okay I am now calling the workshop meeting okay I'm now calling the workshop meeting of March 4th 2025 to order at 8:01 p.m. can everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alleg to the flag of
the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all yany can you please read the statement regarding the open public meetings
act this meting meting 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 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 having been given the municipal clerk is directed to include the statement in the minutes of this meeting
can we have a roll call please councilwoman David present councilman Rosen here councilman toer here councilman Wilson presid council president wiski here also present is
Mayor Michael Wilds city manager Robert S Hoffman Deputy city manager John burner City attorney Bill Bailey and HR Director Robert leine okay before we get started I'm going to make three announcements so the first has to do
with affordable the fourth round of affordable housing the New Jersey Builders Association a Trade Organization representing housing developers followed a lawsuit last Thursday against every town seeking to reduce the number of affordable homes it
is required to build um Anglewood if people if you remember Anglewood at the end of January um we we voted to reduce our number Our obligation by 50 so we are being sued now this will be heard in a mandatory
settlement conference in March so by the end of March we will have the number that we're working towards my second announcement has to do with um has to do with the there's a a clinic on angle street that performs
abortions and in on February uary 24th the Supreme Court refused to hear a pair of cases one of them being about the clinic on angle street from abortion opponents who said that the laws limiting
anti-abortion demonstrations near the clinics violates their first amendment rights so this means that the 8-foot demonstration free zone that the city of Anglewood passed in 2014 stands and this was upheld by the
lower courts and it will not be challenged by the Supreme Court and the third announcement has to do with Denning Park Denning Park will be open tomorrow okay we have eight ordinances for second uh for second reading the
first ordinance is ordinance 2506 this is a bond ordinance appropriating 10, 800,000 and authorizing the issuance of 10,00,000 bonds or notes of the city for various
improvements or purposes authorized to be undertaken by the city of Anglewood in the county of Bergen New Jersey the public hearing for this ordinance is now open so this is our Capital Improvement um anyone who desires to be heard to ask
questions concerning this ordinance will be heard at the this time please step up to the mic state your name and you will have three three minutes good evening Raymond Diaz 408 Shannon Court uh I just want a
clarification uh about this figure 536,000 on page three and on section 2 520,000 how do these numbers fit into this scope of
work what was the second number um section 2 520k I was looking for do you see what page that's on Bob yeah look at page three for the 536 and 520 is just under it page three way in
the back where I see the 536 I don't see the second number I'm just confused how how those numbers fit into the overall yeah I I don't see the second number B Bob do do you see that number uh I I see the 536 on page three
yeah uh in this um on the first on the in section one on page one it talks about $520,000 which is part of the 5% down payment uh for the bond ordinance Mr Diaz I I don't see
um I I don't I don't see a 520 ,000 on page two is that right yes yeah that's that's what that was page one yeah yeah so that that's that's part of the 5% down payment for the for the
Ordinance do do we pay that oh is this part of the bond wait wait wait we're g to I just want to make sure that we saw it we'll answer the questions after I close the public session all right okay or the public hearing does anyone else uh want to make a cont
okay I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance uh can I have a motion that ordinance 2506 be adopted sorry Kevin you want to say something sorry in discuss yeah we we'll go to discussion after we have a first and a
second second okay um councilman Wilson yeah the pro the problem with that is on page four um if you go to I think it's what is that D it explains Denning park by the
acquisition and installation as necessary of the new fencing Madison Park by the same do we actually own Madison Park want uh we have a recreational lease on Madison Park we've been using
it for 20 years and on that lease and I know our attorney has reviewed the lease we we we use it we use it as as if it's ours we maintain it we have for 20 years I'm sorry go ahead council
president we have a recreational lease and and we're allowed to make improvements on that Park okay my my concern is um making such improvements on such a park that we have a lease on and that it's a airtight lease that once we
improve it that we will be able to renew that ongoing lease and how long are the lease for if I may it when that uh project was approved as a condition of the approval was the ability of the city to utilize that parking
perpetuity okay yeah because that's my concern using tax hours that's something that's not on a tax yeah um Mr Hoffman do you want to answer um Mr Diaz's question on the
536,000 which is on page three uh certainly this is this is for different road projects that start on the bottom of page two so it uh it has to do with design for the milling and
Paving of Roads such as uh brookway brookway Avenue Timothy Lane Grant Street Waldo Place and it it lists it lists those on on page two and um then it also lists on on page three uh where
Mr Diaz saw the $536,000 uh it also lists that um there's there's um a $40,000 Grant that's being received from Community Development um you know as grant and aid for for grant for Grant
Street so we're getting a grant for Grant Street so that's that's part of this it's a reimbursement Grant so the this ordinance um lists three grants it lists a grant for $50,000 to plant trees
$90,000 for um for roads such as um Alden Place and Catherine Street and then the $40,000 for uh for for Grant Street so that's that's part of this Capital ordinance okay thank you any other comments from the Council okay
yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes
now we have ordinance 2507 an ordinance authorizing sale of land without public auction pursuant to njsa 40 a 12 hyphen 13 B5 um
and and this is um for the sale of um a a a piece of property going to harco and um the public hearing on this ordinance is now open anyone who desires to be heard or to ask questions concerning this ordinance will be heard at this
time please step up to the mic state your name and you have three M minutes Leroy Campbell tfly Road Anglewood um my compliments to Mr Billy because Mr Billy know that I've been on
this I've been on this thing for over a year about harco and making sure that we get the revenue because they've been using that piece Pizza property which is 17 parking space for a long long time and it's
truly an an honor and a blessing to see that this come to a resolution and something has been done thank you thank you okay I'll now close the public hearing for this ordinance can I please have a motion that the ordinance 25- 07 be
adopted I'll make a motion second okay any want to see something on go ahead Mr Campbell thank you I I just wanted to add that part of this is really uh in addition to the
minimum price of $93,000 there's is an additional $155,000 payment for their utilization of the property they did pay $5,400 and some tree removal at the request of the city but on top of the 93
there'd be another 15 I just wanted that on the record and that that's an important part of this ordinance as well that that was it Madam president thank you any other comments from the Govern governing body yansy can I have a roll call
please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman till ker yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes now we have ordinance 25-8 an ordinance amending chapter 191 fees
section 12 Recreation Department section 14 uniform construction codes chapter 364 Solid Waste and Recycling section 11 violations and penalties and chapter 212 fire preventions section 17 fire safety permits and fees of the code of the city
of Anglewood um Mr hoffen will you just say a word about this before I open it to the public please uh yes council president um this uh this ordinance this update of our ordinance for what was outlined is to
make sure that the fees that are charged are cover cover the cost for the for the city for the review it's also it's also done so that uh the 30,000 residents that live in the city are not
subsidizing the services that um that less than 30,000 want to you know want to pursue so as an example the uh Construction office there's there's 1500 permits and there's about 800 other
other types of permits that they review and the fees that are that are being uh recommended in this ordinance will cover their costs and it will eliminate the the 30,000 residents in the city from subsidizing the the approximate 2200
permits that are reviewed okay thank you I'm now 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 please come up to the mic state your name and you have three
minutes Amy Bullock and Avenue um first I want to knowledge and thank um Mr Hoffman for what I think are new policies for recreation fees in regards
to Discount eligibility Camp McKay discount I have come in the past and express concerns over the cost of some of these things given the high rate of poverty in Anglewood and I see that you know there are some policies in place
now um to help those residents who may be economic i al challenged so I I appreciate that but I do have a question just on the format um take for example Camp McKay Day Camp residents per week fee it says 170 180 is that the current
and what it's going to or we'll we'll answer the question after we close the public session please okay so I just want Clarity on whether or not it you know it's currently 170 and we're increasing it to 180 okay thank you Raymond Diaz again uh can you explain
the wait can you please speak into the M I'm sorry uh Raymond di 4 Shannon can you just clarify the feed for the domestic hot water says new $80 what is that the feed for what I can't the the domestic hot water heater $80 I I are
you I don't know what that means are you charging uh here is a garbage disposal $80 what what the what is that what does it mean we pay that through taxes so what what does that mean that you're charging a fee for
what and you have several others uh you're asking about domestic domestic water heater it doesn't say it just says water heater page five page page five yeah page five five of nine oh I see okay and and what else are you asking about what are all the these fees what
are they charging additional fees other than the taxes that we pay I don't get this yeah okay inspector's coming and if you wants I don't get it okay thank you yeah any other comments from the
public okay I'm now closing the public hearing for this ordinance um Mr hoffen do you want to address a questions please thank you council president so Mr Diaz was asking questions is about um inspection fees for permits so for a new
hot water heater that's put into the house so that's what that's what this the domestic hot water heater would be so the the the current fee is $75 the new fee would be $80 and um yeah yeah yeah um and um but there I
thought that there was a second one that Mr Diaz asked about but basically what's on page five these are these are all permit inspections so they're not you know it's not garbage collection that the DPW does this is permits this is the uh the inspectors that go out the plumbing inspector the electrical
inspector when they're when there's new new hot water heaters or or new electric service in houses and then uh the the the answer for um for Miss bulock just about the the the fees the the first line the 170 was is the current current
and then the the proposed one is the 180 thank you um any comments from the governing body oh we just ended the public session um I need do I need am I up to a motion okay can I have a motion that ordinance 2508 be adopted um so
moved second okay uh any discussion from the governing body yes my question is U Mr Hoffman how are we going to to track who has a new water heater if they just basically don't know that you have to
pay the city this I'm just how are we going to monitor who has a new M heater and who does not I'm just I don't I don't understand this whole heater situation could you please explain it so the public can understand it not knowing
that they need to pay a fee for it and we don't they don't get nothing in the mail right say you install a new water heater I'm just asking I'm just saying I don't know so this is this is for people that are replacing water heaters so 97% of our residents
are honest and they do the right thing and this is to make sure that the heaters are inspected and they're installed properly many times the inspectors find that the valves at the top of the water heaters are installed in the reverse in the reverse order so
they they fail and if they don't if uh if those valves are not put in properly ly it it caus it causes um backup and it can also cause combustion so this is this is for those people that are you know that are following the rules the
the other 3% um we're we're going to be sending some kind of a pulse through the through the water lines just to see if there there there's a I'm only kidding and they just get another water heater we're just dealing with the honest people intend I want you to explain to
the public I mean you know okay thank you and most contractors don't want to risk their license by installing one without a permit any other comments from the governing body councilman Wilson I just like to bring up a point of clarity um
it was stated earlier during public sessions on congratulations on the fees going down but if we're reading this properly there's only t-ball travel ball um travel baseball non-residents uh adult soccer and
basketball clinics those are the only fees that have remained the same everything else has gone up just a just a point of clarity so the fees that was spoken about earlier about
going down are now up any other comments from the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we have ordinance 25- 09 in ordinance amending chapter 25 section 2518 schedule 10 and section 2520 schedule 12 of the traffic and park
traffic and parking ordinance of the code of the city of Anglewood and this is um regarding teasure Avenue and this is that um with the new building complex that was put on Alfred Avenue and some
traffic concerns in that area uh the decision was made that we're not that the city will not allow parking on the souths side of tesan Avenue except for on Friday when they're doing street
cleaning is that correct yep okay um so 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 please step up to the mic if you'd like to be
heard okay since there's nobody who's stepping up since there's nobody stepping up to the mic I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 259 I he public hearing for this ordinance whatever it is oh is this
ordinance uh please state your name and your my name is John bab 2132 Street 259 09 we've already had public speaking hearing on uh 07 I'd like to ask about ordinance
257 um you say something yeah that public hearing was earlier okay would anybody like to speak on ordinance 25 9 okay I'll now close a public hearing for this ordinance I need a motion that
ordinance 2509 be adopted so moved second any discussion from the governing body councilman Wilson thank you council president I I just want to state that um it wasn't an oversight about our residents that live next door
to this new Mega building and so this ordinance was considered for our residents to try to make a quality of life uh that much easier for those people that live in that direct area and so we've had input from the our
residents and our constituents and we thought at this particular time that this would work the best and we work closely with the PD and the traffic to ascertain what might be the best way and this is what we're voting on so thank you Council okay thank you any other comments from the governing body
Yancy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we're going to uh have a public
hearing hearing for ordinance 2510 this is an ordinance to establish chapter 155 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled business liability insurance registration before I open the public hearing Mr Mr hoffen would you like to say a word about this
please we'll do a tag team yes thank you council president um this was a this was a law that was initiated or passed by the state in August of 2022 and it requires business owners and rental unit owners to maintain liability
insurance and it requires the clerk's office to um to keep track of this and it's it uh it allows that allows for an an annual fee to be to be uh taken for for the work that's being done it's
being recommended that there there be a $25 annual fee and this has this registration has to be completed by January January 15th of each year and I'd like to compliment our clerk for um for bringing this to our to our
attention and um you know helping helping to shoulder the load so thank you the public hearing on this ordinance is now open anyone who desires to be heard or ask questions concerning this ordinance will be heard at this time please step up to the mic state your
name and you have three minutes I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that the ordinance 2510 be adopted I make a motion I [Laughter] second okay any discussion from the governing
body okay Nancy have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski
yes ordinance 251 is an ordinance amending chapter 25 pertaining to the parking of commercial vehicles in certain hours I know on certain streets um before I I I open up the
public hearing I'm going to ask if deputy chief mat L Roa can come up and say a few words about this ordinance thank you good evening so um there has been uh quite a few issues and questions with commercial vehicle parking uh over over
my career some misconception so there was uh there was a a desire there were a bunch of calls for changing how the commercial parking would take place here in Anglewood so the the chief is really the traffic guy so I'm standing in for him so try to do as good a job as he
does so we offered a couple options and this is the one we have so the way it's going to work is uh between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. the public streets are going to be restricted for certain classes of vehicles that are all listed so previous to this the only real
prohibition when it came to commercial vehicle parking was Vehicles over 4 tons so that actually leaves a lot of a lot of typically commercial vehicles out of it um so this way it's going to it's going to clean up the streets for the
for the obviously for the residents that have been complaining about some of the commercial vehicle parking so it's just for the single family zones and if you look at the map there is some crossover but it's basically the majority of the city with the exception of the strictly industrial zones are there any questions
uh we'll do the questions I apologize yeah yeah we we'll we'll okay okay um could you please explain um deputy chief um that um if if they were
not to park on the street if they parked the near driveway is there a consequence or not no so this this ordinance uh and this part of the the city code is uh it's just specific to public
roadways okay and also my second question last question there are several I mean I'm in a third ward there are several um commercial trucks that are food trucks but they have um regular plates which is illegal and you're
selling food out of it so do they get a ticket because they don't have a commercial plate I'm asking no so so things like that we do run into issues where people register their vehicles really outside of the class uh it happens with food trucks any type of
commercial vehicle people re you know register the vehicle as a normal passenger car if the officer sees that you know that's that's one of the things with this ordinance it actually gives descriptions of vehicles okay so at the end of the day it really doesn't matter how they register it they'll still be in
violation of the ordinance thank you so they'll be ticketed thank you ma'am I appreciate you and thank you this is long waited for and I've been struggling for this for the past year since I've been here and thank you I appreciate you you're very welcome before he
leaves um thank you for your appearance today deputy chief um I just want to make it clear for those people that find it necessary to park on the streets um for one we can explain to them where they can find this for two um is there
going to be a grace period and three can you announce right now what the um what the fine will be so when it when it comes to rollouts of of new ordinance and new rules we absolutely have a grace period um what we're able to do now is when we give
people warnings they basically get a ticket that says warning and what that does is it populates that incident into the system so we can actually tell if somebody's been warned already so we can do it for a month or two months but we can also start to enforce with the
people who have been warned a couple times already and haven't moveed their vehicle um and I'm sorry the next question was the price uh I believe it's $50 but i' I'd have to run through the entire fee
schedule and this is will be notified and they can search for it on our website we we can certainly put up a map uh we can use social media we can use nixel and we can put it on the city website we can put it on the Police website we want everybody to have a very
good understanding of what it is so people have an opportunity to follow the rules before we go to strict enforcement start you know causing people to have to pay out for it thank you Deputy I just wanted to give everybody the opportunity to know how we're moving forward and so we don't
have to receive phone calls that I didn't know that the information is out there and that we've talked about the grace period we can get back to us about the fine but they can definitely find it on our web page P thank you yes sir thank you thank you very welcome 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 please step up to the mic state your name and you have three minutes Raymond Diaz 408 shanon Court uh
just like clarification on the violations and penalties in section A and it says uh unless another penalty is is expressly provided by ordinance or by New Jersey statute every person
convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter or any supplement thereof shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $505 I'm just going to um this is ordinance 2511 is is that what you're
reading from I'm sorry 2512 yeah we're not we're not that'll be the next one I'm sorry that's okay I couldn't find it so thanks Leroy Campbell T to fly Road um in this ordinance it says certain
streets how do we identify certain streets thank you we we'll answer the questions after um also um my other comment is that about um 4 ton vehicles on streets um
if you if you're driving a commercial vehicle it should and it and if it's not identified with a business marking that should be a summons that should be a summons because all business Vehicles should have commercial
plates okay thank you okay all right I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 25 11 be adopted so
moved second okay thank you um the answer I I believe to your question is you you're asking about um entitled parking commercial vehicles prohibited During certain hours in certain streets so you're saying how do we know which street and and yeah and so
it says here that um it's it's on any Street in the single family Zone which as defined by the zoning map of the city of Anglewood between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. so that would be on the zoning map and that would be in single family
Zone okay um any discussion from the governing body on this on we're on we're on 2511 um yes I spoke to um chief gy on this when you know he sent this to me we were going back and forth and I
explained to him that we had several vehicles that had residential you know regular plates he said that's they're defrauding the system by having that they probably bought the vehicle or purchased a vehicle and transformed it into a
commercial you know whatever uh food truck but they defaulting the system and he said that that is illegal so when they see something like that he said to me they will be get they'll get a ticket if you see a food truck with res regular plates they're going to be summoned he
told me that because it's illegal in the state of New Jersey he said that okay um any other discussion from the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David um yes
councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasowski yes now we have ordinance 2 5-12 ordinance amending chapter 25 of the Anglewood city code
pertaining to parking in the city of Anglewood okay okay and this this is the ordinance where we're going to um change the our parking in the downtown we're going to go to the kiosk system instead of the
parking meter system which will increase efficiencies and uh people will be able to pay either at a kiosk using change or credit card or they could text or use a parking app um I'm not going to declare that the public hearing on this
ordinance now open anyone who desires to be heard or to ask questions will be heard at this time please stand up to the mic state your name and you have three minutes okay that's right Raymond Diaz
408 shanning Court page two of 23 on the this ordinance it mentions penalty and uh violations and penalties speaking to the mic yes I'm sorry uh unless another penalty is expressly
provided by an ordinance or by New Jersey statute every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter or any supplement theto shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $500 or imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 15 days under what situation would that happen that's one question the second question is can we continue to park out here while we're attending these meetings can you continue to park where outside
here you have so many parking numbers and stuff like that can we continue to park outside these parking lots over here during the council meeting or will we be ticket it okay I'll answer your questions when we're done with the public session
would anybody else in the public like to speak okay I'm now going to um I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 2512 be adopted so
moved second okay um so yes you can continue to park out here [Music] um I don't know um address yes uh Mr Diaz with respect to the other question
about the fine so if if summons is issued for a violation parking violation then goes to the city court and the judge then has discretion to set the fine not to exceed $500 I can't speak for the judge but he'll probably consider if it's a
firsttime offender versus someone that's habitually doing it and then the fine typically would get more serious uh if there are multiple violations okay any comments from the governing body just just for clarity um council
president we have not picked the vendor as of yet that is correct just for clarity thank you any other comments yansy can I have a roll call
please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wisotsky yes we now have ordinance 2513 ordinance amending chapter 191 entitled
fee schedule so so this is the fee schedule for the parking for the police department no this is for the parking for the lots and for the uh Meer parking yeah so um so this is this is the new
fee schedule um if somebody needs to run in to make a quick quick stop pick up pick up um an order from a restaurant or go to Buckley's go to a pharmacy the first 15 minutes will be a quarter um
but the next 45 minutes will be a dollar it's a125 an hour after that um each and it's up until 3 hours we're we're only going to be allowing people to park up to 3 hours using the meters in the downtown uh because in the past people
have had trouble getting parking because people have fed the meters so people will not be allowed to feed the meters anymore if they need to park for a day they would be then uh going into the garage uh to park where they where they could park all day and um and these
These are also the lot fees and for the businesses um in in lots excluding lot a all the other Lots the for the businesses the lot fees remain the same and um the garage fee has has gone up to for businesses has
gone up to $100 and um and the fees for the residents and commercial vehicles are listed in the ordinance so you could read the fees if anybody yeah I'm now going to open the
public hearing for this ordinance if anybody wants to be heard or to ask questions you will be heard at this time please state your name and step up to the mic okay I'm now going to close the public hearing for this
ordinance can I have a motion that ordinance 2513 be adopted um so moved second any discussion from the governing B body yes um I have a quick question okay
Speak oh quick question so if you're delivering Uber Eats you have to park in a parking lot to deliver food to someone on um Palisade I'm asking I don't know how this works so which part of Palisade um any part of Palisade if you have to go to
the parking lot the pay you know no I I think you just asking do you have to park in a municipal parking no you can park you can park in a parking meter and this you only have to put a quarter in and you can deliver in 15 minutes that that was that was a courtesy that we're
extending for for quick pickups and drop offs just a quarter for 15 minutes thank you okay any other comments from the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please
councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president president rotski yes okay that's pretty amazing we just got through eight public hearings I
think we deserve a round of applause okay thank you we now have uh we have two ordinances for introduction first reading um ordinance 2514 is an ordinance by the city council amending
the city of Anglewood code of ordinance to repeal chapter 222 in its entirety and to reopt a new 222 to adopt flood Hazard maps to designate a flood plane administrator and providing for for
severability and effective date um I'm just going to explain that before we before we make a motion so um due to the climate change and the unprecedented rain events that
we have been dealing with FEMA has updated its requirements regarding flood plane management regulations our existing ordinance is being updated with the new requirements some of the proposed updates updates include the following it requires Sellers and
landlords to disclose flood risk to potential buyers and renters it requires landlords to notify prospective renters if the property is in a FEMA flood Hazard area it requires landlords to notify prospective renters if the
property has been flooded it requires flood maps and flood damage prevention ordinances to be adopted and enforced it requires permits for development in flood ples it requires new homes to be
elevated above base flood elevations it requires non-residential buildings to be elevated above base flood elevations or dry flood proofed it requires surveyed elevation to document
compliance now please note that without these updates the residents of Anglewood will find it very difficult to get FEMA assistance or flood insurance so that's why we're required to adopt this ordinance okay
we're required to adopt it can I have a motion that we adopt ordinance TW introduce oh that we introduce ordinance 2514 so moved second any discussion from the governing
body yes um my question is that um those properties identified in a flood zone would they have to be labeled now in a flood zone with the realtor to you know with that you know when they sell their
home they be labeled flood zone and when they sell their homes and everything like that I'm asking that question um so only certain part of Inglewood would be labeled like okay you live in a flood zone but this area is not flood zone but you're flood zone and the insurance going to be different than the others
I'm asking that question well well it says here that it requires Sellers and landlords to disclose flood risk to potential buyers and renters I know but some I'm just saying Sellers and renters yes but you know what renters don't have to disclose it because they're renting but if you're a
seller um I don't know if all sellers going to disclose it so I'm asking that how we are going to map it out and maybe label it somewhere in our records somewhere on the blueprint that that property is a flood
zone you get what I'm saying I'm just asking that question the they're established by FEMA okay so they have to go through those regulations are we going to have we don't establish the flood zones that those are established by the state and federal government okay so when they
sell their home they're going to they going to automatically pull up flood zone that address someone's got to do little homework and look it up they have to do homework yeah research but but but here they don't have to do homework because you're required to disclose it to people if you're in a flood zone and
you have a flood risk you you are required to disclose that to a buyer correct so that it's it's they don't have to do too much research right okay thank you any other discussion from the governing body Yancy can I have a call
please uh prior to that just for the record the um public hearing and adoption will take place at the March 18th meeting so the next meeting thank you uh councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer
yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we have ordinance 25:15 this is an ordinance regulating the use of public and private sewers and drains private Wastewater disposal the
the installation and connection of building sewers and the discharge of water and waste into the public sewer system and providing penalties for violation thereof and this too uh is an ordinance that we are required to pass
um 2515 memorializes the adoption of the rules and regulations for the direct and indirect discharge of Wastewater to the the Bergen County Utilities Authority they govern prohibitions and enforcement for Wastewater conveyed to the Bergen
County Utilities Authority treatment facility this includes all residential and Commercial Wastewater this essentially identifies the Bergen County Utilities Authority as a regulatory agency that processes all of the
municipal Wastewater contributions to the Wastewater system under the municipal and County Utilities Authority law and uniform requirements in accordance with with New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act the federal clean
water Enforcement Act the federal Water Pollution Control Act and general pre-treatment and categorical standards as detailed in 40 of the code of federal regulations 403 which has to do with protection of
the environment so again this is something that we're required to pass we were actually from my understanding is we were required to pass this um some years ago and we're passing we're going to introduce it tonight can I have a
motion please some moved second any discussion from the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please uh Al this will also have a public hearing and adoption date on March 18th
uh councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen white yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes um before we do the public comments on the
consent agenda items I am we're going to table resolution 98 um awarding a fair and open award for bid 2502 curite solid way receptical pickup so I just want to
table that or just need a motion a second I move to table resolution 98 second we need a roll call yance you can I have a roll call on tbling that please councilwoman David yes councilman
Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes and and um are there are there any resolutions well I'm going to ask that we pull out resolution number
107 which is honoring Hilda McDonald so I'm going to pull that out um is there any other resolutions that anyone in the council would like to pull out for a separate
vote okay so I'm now going to open the meeting for public comments on the consent agenda resolution resolutions members of the public are requested to State their name tell us which which resolution that you're speaking TS and
you'll have three minutes to speak please step up to the mic I'm now I'm now going to close the public comment section on the consent agenda can I have a motion that we that we um vote on
resolution 99 100 101 102 3 4 5 6 and 108 so moved second okay any discussion from the governing
body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes um now we have resolution 107 which is a
resolution honoring Hilda McDonald Anglewood resident former Anglewood City employee and World War II veteran um and before we make a motion in second I'm going to ask that our human resource director step up to the mic and please provide us some
background council president thank you I have some handouts that I'd like to give go thank you Council assembled staff residents it is a great privilege for me to come up here this evening and talk a little bit about
Miss Hilda McDonald but before I talk about her let me give you some history on the six Triple 8 the six the 68th 88th Central postal directory Battalion also known as the six Triple 8 was a
predominantly black Battalion of the US Women's Army Corp the waack this particular army unit figuration a battalion is a unit that was comprised of five companies headquarters Alpha Company Bravo Company Charlie Company
and Delta company these soldiers worked as postal clerks Cooks mechanics and in other support related positions it was the only all African-American all female units sent overseas during World War II
and its members managed Postal Services ensuring male flow to nearly 7 million soldiers in the EUR European theater of operations the Battalion was led by Major charity Adams the first black woman to be commissioned into the women's Army Corps the unit was
comprised of 855 soldiers 824 enlisted in ncos and 31 officers working together as a team in Scotland and then in France they were awarded the European African Middle East campaign medal and
the World War II Victory Medal in 2019 the United States awarded them the meritorious unit commodation and in March 14 2022 they awarded the Congressional gold medal a movie depicting this unit is currently
streaming on Netflix called the 68 and was a recent 2025 Oscar nominee for best original song The Journey resolution number 107304 d25 is a resolution honoring Hilda
McDonald Englewood resident former Englewood City employee and World War II veteran whereas Miss Hilder McDonald an an Englewood resident now 6 now 96 years young was a former 25-year employee of
the city of Englewood in this municipal court and also served her country during World War II as a member of the fame 6 tri8 women's Army Corps Battalion and whereas the 6 Tria Battalion was the first all black female unit of the
women's Army Corps and the only one to serve overseas during World War II and whereas the 6 tri8 whose modotto was no male no morale was deployed to Scotland and later France to help unsnag the
backlog delivery of a total of 71 million pieces of mail and whereas this Fame unit completed this mission in less than 6 months delivering mail that had been delayed for up to two to three years to
service members and their families working 7 days a week in three shifts handling 65,000 pieces of mail per shift and whereas the actions of Miss Miss McDonald and her fellow Battalion
members helped to dramatically improve the the morale of soldiers at the front and their families on the home front earned them in in addition to their awards from World War II and as I stated previously in 2022 the Battalion was awarded the Congressional gold
medal now therefore be it resolved that the city of Anglewood recognizes Miss McDonald for her service to our city to our state and to our country and be it further resolved that Ms McDonald's commitment to Duty Community and faith
be forever recognized as a role model for all to follow thank you thank you [Applause] coun can I have a motion that we adopt this resolution I make a motion council
president second so I will say that in anticipation of this resolution I watched the movie 6 tri8 this weekend on Netflix and it was incredible so I urge everybody to watch it if you haven't we wanted to introduce this resolution uh
during black history month but uh we didn't have all the information um about this about um Miss Hilda McDonald uh but it's opportune that we introduce it now as as we wrap up Black History Month and as we
celebrate women's um history month did she live what and she was also in the hospital um when our last meeting but now she's she's home um um maybe yesb afterwards where
where she lives yeah yeah yeah um we're g do any any discussion from the governing body yansy can I have Mr hoffen you want to say a few words uh just as a point of reference yes thank you council
president uh the picture that you handed out is a picture if you look at the picture there's a circle a yellow circle around Miss McDonald from 1944 so that was part of the Battalion picture that was taken in
1944 and so uh that was before she went to Europe but that is Miss McDonald and I want to thank our HR Director uh Mr Robert lepine for uh his research Mr lepine is also a retired major from the
United States Army Reserve and this is uh this is something that's near and dear to both his heart and to my heart but especially to Mr leine as a as somebody that's been deployed and um has been in some of the places that Miss
McDonald was so thank you thank you president yes um Mr Huffman perhaps you could uh reach out to the family and you and I can go visit her with the resolution all right let's try to accommodate her schedule her Comfort or meet her in a third party or place if
she'd like thank you thank you can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen white yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson absolutely council president
wiski yes okay now we have our resolutions on the non-consent agenda I'm sorry one one more thing I say one more thing about that sure I would be remiss thank you council president I would be remiss if I didn't
commend our court administrator Miss Deb an bar for bringing this to our attention uh during one of our department head meetings uh she stayed in touch with Miss McDonald and she told us about Miss McDonald and she's been keeping us informed about her she uh
sort of she looks in on on her on a regular basis but uh this would not have been possible without Miss bars uh bringing this to our attention so thank you for letting me uh recognize her thank you all right we have resolution 109 which is a resolution authorized ing
a settlement of the matter of Senate versus the city of Anglewood can I have a motion so moved second we had a motion uh by and who seconded it Dr Rosen Swan thank you okay
um Bill do you want to speak for a moment about this resolution just because the public doesn't have any information just maybe a brief I yeah this is a a lawsuit handled by an attorney signed by The
Joint Insurance Fund uh relating to a dispute and it's uh I really don't know much okay I didn't handle a case other than the dollar amount that's in the resolution okay okay so okay well I don't I don't have it either
okay okay we we discussed all these resolutions because of litigation and closed session so that's where our discussion took place um we have we have three settlements can I have a roll call Yan
councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes we now have resolution 110 authorizing settlement of the matter of VW credit
versus the city of Anglewood can I have a motion please so moved second I second it okay want second again it's a lawsuit um against the city
again handled by The Joint Insurance Fund um and the settlements as as all these are without any missions of guilt or or liability or anything like that it's an applicable settlement um that the parties uh subject to approval by
the council have uh approved I I'll note just that you know most of these settlements are funded by the insurance fund by the way any discussion by the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman
Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes um resolution 111 which is authorizing settlement to the matter of Joyce Harris versus the city of Anglewood can I have a
motion so moved second okay um this would had to do with a slip and fall yeah this was a slip and fall with a um with a settlement of
$28,000 any discussion by the governing body a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson yes council president wasi yes will all these res resolutions be posted um on the city website I usually don't usually don't that's why we rate them or explain I don't you know what
okay all right we now have a resolution 112 to appoint Municipal Alliance committee members can I have a motion I make a motion second okay any
discussion can I have a roll call councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski
yes we now have resolution 113 appointing a Board of Health me member may I have a motion so moved second nice any discussion can I have a roll call
please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes don't be um we have no resolutions for discussion we have no ordinances for
discussion we have an item for discussion the enforcement of unregulated canab AB I'm going to ask our deputy chief to please step step forward and Lead that discussion thank
you uh so this this item for discussion is uh part of I guess the unintended consequences of the Crea law which allows for recreational Cannabis is there there are a bunch of holes when when it comes to enforcement of illegal
sales of cannabis and some of the issues we've seen in the city are we do have a couple areas that are are that do have uh an occasion to have you know some open air drug activity which is a huge problem for our
residents it's not fair to our residents those areas cause violence uh we have shootings we have people from outside our city coming to sell uh you know I I don't want to say illegal narcotics because marijuana is not in that class
anymore but what I found is to to look at recreational marijuana now as you would nicotine or as you would alcohol so if somebody decided to set up shop on a street corner and sell bootleg alcohol
or bootleg cigarettes or something else it would be a problem so it's falling into that category so what we would like to do is we'd like to craft an ordinance that can take into account there are specialized rules the the council has
the power to decide whether or not you're going to allow uh regulated and licensed cannabis in the city and it's important to recognize that the Cannabis that's sold in dispensaries it has it's
highly regulated um they really need to to dispense and have uh you know pharmaceutical grade cannabis there you're you're not getting fentanyl you're not getting any of these other drugs that they could be laced in so it
it really is a security issue there was there was a time uh a few months ago or maybe a little longer where I stepped on on a couple individuals that were were doing a drug transaction for marijuana and it's it's not really something we're we're allowed to enforce but if we see
it we can we can confiscated and I asked the young man who lives in town I said you know do you know what's in here and he said no and then I pointed to the gentleman that was you know he denied selling it but I said do you know what's in here he said no I saidwell there
could be some type of chemical that could that could kill this young man later and it finally dawned on him so what what our intent with this is is just to make it safer and by having a city ordinance it's it's not a it's not a jail time it's not an imprisonment
it's it's it's a fine and what we'd like to do is we'd like to to to have an impediment for people people to come into the city or be in the city and sell unregulated possibly very dangerous uh cannabis the other thing we're seeing is we're seeing shops are setting up and um
they're selling THC products that are also not regulated they're they're not tested they're not made to the pharmaceutical grade that the licensed dispensaries have so we're just trying to close that Gap again I think it's an
unintended consequence our main goal is to stop that type of activity in the city before somebody gets hurt and you know could be from the product or it could be from some type of uh escalation or some type of conflict over people
trying to sell in certain areas any questions from the governing body councilman Wilson thank you council president thank you deputy chief um I've been championing for um the regulations in our neighborhoods and in
our town um and I heard you mention in the beginning of your presentation about shooting do we have on record shooting related cannabis issues uh we well we have a I misspoke
we had we had a we had a shooting that was about to occur in an area that we believe was related to the activity that was taking place in area so thankfully we got the gun before a shooting occurred okay I just wanted to clear
that up thank you sir yes hi thank you Deputy Chief Sir so what's what's the difference in price between yellow gram of cannabis in a legitimate store versus on the street I
mean is it a factor of being cop for two decades I don't really you know it it it it really depends um so you know I don't I don't visit the the stores um I I really couldn't tell you
what it cost you know from what I understand and talking to some of the people you know at the at the at the business it is it is a high quality grade you know these people have grow houses they have a very very complex operation uh where where you know it
costs some money to to produce the pharmaceutical grade um it's probably cheaper and when I spoke today that one young man out on the street I said you know there's there's dispensaries in Fort Lee there's dispensaries in rochell park and his his thing was I I just kind
of don't trust it I'm I'm a little I am I am apprehensive about giving my ID over to somebody and kind of putting it on record that uh I'm I'm buying marijuana so I I think it's one of those things where it's just a it's a big
paradigm shift I mean we went forever where marijuana was elicit and they switched it to where it's you know I don't know if I want to say it's mainstream but it's it's accepted it was overwhelmingly voted on by the people in New Jersey when it was voted through so I think it'll just be a time that people
will start going there and and I really hope people will understand the risk that they take when they're buying something off the street they don't know what's in it so I mean you brought up bootleg alcohol and you know so you know I watched The
Untouchables but you know that took place in you know 1930 is is there any bootle alcohol anymore no but so no yeah so the point I'm making is sorry yeah I have I I definitely have a friend of
mine whose grandfather is still making his his own booze probably in his house but you do that's that's legal but is he selling it he had he did definitely didn't sell it to me um but yeah you know you do have but you do have places that you
know will pop up and try to sell alcohol and they're not licensed they don't have the the license that they have to go through with the city and have certain parameters well I'm uh I'm leading the witness here but do do you think um eventually as again it's only been three years now
but it becomes more mainstream you can get it much less expensive that the just like bootleg alcohol isn't a thing I mean I'm sure you know it's not a a major thing do you think this will become the same
way where there are enough shops there's enough acceptance and and people just start doing it legitimately and then we can so I and just like you know you know bad alcohol can have methyl alcohol in it it could kill you yes you know
similarly from from a trip we had at a dispensary the one thing the gentleman did say is that the potency is much higher so as people get accustomed to using a dispensary as opposed to buying on the street this for
example he said the stuff on the street they'd have to buy three four times as much to have the same potency as what they would sell so you know I guess we can look at the the proportion of cost you know they could they could buy less but I guess maybe use less to get what
they want to get any other questions or comments from the governing body okay thank you thank you okay now we're on resolution 114 the approved payment of the bills and claims
we asked 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 claims list dates and
whereas all bills and claims listed here with have been encumbered and sufficient funds are available for payment and whereas the required signatures have all been obtained on each voucher on the attached list now therefore be it 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 81,000 $450 53 can I have a motion so moved can I have a second second um any comments discussion by the
council yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes
I'm now going to open the meeting to the public speakers are asked to step up to the microphone and give their name and you have three minutes to speak Leroy Campbell 287 tenly Road Anglewood um before I go into what I want to
say I want it to be made perfectly clear that I have nothing personal against Chief gy or deputy chief Delarosa my issue is what's going on in the police department I've known Chief
gy since he was a kid live on the corner of Clinton Avenue and fer Road and tly I knew his dad his dad live on the corner of forer Road and Clinton Avenue and tenly he used to walk from tenly to B
Bron Street Lieutenant gy so I know I know uh Chief gy um but there's issue in that police department now I've been I watched the budget hearing and yes he gave a excellent presentation
but there is problems in that police department and we need to address it because you have officers coming to work that are not happy um and if an officer's been being sent
out into the street and he's not happy he's not focusing on his job he's focusing on what's going on in his around him um we've had a lot of people moved around in the police department we had the young man
suspended for 6 months African-American we had a young lady who's the daughter of a decorated detective moved out of the police department and we had an officer that made a
statement in front of another officer at R called that if he sees an African-American smiling he's not going to have a good night nothing has happened with this officer but the
officer that took this to the Bergen County prosecutor's office was retaliated against because she went to the per Bergen County prosecutor's office and she's been a retaliated by being shift to
midnight to midnight that's not fair so we need to work work on resolving these issues um I will gladly sit down with Mr Hoffman and Chief gy
and work out whatever we need to work out to make sure that everybody is treated equal supposed everybody's supposed to be treated equal it's Equal Opportunity Employment when you work for the city of Anglewood so everyone should be treated equal
um the other thing I have is well that's my three minutes so thank you for your comment save this for the next time thank you all right thank you okay would anybody else like to address the
council okay I'm now going to CL go ahead please state your name and you have three minutes Amy bulaland Avenue um so Bergen the County Job Center work Force development board held a poverty
immersion Institute program March 3rd and 4th I'm just curious given the poverty rate in Englewood whether or not any representative from the city attended this program that was offered by the county all right thank you any other
comments from the public okay I'm now going to close the public session um I now need a motion to adjourn the meeting I move to adjourn second anybody
second second do do you have an answer all right Mr Hoffman will check okay can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman
Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes you