The Township made their first attempt at broadcasting a Township Committee meeting on April 6, 2020. After advocating for, over 10 years, for the Township to, at the least, video record the meeting and broadcast on the free township cable channels it took a world pandemic for the decision to go live.
To view this meeting you will have to go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB2F6JWVA3I
The broadcast began unlike any other Township Committee meeting. There was no salute to the flag or a moment of silence for the troops serving worldwide defending our Constitution, Freedoms and Way of Life. The video showed the Committee members very well-spaced apart with the professionals out of view of the audience.
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The first order of business was an ordinance authorizing the township to purchase private property on Hubbard Ave., in the River Plaza section of town. Another ordinance was introduced to acknowledge that the township had no property interest in a portion of Taylor Lane so the developer, American Properties could realign the road and develop the property.
In other business the Committee authorized the repair of the roof of the gym at Croydon Hall, renewed a contract for GPS services for township vehicles, awarded a contract for Special Conflicts Council to McOmber & McOmber, refunded recreational fees for programs that were cancelled due to the pandemic and entered an agreement with Tradition Energy to purchase electricity from them for a period of 2-years,
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In addition to the aforementioned resolutions; the Committee adopted the following resolutions due to the pandemic. The township will not be accepting any cash payments, will waive claimant certifications in certain instances, authorized the use of the storm recovery reserve funds and will allow the use of electronic signatures to sign township documents to reduce the amount of interaction of employees and contact with the documents themselves.
To this day, this meeting has yet to appear on either of the Township free cable access channels for public viewing.
To follow along with the meeting, the agenda, ordinances and resolutions acted upon can be obtained at: https://archive.org/details/4620tcbusiness
