PRINCETON TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE AGENDA

Monday, June 25, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

Princeton Township Municipal Complex

400 Witherspoon Street

 

STATEMENT CONCERNING NOTICE OF MEETING

 

ROLL CALL

 

Minutes

May 21, 2007, June 18, 2007

 

1.  CONSENT AGENDA – Contains items of a routine nature, which are approved by a single vote.

a.        Bills & Claims

 

b.       Maintenance/Performance Guarantees

*   Princeton University - Lawrence Apartments – Completion Time Extension for the Maintenance Guaranty Agreement to August 31, 2007.

*  Princeton Day School - Facility Housing – Extension of Cash Maintenance Guaranty to July 15, 2007 so that the necessary landscaping inspection may be completed.

*  Thompson Land, Provinceline Woods, All Phases, Completion time extension to August 31, 2007.

*  Mike Moskowitz, In Roam Development/Petro Oil (T-Mobile),- Completion Time Extension to

 December 1, 2007 to complete landscaping items.

 

c.        Raffle Applications: 

- National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Mid-Jersey for a raffle to be held on October 10, 2007 at Jasna    Polana.  Proceeds benefit people living with MS and to end the devastating effects.

- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation for a raffle to be held on September 10, 2007 at  Jasna Polana.  Proceeds to benefit the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

 

d.  Resolution: 2007-2008 Liquor License Renewals

 

e.  Music Amplification Requests:

     - Anne Marie Schur, for a party to be held at 47 Olden Lane on June 30, 2007, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

     - Trinity Counseling Service for the Bastille Day Ball to be held on July 14, 2007 at Drumthwacket from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

 

            f.  Resolutions:

- RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF LOAN AGREEMENTS TO BE EXECUTED BY THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, IN THE COUNTY OF MERCER, NEW JERSEY AND EACH OF THE NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF AN ESCROW AGREEMENT, ALL PURSUANT TO THE 2007 NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST FINANCING PROGRAM

 

- RESOLUTION DETERMINING THE FORM AND OTHER DETAILS OF NOT EXCEEDING $2,100,000 GENERAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SERIES 2007, OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, IN THE COUNTY OF MERCER, NEW JERSEY, AND PROVIDING FOR THEIR SALE TO THE NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY PURSUANT TO THE 2007 NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST FINANCING PROGRAM.

 

g.       Resolutions of Support:

-  NJDOT, Centers of Place Grant Application, Stony Brook Bridge and Trail System

                  - NJDOT, Bikeways Grant Application, Stony Brook Bridge and Trail System

 

h.       Resolution: 2007 Salaries

 

 

 i.    2007 Smart Growth Planning Grant Project Agreement with Princeton Borough and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission to collaborate with the Princeton Environmental Commission to develop an Environmental Resource Inventory for the two municipalities.

 

2. RESOLUTIONS:  ASSESSMENT CONFIRMATION HEARINGS

-                      Grover Avenue Sidewalk

-                      Clearview Avenue Sidewalk

-                      Tee-ar Place Sidewalk

-                      Dorann Avenue Curbing

 

3.  ORDINANCE PUBLIC HEARINGS

- AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING LEGALIZED GAMES OF CHANCE AND AMENDING THE “CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1968”*

 

-  BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AS A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF SIDEWALKS ALONG MACLEAN CIRCLE BY THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $32,000.00 THEREFOR, PROVIDING FOR THE FINANCING OF SAID APPROPRIATION BY THE MAKING OF A DOWN PAYMENT AND ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF SAID TOWNSHIP AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT OF FIFTY (50%) PERCENT OF THE COST THEREOF * (carried from June 11, 2007)

 

- BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AS A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF SIDEWALKS ALONG WITHERSPOON STREET, BOTH SIDES, FROM THE PRINCETON BOROUGH LINE TO VALLEY ROAD BY THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $9,725.00 THEREFOR, PROVIDING FOR THE FINANCING OF SAID APPROPRIATION BY THE MAKING OF A DOWN PAYMENT AND ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF SAID TOWNSHIP AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT OF FIFTY (50%) PERCENT OF THE COST THEREOF* (To be carried to July 16, 2007)

 

- BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AS A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT SEWER LATERAL REPAIRS BY THE PRINCETON SEWER OPERATING COMMITTEE OF DEFECTIVE SEWER LATERALS INVOLVING PROPERTIES LOCATED ALONG CLOVER LANE, SOUTH OF ABERNATHY DRIVE AND DEER PATH WITHIN THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $110,000.00 THEREFOR, PROVIDING FOR THE FINANCING OF SAID APPROPRIATION BY THE MAKING OF A DOWN PAYMENT AND THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF SAID TOWNSHIP AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT OF 100% OF THE COST THEREOF UPON THE BENEFITTED PROPERTY OWNERS*

 

- BOND ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AS A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT THE INSTALLATION OF BELGIUM BLOCK CURBING ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF CLOVER LANE BETWEEN OVERBROOK DRIVE AND ABERNATHY DRIVE, APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $46,000.00 THEREFOR AND PROVIDING FOR THE FINANCING OF SAID APPROPRIATION BY THE MAKING OF A DOWN PAYMENT AND THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF SAID TOWNSHIP AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT OF ONE HUNDRED (100%) PERCENT OF THE COST THEREOF*

 

4.  ORDINANCE INTRODUCTION

- AN ORDINANCE BY THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON REGULATING MOTOR VEHICLE TURNING MOVEMENT ON HILLSIDE AVENUE AND CHERRY VALLEY ROAD AND AMENDING THE “CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1968”

 

- bond ordinance authorizing as a local improvement the repair or replacement of sidewalks along philip drive, hemlock circle and woodside lane by the township of princeton, appropriating the sum of $92,500.00 therefor, providing for the financing of said appropriation by the making of a down payment and issuance of bonds and notes  of said township and further providing for the special assessment of fifty (50%) percent of the cost thereof.

 

- bond ordinance providing for various capital improvements of the township of princeton, in the county of mercer, new jersey, appropriating the aggregate amount of $2,303,209 therefor and authorizing the issuance of $1,745,665 bonds or notes of the township to finance part of the cost thereof.

 

- AN ORDINANCE BY THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON CONCERNING VIOLATIONS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING RULES AND REGULATIONS AND AMENDING THE “CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1968”

 

5. Comments from the audience

 

6.  REPORTS

 

7.   CLOSED SESSION

        Litigation

               

8.   ADJOURNMENT

                                                                                                                                                            

* Previously Distributed