we're gonna wait two minutes for Council President Parker to come in it's down and then we'll start this meeting are they all Susan and Jeremy can you hear me chris's good uh Susan and Jeremy can you hear us i can hear you i'm in my car
right now okay yeah hi i can hear you too i'm calling this meeting to order please rise for the flag to the flag of the United States of America and the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and
all this meeting is called the provisions of the open public meetings law meeting of April 11 2025 was posted on the bulletin board in Burough Hall in addition a copy of the notice is and has been available to the public and is on file in the office of the burough clerk i have a roll call please councilman
Arnes I guess she's absent huh for now um Councilwoman Inglehart here uh Councilwoman Okaso also absent for now she said she would be two minutes late okay um Councilman Love here
council Vice President Long here council President Parker here and Mayor Carol here um before we get into the regular agenda I just want to report um to the council
and to our CFO that the public and I was in a meeting for the mayor's commissioners last week which I'll talk more about Monday night um but the question was raised as to what funding the county was concerned about not
receiving at this point um and the funding included FEMA funding social services funding board of health funding senior center funding and human services funding now my concern with
that human services funding is if we get a count of 10 uh homeless in Flemington when they do the count in the beginning of the summer and the county does not fund a warming center or the state passes the law on code blue which is a
cooling center that responsibility will fall to the bureau to fund 24-hour you know overnight 7 to7 uh cooling center in town so I am um just throwing it out there uh since
there I am concerned you know as the council raised alarms about not getting FEMA money uh reimbured at all that we may also be have responsibility for a cooling center or a warming center so um
it's good that we're being very so andically responsible um so on the regular agenda resolution 2025-60 resolution anticipating the three-year average current tax collection rate of 97.24% for 2025 can I have a motion is
there a second sorry second any discussion or questions for Bill seeing none i'm sorry i do uh I just wanted to um ask if Bill sent over the I had I had requested that he send
over the draft capital budget and I don't know if he got to that no he has not he's going to get to it after the budget the capital budget is going to get introduced at least i understand but I had asked at the last meeting if we could get the draft sent to us that's all do you want to respond i will send
it to you this weekend great thank you you're gonna send it to everybody yes okay on this resolution roll call please uh Councilwoman Angelart yes councilwoman Fasara yes councilman
Love yes council Vice President Long yes president Parker yes okay thank you uh 2025 budget introduction can I have a motion please sorry I'll second okay uh I'm not going to ask I'm not going to ask for
discussion unless somebody really wants discussion on it you don't usually do that can I roll call please uh Councilwoman yes uh Councilwoman Casaro yes councilman Love yes council Vice President Long yes
council President Parker yes thank you um Councilman Long you are the reason I that question got I asked questions to the commissioners myself because I sent uh our CFO and I several I think two weeks ago what we thought might happen
with federal money i don't think either responded to you because neither of us had any clue yeah I fig Yeah that's I had asked and and no answer meant we don't know right that's what I was with the commissioners that's why I asked the question because you so that's the
answer to your question i I appreciate you following up on that too Marcia i remember Jeremy sent that note wasn't that I mean you're right i I don't think Bill and I had a clue like where this might affect us but I think the two places it will it could seriously affect
us well three actually one is FEMA most importantly two is the warming center and then three is board of health services because they get a lot of pass through at the board of health and we use health so I don't know I'm not sure
if rates might go up or necessarily affect us but it could affect vendors and events and things like that we just don't know so okay I'm sorry what i just said okay thank you sorry public comment session number one anybody from the public wishing to
ask a question please state your name and address i'm sorry this for the budget no or this is just public comment this is public comment great name and address for the record yeah so uh Frank Emanuel i'm a police officer here in Flemington as well as
the PBA delegate for Hun County PB Local 188 uh as some of you are aware on March 8th 2024 officers from the Flemington Burough Police Department respond to a critical incident on Brown Street in Flemington Burough those responded use their training and critical thinking to peacefully resolve an issue with a
resident who was involved in a mental health emergency those officers have been chosen by the 200 club of Hunter County to receive a unit citation award for their actions that day those officers receiving the award include Lieutenant William Soraniano Sergeant Brian McN Detective Cory Garbrandt patrolman Jazelle Latino and patrolman
Nick Siva the Hunter County PVA would like to formally invite uh the mayor the council president as well as the council vice president to be our guest as we honor those officers on their for their outstanding work um I have formal invitations the 200 club dinner is May
15 2025 at 6 PM at Raspberries i think Yeah sure may I approach yeah please what What time was that i missed the time sorry six o'clock 6 PM okay
I'll give that to um I don't want I don't want any other council member to feel left out um you know it's just police commissioner at the time the mayor and then um now the police commissioner but if you guys would like to attend please let me know and I'll make sure to get you tickets okay uh and then lastly um I don't know
if all of our community events make its way to you but I'm organizing a Happy Meals with a cop at McDonald's that is happening on May 6th uh from 400 p.m to 6 p.m so we're inviting families out to meet some of our officers and and have some happy meals so great that is all
thank you thank you what day was that may what may 6th may 6th anything else from the public it'll be online right nope okay one more name for the record uh Connor Atkinson 20 Pennsylvania Avenue i just wanted to ask
it's more of a question for the CFO uh what is the hold up with selling the old fire truck i understand the budget's been on everyone's mind but it's been no like almost a month and it has not appeared on
municip site i have a I have a couple of couple people I know who are interested in buying fire truck and I just like to know when it is going up for sale i'm go putting it on next week thank you sir can I just jump in real quick i did uh I
let the uh chief and captain know that I had contacted them i think it was yesterday or the day before yeah so just just want to let you know so I I I wasn't sure if that was
clear so the the resolution to acquire um the engine from the unnamed fire company is Mike's laughing in the audience sarah Bur uh is on for Monday night and as soon as we have it secured
in hand the other engine will be declared surplus by resolution at the next hopefully the next council meeting um at the end of April and then that one will go up as well um part of the holdup has really been trying to figure out a
minimal minimum bid um to put up because we don't want to just give it away so uh in fact before anything showed up um Bill and I were in a robust conversation about that uh the fire company has not provided any ideas other than to look at municip and try to figure it out
ourselves so um anyway all right so there's no more public comments seeing none um this budget will come up for full adoption on what date Bill may
12th is that where our meeting is may 12th yes may 12th okay okay uh so May 12th will be the public hearing for the budget and um got a motion to
move second all in favor i I know good night everybody have a good weekend have a nice weekend all thank you everyone