Good evening everyone. Uh this is the work session for February 9th, 2026 beginning at 6 p.m. Can we all please rise for the pledge of allegiance? [clears throat] I allegiance 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. >> Uh, roll call m. >> Council member Brusher >> here. >> Council member Coyle >> here. >> Council member Dimma >> here. Council member Kentos >> here. >> Council member Patel >> here.
>> Council member Patiel >> here. Council member >> here. >> Adequate notice. >> Adequate notice of this meeting as required by the open public meeting act of 1975 has been provided by the ali notice sent to the home news tribune star ledger desi talk and news India
times on November 17th 2025 and post the main lobby mal complex on that same date. >> [snorts] >> Good enough. [clears throat] Uh, council members, just review of the minutes. Uh, any comments for the combined meeting of January 28, 2026?
[snorts] Hearing none, moving to four unfinished business for further reading, consideration, public hearing, and final adoption. Any comments on 02273 2026, an ordinance amending the chapter 4 of the personnel policy section 4-3
military leave and 413X of the Municipal Code of the Township of Medicine. Any questions or comments? >> Yeah. So, um, with that one, Council President, uh, taking into account the
public opinion from the last meeting, uh, the comments that we received speaking with some of the council members, um, the the legal is is, uh, recommending that that ordinance actually be withdrawn on Wednesday uh, and a new version introduced uh, that
better addresses uh, what the the intention of the township is. >> Okay. Any questions on that being removed by council members? >> Council person, but I have one other question on this ordinance. >> I can. >> But we're going to remove it though.
>> Yeah, but still I want to ask. >> Okay, sure. >> Uh just uh you know how many employees the township employees are impacted with this ordinance? Do we have any number? >> Five, 10, 15. I
>> believe there are four. >> Four. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions or comments on uh 2273 hearing? Hearing none. 2274, an ordinance amending the township code update the address list of the personal
entitled handicap parking spots. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Moving to 202075, an ordinance establishing the to not to exceed the salaries of certain officers and departments heads and employees of the township. Any questions or comments?
Council President. >> Yes. Uh just for my information um and apologies for missing the last meeting uh because I was not in town. Uh quick question on this. You know, do we have any sort of a report uh that compares the salaries plus
benefit or benefit of the towns which are at least two towns which are larger than Edison and two towns which are smaller than Edison. So we can compare where it lands. >> We can send that to you. >> Thank you sir. Thank you. We'll get that to him. I think said something.
[clears throat] >> Um just number six, proposed ordinances. >> Council President, um I would >> have the floor. >> Thank you. I I'd move to uh make an amendment to the um to the to addressing council chapter 2.13.
Um the ordinance is before everybody here. I'd move to add that to the agenda. If everybody could review it. >> Okay. Uh the council member has a motion to add the the um so forth ordinance to the agenda
for the time limit for the meetings for public speaking from uh so is there a motion to >> add this? So is there a second to add this? I second dude. >> Okay. Um m madam clerk we have a roll call to
add this to the agenda. >> Council member Brusher. >> Yes. >> Council member Dimma. >> Yes. Council member Kentos, >> yes. >> Council member Patel, >> yes. >> Council member Patiel, >> yes. >> Council member, >> yes. >> Council President Coyle,
>> no. [snorts] Okay. The proposed ordinance is in six. The ordinance of the township of Edison in Edison County of Middle Sex and state New Jersey authorizing the acquisition and negotiation of the agreement of real property and/or property interest in required for the drainage project that
is planned for the area of Calbertt Avenue and Abbott Court and Wayne and Huntington Road. Any questions or comments? >> Council person. >> Yes. >> I'm extremely happy that I think it's after 8 years finally. Thank you former
councilman Bob Dill for working through and thank you administration. Uh we were chasing this project year over year and finally it is coming to the fusion. Again thank you. I'm in fully support of this. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments
hearing? None. We'll move to seven. We got from the business administrator A. Any questions or comments [clears throat] from the Department of Finance, AB, B, C, D, E, and F. Any questions or comments on the following [snorts]
item eight? Hearing none, moving to item nine from the Department of Health. A any questions or comments? Hearing none. From the Department of Planning and Engineering, we have A, B,
C, D, E, F, G, [snorts] H, and I. Any questions or comments from item 10 of the Department of Planning and Engineering? >> Uh, Council President? >> Yes. I'm going to say I. Um,
$357,000, I guess, to come up. This is just for like a speestous abatement. I I know it also says surveying project, but I don't know what that is. I I walked through that with Mr. Deal, and
the administration had a pretty good handle on what they were doing down there. Um, and just for like an environmental asbestous testing, it's exorbitant. Um, is probably the the best way to put it,
you know, even even if they were to sample every room, floor, ceiling, and walls. So, I just don't understand where the four the 357 is going to. Um, you know, if you'd like to speak to them and, you know, give me that um maybe
like a list of it tomorrow or something if I can get from them like exactly what they're going to be doing and a breakdown for what each of those items are. >> Sure. Council President, if I may. Um so what what they would be doing is um
going through the entire building. There are portions of the building that would essentially there's some demolition that would be required and therefore the extent of the environmental abatement that happens takes on a a
whole animal in and of itself. So it is more involved than just making recommendations regarding the environmental abatement. It's also doing it in in a manner that is safe for everyone. Um, so I can have Mr.
Picarillo kind of walk you through a little bit of what that entails in in the report. >> Um, that would be fine. Yes. If he'd like to call me tomorrow or something. I mean, you know what my concern is? Oh, yeah. >> He's here now. Um, >> do you mind doing now? We'll just uh Yeah. You okay with that, Council? >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. No, we can go through it. >> Well, you have three minutes. Council President, um we are going to uh be open to walkthroughs. So I'd welcome any anyone on the council to come and do that. Um >> okay. As soon as the date set.
>> Mr. President, I I have a walk through scheduled for for tomorrow when I saw this on the agenda to walk me through the what they can because obviously without protective gear, >> there's an issue. >> Is it >> anybody wants to join me? It's at 12:30. >> Do you want to just
>> Well, no. I [clears throat] actually have a 1:00. >> Okay. All right. Well, let's uh finish with >> our engineer. [clears throat] >> No problem. So, uh this proposal is broken up into five tasks. First one's environmental services, which is roughly 75,000.
That's to go through the building and site uh to determine in more detail than the last one uh what areas need abatement. Uh on top of that there's demolition documents that have
to be prepared the plan on how to do the abatement as well as demoing demoing portions of the building. Uh that is 155,000 because of the extent of remediation that is necessary. Um
there is specifications and bidding services in this because we're going to have to bid out the abatement. We have survey services. uh where we're going to laser scan the building for
heaven forbid a situation arise where we can't you know save the entire uh facade of the building due to the abatement say there is uh an issue with some of the block say or the or the um
mastic that is holding the block together. We're scanning the outside so we can anything that is damaged can get recreated. And uh there are there is another roughly 90,000 in there that is
for concept layout of the entire site and the building itself. >> Okay. So you're telling me then that all of the asbestous in this building would need to be removed >> because I mean >> at this point the answer is yes [clears throat]
because we don't have an actual design for the building. >> So if the if the mortar has asbestous [snorts] in it, >> right, you're going to come up then with a plan to remove the entire building. >> I'm hoping it doesn't go to >> to that level, but that is a potential.
>> Now is that required by law? depends on what the uses are. >> The level of abatement depends on what the use >> No, what I'm saying is that if the if if the if the mortar has a speestous in it, right? Is it is it a law in New Jersey
that if you were to do a renovation, is it required that you remove the building with all the asbestous? Is there a requirement to remove all the asbestous or is there a requirement to remove disturbed asbesus? I'm trying to find the scope.
>> It's to remove the disturbed and fryable asbestous. So the concern is as we start demolition for improvements that this may be a trickle down effect.
>> Council President, if I could just add. Yes. >> So the building is not AD accessible at least to the standards of today. And so once you start moving around walls and the intent of this building is for community services related uh programming and so because of that it it
it requires this extensive um this extent to to do this kind of remediation. >> No, I I listen I where I'm basically going is I I have a feeling you're going to end up coming back telling us that the building a majority portion of the
building is going to need to be removed. And at that point, well then why don't we just do it now and we save the $375,000. I know what asbesus abatement cost. I know what the testing cost because I hire people to do testing, right? I know that for this amount of money, I can
keep people there and test almost everything in that building, every wall that you have and I can get that done for a quarter of this cost. So that's where my concern is, right? That's why I was saying I don't understand what your scope is that you plan on doing because
when I went through with Mr. Deal what what the administration was doing this year is exorbitant excessive um it just it just makes zero sense. Now if you have another you know thought that you're looking to to tear off the
facade and everything I I get it then yes this could be reasonable but not for the scope that I've seen and I walk through. So, just so you know, the demolition and construction documents that are for the abatement portion is roughly half this
number. It is 153,000 out of the 357,000. >> And you got three bids on that. >> It's a professional service. >> What? Okay. >> So, I understand, right? Professional service. We can give it to my brother
for professional service and give him $4.9 million. And I get it. You don't need approval, but I'm just saying [clears throat] prudence, right, and good governance means that you do bid it. >> Council member, would you >> out of business administrator? Just >> just for correction, this was bid out.
This is part of our professionals that we put out the RFPs. Um, so this was done through the proper procurement uh process. >> So, okay. So, here like, let me put it to you like this. That's not three bids though, right? because you you did you
get three so you didn't get three separate bids. That that was my point. >> So we we have a list of engineers, >> right, that you that we approved for you to get pricing from and and I don't have a problem with that. Did you get pricing from the from three different engineering firms is my question for the
same exact scope that would be written? No. >> In this case, we did not because they've been this has been the engineer working on this project. Yes. It's like going to any contractor, right? When I build building your house and then you ask me to change a faucet
and I tell you it's $3,000, >> right? But if I go to another engineering firm, they can't reuse the work that was done previously under somebody else's license. They may and most likely will have to redo the same scope of work that was done previously. >> For them to redo the whole scope of
work, I'll bet you it'll be less than 375. Um and and you have all your vendors, but I'm just saying, you know, to me it's just good governance. Um [clears throat] so, okay. I just don't feel comfortable since we didn't bid it. That's all.
>> Thank you. >> Real quick, Council President, just real quick, um you mentioned lasering the front of the building. Is there if if the building has to come down, um because that propertyy's on the Rosi, is it is it required we keep the facade, we have to put the same facade back up? I thought we just had to stay within the
four corners of the building. >> You need to stay within the general footprint of the building. >> Right. >> The lasering is if we can recreate some of it. Say we have to take it down hypothetically. If we're taking it down and we want to recreate some of those
elements like the boys and girls gym entrance or the original structure with the tower and we want to recreate elements that laser scanning gives us the opportunity to do that. >> Understood. Thank you. >> Thank you, council members. And for what
I'm hearing from you, Rich, um if you feel it's not a good idea to invest money, good money on top of bad money, that's something we can have a discussion with the mayor and the administration and see if it's better off knocking the building down rather than continue seeing if we can
reconstruct it. >> It's it's it's a two-point process, right? From the scope that I that I walk through, this seems totally excessive. If the scope has been enlarged, right, and now you're going to look into the mortar of the building and everything else, which I don't think you need to for the scope that they originally had
really. Um, [snorts] then yes, you know, so it really could go either way. Um, [clears throat] >> okay. Well, listen, I think we can definitely have that conversation and um we'll table that for this week sometime. We'll see if we can have a conversation
with the administration. Thank you. Moving >> council. I I have a quick question on that. the Stelton Community Center. That's the building we're talking about, right? I thought, you know, we change all the windows and we're planning to put the split system inside. Now, we are
kind of backtracking and thinking about demolishing the building. >> Well, uh the So, the windows have not been replaced. Uh okay. So, that was put on hold. The only thing that was done there which actually helped uh a bit, it
was the roof that was done. Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? Moving forward to 11 from the Department of Public Works, A, B, and C. [cough] Hearing now, moving to 12 from the
Department of Recreation. Any questions or comments? 13 going from the chief of fire. A any questions or comments? Moving to 14 from the chief of police. Any questions or comments?
[clears throat] Hearing none moving to 15, the township clerk. I have a uh resolution I've discussed with council members. We'll be adding a resolution confirming the ethan wetlands association representative to the Peter J. Barnes the third wildlife
preservation. You have the resolution in front of you. Most of us know this applicant. This will be added to the agenda for Wednesday's vote. Any questions or comments? Moving to 16. Uh oral petition remarks. Uh this portion is open to the public uh
to have discussion. You have four minutes to discuss. Anybody from the public? Sure. [snorts] Joel Bassoff, Beach Lane Edison. Um, so I'm uh couple of meetings behind with things that I want to say. Um, the first
thing I'd like to point out is that after the blizzard, the public works department did an absolutely fantastic job of clearing the streets. Um, they were uh relentless. I can't believe their their stamina. And the fire department did a great job of being
proactive. I saw they cleared the uh ice and snow from the fire hydrant near my house. I assume they were going all over town and doing that. So, kudos to uh our untiring members of the public works and fires departments. Um now, at the last
meeting I did come to, I used this slot to um highlight the best qualities of the council members whose terms ended in December. and I didn't get a chance to congratulate the newly elected council members and officers because with only
four minutes your your time runs out. Um so I'll use my precious four minutes now to congratulate our newly elected council members. Uh Councilman Kentos is no stranger to uh the public side of this day and he's wellversed in both
Edison history and current events and it's good to see that uh Mr. Kentos is finally uh on that side of the podium. Um uh Councilman Burl Patel is no stranger to public service. He's been a
member of the board of education and it's good that his experience in public policy will now be added to uh this council. I'm sure it'll be a huge benefit to the council and the public. And Councilwoman Dimma is to be congratulated. uh she's bound to bring a
fresh perspective and uh youthful energy to the council and congratulations to you, President Coyle, on your election as council president for 2026. Uh, I hope I can speak for the public when I say that we um are hopeful that you'll
provide over the council with uh wisdom and fairness and that you'll guide the council in fulfilling its statutory responsibility as an independent branch of municipal government and as a watchdog over the public purse as we saw
an example of that with Councilman Pressure uh asking some very incisive questions about a spending item on the agenda and Uh it's important to remember that uh as a symbol of your office, you hold a gavvel and not a rubber stamp.
And uh with uh my remaining time, um uh I want to urge the council to hold off on giving yourself raises. Uh it's a bad look to give yourself raises um shortly after you've been elected. And uh at the
same time that uh we know that there was an ordinance that uh would have um cut the compensation of municipal employees who also serve the the military. Um so I'm glad that you're reconsidering the
ordinance to cut the compensation for uh those who also who serve both us here in Edison and protect us as members of the military. and uh I hope you'll reconsider uh the ordinance in which you'd be giving yourselves uh large
raises. Um really the appropriate way to do it because no one doubts that that um you put in uh a lot of time and effort and and that the new members of the council will do so. Um but the the appropriate way to do it is to handle it the way um the state handles it for the
governor for example which is if you want to put through an increase of compensation make it effective for the next term of office don't don't do it just um when you start out um uh there's more to say but uh looks like I'm out of
time. Okay. Thank you. And any other members of the public that want to speak, please? [sighs] Thank you. Am I recognized? Nobody's here today and yet we're we're cut at four minutes. We should have six minutes. It's it's absolutely
disgusting. You can't stay here for an extra four minutes combined. Total of four minutes. Um I want to talk about the Epstein files. Before I talk about the Epstein files, Governor Mikey Cheryl, another Zionist, wants to uh
pass an anti-free speech law. If you criticize the state of Israel, um they're going to come after you. They're going to imprison you. And absolutely disgusting, especially at a time like now when the Epstein files were released. So many people want to criticize the
state of uh the state of Israel. Um they're following in Florida's footsteps. That's a disaster. is is Governor Mikey Cheryl a Republican now, too. Um, so the Epstein files are released. They're killing the little kids. They're
abducting the little kids to cover up their evidence. Huge, huge tons of sulfuric acid. They just wash away the evidence, you know. They let the kids' bodies dissolve. Absolutely disgusting. Pizza Gate was real. Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, all of
them committed crimes against children, sexually molested children, abducted those children. I want to hear what what you guys have to say about that. I want to hear what you guys have to say about Mikey Cheryl wanting to violate people's free speech rights.
Only when it concerns the state of Israel. I want I want you guys to explain to me why I can come here, criticize Edison, New Jersey, criticize the United States of America, but if I criticize Israel, I can risk imprisonment or I could risk getting uh college
benefits or anything like that taken away from the state. So, it really goes to show you who's ruling over us. You know, you can I can come up here and call Donald Trump a a sex predator. There there were lawsuits that came out where the lawsuits were taken back, but in the
lawsuit allegedly had sex with a minor, had sex with a child, Donald Trump. So, if I can say that, and I can't criticize the state of Israel, where are we going now? We can't come up here and say the state of Israel killed American soldiers on the USS Liberty.
You can't come up here and state facts. Um, only one country ever committed a terrorist act against the United States of America and they got away with it. We allowed them to get away with it. We cover it up. You can kill American soldiers if you're
the state of Israel, they will cover it up. So your Democratic party, all of you guys, you're kidnapping the kids. Regular citizens, you understand? We have to pay a parking ticket. We can't even go out without paying a parking
ticket. We'll get our driver's license revoked. Why is it okay that that you guys get to kidnap the kids, rape the little kids? Do you have anything to Joe? You you took a picture with Joe Biden. You took a picture with Joe Biden when he was on the news sniffing the
little kids hair doing all this creepy with all these kids. Can you explain that? I wouldn't take a picture with Bill Clinton. I won't take a picture with Joe Biden. I I won't take a picture with Donald Trump. I won't take a picture with anybody that's accused of
any pedophilia. Anybody that's friends with Jeff Epstein. Council Council President Joe Cole, can you please explain why you took that photo with Joe Biden? Can you can you commit mass atrocities and you you'll still want to take the photo with with the person? Why is that?
Is it because their their position is more important? How many people does someone have to behead? How many kids do they have to rape before you say, "Hey, I don't want to take a photo with this person." Is it acceptable to rape 100 kids, Joe? Is it acceptable to rape 200?
What about 300 kids? 400 kids. Joe, can you rape 400 kids? Would you still take the photo with Joe Biden? >> Times up. Thank you. >> Any other comments from the public? Please come to the podium. Yes. [clears throat]
Anthony Damron, uh, Edison, New Jersey. Um, there was a couple things I wanted to say. I'll save some for Wednesday, but, uh, I was, uh, this this past weekend I was out, um, out of town, um, for these tournaments, wrestling tournaments, sports, ath, you know,
wreck wreck stuff, and they, um, they're quite amazing. They generate a ton of revenue for these towns. I actually had an opportunity to uh pull aside uh one of the uh or a couple of the people that run these these these wrestling tournaments. This one happened
to be a wrestling tournament. [snorts] Um but there's just a lot of opportunity. I I had a question. Um the the the the Jets field does the does the outdoor do we still have the um outdoor field? Is that still I know they built the the the state the the the facility.
Is the field Wasn't there a field next like the actual field next to it? that's still there utilized. Is it? I don't know if it is, but if it is, um there's a lot of opportunity like, you know, I I I will email you guys some stuff, but um
like, you know, for instance, uh they do lacrosse stuff. They they just do a lot of this rec stuff and I don't know if there's a board or something like that that could be put together, but um these towns make a bload of money. These people come in from all over. Um it's
well organized. Um this one particular yesterday it was at the high school um in like Hillsboro I believe they used the high school so they worked with the high school but um that that new facility the Jetsfield um I don't know what the plans are for the future but
the uh that that's something to definitely you know uh look into and and and bringing these tournaments in here. Uh I bring up lacrosse because lacrosse they have the out if the field is there they do it at St. Joe's and that place is packed. They do like a whole weekend
thing. It is, you know, I don't know if you guys ever pass it. I mean, it it's just it does a lot of big business there. So, uh something to think about, but um I will email you guys something because this individual I spoke to who runs it um had some good good uh good
tips and good uh good advice. So, uh he sent me something. I'm going to forward it to you guys, but um that's really it. I know I'm uh not getting into specifics, but um there's there's opportunity there. But I guess my only question is is um is there a board um like who would be in charge of that? Uh
is that's is there plans for doing that? You know, who would who would be um oversee something like that, you know, to put together that type of project? Um cuz that, you know, it's it takes there's a lot of moving parts. So, I don't know if there's plans already in
place or um uh if there isn't, uh I would recommend, you know, definitely um [clears throat] jumping ahead of that. So that's it for now. Uh, council president. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I just first wanted to the field. He s it's it's our jets turf field. Of course
it's available. >> It's a new one. Yeah. >> Beautiful. >> Yeah. >> I say if I if I may, Council President comment on the recreation part. >> Yeah. We we have a worldass poporner field there and facility. I mean I'm I'm sure I'm sure championships will be played there. It's an unbelievable
facility. No, it we have an indoor facility with um an indoor turf field as well as the outside turf field as well and and and [clears throat] the wreck is running the fac. It's my understanding that the wreck is in charge of the facility.
>> Okay. And uh for a second question, we will appoint our committees on Wednesday and our chair of recreation. If you want to have a proposal to sit down and just sketch out on paper an opportunity for the town to have such a game in the community,
wonderful. But I, you know, coming from someone who puts events together every day, it's I love the idea and I'm sure you do too. But sometimes it's just a lot more work. And if you bring in those people who are experienced, maybe it's best they just come and do it and you can weigh that out with the recreation
chair uh later. Not a problem. Any anybody else from the public that'd like to speak? Seeing none, can I have a motion to close the public portion? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I.
Okay, we're going to skip the council committees. We'll have that ready tomorrow for Wednesday's meeting. However, we did um we have a cultural arts meeting for Tuesday. So, uh, we I was so lucky to
hear the excitement from Kelly Dimma to be a part of that. So, among the other things she's asked to be involved in, it was so easy to push over the ledge and be on this as well. So, thank you. >> Okay. Um, we're going to move to points of light.
The township offices will be closed on Thursday, February 12th for Lincoln's birthday and also Monday, J uh February 16th for President's Day. On Saturday, February 21st, the Lunar New Year celebration at Thomas uh
Jefferson Middle School from 12 to three. Any would like to add something to the points of light? Any comments? Okay, hearing none. We're going to move to discussion items. And I guess I'll
first start to we'll start with the the council vice president. Why not? We can go a little backwards. Do you have any discussion items you'd like to >> Yeah. >> No, sir. >> Okay. And we'll go to Councilman Brasher. >> Um, none at this time. >> Councilwoman Dema.
>> None at this time. >> And uh we have Counciloman Patel. >> Yes. So, I have a few things. the first one I will move to Wednesday. Uh I'll go ahead and address a couple of other things that I had. So
we experienced one of the largest significant snowstorms most recently in the northeast several in several years now was followed by extremely cold temperatures and no rain. I mean it's terrible out there and because of this
prolonged cold snow icy conditions the snow won't even melt for many days. So I want to acknowledge [snorts] you know eco sentiments of Mr. Brassov for DPW despite of all the situations they did wonderful job across the town made the
roads and everything accessible. That being said, um there were still reports because of this unprecedented, you know, times that we had with the weather conditions where sidewalks were not being cleared by property owners, which
is understandable. Um, you know, due to the severity of the storm. For the information of our residents who reach out with these questions, I want to ask uh administration few questions. So which department is responsible for the sidewalk, snow and ice enforcement
during events like this? Uh second question is what is the standard process for code enforcement during major unprecedented storms like this to enforce? Um I have heard that in some cases that warnings were issued and what
is the typical course of action in this situations and how is enforcement handled during such in this situation. Um, additionally, uh, for sidewalks that are leading to school properties throughout the township, if we can work
to in the future situations like this towards compelling a list of [clears throat] key streets or property addresses and prioritize enforcement for those sidewalks during future storms, they that they can be cleaned sooner so it can be safer for kids to, you know,
get to school. >> [clears throat] >> Uh there were also reports of some sidewalk areas near Metro Park on Edison side where commuters were walking on large piles of snow and ice. Now I'm not sure whether it's a part of Edison or it
comes under a state or county or you know if it's Edison then if it's if Edison is responsible or someone else and I understand that storms like this do not happen often in great you know all the time and great job by DPW by engineering department by code [clears throat] enforcement everyone um
but I believe it would be helpful for the residents to have answers to this question and just for their knowledge and understanding thank you so if you can council Patel I'm going to Sir, before I speak, let the administration speak on that just in general. I mean, as we here as council members serving
the public and we have to give, you know, first a strong shout out to our DPW that's out there clearing the roads and this is not, you know, this snowstorm which every resident has a chance to complain about. I mean, uh, but the fact of the matter is there were times we don't even know where to put
the snow. So, in the first 10 days, we're still moving snow around. So, I would imagine there is some forgiveness in the corner walkways of the street side uh removing that snow because I mean the pile is the size of of a car to
get through. So, I mean, as much as I want code enforcement to be out there and and write tickets to every single homeowner, there is a, you know, a gap in between the date of the snowstorm when a snowstorm is finally cleaned up and the edging and moving all the giant piles of snow that are unfortunately in
the wrong places because there's no place to push the snow. So, um I just want to start off with that because you I did also call [clears throat] the administration to speak to Pat Coyle and and DPW to see like what is our plan when we have this much snow. I mean,
because this was a lot of snow and if you think about it, we did an ace of a job clearing roads. We had black top when some towns had ice on their streets. So, I think it's just a matter of process management of how we deal with this. But it's a great question, but I just wanted to share with you that
it it [snorts] was a one, you know, 20-year snowstorm that we had. So, but uh to you for the sidewalks for the schools uh to administration and some other uh areas he discussed on Metro Park and how we to enforce that. >> Sure. >> Um so, just for everyone to to know,
zoning handles all of these sidewalk issues and we did in fact issue warnings. So, they are not summones. So that was the initial um that was the initial process in all of this and we felt that that was fair in terms of giving people chances to actually
remove. However, those that did not um did not in particular follow that warning, they then were receiving a summon. I will tell you just from experience in looking at some of the data, you're looking at usually frequent flyers as we would call them. So,
so you know, those are some of the just the normal problem areas. As far as the schools, we have a pretty good um line of communication between our administration, their administration. So, if there's any issues with regard to sidewalks, which are about 80 that we
take care of that uh children uh Edison children walk through. Um, as far as private residencies, we just ask that if there are issues related to private residents on the way to school, then they should reach out to zoning. So,
just a couple of resources. You know, we post things on the township website, of course. Make sure you sign up for uh township notices through Everbridge, uh, which is now shifted from Nixl. I'm not sure everybody knows that, but just as a public service announcement, we've
switched over it. It is a seamless switch over. Uh not much for anyone to do as far as uh re having to resign up. Um the other of course is Q send which is our request for services. I want to make sure people do follow that. It is
helpful and we have the analytics on that. Um as far as Metro Park which as you all know is on a state highway 27. So um so with that said we have our partners at DOT. If there are issues
related to commuters, I would ask that you contact us. We do have a direct communication uh with someone there so that they can address issues related to uh commuting over at Metro Park. >> I hope that answers your questions.
>> Yes. Thank you. and [clears throat] and council members, I our DPW when we meet, we go over snow and planning and making sure we have truck power and everyone available to get out there and handle the snowfall who are certified
drivers. But we I certainly will look into seeing how we could have a better process with different ownerships of property as a pre-plan for the big storms like this and turnpike clearly. So, thank you for bringing that up. Um, who do I miss this here?
>> Councilman South, did you have anything? >> Sure. >> Thanks. >> Sorry, council. >> Uh, last year we had a resident come in uh regarding some drainage issues on the corner of Marshall and Highland. I just
wanted to know if there's a plan of of action in place. Obviously, not now since it's cold, but um if administration to speak about it or or the NGM could uh if there is a plan of action. [clears throat]
>> Councilman, uh as we discussed towards the end of last year, we did some survey work out there taking measurements to see if we had to install inlets or if we can get a get away with actually fixing the grading of the roadway itself. Uh
right now based on that information, it looks like we can get away with resurfacing and getting reinstating the valley gutters that were supposed to be crossing those intersections to keep the water moving. That being said, it's t tentatively on
the paving program. We're currently assembling to get out to bid. In an ideal world, late late spring [clears throat] >> late spring is to address it. >> To address it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Council. >> Thank you, Council President. >> None at this time. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. Did I miss any council members? I I went in a different order. Hearing none. Council member Brer, a motion to
adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. All >> in favor say I. >> I mean journ 6:45. [snorts] >> 5 seconds [laughter] right leg one second.
>> It doesn't feel right if it doesn't come from that corner. >> I know the corner is the left. I had the resolution of