Okay, can everybody please take their seats? Can everybody please take their seats? I now call the regular council meeting of August 5th, 20125th to order at 8:06 p.m. Can everyone please 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. Okay.
>> Yansancy, can you please read the statement regarding the Open Public Meetings Act? >> This meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Law. Notice of this meeting was included in a notice sent to the record and the star ledger and advertised in said
newspapers on January 10th, 2025, posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and has remained continuously posted as the required notices under the statute. A copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the municipal clerk. Proper notice haven't been given.
The municipal clerk is directed to include the statement in the minutes of this meeting. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilwoman David, >> present. >> Councilman Rosenw >> here. I have >> Councilman Toker on the phone.
>> Oh, sorry. I don't have you on. Speaker, go ahead. Repeat, please. >> Here. >> Thank you. Councilman Wilson, >> present. >> Council President Waski, >> here. >> Also present is Mayor Michael Wilds, City Manager Robert S. Hoffman, Deputy
City Manager John Burkner, city attorney Bill Bailey, and city engineer France Woly. >> Thank you. So, I'm just going to ask if everybody could please take a seat. And for those that would like, as I'm telling everybody to take a seat, we do
have agendas in the front of the room. So, um maybe um maybe we could just pass some out so people don't have to get up. Do you want me to pass some around or
Okay, just pass some around. Okay. Okay. So, tonight we're going to start with first a presentation and then we're going to have um and then we're going to have a swearing
in ceremony. So, I'm going to ask I'm going to ask Carol Rousher and Mitch Shonfeld to come up to the mic and we're going to hear a presentation on about the Anglewood business
apprenticeship program. Miles, >> can you help with the mic, please? >> Okay. Can you hear me now? >> All right. Good. The first thing I want to say is, and it's really important, I want to thank the city council of
Anglewood for supporting the Anglewood summer apprenticeship program. This program has been going on for 12 years, and it would not have happened if it hadn't been for city council. And I want to tell you a little bit of the history.
The history is the city manager 12 years ago met with Adam Brown and myself and said, "Carol, we need help." And the help was he said, "We have students that
are being placed throughout the city getting money and just there's nothing, no structure." So, Adam and I sat down and we formed a structure. the structure and um after we did the structure, city
council funded it. The structure was the management was to be the Bergen Family Center, the zone, and they were to deal with the students and the uh at that time the Anglo Chamber of Commerce, which is now the North New Jersey
Chamber of Commerce, dealt with the businesses and then city council uh passed the resolution. The purpose was to have a structure for the students, not just place them anywhere. And the way we did that is is is that we
advertised to uh all over in Englewood to the social media to the print media to the schools and told them about the program and then they applied. And when they applied, they had to meet a criteria.
They weren't just placed. And is there a question? >> Oh, a baby. >> Oh, sorry. And um so anyway, there was a criteria and then uh we had a selection committee and the selection committee
was made up of businesses, nonprofits and city council with students and there were probably it varied 50 to 60 students and then from that they were selected and they were asked you know about what kind of jobs they were
interested in and from that we selected well 25 were selected. for work, but we selected more than that because you had to of the top students. And then uh they were notified in May, May 1st of this
year. Uh April 14th was when the interviews started. And then I'm just going to go over briefly the uh businesses because I think it's important that you know the businesses from uh around here that participated and they had to mentor and work with the
students. They didn't just take them. And the participating businesses are the Actors Fund, Arts Horizon, Awards, Bergen Family Center, the City of Anglewood Finance Department, the City of Anglewood Parks and Recreation, Anglewood Health, that's Anglewood um
Hospital and Medical Center because sometimes people don't know the difference. Anglewood Dentl, Flat Rock Brook, Health East, Hudson Med Spa, Infant Toddler Daycare, Noble Fitness, Matise Chocolates, Minute Man Press,
Pinsspiration, Tina Pearson Salon, and Women's Rights Information Center. Now, when I want to give the dates, the important dates that we had the first was the interviewing um of the students, which was the week of April 14th. The
second one was their selection May 1. The third before they started in a business and I think this is really important for you to know because these students were selected and they went through a work workshop readiness. Then
they did the summer apprentice. Each week they had a summer workshop because the uh workshop was six weeks for 25 hours and every Wednesday they had to attend a workshop. Now Vince is going to talk to you about the workshops and
Rachel Cohen who works for um the Bergen Family Center is going to dis uh bring the students in that have been part of the program and some testimonials for the businesses. Mitch, >> thank you. Thank you council as well. I
echo what Carol said. So 13 years the program is running times 24 students a year. That's almost 300 young people. the oldest of whom now are probably 35 years old and I know I've seen some of them come back to the agency to the to Englewood we have doctors lawyers and
engineers and no Indian chiefs yet anyhow during the workshops first there were some before the uh apprenticeship starts that was the last couple of weeks of May the first few weeks of June we have been doing the seven habits of highly effective teenagers and we
continued it through um the tomorrow will be the last workshop So various topics include pro be proactive, take responsibility for your life, begin with an end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand,
synergize, collaborate, sharpen the source. So what these are designed to do aside from help young people make good choices. And I see there's three young people in the audience who in 10 years want to be in the youth apprenticeship program. That's why you came early tonight. I understand it wasn't just for
the swearing in ceremony. Anyhow, the um the workshops are designed really to help kids with getting ready for job behavior, which includes being on time, acting professional, the right attire, how to communicate, and I think it's you'll hear in a minute from Rachel and
then some of the students what the impact has been. So, thank you all for the opportunity. [Applause] >> Maybe not. How's that? Okay, thank you for the opportunity of having us speak tonight. I'm going to just read a couple
of remarks from the businesses in in the area about the apprentice program. The first is from Chaita Barnes, a franchise owner at Pinsspiration. I want to express my gratitude to the chamber, the city of Englewood, and the Bergen Family Center for their efforts in creating the apprentice program for
high school students, especially for small business owners who often juggle many responsibilities. Over the past two years, I've had the pleasure of working with two apprentices and their in their assistance has significantly impacted my business in various ways. They brought creativity,
fresh perspectives, a strong eagerness to learn and consistent support, marking their contri making making their contributions invaluable. As a member of this community, I appreciate that programs like this provide students with real world experience while also
offering small businesses reliable and motivated support. I look forward to embracing the new direction of our community and being part of this apprentice program next year. The next is from Tina Pearson. She's an owner at Tina Pearson Salon. I've been part of
the Englewood summer apprentice program for two years now. As a small business owner, I am so thankful to partner with them to get summer help. The program not only pays the interns, but they learn so much. So, I am really thankful to this program.
The last is from Dana Hughes, a practice manager at the Hudson Medson Hudson Med Spa. We really appreciated the apprentice's work ethic and her commitment. She's always willing to help and she is so smart and she really values doing a great job. We even
offered to hire her during the school year for a few hours to help with some marketing and social media things. She really has helped tremendously with a lot of things throughout the med spa and we have loved having her here. Um, next I'm going to introduce two students who
are a little bit nervous so bear with them. Um, they were both apprentices at Bergen Family Center. The first to come up is Jamila Campbell. [Applause] Hi, my name is Jamila Campbell and I'm
from Dwar High School. I appla I applied for the summer apprenticeship program, winning a summer job to help my mom and myself. I wanted to be an inspiration to others and knew this will help my career path as I move into adulthood. My experience working in the apprenticeship
was fun, but it was also a struggle to wake up in the mornings. My first position in the program was also a receptionist at Ceil with not much training, but I had some help along the way. And it also helps that I'm a visual learner. Then I moved over to Bergen
Family Center to work with kids. I learned a lot in my experience and met new friends. Also, just being around kids brought me so much joy. To wrap up my speech, I just want to say thank you to Miss Rachel and Miss Mirabel and the zoner from my school for making this
apprenticeship happen for me. And I just want to say I'm grateful. Thank you to the city council. [Applause] The next will be Priscilla Moran.
[Applause] Hello, my name is Priscilla Moran. I'm going to my junior year this year at Doy Mar High School. I'm an apprentice at Brian Family Center and I help the seniors in adult day program. I help the seniors with their activities and I
talked to them as well. I've learned that some of the seniors are dealing with dementia and other challenges. I've even gotten close to some of the seniors. This experience has taught me to be patient on time. I've also learned how to be better better save my money because in the future I will have to use
it for more important things. I wanted to apply to this apprentichip program to help my family. My mom is in present in my life and I live with my dad and my aunt's family. That's better. [Applause]
Okay, >> thank you. I want to use his money to help my dad [Applause] because he's an amazing dad who supports all of my dreams. I had an amazing
experience. I wanted to thank Miss Rachel Sleman, Miss Reena and Garcia and Miss Allison Pelarie from the zone as well as the city council for this opportunity.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Um I'm going to ask um can I have we have a resolution honoring the Angler Business Apprenticeship Program. Uh, can I have a motion to introduce the resolution? >> I make a motion, council president.
>> So moved. >> Okay. And can I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Good. >> Okay. I'm going to read the resolution and then we'll vote. We have a resolution honoring the Angled Business
Apprenticeship Program. Whereas the city of Anglewood recognizes recognizes the importance of investing in its youth and preparing the next generation of leaders for future success. And whereas the Anglewood Business Apprenticeship Program established through a partnership
between the city of Anglewood, the North New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and the zone at the Bergen Family Center provides high school juniors and seniors with valuable summer employment, mentorship, and realworld business experience. And whereas this program now
in its 12th year supports the professional growth of participating students by combining paid work experience with weekly workshops focused on business manage management, leadership and career development. And whereas the program fosters strong
relationships between local businesses and youth, strengthening the community and promoting economic opportunity for Angwood residents. And whereas thanks to the commitment of the city of Anglewood, the North New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the Zona Bergen Family Center, Anglewood Health, and the participating
employers, the Anglewood Business Apprenticeship Program has become a model of success and community collaboration. Now therefore, be it resolved that the mayor and the city council of the city of Anglewood do hereby recognize and honor the Anglewood business apprenticeship program for its
outstanding contribution to youth development, economic empowerment, and civic engagement. And be it further resolved that the mayor and city council commend the students, organizers, business partners, and community leaders whose dedication and hard work have made
this initiative a meaningful and lasting success. Um we can go right to a vote um unless someone wants to make a comment. >> Okay. Um yes um this apprenticeship um is means a lot to the community and um
my daughter recently went inspiration. Chakita Chakita took my daughter in also. She was a girl scout and she was a sunbeam basically and um she knew all three of my daughters and my daughter got to work with her and I'm like oh my god you work for Chakita? She was your coach, right?
So, um I'm almost teary eyed because Lamar, he's like family. He's my family also. And um she would tell a girl, "You cannot wear these little shorts up in here." No. Mm- turn around. Right. So, she they only that they only they look at you as a public and they look at you
like, "No, no, you cannot dress this way. You cannot do that." You know, I'm a role model. I'm an educator. But you know what? These young girls, they dress the way they want to dress, right? But it took a village to help me out. And you know what? And I'm thankful for the village that helped raise my kids and
all three of my daughters and you know it just took that and I'm emotional because um you know she still works for Chaquita also for Pinsspiration because she's a great artist and she went to Northern Valley Regional and Demerest. So when they you look at Englewood
everyone say I'm Inglewood um it's basically that they take you if you're in a Bergen County Academy and everything. So my daughter did not go to school here in at Dwight Marorrow, but she had graduated from um the school. So they take everyone of you no matter what where you are and what creed, race,
color, or anything. But I'm so happy that it took a village to help me reach my three daughters and I've been here for 30ome years and I'm going to be thankful for um this apprenticeship. And thank you, [Applause]
>> Councilman Wilson. Greetings everyone. Um I I think that this Ingwood apprenticehship program is terrific. I would just like to see Mitch and Carol that um if you can get the information out for the ninth and tth graders that
may not know about the program and give them a heads up of when to apply, how to apply. Um but terrific job. Thank you guys for what you do. Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you to our principal, Mr. Thomas, uh, for stepping
up as noly as you always have through the years. This is a wonderful program. I think Carol, I'm going to be joining everybody Thursday when we'll give out certificates to all the attendees. Uh
this is one of the most important projects where kids remember their first steps into work and the kind of guidance that they need. Thank you to the Bergen Family Center, Mitch, for your leadership and to all that have gathered
here. This should be overs subscribed uh and funded more handsomely by local businesses um year round, not just the summer in some capacity. And I really think it's a really beautiful, noble uh program and I'm glad that the city is
funding it. So I want to thank Mr. Hoffman as well. [Applause] >> Okay. Um Nancy, can I have the roll call, please? >> Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Rosen,
>> yes. >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> yes. >> Council President Waski, >> yes. We're just going we're just going to take a minute. We're going to come down. Um the students and Carol, Mitch,
Rachel, we'll we'll take a picture and then we'll [Music] Hello everyone. Thank Okay. Okay. Now we're going to um Now we're going to start the swearing in
ceremony. Okay. and and there's seats up in the front if anybody would like to sit. We're going to start the swearing in ceremony now. >> The whole first row is empty all the way across. Okay. And I'm going to ask um the our
police chief Gley to start the presentation. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Uh before we introduce our officers, I just want to take a second to thank a couple people uh that made this happen. Uh our city manager, Robert Hoffman, our head of HR, uh Robert Lein were, uh
instrumental in helping us move through this process. Uh I also want to thank the the governing body, you know, for their support in keeping our department properly manned. This process started about 10 months ago in October. U you know, this is something we take very seriously, the hiring of new officers in
our city. uh the same way back in the day, Chief Mosley brought me on. This is something I see as us moving forward our department and it's something that uh it's something that, you know, we can't let go. We have to focus on and make sure we're bringing the best and brightest into our department. So, these
officers, these new officers started this about 10 months ago. They took a test with 100 123 other applicants. They went through the written test. They went through a physical examination and then three sets of interviews for us to narrow that down from 125 people down to
three. So, if their parents and family aren't already proud of them enough, I just think that's a very impressive thing and uh you know, you should all be proud of each of you should be proud of of what you've accomplished. Um I'm excited for what you guys are going to bring. I'm excited to see three new guys start their careers with our
department. And I know that we're bringing on three good people, three good family guys. And I'm excited for you guys to have a safe and happy career with our department and our city. So without further ado, I'll ask Christian Demetri to come up as we read his biography.
>> Thank you. Why don't we start with Christian uh Dimmitri? Uh does somebody want to read the bio from the governing body? Christian Christian grew up in Riverdale, New Jersey, where he was a member of Pake Valley High School, class of 2019.
He went on to acquire his bachelor's degree from Mammoth University in 2023, prior to coming to our city. Kristen participated in an internship with Mammoth County Sheriff's Office and was a manager at US Excavating before being
accepted into our alternative route program for Sake County where he graduated this past April. Christian is assigned badge number 280 and will move right into the field into our field training program.
This is uh this is Christian's parents. You sure he's old enough? In any event, if you don't mind, Christian, raise your right hand, left hand on the Bible. Mom and dad, the res to protect. Please repeat after me, sir. I state your name.
>> I, Christian, >> do hereby swear >> do hereby swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of State of New Jersey. the Constitution of the State >> and that I will bear true faith and allegiance
>> that I will bear true faith and allegiance >> to the same >> to the same >> and to the government established in the United States >> the government established >> and in this state >> and in this state >> under the authority >> under the
[Music] You got three. >> Hello. >> Yes. Um, Jesse was born and raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey, where he was also a member of Pascet Valley High School, class of 2019.
He comes from a family of law enforcement officers, including his sister and his uncle. Jesse attended Salvet Virginia University and graduated in 2023 with a bachelor of arts in political in political science and a
minor in history. and he is pursuing a master's degree in business administration. Jesse played four years of college football and served as captain of the SRU football team. During his college career, he completed
an internship with the Newport, Connecticut Police Department and most recently served as a parallegal with the local firm. Jesse will be assigned temporary badge number 281 while he attends the Bergen County
Police Academy. Congratulations [Laughter] [Applause] 281. Please raise your hand. Repeat after me. I state your name. >> I Joseph. >> Do you hereby swear >> Do you hereby swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States. >> That I will support the Constitution
>> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> and that I will bear true faith >> that I will bear true faith >> and allegiance to the same >> and and allegiance to the same >> and to the governments established >> to the governments established >> in the United States >> in the United States >> and in this state >> and in this state
>> under the authority >> under the authority >> of the people >> of the people >> of the city of Englewood >> of the city of Anglewood. Further, I do swear >> Further, I do swear >> that I will faithfully >> that I will faithfully >> impartially >> impartially >> and justly perform >> and justly perform >> all the duties of >> all the duties of
>> the position of >> the position of >> probationary police officer >> probationary police officer >> in the Anglewood Police Department >> in the Anglewood Police Department >> according to the best of my ability. >> To the best of my ability. >> So help me guide. >> So help me. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. [Applause]
an Anglewood resident. Kevin attended both Dwight Marorrow High School and the Bergen County Technical Schools where he graduated with his GED in three years and where he was selected as captain of the soccer team. After graduation, Kevin studied computer science and criminal
justice at Bergen Community College. Before making his transition to a law enforcement career, Kevin worked for several years as a supervisor in the food service industry. Kevin will be assigned temporary badge number 282 while he attends Bogen County Police
Academy. Congratulations, Kevin. I thank you in advance for their extraordinary service to our city as well. Maybe we'll take a picture. Uh the city the governing body will come down and hopefully the city manager will take some pictures with the with the
three probationary officers and then the police will take a picture and then we're going to take a 5m minute break after that. So, we're in recess and we'll reconvene at quarter to 9. Okay. City manager Mr. Hoffman is going
to give a third round affordable housing report. >> Thank you, Council President, and good evening everyone. As part of the city's uh third round obligation, it uh it it is required to
present a report about its third round u its efforts to um work with work with nonprofits to provide affordable housing obligations or the opportunities for affordable housing to be constructed specifically owner occupied in uh as
part of its round round three affordable housing obligation. The report is being given tonight. It has been posted on the city's website. It was posted on the city's website on Tuesday afternoon, July 22nd. And the
report is being given now tonight. Uh the report had been uh as had been delayed due to the u the fasttrack of the round four obligations that the state had signed uh at the end of last year. But um we are honoring our
commitment. So, if anybody wants to read the full report, it's it's on our website. But I wanted to highlight some of the actions that the city has taken um to comply with u with with the our round three obligations. And the city
has taken a holistic approach to um looking for the opportunity to construct 25 affordable housing units for families here in the city. So, one of some of the things that we've done is we've had the property maintenance division, our
zoning official, and other inspectors complete a windshield survey of every street within the city limits to know potential locations for the construction of single family housing or the potential for rehabilitation of current single family housing units. We've also
met with nonpro non-for-profit builders who specialize in single family affordable housing or group home units to discuss the rehabilitation or the redevelopment of specific properties uh properties and discussions included
veterans pre uh preference for housing. During calendar year 2024, the city council authorized an inrem foreclosure process of 12 vacant or abandoned properties. They were in some form of
foreclosure. So, the goal of the INREM foreclosure process was to be able to return the properties to the tax roles and then have them be uh be part of our potential solution for affordable housing. There was also the um the offer of
potential locations that were formerly in the foreclosure process to develop as single family affordable housing units. And this is a lengthy process and it's a slow process and it requires meticulous research. So on July 16th of 2025,
much of the property that was going through the inrim foreclosure process was advertised in the paper. After the advertisement, the next step is to post the notice about these properties in five different locations and that has
been accomplished. Once this process has been completed as outlined by state statutes, the city will be one step closer to ensuring that it will have clear title to the properties so that they can in turn be offered for sale.
Also, a mortgage workshop with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America Advocacy Group, which is known as NISA, was conducted at the Shiloh AM Zion Church on Saturday, March 31st, 2025, and Pastor John Given is to be
commended for hosting the event. 71 people attended. So, NISA's primary goal is to build strong, healthy neighborhoods through affordable housing ownership. They provide counseling and support to help people even those with
poor credit ratings so that they can purchase homes. And then NISA has access to significant funding through the Bank of America. They develop an and uh an outline to work with local builders and funding
sources for the construction of single family housing in neighborhoods. And the benefits of working with this program, and this is a mortgage program, is that there's no down payment, there's no closing costs, there's no mortgage insurance, and there's no consideration
of somebody's credit score. So that's very helpful if the credit is not not the best. And then we also did some preliminary investigation for rehabilitation opportunities at over 40 potential locations in the city for
single family houses. Uh the city also contracted with Triad Associates of Vineland, New Jersey to be the administrative agents for the city's affordable housing rental obligation program. So on behalf of the city, uh Triad accepts applications from
residents and based on the state's criteria, it determines if the applicants meet the ED ed eligibility criteria for affordable housing. The list is maintained by Triad and the methodology the methodology that they
use is the basis for the city's eligibility list to purchase affordable housing once it's constructed. So they also they also have the rental list um for for applications. The 2024 adopted master plan for the
city discusses and prioritizes good planning for infill of affordable housing ownership that meets the COA criteria. And we also worked with our district 37 legislative team of state senator Johnson and assembly members her and
park to understand funding and loan options for not for profofits as well as individuals who are seeking to purchase affordable single family housing units. The city collects a portion of development fees which are specifically
earmarked for affordable housing and they're placed in a trust fund for future use. So, Inglewood has taken several other steps to continue its leadership position in providing both the opportunity and funding for affordable
housing units. It should be noted that the city developed King Gardens, Park View, Rock Creek, and 111 West Street in partnership or through its affordable it through its housing authority. and the city's commitment to affordable housing
began in the late 1950s and accelerated in the 1960s. The focus of the city's effort to provide 25 additional single family homes for families has been through the INREM process which will provide
unencumbered titles to developable properties in single family neighborhoods and their goal is to build single family housing units in those neighborhoods. The city will continue its efforts to provide the opportunity for home ownership of single family
affordable housing units. These units provide a stepping stone to the middle class and to the American dream. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you for the presentation and I'm now going to open it up for comments and questions from the governing body.
Councilman Wilson. >> Greetings. Good evening. Um, thank you uh Mr. often for a presentation about the most sought after information for affordable housing. And it's a huge concern for my constituents and I I
would imagine everyone else's constituents up here. Uh but we Mr. Barios, Steven Barios, uh brought the NASA and to the NACA to us and we worked diligently in getting
it at uh at Oh, I'm sorry. into uh Shiloh Church uh Pastor Given and as Mr. Hoffman has stated that there were probably 71 73 people in attendance which was great but the disappointing
part is there was only one person from Inglewood there. Um and so we've never had a program run or presented here in Inglewood for us. And so the shake or the secret of this program is uh anyone
that's on a voucher has the has the opportunity to turn that voucher into being a homeowner. Uh I don't think anyone heard me so I'll just repeat it and get a little closer
to the mic. Those people, those individuals that are getting subsidy or government assistance in the form of any type of voucher for their rental,
they are able to turn that voucher into a house. And I'm going to just start with this. The easiest thing is to complain. Um, and I do it often, but when given an
opportunity, we also have to be ready to take advantage of the opportunity. So, if anyone's interested, please see me later um so we can keep this ball rolling. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you, Councilwoman David.
>> Yes. Um, thank you. Um also um I spoke with um I know all senior housing the list is closed in um Englewood so there's no list is the list is closed absolutely no seniors is done. My question is that um and I thank you
councilman um Wilson about like you know what homes are accepted but they should prepare they have to prepare 10 to 20% down they need to be more educated on the monies that has to be down on home ownership. Correct. You just can't come in with a voucher. I'm just assuming.
No, no, no, no, no answer. Let me finish. You can't come in with just a voucher and say, "Hey, I want to own a home when you need that money's down on there." I'm assuming. And also that I would like to know the new housing that's proposed that come in here that are going to have like these seniors who
now are shut out in Englewood. Can they now be on, you know, get some type of subsidy, you know, um, on that list for these new developments? I'm just asking cuz I know they they they said it's closed. Englewood is closed. This is closed down 100%. And I got that. It's
factual. >> The the pro. >> Go ahead, >> Councilman David. Thank you. >> Yes. >> The program that I was communicating about the NACA has no down payment. >> Okay.
>> No closing cost, no mortgage insurance. >> Okay. >> No consideration. >> Okay. of credit score. >> Okay. In the fourth quarter, all over. Okay. Good. >> Okay. Thank you for that. Um, Councilman
Wilson, and also I would like to also um piggy back off of like the um lowincome housing, you know, as far as like the seniors and stuff like that. B, could you a little reiterate? But thank you. >> No, senior housing. I'm looking for senior housing for these new
developments um that's popping up. the uh that that would be a different program. This is this is for um for single family housing for single family houses and this is for families that meet the criteria. They either um
they're eligible through the low through low lowinccome program or for for a low the low-inccome program. But the key to this is that this is not a rental program which is what many of the seniors are looking for. This is home ownership. So, this is this is for
people that are are looking to um basically have have something that's that's stable that they can that they can have their families grow grow in. And also, when the time comes to sell, there's a cap on it. these these homes
that are going to be designated these 25 homes 25 >> they're they are um they're going to be available for the next the next group of people that meet the criteria. So it's not that you're going to get a home you're not going to be uh you know
you'll be one of the 25 people that has a single family house and then you'll be able to sell it for market rate in the future. This is this is going to be designated by DED deed restricted so that it stays eligible for other families that are that meet the
affordable housing criteria so that they have the opportunity to develop stability and then to uh have one one more step to get closer to um you know to to moving to another another house and and becoming part of the American
dream. You know >> 25 enough do you think? I mean I don't know. We have a big start. It's a start. It's a start. And this homes this is exciting because this is part of what the city has committed to and we've been we've been actively looking I've went
through about 12 different steps that the city the city has done in relatively short order and um there are there are not for profofits out there. there are people that are willing to work with the city and we've identified at least 12 locations where you know in in the
future single family houses can be built and >> one more question 25 homes um does the Englewood residents get first priority or is it just open to everyone I'm just asking >> the way it's the way it's constructed um
the programs are are uh set up it's Englewood residents would have the first priority but there's there's a criteria list. So, um, you know, as Councilman Wilson said, there was a there was a a workshop 71 people
attended, but there was only one resident from Inglewood that attended. So, >> could you break give me a part of that criteria list if it's not only open to Inglewood? Just give me some parts of it, like two. I wasn't there. So, I'm just asking if it's open to everyone and maybe one person from Englewood can get
one of their homes of 25 homes. I'm just asking I don't want everyone thinking that they can just say I'm going a home and there's like 100 people applying for 25 homes, you know. Um, I'm not sure how to answer that that question because right now we
right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right now our our goal is to make sure that we have the locations for for the homes to be constructed and then we're going to be using uh try try out to help to make sure that um the f the families
that are going to be applying are meet meet the criteria. Uh and then one one of the other things is that we're we need to work with um some some of our local not forprofits that that can help with the financing that can you know that can make sure that the Bank of
America is still going to be a willing partner and that we move forward that way. But the council is to be commended for the the initiatives that were taken during calendar year 2024 because we have 12 properties that we
had discussed here and we're going through the process to make sure that the titles that um you know that that they're clear and that we can have clear titles to these properties and that we will be able to have them being be
considered by um whatever the N for profofit is that's going to be selected to help construct construct single family houses. >> Thank you for your response and I hope that 25 residents all all from Englewood to get those 25 homes. Thank you.
If >> if I may just put the the properties that the city manager talks about, it's been in the process for a long time. Dilapidated, unattended houses. Um we're trying to make a change and we've been driving for this for a long time. And so
now it's getting close to fruition. If we stay ready, we don't have to get ready. So let's pay attention to the programs. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. All right. Any other comments?
Okay. We have another presentation. Um Mr. Volce, our engineer, is going to be giving a an engineer report on traffic issues in the city of Anglewood. How's everyone doing? Uh hopefully I I won't take too long. I just want to
quickly go over some of the uh some of the traffic issues that we've observed um throughout the city the last few years and what steps we're taking to sort of kind of address it. Um unfortunately over the last few years
what we've noticed in our office is an uptick in phone calls from motorists and pedestrians regarding traffic related issues regarding concerns regarding the safety along roadways and intersections. And even though the you know the
complaints I should say the concerns varied it's basically three things that come up all the time. speeding has been the number one issue by far and that's that's gone through the roof in terms of the calls that we're getting. People are asking for speed tables, they're asking
for bumpouts, they're asking for everything um whether it's doable or not to get put in their roadways to slow people down. Uh the other thing we're getting is pedestrian accessibility to the roadways and that's essentially meaning pedestrian wanting sidewalks. uh
pedestrians that used to feel safe walking in the pavement with the traffic no longer feel safe anymore. And I think that's directly due to the speeding aspects that's taking place. So, we're getting more and more sidewalk requests uh through our neighborhoods. And the
third things is uh is crosswalk intersections, that sort of thing. Again, it's I it's all related to speeding. Uh pedestrians are concerned about crossing roadways. uh they're concerned about being able to be seen by motorists. They're concerned about uh
the traffic being too fast. They feel like they have to run across the streets now. Uh they can't walk around, especially when we have pedestrians that are physically challenged. So, those are the three things that we've gotten uptake on the last the last few years. So, what we've done, we're working with
the police department and we're working with a number of consultants, traffic engineers, etc. uh to try and alleviate some of the issues uh that we're having. Now, walking in, I know Broad Avenue is a hot topic cuz walking in, I got three people
that tackled me already regarding Broad Avenue, but I just want everybody to know that Broad Avenue is not the only street that we're having traffic issues on and we're having concerns with regarding regarding safety. It's all around town and we're we're trying to
address everything. Uh there are stretches along, you know, Palisade Avenue, Lie Decker, uh Woodland that are problematic. We have intersections, whether it be Gran and Lindon, Palisad and Dean, Palisad and Nicerbacher that
remain problematic and constantly have motorists uh motor vehicle incidents occurring on them. So, there are a number of things that we're dealing with and they're all over town and there just a few that I'm that I'm naming and they they're all different in terms of what's
needed to get done at at those at those uh particular locations. For example, um Palisade and and Dean Street, one of the busiest intersections in town. Um, if I'm not mistaken, and I guess the police department can probably fact check me on
this, it had the most accidents, motor vehicle accidents in the past 5 years of any intersections in town. Um, so that's a bit problematic because it is highly congested regarding motorists and pedestrians. As a matter of fact, right
now, I believe one of the uh pedestrian uh you know um traffic uh you know signages got knocked down, got struck by a vehicle in the south southeast corner and it's down right now. So, it needs to be repaired or replaced. So, we're
looking at different things there. We're looking at, you know, the traffic pattern, see if we can, you know, alleviate the congestion there in terms of motor um, you know, motor vehicle congestions, but more importantly is the pedestrian aspect of it. How can we
change the the maybe the signal patterns to allow pedestrians to cross the roadways while vehicles are all at a standstill, if that works or not? How can we get vehicles out of the area, out of the, you know, the intersection um, before the light turns so that we don't have congestion at that intersection? So
there's a number of things that our consultants are looking at to try and alleviate the problem at that intersection. Um, and if I look at another intersection, Woodland and and uh and Johnson, which have totally different problems, Woodland and Johnson is strictly a speeding problem and a
line of sight issue. So we have a consultant looking at that. Um, trying to figure out how to slow down the traffic there and how to maybe to reconfigure that whole intersection so we can improve the line of sight. So vehicles coming out of Johnson can more
clearly see the traffic uh coming through Woodland. Um so we have different intersection they have different needs. Uh the intersection of of Pal State Avenue and Nicerbacher again that has a bit of everything. We have pedestrian concerns there because
of the of the proximity of the high school there. during school when school lets out you have a bunch of students that are walking down Nicobach and when you come to Palisade Avenue that crossing is not ideal. Uh we have speeding along Palisade Avenue. We kind
of have line of sight issues because of the planters that are along the avenue there. So and then obviously we have the pedestrian concern how to safely cross Palisade Avenue there. So that's being looked at. There may be a possibility of maybe a traffic signal needs to be put there. That's something we're looking
at. So those are the sort of the different things we have to look at take in consideration when we look at these different intersection and there are slew of others and same thing with roadways. I mean along liker street woodland um there are section of roadways where we've gotten phone calls
regarding lack of sidewalks so the pedestrians feel safe be able to maneuver through the roadways. So we are working through all of those and we're sort of gathering all these sort of locations etc and trying to put together
a sort of comprehensive survey of the entire city what we can do as a whole to better help not only increase safety along all our roadways but along our intersections as well. Um when it comes to broad avenue I'm quickly going to go over broad avenue. I have I've gone
through broad already. I I feel like, you know, I'm going to repeat myself a lot. Um, Broad Avenue over the years, as many of you know, has been announced our phone calls regarding speeding and pedestrian safety in terms of crossing Broad Avenue. And that's basically due
to two things. Uh, broad avenue is very wide. Um, typically when drivers see wide roads, they go faster. You know, they feel safer going faster. two is historically there was a lack of adequate striping along Broad Avenue.
Broad Avenue is designed to be a two-way bilateral, you know, roadway traffic in each direction. It's one lane in each direction and the side of it is parking. Uh what has happened over the years, you've had residents pull up, they don't want to wait for somebody
making a left, so they go around them because the road is wide enough. Uh, so if it's not straight for parking, they just assume boom, we're going around and you have all the other cars follow them and before you know it, you have a makeshift two-way two-lane road there when it should be just one lane. And
that's what's going on. So the the city has considered all of this, looked at Broad Avenue, and came up with a plan to how to safely, you know, return it back to a one-lane road. Uh, we're doing that in phases. Phase one was started in 2020 when we strike Broad Avenue from Van
Noran all the way to Lynen. Um what we did is we delineated the traffic lanes and the parking area so it was clear that it was a one lane road and we had parking on the side. We also implemented trafficcoming uh features. We had you
know speed limit signs. It had the electronic readers that let you know how fast you're going. We have the yield to pedestrian signs up. So everything to slow down uh motorists and make it safe for everyone. Since that's happened, our office has had zero cause that I'm aware
of of any speeding on that section of Broad Avenue. So everything seems to point to the fact that it's working. So what we did this year is we continued with phase two. continued that same striping from Van Norren all the way to
Sheffield and we just replicated the whole thing to our which was the the original plan and we're doing it in phases. Phase phase three would consist of removing and replacing the traffic signal at Broad and Van Nor. Those are going to have left turn dedicated um
arrows on that signal when they get changed. We started that phase already. We did some of the underground work. We did the handicap ramps. We're just waiting for the signals to come in. Unfortunately, there are supplying chain issues that we're dealing with. So, whenever those the signals come in,
we're gonna put them in and complete that phase of it. And phase four is ultimately to put permanent uh traffic coming, you know, features along Broad Avenue, bump out, uh more signage, um and with speed limit, same thing. uh you
know um the electronic you know um readers to let you know how quickly you're going. Uh put crosswalks that are clearly tagged. Uh we're also going to have push button flashing beacons to let everyone know that you know someone's crossing the road to slow down the
traffic as much as possible. And that's that's essentially what we're doing in terms of Broad Avenue. But what I what I failed to mention is that before I mentioned that we have you know consultants working on on the uh on on our intersections. One other intersection that consultant is working
on is Broad Avenue in Sheffield. That's being looked at as well and the consultant is looking at a number of things to get done there. One is to optimize the timing of that signal um to not only see if we can improve it in a way to allow better flow along Broad
Avenue to alleviate some of that congestion. Um, two, they're also looking to see if we can install those do not block the box at the intersection of Chef of of EPS uh and and Rockwood um to see Phelps and Rockwood to see if
those are those will be uh you know um worth putting in. Um it seems like it may be, but it's something that they're looking into. And and the third thing is plays uh you know with the striping a little bit to see if there's something we can do to once the signal is is
optimized. See what we can do with the striping to again help alleviate some of that congestion along along Broad Avenue. Unfortunately, the last few years we've had to deal with an influx of traffic from Jones Road that gets diverted into Broad Avenue. So, we did
expect backups when it was going to happen and and essentially that's what's happening now. Um, also what's happened is because we've delineated the roadway and we made it clear to be a one lane as opposed to a makeshift two-lane where we have parking along the roadway. Um, it
is now a one-way road um the way it's supposed to be. So, there are some backups that you know that are happening there. It's not unexpected. is something that we knew when DOT first started with the with the Jones Road uh issue. So that's going to continue. Um so
essentially that is what we're doing. Um as I mentioned, we're working with with traffic consultants to deal with with a number of things. As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure that our roadways are safe and you know, we we provide sufficient safety for pedestrians. We
have a crosswalk project that's taking place right now. Uh we're installing 15 crosswalks at various location throughout the town where it would they were deemed to be problematic, dangerous, etc. Those crosswalks are going to be, you know, more visible. They're going to have the push button
again with the flashing beacon to let motorists know that someone's crossing. And again, it's it's throughout the city that we're putting those in. Um Thursday we're going to be meeting um for uh having a pre-construction meeting for a curb and sidewalk. And again that that
includes a lot of sidewalks that are going to be installed in roadways where currently there aren't any sidewalks and there's been a lot of requests for sidewalks to be put in those again for for pedestrian safety. Um we are looking at a number of traffic signals that that
need to be um sort of updated. As I mentioned in the past, we have old signals that a lot of them need to be updated to keep up what's going on. So, a lot of them are antiquated. A lot of them aren't working as, you know, as effectively or efficiency as we would
like them to. So, we are looking at those to try and upgrade those. Um, so there's a lot of moving parts as to what we're doing regarding updating our roadways uh to make sure that it's safe for both motorists and and pedestrians.
Um, the well >> I have a question. Last the last thing is just just quickly the last thing is PSEG Psg they are you know even though they're not
technically uh an issue but they are um when they're they're replacing their infrastructure both PSC and Violia they're replacing their infrastructure now a lot of detours u putting uh cars in areas that they would not otherwise go so again uh loading a lot of the
roads is much like what's happening in Jones. There's a lot of detours going on and when they replace the road, it's not in the ideal condition. Uh there's a lot of uneven surfaces. I've had calls from a lot of residents and motorists saying, "Hey, when I drive down the road, I feel like I have to swerve in and out uh to
avoid some of these bumps." So, we are um going after PSENG to make sure that at least when the when the road is repaired on their end that it is drivable. uh the concerns we have with PSNG and the calls that I've gotten from a lot of residences uh when PSNG is
completed with their work we cannot pave the road immediately one it sort of has to be in the capital to get paved that's one thing two is because what we're finding out is a lot of our infrastructure are getting damaged by some of the work that PSENG is doing so
what we have to do when they're done is go and make sure that our storm or sanitary is intact before we pave continue to our roadways. So, unfortunately, we cannot pave immediately afterwards, but the goal is to have every single road paved. And uh
again, uh as part of our commitment to to improve our safety along our roadways, that's uh it's part of what we're doing. Um that's that's essentially all I have now. I don't know if there's any specific questions. Um >> Oh, yeah. I do. I have a question.
>> Sure. >> Lisa, can I speak? I want to say thank you for your report and uh Councilwoman David, >> thank you. Thank you for your report on Broad and Jones is really a major factor, but you know, you're looking on this DAS. It's not about the first and
second board. It's about all boards. Okay, you spent 20 minutes speaking about the first and second board. Okay, I was on the school board and you know what? I came to you before I mean I was on there for a decade and said you know what there's a problem with that the
traffic with the the the crosswalks and everything when I went over to Dwight Elizabeth they have the pathways they got everything nice shiny everything looking great school is about to start what's up with the third ward where most of our vulnerable kids go to half of
Englewood third and the fourth ward and I'm asking you when I said on Tennifly and Dury that right there's danger dangerous because you know what the guys are having like um these are old guys who's like there's putting up the thing saying kids can cross the street and they're like we need a signal there. I asked you that last year and I even
emailed you before I came to this meeting saying you did not respond to me from last year when I first got on the council. >> Okay. >> I I emailed No, no, let me finish. I emailed you and I sent it out and I did I said I was going to bring it up in open session. I did and I said you never even got back to me.
>> You didn't. >> Wow. I'm just saying I'm putting I'm not saying but you're doing a good job but I'm just saying I mean I don't know I'm just saying um >> I'm just saying that I asked you this because you know we need crosswalks. There was a kid who was hit in front of the high school who lived on Cambridge
Avenue who was in a coma for three years >> coma. And I I was on a board of education and I knew Christian and I said his name out loud and mayor you were there and you know what it seemed like you said you know we wish we don't have wards but it seemed like rewards because you can drive down the streets
and see the pavement and see the crosswalks and you can tell we have wards. >> You understand >> that there. So I'm just saying no no I'm just asking you that we need to have crosswalks and everything. Okay, please. That's it.
>> I I I can I can No, no, we're not going to I'm not going to go there, but I'm just asking if that's answer there's a there's a couple things. One, I appreciate I appreciate everything you just said. I hope so. I'm I'm not disagreeing with anything you just said. We do have a consultant that's looking
at that traffic signal. >> Again, 10 years later, >> we do have a consultant that's looking at the traffic signal. And yes, we do have a federal grant right now, the safe route to school program where ADA ramps are going to be put all around those schools. Unfortunately, it has to go
through the grant process. We do have the monies is a substantial amount of money and a lot of rents are substantial. You understand? >> I understand what you're saying. But we do have funding going through that going through that to get that done. Thank
you. >> That that that light was looked at about 10 years ago, but it was there the the county did a study and it was they did it didn't have enough traffic for that signal at the time. So now now it meets it meets criteria. So we're going to be
able to to move forward, but you know, it wasn't able to be done initially. >> Okay. Any other comments from the governing body or questions? Councilman Wilson. >> Thank you, France, for your presentation. I appreciate it. Um, and
maybe just a few suggestions. Um, we've waited for a long time to hear you speak in regards to certain issues. Um, some people 30 days, some people more. So, it would help me explain to my
constituents if in fact that we can do a checklist um and the priorities of the checklist because there appears to be movement on the list. Uh my concern is new projects coming
before old projects and I know we've spoken about old projects and I see new projects before the project I mentioned. So, it's very disheartening going back to my constituents in regards to something that I've know I've had
discussions about and then I see us voting on something else. Uh ve very difficult to swallow. Um >> and so we we want to get I understand there's phases.
We've been doing phases for 10 years. So if in fact that we can possibly start off with when phase 4 because there's only four phases. Is that correct? When phase 4 will be completed on William
Street on Ingwood and um Orange Street and just Lafayette and and certain other areas and and definitely past Palisade Avenue and Nicobaro. Um, one of my my concern is about the whole city, but one of my major concerns about our youth and
they're traveling back and forth. There is no excuse I can give any parent when we're not prepared for their kids walking home. There's no excuse I can give them. So, if we can move those phases or give us completion dates on
when you think phase 4 will be completed on any project that will help ease the minds of residents, my constituents, students, and their and their parents as well. Um, and thank you for your
latigious work. I I I know I know it's not easy. Um, but I got to give it to you how I get it. And we're not we're not happy that that we're not happy. >> Mr. What I can do is I can speak to the consultant and see when they think they
can give me a report on on Palisad and Nicaragua. Okay. and and and what and what I would like to see personally is you come back I don't know two meetings three meetings whatever it is and just come back with a phase 4 agenda like in
September November December these project if in fact that you can do that these projects would be started and completed by January 1 something so we can have something in front of us to look at >> I I can I can try to see if I can do
that. The the concern that I have, there are some things that are out of my control. >> I understand that. >> Um I mean the signal on Liberty and Nicerbach, I would say we're still waiting for that to get delivered. We started that and because of again because of supply chain issues. It's
been 8 months since since we've, you know, ordered those lights and we're still waiting for them to come in. Um, so we're we're dealing with that and that's not something that I can control. The parking lot on William Street, that's another one where it's taking
forever for that to get completed. I just spoke to the So here here's here's the thing about that, right? I get it. We we've got to do they did some pavement and it's got to come up before the well or whatever else, but there's
safety hazards that have to be addressed on the sidewalk in the curbing. Uh if if if we don't do anything else, we shut the sidewalk down. We put tape, we we put banisters, what what there's there's
no reason for that sidewalk to continue to look like that. and our kids and our elderly have to use that. There's no reason. Either we fix it or we shut it down. >> Understood.
>> Thank you, >> Council President. >> Yes. >> Just u a wonderful review. Thank you for coming and for scheduling this. Uh my concern is line of sight and it comes in all sorts of different ways from roads
in all four wards that historically never had parking on them that now have parking and it obstructs views when people are coming out of their driveways or they're about to turn on to streets. also with foilage
uh making sure that public works comes by with greater frequency and we all know a corner or two where somebody couldn't see something whether it's by bus depots or private transportation that's happening um but I think that the
technology also is noticeably different some of it is really innovative I think those blinking what your speed is and what the speed is there is significant. What bothers me is when there's no police officer,
nobody is acting within the speed limit. And it would be wise somehow if we can get the technology if it's permitted, Mr. Bailey, in New Jersey law like they do in Manhattan, it's a 25 mph uh speed
limit in the city of Manhattan, city of New York. If you go 30 or over, you're gonna get a photo in the mail and a ticket. >> And I I have to imagine that if Leonia polices Broad Avenue to the tune of 26
to 30 m an hour and Anglewood is not there or lets people go until the tune of 40 m an hour, a couple of these wellplaced photos will do us a lot better. I also want to commend I also want to commend some of the new
ordinances that the city has put into place and urge them to do more. You can no longer make a Uturn on Palisade Avenue. The two stansions that they have on Palisade, the two stansions that we have on
Palisade Avenue, I think are a strong emblem, if you would, of what we need to see. There used to be traffic coming measures that would keep a whole block happy and then one person who was up all night as the underbelly of the car would
get hit. But to the extent that there is technology and this governing body has moved a lot of ordinance forward um if we can look at the um enforcement of this when the officers are elsewhere
I think that would actually slow uh people down. Um and again the line of sight is a big big issue in the communications that I'm getting from residents from all the city public works clipping trees with Greg uh with regularity uh and also where you're now
allowing parking. There are some blind spots as people are making turns. So keeping up to speed or slowing down the cars as a as they approach a corner I think would be clever as well. Thank you.
>> Yeah. They all >> m Mr. Mr. Cam Mr. Campbell Mr. Campbell please. Okay. Councilman SW. >> Hi. Thank you very much, Mr. Vulture. Um,
so when you came here in March, you'd said you had uh done some work on Broad Avenue because pedestrian safety was your number one concern. Do you think that's been helpful? >> All indication says yes. >> Okay. Like I said, the the number of
calls in our offices basically disappeared from pedestrians saying I feel unsafe crossing Broad Avenue. Uh and also from pedestrians saying the cars are going too fast. That's been non-existent since the striping.
>> Great. Thank you. I'm I'm glad you brought up uh Woodland because, you know, that's a there's a lot of accidents uh there and and you specifically brought up Johnson. So, we'll have I'm very interested to see what the consultant says. You know, arguably Woodland's the biggest speeding
street in town cuz it's straight, wide, not too many cars parked on it, and people just it's the it's the raceway there. So, uh I'm at all hours of the day. Um, uh, and there no light there are no
lights on Johnson, so that makes a big difference. Um, >> so, uh, it's not the subject of tonight, but maybe we can have Mr. Boli come back cuz, you know, we still have two of IDA's biggest project. We're coming on
four years of IDA in a couple of weeks and, uh, Angle Street and, uh, Glenwood. Yeah. So, I I know we and we talk about it, but maybe we can give a report. uh before the end of the year on what's going on. Absolutely. >> All right. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Um I just have a couple of questions for you. >> So with PS&G and Viola, when do you think they'll be wrapping up in Englewood? >> Unfortunately, they're going to be here for another couple years. >> Okay,
>> that that's >> Second question. >> He's got a better water company. Second question. Um so so I I know um one of one of the residents was writing to us about Cambridge Avenue and um
there was uh PSCG was there and they're waiting to get the street paved but now I understand there's some infrastructure issues on Cambridge Avenue and so now the street can't get paved when it so in the events when there are damage and
there are infrastructure because you reported it in general that we're seeing that multiple locations Um, does PS and who I mean what happens then? Does PS&G make good? Do they come in and take care of this? >> Yeah. What we do is in an emergency
situation as Cambridge for example, PSNG literally put one of their poles right to our sanitary line. >> Okay. >> So, we're in the process of repairing it now. Um, what we do is we have the contractor put everything aside as far as time, material, whatever the cost is
for that, and then we go after PSNG for that cost. >> Okay. All right. And then um and I was just um there are programs, you know, for for safer streets and I think we had talked about that, Mr.
Hoffman. We talked about bringing that that those programs into Anglewood. So, I'm putting that back out there. Let's let's get that into Anglewood. Um I'm going to ask >> we we are we we actually were part of one of those that's safe route to
schools one I guess that's in the third ward >> right right and then there there are safe street programs we can do it in the entire city as well I I I think Tene is doing it I saw that they had a program
regarding safe streets and and other towns are doing it so I' I'd for us to look into becoming involved in that as well. Um Mr. Bailey, um can you address um the mayor's cons the mayor's um
suggestion about the the lights, the traffic lights that pick up the cameras? >> Yeah. The state about 10 12 years ago did a pilot program regarding these red light cameras they call them. It was actually suspended and they're not permitted in New Jersey. um they're very
inaccurate. You know, you can't necessarily even tell who the driver is that the ticket's being issued to. Um so they're not permitted for enforcement purposes in New Jersey unlike other states. >> Okay. >> So again, I want to thank you for coming
tonight. >> Not a problem. >> Okay. >> All right. That's Thank you, Mr. Rosie. I I I appreciate and that and that's honestly I appreciate all the feedback because it it allows me to know what to
focus on and what to deal with next. So, thank you. It's always >> Okay, so now we're going to move on to approval of minutes. Um resolution 225. I need a motion. >> I made a motion, Council President. I
need a second resolution for minutes. I'll I'll second it. And the minutes that we'll be uh voting on are the regular meeting June 17th and July 22nd. Workshop meeting
June 4th, July 8th. Special meetings, June 4th, July uh June 17th, July 8th, July 22nd. Close session, June 4th, July 17th, July 8th, and July 22nd. Any any um comments or questions from the
governing body? >> Um um 235080525. Could we pull it for a separate discussion, please? >> No. No. >> Which one? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, you do that. Yeah, let's do it. >> Okay. Okay. Um >> I'm going to pull that one.
>> Can I have a Can I have a roll call, please? >> My Councilwoman David, >> yes. >> Councilman Rosen, >> yes. >> Councilman Toker, >> yes. Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Council President Wasadski.
>> Yes. >> Now we have an ordinance for second reading. This is ordinance 2529. It's an ordinance amending chapter 258 and 1917 of the city of Anglewood's ordinances pertaining to land use development application fees, procedures, and
requirements. Mr. Hoffman, can you um say a few words about it, please? >> Uh yes, Council President. Thank you. The goal of this ordinance is to simplify where we all look for the land use fees. As an example, the planning board and the and the zoning board of
adjustment, they both have fees for site plan and subdivision applications, but they're in different sections of the code. So, this would now combine them into one section. We also have zoning compliance which is related to land use and that's under property maintenance or
it's also in our ecode but it needs to be in the same in the same section. So that's part of what ordinance 25-29 will do. So we'll have all all items that are all of the fees that are rel that are related to land use, they'll be in the
same ordinance so it'll be easier to for everybody to look at. Um the governing body may recall during our budget hearings last year and earlier this year uh we had done an analysis of applications in the building department
as well as applications for um for the zoning board and the planning board. And we were we were we noticed that there was over a 40% error rate on the applications that came in before they could be deemed complete. And so part of part of the problem was the confusion of
where to look for for the fees that were that have to be submitted to the to the city. So what we're doing is with um with this ordinance the fees will be in this will be in one location and it'll help simp simplify the steps when people
are applying for for different uh applications and um it will help us make sure that applications are uh can be deemed complete quicker because there will be less delays. So that's that's part of the explanation. >> Okay. Thank you. I'm now declaring that
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. Okay.
I'm now I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance. Can I have a motion, please, that ordinance 2529 be adopted? >> So move. >> Can I have a second, please? >> Discussion. >> Can I have a second?
>> I'll I'll make a second. Um, now, uh, comments or questions from the governing body? Go ahead and Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. Thank you. Uh, we've seen this a couple times and I don't want to prolong this because I I went over this before.
Um, in this climate, it's difficult to see things zeroed out. Uh, com combined merge lots, uh, variance requirements, conditions for use variance, tennis court, swimming pools, zoning permits. Um, and and my hope is, I haven't seen
it yet, Mr. Hoffman, but the ones that are zeroed out or it looks like to me that's canled that it will appear somewhere else that there still be fees for combining lots, swimming pools, tennis courts of al like.
>> Yes. >> Okay. All right. Thank you, Council President. >> Any any other comments or questions? Yansancy, can I have a roll call, please? Councilwoman David.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. Councilman Rosenw. >> Yes. >> Councilman Toker. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson. >> Yes. >> Council President Wasotsski. >> Yes. >> Okay. Now we're we're on resolutions on
the consent agenda. Are there any resolutions that anyone on the council wishes to separate? >> Yes. 23 235080525. >> Okay. Any other resolutions?
>> Okay. So, now um we're going to open the meeting for public comments on the consent agenda resolution. Members of of the public are requested to state their name before speaking and are reminded to speak on consent agenda resolutions 226
to 236 only. Please step up to the mic and state state your name. >> Amy Bullockan Avenue. Um resolution 235080525
resolution authorizing per permit fee waiver for the fall 2025 Inglewood nonprofit youth soccer program. I've been coming to meetings for several months now in regards to fees being imposed to nonprofits for using city
facilities, whether it be a parking lot and a carnival or a metro open store or a backpack giveaway. And I have asked that the city council give consideration to waving these fees for these nonprofits who are providing services
and support to the residents of Englewood. And to my surprise, I see on the agenda a resolution to authorize a permit fee waiver for a nonprofit youth soccer program. Now, I'm in support of
waving the fee for the soccer program. It is a nonprofit volunteer-run program, but we cannot pick and choose. >> If it is acceptable for one, it should be acceptable for all. It is not a good
look for the city council that fees are being waved for this program that is not run through the recreation department. But yet you refuse to wave fees for organizations that are providing services and resources to Englewood
residents with no return on their investment. So if you're going to wave fees for one nonprofit who functions off the hill, you need to wave fees for the nonprofits surf
servicing down the hill >> because that's where the need is. So, I'm respectfully asking for clarification on are sports organizations not run through the recreation department required to also pay the $50 an hour and what is the
criteria to have fees waved because clearly there are some because you're waving these fees. Thank you. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Good evening. Raymond Diaz, 408 Shannon
Court. Resolution 226. Can you hear me? Resolution 226 authorizing award of contract to Gabberly Trucks. It says 2025 Kenworth T480 conventional chassis. I guess this is for the DPW.
And what is it? A truck? A chassis? I don't know what it is. It's not specific. Unlike what you did in 227, you were very specific where it says DPW, a hook and lift self-contained vacuum. Okay, this is something you were talking about, so I know what you're
doing, but you got to be very specific where this equipment's going to and what it's used for. Um, resolution 228 awarding a fair and open award contract for Conrad Road for paving and road improvement. But my
biggest complaint and the council has been discussing is the back filling of the dirt that's taken out in order for you to put these Belgian blocks. They've been putting in lousy dirt, stones, and everything. You started on my block and
you did it on every single block and everybody's complaining. And when you asked Mr. Woli how many more years we're going to be doing this with these companies, he said a couple of years. So you're going to get a lot more complaints. We decided, I think we were
saying that the uh inspector who was on my block, I demanded that he show up. Okay. He didn't take any pictures and everything and they still left it like that. So, you're going to have the whole city like this and everybody complaining. I I thought you were going
to do a some kind of document that uh they have to sign that it was done. So, he should look to see if there's a clean sand there that it was used and where it was used. and he should sign off because if something is wrong, I want to know
who that inspector was on that job. He shouldn't be working for us. This is taxpayers dollars and I want to make sure when they do a job, they do it properly. Uh resolution 229, you have uh awarding fair and open award contract for East
Palisades. There's no job description on that. There's $292 thou,000 you have from East Palisades. Are you doing sidewalks? Are you doing roadways? What are you doing? You were very specific in the last one. That was
$558,000 specific there, but here is very general. We need some explanations for that. >> That's right. >> Uh resolutions 230, 231, 232. It says recreational opportunities for individuals and disabilities. Three
different I don't know what are we using are those for the parks? I don't know. Again, you're not specific. We I can't stand here and guess at what you're trying to do. All right. Oh, the other one, the last one, 233. >> All right.
>> Local public health. >> Thank you very much. >> 64,000. >> Thank you. We're going to answer your Thank you. >> I just want an answer for that. >> Thank you, [Applause] >> Jerry Chambers. Englewood, New Jersey. I just wanted to um follow up with what
Amy was saying and it it just seems to me that this is an egregious issue where you wave the fees for one organization and don't wave them for another. I mean, that's that's serious. I mean, inequality. As African-American, we got
to deal with all kind of inequalities in this country. and to still be confronted with something that's this egregious is insane. I would like to know what is the process for a organization to get fees waved
versus uh organizations that are trying to do something to help the city that don't get fees waved. I mean, how how does that happen in in a diverse community like Englewood? Can can somebody answer that? We're
going to we're going to answer questions um after we finish this part. >> See, that's part of the problem, though. The way this is set up where we answer the questions after there's really no no uh uh way to resolve issues. If we have to wait until everybody asks these questions and you you come up with, you
know, some some uh quick uh answer to it, that that makes these these uh meetings uh ineffective. If we gonna have uh some uh dialogue, we I want to come here where I'm getting the answers
immediately so we can uh at least try and move things forward. We wait until you have the the meetings over and you give us some little quick answer when this is just going through the motions. This is ridiculous. And in that particular this
particular situation to me is racism. You know, as African-Americans, we got to deal with a lot of issues, a lot of policies in this country dealing with racism and inequality. And we shouldn't be dealing with something this minor in terms of you waving the fees for people
up the hill versus some of these organizations that are doing something to help our community. And the only reason you get away with it really is is because we have to be more effective. They don't care about us, okay? They don't give a damn about us
really because they're politicians and they want to move on to become uh uh bigger uh offices or run for other offices, Congress, Senate, and stuff like that. And we're the ones that's suffering. You had a great program here that that you you uh honored the the
kids, 24 people. That's wonderful. I grew up in a workingclass community in the housing projects and we had summer programs that uh employed 200 people. You mean to tell me we can't find more money
uh than just for 24 kids? We need to get together. We need to start getting our programs together and confronting folks that can get you some money. We need to be sitting out with the Gordon Johnson's, the the Congress people so we can help these kind of programs that's
going to assist our kids and having opportunity to be successful in this country. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh council president, may I say something? May I say something? >> Yes. >> Um under the open public meetings act is
public comment. It's not public debate. It's not question and answer. The three minutes, the three minutes is the public's time to speak. And part of the part of why we do it this way is because people interrupt. Because if you get three minutes to
speak and if someone, me, the engineer, the council, the mayor responds, that eats into your three minutes. Um, it needs to be done orderly. And I will point out that there actually doesn't have to be public comment on resolutions. That's not a requirement.
It's because it's not required under the open public meetings act. However, this however this body, >> however, this body does it. >> What I'm saying is they're not required to, but they do it anyway. >> I thought this was our city.
>> I'm not going to talk over people. >> Please state your name. >> My name is Lisa Peterson Gibbs. I live at 341 Place in England, New Jersey. I would like to address this resolution 235080525.
I am with the Elks of Ingwood, New Jersey. IBP PE W, which is the Black Elks of uh New Jersey. And we've been asking that
we not have to pay for the park. But here we have a letter asking for to wave a fee for someone who is not even part of Inglewood. And I find that very offensive. We have to pay
$300 for um a event that we're having for our children on Saturday the 16th. And I find that really disheartening. This is Inglewood. It is our park. McKay Park has been Ingwood's Park, the fourth
wards park forever. And now we have to pay what is it? $50 an hour. >> We're paying like $300 to give out book bags and have the community come together, our community.
I find it appalling. I thought this was our city. It's not our city. It's your city. You guys do what you want to do. You don't care about us back here. >> You don't care because if you cared, you would listen to us and take heed. You
don't. You try to pacify us and satisfy us with little bitty increments of satis satisfaction. And I find it appalling. >> All right. Thank you. Okay, I'm now going to close the public
comment section on the consent agenda. So, um, first we have the resolutions 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 2 oh 231, 232, 233,
234, and 236. We will answer questions in a moment, but first I just need a motion to int to introduce these resolutions. >> I make a motion. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. So, on these resolutions, um Mr. Hoffman, you have questions on um
226, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32. >> Okay. Um thank you, council president. So I will the questions for 226 and 227 those two resolutions are related. I believe that came from um Mr. Diaz. So
226 is a is a Kenworth chassis. Uh so this is going to be for our DPW and it's related to resolution 227. So 226 is the cab and chassis for that
that we need. And then 227 is going to be the attachments that are going to be put onto onto that chassis. So it's a hook lift and it's a self-mounted vacuum. So it's basically the truck once it's delivered to the
city will have three attachments. It will have it it will have a salt spreader. It will have a vacuum that can be used for uh cleaning out our catch basins and for helping to prevent flooding in the future. And it will be
used for uh leaf collection in the fall. And then it's um so that's that's part of it. And it also has a a um a part of it is a dump component. So it's a container. I believe it's a 12ard container. I don't think it's a 20 yard
container, but it's a 12ard container. So, this is a multi-purpose truck that's going to help our DPW um do a do a better job of maintaining our catch basins and it will help them be more efficient in collecting leaves
in the fall. And as we all know, leaves and leaves don't do not fall at the same time. So, uh we have um we are going to have this this vehicle will give us another um another way to help collect
um collect leaves in the fall and it'll be our second vehicle that will be multi-purpose that will help us uh to clean out catch basins and things of that nature. So, that's that's the reason. and these were in our capital budget and um we're looking forward to
getting the the delivery on those so that we can help serve our residents in a in a more efficient fashion. Uh let's see, there was a question that also came and it had to do with um I believe resolutions 230, 231, 232, and
233. So, everybody ought to be happy about these because we went we applied for grants and so we received $120,340 worth of grants. We received four different grants and what we're doing is
this resolution allows us to insert these these um these resolutions into our budget in 2025. So, we went out, we received grants. So kudos to our rec director and to uh some some of the folks that um were are in
our health department for for going after these grants. We have them and we want to be able to use them. So that's why they're here and that's why we're inserting them into the budget this year. So that's that's uh that's the resolutions for for 230, 231, 232, and
233. Then there's the question about uh waving the fees 235 um for >> that that's for a separate vote. We'll we'll do that next. >> Okay. >> Thanks. >> Um and then I'm I'm just looking did I >> there was a question on Palis about the
East Palisad Avenue construction. >> I guess I can answer that. >> So and and there's there was two that are related. So there's East Palisades and then there's Conrad. So So France, if you can answer both that would be great. Palisade Avenue is essentially the milling and paving of Palisade
Avenue from Grand Avenue to the railroad tracks. And as part of that project, we're going to be uh replacing and repairing the crosswalk. If anybody uh traveled uh that section of Cal State Avenue, you'll see how bad and disrepair
the crosswalks are. Um this is just the first phase. Next year we're going to be doing the second phase, which is the other the other half of of Palisade Avenue. Um, one of the um delays that we have with the other half is the utility companies right now can't give us an
answer whether or not they're going to need to go into Palisade Avenue, West Palate Avenue to complete some work. So that's why we're unable to do it at this time, but it is slated to get done in next year's next year's budget. Okay, good. And Conrad,
>> uh, Conrad, uh, Mountain View and Valley View, those are roadways that we plan to do actually, um, a while ago. Um, but again, uh, because of the utility company worked, we had to wait for them to to finish what they had to do and
verify that everything was okay prior to moving forward these projects. We got the AOK from everybody, so we're moving forward to get those completed. Okay, thank you. Um, any questions or comments from the governing body on these resolutions?
Yansancy, can I have a roll call, please? >> Thank you for clarify. >> It's not part of the list. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. Councilman Rosenw. >> Yes. >> Councilman Toker. >> Yes. Councilman Wilson. >> Yes.
>> Council President Waski. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, now I need a motion for resolution 235. >> I make a motion. >> Can I? >> Okay. And Mr. Hoffman, do you want to explain that? >> Uh, yes, Council President. So, the
there's a couple comments about resolution um 235. And the the thing that everybody needs to understand is that these are Englewood residents that are playing in this soccer soccer league. It's for all Englewood residents, whether you're up
the hill or down the hill or wherever. But um this is something that's done annually. It's a um it's for a notfor-rofit soccer group that's open to all Englewood residents. They came a couple years ago, made a presentation, and showed um showed the diversity of
the soccer program. And this is something that that should be commended. It's open to all all of our all of our younger folks that want to play soccer. So that's part of it. But it's it you know what? You've had your chance to speak and you've had your chance to speak and it's not discriminatory
because it's open. It's a sport. Now, the other thing the other the other items that we should talk about is that the city the city in different ways the city and council president I'm not going to be >> just just let's just stop.
>> Yep. We'll just we'll just stop. in in order for us to move forward, we have to have some type of restraint and have decorum. Um, we may not like what we hear, but there's a process. So, please I I
this >> Okay, we we have a process that we have started up. Mr. Chambers, your conduct is interfering with this public meeting. This is your first warning. Further violations will be caused for denial or recognition during
the public comment period. Please seize this behavior immediately and moving forward. Yansancy, please record Yansy, please record this conduct in the minutes of the meeting. This should include a specific description of the
conduct that was in violation as well as the person in violation. If the Okay, we have it. Um, so this is the first violation. We never had to do that this this year.
If there's going to be a second violation, we're going to have to stop the meeting again. >> Mr. Hoffman, please go on and explain that resolution. So, the resolution is to um is to wave a wave a fee just as the as the council
has done for the past several years for this soccer program so that they can uh play games on the on the fields in some manner. The city supports at least six different athletic activities
whether it's football, cheerleading, track, baseball, basketball. And so the city the city contributes money or some some kind of some kind of um equity for
these different programs. So for the football foot for football we buy football helmets. There's there's uniforms that we contribute to. Uh baseball it's baseball it's the same track it's the same. And when you when you look at the city, one of the
strengths of Inglewood is that there's over 400 notfor-profit organizations that are that are listed here in the city. And so what we what the city looks to do is we look to make sure that um we provide the
opportunity for as many for as much athletic activity as possible. And then we look to see how we can make sure that pro we offer programs, athletic programs
uh for for our residents that um we don't necessarily fund through our our municipal budget, but we give we give the opportunity for programs um where other people can run programs better than the city does
because we're our our staff is um is focused on other activities. So those are some of the things that the city does and our goal is to provide well-rounded opportunities for everybody whether you're 8 years or 80 years um or
some somewhere in between. So, it's everything from senior swimming in the pool, which which is uh which is done through a combination of our health department and and some of our other not for profofits um to to other activities.
So, that's that's basically an explanation. Council President, thank you. Um I'm going to take comments or questions from the governing body. Yansy, can I have a roll call, please? Councilwoman David, bless you.
>> No to 23508052. >> Councilman Rosenwig, >> yes. >> Councilman took >> yes. >> Councilman Wilson, >> no. >> Council President Box, >> yes.
So final vote tally is three yes, two no. Motion passes. >> Can I please have an introduction to resolution 237 which is approve payment of bills and claims? >> I make a motion. >> Second.
>> Okay. Whereas the chief financial officer has certified and submitted a consolidated bill and claims list for payment as well as a consolidated list of prepaid items. The prepaid items include emergency
payments, wire transfers, and regularly scheduled monthly payments that are paid between bills and claims list dates. And whereas all bills and claims listed herewith 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 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 two 2,157,85857. Do I have any discussion from the
government? We did a motion in a second, right? So, can I any uh I we didn't Okay. Can I have a motion? I thought we did it, but >> we did. >> We did do it. >> I think M Councilman Wilson made the motion and Councilman Rosen Swag seconded it.
>> Um any comments or discussion from the governing body? >> Can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilwoman David. Yes. >> Councilman Rosenwide. >> Yes. >> Councilman Toker. >> Yes. >> Councilman Wilson.
>> Yes. >> Council President Waski. >> Yes. Now we have two ordinances for discussion. Um I'm going to call the police chief Greley to come up. The first ordinance is to amend hiring preference ordinance to include city
employee slass 1A. >> Uh good evening council. Uh so this first ordinance uh is regarding the residency hiring preference for the police department, the fire department. So as you're probably aware, you may recall there's four classifications as far as preference for hiring for the
police and fire. First category, first class, first class is Angler residents. Second class is residents of Bergen County. Third class is residents of the state of New Jersey. And the fourth class uh is any other applicants, typically people that reside out of
state that applied here. So what we're recommending is inserting a another class that would that would include people that have been employed by the city of Angwood in the position of public safety telecommunicator for a period of three years. That would be
below the Angwood city resident classification. So first preference would go to our Angwood residents and the second one would be someone that served in that position for at least three years as a public safety telecommunicator or police dispatcher. We've had difficulty fulfilling these spots. Um, as you would, as you're
aware, I've served in that position coming up. So, I understand the importance of it. I also understand that as a new person getting their foot in the door, it creates a pathway to the the line of work that myself and the fire chief wanted to do. So, it
incentivizes people to take that position to stick with the city for a period of at least three years in that position. If they so choose, if they look beyond that to go into a full-time position, police or fire, it would incentivize them to do that. and we also get more people applying for the job. So bottom line is first category would
still apply to Angwood residents. They would still get preference that remains. However, we just insert this secondary position below that to incentivize incentivize people who take that public safety telecommunicator position and after that it would remain residents of Bergen County, residents of the state
and any other applicants. >> Okay. Thank you for the presentation. I'll take uh questions or comments from the governing body. >> Yes, mayor. Why don't you start? >> Thank you. Thank you, chief, for that. Um, and the record should reflect both you and the fire chief both came up as
dispatchers. Um, which is an extraordinary and valuable resource to the community. Um, I think 3 years is too much, maybe a year. Once a dispatcher is seated at that microphone and knows all the nooks and crannies and
they want to become a police officer or a firefighter, they should have a leg up for a full year of service. I think 3 years is a little ownorous and at one year or two years and we should have a conversation about this because we see a
lot of dispatchers that do want to join our forces and it would be important to encourage them and this would be an important path because I know we have issues in in uh keeping and maintaining good dispatchers. Um, and just a special thank you for uh
helping us swear in these new officers and for finding ways to onboard more people into this noble profession. Thank you. >> Any Councilman Wilson? >> Thank you, Chief, for your presentation. Could you reiterate and remind the
public how long um the requirement is for be considered for Inguid resident? Currently it's 12 months. >> So when we tried to increase that,
we got all kind of excuses in regards to it's long enough. It shouldn't be any longer. Um so at minimum, if we're putting this on the second tier under under um Ingret residents, I think it's
imperative that we go three years. It shows we can gauge that individual. We can gauge the commitment and whether or not he's connected or um is adjacent to our town. So I think 3 years is definitely appropriate and thank you for
bringing up that scale. [Applause] >> Councilwoman David. >> Yes. Um Chief, thank you. You and I spoke about this and I think three years are it's great. Um and I commend you for your efforts and everything. You highly respect it and three years I think is
wonderful. One year is deplorable. Thank you. >> Um Chief, thank you for the presentation. But aside from the time um requirement, yeah, this is a great idea and we we heard it tonight. Um I don't
know if you're in the room, but we talking about the internship and someone got offered a full-time job. And that's how you find the best employees. People have worked with you in a different capacity and want to move up um you know up the ladder, take on more opportunity,
take on more uh responsibility. So this is really a fantastic idea cuz you're going to you know you can you know talk your way through a 15-minute interview or a day. You can't talk your way through three years of uh of of being on the job. So this this is a great idea
and this is this is how the best organizations work. So thank you for bringing this up. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh the next item ordinance for discussion is prohibiting defecating and urinating in public. >> Exactly. Um,
so believe it or not, there is there's nothing specifically in the breach of the peace part of our city ordinances that directly addresses this. Um, right now officers, uh, we have had complaints over the years. Uh, I've dealt with it in the past. In the past, uh, you know,
our officers have the option to deal with the we can issue a criminal offense for lwdness, uh, which sometimes applies and sometimes maybe not apply may not apply as well. Uh, so this would put it in our city code. It would give officers an option besides going straight to a
criminal charge for lwdness to something that's more appropriate that we can address and move the person on. Um, you know, we've had a couple issues different parts of town where this has been brought to our attention. So, it's something that is long overdue and um I I just think it's something we need to
address as soon as possible. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, I'm going to open it up for questions and comments from the governing body. I'll start with Councilman Wilson. >> Um, thank you, Chief. I've been here in the town for 64 years, and I would have never thought that we would have to put
something on the books as such. Um, but we've had a conversation maybe a month and a half ago in regards to that defecation in the fourth ward. And as far as I'm concerned, it's unacceptable. And if anybody gets caught doing it, we
should hold that as a severe incident because that can't continue to happen, not just in the city, but fourth ward, we we we we can't we can't accept that. And I don't know how many other complaints you got somewhere else in what other ward, but I know we
there's there's no excuse. And I and I get it. people fall upon hard times and all, but we do have portaotties and there are homeless people. Um, but if you see something, you got to say something because we have to protect our community. Thank you.
>> Um, thank you, Chief. You and I spoke about this also cuz I was a little confused and you did explain it to me, which means moving on to the next question, which is not here with you, but um, now I understand what dog walking there, so that's also defecating
I'm assuming. So, this is going to this another subject, but thank you for bringing this to me for the fe with the human feces, but I'm looking at the dog walking down in a park. Thank you. >> So, interestingly enough, Chief, I have a little experience with this from a
client who was arrested in a neighboring town here from Australia who then was facing removal from the United States because of the arrest that occurred. When he came to my law office in Manhattan, he explained to me that he has a medical condition and the police
officer did not want to address the medical condition where he had to urinate with some regularity and he couldn't get to a bathroom in time. So I would only ask well it appears to be really deplorable to have that kind of conduct that there be be a medical
exingency built into it so that the officer has some judgment that can be exercised because of the unintended consequences of this. >> Thank you. >> Can I interject something? >> Um I I have the ordinance. Um it's u
mayor. >> Yes. So, it's in our packet. Persons with impairments, a recognized disability unrelated to the ingestion of alcohol, illegal substances, or substances not prescribed to the particular person ingesting them, which
renders the person unable to exercise control over his or her bodily functions of urination or defecation. So, it looks like >> that's a disability, but I don't know if a person who hasn't been labeled as a disabled person, Mr. Bailey would
qualify then would it would have to >> No, it speaks of impairment too. >> Yeah. So then I would put the word disability or medical impairment. >> That's what it says. >> It says then that's fine. Thank you. >> Persons with impairments. >> Did anybody else
>> Did anyone else from the governing body want to make a comment on this? >> I would just make a poop joke. >> All right. All right. So um so you know and I I guess you know what I'll ask is if everybody can just take a
look at this you know over the week and if you have language uh recommendations uh send it over to um the chief and to Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Bailey and they'll try to incorporate it into the ordinance.
>> So thank you. I think it's appropriate and self thank you for the presentation sir. >> Yes. >> Thank you very much. >> So um now we have another item for discussion. Mr. Hoffman is going to discuss escrow funds.
Uh thank you council president. the uh the the issue of escrow funds comes up um on a regular basis and there are some confusion about escrow funds and the different types of escrow funds. So the
city on a regular basis um uh deals with three different types of escrow funds. So we we have the escrow funds that are for soil permits, tree permits, um rights of way. These are these are per these are escrow accounts that are
basically related to work that's done on a private home and um our our engineers office takes takes a look at takes a look at that. So when the es when when those particular types of escrow accounts um or the work is done uh then
the engineers the the engineer um has to has to res has to certify that the work has been completed and the the funds can be released. And many times they they they need to have something from from another engineer or an asbuilt plan or
they do an inspection and um then the the funds can be released. So those are those are some of the that's one type of escrow account. Another type of escrow account are the ones that go to our boards that go to the planning board and the zoning board of adjustment. And
those escrow accounts have to do with uh changes in use or or development of of particular properties. And those escrow accounts that are related to board applications pay pay
the fees for the professional. So they pay for the the planner or the engine or the engineer. They pay for uh um for the attorneys for the planning board or the zoning board. And when an application is
voted on by those particular boards uh then that triggers another set of escros. So if somebody does work and um goes before one of the boards has their project approved, um they they have put money aside so
that the professionals that that view the plans and deem them deem them complete and then uh review them, they can get paid so that it doesn't come out of the municipal budget. so that not all of all of the residents that are that are here tonight as well as the 7,559
taxpaying properties have to subsidize those those particular applications. Um so those after the after there's been an approval then um staff members from the city
uh they they they contact the professionals and they ask if their if their bills are complete so that they can release the escros escrow accounts and then um those funds are released. But then when people want to start to build the project or to develop the
project that triggers a third set of escros and that's for that's the applications that go into the um that go to that are are sent in with the permits with the building permits or the application for the building permits for the plan reviews and then for the
inspections that are done by the electrical official the sub this the the building sub code the plumbing the plumbing official. So, we we're dealing with three different types of escrow accounts and the the city over the past
uh few years, particularly since 2022, dealing with the boards, has done a very good job of uh looking back and then um refunding escrow funds to uh to those that that have finished their
applications in front of the boards. So right now um Oxana who's in our construction office and monitors these for the zoning board and the planning board is has basically taken a look and
um we're we're before the end of this year we believe we will be able to um provide escrow refunds to uh all people that have submitted escrow accounts in in the
calendar year 2022. So, it seems that those applications have been approved or been completed by the different boards, either the planning board or the zoning board. And um we've we have we're we will be giving the professionals until
October 31st to make sure that they get all of their bills in or else they they will not be able to collect if an outstanding bill if they don't submit it by October 31st because our goal is to is to refund the escrow funds to whoever's entitled to them. Uh
previously we've done a deep dive and we've looked back back to see um who was owed money from um you know escrow funds from past projects and we had cleared over a thousand escrow accounts. back in 2023.
Uh we have we have um a good system that's in place now using the Edmonds software system so that the engineering department and the finance department as well as the construction office are communicating on a regular basis. We've
uh contacted the banks that hold the escrow accounts and they have been able to give us a history uh based on based on year. So we have we we know the escrow accounts that are being held and we also know what year uh the escrow
accounts were were started and we use that as an aging report and so we can go back and and see if the projects have been closed out and then return funds. So we have um we have a couple of dangling accounts out there where
projects were done and then people people sold the property, they moved away. If you buy a property and there's an es and there's money in an escrow account for that particular block and lot, it doesn't go to you. Um, it's it's it goes to whoever had deposited those
funds. And so we have made attempts to reach out to to people that have moved moved to other states to, you know, to return to return their funds. But on a regular basis, we're we're doing the clearing. And um at times it it it does
take months to do after a project has been has been completed, but we're we we have a good project, a good program in place. And we've been we've been keeping up with uh with making sure that the escros are up not only up to date so
that the the professionals can take a look at at the whatever the application is for the planning board and zoning board but then when it's when it's done um making sure that we're able to return the escrow accounts to those that are
entitled to it. So that's that's the that's the update and then we'll we'll provide an updated um basically per chart to the to the council so that they can they can see how the process works. >> Right. And the reason this came up and and and this is what I really um it came
up is because council members are getting complaints from people in the public that um they finished their jobs and they're waiting 6 months or more to get back their escrow refunds. So what I what what we really what the council really wants to know is how can we
streamline this process so that people can get their escrow funds back in one one to two months and when can we expect to have this process streamlined? >> Well, we're we're in the process it is streamlined now. We we do have to make some more tweaks, but the key is that
the the bank can now give us um give us an give us a report and tell us when the escrow accounts what year that they were done and by by block and lot. So we we have that, but a lot of the time the uh
there's a delay because we're waiting for some we're waiting for something whether it's um an asbuilt from from an architect or an engineer if it's related to um escros for a project that's being
that has been built or um we're we we don't have we don't have confirmation that um that something before the zoning board or the planning board has there's been an action that's been taken because sometimes people put
a project on hold and that's um you know that's one of the that's that's a couple of the issues that we have run into um that uh we we just need to we need to know if a project has been withdrawn or whether there it's just being held in
advance and what we've done in the past is we've looked at this on a quarter ly basis. So, we've now started to look at this on a monthly basis instead of a quarterly basis. And the council over the last few months, when you look at your bills list, you'll see that there's
been there's been um the release of escrow funds on on our different on the the different uh bills lists over the last several months. Any comments or questions from the governing body?
Okay, we now have communications. Um, >> council president due to the hour and I know my conversation will be short due to the hour. Is it possible we can hear from the public first? >> I mean, I I have no problem waving uh
the the communications from the governing body. If does any does anybody object to waving their comments? Okay, we will wave our comments and uh we'll go right into the public session. But yeah, if you're okay with it. Oh,
okay. Well, Councilwoman David wants to speak. Councilman David, please speak. >> I do, but in the interest of the time, I'd rather the community speak. >> It'll be quick. It'll be quick. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to say something. Um, it'd be very quick. I
know we're gonna go and wave it, but uh you know, basically, let me be clear. There's a comment made by someone who's not here. There was a comment made by a city council person
who's not here about we have the agenda and we should basically just read it before we get here and not say anything, right? So, let me be clear. I was elected to be transparent and not to rub a stamp. I understand that. Some may not be comfortable with my approach, even my
own cabinet at times, but democracy does not thrive in silence. I wasn't elected to sit quietly in a feudal position and vote yes on everything. I was elected to ask the hard questions >> to ensure your voices are heard and to
represent you with integrity and accountability. You know, because some people like me asking questions. So, your chamber leaders will hate you. Your committee chairs will despise you, but your voters will support you. You have to reestablish trust or election turnouts
will continue to dwindle and more and more residents will rightfully feel like they're on the outside and that you're not interested in representing them. Your chamber and committee leaderships are not your bosses. Your constituents are. And I took that from Loretta Weinberg's page. That's all I have to
say. >> Thanks. Actually, council president, if you don't mind, um there are just a few things I'd like to acknowledge if I can briefly. Uh first of all, the appointment of a no a new OEM uh director who has um given us some very
good intel on the rains and the floods and communications with the governor and yes, two earthquakes, one as recent as this afternoon. We wish him Godspeed and we thank Captain Soelli for his extraordinary service taking us uh through a pandemic. Congratulations to
former mayor Steve Rothman who has the overlook um a specific a very special uh honor to him in Carlat because of the hard work that he did with the meadowlands. Um, as far as the rest of the concern,
I'd like to personally thank Anglewood Hospital, who I asked if they would contribute $15,000 to the night market, $20,000 from NVE Bank to the fireworks, and $15,000 that I re raised from other
local businesses for the Junth. These are tedious phone calls. These are friends of ours and neighbors who did not want to see these important events not be held. And I want to thank the business owners who stepped up when I asked them to step up. And just to tell
people, I'm making my rounds with the Crown Plaza who's going to go through construction, the many weddings that I perform, and this apprentice uh group that we had a chance to see today. I'll be spending time with them on Thursday. I also want to acknowledge the
distinguished principal Lamar Thomas who joined us for the whole evening today and stood uh in solidarity with a young lady. Um that was a very uh that was a clarioning call of our schools and good citizenship and also to the several
deacons, municipal and retired leaders and firefighters that were here this evening. Uh the rest you can watch coffee with the mayor on Friday and catch up. >> Okay. Good. Good. >> All right. And Mr. Hoffman um was was going to talk for a few minutes about
the nonprofits uh before we go into the public session. >> Yeah. Thank you, Council President. I was going to address this in the in the manager's report, but um we talked about it once before, but the um I'm I'm looking at the at the use, as I
said before, we have over 400 nonprofits in the city, but we've talked about the concept of heavy use of our parks and other infrastructure as well as soft use. So, uh, the count the council will be receiving something from me about a
re a recommendation related to, uh, if if there's not going to be a heavy use of the park, um, or some kind of a facility that there be an adjustment on the on the fee schedule for that for that use. So, um, that's that's something that's going to be coming to
the council soon >> and and this is something that we could um act on in September. >> That is correct. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, >> so I'm now going to open the meeting to the public. Speakers are asked to step up to the microphone and give their
names and they have three minutes to speak. Hello. Hello. William Satderfield, Dean Street. Um, a lot of things. First of all, I think a lot of people want to come here and get direct answers. The
waiting is kind of silly. If you don't know, just say you don't know. But if you have an answer, I think people would like to have an answer. It's much simpler. Traffic in this town, far as I know, Palisad Avenue is the worst. And as long as I've lived here, as long as
the lights went from east to west, which is only on one side, obviously, traffic was fine. When you mess up the traffic at Humphrey Street and William Street instead of, in other words, all the lights should run consecutive so I can run from east all the way past the
monument without having to stop in low traffic. The lights should change in that direction. If not, if you have to stop at William Street or Van Brunt as people go to shop right or whatever, it really messes up the traffic. Um, that's about it for me. >> Okay.
>> Thank you. Leway Campbell, 287 Tennerfly Road, Anglewood. Um, the last in-house meeting I asked the question and city manager
answer was he didn't understand what I meant when I said rogue rogish rogue spending. Um, number one, we hired a O OEM when we had Captain Soranelli in place. We got to pay him. Ken Albert were
paying over $22,000 to tell us something that we paid somebody else along the line to do. Um, the other one is the hiring of a
deputy city manager, a deputy city clerk and the multiple lawsuits in the police department. That's where the rogue spending is. That's where the mismanagement of of city funds. We're
taxpayers and we should be able to get the service that all taxpayers get, not just some of the taxpayers get. This this is unacceptable because now I don't
know if any if people have been noticing, but your taxes has gone up. Taxes has gone up and it's because of these kind of stuff. this kind of stuff that's going on. So therefore, we need to make sure that
you know we do the right thing because right now you're not doing the right thing. And the other thing I have is council at large. For 6 months, this man didn't do nothing but answer
to ordinance. And all of a sudden, he make these statements, which to me is racist. For 6 months, he didn't open his mouth about anything. out and I compliment you
for speaking on behalf because it was unfair. You you and Kevin maybe you and Kevin should get together like how the other three get together before the meeting. That why that's why they don't have to ask questions because they're already they're already conglomerate together.
First ward, second ward, and council at large. That's why they don't ask any questions in the meeting because they already know the answers. Whereas you and Kevin got to figure out what's going on and for the public. You
you should answer ask questions for the public, for the taxpayers, for the people that that pays for this city to operate. It's enough is enough. Enough is enough. >> Thank you.
[Applause] >> And you Kraton 16 Brookway aging in New Jersey. I had discussed something with um city manager Hoffman earlier about a video I took of a man actually sleeping on Pal City A last Monday. 90° weather
was 6:00 in the evening. He was sleeping on Palav on the ground. very unre I mean quality of life was disgusting. I sat out there for 20 minutes waiting for a police officer to come by so I could show him what was going on. A police
officer never came by on palace ass. I'm like wow. I had to call the police station to get somebody out there to check on this man. 90° he was drunk sleeping on the ground. Quality of life is better than that of Inglewood. All of these Ingwood
residents in here never went through none of that during their whole time in Englewood. We got new people in Inglewood do not respect quality of life in Englewood. It's disgusting. I got the video right here. Anybody want to share want me to share the video with them? A
lady came out the store, threw him some uh food on top of him. He rolled over, opened up the bag, ate it, and laid back down and went to sleep. Why? Cuz she condoneed what he was doing. That's how they live in their country. They shouldn't be doing it out here in this
country. Why didn't a police officer come through there 20 in 20 minutes, 90° out there? No police officer came through Power City. >> You know why? Because they all sitting here. Why should they come out of the
heat? They not here to protect themselves. They here to get their money and go back to where they live. Thank you. >> Thank you. [Applause] Amy Bulock, Howland Avenue. Um, a couple of things. So, I'm going to go quickly.
One, the 25 houses um that the city is looking to build under affordable housing or rehabilitate. Can you confirm whether or not we're going to uh or the intent is to make sure that these are not in flood zones?
Um in regards to safe routes to school, I just want to point out back in I think it was it it was when when the mayor was first reelected, Councilwoman Wasatski, you and I attended an event for the Northern Valley Greenway a few years
back. They had an organization there called Easy Ride that would come into your municipality, work with the community and the residents to identify hazards on school routes at no charge. The mayor shut it down. So, we're here
today. I'm glad that it's come back up, but thanks to your inviting me to that event, I learned about that organization and Diane Jansen and I worked to try to get that in Englewood and he opted not to to move forward with it. Um, I'd also
like to request that we give a little bit more consideration to how many items we put on the agenda. It is almost 11:00 at night. That's unfair to us. It's unfair to you. you shouldn't want to be here at 11:00 at night. So perhaps the agenda should
not be so packed or if it is going to be an unusually packed agenda, we look at moving the meeting till 7:00 just out of courtesy for everybody, including the city council. Um, Mr. Hoffman, you uh gave me an explanation of the athletics,
but I had a couple of questions you didn't answer. I want to know if athletic teams are charged the $50 per hour to use the fields outside of the Inglewood recreation teams. And I want to know what is the process to request
the waiver and then this this process that you're going to look at for heavy use. I want to know is it going to be retroactive um for those organizations who are having events or who have had events um
in recent times before this process was put together. And I want to commend Councilwoman Angela David. Let me be very clear. I got 37 seconds. Councilman Kevin Wilson is my councilman. He represents me and I am comfortable and
confident in his ability to speak on my behalf. Councilwoman Angela David is not my council person, but her values are aligned with mine. So, I support both of
them. There are times when I agree with Councilwoman Wasadski. There are times when I agree with Councilman Rosenwig. Councilman Toa doesn't talk, so I don't know. But let me just be clear. They speak on my behalf. So when they talk,
it's me. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Can you hear me? Oh, good evening. Ava Ratigan um Nap Place in Anglewood. Um Mr. Hoffman, this is just
a follow-up question for you um from the last city council meeting on Zoom. We're now approaching four years since Ida and tomorrow will mark one year since the flash flood and what steps are being done to prevent
the overflow from flooding at Crystal Lake. I know that the turnpike has done some work there, but that's still not satisfactory. Has anyone gone over to see the work that's been that they have
done? And the lake can be used as a catch basin for all the water that will be coming off of Englewood Cliffs and also Flat Rock and also Cross Creek. So I live in
that area and I'm very concerned. So there should be no questions. We should be working with our local leaders to remedy this situation. I pay my taxes. I shouldn't have to come here and beg, but this is something that is I'm
entitled to to live in a safe environment and that is not safe. Um, secondly, what can be done to alleviate the I worked with the police chief and
with the county to have the do not block intersection on Grand and Brookside. And I think when I first brought this up, I was told, "No, we shouldn't give tickets. We should educate." Well, I
need to see police officers out educating the public. And if not, we need to enforce it. And that is something that I'm concerned about because they're blocking Nap Place
and Grand. I know the focus has been on Broad Avenue, but at times we can't turn on our block. We can't get off and we can't get on. And that's a problem. I'm paying my taxes and taxes are going up. So I need the service for
all Anglewood residents. Of course I am concerned about this city and I need to see work being done. So France, if you could look into that for me, please I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Lisa Peterson and Gibbs Inglewood, New Jersey. I just want to know what do I have to do? Can I write a letter to get my fees waved for nonprofit organizations being that we're waving
fees for the AYSO? I want to know if the Elks can do the same thing and you will give us the same consideration that you gave them. >> Thank you,
>> Suzanne. M Phelps Avenue. I So the issues that are being experienced on broad have only started after the restriping and I don't think we ever resolved who moved the bus stop because the council says New Jersey Transit The
transit New Jersey Transit says the council. Um the block the box. I asked you who was responsible for the one on Rockwood. I didn't get a response to that between Grand and Broad.
Um what else? I think that's it. Thanks. So, >> thank you. >> Good evening everyone. Good evening, Inglewood. Um, Coach Tarla Inglewood. Um, Sloum Avenue.
I heard about the >> Sorry, what's your name? >> Tarla Coleman Broads. Um, I'm the cheerleading coach. have been for almost 30 years for the Junior Football League. Um, I've been hearing
some disturbing news. Uh, first of all, in regards to the issue about the maroon and white, the colors are going on here in Englewood and the fact of us changing the colors after all these years. Um the city of Inglewood is not happy about it
and because of the hour we lost a lot of people but a lot of people were here because of this change and I just want to know why are you making the change. Okay, we're not TK we're Inglewood.
Everybody wants to be Inglewood because we're very closeknit group of people. I realize how close when my mother passed away and I saw friends there and people who I was surprised to see that showed up, the
city of England showed up and they showed out at her funeral. So, I know how close we are. It may not mean a lot to you guys for changing the colors, but it means a lot to me. It means a lot to
us. And I really want to know why after all these years, okay? cuz I've been here, born and raised here, and it's always been this color. I need to know, and the community needs to know why all of a sudden you want to change the colors. Okay, that's going to be a
sickler. I'm going to be a thorn in your side until you give us a good reason because I don't understand why. I'm also concerned because I also have practice at the middle school. The principal Lamar Thomas was kind
enough to take care of us bringing cones and things and blocking so that the girls and the boys are safe. We need to put some kind of lights on Trion Avenue. We need to show something that it's a school. There's nothing showing that we
are in a school zone. Okay. Over the last 30 some years that I've been coaching, we've had kids get hit by cars cuz late at night it is so dark. Okay, that should be our priorities. We have nothing showing about the school system,
about Dwight Marorrow, about the middle school, nothing. We don't even anything about St. Sicilians and I actually went to both schools. There's nothing saying anything about school zones for the city of Inglewood. Okay, so those are my two main factors. I got a lot more, but
those are my two because I'm thinking about my kids and I'm thinking about the community and I just need some answers. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Cindy Williams, Forest Avenue in Englewood. Two things. I've noticed a
lot of homelessness in Englewood. What is the process? Some of these people that I see homeless, I've gone to school with. So, this is a really big problem in Englewood. I've lived here all my life. The second thing is I walk down Grand Avenue every day. the speeding
that goes on. There should be a police officer or two on that block. I'm talking 50 60 miles per hour going down Grand Avenue. Something needs to be done. A police officer needs to sit there and you'll see all the speeding
that goes on. Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Thank you. Okay. I'm now going to close the public session. >> We done All right. Mr. Hoffman's going to go through
um some of the answers. Um what what you know the what what Mr. Hoffman Mr. Hoffman's going to go through some of some of the answers. Um, some he'll do now, some he'll get to at the next council meeting. If, uh, you
had a question and it wasn't answered, uh, please send the city manager a email at r hoffman@c cityofanglewood.org. It's two fs, two N's. Thank you. >> All right.
>> All right. Thank you, council president. So, some of the questions that came up uh had to do well, one of them had to do with um our OEM coordinator and um we're not paying an additional salary. Our OEM coordinator, Mr. uh Sorbanelli, our
former OEM coordinator, he he is a firefighter, but he asked um if he asked that we find somebody that would be a suitable replacement as the OEM coordinator when he has to respond to emergencies. he is responding as a fire
officer. He has to do that by statute as well as by fire fight by the firefighter um rules and regulations. And um so we're we're happy that Mr. Kersh who's a retired firefighter is able to step in
as the OEM coordinator. Um so so that was part of it. Uh let's see. the council will be hearing or the um the citizens will be hearing about um the about the community center at a public meeting sometime in the fall. So, you'll
have the opportunity to um to see what was what was um proposed and what has been redone by Mr. Albert. Uh there was a question about the hiring of a deputy city manager. That was something that was in the budget since 2021 and it was
implemented and that has been a great help to the city. It has helped us to um hold the line on insurance premium slow slow other growth and give us the opportunity to make improvements in different areas and uh be a project manager for several several things that
are going on as well as to help us obtain grant funding. So, uh, that's that's a valuable position. Same as the deputy city clerk because, um, as much as we don't want as much as we don't want our city clerk to leave and she's ageless, but, um, she has indicated that
she wants to go on and do something something else in the future and this is um, and she wants to ensure succession planning and that's part of the succession planning. So, um, this is this is something that good organizations do. they they prepare for
the future and that's what we're doing. Uh so uh let's see um taxes that are taxes that are that are uh going up. The third quarter tax bill is an estimate and that is that is higher but everybody needs to recognize
that the city collects taxes for the board of education for the school district as well as for the county. So we collect for for three different organizations and um the first the fourth quarter tax
bill and the first quarter tax bill for 2026 there'll be an adjustment because the county will wind up striking striking its tax rate. So um so you'll have certainty on what's what are what are the taxes.
Uh let's see. Um what did they what did what did they miss? on my list. >> What's that? >> Oh, so the uh as as I said, you know, the council will be getting something on the about from the nonpr about
nonprofits that use use the fields or our our uh city assets um that that don't require heavy usage. But um you know, if you're going to if you're going to have a thousand people show up and you're going to you're going to need other services, that's considered heavy
usage. Um so we'll we'll talk about that. And um you know, perhaps for the for the lighter for the lighter usage, um you know, it would be it would be retro to when to uh when when the ordinance was introduced, but there's there's still going to be a fee for
that. Um there was 25 houses. the 25 houses. Yes, the goal is not to have them in the in the flood zone of the um let's see, we'll talk about the homelessness next meeting because I'm not sure what that
um what what uh you know what the situation is there, but we'll we'll talk with our our social services and the police department. Um Miss Raticanin had talked about Nap Place and four years ago from Ida and there's still things that we need to be addressed. um and
we're addressing with PSENG uh for moving poles and then we have found that we have found that there was some washouts that we believe were related to IDA and we're addressing those. Yes, there's a one-year anniversary coming up from from uh from
our storm that dumped 5.9 in of rain in less than 3 hours. uh there and we've been taking steps since 2022 to reduce flooding or to eliminate flooding and we will continue to do that. We've had a long arm in the stream today. We had it
all all week. Last week we were doing extra work to make sure we could handle that rain that came and we were we were lucky. We we did not get hit as hard as Staten Island or some of the towns in central Jersey, but we were able to um
to manage the water that came and we had intense rain over a short period of time. Also, um we are we have we've identified storm drains. We've uncovered we've uncovered drains that were clogged for over 30 years. And um that should
that should make people sleep better, that they're free and they're clear now. And that we're working with the Turnpike Authority and we're working with other governmental entities to make sure that um water is flowing and it's flowing the
way it was supposed to. It's flowing into the catch basins that have been clogged. It's flowing into the slleways. and um we are we are doing our best efforts every single day to make sure that catch
basins covers and streams are flowing are flowing freely. Our storm water system was designed for France what was it the three to 20ear storms and we're having we're having significant rainfall that exceeds that. So, um, we're we're
doing what we can with the resources that we have and, uh, let's see. So, the we know we're going to talk about that at the next meeting, Miss because that that is that is a significant problem and it's CS.
>> No, we've had we have had meetings with CSX and we've had we've um we have been pursuing some other options with our state. >> No. So, we're going to we're going to stick we're going to stick to the stick to what's going on. Yeah. So, we're
doing that. Um the uh let's see, Forest Avenue, thank you for recognizing that it was that it was paved. We had there was some emergency work that had to be done to uh before it got paved and that was that was done. We're looking at the block the box um between Grand and and
Broad and that'll be something that we'll we'll answer at the next meeting. We'll have more more information about it. Um, uh, Coach Carla talked about, uh, the, um, needing some more lights on Triion Avenue. So, we'll take we'll take
a look at that. But she also brought up the the question of colors for the, um, for the, um, you know, for the for the school district as well as the city. Well, when you look behind the council president, those that's the seal of the
city. It's the same colors that have been in city hall since 1922. So nobody has changed the colors. >> So nobody nobody That's right. It's not the colors of the school. The school colors are are maroon. Right. And the school and the city color and the city
colors are blue just like that. But um you know nobody nobody has changed the colors. So this is this is Mr. Hoffman's time to talk. >> No no. >> So thank you C council president. >> So so council president. Thank you. But
that's, you know, there seems to, you know, um when when you go to city hall, city hall was built in 1922. The original seal it, you know, has the same colors that that are up there. So, um the school district had distinct colors so that there could be a distinct
identity and there could be a pride in the pride in the school district. So, that's that's about it. >> Thanks. Can I have a motion to adjourn? >> So moved. >> All in fa All in favor? All right. [Applause]
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