Hi, good evening. I call to order the regular council meeting of June 23rd, 2026 to order at 8:04 p.m. Please rise for 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. Um before we start the meeting, um I just wanted to take a moment um to uh
express my condolences to the family of Sergeant Matthew Dietro um who who died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. Um it's a huge loss for the city. It's a huge loss for his for his uh brethren in the police
department. Um and um and our condolences go out to everyone who's affected by this. So if please if you'll join me in a moment of silence uh for Sergeant Dero. Thank you.
Uh, clerk, will you please read the statement regarding open public meetings act? >> This meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law. Notice of this meeting was included in a notice sent to the record and the star ledger and advertised in said newspapers on January 12th, 2026 posted
on the bulletin board in the municipal building and has remained continuously posted as the required notices under the statute. A copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the municipal clerk. Proper notice haven't been given. The municipal clerk is directed to
include the statement in the minutes of this meeting. >> Roll call. >> Councilwoman David, >> present. >> Councilman Tokayer, >> present. >> Councilman Wilson, >> present. >> Councilwoman Wasadski, >> here. >> Council President Rosenway,
>> present. >> Absent with prior notice is Mayor Michael Wilds. Also present is city manager Robert S. Hoffman, deput deputy city manager John Burkner, and CFO Michael Calfman. Uh I believe Mr. Baileyy's running late.
>> Uh Mr. Bailey informed us he's running a little late, but he will be here um uh as soon as he can make it. Um so the first item on tonight's agenda is the 2026 municipal budget. So I'll hand over
um the platform to city manager Robert Hoffman and CFO Michael Calfman. Thank you, Council President. President. Uh, good evening members of the governing body and good good evening residents. Tonight we are we have our public hearing on the 2026
city budget and CFO Michael Kaufman and I will go through we'll go through the budget with uh for the governing body and then uh the the um after the presentation it can be open for questions uh for the governing body. So
the next first slide please. So our 2026 cap capital budget has already been adopted and the city is seeing the fruits of that early early adoption. We are we have work going on uh all over the city and we have 55
projects that were funded this year through the capital budget. But our operating budget is what we're going to be talking about right now. and the operating budget. Our statement, our mission statement is to make sure that we can deliver municipal services to all of our residents that enhance their
quality of life and that helps the city maintain its fiscal responsibility along with transparency. And this year, we're doing it during national economic challenges and uncertainties. Over the past year, we have been looking
at grant funding and we are we are continuing to apply for federal, state, and private grant opportunities that will help supplement local funding and also to minimize the financial burden on our residents and taxpayers.
We continue to work on flood mitigation. That is a daily effort. We invest we've invested in measures to protect the city from flooding and from other natural disasters and we've expanded that to work with our sister municipalities. We're working with eight other
government entities to share resources and to work to eliminate flooding or or at least to mitigate it. We're also investing in infrastructure. So, we have allocated resources to strategically upgrade our
infrastructure. We're improving our public facilities. We're enhancing our roadways. And we're ensuring that for the long term, we are able to have a sustainable and safe city. We're also minimizing tax increases. We're
supporting initiatives that expand revenue streams and that will provide for stable surplus in future years so that we will have a savings account for emergencies in the future. So, there are a couple of things that are on tonight's
agenda under resolutions that will help in the in uh help us look to minimize tax increases in the future. We're also maintaining our financial health health. We're looking at ways to have
responsible debt management and we are making sure that our our operations are as efficient as possible and that we do that in such a way that we are able to have the tools for our for our city to
have an a growth in economic um in its in the its economic engine over the next several years. So our total budget for this year is proposed to be $84,977,49. The tax increase would be 3.95%
over 2025. And the budget funds some of the unfunded state mandates and requirements such as the reassessment costs, the health insurance increases, and the liability insurance increases. The
budget also also funds essential services such as fire and police, our garbage collection and recycling, recreation, uh the municipal court, as well as our public health services. And by the way, um this presentation will be posted on
the city's website. So, what's the impact to our our residents? The average assessed home in the city is $474,900. This budget will have an imp impact of $254.81
on that average assessed home. Then what are some of the some of the revenue highlights? How are we funding how are we funding the budget? So this year we're taking more we're using more surplus than we we've used in the past. We're going to
be using 4.6 6 million. We have state aid of $2.7 million and we have um licenses of $31,000. And then the amount to be raised by taxes is $64,914,390. So, let's talk about some of our revenue
sources of which would which total 17,736 $736,771. We have, as we mentioned before, we we have surplus funds that we're using. uh we we have state aid and then we have pilot programs such as the pilot program
that was recently approved with Ingwood Hospital and Medical Center. Then we have interest on investments. We have uniform construction code fees and then Michael, why don't you give us an example of other revenue? It'll be like alcohol licenses, court
fees, fire prevention fees, garage fees, uh capital surplus, parking, and uh revenues like that. >> Thank you. >> And then here are some some of the our expenses.
We have salary and wages that are that are approximately $35.8 8 million. We have our library which is funded se separately. We have garbage and recycling and we have leaf disposal and leaf collection. And then we have
the 5% down payment that's required in the operating budget so that the capital budget can be funded and approved. Our next slide has to do with our appropriation comparison. So the two
biggest drivers that we have on uh on this slide and as part of our appropriations are health health care costs and then utility cost increases. So the next slide shows our shows a a graphic breakdown of our budget
appropriations. Healthc care is has the had the largest increase at 26.18% and then our utilities are up 8.87% and then our nonoperating u our
non-operating funds are are up by 11.4%. The next slide shows what our contractual obligations are. And the city's budget, 90.3% of the city's budget is made up of contractual obligations. So that means that
basically 9.7% of the budget is available for discretionary spending. So 90 over 90% is for contractual obligations and that includes salaries. It includes uh the utilities and um some
of our fixed obligations, pensions, debt, service contracts, things of that nature. And then when you take a look at our contractual obligations, 29% of our contractual obligations are for emergency services. So those are those
are are our folks that are here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect to protect all of us. And then we have insurance, which is which is um $14 million 14.4 million or 17% of the
contractual obligations. So that's health insurance. Then that's liability insurance premiums. It's all of our all of our insurance. And then we have statutory expenditures which are $9.1 million or 10.76%
of the budget. And then each year we just track the tax rate for the for the city and we we monitor that. That's what that slide shows. And then the next slide is about our fund balance. So the goal for the city is to
maintain a healthy fund balance so that we can protect the city against future against emergencies in future years. And so that's what this that's what this slide shows is that the city through um prudent fiscal
uh um analysis has been able to generate significant s surplus or fund balance so that we have funds for emergencies or for uh for needs based based on on uh
different different types of na natural events. Our capital budget for 2026 is robust and significant. You can go to you can go to the next slide. So it's it's been funded with
grants as well as with our with with funds from the city from the city budget. Some of some of the types of projects we have we have road improvement projects and sidewalks. We have sanitary sewer and storm water drainage. We have improvements to parks
and playgrounds. We have facility improvement projects that that will be taking place. We have purchases for police and fire as well as recreation and DPW vehicles and equipment. All told
in the 2026 capital budget, we have 55 capital projects that are funded. Next. And then the this slide shows the impact of state state aid when state aid
is not keeping up with inflation. So uh state aid has stayed steady since 2014 but because of inflation we have uh we have less purchasing power with with our state aid dollars. So that's what these
two slides show. And then how is your dollar spent? when the city the city collects taxes for the city, it collects it for the county as well as the school district and the library. So
this graphic breakdown shows how how that dollar that tax dollar is allocated. So the city collects for its own use 43.65 cents out of every tax dollar. So all of the services that we're talking about
tonight that the city provides which is the police, fire department, public works, parks, events that are in the parks, public health, all city operations are funded by that 40 43.65
cents out of every tax dollar collected. The rest of the money is turned over to the school district, to the county, and the library for their needs. So this year the budget has grown by approximately 4.17%
due to items that are outside of the city's control which means we're going to have a tax increase of 3.95%. And the key reasons or the key drivers for this are health and liability insurance reassessment co costs and then
um some some other uh le lesser lesser state mandates. But when the city has been able to look and manage its costs our um we have been able to reduce our
the cost that we control by approximately 15%. So Michael, in terms of if we were able to control all of the costs or the cost that we're able to control, we had calculated that um the tax increase
would be about what 610 of 1%. >> 3%. >> Oh, okay. Like like around.3% of.3 of 1%. So it would have been basically nothing. So, I want to thank the governing body for the opportunity to discuss this. I
also want to thank the governing body for the many months of work that's gone into this. We started this project in late September. Uh we've had several budget meetings. Um we've worked with department heads and as well as our our professionals and this is a this is a
budget that will meet the needs of the city and it will put us in position to be able to serve our residents. uh with the level of service they're they're used to it they're used to from us. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Hoffman. Uh does anyone
on the council have questions for Mr. Hoffman regarding the city budget? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Um Mr. Hoffman, thank you for the presentation. It was wonderful. Um 64 million increase in taxes. Was that
due to the assessment also or were the um residents like you know know what their tax increase or decrease is? Where's it coming from? The number 64 $64 million an increase in taxes. You just said I didn't get nothing in the mail saying my tax increase or decrease.
I'm just looking at that. >> You said 64 million increase in taxes. Something like that. Maybe I'm paraphrasing. you know >> the the amount to be raised is 64 million because you have to add in the revenues. So you do 64 million plus the
revenues which is 17.7 million. Then you have the library which is 2.3 million. All that together make up the 84 million 977 which are what we appropriate taxes. >> It's not the increase. >> Okay. So the health insurance went up 26% right. And I know you went to the school board.
>> That's that's the appropriations. >> Appropriations. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So did you try to go outside like you did the fire department and police department to see could we also pair with other neighboring towns like you tried to do to see could we come together to see can we come for health
insurance? I'm just asking these questions. >> Sure. The uh so the the specific question has to do with health insurance. The the city if the city had stayed with this state health benefits plan our health insurance premium increase would have been 36.6%. 6%. So,
we were able to switch to an Etna plan and our premium increase is 20 25 something%. I think it's 8 8%. But by doing that, we were able to save $717,000 in in the budget. The follow-up question
was, have we have we looked at seeing if we could work with our sister communities or other other entities to form some kind of a health insurance consortium? And the answer is
not. We not specifically. We have um we're looking at our health insurance premiums, but we have also reached out to talk about this concept with with a couple of other government entities. So, they are interested, but everybody has
to has to have access to current and accurate uh loss runs and the other municipalities do not have that yet or the other government entities do not have that yet. >> Okay, my last question. Does GIF has anything to play into this with the
increase in premiums or anything with the entire increase? I'm just ask my last question. >> Well, sure. The the GIF stands for the joint insurance fund for some of some folks that may um may not be familiar with that, but yes, that's part of the GIF the GIF increase was part of our
insurance increase and it was it was significant this year. Um the we have we have premiums and then we our premiums are based on losses and they're also based on uh the the loss experience and then they're they're based on settlement
of claims. I'm happy to report that our our trend and we all have to knock on wood is that in 2024 our loss experience and our safety experience increased significantly.
So, the city was was able to receive a rebate from the GIF just for that one year because of the um the improvement in our loss experience. And that was something that um that that rebate from
the GIF went into a has gone into a trust fund. So about 60% of it and then 40% of it was was shared with the employees so that uh they could be recognized for their good work. and our GIF increased right significantly also
that we had to pay into it for lawsuits percentage. >> The answer is yes. It was the increase was about six $600,000. >> 600,000. Okay. >> Thank you. No other questions. I appreciate it.
>> Are there any other questions uh for Mr. Hoffman from the council? >> Yep. Please. Mr. Wilson. >> Good evening. Thank you. Um I think it's 2026 budget and revenue highlights.
And if we go down to uniform code, we have a increase decrease column that hopefully in the future we could highlight this different because it appears that we're down $327,0008
$88. Um, and it seems to be a downward trend. This doesn't have to do with the amount of building in the city. Is that correct? >> What? Just to just to make sure I'm on the same page with you, Councilman
Wilson, are you on >> 2026 budget and revenue highlights? Excuse me. >> And it has a breakdown for revenue highlights of 2026. And if it goes uh fund balance um surplus energy tax,
state aid, then it goes uh uniform construction code 1 million 23,800 which is down from 2025 and it's also down from 2024
and it seems like we're going in a uh >> up and down scale. So, I just want to clarify what's driving it down for a uniform construction code. >> Yeah.
>> Difference is 327,000. >> Yes. Yes, that's correct. Some of what's driving that down is there there have been less permits that were issued uh less projects that were completed. Um and if the ca if the council wants, we can provide we can provide additional
information on that. Um we've also noticed a trend that um some of the uh that um some some of the UCCC revenue is showing up in later years because there's u there have been
summones that have been issued and then they go to court but they take one to they take two to three years before they're uh they're resolved. So um they're show they're showing up in later years but they're showing up in a different budget line. Okay. And uh we go to the next page real
quick. You want to just give everyone a quick explanation of the pilot programs that takes up 8.84% of total revenues? >> Uh certainly. One of the pilot programs um that that the governing body recently approved was with Inglewood Hospital and
Medical Center. So that's uh something that's a pilot pro program that's going to be valid for 5 years. It's based on a state formula. I believe it's $3 per bed and uh we will be able to anticipate that revenue for the next five years.
>> When you said $3, how much for to bed? >> Uh I believe it's $3 per bed. >> That's for Ingwood Hospital. Is that correct? >> What? Yeah, >> that that's for Inguid Hospital. Is that correct? >> Yes, it is. Yes. And then then we have some other pilots that come in from um I
guess Vitus which is uh for for housing at the greater greater Englewood. Um so that's that's another example of a pilot program. >> How does how does a Vitus work? >> Right. So u Vitus and Martin Luther King
>> or we have four different uh like apartment complexes or living units and instead of paying taxes they pay pilots which is payment in le of taxes. So each agreement is different. It's based on percentage of rents usually minus
expenses. So each agreement is different >> and we have a we have a yearly expectancy or is that delayed revenue or are we even calling it revenue? >> It's a revenue and it's at the end of the year they do an audit and then we
base it on the on their audit >> for the or is it combined audit? They they provide their audit to us. Yes. >> And then we audit them or we take their audit and run with it. >> We take their audit and use their numbers.
Thank you, Council President. >> Does anyone else on the council have any questions for Mr. Hoffman? >> All right. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Calfman for very thorough uh budget process this year. Really appreciate that. Um so now we
have a lot of uh regulatory steps we have to take with the the budget. Uh an ordinance and three resolutions. Um some of them just to explain one the first is an ordinance uh for the cat bank which is something
that we do every year. Um then we have a resolution to allow the budget to be read by title only. Uh so we need to approve that to just make it more easier to get through this. Then we'll have a public hearing on the
budget and that's when people can step up to the mic and and give their comments about the budget. Then we have a resolution on the self-examination of the budget uh which is something we're also obligated to do every year and I think it's every third year that um
Department of Community Affairs does it. And then finally the resolution authorizing the adoption of the budget. Um, so b a bunch of hoops to jump through, but this is just how it's it's done in the state of New Jersey. All right. So, uh, city clerk, will you
please read ordinance 2615 by title? >> This is calendar year 2026, ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a CAT bank under NJSA484-4.14. >> Okay. 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. So, please step up to the mic. >> Sorry, >> excuse me. >> So, name and municipality, please. >> Yeah. Hi, my name is Sam Hassner. I'm not from Englewood. I'm from Tene. I'm
just curious what the resolution or the ordinance does in layman's terms. That's all. >> Okay. The ordinance allows >> Sorry, we we let everyone speak and then we go through the questions. >> I I just have a question about um what
was online. It said a 3.5% increase um on the there was something online with the budget and um I don't know how that relates to
the hold on what was just shown with the budget growth of 4.17% increase over 2025. Five. So I'm not understanding um if >> I'm sorry. Are these with regard to the cap bank? >> Yeah. 3.5%.
>> Okay. >> How does that relate to the 4.17% increase over 2025? I'm not putting it together. This is based on what's online. Okay. Thank you. >> Uh Pete Jansen, Ridgeland Terrace
Anglewood. uh social security there are a number of people who are retired in our town. The social security increase last year was 2.5%. For 2026 the social security increase is
2.8%. We just saw a budget presentation showing a budget increase of 4.2%. I'm rounding. Last year I believe the increase was 4.9%. I like that to be confirmed what it was last year. And let's go back one or two
years prior to that. I I seem to remember 2.8. Yeah. >> 2.9 3%. >> So So this is with regard to the cap bank specifically. There'll be a uh the ordinance. So we'll have a public session for the the budget in just a minute.
All right. So I'll close the public hearing on ordinance 2615. Um, and I'm going to ask for a motion and a second and then we'll get to some of the uh answers.
I'm sorry. Did you move? Okay. I I second it. So, Miss David moved it and I second it. Okay. Uh, so Mr. Calfman, you um you heard some of the questions with regard to the cap bank. >> Sure. So in explaining what the cap bank is, I'll answer both both questions.
>> So the cap bank what it does is we're allowed to spend 2%. The cap bank increases that to 3 and a half%. So the 3 and 12% this allows us to spend up to three and a half% more than than last
year incl excluding um the cap outside the cap uh appropriations. The 4.17% was the total inappropriations. So that includes inside the cap, outside the cap, everything. So the 4.17 is all
appropriations. 3.5 is the increase in inside the cap appropriations only. What the cap does is any any appropriations that go o under the three and a half% we're able to bank it for a couple of years after that. So like this year
we're able to use 2024 2025 which we didn't use anything because we were under the cap this year for $990,000. So what that does is next year we'll have the 990,000 plus 630,000 from 2025.
>> Okay. And and and just cuz I I could imagine there's some confusion. Can you just expla explain because you're very familiar with the terms but over the cap under the cap and what that means >> and if we have a >> if we have a cap expense
>> and we have the money but not cap money how we how we we could still not be able to pay for things. >> Let's say like debt cap debt service. >> So what's what's the cap? What's over the cap? What's within the cap? >> Debt service is an example of something that's not in the cap. >> Okay. Uh police salaries is something
that's an example that's inside the cap. >> Okay. >> So our outside the cap salary expenses was 65 million out of the 84 million. So about 19 million of our expenses was outside the cap was inside the cap. I'm
sorry. >> Okay. All right. Um any discussion on the council on the cap bank? Yes, please. Um, I'm hearing like around I don't see no solid number. It would be like maybe this, maybe that. And I can't vote on
something that's a solid number. You can't give me like almost 4%, almost 3.5, almost this. I need a definite number. And I don't hear that. Maybe I'm listening differently. Um, but I don't hear everything I hear is like a round or a close to. I need a number, a solid number.
>> I could give you the number vote on this budget. >> It was just for time purposes, >> right? Nobody vote. No one gave me a solid number. for the cap ordinance. >> Yes, I need a solid number. >> Okay, it's in here. I'll tell you. >> It's in here. Okay, let me know, please, and share. >> It says in accordance with their
ordinance by be increased by 3.5% amounting to 2,296,316.96. That's what 3.5 equals. the 2% was one in the in the ordinance it says 1,312,181.12. So that's and then the difference in in
the actual budget document itself on page 3B it shows over or under appropriations cap is so we're over the we were under the cap by $990,9563. So the number is 3.5. >> 3.5 is the ordinance what allows us to
go up to. >> Okay. Thank you. Because I'm hearing when the conversation's like under or most close to is too much. Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions from the council >> or discussion from the council regarding this ordinance? >> All right. Roll call, please.
>> Councilwoman David will pass without me anyway. Yes. Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Waski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenway, >> yes. Uh, thank you. All right. So, now
we have resolution 173 to allow the budget to be read by title only. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> I second. Uh, any discussion on this? All right. Roll call, please.
>> Councilwoman David. Yes. >> Councilman Toker. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Wasadski. >> Yes. >> Council President Rosenw. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, now we'll move to the public hearing on the municipal budget. Um so
this now anyone can come up and um make any comments regard to the municipal budget, give their name and municipality and have three minutes to speak. And just as a a note, uh the second speaker on the previous public session uh was obviously Miss Jansen. She she didn't
identify herself, so just for just for the minutes. Um so please anyone who has a comment for the on the public hearing. Everyone just come up. Everyone everyone gets a chance to speak. >> Um Adam Brown, 48 Hidden Ledge Road,
Englewood, New Jersey. Uh I have a very brief question which is I note on the agenda tonight uh there are some land sales proposed which the neighbors voseiferously oppose. They'd be here with pitchforks that they hadn't learned about it an hour ago. Uh
is this part of the uh budget process of trying to plug a budget by selling off municipal land or is this entirely unrelated Mr. Hoffman? >> Okay. So we'll get to all the answers after people have spoken. >> Okay. So I was just looking at uh
Samner TAC. Uh I was just looking at the budget page for resolution 175 >> and it said that there were 65 million to be raised with another 2 million mentioned in the library tax. However, there are 85 million in appropriations.
How is this deficit going to be covered over the next year? Is it going to be debt or something else? Just interested in knowing the answer. >> Okay. Um, yeah, Diane Jansen, 589 Richland Terrace, Anglewood. I apologize for not
identifying myself before. Thank you for reminding me. >> Horrible, horrible. >> And I apologize to Mr. Hoffman during the presentation. I was trying to post uh the live feed and I couldn't turn off my sound. So, uh I'm sorry about that.
Um my question uh two questions. The first one has to do with the expenditures on uh sewage sewers as well as roads. When I add those two up, I get approximately 4.0. But when I look at
recreation, I get 2.5. Um and so individually the I believe if I remember correctly I didn't take a picture of the slide that the expenditures on uh sewer and roads
was less than uh the expenditure on recreation which came to about 2.5. So, I'm a little concerned about that because I think the sewers and the roads have should have a higher priority than recreation. And also, we're spending a
lot of money on recreation and we still don't have a recreation center. So, that that was a concern. Um, and then my next question is what is the uh expense increase from 2024 to 2025?
uh we now we now hear what the expense increase was from 2025 to 2026. So I'd just like to see that trend. Thank you >> Pete. Hansen. Yeah. Richland Terrace Anglewood. Uh back to my point earlier
now uh social security has been 2.8% now 2.5% around that range. It's 2.8%. 8% for this year. The budget increase we just looked at, I believe, was 4.17. We So, the question my wife just asked about the prior year, I'd like to go back two
more years because I believe in my memory that the year-to-year budget increases were more in the 2.9 to 3.2% range, which is much more attainable for people who are on a fixed income, who are retired. Uh, thank you.
All right. All right. So, we'll uh close the public session. Um and um who's Mr. Hoffman, do you or Mr. Calfman want to answer them? >> Hey, we'll we'll we'll we'll answer them together. So, I I didn't take I've got
some notes. The What was the first The first question was >> Yeah. >> The land sale. >> Okay. Yeah. >> The land sale. Okay. >> Yeah. So the uh that I'll I'll answer that question. So 2026 was a particularly difficult year for all
municipalities and school districts and the the goal was to look and at not just the 2026 budget but also the next three years budgets 27, 28 and 29 and see what
is it that we can do in 2026 that would help ease the burden going forward to those three additional budget years. And one of the things that we looked at was uh property that the city owned that um uh might be might be valuable to
somebody else that would be put on the tax roles in the future. So that's that's part of the 2026 budget process is to uh sell sell land and then be able to put it back on the tax roles. To answer uh the other question, the
amount to be raised is 64 million. We have revenues that cover the revenues is almost $18 million. That cut that covers the difference that covers um the amount the tax increase this year is
3.95%. The 4.17% is the appropriation increase. So appropriation increases is always different than the tax increase. In 2020, between 2024 and 2025, the increase was 5.45%.
The appropriation increase, but the tax increase was 1.98%. So even though appropriations went down, the tax increase went up, that's other factors like revenues are lower this year, went higher this year. Uh
that's why the uh that's why there's a difference. So the expenses went down from last year if that's if you uh was there any other questions or
>> what's the comparison 20 2024 202 >> 2024 25 was a 5.5% expense expect expense increase. So this year, >> Mr. Hoffman, just a comparison of uh sewers and roads to the recreation
budget. >> Okay. Um I I believe that that might have might have been looking at uh looking at our capital the the capital expenses for that. I'm just trying to
find that. Yes. on on on slide 15 that that was about our capital project. So we were we we spent 1 point we're spending 1.4 million 1 1,425,000 on um on sewers and storm water drainage
and then parks is $2,415,500. So we have we have other so that's in the 2026 budget. We also have um encumbered funds from previous capital budgets for other other sewer
work. So work that's being done on chestnut and and different roads um is is part of our sanitary sewer and storm water uh work because that that those projects haven't been completed yet. So
um does that answer the question? >> Yes. But it also shows >> Sorry. Yeah. And then recreation plus the you can repeat that. >> So just to go overation. >> Okay. Certainly. So this is in the
capital budget for recreation. So these this this is expenses for improvements to different parks as well as to equipment. So one of the pieces of equipment in the recreation budget is a Zamboni which we haven't bought in 35 years. So that's
that's one of them. >> All right. So, thank you for reviewing those questions. Um, so now again, we have two more resolutions. The next one, we'll have a time for discussion in a second. The next one is the resolution
to for self-examination of the budget. And the one after that is authorizing the adoption. So, that'll be the time if the council has any uh questions or statements about the budget. It'd be best for resolution 175. Uh, Bob, can you just explain what this self-examination is? I know you have in
the past, but just to review it. >> Uh certainly, Council President, self-examination means that two out of every three budget years, the city is able to do a self-examination of its budget. We look at the budget, but our auditors look at
the budget. They It does not have to go down to Trenton for a review. The third year, the budget has to go down to Trenton. So before the budget can be adopted in the third year, it's sent to Trenton and they review every single line in our budget and then only after
they give approval can we adopt the budget. So we are fortunate that this year is u one of one of the two years where we can do our self-examination. >> All right. Do I have a resol uh excuse me a motion to introduce resolution 174
uh for the self-examination of the 2026 municipal budget? So move >> second. >> A roll call, please. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Waski,
>> yes. >> Council President Rosenwipe, >> yes. Um, so now we'll have resolution 175. Uh, so we'll ask for a motion to authorize the adoption and then we'll have discussion by the council. So do I have a motion? >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Second. All right. Thank you. So, a move by Miss David and second by Mr. Toker. So, any discussion from the council regarding the 2026 budget? >> No. Yes. >> Please. >> Um, our budget is our budget. I've
received many numerous phone calls about like um is the difference with the school board and the city budget is totally separate. So, our budget increase is 3.5%. The school board is separately. So, um,
you have to put those numbers together and go to schoolboard meetings and also argue that. But that's all I have to say. And thank you. >> All right. Anyone else? >> Since since we're just asking, I just want to um have some clarity on the
sanitation and sewer that that number includes old projects as well. >> No, it does not include old project. that this is just 2026 capital. The old the old projects are are ongoing and
they're they're part of the over 80 capital projects that the city has >> and should have been covered by last year's budget if that's if that rings true. Is that correct? >> Yes. Some of some of those some of the sur work is covered by the 2026 capital budget and then there's even a few
projects that are covered by the 2024 because sometimes it it takes a while to design and then to uh then to um then to construct the projects. >> I I just want that heard by the public because we have residents concerned about two-year projects that have gone
on. Thank you. >> All right. Any other discussion on the on the budget? All right. Uh, roll call, please. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Wasadski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenway, >> yes. All right. Thank you very much, everyone. All right. So, now uh we move on to approval of minutes. Uh, resolution 176.
Uh, do I have a motion to approve the minutes? I >> make a motion. I make a motion. Council second. Uh, roll call. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Wasadski,
>> yes. >> Council President Rosenway, >> yes. Thank you. All right. So, now um we move on to the ordinances of uh tonight's agenda. So, first we have actually we've already did an ordinance, but this is the uh second reading of
ordinance 2016. And then we will have three ordinances for first reading which will then have u public hearing at the July the 1 July meeting. Okay. So um city clerk will you please read the
title of ordinance 2616. >> This is an ordinance amending chapter 25 section 25-20 schedule 12 of the traffic and parking ordinance of the code of the city of Englewood. This is for West Palisade Avenue from the monument to the T-neck border.
Okay. So, now we will have the public hearing on ordinance 2616. So, anyone who uh desires to be heard or ask questions concerning this ordinance, uh please step up to the mic. >> All right. So, seeing none, I'll close
the public hearing. Um do I have a motion for this ordinance to be adopted? >> I most definitely make a motion. >> Second. All right. Any discussion by the council? >> Uh just one reminder that prior to this
going into effect that the city gives the residents opportunity by paper, by email, or on their website before this uh ticket um issuing pursues. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other
>> also advertise it on a new um you know billboard. Thank you. >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Waski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenway, >> yes. Okay. And as I said before, we now have three ordinances for first reading. Um and again two of them are about land sales and one of them is about salaries.
Um we'll do one at a time and um this the public does not speak at this point. They will but uh at the public hearings for three these three ordinance which all are on July 13th. Uh so city clerk please read the title of ordinance uh 2617.
This is an ordinance authorizing sale of land without public auction pursuant to NJSA 4812-13 subsections B5 for 37 Armory Street. >> Um does anyone So I can ask for a motion
and then the council will discuss it. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion by council? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Please. Um, could you please explain to our constituents what this is for? Um, clarity, please. And thank you.
>> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Please go ahead, Mr. Hoffman. >> Thank you, Council President, and thank you for the question, Councilwoman David. This is uh for the sale of a lot that the city has owned for several years at 30 with the address of 37
Armory Street. And this the sale would be to the Bergen Family Center. Currently, the city leases the lot to the Bergen Family Center for $1 a year. So, we we are selling it to the Bergen Family Center for the appraised value of
that. And the Bergen Family Center has um potential plans to um to do some kind of an expansion and this would help benefit them, will also help benefit the city. >> Thank you.
Roll call. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Wasadski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenwite, >> yes. So, now we'll go to ordinance 2618. Uh, city clerk, please read this. Please
read this ordinance by title. This is an ordinance authorizing sale of land without public auction pursuant to NJSA48 colon 12-13 subsections B5 uh 515 Adele Court. >> So just like before we'll have a motion
to introduce and then discussion by the council. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. And just to I'm sure Miss David has the same question. Can you explain this one? Uh >> explain this one. Um Mr. Hoffman. Thank you to the constituents. >> Certainly, this is a this is a parcel
that uh the city owns that's 25 ft wide by 125 ft long. It's uh has been recommended in the past that the city dispose of it going back to former city engineer Ken Alpert and the uh the abuing property owner has expressed an
interest in purchasing this property and it makes sense for them to for that purchase for them to purchase the property and for it to no longer be uh part of the maintenance scheme for the Department of Public Works and also to be put back on the tax roles.
>> Thank you. Any other questions? Yeah, Mr. Mr. Wilson. >> Thank you, Council President. Um, as the previous one for Armory Street, uh, I I I think we need an explanation in regards to, um, one, why we we lease these
properties for a dollar and why we give them the opportunity to purchase these properties and how our residents can be aware prior to, and I don't mean prior to uh, this particular meeting or any meeting moving forward, giving the
opportunity to have a fair bid. for these properties that are in our in our town. And lastly, um besides a previous engineering opportunity to sell
property, can you explain why we ascertain properties in the city that are now being sold and possibly put back on a tax role? And could you answer the question about filling the gap for the
taxes? Is this the procedure of filling help filling the gap for the for the increase or decrease of taxes? Thank you, council president. >> So maybe I'll ask Mr. uh Bailey to just what's the whole
process for you know selling property when it's you know when it's not usable land >> in of itself you know and uh how what's the rules on that process? >> Yeah. So, if there's city-owned property that's no longer needed for a public
purpose or was never need needed for a public purpose, for example, there's orphan lots that over time are created sometimes, no one knows why, there could have been a subdivision or something 50, 60 years ago. Um, there are two
statutes. One statute allows a municipality to offer it to the adjoining property owners. That's typically for a grossly undersized non-buildable lot. um that's extremely narrow, extremely small that can't otherwise be developed, so it's offered
to the adjoining property owners. The other way is to just do an actual public bid. Um when you have an undersized lot though, uh no one's really going to bid on it because you can't build on it. Uh all you can do is include it as part of
your property that's adjoining it. Uh you may recall Harkco, uh that property on South Van Brunt, that's kind of what happened there. Um there was a strip of the rightway that the city wasn't using and they in fact were actually kind of utilizing it anyway and was that last
year or the year before the city sold a piece of that to them which the city gets money for it. Some of it goes back on the tax roles and there's not a a maintenance obligation anymore for a DPW or whoever to maintain that property.
>> Be the question to you Mr. Hoffman regarding is this reflected in is the sale reflected in this year's budget. >> Uh thank you council president. The answer is yes. This is this is in reflected as anticipated revenue in the
2026 budget. And then also just as a caveat to what uh city attorney Bailey has said, over time the the city acquires property through foreclosure or some some other means. Uh and it it doesn't make sense
for the city to to hold on to those parcels. So right now we have 12 properties that um the city has and the city has had has been making tax payments to other government entities on those. So, it makes sense to um obtain
clear title to the property so that we can offer it to the public for sale. And that's that's part of what we intend to do in the future with with uh those those other parcels. >> And even though it's not specific to this ordinance, we also buy properties
like for example 47 Brookke we purchased, you know, because it was for the public good. Yes, council president. That's a very good point and that is correct. We we have purchased 47 uh Brook Avenue and we have purchased 183
uh West Forest Avenue so that we can construct uh detention ponds or detention basins there and then create passive parks on top of that. But the goal is to uh prevent flooding in those two areas. And and the reason why I bring this up,
council president, is that there's a growing concern, as everyone knows, um the overlay affordable housing and many people have moved to Ingwood because of its beauty and it's named after the city
of trees. And so when we find these lots that have not been used for 20, 30, 60, 80 years, uh the residents have a concern now that either the the owner next to the property that's given first
chance to bid on that has a chance to go in front of the zoning planning and expand and build and destroy a line of sight. trees being removed and the ordinance that we have in place to
replace trees are often negotiated. So with that in fact um that's a huge concern for lifelong residents. Now people that come from metropolitan areas like New York may not have that same
concern. So for our residents that's been here for some time, this is a this is a real issue. Well, don't forget the name of the book is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, not not not Anglewood. So, >> all right. Roll call, please.
>> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> no. >> Councilwoman Wasadski, >> yes. Council President Rosenway. >> Yes. So, we'll have public hearing for that on July 13th.
>> Okay. So, now we go to the final ordinance for first reading uh tonight. Ordinance 2619. Um city clerk, please read the title of the ordinance. This is an ordinance amending ordinance number 25-25 fixing
the maximum annual salaries to be paid to officers and employees in the unclassified service of the city of Englewood as of January 1, 2026. >> Yeah. And before we um before we make a motion, um we're going to we're going to
take out under the finance department deputy chief financial officer uh $120,000 So, we're we're voting on it minus that line >> and Bill there's there's no problem. We
can republish it with that >> make any changes prior to >> so with that with that change I'll make a motion that we introduce this ordinance. >> Second. Right. >> Any discussion by the council on this
ordinance with the aforementioned change? >> Um yeah, I just would like to know that um this entire ordinance 6 2619 is it on a state level the comparisons was done and everything about like the u maximum
salaries um classified and everything. Was there any type of audit done with neighboring towns or state level to make sure that we're not not underpaying or overpaying? I'm just asking I don't know how you reached the numbers but was it
like a a state level situation? >> I'm the the answer is that there was an analysis that was done. It was done internally to make sure that uh
projected increases for for staff would be covered. And the salary ordinance also reflects uh some of the recommendations from the governing body on certain positions. So >> So it wasn't a state level analysis governing body.
>> No, we we we looked at our we looked at our current salaries and then we looked at the at northern New Jersey but we there there are there are um salary guides there are salary recommendations in there. This is this is basically the maximum.
The the majority of the staff will not be receiving the maximum, but this this allows us to uh >> pay less. >> Yeah, we're we're not we're we're going we're going to we're going to pay um
what what whatever the the contractual obligations are for for each each of the positions. So, >> okay. But I my question is that I I mean I've I've done this on a board of ed and everything but we always do an analysis
some type of analysis with the state. You pull out certain things and be like this is your salary like teachers you say you know what we're paying you 75,000 starting salary we do this we know that they're paying this amount. So would that was that ever done like that analysis done?
>> There was an analysis that was done by our human resource department. There's also been analysis that have been done by um by independent individuals in in the past the past three years, one of our former city managers, but we we do
not use data from South Jersey because it's um it it's not the cost of living is not reflective for North Jersey. >> But you did comparison for North Jersey >> for some of them. Yes. I'm not going to not not all of them but some.
>> Bergen County. We use Bergen County. >> All of Bergen County, right? >> Yeah, that's that's part of our review. Yes. >> Okay. >> Any other uh questions or comments from the council regarding 2619?
>> Thank you, Council President. Um just two words that concern me in regards to section three and section 4. um pr-rated basis and retroactively. And so what constitutes I I understand
once this goes into effect who is employed by the city that constitutes proration but do we have a number of the impact that this will affect us in our bottom line as far as um salaries being
prrated and or retroactively because there's I don't I don't know what is it 30 positions on here. >> Does anyone know the amount of positions? >> Yeah. Well, the the answer is yes. We've
we the the the city's budget reflects um reflects funding that for pr-rated as well as retroactive. >> Thank you. >> Roll call. >> Councilwoman David. >> No. I need more understanding.
>> Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> no. >> Councilwoman Wasatski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenwig, >> yes. And again, we'll have the uh public hearing on that July 13th of the next
council meeting. All right. So, now we move to public comment on uh the consent agenda items. So, this is uh just on um and we we're going to be adding a resolution uh in just a
second, but on let's actually maybe before we get to that, uh if I can have um uh the city clerk asked me to add on a um an additional resolution tonight, which just got some of the paperwork got
done just prior to the council meeting. Uh so we're sorry about the last minute nature of it. It's for a very specific liquor license. If you can just explain that >> this is for renewal of a a liquor license that will have a a condition on
imposed on it. >> Okay. >> As part of the further renewal. >> So this is this will be um resolution 189 C. And again, we apologize that the numbering is odd tonight with 189, 189
A, 189 B, and 189 C. The 189s are not related. We just had to squeeze the numbers in before 190, which is the bills and claims. Um, uh, just for consistency sake. Uh, so do
I have a motion to add resolution 189 C to the consent agenda? This needs to be unanimous. So moved. >> I'll second. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman David. >> Yes.
>> Councilman Tayer. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wasatski. >> Yes. >> Council President Rosenw. >> Yes. So, so that's added on. So now the public comment will be regarding
resolutions 177 through 189C. So anyone from the public who would like to speak about these oh I don't know 15 or so uh um resolutions please. >> I I think I think we we were taking off resolution 188.
>> Oh should we do that now too? Okay. So sorry I I uh uh uh I I apologize for that again. So, um, so now I'm going to ask for a motion to table number 188, which is the
memorandum of agreement with the Anglewood PBA local 216 and S SOA. Um, >> yeah, we just weren't able we just weren't able to get all the information to the council. So, we don't want the council to vote uh without having had a
good chance to review this. So, we'll just put this on for the July 13th meeting. So, uh, so do I have a motion to table? >> I make a motion to table it. >> I'll second it. Uh, no discussion on tableabling motions. Uh, roll call, please. >> Councilwoman David,
>> yes. >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Waski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenwag, >> yes. Okay. Now, for the fourth time, I will try. uh please come up and speak about
resolutions 177 through 187 and 189 AB and C. Pete Hansen Richland Terrace Anglewood uh first question is on 180 for the two F350s. Uh what
department potentially will be using those vehicles? Uh on 182, uh could you give us some examples of the type of property you're you're considering obsolete and uh putting into
this part of the uh of the resolution? And the third is on 189, what properties of the city or what properties in the city are involved uh with this mediation agreement? Can you give us a little more background?
And if you can give us the parties involved. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other uh questions or comments about the consent agenda? >> Yeah. Raymond Diaz for Shannon. I'm uh
piggybacking with Peter in regards to 18906 the mediation agreement between Englewood 1 FHC, 431 EP. If they can abbreviate what actually is the agreement there, what's
happening? >> Good evening, Suzanne Mullings. Can you give us more information on 189 C that you just added? Thanks. >> Okay. Um, any other questions? So, the F350s, that's for city council
president, city manager, right? The two of them. >> Uh, yes. Um, the city council president is going to have flames on the front. >> Okay. Excellent. >> All right. Yeah. >> Seriously. So, what what are those? They're going they're for the DPW. >> All right. And then uh there was another
question about um I guess properties being auctioned. That's also vehicles. That's old vehicles and equipment. It's not it's not land. It's not dirt, but it's u old old old city equipment.
All right. And then um was there was there another one about >> 189? >> Oh, there okay. before I thought there might have been another one. So 18 189 this is um the part of the part of the um the the question had to do with properties that are within the within
the overlay zone and there are several properties the list the list of block and lots and the street addresses were mailed to the governing body and this is part of um as as has been described by our special counsel Mr. Buzzac. Um, this is this is
something that um was um was done done backwards to protect the city. So, we we had an we had a deadline of March 15th to make sure that we we adopted ordinances that protected
the city against builder remedies. So, that was done. ordinances were adopted and now uh we are this this resolution is helping to um fill in the um some some of those ordinances. Um Bill, if
there's other if there's other items that you would wanted to add about that um you know Mr. Boozek had had that had had that explanation that the um the city has the city has met its obligations and now it's putting it's putting all of its obligations into the
proper boxes. >> Uh that's correct. Under the opaces of the court, there's been, you know, pending litigation that's still technically pending as well as um mediation done with the special adjudicator and the other parties that
had participated in the process. Um some of which had objected to our settlements. The last one was uh the property on East Palisade Avenue. Uh you may recall there's a federal lawsuit that's been pending since 2019 regarding
those properties and there's been years worth of discussion both in conjunction with the federal magistrate in federal court uh back in the third round with Judge Farington and the special master Mr. banish and currently
uh in the matter before Judge Coriston regarding the fourth round obligations uh and after much many years of discussion uh there is a resolution on the table uh which would permit development on that site, not an
assisted living facility, which is what the federal lawsuit at least started as. Uh but this would allow 150 units with a 20% set aside up to 150 units. It depends on setbacks and height and things like that. There's parameters that our planning John Zabbo is going
through along with the engineers in terms of those. So what this does is globally authorize the execution of a mediation agreement that resolves all the claims with Fairshair Housing Center um Anglewood One
um and 431 East Pal LLC. Uh and thanks to Mr. Busach's efforts, they finally got language that's been agreed to subject to this body approving it. 189.
>> Um, so 189C, uh, we had a lot a long list of, uh, liquor licenses that were renewed today. We had to, uh, do one separate, uh, because it had a special condition put on it. This is for 2011 events for Vita Garden. Uh the special condition is so that no amplified music
on the rear patio area or outside after 10 p.m. >> And I believe there's a question uh Mr. Hoffman on 189B the cooperative pricing system how that was chosen. Yeah, that was that was for a chassis
for a truck. We're we're purchasing it through the Bergen County Purchasing Cooperative. That's one of 11 purchasing cooperatives that the city belongs to. All right. Are there any uh resolutions that anyone on the council wishes to have pulled to be voted on separately?
Okay. So, we'll just do them all as a consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve resolutions 177 through 187 and 189, 189 A, 189 B, and 189 C.
>> Some moved. >> Second. >> Uh, roll call. Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Wasadski, >> yes.
>> Council President Rosenwide, >> yes. Okay, so now we move on to bills and claims. Um, so we have bills and claims submitted approved for p pay payment and
a total of 7 million16,773. Do I have a motion to introduce bills and claims? >> So move >> second. Um, any questions or comments by the council on bills and claims? Yeah, please.
>> No question is too stupid. But u my quick question is basically why are we ordering water from all these vendors when we have one vendor we can order water from B. I'm just seeing like different vendors for water. I mean it doesn't matter but I'm just looking at
it just get one vendor and not get like 10 vendors for water. I know it sounds petty but um you know that's my only thing. Okay. So, how do we do how do we choose that water vent?
>> Well, we we'll have to do some we'll have to do some more research. But one of the water vendors, we have a we have a filtering system that um that we use in in several of our buildings. And what that does is that that means we we
reduce the purchase of water and plastic bottles. So, so on on your list, you will be seeing that. But then we also we also buy from different vendors for our DPW and for because they're out on the road. But we'll, you know, we can >> we just gave an award to the one on
Paliside Avenue who who has a contract with some of the city, the fire department. Can we just consolidate? >> Well, we'll we'll take we'll take a look. There's a that's always good thing. >> That's my pet peeve. I was like, why do we have all these water? And then just uh council president, I would just point out that the majority of the bills this
this um on this bill's list, $5.2 million goes to the is being collected for the board of ed. >> Yes. So I have I have a question of that and u maybe Mr. Bailey, you can So why why is this even on our agenda? Why do why do we have to
uh send money to the board of ed >> or maybe Mr. Calfman? I'm just pulling it up, but you want me to do it? >> Is it the taxes we collect and then we have to write the check to the board of B? >> Yeah. So, so why but why are we in the
position of authorizing that? >> Excuse me. Sorry. Um, yeah, we collect the taxes for the county. We collect the taxes for the board of ed and uh for ourselves. So everything comes to us and then we have to distribute it to the board of ed and to the county we do it
on sorry on quarterly basis and to the board of ed we do it on a monthly basis. >> So did anyone from the board of ed reach out to you to explain what they're going to be doing with that $5 million? >> Uh no. >> Okay. So we're we're agreeing to that but we don't we don't even know what
they're spending it on. >> Yes. This is their They they don't send a memo. They could be buying rubber bands with it. $5 million of rubber bands for all we know. >> Correct. >> Okay. And how much do we get paid to to
be the middleman in in this transaction? >> Zero. >> So why why are we doing this for free? I mean, you spend your time. We're spending our time up here doing this. You know, is this something we could charge for? Uh Mr. Hoffman.
And this is a lot of work passing through tens of millions of dollars each year. >> It is and accounting for it. And then also we have to we have to use our surplus for tax appeals because we um when when uh when we lose a tax appeal,
we have to refund the the whole amount for the county as well as for the uh school district. But yes, I'm sorry. This is Sorry to interrupt. So that's a nice deal. So the majority of taxes is the school but
if someone appeals their taxes we cover we have to give back the money but not the school board. >> Correct. We are not we we cannot go back to the school district and say you owe us. >> So that's a really that's a really good deal. They take all the profit but none
of the loss. >> That's correct. Yeah. But but why are we in the position of even having to approve this? I I just don't understand that. If anyone's told us that if we don't approve it, they could sue and get it from us. Right. >> Correct. >> But why why are we even in this
business? >> Since we're the tax collectors, so to speak, >> we don't I think in other states some taxes are paid directly to >> But why even why do we even have to vote on it? I mean, if we're if our hands going to be forced if we don't vote on
it, why not just take it out of our hands and you'll get some third party. So, instead of us wasting our time and money on this, >> well, the schools will shut down. Um, you know, and it's very rare. I think a council can challenge a school budget.
>> Oh, we can. >> Uh, very limited circumstances. >> So, if we think there's some cons concerning expenses there, that's something we could challenge. >> Yeah. In very limited circumstances. Okay. >> All right. But thank you, Mr. Hoffman, for bringing that up. Thank you, Mr. Calfman, for explaining that.
>> But I I have a follow-up question then. So, Mr. Bailey, >> could we do it differently? Could we could we not do it this way so that if we have a challenge on taxes? We're not We don't have to cover the school
portion that that should have been returned. >> No. State law. So, not to rub salt in the wounds, but say every dollar you have to refund from a tax appeal or something and even though the city maybe got 30 cents of that dollar, you the
city, this body has to refund the entire amount. H >> has there been any movement by municipalities to pressure the state to change the law? >> Not in decades. It's been a loss since longer than I'm practicing. Also, also
just to add more a little more, we pay to the county 5% of any pilot payment. We have to give 5% to the county. >> Yeah. >> Again, thank you for bringing that up, Mr. Hoffman. So, just interesting. Yeah, please. Mr. If I may on on on that
topic, um this meeting is going to send our taxpayers walking away with their head spinning because we haven't had this type of increase. I don't know. I can't even remember. But can you tell us about the
efforts of you, the city manager, our staff here in regards to attempting to lower the taxes uh cutting programs and using our surplus and the amount of surplus that we did use?
>> All right. Um, thank you for the question, Councilman Wilson. the um as we had stated during the budget presentation uh we we we began our 2026 budget process in late September or October. Uh we went through all of the
departmental requests and um at a minimum we had removed $1.6 6 million worth of requested um funding be before it came to the to the governing body uh so that we could we could make sure that the budget was
as tight as possible. And then we looked at several different avenues of ways to uh try and control both this this calendar year and for the next three calendar years anticipated costs such as utility increases um things of that
nature. And then that's why um that's why it's it's important that we continue to look at our surplus as ways to make sure that we we have we ensure fund balance for future years so that when we have an emergency we can um whether it's a natural disaster or something else
we're we were able to have funds for that emergency. And then this year we did use more surplus than we we normally do just to to make sure that the budget was as tight as possible. >> And you would consider that an emergency. Is that correct?
>> What? What an emergency? >> Because we use a surplus at 3.5. I >> at 3.5. I would consider that an emergency. And that's part of the reason why we tapped in. >> 3.95. Yes. >> I'm sorry. What did I say? 3.5.
>> 3.95. Oh my god. Can't fix my lips to say it. >> Too many sorry conversations. Yeah. >> No, my last question. >> Um like Mr. Jansen said um social security has increased uh not much and
we have 3.95 on our side. Could you give me a roundabout because I know you speak to the superintendent a lot. Um do you tell me the total increase maybe like a number a ballpark something? Give me something. >> Uh we we can't because I I I don't I
don't have an exact number. >> This is separate. The city is up at 3.95. >> Correct. >> And and I know they went up significantly also with the board of education and that number is not solidified yet. >> Well, I'm not I'm not sure. That's um they they >> two separate.
>> It's two separate and but we do we do collect for them. Well, one of the things one of the interesting things going through the budget process is that it it appears that the statewide average increase for um for municipal budgets is o is over 4% and then it was very
difficult for for us to get under 4%. Actually, I think it was 4.8% 8% but I'm not the the exact you know all all of the tallies aren't in but many of our many of our sister municipalities were up close to 10% this year with um just
with you know with u the health insurance costs and things things of that nature. So, um, it, you know, we're we're looking at all aspects. So are our sister municipalities. And, um, you know, we're we're looking at ways that we can we can in the future, you know,
share share some services that will that will benefit us all. >> How about this? >> Okay. We kind of >> we kind of got off from the bills and claims. >> It's two separate, but it's going to increase significantly. Okay. >> We're we're actually on bills and
claims. Uh, all right. So, uh, um, roll call on bills and claims, please. >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Ter, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Waski, >> yes. >> Council President Rosenw,
>> yes. Okay, so now, um, it's been a while. Uh, communications from the governing body and city manager. Uh, Mayor Wilds is not here. Uh, so, Miss David, >> thank you. Um, I know I try to make a little point because I know that the
school is going to be around 4% and we at 3.9%. You do the math. But our superintendent of the school district resigned. She's no longer here. Um, and she got a payout package also. We have no superintendent. The assistant
superintendent is leaving June 30th. We have no HR the same like Tene. Um so you know and also we had um I'm thank um our assistant city manager for coming out about um cleaning the culvers at
school. um two board members voted no that we cannot do an easement to clean the coits out um but everyone else there's only two of them and one of them also is a liazison with the city um also but I'm glad that passed as well to
clean the culprits near the um school and that's it and thank you that's all I have to say >> uh Mr. care. >> Thank you everyone. Um I think since the last time I spoke uh a lot has happened
uh in the town specifically uh um uh I just wanted to sort of mention that the council has been working together on uh adding a line item that uh we talked about earlier in the budget where it's some of the stuff that we collect that's
non-t taxable uh in terms of increasing our um income like uh EV for example. example, we've been working very hard towards and uh we're fixing up a lot of some of our issues with parking, which is getting a lot of money into Anglewood. Those are the things that I
care a lot about about bringing more money in so it doesn't sort of affect our taxes in the future. Apologize about my voice. I've been a little under the weather, but I think I'm better now. Um, happy July 4th coming up. Uh, Junth as well, Father's Day, especially for me as
a single dad and more importantly the New York Knicks. my Knicks won. Um I uh didn't lie when I told my son on the first minute of the first game that we're going to go all the way. So I'm happy that uh he didn't catch me on that lie. But um I want to wish everyone a
very happy and healthy July 4th and uh a wonderful summer and I'll speak to you guys soon. Thank you. >> Thank you. First giving honor to God. Without him I wouldn't be here. Um, it's been a while. Uh, there's been a Memorial Day parade. There's been a
Junth celebration. Uh, thank you for coming out. We thrived on your participation. We can't celebrate uh without you. We're in our 250 year anniversary here. Um, not just the city, but here in in
America. But I I I can't stress um how the public's participation is important. Uh we sit here in front of you at the deis at the leisure of you guys because we're elected. But in order
for us to consistently do the best we can for the city, for our residents, we need your input. And sometimes it's difficult to get information. Um it's difficult to ascertain it or break it
down tonight when it's your first time or if you saw it on the on the web. So I would just suggest that um you would reach out to us to hold us accountable to ask your questions so we know how to
better serve um the town. uh it's it's a difficult task and there's a lot of moving parts and so if you don't say something a lot of times we may not know so we need your participation on that. So we've had two
successful events um the Memorial Day and the Junth event and uh we're looking forward for the 30th of July uh celebration. I believe it's at the high school at 7 PM. We like for you all to
come out and be safe and if you see something, say something. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you. >> Hi, good evening. This is my favorite time of year as we enter the summer. Um
we had the Memorial Day parade. We also had a um flag raising at the library for pride month which was very nice. It was followed that same evening uh by an event at McCay Park, a community event
that was sponsored by the Anglewood Police Department that was very well attended attended. Um wonderful event. Um, I look forward I also uh was able to stop by the Junth Festival on Sunday.
Um, so that that was Thank you Joe Hoy, president of Jabari Society of Bergen County for the uh Junth Festival and and the Jabari Society. Um,
I look forward as Councilman Wilson said to the to the uh fireworks coming up. I believe it's on June 30th at the high school and happy two 250th birthday to our country. Um and we also have the Anglewood Night Market um and
July 14th. Is that right? July 14th with the rain date of July 15th. So I'm looking forward to that. I hope to see everybody there and and if I don't see you, I wish you a wonderful summer. >> Um thank you. Um,
so, uh, you know, we had a moment of silence earlier tonight, but if in case anyone, uh, uh, wasn't here for it, again, I would, uh, our condolences to the family and the colleagues of police sergeant Mata Dietro, who, um, uh, died
suddenly and unexpectedly and was is taken from us way much too early. Um, so, uh, again, our our heart heartfelt condolences on that. Um, and again, you know, so we have some very exciting events coming up as been mentioned, a
week from tonight. Uh, fireworks. Some years we've gotten unlucky with the with the weather, but the the the the early forecast shows no precipitation, so hopefully that will work out. I believe we have a new vendor this year. Uh, so it should be a very exciting
show. Um, and and fireworks have been part of uh July 4th celebrations. Uh, I think since the time of the Revolutionary War actually. Um so that's uh so it's long part of our history and
the night market has won uh best in Bergen County two years running. So it's uh it's very it's in a very short time become a very renowned event and that's going to be um uh you know uh very good and and it's being tied into the uh uh
to the FIFA tournament uh going on. I think that's the uh one of the semi-final matches. Um uh hope and hopefully United States can might maybe be in that. Um so hopefully we'll see how that plays out. Uh so thank you all. Everyone have a a safe and happy uh July
4th um uh weekend and we'll see everyone back on July 13th for their next council meeting which will be on a Monday uh not the Tuesday because uh the the night market will be on the Tuesday. Mr. Hoffman.
>> Thank you, Council President, and good evening, everyone. Uh, Council President, I'd like to u uh just say that um thank you for moving the S SOA and the PBA um memorandums of agreement to the move to July 13th. There's um
there's nothing unourred about it. the uh the representatives of both have proof read the document and so has our labor council and our labor council pointed out that there's a new FMLA law
and so we um and that has to do with um making sure we have the appropriate wording for uh when officers go out on maternity leave. So, there's a there's a whole new section and that's part that's part of the reason why uh we've we've
asked that it be it be reviewed on on the the 13th just so to make sure that the wording is properly in there, but um the representatives have proof read the document, but we just didn't have the opportunity to send it out in in time. But we're we're glad we caught this new
FMLA um law. I'd also like to share some updates with our residents. The pool is going to be is going to open on Friday afternoon, June 26. So, the temperature of the water is 78 degrees. It's uh it's ready for you to come and to swim. It's
ready for seniors to do um their water aerobics in there with the health department. And u you know, we we look forward to to you using the pool. On Monday, June 29th, the recreation department starts it summer camp
program. So, if you have uh children or know know of people that are looking for camp, uh please go to our website and take a look and then register for it. The city continues to be very active with its road construction, sewer
repairs, and stream cleaning projects. During the month of June, the city has placed 8,000 tons of asphalt on 7,000 square yards of road surface throughout the city. So, just think about that. In
one month, we've milled and paved a whole lot of a whole lot of roads and we are doing work basically in all four wards. If you go over to Tolman Place, you will see uh some amazing construction work going on to repair a
culvert that was damaged during Superstorm Ida. Um and that and these this 7,000 uh square yards of of new asphalt that represents just a portion of the 55 capital projects that the
governing body has funded for this year. So, we have lots of projects underway in the city and we look forward to the continued improvements that are being made through our capital uh program. Thank you. And then we will we will end with uh as the the council president has
said and others have said, we have fireworks on Tuesday, June 30th, right after sunset. And it's by the fireworks this year will be uh done by the Gucci family. So, uh this is this is something new. We have a three-year contract with
them and it will be at Dwight Marorrow High School. We also have another surprise before that, so please come out and uh see it. We have some cutouts where you can take pictures of of yourself in Revolutionary War uh outfits
and um we just have we just have fun fun attractions before the uh before the fireworks start. So, thank you very much, Council President. >> I will not be there. Can I be here? >> Can I mention I won't be there? I'm
being honored. >> Hi guys. Um, unfortunately I will not be at the fireworks. I'll be honored at a nan event that night at the fiesta that evening, so I will not make it. Um, it's the first one I haven't made, so sorry.
>> Okay. Well, congratulations on your honor. Um, so this is uh the public session. Uh so anyone from the public can come up to the microphone and give their name and municipality and have three minutes to speak. And this is regard to uh any issue.
It looks like Mr. Brown's first. Yeah. >> Excuse me. Uh my name is Adam Brown, 48 Hidden Ledge Road. that's in the Oak Trail Road development at in between Myrtle and uh Delcourt, which is the subject of the
proposed sale of land. Um I'm getting a sense of dja vu because this came before the council six years ago and we describe we had a extensive discussion about it and the council unanimously voted to not do this. Uh my friend Ken Albert has been a friend of mine for 50
years. A lot of his ideas are really good. This was an idea that he proposed casually 25 years ago or 15 25 years ago and it's never been acted upon and there's a very good reason why it's never been acted upon. The I was the
developer of Oak Road in 1980. There was a man developing uh the property behind us uh Sutter Park property which is Adele Court and and Cape May. And that was at the time when Flat Rock Brook was setting up and when
our property was under consideration and it was agreed that the area between Oak Road and Sutter Park would be open land and Sutter and Joe Mus who was the developer gave this land to the city. I don't know how good his lawyers were but in reliance upon his undertaking and the
city's undertaking this would be open land. We gave the city 4 acres of our property as buffer zone. We were approved for 8 108 units we built 93 15 units we lost. You tell me how much 15 times a million dollars is worth today.
So we gave our share in reliance upon the understanding this would be green space between our two properties. Now this little piece of property is not an orphan piece of property. It connects Flat Rock brook to 10 acres of land that Joe Musk gave to the city behind Oak Trail uh and behind Route 4. This is
part of a statutory scheme. This apparently a very nice man who lives on Adele Court persuaded the city council from the second ward six years ago to make the same application and we went through this exact same process. I'm going to tell you the Oak Trail Road Homer Association is meeting tonight. We
heard about all this an hour ago for the first time and we are they're absolutely incensed. Okay, you got 93 homes, 186 people. Each home is assessed for uh over a million dollars. That's 2.25 million in annual revenue to this city. and you're going to horse around making
saving a little money by selling this property. Now, you must have known if you put it in this year's budget how much you were getting for it, which means you knew this was a deal and you never talked to the homeowner association about it. And we are a joiners of this property, not just this guy. Okay? And I don't think we should
pay a dime for it. We how many times we have to buy the same piece of property. Anyway, I will bring this up at the next hearing uh when I have more time. But I would be interested in knowing how long you've known about this and uh how much are you getting and why was it never offered Oak Road. That's the end of my conversation for tonight. I'll see you on the 13th along
with a lot of other people. You got it. Okay. >> Sorry. Um, >> so we we go through all all the public and then we we address the questions. >> Sorry. Sariah Branch, uh, Madison Avenue, England. Um, I'll try to keep it
brief, but um, my concern is the recent traffic >> Yeah. Make sure it gets caught in the uh, >> sorry, do you want me to restate my name? >> Okay. Sia Madison Avenue, Englewood. Um,
so my recent my concern is the recent um change in the parking enforcement on my block, particularly the um, the east end. Um, multiple of the residents have been receiving um, parking tickets totaling uh, $50 each. Um, I've been a
resident personally for nine years. I've been driving for about seven. I've never had an issue parking in front of my house. And, um, my particular situation, I don't have a driveway. My only option is street parking. Um, so my concern was, um, what can we do for the residents so that we're not risking um,
moving our car every two hours or getting a $50 ticket. I'm sorry. Which which >> Excuse me. Can you tell us what street you you were to telling about? I'm sorry we couldn't hear. >> Sorry. Uh Madison Avenue. >> Thank you. >> Madison.
>> So, I have a question about the bills and claims. >> Howdy. >> Say it again. >> I'm sorry. Can you just give your name for the record? >> Oh, Suzanne Mullings. Um, on the May bills and claims, you had a
line item for the basketball court at Rockwood Place. You have it on again. So, I wanted to know what's the time frame that we could see some improvements to that area because it's in shambles. Um, also
I saw that rock um, Liberty Road and Nicabaka are spending over 170,000 for traffic lights. So, will there be any improvement to the Broadav Sheffield
intersection where it was uh suggested time and time again you put the left turn arrow in the traffic light rather than on the ground? And I have a question about that cap
bank, but um I don't see Mr. what's his name? Kaufman here, but I'll state it anyway. Um, so this is something that's been going on for the past few years and I think
it's how much is the cap bank authority that we have accumulated over the past six years and how much have we h actually used and what's the current remaining cap bank balance for the future budget because last year was
535,000 under the 3.5 and and prior to that um appropriations were 461 below the maximum. So just in terms of clarification and what we keep doing
this for it would be helpful for the public. Thanks. >> Hi Diane Jansen 589 Richland Terrace. I could I hope I could speak for my husband as well. We are in full support of Oak Trail
and this is not an orphan property as some would like to describe it. Five adult court. It is a buffer. It's a green space.
We want to preserve our green spaces. I also want to comment on 189 which you voted on tonight. Back in December 6th of 2022,
my husband and I wrote to Dr. pardon me, the honorable judge Christine Farington so that we could participate in the affordable housing uh review in the early 2023 of January. And while we
fully support affordable housing, our first concern is with respect to the east hill of Anglewood. The city is literally in a topographical basin with water flowing down the very steep historic Seven Sisters Hill of East
Palisade Avenue. During tropical storm Ida, the downhill area of Anglewood business district along with residences in lower income areas throughout the city and in particular the fourth and sections of first and the first wards of
Anglewood were overtaken by a dangerous river that ran down Palisad Avenue as well as other flooding that could not be handled by the culverts, streams, and storm water management systems in the city. You know, hundreds of residents
were displaced. I'm going to move on the letter that I wrote and my husband wrote to Judge Christine Farington. Anglewood had another significant flood in July 2022, albeit not as bad as Ida. A school which is located on the east hill of
Anglewood had recently received Anglewood Board of Adjustment approval to expand under a settlement agreement. increase of imperous surfaces that will impact storm water runoff. Given the existing flooding issues, we implore
Anglewood to maintain the two the current 2acre East Hill zoning and as much green space as possible, including this said orphan prop property. The bottom line is you agreed to
something under a threat of a lawsuit. It's going to cause flooding. 150 units per acre. It's ridiculous. I thought you had more
hutah and oomph than that. All right. Thank you. Michael Gonzalez, one James Court right across the street from a parking lot. I did send an email. I did CC many of
you. I've heard crickets so far from the council members. I did say we need to deal with this sooner rather than later. I'm here when everyone's gone. We're all
here. I could stay. We can discuss what's been going on. We can pay for fireworks. We can pay for festivals. We can pay for fairs. I think we can pay for some security cameras.
So my question to each of you is when are all of you and myself going to have a discussion? Will it be tonight? Will it be next week? That is my question. Thank you.
Uh Pete Jansen, 589 Richland Terrace. It's unfortunate that some of the council found it necessary to leave uh when other council people have just told us that they desire to have the public come and give their opinions so they can
better understand their constituents that voted them into office. Um I want to touch on two points. One is the the proposed Adele uh property sale six years ago.
Uh the same thing happened as was just mentioned and one of the points that was brought up was that the city is spending money on maintenance of the property. Well, six years ago, I went up to the property and with another fine gentleman
who's in this room, we cleaned up that property and what we found was mostly discarded items from the home that adjoins the property that they just discarded garbage and used toys and
fertilizer buckets and plant planter buckets. whatever they didn't want, they just discarded it over into that 15 by 125 foot property. So, if that's how they they take care of their property, they have no business being it having it
offered for them to buy. Second, was Flat Rock Brook notified about this property being put up for for uh for sale? Because they are an adjoining property owner as well. So,
you have Oak Oak Trail Association, you have Flat Rock, and you have the gentleman who's discarding all his crap onto the property. So, all three should have been notified. Also, I believe that that's a potential
connector trail for Flat Rock to to Crystal Lake, which they could do if they wanted to by using that greenway. That that might be a really nice walking trail to expand Flat Rocks uh area into that. There's a there's a wetland down
that they they could uh walk the trail through the wetland, down through Cross Creek, and then down into uh Crystal Lake. The second thing I wanted to cover is uh the potential development of 150
units on East Palisade. When they do that, they're going to cut down all the trees and they'll put according to the tree ordinance, they'll put up new trees. However, what you don't all understand is a mature tree can absorb up to 100 gallons of water
per day. Now tell me, you take that big tree out and you have to plant two or three small trees. How much water those little trees soak up? It's negligible. It takes decades and decades for a tree to
establish a root system to maintain its ability to absorb water. Thank you. up. Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for your service. I know this is a difficult job. Um, as immediate past president of Flat Rock Nature
Association and a former board member on Oak Trail on live at 49 Oak Trail Road, um, I am a little blindsided, but I'm Susan Clausner. How are you tonight? I I'm a little blindsided by um this uh
sale of the piece of land at Adele Court. It's been discussed before and um I I think that they decided it wasn't the right thing to do. Uh and I'm just surprised to see this back without any notification of it. Um our
board at Oakill is meeting tonight. I told them I'd attend this meeting and get back to them. Nobody was aware of this. So, I'm just concerned for so many of the reasons that everybody else discussed. Oakchill is a very proud community. We do take care of that area. So, I um I'm surprised to hear again
that there's any issue with it. Um and as a member of the board of trustees at Flat Rock, we also have a stake in this. So, um I hope you'll consider this carefully before you go forward with this. Thank you so much. Raymond Diaz 408 Shannon Court three
comments uh that West Palisades parking uh uh parking arrangement you're going to have between the uh the monument and going what is it west to I hope you notify all the tenants there all the
residents that are there I I would hate to live there and see tickets on my car and you not notify me of that it'll be a total embarrassment on your part and I think you want to put your best foot forward and be as fair as possible to
everyone and give them enough time. That's one. Two is the uh unclassified uh officers and employees. When I heard retroactive pay, I want to know why did it take so long for someone to pick up on this?
If this was old, would it take five years? Were they not being paid the the right uh rate of pay for all this time? Now the city's got to put up all that money now and it's gonna it's more money. I think uh we should do a better
job on those things. The last one is u our park our efforts to improve our parks. Just wanted to know do we put in port Johns on in all the parks? I mean the their kids there playing adults and everything else. Where do
they go? Do they they got to go back home or something like that? Is that part of our plan? Are they going to be fixed uh toilets there or something like that? I found it interesting that as I was driving towards Cedar Lane and Tenic
that there was a disabled portage John there. Now, I'm not sure if that fits the needs for disabled and abled residents, but for a disabled portage, a disabled person, if you come
into a building, you need 8 by 8 ft so they can turn around like that, clean their hands, wash up, and the whole thing. So, I don't know if that's our plan, and if it is, I it may be the wrong way. I I didn't have the chance to go into it to see how he
or she could do that. but as part of our future plan, think wisely and how we're going to try to address their needs. Thank you. All right, so now we'll close the public session. So, we've had a a lot of questions asked.
Um, so maybe uh I know we reviewed this already tonight, but maybe Mr. Bailey, you can just review if how does um if a property adjoins multiple properties. Uh how does that how is that decided? >> Yeah, as I said earlier, the statute
permits selling public property, offering it to the adjoining property owners. Uh the adjoining property owners can bid on it. Um the minimum bid is generally set by the value assessed by the appraiser. um and
the city accepts rejects uh you know accepts the highest bid or rejects them both or what have you. Um there has to be a public hearing on that which would be July 13th and again that's the procedure
uh under the statute. So, how do we >> So, how do we do it without public auction then? Because that's how >> that's how you do it. Public auction is you put it out to the world. >> Okay. >> Um, anyone could bid on it, but there's a separate statute particularly when you
have undersized lots. Um, where you can offer it to the adjoining property owners because it's not developable. So, for example, you know, the city- owned blinket school that was put out, well, that was a redevelopment project, but that was open
to anyone to bid on it, not just the adjoining property owners, but that was a significant piece of land. Mr. Hoffman, do you have any additional comment on I know we're going to be talking about Adele Court on July 13th, but any
addition to what Mr. Bailey just said? >> No, Mr. Bailey covered covered that very well. >> My question, >> right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is and um the questions about Madison Co. Madison. >> Sure. We if um if after the meeting if
we could if we could speak offline, I I believe I heard it was um Madison and it was on street parking that that you were you you were concerned about because of tickets. Uh we also there was a question about um basketball courts and there's a
design for basketball courts that uh was on the bills list and that was for um I guess that was for over at Rockwood and um that's that's something that's was was part of the uh cap the capital budget plan. There was also a question
about traffic lights. There's traffic lights that are being installed uh and uh over on uh on two streets. And then uh the question came up about traffic lights at at Broad and Sheffield. And we have a meeting on Monday afternoon with
Mont McDonald to go over their um their their preliminary recommendations for uh traffic on uh on Broad Avenue. They've uh they've been tasked with studying all of the intersections and then making recommendations on traffic flow. Uh
also signals thing things of that nature. So we'll have more to report in the future. Um there was also a question about the cap bank ordinance and then how how it was calculated. So the cap bank ordinance it's a three-year average. So each year each year the
there the dollar amount changes but I believe this year we're about $900,000 under the cap and then uh according to the ordinance and the calculations in it of the city the city would have $2,296,316.96 that would be available in case of an
emergency but those funds could only be used with a specific vote of the governing body of the city council. What's that? >> The rate is set, >> right? And um the rate the rate in um for the cap bank is set by the state. So
that's the state has the formula. Uh there was a question from Mr. Gonzalez about security cameras. Um one of the reasons why the there was uh as Mr. Gonzalez described to crickets is um more than uh governing the governing
body cannot respond if more than two members are on on an email on an email because that would be considered a public um a public meeting. >> So it's a violation of the sunshine law. So that's part of the reason why u
they're they're unable to respond. I um I do know from uh from monitoring the emails that uh the police have been in contact with you. Uh Captain Land Schmidt has there's been there's been contact with with uh with the police
department about the situation that you've um you've described and um it's serious and it it needs to be dealt with and it's being it's going to be dealt with. the um uh what other questions do we have
that I can answer? Um Mr. Diaz spoke about uh West Palisades Avenue and this is this is about street sweeping. This is about moving cars for three hours so that the street sweeper can come by and uh sweep both sides of
the road. There's going to be adequate notice before beforehand, but um residents are going to have to get used to it. Street sweeper needs to come by and if they don't move their cars after the appropriate period of time, they're going to get a ticket, but the road the
the road will now be on the schedule and be able to be cleaned. Uh there was a question about salary ordinances and retropay. The retropay would only go back only goes back to the first of the year. It doesn't go back um years, but it goes back it would go back to January 1st. Uh then there was a question about
Porter John's in the parks. So at times we do have Porter John's in some of our parks. We also have restrooms that are open in our parks. So, we have they're open over by um Trumbull and Gerity and they're open at Herring Field, but um in
other locations, we've had serious vandalism and the and the uh the restrooms have have had to be repaired on multiple occasions and there are there are times where we we do put uh Porto John's in the parks, but um you
know, the the idea of ADA compliant Porto John's is is something that uh we have investigated. We've looked at some options where there's basically there's a big trailer where you have a where you have regular Porter John's and then you
have one that's ADA compliant. But um you know that's that's where we stand with those. So those are the answers that I >> um there's some I think there are some questions that really engineering with regard to Del Court. Is it is it possible France could be here at the July 13th meeting?
>> We can we can we can ask about that. Yeah, >> it's its ability to be developed, etc. that I think he might be more adept at at answering. All right. Yes. I know a lot of people concerned about Adele Court. Um, that will be, you know, there'll be a whole public hearing on
that specifically on July 13th, and we'll we'll try to have the engineer for that. >> I'm sorry, Miss David. >> That the one over where Mr. Brown said adjoining property, right? >> Yes. So, we'll talk about that later. >> We'll talk about that later. Okay. Thank you. All right. All right. So, do I have
a motion to adjurnn the meeting? >> I make a motion. >> Second. All right. Hi. Have a good night, everybody.