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As Clerk of this meeting, I publicly announce that in compliance with the provisions of the “Open Public Meetings Act” adequate notice of this meeting of the Jackson Township Council has been advertised in the manner prescribed by law.
ANNOUNCEMENT: CLERK KISTY RE: JUNE COUNCIL MEETING DATES: The Council Meeting Dates for June, 2021 are June 15 and June 29, 2021, due to the Primary Election to be held with in-person voting on June 8, 2021. Polls will be open on June 8 from 6:00AM to 8:00PM.
COUNCILMAN BORRELLI- He was thrilled to see the front page of the Jackson Times showing the Eagle Scout Project on the Jackson Children’s Trail, which is adjacent to the Jackson Jungle playground. His grandkids call it the ‘wooden park’. It was an honor and a pleasure to meet the people behind the ideas for the trail - the enterprising young man and Eagle Scout, Matt McCall, and his family; Karen Walzer, the chairperson for the Jackson Pathfinders, as well as other Pathfinders, Eagle Scouts and volunteers. I am thankful for their vision and hard work on the Jackson Children’s Trail for kids and also adults to enjoy for years to come.
Thanked Council President Kern as well as his colleagues on the Township Council for their supporting efforts. He encourages our fellow residents to visit and walk the trail, which includes informational signs of different animals such as whitetail deer, and a couple of benches are also located around the trail. There is a cool entrance sign to the trail as well; Matt McCall and others were responsible for putting up that sign. A native New Jersey bush, the Mountain Laurel, was also planted and several different painted birdhouses were placed around the trail. His five-year-old granddaughter Ellie helped with the placement with the help of the Jackson Pathfinder volunteers. I think it’s a great example of what community is all about - caring volunteers giving their time to help out in their town, coming together to work on enhancing a natural beautiful resource that we have in Jackson, which is a rural and woodsy environment.
The summer-like weather is here and he encourages our fellow residents to get out and enjoy our town’s many parks, playgrounds and recreational areas like the Jackson Children’s Trail and the Jackson Jungle playground, which is across from the trail at 2 Jackson Drive. In our town in the Justice Complex near the Police Station and the Ocean County Library; the Jackson playground in our town was named recently one of the best playgrounds in our town in all of New Jersey according to njmom.com. It is nice to have that distinction for our town and throughout the State.
COUNCILMAN CHISHOLM- Wanted to remind everyone that we’re all excited for summer and Memorial Day weekend, its unofficial start. This year will be different - there will be an extra large number of people down at the Jersey Shore. If you think that traffic is normally bad, just remember that people have forgotten how to drive since Covid so please be extra careful on the roadways. We want to make sure everybody has a fun time down at the Jersey Shore, but we want to make sure that everybody is safe.
Memorial Day is for picnics, fun and the time with our family and friends, but we don’t often think about the real reason we celebrate Memorial Day. If you have the opportunity to take your kids out there to get to a parade somewhere, possibly visit a cemetery and explain to them what Memorial Day is all about and while it’s great, we should recognize our Veterans that are still out there and those that have served. This holiday is actually to