--------- zoning board of adjustment. >> Okay. I am now going to call the regular council meeting of November 25th, 2025 to order at 8:02 p.m. Um, I'm going to ask the recreation director, Tashan Warren, to come up and
to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.
>> Thank you. City clerk, can you please read read the statement regarding the 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 10th, 2025, posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and has remained continuously posted as their 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. >> May I have a roll call? >> Uh, Councilwoman David, >> she's on the phone. >> Yes. Present. >> Thank you. Coun uh Councilman Toker
>> here. >> Councilman Wilson >> present. Council President Wasatski >> here. >> Absent with prior notice is Councilman Rosen Swag. Also present is Mayor Michael Wilds, City Manager Robert S. Hoffman, Deputy City Manager John
Burkner, and City Attorney Bill Bailey. Okay. Can I have a motion to introduce resolution 308, which is honoring Excuse me. Honoring and commemorating Lieutenant William Stimper on the occasion of the renaming of William Street to Lieutenant Lieutenant William
Stimpereway. I make a motion, council president, for resolution number 308. >> I second. >> All right. Um I get I'll read the resolution or unless um you want to uh chief do you want to come up and read
the resolution? >> Oh you wear him a copy. >> Okay. Honoring and commemorating Lieutenant William Stimper on the occasion of renaming a William Street to Lieutenant William Snipper Way. Whereas the city of Anglewood recognizes and honors the
courageous men and women of the Angwood Fire Department who have dedicated their lives to the protection and safety of our community. And whereas Lieutenant William Stimper, a devoted member of the Angwood Fire Department, faithfully served the residents of the city of Angwood for 26 years with honor, integrity, and unwavering commitment.
And whereas on December 12th, 1952, Lieutenant Stimper courageously responded to a fire at 70 William Street, a private dwelling where a blaze originated around a chimney spread through multiple floors. And whereas in the course of battling that fire and protecting the lives and property of
Angwood residents, Lieutenant Stimper complained of chest pain, collapsed outside the structure, and tragically passed away from an apparent heart attack while in the line of duty. And whereas Lieutenant Stimper made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the city of Anglewood, and his bravery and dedication represent the finest
traditions of the fire service. And whereas historical records indicate that Lieutenant Stimper's sacrifice has never been formerly acknowledged by the city of Angwood and both fitting and long overdue that the Angu recognizes his heroism and preserve his memory for
future generations. And whereas the residents within the required radius of over have overwhelmingly supported this effort with 61 residents signing the petition to honor Lieutenant Stimper's legacy. And whereas the city wishes to ensure that Lieutenant Stimper's name and sacrifice remain a permanent part of
Angua's history and community identity. Now therefore, be it resolved that the city of Angwood hereby designate and renames William Street at the corner of Angwood Avenue as Lieutenant William Stimper Way in everlasting recognition of Lieutenant William Stimper's service, sacrifice, and dedication to the people
of Angwood. And be it for f further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to the stimper family, the angu fire department and preserved in the city's official records so that the memory lieutenant stimper heroism uh lives on. >> Thank you.
>> 25th 2025. >> Any comments or discussion from the governing body? >> Yes, if I may. Um this was a very important um process
and one that your predecessor chief turned over to you and you so nobly took care of it and I want to thank you chief. Um is the family live nearby? >> Uh we've located several members of the family that live in uh South Carolina
and they will be attending the street dedication next month. And when can you just put that out publicly if anybody wants to attend? >> Sure. The street dedication will be December 12th on the uh 73rd anniversary of Lieutenant Dimper's death and it'll be at 1 p.m. on the corner of um
Anglewood Avenue and William Street. >> Thank you. >> Thank again. Uh thank you to the governing body for supporting this. I'd also just like to acknowledge Captain Ray Rodriguez and our fire inspector Aaron Derell who uh secured all of the signatures in the neighborhood. Uh their uh their hard work should be
acknowledged. So, I appreciate their hard work on this. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, city clerk, can we have a roll call, please? C >> Councilwoman David, >> yes.
>> Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Wasodski, >> yes. Can I have a motion to introduce resolution number 309 honoring the volunteer coaches working with youth?
>> I make a resol. >> Um I I do council president. I make a motion. >> Thank you. >> Resolution number 309. >> I second. >> Okay. So, I'm I'm going to um read the
resolution. This is a resolution honoring our volunteer co coaches working with youth. Whereas the city of Anglewood recognizes that youth sports and recreation programs play a vital role in the physical, social, and emotional
development of young people. And whereas these programs could not succeed without the dedication and commitment of volunteer coaches who give their time, energy, and expertise to support Anglewood's youth. And whereas volunteer coaches serve not only as instructors in
athletic skills, but also as mentors, role models, and positive influences, instilling values of teamwork, discipline, respect, and perseverance. And whereas Angwood's volunteer coaches selflessly dedicate evenings and
weekends to lead teams in sports such as soccer, baseball, hockey, football, track, softball, and cheer. Whereas these individuals exemplify the spirit of community service that strengthens the city of Anglewood and contributes to
a supportive inclusive environment where all children can thrive. Now therefore, be it resolved that the mayor and city council of the city of Anglewood hereby express their deepest gratitude and appreciation to all volunteer coaches for their outstanding service,
leadership, and dedication to Anglewood's youth. And be it further resolved that this resolution be presented in recognition of their commitment to building character, confidence, and community youth sports and recreation. What what I want to do is for us to do a
roll call and pass the resolution and then we'll come down, the council and the mayor will come down and we're going to have a little ceremony um followed by some refreshments. So, just give us a moment to do the roll
call. Um Yansancy was there. Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Waski, >> yes. >> Okay. So, I'm just going to ask the
governing body to come down. Can I just take this off? Sorry. Let me just Can you hear me? >> Okay. Tonight, I want to take a moment to celebrate the people who make our youth sports programs possible. First, a
special shout out to our recreation director, Tashan Warren, whose leadership, whose leadership, energy, and commitment continue to strengthen every part of Anglewood's recreation community. I also want to recognize our extraordinary
volunteer coaches for Junior Raiders football, cheerleading, and track and field. Your dedication, countless hours, and belief in our young athletes are the reason that this season was so successful.
From our undefeated football teams and championship wins to standout performances on the track and spirit on the sidelines, our kids thrive because of you. On behalf of the city council and the mayor and the entire community, thank
you for everything that you do. Due to space constraints this evening, the volunteer coaches from other recreation sports will be recognized at the next council meeting. At this time, we're going to take turns calling Well, I'll call the name and then we're going to
take turns giving out the certificates. I'm going to ask that once you get the certificates, stay in the front, stay up here, and we'll end up uh taking a group picture at the end. So, we'll start with the um
here, Mayor. Um I'll read the names and we'll call up the um the we're going to start with this. >> Okay, we're going to start with the senior coaches. Vincent Hall, head coach. >> Congratulations.
You're just Congratulations. Stay stay here. Maurice Outlaw, Tyrone Washington, and Gregory Wyn. do the junior coaches, too. >> Okay. Junior coaches, Fulton Lucas, head
coach. Congratulations, Stephan Presley, SENIOR. AND and Aaron Morris. >> Now we have the pee-wee coaches. Pace Jason Perez, head coach.
Congratulations >> Anthony Anderson. Aaron McClenny. >> Congratulations, Raymond Wilson. Okay, we have our cheerleading coaches. Tarla Broadnecks
Congratulations. >> Teddy Chanel. Gaddy. CONGRATULATIONS, >> Talia Garrison, Veronica Gonzalez, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Ebony Nuny. >> Congratulations.
>> Thank you so much. >> Noel Thomas. Paige Russell, >> NIA THOMAS Erin Thomas, >> congratulations. >> Doris Hedley. Okay. Track and field coaches.
>> Sheree wear Powell. Alana Elaine, >> Eugenia Robinson, >> Jerome Anderson, Vincent Hall, >> Leon Springer. Congratulations. >> So, congratulations everybody. We're going to take a group photo and then
we're going to have a little celebration in the back. We'll we'll and then and and we're going to um after the picture, the celebration, we're going to reconvene the council meeting at 8:30. You can stand this one.
Raiders on three Raiders. One, two, three. >> All right. I'm so proud of you. I Part: 2
can please take their seats. We're going to restart the meeting. >> If everybody who's staying could please take their seats. We're going to start the meeting. >> Can I have a motion to introduce resolution 310 accepting the minutes?
>> I make a motion, council president, to accept the minutes. >> I second. >> Okay. And um we are accepting the regular meeting of uh minutes for October 21st, special meeting for October 21st and October 30th, close
session for October 21st and October 30th. Any discussion or questions from the governing body? City clerk, can I please have a roll call? >> Uh Councilwoman David is not back on. Uh Councilman Toker, >> yes.
>> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Waski, >> yes. Now we have nine ordinances that have public hearings. The first one is ordinance number 2536, an ordinance to amend and supplement
chapter 250 titled land use regulating offtrack improvement. All these ordinances that we're going to go through have already been discussed at prior council meetings. I'm now going to declare that the public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who
desires to be heard or to ask questions concerning this ordinance ordinance will be heard at this time. Please step up to the mic. I'm now going to close a public hearing for this ordinance. May I have a motion that the ordinance 2536 be adopted?
>> I make a motion uh that 2536 be adopted. >> So moved. Oh, I second. Sorry. [laughter] >> Any discussion from the governing body? >> No. >> City clerk, can I have a roll call,
please? >> Councilman Toker? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes. >> Council [snorts] President Wasotsski? >> Yes. Now we have ordinance 2543, an ordinance amending chapter 2518 of the city of Anglewood code regarding parking
on Lafayette Place, Anglewood, New Jersey. I'm going to declare that the public hearing on this ordinance now open. Anyone who desires to be heard to ask questions concerning this ordinance will be heard at this time. >> Yeah. Rick Wilingwood, New Jersey. Uh, I
got some real concerns about at the end of the block where the business at the end of the block has pretty much commoned the street for personal business use. Now, we know that there's an issue with the church, right? And we have businesses in Englewood, several
businesses. We do not use the street for cars that are disassembled. We do not use the street for our own personal parking. We do not use the street continuously and even though we know that we have commercial vehicles, we
parked them responsibly outside of the street. This has been a longgoing situation at the end of the block with the body shop there and nothing has happened and now the whole street is being regulated because pretty much when
people feel like they're empowered to do certain things, they do certain things. At the very least, it should be a 30 minute to one hour parking at the end of the street. It should not be that somebody could leave a car there all day for a business. If you have a business,
you should have enough parking for your business. If you want to tow for multiple towns, you should have enough parking for those vehicles that you're getting for multiple towns. You should not be allowed to use the street as a overflow for your business. You could
come by several locations in Inglewood and see that we don't operate business like that. But down the street, it's a disgrace and businesses operate like that. And it's a shame that it's taken this long to get any kind of remedy or
any kind of relief. Nobody parks at the park down there. It's no parking anytime. When you go further down Lafayette outside of Sunday, nobody's parked there. But down the block, it's like they own the street. It doesn't make any sense. And all this stuff, even
while all this stuff is going on to get this thing on the agenda, they never even took any proactive action to remove the cars. The cars are still there. Like, I'm not moving my cars. You should move your car. You don't own the street. You should act like anybody else in the city that's responsible that doesn't act
like they take something that now belongs to them. It belongs to the people of Inglewood. is not for you to store and keep your cars on there indefinitely. All right? So, consider making it one hour 30 minute parking at the end of the street where cars cannot sit there all day. It's an eyes saw.
>> Okay. Thank you. [clears throat] >> Good evening, council. Leroy Campbell, Tunnel Road. Um, with this ordinance, um, I'd like to,
I guess, make a notice, um, because I am a member of Community Baptist Church. Uh, I serve on the executive board. I serve as a deacon. I serve as chair of the trustees. Um
I guess the question I have is that and I and I probably know the procedure. Uh we have one service that goes Christmas uh New Year's Eve which we call watch night service. Um and that
service goes until noon I mean until midnight. Um, and I the procedure probably should be is that if we're going to do that, we should notify city manager, chief of police, deputy chief of police, and the
council. That's my concern. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that ordinance 2543 be adopted?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Um uh Mr. Campbell, just just to your point, um when there's a special occasion,
that's correct. And um Mr. Hoffman, you would agree. And I think the chief said this when he was here as well. You you not notify the police department and they and and that will be fine. >> Okay. Um any other discussion or
questions? >> Uh [clears throat] thank you, Council President. I I'll be brief. Um this was long overdue. Uh, I've I've gotten several emails in
regards to um who complains, why they complain, and my my thing is this. If I'm the sitting as the sitting councilman as of the fourth ward and I get a complaint from any of my
constituents, it now becomes my complaint. Their complaints are my complaints and if it's breaking the law, it has to be remedied.
There can no longer be that we operate turning a blind eye to things that are improper. We have to enforce the law throughout our fair city because it's a quality of
life issue or no matter what someone thinks in front of their house down the street, their apartment, their condo, it's affecting their quality of life. And if they're not connected to me, they're connected to one of my other
colleagues here in one of the other wards or even the councilman at large. So, I just want to be clear, council president, that I don't know how anyone else operates, but how I operate is when I get
complaints and I look into the complaints and it seems to have value to value to it, that complaint then becomes my complaint. I don't need to supply someone else's opinions,
someone else's emails, photos, letters, phone calls, text messages. It's mine at that point. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you, city clerk. Can I have a roll
call, please? >> Councilman. >> Councilman Toker. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. Council President Wasatski. >> Yes. Okay. Um, you know, I I counted the we we actually have, I believe, 10
public hearings tonight, right? So, I said nine before. So, now now the next eight public hearings are all related to storm water regulations that are required for municipalities to adopt. And this requirement comes from the D.
So, um I'm going to start with the first one. This is ordinance 2544. an ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 367 article one of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled elicit connections. 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. I'm now going to close a public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that the ordinance 2544 be adopted? >> I make a motion, council president, that
ordinance 2544 be adopted. I second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> City clerk, can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Tayer? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes. >> Council President Waski? >> Yes. Now we have ordinance 2545, an
ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 367, article 2 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled improper disposal of waste. The public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be heard or to ask questions
will be heard at this time. I'm now closing the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that the ordinance 2545 be adopted? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions from the governing body? City clerk, can I have a roll call, please?
>> Councilman took. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Waski, >> yes. Now we have ordinance 2546, an ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 367, article 3 of the code of the city of Englewood entitled private storm drain inlet retrofitting. The
public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be heard to ask questions will be heard at this time. The public the I am now closing the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that ordinance 2546 be adopted? >> So moved.
>> Second. Any comments, questions from the governing body? >> No. >> City clerk, can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Waski, >> yes. Ordinance 2547 is amending chapter 367 to establish article 4, privately
owned salt shed regulations of the general legislation of the city of Anglewood. The public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be hearded to ask questions will be heard at this time. I'm now closing the public hearing for this ordinance. Could I have a motion
that ordinance 2547 be adopted? >> I make a motion, council president, that ordinance 2547 be adopted. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> No. >> City clerk, can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman took. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes.
>> Council President Waski? >> Yes. Ordinance 2548 supplementing and amending chapter 266 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled littering. 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. Rick Will being with New Jersey like what constitutes littering? I mean, you know, it's pretty vague. I don't know what what does that mean like literate? Like if I put out my garbage and it's before the prescribed pickup date, what
am I doing? Like if I put out a mattress and it's not bulk day, what is considered littering? Like if if I abandon something on the street or something, is that what's considered littering? What What does it mean? I don't understand. What does it mean? What is littering? If I throw like a
banana peel on the street, what is littering? >> Okay, the attorney will explain it once we uh close the public hearing. >> Yeah, but I have a question. And I need to know what it is first. I don't know what it means like to litter. I mean, if I throw something out the window, is it something bigger? [clears throat] Like, what is it? I don't I don't know.
Can he like answer and stop my time so I know some clarity and then I could, you know, ask my question? >> Do you have the ordinance in front of you? >> Yeah. Just give the definition so we can move on. >> Yeah. I mean, I litter all the time, but I just want to know what is the new form of littering.
>> Yeah. If you're if someone is disposing of something, not in a proper receptacle, not on a garbage pickup day, for example, you know, I'm sure we have white metal garbage days and days where maybe mattresses can be put out. That's not littering. But if it's just kind of
uh throwing garbage, refues, things like that randomly on the street on either public or private property, then it's littering. >> And there's going to be fines and stuff. There's going to be an enforcement. If I don't put in the proper bag or the proper containment, then it's littering.
That's what you're saying. I just want to make sure. >> All right. Is that your final question? >> Yeah, that's it. I just want to make because the other day I had to put something on the curb >> and you know I thought that was a day to pick it up and they said, "Well, you didn't put it out at the at the right
time, but they came back and got it." Now, would that be considered littering? Cuz I got up pretty early. I put it on the sidewalk. I thought they would come and get it. I don't know if they missed it. So, if you know, is that considered littering? Like, I put something on the curb and there's a miscommunication.
like I don't intentionally mean to litter, but then they're like, "Okay, you littered." You know, I just want to make sure that it's clear as to what I'm doing when I do it. That's all. All right. >> Thank you. >> I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance.
Can I have a motion that ordinance 2548 be adopted? >> Council President, I make a motion that ordinance 2548 be adopted. Second. >> Any questions or discussion? >> No. >> Can I have a roll call? City clerk. >> Councilman took.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Council President Waski. >> Yes. >> In section the definitions in the ordinance. >> Okay. Now we have ordinance 2549, an ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 106
article 4 of the code of the city of Englewood entitled pet waste. I'm now going to declare the public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be heard or ask questions will be heard at this time. Again, we have a lot of problems around
church property with this. So my question is, is this going to be enforced and are there going to be fines levied for this action? Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Yeah, Rick Wilby again. you know, as a pet owner, I mean, I don't think the city goes far enough to put, you know, uh, waste containers for dogs and pets all over the city. You go to like Bayon, you go to Jersey City, you go to
Weihawk, and it's pretty pet friendly. So, why hasn't the city put any kind of containers, plastic bags all around the city? So sometimes people walk their pets and you know when they think nobody's looking they just kick some leaves on top of it and keep it pushing
you know I mean not that they might have ran out of bags or something like that but how come the city doesn't have any kind of you know stations for pet owners to just grab a bag or to throw to waste in specifically for dog waste. A lot of
towns have that nowadays. Even in New York you go to some places and they have the dog waste. You know, there's a lot of people that walk their dogs. I mean, some people walk their dogs and they might let the dog do something on somebody's lawn that they don't like. I mean, I've never done that myself, but
other people might do it. And if they had a bag that they could put the waste in, that might be helpful, too. You know, I mean, all over the city, it should at least be on Palisades Avenue cuz sometimes you do run out of bags. Sometimes you leave the house with two or three bags. Your dog, he might have had a busy day eating some stuff. He has
like four or five bowel movements, especially if you got Frenchies like myself, you know, they go to the bathroom a lot. They're like, you know, something is going on. So, is there any plans to try to help some of the dog owners to where, you know, there's a pet friendly city, you know, where we could
at least get rid of the waste if there's nothing, we don't have anything. So, this where we could just, you know, work together. All right. >> Thank you. Okay. Okay, I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that ordinance 2549 be
adopted? >> I make a motion that ordinance number 2549 be adopted. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Um Bob, do you want to address the question about uh dog beds?
>> Uh sure. Thank you, Council President. The um nothing specific has been looked at for the 2026 uh plans. There's uh um we have looked into um basically purchasing two
um dog I'll call it dog bag facilities where um you know they're they're basically green stansions with a box on them that has um that has locations for plastic bags but that's you know that's what we were looking at. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments
from the governing body? >> Uh city clerk can I have a roll call please? Councilman Tokayer. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Council President Wasatski. >> Yes. Now we have ordinance 2550 supplementing and amending chapter 106
article 5 of the code of the city of Angwood entitled wildlife feeding. The public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be hearded to ask questions will be heard at this time. really >> uh Steve Weinberg, Ward Two, Broad
Avenue. Uh so, um as Council Councilman Wilson pointed out, uh some of these ordinances are quality of life issues and we want to enforce we want to enforce the law. Uh so with this particular law um I'm curious uh nowhere
in the ordinance does it state how we're going to inform the public actually for sever several of these ordinances how we're going to inform the public so that they are aware that this has now become and it always was illegal to feed the
wildlife. Uh I have observed at Crystal Lake as an example that many people go and feed the geese. All right. And by by extension squirrels and anything else that that the feed will will accommodate. All right. Nobody ever
tells them that it's not legal to do so. There is one tiny sign posted in the middle of the edge of Sheffield Avenue that says don't feel feed the water fowl. All right. A lot of people don't
even know what water foul is. All right. And let alone able to read that sign, especially if they're coming from some other point into the park. All right. So, I'm curious what the city is going to do to help enforce this by educating
the public that the rule is now on the books and is going to be enforced. And then another followup is I noticed that for um picking up uh like dog waste, the the fine for not doing that is $250, but
it's only $100 if we feed the animals, which creates a whole other array of problems because you know, as you guys know, um migratory animals like geese used to just migrate. Now they live here
permanently. And the reason they do that or one of the reasons they do that is because people have fed them over the years and it's now part of their natural habitat. All right. So just just curious how we're going to do that enforcement. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Okay. I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance. Could I have a a motion that the ordinance 2550 be adopted? >> Council President, I make a motion that ordinance 25-50 be adopted. Can I have a second?
>> Second. >> Mr. Hoffman, do you want to address the concerns, please? >> Sure. Thank you, Council President. So, we have no one specific action in mind. We have we have a couple different variables, but first is always education. So, there'll be information
that'll go out on our social media platforms uh about this. Um then we have several different departments that are able to enforce it. So there'll be, you know, in the in the beginning there'll just be some notices that'll be given out and then then we will go do we will
go do enforcement for the um you know for not feeding the geese, the the the deer, the antelope and all of the other um other wild wild fowl or you know um just a animals that live free.
>> Thank you. >> Okay, city clerk, can I have a roll call, please? Councilman Tokayer, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Wasatski, >> yes. Now we have ordinance 2551, an ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 129, article 2 of the code of
the city of England entitled yard waste. The public hearing on this ordinance is now open. Anyone who desires to be heard or ask questions will be heard at this time. Okay. I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion that ordinance 2551 be adopted?
>> Council president, I make a motion that ordinance 25-51 be adopted. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Any questions, comments from the governing body? >> Not at this time. >> Can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Toker? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes.
>> Council President Waski? >> Yes. Now, we have ordinances for first reading. These were discussed um in prior meetings. Ordinance 2552 is an ordinance amending chapter 212 of the city of angle
municipal code entitled fire prevention code to regulate e-mobility devices electric vehicles and lithium ion batteries. Could I have a motion that the ordinance pass on first reading and be published once by title only in the record and that a public hearing be held on December 16th, 2025?
>> I make a motion, council president, ordinance number 2552 pass on first reading. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions? >> Just that I think this is overdue. Um
and thanks for the fire chief for bringing this to light. Uh we want to stay on the cutting edge and keeping our residents safe. So, thank you for uh Chief Kaplan. >> Thank you, city clerk. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Tokayer? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson?
>> Yes. >> Council President Waski? Yes. Now we have ordinance 2553, an ordinance amending chapter 212 of the code of the city of angle to amend section 21217 fire safety permits and fees. Can I have
a motion that the ordinance pass in first reading and be published once by title only in the record and that a public hearing be held on December 16th, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. Any discussion, comments from the governing body? City clerk, can I
have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Wasadski, >> yes. Huh. Okay. Ordinance 2554, an ordinance amending chapter 8 of the Anglicity Code
entitled Green Team. Can I have a motion that the ordinance pass on first reading and be published once per title only in the record and that a public hearing be held on December 16th, 2025? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Any discussion?
>> City clerk, can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Wasadski, >> yes. Now we have ordinance 2555, an ordinance amending chapter 2532 of the city of Anglewood code regarding metered parking in the city of Anglewood, New Jersey. Can I have a motion that the
ordinance passed on first reading and be published once by title only in the record and that a public hearing hearing be held in December 16th, 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions?
City clerk, can I have a roll call? >> Councilman Ter? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes. Council President Wasatski. >> Yes. Okay. Now we have um public comment on consent agenda items. There are two resolutions on the consent
agenda. Does anybody want to separate them or can we keep them together? We'll keep them together then. Okay. Um, I'm now going to open the meeting for public comments on the consent agenda resolutions. It's resolution 311 and 312. Members of of the public are
requested to state their name and address before speaking and reminded [clears throat] to speak on these consent agendas only. >> I'm now going to close the public comment section on the consent agenda. Can I have a motion to introduce resolutions 311 and 312?
>> So moved. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Uh just just just briefly. Um what what the public schools and um the
city brings is is is powerful. And I I would just [clears throat] like to commend some of the work that's happened already and that we continue to look for um different avenues so we can promote uh safety amongst our facilities. Uh
that that I don't I don't want that to get lost in in collaboration. >> Thank you. City clerk, can I have a roll call? >> Councilman Toker? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes. >> Council President Wasatski? Yes. Now we have resolution 313 approved payment of
bills and claims whereas the chief financial officer has certified and submitted a consolidated bill and claims list for payment as well as a consolidated list of prepaid items. The prepaid items include emergency payments, wire transfers, and regularly scheduled monthly payments that are paid
between bills and claimless dates. And whereas all bills and claims listed here with have been encumbered and sufficient funds are available for payment. And whereas required signatures have all been obtained on each voucher on the attached list. Now therefore be resolved by the council of the city of Anglewood that the bills and claims on the
submitted list are hereby approved for payment in the total amount of 1 million16161,58153. Can I have a motion? >> I make a motion. Council >> Can I have a second to approve bills and claims? >> Second. >> Any discussion? City clerk. Can I have a roll call?
>> Councilman Toker? >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson? >> Yes. >> Council President Wasadski? >> Yes. That's okay. >> Yes. Yes. >> All right. Um, thank you everyone. Uh, I have to run out for a family emergency,
but I want to just uh come here and do as much as I can before I run. And I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and I will see you in December. Thank you. Thank you. >> We now have a report and um a
presentation and and we don't need to have a quorum of the council for that. So >> yeah, just so the record's clear, we we do not have a quorum [snorts] once Mr. Councilman Toker leaves. Um, however,
there's no action to be taken. So, we can continue on, but it's not an official meeting in the sense of uh a resolution or ordinance could be adopted. All that business has been taken care of. >> Okay. So, I'm I'm going to ask um um
could we set up Mr. Mr. Maron, would you like to sit up at the chair? So, every every year we get a report from um the board of the the board of adjustment is supposed to report to the city council every year. And thank you
um Mr. Marin is chair of the board of adjustment. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for coming. >> Thank you. It's good to see you all. Um I don't know if you've had a chance to review this. It was just it was adopted 5 days ago. Uh minor revisions were
issued just yesterday uh at the uh board of adjustment meeting. So, uh, it's a 19-page report and we're obliged to report to you, but has a very, uh, great impact because if the recurring variances, if the recurring problems
that we uncover are not addressed by the planning board and the city council, the city code could be considered incomplete or arbitrary. So, this is an important step to take. Um the report consists of an
encyclopedic summary of every case that we've heard in the last couple of years and it's been brought up to date um by by the type of variance that we uh encountered and by the zoning district that it
occurred in. Um, you can certainly at at your at your leisure go over all of them, but the most important thing that we have to report are the recommendations and those are the ones that should go to the planning board and the council for
further discussion and further action. Um you'll see on on page two, we begin with the um zoning board administration what happened in each of the each of the previous years by Dvariances which are
use variances and C variances which have to do with bulk uh that has to do with heights that has to do with setbacks that has to do with in incursion into your neighbors properties. Um,
I'm going to skip all the encyclopedic portions and get right to the recommendations. And on page five, we begin with a recap from all of the reports going back to 2017.
The one that recurs most frequently is to um define a house of worship, establish a dedicated hospital zone. I think you all know that the existing hospital site is currently zoned single
family residential. There's some irony in that and there are reasons for not changing it, but that is that's something that will come up in your discussions, I'm sure. Um, affirming prior recommendations.
We spend a lot of time talking about setback requirements for swimming pools. It turns out that especially during the COVID years, the worst of the COVID years, there was a huge influx of applications for people who wanted swimming pools and invariably a swimming
pool with a deck, especially if it's it's in sightes uh properties that aren't extremely large, there's always an incursion into the sideyard or the backyard or the front yard, and that results always in variances being
requested. Um, on page six, when you when you get to it, you'll see that Englewood, of all of the communities mentioned on page six, Anglewood seems to have the most strict setback requirements for swimming pools,
swimming pools and decks, as much as for the rear yard, 30 feet in some zones, 50 feet in others. And this causes us to review um many variance cases. Um, Anglewood has no obligation to match
someone some other town's setback requirements. We have to do what's right for Englewood. However, um, there's no obligation also to change this for the following reason. Anglewood happens to be the receptor of all of the flood
waters coming down from many of the northern towns. And so we may need we may need uh stronger protections for our different properties. Nevertheless, you you'll see this uh Anglewood 3050. Some
of the other towns only require a 10-ft setback. When it comes to all these variances, I happen to be a dissenter chair. I'm reading from the report. Chairman Marin offered the following additional comment. pools and sp sports
courts should not be considered as essential to single fam dwellings as for example kitchens. When variances are requested for these elements, the required setbacks and buffer areas should be strenuously enforced as being necessary to protect neighbors privacy
and the pres preservation of natural green space. The next issue for consideration has to do with the ground use of um ground floor use for medical or quasi medical issues such as wellness centers in the
downtown D1 district. Now the first time this came before us everyone was extremely cautious. We know that we want to we want to encourage a very vibrant retail environment,
especially in the D1 district. And yet, a case came to us for a a for example um a Botox and a quasi medical treatment facility on on Dean Street. Um, so every time one of these comes up,
and there have been several now, we're extremely cautious to make sure that we don't allow a deadening effect that would or harm the res the um commercial quality of the of the downtown.
The um what we've done so far in in our review in our resolutions is to require that if one of these applications is approved that the front portion of each of these um presents a retail view to
the to the person on the street so that it doesn't it doesn't deaden the effect of the retail environment. it looks like you're still walking down the street with an option to go in and shop in a friendly environment. What we don't want
for medical offices is to present um a completely obscure blank wall that would send people scurrying away to other shopping areas. So that's the way we've considered the ground floor use of space
for medical or quasi medical offices. A third, consider adult daycare as a permitted but conditional use in the service business district. One such facility, that of our home, adult daycare LLC, was approved for 535 Grand
Avenue on March 2023. No zoning ordinance amendment has been adopted. Four, adopt a procedural amendment to the city code establishing when surrounding property owners must be
renoticed for pending applications. Obviously, properties are bought and properties are sold. And when someone comes to the zoning board of adjustment for a hearing, they're given by the city clerk a list of the uh adjacent
properties that have to be legally noticed. Now, when when we have old old lists, old property lists available, it's entirely possible that a new property owner does not get the notice and has
reason to object or sue. So, we're hoping that as part of the process, all of the lists of owners who receive notice are updated every 90 days. Five, amend checklists to require
variance and site plan applications to identify proximate uh the proximity of adjoining structures. Many times we see uh applications that that present very detailed and very excellent drawings for us to review but we don't have a slight
idea the slightest idea of what's happening in the adjacent surrounding properties which means we don't know whose ox is being gored whose whose privacy is being invaded. So um in the checklist for um zoning
applications, we want to require we want to require um within 50 ft of the common boundary that we're able to see in scale what properties, what houses, what buildings are in that 200 foot radius.
Something called a breezeway loophole. We've had we've had cases where um uh an accessory use such as a pool house, such as a garage uh all of a sudden developed a height or a bulk that was in excess of
what was allowed. And the applicant said, "Well, there's a stone path leading from the house to the accessory use. Therefore, it's part of the same structure." Well, this is a dodge that we didn't appreciate. So we want to change that to to amend it so that the
in order for the uh oh oh in order for the accessory use to be treated as part of the primary residence that it be continuously connected to the primary residence at its foundation and roof. So physically
it truly is connected continuing education. The board recommended that the city council budget for annual land use briefings by the board's professionals. Court decisions relating to land use matters are decided every year, including decisions relating to
disqualifying contract conflicts of interest. These proposed briefings are separate and apart from the LLUL requirement that newly appointed members of the zoning board and planning board complete a certified 5-hour training session and pass a test approved by the
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. No budgeting has been approved to date. Virtual meetings. We've had five years of experience now with virtual meetings. And at the beginning of every zoning board meeting,
after reading the Open Public Meetings Act regulation, I mentioned that we're conducting our meeting on Zoom because there has been no other method shown that gives the public, the applicant, the board members and and um the
consultants complete and contemporary view of the of the drawings being presented. I remember many times sitting on the planning board of the board of adjustment when the exhibits were shown on an easel like approximately right
here. As a result, only half of the planning board members could see the exhibit and almost none of the public. So, conducting our meetings on Zoom provides absolute transparency and we would like to make that part of a
permanent uh procedure going forward. I believe that's all that's all I have for you right now. I encourage you to read the rest of the report and take it up with the planning board and the uh the council. >> Okay. >> Thank you.
Thank you very much. Um, so we had Councilwoman David on the phone, but she dropped off at some point and the clerk's been trying to get her back on without success. Uh, so as I indicated before, we do not have a
quorum. Um, which effectively ends the meeting. Can't we just do our remarks and listen to the public anyways? >> It it's not an official meeting, so there wouldn't be minutes or >> No, can you reach uh
can you reach the uh councilwoman? Has somebody tried her? >> I think she's been >> they've been trying for about 40 minutes. So then you would turn the YouTube off and there would be no memorialization of this because it would be deemed to be city business then.
>> Yeah. There'd be no minutes. >> Yeah. I I want to thank everybody for coming. We uh just just so that that you're aware, we were supposed to have four council people here today. One via the phone and another one had an emergency. So
life happens. We'll see everybody on December 16th for our next council meeting. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Um, can I have the meeting is adjourned. I >> had so many