TOWNSHIP
COUNCIL
WORK
SESSION/REGULAR MEETING
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Invocation Councilman Sumter
4. Roll Call
5. Commendations:
a) Charlie Blackmon Retirement
b) John Clyde, Jr. Eagle Scout
c) Daniel J. Bobev Eagle Scout
d)
2005 Pee Wee
6. Mayors Report
7. Deputy Mayors Report
8. Review Prepared Agenda
9. Council Discussion Items
a)
Vacate
b)
c)
Retail
d) Fire District Salaries
e) Council Retreat Date
10. Approval of Minutes:
a) November 22, 2005 Work Session/Regular Meeting
b) December 13, 2005 Work Session/Regular Meeting
c) January 1, 2006 Reorganization Meeting
11. Approval of Warrants
12. Public Discussion
13. Council Comments
14. Introduction of Ordinances
a)
3585-06 Amend Chapter 163, Municipal
Services Schedule A (Add
b)
3586-06 Amend Chapter 97, Special
Event Permits Amend Code Chapter in its entirely. Further consideration and public hearing
of this ordinance is scheduled for February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Council
Chambers.
c) 3587-06 Amend Chapter 47, Police Department Add position of Deputy Police Chief. Further consideration and public hearing of this ordinance is scheduled for February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers.
d) 3588-06 Accept Emergency Access Easement Agreement with Jayne Enterprises, LLC Docket #PLN2003-0058 Purpose of Granting Emergency Access to Block 516, Lot 7.01 Weston Canal Road. Further consideration and public hearing of this ordinance is scheduled for February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers.
e) 3589-06 Accept Drainage and Water Main Easement Agreements with Churchill Estates Docket #PLN25-0019 Block 101/Lots 90-91 Storm Drainage System and Block 101/Lots 58.01, 60.01 and 87 Storm Drainage System. Further consideration and public hearing of this ordinance is scheduled for February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers.
f) 3590-06 Amend Code Chapter 105 Construction Codes, Uniforms, More Particularly Section 105-2 Fees Add Waiver of Fees Associated in Chapter 105 when General Water Emergency is declared. Further consideration and public hearing of this ordinance is scheduled for February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers.
15. Consent Agenda
a) Resolution #06-004 Authorize Change Order Della Pello Paving Inc. 2004 Street Resurfacing Original Contract: $694,220.00 Change Order Amount: $50,123.94 New Contract Amount: $744,343.94.
b) Resolution #06-005 Authorize Extension of Contract Binsky Services for the HVAC Maintenance for the Public Safety Building for the period of February 1, 2006 through January 31, 2007 in an amount not to exceed $42,235.00 and Carrier Corporation for the HVAC Maintenance for the Other Township Buildings for the period of February 1, 2006 through January 31, 2007 in an amount not to exceed $33,350.00.
c) Resolution #06-006 Authorize Release of Planning and Building Review Escrows.
d)
Resolution #06-007 Authorize Release of
Performance Guarantee First Industrial PLN2003-0020 Block 468.08/Lot
e) Resolution #06-008 Award Purchase over $8500.00 Kulinski Memorials Markers for Veterans Memorial Amount Not to Exceed $14,422.00.
f) Resolution #06-009 Authorize Corrective Resolution Settlement of Tax Court Appeal, NSG America, Inc. Bloc 468.11/Lot 17 8 Worlds Fair Drive 2003 Assessment from $5,022,800.00 to $4,175,100.00.
g) Resolution #06-010 Authorize Reimbursement of Fees for Connecting to Public in the Zone of Involvement in Franklin Park Kathleen Koster 38 Evelyn Avenue, Franklin Park Total Amount of Fees to be Reimbursed: $3,127.64.
h)
Resolution #06-011
i) Resolution #06-012 Authorize Tax Title Lien Redemptions Outside Buyers.
j) Resolution #06-013 Authorize Issuance of Raffles/Bingo Licenses.
k) Resolution #06-014 Authorize Refund of Tax Overpayments.
l) Resolution #06-015 Authorize Change Order JDL Contracting Company CDBG Housing Rehabilitation for 404 Girard Avenue Original Contract Amount: $24,250.00 - Additional Amount Not to Exceed $2,350.00 New Total: $26,600.00.
m)
Resolution
#06-016 Authorize Disposition of Surplus Property City of
n) Resolution #06-017 Award Bid for Water Meters to National Waterworks Inc. for the period of February 1, 2006 to January 31, 2007 in an amount not to exceed $350,000.00.
o) Resolution #06-018 Award Bid for Improvements to Radio Based Water Monitoring System to Instrumentation Technology in an amount not to exceed $145,000.00.
p) Resolution #06-019 Authorizing Townships Participation in County Shared Services Demonstration Grant and appointing Township Clerk as the County Shared Services Demonstration Grant Project Administrator.
q) Resolution #06-020 Appoint Donna Vieiro, Assistant Township Manager as Public Agency Compliance Officer for a one-year term ending December 31, 2006.
r)
Resolution #06-021 Authorize Execution of Snow
& Ice Control Agreement and Animal Control Services Agreement with
16. Resolution Voted on Separately
§ Resolution #06-022 Authorize Release of Planning/Building Escrow.
17. Nominations for 2006 Appointments
(1) Shirley Eberle as Advisory Board of Health Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(2) Teresa Danile as Advisory Recreation Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(3) Shirley Eberle & Wandra Ashley-Williams as Business and Industry Advisory Council Members, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(4) Brian G. Regan as Cable Television Advisory Committee Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(5) James Vassanella & Ellen E. Ritchie as Community Foundation Members each for two-year terms ending 12/31/07.
(6) James Vassanella & Brian D. Levine as Emergency Life Support Committee Council Representatives, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(7) Brian G. Regan as Fire Prevention Board Council Liaison, Regular for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(8) Brian D. Levine as Fire Prevention Board Council Liaison, Alternate for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(9) Willis Sumter; Ellen E. Ritchie & James Vassanella as Hamilton Street Business & Community Corporation Council Liaisons, each for one-year terms ending 12/31/06.
(10) Teresa Danile as Historic Preservation Commission Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(11) Wandra Ashley-Williams as Human Relations Commission Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(12) Shirley Eberle as Joint Advisory Committee/Village of Kingston Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(13) Wandra Ashley-Williams as Library Board of Trustees Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(14) Fred A. McKenzie as Municipal Cross Acceptance Committee Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(15) Ellen E. Ritchie as Planning Board Class 3 Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(16) Wandra Ashley-Williams & Brian D. Levine as Redevelopment Agency Council Representatives, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(17) Shirley Eberle as Senior Citizen Advisory Committee Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(18) Fred A. McKenzie as Sewerage Authority Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(19) Willis Sumter & Brian D. Levine as Somerset Community Action Program Trustees, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(20) Brian G. Regan as Somerset County Coalition on Affordable Housing Council Representative to the Board of Directors for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(21) Ellen E. Ritchie as Special Improvement District Advisory Committee Council Liaison for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(22) Fred A. McKenzie as Stormwater Management Committee Council Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(23) Teresa Danile; Willis Sumter; James Vassanella & Fred A. McKenzie as Traffic Management Subcommittee Members each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(24) Teresa Danile; Brian D. Levine & Brian G. Regan as Youth Services Commission/Alliance Against Drug Abuse Council Liaisons each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(25) James Vassanella & Fred A. McKenzie as Board of Education Council Liaisons each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(1) Charles Spicer, Jr. as Advisory Board of Health Regular Member for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(2) Paul Curry, Jr.; Michael Edwards & Tom Malone as Advisory Recreation Council Regular Members each for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(3) Jonathan Kuligowski as Advisory Recreation Council Non-Voting Teen Public School Member Male for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(4) Jacqueline Diana as Advisory Recreation Council Non-Voting Teen Private School Member Female for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(5) Robert Puskas; Ryck Suydam; Berit Marshall & Frank Hasner as Agricultural Advisory Committee Regular Members each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(6) Robert Shepard as Board of Adjustment Regular Member for a four-year term ending 12/31/09.
(7) Grace Evans as Board of Adjustment Alternate #1 Member for a two-year term ending 12/31/07.
(8) Ellen E. Ritchie as Business & Industry Advisory Committee Planning Board Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(9) Paul Curry, Jr.; Harold Leventhal; Michael Steinberg & Gary Eisenberg as Cable Television Advisory Committee Regular Members each for a two-year term ending 12/31/07.
(10) Michele Samarya-Timm; Emily Amon & Thomas Zilinek as Clean Communities Committee Regular Members each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(11) Arnold Schmidt as Environmental Commission Chairman for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(12) Arnold Vernick as Environmental Commission Regular Member for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(13) Dianne Pydeski as Environmental Commission Alternate #2 Member for a two-year term ending 12/31/07.
(14) Eugene Wozniak; Nancy Hohnstine; Susan Goldey & Richard Goeke as Historic Preservation Commission Regular Members each for a two-year term ending 12/31/07.
(15) Idaherma Williams as Historic Preservation Commission Alternate #1 Member for a two-year term ending 12/31/07.
(16) Robert Mettler as Local Historian of the Township of Franklin for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(17) Agnes Kulu-Banya as Housing Authority Tenant Member for a five-year term ending 02/08/11.
(18) Murray Rothblatt; Edna Arguello Hitcher; Chandrakant Desai; Nora Catiis & Willie B. Good as Human Relations Commission Regular Members each for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(19) Dr. Theodore Chase as Planning Board Member and Khalilah Stewart as Planner to the Municipal Cross-Acceptance Committee each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(20) Cynthia Dawn Voorhees as Municipal Ethics Board Member Republican for a five-year term ending 12/31/10.
(21) Robert Puskas as Open Space Advisory Committee Agricultural Advisory Committee Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(22) Jeff Sherwood & Jack Connolly as Open Space Advisory Committee Citizen Members each for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(23) Arnell Jenkins as Rent Leveling Board Citizen Member for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(24) Eugene Armstead as Rent Leveling Board Alternate #1 Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(25) Rozalyn Sherman as a Regular Member and Helen Verhage as Alternate #2 Member to the Senior Affordable Housing Committee each for a three-year term ending 12/31/08.
(26) Grace Evans as Senior Citizen Advisory Committee Non-Senior Citizen Club Member for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(27) Saul Cohen as a Regular Member and Efren Dato as Alternate #1 Member to the Sewerage Authority, each for a five-year term ending 01/31/11.
(28) Thomas Zilinek & Victor Stevens as Somerset County Solid Waste Advisory Council Members, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06.
(29) The following to the Stormwater Management Committee, each for a one-year term:
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Kenneth W. Daly Township Manager
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Thomas Zilinek Township Engineer
(30) Dominic Abbatiello as Trails Advisory Committee Regular Member for the unexpired four-year term ending 12/31/06.
(31) The following to the Youth Services Commission/Alliance Against Drug Abuse, each for a one-year term ending 12/31/06:
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Eva Nagy School Board President
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Jeffrey Green, Esq. Municipal Court
Judge
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Rev. Buster Soaries Clergy
Representative
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Sullivan Bishop Clergy
Representative
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Craig Novick Chief of Police
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Richard Grammar Police Department Representative
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Sean Hebbon Police Department Representative
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Kristen Durham Police Department Representative
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Alice Osipowitz Recreation
Director & Chairman
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Orville Wilson High School Principal
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Anthony Bundy Middle School Principal
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Walter Galanowsky Director
of Health
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Michel Samarya-Timm Health Educator
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Hazel Davis Housing Authority
Representative
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Martha Camarda Public Member
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Diane Leach-Thompson Public Member
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Bruce McCracken Public Member
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Marie Thompson Public Member
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Valerie Northey Public
Member/FHS SAC
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Doris Robinson Public Member
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Ava Stanley Public Member
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Ronnie Weiner
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Dennis Sanders Public
Member
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Celeste Freeland Public Member
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Susan Kamins SCYSA Representative
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Phyllis Beals Public Member
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Charline Foendoe Public Member
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Euline Jackson Public Member
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Stacey Pelham Hale Elementary
SAC
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Austin Shafer Public Member/Youth Ministry
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Kenneth W. Daly Township Manager
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Paul Hoffman Library Representative
18. Executive Session Personnel Twp. Mgr. & Twp. Clerk Evaluations
19. Adjournment