--------- a space designed to Foster creativity exploration and development ensuring that the youngest members of the Mariah Community grow in an environment of warmth light and joy and whereas the strength of the Mariah School lies in its deep familial connections with
multiple generations of students walking its Halls a testament to its enduring impact and the trust it has earned from the Anglewood and the greater Bergen County Jewish communities now therefore be it resolved that mayor and Council of the city of Anglewood celebrate and
commend the Mariah school on the momentous occasion of its 60th anniversary recognizing its immeasurable contributions to Jewish Education the Anglewood community and Beyond may it continue to thrive Inspire and lead for
generations to come can I have a motion that we introduce this resolution so moved second okay um any comments from the governor body yes if I may it kind of dates you when you send
your children to a school and then you see your children send their children to that school too and I didn't think I would get to be 60 years old myself let alone the school that my children went to um I'm so proud
of the kind of citizens that they turn out in our city not only do they care about all of the issues that affect us but the Gratitude the hakar satov that they give
to our police officers our firefighters and the way they serve our nation as well I make it my business every year and I'm circulating now to hit all the public parochial and private schools in our city Mariah stands out
and I wish you well I I've said this many times over the years you know there are a lot of great things in Anglewood uh when I was moving here from Boston uh there was one reason we picked Anglewood and that was because of the Mariah school it's a city of trees nice
trees that wasn't the reason it was Mariah we're close to New York City that's nice but it was mariia and it's never ever disappointed and it was the best move we ever made U my three daughters got a great education and Mariah they've all gone on to successful
academics afterwards so absolutely no regrets and Koh aot okay and um I too have four children they're graduated from the Mariah school so it really um this is very meaningful to me as well and I congratulate Mariah
on the 60th anniversary I'm now going to ask we have je Jessica younger the president of the board of Mariah Darren P the chairman of the board Rabbi alter the principal of Mariah and Eric hesler uh the administrator of Mariah and I'm
going to ask that everybody you please come forward we're going to come down present you with a resolution and take some photos I we forgot to vote so uh can you just uh please call roll call yansy sorry councilwoman
David councilwoman yes thank you councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes thank you Angela you're coming us pi
spe e [Applause] okay so on the council we always look forward to celebrating wonderful promotions so I'm going to um
ask Chief Tom gy to come forward and um make some remarks good evening everyone uh this is this is a really special night for us you know I it's nice when we get to celebrate New offices coming into our ranks but these are it's really a special night when we
can you know have the opportunity to move some up on our ranks give them a promotion well deserved promotion um so these special nights are mean a lot us as a department as you can see we have a few officers coming out here tonight um Anthony Gallow I had a chance to first meet Anthony back when he started in
Patrol in 2015 2016 I just become the lieutenant charge R 311 tour and I inherited a phenomenal group of young officers a lot of them are actually here tonight and in addition to you know learning about Anthony meeting him as a person and seeing what a great cop he
was turning into u i remember as a new officer being really Blown Away by his dedication to learning our craft it's not as easy as just throwing a badge on and going out in the street and you know doing the fun stuff anthy really took the time to learn his job he realized where his deficiencies were and I saw
him work on those and that's why he's turned into you know phenomenal cop right now um I would put him up against any uniformed officer in the apartment as far as taking the most guns off the streets over the course of his career he's just got a great nose for work he's just a dedicated person and a great team
teammate and um you know when I think about our officers and the quality of officers we have and the people I've seen over the course of my career you know we talk about good officers and being great uh you know great co-workers and great people but the one comment that I I don't hear as often is is this
you know if I my family needed something tonight if my family was in need there's a handful of officers I would want to be the first ones there responding and investigating and following up on that and I can definitely say anony is one of those people he's shown himself through and through that he's a good person a good officer a tenacious inves
instigator and I I'm excited to see him lead our new officers as a patrol supervisor when he comes back to us when he completes his assignment I know he's going to do great things for this department moving forward so with that uh I'm going turn it over to councilman toer to read his biography anth you can step
up thank you Chief green Anthony Gallo grew up in Dumont New Jersey he is a 2009 graduate of Dumont high school and a 2014 graduate of Bergen Community College where he earned an associate degree Anthony began his distinguished law enforcement career with the
Englewood Police Department in 2015 after graduating from the Bergen County Police Academy upon graduation he was assigned to the patrol Bureau where he demonstrated exceptional dedication to Public Safety and community service his commitment to training and mentorship
led to his certification as a field training officer in 2021 in 2022 Anthony was assigned to the Bergen County prosecutor's office special investigation Squad where he gained extensive exper exp in high level and complex investigations including but not
limited to kidnapping carjackings arm robbery and home invasions the following year he transitioned to The Drug Enforcement Administration New York Strike Force serving on loan from a three-year assignment this is a highly coveted assignment and during this time there Anthony has been instrumental in
the investigation of numerous major cases involving narcotics trafficking moneya laundering kidnapping and violent crimes across New York and New Jersey his effort has contributed to the seizure of approximately $7 million in illicit assets upon completion of his
current assignment Sergeant Gallo will be reassigned as a supervisor in the patrol Bureau ladies and gentlemen I'm the Mayor venwood Michael Wilds it's a real privilege uh to be here I would like to acknowledge our former Captain Sabo that
joins us as well this evening and he contributed his own son one of our sharpest uh sharpest police officers uh in our ranks as well thank you to our city manager the governing body for filling the ranks uh for you Anthony for just doing everything that makes not
America special but the city uh special this is such a beautiful picture for us to see of your beautiful family and the same love and protection uh that they feel with you is how we feel with you as well we hope that you're returned every evening safely every Tour of Duty and we
would like to say well done for one of the most noblest of professions that is known to mankind pleasure just put your I state your name I Anthony G you hereby swear you hereby swear that I will support the Constitution that I
will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the governments and to the government established in the United
States established in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the city of angood of the people of the city of angood further I do swear further I do swear that I will Faithfully I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly
perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of the position of of the position of Sergeant Sergeant in the Anglewood Police Department in the Anglewood Police Department according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so
help me God now kiss your mom [Applause] nice Sor thank you all right so so the governing body's
going to take a picture with Sergeant Gallow and then afterwards the police will all come and take a picture and then uh we're going to take a 5 minute recess after that just the picture here yep here good
for e e so uh we will reconvene the meeting at 8:30 p.m. for Part: 2
okay we're going to restart the meeting now at 8:35 p.m. miles miles can you please close the doors okay okay can we're going to start with the minutes can I have a motion to introduce
resolution 117 accepting the minutes please so moved can I have a second please second any discussion yansy can I have a roll call councilwoman David
yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes okay so now we're going to um
have ordinance 25-14 we're going to have a public hearing this is an ordinance by the city council amending the city of Anglewood code of ordinance es to repail chapter 222 in in its entirety and to reopt a new
222 to adopt flood Hazard maps to designate a flood plane administrator and providing for severability and effective date can I have a motion please so
moved second public hearing before the motion okay actually we're go we're going to have the public hearing first um I'm just going to ask that um Mr Hoffman say a couple words about this before we start the
public hearing thank you council president uh this this ordinance is um in reference to the latest update from FEMA so FEMA has has released new flood maps and
updated guidelines so these These are the updated guidelines once this ordinance is adopted it will allow um the residents of Englewood to to obtain flood insurance so at the moment um we need to have the we need to have this
ordinance adopted so that the so that our residents are able to obtain flood insurance that's the that's the gist for this thank you um the public hearing on this ordinance is now open anyone who desires to be heard or to ask questions concerning this ordinance will be heard
at this time okay I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that the ordinance 25 oh you want to speak okay come on sorry come on up only that but discussion please state your name and you have three minutes to
speak good evening Raymond Diaz forway Shannon Court uh question uh designate a flood plane administrator is that an existing person or a new hire and also how does this uh these new
flood maps uh I'm asking do don't didn't we have any now at the present time where people are experiencing flood situations have they been do we have these maps and the maps that are now from f are they expanding those areas
and how are you going to use those maps for our affordable housing where we ask that new housing should not be built on those flooded areas thank you thank you does anyone else for the public wish to
comment okay I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 2514 be adopted I ask for discussion prior to will can I have a motion that this be
adopted can I have a second second okay um Bob do you want to answer um Mr Diaz's questions please certainly the um the flood plane administrator is the city engineer so this is uh this is not a new position
but this is um this is this is part of his duties also the city has had no input into the feema flood maps that's something that's done by the federal government um but these the this ordinance is something that's necessary so that all
of our residents will be able to obtain flood insurance based on based on the new FEMA Maps so um the uh the the city engineer will be able to review the maps that have been released from FEMA uh and and look at them but
again this is this is a this is a requirement so that all of our residents are able to obtain the flood insurance that they require okay thank you any discuss question from the governing body councilman Wilson my concern is
that a document of this magnitude appears to be highlighted and or not edit edited for our particular town and I understand that this may be a Statewide or a countywide situation but something of this magnitude where we're
putting our residents and insurance companies in Jeopardy I would hope that we would admin this document so that there are no highlighted markouts or blackouts on page 11 26 page
28 uh it could be a concern for uh for us for our residents and I just want to bring attention to that as we've already adopted such a document thank you any other comments from the governing
body yansy can I have a roll call please oh Angela did you uh councilwoman David go ahead do you have a comment go ahead no basically I I thought we were doing we're not doing updates of comments right from the government body are we
we're we're we're doing comments on ordinance number 25-14 right now from the governing body thank you yany no comments okay can I have a roll call please uh councilwoman David
yes thank you councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson council president wiski yes and now we have ordinance 25:15 an ordinance regulating the use of public
and private sewers and drains private Wastewater disposal the installation and connection and building sewers and the discharge of water and waste into the public sewer system and providing penalties for Vi viation thereof Mr burner do you want to say a
couple of uh words about this please uh thank you council president uh yes this is uh the rules and regs uh for the utilization of the for the discharge uh of water and wastewater to the Bergen County Utilities Authority is the uh that's the County Wastewater Treatment Facility uh that's located in Little
Ferry New Jersey all the Wastewater that's generated in uh 48 municipalities throughout Bergen County uh do end up at the bcua it's about 75 million gallons or 80 million gallons a day that is treated and disposed of into the hackensac river uh these rules and regs
were promulgated in 2014 um the city did have an obligation to uh to codify uh the rules and rs into the city um uh as an ordinance we've been using a a resolution in the past which expires
after one year this will codify these rules and rs uh for the city utilization of the the bcua sewers and also our local sewers also regulates um it regulates pollutant introduction into the sewers it regulates the connections
to the sewers uh locally it provides an enforcement mechanism for the discharge of of pollutants into the sewer system um and uh it provides for the uh for the administration of fees and uh
other um other other enforcement modalities with regard to Industrial wastes that may be contributed so uh what this does is is just provides that relationship between the city and the county for the discharge and for the treatment of uh of water and wastewater
uh and whether it be sanitary or storm orders as well thank [Music] you the public hearing on this order orance is now open anyone who desires to be heard or to ask questions concerning this or ordinance will be heard at this
time please uh step up to the mic okay being that nobody has stepped up to the mic I'm now closing the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 2515 be adopted so move can I have a
second second any discussion from the governing body Yancy can I roll call please coun councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes
councilman toer yes councilman Wilson council president wiski yes now we have introductions for first reading we have we have three and then there's there's one that we're going to add in add afterwards um the first one is ordinance
2 5 okay and um we've changed the titles of the ordinances so I'm going to read the new titles 2516 is an ordinance of the city of Anglewood adding section 191-200 tennis and pickle ball
courts can I have a motion that this ordinance pass on first reading and be published once by title only in the record so so moved second okay and the public okay and um any discussion from the governing body on this
ordinance okay the public uh can I can I have roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen wife yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson
council president wasi yes and the public hearing for this will be on April 1st yes thank you okay now we have ordinance 25-17 um this is an ordinance establishing chapter 155 cannabis sales unregulated of the city code for the
city of Anglewood relating to the prohibition of the sale and purchase of unlicensed or unregulated THC products can I have a motion now the ordinance pass on first reading so moved can I have a second
please second thank you any discussion from the governing body can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen swi yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson yes council president wiski yes and the public hearing for that ordinance will be on April 1st as well okay now I have um just find the page I think I have ordinance number
25-18 this is an ordinance amending chapter 191 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled fee schedule can I have a motion of the ordinance oh point of clarification I wanted to make um the initial draft of
this ordinance had set the fine of $500 however after we got input from the police department um the recommendation is that it be changed to $250 for the first violation and $500 for any subsequent violations okay that that's what actually be introduced and I I will
get yansy that corrected language tomorrow okay thank you so moved with the uh with the discussed changes okay can I have a second please I'll second it um any discussion
from the governing body Yancy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson yes council president wasi yes now I need um we we um want to in uce ordinance 2519 we need uh the consent of everybody from the city council to introduce ordinance
2519 this is uh this is an ordinance authorizing the execution of a lease between the city of Anglewood and the Bergen Family Center and that's for uh the parking lot across the street from the Bergen Family Center um do you want to do we take a roll call to a motion to
add can I have a motion I move that we add ordinance 2519 to tonight's agenda for first reading I'll second that we add it um to the agenda tonight for first reading any discussion from the governing
body can I have a roll call please councilwoman David councilwoman David sorry hansy I'm Sor yes mute my mistake thank you councilman Rose yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson council president wiski yes and now that we've added it I need a motion that we um pass the ordinance on first reading can I have a motion please so
moved I'll second it any discussion from the governing body can I have a roll call please yany Council David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson council president wasi yes and this is also for a public hearing on April 1 and public hearing is on April 1st okay now we have [Music] um resolutions for the consent agenda
are there any resolutions that anybody on the council would like to um P out I seem to have lost a public session for the consent we need to add that back on here well if you didn't it's the
norm yeah where did it go okay does um you I'm sorry I can't hear you um can you please 122 do you want us to pull it out for a
separate Vote or just for do you have a question on it we can have discussion in regards to those I I don't hear what he okay we're going to pull that out for a separate discussion any anything other than
119 okay yes 122 oh you ask for I I can't hear I don't I don't know why I'm not hearing so um you you want to pull out 122 not 119 both oh both 119 and 122
okay okay can I have a motion that we um introduce resolutions on the consent agenda 118 120 121 123 124 125 and 126 so moved can I have a second second any
discussion from the governing body on those resolutions can I have a roll call please cwan David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson
yes council president wiski yes can I have a motion that we introduce resolution 119 resolution rejecting bid submitt in response to Landscaping bid Services bid number 25-06 so
moved second okay discussion councilman Wilson just just so we get a clear um look at this and so we explain to the public what exactly this
is I don't know if our city manager would like to speak to that or if it you uh as the president would like to speak to that okay Mr Hoffman uh thank you council president what this is is uh this is a this bid
had a fatal flaw in it so um so it's we're asking the governing body to reject it at this time the city went out to bid for uh landscaping services for uh Park maintenance and for easement
maintenance so that the uh the the goal was to see what the cost would be with the option of being able to transfer some of our DPW staff uh to storm water management and uh we we had the bid
opening last week we're evaluating the the bids that were submitted that are valid but this bid um had a fatal floww in it so that's why we're asking that it be rejected and we'll be evaluating those those bids that are are still valid and the the the governing body has
60 days to award or to reject the bids when once they've been reviewed thank you Mr city manager appreciate it any other comments from the governing body yany can I have roll call please councilwoman
David um you want me it's comment time right uh no we're on roll call roll call yes I'm sorry thank you yes uh councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes
councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes can I have a motion that we introduce resolution 122 awarding a contract in the amount of 688,000 so move a second and discussion uh
councilman Wilson this is seems to be a complex package and it covers several different areas within our city and it also includes our youth um in regards to a safe route so if we could have a quick
synopsis because some of this is a paste in in clip or print if you will um and so I just want to know that how we tail of this to our existing safe route and some of of our existing issues that we
already have okay thank you Mr Hoffman do you want to respond please uh certainly this is um this is actually an exciting resolution it uh the resolution is a federal government mouthful but basically this is this authorizes the
design for safe routes to schools and the the key area is going to be tenly Road basically from the World War I Memorial to McLoud school there's a couple of other locations that are included uh this is a this is a 100% um
reimbursement Grant or fully funded Grant uh sorry about that I thought that was on on uh on silent it's in three phases so uh the the first phase is the preliminary designing or the preliminary engineering
for for this and that's for $35,900 12 the um the the city must select uh engineering firms that have been pre-qualified by the federal government
and mcor Mic Taylor has been pre-qualified and is being recommended by our engineer our city engineer Mr Voli so that's what this first phase is for the second phase is for final design and then the third phase is for conr construction uh inspections or
construction consultation so that's what this is about that includes storm water management no this is this is about ada8 curb cuts and this is about this designing safe routs to schools there will be a component for that but the
main focus is to is to make sure that children and pedestrians are safe as they're U walking on on sidewalks and as they're crossing streets yeah that's what threw me off because it on page seven uh number 11 prepared
preliminary drainage designs and it said storm water management yes that's for the intersections okay just wanted just wanted to be clear because we're having a lot of conversation in regards to storm water management and I just wanted
that pointed out sure any other discussion from the governing body yany can I roll call please councilwoman David discuss on this topic now I'm I'm
sorry I didn't hear you you say discussion on a specific topic right I said no no discussion so we're voting on resolution number 122 minut yes yeah okay thank you councilman
Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes I now need a motion that we carry resolution 127 to March 24th which has
authorized the city to take enfor enforcement action against 37 Bennett Road can I have a motion that we carry this to March 24th I move that we table it and carry it to March 24th we're just carrying it we're just carrying it either okay that'll carry it to March
24th I second okay any discussion from the governing body no discussion oh no discussion when we table yeah um yany can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes
councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasy yes now we have um resolution 128 approved payment of bills and claims whereas the Chief Financial Officer has certified and submitted a
Consolidated Bill and claim list for payment as well as a Consolidated list of prepaid items the prepaid items include emergency payments wire transfers and regularly scheduled monthly payments that are paid between bills and claim L States and whereas all bills and claims listed here with have been encumbered
and sufficient funds are available for payment and whereas the required signatures of been obtained on each voucher on the attached list now therefore be resolved by the Council of the city of Angela that the bills and claims on the submitted list are hereby approved for payment to the total of
$2,149 64161 can I have a motion so move second any discussion from the governing body yany can I have a roll call please please councilwoman
David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson council president wiski yes okay um Mr um mayor WS would you like to start the communications from the
governing body please thank you council president good evening everybody congratulations again to our newly minted uh Sergeant Anthony Gallow and his beautiful family uh what a beautiful picture it was with his children uh ladies and gentlemen it's women's History Month as we celebrate this in
March I want to thank the many individuals and organizations bringing us tremendous programming celebrating the many accomplishments of women and the critical role they play in all of our Lives as a special treat the legendary performer Gloria Gainer paid a visit to our City's an Honore and guest
speaker at Bergen Pack's annual spr bring lunch in today we have seen a variety of historical and educational programs such as Mothers of Invention at Arwood Public Library highlighting women innovators throughout history Latina's empowered program at the women's rights
information center and other Community Partners that have brought us additional resources such as free prom dresses shoes accessories uh events sponsored by the Bergen Community College and the women's rights information center coming up on April 2nd and 3rd the power of her
feminine this seminar coming up on March 30th at closets for her and many more please check our websites and social media for upcoming events such as women's rights information center book fair and author showcase on March 27 women's diversity book club that means
monthly at the library at their next meeting on March 25th and many more happenings in this month and throughout the year thank you to everyone for contributing to this meaningful um memory uh angood uh Night Market we are proud to announced that the night market
received the best of Bergen special Town Event award uh from 2011 magazine the night market was an extremely well attended event held this past summer as part of our City's 125th anniversary celebration it drew thousands of visitors to our downtown an amazing
business and residential experience vendors music and other activities I want to thank our city manager for his guidance as well as our Council city employees business holders Community Partners such as angood Health th Irwin and th Irwin experience for making this
such a successful event uh for our city congratulations to our good friend Warren Geller CEO of Anglewood health for being named one of 2025 great leaders in health care by Becker's Hospital review Warren and Anglewood Health have been tremendous assets for
our community helping us navigate the difficulties of covid and providing exemplary service across the board as well as consistently supporting other important communities programs spring uh break mini camp uh at McKay we're pleased to offer an exciting
opportunity for local kids for mini camp McKay coming up from April 14 to 17 kids ages 6 to 14 can participate in the number of field uh trips and activities daily from 8:30 to 5:30 reduced rates are available for angry wood residents please contact the Anglewood Rec
Department in order to sign up and of course I do my weekly rendition on coffee with the mayor every Friday at 11:00 on the library's Facebook page if you'd like to join and participate we'd be honored to have you and congratulations to all the honores particularly our police chief and our
deputy chief who will be honored this Thursday evening at ood's Rotary the exemplars of service above self thank you okay councilwoman David for the Inglewood Public School District on February 27th council
president Lis Lisa wasi and I attended a special event celebrating the academic achievements of our students in the ingood public school district it has been many years since we've been seeing High numbers in ela and math I felt
proud to be part of this celebration and honored to serve as a board member for well elected as a board member for three ter I had the pleasure of voting for Dr hazon as our superintendent and she has made us proud also nine lowincome districts
including ours have improved their performance in reading and math going above pre pandemic pandemic levels this is part of the recent education recovery um scoreb and um you know I just so proud of the
ingor public school district and you know what thank you thank you thank you and you making us proud and the Eng Public School District and kudos to all that's all I have to say thank you councilman Rosen hi thank you and good evening
everyone again congratulations to Sergeant Gallow and a congratulations to Mariah school on their uh 60th anniversary uh also since our last meeting um it's been uh five years now since uh worldwide pandemic had been uh
announced in response to the uh SARS covid um uh virus and it's time of a tremendous loss pretty much for everyone um and I want to acknowledge that uh that time not sure exactly what lessons
we've learned but uh hopefully we'll be better prepared if and when uh our health is uh under under attack again and I'd like to wish a um no ruse mabarak uh for everyone who's celebrating the Persian and a new year thank you very
much councilman to thank you uh I have nothing to say at this time thank you councilman Wilson yes good evening um as as you
know we are in the budget season and we are wrapping up on the master plan and I I can't tell you that how important your input is and if in fact that you do have issues or
suggestions it's never too late to come to City Hall speak to the mayor speak to your council person but we need for you to be involved that's the only way we can correct these wrongs that a lot of people like to complain after the fact
so please be a part of your government be a part of your community and most of all be a part of the city to be improved so I look forward to hearing from you guys and your thoughts on how we can make our city better how we can come
together as a community as a city and how we can beautify it and look out for our age friendly people so thank you have a good night thank you um again I I want to wish a congratulations to Sergeant Gallow I want to wish a
congratulations to the mariia school and I do want to um wish a congratulations to the angood public school I did attend um the academic celebration as councilwoman um David mentioned a few weeks ago and it was great to celebrate
with the public school um um and very very very pleased with their achievements and um it was a wonderful celebration um Mr Hoffman would you like to
speak uh thank you council president um mayor I just want to thank you for those wonderful words about Inglewood night that was a great event we're looking forward to our second Englewood night coming up this July and um this was a wonderful achievement and again thank
you to all who participated in it the 5200 residents that attended or visitors but thank you to to our staff particularly to uh our my assistant Katherine Melendez our DPW the police department the fire department and uh as
you mentioned th but all those that that took part in the planning it was a it was a joyful event I also wanted to wish everybody a happy birthday because yesterday was our 126th birthday uh Englewood was founded in 1899 on St Patrick's Day on March
17th uh Council councilman Wilson has said that he will um he will learn how to dance Irish step dancing for next year so we're looking forward to that but uh thank you very much council president thank you I'm now going to open the meeting to the public speakers
are asked to step up to the microphone and to give your name you have 3 minutes to speak anyone who wishes to speak please step up to the microphone now hello Raymond Diaz 408 Shannon Court you were discussing ordinances 2519 and
2518 I don't know what you were talking talking about no nobody gave an explanation so I guess is this that's going to be a second hearing on these ordinances okay
uh I wanted to comment on uh last meeting we had Mr wiconi you said that Englewood was one of the 26 municipalities who voted no against the affordable all right just clarify you
said something at the end of the meeting that I just didn't understand but I thought I I heard you say that we were one of 26 are going to be sued by the developers yeah I'll explain it after okay so here's my confusion because I
thought that uh Burgin Associates was going to represent us with with the uh state or is it the consumer the people who are in charge of it now consumer fairs or something and fair housing that they
decided that they they're technically what they call a intervener between us and the and the state and they were willing to look at our plan to see if we can make some changes so that's what I'm interested are we doing that because by just
hearing the statement that we said no someone's like we're going nowhere all right so perhaps you can clarify that all right thank you anybody else from the public have any comments okay good evening everyone
pardon I thank you good evening everyone my name is Ava rigan 64 in that place um I haven't been here in a while so I just have a few followup um questions to um some
issues so um what um what are some of the maintenance strategies for the flooding especially that we're approaching April and April tends to bring
showers um so what collaboration have been done with the state and county in regards to Crystal Lake in terms of the dredging I haven't heard much of that um also route for in Grand Avenue with the
flooding um there's also Broad and Sheffield as well and also regular maintenance of the drains and catch basins and this is something that I've brought up before at City Council
meetings and this is the leftand turn off of Brookside onto Grand Avenue which is a safety issues I've seen countless buses um 18-wheeler trucks cars you name
it um I would like police presence in that area to start ticketing um because this has been going on for quite a while I don't know if Sergeant gy is here um yes if someone could really address that that's an
issue um so that's it thank you thank you Sam you leave 40 Bennett Road um I Heard the address of 37 benett road being kicked around a little bit trying to find out what that's about okay thank you all right does anyone else from the
public wish to speak okay I'm now going to close the public session okay I'm going to just start with the affordable housing okay so um there's a a strict the affordable housing has a timeline
that we have to follow that every municipality in New in in the state of New Jersey has to follow and by the end of January we we were given the number in October and we at till the end of January to either accept this affordable housing number or
to or do our own calculations do our own calculations and provide another number and that's what we did our we burgus Associates did the calculations and and our experts said that we were about 50 units we owed
about 50 units less than we were given so we we passed a resolution in January with a new number and it and it gets sent back and um 159 municipalities in the state of New Jersey so that's the
number 159 um said that they had a different number they they reported a different number so now what happens is we're waiting for a settlement hearing and and
and we have the the uh we have we will hear back by the end of March whether our number so we were sued 100 so 159 municipalities gave a different
number and then a developers group sued all 159 municipalities and so now we're waiting for a settlement um session and we have until March the end of March 31st to get a new number if or or they'll accept our
regular number so that's that's all it is um we what we're what I will talk about affordable housing more at the next Council session I'll discuss it at I'll discuss it under discussion items because by then by April 1st we'll have
heard back from the court whether or not they accepted our number or not so I'll update it then um in terms of the traffic issue in terms of the traffic issue I
just I just wanted to point out that we do the traffic advisory committee who that has not been meeting is going to start meeting quarterly and I believe they have a meeting can next we on wnes next week on Wednesday can you just provide the information it's on
Zoom yeah that'll be made public soon it'll be made and it'll be it'll be on the website is that it'll be on the website so that would be a good place to bring up the area what I said I have photos I have
proof okay good okay um so that's the second that's a traffic issue let's see the route four Grand Avenue flooding that that's not recent that's the old flooding and that was a blockage that was that was fixed is that right we
haven't had flooding there recently no correct council president I also have an update about Crystal Lake okay good thank you would you like me to give okay thanks so the uh the New Jersey Turnpike Authority is now mobilizing and they're
going to be um they're going to going to be uh removing stumps and then other other impediments along the easement behind that place they're also going to be doing some work um under the easement that that goes behind that place and there'll be some work that'll be done on
at Crystal Lake so but you you might see some activity there they've also been doing some um some desilting and Des snagging or or removing sediment along Route four so you might you might have seen some um some work along the along the the
turnpike the turnpike area and also you know as as a connects to Route four so the Turnpike Authority is starting to step up and um they've been interacting with the city and they're they're you know they're doing some work and they'll be doing some more work in the future
and again uh under the when we had the flooding on Grand Avenue it turned out that it was a um a either a railroad tie or a piece of the retaining wall from from the highway that that somehow got
into the got into the got into the underground system and it literally had to be taken out but uh we were able to TV it and we saw the line and it was blocking it was blocking the uh the drainage line on an angle and it's now been removed and since it's been removed there's been no flooding so and and that
was the state's responsibility and the state came and they they took care of it they they did but it was you know kudos to our DPW because to our DPW because they were they were out they uh you know they were out blocking the area after the police called and they were the ones that did
the pre the preliminary investigation and helped to um point the state and others in the right direction thank you and Mr Bailey will you uh make a comment on the Bennett Road uh sure as you may recall about 20 years ago the city entered into a land
exchange agreement with respect to the Shiloh Lodge uh to essentially swap lands the the city owned property on West Forest Avenue the lodge owned 37 Bennett Road the intention as I understand at that time was to do the exchange and that the lodge would then
move to the West Forest property which is vacant they'd have to build a lodge it's been several years obviously the lodge has never been built so we've been in discussions with the lodge about undoing that exchange essentially because um you know they apparently want to stay
at 37 Bennett Road um but in order to do that we need to get the West Forest property back so that that's the purpose of that we've been having discussions and hopefully uh the reason that Mo resolution was tabled because we hopefully made some progress this
afternoon that can resolve it and get that done with thank you that was it so [Music] um can I have a motion to adjourn the [Music] meeting so
moved second everybody in favor I I