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litigation. An appropriate Stipulation of Settlement as approved by the Township Attorney in order to resolve this litigation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the following: Janice Kisty, RMC, Gregory P. McGuckin; Terence Wall, and Irina Darrar, Recycling Coordinator.
DATED: 12-21-2021
RESOLUTION 447R-21
Peter Van der Kooy-Stated he is a licensed professional Planner in the State of New Jersey who is involved with the amendments to the rehab plan or the rehabilitation program manual. Stated that they had updated the manual originally just to modernize what is in place from the predecessor's consultant. There was some language that was not with the current model. We adapted it for the Township specifically and included all the customization that Council had in the program previously but there were some minor changes based on the Court Master's this afternoon that's the reason for his interruption and basically 90 plus percent of them were grammatical in terms of word choice. There were a small handful that he would like to put it in the record that were substantive nothing that is groundbreaking but essentially there's a subordination clause in the document in the previous manual and the language that was recommended the change essentially goes from where it's at the Township will agree to the subordination of a loan. If the mortgage company supplies an appraisal showing that the new loan plus the balance on the old loan does not exceed 95% it was strengthened in favor of the Township and the program to state that the Township will consider requests to subordinate the program. Mortgage to subsequent financing or refinancing in all cases the property owner; must supply information on the new financing and it goes on to say essentially that the Township Attorney would ultimately review it and provide a recommendation. There's a little more flexibility in the process for a decision making on the part of the Township. Cost estimating the language- the language was changed, where there's a cost right up that's completed as part of the estimating process before it stated it could only include eligible repairs now it states not only that but it cannot include ineligible repairs because before you could potentially get a mixing were eligible and ineligible. The other things are very minor is the amount of payments before payments could be provided to a contractor 45%, 50% and 10% complete that was changed to 4 at 40% at 60%.
Wanted to make sure it was on for a court process, the only one there is an affirmative marking process and there’s an option to use one or the other and the Court Master wanted the Township to know there are many manuals have both options they wanted to be actually one to be selected and the one that’s typically used is the one where you accept an applications and you preliminarily vet them for eligibility. As far as the applicants, you know the housing are concerns and then you do the lottery once you’ve done that you then do the lottery and a small number of units you know if you certify 100 people and you have two units you’re spending way more than you need to so the process we elected was a much more efficient process.
Attorney McGuckin confirmed he will amend the December 7th version with those changes. Attorney McGuckin stated that the resolution is going to be amended as amended as of December 21, 2021.
The new exhibit A prepared on December 7, 2021 would state as amended on December 21st 2021 changing the adoption date to December 21st.
Clerk Kisty confirmed if we would be getting new documents.
MOTION TO APPROVE BY: SAUICKIE
MOTION SECONDED BY: CHISHOLM
YES: BORRELLI, CHISHOLM, SAUICKIE, FLEMMING, KERN