Okay, >> there you go. >> Okay, thank you. Um, okay. Uh, calling this meeting to order. Adrienne just texted me saying she is trying to get on. Um
>> uh I'm going to also let her know that you're there. Trent, >> you can always try calling in as well if needed or yeah, drive on over to Burough Hall real quick and uh join me here. So, >> okay. Um All right. Calling meeting to
order. Well, will you please rise to join us in the flag salute? 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. >> All right. Uh, this meeting is called pursuant to the provisions of the open public meetings law. This meeting of January 26, 2026 was included in a list of meeting notice sent to the courier news on January 5, 2026, posted on the
bulletin board at Burough Hall on that date and has remained continuously posted as required. In addition, a copy of this notice is and has been available to the public and is on file at the office of burough clerk. Roll call, please, Carla. >> Uh, Councilman Arius is out.
Councilwoman Angelhart >> here. Councilwoman Fisaro, who's she in? We know she's here, but okay. Councilwoman Herbert >> here. >> Uh, Councilman Levit, >> here. >> And Councilman Parker. Council President
Parker. >> Yep. I'm here. >> Mayor Carol. >> Yes. >> Sorry, Susan. Council Vice President Angelhart. >> Okay. >> No problem. >> We have no presentations tonight uh
under my report. I just um want to thank the DPW for an extraordinary job yesterday. Um we reportedly had the best streets in the county all day long uh due to not
only their just constant hard work, but I also think my campaign needs a shout out for his strategic planning on how to handle this snow, especially when the bureau had virtually very little salt. Um the roads were beautiful today and uh
they were good this morning. Um I also want to thank all of our first responders um the police OEM and the fire department for you know being available all day long for staging and
having people ready. Um, and I want to thank Beth for organizing, uh, Councilwoman Herbert for organizing donations to keep these people wellfed and supplied and everybody who contributed to that. Um, so I just want to say thank you to
everybody and also to the public. Uh, we had very very few uh, cars left on the street this morning or yesterday morning. Um, only two cars were towed, which isn't bad. Um, I think after the ticketing from the last couple of
storms, people have gotten the message. Um, you know, we're going to be adjusting. Uh, Brian McN talked about adjusting the message that goes out. Uh, not just about reminding people about parking on the street, but also about not blowing snow on the street when they
clean it. We had a lot of that today. People throwing snow on the road. Um and um you know also reminding people that this is during an active storm. Snow plows will be returning snow back to your sidewalk or in front of your
driveway if you are cleaning it up. So uh again I just want to say thank you and a big shout out to Mike Campion. Um so that's my only report. Uh Council President Parker. >> Yeah. Um yeah I also want to thank DPW.
So, I think I think one of the things when you said throwing snow back out on the road, I don't think it's that. I think what it is is I think when you are pushing snow and it's piling so high, people just don't know what to do. I think that's really the problem. I don't think people are intentionally pushing out on the road. I think it's about how
it's done and I can just do that because I'm kind of experienced that myself and then try to push it back on the thing. So, I think there has to be a way of how that's done and that's an education part. So I don't want to >> actually we had a lot of people blowing snow with snowblowers on the street
rather than their own park uh yards including Hunter County. So it was >> but but I think that's an education on what to do and how to do it like on the thing. So I think that's an education, >> right? So I think that's an education. Um so so that's good. And Beth again,
thank you so much for doing what you do. Um that that was Yman's job from you and from Kim Tilly and the whole nine yards. Um the only thing I have is for FID. We actually met today for the first time for this new um the new board and um I'm
excited about what's being put together. We won't we have not had our strategic session that will be um in February because of the snow and the whole bit today. Um but I'm actually really excited. I really have to again say
kudos to Ally. She has taken on so much so much and has gotten so much done in such a short period of time. It's amazing. It makes you wonder what happened over the last however many years that was not done. I will say that the signs um if you guys have noticed
there's a couple of signs that are already up. Um we're hoping to have the rest of the signs done by the end of February. Um there was a couple of g glitches with the signs in terms of the post and over the signs that are um
oversized which was an issue that was never brought up before and that was discovered. So they've got to go back and redo some of them. um not a big deal, but you know, it just kind of goes to show that again um just taking the time and making sure
that things are done the right way as opposed to just rushing through and getting them done the wrong way. So again, um if Alli's on, I cannot thank her enough. I think all the fit I think council we, you know, just kind of give her a nod because she's done absolutely a yman's job at at at what's going on.
Um once uh the uh once everything is set and done, uh I am going to have Ally come in and talk to the council about the strategic plan um and about the branding and marketing of the burl. Some
of that's underway, but I want her to give a little bit more detail. I don't want to steal her thunder. I think it's I think you know that, you know, I'm a firm believer in the people who are doing it, those are the ones who need to talk to it. Um, other than that, I am
working with um the mayor on some Liberty Village type issues. So, not ready to talk about that right now, but we are working, just rest assured, we are working on some of those things and getting those through. Um, in terms of
um Courthouse Square, they have actually started renting some of the apartments. They've gotten 35 applications. So, they have I can't remember how many inquiries. It's a couple hundred. Um, they've I can't and I don't want to be quoted on the number, but I know that
they've started renting some of the apartments. They're taking applications. So, on the north building, so things are moving along. I'm really happy, really happy to see some some movement going on. Anyway, that's it for me for right now. Thanks.
Oh, one other thing. We are still in negotiation with PBA. Again, more information forthcoming. Um, but just want you guys to know that we're uh working towards that. >> That's it.
>> Mayor, you are muted. It look like you were trying to say something. >> We can't hear you, Marcia. >> Sorry. with me. I apologize. Uh, Council Vice President Anklehart.
>> Thank you. Um, yeah. Um, I'll piggyback on Tony saying that we're continuing to work on the PBA negotiations. We uh we're having a little we were having a little trouble getting our our schedules aligned right
before the holidays, but I think we've got um the next one scheduled with Frank, I believe, soon. Um let's see. Animal control, not anything too exciting in December. Um there were
two calls, one reinforcement, one seizure, and one stray that was brought to um the vet of a carrier pit mix and he's okay. Um I just got an email this
afternoon 1:30 from Mark Salic, the director of the county um economic development um for tourism uh regarding the film ordinance. So, it was re-submitted to the state um
uh commission right after right before the holidays um right after our last meeting in December, the last meeting in December. And um us and Frenchtown are exactly in the same boat. So, I was felt good I felt good about that at least.
So, we got an email from them today not to revise the ordinance, but with a few extra questions. So, they're arranging for a call with the um state commissioner lady and I'm going to draft up an answer to those questions. I mean, the answer is who's on the film
commission, which is actually in the ordinance, if you remember. So, pretty simple questions, but they want these questions answered. And the goal is to have a kickoff with Lambertville, Frenchtown, and us on the courthouse
steps in early March. Um so they to be determined to celebrate that we are film ready. Um I know that um some of the local businesses um one in particular mentioned to me that they had been reached out to um to get on the
countywide film ready list. And the person asked me, "Well, should I be doing that?" And I said, "Absolutely. You should definitely register with the county um for the film ready list. We certainly can develop our own burough centric list, but we're, you know, all
working together on this. So, um, if there are any businesses with services, I encourage them to respond to the, um, county EDA, Department of Tourism, um, emails or social media or wherever you're seeing their their um, reaching
out to you and please execute that. And the only other thing is I thank the mayor for arranging for um a meeting with our new to us or most of us but uh for uh
but same comp uh same law firm um Jim uh uh Jim our former development attorney retired. So, we have Chris who some of us have been around has have met before as Marcia
mentioned and we'll be having a redevelopment committee meeting in regards to Captiva to guess an update from our redevelopment attorney on that site. Um, and uh, yes, I know we're all going to say this, but thank you for the
heroic efforts to our DPW, our search team, and our OEM team, and our police, fire, uh, emergency services. A specific shout out to Brian McN. I had received a call from a resident last week, and they
were concerned, um, that the get your car off the street messages um, might need to be put in both English and Spanish. And you know, I said, "Boy, oh boy, it's Friday morning. I don't think that's going to happen." And Brian made
it happen. And then, um, uh, one of our newest officers, uh, who is, uh, who speaks Spanish went out and had some special training and reached out to these particular people that they were concerned with, made sure they were aware. They were new residents, so they
didn't know. And, um, and offer Sarah Aquino got the message out as well. Also, I just want to thank everybody for their efforts. It was a really last minute thing and it worked out real well. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. Uh, Councilwoman Fisaro.
>> Uh, Council, you need to take yourself off mute. >> I'm not I'm here. I'm here. I'm sorry. I was looking for it. And I'm on my husband's little tiny like Asus tablet and it's set up right-handed. It's a lot of fun. Just trying to get on here. So, um I I want to focus more on OEM. So,
I'm just going to say quickly environmental committee had its reorg meeting on Monday, January 19th. Um Tren advised that there was a $1,000 temporary budget. My understanding is, and I'm sure he can correct me on this, generally what they ask for each year,
um there is the shade tree ordinance draft that's coming through. Um, we've discussed briefly a lighting ordinance. Um, and that I think would probably tie in a little bit to some of the work or that the planning and zoning board has
done in that regard. Um, and then the bamboo tree issue, which I'm familiar with the folks that lived there at one point, but evidently that's getting mitigated and we definitely need to keep that from ever being uh put into the
ground in Flemington Burough again. It's just very invasive. Um the OEM report and this is coming directly from officer McN head of OEM. This weekend the Burough Flemington experienced a significant winter storm that required
activation of the burough emergency operations plan and the declaration of a local state of emergency. The event included heavy snow, sleet, and dangerously cold temperatures creating hazardous travel conditions and operational impacts across the
community. The emergency operations center was activated and operated in both in-person and remote status to support coordination between police, fire, EMS, public works, and county and state
partners. A burrowwide parking plan parking ban was implemented to allow DPW to safely and effectively clear roadways and treat services. DPW crews worked extended hours throughout the event, resuming operations early each morning to
continue plowing, treating, and clearing municipal facilities and public parking areas. Coordination is ongoing with county NJ OEM and the governor's office to secure additional salt supplies with plans to bring in at least 100 tons of salt this week in advance of continued
extreme cold. All emergency services maintained full operational readiness throughout the storm. The police department remained fully staffed. The fire department and rescue squad operated under normal alerting and no major service interruptions were reported. The local
state of emergency was formally rescended today at noon after conditions improved and hazards were mitigated. All borough facilities are scheduled to reopen tomorrow on Tuesday at normal operating hours. And from Brian, he said he would like to extend sincere thanks
to Mayor Carol, Burough Council, and our county and state partners for their support and coordination throughout the event. A special thank you is also due to the many community members and council members who donated food and refreshments for Burough employees and volunteers. A feeding site was
established at the water department, allowing responders and DPW crews to get warm meals and support during long operational periods. That generosity made a real difference in morale and endurance during extended storm operations.
On behalf of the Office of Emergency Management, DPW, and all responding agencies, thank you to the council and the community for your continued support of our emergency services. And I just want to note this is my first um
emergency event that I've gone through and to see what happens on the back end with the fire department. um with the police department, all of the moving pieces. It really is it's an amazing job that officer McN
does pulling all of these people together. Um and we saw the results this weekend. We see uh clean roads and we see safe and um safety and people who are pretty happy with the way the community looks today. That's it.
Thank you, uh, Councilwoman Herbert. >> Thank you. I will of course um reinforce and echo all of the sentiments about our amazing emergency workers, both our volunteers
and um our employees. Um especially my friends behind me, uh behind my fence, backyard fence here at DBW. Um it was really a pleasure to see them in the morning when we brought um breakfast over. um would love to actually call out
by name the folks who donated um handmade food and um and provided funds for drinks and snacks. So, thank you to Bonnie Wade to Farah um who made uh salad for the lunch for um over 30
people on Sunday. Um Katherine Manino for making a delightful cake. Um Mark Herbert um for making breakfast and coffee and chili. um Kim Tilly um the head of cert um who made I believe
sausage and peppers and uh meatballs and sauce. Um and then um donations were made to help fund the drinks and snacks by Ailen Wolf, Kent Davis, who is not even a Burough residence, but that is how much he loves the burrow. Uh Lisa
Jensen, Carrie Rogers, uh Susan Angelhart, and Mayor Marsh Carol. Um so on to my uh appointments. Um the uh redevelopment cardinal um we're set to have a meeting on the 12th. Looking
forward to that. Had a uh committee meeting um parking. You'll see the results of some of our conversations in uh later on in the agenda. Um couple of ordinances. um got some additional detail um that I
would like to share about the um December 19th um collision on high on the Highland Avenue circle. Um and I and I share this because I I want people to understand that there is action happening. Um so the what I learned from
um our um uh actually um yes, sorry, took me a second um who I heard this from. Um, so what what I learned from um the police chief um is that there were several contributing factors. Um combination of
it being dark and raining. Um as many people know, the high school starts extremely early in the morning and in December it's about as dark as it can get. Um and it was raining. Uh it was unfortunately a distracted driver and a
pedestrian who was crossing illegally. On top of that, um folks who drive through that know that that um that that area suffers from uh a lack of signage. Um the burrow is um would love to be able
to help with the signage there. We do not have um the authority to cover that area because it is a jug handle for Route 31. It is actually the responsibility of the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Um, so what what action is happening
right now is our burough's traffic engineer, Jay Trout, um, is working on getting New Jersey Department of Transportation into action on this. Um, he's also, um, working on, uh, getting flashing pedestrian beacons at the
crosswalks on the main street circle. Um, happy to, um, answer any questions for folks if you want to get in touch with me on that. on library um had the board meeting in January. Um the key headline
there is the library is in need of a new elevator. Um I I think this um was made known um beginning towards the end of last year. There are some uh finer point estimates available now. Um it's looking
like it's going to be in around the $200,000 range. Um, I'm working on getting them to refine that um and provide the full detail to as input to our budgeting exercises in these next several weeks.
Um part of that will be um uh including that in a three-year capital improvement plan um as an input to not only this year's budget but to the um kind of road map looking ahead
um on schools um when council member Arias my fellow schools leaison is back from vacation we're working on coordinating scheduling um one-on- ones with the superintendent from ASD and uh
the central hunter central regional high school. Um and we'll be sharing duties um kind of taking turns going to the respective uh council meetings um sorry board meetings. Um the high school is
going to be conducting strategic planning um to develop a five-year strategic plan. President Parker, Council Member Aras, and myself will all be participating. Um, it's going to be facilitated by the New New Jersey School Boards Association and focusing um with
a focus group of students, staff, parents, community members, and leaders working in small and large groups to create a shared vision for the district. Identify the strengths of the school district, critical issues that will be faced, and draft goals for the next five years. and those will be taking place um
of one meeting each in February, March and April. Lastly, communications. Um so the mayor and Trent and I uh as the communications committee met and um aligned on a kind of mission and
vision statement for communications, what we believe is important for uh us as a committee to um to work towards as goals. Um, some of them are are pretty basic. The compliance with statutory communication and public notice requirements. And that's not necessarily
the three of us responsible for for doing all that. That's, you know, uh, that's uh, statutory. Um, but we are here to help make sure that nothing gets in the way of that if need be. um informing the bureau's informing the bureau's residencies residents of
emergencies laws policies how to interact with the burough government and uh most of all and this is the one that I find the most exciting is is helping to create and reinforce a positive image of Flemington making the people proud to live work and do business here bringing
throngs of paying visitors and attracting new rabables so in in uh achieving in in um aiming towards that that goal or those goals. Um we have a number of projects that we're looking to take on this year. One is a website um
project uh updating the design um bringing it kind of more towards the the vision of the future of Flemington. Um and and part of that will be infusing some of the branding that the FCP is bringing to bear. Um as well as um
bringing some cost savings to the picture. will be um initiating a uh opportunity for folks to meet with the mayor and council members um on what we're calling Flemington
Fridays. Um we're going to start with a pizza night in February. Um, and that'll be an ongoing uh once a month activity um with a kind of rotating um opportunity for different council members and uh different folks in the
community to connect. Um another one is um uh actually a vision of uh former council member Jeremy Long, which is a welcome package for new residents to the community. And I've actually started talking with um uh Miss Teresa Diaz at
Hunter County Polytech um with the idea um of um having the students in her design class, the high school students in her design class, um actually do a design
competition to help um create that welcome package design. Um, and then last but not least, um, a little exciting potential reduction in red tape and, um, and maybe minor, but still cost savings. Um, came across something
called a local finance notice. Didn't know it existed, but um, there you go. Um, as of April 1, it turns out that we can, um, legally stop publishing to physical newspapers. Shocking, I know. Um, we still have to make sure that the
public notices are um conspicuously placed on the burough website. Um, uh, at a minimum a week from the date of initial posting. Um, and at and longer than that if it's um, according to statute needs to be x number of days. So
10 number 10 days before um and etc. based on whatever the the type of event is. Um but um that's something I just wanted to bring um to the the council and administration's awareness that the link is already on
the website for all the notices. >> Yep. And um if you would like to stop dealing with the newspaper as of April 1, you can. >> Yep. That I know. it. Thank you, Councilwoman, Councilman Tren
uh Levit. Sorry. >> It's okay. Thank you, Mayor. Um I of course also would like to thank our DPW and OEM and everybody else that assisted in this snowstorm, including the wonderful list of people who donated food and supplies. Um as Councilwoman Fisar mentioned, the environmental
commission did have its first meeting of the year, and we discussed that lighting ordinance and and we got a cost estimate from Beth McManis. And at that meeting, I did mention our temporary budget, uh, which I was completely wrong about because I looked into it and the environmental commission does not and has not had a temporary budget for the past, uh, 3 years or so. I think we've
been accidentally attributing uh, whatever budget was supposed to get to a non-existent uh, recreation commission that we don't have in this burrow. Um, so I talked to Bill H about it and we should have a resolution on the next agenda to correct that. And one other
thing that he said he needed to fix with the temp budget, but I don't remember what that was. Um, the Shade Creek Commission had its first meeting as well. We continue to review the ordinance they're working on. Uh, we sent it to my Campion and Dave Giuliani to see if they have any comments and we will go from there with that once we
they get back to us. Uh, Beth and sorry, Councilwoman Herbert uh, covered parking communications I think pretty well. Uh, since Brandon isn't here, I did attend the house tours planning event at Lone Eagle last week and they are looking for new volunteers and houses to put on the
house tour this year. So, if anybody is interested, uh, please contact the HPC. They would greatly appreciate it. And lastly, uh, I think we all got an email about um, exciting new updates at Tuck American Park, which is that we have a new playground there. Um, and it looks
like a lot of fun. I don't think it's ready just yet, but Mike will let us know when we are all allowed to play on it. So, that's everything. Thank you guys very much. >> I think that would be after this spring thought at this point.
Okay. Um before we move on to public comment session one, I do need a motion to amend the agenda under the executive session. Um it says contract negotiations. It should say land acquisition as well. So contract negotiations, land acquisition and under
litigation planning board and also to add personnel planning board secretary. Can I have a motion to amend the agenda? >> Le will move to do exactly that. >> Is there a second, please? >> Hart will move. We'll second.
>> Thank you. All in favor? >> I I >> Can I get a a thumbs up or something from people? Okay. Thank you. That would be everybody except Yeah, everybody said yes. Uh Carla. Um
all right, we're up to public comment session number one. Um I see there are two people on Zoom. If either of you have any comments, please just raise your hand and try we'll let you in. Seeing none, um closing public comment
session number one. Uh, we have a couple sets of minutes to approve regular session December 8, 2025. Can I have a motion to approve? >> Le will move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Levit moved. Cesaro seconded. All in
favor? >> I >> I >> Okay. Um, then we have executive session December 8. Uh, Beth, are you abstaining from that? >> I'm abstaining for December. Yep. >> Okay. Uh, executive session December 8th, 2025. Can I have a motion to
approve? >> Move. >> Is there a second? >> Parker second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> And Councilwoman Herbert's abstaining. Regular session December 18th, 2025. Can I have a motion, please?
>> Will abstain. >> Sorrow's abstaining. I need a motion. Can I have a motion? >> Anglehart will move. >> Is there a second? >> Uh, okay. Anglehart move. Love it. seconded. All in favor? >> I >> I
>> and abstensions are Councilwoman Herbert and Councilwoman Fisaro and executive session December 18th. Can I have a motion, please? >> Anglehart will move. >> Anglehart moved and Levit seconded. All in favor? >> I.
>> Okay. And then Councilwoman Herbert and Council Fisaro abstained. Thank you. Uh under consent agenda, uh we have two items. Resolution 202635, resolution of approval approving a refund for the redemption of tax sale certificate on block 37 lots 12 and six
and resolution 2026-36 resolution approving 2026 dates for the sip and stroll through through the Flemington Community Partnership. Anybody want a separate vote on either of these items? Seeing none, can I have a motion, please?
>> Levit will move. Parker second >> Levit made the motion. Parker seconded. Uh, roll call, please. Council Vice President Englehart. >> I believe I have to abstain on that. >> Why?
>> I have to abstain. >> Oh, okay. >> On both of them, Susan. >> No, just the one. >> The tax one. >> Tax one. >> Oh, why don't we do a separate vote on them? >> Yeah, why don't we do separate then? >> Okay. Okay. Can I have a Can I have a motion for resolution 2026-35?
>> Will move. >> Is there a second? >> Okay. Okay. Uh, roll call vote. Sure. Uh, Councilwoman Angleart, you'll I mean, Council Vice President Angelart, you'll abstain. >> Yes. >> Uh, Councilwoman Fisoro,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes. >> Councilman Levit, >> yes. >> And Council uh President Parker, >> yes. And uh motion to approve 2026-36.
>> Move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Uh roll call, please. >> Council Vice President uh Angelhart. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Fisora, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes. >> Councilman Levit, >> yes.
>> Council President Parker, >> yes. >> And I'm sorry. And just to clean up the mess, I do need a motion. I do need whoever made the original motion. I think it was Councilman Levit to res to to make to to resend your motion. >> I will motion for the
>> and Councilman Parker, will you move your second? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh introduction of ordinances. We have a few ordinances for the introduction tonight. The first one is ordinance 2026-1, an ordinance amending chapter 7 traffic and 7A traffic schedules
provides daytime time limited parking and evening residential parking on certain streets. What this does is the ordinance that we did in December last year to allow residential overnight parking on certain streets around the Union Hotel uh inadvertently did a blanket and undid all the daytime
commercial parking. So, this puts that back as well as the special new parking on Spring Street um that allows uh some residential only and um 15 spots that allow for commercial and residential. Um
could I have a motion to introduce? >> Is there a second? >> Angelhart will second. >> Roll call, please. Council Vice President Angelhart. >> Yes. Councilwoman Fisaro, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert,
>> yes. >> Did you say yes? I'm sorry. >> Yes, you did. >> Okay. Uh, Councilman Levit, >> yes. >> And Council President Parker, >> yes. >> A public hearing, uh, scheduled, I believe, February 23rd, right, Carla? >> Yeah, I would wait. Yep.
>> February 23rd. >> That's Oh, 24th. No, 23rd. 23rd. No, no, the next one. When is >> Oh, you want it earlier? The >> the next one. Whenever the next one is. I'm sorry. I'm I'm I'm a month I've got to look at my calendar now. I'm a month ahead of myself. So, that's February uh
February 9th. >> Yes. >> February 9th. That's fine. >> February 9th, public hearing schedule for February 9th. Okay. Uh ordinance 20262, an ordinance establishing section 2640 of the Bureau of Flemington zoning ordinance entitled administration and
enforcement. Uh this sets a schedule on um enforcement fines levied by our property maintenance official um which uh needs to tie into our
regular administrative code. Um is there a motion please to introduce >> Parker? >> Is there a second? >> Engelart will second. >> Roll call please. Council Vice President Inglehart, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Fisara, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes. >> Councilman Levit, >> yes. >> And Council President Parker, >> yes. >> Thank you. U public hearing scheduled for February 9th. And then ordinance
2026-3, an ordinance amending chapter 12, land development definitions of the burough code and chapter 26 zoning of the burough code. Um, this ordinance allows private um parking lots throughout the bureau to permit for
private uh leases or to allow for off-site parking for uh both residents who don't have enough parking or for businesses that need additional parking. Um, and landlords can uh set their own
fee schedule. It is based on uh current usage and if the use changes then uh parking spaces would be amended. Um can I have a motion to introduce please? >> For will move. >> Is there a second? >> Le will second.
>> Angelhart will second. >> I think Lev got you first. >> That's fine. Council Vice President Angelhart. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Fisora. >> Yes. Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes.
>> Counciloman Levit, >> yes. >> Council President Parker, >> yes. >> Thank you again. Public hearing scheduled for February 9th. Uh, we have no public hearings tonight. Regular agenda. We have one item, resolution 202637,
resolution authorizing the hiring of Mark Wiga as a Flemington Burough Police Officer. Can I have a motion, please? >> Hart will move. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Any discussion? Roll call, please.
>> Angelhart and Parker. Um, Council Vice President Anglehart, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Fisora, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes. >> Councilman Lovevet, >> yes. >> Council President Parker, >> yes.
>> We have the introduction of the 2026 FID budget. Councilman Parker, who's going to be doing that? You or >> I can do it. Allie's on. Allie's on. is on. >> Ally, you want to do it? >> Uh, you want to promote Ally as a as a panelist, Trent, please?
>> I got you. >> She will be joining us as a panelist. Uh, Ally, do you want to do you need to share your screen or anything? >> Um, I Oh, >> I can uh It is depends on how in-depth
you want me to go. >> I don't think you should tonight. It's really just introduction. I would save that for the public hearing. >> Right. Perfect. >> Allie, just an overview. Just an overview. That's it. >> Sure. Hi everybody. Um, so the, uh,
we're submitting the 2026 FID budget. Um the budget includes the annual tax assessment as well as the anticipated um uh grant uh that it's the final year
of the neighborhood preservation program uh which is 125,000 as well as the break even on our events. Uh and then as you'll see once it gets published we have broken out the costs operational and then by the different pillars of the
work. Um, and for council members, um, if you haven't seen it already, I'll make sure you get a copy of the 2025 annual report. So, you can see our, uh, annual P&L from 2025,
uh, as well as all of the work we set out to do and the accomplishments. >> Ellie, I have not handed that out to them, but we can. Um, I think we should go through the strategic thing and then hand them all at one time. >> Y, great. And I just want to I just want to
go on one thing just to back up this on the MPP just so that you guys know what that is. That actually has been in existence for four years now. Four years. This is the fifth year. And >> and the sad part about it is is that it
was never filed for in three years. So Ally has gone back through and met with these um met with the state and they are giving us grace to hopefully recuperate some of the money.
So just so you guys know. >> Okay. Uh anybody have any questions now or we could save them for the public hearing which is probably the right thing to do because this is just an introduction. Um, can I have a motion to introduce >> Marco? Motion. >> Is there a second?
>> Le second. >> Le seconded. Uh, roll call, please. Carla, >> sure. >> Council Vice President Angelhart. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman uh Fisara, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes.
>> Counciloman Levit, >> yes. >> Council President Parker, >> yes. Carla can correct me if I'm wrong, but their budget has to sit for 30 days, right? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> I got to put it in the paper and everything. >> So, public hearing would be what's 30
days from now. Uh >> that's the 26. So, the 26th of it's the end of the month. >> End of that would be the last. >> Let's do the beginning of March then. Sorry. >> Okay. >> Because our meeting is the 24th, I think.
>> Okay. So, March uh 9th would be our next meeting. for the budget hearing. Public hearing will be March 9. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Ally. All right. Uh we don't have a work session tonight. We're up to public
comment session number two. Anybody from the public wishing to make a comment, just raise your hand online. Seeing none. Uh payment of bills. Authorizing payment of bills in the amount of $6,600,9826.
Can I have a motion, please? >> Move. >> Is there a second? >> Will second. >> Love it. Seconded. Roll call, please. >> Council Vice President, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Fisora, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Herbert, >> yes. >> Councilman Levit, >> yes. >> And Council President Parker, >> yep. Yes. Uh please remember everybody to stop in over the next couple of days and sign uh the certification. >> Yeah.
>> Okay. Um >> that concludes the public agenda. We do have executive session um for those three items. Uh, can I have a motion to go into executive session to cover land acquisition?
Um, uh, contract negotiations, uh, litigation planning board and personnel planning board secretary. >> Le move. >> Is there a second? >> Will second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I
>> I >> Nobody Nobody needs a break, right? We can go right into it once we >> You can go right into it. >> We just need to close it to the public. Um, >> yes. There will not be action taken at all after this. Uh >> do you know how to do that? >> Um I'm working on it. I'm kicking out.
No, I don't want to report Ally. Okay, never mind. >> Well, she's off. >> Announced Chris that there was >> Oh, wait. Hold on. We got to unlock. >> I did. >> All right. Even though I announced there wasn't going to be any other business. Okay. >> Try you unlocked.
>> I did. I did. >> Okay. Are we back in? So, could I have a motion to adjurnn? It'll move. >> Is there a second? >> A second. >> Uh, okay. Trent, again, thank you for running this. Appreciate it. >> Trent looks a little cold. >> Cold in here for one.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks everybody. Have a good night. Thank you guys. Thank you. Bye. >> All were in favor. Yes. >> Bye. >> Bye.