e e e e e e that it's in of itself a camera or is that just okay have a reason to use it but sometimes if it's entertaining I want
capture it good evening everybody it's 70 we just about 7:02 p.m. on Wednesday March 26th this is the regular meeting would you please rise and join me in the
Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance 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 thank
you all right Madam clerk roll call Council council member brusher council member Coyle here council member Harris here council member Patel council member ptil here council member pointer pres council member
schmuel here okay Madam clerk could you read adequate notice adequate notice of this meeting as required by the open public meeting Act of 1975 has been provided by the on notice sent to the home News Tribune Star Ledger does he talk in news India times on November 18th 2024 for and posted main lobby
missal complex on that same date thank you very much uh can I get a motion to approve the minutes motion to approve second okay uh all in favor I I okay um as for council president remarks just a
few events coming up um me go in order of the dates because uh there's one tomorrow that's worth mentioning it's women's and me uh women's and Men's Health screenings that's tomorrow 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the middle sex County clinic 29 Oakwood Avenue Edison
um these are for men and women who have no health insurance for the women's screening they offer free papsmear and a prescription for a mamogram for the men's screening a prostate exam and a p PSA blood test so these are very important screenings and they are
offered free of charge for people with no health insurance if you want to schedule an appointment or get more information you can call the Edison Health Center at 732 $5 per child also Saturday April 5th 2025 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at TJ Middle
School on 450 Division Street in Edison I will mention one more time the team medicine Police Unity Tour the cocktail sip April 7th 2025 at The Brownstone from 5:00 p.m. to 900 p.m. there are t
they sell t-shirts door their are door prizes and a mega raffle drawing at 7:30 p.m. $50 ticket Don ation includes dinner and two drinks those are my council president remarks uh we move on
to the the calendar year 2025 Municipal and solid waste budget um can we get a motion to introduce our 135 introduction of calendar year 2025 Municipal
budget motion introduce uh actually that has to come with the reading through yeah read but it's a resolution it's resolution yeah so yes to read it yes that he needs to read this move to to
um okay no okay all right very good uh then I get a second second okay thank you yes um is that an all in favor or is that a roll call okay all right council member Coyle yes council
member Patel oh ptil yes council member pointer yes council member schmell yes council president Harris yes we move to motion to introduce um the oh oh I'm have to council comments
right are there any Council comments on R 13 135 when we just voted on yeah was that should been before I should have done that before missed that now all right sorry about that um now we're on a motion to introduce and a second for our
136 introdu introduction of calendar year 2025 Solid Waste budget motion to introduce second thank you uh any Council that was s second just yes
Council comments on the uh on the solid waste budget this okay seeing none um then we need the roll call council member Quil yes council member Patel yes council member ptil yes council
member pointer yes council member sh sh sh yes council president Harris yes okay um on to the new business proposed ordinances public hearing set down for Wednesday April 16
2025 uh Madam clerk can you read the ordinance ordinance to exceed the municipal budget Appropriations limits and to establish a cap Bank okay um and this is and we're talking about the
2247 um can I get a motion to introduce council president I move this ordinance be passed the first reading published according to the law for further consideration and public hearing s down for Wednesday April 16 2025 second
second thank you um this roll call yes com yeah oh okay any any comments on this ordinance okay seeing none roll call council member coil yes council member Patel yes council member ptil yes council member
pointer yes council member schoell yes council president Harris yes all right um Madam clerk can you read 2248 an ordinance adopting the two Skyler Drive Redevelopment plan block 16021 lot 50
pursuant to the local Redevelopment Housing law njsa 48 colon 12a okay may I get a motion to introduce council president I move this ordinance be passed on first reading published according to the law for further
conation and public hearing set down for Wednesday April 16 2025 thank you a second second thank you uh any Council comments all right hearing none can we get to the roll call council member Cole
yes council member Patel yes council member PTI yes council member pointer yes council member schmuel yes council president Harris yes okay um Now we move to public comment on the resolutions this is on the resolutions only uh
anyone yes Joyce Joyce ship um Freeman Edison New Jersey um um the resolution authorizing the professional this is uh 145 so the resolution authorized and Professional Services contract for phase
two um has phase one been put up on the website do question do you have any other oh do you have any other resolutions to comment on and we'll get them all up together yeah um because I'm always asking about these change orders um you know the resolution
154 resolution authorizing change order number one to the contract with capota services and for milbrook Ford Pump Station Improvement um the total amended
contract comes up to $4 million now just asking and the next question I would like to ask is uh about the four water main breaks in
Edison um 66554 what number what number is that that's 155 okay where where are these water main breaks located at and last but not least I don't thoroughly
understand I want a better understanding of 159 the resolution authorizing and approving the person to person transfer planetary retail consumption license from hotel to hotel is that alcohol what what is that I'm not sure what it is but
I would just like to be you know informed of what it is okay thank you um George I just wanted to ask you on 154 I didn't quite understand what your question was about that you were questioning the 4 million it said Forge
Pump Station improvements 18,1 16257 for a total amended contract of 4,191 whatever 27 I because I'm just like I don't understand how we always have
these um change orders all the time because I mean this is like you know it's a lot like you know it's like nobody can make a decent calculation at all you know okay that's that's the only thing that bothers me is just that the amount of change orders and about people not being able to make a calculation
when they're doing the work that it has to be done thank you okay thank you chice um okay um Sonia let's start with 145 the Professional Services contract for phase two she wanted to know if phase one is somewhere to be seen on a
website it is a resolutions were provided to the council there were two resolutions um so for in 24 and those have uh already been initiated okay the work so is the public
able to see that somewhere on the website absolutely I would refer to the clerk the resolution number specifically on there was two resol pass just want to clarify um 154 uh she's asking about the cost the
going to the 4,191 in change so that's uh less than a half percent of a uh less than a half percent uh of an increase in in terms of a change order so uh the total amount is correct the 4 million
191,000 and 18,000 is about 44% increase okay um 155 the emergency contract uh the four and she wants to know where the four water main brakes are sure so those are specific to uh
Woodbridge Avenue um those the right there on that the ones that happen in December that's what those are specific to all right very good and lastly she's asking about 159 about the uh the LI the the liquor
license what s looks like it's a liquor license it doesn't really say uh liquor license but plenary retail consumption license that's a liquor license I would I would defer to the that's the hotel by Target okay change your names yes all right very good all right thank you uh
next comments on res or questions on resolutions council president yes can I just offer two additional items on that absolutely I think what um um M Freeman was asking in terms of the phase one because we're getting GIS mapping done of the system is if we have that GIS
mapping available for people to see in terms of what the actual sewer lines are um that's not known now just for the next meeting when we might have those Maps available uh and in terms of the change order um that actually was due to
delays because of the water main break that happened in December because it was near PS lines where this is in near proximity so it's kind of a startup cost again because of that DeLay So it's annoying because it's a change order but
it was an unforeseen condition change order and I hope that offers additional clarification thank you Council pres thank you Council vice president any um any other question questions or comments on the resolutions Gloria Gloria dman Midler Road Edison I
have um just two questions one is on 143 promotional items and there's another one but I forgot to write down the number I was just wondering are these local Edison companies that we are awarding these Monies
to okay and my comment is with uh along with the 155 do we have a plan in place to inspect the infrastructure so that we don't have this horrible problem happen
again okay all right let's start with U the 143 counc is the speaker done with her questions just because usually then we sit down and then we answer them so there's no back and forth you want me to sit down no if you're done with your questions yes I am okay all right thanks
okay um Sonia about the uh the company the um the bid awarding the contract for the trophies and promotional items uh are these Edison companies yes so um from a procurement standpoint we have to go out to bid uh it does happen that one
of the uh marketing companies GMA is right off of talage gen Edison um the second one is at Cafe also in Edison and the third concept print uh which is out of nyek New York U these were done
through the procurement process okay and the question about um the uh what's in place to inspect the the water mains um I don't know if it's these if it's what was it water Ms in
general but uh what what process is in place to inspect the water mains I don't see that this is specific to a resolution is there resolution this specific to other than the water main break in Woodbridge on Woodbridge Avenue that happened in December yeah yeah um
the business minist makes a fair point it the question has to be relevant to a resolution gotcha yeah okay all right thank you very much anyone else with questions or comments about the resolutions only yes sir
you and just let us know which number or you're talking about thank you very much um starting off with with all the numbers I'm not going to name them all because I'd spend my whole four minutes
naming them all so I'm not going to do that but I'm against each and every one of them simply because you guys haven't given us our minutes back to six four minutes to six which you guys promised to do do you
have yet to do that yet $10,000 to promote yourselves once again give yourselves trophies um participation trophies absolutely
disgusting but what can you do and then 6,000 more for trophies so you got two resolutions for trophies absolutely disgusting r152 I'm against r152
um if the police power supply Goes Down Let It Go Down Let it go down I'm against they need to get their act together they need to stop framing the residence they need to stop maliciously
falsifying police reports in order I'm sorry sir you need to stick to the resolution itself I'm explaining why I'm against no if you want to do this in public comment but but when you're starting to make accusations about the public safety that's not really pertaining to the resolution no no
accusations my so I'm not allowed to have an opinion my opinions are now give your if you'd like to give your opinion during regular public comment you may do that but we right now you need to to stick specifically to the resolutions and I was I was saying why I was against
r152 um let them have no power power Supply goes down let it go down because they're framing residence and this is proven it's going to continue to be proven and you can't do
anything about it because that's just the way it is um facts will always be facts I'm against star 153 um more vehicles are are these
vehicles r153 are these police vehicles Township Vehicles Administration Vehicles it just says Challenger units what's a challenger unit yes I'm against all of them the
only one maybe maybe I'm in support of Don D to the cultural arts commission but everything else I'm against I'm allowed to be against everything else um but back to
r150 to specifically the uninterruptible power supply for the division of police let that let there be a blackout better to have none no police better to have no police here in Edison
Township uh the way they've been doing their job thank you thank you um thank you uh Sonia uh he had asked about the 153 these are police vehicles yes okay thank you thank you
very much anyone else resolutions only okay seeing motion to close the public portion second okay uh all in favor I all right all right we move on to proposed resolutions anything to pull
for a separate vote council president yes 140 140 okay anything else nope okay councilman P nothing no okay okay all right um
that's it 140 okay so we want to approve right now resolutions 137 through 139 and then 141 through 159 uh can I get a motion to approve
motion to approve can I get a second second making a roll call please council member Coyle yes council member Patel yes council member PTI yes council member pointer yes council member schmuel yes council president Harris yes okay um councilman Coyle
about 140 I I just wanted to congratulate U Mr tar for another volunteer opportunity to continue to be involved in the cult Arts commission and thank him for the time I'm glad to see uh the administration continue to
appoint him and others because it's a very needed opportunity for Edison hopefully one day having a Cultural Arts Center thank you council president motion to approve I I second I second those sentiments um um all right we move
on to oral petitions we need to vote sorry oh that's right I'm Sor I'll second second okay all right sorry about that roll call please oops council member Coyle yes council member Patel yes council member PTI yes council member pointer yes council member
schuell yes council president Harris yes all right now we move on to oral petitions and remarks um who would like to anyone yes Sir Thomas licky Netherwood
Circle uh I want want to give a shout out and a thank you to the depart Department of Public Works uh over the winter with all the uh wind storms we had they knocked down a lot of branches got knocked down who a lot of branches got knocked
down excuse me sir please silence your phone thank you okay okay go ahead and uh Monday I called it uh DPW made an arrangement this morning a gentleman came out with with a truck picked it all
up actually wound up breaking sweeping and blowing my the street so there were no uh no residual small little branches left it was great I really appreciate that uh now I like to talk about what I talked about I'm uh bring up
what I talked on Monday about uh signs being posted on uh White polls telephone polls Etc uh since we went to four minutes there's no public rebuttal today's my rebuttal I think you need to maybe
rethink how the township goes and and and handles this ordinance that stuff isn't supposed to be posted on on uh telephone polls Etc but then I started thinking a little bit [Music]
more I come from an industry where if you saw something you say something maybe what you should need the township needs to do is Empower its public workers to go and uh log what they see as a PO as
something that's not per ordinance or whatever whether it's uh signs posted on Telephone polls dead trees that risk of falling on cars Etc if a wind kicks up everything like that garbage
thrown on a street house is not kept yards not kept up maybe if you empower the township workers to go into uh let's call document it put it on a log where where somebody is authorized to F to
follow up on that make sure everything is is a is a is corrected Etc then maybe Edison will be beautiful again then you then I started thinking well okay then they're going to people are going to say well why should I do
this maybe they get a little let's call it bonus if they decide if they see something that and it winds up getting corrected the F you know they get a portion of the fine put into their check has a bonus maybe try
to empower your workers to be you know look after Edison in a way that you know other people would like to see it nice and clean no garbage Etc so I'm just wondering if maybe that's something
that the township might want to introduce as a as a possible you know suggestion and then lastly you know you talk about affordable housing it's really a
shame that young professionals can afford house or don't really afford can afford houses in Edison uh it seems like any little house that goes on the market or is It's Quickly AB brought over by a
builder knocked down mcmansion is put up granted it it helps the ratables in the town Town gets more money but then again it's it it's also a remodel as opposed to a new house I think the town needs to
take a step back think about what they want to do as far as bringing young people into the town so that they can afford to live here and that that then filters down to the Planning and Zoning Board to can to go and uh help the uh
thank you sirk your time is um to your question about the signs posted on polls I'm wondering Council vice president um with the adop an area uh ordinance that we we had we had approved is this something that could
fall under the adop an area in terms of removing signs that don't belong my instinct is to say maybe I I don't know if that's an enforcement thing maybe if it's an adopted area itself possibly but in terms of like a
random area I don't know the enforcement or that that's an Enforcement issue so that would go through zoning uh much different than what the adopted area we discussed and the council adopted council president yes I believe the if you adopt an area they can maybe be the
people that report such infractions and maybe then the zoning can take action um I just want to correct for the record we're talking about two separate things so the adopted area is specific to beautification of a a placement of a triangle or something that's within
public space however those signs need to be enforced by zoning so um to Mr slu's point we have a service request system online and that's where you put any and all complaints and so I would um
encourage to use that system and it goes to Public Works and uh to several other departments depending on who it is who's responsible for that and that's how we address those issues um we also have our constituent relations person if you want
to get Pat coil a call but certainly the efficient way to do it would be through this the service portal system that's on our website very good uh Tom if you wanted to speak to somebody offline after the meeting it it's perfectly fine but but your your speaking time is done
right now thank you no no I'm sorry sir I'm sorry sir I'm sorry sir um yes council president yes about the affordable housing I think the idea is very thoughtful and I think that is something everyone wants to have affordable housing but there is uh the
nimi faction that not in my backyard that always comes up uh anytime you try to build more housing and that is what you need it's a supply and demand issue uh when you have more Supply the house pricing will come down um but no one wants to build more units because each
time you build units there is a cost that we have to factor into uh that includes students that we bring into anything uh when it comes to the road uh so it is a balance that we have to take into consideration it's not simple as
you know let's make more housing and it should bring everything down I would love to have more college graduates but again I think there's also an aspect of building a downtown and creating an environment that entices uh those population as well
to us I think Jersey City will be a or Hoboken will be a better candidates if someone were to start out and they had an opportunity to get an affordable housing I think they would pick that because they would have more restaurants and closer to the city City uh and more of a vibe that the college graduate
might be seeking than Edison and I think that is something a long-term project I would love to tackle but I I don't think we can solve that anytime soon thank you thank you councilman Patel yes sir um so I I brought this up before
does the lawyer run the meetings because he says people are out of order or does the president say run the meetings I'm not too sure I'd like to get some clarification because you're you're allowed to give her guidance but you're not allowed to run the meeting so you're out of order for saying he was out of order all
right um I'd like to get my time back uh the last time uh my minutes were stolen from me uh like three uh 3 minutes and 30 seconds added on please um sir you have the three minutes and 30 minutes left go back and forth can you stop my time and give me 10
seconds please you don't stop his time no all right at the previous meeting I was told I could not play a video of Sonia threatening kristo because of ongoing litigation at the at the next meeting I attempted to read the report and again I was silenced under the same excuse and then at the last meeting I tried to play a recording of an
interaction that happened in these very Chambers right here right over there and I was told uh doing so would be harassment so the Supreme Court um has repeatedly ruled that public meetings of government bodies are limited public
forms meaning that while reasonable time place and manner restrictions can be imposed officials cannot discriminate against speech based on its content or Viewpoint in the city of Madison joint district school number eight versus Wisconsin employment relations
commission the Court ruled that the first amendment protects the citizens right to address their government in a public form Additionally the board airport commissions vers the uh Jews for Jesus the court struck down the ban on certain types of speech in a public
setting making making it clear that a government body cannot impose a blanket prohibitions on speech it finds inconvenient when I refused to be silenc I was told my speaking time would be forfeited when I stood my ground I was threatened with
removal I was intimidated and I was even threatened with arrest simply for exercising My First Amendment rights my time was not up I had every right to continue speaking this is a violation of my constitutional rights the Supreme Court r
in Houston v hill affirmed that the first amendment protects robust even critical speech directed at public officials it is not harassment to play recordings read official reports or hold elected officials accountable it is my
constitutional right to to redress my government under the First Amendment a business administrator and a municipal government is considered a public official because they are a government employee respons responsible for
overseeing municipal operations finances and and and the administration their their role often includes um polic um implementing policies set by the council managing budgets and supervising departments under the First Amendment
Law Public officials include government employees who have a substantial responsibility over public affairs this designation means that the public business administrator's actions can be subject to public scrutiny accountability and legal
challenge they attempt top if they attempt to uh suppress my speech or violate my constitutional rights Edison is not a dictatorship that's not what the people want and I have to ask are these decision the are these decisions being made by councel or someone in the
business administrator's office or perhaps Sam himself instructing you to suppress my speech because if that's the case that needs to stop I urge this Council to remember that the Constitution is not optional you swore to uphold an oath you
swore an oath to uphold it start acting like you care so I'm going to play the video no all right sir you're out of order you are out of order please stop please stop his time are you violating my rights I am telling you that we are
not going I can tell you what we what you can do time is up okay offline I'd be glad to tell you what you what you can do Are you standing up Sir you're ready to go huh you're ready to go sir you need to sit down uh anyone else public
comment Joyce Joyce Edison New Jersey council president is's a point of order just try not to have side conversations so we can stop the time Joyce she did stop the time yeah she did she did okay all right she did sorry I just want to make sure
know don't don't get excited I'm a call ELD I just wanted you to know it's all right I'm cool with Marena all right yeah I didn't lie I have a teach I teach we were not talking about you the point out of order isn't against you it's not against you okay um go uh you can
continue the time go ahead Jo okay I I listen to the people talk about housing causing affordable housing people are not talking about affordable housing for the people who are on the state who have don't have enough money people are talking about the young
people like young people and stuff that's in my family that are looking for a house that they can afford and that's not for not my backyard most of these people are professionals they just can't afford their housing right now because the corporations are buying them up in case you haven't heard all right so
they're jumping at the bid in the llc's are grabbing the houses up when you say affordable housing now you don't mean the people that's working for 30 and 40,000 you mean the people that's working for 100,000 they can't afford it okay that's the real deal okay it's not
in my backyard stuff and now the signs up you know even my friends called me up and asked me if they live in another town and they was like oh I said you know that's Edison um they said how do you have itical signs up already and you can't have them up until April
3rd okay then I would like to say whatever the crime whatever these signs are the crime RAC raising or whatever I think Edison has a great Police Department I think you guys do pretty good at your job you know and I think
that if you're spending time and energy in places where you shouldn't be then that's the the Public Safety Director's fault it shouldn't be screamed at you guys for doing stuff incorrectly because I think you guys are doing a good job and you're working under your leadership
that you're supposed to be so if you got crappy leadership hey I can't blame you all right now um but what I'm heard from other people is that DPW seem to have this thing that thinks that we had a whole boatload of money for all this
stuff that we're building and all these things that's going on I'm like to myself then why do we have all these bonds we got a boatload of money everybody keep telling me about all these grants about grants and stuff and I know the infrastructure is just terrible here it's just very very
terrible and right now is the time that we do spring stuff for landscaping all right but I got all these tags all over my lawn I got these tags so what am I supposed to do about Landscaping what am I supposed to do because some say psng
some say uh well I guess they c a whole bunch of crap that's out there you know and everybody tells me they're not responsible for it so you know I I don't I don't understand like what's going on and and another thing I wanted to know about what you told me was in litigation
about the housing cost with the $100 added to each apartment I wanted to know about that and also uh Woodbridge Elks breakfast for the Kanas on the 30th you k his breakfast with um the Easter Bunny that'
be a nice thing to do something nice that's what I like about other neighborhoods they don't charge $5 or whatever they do some different things for the kids but I do want to know about the $100 cost of that and you know how that uh how that affects the people
because you said you had litigation you said you had a meeting so I figure I get some kind of answer to give to the person right and last but not least I want to thank you John Council John poter vice president for answering thoroughly as a teacher I like my
questions answering thoroughly I don't like them half answered thank you council president excuse me one second okay uh Joyce unfortunately because the inspector fees are pending litigation still uh we're not able to
comment until that has been settled so that's sad yes uh councilman coy as a courtesy would you call on our EMS volunteer our president he raised his hand a few times okay yes Steven Z bound 7 Avenue thank you
appreciate it um hope everyone's doing all right tonight um as mentioned I'm Steven Zer Bal I'm the president of Edison e Ms uh my colleagues and I are here tonight on behalf of Edison Emergency Medical Services once again for those that do not know Edison EMS is your all volunteer first aid Squad uh we
work in conjunction with hackin saac marinan health JFK EMS we serve at no charge the township of Edison and the surrounding towns providing emergency services and we also provide all the ambulance coverage for all the township events we're here tonight to give a brief update on our organization uh it's
been a little bit so we wanted to just share Edis CMS is continuing to thrive and grow last year we had the most activity yet um in years we answered 1,114 emergency calls uh which is almost a 30% increase in a year prior and
almost 100% increase in a year prior to that we had 11, 452 member hours and welcome 23 new members to the squad adisms is continuing to invest in its members resources and equipment to ensure Edison has the quality emergency services that we deserve this year Ron
pce to answer 1,200 s and we continue to be flooded with new member applications with this increased activity Edison EMS also has assumed a large financial and logistical burden to continue these operations Edison EMS is in need of several large Capital Improvements to ensure the safety and well-being of our
stations and our residents this includes Roofing repairs at two of our stations and a parking lot repair at Edison EMS Station 3 our stations not only serve as deployment centers for our ambulances but also as centers for our community we host Boy Scouts Girl Scouts religious and cultural groups at all of our
stations historically the Edison Township Administration has been extremely supportive of the Edison volunteer first aid squads past administrations have even facilitated new roofs being installed at the stations and parking lots repaved such as Station 2 in 2020 we would like to
gratefully request that the township continues its support for Ed cdms and our efforts to help others in need we have brought to attention in the past there is a New Jersey statute that does allow up to $120,000 annually the township funding can allocate to a volunteer first aid
Squad we currently do receive $105,000 between the three first aid squads which does leave room for an additional $115,000 per year to be allocated while we do understand that additional funding for Edis EMS might be difficult at this time we would be
grateful in any assistance with Roofing repairs or parking lot Replacements uh at Edison EMS Station 3 we do really thank you for all your continued support and dedication to the township it's always been there uh we do really look forward to hearing his thoughts from the council the administration and how we continue to work together thank you all
again for your support and uh happy to answer any questions offline as always um anyone you have some time left anyone have some questions council president yes Council pres if anyone is interested in becoming a volunteer where should they reach out yeah absolutely so
we accept members 16 and older we're primarily looking for actually adults uh 19 and older primarily but on our website Edison em. org we're always accepting new and would you guys technically be classified as like a nonprofit in case someone wanted to offer services but
receive like a uh tax write off for that correct we're a 5013c yep nonprofit thank you thank you council president thank you Council vice president any other questions or comments councilman P Council pres just wanted to ask through council president question to Sonia are
we going to to are you going to match the the funding that $15,000 in this budget I think you know they did come last year and we said I will try to help you and are you speaking to the additional contribution by the
state that we're allotted for volunteers yes uh we did consider that so I will confirm with you thank you okay anyone else council president I just I know we're having a finance meeting shortly and I I'm certain this Council will have
that discussion to see where the council the finance committee and the administration could meet somewhere in that criteria and I you said the the ma the max is 130 is that per station you're saying or is that all together time 120 120 to okay thank you thank you
thank you so much for what you do you and we really appreciate these updates and please continue to do so and we'll do everything we can to uh see that you get what you need thank you so much thank you okay um yes um
anyone else for public comment yes ma'am hi good evening everyone I'm new to this lived here my whole life just name and address please De Wolf live on baldman road okay um just really wanted to make a comment about how disappointed
I was in the disaster relief that was offered to US during the watermain break um you know I have neighbors who are severely ill they're younger than I am they have a full-time nurse they were not able to get to one of the fire departments to get their two gallons of
water every day uh I went for them and very kindly the you know fire um you know the volunteers there allowed me to take four gallons two for my house two for my neighbors but there was no main number to call uh to reach out to
anybody and say there is a need for people who are homebound to get much needed water and so having worked for the American Red Cross for a very long time I was very disappointed to see that this was a pretty big um disaster in
Edison and I know it didn't affect everybody but it infected a lot of people and a lot of very sick and elderly people who were not able to get that water that's my comment you thank you um Sony has is there um I think she
saying that there she couldn't find a number a number to call is there a number in these circumstances that people can access in our Communications there are numbers and typically through the utility um that's been offered we uh
we did get requests and we actually made door-to-door deliveries right I know uh for surrounding areas um so I would use that number I would use the administration number um the one for the U ility is um when no one is in the
office it gets defaulted dispatch or called dispatch they have a direct line of communication with the administration that's on call 247 especially during these emergencies one which we're dealing with right now so I would call that number that's on the utility which
bounces to dispatch and dispatch communicates to us directly great great thank you very much I'm sorry you can't respond well she can come back to the microphone no I mean that would we we've been pretty steadfast in our rule okay all right I'm
I'm sorry I'm going have to disagree with the with the deputy clerk on this though I think if you go back to your seat You' forfeited the rest of your time I was not aware I was not aware of that all right um all right uh
Carl through the chair Joe thank you for nice compliments toight it's true very it been uh eight nine months since I left the town well retired the issue I
got we had houses on play f Road there was one on the Corner planfield Road and Southfield Road the guy cleaned this property got finally last year we got four
houses between cly Hill Road or Clyde Road whatever you want to call it up to the Charlie Brown development I asked them to clean that area I was told they can't get out there anybody got a house along that area
should have a ESS fence opening even so I do not work for the town I'm eable I can ride a ticket I got no problem with it I try to keep the town clean but when you got people on this
board fa to do so it's wrong then the developer told me that they would asked to clean up the property on planfield road for what they need of properties and that property is
not County property every house along that Edge is the people I like to see it clean it's disgusting it's embarrassing and everything else if not
I will write a ticket if not I go see jimm let him write a ticket there's too many areas in this swn are dirty there's too many signs up too many illegal signs up right now for the election
illegal I used to burn two TS of gas a Weck in my car two tanks my partner I used to F his guas on his car you know how often every four
weeks and he's making 177,000 more to me what's that a no show Pleasant Avenue hasn't been clean yet [Music] I don't want to put you on the spot Joe but a lot of people are asking how
some I was bored from the area for three years from doing my job and if I got caught in the area I'd be fired you got a utility trailer on your property on Amo Avenue and went from your house well went from the root beir place to your house back to the root be
Place back to the chambers it's eyesore no license on it no insurance why where is a sit down John Deere L mower that was being used on am Avenue did it disappear I like to have answer for all
these questions alarm in this town 70 miles away from here I would do the 140 mile trip to keep up with this town because I'm so getting call about a lot of things and that's wrong
but where we going with it I hope I get some good answers anyone have any answers to Carl's question I think we had something about John Deere and uh Pleasant Avenue and um yes
Council vice president um just on Pleasant Avenue if I'm thinking of the right location um he may be speaking of the RightWay there that used to connect Grand View up to puant Avenue if that is um one of the items at the community
event that the library board had was thinking of a way to actually allow for people to walk down pleas Avenue so if we have that right away and is cleaned up and we're able to utilize that as like a pass through that may be a win-win in both situations thank you council
president anyone else anything about this um John Deere on Council presid yes to my knowledge the township does not own any equipment on mway Avenue nor that they own any equipment at the storage property it is maintained by a nonprofit and uh if they have any
equipment they own it all right and lastly Carl I have um previously reached out to you if you wanted to meet offline to talk about the situation on planfield road that offer
still stands thank you uh yes sir thank you am I recognized you are thank you um I wasn't going to come today but I found out bang Holio was going to be here so we're bang Holio goes I go so
here I am um just like you said just like you said in his own words Edison Township used a Vasa order a shield for sexual assault
victims and use that as a sword to attack a Critic of the government I'm the first YouTuber journalist to defeat a Vasa order very historical so many victories 2025 is going to be the year
of all the victories um four or five years ago what happened four or five years ago three felony charges where where did they all disappear to the third one got got
dismissed the first one started off as a first degree then it became a fourth degree then it became a disorderly persons how many bites of the Apple are you guys going to decide and now there's only the second
Fel felony left which the middle sex County public defender office filed the most beautiful motion to dismiss based on First Amendment protected activity which has proven that
this Township maliciously falsifies police reports in order to maliciously prosecute me they file these vable orders to keep me from government property so I can't file my Tor claims and lawsuits against you guys in the
future um I recently beat a harassment Case by Library trustee Tony D Pascal for simply what investigative journalism I exposed Library member who's been known
to go to board of education meetings attacking certain Board of Ed members I zoomed in on on his cell phone and who was he talking to he was talking to the mayor Mutan mayor Jonathan Bush whose Law Firm ran Edison Board of Education at
that time major major ethics violation and what what what happens you guys continuously ret weal it on me I beat that case too um it seems to me we have a councilman that's going to be on the Democrat ticket that my ethics complaint
against him as a board of ed member was so strong that the deputy Attorney General David kisi took over my complaint and he took my turned my allegations into facts this
thick this thick so it discussed me the type of people we have running for office in in this town it disgusts me guys ban the American flag uh even when I lose I win and
that's how it's always going to be um I beat the Predator catcher case uh I'm going to beat the second felony case the the first felony how does a first degree how does it become a first degree to disorderly person just like
that they accused they accused me of uh the drones flying over the state of New Jersey they accused me of multi piles that spontaneously combust due to biomass ignition uh what are they going to investigate me next when lightning
strikes uh someone's property tomorrow um you know uh it's turning into my cousin Vinnie these people are so ridiculous defund Edison police you guys are a joke thank you thank you anyone
else public comment yes sir all right good evening Council uh first want to start off by thanking the EMS men and Whitwell the two Ms who are in the room thank you guys the other ones as well um reason being so is I
just got released from the hospital around like 3:30 I was at JFK I had what I thought was a um drop seizure but they did a brain scan chest x-ray blood work all that stuff and they said I think it was just a you know anxiety massive
massive anxiety hit my rib on the toilet bowl so I'm in a lot of pain right now and I just want to say that that man Christo he's a good man when he heard what happened he let's go to St Peters I'll come with you I'll be with you you know and that's why it's good to have good people in your life and he's
nothing but honest and he's a good friend of mine and what's happened to him in this town is really outrageous um and this is why I wish we had six minutes and not four because I can't speak as fast as I normally can which is why I fight for rights of disabled some
people are take more time to listen and receive information and then all that stuff so I find myself in a really peculiar spot tonight but I'm not feeling too well um but I do want to say uh I'm too
still too upset at the what what Joe had done to me those three times cutting me off saying I'm here to agitate the public and incite violence I'm not going to let that one go um strange too cuz you like I said you approached me in the
hallway before that promise me you would never do it and you're eating pistachios or whatever nuts it is you like to put in your mouth and um then you went and you did it and said I was agitating the public sight and violence I real big problem
with out of breath with the word harassment because that's a trigger word for government to act on allegations to conspire to keep people like Christo the CR the your biggest critic to keep him from coming to the meetings so I have a
big problem with the word harassment because citing public safety concerns is what you guys are doing you you read all read my Tor claim I I emailed all of you so citing public safety concerns is what you guys are now doing to keep people of the meeting who come here and they're harsh critics of the government but
we're free people in a free country using our freedom of speech and it just gets blocked out blocked out I'm not going to let the flag band thing go until you actually apologize Joe you never apologized at least Nish I can't even thank nich because he's not in the room but at least he apologized he did
it three times did you apologize John did you apologize classic guy on the right who never talks until you guys apologize maybe you maybe you weren't brought up where when you make a mistake
you you're you're taught to apologize it's very apparent that might be the case but the way I was raised when you make a mistake you don't just say you made a mistake you apologize for it I look on Joe's page after that whole thing and he posts a picture of 20
American flags that the mayor bought to sway public persas about how how Star Spangled awesome we are here in Edison why don't you apologize Joe why don't you apologize John don't you think these residents are owed an apology guy
on the right don't you think so you think I'm agitating the public by trying to compel you guys to do what I was raised to do and apologize Nish apologized who however he
got there whether he was forced compelled or whatever where where's the apologize from the three of you who took away our minutes where's the apologize I want I want an answer will either will any of you apologize to the to your to your
residents that you claim you fight so hardcore speaker's time is up thank you okay anybody else public comment apology no yes Anthony okay than you guys uh Anthony Damron Wy have um couple
things the East I think you I wasn't here I heard it on the car in the car um we're is it we're charging $5 for the Easter egg is that correct do we always charge I was just curious if we always charge so questions at the end okay well that's one of them um I asked uh last
last time about the uh the police budget um if it we're going to increase it um I I I hope we do um and even if that means you know making some Cuts elsewhere I like to see us hire more guys as more Patrol as well uh and on that topic I I
don't know what the rules or laws are regarding uh the the hiring and qualifications but you know the fire department does something kind of similar but what about if we did like if there was a fast track for auxiliary guys that want to be cops that are on auxiliary do you know put in a certain
amount of time uh as auxiliaries that could you know uh basically you know qualify you to to to to to be hired full-time as a regular police officer um you know so and there plus there'll be Edison residents as
well so um I don't know if that is something that's doable or not because I know the fire department you know you got to volunteer for a couple years right so maybe if you if we uh have some type of FasTrack program for for for auxiliaries that want to do that uh reach those qualifications maybe it's an easier better way of hiring
um another thing on the police I I the you know we have a couple substations I guess still uh in the north end of town um I don't know if they're occupied or not throughout the day or week but um I I I like to you
know the there's I did a tour when I was working for the the previous mayor we we went to Franklin Township uh and toured uh their community policing it's a standalone community policing building basically and I I'd like to see maybe possibly seen something come to Edison
do the same thing uh maybe even I like the idea maybe even on off of Amboy AV do a standalone community policing uh building maybe you could work with the Board of Ed get a piece of the uh the property there and basically you what you do is you promote Bic you know you Patrol the area
on bikes um you promote kids that are living in the neighborhood to ride their bikes on the greenway uh to school and we help with a lot of the uh the vehicle traffic that is on Jackson Avenue so if you want to cut down the traffic on you know Jackson one way do it is just to have start kids start riding bikes to
school so and I think if you had uh uh you know the cops doing that in that area throughout you know the summer months especially um or spring and fall as well uh you would see a lot of more parents that would be willing to you know allow their kids to to do those
things um you know even though I was probably walking home at third grade from Lincoln but that uh it's not you know it's a different world today so uh I'd like to see that you you you really um the idea the visualization of seeing the cops out there I think is a is a good positive thing so something just to
think about just an idea um DPW director do we have a DPW director yet are we is there is there any updates on that um who's running the DPW currently um and uh is it Bob Smith I just curious to
know about that um just for oh and uh I I guess I mentioned the uh the unity uh bike Unity Tour I'm doing a flag you got to see this flag I'm making for it it's going to be gorgeous I did one last couple years so definitely
check that out uh I don't know if I'm going to be attending but I'm doing a couple uh doing one flag maybe a surprise second flag so we'll see so definitely uh worth checking out all right thank you council president thanks Anthony um yes the uh the Easter Extravaganza is five is a $5 charge uh
captain can you address the uh questions about an increase in the police budget and any possibility of a FastTrack for auxiliary Polie council president I may for um the captain the budget is under current review so uh before providing
you with an answer um there is a slight increase and and it reflects our current and hopeful Manpower for the future so um that's still under review okay okay um there was another question there was
a question about um his idea about FASTT tracking the auxiliary police the captain can answer that yeah as far as I know the officers who are in the auxiliary get extra points uh in in the past I don't know what the hiring process is right now you'd have
to uh we'd have to talk to the Chief and find out what the process is but in the past if you were an auxiliary you would get certain amount of points towards uh towards your test and move on to the next process thank you very much uh DPW the acting director right now is Tony
Costa uh he's doing a great job as far as I can as I can tell um do we have uh have interviews been going on for the permanent position uh we're we're currently we currently have an interim and we are um
still uh brainstorming okay very good good all right thank you very much anyone else bul Bal Patel Edison greetings uh council president Harris Council vice president poer uh this is something I love to talk about uh the budget so four
years in the board of fed we had 0% tax increase right Mr Romano it always brings us pleasure and smiles because everyone in medison talks about taxes um before I go there thank you so much to the EMS we really value some of the members are not here but really value
their incredible services and dedication to our community now what brings me joy today and what I'm here to talk about is the budget the introduction of the budget it's incredibly it's incredible to hear about
less than 1% tax increase which is great so and at the same time this trend shows stability in the taxes in last four years so this budget also hoping it prioritizes safety hiring of the police
officers firefighters and um everything else that the community needs to be to make a safe and secure community and um the budget also continues to expand services to our family youth most importantly so hopefully all of that is
included but delivering a budget with less than 1% tax increase is really great it's incredible so I really wholeheartedly thank the mayor all your few council members for all your hard work the administration it I I think the
residents will very well receive it and I urge all of you to vote on it thank you so much thank you very much anyone else public comment motion close the public portion second okay uh all in favor I
okay um it looks like we are motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second okay this meeting is adjourned at 8:10 p.m. thank you all very much I don't know I don't
know I'll be right there when is it when is it but we can talk very open without that's what I all