Transcript for Piscataway Planning meeting on August 12 2026
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Aug 12 2026 · Planning
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Laura Buckley (Clerk)Take some work home with you. Exactly. Hey, it's not that bad. Good evening everyone.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Good evening. Good evening
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Reverend. Okay, go ahead, Madam Chair. We're ready.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. Good evening everyone. The Piscataway Planning Board meeting will please come to order me. Adequate notice of the meeting was provided in the following main ways. Notice published in the Coer News Notice posted in the bulletin board of the municipal building notice made available to the township clerk notice sent to the Courier News and the star ledger. Ms. Buckley, would you please call
Laura Buckley (Clerk)The role Mayor Wahler. Present Councilwoman Cahill. Here. Ms. Corcoran? Here. Ms. Saunders? Here. Reverend Kinneally. Present. Mr. Atkins? Here. Mr. Foster. Mr. Ahmed? Here. Mr. Aria Here. And Madam Chair Here.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Mr. Barlow, would you please read the open Public meeting? Notice. Did we freeze Mr. Barlow? You? Yeah,
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)I muted myself unnecessarily. Okay.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)I just wanna place on the record and keeping with the guidelines that have been disseminated by the Department of Community Affairs, the planning board has tried its best to comply with the Open Public Meetings Act and the DCA guidelines. In addition, any applicant's matters might be heard this evening, had the login information for the online meeting platform put forth in their notice. Members of the public who wish to be heard will be afforded an opportunity as if they were in the actual physical space. He believed. I believe the board has done its absolute best to comply with the DCA guidelines and the Open Public Meetings Act.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)You're welcome.
Brenda Smith (Chair)You can see the flag in the upper corner over my right shoulder. Can we please recite the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice all. Can we swear in the professionals for the evening, please? I believe
Speaker 3It. Can you please raise your, excuse me.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)I was gonna say I believe it's just Mr. Clark.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Okay.
Speaker 3Can you please raise your right hand? Do you swear that the testimony about the give will be the truth and nothing but the truth? I
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Do.
Speaker 3Thank you.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Do we have any changes or alterations to our agenda tonight? Mr. Barlow?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Madam Chairwoman, with regards to the agenda of August 11th, 2026, which has 13 numbered items, there are no changes to that agenda.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Can I have a motion to pay the duly audited bills?
Speaker 3Madam Chairman Carol Sonner, I make a motion to pay the duly audited bills.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Can I have a second please?
Speaker 4Reverend Kinneally? I'll second.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Roll call.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Lori, you're muted My turn? Yep. Why isn't he entering? Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill. Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally. Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Hammed? Yes. Mr. Aria? Yes. And Madam Chair?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Item number eight. Ms. Saunders, I believe there's a resolution to be adopted.
Speaker 3Okay. Mad chairman Carol Saunders. I'd like to adopt the resolution to memorialize action taken on the July 8th, 2026 meeting for application 26 PB dash zero eight slash zero nine B for Stuart Steel Protection, LLL C Preliminary and final site plan with both variances.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Can I get a second?
Speaker 4Madam Chair? Reverend Kinneally? I'll second it.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Roll call please.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. Mr. Echeveria? Yes. And Madam Chair?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Item number nine. Again, Ms. Saunders. Madam
Speaker 3Chair, I'd like to adopt the minutes from the regular meeting of July 8th, 2026.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Do we have a second?
Speaker 3Second. Do we have a second? Councilwoman
Brenda Smith (Chair)Cahill. Thank you. Roll call
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Please. Mayor Wahler. Yes. Councilwoman Cahill. Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally. Yes. Mr. Ahamed? Yes. Mr. Aria? Yes. And Madam Chair? Yes.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Item number 10, we have a discussion on the redevelopment for plan of redevelopment Plan for Block 62 0 1 Lot 4.02 known as 30 Knight Bridge Road.
Speaker 5Yes. Good evening. Members of the board, I'm gonna share my screen. James Clark and of Foresight Planning, I'm the one who put this redevelopment plan together. It should be sharing now. Yep. Okay, so this is 30 nights spreads block 6 2 0 1 lot 4.02. I'm gonna start with a little background on the process. So actually a year ago I put together the area in need of redevelopment study, which was then adopted by resolution later that year in October of 2025 that officially designated this property as in need of redevelopment. And as you all know, the next step is to put together the redevelopment plan. I'm going to skip to the of my report to show you all an aerial to kinda orient ourselves and remind us a little bit of what we're looking at here. So this is a rather large property, 45 acres in total. And what it holds currently or not holds, what is there currently are is an office complex four buildings, 1, 2, 3, 4. And when I did the study, we, we definitely found significant vacancies, which was one of the main reasons why we decided it was in need of redevelopment. Overall, the four buildings encompass about 685,000 square feet and in total, I think it's 2,100 parking spaces. So lots of land. You have Knights Bridge Road to the north and then Rudy team to your east. So that kind of gives us an orientation of the property that we're looking at tonight for the redevelopment plan.
Speaker 5With that, I'm just gonna transition to the plan overview. So when I wrote this redevelopment plan, after discussing with all the stakeholders, we decided that a logistics use was the most appropriate. So really what we're looking at is warehouses as the only permitted use within the redevelopment area. I do want to note that at the bottom of this paragraph, that we definitely made it pro expressly prohibited to include any data center use or artificial intelligence as a principal use. So that is something that is expressly prohibited. So we're really just looking at warehouses as the only thing that this redevelopment plan is allowing. Moving on to the goals and objectives, a lot of these are pretty similar to the redevelopment plans I've done for you all before. One of the key ones is reversing the observed conditions that we found when I did the study and then leveraging public and private assets to improve those economic and physical conditions compared to what's there today. And one of the ways we can do that is develop financial incentives for tax abatement to help redevelop the area. And then when putting together the land use plan, the really the goal was to provide pisca Piscataway with modern warehouse facilities. And if we continue on on the same page of the land use plan, as I just stated, only one principal permitted use warehouses, very straightforward.
Speaker 5And then after that are the permitted accessory uses. So we are allowing some offices within the warehouse buildings, obviously off street parking, truck base, electric charging stations, anything typical with a warehouse use. And then prohibited is any use not expressly permitted. Herein is prohibited. Storage and warehousing of anything dangerous, flammable or hazardous is also prohibited. As I mentioned, data centers and AI as a principal use is a prohibited use. And then absolutely no outdoor storage as we want. Everything kept inside and clean. If you continue on to the next page, you'll see a nice redevelopment area, bulk requirements table. This is really just showing what any redeveloper will have to follow for the bulk standard requirements. This provides ample lot area 40 acres. As I mentioned, the lot size is 45, so that should be plenty. We have appropriate setbacks from the roads 'cause you have night bridge to the north, but then you also have Ericsson Drive, which is a private road.
Speaker 5And then we're including also some rear and side yard setbacks. The maximum height is 55 feet, which are pretty typical for the warehouse. Redevelopment plans we've done before, we wanna make sure there's adequate distance between buildings of was 150 feet, some distance between driveways and front property lines of five feet. And then due to the layout of the property, you know how it has almost two frontages on two streets. We will have to allow some parking spaces within the front yard setback, but we wanted to cap that at 50 spaces. So those are the key bulk standards for this redevelopment area. Next I wanted to touch on the next page, which is circulation. So traffic analysis and design, which is if you, my computer will scroll at the bottom of page five of my report. So for the warehouse, pretty typical we're looking at one space per 2000 square feet of gross floor area. And then as I mentioned, an accessory use can be the office, but since it won't be a primary it we're, we're capping it at one space per 200 square feet. As we don't anticipate a lot of office space as the bulk of any warehouse should be. For logistics use, I do want to know we will require a five foot wide pedestrian sidewalk along Knights Bridge Road as we always wanna make sure there's good pedestrian circulation.
Speaker 5Then I touch on my plan touches on the typical topics of utilities. We do want them to provide fiber on Knights Bridge Road. I touched on saw the waste disposal, which is pretty standard for these redevelopment plans. Signage, you know, they can have a freestanding sign or freestanding monument sign and making sure they comply with the size requirements so that they're not too large. We wanna make sure it's adequately given adequate lighting, but also making sure that, you know, there's no illumination at the property lines that would cause any issues. One major point I do wanna point out is the landscaping. As this was definitely of concern. If you saw in the aerial there are some residences to the, to the west of the property. So we are requiring a seven foot tall and 50 foot wide landscaping berm that will be constructed as a buffer to those residential properties.
Speaker 5We are requiring on top of that, trees, plants, and foliage to be planted on top of the berm so that they grow and provide additional buffering. We also are requiring them to irrigate the landscaping and berm properly so that no runoff flows off of it into adjacent properties. And then B is really about providing enough trees in the off street parking areas and then making sure that most of the species are native to avoid increased irrigation needs and die off. So that's definitely a key part of the redevelopment plan to make sure there's some adequate buffering between any existing uses.
Speaker 5Continuing on the report is additional design standards. This really touches on fencing, rooftop mounted equipment, things of that nature. We wanna make sure all easements are vacated to effectuate the new redevelopment. In terms of environmental, when I did the study, I don't think there were any hits of, or any environmental concerns I should say. But if there are, that would be on the redeveloper to work with any NJDP requirements if they get to site plan approval. And then for plan consistency, this is consistent with your master plan. There's no neighboring municipalities that we have to be concerned with. And those are the major things I did want to touch on. However, something did come across my desk. We want to add two provisions into the redevelopment plan to make sure we're covering certain things that we missed. So the first one that I'll be adding is a financial subdivision to facilitate the financing of the project may be granted by the playing board upon proper application. So there may be a financial subdivision that will be proposed and then the planning board could act upon that. So I'll put that provision in here. And then the second one is regarding the truck base. We wanna make sure that they're not operated between the hours of 11:00 PM and 7:00 AM to minimize noise reaching the residential neighborhood. So I will provide Dawn and Mr. Barlow an updated copy of this redevelopment plan with those two provisions to make sure that they are included in the final version.
Speaker 5And I think that's really everything I wanted to touch on tonight. As I said, you know, it's pretty straightforward. Only one permitted use, our typical bulk standards will be appropriate for this. And yeah, I'm happy to take any questions.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. Could you pull that down? Yep. Fine. Members
Speaker 6Of the Madam Chair, members of the board, Madam Chair Councilwoman Cahill, Mr. Clark, and if you could, could you just explain in layman's terms the financial subdivision?
Speaker 5So I believe there may be multiple structures, so it may just be, remember I talked about the minimum distance between buildings? So I think the financial subdivision is really with respect to financing of the structure as they may have separate tenants. Although I have to say I'm not an expert on financial subdivisions, but I believe that is the intent and purpose of adding that provision.
Speaker 7You're you're absolutely correct Mr. Clark. Thank you. That's what it's for.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Any other questions from, for Mr. Clarke?
Speaker 7I I, I have one minor one. I just wanna make sure whatever color scheme that the building is, I mean we'll have another bite at the apple on this, the board. But I wanna make sure whatever color scheme or the exterior, the look of the building is conducive for the area.
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 6Yes, definitely add that. Otherwise I will be not nice at the next meeting in front of the applicant.
Speaker 5Yeah, I could definitely add a provision that color scheme and exterior of the building will to be approved by,
Speaker 7Well let's just put it this way. The board should have input on it.
Speaker 5Yes,
Speaker 7Correct. Okay.
Speaker 5I can add that.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. Then we'll open it up to the public members of the public. If you have any questions of Mr. Clark and on his discussion of this proposed warehouse, would you please indicate by waiving your hand or letting us know you have a question?
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Anyone from public, you could raise your hand if you're on the phone. Star six. No Madam Chair.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Close to the public if you have no more questions. What is your pleasure? Members of the board?
Speaker 3This is Carol Sons. I do have one last question. Why is the only designation for a warehouse for this property? Because this is an Ericsson above this with the development of the homes and
Speaker 5Stuff. Yes. I think, you know, we considered a number of land uses, even data centers was thrown out. But we, we definitely wanted to expressly prohibit that, given all the concerns around that type of use. I don't think we felt that residential was really appropriate in this area. And you know, offices obviously are in decline. So yeah, I think it is just after we looked at 'em all, we felt that warehouses was the best fit.
Speaker 6Madam Chair, Mr. Clark. And you should explain why the re not just that residential use was not a good fit for this area. It is in sort of an office park industrial area. Is that not correct?
Speaker 5Yes, exactly. Like the underlying zoning is LI five, which is light industrial. So you're surrounded by office and other office buildings. So it, that's really the reason that it's not a good fit. Yeah. For residential specifically.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)And this also allows the, the township to make sure that the data center or some type of AI does not come in. 'cause that could be allowed under the current LI five. So
Speaker 7Yeah, Mr. Mr. Borrower's correct. They actually could under normal zoning request that,
Speaker 3That was one of my favorite work locations.
Speaker 4Madam Chair, Reverend Kinneally, one question in our master plan that would, would that prevent them from, from anything happening like that to come in and, and have that type of AI type of office building come in that would, would prevent it if we had that in our master plan? Is that correct?
Speaker 7Well, da Mr. Barlow, data center data centers are a permitted use in our town because folks have to remember, right, we're predominantly a telecommunications town and we've been a telecommunications town for since the 1960s. That is our backbone of our economy in this, in this town.
Speaker 4Right?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Yeah. So as if we, if the board did nothing, someone could put in a data center and I think right now what's being shown is there's such a, a, a burden on, on electrical and just the infrastructure. So, and there's issues surrounding them going forward. So this will not allow that to happen. Right.
Speaker 4That's that's right. Right. Thank you very much.
Speaker 8If I could just toss out one more question. I saw that you had 70% native plants were gonna be used for any type of, you know, landscaping or things like that. How was it landed at 70 as opposed to maybe a little bit more for 80? Just knowing that as development goes on, native plans become more of a critical, you know, resource in our community.
Brenda Smith (Chair)First speaking was Mr. Aria. I just want the record.
Speaker 5Got it. Apologies. Sorry. I feel like in the last like two or three redevelopment plans I've been working with, sorry, I'm thinking blank at his name. Jonathan.
Speaker 4Jonathan Misra here. Thank
Speaker 5You. Thank you Dawn. Thank you. Dawn? Yes. And he provided the 70%, if we're looking to raise it for this or future ones, we can certainly pick his brain. Maybe why 70 is better versus 80. But we could consider it for sure,
Speaker 8Something I'd like to explore in the future. But we even on in this case just one flag for now.
Speaker 5Okay. Will do.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay, good discussion. Would someone like to inter entertain a motion?
Speaker 6Madam chair Councilwoman Cahill. I'll make that the motion.
Speaker 8Well it should, I'll
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Second
Brenda Smith (Chair)The motion being. Would you articulate the motion please?
Speaker 6Oh, I'm so sorry that we accept the redevelopment plan once Mr Well I guess we accept it tonight. But provided that Mr. Clark and includes with it, the two additional provisions which are language for financial subdivision and also that am in this location, any bays where trucks may come in and out of, or any or any trucks, whether it's bay or not, are limited to the hours outside of 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM So 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM being excluded. So that's the offer.
Brenda Smith (Chair)And I
Speaker 7Believe Councilwoman Cahill, it's also about the, the color scheme.
Speaker 6Yeah. Oh, I apologies. Yeah, we agreed upon that tonight also that, that the township gets a say to discuss on the color scheme of the building.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Yep. And again, you're, you're recommending to the council to adopt it,
Speaker 6So I'm recommending to the council to adopt it. Yes. Thank you.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)So I still second Councilman McCain Hills. Thank.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Perfect. Okay, fine. Okay. Roll call please.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Hammed? Yes. Mr. Cheveria? Yes. And Madam Chair?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Thank you very much. Now onto our second discussion, which is item number 11 on our agenda tonight is to regarding retain foresight, planning to do a redevelopment plan for block 1901 Lot 64.01, also known as 44 Stelton Road on in Pisca on the Piscataway Township tax map. Mr. Clark. And are you also doing that?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)This is just to retain him in order to do the plan Oh, okay. On this particular property. So, okay. If it's the board's pleasure, we need to hire Mr. Clarkin so he can come back at another meeting and give us the plan for 44 Stalton Road
Brenda Smith (Chair)Board members. Would you make a motion to retain Mr. Clarkin for the such purposes as state now moved. Do I have a second? Second roll call please.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Everybody else? Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilman McCahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Hammed? Yes. Ms. Echeveria? Yes. And Madam Chair? Yes.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)And Ms. Smith, I just real quick, I prepared resolutions in anticipation of the board's action that Ms. Saunders has and Saunders
Brenda Smith (Chair)So that we,
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)We can send that back to the council on
Brenda Smith (Chair)30 Ninths Bridge. Do you have that resolution Ms. Saunders?
Speaker 3Yes. Gimme one second. Let me open it
Brenda Smith (Chair)Up. Okay.
Speaker 3Read it. Okay. Okay. Madam Chairman, I'd like to memorialize the resolution recommending the adoption of the redevelopment plan at 30 Bridge Road Piscataway Township.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Do I have a second please?
Speaker 4Reverend Kinneally. I'll second it.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)I got you. Alex Mayor Wahler?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Councilwoman McCahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. Mr. Echeveria?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)And Madam chair? Yes.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Mr. Barlow. Need I recuse myself?
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Tom, do we have a resolution for foresight?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Yes. Thank you. We also have a resolution to retain foresight and then you can recruit yourself.
Brenda Smith (Chair)My work's not done yet. Okay. No. One more. Okay. Lemme just Ms. Saunders.
Speaker 3Okay. You have gimme One second.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay,
Speaker 3There it goes. Madam Chair, I'd like to ize the resolution for the retention of foresight planning LLC to prepare a redevelopment plan for block 19 0 1 lot 64 0 1.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Do I have a second? Mr. Atkins? A second roll call
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Please. Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Ahmed?
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mr. Aria? Yes. And Madam chair? Yes.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay, fine. Thank you. Bye everyone just reminders I'll see you on the 26th at the site plant meeting.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Okay, go get some water.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Some water.
Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Thank you Brenda.
Speaker 4Bye. Okay, I guess it's May number 12.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Yes sir.
Speaker 4All right. Courtesy view review board education to Seattle High School, 100 Benner Road block 60 0 3 lot 10 Dennis 10.01 Rooftop solar
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)And board members as we've done in the past, pursuant to statute and the municipal land use law. Law when the board of editor, any public entity is going to expend public funds, there's a process where they just come before the planning board and explain what they plan on doing. So I believe, I don't know who's taking the lead on this. Mr. Musser or Mr. Braxton or Mr. Someone else?
Speaker 9Mr. Braxton. Representative from TVA Energy, the designer of the solar is gonna take the lead on this one.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 10Yes. So thank you. Thank you board for bringing us this here tonight. I'm going to share my screen so we can show you exactly what we plan to do.
Speaker 4I don't see anything yet. He is getting there. River.
Speaker 10All right. Can everyone see my screen now?
Speaker 4It's not sharing nothing. There we go. Now you're clear.
Speaker 10Okay. So will you plan to put a rooftop solar system on the high school as previously done before? The system is approximately 1221.40 kilowatts DC that will equate to 1,970 modules. They will be installed on the roof in a ballasted fashion, meaning they will be installed with block to hold them down. And like I said as before, that's what we are choosing to do. We are connecting to the existing service via a load side tap, meaning that we will be able to interconnect to the existing service without any upgrades or anything to that nature. I will show you the a Esti estimated site plan on what this will look like. This will encompass multiple roofs, rooftops to afford the solar, the size and positioning that we need. As you can see, we are going to utilize most of the exi, most of the existing space currently up there. We are including a six foot perimeter setback for any fire aways for pathways that the will require for every rooftop. As you, you know, I'll stream in here. So you can see the hatched area around here exemplifies the six foot pathway. We also included a four foot minimum pathway interior for the five path as well. That's located on every roof section that requires it for an array that is longer than 150 feet in any direction.
Speaker 10And this is, again, this is the array layout that we will utilize for the roof sections. I also want to show you the zoning plan that we have and we do not intend on being outside the boundary of the any rooftop. So the existing setbacks that exist for the building will stay intact. They will not be disturbed
Speaker 10As, as you can see from our zonings plan as this is taken directly from your zoning map. And then we will not impede on any of these setbacks there. And again, I will, we will, we will interconnect to the existing gear via a loci tap on the exist. This is a representation of the existing gear. We will connect to the existing gear via a localized, localized shutdown where the power to the building will be turned off. We will therefore interconnect at the said positions and then the power of the building will be turned back on. That will be accomplished in a shutdown approximately four to six hours. It can be done at night and on the weekends not to disturb standard business of the school. And again, this is a representation of the equipment that will be installed on the roof as previously before on each section of the roof that will be installed. These are representative of the inverters will be placed on feet and they will not disturb the, the roof in any such fashion. And that pretty much tells the story of what we plan to do at the high school.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Mr. Braxton, is there a timeframe?
Speaker 10The timeframe we are looking at, we are looking to be complete with the, with the installation trying to be complete by the fall, looking at September, October-ish at the, well once permits have been approved we will be able to provide a more detailed schedule for that.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Thank you
Speaker 7Madam Madam. Mr. Chair, I just want to ask a quick question. Are these being replacement panels?
Speaker 10Yes. The old system has been since been removed.
Speaker 7Yeah. Yeah, because I think the life expectancy in a lot of these is less than 20 years.
Speaker 10Yes. So the panels that were removed, you were coming to the end of the cycle. Four SRE and the cycle for the modules as well. So those systems have been removed and a new system is being put on.
Speaker 7Is PSC and G given the district any credits sir? Assuming
Speaker 10Yes. Yeah, your SRE credits will eventually, the clock will start over for you. So you will gain another 15 years of new credits that you will receive from the utility.
Speaker 7Well it's too bad that the credits 'cause they could have taken advantage of the federal tax credits. I mean that program doesn't exist anymore since the president cut it away. We were fortunate enough.
Speaker 10Well the, well the project has been grandfathered in by the parameters of the system since it was 5% of the project was purchased and financed for the system. The, as long as the system is installed by the end of December, 2027, you will receive that federal tax credit.
Speaker 7Yeah.
Speaker 4Just one question I ask, when, when is this project gonna start do with the school system?
Speaker 10The project is, we're planning to start as soon as permits are released. Okay. So at the, at the earliest the towards next couple weeks in August. Oh okay. Probably beginning of September.
Speaker 4Okay. Thank you
Speaker 6Mr. Chairman, if I may just ask Mr. Braxton, thank you. The project looks great. Were you, were you the previous installer of the, the other system or you are new?
Speaker 10No, we are, we are new. Oh we are not the previous installer.
Speaker 6Okay, great. Thank you so much.
Speaker 10You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 4Was there anything else,
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Any other members of the board have any questions or comments?
Speaker 4No questions.
Speaker 8Yeah, I have a question. When will the work be done? As far as during school hours? It seems like it's gonna be running over into the school year.
Speaker 10Yes. So the work I will, the work we plan to be doing probably within the next couple months to be finished outside of particular hours for the school. We'll try to stay within the confines of early morning hours to as early the week as we can to finish the work for any given day. And then if necessary there will be additional work done on weekends to facilitate construction getting complete in a fastened manner.
Speaker 7I just have Madam chair, I meant Mr. Chair, I just have one more question. What's the total financial outlay that the district has to do
Speaker 10The financial piece? I can, we mean the total output that they had to put out?
Speaker 7No, no, I'm talking about the financial money that they have to outlay. I'm not talking about the credits that they're, that they're getting back. I mean there's got, there, there's obviously a cost involved.
Speaker 10Yes. I can get you that information. I can get that information to the board in an expedient manner as is. I would have to go and get that information for you.
Speaker 7Yeah, there would've had to been an analysis number run. Yes. In order to make this feasible.
Speaker 10Yes, absolutely. There's a contract number, there's a number that we presented. I can get you that information as soon as possible and I can forward that over to you.
Speaker 7Sure. If you can forward it to the clerk, to the board.
Speaker 10Okay.
Speaker 4Okay. Is there any other questions on the board?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Un unshare your screen Mr. Braxton
Laura Buckley (Clerk)And just open it up to public Reverend.
Speaker 4Okay. Is there any public questions that anyone out for the public
Laura Buckley (Clerk)Can just raise your hand now and Reverend Kinneally.
Speaker 4Thank you David. Some more questions. It's time number 13th for adjo. Thank
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)You Mr. Braxton.
Speaker 7Applicant. Have any other witness or anything that they want to
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Give to? Is that all Mr. Musser?
Speaker 10I just, I just had a follow up question too. Okay. As the review has been presented to the board, does this satisfy the condition for the zoning requirements that we, that we submitted for
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Y Yes and Ms. Corcoran's on the meeting, the capital review has been complied with correct Dom?
Speaker 11Yes. You can resubmit your zoning permit tomorrow. I know that the whole permit has been filed with the building department but you only have to resubmit zoning.
Speaker 10Okay,
Speaker 9Fantastic. That my, my crew will be up there to resubmit the plans tomorrow. Then I did have one other further question. There is plans to install solar at the middle school, quibble town middle school as well. And I was just checking to see if that would require an additional zoning board hearing as well.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)It does require capital review by the planning board.
Speaker 9Okay, good.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Same, same kind of situation. Yeah.
Speaker 11Don't submit your zoning permit, just send us the request to be placed on the agenda. We'll get you right on.
Speaker 9Okay, great. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
Speaker 10And when is, when is the next meeting for that? So we just know when to plan for that?
Laura Buckley (Clerk)September 9th.
Speaker 4September.
Speaker 10September 9th. Okay.
Laura Buckley (Clerk)So try having an at least week, 10 days prior to so I can send it out.
Speaker 9Thank you.
Speaker 10Excellent.
Speaker 4Okay, is there any more questions?
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)You guys are good Mr. Braxton? Mr. Muser?
Speaker 10We are good. I'm
Speaker 9Good. Thank you. Thank you for your time.
Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Alright, have a good evening.
Speaker 10Thank you very much.
Speaker 4Thank you. Motion for adjourn. Motion Councilwoman Cahill. Second. Second. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Board members. Next workshop meeting is August 26th, 2020 6, 2 30. Aye. Goodnight everyone. Enjoy everyone. Enjoy everyone.