TALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT MEETING. BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL RESIDENTS LOOK OUT FOR THE INFORMATION AND THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE WILL BE THERE AND SIGN UP TO THE BULLETIN. THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO HEAR ABOUT THESE. THAT'S VERY TRUE. 
          [UPCOMING MEETINGS]
OKAY SO THE NEXT TIME OF THE UPCOMING MEETINGS MAY 4TH WE HOPEFULLY HAVE THE 2023 BUDGET ADOPTION, THE BOND ORDINANCE, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND TWO UTILITY A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWNSHIPS BY WORKS PERMIT, WHICH IS EXCITING AND WE'LL HAVE 
          [15. RESOLUTION TO CLOSE MEETING TO THE PUBLIC]
A HEALTH DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION . OKAY SO WITH THAT, UM BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY AND SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, AS FOLLOWS THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE WILL NOW CONVENE IN A CLOSED SESSION THAT WILL BE LIMITED ONLY TO CONSIDERATION OF IDLE ITEMS WITH RESPECT TO WHICH THE PUBLIC MAY BE EXCLUDED PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVEN B OF THE OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS ACT. THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED IN DECISIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS ADVICE OF COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO PBA LITIGATION. ADVICE OF COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY CODE ISSUES, ADVICE OF COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO POTENTIAL LITIGATION, ADVICE OF COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO LEASE OF MUNICIPAL PROPERTY. IT'S UNKNOWN PRECISELY WHEN THE MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THIS SESSION WILL BE DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC AGREEMENTS SHALL ONLY BE AUTHORIZED BY ACTION OF THE TOWN CHIP COMMITTEE IN A PUBLIC SESSION. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE MEETING TO THE PUBLIC SO THE MEETING IN THE MINUTE? WE HAVE TWO. OKAY SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO REOPEN THAT MOVED IN FAVOR I MOTION TO END THE MEETING SOME OF TO A
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