##VIDEO ID:mRTAZVHXHVU## just good evening everybody Welcome to the mayor and council meeting this is our reorg meeting January 6 2025 7M Linda will you please call the meeting to order and read the open public meetings act announcement in compliance with the open public meetings act the notice requirements have been satisfied notice of this meeting was posted in the December 11 2024 edition of the record and the Ridgewood News newspaper and the Sunshine notice was sent to the record The Ridgewood news and star ler on December 31st 2024 councilman yarina here councilman UL here councilwoman homman here councilwoman loas solo here councilman deliso councilman oconnell here mayor wilinski here please stand and salute the flag IED to United States of America the stand Nation indivisible andice all right so now I have the honor of swearing in the Ladies of the council so that doesn't sound [Laughter] right Suzanne lello and Liz homman so Liz homman you are up first all right who would like to hold the Bible oh let me see [Laughter] Max love know me neither good job rare that I will support the of the uned the government United States my we'll do we'll do a big group one we can't get be I think Don want lectic repeat after me sare that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support theti and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and and then I will bear true faith I will bear true Fai and aliance EST United States [Music] get the whole now you get after this I'm gon do the roll call again I jump yeah perfect go team I forgot we actually all right Linda will you please do a roll call councilman arino yes councilman UL yes councilwoman homman yes councilwoman L solo yes councilman deloia councilman oconnell here and mayor was here next we have resolution 25-64 appointment of our municipal judge Chris B come on up oh wait I have do we have a motion to approve don't move second please councilman Yaro yes Council move yes councilwoman Homan yes councilwoman L solo yes Council o yes excellent hold your Bible than you serving I'm talking to your partner three times a day I Christopher that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true Fai and allegiance to the sa and to the governments established in the United States stes and St under the authority of the people and I all the duties of MP court judge abil me be all right yeah let's go oh no I gave a picture really probably should wow we just gotta be careful you said from chambers that's all right that's good be crazy right oh I'd like to say hello to a dignitary um assemblyman John is already back there how are you good to see you thank you thanks for coming to our Burl Hall all right next we have agenda review I'm going to um go through our first resolutions which are our um perun um items on the agenda and then the rest is going to be the uh Ascent uh consent agenda this is the reorg meeting where we have all of our appointments um we have appointments of our fire department our Ambulance Corp our library board um our land use board Sports Alliance and all of our professionals so I know everybody has gone through this agenda and the agenda is available for all the public to review so I'm not going to go through every single one of our professionals but I would like to um see if anybody from the public would like to have any comments on any of the agenda items at this time not seeing anybody I'm going to bring it back next we have resolution 25-1 the order of voting do I have a motion so moved second please second second well call councilman yino yes councilman OU yes councilwoman hman yes councilwoman Lolo yes councilman oon yes next I have resolution 25-2 election of council president do I have a recommendation yes your honor I would like to put forth Council woman counc d a second second lello B call please Council Yaro yes councilman or yes Council councilwoman homean thank you yes councilwoman Lis solo yes councilman yes next we have resolution 25 25-3 the time and place of our mayor and Council meetings for 2025 do I have a motion move second please second councilman Yaro yes yes councilman yes councilwoman homman yes councilwoman solo yes councilman oon yes thank you seven o'clock seven o'clock Yes actually thank you for noting that um for I guess first time ever we're going to start our Council meetings at 7 o'clock now instead of 7:30 and another change that we made last year is we went rolling from our work session into our regular session because we had a lot of a big capap in between so um I think this will work better for everybody's go schedule but things for reminding me Tyler records will be set records are set Okay resolution 25-4 burrow holiday do I have a motion we'll move second please second councilman yerino yes councilman o yes councilwoman hman yes councilwoman Lis solo yes councilman o yes okay uh resolution 25-5 appointment of burough professionals most importantly are one sit next to me do I have a motion don't move let Sol please hman councilman jarino councilman UL yes councilwoman hman yes Council woman L solo yes Council no yes okay next we have resolution 25-7 appointment of standing committees if you remember uh we changed this up a little bit last year too we actually have only five committees um this might change again next year um but the way that the buau was operating we felt it was uh better to um organize them in this way I think next year we'll probably pull out um information technology and Communications um and and put that in another committee but for this year we have our finance Human Resources Administration and it um we have Public Safety we have public works and public utility so it's DPW and public utility which is um a committee but it is actually kind of bifurcated and um we have our facilities Parks and Rec the fund committee aka the fund committee and we have land use and construction code land use is fun too that is I've been hearing about it so do I have a motion second please second councilman yino yes councilman yes councilwoman hman yes councilwoman solo yes Council o yes all righty thank you very much next we have uh resolution 25-7 appointment of standy committees I have to say I spent a lot of time on this going back and forth figuring out who would be best for what each committee and I basically didn't change it last year I swapped out um so actually councilman Joseph uh Joe Joe Joe Delo is going to be second on public safety and um Tyler is actually going to be second on on land that was actually the big difference and then Tyler is also gonna be taking over Joe's spot on the land where I got my start in 2018 so going back there you go full circle um and I think um I really do think everybody is in a good fit we had a lot of momentum from the Committees last year so there's a lot of stuff that's still had to carry through so we'll see what next year brings but for this year it's it's pretty much similar to last year do I have a motion uh for resolution 25-7 second please second councilman yino yes councilman UL yes councilwoman homman yes councilwoman L solo yes councilman ell yes thank you next we have resolution 25-8 this is appointment of our fire chief unfortunately he could not be here today so I will be swearing him in um either at the firehouse or our next meeting so he look forward to um appointing our new fire chief do I have a motion to approve 25-8 Greg Anderson so moov second please second councilman jarino yes councilman yes councilwoman homman yes councilwoman L solo yes councilman o yes um okay next I have resolution 25-9 appointment of our Fire official Kevin Todd he been with us for some time so we're very happy to have him back do I have a motion to approve 25-9 so second please second councilman Yaro yes councilman o yes councilwoman homman yes councilwoman solo yes coun call yes all righty um so then next we have our asent consent agenda and this is all of our professionals um one of our professionals is in the audience Brian AER from uh our insurance agency thank you for supporting us um I know sometimes we're high maintenance with our with our insurance requests and now you've got the and now you have the community center on top of on top of that so I know we're gonna have a lot of questions as we navigate through that so we really appreciate all the support that you've given us for all through all the years um so do we have uh do I have a motion uh to approve the consent agenda moved second please Omen councilman Yaro yes councilman OU yes councilwoman hman yes councilwoman L solo yes councilman OD oel yes all right staff reports anybody have a staff report Linda report um earlier Chief Dylan I'll stipulate to this minutes of a CA very good that's I all right um next Council reports I'm going to coun thank you I just want to know that we did schedule our preconstruction meeting today actually for the concession stand so we're ready to rock and roll on that project so more to come excellent thank Youk you un like Tyler I have nothing to that's Council Council homman yes I think that I will um let this pass let this Flow by um Ray I'm sorry I missed you with the professionals I just going to say thank you this will be my 11th year as your B attorney and I do appreciate it we expect a couple years before that it's just labor attorney U but I do appreciate the appointment and they don't take it for granted thank you wow I didn't realize it was 11 years right head brown hair it was and more of it Council woman love uh I just want to welcome the people who have joined us since um our 6:30 start thank you for being here tonight it really does mean a lot to to look out and to see people so thank you for joining us tonight so look at the agenda for the year and try to come to all and especially my husband and my daughter thank youil conell no report mayor thank you all right and um I don't I have my report the same as it was uh last time I really look forward to everybody working with everybody 2025 congratulations to to uh our Council women Loa solo and home and to our judge uh did you did stuck um and yeah I look forward to a great year everybody so with that any new business unfinished business I'd like to open up the meeting to the public anybody from the public wish to speak not seeing anybody motion to adjourn don't moved good all right thank everybody all going to the ab& G whoever wants to come Amy you now have the new record of 721 okay oh wow that's true