Good evening everyone. This is a regular meeting agenda of the governing body of the burrow of Bloomingdale, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Close means order of salutce 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. Mayor Damato >> here. Councilman Broner >> present. >> Councilman Kawano
>> here. >> Councilman Rosiano >> here. >> Councilwoman Hagen >> here. Councilwoman Schubert >> here. Councilman Yassi >> here. We also have our municipal clerk Brianna Smith, business administrator Michael Sondier, and burough attorney Dan Sullivan.
This meeting is called to presuming to the provisions of the open public meeting law. Adequate notice of this meeting was advertised in Herald News on February 8, 2026. Copies were provided to the local news media and posted continuously in municipal building. A copy of this
notice is available to the public and is on file in the office of municipal clerk. As per day fire code, I am required to acknowledge there are two emergency exits in this council chambers. the main entrance which you enter through and a secondary exit to the left of where I am seated. If there
is an emergency, walk orderly to the exit, exit through the door, down the stairs, and out the building. We do have a presentation tonight, so I'm going to ask Councilman Graciano to join me up in front of the desk. And also, I'm going to invite the welcome
mayor, Ryan Martinez, to join me also down. I'll kick us off here because tonight we're here to honor five members of the Butler running company. I believe you guys were our club a little while ago when I was a company, right? >> So, you might see that a little bit changed up in between what we printed
out versus uh versus what what you guys are now. but for really a truly remarkable feat that you guys did. These young athletes are from Butler and Bloomingdale and not only achieve greatness at the local level, at the count, not just the county level, not just the state level, but at the
national level. Um, placing high among some of the best competition in the US. We know you didn't achieve this through luck, right? But through a lot of months of dedicated practice and excelling um in your meets leading up to the National Junior Olympics for cross country. I've
seen some of your practices and I can attest to the rigor and toughness you have to have. In fact, I heard that you guys did you run through the snow in a national competition? Is that really true? Did that happen? That's remarkable. I can't believe that. If it's over 32 degrees, I don't really go
outside, let alone run. But before I turn it over to Mayors Martinez and Damato, please know the extent of how proud we are of you, how proud the burrows of Bloomingdale and Father are of you. We really look forward to cheering you on for what I'm sure is going to be years to come.
Congratulations >> for me as a mayor and I'm sure um Mayor Martinez is in agreement when our our youth um achieves any award and this is to me one of the biggest things that we have seen especially John said you know
the nation and and representing our local towns. So we as a town and a community for both Butler and Bloom are very proud of what you guys you guys accomplished. I mean at such a young age I was looking at some of the times through there and you might not look it
but I ran cross country for one year when I was in high school and I quit cuz I couldn't do anything. I'm just being honest with you. I went to an easy thing. I went to a chess club. So all right. I wasn't very good at that either. But uh we are proud and
we're really happy to have you guys here tonight with your families to to acknowledge what your accomplishments are. You're not going to believe this guy never ran. It's true sor as president said we're very proud of all of you. This is not something
everyone can do. This is a special honor that you guys reached. So to get to this level and to perform as well as you can, it's amazing. So congratulations and we're very proud of you guys. Thank you. >> Without further ado, we have you guys
come up one time and further. >> All right. So this is a certificate of recognition for Leo recognition of your outstanding achievements in qualifying for and competing in the National Junior
Olympics for cross country December 13, 2025 representing your community among the top young athletes from across the United States. After advancing through regional competition in Pennsylvania, you competed under challenging winter conditions of cold, snow, and ice, demonstrating determination,
perseverance, and sportsmanship by completing your race with distinction. Performance time 164 209 2000 meter time 10 minutes 6 seconds. So, your dedication and resilience are a source of pride to your family, team, and community. given this 17th day of
February 2026 jointly presented by myself along with the mayors John Demato, Ryan Martinez and congratulations. This next one is for Copper Outstanding achievement qualifying for and competing in the National Geo Olympics for cross country on December
13, 2025, representing the community of among the top young athletes from across the United States. After advancing for regional competition in Pennsylvania, he compete under challenging winter conditions, cold, snow, and ice, demonstrating determination, perseverance, and sports with distinction. Uh, performance was
spread gate at 3:14 3 years time 12:15. Your exceptional performance contributes to 910 boys age group placing third in the nation bring great honest state your dedication resilience and your source of pride to your family and community. On behalf of council, myself, mayor and
council president, we want to thank very much. One more time in recognition of your outstanding achievement in qualifying for competing in the national junior Olympics across country on December 135 representing your community among the top athletes across the United States
after advancing a competition in Pennsylvania challenging condition of cold nights demonstrating determination perseverance and sports extension performance 279 and 377 4,000 me time 650
performance contributed to 910 bring great dedication and resilience and source of pride to your family to the community. On behalf of the council, myself in recognition of your outstanding achievement in qualifying for and and competing in the National Junior
Olympics for cross country on December 13, 2025, representing your community among the top young athletes from across the United States. After advancing through regional competition in Pennsylvania, you competed under the challenging winter conditions of cold, snow, and
ice, demonstrating determination, perseverance, and sportsmanship by completing your race with distinction. Your performance was 46 out of 314, 3,000 m with a time of 1225. Your dedication and resilience are a source
of pride to your family, team, and your community. The end of the 17th day of February, 2026, presented by myself, John Damato, and Mayor Ryan Martinez, and Councilman Graciano. CONGRATULATIONS. >> Pretty good basketball player, too.
Must be a guard, HARLEY. SOUNDS LIKE THE SAME STUFF, but the times are okay. in recognition of your outstanding achievement in qualifying for the and competing in the National Junior
Olympics for cross country on December 13, 2025, representing your community among the top young athletes from across the United States. After advancing through regional competition in Pennsylvania, you competed under challenging winter conditions of cold,
snow, and ice, demonstrating determination, perseverance, and sportsmanship by completing your race with distinction. Your performance was 232 out of 300 for a 3,000 meters for a time of 14
16. Your dedication and resilience are a source of pride to your family, team, and community. given the 17th day of February February 2026 presented jointly from Mayor Martinez and myself Mayor Dato and Councilman Rosel on behalf of
the entire council John CONGRATULATIONS >> sounds like an athletic group as again thank you all for coming out we're very proud of what you guys accomplished keep up the good record. I'm sure once you guys beat the high school age, you'll be running and setting more records. Maybe some high school records would be great. Any
baseball players? >> Runners. Basketball. That's right. Little bit of basketball. It's good that you used all sports and just get to do what you like and enjoy being out there and competing. We're proud of you. Thank you. Thank you. they have a charter busel.
>> So just as um as Mike has said for for the parents and the time that you get to your children to accomplish what they and drive the pen swing in your back, how many trips was that? Oh, in Indiana. >> In Indiana. >> And Indiana International. And you drove from here out to there. >> Yes. Right. >> And Pennsylvania.
>> And Pennsylvania. So you guys also put a lot of time in. So you guys have great parents, but what they're doing for you is to make your achievements, you know, an accomplishment. So they I know they're proud of it. You're proud of your parents, too. So thank you. >> Good job.
>> Good job. CAN I ASK YOU? You guys want more? Come on down here. Thank you. Okay. Uh, we do not have any non-aggenda items tonight. Like to open up early public comment. Can I have a motion,
please? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Anyone wishing to come up? >> Seeing no one a motion to close. So move second. >> All in favor? >> I Okay. Report of committee. Zie. >> Mayor. Uh I went to the trio meeting and
their numbers for January were 154 calls. Uh trib took 126. Uh it covered um they missed 10 calls. They had a 92%
average. The county took 18 calls. Mutual aid took 10 and um total and calls for December were 191. So the calls for January were a little less. Um
they all they do want everyone to know that on March uh 22nd uh they're sorry they're having their uh craft fair and um and breakfast.
Uh it's $10 per person and it's at um 25. That's $10 per per ticket for the breakfast. It's from 8 to 1. Now, to attend the craft fair, you don't have to pay. It's free for all. And there's
going to be over like 60 vendors, and they're going to be there from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Um, if you want to reserve a ticket for the uh breakfast, she is pre-selling, but you could also buy that
day. Uh, Lee is selling them, and her number is 862 uh 257226. The other event that they're holding is there. April 18th is the trio first stateswide um annual beef states and um fundraiser.
That's April 18th and that's going to be at the Bloomingdale Fire House. Um that's from 6:00 to 8:00 and those tickets are $75 each and there will be a small raffle and 5050.
Um, I just want to say also, um, and for the senior center, um, as always, they're very busy there. Um, as of February 9th, all of senior center activities have been moved to the
firehouse because of the um, construction. And um this week's activities um are located they do have a website uh page now on Facebook. You can look at
the uh calendar as well as um well you can look at that at in Facebook. um Tuesday, February. Um tomorrow, Wednesday, uh there is uh there is a trip there there's no
nutrition uh at the firehouse. Uh Thursday the 19th at 10:00 a.m. is balance class. Friday they have their aerobics. And um also uh today is the Chinese New Year. That's
why I wore red for some kind of luck. And uh it's also first day of Ramadan. And last week on February 12th, we all attended um Nadia Hussein's uh sixth annual uh uh crescent lighting
festivities and uh we all we all most of us attended and it was really really nice. Um so being one of the biggest turnouts, right? Yes, it was very big and it was
all indoors cuz it was briefing. >> I guess um couple things for tonight is the ordinance review met last Wednesday was there mayor me and we had discuss what we'll be introducing later for zoning chapter 92
walls. So thank you the bio engineer who took time to meet with us to talk through some ideas as well as the planning board of this as well and give us their feedback. A lot of folks go into thinking these things through and making sure we get things right. So I just appreciate everybody's input. On
the economic development front we had our snowman contest from Lost Blizzard that came about. We had three winners throughout burrow and like to thank not only them for participating but also we had sponsors local businesses that donated their prizes. So it was Magpie
Bakery, L Clothing and Munchies as well. So thank you to the businesses for participating. It was a fun event to the community. And then let's see last on the economic development front we have the city
county economic development commission coming to talk to us next Thursday. It's really just to brainstorm how we can work together to see what type of activities they offer and things that we can share with our local businesses. It's good that we're partnering together more and more to do the most that we can
for our local businesses. >> Nothing to report. I know that uh we discussed the planning board had feedback on the original introduction of this ordinance. I know that the the ordinance review committee took that into consideration like John said is good and everything comes together.
>> Right. >> Nothing. >> Uh yes. So, the environmental commission met on Wednesday the 4th and we are still looking for additional members if any community members interested in the environmental
commission. We have the fishing event coming up at Bo Pond on April 11th as well as townwide cleanup coming up also at Bo Pond on May the 16th. The next environmental meeting will be
Wednesday the 4th of March and the board of ed has their monthly meeting tomorrow. >> Just with the um the cleanup day, we have to reach out to the organization so they know the date so they come down that day with their with their with their people
>> on it. >> Yeah. Okay. Also, the members of the school as well as the SRO and myself are participating in the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics New Jersey. That's
coming up February 28th and there's links to donate on their Facebook pages. >> I believe TD is going on 28th. >> Uh Jim Dro, >> but I think there's some other guys from here. I think might be coming to
>> Jim's the only one. >> Jet >> uh let's see uh library library has if you haven't had a chance they've added a timeline to their Facebook excuse me to their uh website uh representing 100 years um uh how it started and the
library achievements over the years and uh three on March 20th is the New Jersey Makers Day. It's a kids program that'll be kicking off. Uh they are still doing really strong with their adult night craft. Um matter of fact, it would within open registration within 15
minutes it was booked. Uh the library board has been you know having intense meetings you know working on their processes and pro procedures for the board members and future employees. Uh that was a long intense meeting but it was it was very very uh
successful and as previously mentioned um it's you know fine free no uh for late fines only they're having a really good um uh record with that more and more they've seen their numbers go up in the last month since they really kicked
that off and also touring the Blizzard their their numbers for the Canopy which is their free streaming service uh almost doubled. So they're having uh they're really seeing a great turnout with all these new programs.
Uh board of health health screenings uh of course every Tuesday of the month from 2:30 to 4 uh located in uh council chambers. Um I have reached out for to see if they've confirmed the date for the hygiene program that they're going to be working for. So hopefully I'll
have that date at the next meeting. As uh Evie mentioned for the crescent lighting was beautiful. a beautiful uh program that was put together and very wellreceived. Uh I look forward to attending again next year. Um Camping for the Stars, we have uh Ref did
reached out and said that um the baseball is going to work with us with the dates that we were looking at which is May um 16th early evening into the early morning of the 17th. And um we'll be setting up meetings to discuss with
the fire department uh PB and DPW and also reaching out to search and rescue tribarrow and get some great programs as the uh for that evening. Scouts also would like to be involved and um as we get closer, you know, more events, we'll
be updating a mayor. Uh yeah, we had four water main breaks over the last three weeks here. One was on Glen Wild and Hillside and we had Red Twig in Clark and in Elm and then recently in Nolles near Jeffrey Drive.
So you'll see them coming up in the next couple of probably next meeting on some emergency appropriations there. Senior center started yesterday the construction. The guys came in and took all the plumbing fixtures out, ripped up the tile floor and started taking up the floor of the main uh
the finished floor, not the concrete floor yet in the main building. Uh the mayor and I and Councilman Broners, we talked to professor from Browardan Valley Community College about the deer hunting uh program and his part in it or
the school portion of that and they they come out and do the survey. Uh it looks like it's going to roughly if we decide to move forward with that, it'd be right around $3,000 to have the entire town surveyed by drone to get us the uh population of the deer currently here.
They probably won't be able to get to it till December though because they're heavily booked right now and it has to be when the leaves are off the trees get the heat from the deer itself. Uh so they don't do the donor summer stuff. So they got up to about April and then it starts back up again the end of November. So he figured we'll probably do December again. we want to go
forward. So, more to come. We'll talk about that in the next meeting when that possible. Just want to get it out there. Also, uh after the last meeting, we did do the letters of the 10th to open space county open space grants for the Walty
Bergen Circuit Fitness Circuit area and then also the museum. Um we've heard back from them that we should move forward right now with the Walter T. Berken. Uh, so I have the engineers put together the the true application now and all the cost and stuff that go with
that. I have not heard back on the museum yet. And we also uh got the letter in for uh the local recreation improvement grant, the LRIG. Uh we had Millennium fill out that application for us. Uh we got it in last Friday deadline. So we're waiting to hear back
from then. Hopefully knock down we get some money from them as well to help out with that Walt key program probably. That's all I have. CD uh J uh CB uh Tom is going to put in
we have a meeting on the 4th of March with the county uh and talk with the mayor and I think Captain Broners was there talking about doing the uh flashing lights at the three corners um Kathleen and Glenn Wild
>> Bob's Barber Shop Bob Barber Shop and then the one up by Elizabeth and Main Street. might be the pushing kind because there's already flashing ones at a couple of those but they're not push that active. They just come they flash all the time. >> It's the same ones we have down on Main Street that are working very well right
now. Um people are really paying attention to them and when they brighten up traffic just stops and we've had several requests I guess you could say but Elizabeth and Main Street mother crossing up there uh for a traffic
light. This will get us closer to that. Um we have a police officer there there every day twice a day for for kids crossing to go to school. Um it's it's a nightmare uh Star Lake and to get into the fireman's old parking lot. We
thought that would be good and then we had a request from somebody up on Cap Lane to do the same thing at Capine and and Memo which is a lot of I went up and kind of looked at it myself. there's a lot of blind spots across there. People are crossing um to go up in a
development or go to school. So, we thought that would be a a good place to uh to put another set of flashing lights for people have to stop. So, just safety stuff throughout the town that I believe we need to do. >> I just want to recognize
Okay, go ahead. Y >> um just a one waterm helm and >> and >> and that is where we're going to replace water lines over. This was a 2-in galvanized pipe. So it just shows the need over there. First of all, the 2in galvanized has to come out anyway by our
standards and we're complying with the um >> with the state to remove all that type of pipes. But there's the galvaniz pipe will just run it through and I believe it was only pushing maybe an inch and a quarter board through it to begin with
that's inside is deteriorating. So that project will start I'm assuming as soon as the weather breaks there's equipment up there already >> which will be good and there's some storm water up there which will help our flooding issue hopefully on Elm and Charles because the water should be
pushed in a different direction. So, that'll take care of some other flooding issues in our town. Um, I do want to recognize Jen All who has been on the environmental commission. I'm not sure how many years she's been there, but
she's a former council woman, but she has resigned from the environmental commission. So, we just like to thank her for her time and service to the community. Um, she'll be missed. We wish her the best. >> Okay. >> And you appointed Mike. Yes.
>> Yes. Mike Masatello will become the environmental commission president. >> Chairperson. >> Okay. Um, that's pretty much all I have. All right. Um, we're going to move on.
Resolution number 2026 2.6 consent agenda. Do a motion to accept the consent agenda. So move. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call. Bronhurst, >> yes. >> Catalano,
>> yes. >> Rosiana, >> yes. >> Bacon, >> yes. >> Schubert, >> yes. Gassi, >> yes. >> Oh, one other thing under me. Um, on March 7th at 3:00 at the Bloom
Methodist Church, Christopher Wild uh will be receiving his Eagle Scout Award. We have been invited to I will be attending that to um issue him a certificate on his achievement but we are all invited to that at 3:00 and his
refreshments March 7th March 7th at 3:00 which is it's a really nice um service or ceremony a child reaches their Eagle Scott age and their accomplishments. Um, so can
everybody like to join me for that? Okay. New business ad stops the resolution number 20262.13 transfer and reserve budget appropriations. Do I have a motion? So second. Any questions? Roll call.
>> Yes. >> Graiano. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Schubert. >> Yes. >> Gatsby. >> Yes. >> Brockhurst. >> Yes. Item B, adoption resolution number 20262.14,
payment of the bills. Do I have a motion? >> So move. Second. Any questions? Roll call. >> Braziano? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Schubert, >> yes. >> Yi, >> yes.
>> Broners, >> yes. >> Yes. Okay. Item C, introduction of ordinance number 2-2026, amended chapter 7, traffic um parking proity. Um before I ask for a motion,
this is just something really simple. It's up on Pearl and Capital the I believe the north side. >> Yeah. Um we're going to go to parking on one side of the street. We cannot get
the parking on both sides of the street. We cannot get emergency vehicles down that road at all. They don't fit. Um so it was brought to our attention by traffic and um fire. So we're going to do one side of street park there. It's
very tight. There's also problems there when school functions are happening. There's cars all over the place. We had an incident this past summer up there where there was cars blocking fire hydrants. So we're just going to take care of a problem before it actually happens. portion of picture >> and >> the lower portion
>> the lower portion of picture. That's correct. It's a lot of blind spots when you go turn bike up towards Sally Street one side. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to read by title?
>> Second. >> All in favor? An ordinance of the bureau of Bloomingdale County State of New Jersey amending chapter 7 traffic section 7-11 parking prohibited at all times on
certain streets of the code of the bro second and final will be March 3rd we notice residents >> they will they will give notice I don't know we do by mail but we're the signs the police will put their electronic
sign up on what's coming. Um, so they're they have a a warning that they can't do anymore. And of course, when it starts, if they do park in the wrong spot, we'll just talk to them and educate them. And there there's like off street, I think, there's like four homes over there.
And then on on Pearl and Capine, there's probably 10 homes, five on each side, and it just it's too tight. Just But they won't be once it's all in place, they'll be and I'm sure Michael will get some.
Item D, introduction of ordinance number 3-2026, amended chapter 7, traffic and stop intersections. Um this is us we don't explain this but it just so
the public knows Dave and I um spoke to people up on Nolles Road and they had issues when they come down Nolles and Rafkin on the I'll call it the the lower end of Rafin towards the reside. There's been several times where people almost
got in the accidents where people are coming out of rakin and people coming down low. You can't see in either direction and there's been several times where there's almost been people hit or an accident going on there. So all they're going to do is make a full stop sign so you can
stop and then go about your business. >> Yeah. A lot a lot of residents treat it like that now. And if you don't it could be a hazard for sure. >> Yeah. Well, it's a little tricky because at stop sign it's white to say stop with with a person walk. It's like okay, you're only supposed to stop person.
>> No, we should just the right. Okay. Motion to read by title. So, >> all in favor? I >> I have a second >> an ordinance of the burrow of flingale in the county pic state of New Jersey
amending chapter 7 traffic section 7-29 through streets and section 7-30 stop intersections of the code in the burrow item eight introduction of ordinance number 4-2026
chapter 12 affordable housing do I have a motion to read by title Second. >> All in favor? I >> an ordinance repealing existing chapter 12 affordable housing of the code of the burrow of Bloomingdale in its entirety
and replacing it with the new chapter 12 affordable housing providing comprehensive regulations for the administration of affordable housing and addressing the current requirements of the fair housing act and the uniform housing affordability controls regarding Bloomingdale Burough's affordable
housing fair share obligation. second final and adoption will be March 3rd. >> Yeah, this will be at the planning board next week. >> The only right the next one will go to the planning board. Okay. Item F, introduction of ordinance number 5-2026,
chapter 92, zoning schedule of regulations. Do I have a motion to leave by title? >> Second. All in favor? Hi. an ordinance amending the land use ordinance of the Burrow of Bloomingdale
to amend chapter 92 zoning um article 7 schedule regulations to amend the burough's inclusionary housing districts consistent with and designed to effectuate the burough's adopted 2025 round four housing element and fair share plan and 2025 mediation agreement
with fair share housing center. This will go to this will be referred to the planning board and we'll be back for the second final reading with the council and adoption on March. >> This will just simply get us in line with the state so we can meet our
deadline of March 15. >> Yes, technically it's March 16th, but in the statute is March 15. So that's what we're going by. Item G, introduction of Ordinance number 6-2026, chapter 92, zoning and walls. Do a
motion to read by title. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> An ordinance of the burrow of Bloomingdale County, state of New Jersey amending chapter 92 zoning section 26.7
walls of the code of the burrow of Bloomingdale. This one will also be referred to the claim board. >> They have the 45 days. It doesn't have to be done. >> So, this will be scheduled for second
final reading and adoption for April 7. >> Okay. Motion to late public comment. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> That one gentleman that came regarding his
leasing and they increased his >> talking about rent. >> Oh, but but they public comment, right? >> Not for us. Okay. >> Go ahead. Ask your question. >> No, it's okay. I'll
>> Okay. So, my question is if with the new regulation for the affordable housing and the new regulations or whatever you're going to come up with. Um, is that something that we could put on the table for?
>> No, one has nothing to do with the other. The affordable housing act is for new development coming into town building x amount of residential dwellings and a percentage of them have to be 20% of set aside. So we have to
comply with the state regulations to meet the state standard which we've been working on for probably the past few months with the court and there are meetings that we had last year to set the standards for our obligation of how many affordables they believe that Delta. So
every time a new development goes in for housing that's what this is all about. This is not this is not existing has nothing to do with rent control. Despite the despite the term affordable housing, this is not rent control. They're these separate topics altogether. >> Okay. >> So,
as a separate topic, I you know something some kind of uh like a chat should take a question to that. So something to focus on protecting I guess in the future maybe we could discuss
that. >> Well, you can look into it. Um the gentleman that was here since he is having an issue with his landlord, he needs to well correct me if he needs to take that up whether he has an attorney and it's between him and his landlord.
Has nothing to do with us. We can't get the violent and that's pre-existing. Even if we were put the law in books today, that is pre-existing. So he has to deal with his land. Okay. >> No, let me just do it again. Um motion
open up to the public. >> So move. >> All in favor? I >> Okay. Anyone wishing to come up address? Pull it out if you want. >> All right. Erin Esner 30 freeland. >> You want to take the microphone out, make it more comfortable for yourself.
>> Yeah. Um just wondering about um any update on >> I'm going to turn it over to Mike. We we just talked about this before you got here. >> All right. On the video tonight. >> Yeah, this is all recorded so you can
see when you go home because we're we're actually live now. So, but go ahead. So we met we had a conference call last week with Dr. Telly I believe his name is of the Radon Valley Community College. I asked him his his involvement with the program of the Deer Culling. Uh
he does the survey of the town explained how I'm sorry myself, Councilman Broner and Mayor Dman that were on the call with him explained to us the process of how they set up drones that come in at night uh and they do your whatever you
want done. Uh it's 55 cents, I think he said, an acre. So it cost us about $3,000 or so to have all the Lumadell population done. They can only do it during certain times of the year and that's pretty much now. So January to like April and they are totally booked,
he said, and then it could start back up again like November, December. He says he can definitely get us in if we want to go that route to the council uh at the end of the year and do our survey November, December time frame. uh and he said it probably take a couple of nights uh to go and do the nine something acres or nine something miles that we have in
town and that's the start know where we're at we have an issue or not tell us at that point where we stand that's where we're at >> and the I don't know if you know the meeting we had the congress we have to >> well yeah we talk that's who we got the
name from and we did talk to D about the whole program uh Jody would be after your last name from the DB. Uh she brought us through with some other people uh the whole program kind of how it works. The first step is
this uh survey that we should get done to see if it is truly a problem. Uh she was also going to reach out to the Northern Green Forestry Service to see if they can they just opened up the hunt again this year. Uh now she was asking to see if she was going to find out. She had a meeting scheduled with them and another meeting scheduled with the
county because the county was looking to do things at their sites as well that they have. that they have same issue that we're talking about here. Uh she did not get back to us on how that went yet. I haven't reached out to her to find out how to follow up on that one. Uh but she did reach out. They're going to try and open up a southern hunt on
northern green. They did it like mid up north. They really hit all the northern green and the southern really what affects us. Uh so she was looking to see if she could push that the uh forest surface to see if they can do that with the fish wildife. >> So that's where we are with that. Did she say she's done that if we've done
that before um in Northern Green? Like is this would this be a new thing or >> No, they have hunted but they stopped the last two or three years. They stopped the hunt in Northern Green. Uh they've opened it back up this year just the northern portion. U so she's saying if she talked to them it it would help
us if they open up the entire thing, especially the southern port which touches our borders. And she also asked us if if we should reach out and I know the chief of police was going to try and find the commander whoever's in charge of Salvation Army to see if they would allow us on private property cuz that's
400 or something acres right there that backs up to Brea uh that could also help with this if they would allow us. So I know they were looking to do that. So but that's that's therefore we can't mandate they do that because it's private. information kind of explained
it to us. If you have private areas like Starley Camp and say they have employees that that hunt, they can allow their employees to hunt that land. Um, and there's other areas in town um, Til's area over there.
>> The lower end of town if Til has employees that they have to give them permission to hunt on their property. So if they're employed, they might they might open up to their own people and that would also help. Um, so it's it's a long process from what she said and what she'll do once we get past where we
decide the direction we got to go. She will come in and do a presentation with the public, but we will probably do it at an environmental meeting because they want to be involved in this. So, we'd have to schedule it probably won't be on a council, although she would come to the council meeting. Um, so we'll
keep you posted if if and when we do that. But the first thing is we have to find out do we have a problem? We do. and where the problem is coming from. Yeah. Opening up all of Northern Green might help big time because that shuffles all down to Starling Camp and
then you know however many travel I believe the drone process where they they'll track them they'll see patterns and that how they're moving. That's what I kind of got out of the conversation. So, and the way they explained it, it's
healthy to do, excuse me, to do this for the environment, for, you know, keep the population down. So, it it made more sense when we talked to her and how she explained it, which is, you know, just we know how some people are going to react. I was wonder.
But, um, we're moving along the slow pace, but we are at >> Yeah. Thank you. And thank you council members for taking you know taking some action on this because again like when we started this conversation we fully expect like this is not it's not something that's going to get solved
instantly but like if we don't take as a community if we don't take action now it's only going to get worse you know it's not it's exponential right so um glad to hear that that you have a little more confidence now after
>> and they organize it we really don't have Once you get the approvals and we have it all in order, they kind of take the ball around it, >> right? >> So, we'll see. >> Okay, great. All right. Um, second completely unrelated topic that I just
wanted to to maybe get some advice or or direction on. So, the property across the street from from us, we're at 30. Uh, 29 was the address directly across the street from us. Uh it's a sloped
property and um the house there was empty up until the very end of October, I think about Halloween, um new residents moved into the house. Um >> is that the big white one that sits up on the hill? >> Yeah.
Shortly after um the house was reoccupied um in the evenings especially, we would occasionally get some smell of sewage, right? So I thought maybe there was some issue with the sewer line in the street,
maybe, you know, coming up through the storm drain, something. Um, so I had called um the water and sewer department and they came out in mid November and examined the line. I said, "Nah, they didn't really see anything. Everything
seemed to be fine." Um, flash forward into late December. I was still getting the smell mostly in the evening, like around dinner time, and I called the water department, have them come back out again. They checked the second time, couldn't find anything.
said there's no issue. Um they suggest that it might be an issue of uh line on one of the properties that it wasn't a um town related uh responsibility. My sewers run fine. Uh my neighbor next
to me on either side runs fine, but none of us have had any issues. But um back when we had our first snowfall in January, it's when I really noticed what's probably going on um on
the hill of 29 Breland. There was snow everywhere on the property except for, you know, kind of a strip next to the there's a garage at the street level. There's a strip next to the garage that opened up. Um and the snow melted in
that location and nowhere else. um that caused me to think, hey, maybe something's going on. We had this large snowfall that we're still is still here. And everyone here in the room knows it it's been below freezing. You know, it
never got above 20° for like 7 10 days. During that time frame, that same section of ground, lo and behold, although it was well below freezing, the snow melted in that location specifically. So, I I suspect what's
going on is that their sewer line from their house to the street is broken and weakened in some way. And what I'm smelling is essentially the cess poolool on their front lawn that's melted the snow, right? As as you know, as the
sewage breaks down, it releases the it melted the snow. So it it's not the sewer and water department's responsibility because it's on a residential property. How do we address that? I mean our health
department is vended the Bayic County. I tried calling them. They have been somewhat less than responsive and helpful. So what can we do about this? >> Go ahead. We've had our property maintenance selection emails from he's
already involved with this uh and I see when he copied Mark Moore from the board of health on as well and Mark copied us on we do testing and I know that our water HQM who does what
>> PACE that does our water test. >> We have to find a lab to sample. >> We have to find a lab to sample the earth. The water health does not do that. >> So we have to send it out to a different lab. We got to get somebody involved in it. >> Do we need to get permission from the people to take care of their property? >> That's a big question. I imagine not the
board of house involved and they're thinking city. So, >> okay. So, we're definitely working on >> and I I talked to, you know, neighbors on either side of the same side of the street that I'm on. They both noticed it and thought something was going on. And
like I guess I'm the only one that took some action about it cuz I it's a little concerning to me sewage flowing into the street across the street. So >> I actually have a email from Mark Moore that he sent to me today. But he his
response cuz I I sent photos. I called repeatedly. I talked to him. I talked to his colleague Wall-E. Um because I had gotten Mark Mora's name from Mark Redfield because I didn't know who to call. So I called Mark Redfield first. Um, and Mark Moore's email to me at
10:54 this morning was saying, "I visited the location last Thursday. I investigated the area around the garage as was indicated in a previous email. No order no odors were detected at time of investigation. >> Well, it it might only be odors when
they >> they're not there during the day. Yeah. >> Say a county health department working hours. >> Just let's make some. >> Okay. I just that was the email from him. He didn't indicate that there was anything further that he was going to be
doing. So, >> well, if I know Markfield, he'll stay right with it. >> Yep. >> We'll keep it his >> Yeah, we can take it further up past. >> Anyone else? See no one motion.
>> I thought she was going to car made a good point when you changed the parking regulations. You put out a notice to the residents. Is that correct? We we're putting digital signs out. Our police department
traffic is handling notification. Okay. >> A year ago, no parking popped up in front of my house. I got no notice, no digital sign. So, I think we really need to get in the habit of notifying the residents of the pending change so they
can plan on that. 25 years not parking from our house. So I think we really how you >> your your neighbor next to you called me. I see them often told me the same thing. So our traffic officer is very well aware of that. >> Okay. I mean I can understand why it was
changed. So I support the change but I think it's how it was changed. So I appreciate you're asking the question how do we notify the residents? >> Okay. >> All right. You mentioned that the on affordable housing 20% as affordable of the pilot >> Eddie in the fourth round. in the fourth
round. Okay, that's it. Thank you for clarifing forward. >> That has to do with the build. >> Yeah. Okay, that was my two comments. Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> That is statewide now. That's a mandatory um set aside guard or not.
>> No, it's just 20% set aside. >> Nothing to do with taxard. >> Nothing to do with tax. Just the state. >> Anyone else wishing to come up? Seeing no one motion to close. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Okay. >> We do not have an executive session
tonight. Our next meeting is >> March 3rd at 700 p.m. Have a motion to adjourn. So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you all for coming out. Appreciate it.