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COUNCILMAN BORRELLI – Within just the last month there have been 2 devastating house fires in our town one was on Harmony Road and the other one on Lehigh Boulevard; which claimed the life of 82 year old Sally Elyea and a puppy according to reports; I just want to ask everybody and our fellow residents to please keep Sally's family in prayer during these very difficult times. There's GoFundMe pages that have been created for both house fires; the page for the house fire on Harmony Road is being organized by Barbara Martinez for Tina, Nick and his son Blaze who lost their home. The page for house fire on Lehigh Boulevard is being organized by David Peed for Sally Elyea's son Greg and his wife Carrie who lost his mother and mother in law to this fire. I encourage her fellow residents here in our town to consider helping out these two Jackson families in these ways on these Go Fund Me pages for these families during their greatest time of need. Thanks to our First Responders, many of whom are here tonight thanked them for their service and the great work that you do in our town, in particular working at the scene of both of those tragic fires. The GoFundMe page information is on the Jackson township website.
Mayor Michael Reina- Apologized for interrupting Councilman Borrelli; we received word that they're holding off on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine so they're been pretty much postponed all throughout the State. Governor Murphy made the release sometime today but we were informed by the County earlier this morning to hold off on it; a date will be given those registered should remain.
Councilman Borrelli thanked the Mayor for the information there's also links on the township website about the Covid 19 vaccine and the information for a possible future clinic being brought to Jackson township, will be updated on the township website as well. According to the Asbury Park Press, not only Rite Aid on New Prospect Road but the two CVS's in our town the one Don Connor Boulevard and also on Bennetts Mills Road are administering the Covid 19 vaccine. Supplies are very limited they may not be taken appointments but I wanted to get that information out and let our residents know.
I've reached out to the Ocean County Commissioner Jerry Little's Office in our County's Health Department on more than one occasion to see if they can get the Covid 19 vaccines to a venue in Jackson so our fellow residents don't have to travel so far to get them if they want them. I was thrilled to see the press release by Mayor Reina in our township last week that the Ocean County Health Department will set up a pop-up clinic stated about one being held at the Senior Center.
Thank God spring is here after the rough winter that we had. I want to encourage our fellow residents to get out and enjoy our town's beautiful parks and recreational areas; thanked township employees who work hard to maintain them for us to enjoy.
COUNCILMAN SAUICKIE- Congratulated Jackson EMS for those who don't know it was just over a little over a year ago that the EMS pitched to the town about taken back over 24 by 7 service. This was something that got brought up and had a lot of feedback from residents because there was an impression at least if it's not broke don't fix it. A lot of work and a lot of pre-work went into before they made that change and as it turns out it was only days before Covid 19 hit; which made it that much more concerning of course to make sure that the service they delivered was the way it needed to be. Looking at their key performance indicators where the residents were somewhat happy with the fact that the third party services we were using before Jackson EMS the third party had about a 9 minute response time where Jackson EMS has a 7 minute response time; we've knocked off about 2 minute response time and you could imagine in a life threatening situation it would be pretty critical. In addition it cost the town and residents less than it did. As read in the proclamation, they have gotten many compliments from residents and with the other services there were complaints particularly around billing. Congrats to them and if you get to see them thank them for their support.
COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT FLEMMING – Congratulated our EMS and First Aid squad. I would like to piggyback off of what Councilman Borrelli verbiage about the fires. Bring forward 2 Jackson patrolmen who went above and beyond trying to save a fatal from