Officials Watch As Prisoners OC Jail Clean Up Lakewood

[Music] oh no that's fine that's fine good morning I would like to thank uh Freeholder Kelly Warden hutler minman mayor lickstein Chief Lawson uh off Burge everybody else was involved in starting this program here in Lakewood um came it's uh really a germination of an idea that mayor had we've had we've had private groups do it we always have children come schools come they clean up around the lake you know mayor had the idea that we um we asked the county and for to um to do it for the graffiti I I asked the chief if we can ask Gardon hutler who expand it to the lake um you know just by seeing the am bags of garbage that are around the lake I feel happy that that we were able to be accommodated so again my thanks to F Kelly on to the to the jails to the warden for accomodating us and and sending out the cleanup with for us once again to Mayor and to the chief chief I'm hoping that uh we can somehow ask the warden to make this a week uh weekly you know a u well monthly or a weekly or what I meant to say was we can make this a you know set an ongoing occurrence yes and and again you know it's really up to people in town not to litter and to be careful when they see somebody else littering to maybe point it out in a nice way to maybe pick up a piece of garbage if you see it on the street but I think that it it it lends a lot Lakewood is so beautiful and and the lake is so beautiful I I myself see hundreds of people a day walking running biking around the lake so many people take advantage of it the howl track team takes advantage of our of our leg Jackson track team takes advantage of our lake so many beautiful things about Lakewood and and the lake that it's a shame that it should be you know that it should be sullied by litter so once again just my my sincere thanks and appreciation to everybody involved and I'm hoping that with everybody's help Lake will be remain in a beautiful state thank you I I would just like to take the opportunity to thank mayor langard that commit lickstein for their initiative uh certainly this has gone a long way to beautifying Lakewood getting rid of the graffiti and also the Lakewood PBA for the outstanding job that they did last week to join in and get in the spirit of making letter A lakew with a better place for everybody see Chief that's why you should be the mayor because I forgot that but but I Echo that I Echo that that we do thank the PBA for going out and taking up their own time and their own bition to clean up sever of the graffiti in town and let me just give another plug for the graffiti ordinance that we just passed which will allow the township to go in into chronic areas and clean up I know that you know I know from myself if someone looks for to be at my house over and over again you know for no fault of my own it would be a very distressing and very um very upsetting so I'm happy that with the help of the committee and the chief's input we're able to to uh pass our rep the ordance thank you all over