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don’t come in for an extension they lose it, but if they apply for the extensions it could be up to twenty years.

SHAWN STACKER – 20 SHORT HILLS: Mentioned that he’s one of the Petitioners against 10-09. He mentioned he feels the girls’ softball made a mistake by not attending the meeting where the Ordinance was discussed and passed. We were told by the Mayor and Councilman Martin not to come to the meeting. Councilman Martin replied when I saw that Ordinance on the agenda, I pulled it to give you an opportunity to come here and make your case.

MEREDITH ACACIA – ASPEN COURT: She has two sons and a daughter one son plays in Little League and her daughter plays softball and on the same weekends one is cancelled and one is playing. This involves many families in town and she wants to know what's being done to give the girls an opportunity to make up games. She mentioned this weekend Saturday and Sunday games were cancelled and she has not played a game for three weeks. Council Vice President Rivere discusses Mr. Beja coming in and trying to work this out. She stated that she and the Mayor would be more than happy to sit down and discuss these issues.

MR. DEMINO – TREASURER OF JACKSON LITTLE LEAGUE - 3 NANCY COURT: He mentions that everyone is aware of the problems with the girls’ fields. He discussed the fact the Little League lobbied to be able to maintain their own fields. I’ll agree that the girls’ fields need improvement. If any one in the town needs a field they (Little League) get it. Councilwoman Updegrave mentions that she would have like to be on a family emergency. She mentions on the meeting date she was not available due to a family emergency. Mr. DeMino stated basically the way the petition was put out there is “do you want the girls to have the same playing conditions as the boys.” Councilman Martin asks if there are specific fields designated for the girls. Mr. DeMino replied yes, there are.

PATRICIA WOOD – DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS: I’d like to let Council know that until four weeks ago we were not getting correspondence about these problems with the field conditions. Our senior groundskeeper has been checking on the field conditions regularly and we are doing our best to improve the conditions. Administrator Del Turco stated the Public Works Director did contact me and because of all the rain it has been difficult to maintain the fields but they have been trying to get caught up.

DAN GROSS – 18 POINTE CIRLE: Does anybody know how many houses were not built because of the three-acre zoning? Council President Kafton stated it was estimated about three thousand, but I have nothing in front of me. Mr. Gross asked about the asked about the Tree Ordinance do we know what that cost Jackson. Council President Kafton replied he did not have that information in front of him but the Tree Ordinance collected over a million dollars. Mr. Gross replied did it cost us that much to do the Ordinance? Council President Kafton responds no. Mr. Gross inquired about an article he read concerning cutting back on professional service fees and has it been done? Councilman Tilis replied that he just pointed out how much we spent last year and this year. Mr. Gross asked what is the purpose of the Precious Metal Ordinance? Council President Kafton stated if someone gets robbed, also they cannot just go and sell the gold/metals they need to provide their identification in order to sell the product.

ANTHONY BEJA – 649 TOMS RIVER ROAD: I just want to address 10-09, the petition, it was not meant to hurt anyone. As the fields were funded with taxpayer dollars I believe that giving a private self-funded organization a lease for 25 years is wrong. He then stated that Mr. Martin keeps bringing up the savings, if Little League didn't play 700 games on those fields how much would the Town have to spend to maintain the fields? If Little League didn't have a lease on those fields would the Township have to pick up the fee for maintaining those fields? Councilman Martin replied this has been covered, you may not like the answer. A decision was made a couple of years ago that would benefit the Town, we support every sports league in the Town. Public Works has many jobs in Town and maintaining the fields is not one of them. Mr. Beja stated he reviewed the lease and it doesn't seem like a good deal to anyone.