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4 in the UEZ Zone. And you'll note that the funds
5 requested is not the full cost of a vehicle. The
6 full cost of a vehicle is --
7 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: It's less than
8 50 percent. That's -- the cost of a vehicle is
9 going to be around $307,000. Naturally, it has
10 to go out to public bids. We might get it for
11 $30,000 cheaper. Depends how fast we can move
12 the project because the new Federal EPA
13 Regulations are coming in. Once they kick in,
14 that's going to kick the engine up $30,000 just
15 for the engine block itself to meet the new
16 standards. So hopefully we can move this
17 project. The specs are ready. All we have to do
18 is get the funds in and we're ready to move so in
19 January the specs would go out for bid.
20 MR. D'ARCO: And, yes, the City has
21 committed its match.
22 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: The City had
23 helped my department because I was fortunate I
24 was able to get $247,500 from the federal
25 government under the Fire Act. And the City

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1 matched 113,000 to that to purchase the last

2 engine that we just got three weeks ago.
3 MS. KREIPKE: I was going to ask
4 about that. So the other engine that you just
5 procured is a similar cost to this one?
6 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Yes, and we paid
7 360 for that. But that has what's called "phone
8 capability" in it. But we have to take the cost
9 of the new EPA regulation probably $30,000,
10 that's why it's going to go up to 370. But
11 hopefully we get it in there and it would be
12 cheaper than that. So I'm hoping maybe 330,
13 somewhere around there.
14 MS. KREIPKE: Thank you.
15 I have no questions.
16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other
17 questions?
18 MR. ABELAR: Just a marginal
19 question.
20 Is the force volunteered?
21 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: No. It's fully --
22 a career department. A hundred members -- no,
23 we're down to 98 members.
24 MR. ABELAR: Thank you.
25 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other

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1 questions?

2 Hearing none, all in favor please
3 signify by saying "aye."
4 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
6 abstentions?
7 Motion carries.
8 Congratulations.
9 MR. D'ARCO: Thank you.
10 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Thank you so much.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: We will now take
12 Lakewood's two requests. And the first one for
13 639,760 for UEZ Police Officers, Year 12.
14 And Trisha Komsa is going to make a
15 presentation and Mr. Corby.
16 MR. CORBY: Thank you, Madam Chair.
17 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you.
18 MR. CORBY: Good morning everyone.
19 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Good morning.
20 MS. KOMSA: Lakewood UEZ is here
21 seeking 80 percent funding on a municipal
22 services project. This is Year 12 for our UEZ
23 Police Officers. It's six officers, five are
24 daily patrolmen and one Quality of Life police
25 officer. All of which will be for primary patrol

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1 in the downtown business district and our

2 industrial park, all of which is in the Zone, of
3 course.
4 (Authority member Donna Pearson
5 arrives. Time is 10:43 a.m.)
6 MS. KOMSA: Officers are going to be
7 assigned foot, bike and motorized patrol. And
8 they are now working ten-hour shifts. I think I
9 have them here as eight hours. We've had some
10 change in our leaderships, which we'll be
11 forwarding those changes to you.
12 Let's see, our Lakewood UEZ last
13 year added a Quality of Life officer and we found
14 that worked well and we're seeking to fund that
15 officer again. And that officer is basically
16 going to be doing a varied schedule depending on
17 the Quality of Life programs being implemented.
18 And the Quality of Life officer is the law
19 enforcement component of a joint task force in
20 town which includes zoning, code enforcement,
21 public works, engineering, of course, the police
22 department.
23 This request also seeks funding for
24 two Ford Expeditions for patrol within the zone
25 and equipment necessary such as GPS, radio

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1 equipment and the Mobile Vision recording system.

2 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you, Trish.
3 May I have a motion, please?
4 MR. HURD: So moved.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
6 Mr. Hurd.
7 Second?
8 MR. ABELAR: Second.
9 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
10 Mr. Abelar.
11 Any questions, comments or concerns
12 from the Authority?
13 Adrienne?
14 MS. KREIPKE: Yes, I have a
15 question.
16 There's a statement in your
17 application that says there are no outside
18 sources of funds available for funding officers
19 salaries.
20 What does that statement pertain to?
21 MS. KOMSA: Federal and other state
22 monies.
23 MS. KREIPKE: So is your inclusion
24 of that statement saying that you have no other
25 way to fund these individuals except through UEZ

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1 funds?

2 MS. KOMSA: No, no. This would be a
3 supplemental to what the Township already has as
4 far as police officers. We're just looking to
5 add to the force.
6 MS. KREIPKE: But they already are?
7 I mean, this would be a continuation of funding
8 of the officers who are already there?
9 MS. KOMSA: Uh-huh. That's allowing
10 the Township to also bring in new officers by
11 offsetting their budget.
12 MS. KREIPKE: I wasn't sure. But
13 when I read that statement and the previous
14 statement saying that it's a very highly sought
15 after shift, I got the impression that you didn't
16 need as many officers as you have in the zone.
17 MS. KOMSA: If -- our zone is a
18 large zone. It varies populationwise,
19 businesswise between our industrial park and our
20 downtown. At this point, from what I understand,
21 they're actually undermanned for what -- for the
22 amount of calls that they have. So the police
23 department does see this as a plus to be able to
24 bring in these officers and to bulk up the
25 detail.

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1 MS. KREIPKE: What officers are

2 being brought in? I thought this was a
3 continuation of the --
4 MS. KOMSA: It is a continuation.
5 But he would have started 12 years ago, so we're
6 just basically keeping it moving. By allowing us
7 to fund these officers, it frees up their budget
8 money to keep adding to their ranks.
9 D.A.G. BRUCK: I think what she's
10 saying is by funding the officers in the Zone, it
11 allows the municipality to hire additional
12 officers outside of the Zone --
13 MS. KOMSA: Correct.
14 D.A.G. BRUCK: -- and fit that
15 within the municipal budget.
16 But the answer to your first
17 question, I'm not sure because you said, Are
18 there any other monies available. So I guess the
19 answer is there would be, but that you're going
20 to use that money to hire additional officers.
21 MS. KOMSA: Well, as far as --
22 correct. And any additional funding which we are
23 normally asked in our project review is are there
24 other grant monies out there. That's really what
25 that statement is pertaining to, are there other

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1 grant monies. And at this time, no, we're not

2 eligible for --
3 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: There's no
4 Homeland Security or any --
5 MS. KOMSA: Correct.
6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- federal
7 funding?
8 MS. KOMSA: As per our public safety
9 director at the time.
10 MS. KREIPKE: To what would you
11 ascribe the fact that the UEZ office of
12 designation is very highly sought after with
13 senior officers?
14 MS. KOMSA: The senior officers like
15 to patrol. It's generally a foot patrol
16 downtown. A lot of the older officers are more
17 community policing oriented, so they'll go in,
18 they'll talk to the merchants, they do the
19 business checks. With the newer officers,
20 they're on the road, have a tendency to be more
21 proactive. They want to stop cars and all that.
22 So we're finding that older officers do enjoy
23 that walking the beat, so to speak.
24 The way the PBA contract is set up
25 it has to be included in the shift pick. We

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1 can't -- we can't say, Okay, you're a lower payer

2 officer, we're going to pay you. It's by shift
3 pick.
4 MS. KREIPKE: Thank you. No more
5 questions.
6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other
7 questions?
8 MR. ABELAR: One question.
9 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Mr. Abelar?
10 MR. ABELAR: There are four trucks
11 you're buying?
12 MS. KOMSA: Two trucks, two SUVs.
13 MR. ABELAR: Now next year you
14 expect to repeat this purchase or what?
15 MS. KOMSA: For vehicles, no, no.
16 We haven't come to the UEZ for vehicles in
17 probably six, eight years.
18 MR. ABELAR: Thank you.
19 MS. KOMSA: '98.
20 MR. CORBY: These are replacing --
21 if I might, we're replacing two that we purchased
22 through the UEZ in '98.
23 MR. ABELAR: Thank you.
24 MR. MOORE: You have identified the
25 Cranbury 25 firm involved in (indiscernible).

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1 Over the 12 years have you seen them go up or

2 down?
3 MS. KOMSA: We've seen fluctuation
4 as our population's changed, the demographics,
5 businesses coming and going, we've seen it
6 fluctuate.
7 MR. MOORE: In which direction?
8 MS. KOMSA: Up and down. We had
9 years where we were way low, years that it popped
10 back up.
11 MR. MOORE: So what would be the
12 major impact of --
13 MR. CORBY: We first began this
14 program 10 years ago, 11 years ago? Twelve years
15 ago. In the first three years we saw dramatic,
16 dramatic decrease in various crimes, almost
17 one-third over the first three-year period.
18 Since that time it is stabilized. But certainly
19 the presence of these officers, if you will, have
20 maintained a more stable surrounding and
21 circumstance.
22 But initially within the first three
23 years, and I think our statistics have repeatedly
24 shown, that there was a dramatic decrease in
25 various crime incidents.

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1 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Mr. Hurd?

2 MR. HURD: I apologize. What is
3 your position?
4 MS. KOMSA: Urban Initiatives
5 Coordinator.
6 MR. ABELAR: One more comment.
7 I see that last year from Year 11,
8 you came down on the amount requested and I
9 congratulate you, and we hope that Year 13 comes
10 further down.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: We like you to be
12 happy, Mr. Abelar.
13 Counsel has also suggested that I
14 move that Ms. Pearson is here.
15 Before we take a vote, any other
16 questions?
17 Hearing none, all in favor please
18 signify by saying, "aye."
19 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed?
21 MS. PEARSON: Abstention.
22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: One abstention by
23 Ms. Pearson.
24 Anything else? No?
25 All in favor. There you go.

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1 The next item is $50,500 for

2 Blind-To-Go (USA), Inc. Lease Subsidy, 2007.
3 Mr. Corby?
4 MR. CORBY: Thank you, Madam
5 Director.
6 This also is a continuation program.
7 Nineteen ninety-nine we entered into an agreement
8 with Blinds-To-Go to come to Lakewood. That was
9 very heavily endorsed and encouraged by various
10 state agencies, the EDA and the Department of
11 Labor. As part of that entire package, the
12 Lakewood Industrial Commission -- just to give
13 you some background, Lakewood Industrial
14 Commission, which was the owner of the land,
15 leased the 12 acres where the facility was going
16 to be built.
17 Subsequent to that, the Industrial
18 Commission essentially assigned the lease to the
19 Urban Enterprise Zone, the Lakewood Development
20 Corporation. And we, in fact, come before the
21 Board each year to get the money. It is given to
22 Blinds-To-Go to pay the lease on the property.
23 So the arrangement and the agreement was that
24 this would be UEZ money. We give it to the
25 company as subsidy. That money then comes

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1 directly back to the Lakewood Development

2 Corporation in the form of second generation
3 funds.
4 That's basically the history of it.
5 And this is -- it was a 20-year lease I might
6 say. I believe we're in Year 8 or 9.
7 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. May I have
8 a motion, please?
9 MS. PEARSON: So moved.
10 MR. HURD: So moved.
11 MR. ABELAR: Second.
12 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
13 Ms. Pearson; second by Mr. Abelar.
14 Any questions, comments or concerns?
15 Hearing none, all in favor please
16 signify by saying "aye."
17 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
18 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
19 abstentions?
20 Motion carries.
21 Congratulations.
22 MR. CORBY: Thank you very much.
23 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you.
24 Next item we'll take separately.
25 Millville has five requests on the agenda.

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1 The first one for $379,670 for

2 Tourism Marketing Project, Year 4.
3 Don Ayres is with us today.
4 And if you would please identify
5 yourself.
6 MS. LODS: Marianne Lods; that's
7 L-o-d-s.
8 MR. AYRES: Marianne is the
9 Executive Director of the Millville Development
10 Corporation. We have three projects that are
11 really the cornerstone of our annual submissions
12 for the continued revitalization of our downtown
13 arts district and Marianne runs the nonprofit
14 Millville Development Corporation which is also
15 our Main Street Organization.
16 So the first project is for tourism
17 marketing project which is requesting $379,670.
18 And it's really an extremely important component
19 of what we're trying to do in the downtown, and
20 that's to bring more feet onto the street as the
21 mayor likes to say. And that's through a
22 combination of advertising, print, radio,
23 television, billboard, and also special events,
24 cable TV, radio. And Marianne can speak to the
25 different components. We have broken out.

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1 There are visitor brochures

2 advertising in South Jersey and Philadelphia
3 media outlets, the cable TV spots, the regional
4 radio web site advertising. As I said the
5 billboard and special events that bring in around
6 fifty to sixty thousand people a year if you
7 count the third Friday monthly events that we
8 have with open galleries.
9 So as a result of that, and I won't
10 repeat it for every MDC project, but we have over
11 70 new businesses now in a downtown, where six
12 years ago we had a 60 percent vacancy rate and we
13 now have a 5 percent at most vacancy rate.
14 Almost every down or first floor unit was
15 occupied. And we've been successful in turning
16 the image of the downtown around.
17 And we expect to rule out for our
18 adjacent riverfront, which is one block off of
19 the main drag, so to speak, a several hundred
20 million dollar redevelopment plan that will bring
21 mixed use projects in and tie the street grid of
22 the downtown into the riverfront and reclaim old
23 industrial sites and revitalize them. So
24 hopefully that takes the whole effort up to a
25 higher level.

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1 But marketing, getting the word out

2 and having people realize that we have a safe and
3 vibrant and active downtown is certainly an
4 important component of that.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Great, thank you.
6 May I have a motion, please?
7 MS. PEARSON: So moved.
8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
9 Ms. Pearson.
10 Second?
11 MR. HURD: Second.
12 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: By Mr. Hurd.
13 Any questions, comments or concerns?
14 MR. ABELAR: This is the first year
15 you come --
16 MR. AYRES: No, this is Year 4.
17 This is the same amount as we requested last
18 year.
19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay, Mr. Abelar?
20 MR. ABELAR: Yes.
21 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay.
22 Any other questions?
23 Hearing none, all in favor please
24 signify by saying "aye."
25 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.

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1 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any

2 abstentions?
3 Motion carried.
4 Next agenda item is $162,151 for
5 funding for police officers, Year 16.
6 Good morning, and if you would
7 please identify yourself.
8 CHIEF HARVEY: Sure. Ronald J.
9 Harvey, Chief of Police in Millville.
10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Don?
11 MR. AYRES: This is again a
12 continuation project which would fund walking
13 patrolmen in the downtown which has been a
14 long-time component of it. And a second year, I
15 believe, of two riding officers who would handle
16 the balance of the UEZ, which in Millville is
17 over 5,000 acres, includes two industrial parks,
18 includes the interchange area, Routes 47 and 55,
19 if you're familiar with that section of the
20 state. And where we have just last year opened a
21 250,000 square foot new shopping center, and just
22 had the opening of Target and Kohl's, and a new
23 500,000 square foot shopping center. So the
24 needs are increasing for those officers.
25 And the downtown -- I believe we

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1 have a few letters of support for the downtown

2 officers. And that's an ongoing critical need to
3 make those visitors that we're bringing in with
4 the tourism dollars, the marketing dollars, make
5 them feel safe in the downtown. And as I said,
6 the need is growing because this coming year we
7 expect build a new industrial park at our airport
8 which is in the UEZ. And God willing and the
9 creek don't rise, we will have the groundbreaking
10 finally of the New Jersey Motor Sports Park at
11 our airport. So these officers will continue to
12 be very busy.
13 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Great, thank you.
14 May I have motion, please?
15 MR. HURD: Moved.
16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
17 Mr. Hurd.
18 Second?
19 MR. ABELAR: Second.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
21 Mr. Abelar.
22 Any questions?
23 MR. ABELAR: I see you came down
24 from the previous year. I congratulate you and I
25 appreciate that.

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1 MR. AYES: Okay, thank you.

2 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you,
3 Mr. Abelar.
4 Any other questions?
5 MS. KREIPKE: I have just a
6 clarification.
7 In this application, in the
8 statistical information, it says the number of
9 municipal police overall is flat from last year.
10 But in the next two proposals it records it as a
11 growth of one police officer in the municipal
12 police force since last year. I was just
13 wondering which it was.
14 MR. AYRES: I think it's flat.
15 CHIEF HARVEY: Yeah, it's flat.
16 MR. AYRES: It's flat. There may be
17 a count where one went in, one went out and we
18 misstated that, but it's a flat. We're hopeful
19 this year with some new weed and seed money that
20 we can add which we want to do, but that's still
21 up in the air.
22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you.
23 Any other questions?
24 Hearing none, all in favor please
25 signify by saying "aye."

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1 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.

2 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
3 abstentions?
4 Motion carries.
5 MR. AYRES: Thank you.
6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Next item is
7 149,000 for Facade Improvement Program, Year 7.
8 MR. AYRES: Okay. I'm going to ask
9 Marianne to come back up again.
10 You know, in the implementation of
11 the National Main Street Model Program the facade
12 improvements are another important component of
13 the four component program. And this again is an
14 ongoing component of our downtown revitalization.
15 And it consists of several levels of assistance
16 for smaller projects. A 50/50 matching component
17 for projects of next tier up. It's a 40 percent
18 grant, a 40 percent zero interest loan, and a
19 20 percent match by the business.
20 And then the final component which
21 works, and Marianne speak to, through the
22 New Jersey Main Street Program. There are an
23 opportunity for what they call make-over projects
24 which are around 25,000 or --
25 MS. LODS: At least a $25,000

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1 investment with $9,750 grant, $9,750 zero

2 interest loan, the balance by the building owner.
3 And most of those building large rehabs have been
4 in excess of fifty and sixty thousand dollars.
5 So it's been a significant private investment as
6 well.
7 MR. AYRES: We have -- Marianne has
8 brought some if you'd be interested. I know it's
9 a long agenda, but there are some significant
10 projects.
11 MS. LODS: I'd like to show you this
12 one. It's probably one of the most significant
13 ones. Store bought Regional Music has been in
14 town for awhile. If you see the old facade at
15 the top, it's a typical 1950s, put aluminum over
16 everything and make it look ugly. And it is
17 now -- it is complete. And it looks like its
18 original building. It was a theater at one time,
19 and the music store now has a totally renovated
20 facade. They spent $75,000, and the facade
21 program allowed us to give them the $18,750.
22 MR. AYRES: And that's with free
23 architectural help as provided by the New Jersey
24 Main Street Program through the Department of
25 Community Affairs.

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1 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Great.

2 May I have a motion, please?
3 MR. ABELAR: So moved.
4 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by

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