of February 18th 2025 to order we all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all yany can you please read the statement regarding the open public meeting 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 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 have been given the municipal clerk is directed to include the statement in the minutes of this meeting can I please have roll call councilwoman David present councilman
Rosen here councilman toer here councilman Wilson present council president wiski here also present is Mayor Michael Wilds city manager Robert S Hoffman Deputy city manager John Berkner City attorney Bill Bailey and
Deputy City Clerk fin Craig Barry thank you uh we're now going to have a presentation by Ronald mandelo all right uh good evening and thank you very much for the uh invitation brings back fwn memories I
used to peer in municipal court at least uh once a week but uh don't do that too much too frequently these days all right I've got probably about 88 slides we're going to get through maybe half of them I only want the presentation to be about 10 or 15 minutes I'm going to move
extremely rapidly but please stop me if you do have a question um I'm happy to answer it if I can and I think I can all right um so just to give you some background I am uh a member of the Cannabis law special committee the
Cannabis Municipal land use and a trustee of the New Jersey Institute of local government attorneys that is my card everybody asks me if it's a scratch and sniff it is not not that is my website down at the bottom um these are some of the places that I represent
either currently or have in the past um there are quite a few uh I was a councilman in Two Towns burrow attorney zoning and planning board attorney zoning and planning board chairman and uh a member of those boards so it's a perfect fit okay I have got the
background with respect to politics land use and um I know this industry I've been involved since 2018 that may not seem like a long time but for the Cannabis industry uh which was in its infancy it is a long time all right um my son says I have to tell you which
bands are my favorite starting on the left would be the Almond Brothers off to the right is the Grateful Dead all right so here's the views on legalizing marijuana and I suspect that we are way above 68% I would guess that we are probably at about
85% uh with respect to folks legalizing cannabis in the United States so we're speaking about recreational Cannabis tonight as opposed to Medicinal cannabis these are the folks that are the New Jersey cannabis regulatory uh commission
I'm not sure but I do believe that Charles um was supposed to be replaced by the governor and I'm not sure that u in fact I believe he nominated the mayor of planfield uh his wife Adrien map's wife but I don't know if the Senate has
confirm them yet all right so New Jersey has 564 municipalities California has 482 why we have always been about home rule we remain home rule and the whole premise behind the legislation of
cannabis is to put control up here on the deis if you want it and I'll be quite honest with you I don't live here I don't govern here I have no idea if cannabis is right for Anglewood you will make that uh decision and if you do you will will decide who will have a
cannabis business in Anglewood and who will not all right uh so you've opted in apparently so you want to keep control now thanks to Bill he had asked me a question so this is a new slide we have already lost some control
and how is that many of the towns are asking me about gifting give me $50 for this jar and I'll give you a quarter ounce of weed that is a loophole you have to make sure sure that the ordinance addresses that and make it so
that you can issue some type of civil summons um you're not in my opinion you are not going to get the police officers involved with this I'm not sure but many of them are very hesitant to get involved with uh any type of criminal
activity when it comes to uh marijuana why because it's legalized it's decriminalized I can have 6 ounces in the back of my Volkswagen Beetle and there's nothing that anybody could do to me so anyway um you'll figure that out in my opinion police are not going to help you so who are you going to lead to
you're going to lean on the health officer perhaps the construction officer and your zoning official has anybody ever heard of Delta 8 all right so Delta 8 is an intoxicating cabon well what is that that is hemp that contains more than 0.5 milligrams of any combination
of THC I frequently get calls from Mayors saying what is going on I just got a call from a mother who bought this bag whose son who's 13 bought a bag of gummies at some gas station it was Delta 8 he ate half the bag and now he's in
the hospital they are highly intoxicating they are legal at the federal level and Governor Murphy recently signed some legislation making it illegal to sell it to folks under 21 but the businesses that sell that and
CBD filed lawsuits so that's hung up but that doesn't mean that you can't do it locally again it's going to be civil violations not criminal so again Health Department um zoning officer construction code official make sure that they check the certificates of
analysis that's a conversation for another day between me your health officer your zoning officer your construction code official all right um just like the Smoke free act uh folks are not to be smoking cannabis and parks and other public places and you've got that statute to help you out who should
be involved we know the council members should be and there's a lot of policy decisions that you'll have to make you have the 10,000 uh uh foot View and you want to get your construction Planning and Zoning officials uh involved and you're going to look at license licensing caps distance from schools the
community impact Community involvement etc etc social equity and inclusion goals um all right so other folks maybe local businesses schools universities obviously uh your Law Department um that is a list that checklist you have it we
are certainly not going to go over that but some of the things that will start to trigger questions policy decisions that I don't make but you folks will make if you decide to take that route there's a bigger checklist that you'll look at again you'll see you want micro businesses testing Labs consumption
lounges you'll figure that out um all right so let's quickly go over the classes of cannabis number one uh the uh cannabis cultivator they obviously grow cannabis that's what it looks like the manufacturer they take the raw product
they turn it into gummies Edibles etc etc that's what it looks like the biggest hurdle is the equipment very heavy Capital expenditures uh wholesalers that's the class three these individuals probably own dispensaries and they're saying give me a thousand of these a hundred of
those etc etc um a distributor bulk across the state we're not going to get into that and probably the most popular one the one that you're most familiar with would be the class 5 cannabis retailer those are the folks that sell
to the end consumer quickly I'm just going to go over some Mythbusters um residents are afraid that maybe this guy is going to come to town I got to get rid of that slide because I look like that guy that's definitely a problem they're GNA they're worried
about these types of blights on the neighborhood a bad influence on children queuing at all hours and is it going to look like the weed World well from my experience it is not that's what some of the dispensaries are looking like you'll notice that in New Jersey all of the windows need to be opaque so that nobody
can look in and see what is on the shelves or what's going on uh a class six is sort of um Uber weed they will go around to various dispensaries and pick up the four or five selections that I may be interested in and deliver to my
house uh hopefully it doesn't look like that truck all right this is my favorite outlier it is not a license it is a cannabis uh Testing Lab why is it my favorite I don't smoke pot but many of my friends do they are doctors they are
lawyers they are accountants we want to make sure that the Cannabis that they are consuming is tested doesn't have any Metals doesn't have any pesticides is tested you do not get any type of revenue from a Cannabis Testing Lab that's why it's not very popular with
municipalities but it is my favorite outlier uh micro businesses the are these are scaled down versions of the classes that we have just gone through you'll see that um you can't have more than 10 employees the space is limited
to 2500 square feet there are some other restrictions which I think aren't restrictions at all uh process no more than a thousand cannabis plants each month that seems to be a lot any questions so far here hearing none seeing
none all right so there are two licenses but essentially a conditional license uh if you do have a cannabis control board if you want it to go to a planning board then it's off to the municipal Council and here in is where the most important
Lynch pin lies the governing body has to issue a resolution of support in order for a cannabis business any of the Cannabis businesses to operate in Anglewood without that resolution of support they can't get a license from the state and they cannot ever operate
with a conditional uh and there are restrictions you can't make more than I think it's two folks 300,000 a year something like that but they don't need you initially they can go to the state apply for the conditional license but they can't go any further until they get
this from you and then they need to convert to what's known as an annual license which once again the all important resolution of support you may or may not send the application to the planning board and then they file with the state to get an annual all right most important slide this is a two-tier
process resolution of support from the governing body it's the most important piece of the Cannabis puzzle and the CRC will not approve a state cannabis license without it local licensing don't reinvent the wheel you've got local licensing for dog licenses and I'm sure
a myriad of other things so sort of use that and just make it or U adjust it modify it as as needed it's not a time- sensitive process the other side is uh the Cannabis establishment has to obtain the state license first before you grant
them a local license all right municipalities can create their own local licensing endorsement as part of its restrictions the number location manner times of operation in fact wonderful case Big Smoke versus uh West Milford published pellet division case
that says governing body has wide discretion to decide these issues and only if they are arbitrary or capricious or unreasonable would what they have done be uh vacated all right these are the Cannabis statutes in a nutshell you can enact ordinances not in conflict
with the Cannabis legislation govern the number of establishments not delivery to your town so if there are any surrounding towns that have opted in since I don't know two years ago they can deliver to your residents 247 you can't do anything about it um so you
cannot govern delivery to your town from other count abis establishments govern the location Manner and times very important establish civil penalties for violations of your ordinance and you can impose your separate Lo uh local licensing all right this is why many
towns did not opt in they all opted out because the New Jersey Institute of local government attorneys of which I am a trustee we suggested that you didn't until we knew what the regulations were these were not an epiphany they were pretty much the same but much more in detailed as those statutes I have just
gone over all right um consumption areas most towns do not opt in for a consumption area that is essentially a location that is somehow attached to the dispensary that would allow folks to go there and consume their cannabis all right um there are
land use issues issues these are very very general if you're going to permit it make it feasable um you you don't want to say 500 fet from every school if you've got a lot of schools here you will have zoned it into inutility uh you want either a permitted
use a conditional use you want to figure out where the green locations are always suggest your planner take a look at that um the operations micro businesses etc etc uh we're not going to talk about that that's the process for Hoboken you
have those slides I put that together that's the process for Jersey City we don't have time to go that into that in detail happy to speak to anybody offline as to what some of these components are uh very interesting you may or may not have the wherewithal to do this but
Jersey City did it um I believe Hoboken did it they were just inundated with calls my property is 125 Main Street is it in the green zone so all I have to do is punch the property address in and it'll tell you if they're in the green zone so you have to deal with those phone calls um all right um best
practice is you want to set up a web page perhaps add that map uh forget create the applicant scorecard that was a long time ago that we used to do that less is better these days uh put together a frequently Asked question um know who in your municipality is
handling the Cannabis applications last paragraph very very important the applications that you get from Cannabis businesses are not operable we don't want you sharing the business plans of cannabis a with potential cannabis B and
those are the statutes that will protect you Bill all right okay um see uh this last paragraph is when I go out west has to do with cultivation and Farmland Assessment we don't have that here what are some of the limitations on
locations grocery stores can't be there delies indoor Foods other stores engaging in retail premises licens for retail you cannot have a cannabis business there once again most important thing the resolution of support by the governing body that's a determination that you have authorized this particular
class of license s by the applicant and if youve put a number on it make sure you don't exceed the number with your resolutions of support um I get I get at least two or three calls from zoning officials every week There's a letter of uh support from the zoning official some of them say I have to wait for the
planning board no this is simply a letter that says this particular location is zoned for this particular class of license end of story it's two lines um all right so how do you handle a cannabis
zoning application just like you handle other o other applications zoning safety a big one for me prohibiting sales to miners traffic parking issues big one Municipal incurred cost of enforcement you want to make sure that the folks behind me the residents are not paying
the tab for enforcement uh and there are ways to do that all right here comes the money 2% 2% 1% and 2% you'll notice that the Cannabis Testing Lab is not up there and a distributor is not up there and class six delivery is not up
there um okay this we need not go into this all right I I hate this slide but almost every governing body every mayor asks me to put something like this up these numbers were put together probably a year and a half ago the
market is somewhat saturated you could probably reduce those numbers by 25% easily um so a retail business could make 9 to 12 million uh that would mean 180 to 240,000 to the town cultivation
12 to 15 million for 15 square feet um that would be about a quar million to 300,000 per year now that takes about 16 to 25 months to ramp up because plants don't grow overnight uh manufacturing is probably one of the more lucrative
businesses um they can produce a gummy for uh 5 cents and sell it for five bucks 20 million to 25 million um if you have industrial zones that are uh not that are vacant that's where you want to put that stuff um other potential
benefits local employment most towns require that the Cannabis businesses hire certain percentage of local residents um there's typically an increase in the sales of other local businesses to the patrons of dispensaries positive Community impact the Cannabis businesses are usually
required the show and make a positive Community impact through education donations expungement clinics volunteerism and if you do have commercial vacancies um they there will be a significant decrease and those are some of the guide posts if you're a
bedroom community you're flush with cash and you have no vacancies cannabis is not right for Anglewood if those things are in the opposite um you may want to take a look at it um do you want a cannabis review board uh instead of having and I don't know how many applications if you decide to take that
route we'll wind up in front of the governing body but I'm sure your meetings run late like mine did in Ken and and Falon so you may want to have a review board advisory only to say we like these folks we don't like these folks here's why
um we don't yeah we don't need to go over this uh those boards would have to keep some records but it can be informal um all right host Community agreements what are those host Community agreements our pellet division said they don't have a problem with host Community agreements but they need to be reasonable so it
shouldn't be a quid quidd pro quo um also I just put this up there I know everybody up there is familiar with this but don't solicit anything of value from the Cannabis business and of course the Cannabis businesses shall not offer anything of value in exchange for zoning approval local support etc etc um this
is probably the worst statute I've ever seen the our legislator basically took the um Casino statute and copied and paste but any member of the governing body the judge any member of the planning board zoning board any professional planner who's employed
retained by the planning board zoning board they can't have an interest in a cannabis business anywhere in the state um I know that our legislatures are Exempted um but let's say your planner uh his wife wants to and you decide to op in and your planner on the planning
board decides he wants his wife to have uh a cannabis dispensary somewhere South can't do it can't do it okay um so host Community agreements recoup Municipal costs probably going to be some uh auditing we don't want the CFO spending
a lot of time on that 2% um so you can recoup that through host Community agreements uh police compliance with local laws who's going out there Health uh officer zoning official you want to recoup that stuff make sure the folks behind me are not paying through taxes to have to uh fund those things
employment opportunities Community Education there are usually some type of contributions to local charities can't be a money grab that sort of thing build us a new Rec Center um and it can't give us it can't be give us business money and will act favorably on the locations um these are some issues we can talk
about I don't know maybe down the road some of these host Community agreements some judge may say they're not fair they're not reasonable some of my towns want a lot uh Hoboken asked that every cannabis business pay for the salary of
every of of a full-time police officer plus medical benefits plus pension I don't know and I will not opine as to whether or not that is reason reble all right um so some comments and suggestions you're going to want to
require some site control even if it's an Loi letter of intent um change the ordinances to require notices to Residents within 200 fet some towns do that they maybe want to know if a dispensary is coming into their neighborhood um you may want to look at
a host Community agreement a negotiation is with your cannabis board but the final Authority is always here if you do have a board um and you may or may not want the uh planning board to vet you may want a cannabis board to do it uh there should be an appeal process if
there is a uh a grieved applicant cannabis applicant letters of support have no place in this adult use cannabis they were used in the medicinal and your licensing process should be annual so you can keep tabs on those businesses uh I am not going to go over this
legislation that's Big Smoke uh I am going to end it there because most of the other slides really get into some detail that uh involve towns that have already opted in they already have cannabis businesses up and running I thank you for your time any
questions thank you very much does anyone from the council have any questions I'll start on the right okay councilman Wilson yes thank you um good evening thank you Ronald for coming up
and giving us this presentation I was one of the members here that thought that this to be important uh I didn't know it was going to be a crash course uh there's so much information that you flew by that I would like to take another look at so if I could get that
slide or um hard copy that would be great um so a couple questions I did send it already so you've got it in a PDF form we we'll send it out to the whole Council tomorrow okay thank you um one of my
questions you kind of answered and it was School awareness and and I and I know that this is something that the future and other towns are doing I'm not concerned about other towns my concern is here in Englewood and I heard you say something about positive support to the
community um could you elaborate on what that means because I because if if if I'm correct um I I think it's awareness that us as parents and the students and the teachers and the principles and and
the whole town needs to know um what's involved with this so could you elaborate on that I represent Tac and what they did is they had the my condolences I'm sorry go ahead um I think the superintendent of the school actually showed up everybody in the gymnasium uh and you know we
spoke about and the school spoke about cannabis etc etc But to answer your question about positive Community impact what that refers to is ask the Cannabis businesses to first hire from residents uh from Anglewood um
and explain why you can't if they can't maybe they can maybe they can't that's a big Community impact um education uh have the Cannabis business put on educational seminars because we know alcohol drug abuse it can happen so uh positive Community impact can be
anything that you want it can to be but I did list some stuff in the presentation and I'm guessing that the council president will send it out to you tomorrow okay and with that be something that we would incorporate into a resolution of support no you'd incorporate it into your uh
ordinance okay and it could also be in in your uh uh your community host agreement as well and then limitations do we get to prohibit you said to minors absolutely that's the state state legislation okay well and and I and what
is that 17 18 years old under 21 under 21 wow okay um and uh the last is because this is such a fluent business and we would get something as a city um how do we calculate you know
these sales these you know I'm not saying everyone's unscrupulous but you know people are making sales and how do we make sure that the city gets theirs yeah that's a great question and usually I mean I that's a
great question and I can spend another hour on that and I won't but um we can have an offline discussion how do we actually figure out that you're getting the 2% um we don't want to lay that uh Duty on I got to get into transfer tax
user taxes um but the CFO is probably pretty busy so you may want to have some type of independent auditor um it's easy with respect to the class five because they have to report those sales to the state they're not going to Micky Mouse
around those State forms it gets much more complicated when there are cannabis businesses that have concurrent licenses and that gets hairy it gets detailed we could always have a an offline discussion about that thank you I'm I'm done for now and
I would like to have a conversation offline and once I receive the presentation thank you okay um okay okay Mr Hoffman uh thank you council president um Mr mandelo the uh
some of my colleagues and I have been discussing just the um I guess the the licensing aspects and then um the the fee aspects of it and can can you comment one of one of our colleagues has has said that any funds from Cannabis
sales need to be put in a state Chartered Bank because if they're put into a federally Chartered Bank um the federal government could could take the take the fund because it's it's um I I don't know it's what whatever the proper
terminology is but have you is do you have a recommendation have you heard this this comment about a state Chartered Bank versus a federal federally Chartered Bank if the federal government was going to come in and make an example out of the biggest cannabis
businesses they would have done it many many years ago but to your question most there are many banks in New Jersey that are that Federal Charter and they are accepting funds from these cannabis
businesses um because apparently the federal government is hands off because they would have done it they would have made an example out of some very big company seized all of their assets they haven't done that so all right so the so the revenues that the city may receive
in the future from the sales of cannabis we we don't have to go find a state Chartered Bank we can put it into our regular federally chartered Banks and my humble op opinion that's going on every day yeah okay thank you do you have any
question okay councilman Rosen so thank you Mr mandelo so I remember when you know this um was first a state law and the and the um resolution you know on the state law there's a lot of talk
about favoring um hiring of people who had been jailed failed for cannabis social Equity yeah um how is how has that been working out the past 3 years um is there any advantage to doing uh
from the city a social Equity point of view for uh giving out the licenses yeah so so Ken the that is a policy decision that the governing body will make I I have towns that have no interest in that whatsoever uh I represent other towns
that are very much interested in making sure that those folks that have been busted for distribution of marijuana have a leg up on anybody else that hasn't that that are applying for cannabis licenses but that that's a policy decision that you folks will make
are there any incentives for towns to do that or minority owned businesses or micro businesses as you were mentioning before or is it all just whatever the you is there any additional revenue from the state for that or any addition advantages to that there's no additional
Revenue but thinking along those lines that's what the legislation was all about yeah it was reparations for and I've represented many of them many of them gotten deported you know for selling small amounts of marijuana so
the state legislation was all about helping those folks now not every governing body that I represent is interested in that many are some are not okay up to you yes uh thank you and it's a pleasure
to meet you and and to regil my late father who was actually a Dean when it came to cannabis uh and immigration law and I would urge the city just to play it more cautiously in a state Chartered Bank rather than a feder one lest we
find ourselves in the crosshairs of the first case of impression that the federal government would like to make there's no sweat which bank we make the deposits into couple of quick concerns I vetoed the um this years ago and this in
my opinion is several years late but I'm happy that it's being taken up um we've had some conflict with our neighboring communities particularly in EK where they were building cannabis really on the cusp of our border there's a young
lady here in the audience that has to uh deal with this every single uh day of her life and I'm wondering um has the law changed in a way that gives us some teeth while we say yes uh to Bringing
cannabis perhaps in my opinion also only in the industrial parts of our city rather than the residential or the um commercial District do we have any um teeth to keep it from a residential area when other communities are bringing it
forward no no uh the state made it crystal clear that you will have absolutely no authority to stop uh transportation of cannabis through your town and deliveries to your residents 247 I get the deliveries I get the transportation it's the smell that
somebody's living across the street from that has to contend with that and that dispensary is in another town yes and that nuisance is palpable to that family that has to deal with that uh the state L's the state law is crystal clear that
odor is not to leave the property lines end of story so something is really wrong so you sure it's a legitimate store I'm I I'm just going by what was reported to me and again this isn't the venue for us to go through all the facts
but it's supposed to be contained is what you're saying and the city has an interest to protect its residents from that also yeah you could yeah yeah so give us a sense now if we agree on Route four north south it should be uh put
there um rather than in the central business district with these other very substantial communities that you've represented what has been the net effect of making that calculus was it better for them in the end to put it in the res in the commercial District like our
palisad Avenue or was it better for them to put it in other spaces so mayor when you say better I'm going to assume do you mean money both financially and access on the one hand I'm I'm speaking at Liberty here we don't want our children to be able to
walk in and out without some measure of protection and for any collateral police activity that may happen and we're inviting that activity that's what I wanted you to speak toward both the financial and the community kind of effect that it has so
as far as the community effect it's a gauntlet to get into one of those stores you're not getting in unless you've got some type of ID that's 21 and older and the technology is fantastic these days it can figure out if you have a fake
driver's license or some other type of ID so um you're not getting in that building if you're under 21 um with respect to money um I'm finding that the manufacturing in the industrial zones are generating quite a bit of Revenue
and then of course the dispensaries that are on Main Street are generating a lot of money or like in Rosell Park where there is just tremendous traffic going past you know Route 17 we'll hear from our police Authority and so forth later
but have you seen any negative criminal activity or effect from the communities that you've represented yeah I've spoken to a lot of chief of police there are no complaints there haven't been any problems unlike California thank
you councilwoman David hi as for delivery um how would they um make sure that the ID is not fake but there's some type of um machine and they scan it they can deliver anywhere and now how would they know if that person is 21 years old
or older it could be problematic as well can it yeah so those are state regulations and state statutes and those folks that deliver they have GPS they're monitored as to where exactly they go those orders are placed ahead of time and then when they deliver it at the
door it's got to be that individual that has submitted some form of ID that has already been vetted thank you okay um do you have another question no uh mayor if if you could just expand
briefly you stated that you vetoed this years ago and I'm interested to find out besides what tenek or another town is doing and what made you change your mind and think that this was a good idea for
Engle there was a referendum uh councilman Wilson that had run its course before I took seat as mayor I had retired for nearly 10 years during that period of time there was a referendum and the city residents overwhelmingly showed an interest in cannabis coming to
the city the governing body then the council voted against it and I vetoed that saying that the residents of the city had just voted in a public referendum wanting it to be embraced and then I tried to bring it up in my state of the city addressed
religiously for the last many years hoping that the council would take it up thankfully the council is taking it up now and I had done my due diligence at the time um of course in my professional life understanding that the federal
government is slow to step up it's been slow and major things same-sex marriages and a lot of other uh major uh facts uh through the generations and that gave me great pause in some ways but in the last
few years councilman the the police the state the municipalities the public works the effect that this has on children the religious and emotional and the schooling effect to young children uh has been explored now there are some
issues of Divergence and I'm happy to talk offline with you when somebody is driving and they may have smoked something it may be it may not be palpable to a police officer and it's going to change the interactions uh when people are out there publicly but we
here are taking actions thanks to the council and you signed this also you now cannot smoke this publicly in the street like uh wherever smoking is prohibited also so I felt in many ways that we needed to have a few years ago the
conversations that we're having now that's why I vetoed the ordinance at the time okay um thank Youk thank thank you mayor and and the reason why I thought it was in important for us to um change the ordinance on smoking because it has become a nuisance to many residents in
our area and so I just wanted to give our city and our resident here my constituents opportunity to understand why you vetoed it years ago thank you Council okay um I just want to ask you a couple questions please so one is what are what is the usual
distances uh that people have surrounding uh the Cannabis businesses yeah so uh again depending is it in the industrial Zone the commercial Zone what is so in the industrial Zone I guess it really doesn't matter but I
guess in in the in the retail what is the usual distance yeah I I have seen anything from 200 to 1,000 feet okay um so so generally the 200 would be the
lower number um if you have two retail stores what usual what distance you usually have between two retail stores um there is no usual distance um Jersey city has I think 600 feet um I I believe
that West Milford has like half a mile um okay and um in terms of class six so you mentioned with class six there is no 1% 2% there's there's no no fee that that a city gets for it what is the
benefit because already people can Leona I think allows delivery already there's delivery into Anglewood from other towns so what benefit is there for Anglewood to have a class six yeah so from my persp perspective there is no Financial
benefit um there's no Financial benefit to a cannabis lab testing either but I think that one's really important um there is no Financial benefit to from a distributor another class of license but those are policy decisions and there
aren't many towns that are looking for class six and I'm I don't know how that model will even be uh profitable but and and with a class six is it usually a class five that also has a class six ah so a class five doesn't need a class six
a class five can simply get your permission to make deliveries and then do that okay um so the council president had asked um does a class five need a class six to make deliveries the answer is no
a class five can make their own deliveries a dispensary but they need your permission and once you give them the permission the state will somewhat rubber stamp it okay thank you very much for your presentation and I'm sorry we really did go over time but thank you very much for
the invitation have a pleasant evening okay um now we're on approval of minutes resolution number 086 can I have a motion please for approval of minutes and that's for minutes it's for it's for regular
minutes January 21st Workshop meeting January 7 special meetings January 7th 21st and 27 I make a motion council president I'm sorry I didn't hear you I make a motion for the minutes okay second second okay can I have um any
discussion on the minutes can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski
yes okay now we're we have no ordinances for second reading ordinance introduction for first reading we have ordinance 25- 07 it's an it's an ordinance authorizing the sale of land without public Au auction pursuant to
njsa 40a co 12-13 B5 can I have a motion so moved second second and and
um Bill do you want to just mention say a word about that uh yeah this ordinance pertains to a uh strip of property on nof place it's actually part of the nof place right away joining 333 van brunch
Street I think it is um this has come up a couple of times we received an updated appra appraisal from the cities of praiser valuing if a triangular strip of land there that's currently partially been utilized by the joining property owner for a number of years uh that
would uh they'd be interested in purchasing it for $93,000 in addition to that there's been discussions that if this does go through and get adopted that they would compensate the city as well for utilization of that piece of property for a number of years um at the request
of the city they did remove some trees on our property a few years ago so there'd be some that would be factored into a quote rent price um but that's the essence of it um and uh that's essentially it thank you any any
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
wasi yes now we have ordinance 250a an ordinance amending chapter 191 fee section 12 Recreation Department section 14 uniform construction codes chapter 364 Solid Waste and Recycling section 11
violations and penalties and chapter 212 fire prevention section 17 fire safety permits and fees of the code of the city of Anglewood can I have a motion please that the ordinance pass on first reading so moved second okay um uh Bob
do you want to say a few words about this ordinance uh thank you council president uh this ordinance is a uh covers several of our departments and this is looking at the fees to make sure that the fees cover the services that are provided by the
city so as an example we have in fire the fire prevention section uh there's a we're currently charging $54 for the fire prevention to go and do inspections on on weekends when we have fairs fairs that uh that require um the in the
inspectors to go out um the $54 doesn't cover the cost of our inspectors on on the weekend so these uh these fees are more in line with that it'll it'll help cover those costs thank you any discussion from members of the council okay yansy can 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 2509 and ordinance amending
chapter 25 section 25-18 schedule 10 and section 2520 schedule 12 of the traffic and Par traffic and parking ordinance of the code of the city of Anglewood Tan Avenue can I have a motion
please so moved second okay um Chief do you want to just come up and just say a word about tan uh Avenue and what we're doing there please up days screen there we go good evening council president evening C Council um as
previously discussed this is a change to the parking regulations on te and Avenue as you're all aware there is a uh large residential complex On the tck Border there that um you know after Consulting with the councilman and several of people we we foresaw this as a potential
parking issue in our own city as a result of the near the closest of that large complex door City so uh I I spoke several times with councilman Wilson about potential uh solutions to this and what we could do to make the area to you know Prett proactive about addressing any potential traffic issues in that
area uh it was determined that uh probably the best course of action would be to limit parking on the south side of the road which is the side of the road closest to the apartment complex uh we would allow parking on the north side of the road and then after Consulting with the DPW we determined that we would uh
limit parking on the North side During certain times along in accordance with the street sweeping that goes on in the fourth ward so uh it would allow parking on the south side only on Fridays from 7th to just a regular street sweeping ordinance alternate side thank you very
much any comments from the from the council um thank you chief for being diligent and following through and having the for forethought to think about the residents and the congestion that we face thank any other comments from the
council okay can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes okay now we have ordinance 25-10 an
ordinance to establish chapter 155 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled business liability insurance registration can I have a motion please I make a motion council president a second thank you um Bob do you want to just say a few words about
this ordinance sure thank you council president um this ordinance this the state back in 202 22 uh authorized the um the the annual registration of for certificates of insurance for local
businesses and also uh rental rental properties so the city has been doing that and the state has allow has allowed that there can be an administrative fee for that service so this fee would be $25 a year for the clerk's office to uh
to do that and the the registration has to be done in January and then you know if if there's no um if if there's no compliance with that there's also there's also a range of the penalties so that we can ensure
compliance thank you any any 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 wasi yes now we have ordinance 2511 ordinance amending chapter 25 pertaining to the proing of commercial vehicles on certain hours and certain streets can I have a motion please I make a motion council president second thank you uh Chief do you want to come
up and just say a few words about the commercial vehicles please uh thank you council president so uh this this ordinance came about um as a result of receiving complaints over the years um from residents but also uh
speaking with several council members about uh concerns about commercial vehicles being parked on a residential streets in our neighborhoods um you know during overnight hours uh you many you're probably aware that currently uh the city prohibits a parking of vehicles
weighing over 4 tons upon any Street between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. but there were vehicles that were brought to our attention that have become a nuisance in different areas of the Town um again particularly in our in our residential neighborhood areas uh some of the complaints are just uh large
Vehicles being parked that obstructing the the right away uh view obstructions and just over all the Aesthetics of these commercial vehicles in our in our neighborhoods so I was asked to just come with some solutions uh to address this um I did speak uh with councilwoman
David and councilman Wilson about this um because I having been here for a while I understand that this this does affect more so the third and fourth WS as opposed to the first and second even though this will be Citywide uh so one solution that's being proposed is that
it be based upon the zoning of the city so if you when you refer to the city zoning map and you look at single family zones that encompasses pretty much what was related to me as the concern the areas that were of concern of commercial vehicles parking
so I formed formulated the proposed ordinance to would eliminate commercial parking uh between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m consistent with our current ordinance in those single family zones thank you very much any comments
from the council yes um thank you Chief This was um one of my pet peeves for about a year um could you explain to everyone here about those trucks also that carry non-commercial plates but they're supposed to have commercial
plates as well um we spoke about that remember um what happen to those those trucks there are Vehicles we see around a commercial vehicle vehicles with ladders and obviously being used for commercial purpose commercial purposes
but sometimes if you look closely at the registration it's not registered as a commercial vehicle registered as a as a passenger vehicle so um you know there's any any number of reasons why someone may do that but if it's being used for commercial purposes it should be registered as a commercial vehicle so um
that is a concern we've always addressed we've always had to deal with in the city uh but the way this is written of a vehicle is being clearly used for commercial purposes regardless of whether it's misuse of plates or not which is what that refers to it would still be in violation of the ordinance thank
you any other comments councilman Wilson yes thank you I too thought this to be important because um IT addresses a quality of life for our residents and many people have struggling streets where they aren't allowed to park so I
for one I'm happy that we got this somewhat nipped in the butt so thank you sir any other comments okay yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman too yes
councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes now we have ordinance 2512 ordinance amending chapter 25 of the angood city code pertaining to parking in the city of Anglewood can I have a motion that excuse me council president just a point of order clarification on
this ordinance okay thank you uh before it's introduced could we just add something on page 14 uh paragraph three under regulations of lot um just on on page
14 yes um under under regulations of lot paragraph three uh we just need to add the health department to the uh um to the to the list of um departments where where um where residents can park to do business
so it says Police Department fire department or Municipal Court I just want to be able to add the uh the health department and it's it it's item number three okay does does everybody see that okay all right so with with adding
the health department to paragraph three on page 14 can I have a motion that this be introduced so moved second thank you um council president if I may point of order if we could explain to the public
that about this particular change thank you just about this ordinance yeah I was just about thank you you're welcome so this this ordinance pertains to um the presentation that was given at the council meeting at our last meeting which is uh the the police we we had uh
the police had given a presentation and they talked about using a kiosk system for parking and um and we're going to be getting rid of the meters people are going to be able to either pay via kios they can they could pay uh
via via text or they could pay via an app as well and this is going to increase our efficiency there were a lot of problems with the meter system and and this is going to solve a lot of the problems it's also going to um people
are not going to be able to just keep feeding a meter because after three hours it's going to be timed out but there is a carve out for people who just have a drop off uh oh that's actually in the fees um so but
um um but and and the and the council for the council's purpose I mean we were all here for the presentation so so all the details are in the presentation it was a long presentation but that's that's the the bottom line is it's going to increase efficiency and we're moving to
a kiosk system for the parking in the downtown we we just haven't picked the Kos system yet or the company is that correct no I I think I think we have picked the the no we're just we're just opening up for the possibility of kiosk and then we would have to introduce
different companies is that correct Mr city manager we're int we're introducing the ordinance and then there's um there is a recommendation for companies but we have to wind up we have to do our due diligence and um you know and then and then go forward but we can't do it until this ordinance is introduced yep yeah
okay any other comments go ahead ahead for the record I wasn't here at the last meeting but I did listen to it uh on uh YouTube and I knew that you would okay um so given that there no other comments
can I have a roll call please sorry councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasad okay
yes we now we have ordinance 2513 and ordinance amending chapter 191 entitled fee schedule can I have a motion that this be uh passed on first reading make a motion council president second okay
um all right and and this is um this is the new parking fee schedule is that correct that is correct yeah this is a I'm just looking for it but I have so many things here okay yeah so it's it's a new it's a new
uh fee schedule I think you have it in front of you ordinance 2513 so like I was saying trying to say before we did have a carve out where somebody was going to run into Buckley or you know into pick up a delivery it would be 25 cents for the first 15
minutes and then afterwards the next 45 would be a dollar then it would be a total of up to three hour a do25 after three hours but then people couldn't um uh put money into the meter after three hours so then they would be um they
would have to move their car and um and then you can see the uh parking fees for the Lots on the second page of the ordinance so does anyone have any any comments about the
fee schedule okay being that there are no comments can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes
council president if I may all these ordinances we'll have a a second reading on March 4th and a public hearing on the same date okay thank you yansy okay now we're up to public comment on the agenda items I gu all those that that I'm now opening the meeting for public comment
on the consent agenda resolution members of the public are requested to State their name um an address before speaking and a reminded to speak on consent AG agenda resolutions number 87 through 95
only okay and okay being that there's nobody who's coming to the mic to speak I'm now going to close the public comment section of the oh okay yes please come how you doing Raymond Diaz 408
Shannon Court uh 087 the first one resolution awarding fair and open award to a construction forbid for uh the library it's uh 1.37 million is this would this money cover the entire renovation or will
there be subsequent years that we will have a phase two phase three yeah I'll answer this just finish your questions and we'll uh the 090 02 21825 just asking a question do you have
training for the fire department for substation fires have they ever did any kind of uh training for that and um you're you're asking if the fire department has training for
materials emergency preparedness yeah they're training for hazardous materials emergency preparation so they usually do some kind of training for specific substation fires so you want to know if the fire department the fire department has contacted PS for their safety that
before they just enter it you know they know what they're doing okay they get their orders from there that's it thank you thank you okay anybody else in the public have any questions Okay so so I'm now going to close the public comment section on consent agenda uh the answer to your
second question on a um resolution 90 was yes and your first question on resolution 87 Bob do you want to address that sure this has to do with the library and this was a grant that the library applied for and received it's uh
something that was fast-tracked so this is um this should be an an all-inclusive renovation for the for the library library and the library board should be commended for going after the Grant and then um working with the city
on on on the tight timeline so that we can we can get the work done and if I can add the plans are uh for view in the in the library yeah okay and the plans are for view in the library okay thank you can I have a um
does anybody from the council want to separate out any of the resolutions yes go ahead that's um 94-02 1825 could Nancy please let the public know about that one okay we will separate out resolution 94 any other
resolutions to be separated out okay um so I'm we'll get to 9 I'll do the other resolutions then I'll get to 94 that's no um we'll vote separately that's fine okay so
so can I have a motion um for Resolutions 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 95 I make a motion second oh second okay any discussion can I have a roll call please
yany councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes now a resolution 94 is a resolution to support publishing legal notices on
official official government websites I'm going to ask the clerk to please explain this resolution before Motion in second you want you can explain it first okay and then we'll do the motion all right um so in normal course of business for
how we do a lot of things is we're required to publish legal ads or notices in a print newspaper uh what's happened uh at the end of last year was one of the newspapers that the city uses uh whether it's the council one of the
boards or any other entity they used The Star Ledger and the record The Star Ledger has gone from print to completely online that's left a lot of municipalities and other government entities uh in a bit of a quandry so the
legislature passed at the end of the year a stop Gap measure to help out the municipalities but that expired at the beginning of March so we're back to what do we do now that the laws expired we have to be able to print the law
requires us to print in newspapers in a paper Edition the star ledgers uh no longer has that option and the law doesn't permit us to publish in the Star Ledger we're still able to do it in the record um we don't know how much longer
the the record will be in print edition we're still going to continue to do that but there are certain laws and requirements that require us to publish something in the record so this law is requesting this resolution is to request that our legislators pass a law to help
all the government entities with the the new times that we're going through uh we need to be able to publish on some kind of government website if we're not able to publish in a newspaper anymore it's not to not post it's not to not publish
we will still continue to do that but just on a government website because we're no longer able to do it in print because the print newspapers are going away and just as an addition to what what our clerk has said the record now
is requiring additional lead time before we can put put legal notices in so um they also have a limited amount of space for legal notices so uh we're we're at their Mercy we have requirements where we have to publish something by a date
certain and we are not we can no longer rely on getting that into the record on those certain dates just because of their their space constraints and basically we have we have to get something to them a minimum of 10 days ahead of time before we can publish
it thank you can I have a motion that we introduce resolution 94 so moved second second second okay any any discussion from the council okay Yancy can I call please councilwoman
David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes okay um can I have a resolution can I have a can
I have a motion to introduce resolution 9602 1825 to approve the payment of bills and claims so move second okay any discussion okay being being that there's
no discussion can I have a roll call please do you do you have a comment no you got your mic on okay everybody has their mic on okay so there's there's no discussion can I have roll call please councilwoman David
yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasi yes okay now we're trying we're going to have communication from the governing body and city manager uh mayor
Wilds thank you good evening everybody uh to our unsung heroes celebration as we continue to celebrate a Black History Month I'd like to share uh with the community the angood public schools district unsung heroes celebration and award ceremony the event will be held
this Thursday in the DIY Gillespie auditorium at Dwight M high school with a dinner reception at 5 in a full program at 6:30 for more information please get in touch with Janelle Johnston uh 201862 6087 this is a
tremendous effort honoring and our the amazing people in our community who do so much thank you to the superintendent Dr Hazelton Miss Johnson and everyone else is making this event uh possible I invite everyone to join us this coming Sunday February 23rd 12:30 at City Hall
for our Ramadan celebration thank you to the ID our community of New Jersey Anglewood Muslims and everyone who works to bring us this special event I urge everyone to come share in the culture and community of our Muslim neighbors also congratulations to Jeff
Carter NAACP Black History Month uh presentation uh by the conference of executive committee members and coordination uh chair Jeff will host a discussion on the black community in New Jersey's interaction with the new Administration in Washington the form
will be be held 3:00 at St Michaels uh Ethiopian Orthodox Church at 1:13 angle Street as part of the black history month program a zoom option is also available residents can contact 973 955 8358 for more information uh visit Mr
Carter's Facebook page to view the event flyer or Zoom login information the Bergen County Senior ride connect our program with the Bergen County division of Transportation as part of its age-friendly initiative is offering residents AG 60 and over a
One-Stop travel information and trip planning service provided by Mobility manager a variety of Transportation options are available for local seniors including County shuttles local buses Easy Ride uh New Jersey Transit Access Link and a lot of other uh ways this is
a least expensive option in order to shop attend appointments visit family and friends safely and conveniently residents should call 201 368 5955 from 9:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. Monday to Friday to participate again
that's 201 368 5955 congratulations uh to Gert cannon on her well- earned retirement after 35 years at the act's Fun home uh councilman David and I had a chance uh to bestow honors to her it was my honor
and pleasure to present gertude with a key to the city as a small token of the tremendous positive impact she's had on our city for so long touching in the lives of so many she treated people who were younger than her the Actis fun home is such an important asset to our
community I know that they're working uh tirelessly with Pleasant Avenue residents to make things more pleasant when it comes to buses uh being uh delivering uh and vendors and so forth to this institutional uh use they have
actually fired vendors where they've breached uh the uh enjoyment of uh of silence and so forth um you can make a lot of support for tax deductible contribution to the actors fun home.org thank you to director
Jordan Stall and everyone at the fund for their dedication and Care thank you again especially to Gertrude who decided years ago at 89 she would retire and we wish her the best in this new chapter of her life uh there is a crossing guard hiring the engood police department is
currently hiring crossing guards guards are needed both mornings and afternoons for a total of three hours per day at a rate of $20 per hour that's a great way to learn uh more about our our kids protect them and earn some extra money while helping our community stay safe
interested candidates should call 20568 2863 or email hiring at Inwood pd.org that's 20568 2863 I finally I'd like to make sure that everyone is aware of an exciting
new way to access information and receiving important city updates and that is the my Anglewood New Jersey app on our phones using this new app which is available to download for free from Apple App Store or Google Play Store a
scannable QR code is also available to assist in your downloading on the city Facebook page and website this is a great way to stay up toate on everything happening in our city I urge every resident to give it a try uh and I'd like to end with uh condolences formally
uh to the bbus uh family I just posted a uh press release issued by the Israel New Jersey uh excuse me the New Jersey Israel uh Commission on this extraordinary sad uh loss thank you thank you councilwoman David um yes
um speaking of openings we have several um openings also listed on our website um right that we're trying to fill as well um right so please go to the website as as well and also um Mr Hoffman could you please also um give
the public an update of the um femur trucks and pscg while they're on Ivy Lane could you add that up in an update like while we have them on Cambridge and Ivy Lane because they're calling me asking me why they didn't get any notice if it's an emergency or not you know
so okay thank you okay okay councilman Rosen SW hi thank you good evening everyone um I just wanted to uh compliment uh council president uh wiski uh tonight we um introduced our 13th ordinance of the
year it's February 18th uh last year we passed nine ordinances for the entire year for all of 2024 so uh we're already uh well past that and we're not even out of February we're not even 50 days into the year so that's uh quite a testament
to uh organizational skills and and getting things done so congratulations thank you councilman toer yes thank you president um I had the privilege of joining as a co-chair to the traffic and parking enforcement
to help Rectify some of the holes in our system given that it's such a delicate balance between modernizing our system and raising rates to cover our financial increases while keeping our downtown thriving with Shoppers and diners looking for a great place to eat it was not an easy
task it's something that we'll all be monitoring closely as I'm hopeful of its success and I just appreciate everybody on that uh parking enforcement with me so onwards and upwards here we go thank you so much thank you councilman
Wilson yes good evening first giving honor to God without him it wouldn't be possible so as one of my um issues as running for this prestigious position representing my ward and my
constituents I um thrived on transparency and so in order to do that I or I don't think any of our colleagues or our city manager or mayor could do that without your
input I can't stress how important it is for us to hear from you uh because we're here to represent you and I I get many calls and emails and textes but you have to continue to let us know what's
happening in your area and the the quickest way I can say that or sum that up is if you see something say something if you're concerned about something contact us um because after we
vote on things it's a little difficult to change things so your opportunity for input starts now and starts after each council meeting each time you see something we can't repair it unless we
know about it um and like it was stated earlier that we have many opportunities to work in our illustrious cities so please uh visit our website and lastly uh because of the frigid weather and the
combination of ice and snow uh if if you see a uh age friendly person don't think it shameful to give them a hand U the last thing we want them to do is slip and fall thank
you okay good evening everybody um I I want to congratulate or say kudos to Chief gy and to councilman toer for co-chairing the parking committee I know tonight we passed the the first uh the we had the
first reading of the ordinance a tremendous amount of work went into that both of them for Co you know they both co-chaired it and the whole committee a lot of deliberation a lot of thought and like councilman toer said you know we're going to monitor it and
and we will tweak it as necessary on March 4th we will have the public hearing for that um and just like councilman Wilson said I you know it's I like to hear from people I hear from people all the time people email me and call me anybody wants to reach out to me
my contact information is on the city web page so please reach out to me I get back to people fairly quickly sometimes I get a lot a lot of emails sometimes I'll miss one so if you don't hear back from me in a few days don't hesitate to email me a second time I I'm here to
help and um and um that's all I have to say so now I'm going to turn it over to city manager Mr Hoffman thank you council president and good evening ladies and gentlemen on Tuesday December 17th
2024 uh it was alleged that Denning Park may have been contaminated and had radioactive pollution plumes responsible for increased uh incidents of cancer I'm pleased to report that on January 10th of
2025 Boswell engineering took 37 radiological samples throughout the park all 37 samples were negative meaning that there's been there is no radiological contamination in Denning
Park the city of ingwood also contacted the township of Tex engineering firm to request any information that they have on soil samples or past pollution plumes which may emanate from 289 Albert Avenue
or the adjoint in properties on Albert Avenue in tenek Alfred sorry thank you Alfred Avenue so tck engineering firm has no reports of contaminated soil samples on any of the proper properties on Alford
Avenue as of Tuesday February 11th the engineering consulting firm again I'm reiterating for the township of EK has no records of contaminated soil anywhere along the perimeter of the township of
tinck and the City of Englewood the city has authorized Boswell engineering to file Oprah requests seeking records of soil samples for properties within the township of tenek so that we can make sure that no stone has been un
unturned I also spoke with our former engineer Ken Albert uh who had been the city's longtime engineer and he knows of no no soil contamination in Denning Park dating back to the 1980s but to air on the side of caution
the city has closed Denning Park so that we can prove that it's safe we took that action in December to prove that it was safe now we had to take this action because people at a public meeting
speculated that and they spoke without having the facts they speculated that there was some kind of contamination in Denning Park and there has been no contamination and it's very probable because of that public speculation that
was UN that was based on no facts and it was unfounded that the city has lost the opportunity for a significant grant that we could have used to cover at least onethird of the cost to upgrade Denning
Park and to make much needed renovation there this type of public speculation that happened on December 17th it wasn't aimed at Denning park it was aimed at an adjoining municipality it was aimed to try and stop affordable
housing in a different municipality but it's cost the city time and it's cost the city money and we may have lost a golden opportunity to make improvements to one of our parks and that means the taxpayers of the city of Englewood will
have to FP the bill for for whatever the grant funding is that we don't get this this is going to make it very difficult for the city to make improvements to this property and to other parks and other properties that we
have and it's impinging on our goals and our continued progress that we want to make in all of our parks and in all of our areas so that Englewood has pristine places for the public to meet
and for for all of us to interact in so I guess you get the point that the that there there has been no radiological impact in Denning Park and that
we've we we need to make sure when people speak on something that they speak based on knowledge and not not some kind of wild specul ation so councilwoman David has just asked about some P work that's being
done in the Third Ward and in other places the work that's being done over on um tenly tenly Road Cambridge in that area it's probably the gas line work that's being done you you'll see that there's yellow markings on the road so that's that's to replace gas boxes and
um repair um junction boxes that have had leaks in it and to close on a positive note um we're expecting a fir truck to be delivered at the end of this week or early next week it took about four years for the build and um it is to
replace a fire truck that was damaged during superstorm Ida and we're looking forward to having it in in service very soon so with that thank you very much okay thank you 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 have 3 minutes to speak speak I just want to say good evening I'm juul shears farest Avenue um Mr Hoff is basically speaking about the I guess contamination in that area I never
basically said Denny Park my concern was the area where they're building the apartments and I've spoken to a few of the neighbors and their concerns because they live there and they're the ones that basically you know we all get together from time to time and we have our meetings and they're basically
telling me to bring this out out at the City Council meetings in Anglewood because they're bringing it out at the City Council meetings in ten so that's basically you know what I was mentioning now as far as the contamination in the park you know years ago you know they basically had a paint factory and they made catalytic converters back there and
there was always a problem there because I was talking to some the other neighbors and you know people have had cancer related um sicknesses in that area so I mean you're I mean and I understand what you're saying but this has been going back you know I've been living there since like the like late 7s
early 80 so you know we've had our problems and I just basically just felt that you know someone just needs to look into it how you going to basically put up a building and you know there's some you know like I said there's some issues and then not not go in and test the soil that soil should have been tested before they even decided to build and this is
basically one of the lbes that ladies that lives across the street they have been complaining for years in teen and nothing is being done so that's all I basically want to bring to the table I live several blocks further over so I mean I'm not really in that immediate area but my major concern is for my
neighbors and whatever it is that's going on you know I'm I'm concerned about them basically you know getting sick or coming down with some issues um later down the road thank you Leroy Campbell 287 tly Road
Englewood um ordinance number 25-7 um m madame chair I don't know if you can answer this or Mr Bailey can answer this um my question is is this hardcore industry you we're talking
about what we'll do what we do now is we take all the questions and after we close the public session we'll we'll answer some of the questions okay thank you um I also want to thank you and councilman Rosen swag for attending the Dr Martin Luther King Day
celebration um I find it appalling though that our mayor wasn't there and then when I researched I realized that our mayor wasn't there because he was in Washington visiting a Republican president um and just skipped Dr King's
day um he's always been a fixture at Dr King's day um but I guess being in Washington was more important than being in evania thank you thank you good evening my name is Howard
seiden 88 Willow Lane tly New Jersey twight Moore a graduate class of 81 um Mr Wilson speaks about transparency I'm bringing up problems regarding 19-21 IV Lane which I West IV Lane which I
brought to the city of Anglewood and the way it was handled was atrocious uh I led a group a couple years ago when a developer came in of tenly and Anglewood residents who successful successfully stopped a 75 unit development there then a 21 unit
development then a 17 Unit development back in September the houses went back on the market and Crews showed up and started cutting down trees I called the town the town had them shut down because they did not have
permits at that time um then one day they were working on the property they were trimming trees my wife and I were on IV Lane we were taking pictures from the sidewalk and they called the police on us to say that
we were harassing them well the police officer explained to them our first amendment rights we're in a public right away we can take pictures you're in a you're operating in public angood police handled it beautifully um however I went to my
dentist on uh January 28th and he he's on Ivy Lane right across the street from these now my property is right behind them in TL he says so what do you think of what they're doing there I said as far as I know the the developer had said that
they were just fixing the houses over and then selling them well apparently people in Anglewood World serve notied that they were cutting down trees and demolishing the buildings yet all the properties within tenly that
were within the 200t area nobody was noticed I called the uh planning Axana referred me to engineering I talked to the lady in engineering and she said oh you should be happy they're building one single
family homes just like that were there and they're cutting down four trees and three trees but you'll get 14 and 13 I said that's not the point the point is that I should have been notified I have not been I had not been
notified and and it is not her place to say you should be happy that they're doing this is just uncalled for that is not the way government works I happen to be a County employee so I know how how to handle um so I
contacted she referred me then to the tax she she looked at the list oh your your property is not listed here so I guess you didn't have to be notified I said so you notified people five six houses away my property touches that and nobody notified
me so she referred me to the tax office switched me to Rene Renee said oh they asked me for a list of houses and you're in fly so you're not on my list so this also happened back in uh 21
when the uh the board of adjustment we were never served and the meetings had to be cancelled and they said that was going to be corrected after that that the city was going to take action to correct it so it would never happen again so this has now happened a second time and this time permits were issued
without us being notified so I called the city manager's office to notify them um that you know you issued permits and I think they were issued wrong and that the work needed to be stopped I was told that it had to keep going so Renee said
no this is the engineering I'm going to tell them nobody's going to pin this on me I said I'm not trying to pin it on anybody I just want to be notified what's going on I want things done the way they're supposed to be done so down the road if I had recourse there would be
recourse but so these permits I'm sorry I'm sorry sir thank you okay well the point of the M the point is that I'm sorry your time is up please sit down Raymond Diaz 40 Shannon Court three items uh the first one affordable
housing we need an update on that uh I was looking at the uh uh the planning board meeting and they review the addendum points the 13 addendum points I was hoping that you had received them already so for review but you can give
me give us an update the second thing is the ordinance 2511 I agree what you're saying passing that but there are also people who are running businesses out of their houses so you see cars in the driveways eight of them without plates
or they have their trucks parked in front of their house on the lawn not around me because I would be calling you already but that's a nice also also okay and I don't think there's zone for commercial if this is a residential
place the third and last is the contamination I took that as a blame on the residents to report a condition possible condition of contamination but if you look at the master plan you have a plan there where it says all
contaminated areas in Englewood especially in Ward 4 and there was a site on that map that there was contamination right on teing place in that area so it'll be wise to us before
we let our children go in there and play that we check that out we may have lost a grant where we lost it for a good reason because we were concerned about the safety of the children and everyone who goes to Denning Park and in fact any property in Englewood and I don't care
New York or whatever I did it for 20 years in the city we are required to get yot Tech uh uh reports and environmental reports because once you build a building if you're trying to hide it
okay and people start getting sick it's too late so we don't want that to happen here and that's most important because we care about our residents and you should also so I think it was out a place of blaming us I think we took the right course of
action and it and it only helps you you feel better that you did the first thing you did is you you got all these reports you reviewed it it's safe and we're okay from there on thank you thank you
okay okay I'm I'm now going to close the public session um I'm just going to answer a couple questions um yes it was harco that was the property um in terms of the affordable housing we have a timeline that we have to follow um right
now if if uh in the January meeting that last January meeting we we passed a resolution we had a different number than the uh DCA gave us for what Our obligation was and now we're going to we're the next few weeks we should hear back whether they accept our new number
or not and then there are steps that we follow depending on that and in terms of the planning board amendments I too have asked for the amendments there were 13 amendments I was told today they're still not ready I have not received D it okay um in terms of the Ivy Lane I'm
sorry what's your name I'm how Howard seidon seiden um Bill do you want to address that or yeah it's my understanding this was brought to the attention of the city of Anglewood January 30th 31st the city
managers office then contacted me on February 4th I responded that yes in fact anyone within 200 ft has to be notified I received something from the contractor today that they did get notified after that after they were
advised the city's tax assessor office Renee she doesn't have the list for Tan ofly the tan ofly assessor has has to provide that um also it's I understand your point Mr sidon um it's incumbent upon a contractor to do these things it
is in our city ordinance thank you for bringing it to our attention though because um you know it was corrected albe it the the notice went out too late but um it was corrected and I don't it was after the
permit was issued but it is out there now so zoning board I can't speak to that that's a different board and different secretary and I don't know the history there can I have a motion so
move um roll call councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen I'm sorry Rosen K what the
meeting I didn't hear sorry councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president madsky yes thank you and just want to remind everybody that our next meeting is not is a budget hearing on March 3D it's on zoom and theary
February 25 oh February 25th sorry I skipped a budget hearing that's our second one it's February 25th and the information is on the city we website thanks so