In accordance with chapter 231 of the open public meetings act, adequate and proper notice of this meeting has been given to the public by publishing a notice in the Glenidge paper, Glenidge Voice, Monontlair Times, and the Star Ledger and posting said notice on the bulletin board in the municipal
building. The agenda and public handouts for this meeting can be viewed online at www. glenridgej.org. A public comment period will be held as listed on the agenda. Please state your name for the record and note that comments will be limited to three minutes per person. Amory,
[Laughter] can we have a roll call, please? Yes. Mayor, council here. Council Hughes is absent. Councelor Zim is absent. Councelor Law here. Councelor is absent. Councelor here. Mayor Vance is present.
Mayor. All right. Great. We have the minutes from June 9th. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Um, we have a motion from Council Moody to accept the minutes. May have a second. I'll second
law. Thank you. Um, yes, Madam Mayor. Council I Moody. Hi. Three eyes. The motion carries. Thank you. That's very I really think about it. I know that was really thick. Uh, any written communications?
No, madam mayor. No. Okay. Uh, I have no comments until we get down to the affordable housing plan. Um, any comments from the public? Um, yeah, you should do it now. Start the clock. Washington State.
I am here uh on the guess as the current but soon to be outgoing OEM coordinator and I just want to thank Captain Nardellis uh for agreeing to take on this this
role and additional responsibility and I want to thank the council for acknowledging his service to the the bureau. He is not only familiar with our burrows 140 page
OEM plan as well as our recently completed FEMA hazard mitigation plan. uh given his 20 plus years with the rich police department. It's not just familiarity with the text, but it's actually doing the job working with
county and state OEM uh living through working and managing the emergency events that have um arisen in the bureau. Be it a weather event, uh be it CO um he is far and away the most
experienced handling this and it is uh it's a a terrific appointment and I just want to congratulate you and again thank you for taking on responsibility and providing the service very important service to um the residents in the
bureau. So thank you five seconds over. [Laughter] Well, I mean, I'll take the time now to thank Ann Marie for her service as the OEM coordinator for several years, including through COVID, uh, which was
such a challenge. Um, so we really appreciate you taking that on without really having the background or you know experience with that before and just like jumping into that and making sure that the public uh safety and and um
welfare of our community was top of mind. So thank you for that. Appreciate it. Okay. Um with that I will turn it over to councelor Lew. Thank you madam mayor. report for the finance and
administration committee this evening. Um, but I do have three resolutions beginning with resolution 109-25. Uh, that the following claims be approved and warrants be drawn for the
same. We have uh approximately 3.4 million in the current fund, most of which is being passed along to the board of ed and the other uh fund movements that are listed in the resolution. So I
move resolution 109-25. You heard the motion by councelor Lewit. Do you have a second? A second. Heard the motion by councelor Lewit, seconded by council law. Any discussion? Seeing none, madam cler, please call the role. Yes, madam mayor. Council elect I.
Law I. Moody. I three eyes. No names. The motion carries. Thank you. And uh next madame mayor, I have resolution 110. Sorry. Wait. Do you have it in your packet?
No, this is 110. There's the second page of 110-25, but I don't think we have the first in copy. I'll pull it up online. Okay. Well, uh,
do that as it may. Resolution 110-25 is to certify the annual financial audit, uh, which is here in this lovely bound volume. Um, And it's uh quite a a clean audit
and just a couple of exceptional items which we get to in the next resolution. Um so I I move that we certify the uh 2024
audited financial statement. Heard the motion by councelor Lquitz. Do I have a second? A second. Heard the motion by councelor Lewood, seconded by councelor Moody. Any discussion? Seeing none, madam clerk, please call
the role. Yes, madam mayor. Councelor I. Law I. Moody. I. Three eyes. No. The motion carries. And finally, madame mayor, I have resolution 111-25, the correction corrective action plan to
address the two compliance matters flagged in the audit. One of them having to do with u with purchasing process. The other having to do with the annual um
dog licensing process and the uh the mountain of checks that come in for dog licenses and how quickly they get process or how long it takes to process them. Um so these are uh relatively
small issues and um actually speak to the u the quality of our process and the cleanliness of the audit if I can say that. So I I move resolution 111-25.
You've heard the motion by councelor Lewis. Do you have a second? I'll second. Heard the motion by councelor Lewood. Seconded by council law. Any further discussion? Seeing none, madam clerk, please call the role. Yes, madam mayor. Councelor i.
I. Moody. I three eyes. No. The motion carries. Thank you. Councelor Hughes is absent this evening. So, councelor Law will be picking up uh public safety. Yes. Before I move with the resolution, I just wanted to also acknowledge our outgoing emergency
management coordinator. Thank you for your efforts. It's great to see you and you also leave big shoes to fill. So, uh, now with that, the main event, resolution number 112-25, resolution appointing the emergency management coordinator. Uh the state of
New Jersey office of emergency management requires that each municipality appoint an emergency management coordinator. Uh Dean Nardellis has been designated by the mayor to serve as the emergency management coordinator for the barrel of Glenidge. Uh now for be it resolved that
the mayor and council hereby appoints Dinois to serve as emergency manure coordinator effective immediately and for a period of three years. Madame mayor, I seek to move resolution. We've heard the motion by council law. Do we have a second? I'll second. Heard the
motion by council law. Seconded by councelor Lewitz. Any further discussion? Okay. Um seeing none, madam clerk, please call the role. Yes, madam mayor. Councelor left. I law I. Moody. I three eyes. No names. The motion carries.
That's all I have. All right. Uh councelor is absent. Um, so council law, anything from public works and utility committee? Nothing to report. No. Okay. Um, council me is absent. Uh, councelor
Moody, planning and development committee. Yes, madam mayor. I have a resolution tonight. Um, and before I introduce it, I want to say gives me great pleasure actually to introduce it. adopting our round four housing element
and fair share plan which is a lot of words that talks about trying to make affirmative stances towards affordable housing and I just want to say thanks to our town planner Eric Deline our planning consultants topology and to the
entire planning board as well. Uh so madame mayor I have resolution number -25 resolution uh entitled endorsement of the round four housing element and
fair share plan whereas the planning board in the bureau of Glen Ridge County of Essex New Jersey adopted the round four housing element and fair share plan on June 16th 2025 and whereas the governing body of the bureau of
Glenbridge wishes to endorse the round four plan as adopted. I would hereby like to make a motion. I would uh like to sorry I would like to make a motion to this.
Heard the motion by councelor Moody. Do I have a second? I'll second. Heard the motion by councelor Moody, seconded by council law. I have um I do have some remarks that I'd like to get on the record um just because this is a really important issue in town and in case
anyone has questions about it. Uh so if you bear with me um and these are a shortened version of my planning board remarks, but um so New Jersey has an affordability problem. From first-time home home buyers to
seniors on fixed incomes to first responders and essential workers, housing costs are part of this affordability problem and place a strain on our residents. While new state legislation requires Glenidge to adopt a housing element and fair share plan by
June 30th, 2025 to maintain immunity from exclusionary zoning litigation. I would like us to not look at this requirement as the check the box exercise or something from the state to groan about. This is an opportunity for us to look holistically at our community
and determine strategic and appropriate opportunities to develop affordable life cycle housing. affordable housing that meet designed to meet the needs of households at all stages of the life in a way that makes sense for us. While the proposed ground for housing element and
fair share plan presented through the planning board and available on the bureau's website lays out the details, I want to reiterate some important points. The bureau is obligated to address 25% of its perspective need through an adopted plan. This plan includes parcels
listed in the prospective needs map project map for inclusionary redevelopment. We understand that there are existing uses on these properties. The designation is meant that if a property becomes available or for redevelopment and if the developer decides to build multifamily housing,
then there is a requirement for low and moderate income units as per the numbers in the plan. This the plan includes parcels that front Bloomfield Avenue or our current office buildings. The plan also includes the implementation of an overlay zone over a portion of the
existing R5 residential dome district. This proposed area is generally located on both sides on Glenidge Avenue near the Montlair border. The area contains a mix of single family homes, duplexes, town homes, and medical offices. This
concept is called gentle density and this designation produces middle housing such as duplexes, town homes or garden apartments and is being implemented in other parts of New Jersey, including Princeton. The area is in a historic district and any changes would need to
work through the current historic preservation process in town to ensure that the development fits within the character of the community. And the ordinance to create this overlay would work through the normal process at the council level. In other words, additional discussion and details on
this overlay will occur and there's continued plan residential development zone from the third round. So I appreciate all the work from our burough staff Mike Kelly and Eric Deline, our consultant Graham Pedo from topology and the planning board members to produce such a comprehensive plan on a very
tight timeline. Our goal is to maintain the character of Glenidge that we love but make sure we are creating appropriate opportunities for our first responders, teachers, burough staff, adult children, and grandparents to be part of our wonderful community. Thank you.
Any other discussion on the resolution? Seeing none, madam clerk, please. Yes, madam. Mayor council. Hi. Law. I Moody. Hi. Three eyes, no names. The motion carries. Thank you very much. Anything else? Council.
Um, Mike has John. Do you have any comments? Uh, mayor. I have no comments. No, this Thursday is the sunset. Sunset Classic,
which is tomorrow got me all flustered with her. So, there will be traffic delays Thursday evening. Yes. For the race. Okay. Careful to the runners. Thank you. I think that ends the the string of June
events for our DPW. It's been a really um busy month for our our our staff, so we appreciate that. Um Madam Clerk, any comments? Uh yes, just wanted to let everybody know that election day went very smoothly. Um we
had excellent poll workers and we had 144 voters come out, which was definitely higher than expected. Wow. So we had a decent I mean not what we want to see, but a decent turnout for considering. That's great. Well, congratulations on
that. What percentage do you have that as a percent? Sorry, say that again. Do you have that as a percentage of registered voters? I don't, but I can try to get it. Yeah. Okay.
Thank you. No, it's great. I mean, tell it's a predicament and it's far surpasses the last primary. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Um, anything else? All right, that's exciting. Good warm up for November.
Yeah. All right, so we do have some new business uh with councelor Lewitz um a new resolution for overpayment. Um yes, madam mayor. Resolution 114-25. Uh whereas certain Glenidge property owners or their mortgage company have
made a duplicate tax a utility payment. Um we're resolving to uh refund the overpayment. Approved the motion by councelor Lewit. So I have a second. I'll second the motion by councelor Lewitz. Seconded by
councelor Moody. Any discussion? Seeing none. Madam clerk, please call the role. Yes, madam mayor. Councelor I. Law I. Moody. Three eyes, no. The motion carries. Thank you. Any other um this the time for additional comments from
the public? Mayor, I would just like to say quickly thank you again to Ann Marie. Um for her service as our um OEM coordinator. She and I, you know, as as we said, we
you skipped Sandy. You weren't around for that one. Or the October snowstorm, but we've been through uh quite a few chaotic moments in time. the water main break. The six six foot water mane break which
somebody Yeah, that was at at Tony's Brook. We uh we were doing swift water rescues apparently from a from a 6 inch deep brook and uh we Marie's kind of been is a seasoned OEM veteran at this point. She really as if you think of the
things that we've looked through things the public I the water one was really we were on the edge really on the edge and just all these other storms just from a standard snowstorm to the these these um
very um much heavier than what we're used to uh rain events uh as I said COVID all these things been there with us um knowledgeable read all of these painful documents is familiar with um anybody that's
familiar with government is particular quasi military folks are they love initials and numbers they can't just say fill out this request form it's we need an A7322 and Amry fills out that form and
understands it and reads it u it's just been a pleasure not only with council but with with that that additional role as OM coordinator I just want to thank you very much and I don't think the public really recognizes that that role and the importance of that role and you know our our we are in excellent hands
with Dean with our captain and so thank you and uh congratulations and that's it. Thank you mayor. Yeah. No, I appreciate that. Thanks. Any other comments?
Uh councelor Mooney, do you have a motion? I do. I have a motion to mad. All in favor? I