Gloucester Township Observer Podcast – January 27th, 2025

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January 13th Council Meeting Recap.

  • Councilman Nash was missing.
  • Kicked off the meeting with a closed session meeting with a planner and affordable housing representative to discuss our obligation to affordable housing. 
  • Denise Coyne asks why the executive session was held in private.       
    • She isn’t given an answer, because with the new rules the council will address all answers at the end of the session. 
    • They answer Denise with a lot of word salad. 
  • Ordinance 0-25.01 adds late fees and discounts to pet registrations. 
    • $21 for spayed and $24 for not. 
    • PA and MD charge $8
  • A temporary budget was proposed for 2025.

E-Gov

  • David Leader sends in an E-Gov and is reminded that those will count against his limited time in the 2nd Public Portion. 
    • He would like to know the definition council has of a straw poll.  Instead of answering his question, they push it off to the end of the public portion. 
      • This prevents him from countering their answer with any comment or questions. 
      • This also prevents Dave Leader from asking a question in person.
  • Dave is allowed to speak this one time and asks that we could develop an action items list to update each meeting. CLIP 8 Orlando later answered he’s take it into consideration. 
  • Brian Burns gave an update that the Hayes property is going to be preserved. 
  • Denise and the GT Observer family will provide their own set of council standards available at GT Observer.   Orlando thanked her for the report. 
  • Dani Paris says there are marijuana dispensaries being put in GT without council discussion.      All dispensaries that are currently open have been discussed on this podcast. 
  • Dani also would like to know about the Street Cop training that she says GT spent 1 Million dollars on.    As previously discussed on this podcast, no GT officers were at this training.

Polling of Directors

Everyone else might have said something but all we could hear is mumbling because their microphones can’t be as loud as Mercado’s. 

The Chief comes up to congratulate everyone and give some updates. CLIP 12

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