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Good evening everyone. This is a rare governor of Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 at 7 p.m. Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation under

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God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. here. >> Here >> we also have municipal clerk Brianna Smith, business administrator Michael Sonar, and bal attorney Dan Don Sullivan. This meeting is called

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pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law. Adequate notice of this meeting was this meeting was advertised in the Herald News on January 9, 2026. Copers were provided to the local news media and posted continuously in the municipal village. A copy of this notice

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is available to the public and on file in the office of a municipal clerk. As per state fire code, I am required to acknowledge that two emergency exits in this council chambers. The main entrance which you enter through and the secondary exit to the left where I am

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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. >> Um, see none. >> We do not have any non-aggenda items tonight. Uh, make a motion to open up

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early public comment. >> So, move. >> All in favor? Okay. >> Anybody wishing to come up, please come up, state your name and address. Charles Caravalo New Jersey just make a quick comment on

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the SLO contract. I'm very pleased that you're renewing it. The reason is this particular job is perfectly suited for that position. I mean, you got the experience of the fact, but I'm pleased that you're doing that.

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>> Thank you. Yeah, he's he's a gentleman and he worked really well with the uh the kids. He's very wellliked. Anyone else? Seeing no one on a motion to close. So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I reported committees.

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>> Um, mayor, this uh Saturday is the Sloan Park Festival uh June 13 from 3 to 9. There's uh going to be between eight and 10 uh food vendors and a lot of uh

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uh vendors for that Jen knows a little more about. Uh there's going to be two bands. Maxed out starts at three and the mug shots start at 8. And um I encourage any vendors out there for the uh

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following events that we have which are the um fireworks in town which are on uh June 27. Um to if you have not sub submitted your

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paperwork to to please do so. And uh also uh excuse me uh for the Bloomingdale Senior Center. Uh

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again, they're um back at their new uh senior center. >> They're back in their home. >> Back in their home. Um, and I missed their uh, welcome back. But, um, again,

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if any seniors want to get involved, they have uh, trips. They have chair of aerobics. They have their walking club every Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. uh, bingo. and they have uh several trips planned

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uh to there's one for Washington DC and um lots of things planned if you could go on their go to their um website or or visit them at the senior center

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also uh for the uh John uh first aid squad they sent me their numbers for May and they for 156 for May. Year to date, uh 748 calls.

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Trevor had 129 calls. Uh covered on 21 uh they missed eight which was 94%. Uh calls to lower 59 calls to Bloomingdale 59 36. Um they also had

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mutual aid compliment and moni duty calls uh were 72 and all calls were 49 and uh Gale said that their uh instructional this month is uh graduation fever

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>> also I believe the refurbish came in just went out to the resort that that rig which is >> their meeting is tonight at 7:30. I'll go there when we finish. >> Do they have a let down or anything?

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>> It's refurbished now. I I don't believe it. I know there's another one. I'm aware. When that's coming in, I don't know. >> I also even met with

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partake in it. It was nice social. >> Okay. Economic development mission. As a reminder, we have red, white, and bloomingale program going on. of us for residents to sign up to decorate their

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houses to celebrate our 250th birthday as a country. I've already seen a lot of houses that started with their decorations out as long as we can keep up around but sign up for it. And this is also

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extended to the business as well, asking them to decorate along Main Street and to also let us know if there's any types of special programming or special things that they're going to do. For example, at Munchies, they said that they're going to have a photo booth on the 4th of July and they're going to give out

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hot dog for everyone that has an order. So, those are the types of things that we're hearing from the businesses. A lot of responses want to make that more and more known throughout the months. So environmental we were awarded a brand

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through New Jersey and on Monday 15 Mike and Pat will be going down to receive that grant and the board of education will be having their next meeting at 6:30 on Wednesday June 24th and then we'll

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touch on the festival. We are flyers now day. um library has some really fun things. They're going to be hosting a table at home park to start reading which is

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called story. To link with that, they are also doing a dinosaur fossil program on June 29th at 4:30 at the center. Music forward to that summer program. We're also going to be

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doing program to support America's anniversary. That's based on it. Um, and on the 25th at 7 p.m. they're doing a mental discom

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very very fast. So they had an incredible um monthary celebrations. So things are going well there. >> I just mention something else. So, um,

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uh, Tom at, uh, Riley at the, um, Mr. Riley has the Moonale Museum and it will be open on Saturday. He always is open on Saturdays, but um, I just encourage anybody that wants to find out about uh,

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you know, the early beginnings of uh, Boom. is a wealth of information and it's located at 30 Boston Street and the hours are 10 to 4 and uh he'll be there both on uh our S park on this Saturday

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and for the fireworks on the 27th as well >> and street going wrapped up in they're getting some stone. So they're getting ready that next should be done within the next week or

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so probably at some point the chestnut cover contract behind on do work. So they're going to start that project early

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and is complete put the dock in and that that project is done. A lot of people actually one of my neighbors walk official not official

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but we are going to get museum we are get I can't remember the number was 100 something for the Waltber the school project started fencing up

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So it's electric and trailers are red. Yeah, I saw that yesterday to softball thing for games tonight and they got that in one day and then eventually happened today

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um uh CS. So that went up to his house. So I went to his house yesterday. So I spent probably a good half hour

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and he was in charge of all the players and coaches and specifically It was it was a great conversation with a local res. You never know who you're going to run into. Okay. And we another thing I'm going to

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bring up. We've had several structure fires in town that I I've been at. One at treetop which we had a rescue there. Um and that person from my understanding was doing well. And then over the

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weekend we had a structure fire on James Aroy. Luckily nobody was sold. Nobody was hurt. But the response you have from not only our town, the local towns around

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us, it was hot and required first aid, I believe, was there. And then our first aid came in and our ladies on a tremendous job just buying everybody with water and very minimal amount of damage to the to the garage there. So um

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uh seems to be happening a little bit more often locally um than in past years, but luckily nobody was hurt in our PD and fire for that rescue up on treetop to get that person out of the

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building which was good and she better back out she's doing all All right. So, let's move on. Item eight, resolution number 2026 6.1, consent agenda. Motion to approve the

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consent agenda. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Crocker. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Hagen. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes.

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Okay. Pending items. Item A, second final reading, public hearing, ordinance number 80-2026, index rate capback. Public notice statement, please. >> Yes, mayor. This ordinance was posted in the munual building published under our website. Copies were made available to

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the public so that a motion may be made by a motion to reflex. All >> in favor? I. for a closing bill calendar year 2026 organ to exceed the municipal budget

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appropriation limit and to establish a cafe NJSA 48 semicol from the public wish to come Charles Gar just to clarify this uh rate cap allow you to use

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$350,000 of bank account when you're done with using this cap $12,000 over banks. you have right now. You have any other questions? >> Um, no.

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>> Thank you. Any other questions regarding the index break? >> See no motion to close. >> Second

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off. >> There would be approximately $198,000 >> 198,000 >> for the next year's back. The 198 includes next year's back cap or that's the back cap as today after you consume the 350 >> today after we can Well, no, that's part

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of the >> after today. I'm sorry. Yeah, after today. So after >> it's after motion for >> adoption. >> Yes. Aiden, yes. Schubber, >> yes. >> Yes.

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>> Yes. >> Okay. Um, we're going to do a budget presentation. Mike and our financial staff will be here going through this and then we will open up for questions. um was to get into the

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reading of the month statement and the resolution for the sole now and then we'll get to them when we get to the next step and then they'll be here to answer any questions we have

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uh please questions and then I'll direct it to where it needs to Yeah. I just want to make sure >> 26 talk about the budget this year, what we introduced a couple of weeks ago at our meeting,

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what this is based on. As you know, we're not on top of this tonight because we're in the state review. Every three years we have another state review. Uh they have found some issues with our budget which our auditors and the fire department are

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working on that straighten out to introduce an investment I would imagine at that point >> and that's going to be June 23rd. Right. >> Right. So, some of the points we're going to talk about tonight are revenue versus

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appropriations, year-over-year overall expenditures, budget challenges, assess valuation, tax breakdown, capital projects and expenditures, and strategic revenue review. So, our budget this year, proposed mun

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municipal budget is 16,628,784. That is a 7.8% increase over 2025. And we're going to get into what makes up that $16 million in the next few slides here. So the appropriations, that's what the

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federal spend money on. The finance committee, I say the finance department will sit down and they'll go through the appropriations. There's certain things, majority of these things that they stick and they put into the budget. There's only a very small

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portion that comes from outside the department budgets. That's that 10% there that we get from our department heads. We'll submit a budget to us. We'll look at that budget. When I say we, myself and the finance department will make cuts at that point and we'll

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put it back into the press into the budget and then the finance committee comes in made up of the three government body members, the mayor, council and council graciano and they'll make cuts to the budget but pretty much the only thing we really touch is that everything

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else I'll get into a little bit is uncontrollable. It is what it is to a limit. So debt and capital makes up 11% of the budget. Health insurance, just health insurance

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and the money we pay people that opt out of health insurance accounts for 13% of the budget. Statutory expenditures, which is your police and fire retirement system, your social security, and your unemployment compensation makes up 11%. Again, no

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control on that. The reserve for unleffected taxes makes up 2% and that comes that comes from a formula as well that we have no control over the OE. We do have limited

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control here. This is everything else typically there's payroll and there's OE. I split up the OE to show that the department heads the department budget where we really touch the other part of the O we pretty much don't touch. is

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made up mostly of your share service agreement offsets. State federal grants 2%. And that's that point of that point in time when we introduced we had like 20,000 and we'll get into some more numbers here in the next few slides. So that's $20,000 that

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we got from grants and those aren't the DOT grants are the ones I mentioned tonight for the open space. Those are your the bulletproof vest, the police, clean communities, the public grants that we get >> all of those type of grants. So at the

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point in time, we only had a couple. So we're going to show it as a negative right now. But since we introduced, we actually picked up three or four more of those grants. So we're probably in the plus, but at the time we deduct them, we're in the negative. And then salaries make up 32% and those

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salaries are made up of 63 contractual employees DBA blue collar white collar and 26 non-contractual employees those department heads and some other positions in town total of 89 employees.

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Next item we're going to come to is revenue. This is what the barrel spends on how we or how we how we raise the money or how we raise our money. So we have $16 million in appropriations. We need to

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raise $16 million plus in revenue to pay for all those appropriations. So you can see on this slide here the delinquent tax that's 2.5% of the budget. That is for the tax that we did not collect last

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year that we got this year that we can use to fund our budget this year. You can't go back last year. That's not necessarily good. We'll talk about that a little later. Also, fund balance surplus

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is 4%. That is also a way down from where we've been in the past. And I have a slide on the fund balances. We'll get into that a little bit as well. uh the pilot fees, permits, court fines, one-time revenues from the land sale,

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that makes up 20.5% of our revenues. Our shared services that we have for our garbage collection, street and everything else that we do that we offer, not that we pay for, we offer those services makes up 11%.

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The state aid, that's 3.4%. That's what we get obviously from the state and that has not changed. That's the same number we got last year dollar-wise and the grants again 2%. So the finance department finds all that revenue and they look at the

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appropriations. This is really simple right now and they say okay we have 16 million we have 8 million in revenues. Where do we get the rest from? It goes to tax from the people. So that's what that big pie that 62% tax collected from the residents and businesses down to

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help offset the revenue side revenue that mass the appropriations and 3% of that tax collected is also a library tax 33% of the budget. After they make those things match the

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appropriations and revenues, then we have to rely our professionals which is Andy and Joe from our auditors. They come in and sit with Heather and Jasmine and myself and we go through the appropriations. The levy tax

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we cannot receive. Appropriations 3 and a half% and the ley tax is 2%. And they help us when they come in. They find exceptions, exclusions, and additions that can be taken out of cap. You always hear your incap, ad cap. In cap, you're you're you're limited to those

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percentages that you can increase. When it goes out of cap, it helps you fall within your budget. Once you get those caps in place, you either equal to or under those caps of 3 and a half and 2%. Then you can introduce your budget. And that's where we were a couple of weeks ago when we

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introduced the budget. So this is just looking back the last six years of our municipal just the municipal budget. You can see we're at 16,628,784, which is the last line there of 1.2

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million over or 7.8% over 2025. Uh since 2020, appropriations have gone up 25% or on an average of 4.2% a year. Obviously, the next slide is identical because this is your revenues. Revenues

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has to match appropriations. So, we're the same 16,620,784 in revenue. So let's talk a little bit more in depth about the appropriation side. So the first line there, salaries, which is all staff, which I think I said was

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89 people. That accounts for $5,362,000 or an 8.6% increase. And the dollar associated with that is $426,000. Keep in mind $384,000

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of that is contractual. It's set in contract with the PPA, white collar and blue collar. We can't touch it at this point in time. It is what it is. What we can touch is the non-contractual order, the 26 employees,

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and that went up $42,000. And that's every year around November, December, the governing body passes the resolution adopted whatever the percent change is going to be for those 26 people for the following year. The operating expense and again I I

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broke this down a little bit uh because I wanted you to see where we actually have influence and that is in the individual budgets. So the individual budgets for departments is $1.7 million or.7%.

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It went up $11,000 this year. Last year we cut that budget $60,000. So 7 is it barely gets us where I mean the departments are struggling. We know that and we sat with the final fund but we know what we have to do. We have to keep taxes down and that's where we

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really made an impact. The health insurance $2.1 million. It's a 24.6% increase or the dollar amount is $424,000 increase this year alone in health

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insurance. Again, that one there uncontrollable. We belong to a HIF and the rates are going up and the rates are going up in the state's health benefit plan also and we have employees and they're guaranteed contractually to have health insurance

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and that's the number that we pay for state insurance. >> How much did the state go? >> I'll get to that in a little while, but I want to say it's 36% I think the number is but don't later on 100%. And last year the same thing we went up like 20% last year and the state went up

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almost 30%. And my what I'm hearing on the street is that the state is going up even more than the 36% next year. So hopefully we hold true or some things that gentlemen back here is going to talk about later

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on. uh trying to get the state involved legislate lobby our legislators to see if they get involved with the state benefits because if they can drop state benefits down for us our contracts are that we have to provide equal to or better then so if we do a resolution which I'm in support of with Charles I'm

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going to talk about a little while later if it only helps if it passes if they get rid of some services then we can drop our health benefits somewhere as well so we'll see the library library is 453 $3,000. It's

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a 10.5% increase or $43,000. We have no control in that either. That comes It's a formula, a third of a mill formula that the state sends to you and they said, "This is what you have must pay your library to have it run." And >> that's year over year. It doesn't >> year over year. Every year they come

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back. And then if I look at my saying, I want to say it's probably gone up 10 something% each year for the last seven years. I think it's been up 170,000 $180,000 since 2020. uh went from like 280 to the 453 it is

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today again we don't have any control or any say on that uh in this room we're limited uh share service which is utilities I mean sorry your share services which is again accounting for what you're

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bringing in share service wise your utilities meaning just what that is electric gas all of that stuff and all the other insuranceances liability all the other insurance that come with that and any other miscellaneous items. That's $2.9 million. It's a 4.6%

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increase or $129,000 that also we really have limited control over unless we back out of shared services which also messes up your revenue. So, it's you're in it and it's really nothing you're going to change at this point.

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The statutory uh I'm sorry, state and federal grants. That's one we talked about before. Again, we have we at an introduction $20,000. It was a 58% lower than last year, but we've received three or four more grants since then. So, that's probably a zero. Actually, it's

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probably a loss for us right now. Statuto expenditures, uh, the unemployment insurance, pensions, social security, all that 1.8 million. We don't have control over that, but lo and behold, it went down 5%. So, we saved $101,000, and that was pretty much due

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to pensions. It was both pensions, PFRS and Pers, >> uh, capital debt and services. So, I broke this out into two lines. Uh, the vehicle leases. So, a few years ago, maybe seven years ago, the governing body that sat on the DES decided we

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weren't going to bond for vehicles anymore. We wanted to put it into our operating budget. We wanted to take out just like you do at home, a three, five, sevenyear loan on vehicles. So this number, this $367,000 is what we currently have in our budget

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today. And those are vehicles from 2022 through last year. We had a 21% increase or $64,000 increase from last year. And that $64,000 includes two police cars, which is $20,000. And the balance, the

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$40,000 $32,000 balance is for a sweeper payment that was previously budgeted under a share of service line. So we took a share of service line, we just offset the cost of that. But we moved it into budget because we instructed it when we brought it under a capital leases to take advantage of a cap

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exception permitted by the DCA. So that's why we brought it inside cap. We had a benefit on the other side of it. The infrastructure improvements. This is all of your debt that we pay on bonds and notes, principal and interest on

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both 1.4 million is a 9.7% increase or $127,000. But keep in mind that that in infrastructure improvements which is pretty much all your road improvements that we do uh in in and other

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improvements in town for the infrastructure that is current outstanding and debt that come from as early as 2009 through today. So this is not just debt we took on the last two years. you this is debt you have the last x amount of years that

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we're paying payments on uh through I mean there's probably 20-year notes on some 20-y year bonds on some of these things in 2009 but we're making payments each year to pay things down pay things off uncontrollable at this point in time we

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bond the money previous government bodies bonded the money we have so there's no you can't do it you can't cut it out you can't stop anything and the reserve runs like the taxes is 327 $320,000.

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That's a 53% increase or $112,000 increase in the budget. We don't have control over that either. This is mandated due to an increase in lack of collection of taxes from last year. So, we anticipated on collecting I want to say

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99.4% of our tax base. We did not collect all of that last year. Some came this year. That's why we had that when I showed you earlier in the revenue we had a reserve I mean the uh the delinquent tax we can use it this year but doing that now our

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what they call the rut went down so we can't anticipate as much revenue as we had in the past so we have to increase our reserve in order to cover that. So it's $112,000 increase in the budget that this government body had no control over.

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So total appropriations $16 million 16,620,784 7.8% over last year or 1.2% increase on the revenue side. So again the grants are the grants we

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talked about a couple times. Uh it's not true number. We have more than that. Now state aid, we bringing in $560,000 to from New Jersey, which is the exact same dollar amount we got last year. So 0% increase or decrease.

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The library, we have to raise $453,000 10.6% increase over last year. Again, we want control on that. We have to raise the money uh because we're mandated to pay that to the library. share services or share services earning $1.8 million

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or a 2% increase and that's indicative of pretty much all of our contracts would have shared services year-over-year is pretty much 2% increase. Uh things we'll we should probably look at in future share services down the road.

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The pilot land sale fines licensing fees all of that brings in $3.4 $4 million. We're 17% over last year of what we actually brought in. Fund balance surplus. We're using $65,000 this year, which is

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a negative 90%. We just didn't regenerate our fund balance and surplus that we've had in the past. We'll talk about that a little while later, but I think most of that is attributed to payroll

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and more health insurance because in the budget that is a place where you can I don't want to use the word pad, but you can add a little extra more money in those line items in the past and that's where we built surplus mostly from. But being that the health is so

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high and and salaries have gone up that you can't hide money anywhere in there and we're trying to cut as much as we can to make taxes work for the residents of Bloomingdale. That's why I think our surplus and then also cut in budget what we do again to bring in as well as we can is hurting us on the the fund

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balance surplus side of things. uh delinquent tax. This this was again the 437,000 that was not collected last year. 145% increase from last year to this year. Uh and that's we're using that as a revenue, but again that's not

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a good thing. And then at the end of the day, what we need to raise by taxes is $9.8 million for municipal budget or 11.6%. Total revenue again 16 million and change and 7.8% increase.

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Just know that 17 go back that oh yeah I did talk about the land sale 800,000 of that was land sale from MT on that pilot land sale and find all right let's talk about some of the budget challenges we had this year

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and last year and probably years to come first thing is health insurance increases Then we have an issue with tax collection which we just talked about the run emergency weather this year in January and February our fund balance/s

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surplus being down and then onetime revenue used to balance our budget. So health insurance you can see 2025 last year our health insurance went up $355,000. This year, our colleagues are open up an

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additional $424,000. This is again uncontrollable. We can't touch this mandatory contractual obligations. The HIP, the health insurance fund we belong to versus state health councilman

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24.6 and it is 36 state health 36%. included in these increases for the health are premiums for retirees that are no long that are long gone from the burrow that we still required to keep on our insurance for contractual severance

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agreements. So again, stuff that govern body before us, members of with prior employees, we have to cover those bills. Something we can't control this point in time. tax collection and reserve gap. This is

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what we're talking about the rut uh which is reserve uncollected taxes. So you can see our historical average was 99.4%. And the reserve on that was $28,000 and change. Uh being that we came in under, we couldn't use that number anymore. So

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we took our last three years and averaged it and that came out to 99.12%. which drove our reserve up to $320,556. And that 28% drop accounts for $112,000 increase to our budget this year. It's

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uncontrollable, but we can't we can't do it to govern a body of air to control that. To provide clarity on the reserve for unpled taxes or the rough adjustment, the increase was driven by specific timing issues regarding subsequent tax payments. In a typical year, lean

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holders who already hold a stake in a property usually pay the subsequent taxes like the fourth quarter to protect their investment. This year, a significant number of those subsequent payments were not picked up by the lean holders before the fiscal year end. Because these payments remain

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outstanding when the books close, our actual collection rate drops, which by law triggers a mandatory increase in our rut appropriation for the following year. To prevent this overlap in the future, we're moving our tax sale to an earlier date in the calendar year by

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holding the sale sooner. We create a wider window for the tax office to identify non-payments and engage with lean holders well before the year end deadline. This shift in timing will ensure subsequent taxes are captured within the correct fiscal year, helping us return

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to our historical 99.4 collection efficiency. So that's our plan for that specific item. Next one we talked about here, unforeseen snow operations. Uh we know

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we had a a rough winter. We had a really rough January, February, two major storms. U they both happen weekend. So not only did we have to pay Saturday and a half, we had Sunday at double. It cost us $109,000.

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for payroll and also the surge and assault the icing. Uh they were unanticipated costs was the direct result of the backto-back storms. In mutual budget, we plan for a typical winter. However, these blizzards require 24/7 mobilization that moved us from

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maintenance mode into emergency response mode. When we have 8 plus inches of accumulation in a single window, we do not simply wait for the next business day. to keep emergency rooms open for police and fire and DW crews work for 16- hour shift through the night. This 109,000 includes a mandatory overtime

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pay required to ensure that every primary and secondary road was passable for her vehicle by 6:00 a.m. each day. Beyond labor, a significant portion of this surge went towards consumables. During this high intensity event, the volume of salt and deicing materials required sat.

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Furthermore, when every municipality in the region is ordering salts simultaneously during a crisis, we see peak pricing and delivery search charges. We had to restock our bays midstorm to ensure we didn't run out during the second event. While these costs were unanticipated, the alternative failing to clear the roads

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was not an option. The liability of a blocky emergency route or significant multiar accident due to untreated road would have far exceeded the 109,000 spent. This was a necessary investment in fiscal safety of residents and the protection of our infrastructure. Again,

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an item that was uncontrollable in the budget from this governor body. >> Mike also looked at the days after where we had to go clean curb to curb ranch for example. >> We had to pick up dump take it and remove it from the streets.

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>> Move it from the street. >> And that also took a lot of time. The only plus is that that money that $100 actually was able to come correct me wrong. >> Okay. >> Uh so it helped us as we make our numbers in cap. If that was not allowed

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if state didn't allow us to take it out we would have really this year. We would have had that in the budget but for revenue to pick up that $19,000. >> But it's still part of your overall budget. >> It is 100%. It's part of that $16 million.

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So let's talk about the fund balance. So here's a snapshot of the last seven years and you can see where we were with our fund balance and what we used and what we did with that and the reason we did. So in 2020 we had a 1.1 million

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fund balance. We used almost a million dollars to keep the average house at a tax increase of $23 or 2%. In 21, we regenerated that same $900 and something,000. We used all of it to our

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taxes at $25 or.7% increase. In 22, we generated a million dollars. We used a million dollars and we actually brought the average tax down $6. In 23, we regenerated $1.7 million. And again, I think a lot of this

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regeneration was it wasn't a padded department head budget uh or or department budget or some of the other people talking about. I think a lot of it talking to our finance department and previous CFOs and treasurers that's where the money was was really in

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payroll and health because they were big numbers that you can add more money in and if you don't use it all it's good to have it in case you need emergency but at the end of the day you didn't use it and that's where a lot of the surplus came from and in these subsequent years when hiring hires versus new paying

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people we brought in veterans new hires when that dropped That was the first three lines. Then also all those new hires we brought in started catching up, especially some of the people with steps. So salary started going back up to where they were previous prior to this. And then

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obviously the health just the roof. Uh so you can see in 2024 we used 1.2 million of 1.3 was a $58 increase. And then the next two years we really got hit. We only generated the

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715,000 in 2025. We used 650 to try and keep it as low as possible, which was a $24 increase. And then this year we only regenerated 152,000. We're using 65 uh even 87,000 in there, but that you see the increase

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is 356 to the average home as a whole. For the last seven years, we've used for the governing body is some people that have period for those seven years and some new people. $6.3 million in surplus was used trying to keep taxes down for the residents of

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Luminell and that kept it below $100 or roughly a 3.43 3.43% increase over the last 7 years per year 2026 assessed value or net valuation.

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So blue and yellow if you look down properties there down to net valuation taxable 2026 we've had 2,656 properties that we tax and that we make we get our revenue from uh whether

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that's commercial residential vacant land that don't have homes on them or construction on them and farmland. And you can see each one of those on the far right what they actually contribute to the taxes that we collect. So vacant land 79

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properties they contribute a million to the taxes. Residentials the 24 25 homes they contribute $31 million to the taxes. Farmland the 18 contribute $76,000 and the commercial in town contributes $3.8 $8 million to our tax

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appraisals to help offset. If you go down now to total, the total number of properties in Bloomale is 2,752 properties. That's a difference of 96 and that's what that exempt is. There's 96 properties that just don't pay tax.

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Whether it's Northern Green, whether it's the house of worship, whether it's burrow homes, state home, county owned, uh there's things that they just there there's taxes in. And just for sake of doing this, those those properties, 96

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properties, the assessed value was $72 million or roughly $3.6 million. Obviously, we can't we'll never collect any of that or we won't collect most of that because of just the reason we said there public land that we use, state

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uses northern green 50% of our of our our green area in Bloomingdale. So, you're not going to see much of that money. What I did put in here though is under the town nonpublic zone. So, the town owned property everything that's not public owned. So,

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this building, this property is public owned. the senior center public owned DPW the the firehouses uh animal shelters those are all public owned we have property that is not it's sitting in residential areas is sitting in business zones is sitting in our M1 zone

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and it's valued at $5.6 million or revenue coming in if it was all built out would be 6 $282,000. Part of the things we're about later on, some of the things we want to talk about possibly doing is looking at selling some of that land if possible if usable

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or putting up for auction. So you get a one-time sale and you get it on ratable as opposed to just sitting there and getting nothing. We now just have the piece of property that's sitting there. You've seen a couple that we and I say we myself and the mayor have seen a couple that we have the tax assessor

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looking into that seem like liable properties that can be or probably will be sold and so we would be interested in them. whether it's surrounding property or somebody that's coming in because there's water and sewer actually right within like 15 feet of the property line

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possibility then the last one I took an exemp exempt vets uh we love the vets uh what they've done for us uh the state they came up with that exempt vet or disabled vet doesn't have to pay tax which again I'm

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all for but unlike the senior freeze when seniors come in and have senior fees and our taxes go up. They pay the total tax. We're whole and they get reimbursed whatever they fur. With the vets, it's all on the taxpayer. The state doesn't reimburse us for anything.

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So, those 19 homes contribute $264,000 that revenue we don't see uh because of the state. So, they just wanted to put that in there. That that's something that the taxpayers have to come up with that that extra money there.

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the tax base that was introduced here on all of this. So you have 77 $727,810 that rate was was the tax rate on that with a budget that we introduced was 5.004. That's where I I calculated all these numbers from our estimated tax rate that

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we put in was 4.889. So a little bit less than what we introduced. So some of these numbers would come down a little. Also a key note is that the 727,000 that number the valuation of Bloomingdale actually is down 2% from 2025. We were

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at 729,000 and change last year and that is partly due to you see buildings that are being demoed and now no longer have an assessed value. All they're doing is vacant land. So that drives down that that valuation. uh computation tax rate. I know this

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came about last year uh people were questioning why we do estimated tax rate. So our third quarter taxes are always estimated unless you have certification from the state and everything is finalized. Typically by the time we do we don't we know ours we know the

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library. We know our open space. Uh when we introduced we didn't know the school at the time. We now know the school. So we use the school number when we did our estimate uh for the for the rate. We don't know the county yet. We won't know that county for a while. So when we do

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our third quarter computation for estimates, we take the assessed value of the home, whatever your home's assessed at, you divide it by 100, which is $100 for assessed value, and you multiply that by the rate, which in this case the estimated rate was 4.889.

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And that gives you your yearly toll. You take the yearly total and you minus what you paid the first two quarters and that gives you what you owe the second half. You divide that in half and that's your third quarter payment. And then somewhere after we adopt and the state finally certifies it,

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everything's good to go. the entire budget. We get the assessed value fourth quarter computation assessed value divided by that same $100 multiply by the the new official certified tax rate and that gives you what the official taxes that you should

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have been paying for that year this year. You back out the three first quarter payments and that gives you what to do in the fourth quarter. And if you take that total number and you divide that by four, those are the first two payments

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for the next first two quarter one and quarter two of the following year. So we always your your rate for this year the first two quarters of the following year are assumed from what you what you paying this year in taxes. Then we ask you again third quarter next year and

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fourth quarter we balance that. I just do a tax breakdown here on the average home. So that evaluation part we saw a couple of slides back, the average assessed house in Bloomingdale, the value is $256,432. We use the tax rate because we know the

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schools as highlighted in green of that 4.998 per $100 assessed value. So the tax yearly taxes for an average home in 2026 are $12,816. That's the estimate. And you can see in the chart where

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that's going. So the municipal government, this government by year is getting 20% 27% of that or $3,460 open space is getting.5 open spaces for your field uh your parks and wreck your

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uh the lakes in town maintaining them. $64 of your taxes goes towards that for an average home. Library 1.5 is $192. The county, which also includes their open space, get 17% for $2,179

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of that money. And then the school is 54% for $6,921 of the assessed value for the home. This one I just did. While the bureau is required to collect all the property taxes, only 27% goes to

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the school services. Majority of these tax as you can see we just talked about they go to the school go to the county they go to county open space they go to the library all of whom have independently set their own budgets or is the library case is

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set by the state uh in which impacts taxes beyond bor's control you can see the $36 million we need to do our taxes this year all in estimated 19 and change goes to the pool.

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6 million goes to the county and just on the county side, uh the open space in the county, it's about $100,000 is for the open space of that 6 million. And if you just look back our history, the last three or four years, even a little more, we actually receive 200 something each

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year in our open space grant. So for the 100 that we're putting in there, we're getting back almost 100% profit on side on top of it, which is kind of nice. Uh the town itself 9.8 million of the total uh library get 253,000 and open

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space gets 181,000. So the average home for the municipal pays $3,460 in taxes or if you break that down by a day $9.50 a day and for that money you receive all of those things and then

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some. So, public safety, emergency response, community events and programming, public works, administration of the government, and infrastructure. So, for the $3,46 or $950 a day, you're getting a lot of

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services to residents, me being our capital improvement. What we've done this year, obviously we've been talking about for a while the bow pond playground. We finished up Katherine and Bailey and we did the Starlate Rose storm water improvement. Uh the pending projects or current ones that are going

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on and Elm Street uh which includes water as well as road improvements. Uh the senior center floor actually slide that over completed is now done. The delayer playground which is in the process of being done. Storm water improvements on Reeves and Chestnut.

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Test in July Hillrest and Cook I believe that's on the agenda this night to introduce an ordinance to fund that and Fiser Lakeside and Woodward again a current project and the laser bathrooms and the back stops of the

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laser. Now I just want to keep in mind most of these projects other than the storm water improvements are partial or full grant coverage to do these projects. So talk about strategic investment. We prioritize infrastructure

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work that prevents asset appreciation. This is for people saying our debt is going up which we know is but we have to maintain infrastructure. uh otherwise it's going to cost us x amount of times more uh to repair and to fix things in the future if we don't

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take care of it now. So this includes critical road work storm water system upgrades that are essential for long-term municipal liability by investing wisely today we protect the tax base of tomorrow uh and avoid the emergency multiplier costs shown in our analysis for the next slide. So

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stabilizing debt starts with recognizing that our current obligations represent infrastructure we've already delivered. We aren't adding debt for operational costs. We are paying for the roads we drive on and the equipment our first responders use every day. Our strategy is to synchronize new projects with the

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retirement of old debt. By timing our capital improvements carefully, we keep our annual debt service payments predictable and flat and prevent some spikes in the tax rate. By stabilizing our debt to revenue ratio, we maintain our high credit rating. This ensures that when an

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emergency does happen, we have the borrowing power to react at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer. And just to look at some of those multipliers, and this data comes from the Federal Highway Administration, they talk about emergency repair costs

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between 4 to 10% increase over a planned event. So massive cost deferral, waiting, we'll just put it off and put it off. You can see there on road infrastructure $100,000 proactive day could cost you $400,000 in emergency down the road. Utility man repair could

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cost you $50,000 today as a surgical fix. Uh an emergency would be $250,000 and a vehicle fleece service $5,000 today could cost you nine times more,000 uh for failure for replacement down the road.

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So you can't not stop doing projects and fixing infrastructure in town. It's just not smart investment. Then reality, you cannot unpave a road. I believe this came right.

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>> This is Heather's quote. You cannot unpave a road to save the interest. Current debt is the fulfillment of past infrastructure promises that are now serving our residents. Debt service is a fixed statutory obligation. These are already incurred charges for assets the

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public currently utilizes. They must be honored by the law. We talk a little bit about our strategic strategic revenue review. Our share services uh talk with the finance department. We need to look at doing a full audit of agreements to

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ensure rates reflect 2026 insurance and labor costs. >> Thank you so much. We also look need to look into additional share of services without adding any additional expenses. No more manpower to do a project or bring in equipment. We have to what we currently have today where it's not viable to look at this point in time and

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ensure that future contracts when they come up or we've been negotiating about now have the ability to revisit the set percent increase each year based on all variables. In the past there was always 2% 2% 2% because of our budget can't go more than 2%. So that was that was a doctrine everybody used. But I'm saying

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we're all seeing it that health insurance and other things are out of our control. 2% doesn't cover it anymore. So we need to be able to have that ability to go back to it and say hey we have x amount of people working on this our insurance plan this we need x to cover the additional increases in

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fee schedule. So updating we're in the process of updating our administrative fees to ensure applicants cover costs not the general taxpayers. We're also doing an internal audit of our vendor agreements uh to eliminate any potential redundancy in services currently looking at for phone services uh and phone

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carriers and then new streams of revenue. It's imperative to focus on diversifying our tax base through business attraction and commercial redevelopment. And yes, that means looking at possibly using pilots to uh

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bring developers in here uh to do work and take interest in Bloomingdale. Uh we talked about this before. The burough own land sales onetime revenue plus yearly tax ratable. Right now they're currently exempt properties. We're not getting any more. And we know there's at

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least two that we're aware that we think are viable options and evaluating ordinances for licensing and regulatory opportunities. So the artist review committee is working on we'll be working on on that.

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So our goals, our goals are to balance our budget, increase our revenues, stabilize our debt, our service payments without sacrificing infrastructure improvements, and then manage the fund balance and surplus. So balance budget, this isn't

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just making the numbers match. It's about ensuring the mun municipality's long-term survival in a high inflation environment. This year, balancing the budget required aggressive management of N non-discretionary spikes, specifically the health insurance and contractual labor uh lines. We have balanced these

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by we have balanced these by tightening department discretionary spending. While a balanced budget tells us where we stand today, increasing the revenues is a strategy that ensures we can continue to prove quality services tomorrow without overburdening our residents.

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Increasing mal revenues, we found rely solely on property taxes to fund 21st century services. Our goal is to diversify our revenue stream so that the burden of the burrow is spread across a wider variety of sources. We are reviewing our fee and firm schedules to ensure that those

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requesting special services like construction inspections or land use applications are covering the administrative costs. General taxpayers should not be subsidizing private development. In shar service agreements, we've been treating our sheriff services,

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we are treating our sheriff services agreements like a business. We are auditing every contract to ensure our neighbors are paying a fair market rate that reflects our actual 2026 labor and insurance cost. Just in summary, and we hit a lot of

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stuff here, just in summary here, and this is really for yourself, Councilman, you brought it up. 85% of the increase, the $1.2 million increase we had over last year in the miscalculable budget is comprised of the

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following uncontrolled and or limited control variables: storm expenses, the rupt health insurance, contractual salaries, library obligations, and debt service obligations. Any questions? And like the other 15%

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that you say we can't control, it's like shut it down, >> right? >> That's like department. It's department budgets, >> right? Exactly. >> If you shut it down, you're shut down. >> Yes. And when I say limited, they're limited because yes, the government body

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could if they wanted to get rid of furlow people or or or lay people, they could. But then you also have to get rid of services if you did that. So that's the juggle. But I'm saying 85% of the budget increase is really >> it is what it is unless you made it a

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drastic drastic >> health insurance 700,000 or 700 in two years. >> It's it's unbe. >> And how do you bring in more revenue to offset that 700,000?

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>> Yeah. When I look back at our health insurance uh over the last since 2020 has gone up 82%. We're at 13% a year and that all really took place the last two

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years. We were health insurance in 2020 actually went down and 2021 went down 4.7%. In 22 it went up.1%. It went up 18% in 23. It went up 2% in

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24. I'm sorry, right? 18 and 22, 2.1 and 24, 22% and then 29% this year, the last two years respectively >> for next year. >> Yeah. No, you look at and we use, like I said, we used onetime sales to help us

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bring it in as low as we possibly could, which was a smart thing to do. Otherwise, we could have been looking at some crazy numbers, uh, crazy year numbers. So, we had a opportunity to use a one time sale and we took that opportunity and we're using it this

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year. And the other thing that kind of hurts us is we go in and we made cuts to the department head budgets, right? By making that cut, and our department has watched what they're spending, but by making that cut, there's no reserve

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that's going to roll into next year. So, you're really cutting it on both sides of of the fence here. So, it helps you maybe a little bit this year, but it's going to hurt you next year because that doesn't go to your >> surplus fund like the library

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or what you it's got to be a balance. So our job and our staff is doing it is they're watching everything through Mike and Heather and and Jasmine is to watch what they're spending this year so we have money to roll back into surplus for next year so we can start

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building our surplus back that we get to where hopefully we're all comfortable with. And keep in mind that that that that's like 11% of the budget is what you're 10% apartment budget. 10% is is

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all you really touching. So 10% of $10 million or 9.8 million is what we're really touching >> that we have control. >> Some some type of control. You still have >> you still got contracts and stuff that each department has that we've signed up

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for and year over year software whatever. even >> I have a couple questions. >> Sure. >> Um with the um the sheet 10 um the 800,000

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that says the sale when you were talking about the sale asset is that amount refundable because you said we have the empty um >> Yep. So that's that's an agreement that uh the government body has signed uh

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with Mnt partners. Uh we received 800,000 this year. Uh and it is not refundable. It is ours. >> Okay. And then the um also sheet 10 is

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290,000. >> Yep. >> Which items include the capital count? What was that overfunded? >> Nope. This this is this amount is what's comprised of or canceled ordinances

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where we completed the project under the award amount. So that money was left over and we're using it in here. So it's not new money. >> And um also on sheet 10, what is the uh

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reservation fee? >> Uh the reservation fee is also part of the agreement with M&T. uh we own the property, so we don't have tax on it. Uh and it's just that they're paying us $100,000 a year uh holding it until they own the property and they get a building

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permit, then that reservation fee goes away. >> And then on sheet 13, it says financial management salaries and wages that they went up 68,000.

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Yep. uh we hired a new full-time CFO and we cancelled the share service with wasn't the part for the CFO. So, that's where the 60 $68,000 increase came from. >> And I'm sorry question. This uh on sheet

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14, the public building grounds um um that those all salaries also went up 61,500. >> They're actually a new addition. They're not new. They're moved street. There was

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no public buildings and grounds. We had employees in it, but they were all inside of the streets and roads budget. So, I broke them out, >> right, >> into their own department. It's kind of where they belong. So, I've moved them home where they belong. >> It's just easier to control. You can see

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where the money is actually coming from each department that we have water, DPW, buildings, and grounds. We just said a month. All right. So, some salaries obviously did go up, some contractual obligation. Uh, so they did

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go up whenever our contract said they were going to go up. But then, as Heather said, uh, we also adjusted the budget to take them out of that line item and make it easier on us financially to control and look at where people are. >> And and from sheet 15A,

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the streets and road salaries went up 130,000. that that >> that went after the snow emergency the overtime for the snow emergencies and the contract uh the the white I'm sorry blue collar contractual agreement we

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have with those employees and yeah the snow that that's just we there's nothing we can do with that um it says zero um for sheet she she 15 no expenses 65,000 last year it said zero

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what you know why it says zero >> that is a statutoily permissible line item we are putting money in for snow removal that will not last with the budget when this budget year is over for

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that money can be transferred to the snow reserve trans so we'll be able to utilize it in prior years if it's not well spended in 26th This will help us. We just got hit doing a presentation. I told you overtime expenses with those two storms.

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This will help with that. >> But is there like a comparable like like I know probably didn't smell as much last year. Do we have like a comparison? >> No, we don't. We had zero last year. We had zero year before that. Uh we never put any money in that line item, but our

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CFO recommended that we do a snow expense line for that reason. when there's an emergency by doing that it won't hurt us money there in the long run.

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>> And then another question, the storm response recovery 109 833. Are all of these related? >> Yes, they are. Yep. And then

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um sheet 15B employee health which you said there's nothing we could do about that but it doubled. Um >> actually yes you said it's 240. It's actually $424,000 that went up this year which we had no control over. That's

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what the health insurance fund that we were in. Those are the rates that they increased was 22 23.6 Can you say whatever that number was? >> Is there are you I you know you were talking about shopping around for uh the

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how I think you said you were going to start shopping around for power or some some kind of services for vendor. Is that a possibility to look for different health thing for the town? >> You have kind of two choices. you either

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go into the state fund which is at a 36% increase or we're in the hip and the gif now. I don't believe there's another group that that handles municipalities other

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than these two um these two um carriers. So, we're in the one that we purchased going back many years ago because it was more reasonable for the same coverage

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and in years past they would only go up maybe 3% 4% 5% sometimes they didn't go up at all and the state kept climbing. So, we were benefiting from it and we're still benefiting because we're about 12 to 13% less of an increase than what the

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state packed us because contractually for a municipality you have to either give them equal or better to insurance. So, we shot it. That's how we became a part of the tip of the gym. Um, going back

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I'm going to say 10 years ago, 12 somewhere around there. and we shot the big time. But these are the only two two um carriers that really cover municipalities for the same quality of coverage. Yeah, you're in

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contract. So, it's only just selfinsure. You're going to get what you have with your current if uh and the contract state. You have to be equal to or better than the state health benefit plan.

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>> Um okay. Then another question and I really thank you gave it to you before but um >> on sheet 26A leases on vehicles went up uh 30 300

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uh and three to 367. Yeah, >> that was I talked about that one slide in the presentation. 167,000 that 20,000 was two new police cars we bought this year and the other 40 was the uh the

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street sweeper. Uh we took it out of the share service line. We used to offset it with shared service money. We put it into our budget, operating budget because we have better benefits on the back end by putting it back into our and taking it out of the shared term side

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>> and I I definitely uh I appreciate how the DPW does keep everything clean and I definitely voted yes for a lot of stuff but just asking a question. And um my last one is the debt service uh

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the debt service that went up a million dollars. What's your um >> yep it it went up $123,000 not a million dollar $123,000 that service went up and again that was uncontrollable. Those are principal interest payments on bonds

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and notes dating back as far as 2009 through last year. And then the with the state you said that they're um questioning like what what's the deadline? So the next the next time we're here is when you're

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adopting it. >> As long as the state when we send our responses back to the state of the questions that they have and as long as the state approves our budget then we will adopt on the 23rd which we feel

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confident that that will happen. It has some questions. Every three years we go into a state exam and this is the third year. So we're obligated to send our questions to the state for their review and then when they have questions our finance and auditor handles all the

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questions. They send back their responses and then the state will either accept it or they'll ask you more questions. So we feel confident that what our response is back is that we'll be ready to adopt on the 23rd. Thank you, Mike.

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>> Sure. Anybody else have questions? >> Great job. Great presentation. I tell you, it was more than just budget. It was more >> this is how it's hands. This is what your expenses are. This is what you can

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and can't control. >> They spent a lot of time on the budget itself. >> As much as it hurts all of us, right? We don't like this. >> A lot of anxiety. I just on behalf of myself like to thank the three of you for all the time you committed. I don't

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like coming to the office and I look at there's papers there all over the place and then you have Andy out in the back and just typing away looking and getting things and then Joe comes in and then we come in and tear apart and they go back and starting >> but it's it's a a real work in progress.

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It doesn't just take a week to do this is months of putting everything together starting back >> January. >> Yep. And this is not just the Bloomville thing. This is >> every municipality is here same issues. >> I've talked I was going to say I've talked to other municipalities.

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Everybody is going through what we're This is not unusual this year. It wasn't unusual last year. Okay. Um so we have to >> Yeah. I read this. >> Resolution.

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>> Okay. Item C, 2026, municipal budget public statement, please. >> Mayor, this is the time fix for the public hearing on the municipal budget and tax resolution for 2026. The budget was approved by the governing body on May 6, 2026. It was advertised as

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required by law together with notice of hearing for this time. >> Okay. Okay. Um >> that's resolution first to read. >> Adoption resolution number 20266.7

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reading the budget by title. Do I have a motion? I approve in favor. Again, this is just to read the budget. >> Hagen, yes. Schubert, >> yes.

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>> Yi, >> yes. >> Rocker, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Before opening this hearing, I wish to outline the procedure. Each person desiring to be heard will rise or give his or her name in an address

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before speaking. I will recognize one speaker at a time in order of rising in order of rising as nearly as I can determine. Address all questions to the chair where necessary. They will be referred to

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individual members of the governing body or municipal officials. Questions must be combined slowly to the municipal budget before us. School or county matters are not proper subjects for this hearing and cannot be discussed or answered here tonight. I now declare the

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public hearing for 2026 open. >> Do I have a motion to open up public hearings? Move. >> Second. All in favor? >> Anyone wish to speak about the budget? Come on up.

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Charles Caral saying real simple question presentation when will be available on the website >> it's already >> it's actually there presentation will be up there

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>> presentation >> it's on there now it's on the website now >> up now I looked earlier and all I see is the regular agenda >> we uploaded around >> about 5:00 or after regular business. >> Okay, maybe I'm looking in the wrong

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place cuz when I look at the agenda items maybe in a different location. I just want to make sure I look in the right spot. >> Two spots. >> So I see the file listing. >> Y >> it starts number one agenda two three

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four five six seven eight. Let's pull the items >> down to number 12. Maybe it didn't refresh. >> Try to refresh. >> Okay, that was my question. >> Sometimes you see it on your phone, but you don't see everything.

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>> It's coming up on my phone. We did it at 5:00. It was after >> Okay, maybe. >> Okay. So, it's for some reason it's not refreshing on my phone. That was That was my question. Thank you. >> Okay. Anyone else wishing up?

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>> Thank you. Do I have a motion to close public hearing? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Request a motion to post postpone the budget adoption for further review by the division and the governing body.

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The adoption of the municipal budget will be postponed to June 23rd, 2026 at 7 p.m. Do I have that motion? >> Second. >> This favor. All >> in favor? I Okay.

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New business. >> Okay. New business. Adoption of resolution number 20266.8 approval of the change order number one for Ann and Elm. Do I have a motion to accept the change order?

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So, uh before we um this is for the the u the water life memorial for it. If you're familiar where the work's being done in the Denon Street, which is right off of Lakeside

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around the corner from Dan that um we just added that water line. There was no sense going through what we're going through and leaving that section out to put a new fire. So, and we added a new fire hydrant up in the I think up in the culdeac. So, we put that'll be all brand

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new cuz that's all asbestous water lines that are through there. So, now it'll all be done for line through because we're going to pave there. So, there was no sense not doing the work. >> Okay. >> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Yes.

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>> Crocker. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Hagen. Yes. Adopts resolution number 20266.9 approval change order number one for senior center alter alterations. Do I

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have a motion? >> Nope. That's for uh we did chair rail. It was only part of it had chair rail. So we did chair rail around the whole thing. We took that wall down. They did some hot rework by Pat's office. to help out as opposed to it.

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A couple of things that they had. >> Okay. So, I have a motion by Ray. I need a second. >> Any questions on it? And I will say it came out very nice inside there. It's nice to walk on a level four.

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>> Without that wall, it's huge. Huge. Roll call, please. >> Kathy, >> yes. >> Roger. >> Yes. Raviano, >> yes. >> Hagen, >> yes. >> Schubert, >> yes. >> Item C, introduction of bond ordinance

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number 9-26, various road approvers. Uh do I have a motion to request? >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi >> on ordinance provides for the reconstruction of various roads by in

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the burough county state of New Jersey appropriating 415,000 therefore inclus inclusive of an NJ grant in the amount of $331,080 and authorizing the issuance of

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$41500,000 bonds or notes of the bureau to finance. Okay. >> Second, final reading and adoption will be on June 23rd. >> Motion made public comment.

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>> All in favor? >> Anyone wish to come up? his first these are mostly thanks a lot back for the work that he did center not just the construction but extra effort to end to clean it up so that seniors

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can get back in so thank you for that also I've been working with Mrs. Meer regarding the resolutions. One is on healthcare. I mean the school system is the same impact as the municipality. We I believe that you have 500 school

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districts and 500 municipalities. You have a thousand voices. I think those thousand voices should make it clear that we need relief on healthcare. So that's one resolution that we're supporting. Their resolution I'm working with son. I'll work with sad. It's the highlands resolution. We're in the

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Highlands state right now is looking at some kind of relief to the Highlands Highlands acts and I think we should give some strong uh you know effort to look at that to see if we can encourage the state to give us relief on that area as well because I think we both benefit

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from putting our efforts to get relief from the state on that front as well. So those are three common support of both of them. Um, people know we have a small section of town that's in the Highlands, but it has hurt us in the past and I've been reading the

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articles for the multiple towns around us as far as Jefferson and I totally agree. So, when we get there all together, I'm sure we'll hopefully support 100% support for both. >> Yeah, even if we don't sometimes directly benefit, I think supporting our

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neighbors will also benefit. We might just make the cut off, at least on the school side, just to be aware of it. Uh, we might just make the cut off. uh to be able to get the state to give us some support on the school which will benefit the taxpayers >> overall benefits everybody.

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>> Thank you for >> anyone else see no one motion to close second. >> All in favor? >> We do not have an executive session um today. Our next meeting will be June 23rd at 7

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p.m. Have a motion to move. Second. All favor. Thank you all.