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SHELDON HOFSTEIN – 48 BALTUSROL DRIVE – Mr. Hofstein stated the last 2 weeks he worked as a poll worker for the early voting and for the Election Day. Thanked Council for getting us out of there early that night and it was widely accepted by the public. He stated he thinks we had about 50% more voters came out for early voting than they anticipated but what he noticed that while he was there and instead of working at one polling district you see almost everybody in town come through. He noticed how the town has changed.

He stated he thinks we had about 50% more voters came out for early voting than they anticipated but what he noticed that while he was there and instead of working at one polling district you see almost everybody in town come through. He noticed how the town has changed. Mr. Hofstein spoke to some of the leaders of the group there is a new resident’s data stated there are approximately 3,000 children under the age of 5 that will be starting school which creates a huge need for private religious schools in Jackson. He knows he bought this up before but it is important that the Council starts planning for this. He mentioned school zones and Council President Kern said at previous meetings that because of the lawsuits the Council wasn’t getting involved in establishing new zones or changing some of the other zones. He asked if this is on a Court order that’s presenting you or is it your own reason for not doing this. Council President Kern stated it’s not his own reason it’s not a court order. It is working together with the community and the litigants to come up with something that works and can be constitutionally sound. This is something we’ve spent time on; please do not think that we spend no time on this. This body up here has spent a tremendous amount of time and invested many hours in these things; however while we’re up through this litigation we’re working through that process to have the right to produce the right document. Mr. Hofstein hopes that at the same time while you’re not coming out with any new ordinance or zoning changes or somewhere you’re working on this. When you resolve the problem you have something go in affect that day. Mr. Hofstein stated in previous meetings there were discussions about hiring an attorney with expertise and religious land use law and asked have you been working on that. Council President Kern stated yes, there’s not an announcement to make at this point, however that is something that has been worked on. Mr. Hofstein stated that at the meetings every candidate for Council promises open government when seeking office and most council meetings that we’ve had recently and he could go back many years when you had the whole room filled and meetings lasted past midnight. Most of the meetings last about half an hour expect when there are police promotions or hirings where some residents come down to complain about quality of life issues. He would like to make a suggestion like tonight you have 5 ordinances that were read in first reading. What he thinks would be helpful at first reading just to let the public know why the ordinance is needed and what it contains and how the members should explain why they’re voting in favor of it’s just an open discussion creates an open government and most of us see the highlight and have no clue about; why you’re decreasing or increasing the speed or what the other awareness means. He just hopes that you would just do that. It won’t take long but just to explain to everybody.

MOTION TO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT ON ANY TOPIC BY: CHISHOLM MOTION SECONDED BY: BORRELLI YES: BORRELLI, CHISHOLM, FLEMMING, KERN ABSENT: SAUICKIE

MOTION TO ADJOURN BY: BORRELLI MOTION SECONDED BY: CHISHOLM YES: BORRELLI, CHISHOLM, FLEMMING, KERN ABSENT: SAUICKIE

7:57 P.M.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

COUNCIL PRESIDENT KERN