I'd like to call tonight's regular meeting to order, please.
Yes, Director. We, um, I'm going to report the adequate notice that the meeting was provided in accordance with Chapter 231, public law 1975, that Senator Byron and Bear opened public meetings after.
It's time, like everyone, to take a moment to sign the meditation, followed by the flag-sweep by free order James Quinn.
All rise, please.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Roll call, please.
Freeholder Albrecht.
Here.
Freeholder Casolini.
Here.
Freeholder Mousseau.
Here.
Freeholder Quinn.
Here.
Freeholder Sorensi.
Here.
Deputy Director Barber.
Here.
Director Dorell.
Here.
I'll entertain a motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes as public meeting.
Second.
Second, all in favor.
Aye.
Communications.
Yes, sir.
The communications are listed in your packet.
There's a note on the side also with the attachment and the information if you would like to review it first.
I'll entertain a motion to receive the file.
Second.
All in favor.
Aye.
I believe we have two presentations.
Yes, sir.
First one is the Vinyl Salvation Army.
Director, would you mind going out of order, I think?
Is everybody here from the Salvation Army?
There's about five minutes left.
There's a few people who are not here yet for any time.
We're here.
Everybody's here?
Yes.
Okay.
Very good.
Sorry.
Deputy Director Barber.
Take over from here.
Very good.
It's truly a pleasure for my friends.
We're going to come up here because now we've got...
We're going to turn this around for you on my board.
Plus I have a handout explaining the turkey drive we have in mind.
Okay.
We could do that.
If I could have the members that are with you come up, please, also.
Okay.
And in the meantime, I just wanted to say many of us are tied.
Come on up.
Please come up and turn around and face the camera.
Please come on this side and stand right here with me.
Okay.
It's a little...
This is our first night back on TV, so we want to make sure we get everybody's pretty
faces along and handsome faces.
Handsome faces.
Yeah.
It's truly a pleasure.
And I would also like to call for a word from over to you, sir, who also works tirelessly
in the same project.
So I want to make sure she joins us to thank you for all your hard work.
Gosh, you've got me burning.
I remember when you were this big.
I had a queen a long time ago.
But for me and for Feodor Musso, who you have honored as part of your helping team,
as helping hands, helping parts, I want to very much thank you personally for that.
But I'd also like to say that we here, the Cumberland County Board,
chosen freeholders would like to present you with a proclamation.
And I would really like to read it because it's important that you hear the message
from the freeholders.
Okay.
Whereas the Salvation Army has a distinguished history of helping the citizens of
Ireland in need.
And whereas through the efforts of the Salvation Army, their volunteers,
local businesses and organizations, approximately 1,300 families were provided
with a turkey and canned goods to help them enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday.
And whereas the Turkey Drive director, Stephen Plevins, and his committee
coordinated efforts.
And whereas community group businesses helped to make the effort a success,
specifically the Greater Violin Chamber of Commerce, the Violin Rotary Club,
the advisory board of the Violin Salvation Army, Major Moises Rivera,
and Major Jackie Rivera.
And over 25 volunteers and whereas the Batino family partnered to collect
turkeys at their Violin, Millville, Bridgestone Shopping locations
and generously donated turkeys to the cause of feeding the needy in Cumberland County.
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the board chosen freeholders of the County of Cumberland
as follows, that this board and all of our citizens, I'm having Matt,
hereby commend Steve Plevins and the Violin Salvation Army Turkey Drive committee,
the entire Violin Salvation Army, and as many volunteers and donors
for all their good work, particularly with the 2019 Turkey Drive,
we recognize and sincerely thank you for your service and volunteerism.
Thank you so much on behalf of all of you citizens.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
And we can slide this way so we're out from in front of this.
That's true.
Let me jump in the middle so I can get this right here.
Are we good?
We're still standing here.
There you go.
Okay, my name is Steve Plevins.
I'm the Marketing Director for the Violent Salvation Army and we are really honored to
be here tonight and I want to thank you so much.
As you see, the committee that we have is a committee that we work for eight months.
For eight months, we called each other every day for eight months.
Some people almost got fired because of it, but we called each other and we all worked
hard on this and fed 1,300 families this year which was a major job.
We had about 25 volunteers.
It's all volunteer work.
This year turned out so better than last year.
So we have some incredible volunteers and there's just so much to say, but we definitely
looking forward to next year and with the committee I just want to real quick introduce
the members of the committee.
Allison Triverelli, can you stand up please?
She's from Sir Speedy and Violent.
Michelle Lowe, she's Public Relations Board.
Minerva Alvarado, she's our Media Specialist.
She's doing her best in the county, I'll tell you, she's done a great job for us.
And the girls, you know, we have Riley Howerton right here.
She's the person who makes the kids work real hard with us and they're just really hard workers.
Also, Melissa Stiles, do you want to go?
Madison, Madison.
Madison, I'm sorry.
And also Paul Thacker, who you know, Paul, he's been doing so many things.
And also Jason Sykes, Jason Sykes.
That's our team and if you want to get anything done, call me.
With this team we can get anything done, I'll tell you how right now.
Because we had to sign the people up.
1300 families, we had to sign them up and we had to distribute them.
And we got a freezer truck about a block long, the guy lent us the truck.
And so we got the turkeys, you know, we put them in that truck.
He gave it to us for four weeks, the truck.
And we just called the turkeys in the freezer truck.
So it was a lot of work and these guys did a great job.
And again, thank you for honoring us. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for what you're doing throughout the class.
We really appreciate it.
The turkey driver, like you say, it is a lot of work.
But it's rewarding in the end when you see people come and donate whatever they can.
You never know who's going to do it.
It's really kind of a fun thing to be part of.
But it's a lot of work and you guys do a great job with it.
And keep it up because, like you said, it grows every year.
So keep it up.
Okay, we have a second presentation for Alexander Craig Brown,
recognizing him as an Eagle Scout.
And I'm going to call him a three-order Albright to make that presentation.
This is an honor to do this.
I got to be on an Eagle Scout.
The meeting to decide a person is worthy of being an Eagle Scout.
And you learn a lot.
And you're like, man, whatever project you're like, man, how do they pull that off?
The stronger to be in it.
And I do want you to tell me about your Eagle project.
Well, let me tell you a little bit about, you guys wouldn't mind a little bit about Alex.
And actually the parents want to step up, too.
That's what they are, always behind support.
Alexander started the Scouting Adventure at the Vile and Pack 10 as a Wolf Scout.
He continued in Scouting and earned his hour of light in Pack 10.
When it was time to move into Boy Scouts to join Tucko's Troop 55.
And when the Weebloaded Den Chiefs moved on, Alexander volunteered to become one of the new Den Chiefs.
He served out of that position for two years.
He also served in five other positions, one being Senior Patrol Leader.
Alexander continues to help with the Weebloaded Den.
That's what Boy Scouts says in it.
It says it all right there.
Alexander spent two years working at Camp Roosevelt in the All the Way Township.
His first year he was a Ranger, a Volunteer.
His second year he worked in the Nature Area.
He taught us Scouts from all over different nature and merit badges.
He did his Eagle Scout Project at the Cumberland Rifleman's in Millwood, New Jersey.
I want you to tell us more about that.
And currently, Alex is a junior at Millville Senior High.
And after graduation, Alexander plans to pursue a career movie and TV editing.
Awesome.
So be watching.
Alex's proud parents, even though they don't want to get up here right now.
It's Kim Carton.
Mom.
Kim.
She's work.
Tim Carton.
And alongside Craig Brown.
And Linda Brown.
And all Millville.
Tim, do you guys want to get up?
I just, I like, I really, it's an honor to hear part of the project.
So the board, the freehold of board appreciates it.
My project was reforestation in an outdoor classroom to teach gun safety at Cumberland Rifleman.
Really, I wanted to replant 50 trees there because there was a wildfire that happened there.
And I figured why not build an outdoor classroom there to teach cops and people that want to learn gun safety.
And it was accessible to me.
It's good.
Yes, it's great.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
Well, we're looking out for the two of you.
This is the freehold of the board.
Watch him on this side so everyone can see.
Alexander Craig Brown.
An honor recognition of achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
Boy Scout's highest honor.
The board congratulates you on this outstanding achievement.
And it's an honor.
Thank you, sir.
See you next to him.
Wait for the podium so we can get the photo.
I don't know if it's going to be over yet.
Come on, come on.
We'll let the thing up between you, please.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just keep it up there if it's over.
There you go.
There are some of that.
Great Scout.
Thank you.
I can't work.
Scout's job is ever done.
That's great.
It's good to see you.
Alex, congratulations.
That's one of the highest honors that I know
that we recognize throughout your lifetime.
Once you're Eagle Scout, it's a special club
and a special recognition for you
as well as your family and your parents
because we all know that it takes someone behind you
to make sure you can accomplish what you need to do.
So congratulations to all of us.
Listen, I look for big things for you in the future.
Thank you, sir.
Nice job.
Now to spare our two special groups there.
If you'd like to try to sneak out before we start.
Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you all. It's good to see everybody again. Thank you for coming out.
Oh, I did. I've been watching from a social media.
Let's start at the end.
As you can see, we are now back. We're filming our meetings. We have tonight broadcast engineer Ryan Steinbrough.
I said that right. We're taking. Hopefully, next couple of meetings we'll have some students there.
Moving forward, this will actually be aired on Comcast Channel 9, Fios 41.
So we'll confirm those dates and times as soon as we know. Thank you for being here.
Hopefully, we'll be able to coach some of these students to be here so they get great experience.
All right. Moving along, I'll entertain a motion to open up to public comment in regards to resolutions only.
So move. Second. Move in second. All in favor. Aye.
Anyone wishing to address this in regards to resolutions, we're taking action on this evening.
Please feel free to go to the microphone and state your name and try to leave your comments to approximately five minutes.
Good evening.
Happy New Year.
Good evening.
I'm Nancy Richquay of the Deerfield and Spiritfield Townships.
A lot on the agenda this evening.
The first resolution is Resolution 2020-59.
It's a resolution amending a resolution adopted August 11, 1960,
designating certain county roads as through streets.
We have two roads in here.
The first one is Fairton Holtown Road between Burlington Road.
And it's calling for a traffic signal.
I was out of planning for a meeting a few years ago and I think the study said a four-way stop.
The traffic signal is a traffic light.
And the way I understand it, they call it electricity.
Or more money.
John, is it a four-way stop?
It's a four-way, yeah.
Well, this says traffic signal.
There will be a flashing.
And then on a south Woodruff Road between Irving and Lebanon Road.
It's calling for a traffic signal.
Is that going to be a traffic light?
It's going to also be a flashing.
With a four-way stop?
Yes.
We have Resolution 2020-69.
Resolution of Memorial Fair and open contracts for providing, permitting,
and design services for replacement of bridge with fields, mill roads,
and hands and rivers in the townships of Hopewell and Upper Gearfield.
This is going to ARH Associates.
And I have no confidence in the engineering firm.
We also have Resolution 2020-70, awarding a fair and open contract
for providing permitting and design services for replacement of structure
over the Cagansi River at Peaceburg Road in the townships of Hopewell and Upper Gearfield.
We also have Resolution 2020-71 awarding a fair and open contract
for providing permitting and design services for replacement of structure
at Chestnut Avenue over Panther Branch in the city of Liner.
Now, these are three bridges that the county's son of built.
Last year, he's done a bridge over Indian Fields Branch
on Burlington Road, and he really messed it up.
He dumped sand in the stream bed
and raised the bridge above the water level.
And I'm having with these three bridges that you're going to replace this year
with the permitting that might be next year before you actually start to construction.
Now, you do a better job.
Thank you.
Motion to close?
Second.
Move to second. All in favor?
Aye.
All right, we're going to go through a review.
Yes.
I believe we can group these, and then we'll have questions by freeholders after.
Yes, Director.
If I can have a motion and a second, we can vote to group.
The board could vote to group resolutions 2020-46 up to and including resolution 2020-95.
So moved.
Second.
Move to second.
One second.
Is that no procedure?
We usually can ball together.
Yes.
We can if there is a bill we have to do.
And then we have discussion, and you can pull out any ones you don't want to vote on.
And then we have discussion after which you can go through.
And then we second the election.
That's fair.
All in favor?
Aye.
Second.
Okay.
Resolution 2020-46 is a resolution transferring 2019 appropriation reserves.
Resolution 2020-47 is a resolution canceling expired contracts covering materials, services,
and supplies for January 2020.
Resolution 2020-48 is authorizing the purchase from state contract vendors.
Resolution 2020-49 is a resolution authorizing the purchase from New Jersey state contract vendor for info share, select maintenance services.
Resolution 2020-50 is declaring surplus and unneeded e-waste for recycling to the Cumberland County Improvement Authority.
Resolution 2020-51 is declaring surplus and unneeded property and authorizing the sale and surplus and unneeded property.
That's the Ford Fusion.
Resolution 2020-52 is a resolution declaring surplus and unneeded property and authorizing the sale of the surplus and unneeded property.
Resolution 2020-53 is ratifying resolution 2020-04, adopted by the Cumberland County Board of Health on January 15.
Resolution 2020-54 is a resolution correcting resolution 2019-675, exercising final renewal option to contract for providing various services for the Cumberland County Youth Services Advisory Council.
Resolution 2020-55 is amending resolution 2019-233, authorizing the shared services agreement with the borough of Shiloh for the reconstruction of various streets within the borough as well as the industry and sidewalks.
Resolution 2020-56 is amending resolution 2020-10, designating Freeholder James F. Quinn as the Cumberland County's voting member on the Policy Board of the South Jersey Transportation Organization and Freeholder George Castellini as the alternate.
I.e. that way Freeholder Castellini will be the liaison and Freeholder Quinn will be the alternate.
Resolution 2020-57 is amending resolution 2020-33, appointing Freeholder George Castellini as a member of the Human Relations Commission and Freeholder James F. Quinn as the alternate.
This now would be Freeholder Douglas Albrecht will be the liaison for the Human Relations Commission and will replace Freeholder Castellini as the member.
Resolution 2020-58 is amending resolution 2019-292, authorizing the shared services agreement with respect to the C.C. Thrive Pop-Up Play Streets Program.
Resolution 2020-59 is amending a resolution adopted on August 11, 1960, designating certain kind of roads as through streets and there is a detailed list of those streets on page 80 of your packet.
Resolution 2020-60 is awarding professional services contract for providing bond council services for the county of Cumberland.
Resolution 2020-61 is a resolution awarding a fair and open professional services contract for providing council services for the Cumberland County Board of Health.
Resolution 2020-62 is awarding a fair and open professional services contract for providing council services for the Cumberland County Construction Board of Appeals.
Resolution 2020-63 is awarding Affair and Open Professional Services Contracts for providing
legal services for criminal defense for the County of Cumberland.
Resolution 2020-64 is awarding Affair and Open Professional Services Contract for providing
labor counsel and labor law related services for the County of Cumberland.
Resolution 2020-65 is the resolution awarding fair and open professional service contracts
providing litigation services for the County of Cumberland.
Resolution 2020-66 is awarding a fair
and open professional services contract
for providing legal services as defense counsel
for the County of Cumberland,
and that's for the Worker's Compensation Program.
Resolution 2020-67 is authorizing the award
of a non-fair and open contract
for software support and maintenance services
for the CUE's on-forth computerized dispatch system,
and this is for our Cumberland County 9-1-1
Emergency Communication Center.
This is maintenance and software upgrades for 9-1-1.
Resolution 2020-68 is authorizing the award
of a non-fair and open contract
for the I-Secure Gold Maintenance Plan.
Resolution 2020-69 is awarding a fair
and open contract for providing permitting
and design services for the replacement
of the bridge on Beallstown Road
over the Kansy River in the townships
of Hopewell and Upper Deerfield.
Resolution 2020-70 is awarding a fair
and open contract for providing permitting
and design services for the replacement
of the structure on County Road 640
that's Freeford Road over Kansy River
in the townships of Hopewell and Upper Deerfield.
Resolution 2020-71 is awarding a fair
and open contract for providing permitting
and design services for the replacement
of the structure on Chestnut Avenue
over Panther Branch in the city of Vynum
in Cumberland County.
Resolution 2020-72 is approving change order number two
to contract for providing various medical services
for the Cumberland County Department of Corrections.
Resolution 2020-73 is approving change order number one
to contract for the 2018 Striping Program
for various municipalities.
Resolution 2020-74 is approving change order number two
to contract for providing various social services
for the Homeless and the Social Services Block Grant
Homeless Assistance Program for the County of Cumberland.
Resolution 2020-75 is approving change order number two
to contract for providing various social services
for the Homeless and Social Services Block Grant
Homeless Assistance Program
for the County of Cumberland Department of Human Services.
Resolution 2020-76 is approving change order number three to contract for providing various social services for the homeless
and the social services block grant homeless assistance programs for the Cumberland County Department of Human Services.
Resolution 2020-77 is approving change order number three to contract for providing various social services for the homeless
and the social services block grant homeless assistance program for the County of Cumberland Department of Human Services.
Resolution 2020-78 is authorizing the approval
to submit a grant application
and to execute a grant agreement
with the Juvenile Justice Commission
for 2020 for the Comprehensive County
Services Commission Plan and application.
Resolution 2020-79 is authorizing the award of subgrants
from the New Jersey Complete Count Commission
2020 grant funding program.
The regrants are listed in the resolution.
That's on page one, page 155 and 156 of your packet.
And we are very pleased to announce
that each regrantee received the full amount of their requests.
That's very good news.
Resolution 2020-80 is authorizing the grant agreement
between the County of Cumberland
and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority
concerning grant funding
for the Opportunity Zone Challenge Program.
And again, the backup information for that
can be found on page 159 of your packet.
Resolution 2020-81 is authorizing the approval
to submit an electronic grant application
and to execute a grant contract
with the New Jersey Department of Transportation
for the resurfacing of County Root once or 720
and resurfacing of County Road 720.
Resolution 2020-82 is setting an initial monetary ceiling
in the amount of $5,000 for legal services
and a workers' compensation matter.
Resolution 2020-83 is authorizing the assignment
of contract negotiations to the firm of Cape Heart
and Scatchard.
Resolution 2020-84 is a resolution authorizing
the assignment of labor matters involving PBA 231
to the firm of Grace Marmero and Associates.
Resolution 2020-85 is a resolution appointed department.
Resolution 2020-86 is resolution re-appointing a number to the Cumberland County Improvement
Authority. Resolution 2020-87 is appointed member of the Industrial Pollution Control Financing
Authority. Resolution 2020-88 is a resolution appointing members of the South Jersey Economic
Development District. Resolution 2020-89 is appointing members of the Human Services
Advisory Council. Resolution 2020-90 is appointing a member of the Vocational Board of Education.
Resolution 2020-91 is appointing a member to the Homeless Trust Fund Task Force. Resolution
2020-92 is appointing member of the Cumberland County Board of Health. Resolution 2020-93 is
a resolution appointing member to the Human Relations Commission. Resolution 2020-94 is
authorizing the receipt of proposals through the competitive contract process for providing
social media consulting services. Resolution 2020-95 is a resolution authorizing the payment
to the Cumberland County Board of Health. Resolution 2020-96 is appointing a member of the Cumberland
County Board of Health. Resolution 2020-96 is appointing a member of the Cumberland County
Board of Health. Resolution 2020-96 is appointing a member of the Cumberland County Board of Health.
Resolution 2020-96 is appointing a member of the Cumberland County Board of Health.
Thank you. And one other, if I could get a little bit of an explanation, and I think I'm gonna be asking our administrator to see if she can get some assistance on this, this goes to 2020-53 on the contract for the public health, help me out with this one, I'm a little stuck.
Megan, you wanna, thank you for coming. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Let everyone in here who you are. Megan Shepherd, I'm the Health Officer for the Cumberland County Health Department.
So it would be 2020-53 and just the public health preparedness, right?
So basically, the process that we're looking to appoint someone, I'm just curious as to who you're getting.
We wrote a competitive grant to the Department of Health. They had 21 available grants. We partnered with the City of Ireland and it was to strengthen the local public health capacity.
So we thought it would be a good time to try to have consultants or not. One is maybe just going out to the consultant services until June 30th to test our RSS sites.
So we have to be prepared in public health emergency to receive shittings of medication from CDC to the state down to the counties.
So we have plans in place to do that. We have not tested that in quite some time. We have a lot of new staff. The City of Ireland has involved new staff.
So there's great money on the table. We said let's go after it. We're gonna try to hire a consultant who can actually put together an exercise.
It has to be, it's called key set compliance, just like through Homeland Security. So there's a lot involved in doing that.
So the consultant will be actually writing the plan, writing the exercise, doing the trainings with the staff as well as constructing the exercise and then doing the after action report with a gap analysis on how we can improve our plan if there's any improvement they say.
Along with that funding, we asked for the consultant to review our official disease Ebola response plan. That's something that we developed during Ebola.
And we haven't really looked at it since, but we never had anybody give us feedback. It was something that the state kind of had asked us to do at the time.
And kind of just hanging out there. So what a perfect time to have somebody come in and look at it and we had to run a virus on that horizon.
So we're going to have to go through that plan for us and do another gap analysis on the plan.
And also we're hoping that they will be able to identify some pod sites. Our pods are called the points of distribution.
They're pretty much just clinics in our county that if we need to give out medication to the community, we utilize these pod sites.
So that was pretty much what we wrote for in agreement with the City of Island Health Department and we're awarded the grant.
Very well explained. See what happens when you get on someone in the health board anymore, you get lost and you get bad questions.
I was a little confused when I was reading the resolution, Megan, and that's why I'm glad you're here to explain that.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Hey, how often does it have to be, what was the last time we did it? How often does it need to be done?
Which part?
The response to the Ebola plan.
So we have something called the public health emergency response plan.
We like acronym public health, we call it FERF.
That is something that has to be done yearly.
This is something that was asked upon us when Ebola was happening.
Every county put together a response plan along the side with the hospitals, EMS.
We worked with our sheriff's officers for security plans.
School?
Yeah, schools.
So we put that together.
There's no requirement to update that at all.
But we, it was named the Ebola plan, but we kind of said that's kind of named the infectious disease plan
and utilized it for anything that happens in our county.
So there's no requirement to update that.
But the FERF is kind of the larger response plan, and we look at that yearly.
Any others, Sheila?
Okay.
Thanks, man.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you for saying family members.
Thank you.
I'm going to get her out of here.
Oh.
Any others?
I'm going to get you out of here.
Yes.
The legal, at last week of the year when I was a lawyer, the legal service, I see all the major fill in now.
You have a point system that you set out in order to delegate what solicitors would put on the basis.
There's a scoring system.
And that's something you've developed at the time.
It's the same, we could use any scoring system we want to use with standard 1 through 100.
And that's the system that's used.
Now, that scoring system gets, how often do you look at that?
How often do you review what you put, the year from now where we've got the same firms coming up?
Do you say, listen, I've reviewed this and I'm not putting the same guy in place because they're not up to par.
Do you look at, I mean, your own system, do you, or the legal system, or county legal system?
I base my reviews on everything I know about everybody, including the work that they've done.
Okay.
So next year when we're looking at our, I'll turn to you and say, did they score?
You scored them an 80 pull meter and there's still an 80.
That's why you put them in there or not?
It's good.
Well, if it's a firm that's doing current work, then I'm going to look at what the work has been and the results have been and the price and the results and all sorts of things.
Yes.
The reason why I bring it up is because I always get told that, you know, that they're the, I'm looking back on as a councilman that, you know, we had the best accounting firm that money could buy.
That was the best, the best, the best.
Until finally they decided they're bringing somebody else and all of a sudden they became the best and they saved us money.
I say that if I was reviewing and looking, I'll trust your judgment.
I don't know any of these firms.
I don't know about that.
I know some of them, but I don't really know them, but I'll rely on them next year.
You know, I would like to see you're going to come back and say, hey, this law firm was successful course.
It was great.
And I'm very happy with it for this reason.
I will ask that.
Because I saw all their names were filled in.
And I do, it's not the individual, but one thing concerns me that some are just seeing the list of the boards, that their terms on these boards some are five years.
I know we ourselves have a three year term and it's a term, a rollover.
But why does any board have longer terms than the actual members of this body?
So let's say this year we put the gentleman on the CCIA and he has a five year term.
We forget me, but every member of this board may not have a necessary thing down the road.
They have input into that.
I don't know what the directors there.
Those boards set their years, not us.
Or by statute.
By statute.
And number two is they're staggered.
So every year you're looking at 24 people, so they roll appropriately.
So every board has a chance to take a look and change.
According to just like on this board, not everybody goes away at the same time, so it's staggered.
Okay, that's fine.
I mean, in IE, what statute, their own statute, they've established, the statute established on the CCIA,
why did they establish their own, their statute says five years.
It's not their statute, the CCIA, it's a state statute.
State statute says that all improvement authorities have a five year term.
Ordinarily, I'm going to check that specific one, because it's not statutory, it's in the final list.
I believe that in this particular instance as to improvement authority, without checking it,
I think it's because it's in the statute.
And, of course, it may or may not have to follow the statute.
Well, some questions are autonomous, and they set their bylaws as they saw.
Well, you don't have to control that.
I understand.
But we're appointing members to that board, and so that they're, we're appointing members.
This body's appointing members.
So we have to have some oversight of that board.
So they make all autonomous, all autonomous.
They still have to answer somewhat to this board.
And to have a member chosen, and that's satisfying.
They'll work in another direction.
But I know that we'll get legal support.
Well, let me finish my point.
So know that I'm distressing that any of our committee, it should be looked into
that our boards should be no more than three years,
at least a member, any member on this board,
and have at least another staggered,
but it should still have access or at least be able to change the direction of that board
or have some influence somewhere.
They still answer to the three years of board.
No matter if they're autonomous or not, they're still coming here.
Could you look into it just to make sure that it's true?
You want to look at CCIA?
Yes.
I think it's fine to be determined.
That's the why of that condition.
If that's the idea of the statute, then there'll be another direction.
Well, what I'll do is I'll look at the CCIA and send you that,
and then you can take it from there.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Now I'm going to go with the member,
because for your older cast and me,
we're all in a conflict that, I'm sure,
it's a five-member board, if I'm correct, of CCIA, correct?
Five-member board?
Yes, sir.
If these stains are from the vote, it's a two-two.
It's a two-two.
There's no, there's no time breaker.
So, I mean, there, Mayor Kelly's a very,
there's more to qualify than seven boards.
I wish it was somebody, but bottom line is that he's,
if he abstains from a vote, that ends up as a problem
because you may need a three-two, some of the break that tie.
I don't know who breaks the tie now.
If it ever happens, it may never happen,
but so there is a kind of conflict.
I'll just go even further and sit,
have an elected official sit on the board
that they're autonomous, sit on the board
that oversees economic development throughout the county,
throughout the county.
So, if you have a member that represents a particular city,
just by looking at it, there's a conflict
just by how many projects are being pushed through the CCIA at this time.
So, I mean, again, Mayor Kelly's more than qualifying,
and it's really just that his title as a mayor
is a conflict by itself, not only of voting,
but by the projects that right now
the county is putting through that board.
So, it should be, you know, so I have a problem with that, so...
Thank you.
Any others, really?
Any other questions or concerns?
I just wanted to call forward John Loup
just to review the three resolutions on the bridges
just to go over the projects.
Sure, I know I have a lot of faith
and I know George was working on those projects
and Carol and Jim were there,
but, you know, I did have a question about the one
and you were able to answer, so...
They're very similar projects.
The only difference between a bridge or a cauldron
is the length of the structure itself.
It's over 20 that is a bridge, like Beals Mill,
and we get qualified for the local first aid aid on bridges,
but unfortunately not on cauldrons.
What we're trying to do is get the design and permitting done
and when funding is either available through the bridge funding,
maybe through the state or by local bond,
then we're in a position to do it.
So, we picked similar...
All of our four structures that we have, and they're the ones that we're going to put into these three, or basically the ones that we chose.
What do you see as long the time that you're going to go?
It really depends on the permitting.
It really depends on the permitting. When we've had emergencies, like in Attica, Bridge, Culver, you know, they turn around the apartments.
Actually, if you recall, we went to the public bid and did the prefab structure first.
But we were doing the design of permitting, so we had the structure ready to go when we got the permits.
Permits are usually the wild card, they can take anywhere from six months to two years, and sometimes longer.
That's by municipality or by the state?
By the state, the DEP is usually the biggest lag time on that.
So that's the wild card there, depending on if they find endangered species or critical habitat or get state historic preservation office involved.
Like it done in Bridgeston, it can really lag some of the time.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Before you sit down, I was amazed when I first, in 1983, I got followed works department.
Tell everybody how many Bridges there are.
Oh my God, Bridge.
And Culver.
Culver is 700.
Bridges, what were they meant about the Bridges?
I actually forget the numbers.
493.
Culver?
540 miles a road.
The number of Bridges I have to get back to you.
I mean, I don't know, when we look at Bridges, look at the Marstown Bridge, that's a bridge.
I'm absolutely alarmed by it being bottled up.
It's right around 20 feet or more, it becomes a bridge.
Even though it's just flat, it's top.
And we're actually in pretty good shape compared to other counties where there's a backlog for the bridge funding.
We're trying to progress the public where we're up to date.
It was an interesting speed in Bridges last night.
We were all in the South Jersey pre-order meeting.
K-Head County, it was a unbelievable amount of millions of dollars that they have to put aside for their Bridges, but they haven't.
They get a lot of the effort.
They supplement the funds, unlike the county, which is a good thing.
They use a lot of their tax dollars towards it, where we primarily use state agencies.
56 billion in rateables, we have 8.6 billion.
Stay on topicals, I'm sorry.
The companies work hard for that.
You feel comfortable dealing with those companies?
Yeah, they're very good companies, and we've worked with them before, yes.
Are these companies, when you worked with them for a couple of years now?
Actually, I worked with both companies over 20 years.
They've been here or with Nobel?
Yes.
Do you anticipate any, I mean, are you not really anticipating the issues with these Bridges?
They're pretty straightforward.
They're particular parts of this project.
In every project you see, everybody, we don't anticipate major problems going in now.
Do you, the Bridges, and I don't know if Ms. Bridges would mention it,
is there any issue with that Bridges we should know about, that it's being dealt with,
or is it the county's deal with it?
It's an accounting project, first off.
The Brownington Road Bridge?
Yeah, the, I don't know, the street.
I know, coming out of Irving, it's the first street you hit.
The recent one, they've been down, they checked our elevations,
they permitted our design, they've checked our elevations for free, the pre-existing to post,
after we built the bridge, and we've checked them.
I don't see the differences that's been mentioned.
And where does DEP, because they came down at the request of Ms. Ridgway?
Okay, just an example, one, not that this project has,
on Amman Street, Amman Road, Violent, Amman and Orchard,
they built the road up, the, I remember being contacted by the neighbors,
the water would run into their yard, heavy.
I mean, I'm literally heavy, talking about a lake out in front of it.
No one would, everybody knew there was a problem,
but no one would admit or do something about it.
In this instance, you basically, you've done, you've gone out there at different times,
and you've seen, you've looked at it, and you just said that DEP's looked at it.
So far, it meets the standards of what we've done,
that everything was done.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And you've been out there, all kinds of what, like, I understand,
but it's still in the ring, I think, with even different projects.
So have you been out there?
I don't know what the issue is, so I'm just bringing it up.
I mean, the water levels, you know, last year were relatively high,
but we've had two wet years, and so far it's been...
Every once in a while, did you check on it, did you go by it,
did somebody in your staff in the office, anyone?
I mean, we were checking on it very regularly there.
You know, when it was just completed,
and when the complaints were made not as often recently.
I'll tell you, good questions, but he's got a whole list of things,
so you might want to review that.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we'll throw in things.
I appreciate that.
I'll pass the answer.
Sure.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thanks.
We've got a motion and a second.
Okay.
All right.
Are we doing...
Thank you.
Director, are we voting on all at the same time?
We do.
If you'd like, you know, we vote on all.
Once that's why we do a consensus thing,
if there's something you want to pull out of that one,
I don't know if you want to review that.
The one I'm explaining, the 59, 20, 20, 59,
just that one for the two reasons I talked about,
so we'll pull it out.
I appreciate that.
You abstain?
I abstain.
But no.
You'll abstain.
That's exactly it.
If you have a list of complaints,
we'll catch somebody in the office,
and we can't pull out the list,
and we'll read it then.
Okay.
So we'll just say thank you in 20.
Okay.
You got a real office resolution on the first thing.
That's 20, 20, 59, designating certain county roads
as three streets.
No.
So we're all on the end of 20.
It's the one with the...
C.C.I.A?
Yeah.
C.C.I.A for the term, for the reason it was a term.
Okay.
And also...
C.C.I.A.
...the current conflict.
Got it.
Sorry about that.
That's okay.
Just a fortnight, make sure you have a great one.
No, that's fine.
Okay.
So we have a motion and a second on the floor.
We'll go ahead and do the roll call.
Free Holder Albrecht?
Yes.
Okay.
Except for 20, 2086.
Okay.
Free Holder Castellini?
Yes.
Free Holder Amuso?
Yes.
Free Holder Quinn?
Yes.
Free Holder Sorensi?
Yes.
Deputy Director Barber?
Yes.
Director Guerrero?
Yes.
Chair, you're up.
I'm up.
If people do your finance,
I'd probably just like to welcome,
not to Gorski.
We have a lot of planes coming up for the future.
He has a very great plan for the planning department.
I'm very pleased to be part of that.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
On our cash report,
we started the month of December with 35 million,
698, 713,
and the receipts of 5 million,
149, 147.
And this person is a 12,400,000,
340,000,
That's the unaudited financial statements for the county of Cumberland.
There's section off by fund, maybe a little easier to follow,
what I realized after I printed them, just a mistake of my part.
The schedules that are landscape printed on a portrait and came across long and narrow.
So you need good eyes for some of those.
A little correction.
I sent everyone a PDF so you can look at the PDF in a lot better context.
You open the PDF on a phone.
I need an immediate person to help me print this.
But anyway, they are the unaudited, our auditors have started this week with their outside offices
and told me now they have the schedules and the vaporations to get movement on that.
Any questions on Treasury report?
Last week, Director Durrell said that we have kept a neutral borrowing,
I may not say right, a neutral revenue neutral or a borrowing.
But has we, in the budget, has our rental cost gone up in my budget and where is it on the internet?
Is there any property we pay rent to?
We were paying rent at Fort Nars, we purchased that property.
Is there any other property we don't know that we pay unaware of any other property?
We used to do social services.
We bought that building six years ago.
I'm not aware of any buildings that were renting, but these are financial statements,
they're not going to go into the detail of listing every contract.
It's fine, but there is a really hard item that's in here.
There's a limo for building some grounds, and there's not going to be an itemization of what,
so if I have a special building of grounds, I would say absolutely a breakdown.
Absolutely.
Okay.
I'll move to Treasury report.
I'll second.
Moved and second. All in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Any comments?
For approval reports?
Any dates or anything?
Director, I wanted to mention that Saturday, February 1st,
do you want to say something about that, please?
This Saturday, February 1st, is February 1st,
is the Eagle Festival being held at the Marstown Fire Hall.
It is open from 8 to 4 p.m.
And that day, we have viewing sites along the bay for viewing eagles
with volunteers from Audubon and Citizens United.
And then we have speakers in the Fire Hall with exhibitors,
live raptors, kids' activities.
It's just a full day.
There are trail walks throughout the day,
so you could come multiple times and not catch everything.
You have to decide.
Do you want to see this speaker and then go on this trail walk
or do this trail walk and this speaker and go out to this viewing site?
So it's a full day of activity.
Matt, just the weather's bad.
Is it still on?
It's still on unless there's a blizzard.
And I checked.
I think it's going to be 40 degrees or thereabouts,
maybe a little overcast, but we should be fine.
It should be good eagle weather.
That's right.
There's also a number of vendors that are there.
You can go and take a look at it.
There's a couple of wildlife photographers there.
It has some really interesting and unique work.
There's a lot of informative tables in regards to various agencies
about the state that deal not just with eagles,
but also all of the kind of wildlife as far as
forestry preservation and things like that.
So I've been down in our last five or six years.
It is interesting.
It's a fun day.
Yeah.
What's a typical trail walk?
Two hours long.
They run about an hour, 40 minutes to an hour.
Yeah.
Great.
Thank you.
Thanks Matt.
Any other comments from anyone?
Yes.
Just to mention, I probably went through the numbers,
but the library said the project is coming along.
They're, I don't know, I'm learning the timeframe,
but they've gotten most of their funds.
They're probably going to come to the free water board
with support board if we haven't provided support already.
They have mostly ducks in a row.
It'd be interesting that once they,
I don't know if they've made a pitch of what they've done.
But when they're done, kind of outline what they outlined
and how these libraries are going to be reshaped
and formatted better to meet the needs of going forward
in the future.
And it's going to be one of the big things that go down
is the prisoners that reintroduce themselves
into the world.
The library is going to play a kind of a role
in helping them move forward.
And also,
They do have another children's focal point allowing their patient to kind of be more accessible.
I hope I'm saying all this right because I had to do it real quick.
You guys know what I'm sorry about, right?
And the second, the historical side, do you want to add anything to them?
I guess not. With the application period coming up on, it's going to be, I believe, March 3rd through April 3rd.
It's coming, so you don't know if you can ask more details on it.
The historical side, they're actually planning, Jack, I hope I got the number you were there longer than I was,
with a $2 million expansion to it that they raised, they're going to raise all privately.
I apologize, I was late to Jack.
Well, we got two meetings based on what you said.
I left so I can get down to that.
Jack called me for that one. They seemed very highly organized when I was there and it's really neat what they described.
You guys, again, probably more familiar than I am with the historical side of their operation.
I would kind of say the Board of the Direct Commission, which there's four openings on that commission.
I have some names, I hope Jack has some names that they said they want to rejuvenate, re-invigorate that board.
I hopefully come up with some names and pull it together and make that thing start to move forward.
It'll be on their mat, so if you look in the future, we'll be getting more names with that.
Just have resumes, would be great.
Yeah, not a bad stuff.
People already asked them, let's wait for any confirmation.
I found you two guys for some recommendations.
Also, like the time I would ask, and I talked to Joe about,
there's renewed interest and Joe knows more than anything about the 9-1 center.
I would request that the Board, this Board write a letter to our representatives.
Good.
So the box out there is going to be excellent.
The reality is that our 9-1-1 center is going to kind of strap us a little bit for the next two years.
And we have our senate and assembly ones I know, and I know we have another district on the other side.
We're hitting both of them, correct?
Yes.
We'll see letters to both legislative districts as well, where hopefully people will know
and try to understand that our one center is going to cost the two years of capital improvements.
The funding is going to go towards it, which is going to, I think,
and probably what you guys know, that it probably handicaps us a little bit and it shouldn't.
It should actually be, this is exactly what we all pay, all of us pay here,
to do just that upgrade 9-1-1 communication.
And of course the state of New Jersey sucks that up.
Isn't that something you've been talking about?
Yeah, 90% of the nice 90 cents that is on our telephone bills
is supposed to go directly to municipalities and counties to upgrade their 9-1-1 communication facilities.
New Jersey is the biggest culprit of doing that.
They've redirected $1.2 billion, which is about $120 million per year.
They have been audited by the FCC.
I got the correct term there for the federal government.
They are in the gray area where they send their funds.
About 10% is used.
That 10% of the 90 they divert in 100% comes in.
90% is averted for the general budget.
10% actually goes to something that actually services 9-1 communications.
But the communications that that services is the backbone of the state of New Jersey,
which is still run on copper and everything is particularly outdated.
So some more wealthier counties have basically sidestepped that
because they have a lot more money to pull from.
We unfortunately don't have that.
There were two resolutions put on by our new legislative team,
Senator Tested, in regards to pretty much commanding
that the money being put back in the way it should be.
I know that's been introduced in the past and did not move.
There's a second one from NJAC that's been proposed that says,
look, we've got $120 million coming in every year.
Why don't you divert a percentage of that,
whether it would be $30, $40, $50 million to go to each county,
or not to go to each county,
but divvied up to $2 or $3 million for each county and moved forward from that.
The solution that came out of one committee was,
we've had nine more cents on to the bill, which is absurd.
So again, NJAC has been very vocal.
Saptors and Feelers have been very vocal.
Our legislative teams have only been very vocal.
So we'll see what this ends up,
but we did get some significant traction
in a press conference last Friday in Trenton,
well attended by the press
and very well attended by state legislators
as well as freeholders from all of the state of New Jersey.
So we'll be able in a couple of times to do this again
and show it to not only us,
but other freeholder boards out of all states.
Appreciate it.
Thank you. Are there comments?
I have one that I'm going to ask you to make,
because you know more about this project than I do,
which is what the prosecutor's office is doing,
or you mentioned it last night at the meeting
of the Child Advocacy Program.
I think that's a great event.
I'd like to get it out to the public so that they know what's going on.
It's a prize of prosecutors, unfortunately, she was here
because they've done a tremendous job
and have listened to her call back a little bit as well.
You were all there.
NJAC was there for the opening of the new Child Advocacy Facility
and it's basically a child payment.
It's set up to meet the needs of a child
who's going through some trauma,
significant trauma that they need to have a safe place to go
and all those interviews have occurred
and all these things, but when you go in there,
it's beautifully laid out with murals that were painted by children,
by students.
The furniture is all their size, my size.
That kind of works.
Thanks to Jimmy and yours group for not mistaking,
they made a nice little courtroom.
It's their size so that they can be exposed to that
so they're not intimidating when they're put in that kind of situation.
The interview rooms are all set up for children
so that they can feel comfortable as through their family.
We've done a great job moving forward with that
and I've got to give those to the prosecutor,
to the police department, to Jimmy and you and John.
All the work that went into that, it really,
it's going to be effective listening to the experts
to have the interview and deal with those kind of situations.
They are ecstatic that they have a place now
where they can really be able to make that,
they can feel comfortable and be able to do what they need to do
to try to make sure they make their way through the process.
Did I cover it okay?
Thank you, director.
I have to talk to our solicitor about,
since we've had the college, we've been in Bridgeton,
we've taken over our community college,
we're always moving.
The idea that the county should be open
and we talked about how,
so I just want to let the board know about interns,
allowing more interns to work
and our, with our county, our professionals.
We've published some procedures that just talked,
just generalities, but I think I'm just saying it out loud
that it should be something that should be encouraged
because we have a lot of skill that could be provided to us
and whatever comes up with a lot of skill provided to us
to help our professionals do greater things.
So I'm just throwing that out there.
Thank you.
We've had this question about that,
and I think you had some professionals here
this past couple of years.
Yeah, I was going to say because I know when my twins went to college,
they actually did internship with the County Postal Securities Office.
So they did it for I think six or seven weeks.
There's some reschedulers for that.
So when we talked about where they're at,
I'll wrap it up and I'll talk about it today,
we're going to be trying to set up a procedure and a program
with the requirements we need to meet in order to do it
without running a follow-up waiting hour.
So we're going to try to firm this up
so that we can present it then in a while.
With all due respect, one more thing.
Just to say that our director is now a member
of the State Board of Directors
and we'll be going up the stairs to the New Jersey Association
Accounts President in the future.
So along with Kim Wood and I,
we had the opportunity to be there.
We were swearing in this morning by Senator Testa
and it was a very nice day in Trenton and congratulations.
And we look forward to having more representation from the south.
We have two officers from the south now saying our director
will fight very hard for coming up.
President Murray Hayes, free order out of Capeman County.
And we also have pre-order lucid now.
What's president, correct?
South Jersey Freedom Association.
So we continue to try to stay active
and represent our county in southern New Jersey
for the best of our ability.
And that's it.
I'll entertain a motion to open up the public comment
for a new business.
So moved.
Second.
All in favor.
Aye.
We want you to address the pre-order board
for some new business pretending to come to the county.
Feel free to move to the microphone and state your name
and try to leave your comments to approximately five minutes.
Good evening.
I'm Nancy Ridgeway from Upper Deerfield
and Fairfield Townships.
I want to start by talking about a public notice
that was advertised in the newspaper.
It was in November.
And it was from the Mosquito Control Commission.
And we're going to be doing a project.
And we're going to be cleaning out a stream
of bare-branch between Beechwood Drive,
Brewster Road, Vandus Avenue,
and Eastwood Drive and vinyl.
We're going to be using heavy equipment and manual labor.
And they have, in their legal ad,
all of the latin blocks that might be affected
by this stream cleaning.
And you flooded my property
and I wasn't notified that I was going to get flooded.
And I want you to know tonight that I'm still being flooded.
One inch of rain just streams over fans.
I'm flooded.
I don't get an alert from the National Weather Service
that a small stream is flooding.
Can you tell me you've done everything right?
I went in at the bridge.
I went in the water at the bridge.
And I know it's not right.
So, it brings me to the reorganization.
January the 2nd.
I got sworn in.
Took you to the office.
Very nice presentation.
And I was very disappointed with something that happened
in that courtroom
by one of the officials from the Democratic Party.
At the beginning of the meeting,
Ms. Wood said, everybody, please take your seats.
You had seats reserved for family members
in front of the courtroom.
I did not see no other seats reserved.
I did not see any signs on the wall
saying that the D's sit on this side
and the R's sit on that side.
After you're elected,
I believe politics is over with.
You said that you're going to do it
under the authority of the people.
You didn't say the Democrats.
You didn't say the Republicans.
See, someone came into that courtroom late with a lady.
And the lady took a seat
on the road that I was sitting on.
The gentleman went on the other side of the courtroom.
A few minutes passed,
and the gentleman came back over.
One of your officials
told the lady,
you're sitting on the wrong side.
Well,
I didn't know there was a right side and the wrong side.
And I was offended.
Personally.
I don't think this board acts like that.
I really don't.
So when you have your next Democratic Committee meeting,
I want you to bring it up.
Please address.
Please.
I don't ever want to be in a courtroom again.
And here's somebody tell another person
you're sitting on the wrong side.
So,
you took your oath of office
and you said that you were going to serve the public.
That's your position.
November the 26th, 2019,
passed the resolution in 2019,
678th.
Given yourselves a $7,000 adjustment
for the salaries starting January 1st.
And we're going to get yearly adjustments every year. That was a pretty big percentage increase.
The president of the CCIA, he got a 12% raise. That wasn't too bad. I think he'd done better than 12%, because it's almost 50%.
And I'd like to know what your annual increase is going to be.
Because I know a few years ago, some of the officials got $500 at the end of the year.
So are you going to be getting a raise of $500 every year, or is it going to be 2%, 1%? What kind of percentage?
Correct, but typically, 1% raise is 2%.
Thank you, $500, that's what we get.
Thank you.
Do you want me to make a sheet of clothes?
Second.
So we'll close, all in favor?
Aye.
Yeah, sure, I would be happy to.
Yes, I sat on the pre-order board in 1993, or 83, as when I was first elected.
And what had happened over that period of time, in 1989, I was the director of the board.
We were at $15,000.
And also, ladies and gentlemen, at that time, every member of that pre-order board received full family benefits.
So what ended up happening somewhere between the time I got off in 1991, and when I came back on, the benefits were done away with.
And the benefits today for the family plan are at least $25,000, I believe, in that neighborhood.
And that's only because we went to the Omni program.
So the board, actually, when I got on, when I was on in 1991, I was receiving compensation then for medical, family medical.
I googled, it was about $5,000.
So in 1991, I was receiving, as were all the other free-holders, compensation of $20,000.
And as I say, sometime in the early 2000s, the board decided they wanted to do away with family medical, which was fine, I understand that.
My argument has been, for 30 years, 30 years, this board has received not one dime, and it went backward $5,000.
So to say it's $22,000, yeah, it is.
But if you take $22,000 over 30 years, the increase was really only $2,000, because I received compensation in 1991 at $20,000.
So $2,000 in 30 years, and let me tell you, all of these free-holders work very, very hard, and we put a lot of time and effort into it.
But it's not so much us.
It's what is the position worth, what this entire free-holder board, any free-holders, should be making in compensation.
And that, I think, is very fair.
And yes, it looks like a big raise, but if you listen to what I just said to you, it's peanuts over 30 years period of time.
Any other?
Not, we have no executive session tonight?
No, sir.
Any motion to adjourn?
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Anybody opposed to that?
Thank you.