good evening this is a workshop meeting agenda of the governing body of the burrow of Bloomingdale Tuesday April 1st 2025 at 700 p.m 7:03 i will be the next to the flag 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 for all roll call please mayor here councilman Brocker present councilman
Catalano is not here councilman Graiano here councilwoman Hudson here councilwoman Schubert here councilman Yazi [Music]
here okay we also have our mun Brianna Smith business administrator Michael Sonfire and Burough attorney consolidating is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law adequate notice of this meeting was advertised in the Herald News on January 9th
20125 copies were provided to the local news media and posted continuously in a municipal building a copy of this notice available to the public and on file in the office of the municipal clerk as per state fire code I am required to acknowledge there are two emergency exits in this council chambers the main
entrance which you enter through and the secondary exit to the left where I am seated if there is an emergency walk orderly to the exit exit through the door down the stairs and out the building any question please raise your hand not seeing any we do not have any
non-aggenda items i like to have a motion open up early public comment second all in favor i 86 hand in the new business you have the repair of pond count no dollar amount yellowed out um you want to it just came
today 275 27,500 we're actually replacing it there was a recommendation from the rose fun committee also came out of the rose funds new all last year we battled with it was on this year already it's already off I notic I go by today it's already
Awesome it's a new fountain a new turbine they recommend so it's there's water a few different places on now uh includes a light kit with it probably take six weeks to get it get it in
okay but your um document has zero those are all drafts so it just came today for when the council okay so he'll adjust that in there uh it's never on the website the final ones always go on either there what's posted
on the website is just drops the council okay so the finals will be posted thank you anyone else need a motion to close second all in favor
committee mayor I do not have the numbers for um the tribarrow um I still only have February's number where they had 169 calls um but I do want to remind everyone that uh their beast stake is
coming up uh Saturday April 12th u from 6 to 11 at the Bloomale Fire men's hall um with small raffles and 5050 uh with the band high st and sold out
um the Lummenell Senior Center as always um their website Um their link has the um April uh nutrition sand county nutrition uh services um with for their uh daily
menu they also have a um the Bloomingdale Senior Center calendar with all of their um activities on April 2nd PC Z county health department will be there for a flu and COVID clinic $25 per
shot for those 50 uh and up um and they also have they on on April 10th they have the take the lead paper mill playhouse
day trip and on Thursday April 17th they have a community outreach regard with no appointment necessary regarding abuse and misuse and education of naran distribution and training resources
that's onale senior center April 17 9 to 8 all of this is on the their website um the library has a lot of uh events coming up they um
the story times and they have play times and um also So a lot of crafts uh events coming up that you could look up as online as well and for the events of this weekend is the uh trout fishing
contest i'm not going to be here let everybody know um um the the it will go on even though the playground is safely there's a big uh fence around it
and um that starts at both uh 10 a.m and that's a rain or shine event and also the Easter egg hunt will comes up uh April 19th at Walter T bergen uh 12:00 p.m children's fourth grade and under
um at the Walter Bergen uh school um just a couple things one it's a big week for the drug alliance so earlier in the week they had a speaker talk about substance abuse over at the Walter T and then on Thursday at 6:30 Walter T we have the Unity through
community dodgeball event so a reminder we're all invited so we'll be playing dodgeball i know the police are usually there at the fire department as well and it's a really good night with the kids and my daughter's been looking forward to it all for the past month so that's a good one make sure you don't miss that 6
o'clock start right uh 6:30 I believe 6:30 yeah 6:30 and Sloan Parkfest so actively planning that out we have our bands booked and we uh there might still be some river vendors so if you you have any you can reach out to myself or you
can reach out to Sally facility and I give you your info and then celebration day from an economic development commission front still planning that out we're still taking on vendors so if you know anybody they can contact me and then lastly for EDC we've been doing I don't know if anybody's seen it but a
bites of Bloomingdale series where we go to anywhere that you can buy food essentially in town and we do a short video just to highlight what they have to offer so we have the the quick shop one coming up pretty soon and then we'll we try to do at least one a month right so we keep the series
going that's all um for pumpkins events besides trout fishing and Easter egg which Evie mentioned we also have tribal little league parade that is on the 12th starts at 9:00 a.m um also just be aware our
paper shredding that we normally have in April is now um Saturday May 3rd um that starts at 8:00 a.m and it's in the senior center parking lot um again as I always mention um please sign up for
RAVE the emergency um notification system it's on our main page of the burough website and recycle coach bottom right hand side for both of them if you have not signed up already dave uh the board of ed sent out the summer
programs for the schools so all of that is available on the PPS NJ site with the summer program offering to the schools which we held at B okay and also our our summer camp
registration is open for our town summer camp at Albert also uh a couple things mayor Katherine and Bailey project is underway and moving smoothly uh the playground at Vogue uh
obviously drive by there is demoed and apparatus is being uh stood up now and anchored um that's probably about 3 to four weeks away from completion we also got a donation from Tilcom for the stone
that's required uh there it's about 200 ton of stone probably about5 $6,000 that they donated to the town which is kind of nice um just again I sent an email to everybody but we applied for that police station grant and got it in on the 28th
when it was due but I was just I was really surprised we had 41 letters of support from the community and and members of police departments uh businesses in town and residents in town as well as some members of the governing body and other department heads and the
last thing uh the Joni site that the planning board approved there is in the resolution we have to do a developer agreement uh so authorize Fred's group jonah's going to put together a developer agreement with Joanie and their attorney uh and then she'll have
something at one of our future meetings the agreement and and the plan resolution done that we all next the three popular video that's it great no report
nothing this mayor okay um couple things for me um I'd like to thank Ed Howard um who spent the last 22 years on the River Basin Regional Sewer
Authority he was an asset to the town he put a lot of time into this but he is um stepping down from that after 22 years so we'd like to thank him for his service to the to the community we really appreciate it um also like to
congratulate Councilman who's now my grandfather little baby girl she's very nice that's fantastic um I stopped down at the
um food store in Wayne Jack's food tent to meet with the owner down there uh he was not there by the manager and he has all intentions of reopening the store in Bloomington you will see people in there
um from his other stores taking stock out um but he's got about another three to four weeks of work that needs to be done and whatever he needs to get it up and running but that is not really he said he is going to reopen that store which we've been asked quite a bit about
that um so hopefully um he'll have that open he said probably after Easter that's he should be so that's that's a positive for for downtown um the county with the work done in front of Sloan
Park in front of the the Bloomingdale Supermarket they're telling me that part of that work will be done by Memorial Day which is a plus weather providing and they can actually get in there if if there's bad weather obviously they can't work but their goal is to have it done
by Memorial Day so that Memorial Day should be okay and the small park festival should be okay as of today there's any change on which is all numbered that's pretty much it it for me okay um item eight resolution number
20254.1 consent agenda i have a motion to approve the consent agenda second just Millennium one that's on there that's the uh that's what we just got done and authorizing any questions any other questions
promurs yes braziano yes hudson yes schubert yes yi yes okay pendant items second final reading
public hearing bond ordinance number 6-2025 the senior center this is for 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 i have a motion read by title all in favor bond ordinance providing for various improvements to the senior center by and in the burrow of Bloomingdale County Pay State of New Jersey appropriating
674,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 641,500 bonds or notes of the burrow to finance part of the cost thereof okay do I have a motion of public hearing so second all in favor
anybody wishing to come up and make a comment [Music] is this only on the senior center motion yes yes i was going to do it later but I'll do it now i want to commend Charles Carval
if I want to commend the barrel for moving forward on making the improvements that really need a senior center so thank you very much anyone else seeing no one a motion to
close second all in favor any questions by the council motion for adoption so move second roll [Music]
braziano yes hudson yes schubert yes yatsi yes broners yes [Music] item B second final reading public hearing bond or number 7-2025 and street out street road
improvements public statement please yes Mr mayor this ordinance is posted in the municipal building published in the Herald News copies are made available to the public so that a motion may be made that it be read by title do have a motion to read by title so move second
all in favor by ordinance providing for road improvements to An Street and Elm Street by in the burrow of Bloomingdale wanted to save the state of New Jersey appropriating 742,000 therefore inclusive of the state
of New Jersey uh DOT grant of 375,000 and authorizing the issuance of 742,000 in bonds or notes of the bureau to finance the cost thereof motion to open up public hearing
second all in favor anyone [Music] wish Jasper 125 Redswick Trail um before we go and install more sidewalks I really implore you guys to take some walks on like Redswick Trail the dog
park and look at the shape that they're in only after a few years like But we're not stone sidewalks here no but all these projects are going to have sidewalks like Daily Catherine have i know catherine has sidewalks halfway down which has been there forever we're not
doing sidewalks here we're just doing curve milling and pavement and drainage work bell there is no sidewalks and no sidewalks being installed elm and An Street there's no sidewalks being installed i think that we need to better QC the
work because if you go to rent to a trail there's also cracks in the pavement and that's been what three years three and a half years pretty bad twins are seven years old so it's not old it's about seven years all right i just think that you guys should look at the work it's not up to par and if kids
fall on those sidewalks they will have no skin you're telling me the sidewalks are cracked up there no they're not cracked like the the aggregate in the sidewalks right they put too much large stones in it my friend said because it's cheaper and it's supposed to have really fine stuff at the top so that the
sediment underneath the larger rocks don't show but it's eroded and now the large you know the big aggregate gets there and it's like making like giant sandpaper with like big rocks as the kid falls like usually what happens with that when the aggra comes to the top there's cream on the top that gives it that
level probably okay guarantee it is the residents are throwing salt all over the side salt will deteriorate concrete in a heartbeat residents up there pretty much were told because even when we salt the roads we asked our DBW to stay close to the center so they don't hit the
sidewalks in the interior i can tell you for a fact up there in some houses that one after it was done we would not look there was piles of salt on sidewalks that will eat concrete away but no problem the cream goes away and the aggregates in the middle all right so I
know concrete pretty well so the aggregate shouldn't be like less than like four or five millimeters from the top i don't know that part of it i just know when it comes to the truck they dump it and they cream it off and they they do whatever but I can tell you that when the a come to the top the cream is
coming off probably because people are salted heavily on their side we try to avoid that and every time we do side we tell the residents do not use do not use salt at least for the two years that it's guaranteed
i think that someone needs to to really look at it because there are sidewalks that are adjacent to the ones that are really bad where they're fine and you can't tell me that it's like black and white you know demarcation zone like where someone put salt on it and it didn't you can't say that it doesn't go all over the place you know there's
water you know things happen but some of those are in like the plural shape okay and there's no way that like rock salt does that to one and then the next one it's okay i just tell you how I know the way it works our engineer has confirmed that he's the one that says it that's
where we got our information from and be honest with you people are seeing deterioration and had a 2-year warranty but we did replace our mixer sidewalks up there that cracked or the curbing was done we've been patched up there um I know that for a fact but if we're getting not getting complaints until I'm
hearing it now we don't know anything about it okay all right all right anyone else see no one on the motion to close second all in favor i any questions
motion for adoption second roll call please [Music] hudson yes hubert yes yes broners
yes catalano given my tardiness I'm going to abstain [Music] yes it will say second final reading and public care bond ordinance number 8-2025 street water improvements public
notice vacancy 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 have a motion to make by title second all in favor hi
bond ordinance providing for water main improvements along an street and Elm Street for the water utility of the burrow of Bluingale County Pacific state of New Jersey appropriating 891,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 891,000 bonds or notes of
the water utility of the bureau to finance the cost thereof motion of a public second all in favor i have a wish to come up seeing no one a motion to close
second all in favor [Music] any questions from the council motion for adoption some move second roll call please schubert yes
yes bronerst yes catalano yes graziano yes hudson yes item 10 new business adoption of resolution number 4.6 um 2025 4.6 repair of the
boat pond fountain which we just heard comments about that before do I have a motion second any questions the lighting feature you mentioned we don't normally have it on at night right
we don't have light maybe the first time we'll have one oh so we might You don't have to do it is it like solar no it's part of electric got curious i saw a light thing when I was reading through it
you want it that's what I figured a million dollar play around we spent money on everything else i think $2,000 for a light kit there's lights surrounding it so it's kind of pretty well well this is to light the actual
fountain this would be Well it be cheaper without it would be $2,000 you want That's up to us that's a discussion of the government body but then again it is the rose fund it
It's It's I mean I see that they they said Okay i don't know well you were at the meeting yeah I know yeah it's here [Music] yes
broners yes yes gradiana yes hudson yes hubert yes item B adoption of resolution number 2020
254.7 professional architect services um for the Blueadel Senior Center motion second any questions roll call broners
yes catalano pass graciano yes hudson yes schubert yes gassy yes catalano yes
[Music] introduction of ordinance number 9-2025 chapter 92 zoning accessory structures got a motion to read by title so move second all in favor i
an ordinance of the Buringdale County for safe state of New Jersey amending chapter 92 zoning of the code of the buringale mr mayor will be forward into the planning board because of the zoning ordinance second and final reading and adoption will be May
6 have a motion up public comment second all in favor uh anyone wish to speak [Music] i just requested everyone speak a little bit louder tonight more than any other
night i could barely hear a lot of people i couldn't hear Ed too well i couldn't hear John too well you turn your head you couldn't hear you it was just I mean I know your voice pretty well so I might decipher it but we're just not there tonight okay
thanks thank [Music] you charles car two comments one is on the police station that's also I want to commend the bureau at least moving forward to
try to get a grant i think that's really creative and I really encourage that so thank you for taking that initiative and I'm pleased they got as good recommendation as you did second comment I apologize for be here sooner i had some conflicts and I do want to thank everyone in this room who took the time
to come out and vote i apologize I was here sooner to thank everyone uh to me people think voting is a right it's also an obligation because it actually manages our future so thank you all for all those that people that took the time to vote thank you and I want to say Charles you guys put a lot of work into
that and the information that you put out to public was fantastic well hopefully uh now the work starts yeah [Music] anybody else want wish wish to come up seeing no one a motion to close second
all in favor i and we do have one matter of uh attorney client um and negotiations in executive s there will be no action taken afterwards um our next meeting is April 15 2025 at
6:00 p.m um note that because then we have to go over to the fire department hall at 7:00 p.m to do promotions for our police department so that'll be a combination of the same night but we are starting at 6:00 for our regular meeting
on Okay motion go to exe all in favor i