may I start the meeting okay okay if everybody could please take their seat I'm now going to call the workshop meeting of April 1st 2025 to order at 800m can everybody 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 thank you yansy can you read please read the O the uh 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
been given the municipal clerk is directed to include the statement in the minutes of this meeting can I have roll call please councilwoman David present councilman Rosen here councilman toer here
councilman Wilson present council president wiski here absent with prior notice is Mayor Michael Wilds also present is city manager Robert S Hoffman City attorney Bill Bailey and CFO Michael calman okay thank
you um now we have ordinance for introduction of the first reading calendar year um it's ordinance number 25-20 calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appro appropriation limits and to establish a
c bank can I have a motion that the ordinance passed on first reading and be published once by title only in the record and that a public hearing be held on May 6 2025 so moved second it okay um Bill do you want to just um just talk for a
moment about what this is please Finance okay no since Michael's since Mr calin's here coming so this just allows the uh City to bank the extra money that the that we
are under the cap for the Appropriations for this year's budget so this year we're actually uh $535,000 under the cap of the 3 and a half% so this lets US Bank that for future years in case of emergencies and it doesn't necessarily mean we have to spend it because the council still has
to approve the future year budget budgets so if we need it in future years the council still has to approve that budget so it's just a safeguard to uh in case of emergencies in future years thanks can I ask you one question do the do the cap Banks become cumulative only for three years okay thank you any
discussion from the governing body go ahead if You' be so kind um and a pleasure to see you Mr CFO it's been a while since you've come to one of our meetings so it's always a pleasure for you clearing things up and after the three three years could you explain to
us what happens to that it it just goes away it's a bank that we have the ability to use and once the three years passes the Mone we can't use it anymore that's it okay thank you okay all right ycy um can I roll
call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman thank you councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we
have resolution 131 sorry just a uh dis ordinance will have a public hearing and adoption at the May 6 meeting thank you okay resolution 131 introducing the 2025 budget can I have a motion
please so moved second hold on hey do chief chief chief can you take the conversation outside please okay did we have a motion yet yes we had a motion in second okay any
discussion oh before that Mr Hoffman do you want to say a couple words uh thank you council president uh the introduction of the 2025 budget is um has been an exercise and teamwork between the uh governing body our count
our city council our professional staff as well as Department heads and the CFO and myself this budget as introduced tonight has a 1.98% tax increase uh it's um we we are also looking at um
basically this this equates to a um $124 increase in somebody's Municipal property taxes uh the city was able to build a surplus this year uh so that we can we have resources in in case there
are uh there are needs that are going to be coming up for emergencies we usually we've we usually use $3.1 million in Surplus because we know we can generate that we put that into our into the into the budget this year we used a little
more because we had two specific projects that need to be accomplished one of them is one of them is to um remove and digitize files so that so that all of our departments and boards and commissions have access to that and um we have 2700 boxes of files and
storage so they're going to come out so we'll be able to look at them and then the other thing is we've been ordered to redo our tax maps and that's going to cost about $100,000 so we're using we're using additional Surplus just to cover those costs but this budget is a well-crafted
document and it meets the needs of the city and it um it provides for uh for the for the goods and services that will be required to make sure that we um we we are able to meet all of the all of
the policies that the council has has adopted as well as the unfunded state and federal mandates that we are required to do so so with that thank you very much thank you any discussion from the
governing body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes U
council president if I may the public hearing and Adoption of the ordinance will also take place on May 6 thank you now we have um ordinances for a second reading we have four public hearings so the first ordinance is ordinance number 25 it's an ordinance of
the city of Anglewood adding section of city-owned tennis and pickle ball courts I now declare 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 your municipality and you have three minutes good evening Council my name is Leroy Campbell 287 tly Road um I guess my question is why are we charging
residents I mean I can see us charging Outsiders but why are we charging the residents they're taxpayers okay and and the other thing I have is um it indicate you have to be a
resident uh and I guess you have to have a a a dwelling but what about the renters what about all of the people that rent okay are they going to be able to use this facilities okay we're going to answer the questions uh once the public
hearing is closed okay thank you thank you good evening everyone I have a question well some questions about this ordinance um name for the record please oh I'm sorry I'm Suzanne mullings Englewood New Jersey
um maybe I'm not clear but I believe our tax dollars paid to renovate the pre-existing tennis court into pickable so if we're proposing to charge money
who is going to manage that area like the designation of times how long you played who went over and so forth is that going to be a new position created because as long as I've known that area it hasn't been regulated so now that this
is a new proposal are those things going to be shared with us so we know what to expect um what else I don't think residents should pay because then the same precedent will be
set for other things like tennis and basketball and any other public uh outdoor activity that we have that's designated public space where that usually doesn't have anyone to supervise
the area um and how much would they pay that's another question I had all right you're only taking comments about the we're going to answer the questions once the public hearing is is closed this discussion is just on the
pickle B ordinance it's it's it's just on it's a public hearing for ordinance 25 okay thank you 25 25-16 Amy Bullock Avenue um I agree residents should not have to
pay our tax dialers help to maintain that Park so you know asking us to pay to use a park that we already paying to maintain seems a little bit out of order for me but my question is who is going to enforce that are our police officers going to be going around to all the
tennis courts and pickle ball courts asking people to show their permits um or will it be Park Rangers and if it's Park Rangers how is it going to be handled if someone doesn't have a permit and they challenge our park ranger um I don't see the point in
having an ordinance in place if we don't have a way to enforce it so I'm curious to know about that thank you Rick willb with New Jersey yeah I'm curious to know these pickle ball courts right how did they take precedence over this community center that we were supposed to get you know I mean where
are these pickle ball courts located is during all the awards and how did this become such a priority from out of nowhere who plays pickle ball is it like the New Black a white water fountain I mean what what is pickle ball going to bring to the city I'd really like to
know what is the benefits of pickle ball and whose idea is it to play pickle ball and have this big problem with pickle ball all over fingle with all the people I know they play tennis they don't even play pickle ball so I like answers to my questions who's behind this and how did
this thing take precedent over community center this pickle ball issue it's like a Hot Topic thank you thank you okay does anyone else from the public wish to
comment okay hear okay I'm I'm going to close the public hearing for this ordinance all right thank you um so the reason I'll start and then I'm going to let Bill answer one question then I'm going to go to Bob um so the reason that this
ordinance came up it actually I don't know if people will remember it came up about two years ago uh putting in an ordinance um and it came up again this um now and the reason it's coming up is because there's a lot of Resident complaints residents are having a
problem getting onto um the a lot of the courts because if you drive by many of the courts they're being used by private instructors or from people who don't live in Anglewood um so residents have got gotten very frustrated and have been
complaining that they can't get on to the courts so so um that's the reasoning behind how this this began and again is something that the council uh considered two years ago as well and um there were
and and the city management office was looking into how different towns do this uh because of Green Acres we can't just say that the courts are just for Anglewood residents we do have to allow non- Anglewood residents access to the
courts as well um I'm going to let Mr Bailey answer uh Mr Campbell's question and then I'm going to let Mr Hoffman answer um about the enforcement and the implementation uh thank you madam chair just to the point Mr Campbell
raised I see the draft that's in the packet this is an earlier draft if I can read to you from the the final draft that I had prepared on March 18th resident is defined as a record owner of property taxpayer or or tenant whose full-time residence is the city of
Anglewood so this would not this wouldn't isn't limited to Property Owners is my point correct um Mr Hoffman do you want to answer um the rest of the questions please uh certainly thank you council
president one of the questions that was asked had to do with um who will be enforcing the um the the schedules for the pickle ball courts or for the tennis courts so that's going to be people will be able to sign up
uh through an app or through our our website for for use of of the courts the uh the park rangers and other Recreation staff members will be able to enforce that people will will have it on their
phone or they'll have a print out that shows that they're what court they're supposed to be on and for how long if there's an issue the park rangers will be able to ask the whoever's playing to to leave um they have enforcement
Authority if if not they will also be able to call the police and ask that the the police come to have people removed the um the the the issue that we're we're looking at is that the
um we're we're going to be able to have people go online and register but if you're if there's courts that are not that are not taken any Englewood resident will be able to use the court if it's not if it hasn't been uh
scheduled to be used by somebody else so that you know that's that's part of what's going to be in the um in the procedures and after the ordinance is adopted the procedures have already been written and they'll have one final review by myself and the City attorney and then they'll be released for
everybody to take a look at so that's um that's part of it for the enforcement issues and um I guess the the question was where are the pickle ball courts located they're they're Lo they're located over um by G
field there's there's two pickle ball courts uh there were two there were two tennis courts were were uh were located so we've taken two tennis courts and we're we're going to try the pickle bow courts that's where our our pickle bow courts are going to
be so that's the answers thank you and and I would just add that you know nothing nothing is is is that we can always come back and readjust this so we haven't done it before we'll see how it works out and
and if residents are happy now with the way it works out and if we have to you come back and you and you make a Readjustment any dis um let's see I need a motion I need a motion that
the ordinance 2516 be adopted so move second okay any discussion from the governing body yes um I'm glad you did mention um president um Lisa that we can
adjust it eventually right so we see what works and what does not work because it was just introduced today to the public but we had we were privy of this information and I don't play pickle ball I don't I don't know what pickle ball really is but we can always adjust
it so yeah we going to see what's going on thank you um no no um okay okay any other discussion okay any other discussion go ahead Mr
Wilson yes good evening um this is supposedly the wave of the future of pickle ball um tennis for those people that have played tennis and can no longer run like that they've switched over to pickle ball but this new
ordinance um alleviates instructors coming from our town especially other towns monopolizing our courts and it has been brought to my attention that residents would not be able to play and
that is so not true everybody here in Englewood will be able to play as long as you go in the app or slash that the courts not being used so this is not going to be a segregated way where um certain Personnel will not be able to
play you know councilman Wilson I'm glad you brought that up also um according to the the um regulations angled residents can sign up for court 72 hours in advance non-residents can only sign up 24 hours in advance so this way we are
both compliant with the Green Acres of opening up our space for non-residents but we also have angled residents have a preference in the signing signing up um any other discussion from the governing body okay can I have a roll call
please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes okay now we have ordinance 2517 an
ordinance establishing ch chter 155 cannabis sales unregulated of the city code for the city of Anglewood relating to the prohibition of the sale and purchase of unlicensed or unregulated THC products um before I open it uh the open
it up for the public hearing uh Chief do you want to just come up and just say a couple words about this ordinance please good evening um I just want to address this as far as this will allow the police department and the health department to address the sale of unlicensed unregulated Canabis within
our city uh was crafted with several things in mind most importantly the quality life of our residents we received many complaints about this issue as well as the safety um as was discussed last me the safety of our residents and people who visit our city um so that was the the main driving force behind this um councilman Wilson
was uh you know privy to a lot of the conversations we had about this so he's aware of the impact it's had as especially um on on his Ward but it's something that's going to impact the entire city thank you okay the the public hearing on this ordinance is now open anyone who desires
to be heard or to ask questions concerning this ordinance will be heard at this time please come up to the mic state your name your municipality and you have three minutes okay I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance can I I have
a mo a motion that ordinance 25- 17 be adopted please so moved second okay any discussion from the governing body go ahead Mr Wilson councilman Wilson yes as the chief so eloquently
just explained um it's a quality of life thing here um and we want to be able to have um teeth on the books when this particular situation gets out of hand and and order for this to happen this is
part of the one of the first steps of adopting this ordinance and I can tell you for myself as being one of the ones that was driving this home we're not done with this um because we're going to be running into liquids gummies just all
kind of situations that um we have to make way for and if we do not have something on the books we don't want our quality of life to dissipate so um um please continue to engage these things
can always be Revisited and we will be associating this with educational piece as well thank you president anybody else on the council theany can have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman
Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we have ordinance 25-18 it's an ordinance amending chapter 191 of the code of the city of Anglewood entitled fee schedule before I open the public
hearing um I think the the chief or do you want to Chief do you want to make a comment on this or we'll have uh Mr Bailey okay Mr Bailey uh yeah what this proposed
amendment does is it changes um uh three things it's you know when when off extra Duty uh charges for example utility companies utilizing uh angood police departments and things like Police Department or other departments um it increases the
administrative fee from $30 to $35 and uh for the use of the police vehicles that are there for the extra Duty increases the fee from $15 to $20 the last component of this ordinance is you may recall back in March we adopted
an ordinance prohibiting uh parking commercial vehicles on residential streets this just brings the fee schedule in line with that new ordinance and it provides for a fine of $250 for the first violation and $500 for any subsequent violations thank
you okay the public hearing of 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 municipality and you have three minutes okay
Scott Jenkins former uh Anglewood employee uh Toms River New Jersey I I have a question and that is in this in this ordinance package is there an increase to the rate of pay to the police officers or is this just the administrative fees for you know for the
obvious cars and use of uh city property thank you anybody else on the public okay so I'm now going to close the public hearing for this ordinance and the answer to that question is it's the administrative
fee um can I have a motion that this ordinance 2518 be adopted please so moved second any discussion from the governing body go councilman Wilson yes um although this was bound to
happen because the prices of everything are going up I just wish that we could have possibly reconsidered increasing it more than $5 um because the wear and tear on our vehicles makes it difficult for us to
cover those prices thank you any other comments from the governing body yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman
Wilson yes council president wasi yes now we have ordinance 2519 an ordinance authorizing the execution of a lease between the city of Anglewood and the Bergen Family Center uh Mr baay you want to say something about
that yeah this relates to the parking lot um on Armory Street where um there's spaces there that the city has that they currently don't feel the need to utilize for us so they agreed with the Bergen Family Center to lease those spaces to
them I believe it's for a dollar a year um which will you know hopefully enhance their parking issues over there they'd be responsible for them as well um and it's just you know something to do for a nonprofit within the city okay thank you
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 okay the public hearing for this ordinance is now closed for public hearing can I have a motion that
ordinance 2519 be adopted so moved second any discussion from the governing body got councilman Wilson yes thank you um I just want to make clear that that the residents that Park the noun are
have clear signage before ticketing and towing so because they've been doing it for so long we want to give them our opportunity to know that things have changed go ahead um from my understanding um um Mr Bailey after
hours when the center is closed they would have access to the property correct that's correct if you look at the third Warehouse Clause that talks about um allowing residents to park in the lot during evening and overnight hours thank you okay
good okay just to reiterate my point um parking at night and parking in the day or two different things and so just so we're clear that I'm talking about the people that at that particular juncture will be abusing the ability to park that
may not know that may not be here or watching okay thank you yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen swi yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council
president wiski yes okay now we have ordinance 2521 for first reading this is an ordinance authorizing the city of Anglewood to exchange certain real property for other lands desired for public use pursuant to the local lands and Building Law can I
have a motion that the ordinance passed on first reading and be published once by title only in the record and that a public hearing be held on April 22nd 2025 motion okay I make a motion second okay
um Mr Bailey do you want to say a word about this ordinance please uh this relates to um 37 Bennett Road which is currently owned by the city but occupied by the Shiloh Lodge in 173 to 180-183 West
Forest Avenue which is vacant property in 1983 an ordinance was adopted by the city to do a land exchange of those properties for whatever reason the land exchange didn't happen for over 20 years
later um and the property the intent of it was to develop the property in West Forest Avenue to build a new Lodge there and then vacate the Lodge at 37 Bennett Road despite the passive time that hasn't happened so the city got
appraisals uh from a certified appraiser with respect to both properties and what this does is authorizes the exchange of those properties plus uh consideration because the appraisal came in at $165,000 more for the West Forest Pro
property which would then uh effectively undo the transfer from 20 some years ago and the city would then own West Forest and the lodge would own 37 Bennett uh it's important to note that of the 165
if there's issues with respect to 37 Bennett that have to be fixed and cured before Co can be uh issued so that 165 is going to be held in escrow until that happens thank you any discussion from the governing body yes um Mr Bailey would you please describe when you say
property um is it the building or just the land behind the building um please be a little more descriptive please thank you it's the building and the and the real estate for 37 Bennett Road which is block 23 O3 lot 26 thank
you any other go ahead councilman Wilson please thank you Mr Bailey did I hear you state that the the entire amount would be in escrow I thought we had conversation and partial amounts being put in escrow so
the repairs would be done now the letter of intent that was entered into uh has the entire amount being held in Escrow because we don't know at this time the cost that they're going to incur to rehab uh there's also state issued fines on the property for fire
violations um so that's why the whole 165 is that's what they agreed to they had asked that only 23,000 be held but it's my understanding the fire violations alone are
22,000 yeah I'm not happy with this we've had lengthy discussions in regards to that um and I thought I was reading it wrong um because we had those discussion in length Mr Hoffman did you want to say
something yeah just as a point of clarification the um the 165,000 is being held in escrow but the Shiloh Lodge will be able to draw down on those funds to make the repairs uh to the to the building so that it can be brought up to code they will also be able to use
um the funds to pay off whatever whatever fines that have been accured by the you know or Levy by the state so it's basically the escro account is is a you know is a holding account that that Shiloh Lodge will be able to use so that they can make make the repairs to the
building and to satisfy satisfy the state leans or the state fines and then we look forward to being able to see the building um being brought up to code and being being used by by a you know a historic fraternal organization in our
city thank you councilman Wilson thank you um and that was the verbiage I was looking for um that specification didn't appear to be here on the paper so thank you uh Mr hofman for explaining
that yansy can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president wasad yes and public hearing and adoption will
take place at the April 22nd meeting thank you um is there is there anything for the consent agenda that anybody on the council would like to separate uh okay I can't find it excuse
me uh I forget I had it highlighted oh there it is forgive me um 1 132 d04 d01 d25 okay we can pull that and talk about
that separate sure and uh we've discussed the rest before okay thank you okay so um 132 resolution 132 is not going to be on the consent agenda we'll discuss that separate I'm now
going to open the meeting for public comments on the consent agenda members of the public are requested to State their name and municipality before speaking and are reminded that the consent agenda resolutions are number 98
133 through 143 so anybody who'd like to speak please come to the mic now okay I'm now going to close the public comment section on the consent agenda can I have a motion that we pass
resolutions 98 133 through 143 so moved second any discussion from the governing body roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman
toer yes yes councilman Wilson yes council president wiski yes now we have resolution 132 it's a resolution awarding a fair and open award for bid number 2506 Landscaping service can I have a
motion please so moved a second second okay Mr Hoffman do you want to discuss that for a few moments please sure thank you council president uh this this resolution is a resolution
that would award a contract for a company to come in and to maintain uh do do cleaning in our parks and on certain easements that we have within the city as well as pumping stations things of that nature and the the goal of this is
to be able to redeploy staff so that they can um they can take care of our our our streams and then our uh our catch basins things of that nature because we're uh we're making an emphasis on making making sure that we
we keep our waterways open and that we take significant steps to um reduce flooding and to implement flood mitigation measures so this is this is one of the ways that we will be able to do that thank you any discussion from the
governing body councilman Wilson thank you um I just wanted this to be pointed out I I didn't want it to be skipped over and um the public didn't know uh how important this is and it
goes back to Quality of Life um that we are paying attention to our streams and our waterways and trying to reduce the the Havoc that these floods have been creating and so we'll be uh reassigning
Personnel to take care of some of this um catch Bas and and so forth but on the other hand um we are relinquishing some power in regards to what's being cleaned up in our city and so as I always say if
you see something say something uh because these contractors that come into our town have to be held responsible and if you're unhappy the only way we get to find that out if you say something so help us help us thank
you thank you any other discussion from the governing body yansy can have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president
wiski yes okay now we have items for discussion um we have two items um let's start with the uh electric scooters and palate Avenue first uh Chief would you come up and discuss that with us
please uh I was asked to speak about this just we've seen a a significant increase in ebikes and E Scooters in our city particularly in a Down downtown area um we've received uh concerns uh complaints from businesses from you know uh visitors to our town about the
activity on on the Avenue so uh we're considering crafting an ordinance is going to help the city better address that um many municipalities have started to do this as well through through ordinances regarding ebikes so particularly this focuses on class one and class to ebikes so those are ebikes
that are operate under 20 m per hour the tricky thing is is if you you could go on Amazon and buy one that doesn't have a regulator on and that's used for private property that can go upwards of 30 40 mil an hour some of these things are just you know it's ridiculous um so part of the ordinance will help control
some of these things as the officers encounter them and address them uh it'll allow us to put restrictions on where and how they can be ridden Andor parked on our in our city so it's safe for all our visitors our pedestrians as well as people driving in the roadways thank you does anyone on the
governing body have any comments or questions for the chief councilman Wilson thank you Chief uh I've had several complaints about pedestrians um in our downtown area
being haved upon with these people in the scooters on our sidewalks parking on our sidewalks have can you explain how we're looking into having a staging area for these individuals that would be part of you know putting this ordinance together is
not just telling people they can't operate in our city but we want to give them areas to go to so that's something we would have to discuss with the council with the c with the city manager as far as coming up with areas where specifically you speaking in the mic because they need to hear that specific areas where people can park you know
we're not saying you can't operate these things in our city and a lot of people make a good living operating them but you have to do it in the safe way and that's really what we're focusing on the safety part of it but I think part of it again will something we can discuss as far as having areas where they can be staged where they can be stored locked
up things like that thank you that's important okay thank you Chief we're good okay and um I'm going to attempt to to give an affordable
housing update it's a complicated issue I'm going to I'm going to try to um be brief and if any and I just want to make sure that everybody from the governing body understands the process where we are where we're going uh because uh we
haven't had a formal presentation yet and I I just want to make sure everybody understands and if anyone has questions always feel free to reach out to me so as we all know in New Jersey there's a constitutional obligation for each municipality to allow for their
share of the affordable housing uh that's the M Laural Doctrine and it's recalculated every 10 years which which is known as rounds so we are now in our fourth round of affordable housing in March in 2024 Governor Murphy signed a
new affordable housing legislation into law that created a framework and procedure for the fourth round of affordable housing and they're really three parts to the process so we've complete I'm going to go through the three parts quickly but we've completed
part one yesterday and that's and that's why it's on the agenda for today and we're entering the second part so part one is the municipality determines its affordable housing obligation and that's the number of affordable units that
Anglewood is responsible for the second stage which we're entering or we're in now is adopting a housing element and fair share plan and then the third stage is implementing ordinances and resolutions addressing the obligation
so um so the um the Department of Community Affairs the DCA had had uh until October 20th of 2024 to give us our numbers and the numbers that they gave us was 166 of
present need that means units that we rehabilitate their existing units and they gave us a prospective need of 381 units now the municipality or all the municipalities in Anglewood we had until the end of J January of
2025 to establish Our obligation and and just to remind everybody so at the end of January our planner came to the council meeting and he explained what we were doing and we voted uh based on his calculations
because there's a formula that Anglewood was um only obligated for 331 units so we passed a resolution at the end of January uh say stating that we thought Our obligation was three 331 and then
um and but and I just want to remind people because there's specific dates if we don't comply with the dates at any point on this very long on this process we can lose our immunity and be subject
to uh Builders remedy lawsuits and if you follow what happened in Anglewood Clips it's very costly and in the build do remedy lawsuit we lose control over zoning so that's not a position that the city wants to be in and we've been very we've been compliant with all our dates
so um so we passed this uh number in the end of January and then any challenges to Our obligation if somebody challenged it they had until February 28th to challenge it so the New Jersey villagers Association filed an objection to our
number but they they filed an objection to all 159 towns that's selected to reduce their affordable housing quota and um they asked that the state panel of retired judges which is known as the affordable housing dispute resolution program or people just refer
to them as the program that they reject the request of all 159 municipalities in addition to that fair share housing uh Center which advocates for more affordable housing in the state they sued 68 of the municipalities that ask
for reduction they did not Sue Anglewood so we had the New Jersey Builders Association warsuit um so then the next deadline was yesterday March 31st and that was a DAT uh for resolution of disputes regarding the obligation we were one of the last
municipalities scheduled for a settlement agreement we were offered a settlement agreement um and when the New Jersey Builders Association was settling with a lot of towns they would only they pretty much would only go down 4% from
the DCA number that's the higher number but we were able to negotiate a settlement of almost 6% so our final number with our settlement is 359 so we were very pleased about it um Mr hoffen and I were on the call it was
with our lawyer our planner with the judge um with the develop with the Builders Association and um it was done via zoom and and so we were pleased with 359 because we we thought we would end up at the 4% reduction but we did better
than that so now the next step for us as a council is that we're going to have to um have a resolution accepting that number but it has to be drafted by the attorneys first so we that's why it's not on the agenda tonight and as soon as
the attorneys draft it then we will pass that number in a resolution um and then it then it gets accepted by the judge the judge that was assigned to us now in the meantime our next deadline is to adopt the housing
element and fair share plan and the deadline for that is June 30th of 2025 so we do have a subcommittee on affordable housing made up of council and planning board members from the council Kevin uh councilman Wilson and I
are on that committee and we had I think two meetings so far and um and what we're going to what we're starting to do is we're starting to look at areas where we could fulfill Our obligation but this is a different process um than the third
round was and that the third round was a a process that had litigation and a lot of the meetings were in closed session um I I wasn't part of the council when when the overlay Zone was done last time but this time it's going to be a much
more public session and we encourage public engagement so so I would like everybody and everybody who's listening on on the zoom where we're in Zoom or YouTube YouTube to um put April 28th at 7:30 p.m. on their calendar we are going
to be having a um an affordable housing Symposium with our experts here in the courthouse at 7:30 but if you can't make it it is also going to be available via zoom and people will be able to ask
questions um via Zoom as well so that's our first public meeting on this topic April 28th at 7:30 the next meeting that we're going to have about it is also uh are going to be on zoom on May 8th at 7 pm and that's going to be a joint
planning board and council meeting so every so everybody on you know could put that on their calendar as well as as a joint public as a joint Council planning board meeting it will be available to the public to to watch it and the public
will have a chance to make comments and based on the feedback that we get from the planning board from the council and from the public this fair share housing element plan will get refined and um the planning board will need to adopt it in the beginning of
June and the council will need to pass a resolution confirming the fair share plan by the end of June to be compliant with that um the deadline at the end of June and it does it doesn't stop from there I mean it's a complicated process and but
that that's the most important and that's what what we're doing now I'm just you know after the June 30th day we could there could be a challenges and objections to to the plan by August 31st 2025 and the resolution of disputes have
to be by December 31st of 2025 and then we have to Implement by passing zoning ordinances and resolutions of March 15 2026 and it's important that we're compliant with all the deadlines so I just want to know if I know it's
complicated and it's even more complicated than I explained but we are going to hear on April 28th from our experts uh does anyone on the governing body have any questions for me or for M Mr Bailey or Mr Hoffman um yes this is
complicated um president UMAS what number minus the pre-existing units do we have a number on that to bring them up to code to receive some type of um governmental Assistance or some type of tax credit do we have a
whole number or we have to is that minus these units or includeed in the number because I know there's units on Palisade Avenue that we can bring up the code but that's included in the in the present need in the 166 included into 166 which
is a SE right we we were we were uh sued on the prospective need number not the present need and also can we go back to the existing um units that were built years ago and ask these owners who cannot rent these units who took Section
8 and say hey how can you help us could you make your units more affordable and maybe make those units part of this did be ever to think about that I'm just asking asking and also part two um you know we can go there because
there's a lot of empty units because they're non affordable so it's a difference between lowincome and affordable so could we go back to these um existing units um and say hey Brownstones perhaps I'm just bring it out there hey you cannot rent these
units you know you have 50 units vacant can we now say you know we'll help you turn it into uh affordable housing I'm just saying do we look and turn over the carpet and say how we can you know do a scavenger hunt and say how can we take the existing
properties here in Inglewood and say hey make them affordable that's my question okay okay thank you do you want to take that um so I I mean I suppose you can ask you can't force them to um because
whatever their approval was at the time is what what they have to live with but but we can ask did we ask my question did did we ask not yet oh okay so maybe we should ask because there's some type of abatement or grants they can get to help
us help them rent their units because they're already affordable units their prices are always the Brownstone for example I don't think there's any affordable units in there they have section 8 there and they have section 8 on palast State Avenue so I'm just asking maybe meet with the developers and say hey let's work
so if they get Section 8 or tax credits the state sets the rent and the federal government sets the rent okay so we can still visit them maybe I'm just asking yeah I'm just not we'd have to identify exactly which projects you're talking about CU okay to my knowledge the
Brownstones didn't have affordable units not only them but the other ones um there's a lot of affordable units southside of Route 4 there is some affordable units in the Vivian right so we need to do like a whole census they pay based on the state guide lines the state mandates with do we have a number
on that yeah it's issued by the state guidelines we so we have a number it it yes the state issued that the state issued that number so we have the number the count we have we have the number right okay all right thank you okay thank
you okay any other comments from the governing body or questions go ahead councilman Wilson thank you um and as those that may remember I was one of the ones that said no um that we didn't fight hard enough for our
affordable housing and being on the subcommittee with our president and our lawyer and the planning board chair has proved to be has proven to be fruitful um and that we're seeing more push back
now and we're fighting for our town so we're making small accomplishments we cannot continue to let Builders come in like the Brownstones with these abilities to have no affordable housing like Evo some of
these other things I don't know who sleeping at the wheel I don't know who's counting at the wheel um but believe you me that we're counting now so um these these 166 the present need it's not not going
to happen all at once we're trying to bring new and innovative ideas on how to make this not be a huge impact on this so as the president has stated please join us on these zooms we do not have
all the answers this is not over some of it's going to happen in a little while but we have time to do so so that means that we have creative ideas to come up with on how we're going to make this
number possible okay thank you okay now we have resolution 144 approve the payment of the bills and claims whereas a Chief Financial Officer is 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 with States and whereas all bills and claims listed here with have been encumbered and sufficient
funds are available for payment and whereas the required signatures have all been obtained on each voucher on the attached list now therefore be it resolved by the Council of the city of Anglewood that the bills and claims on the submitted list are hereby approved for payment in the total amount of
1,534 32692 can I have a motion please so moved second any discussion from the governing body councilman Wilson in the interest of disclosure and
time um I will have conversation in regards to um just what I was talking about and as far as repairs um for for our apparatus that we use and often go to other towns
in uh Mutual Aid so this is very important to me that that we get this parts and accidents and bills under control so I'm going to exercise my right to discuss this with the CFO and
the city manager offline thank you yanc can I have a roll call please councilwoman David yes councilman Rosen soy yes councilman toer yes councilman Wilson yes council president
wasi yes okay I'm now going to open the meeting to the public speakers are asked to step up to the microphone and give their name municipality and you have three minutes to speak Amy Bullock Avenue um today while I was watching Senator Corey Booker make
history I learned that STM Thurman actually has a room named after him at the Senate and for those who don't know who he is he was a democratic senat who uh began a filibuster for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil
Rights Act of 1957 okay um I found it interesting that there's a name a room named after him at the Senate and while he you know he was a senator for however long he was a Senator the fact that he opposed the Civil Rights Act is concerning for me
and the fact that we're celebrating him and he opposed the Civil Rights Act so where am I going with this the city colors a couple years ago the seal and the website were changed from maroon and white to blue and white and at the time
we were told it's historical um I believe that we should know our history but that doesn't mean that we should be celebrating every component of our history historically Englewood had about 383 black people in 1900 that's not the case today we are
not blue and white we are maroon and white which have been the colors of our Public School District since at least the 1920s and it is the one thing that historically has United the communities across Inglewood because at a point in time the children of Inglewood attended
Inglewood Public Schools through segregation integration and many up and until today we do have kids including my own who do not attend Inglewood Public Schools but that does not negate the fact that I am and my daughter is a
resident and member of the Anga Community hence an Englewood Raider so my ask council president is that you bring forth an ordinance with your colleagues to officially make maroon and white the city colors so that
we are aligned with the public schools taxpayer money funds the city we fund the schools we're going into a shared service agreement with the schools we need to share the school colors to show support and unite this
community community at large thank you thank you Suzanne mullings Englewood New Jersey I too had a question about the color change and what prompted it I've been here 50 years I know I'm not that
old but um Anglewood when you all are ready you compare what you're doing and and justify it compared to other towns so it seems selective that the same thought process wasn't initiated for the
change because when you brand your town the colors are connected to the town when I go to Fort Lee I know the students or people wearing their colors because they wear with pride when I go to tck tenly
they have distinct colors since the change now you don't even know when you see people out and about in other communities are they represented of Anglewood anymore because there's a mental disconnect because the brand has changed so something as simple as the
colors creates a big deal and if it's going to be changed then we should all know about it and it should have public input so that everybody's on the same page about it because something that's historical for Way Beyond my time here
it just seems very abrupt to have changed it with no Rhyme or Reason and things that were burgundy and white or maroon and white you they would change to blue and white so I don't know what that's about um I wasn't really clear about the
the property transfer the Shiloh are you taking it over or no cuz that that I don't understand what was being said you giving it back or you taking it I don't know I also want I wish uh fron was here because I came before with a concern
about Broad Avenue the change in the uh striping is a disaster and then now there's a bus stop shelter that was put up in front of the field that intersection is dangerous it's in front of phelp saav and you can't even come
out of phelp saav on a weekday because of the new pattern the pattern that uh closes off of Lane although historically is not two lanes it was always deemed that way so The Verge merge I'm sorry into both lanes and then the uh left
turn lane into Rockwood and the uh left turn lane into Cross Creek that causes a problem so if the police need to be there to monitor that because they jump over and it's very dangerous in terms of the traffic pattern and now to put a bus stop where you can't even cross the
street you can't even turn with a car so I don't know how these people are going to survive Crossing broad a and I would hate for it to be like these streets in New York where people are getting hit um also I must have missed it but what is
the municipal tax rate are we going up with taxes have you received an amount from the school district what they're requesting okay thank you Scott Jenkins Tom's River our former employee city of Anglewood uh there were
a lot of things I wanted to say but I got off track because you were talking about affordable housing and I just want to give you an example of intentional or Reckless Behavior or just not caring at all uh and Michael Wilds is well aware of the affordable housing obligations as
the mayor he has been for many years yet okay his business partner at 20 Grand Avenue put up 96 units and not one of them was made affordable housing two or three years later this mayor bought a
piece of property with that developer on 39 Park Place not just with the developer but with the lawyer that represents okay the the board or the board of adjustment and we all know that that's Doug buron Associates this is improper this must
stop it must be looked into okay it's careless it's Reckless it's callous okay and it's wrong I apologize for uh being a little bit uh you know o over the top as far as my voice um when he is well aware he has an
obligation to this city okay he's getting ready to leave so he doesn't give a crap anymore he doesn't account for anything uh Madame President out of all due respect and I'm going to try to say this in a way that it is not personal um it has come to the attention
of many people in this community that you have used your position as the president of the council and also former president of the Rotary Club you are a governor of the Rotary Club and we believe it is improper if the
allegations are true that police officers and other city employees are being utilized okay to sign petitions for you personally okay if you have a plate if you have something that you're trying to conduct don't use city
employees on their time it's illegal people go to jail for things like that if it's if it's occurring miss wowski it must stop okay your Pol political aspirations okay are yours they're not on City time or being uh using employees that are
being paid by taxpayers uh and more particularly all right I don't really understand if the Rotary Club is is a charitable organization why you continue to parade people that you want to award and reward
in front of the Rotary Club okay that have no reason to be there they're not qualified they're not not worthy lawsuit after lawsuit millions of dollars out of this Police Department civil rights violations cocaine abuse traffic
accidents assaults and these people are being paraded as Heroes it's got to stop Lisa thank you thank you Leroy Campbell uh Englewood well I had a lot to say but Mr Jenkins
said most of it for me um but I have a couple of things um the first thing I have is are we going to make sure that affordable housings are listed in the original buildings because and he mentioned 20 Grand Avenue we all know
that 20 grand 20 Grand Avenue moved the affordable housing the affordable units out of that building into another location that needs to stop um the other thing I have is who decideed to have
this Extravaganza on a Sunday morning at 10:00 H most of the people in this city is in church on Sunday at 10 o'clock in the morning church church service starts at 10 o'clock and just to finish up um on what
uh Suzanne spoke about a little bit um I I just don't understand how we got to blue and white as a city color I'm a graduate of dmore high school I'm a proud maroon Raider uh I go
to Fort Lee I see black and orange I go to tenly I see black and orange I go to Leonia I see maroon and white and I'm talking about the street signs all of this is adjusted to the school
colors so I don't understand why we can't have maroon and white in our city I mean people went to Dwight m African-American went to Dwight Mar in the 30s when it was predominantly white
that's how long it's been maroon and white so I I we need to fix this because it's not right it's not right and and if we don't fix it I I'm I'm telling you all of the
past graduates of Dwight Mah and the present they're gonna come here they are going to come here and when they come you're going to have to give them an explanation as to why we Chang the the colors that's all I have thank you hey
thank you Jerry Chambers uh Englewood I haven't been to uh city council meeting in a long time and the reason being I didn't want to Vex my spirit and one of the reasons you know I
say that because I did Sit On The Board of Health at one one time and as a youngster you know you're not aware of what goes on in politics but that was a a a time where I really realize how corrupt politics can be and I have one
question first can a an autonomous body be prevented from voting I I want uh Mr Bailey to answer that because he got his position when I was sitting on the board because they got rid of the attorney and
brought in Mr biley and had the attorney run rough shot on us and there's quite a few people that was here that was part of that corruption that went on trying to protect the head of the Englewood Democratic party who was the king maker and that was a clear example of just how
corrupt politics can be because they took our money and they got a superior court judge to give us an injunction that we couldn't vote and that was illegal and we have people that's sitting here Ken we have former city council people so that is one of the
reasons I don't come here because I know there's a lot of corruption that goes on now as a taxpayer I am very sensitive to the increase in taxes over the years I've been at 27 years and my taxes is almost
doubled and I was the it was brought to my attention that the city of Inglewood has over 90 suits that's going on that could potentially affect our tax rates and one of the questions I have is what is being
done to make sure that the perpetrators who who are uh driving our tax rates up it could be police who whoever are violating in in the tax and the suits are being settled and being paid off what is being
done to mitigate some of those things because you know if they're not made accountable then you know there's no reason for them to abide by the law there was a study that was done by I think a professor at North Eastern University my my University that said
that they should put some type of responsibility on especially the police because that's usually where there's more cases that they should have some type of liability if they encounter certain suits for police brutality or
what whatnot because if they there's no accountability there's no reason why they had at here so I want to know if there's any procedures or any studies that's being done to try and mitigate the amount of of Suits or or the
responsibility suits that are being uh levied against the city okay thank you two quick questions my name sorry you please state your name and municipality to the record I'm going to do that my name is woodo t 316 Wy Road
resident of Ringwood All My Life 59 years of age went to Dwight Mo I want to speak on the color thing I don't see what the problem is here it was maroon and white when I graduated there I'm a graduate of dght Moore High School that's first second I'd like to know the
status what's going on with the Trion pool not everybody answered once you know we we we answer questions after the public hearing is finished okay third um last
October our street was stun um they left us clueless on our front patch I spoke to the T guy think FR FR or FR oh they're going to come back they're going to this they're going to that everybody's front patch still like this
that's Williams Street you said this is um Windsor Road you had contractors come in here they do what they want I mean mine is done now I did it myself but I shouldn't have had to and I see other neighbors getting out there doing the same thing I don't think
that's right contractors should not be able to come into this area and do what they want they're getting paid they're not doing it for charity or free good evening thank you Rick wiby Eng with New Jersey want to
say justice for Bernard placey Jr free Palestine and God bless Yemen uh I would like to let people know that the reason why the colors were changed to blue and white is to reflect the apartheid state of Israel that's all it is this town is
a maroon town we all know this but because certain people that sit on the council have their religion and they practice that religion they don't separate church and state like Jud used to say but now they want to use their state to reflect people here in
Inglewood that do not want to be associated with something in the Middle East that is currently engaged in committing war crimes and killing people indiscriminately at American taxpayers expense this is the truth this is the
only reason why I mean I'm Jamaican but if I got elected trust me I will never change the city colors to yellow black and green because I respect what was there before and because there's a lack of respect we have tyrants that are now sitting in
positions of authority trying to subjugate people not understanding that the more you take from people the more you ensure that people will rise up and defend what they have the first amendment is under attack right now this
country people cannot exercise their first amendment people cannot exercise their freedom of Rel religion in the holy month of Ramadan people are being bombed in their tents in their tents little children being blown to bits in their in in in
their in in their suits and in their new shoes just trying to exist there's nothing wrong me myself I'm not a Muslim but I respect Muslims and it's a shame that the so-called people that escaped the Holocaust are now responsible for
Holocaust and if you kill 2 Mill of them and make it the Rivier of the Middle East people will not forget what you did just like they did not forget what Adolf Hitler did and they did not forget what George Washington did and they will not forget all of the tyrants that committed
crimes against humanity so because you want to now be in that position to where you think that you are so-called chosen by some God everybody listens to a god everybody has a God and me like brother Chambers I don't come to off because my
spirit is also vexed even to look at some of the people that sit up here because I know they have no good intention for people like me they only care about themselves and how could you represent the people and you care about yourselves the fix is in the police
department is costing us Millions people are being disrespected everybody's throwing their power around but as we say in Jamaica every day the bucket goes to a well one day the bottom will drop out okay good evening Harris ragbeer
Englewood I want to uh make a comment what Mr William Bailey said just now uh concerning um Shiloh since 1983 that's 42 years ago we've been going back and forth with Shiloh and 163 and 178 Forest
Avenue the original ordinance was in ' 95 the closing was in 2000 we closed on that with the the with the facts that stated that once we close they move from that building we've been not having them used the building with no rent renewing
liquor license every single year all right we talking about corruption and fraud the only reason that this has being transferred back is because that what property on 163 was sold and it was under contract but the the person could
not put up a 200 apartment uning on it so now we swapping it back I want to know realistically why are we swapping it back because this has been a problem for 42 years and going and still going so the reason for why swapping it back
at this point in time and I would like to know how much rent have we collected from 37 Bennett Road and why are we continuously renewing a lior license while it states owned by the city of Englewood this is fraud and this is
corruption at its best and he's a part of it no no you can't come you can't come back sorry it's not it's a call me afterwards call me afterwards for everybody yeah m m Mr Mr Janson go ahead
complaint people in the town they just say complaints it's not a number order order yeah Peach chansen 589 ril and terrorist that was something about complaints there's 30,000 people in the town uh you got to call out the complaints so people understand there's
so many people that aren't aware of it I guess in the city so there has to be some way of making making it public so they they can be aware of it okay administrative problems with the packet okay we went through it
today in reviewing this packet right ordinance 2516 was down level in the packet Mr Bailey pointed out in his discussion that he sent in the final copy on March 18th how can that happen you had two
weeks to get it into the packet the second is ordinance 2521 2521 completely missing from the packet and I'm glad Chief gy is still with us because I have some comments on the general
discussion the general discussion covered uh electric scooters and electric bicycles but with the technology today we're getting into electric motorcycles and the electric unicycles these uh these standing Wheels that
people use these devices can ride in excess of 60 to 70 miles an hour so the discussion is scooters and bicycles on Palisade Avenue what about
the entire city okay it's unsafe when these vehicles go by I can give you an example yesterday I was out working on my yard and one of these electric wheel unicycle things went flying by me 10 ft away at
over 60 M hour and I know that because I'm an engineer and I watched him I watched how far he went each second and then I calculated the feet per second and then multiplied by 7 to figure out the miles per hour very simple he was over 60 miles hour going by and be 10
feet away that's an accident waiting to happen because something a dog runs out a deer's there a kids riding his bicycle they can't stop them when they're going 60 or 70 miles an hour they they're not going to be able to stop anything in
time so actually I looked it up while I was sitting here and and in some municipalities these one you know these these wheel Vehicles electric unicycles are illegal in many towns so my question
is in Anglewood on Anglewood streets are they legal or not legal and how do you enforce the speed limits for electric bicycles electric motorcycles and these electric unicycles thank you sure charot Charlotte Bennett shown
uh aabon Road I wanted to just offer uh from the Historical Society that's been working very hard thank you with has been working very hard these last years as you've heard me be Labor uh there is
documentation about the flags in Anglewood uh from a publication of 1949 is that's something that uh could be shared with everybody in Englewood it talks about the colors and how it was made and when it was made I don't know what the process is for sharing that
information but it is available thank you thank you does anyone else from the public wish to wish to speak okay hi good evening my name is Chris noell n w l uh I'm a Fort Lee resident
but um I I sent an email to to everyone yesterday I don't know if you had a chance to look at but I wanted to talk about the climate super fund act that's in the New Jersey you know the state legislature right now and um so uh you know I'll give you my ask right away so
my ask was that uh you would consider passing a resolution in support of the climate superf fund act and I'll explain a little bit about what it is so it in a nutshell it would make the largest fossil fuel corporations pay for damages um caused by climate change and
it's modeled after similar legislation that has passed in New York and Vermont all ready and so far we've got 22 municipalities in New Jersey that have passed a resolution in support of it so that's important because we have to send a message to the state that you know we want our representatives to to
co-sponsor it and to vote Yes on it so actually uh Senator Gordon Johnson is one of our co-sponsors and Assembly women hater and park are also co-sponsors uh of of the bill so um you know why why do we need this well
extreme climate events cost the US taxpayers 150 billion dollar each year already and so that doesn't account for many other factors and this would shift the burden away from taxpayers to the companies fossil fuel companies that are
responsible um and so of course sorry about that um and so the the cost could uh be used to cover infrastructure resiliency including Energy Efficiency and weatherization but also flood protection
upgrades to storm water drainage systems and Wildfire recovery and you know we can't rely on the federal government uh now to you know kind of cover the costs of some of these things especially in severe uh climate related events and um
yeah only yeah let's see New Jersey could receive about $50 billion which over a 25e span so about $2 billion per year and this would be collected by the state and then made available in Grants to municipalities so municipality could
apply to the state directly to receive money um and only the fossil fuel extractors and re refiners that do business in New Jersey uh would have to pay into this and only the biggest ones so the price of oil and gas would not increase because that's set by the
global market and also there's no liability to uh Englewood in supporting this and I noticed if if you were to decide to um pass resolution in support of this that um your next meeting is on Earth Day which would be a pretty you know opportune time to pass this
resolution so yeah please consider it and um yeah I I I sent you all the documents you need but please reach out if you have any questions about it thank you does anybody else from the count from the public have any
statements okay I'm now going to close the public session um okay so I'm going to go through some of the questions there's a lot of them so let me see what I'm going to answer and what other people will answer um let me start with with uh
Shiloh there were a bunch of questions on Shiloh U Mr Bailey do you want to take those just explaining uh one more time well I can't speak to what happened in 1983 I was 17 years old but um there was an ordinance adopted in
1983 it was extended multiple times over the next 20 something years they went over to the Zoning Board of adjustment in 2004 I think and got an approval to build a lodge there um with certain
conditions the city allowed them to remain at 37 Bennett while that was being done to my knowledge the city never collected rent let them stay there for free uh clearly the lodge wasn't getting built and here we
are with uh undoing that transaction I mean I don't know what else you want me to say okay Mr hoffen you want to make a comment about that sure thank you council president the um this this came to light and the the the
transaction I guess started to accelerate when driving along West Forest Avenue we we noticed a for sale sign on at 173 West Forest Avenue that led to asking questions that led to
reading 19 inches of files and um you know starting to starting to put together a per chart and unwind this and then discussions with with governing bodies past and present and also finding out that there was um an application
before the planning board for a development of 114 apartment units at 173 West Forest Avenue and um that that eventually was withdrawn because that was not that's not viable for that piece of property
and um you know a after that um the discussions the discussions accelerated and the uh the pro the property swap is you know is being undone and and completed and we're
gonna we're gonna have a good outcome for this so we're gonna have um a a fraternal organization that'll be able to make repairs to a building that they've been in for over a hundred years and the city is going to um obtain a parcel of property that under the new
flood maps um there should be no development on at least a third of that property okay thank you um I'm just going to the boad this uh uh Dr Mullins the the broad striping
traffic paring uh parking pattern and the cring the streets on Broad Avenue so um it's not supposed to be two lanes on each side it's supposed to be one lane on each side there have been many complaints both before and even more so
now that they've done the restriping the traffic sergeant and the city engineer are M monitoring it what they ended up doing um on on where the where the bus stop was which was by Sheffield they
moved it up to Phelps so that that the bus doesn't stop the cars from from uh when when the bus was stopping on there were two bus stops there was one on Sheffield and one one in Phelps they got rid of the one on Sheffield and that was
determined by New Jersey Transit New Jersey Transit came out and made that determination that to make that area safer they got rid of that one bus stop and the bus shelter is going to be moving over there um as uh soon when when when
they get it ready they have to put a concrete pad in the bottom and then they're going to move the bus stop um our our traffic Sergeant is is involved in this issue please feel free to email me and um you can email the traffic Sergeant or I'll put him on the email
and we'll be able to get you more information on that um um the municipal tax rate uh Mr Hoffman did you I know you mentioned it before yes the
uh the municipal tax rate is 1.36% that's what it's projected for 2025 and the follow-up question was did we receive any information from the school district about their projected tax rate and the answer was no okay um
Mr Bailey can an autonomous body be prevented from voting um not sure I understand it fully but to Mr Chambers question autonomous bodies and like for example the Board of Health the zoning board the planning board they
get to select their own professionals the mayor and councel select the attorney the assistant city solicitor the prosecutor the public defender the auditor um Engineers uh we don't have say in we
don't get a vote on those those bodies pick their own professionals so okay thank no no no no no please please please can't no no we're not having no no no no bill let me we're
going on to the next question um in terms of um Mi okay um Mr Hoffman what is being done to make sure people are to mitigate lawsuits please uh the
question came up up about lawsuits and um the uh the city has undertaken a study myself specifically about about this and um there's discussions with other government entities as well as joint Insurance funds of what can happen
and um there there will be there will be steps that will be taken over the next year and um you know please watch for Progress okay and then um there was there was that patch of dirt the on winter road so I guess you you've know noted it and you'll follow up on that
we'll follow up with the city engineer yes in terms of ordinance 2521 Mr Jansen so the way the way the reason that you don't have the ordinance is because and this has been like this as long as I can remember is uh the ordinance after it's
first after it's introduced then it becomes public so um so the reason the other ordinances were there was because they were there for public hearing ordinance 2521 was a first introduction and that's why it wasn't in the packet in terms of the electric scooters
bicycles electric unicycles I'm going to ask the chief to to look look not now but just look into um the the points that Mr Jansen brought up and you know we'll we'll incorporate what we need to incorporate as we address the safety
issues in the city um I'm going to Mr Hoffman I'm going to leave you I think the last two issues which are uh TR and pool and the city colors sure thank you council president so the question about the TR and pool what's happening with it
nothing this pool is unsafe we had an engineering report done and a gif safety study so nothing is happening with the pool the tri and pool is on School District property and um there's there's nothing that the city is doing doing
with it or for it during calendar year 2025 so that's that's the answer about about that and then the city colors there seems to be a lot of misinformation about the city colors so if you look behind the council president right now you'll see the city seal it's
blue and white or it's blue and yellow the city seal from City Hall the original City seal is in in City Hall um City Hall was opened in 1922 those are the colors the of the city um so at at the time and then if
you read an article there's an article in 1949 that explained that the the city had different colors from the school district so that both could have their own identity and um the city has not made any changes in the city colors they're the
same they've been the same for 126 Years thank you can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting so moved second second all in favor I I guess we going back to 300 black
people