The Franklin Township Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 7 p.m. The meeting included commendations, a grant presentation, public comments, and the adoption of a consent agenda comprising 20 resolutions. Key topics included tree planting initiatives, the Franklin Township Youth Center, job training programs, and responses to resident concerns.
All consent agenda items were approved unanimously, with Deputy Mayor Embarrasson recording a vote of yes.
Council is called to order. Madam Clerk. Okay. In accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act of the State of New Jersey, adequate notice of this work session regular meeting of the Franklin Township Council was made by the posting on the bulletin board in the municipal building. The township website electronically transmitted to the officially designated newspapers, indicating that this work session regular meeting would take place in the municipal building. Council chambers at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And thoughts, the infinite love and mercy, graciously grants us disrunt on the power in all in our thoughts on decisions to be for the benefit of all people at all times. Amen. Yes. Councilwoman Francois here. Mayor Kramer. Here. Councilman Ami Jaka. Yes. Councilmember Batasna? Present. Councilwoman Pruitt? Here. Councilwoman Udean? Here. Councilman Vasanella. Councilman White. Thank you. We have proclamations and commendations. March Marcus McParland. Good evening, everyone. This evening we want to recognize a young man from our township. He's 14 years old. Marcus McFarland. He's just got into high school, a freshman at Notre Dame. What he has done is amazing. I'm going to show you this book. He put this book together over a last 18 months. When he was in the eighth grade, okay. This is amazing work. What he did was he lives in Grigstown section of our town. So it was a class project to do a uh pro uh to to do something in in the community that you live. So he kind of came up with this idea. He looked for any materials on Greek town in the library, couldn't find anything, and he said he's going to make that as a uh part of his um not Greystown, I'm sorry. Kingston, Kingston. Um make a part of his uh school project and and put this book uh on uh Kingston history and he has got lots of materials here. Want to recognize him today. Um I read some of it, some sections of it. Um fascinating stuff. He has got uh any everything from in taverns, hotels, uh homes and historic sites, and people and how they lived, artifacts, very interesting, and then uh some uncovered secrets. Who done it? Uh unsolved mysteries, unsolved mysteries, and of course, public records from right from Civil War to World War One and World War II. So it's a nice collection of uh materials, uh most interesting.