Okay. Good evening. This is a workshop meeting agenda of the governing body of um governing body of the barrel, Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7 p.m. This mean by the salute to the flag. Ice to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call please. Mayor Damato here. Council Broners present. Councilman
Catalano here. Councilman Graiano here. Councilwoman Hudson here. Councilwoman Schubert here. Councilman Yatski here. Okay. We also have a municipal clerk Brianna Smith, business administrator Michael Sandomar and Bur attorney Fred
Samber. This meeting is called to presume to the provisions of the open public Venus law adequate notice of this meeting was advertised in the Herald News on January 9th, 2025. Copies were provided to the local news media and posted continuously in the municipal building. A copy of this notice is
available to the public on file in the office of admin clerk. As per state fire code, I am required to acknowledge that there are two emergency exits in this council chambers. The main entrance which you enter through and a secondary exit to the left of where I'm seated. If there is an emergency, walk orderly to
the exit. Exit through the door down the stairs and out the building. There's any questions, please raise your hand. Seeing none, um, we do not have any non-aggenda items. Can I have a motion to open up early public comment? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Anyone wishing to
speak? Please come up. Seeing no one a motion to close. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Report of committees. Mayor for the library. um the attendance for um the month of
March um which included well the last summer had but the next meeting is coming up but it was 586 um um was their attendance um and that
includes um all the reading classes and um other activities. The um pocketbook bingo is coming up on uh May 30th. Uh there they have an art class coming up
where you could register um May 19th at 5:00 p.m. to 6. They're doing pianos uh fundraiser this year is on October 17th at the um Glen
Wild clubhouse. Um and is always they um also have um they're taking a break from um reading um because their summer reading um um project is starting in
June. Um in this uh summer they're going to have howling woods, a wolf dog uh reservation will be uh coming in. That date is to be determined. And uh Euphoria is
um they're coming back and it's they're going to be bringing a bunch of animals in uh to the firehouse next door um which includes a baby alligator that's going to be in July. um the days to be determined. And as always, um take a
look at their website and um use their uh all of their programs. Um and if you don't have a library card, get a library card if you're in town. And um they have also a lot of resources to check
out books online, which is their Libby. And they also have something the pronunciator which and an ongoing function that they had if you wanted to learn uh a new language. If you were going to travel, um this is something that that you could use. Um next for the
senior center, um I was uh Pat had a lot of great things to say about Dawn and all of the uh media um flyers that she's been helping her
with. Um because um at Yani has so many events uh planned for the uh the seniors. Um there's also now a new website on Facebook plus uh
Don and Rihanna have been um updating the Facebook I mean our Bloomingdale page with their um trips. Um they have uh there are so many things planned for
in in May. Uh most importantly is their um walking club that starts uh tomorrow, Wednesday. Uh it kicks off with a breakfast and um they also have their uh
walking club bingo and lunch uh May 14th plus a lot of different events online. um or the Oh, and as well, I did they did have questions regarding the
um um the construction that's going to happen at the senior center, and Mike was nice enough to help me answer the questions that they had. Um which mostly is because of the logistics as to how to
cover their items and um and Mike did mention that we they might need to get some kind of a pod to store things, but it he seems to think that um they could store everything inside with plastics uh to to keep it covered. And
um and the transfer of the classes, which everything will hopefully go seamlessly at the firehouse because um they they'll still have the nutrition center, which is the uh the calendar of um to eat there. Um, and everything
should still go on as as planned. Um, they uh, again, all of the flyers are listed on on the Bloomingdale website as as well as their Facebook page. Um, as far as
the I Gale on black, she gives me the numbers every year for um, April, they had 131 calls. Year to date was 635 calls. Uh, last year uh, this last year
in April, we had I think it was 141 calls. Uh, 541 year to date. Um, the county took 33 calls. Chicago had 102 calls. They covered 69. They missed
33. Um um and it says 68 calls to Butler were 47, Bloomingdale had 43 calls, Kalan had 31. And Gail says that we had 10 mutual aid calls to Riverdale, Pmpton Lakes, Swan, and
Bridgewood. She didn't have any um events planned um as of yet. And that's it. Just uh two updates. One, dry bar little league. So they had the parade canceled a couple weeks ago. So that was a
bummer, but it was a rain out. And they did a tag day last last weekend as well. So season is in full swing and a lot of people over at the field. So it's been good to see. On the other side, economic development. So actually the trib tots
which is more of a trib chamber of commerce type of a organization they they unrolled this bingo card kind of program and there's a lot of businesses in Bloomingdale that are participating in it such as L & D the clothing store Glenn Wild Gardens Magpie um the Creos
is part of it Marinella Studios Retro Crow River Beer Trey Chic um also Jiu-Jitsu they're part of it as well. So anyway, I bring it up because if you go to any of those participating retailers, you can grab a bingo card and then you just play the game. Like it'll tell you what the rules are on there. How long?
Uh that I don't know. I think it's only a few weeks. So it's something that you have to do pretty soon. Um you complete the five squares in a row um and you have to fill out the entire card and then you submit it back to them. It'll explain what to do. Thought that was something that was interesting to
highlight. It was good to see a lot of a lot of businesses from moving together participating. [Music] Oh, yeah. Uh, okay. Public events. So, this past Saturday was recycling our
paper shredding recycling day. Um, and I've already had a couple people ask me when our next one is. It is October 18th. That'll be 8:00 a.m. at the senior center. So, save your stuff. Um, then we've got cleanup day, which is next
Saturday, the 18th. Um that's going to 17th. Sorry I keep doing that. The 17th. Um it's going to be at 10:00 a.m. at um Delayer Field. We're doing a little different this year. It's going to be at the playground. That's going to be our starting. We will have lunch provided.
We do have um a number of organizations already signed up which is wonderful. And we actually have a business signed up which I'm thrilled. Um so if anyone has any interest in coming down and helping out, it doesn't have to be an organization. It could be anyone. Could just be one person. And we're thrilled
to have anyone. So, email me, call me. My information um is on the flyer, which you can find on the social media or the website. Uh let's see what else we've got. Then we have the Memorial Day parade that is going to be on May 26th.
That's 9:00 a.m. Bri, just correct me if I'm wrong. Butler Park marching to uh Bloomingdale. That's right. This year, so 900 a.m. Um, also May 26, Burough offices are closed and no DPW pickup.
Um, then we've got the townwide garage sale. That is going to be uh June 7th. We pushed it back a little bit. Um, so if you have any interest in signing up for that, you could just email your address to clerk's office
bloomingj.net to sign up. Is that correct, Bri? Clerk's office at bloomingj.net. Great. Um, so we have that. And lastly, we have the fireworks.
So they are June 28th, 6:00 p.m. at Walter T. Bergen. Um, if anyone is interested in having a food truck, they can contact Evie. She's got a great list going. Um, and she's done a great job of contacting a lot of, uh, food vendors.
So, bravo to Eevee for that. Um, and should anyone have any questions, uh, they can email Food Truckwise, email Eevee, anything else, just email or call me. Um, and I'll be available. Uh, board of health, we passed two ordinances last night. If you have any questions on
those, again, email me. I'm not going to get into the specifics, but um the board of health, we have a new member and they are moving along and everything seems to be going super well with this a county. And uh Amy, good job on everything. I think I
think everything's going pretty smoothly, right? Yep. We started getting in uh some vendors uh documents and updating the spreadsheet that all of the event organizers have. That way we're kept updated with who has been received and what process where they are along in
the process. Great. Great. And accounting so far so good, right? Pretty good. Awesome. All right, that's it. Okay. Uh board of ed had their meeting last week and approved their budget for the upcoming year. The
average household will see an increase of $150 on their taxes based on the town average as they computed for home value. [Music] At this time as I report environmental commission meets tomorrow and last
Wednesday of the month will be for the review of anything this evening. I just bond is close to completion. As soon as the weather breaks they'll come in and do the rubber floor and then we'll pick a [Music]
day. Great. Uh no report. Thank you. uh for me. Um do you want to talk about Catherine Bailey? That's moving [Music] on. Go ahead. Uh Catherine Bailey, they
have completed the drain work, started the concrete work, and we'll move from there eventually into uh the paving the milling and the paving of both roads. But everything seems to be on schedule with that. I just want to make clear
that this is not a sidewalk assessment project, okay? Because I have received a few phone calls from people living over there regarding sidewalks being done. We are not doing sidewalks unless it is deemed needed by our engineering. Um, we
did do some sidewalk work between Warren Street and Elizabeth Street and that was a drainage issue. We didn't want any uh ponding of water between the curb and the sidewalk as it's it sunk there. So, those sidewalks were replaced. So, we're
only doing as needed. I received another phone call from a resident across the street from there today wanting to know why their sidewalks are not being done and they just explained it's not an assessment project and a homeowner is responsible for it for sidewalks. We're not um unless we assess the homework and
we decided as a group not to do that when we took this project on. But if everything clears I think that project will be done in the next two or three weeks um because it's only concrete work that's got to be done on paper milling and paving with that. The other thing I have
is just want to recognize Mike Sandmire because he was recognized by the Walter T. Bergen um honor wall and becoming part of the honor wall of fame for Bergen school as a Bergen school alumni.
All right. So Mike will be recognized I think it's June 8th I think at the se at the 8th grade honor award dinner. So congratulations to Mike. Just proves you're in town too long. Exactly. Exactly.
So congratulations and it's for all the work that he's put in between working here being part of the community and working with the school and doc I believe Dr. Nicka and so kudos to you. Thank you Mike. Thank you guys.
Um that's all that I have. Although the playground is comes at the playground on Saturday taking some photos and posted them little progress photos. It is really nice and we're getting a lot of compliments regarding uh not just from there. It's people I've seen really
compliment complimenting the uh uh the new playground and soon the fountain hopefully will be installed the new fountain. So it's going to look really nice up at the playground. Can you touch base a little bit either Mike or you because I think a lot of people did not realize um that I believe ADA compliant.
Yes. Yeah. Maybe one of you can just touch upon that because a lot of people did not realize that or Yes. when you when we applied for I believe it's the green the green acres portion of the J uh um grant that we got one of the requirements are you have to make it ADA
accessible. So you'll see once it open you you'll notice that the drop downs and all that stuff. So u in the the equipment itself is ADA accessible. Um so it makes it so everybody can use it. It's not just it's got to be it has to
be fenced in part of that grant and it has to have x amount of percent has to be shade. That's why I sealed the shade cloths over top of all the equipment. Yeah. So it's it's really really nice when the rubber matting is put in. We put some concrete work in so you can
come out and go down to the pad towards the pond um over there. Um, and it really looks nice around the gazebo. And I'm hoping maybe we can get the gazebo, at least the outside portion of it, painted when we open it up so it looks looks bright. The other good news is, and if
you saw it on Facebook, is that the Bloomingdale Supermarket is opening up on Friday. If you drive by and notice, they are loading the store up a product and they are going to have um they're going to open up Friday morning. So,
that store is back, which is great for all right. Okay, that's pretty much all I have. So, item number eight, resolution number 2025,5.1, consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the cassette agenda?
Second. Any questions? Roll call, please. Bronhurst, yes. Catalano, yes. Graziano, yes. Hudson, yes. Schubert, yes. Yassy,
yes. Pending items. Second final read of public hearing, ordinance number 9-2025, amended chapter 92, accessory structures. Public notice statement, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor. This ordinance was posted in the municipal building,
published in the Herald News, and copies were made available to the public so that a motion may be made that it be read by title. I have a motion to read by title. So move second. All in favor?
I an ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale in the county of Cay and state of New Jersey amending chapter 92 zoning of the code of the burrow of Bloomingdale. Have a motion to open a public hearing. So move second. All in favor.
Anyone want to come up? Please come up. Seeing no one want a motion to close. Second. All in favor. Motion for adoption. Second. Questions. Roll
call. Catalano. Yes. Graziano, yes. Hudson, yes. Schubert, yes. Yazzy, yes. Broners, yes. Okay. Item B, second final reading,
public hearing, ordinance number 10-20225, authorizing and confirming special assessment for Hilltop terrace sidewalls. Public statement, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor. This ordinance was posted in the municipal building, published in the Herald News, and copies were made available to the public so
that a motion may be made that it be read by title. Have a motion to read by title. All in favor? [Music] An ordinance of the Burough of Bloomingdale County, PA, State of New Jersey, authorizing and confirming the
special special assessments calculated, persuant to statute, and set forth in the report of Dharma Folski Engineering Associates in connection with the Hilltop Terrace sidewalk improvements to be paid in installments over the course of 10
years. Have a motion for public hearing. So move second. All in favor? I I Anyone a motion to come up? Seeing no one want the motion to close. All in favor?
Motion for adoption. Second. Roll call. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Hubert. Yes. Yes. Broners. Yes.
[Music] Yes. Okay. C second final reading public hearing ordinance number 11-2025 authorize and confirm special assessment for Orchard and Wallace Avenue sidewalks. Public motive statement, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor. This
ordinance was posted in the municipal building, published in the Herald News, and copies were made available to the public so that a motion may be made that it be read by title. Do I have a motion to read by title? Second. All in favor? I [Music]
an ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale County state of New Jersey authorizing and confirming the special assessments calculated pursuant to statue set forth in the report of Darwolski Engineering Associates in connection with the Orchard Street and
Wallace Avenue sidewalk improvements to be paid in installments over the course of 10 years. Have a motion to open up public hearing. Second. All in favor? I. Anyone wish to come up? See no one. A motion to close.
Second. All in favor? Motion for adoption. Any questions? Roll call. Hudson. Yes. Schubert. Yes. Gassy. Yes. Bronhurst, yes. Catalano, yes. Graciano,
yes. [Music] Item D, second arena public hearing, ordinance number 12-2025, amended chapter 2-8, Junior Academy fees. Public notice of statement, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor. This
ordinance was posted in the municipal building, published in the Herald News. Copies were made available to the public so that a motion may be made that it be read by title. So a motion to read by title. So second. All in favor? I
an ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale County Pay State of New Jersey amending chapter 2 administration article 8 policies and procedures section 2-80 fees charged for municipal services of the code of the bureau of
post motion public So move. Second. All in favor? I have no motion to come up. See no one. A motion to close. So move. Second.
All in favor? Motion for adoption. So move. Questions. Cuber. Yes. Yansy. Yes. Broners, yes. Catalano, yes. Braziano, yes. Hudson,
yes. Item B, second final reading of public hearing, ordinance number 13-2025, amendment chapter 9, procurement card. Public notice statement, please. Yes, Mr. Mayor. This ordinance was posted in the municipal building, published in the Herald News.
Copies were made available to the public so that a motion may be made that it be read by title. A motion to read by title. Second. All in favor? I. An ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale, county of state of New
Jersey, amending chapter 9, personnel policies of the code of the burrow of Bloomingdale. Motion open up public here. So move second. All in favor? I. Anyone wish to come
up? See no one with a motion to close. Second. All in favor. I have a motion for adoption. So second questions roll please.
Yi. Yes. Bronhurst. Yes. Edelano. Yes, Braziano. Yes, Hudson. Yes, Schuber. Yes. New business adoption of resolution. [Music] Uh number 2025 5.8 authorizing New
Jersey state contract to US Bank Procurement Card Services. Do I have a motion? Second. Any questions? Roll call. Bronhurst. Yes. Catalano. Yes.
Braziano. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Gubert. Yes. Gatsby. Yes. [Music] Okay. Item B, adoption of resolution number 20255.9 establishing policies and
procedures for AC and wire transfer payments. Do I have a motion? So move. Any questions? Roll call. Catalano. Yes. Graziano, yes. Benson,
yes. Schubert, yes. Gazzy, yes. Broners. Yes. Item C, adoption of resolution number 2025 5.10, share service agreement renewal with Pona Lakes Mechanical. Do I have a motion?
So move. [Music] Any questions? Roll call. Graziano. Yes. That's it. The
question they were less, right? We did less business with them now. Is that was the thing? Okay. We started voting already. I think you want to know exactly what we're uh I had asked them about that,
but we had a year contain. Go ahead. Yeah. We had a a year one-year contract with Compton Lakes to do their mechanical equipment on all of their vehicles. Um their burough administrator come back being asked to jump out of that for their DW vehicles. So this
first one is the contract for the year that we signed that they never signed. So they're going to sign it with for $110,000 which will be prorated for the five months. They went out on June 1st. So it'll be like 45 $46,000. We'll collect the second one. you're going to you're going to vote on here is an
amendment to that where we're going to do the police, fire, and the um anything else other than DPW for half of the cost of what it was originally. So like 55,000 prorated for 7 months, which comes out to like 32,000. So be like
75,000 for the year that we'll get with that share of service. They're trying to do it on their own and they're going to try and do their DPW vehicles first. Uh if it works, they may leave next year. If it doesn't, they may come back and give us all of it. Thank you.
Any other questions? Continue roll. I'll continue the roll call. So, we're on uh new business item C and E, it's your vote. Yes.
Gazzy, yes. Broners, yes. Catalano, yes. [Music] Okay. Item D, adopt resolution number 2025 5.1 11 amending shared service agreement with Public Lakes Mechanical. And Mike just explained that. Do I have
a motion? So moved. Second. Roll call. Hudson. Yes. Schubert. Yes. Yay. Yes. Brockhurst. Yes. Catalano. Yes. Graciano. Yes.
Okay. Item eight, introduction of Ordinance number 14-2025, amended chapter 7, blockage of intersections. I have a motion to read by title. Second. [Music]
I have it. [Music] motion. I have a question. There's no question. [Music]
An ordinance of the burough of Bloomingdale in the county of the state state of New Jersey amending chapter 7 traffic part one on street traffic regulations to add section 7-27 blockage of intersections of the
code of the burough of uh second and final reading for this ordinance will be on May 20th. We open it up. You can ask or just It's not a question. Just explain it. That's all I'm asking. I can explain. That would be great. Thanks. This is a uh a
recommendation by the traffic bureau in town to three spots. Uh do not block the box. Uh when the county comes in and does paving, uh it'll be part of that paving there stripe it. And we're going to purchase the signs. Don't block the
box. It'll be in front of an Hamburg turnpike. One will be in front of Vanam AB. So if you're coming down Hamburg going into Riverdale, they can't block the box. So people can make a left. Uh the same exact same scenario. We had the Reeves a exit. Uh so people come down,
they can make a left and at rush hour night. And then just the opposite by Munchie's corner. Uh people coming down, it'll be on that side of Munchie side. So people coming up Hamburg in the morning can make left. People don't block the box. Got it. That's it. Thank
you. And it's We've seen this work really well to this work. It's it's one of the few things you can do at the local level for traffic control that you don't have to go through, you know, the state or county. It's worked. It's a good tool. Thank you. Okay. Good. All right.
Um motion open late public comment. Second. All in favor? Anyone wishing to come up and speak? See no one a motion to close. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. We do have an
executive session um tonight. Two matters of attorney client privilege and action might be taken after. Have a motion to go into late public. Second. All in favor? Okay. Thank you.
Um, have a motion to go back into regular session. So, second. All in favor? I. Item 13, consideration of executive session business with public comment. Introduction of ordinance number
15-2025 authorize the sale of property known as block 5105 and lot 14.01. Do I have a motion for introduction? by title. So move second. All in favor? I
an ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale in the county of Pay in state of New Jersey authorizing the sale of property known as block 5105 block 14.01. Second final reading and adoption will be scheduled for June 17th.
Okay. Item B, introduction summer number 16-2025, amended a mere track redevelopment plan. Have a motion to read by title. Some move. Second. All in favor? I an ordinance of the Burough of
Bloomingdale County and Payic State of New Jersey amending the Dear Track Redevelopment Plan. Uh second and final reading will be June 17th and this ordinance will be referred to the plan. Okay. Um our next meeting is May 20th
7:00. It's a regular meeting. Uh do you have a motion to adjourn? Second. All in favor? Thank you all. Thank you.