flag United States stand na indivisible andice this meeting is called pursuance to the provisions of the open public meetings la this meeting of February 10 2025 is included in a listed meetings not as sent to the 100 County Democrat career news on January 6 2025 posted on
the voting board of 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 in the office of the B clerk caror will call please councilman Arius here Council engart here Council here councilman L here Council vice president long here council president Parker here and mayor Cara here we do not have any presentations tonight um regarding the mayor's report
first uh I just want to um comment on the fire on Saturday which was really devastating to the buau to the families that lost literally everything they owned uh to their neighbors um and to the responding agencies it was very traumatic um and I just want to publicly thank all of the responding fire companies we're Township Fire Company Clinton
Fire Department South franch Emergency Services Quaker Town EMS W house Rescue Squad Quakertown Fire Company the hunter County Office of Emergency Management the Amwell Valley Ambulance Corp um for showing up and for being there for offering support help whatever was needed and especially um to our Police Department our OEM and and to our fire department um these people were so brave going into a house on fire two
a duplex two sides and rescuing people literally who ran it with nothing but to clothes on their backs uh no cell phones no wallets no pocketbooks and um you know it's it's a a amazing that nobody was seriously hurt and having all those responding agencies not only absolutely saved lives because people were taking Saturday mid boarding naps and we're not even aware this fire
was raging in their building when it was happening but they also managed to protect all of the surrounding houses including two wood ones I mean that are also over 100 years old it's just incredible that they were able to keep the damage to one building and of course it's a total loss but uh this town was truly blessed on Saturday truly blessed by the community in this County coming out to help us so um
you know I especially want to thank you know Sergeant MCN for making sure that the people that came out um had insurance and were being taken care of and I know there's a gof funding page now for the one family um so it was a it was a real team effort of of responding agencies um and now the community it's also responding to those in need um so second I just want to announce publicly that our planning board member Brian Cino recently resigned
due to work constraints so I am moving everybody up so Justin schiner I am pointing tonight to the unexpired term of Briant samino um Jeff DNA I am moving up to the unexpired term one alternate number one Don eeko up to the unexpired term one Al alternate number two and Mark P to the unexpired term one alternate number three um alternate number four later um I
would like to take a little time under my report because I see some people coming back from West Road to talk about um the document that I sent out to you all yesterday that the chief had um worked on um mostly and I added a little to it um regarding in the residential only parking across the town I hope you all have a chance to look at it a lot of this is for discussion um but I do
want to just say if the buau is not um ready to start moving on ordinances to do the resident only um parking across town that we really need to direct Chris of course any our attorney tonight to write the residential only parking West Road and um regardless you know they need they need a more robust you know the suggestion right now is the chief
really wants the 247 visitor and Resident parking across the town I know there may be some push back from Council about doing the 247 visitor so you know what's in here is both the chief suggestion and a more moderate suggestion to phase it in later if there are problems uh from um you know people um hopefully filling up the union hotels restaurants and bars uh and then looking for additional parking on uh Bloomfield Avenue and
Broad Street and Spring Street and Maple Avenue um so this would have the visitor parking no requirement for um a permit from 4:30 to 10 p.m. uh seven days a week um but you know so I I just went before I move forward going through these talking points I'd like to get your opinion on doing West Road now and then the police will have to monitor Allen Street because that's the next place and Allen already has problems
parking so they're going to have to monitor what's happening on Allen um with that whole you know so much air in a balloon you push it and it's going to go somewhere else so uh any thoughts on moving forward with the ordinance for for introduction the next meeting for West Carol I'm f with that you're good I'm 100% anybody against it iance we want just I don't know clue to Allen Street in North place while we're at it or well this is the
push me pull you because it's just gonna you know this is why wants to do the whole town at once um the difference is West West when you get on West A it's basically a dead end Street yeah right Allen Street people can still go through and so as we're coming up and again on another week of potentially that weather F going be coming in and not able to turn around I mean it's be matter of weeks difference I'm fine with do West I'm absolutely fine with it so we're gonna we're gonna direct uh the attorney
to have an ordinance for introduction on February 24th um introducing West Road to be resident parking only um and we'll treat it I guess Chief the way the east side of Main Street is treated where where they'll get resident stickers and visitor tags yep we'll do uh the same way and it'll
be a 247 enforcement enforcement sounds good okay so that'll be introduced on the 24th of February hopefully it will be adopted on March 10th uh regardless of anything else we talk about so we'll move forward on that okay so um regarding the residential parking so just taking these points one at a time single family homes and duplexes would receive two parking permits per resident upon proof of
vehicle registration at no cost and each resident would be able to purchase additional permits with proof of additional Vehicles registered to that Resident for $25 a month anybody have an issue with that okay all all multi form all multif family homes converge apartments and apartments over existing commercial businesses would receive one parking permit per apartment on proof of vehicle registration at no cost and may be able to purchase additional permits with proof of additional Vehicles registered
to the apartment for $25 per month any comments on that so if if I me an apartment and I have a office yep and she has a car too yep mine's cover Yep this under my I'm renting it she can buy one 25 a month a month yeah I think that's where um the nickel and diing is I don't want to I have an issue with
that I don't know that I agree with that either $25 a month for one person if I I'm going back to Jeremy's scenario because I understand that scenario that that I have a girlfriend she's visiting and every every month that she's with me she's got to pay $25 a month see wait I thought I was understanding that there's two of them two people in that that one vend unit at the same time that's not what she just said
so what what the parking committee originally said was single family homes incl that including duplexes with single family home would get two but Apartments would get one per apartment apartment buildings would get one per apartment for free because if you have a Victorian home carved into four Apartments they're getting where your single family home's getting two yeah and this is a concern that the chief has what did you say about the biggest commodity of town has that they give away for free or parking was that you that said that or was that
J trout when you said that uh I think we all ended up saying that that there's only so much real estate of the roadway so you want to make sure everybody gets a and the majority of the parking committee felt that it wasn't fair that a Victorian home that's you know cut itself into you know basically becoming a business I just don't think $25 is the number what's the number I don't know but I don't CU this is I'm just thinking about this 15 I don't know what do you guys think I think just because it's a a rental versus a owner I think every
you know whether we do everybody should get a a a visitor's pass for free no matter what um at least one depending on the size of we're not on visit passes we're on residence passes and it's not no we were on visitor no we're on Resident no we talking about visitors for $25 resident a month for 25 month okay so Jeremy Jeremy's question was a little bit Mist he's thinking that you're saying no because I've always under understood that the
second one because I'm on paring committee if the lease is under my name the lease is under your name and I have a long time Girlfriend yes who's living with me constantly let's say and this and can I just say it has nothing to do with whether you're a ranker or an owner because we have renters living in buildings that they rent other apartments right it's about how many units there are in a building right so a single family home a Victorian home with six bedrooms with a family one family living
it gets two a Victorian home cut into four Apartments gets four they're already getting twice as many they're getting one per apartment for free and then they can buy additional residential Park permits for 25 a month or another number I guess that's my sticking point is that Comm to charge monthly parking for laville charges all of the residents monthly for their parking and it's more than 25 okay back to Jeremy scenario if
I am a married couple are you telling me that only one of us could get parking permit for free and the other one have no I'm telling you the apartment we get one for okay well however you want toen name it the point of it is those two people in the apartment are married and so one person is going to get free and the other person have to pay for that's basically what we saying cor that was recommendation for the not board so I don't know about I mean you
can talk about it but I I just don't see that $25 a month to be married all the all the other expenses I have you're asking me to pay $25 to be married to this person to have another car you're paying dude you're already pay so I'm not gonna pay anymore um so what's the number what's the number for additional residential parking T this is just a suggestion
for for discussion it was a recommendation from the majority of the parking committee that 25 was a fair number for an additional residential permit that you know that that big houses that have been cut into apartment shouldn't get a benefit that single families they're paying just about the same amount of taxes aren't getting okay so let's go down to Susan what do you think no I don't like the per month you know I'm find yeah at all I I think that um having you know one parking permit for certain
size buildings two parking permits for certain size buildings is fine I think having you know when you go and register your car for the second or the third or the fourth car that you have in your household that's fine having a once a year fee is fine I just have the per month is the thing that I have an issue with and that goes for both both and that goes for both um uh initial as well as visitor part wait so we're not talking about visitor yet we're but let me
go back to what you just said you're okay with an annual fee for another residential permit above the above whatever the minimum is that you've established per per unit I'm I'm I'm not necessarily opposed to like we had talked about originally registering your car and paying a yearly fee to cover the costs of Carla and and and the other people in the office having to process that information and keep that information on record
and you know there is a cost there a value to their time and so when we had originally talked about issuing permits um burrow wide um I understood the need for having A10 to $25 fee per year you know to get your car registered um but I don't like the per month I thought you guys were going to be are you doing the no the way the way
it's set up it's a um this program is an online system but um we have it set up to where uh people who don't have the advantage to go online they can go to the burall library or the police department so it's electronic unless you don't have and there's a cost to the software correct so that also has to be taken into account okay so Susan so let me go back to the question can you hold on one second can you hold on one second Susan let's go back to the question the question is what are you comfortable
with I'm Comfort I'm comfortable with um all single families getting two parking permits and two visitor parking permits per year I'm comfortable with so they hold on so they're getting so everybody gets two is that what you're saying sing includ dlex okay recognizing their larger square footage okay and then with the apartments what are you comfortable with I'm comfortable with one in one well it's so okay so so the parking committee had recommended two for any
kind of building because single family homes are getting two un let the landlord decide how they're going to be done and people you know how they're given out but you're saying one and one okay and I think I mean I don't think you saying one and what do you mean by one and one one let me explain please Susan what do you mean by one one1 one please um uh per residential unit if it's not a single family unit so each person so there's two then there's one
one one residential one visitor for free right for an apartment whether it's in a cut up Victorian home or whether it's over Striker's pain store yeah okay all right so so you're covered with that we haven't gotten to the to the extra the cost for extras yet but Jer are you comfortable with that that and I just wanted to add I'm not comfortable with $25 a month I think $300 a year is a lot of money I agree a lot of people okay well let's get back to the money let's
get let's let's Circle and agree on how many re units okay are you one in one two and two for single family one in one for apartments yes brand counc yeah same with j and Susan okay I'm with counil love it we can get back for the money but um yeah I think you know two on for the yeah all right so we're good on we're good on the the recommendation of
two parking permits and two visitor permits um regarding the single family homes and one in one for the apartments okay so let's talk strictly extra residential permits only not visitors just extra so you're in a single family home you're an apartment whatever you're in you want to purchase an additional residential parking permit what's the number doesn't have 25 a month it could be and I I'm like not I'm
less comfortable with an annual fee I'm comfortable with it for a single family home I'm less comfortable with it for an apartment because they may want to move and it giving refunds is always a pin in there so you always say non-refundable um and and name a price what's the extra for the residential can I just add the car has to be registered to that address yes absolutely has to be address yes has to be absolutely okay otherwise we're gonna
never we're always G have problems I think I I just think we we need to look at renters very similar to to um homeowners because they they most of them sign at least a year lease many of our renter residents have lived here 30 years you know 20 30 years or more so I don't necessarily think we should see that as um an issue nice about it yeah
but I actually think it's I think it's actually yeah I I do I think you know you buy you buy a a sticker for a year you and you're and you're registered whether you're uh like um Jeremy's scenario before you know you know you're renting an apartment you know you get one visitor and one resident let's say you have a you know an adult child who all of a sudden gets their license while you're you're living there or something you you buy another you know visitors pass
for the year um it also works well because you've got the visitors pass for the year you know let's say you uh you've got um a in-law that comes regularly um so you can register them for the year with their with their bu I just think that you're I think I want to make sure that we're treating the residents and the the single family home you wouldn't be able to register your mother-in-law because she won't have an address that match you're right you're right that was a bad bad example I can't really think of something off the top of my head I don't think we
should we should what's the number for you for an extra resident parking the registration per year for the third C I think it shouldn't be any more than $25 for the year oh God but the only costs we're saying are software and some and some but not um much according to the the chief for um uh part of part of the process is
what'll happen is they'll go online they'll register they'll send us uh a photo of their credentials whatever the household bill is and the registration so somebody does physically look at it so you know once we kick it off it will take some time but once you know once we're in a full swing it's not going to the chief is also requesting to hard time special police officers to to Monitor and write tickets on it so we're talking it's not like it's not a lot of money okay let two things so
Susan are you saying what is what is your price what is what is your price I I really don't think any parking permit should should be more than 25s year so is 25 Jeremy where are you so just so I understand we're we're separating residential yep yeah this is just a yearr round resident parking 247 on the street so in the the parking committee but
was was there a is there a number the parking committee with exception of councilwoman angelart was unanimously beside her with the 25 which would be 300 a month a year if that's too much then because otherwise it's like free parking I mean $25 in free is sorry $300 a month for and that's fine if it's too much it's just if you have a family with two kids and you're paying another $300 that's not fair we're not and that's and
that's fine right the 25 is you might as well not even charge because 25 is just it's nothing so my concern is I know you're saying let's put the the cost of of the two additional new buers outside but I'm saying you can't buy a for that and the cost of this okay but $25 it cost $25 to hire two more people we're not going to hire that's the bottom line let's just keep down this road let's just keep down this road Jeremy
I consult Conor you have fees for certain things that you're can't what are some yearly numbers for things that we pay here right now like can you think of anything off the top of your head and I hate to put you on the spot but like any well your sales are $5 but that's just what pick up is 40 40 40 there's not a lot of low
things because we have food license and things like that but before I I just want to make a point a lot of people that come to our window do not have credit cards they're going to pay in cash they're not going to use that machine or that computer I don't think and I think we need but I think we need one centralized location and I think it should be the police department because you guys are monitoring everything you
think I want to stick I'm just saying people use cash okay not let's stick to the price where are you well I'm Waring for the yearly fee for this okay and look we don't I know we don't want renters just getting a bunch of cars that it just causes a lot of problems so you know a yearly fee I think nothing in excessive I would say 100 to 125 bucks year
mean at most a year I mean okay 50 bucks is I mean that's so where do you want to be you do $10 a month that's like the no that's what it breaks down to so are you are you right there okay 125 yeah I'd say about the same price point because 120 100 to 125 where you this
is all being charged at one time yes not actually month that's the suggestion Susan doesn't want it to go through Mark she wants it all it before we move on from that question Jerry does this software allow people to pay monthly or annually if they prefer op so let's say give them the option and we can give them the option yeah I I think well and I'll ask them about it uh what happens if they don't
pay that all right we'll keep that okay I was gonna say typically that that additional credit card charges and fees if we did it you know monthly processing but they could walk into the police department and hand them dollars and mon if they wanted to I mean a lot to do um true but I think it's probably going to be like a one time year we can determine that but uh honestly up to like you know $15 a month which would be $180 most you know
I think it's really hard to come up with the plus it sounds arbitrary without having all the information don't I mean I don't I don't I don't know how many people just want actually back um that's hard to to know in advance how many people it's not cards you get four stickers right so if you have three CS in your household you get two visitors for free as well it says you visit were not regulating though in any way other than
you have a visitor's pass and you're fine like it's not like okay I'm a visitor I got to register night there's no difference between the visit the resal to that address yeah it's still G so I can just hand it to so you know if we're going to give out one in one back to council and long scenario a husband and wife they're getting one in one right off the bat but they're getting one and then a visitor one so if I have another visitor then the visitor then I the visitor is paying uh
it becomes three it depends if they're staying overnight yes okay so here's what I think finished I mean we have 197 something households in the burrow and that's at least two cars each so that's like three ,800 you know vehicles or something it's we don't have the room for that regardless on the streets as it is like and that's part of the point of the park is to try to get people to use
their driveways exactly and we have just a handful of residences that do not have driveway like exactly and most the actual like apartment blocks you know they have they have you know parking lots like I I don't think car do you know how many people actually pass now like yeah I've got two I've got two of the old stickers oh well we we were told at one point we had to have them we've always kep the stickers and that way if
I have to leave my but getting back to this again everybody basically if you're in a single family home you're getting four parking permits exactly every year so the idea of having to buy an extra one is you know you already gained four but I think it goes back to S what Susan concern I think what Susan and Jeremy's concern correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not trying to put words in anyone's mouth is it's not about the single family homes it's about the apartments
is that correct and so for the apartments forget about the single family home for the apartments what is the study that's been made to say how many apartments are are are utiliz how many people are in an apartment how many cars are registered to an apartment or whatever the case may be I'm just curious because it goes back to what Trent is saying and saying well wait a minute we have this we have this but do we actually know what we have and why are we doing this unless we know what we all we have well because then we're just throwing money against the wall and
hoping that we're gonna have fees to come up with right I mean why I said the costs are arbitrary the single the single family homes that are now apartment Apartments within a an older home um in sections of the Town um there have been complaints from residents uh onvia Avenue and some other streets about the apartments not using nobody uses the driveways or all stream um so you know we know there there's a lot of apartments in this town and a lot of these homes have been cut into Apartments
um we know that you know that striking number of you know 64% of all of our housing stock in this town are Apartments um it is way higher than the norm it is at the size of Jersey City um so we know that for fact and uh superintendent of DPW Campion has articulated to the parking committee that the Main Street apartments that are on Bloomfield and Maine they use the municipal parking lot and have
traditionally used it and they'll continue to enjoy using it um you know that they take up a number of spots closest to where they can walk into the buildings some of them have small parking lots some of those buildings already so we know you know we know that we have an excess number of apartments in in this town um you know it should be more like we have you know 30% apartments and 70% houses we have 63%
apartments and balance is houses so um you know I mean it's parking commiss that's for various reasons though I mean it's for various reasons people need the income or whatever the case may be hold on and so here here's here's what's in my mind right now so a driveway if I do rent out part of my house for apartments because I need the income then and I have this driveway that does just it's just a long drive that doesn't go this way just goes this way if I have four people then you're saying that what
if if everybody's parking in that driveway then people have to jockey to find out to get up in the middle of the night or whatever to pull their cars in and pull them out that's not reasonable it's just not reasonable and nor should we ask people to do that we're not but you are you are because what you said is we want people to use their driveways I get that if it's if it is reasonable for them to do that that's not reasonable for everybody to do that I can do it my neighbor can't do it another neighbor I mean I'm just telling you it's not
reasonable if that is what you're trying to get to that's not a reasonable solution however if on the other side of it is is that you are trying to use get people who live there to use their driveway that's a different subject and the ones who have apartments in the whole bit and there's alternate ways for them to park and that's Communicator that's another subject if then the the residual and I am renting my place again and
the whole bit and I have a wife I have three kids whatever and we have two cars you're asking them to pay for a fee to park I'm just I'm just I'm I'm just trying to understand the logic that's all yes I just so you're at 150 I sure somewhere around there okay for a resident an extra resident because every house is getting four every apartment's going to get two um councilwoman Saro where are you you
know I would prefer the 250 but I could I could see the 100 or 125 so you're not at the 150 or Council l no I think I think right right now there's hisory of Us Jeremy Brandon myself 100 to 125 Council council president what's your number I would you 100 okay so the majority says 100 for an additional residential parking permit per year okay that's fine
um all right so that is the resident side the visitor Park we already discussed how many and then there is you know now we get into the question because the resident the the residential is 24 7 and it's across the whole town that will eliminate the need for the ordinance I think Chief if I'm not wrong on the school day
parking the resident only school day parking on the street because right the whole town is now going to be resident parking only on the street right right I just ask commercial areas angle Main Street not part of it Main Street is not part of this that's a whole different right now that's in the 2hour parking no overnight parking Spring Street um behind the new Union hotel where we're hoping it's going to be parallel park um angled parking and a parallel parking the
residents are going to have to be able to park there overnight because they park there now and a lot of them don't have driveways um but that's also a commercial area that may have meters unless you have a resident sticker you know if we ever get to that meter that next step but yeah no okay we're not talking about any of that and um unless we put in meters in the municipal parking lot all that would remain first that part of the deal with my Campion is that parking lot has to stay first come for snow for Ser if there's a snow event doesn't matter whether you bought an
extra parking Fai or not you've got it people exactly okay everybody's on board with that yeah can I just mention because there was a question after our last meeting that was raised um which meeting our last council meeting um that was raised um I just wanted to make it clear uh something that was mentioned at the last meeting that changed since this meeting is that the visitors parking is essentially only at night well there's
the proposal from the park the newest proposal from the parking committee because there was some comments up here from certain members of the council that you know you entertain a lot at night you don't you to say MERS it was me say it you said it in a meeting you say it now goe well well on the spot CH is still at he wants to see visitor 247 as well um because he
is like I don't want you're sitting here Chief I mean you feel it very clear to the council you're very concerned it's for you you know like to to guarantee the the spots are there but I and I want to reiterate my comment isn't because of what Tony said at the last meeting I actually got several got contacted by several residents after seeing the last meeting with the same concern so so there's two proposal on the table the chief who says everything should be 247
including the visitors and um again you could buy an extra one of those and we lowered the the price of the parking committee way down to $5 a night or overnight um but you know you know and the chief is just concerned because the okay so the Union hotel project they are not going to be charging a fee for guests who according to our traffic consultant our traffic engineer who spoke with the redeveloper there's no fee if you're going into to eat or
drink okay if you're renting an apartment or if you're going into the hotel there is going to be in parking Fe but not if you're going there to eat and drink so he told me that he believes that that means that these outside Lots where the old Flemington fur was and over by the insurance company that that's going to basically be where where people who are eating and drinking are directed so I think that there's a total of maybe 80 parking spaces there um somewhere around that 60 I think roughly let me defer and another 20 or
25 roughly at the insurance company so um so the the chief's concern is that you know there's going to be way more than 80 people in the bar in the restaurants and that they're going to start looking for because even though they're not paying they're going to they're going to run out a parking space presumably I think that's your concern she right right it's just going to move over into residential areas so so it's up to you I mean like if you if you want to wait and see what happens there's the proposal to
do no fees from 4:30 no visitor tags required from 4:30 to um to 7:30 I'm sorry till maintain the school party and then what we're going to maintain the school par dur the school so um so when school when school is in session it will be as business as usual yeah right okay and so once once school is closed so it's at four o' yeah right then and where did where did where
did 10 o'clock come from that's the nighttime visitor that's when you visitors have to vacate or buy buy overnight okay but how did 10 o'clock oh it's our noise ordinance yeah we also had yeah but we also had a conversation on the parking committee some of us would prefer to be 11 not the noise only you it was only no it was myself and Beth I no no okay but wait a minute hold on that was hard wait a minute how because a hotel is opening
it's going to have a bar it's going to have other stuff going on and we want visitors to Main Street and you're telling them to close down at 10 o'clock I don't think so them to down well you're telling people they can't park after 10 o' what's the difference that's they that doesn't that's not reasonable if a restaurant is open until 11:00 or midnight or whatever the case may be you're telling people that they've got to
leave because it's 10 o' and but you want traffic on the street that doesn't make sense if they're parked on these are sense council president these are residential streets with kids and parents who are not going to be able to find parking themselves let meish finish we are the concern that was that was discussed especially from the
chief that people were going to be coming out loud at late hours and waking people up just a normal conversation but a little louder than normal because that's how people you know they're excited right and they're going to their cars and we're talking about overflow in your neighborhood and Spring Street and Bluefield Avenue and Maple Avenue and that the concern is about the noise in the residential streets when we have our noise ordinance in effect at 10 o00 that's where the 10 o'cl came from so we
need to learn how to Pivot in this town and the point of it is you're bringing new stuff in and so you need to learn how to Pivot to adjust to the new things you're bringing in so 10 o' may be fine now because there's nothing here so that's fine it's quiet anyway but at at if I have a restaurant a bar and etc etc open until 11 o' or midnight and you're telling me that I need to be out of Dodge by 10 o'clock where's the reasoning in this not out of Dodge
out of the residential NE then where are they going to park they can park on Main Street they can park in the municipal parking lot but if that's full where are they going to park well then we have a wonderful problem on our hand I I didn't say that I did not say that I I'm just trying to understand the 10:00 I don't think 10 o' is reasonable maybe it should be 11 o' maybe it should be 11 I don't know what the what the number is but I think before we decide on what
it's going to be maybe we need to visit some other towns and ask them what are their ordinance are and what are their experiences with restaurants that close at 11 o' this is well this is this is a a Comm a family community and the goal here is to protect our current residents you know and that for them to be able to go out to a movie and come home and find a parking spot in front of their own homes um and not have to drive around the town until 11:00 p.m. well I think if it comes up to that way then we should readdress it but I just think this
is nonsense but I do think that one of the things instead of us trying to decide this did we go out to the community and ask them what they think well that's what we're doing now okay well then come back with that data and then we can talk about I mean we'll do an ordinance there'll be a public hearing on an ordinance what were we goingon to say coun love it I just say I you know I hope that we have the issue where people are it's so full that the lot for the hotel the municipal lot and the entire Main Street is full I would love to see that and the Justice Center
lot every single lot is full nobody can park wonderful um I think will address it then simply for clarity and and you know consistency of the rules so nobody's like oh I don't know when I can park oh I don't know if I have to move my car 24 hours 24 hours that keeps it simple nobody's confused nobody's ambiguous you can't park on those streets unless you have one you're in favor of the 247 visitor that start yeah we can always modify it if needed but you know for now it keeps it clear
it keeps it simple there's no confusion and I would imagine that is easier to enforce than being like oh cool it's 11:01 time to write a bunch of tickets you know you guys going to be sitting there be like oh what they're waiting for us you know let's talk about that too unless Hees me like I think this will make it clear simple with visitors and residents they don't have to be confused and if we do have this problem where there are thousands of people trying to park in
Clon burrow you know to get to these restaurants and shops we can address it then let me look I we can probably afford a parking bar I agree with you but let's address the issue of um councilman Parker is having a dinner party with 12 guests in six cars yes okay so right now we're proposing a $5 fee for overnight visitor parking do we offer like you just have to you have
to have a residential I mean we could do where you could register extra cars online for free if they're not staying overnight Summit has a system like that where you can I mean you can do it for free I don't know how many they give out but you know if you have people that have to I'm not going to ask my VIs pay $5 this only overnight only overnight I understand but the point of it is is you know because we're going like this doing right now let's stick to the subject the point of it is I talked
about the ordinance that needs to me in my mind we need to do some kind of survey to find out what what people are saying that's the first thing the second thing is is that if we're going to do this I'm I'm not for 24-Hour part but that's just me if everybody else says okay okay we're going to do it I'm okay with that but the reason being is because we don't know what we don't know and why are we putting something in place when we don't know well I can I can say with assurity a year ago I
had people from Spring Street coming to me saying what are you going to do what are you doing to protect us when this hotel opens and I said I've already formed a parking committee and they were like thank God you're being proactive so I can say that with assurity that the people on Spring Street are feeling stressed out already that they're not going to be able to find parking so does this apply to the the public Municipal Lots as well no no it does not it do not so but the people on Spring Street
are going to have a a parking permit that they because we are going to have signs up that says this is reserve parking right I mean this is only only residential parking period right we're going to have no there're going to beow no no no no on Spring Street from Maple to Williams will be the the full residential whatever that Broad Street or Maple or Park Avenue would be but on Spring Street from Bloomfield to Maple that is going to be both commercial for
people to park there and go shopping in the plaza and eat in there plus the residential so they're they've got an issue we're not going to allow the parking committee feels very strongly about not allowing overnight parking in those parking spaces you know if if because those residents need a place don't have a problem don't have a problem with overnight at all do not have a problem with so can I can I stop there
and say all right if we do the 247 across the town visit and we allow any Resident apartment house duplex it doesn't matter to be able to print out as many visitors taxes they want not not overnight not overnight but but that they would be good for you know from 6:00 AM to to
11 pm. and then if somebody's gonna stay from 11: is that what Main Street is 11 to six or Main Street is 1 to six one one one to six okay 1be we say that that if there people are going to stay from one to six that's for $5 but you can have you can have 20 people at your house council president for free until 1:00 in the morning we're looking for a problem that doesn't necessarily exist right now no we're looking to stop a problem before
it starts and be proactive about it that's what we're looking for that's why I established the parking committee it's coming and the chief knows it and Jay trapman knows it our traffic consultant and Beth knows it and my Campion really knows it so our professionals know it but no we want to get it in place before that first apartment is rented so our residents are used to it and and nobody feels like we're taking anything away from them from an apartment complex that they didn't you know that they didn't enjoy in the first
place so so could we do that can we get we'll go back we'll look talk to the software company we'll see if we can put unlimited parking passes that are good from 6:00 amm till 1:00 a.m. 7even days a week I can even have maybe arrange him to come talk to you guys question I think that would be a great idea I think that's good think that'd be a great idea Ive we have all the the 24th would be best if you could come then um you may tomorrow see what
is um 24th is the number one spot and then the next would be the 10th would be okay yeah we may have a presentation on the 24th we're definitely having our tax assister coming in on the 10th so still want me to shoot for that or I would rather have you sho for the 24th okay um okay so we'll get back on that and I think um I think that was it on
the discussion part of this regarding discussion point so we're at two and two for single family homes we at one in one for all apartments at 100 an extra resident would be 100 and right now we're still discussing visitors so um is everybody good with where we are right now okay all right so we'll continue this discussion at the next meeting um
and that is the end of my report so council member report Council sure first of course I want too your comments on on the fire and thank the First Responders and I'm wishing the best of luck to everybody that was affected uh the environmental commission had it first meeting this year we reviewed the site plan for novad llc at six Parker Avenue and stent our comments and recommendations the Shader commission meeting will be on Wednesday at 7M to the Beth Minal we um started working on a tree cutting ordinance last year
but kind of dropped it um it wasn't dropped did we do that oh no Beth MCM our planner she is supposed to find all of the references in our ordinance and put it get it all coordinated but then all the new co- rules hit and she's been working with all municipalities on COA so she's got that project okay I'm sorry I don't want I don't want to address it like that specifically but yeah but that's that's you know so she's got it and and it's supposed to be and of course when weever we get the draft
we'll send it right toiss look at in relation to that um I know we all got some emails about trees and whatnot and and I I talked to the zoning officer we should work on something this year to address the maintenance of trees you know in or near the public right away it wasn't just the last you know email that we got about it it is he he told me that he gets those kinds of messages many times a year um so I was going to try and talk to the sh Tre commission about that this Wednesday and hopefully have
something to report on at next council meeting um regarding that and lastly with the shat Tre commission they're working on a grant for completing our shry inventory so we can get an improved Community Forest management plan and if they get that finished in time we could uh po place a resolution on the agenda for its passage at the next meeting the big consideration with that though is that um if I remember correctly the grant is we up to 25 thou $20,000 it requires a 25% match from the burrow so
that is something that we would have to consider regarding you know budget and everything if we wanted to do that this year um and is that to have a professional come in and do the inventory so it requires if I remember correctly it requires the shade Tre commission to have a professional working uh with us in some manner um but it is to collect a inventory for the entire town of sha trees uh that we be responsible for managing in some way um and when we sent over we had
a resolution last year where we sent over Community Forest management plan which gives us certain protections for liability and whatnot and opens us up to additional funding for sha trees um but they said the state said we needed to have a complete inventory to be able to get that plan approved and we do not so this would be a grant to get us in inventory so then we could finish the community Force management plan
send that over to the njcf um and uh get a pass and who who's who's who's the grant coming from was um I think the MJ community and urban forestry division commission something State Department you know New Jersey state f um so you're talking about a match of I don't know $7,000 in the budget uh something I if we if we apply for
the full $20,000 in funding I 20 or 25,000 I'm sorry sorry 20,000 I'm sorry okay 25 okay but 20,000 with a 25% match which is $5,000 yes I believe so if we request a full funding I don't know if there's options to request less funding if we don't need it all but I will hopefully have more details on that um it's just that the reason I'm mentioning it now is because we're working on it and the deadline is I believe the 27th so
right before February yes right before our next Council me so but I will I will send a note to our CFO yeah um to see you know I think everybody up here is wants a zero increase on our budget um so I I just you know Death By A Thousand Cuts you know you keep adding a lot of little things little yeah little things add up so I'm gonna ask him about this
um Trent if we can't do it yeah can we do it next year revolves that question yeah I can yeah I mean it's this brand I think has been on the books pretty much every year um as far as I've looked into it so yes it so should be an opportunity next year and and um I mean I know that the sh Tre commission wants to do it but I have yet to talk to them about the exact details of it I'll see how if we wanted to get it in and approved this year and get the whole thing going yes we would need to
do it this year but it's still going to exist next year that's my knowledge thank you and lastly as a reminder the apping veran school district has a vote on the 6% budget increase on March 11th um I still have to reach out to her but I wanted to see if we could get superintendent to come here to the next meeting for a brief presentation and to answer any questions anybody on Council might have regarding how this could impact our budget and our res for next year which is the potential presentation I mentioned she is having and
come in so if she can come great but I don't think she be real long you know maybe a 10- minute presentation with questions an answer 20 minutes okay anything else thank you um we discussed the parking committee uh the library continues to remain closed through 2:15 potentially reopening on the 17th that's what they're targeting why they close basement work
mediation yes mediation okay uh and planning board meeting is tomorrow when did they find out about this it's not I thought it was mold we you don't know which one is okayu this one's they've know B for a while yeah it's been yeah they've been trying to get all their DS in a row get the money to do it they got the money from um a request
upon uh a resident passing but then they had to get all the permit all the permits and they had to put it out for bid and it was a whole a whole big thing you know when you're dealing with any of these noxious things whether it's mold whether it's doesn't matter it's all the same and how long has it been closed just for just a yeah just a few days and it's going to be close for another couple weeks no not a couple of weeks the end end of this week hope targeting yeah so targeting 27 to but if there's issues and might anybody who's ever gone
through a remodel or something this CH I have the day you target is not necessarily the day that it happens I have a request could can we make sure we put whatever opening date turns out to be on our website and maybe Facebook page because I know that like the county put out a note saying that it was closed the county library did but I didn't see the the library on our it's on our website now I know I I know I know she saying when it open when when it's when it's planned to be open
you know because that date Adrian's right you know construction changes and that date could shift somebody just has to tell me I will tell you thank you I will tell you I will wel the library director appreciate that okay anything else Council no council president yeah so I think I talked about the FCP board meeting if I didn't I'm just going to do it one okay last so had FCP board
meeting last last um couple weeks ago um several things that are going on um we're shaking it up I think I've talked to each one of you individually to let me know that we're shaking it up um doing Much More Much More Outreach to the businesses and making the business like they're part of this community I think if we don't have businesses we don't have a community um you know I I use the example of there's places in Warren County and there's places people have to drive 45 minutes to get
to the nearest store or the nearest whatever and there's not a lot of choices so we need to respect our business um owners and make feel like they're a part of the community I I am personally going to be and I I'm enlisting C to do this as well um we actually have I asked FCP for a entire list of all the businesses with contact information in throughout the bur I just received that today um and I'm
going to go through it and uh get it planned so that we can do an Outreach to all the businesses I think we personally need to go in let them know we exist let them know that we're on their side see what they need see what they're see what what's working for them what's not working for them let's them know what's happening speaking of which um um and I'm also working very very closely with both the president of FCP and the executive director of the FCP so um
there's I've got you know we're real hyperfocused on this um the other speaking of which I've asked FCP and the hus to get together talk about what's going to happen as in terms of what the Outreach is going to look like um when courthouse is ready to open because I think everybody needs to be a lock step there needs to be bounce backs for one another so that you know you come here you
get a ticket to go here you get a get a coupon to go there whatever the case may be but I want them to talk I want them to actually sit down and talk communication is a wonderful thing um speaking of that um I do remember saying in the last council meeting that I actually spoke with um Jeremy and I actually spoke with met with Jack hus um to talk about rules and here's what we need and things like that and get everybody focused in a
little bit I did tell everybody that one of the things I wanted them to do was to my Campion my Campion my Campion my Campion I'm happy to report that um cus reached out to my Campion and they're meeting by-weekly I actually went to one of their meetings last week and it was a matter of a 20 minute meeting and everything was resolved everything I I was just it it
it couldn't have gone better um we also they we also had a meeting with Beth because we said that we were going to have monthly meetings again over communicating over communicating over communicating with them uh with hus uh with Jack Jr and Keith and Jeremy who else um Jack um the architect um just to talk about monthly meetings but also one of things that we did find out is shipo was approved fully approved they approved everything um apparently you got
a letter from them or got something from shipo no bety driver did okay okay well then we need I told him to make sure that they just don't count on that to send it to you no matter what just even if you got it before they sent me a copy of it okay I did not get okay well we got it we got it it's approved that's the big thing um also the the host uh Spring Street and parking um changes they are fundamentally uh on board with
that they just want to check with the engineer to make sure that that it's V that's all they want to do yeah but they're they're ready to yes everybody's in agreement with it um they just want before they give the final stamp they just they were sending they sent something up to the engineer and we should we should hear back from that like immediately um the question becomes who's going to do the design of that and so I think one of the things that we want to do is push that to let them do
the design of it um that I talked to be and that's what be wants recommends as well is let let them do the design of it mean the civil engineer yes ma'am um so thank you and um you know again that's justest nobody's talked about this for whatever the case may be on this um and Beth is actually putting together a a punch list which the committee the uh Redevelopment committee and along with um Jim Fon will sit down
with her and go over that we didn't do any of that at this meeting it wasn't about that it was just about it when we give the punch list how's it goingon to how's it going to be executed how it's going to be reported on how again how is this all going to happen goal is to get this done by the by sometime in July a yes punch list when you say that what is that is that items that must be completed before open is that well it
could be items that um that are outstanding items that somebody that that maybe we don't agree on or they changed this the design or something like that um and or they had recommendations and then this didn't bring them up or whatever the case may okay so it's all those things it's just a list of things that that um and some of them could be worked out others may have a little bit more of a challenge but that's not that's not our purview our purview is really to get
the communication on a monthly basis going and on a bi-weekly basis going because it's just and everybody agreed at the table that this was the best thing that could happen because people are beginning to talk everybody's involved this is is what um this is where I was trying to go with it so that's um that's what I have um yeah that's it thank you thank you uh ccan hello uh don't have really too much to report other than um went to a Mee farming
house uh really uh great to meet everybody there and excited to work with them uh this year um yeah I really don't have too much to say but also everything that happened on Saturday I believe it was I wasn't in town I didn't see until Sunday morning on Facebook about the house I'm sorry to hear about that and you know I'm just wishing good luck on them as well what's Happ thank you Council vice president long hi good evening I got a bucket load
of stuff here try to move quick uh oh yeah so the office of emergency management would like to the governing body and the public to know that the coordinated response by our bur's Emergency Services uh police fire and rescue uh to to the recent fire on Main uh exemplified outstanding teamwork and professionalism Public Safety teams not only manag the incident effectively but also provideed vital support to the effective vs the office uh would
also like to extend sincere gratitude and some of this might be repeated from what the mayor had said earlier uh thanks to the assist from the ranton Township Fire Company Clinton Fire Department South Branch Emergency Services Quaker toown EMS White House Rescue Squad Quaker toown fire company H County Office of Emergency Management and the Amo Valley ambulance schore it's worth saying it twice it's okay there you go everybody did spectacular job uh the natural Weather Service has forecasted winter storms for our area over the coming
week that includes Tuesday and Wednesday and again at the end of the week into the weekend uh the primary impacts include heavy snowfall icy road conditions of potential power adages uh from strong winds residents are advised to prepare accordingly monitor weather updates and ex has caution while traveling fire department uh new fire truck was inspected last week some minor tweaks and additions but they are pretty much taken care of the truck should be delivered and in service by the end of this month or early March a
fire department meeting tomorrow night um and the volunteer fire department is always looking for volunteers so if you're look for a way to serve your community uh help out be a hero uh you too can wear the fire furn cross contact the local Department um Squad news a few things uh some data primarily I want to share Rescue Squad responded in January to 297 R calls during that that time uh
6% higher than the previous year January calls uh for just points of comparison uh 47 of those calls were in flamington burrow uh multiple outside of the outside of R Township um and even extending uh I think one call in Somerset during January Rescue Squad responded to three serious motor vehicle crashes that required extrication operations to free patients the squad also responded to several fire ha materials BS newer members participated in tour and orientation of the
H County 911 Communication Center while the monthly EMS uh drill focused on the Lucas CPR device and patient moving equipment like the striker stairchair re stretcher Inferno or Orthopedic scoop stretcher don't ask me what they look like but that's sure they were the Rescue Services Unit participated in an 8- hour fulls scale exercise as part of the Hun County Technical rescue teams quarterly exercise and also conducted uh training on ice rescue techniques
and Equipment Police Department uh for January for January I'm sorry 2025 uh 31 criminal investigations uh and 11 arrests that's in that month uh and and just criminal investigations are continuous it's not like every month there's there's 31 is whatever you know 50 the next month it's just continuing or reducing so it's that's not a fixed number um just some things some special things here speed enforcement very important police departments has uh continued
its proactive response to to speeding complaints across town uh Patrol officers have been conducting additional station a radar posts and completing speed surveys on all streets for January they conducted 78 surveys observing 2983 vehicles of these observed 44 Vehicles were stopped for speeding of the driver stopped 31 were issued summonses for speeding community policing uh is a lot it's a lot so let me hit hit some touch points here I'm loving this to the you
know I'm loving this you go Mr President the police department is excited to plan another year of community outreach building on the success of several great programs and Partnerships with local organizations and residents uh police departments had the privilege to work alongside some fantastic groups and they are eager to continue engaging this year 2025 so from some highlights from 2024 is a three-part series with the United Way aim to educating Hispanic community on the role of the police and explaining various topics such as types of 901 emergencies traffic accidents Safe Streets
traffic stops traffic laws DWI domestic violence cyber crime and introduced the K9 Officer and the dogs this three-month program was a huge success um they had uh at the at sherp color with a cop event K9 demonstrations the the yearly kickball game versus the explorers who won this past year uh engaging with residents on New York Avenue to discuss Community issues including proper use of 911 security
cameras uh and various other things uh safety event Hunter Hills apartments with games activities and educational booths from local resources such as uh helping hand go hun in United Way and hun in drug prevention connected local Scout groups um holding coffee with the cops uh events partnering with the Salvation Army youth group on various programs educating the community through their Herman uh the Herman cap program focus on scams and how to protect on
abroad all right here's some good news Awards we have some awards that were given out um to our to some of our very deserving officers on a second all right so the department has established an awards and recognition program the program designed to recognize officers for performance above and beyond their normal Duty and responsibility all officers uh recently uh re recognized I'm sorry all these officers are recognized at a recent
department meeting so Officer Nick SBA received the police star which honors officers who have distinguished themselves either by acts of Bravery or by performing with exceptional tactics and judgment in stressful situations uh civa was recognized for his performance during a critical incident uh it was a volatile situation and he was acting decisively and using less than lethal he deployed the rounds causing the individual to drop the weapon saliva continued thinking quickly and calm Under Pressure the individual was
taken into custody without further incident averting a potentially dangerous outcome officer jaelle Kino was awarded the community service award community service is awarded uh is awarded for an act which demonstrates Devotion to community service Andor uh an idea implemented that improves conditions within a community officer aino was the one responsible for the community the the the three-part series uh educating the Hispanic uh uh population and Community through her involvement in
various programs events and initiatives throughout 2024 officer aino played a vital role in bridging gaps and ensuring that everyone felt heard and valued her dedication to creating an inclusive environment has had a lasting impact strengthening Community ties and enhancing the overall sense of and support and finally officer Frank Emanuel got the distinguished service medal officer Emanuel was called to a critical incident involving a motor vehicle crash in r in Township where his quick thinking composure under pressure and decisive actions were instrumental
in managing the situation effectively and um it sounded I I heard about the uh the incident it sounded like he just took on a very um strong leadership role and earn his service medal um police construction I'm going to give more of these updates uh moving forward construction resumed as of January 20th bathroom off the lobby was sheetrocked and the doorway was cut in plumbing work and cutouts are taking place
on the lower floor and finally a message to the community the department encourages the community to remain Vigilant and proactive in maintaining safety if you witness a crime of progress notice something suspicious or see someone who may need police or medical assistance it's important to immediately call 901 reporting these incidents while they are happening helps ensure a timely response and enhances the safety of everyone in the area and as my report thank you thank you any comments
questions so so on the only thing I will say is um you know Jerry good job at the at putting those Awards in I know we talked about that last year and set up so just everybody knows in the audience um this guy has done a complete 180 with the police department and putting in higher standards and also um community policing was one of the biggest things I ran on last year and he's actually done a
good job at implementing that by reaching out to the entire community no matter where you are no matter where you live no matter who you are he's done a really good job at that um and I'm really really proud the fact that you are recognizing your your officers and having the meetings in the whole bit so again I take my hat off to you anomal job it's great to hear that it's still continuing because that was one of my concerns and stepping down is
making sure that continues so thank you so so I do have one other question I know that there um has been some issues with um um people overdosing in the library and some and some some people walking down the street getting arrest and can you just kind of talk to that a little bit because I think everybody needs to yeah I mean
it it was kind of daunting and and I've heard some comments from on the 24th of uh January we had an individual over yeah you're not sorry I'm a little congested oh um we had a um an incident with the individual overdosing in the library bathroom uh Patrol arrived they ended up nanning the person uh the person was uh tied
in with the warming Center prior um apparently um potentially an issue there I had Brian speak with Susan and U have the other arrangements made for that individual um but we've had a few other incidents of the people trying part doors and everything coming from that location from the warming s right next to the library the person who who was involved in the over he
went into the men's room luckily he was found by an adult not yeah the the the the library staff said he was in there for a period of time popped her head and saw that was he a bur resident no that that person went on and so how did he like the police from another other are supposed to come hon off top of my head I don't know how he got to that to the warming Center if it was by police or
or self-initiated or um or how many nights he stayed there prior what other things are don't we know about because I'm just concerned about because I just heard what else don't we know about uh going on just That's the basis of it of the two major incidents of uh coming from there as far as what we're receiving calls on Brian you have any additional no it's generally that and trespassing complaints and things of that nature
into Clos businesses uming daytime hours say that again so trespassing in closed businesses or um unwanted guests in open businesses during daytime hours when the one center is closed again are these lington burrow it's it's a mix of of individuals it's it's hard to gauge what exactly is a plumton bur resident at this point based on the information we being given what does that mean um So based on how data collection
is being done um the the staff from the warming Center and or the county collect data based on where the person identifies where they're from or where their last known address address is based on what they're telling you um so if you've been here for 3 months and came from some other location you can be identified as a fluming bur resident in three months yeah the county
discern as as the seven of us up up here now we have 25,000 constituents who don't know they don't vote for us and don't live in Clemington bar um does the county discern between the difference between R and coun no it's whatever Flemington add encompasses so of the of the numbers that we get if if they provide an ID to the to the warming Center and I know Miss LAX is here tonight M LAX is here tonight so she can maybe speak to
that better but um you know if the ID says Flemington New Jersey that's most likely what's getting put down on on the uh on their Data Tracking so they assume that the pingon New Jersey means fingon Burl it just the the list we get just says where are you from and it says Flemington Glen Gardner Hampton just like 25% of the people who came for free water and thought that they were on our water system and they weren't even on our water system I believe the the Clemington postal covers
five municipalities seven okay interesting thank you anything else for the chiefer the counc I I have one question real quick I might have just completely lost over it did you mention how the uh new stop signs are going I did not the new stop signs are up I saw two officers with two different Vehicles pulled over today we're still uh warning people I yeah we are we're still the most part um unless it's really egreg there
been no crashes so I've seen a lot I've seen a lot of rolling I've seen a lot of uh right turns on mine heading to park a lot of rolling stops a lot but I I also have seen your cops there oh yeah yeah like giving people warnings now out there and eventually we'll have to uh uh go into issuing S one additional question on that um and honestly after thinking about it a little bit I don't I don't even know where exactly you would put them on
the street but I noticed we weren't like advertising it using the LED signage or anything like that um it was uh uh one the weather it's poor conditions two I have one down uh that we need to get The Message Board back up and running and you're right like that whole area is I don't even know where you would put it on the street hly it would be it would be tough so yeah we you know it's it's working you know they're they're pretty uh they're out there they're very red and
shiny new you know you really look great and hopefully it's just going to make it all safer on M Street and I will say I already crossed the street gone to Alchemy the other day and I felt more comfortable that was nice great great you're yeah I'm G hang around session all right councilwoman angelart okay thank you um I want to start of course
with reiterate what everybody else has said I know I'm last but it can't be repeated enough thank you to all the First Responders from Saturday um I do want to clarify from what I understand there's actually three gof funding set up right now one for each um uh I want to say family because there's two there's there's a there was one uh gentleman and his family member on one side there
was also a roommate so there's two GoFundMe for for two um uh uh households that were uh affected as well as on the left side of the twins so there's three gofund Mees for three households for lack of better word that were um completely affected by that um fire so I do want to clarify that please um me and donate generously if you are able um I also want to put a shout out to the DPW because in
addition to assisting and helping the First Responders all afternoon with their uh work on the fire the DPW then went out hours later and worked all through the night through a really bad ice storm so so um they need to be commended that they were on double duty that day um my family just in a person has lost of of my uncle in a he was a captain um in Patterson New Jersey in a fire fighting fire
and I just am so grateful for the First Responders who put their lives on the line and literally ran into a burning building to save people um it was really really grateful for that um I do want uh to follow up I wanted just thank the Sam fling house for inviting the whole Council and mayor to their winter kickoff event I really enjoyed um connecting with everybody again um and the
mayor um was there as well of course Brandon was there as bar on um we already talked about the parking committee um and last but not least is um the mayor had assigned me um and I thank her for that for the to kind of reinvigorate the film ready program um I spoke to um mayor um Kovac uh who happens to be the mayor of Clinton it also happens to sit on the New Jersey film commission so I actually
spoke to her um over the weekend and then once uh prior um sent some messages back and forth and then also spoke to Tony and he's going to be hooking me up with uh members of the FCP that had um started this process already so we can kind of see where we are in the process and move forward to uh finalize it so that we are a film ready municipality excellent thank you you're welcome anything else no that's it okay thank you very much uh we're up for public comments
um before we start I'm gonna because there's a lot of people in here um and I think on most of them are on two topics I'm G to set some parameters three minutes um I'm going to start with people from West Road uh minutes need 30 seconds 30 seconds okay I need your name and address for the record West I just want to thank the council for moving forward with our situation and really really appreciate it look forward to next meeting to see what we come up with on the
resolution thank you anybody else from what's see none anybody here not regarding the warming Center you okay anything your name and address to the record guys hitron sure yes you need to use the microphone please may I uh have my president join me from the na gam go together I
need to again your name record yep it's guy Citron my full address or just sure 33 Fairmount Road West Califon Calon thank you but I technically live in t fairy we have a similar zip code thing going on right yeah all right and I am Brad Cowell continue the 61 rustic Trail Lon we no yes I know
Myster for all these years I I've had this similar confusion I've never confused okay you got it so first of all uh this is the first time I I'm the newly elected president of The 100 County NAACP congratulations thank you all right and I'd like to thank you um Council and mayor for your past support with the FCP because of your support last year we were able to put on a phenomenal black history celebration all
right and I mean it's it was raved about George eeko the owner of stangle said it was the I say the cultural moment of the year for him and this year we're doing the same thing it's going to be Sunday February 23rd 2 to 5: p.m. and uh with your support and the the FCP again who's providing us funding for the the vendors because we're promoting the local restaurants uh misore uh beastro 55 all
right and the kombucha bar um they're going to be giving away free samples of food to Residents I believe uh we've had your poster outside for several weeks yes so thank you yeah we do so thank you all right um so um we're here I I have prepared remarks and um three minutes I'm sorry You' already used at least a minute use a minute so to me I can yeah um basically um what what's wonderful about uh downtown area
is a community and this community is being revitalized by The Immigrant population all right they're they're opening up restaurants they're feeding us they're um small business owners they're taking care of our houses doing destruction um manicuring our DB's yards I'm what have you and it's it's a shame what's What U what we're seeing in the news and what's going on that these people are in fear of the um termination
of their American dream and and as the NAACP we are here to support everybody's um equal rights and and ability to access be American dream so with that said our political action committee chairperson gu catrone has has prepared a resolution that we hope you adopt to help protect their rights but gu why don't you uh let
me just take that back one step we're not here to ask you to adopt this resolution in fact echoing uh the sentiment of council president Parker it was more to just begin a communication to have an honest conversation I wanted to show this Council because members were curious what we had submitted to the County government so I have that here this is the resolution and without getting into the the specifics we wanted the
County government to formally acknowledge the fact that unconstitutional ice raids had in fact happened in the city of newor and we had the honorable mayor Mr RZ Baraka come and testify to that fact with us at the last County government meeting and we wanted the County government to respond using this resolution passing it as a recommitment to protect our
constitutional right to not be searched or seized without warrant which is our Fourth Amendment right and in reflection and this is me giving you my very honest human perspective I'm personally not sure if this goes far enough and in fact I think we might have to go back to the county with something a little languaged differently to make it clear that we
are in fact in a time of constitutional crisis our new president has signaled that various amendments are no longer going to be protected including our First Amendment right to read and at the local level it is my belief that because that abdication of American values has occurred at the top it is now incumbent on every local government from Municipal to County and state to reaffirm and recommit
to our American values and to promise to protect us so out of transparency out of good faith and out of a true very human sense of not knowing where we go from here I wanted to submit this resolution to your Council so that you may contemplate it because this is now out of my hands why don't you give it to our clerk yes ma'am and U the council so wishes we'll put it on the next me that is your
right thank you thank you that's all I have how you do so just briefly yes absolutely no I'm sorry I I this your time is very pass T you're doing great work for the bur the county it's unclear what they want to do with it oh so they did not take action they did not take action we're leaving it there I have nothing really further to say on that
right thank you thank you anybody else here thanks not anybody online about see nobody's hands up again I will invite anybody up from the war Center I'm going to again Take My Prerogative and say if you are a Flemington burrow resident you get to go first nobody
from Clemington bur okay you get three minutes I need your name and your address good evening my name is kathle night and I've been a resident of lemington burrow for 11 years I live at seven Abbot Court I'm a member of the Flemington Presbyterian Church I'm sitting here in front of
you uh to urge the burrow Council to reconsider your action to issue a zoning violations to the help line the Hun help line and requesting them to take down their CS located in their Waring Center when I heard this news last Sunday during our worship service it pierced my heart and soul before I retired to Flemington I served for many years as
a family nurse practitioner and Community Health I am a firsthand witness to the physical scars that are frequently left on the body of someone who has endured the rigors of homelessness hands arms feet legs backs actually the whole body takes a downward spiral when a person is
navigating through homelessness more than anything they need caring and respect decent nourishment and adequate rest with their feet up off the floor when I heard that the cops were being were at were being being taken down and the guests at the warming Center would be forced to sit in a chair all night I thought that was clearly an inhumane treatment of our neighbors our sisters and brothers who are living on the same piece of the
earth that you and me are living in nobody wants to be homeless life circumstances have led them to the situation they are all looking for Solutions and everyone wants a warm safe place to be for the past four years hun hel line has safely opened their warming Center when the outside temperature has been declared cold blue their guests have been treated with
dignity and respect and are allowed to rest in warm surroundings of the center overnight until the morning when they leave I'm asking the burrow council tonight to open your hearts and and allow this very basic and simple gesture of kindness and compassion to continue Comfort on a cut for a weary neighbor on a cold night thank you thank you name um Mr Chini do you um
will you address this on behalf of the council just mayor um obviously uh summons have summons have been issued here the matter is pending before the um municipal court so I would just caution the council not to Prejudice those proceedings that means we can't comment what he just says means we cannot comment okay okay anybody else from the burough of Flemington then
anybody good evening my name is Don Drews Dr Wes I live at 26 Samuel Drive could say Flemington but it's really rare in um I'm here tonight to show support for hun and helpline for the past four years hun and helpline has been operating a warming Center called the next door through a contract with the Hunton County Office of Emergency Management hun County OEM has the responsibility to
issue code blue alerts when the National Weather Service predicts conditions will be in the county for the next 24 to 48 hours will reach 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower or the wind chill will be 0 de or less for a period of 2 hours or more you can tell these guidelines make sense especially given the cold temperatures that we've had the last few months the warming Center provides overnight accommodation a camping
cot with a thin matri from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. when the code glot events are triggered by o an on-site 100 helpline supervisor screens the residents and collect the Waring accomodation and is onsite at all times staff works with the guests to help them understand and access other wraparound services that are available from hunen help line and other social service agencies in hunon County a strong working relationship exists
between hunon heal line and the Flemington Police Department as well well as other social services agencies in hunon County the burrow and other nonprofits before being committed to stay there guests are vetted and must agree to comply with the facilities rules and regulations the space provides basic needs in a clean and inviting setting bathroom sitting area an opportunity to charge your cell phone and get a shower every few days
a sleeping room contains three Cs and have no doors guests sleep in their clothing on CS with a blanket and a pillow before leaving in the morning very simple basic Refreshments such as a protein bar or cere Cal packets along with an option for one coffee or tea is provided these are basic human needs typically there are between three and seven guests staying at the warming Center the majority of the whom have been staying
in flamington area for years they may not have credentials that say Flemington burrow but they've been here and have been around your community for extended period of time on January 27 line received a letter from the burrow of property maintenance code enforcement directing them to remove beds Cs and curtains used for guests during the the curtains which were used for during codu emergencies uh by February 28th at the time of the receipt of the
letter the bedrooms did include curtains for separating the Cs as per 100 in County Health Department regulations in place during covid these curtains have been remove removed and the room simply contain three cuts unfortunately the specific zoning site citation in the letter cited section 1673 B can't be found in the Burrow's codes the facility is in the downtown business district and the code blue shelter falls under a permitted use code in the zoning
permitted use principal use numbers 37 individual and Family Services which is SIC code 8322 US Department of Labor definition for 83 22 includes the operation of Emergency Shelters and a whole host of other counseling and Outreach Services H help help line would appre sorry you have to wrap it up I will appreciate additional information on specific violation
they're being cited for as a as the reference letter seems erroneous encourage the buau to support 100 help line to provide this critically important service to your community members thank you thank you Mr I just want to make one comment there is a different under the definition of an emergency felter and a woman Center and that's all I'm going to say anybody else from the public a Flemington resident
okay still a Flemington bro resident I am you could to come up earlier okay I missed my time that's all right uh jha 61 M Street clington bur um I'm also here about the warming Center and um I am understanding of the situation that led to this violation and that you know someone overdosing in our public uh library is not a situation that we want in our community however I find um the fact that we are taking away CS from people who have nowhere else to go to
be cruel a cruel punishment I don't think there's anything else to say about that um you know I invite you then to sit in a chair all night and try to sleep and then try to go out in the in the day and do your job and do your life after sitting in a chair all night and getting whatever sleep that you can that or you can spend an evening outside and do the same um because those those are the two options you are presenting with people um I have spent a good amount of time with people who happen to be homeless um when
I grew up in the church we did a lot of going to the food pantry going to uh soup kitchens and you know sitting eating speaking with these people um I've worked with a family promise before and again I found the most striking thing is that all those people are just people too um they're not much different than you they're not much different than me um they deserve a place to sit and sleep and be comfortable and to have the minimum of privacy um which even with a curtain can
you imagine if your only privacy was a little piece of cloth for the entire night um again I understand the situation was not ideal that led to this but I think that this is completely inappropriate um and Cru punishment for those who are the most needy in our community our on house neighbors are still our neighbors thank you anybody
else evening mayor council U my name is William Rudnick um I live at five cotwell Lane Warren New Jersey Jersey I am a trustee on the board of hund helpline I'm also a lawyer at garton kefir I had reached out to uh Council corini uh to ask about the ordinance violation because I couldn't find it
nobody in my office could find the ordinance that was cited uh I I'm waiting for a response uh as to what the actual ordinance violation is um I grew up in Flemington I went to school right down the street here for middle school I went to hun in Central High School so I'm certainly very familiar with the area I've practiced law in hunterton county for over 30 years
now um homelessness has been a problem since I was a kid there have been homeless people in Flemington at least since that time we moved here in 1979 there were homeless people at the time we all knew who they were there weren't a lot but there were homeless people in Flemington that is not a problem that is ever going to go away these people need care
they have mental health issues some of them there's a reason they're homeless they need care it's interesting to me that um this was not an issue for the last four years no fire code violations there were no complaints now all of the sudden there's this issue that happens not in the warming Center at the library the
individual could have been coming from anywhere so I'm not sure how the home the warming Center is at fault for that but certainly to take away the Cs as you've heard from other people is is certainly cruel uh punishment to have somebody who just wants to sleep inside because it is below freezing outside it's the only time the warming center is open it's
not open all the time it's not a shelter it's a warming center it's only open during code blue that's the only time it's open these are people who it's no wonder if the warming Center is not open homeless people are look trying car doors they need somewhere to stay when it gets cold they can't stay outside that's the purpose of the
warming Center and only when there's a Code Blue I need to wrap it up please I thank uh the mayor and the council for your consideration regarding this matter and I wait Council corini to get back to me with uh the actual violation here and and as far as I know H help line is not aware of a summons that's pending in Municipal Court thank you anybody else may I can
get back to Mr R right now um we can i' refer him to section 1-5 code as to the violation and I've already provided him the zoning violation reference as well I'm sorry I can't hear you I have you just will will a summons with the correct code be provided I'm working with a zoning officer mayor knows that
um I assume so okay because at this point in time one has not been provided so my advice to my board is there has been no notice of violation at this point in time because the ordinance that cited does not exist and it wasn't signed by the zoning officer we're not going to argue this this is not a court
I understand anybody else from the public obviously I might as well talk Susan LX come up the microphone please little incapacitating as some of our guests are Susan L CEO H helpl line to Brian's points obviously you can ask me any questions that go on at the warming
Center I'll simply say this very briefly uh we vet our people we have not attracted people to this burrow uh due to the warming Center again we haven't had any complaints from anyone for 4 years Ryan would have told me if there was a particular problem the fire marshal would have said so as well what all I'm asking tonight is what I've been asking since I heard that some of you were against the warninger is to please come
have a meeting with us face to face not through the county let us know your concerns let us answer those concerns and actually see the operation there okay I'll tell you my guests are given a choice when there's a behavior problem you want us to call the police or do you want us to call Susan they opt for the police it's a tight ship there I think that we could lay your fears if
you just come as I have invited each and every one of you over the past year and more and you have not come you have not even answered my emails this this is something for the burrow for the residents for the entire County and it could be done properly so that you don't have people when that hotel uh is finally finished who are wandering the streets we take them off
the streets which is why the police bring them there they don't want them to die on the streets they don't want them to have issues yes we have folks with mental health issues as everyone in this room can say they know somebody if not themselves has do we deal with that yes we do do we call the police when somebody is in trouble yes we do but sit down with us find out exactly what goes on there find out what our operations
are find out what becomes a resident in hun and County which is not what we have decided it's what we are told to do through the county through Services through social services please come have a conversation tell us your concerns and let us come to an understanding to provide a service that is needed not just in in the burrow but everywhere in this country it is
a problem but wouldn't you rather them to be off the street and just one last thing because I love my guests half of them have jobs here in the burrow at a time time when people are finding it difficult to hire people every year we've had at least one person that we have helped to get off the street permanently don't you want that to happen we can reduce homelessness maybe just one by one
every year but at least that's something please answer my emails come to the center let's have a meeting and find out what really is happening here the gentlemen who ow d we know him for two years now the police know him I know where he came from we have extensive data to tell you anything you need to know but you won't know anything you'll make a decision without
giving us the opportunity to discuss it we're on your side we want the best for the residents of the burrow from the county whether or not they have issues we've had people who have been displaced by fire who had no place to go and we're open to them I implore you to please come and meet with us thank you thank you Mr by the way I just want to thank you for your help when we had the water boil advisor
absolutely you know you know Mara 56 years this year I know it's a resolution seriously we would do anything Brian calls me Jerry calls me whatever you need whatever you need this is another issue that needs to be resolved for the sake of everybody and I hope you come and talk to me directly thank you you're pending a zoning violation so I really legally cannot so well we don't have a zoning
violation any happy to respond to that but I don't have one anybody else from the public not anybody online y that a hand up Carla yep I can't see who it is Conor okay you love you in Connor you got it thank you you could go hello hello my name is Conor ainson 20 Pennsylvania Avenue I just have a quick question regarding the global Agway project it seems like it's been about two years
since any not any excuse me any notification has come through about it regarding from you or the planning board what's the status of it it just it just it seems like it's just a abandoned nothing's happening and I'd like to you both both of the redevelopers are working with the Department of Environmental Protection um while they were you know sitting around working on designs or drawings or whatever the state of New Jersey through the federal government changed the storm
water rules and regulations of the state so uh the one project over the old agur building which had been approved by the planning board but did not have an agreement with Council um they cannot build what they were approved for because part of their buildings were in the FL plane that are now illegal to build in and the other project where the guitar boy building is as it's known familiarly um what had been working on a really great design for the council that
the council was working with and then they went to the D and the D said yeah you can't do that so everybody's back um at the design board trying to figure out what they can put on these properties that don't encroach into the flood planes that will both work for the bureau as well as financially for them so that's where they are okay thank you ma'am you're very welcome anybody else being none back
on the agenda minutes motion we good somebody remove okay uh can I have a motion to accept the reor minut of January 6 202 moov long seconded all in favor
I consent agenda number 10 uh resolution 2025 d37 resolution approving Don department number two resolution 2025 38 resolution approving refund for the Redemption of sales certificate on block 35 block 63 number three resolution 2025 39 resolution approving a refund for the Redemption of sales s certificate on block 35 block 56 resolution 20254 resolution approving the pl B
yard sale for May 3rd and 4th 2025 and November 1st and 2nd 2025 does anybody want any of these items removed for a separate vote see n have a motion please on the move is there a second Sor a second uh roll call please uh councilman Arius yes councilwoman Englehart yes councilwoman faora yes councilman L yes Council vice president long yes and council president Parker yes introduction of ordinances we have three to
be introduced tonight ordinance 2025-the remove the obsolute reference to election districts found parentheses by councilman let it add section 2-3 what but the TR all TR there uh can I have a motion to introduce absolutely is there a second absolutely will all right roll call please councilman Arius yes councilwoman
Englehart yes councilwoman thara yes councilman leit yes Council vice president long yes and council president yes okay public hearing February 24th uh ordinance
February 24th ordinance 20254 an ordinance amending chapter 7A traffic schedule to create weight restrictions for Bluefield Avenue between Spring Street and William Street and Spring Street between Maple Avenue BR Street and Broad Street that's
actually not correct it should be blue wait Bluefield Avenue between spring and William no that's right string between wait no wait it's Bloomfield I'm sor Chris it's Bluefield Avenue Bluefield Avenue between spring and Broad Bluefield between spring and Broad and spring between Maple and William
so the two terminous streets are switched yes broad should be William should be Broad and Broad should be William okay this probably you can just it as amended okay all right uh can I have a motion please yeah sure okay sure is there a second is there a second uh roll call please councilman AR yes councilwoman angelart
yes Council woman farara yes councilman lit yes Council vice president long yes and council president Parker yes also public hearing February 24th uh we have one public theight ordinance 20251 in ordinance amending chapters 1 and 11 of the municipal code to update references to forms and reservations that is again the um water and sewer reservation form which is a temporary regist res reservation form uh I have
a motion to open up the to the public Sor I'll open is there a second second the hearing is now open to the public anybody from the public wishing to speak on this ordinance please raise your hand online or forward to the microphone everybody left seeing none can I have a motion to close the uh hearing to the public move is there a second second all in favor I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20251 is there a
second Li second any discussion roll call please Aris yes councilwoman anglehart yes councilwoman yes councilman L yes yes Council vice president long yes and council president Parker yes regular agenda number n resolution 2025 41 resolution approving the hiring of Matthew press and the DPW employee I have a motion to approve move is there a second sorry was second any discussion roll
call I'm sorry I said congr roll call please councilman Mar uh yes councilwoman Englehart yes councilwoman faoro yes councilman L yes vice president La yes council president Parker yes resolution 20242 resolution authorizing the contract for sewer video work from National water main nte nte for the amount of
$151,300 again this is um coming from AR money and it is U being required by the EPA on the buau can I have a motion to approve there a second any discussion roll call please Council myi yes councilwoman Englehart yes councilwoman farara yes councilman L yes Council vice president long yes and Council pres sorry thank you resolution
2025 43 resolution calling for the F passage of the New Jersey immigrant trust act uh s 3672 a 4987 can I have a motion please is there a second par second any discussion would you guys like a brief explanation what exactly this is is this what he was talking about this is something different so simply this is a resolution to request that our state senator assembly members and Governor pass the Immigrant trust act Senator wicker is already a sponsor
of the Senate version of this fill and just to briefly explain what it does uh it codifies the existing 2018 2019 immigrant trust directive from the prior attorney general which directed all state law enforcement including F burs to do not collect a report immigration status unless mandated by warrant the bill also extends the mandate to All State agencies and quote the ACLU it ensures that local resources are used to support local priorities rather than fund Federal immigration enforcement protects personal information by limiting the circumstances under which public agencies can collect information
related to immigration status requires Public Schools Healthcare facilities libraries and shelters to adopt model policy to help people feel safer seeking the Public Services to which they are eligible forid state and local law enfor from cooperating with Federal immigration authorities when doing so is voluntary under state law eliminates carv outs in the New Jersey attorney general's immigrant trust directive that Deni the same protections to immigrants entangled in the criminal legal system and the comprehensive reported uh protections reported by this bill are critical for empowering new jerseyans to live their lives without fear
have routine interactions with state and local govern government being registering for healthare reporting wage theft or contacting law enforcement could lead to permanent separation from their loved ones through immigration tension and deportation and just for for the record I got this from Madison bur they passed it in December 9th and I want to thank the bur of Madison and their attorney for rating this presumably and uh Atlantic City had the same exact resolution on their agenda on January 29th and Morristown passed a similar resolution as well as well as others that I could not and that
is that is the current attorney general's directive to all police departments in the state of New Jersey they've been operating for under for the last six or seven years yes so correct this would this would essentially codify and enhance those protections yes yes I also want to add I just want to thank um councilman uh JY long for actually bringing this to our attention a full two weeks ago um so I was really happy to see that we were
moved forward on this so quickly and got it on our agenda for tonight so I want to thank uh Jeremy as well then the chief TI me off to well then we need to then we need to pass that that than up which we did which I had done last time but this is good thank you thank you all that are involved in this call put on the agenda uh councilman Aras oh yes councilwoman Englehart yes councilwoman farara yes councilman LoveIt yes Council
vice president long yes and council president Parker yes your resolution 20244 resolution authorizing the purchase of everbridge nixel reverse 911 system everbridge nte with the amount of 50 $400 I thought you had a prepay three years no that's one one time 5400 this year and then 5,000 year two 5,000 year three okay so it's not for your prepaid contct but yeah the initial mistake I made was I I thought it was represented
as 5400 for the three years okay so that's why we wrap back around all right that's one you only three years all right can I have a motion to approve move is there a second second Sor any discussion no roll please Council yes Council yes counc yes councilman L yes Council vice president long yes and council president Parker yes uh we have no work session though I
see Bill Hans on the online and uh I was actually going to reach out to Bill to see when he wanted to talk budgeted a work session whether it would be I know we don't have the assessments yet from the county and from Ed uh CER one for you to finalize the budget bill so um I don't know if you're looking at much 10 or to possibly the 24th wait hold on let me put him as a
panelist to take yourself off mute yeah I'm mute yourself you want to talk to this good evening good evening even work session on the budget on the 10th or the 24th or the 24th of March what are you looking at as far as finalizing numbers um well I I hope to have the numbers
you know the budget all set for I would say probably by next week um you know preliminary draft of it but I won't be able to you know give tax impact or anything until I have the numbers from the assessor coming in on the 10th to talk about the assessment so um I assume he's gonna have it all before that do you think the 10th is a good date to do a work session on the budget yeah that's
fine are and you're available to come in yeah okay we'll put it under a work session then for the 10th thank you Bill hey hey Bill um just as a reminder one of the things I I had asked is if I could um if we could get a I know that there's several there's M left on or what's been spent on the grants or done by ordinances whatever right yes can you send that please yep yep I'm working on it I will uh I
should have that to you in the next couple days okay thank you yep okay thank you um we're off to public comment session number two anybody y no okay uh moving on payment of bills authorizing payment of bills in the amount of $627 34957 I have a motion before a motion did we get the sheets sign no get it from we'll get to it we'll
get it next meeting we'll just I'll get it to you tomorrow thank Council vice president move second second thank you roll call please councilman Arius yes councilwoman Englehart yes councilwoman furo yes councilman L yes Council vice president long yes and council president Parker yes and we do have an executive session there will be no action taken at the end of it under Public Safety we could take a five minute break if yall on real
quick I just but a correct a record I went back to my email no I you told me about something else I'm sorry you I don't want to misit you for an article that I got so that was the word was it that my it's all good I got enough I got enough credit
today minute break otherwise we're just gonna roll right into the executive session let's roll oh wait I got all right we're rolling wait first we gotta everybody got roll out here okay no worries you have one I'm reming all these people
how come I always forget how to do this ition to go back the favor is there
a motion to adj