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e e e are you okay good evening everyone so uh we already had our executive session we had uh before that we had already done a roll call our flag salute so we're going to go right into
our agenda C manager yes uh up first is a presentation uh which is going to be done by uh triom uh cannabis manufacturing you guys are up hey how are you guys mayor council thank you very much for having us here um
coming from troma um thanks for the opportunity to have us here and in the cultivation side we just like to get in um in we like to get into manufacturing and be a part of that and part of the
team um we uh as you know we have the building over in lo I Street uh and we'd like to add the manufacturing to that okay um do you want to just also give us a quick update now just for the record you were previously approved for a
cannabis cultivation license at the property on Loi Street and this would expand your operations into manufacturing do you want to give us a quick update on where you are with the uh the cultivation I know that's that's in work we um we passed a our planning
board uh um resolution and we we're working with the building department they've given us demo permits we are now um kind of finalizing our permits with the town we met with them about a week ago kind of iring All the Small Things
and questions they had but we are we should be starting construction within the next couple of weeks according to them would the manufacturing be in the second building that was on that property or is it going to be in the same building with cultivation it's going to be on the second building in the back half side so there's like a
garage warehouse space in the back side of the second building didn't you have a tenant there we do um so the tenant is vacating they're going to vacant that garage part and they're keeping the offices in the front Okay so they'll stay they'll stay in business there correct you just use
the other part y I have I have a question because you're the first ones that are well you're actually going to be the first ones asking for manufacturing but because you're doing both right so you're doing cultivation and Manufacturing what are you doing to guarantee that you're kind of selling the cultivation to your yourself right
so you know the city gets a 2% right so the CRC um you know everything is tracked we're not able to sell I mean like just use our own product without selling it to each other I mean not to ourselves we can we have to sell it to
our to ourselves at market price and and that's being tracked based on the system that we use which is metric um so when we do have um any product that we get we Outsource or or from our own um uh
cultivation facility that has to be allocated and what we do with it and if we do extract it we have to sell it at to ourselves at Market at fair market Price at the same rate okay and I think we're going to want that documented Steve right in the paperwork yeah I mean is there something you you'd be prepared
to site to us you know that that would you know essentially guarantee that yes yeah and our accounting firm has to you know that's part of the their we have to get accountant that are very similar in the the the business and the CRC guidelines says that so we'll find that
in their guidelines and we'll also provide any documents to kind of show that and then you'll be going for site plan should it be granted eventually then you'll go through the whole site plan process and you'll guarantee just like you did with the cultivation as far as that there'll be no fumes there'll be no odors there'll be all the types of
things that we insisted in cultivation that's all part of your process too right that is correct okay thank you okay um hiring sorry and your hiring practices um I hope you'd be looking to
hire a lot of the local we definitely will okay we definitely will we also um in the process we have to use the union and we'll make sure everyone gets everything they need and locally hire who we need is there anything else you want to
describe in terms of your community benefit you know uh to the community how you're you know you have the public here you know people interested in this about how you'll be a good neighbor for the community I think that might be something folks might want to hear about as well yes um we will be uh we will be
you know as we all know the the town's going to get a 2% on on everything we we produce and as well as uh for the neighborhood we you know we always like to bring back and and we would love to you know uh we want to be
part of any event that the city has and anything that we could help to to help uh improve the our town and hire our local people and kind of uh you know just help the community as much as we
can okay and I see security has all set yes we also have Rob here um he's our security director and he would be help with us same security people that you have for the
cultivation that is correct mean do you want to have Rob speak about the security plan at all is that something you want to hear are you good John you want to hear yeah why don't we uh I'm interested in like just you know the RPD has been working uh
We've upgraded our systems tremendously so I'm wondering if you know there's any video stuff that might take place down there that might be shared with our Police Department where they could you know 100% mayor get there quicker if there was an issue how are you sir Council everybody could evening thank you for having us again on behalf of trom I'm their security consultant um
same exact thing that we've testified to with both planning and before you as the council for cultivation same systems will be in place very robust systems of everything from electronic door access controls uh lighting uh exterior lighting um Burglar Alarm intrusion alarms uh of course the surveillance
system by CRC guidelines we must share it with both the CRC and the local police department so they will have 247 live access to the facility via uh via our camera system camera systems will be exterior as well as interior uh which I think is a phenomenal uh thing
for the local you know I came from local law enforcement obviously and I think it's great for the fire department I think it's great for the the police department even if it's only a fire alarm that goes off in the place the Dispatch Center can literally dial into your the live feed and see if there's a smoke condition see if there's anything that looks look look going on and the
First Responders can be aware of it before they even get there great um quick question I think we touched on this at planning board is the transportation obviously the cultivation part is going to be some for cannabis itself and then what you use to manufacture to make uh Edibles or
whatever you're making um the transport of that when it leaves there just if you could touch on that the secur from a security perspective so certainly uh everything is packaged and again this is all by state guideline we can't deviate from it even if we wanted to but uh the
the things are packaged in certain weights um that and then they go to the uh they go to the um dispensaries already prepackaged so uh what they're non-descript Sprinter vans that would be uh once or twice a week depending on delivery schedule these guys are I think
still a little bit away from the cultivation side being up and ready I think you'd actually see the manufacturing side will will end up becoming productive and online before cultivation does okay so they'll have to purchase the biomass at the beginning from other cultivators to process um and
so deliveries of that biomass coming into manufacturing we would we would take the just same security precautions as any other deliveries we do and outgoing same thing there will be a security guard on premise uh at all op during all operating hours but not uh not during non-operating hours okay any
other questions I had one question so there's going to be a tenant there but they're not vacating is there any special considerations security wise if there's another tenant on the property yes from a security standpoint you know we consider everything of course but what the CRC dictates is that they have
to be completely walled off from they will not have access to the manufacturing side of things and honestly from a security perspective even the cultivation uh employees if they don't have any business on the manufacturing side their their electronic card access will not grant them access to the manufacturing side um
same thing with the hierarchy of electronic access even for the vault let's say the Vault on the C in the cultivation side not everybody gets to gets access to the Vault if you're trimming flow whatever you do with the stuff I don't I'm not part of that process but you have no no there's no reason for you to be inside the the
Vault area where the finished product is so you can't get in there without a manager or the security bringing you in there right so all those same precautions will be in place on the manufacturing side uh the Machinery is is relatively light on the manufacturing side from the research that I've done and what for the education I've received
from these guys the process they're going they're going to use does not require chemicals uh We've shared electronically some slide Decks that that give a really high level overview of how how the process works just in an effort to try and educate everyone um so there's no concern about chemicals and
um the odor mitigation is going to be very robust as similar to the cultivation side we're very excuse me we're very well aware that that's a concern for your residents and for the council anything chair any good thank you everyone so so as
before there is a resolution if you're comfortable there's a resolution up for uh a municipal support tonight that if it is approved would allow them to take the next step um in going forward to the CRC for approval they believe you guys
have a conditional approval from the CRC is that what you call it waiting of the the site location or maybe you can describe where that is no so I think you and I spoke about this during the committee I think that question was asked when we were in front of your cannabis committee the conditional approval conditional licenses really are
meaningless because they have to be converted to an annual license so in an effort to expedite things um once the opted in for manufacturing and troma's team decided that they wanted to to um apply and hopefully get support for manufacturing soon as we the resolution
is granted should should we be lucky enough to get that support from you guys the submission is already done and ready to be sent into the portal for the CRC it just needs that resolution with it or or the CRC won't look at it so that kind of uh hastens the process so it's about
a four to five month kind of once you're in the queue time frame for getting the full annual license that you need to operate so to apply for a conditional license doesn't speed up the process it actually somewhat slows it down
okay all right thank you so we'll be voting on that at the 8:00 meeting yes that's one of the resolutions on the agenda tonight yes next in line uh next up uh do we have a I don't I don't know if there's a presentation
Frank do you have a presentation on Recycle Cod yeah it's going to be a presentation on a new uh thing that to our res doing double duty today hopefully this works we got faith in
you maybe not oh there we go okay I didn't broke it not used to be on this side of the all right uh so this is recycle coach uh recycle coach is a free uh thing here in the city of hack attack for all of our residents uh it is a web
app as well as a mobile app which I will show in a little bit uh but basically now on our on our City website if you go to the public works tab you will see this new block here um and it has three separate tabs within this little ey frame here where you could see different
things so the first and most important thing you could do is type in your address now I I'm not a resident of hackin attack I'll use uh City Hall's address as my address so if I were to go to City uh 65 Central AV it populates a list of every house here or home in a
hacking sack I can select 65 Central and it'll tell me um based on my route what days are bulk pickup what days are or garbage pickup which days of recycling um it's a little bit easier to use it this way instead of so you can know exactly when um there's also a component
where uh if there's a holiday or a winter storm or a change in pickup for whether it be recycling or garbage pickup uh you'd get notified uh by an alert here on your day so that's the first thing uh the second tab is pretty cool it's called what goes where so
sometimes uh you may have a question about I don't know if this is trash I don't know if this is recycling so this has been curated by uh information that's provided to to me from our DPW so um say balloons for example some towns recycle them some towns don't so you can
type in the word balloons and it tells you that we don't recycle balloons we just put them right in the trash there's a certain collection that has to happen for balloons there's a certain facility that takes them in a different state um we don't participate in that program yet it's something that we may be working out with clean communities but for now
that's something you just trash um and the last tab is the Discovery Zone uh where the first question is can you recycle balloons um the first this is the Discovery Zone these are uh basically information that's been um
curated for uh residents of the city um and students and children and anybody else want to learn more about recycling trash sanitation uh and this part of the recycle coach thing is provided by Clean communities so if you see down here
there's a whole clean communities tab um and tells you about litter reduction how to reduce litter here in hackin sack and other helpful information uh like I had mentioned there's a web app there's a mobile app which I'll try showing that as off as
well see okay see I would I have to I have to stop mirroring there hold on okay so uh like I said there is a mobile app as well um so once you download the recycle coach app from either the App Store the Play Store whether you're on
Android or iOS um same concept you just say you know this my municipality is hackin sack we will pop up once it loads you can choose your language it's been modified for English and Spanish
I'm going to choose English um again I'm going to choose my address which is 65 Central AV I spelled Central wrong that's why 65 Central of and then this is uh what I was mentioning before uh It'll ask you if
you want to get notified when it matters to you so you can enable notifications on your mobile device to notify you if there's changes um to your your recycling or your sanitation pickup so I'm going to allow notifications and then I could see the exact same thing I just saw on the web app and I could see
it right here so um that's it we're we're going to implement some other things as well um I know for example there's a difference between recycling um when we do boxes and when we do cans and bottles um so I'm working with a recycle coach to basically more
um definitively show what day goes what where you know what where so um we're working on it but it's something new that we sort of had in the past but it was um very underutilized and not really implemented um once I got on board with clean communities this is part of my initiative to add this Fe Fe here for
our residents and and you know also like I said add the component for what to know how things go where they need to be recycled or not so that's kind of what we've been working on in the back end so that's that's all I have to say about that and I have a lot of notifications
as you saw that's my fiance wife wife not fiance I'm blabbering now got get out of here when will it be available Frank it's available today okay available today great it thank you
thanks thank you Frank no problem also up we have a on for tonight is a resolution regarding uh Bergen risk uh which will be again our third party administrator and is agreement on for
approval for our liability and workers comp they uh typically take care of that for us um I have one other thing uh um and then we'll turn it over to Chris weaton but
uh the city council will be uh celebrating black history month on February 25th from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. uh showcasing African-Americans and labor join us as we honor and celebrate
the contributions of African-Americans in the workforce across various Industries and highlight their businesses within hackensac this will be held at the Civic Center on the 5th there will be no executive or cow meetings on that night the business will
then be all the businesses that participate will be honored at the 8m council meeting after the event I'm going to now call up our city engineer Chris weaton for uh the combined seore and construction projects update thank you good evening everybody
good evening good evening okay getting into our uh combined sewer and construction projects update a couple of um recent updates shown in blue here uh we are in bidding now for the uh the Johnson Park site utility
work with a bid opening scheduled for uh May 4th and uh also bidding for the lot a uh and Atlantic seat garage uh entrance improvements with a bid opening of March 5th
in our CSO separation projects we are just wrapping up uh the Anderson drainage area com combined sewer separation project with this project the city has completed over 90 Acres of diversion of storm water from the combined uh system so that's a very
significant diversion um the um the final restoration for this so all the pipes are in place the catch basins are are installed and uh the work uh conveying the the water is is complete so next slide please Frank um we are
just uh uh we still have final restoration to do there is some final Paving and curves and sidewalks to complete which will be done as weather permits um uh and possibly into the spring another sewer project that we're
working on is the well storm water um project uh the East Kennedy Pump Station generator has been installed as well as the automatic transfer switch for that generator that generator was tested and uh and started up today and uh the
automatic transfer switch will be tested tomorrow uh along with training uh for the the new equipment and then that project will be operational with regards to uh Jefferson Street pipe repair we have are currently
this week doing the point repairs at the intersection of Jefferson and Johnson and um uh and shortly uh thereafter into next week probably the next two weeks we will be doing the uh the trenchless uh
lining of about 1200 feet of of sewer through that area jumping back to the East Kennedy Pump Station Improv ments um in addition to the generator that's just been completed as I had discussed um recently we are uh planning for the
replacement of pumps and the installation of some some new pumps at this facility uh the two two of the large pumps will be replaced uh with variable uh variable frequency drive uh Motors um we all are also installing two
uh new centri centrifugal pumps for uh lighter uh weather events and new uh Control Systems uh other improvements at the facility will be to replace the rakes on the bar screens provide a new crossover for the inlet piping so that we have
some redundancy to the screening systems there install a tide Flex valve and uh and some building improvements uh repointing the brick and and a uh and replacing a wet well hatch that project is is currently in design and we're working on equipment
procurement do we have any dates for when we think we're going to have completion of that project yet is it too soon the the the large pumps are very long lead uh so uh we are U procuring some uh some backup uh bypass pumping
capability um there will need to be some facility improvements installed to make those uh fit and plug you know be able to plug them in to the system but the large pumps uh might be as much as nine mon months away we we are trying to expedite that as much as possible replacing those old rakes will do
wonders I mean so we we don't have to wait for that I mean we should be able to move forward with that is there a problem with getting those parts as well no problem with that all right so that's something we should be able to do soon it's yes it's all in the uh Capital request moving into Parks the polyfly
park uh drainage project we did complete with PSG or psng completed really uh the gas offset that was required ired for our pipe to be able to cross the street there uh and the drain Crossing itself is now scheduled for for next week again
weather permitting um and the final site restoration uh within the park and um uh and and for the paving in the street would will be in the spring also in Parks uh we are currently bidding as I mentioned for the Johnson
Park Sports Complex site and utility contract and for the Fieldhouse again we have two contracts here for the Fieldhouse contract we had a pre-construction kickoff meeting uh week ago Monday um and the contract documents
are in order for City signature which I'm we are expecting will take place this week is the Fieldhouse now going to be back inside the Dome or is it going to be adjacent to the Dome we had two designs right one point when I refer to the Fieldhouse it it has been called a
dome in the past and and Dome a dome typically refers to like an inflated type of a structure um so I'm trying to transition the term away from Dome to fieldhouse uh the Fieldhouse is is the building that's going to go over all of the
fields um will the will the building will the uh external building be inside of the Fieldhouse the building where you're going to have the bathrooms Etc or is it going to be external to that at some point that's not part of this plan that is not part of this plan right now uh we we are we are uh but is the
Fieldhouse being made large enough that it could be inside or not no that would be a change I thought that was the preferred plan yeah that's what I thought so that's my concern because now you know now you're doing one Foundation
everything's inside I mean I thought that was the preferred plan that's what has me concerned that was the preferred plan but that's not what we're doing no it's not well why why aren't we doing what we know is the better plan I'd be happy to schedule a separate meeting to go over that with you if you
like I think I think we really need to talk about this of course um okay so uh facini Park uh is also uh bidding right now for the field 8 n and 10 uh improvements which include new turf fields under field drainage
batting and pitching tunnels and bleachers and uh new sports lighting uh this project is uh is currently bidding or we're in the bid phase and uh bids will be open this Friday on the 14th Chris real real quick with forini
so if if everything goes well with the bids and we don't have to go out to bid again rebid what is the time frame of construction for frini the time frame um is uh just over a year okay so we will uh commence as quickly as possible
um and it will go into probably the spring of of next year yeah I just think if it's going to break ground quickly we'd have to figure out the fields for spring and summer so think just being updated with that yes yeah we we have been in touch with with wreck so they're yeah they're on board where they they
understand the schedule yeah and that this will be uh these feed Fields will be unavailable for this season do the you're welcome how would they do the carnival there for breaking ground on it fish they it's not near that area on field one by
bowler City yeah bowler City Fields so be far away from the construction yeah in uh roads and traffic uh the prospect AV pedestrian signal uh signals uh for between Beach Street and essk
Street have been installed and are now operational we have a a high-intensity crosswalk um or activated crosswalk signal at Atlantic Street and we have a rectangular rapid flashing big uh Beacon signal at uh Thompson
Street and uh in roads and traffic U for kav uh the traffic study um there as we discussed last meeting this uh we are recommending speed humps we have been soliciting quotes and uh have have passed along that information and uh we
are getting ready to uh award um award this with the quotes received and just a reminder to the public um you know please um only only you know don't flush wet wipes uh baby wipes anything except uh human waste and
toilet paper down the down the toilets it really is detrimental to our system um and very harmful and with that I'll open it up to any questions just one question um going back to the Anderson Street Clay Street stuff you talked about Paving and stuff
remains so is everything totally connected now yes so all of those storm water is now going to the new outfall going to yes going to our new outfall uh and and existing outfalls and no problems everything seems to be I'm
hoping you know um at this point I I think we're waiting you know for the next big storm to to to see how how it responds um well I mean even if we getting all the snow we're going to get tonight over the weekend and whatever you know all the melting and all that that water basically emptying April
system March and April will tell yeah yeah I think it'll be a good test yeah yeah um I'm sorry there were there were two items that I didn't have slides on just to um bring you uh fully up to speed um we are getting ready to um with our Paving program for the spring we we
have been going through uh the the projects uh priority and uh received the budget from Finance so we're putting together uh the plan for bidding uh for Paving and we also are bidding right now or have just received bids uh for the
the fire company Engine 2 uh to uh rehabilitate the apparatus floor there so that's um that will be starting soon as well just make sure we get that meeting together quickly for Johnson Park Chris yeah going back to Johnson Park is is
we're talking about the administration building right that that's the proper term what we're talking about now yes the administration building is not there's no footprint in what was currently bid for to put that inside of
the building no it's outside the building it's it's been it's been termed an Annex right correct okay that was the other word I was looking for the annex yeah and that Annex is outside the
building correct but connected to the building it's connected yes for sure it would be right when it gets added to the project okay all right thank you we'll have to discuss it because that's not the preferred option that we
picked thank you thank you that's all I have okay that's it all right need a motion to open to the public offer second all in favor I I None opposed anyone from the public like to speak please come forward you will have three minutes give your name to the clerk
thank you good evening Marty Smith Prospect Avenue member of the condo Co-op Advisory board at the January 7th meeting of the council Mr Caruso reported that several business owners on
Johnson Avenue had requested a reduction in the speed limit on that street and after whatever study County did they approved that reduction and at the January 7th meeting of this Council the city also approved the reduction of that
speed limit from 35 to 30 mil an hour several months ago when our condo Advisory Board had requested a reduction in the speed limit on Summit Avenue which is totally different from Johnson Avenue it's got beautiful homes on
estate-sized properties uh County did a study the sheriff's department and found that number one the average speed limit on Summit Avenue between pic and Spring
Valley Road was 38 mil an hour currently there are no crosswalks on eight intersections between pic and Spring Valley Road and in the last 3 to four
years we have had two fatal pedestrian accidents on Summit Avenue um at the meeting previous to this one uh the council had decided not to lower the speed limit on Summit
Avenue I'd like to ask you what were the parameters that you used to decide not to lower the speed limit on Summit Avenue based on the information we had concerning average speed
uh fatal accidents and so on so I'm going to defer to traffic on that uh I will say this that one fatal I know for a fact The Pedestrian was in the crosswalk at pan Summit Crossing um I'm not sure where the other one you're
talking about is but traffic came back with that study County Traffic came back with that stud count traff and our Traffic Division on the other parts it and they both recommended that the speed limit not be changed and that's based on the parameters that like you said that's
I'm asking for reasons and this is really not a reason that they made that decision what was the decision based on or factors that the decision was based on just saying that was the decision doesn't give us any information well it
was based on an analyst uh the analyzation of the data that they had that there really was no speeding taking place 38 on a in a 35 you know I mean yes that is speeding but it's not as as if the average speed is 40 or 50 mil
hour do you understand what I'm saying I understand but that really is a negligible answer the fact that we don't have crosswalks on eight intersections between pic and Spring Valley Avenue
comes into play the fact that there were fatal accidents on Summit Avenue comes into play so just because the average speed limit is only 3 miles over the post limit is not an excuse not to lower the speed
limit I mean if that's what county comes up with I think they ought to change their employees because they don't know much about traffic safety Mr Smith are you aware of where the other fatality was on I'm sorry are you aware of where the other fat pedestrian fatality you're
speaking of was because the only other fatality I know on Summit there were two they both pedestrian and one was in a vehicle I I don't know the exact location was in a vehicle the other one was in a vehicle and I think it was Ross or ukl maybe coming up the hill but uh
you know even even if The Pedestrian who was killed was not walking in a crosswalk maybe it was an intersection where there was no crosswalk made available I think the I think the count I think the city should reconsider the
speed limit on somebody that the person was in a crosswalk when it happened that that makes a big difference to me I understand what you're saying so we will look into last traffic about possibly putting some crosswalks I'm not I'm not putting eight crosswalks on Summit yeah mid block crosswalks on
Summit not going to happen that's that makes it more dangerous have an inter excuse me I know my time is up but an intersection is an intersection we're not talking about mid block okay
there are no mid blocks on taking the people factor into into account here and the way people are today you actually see people I see people every day walking through a crosswalk on a cell phone okay are you taking that into account so the person walks out on the
Summit Avenue he's in a crosswalk gets hit by a car while he's looking at his phone these things happen happens more and more now it's it's a shame but it's out there all right we'll talk about this again at the next meeting thank I'm sure we will Mr Smith thank
you next person from the public would like to speak seeing no someone's coming I see a hand it's none other than Randy Glover oh we haven't seen you in a while how are you I'm good how are you good what's
up buddy good evening good evening everybody uh city council um just real quick it was brought to my attention the other day uh about the uh Carver Street Park house um for the last 5 years I've been Distributing food over at the Elks
Lounge uh and we've been purchasing food so in the last like two three years we spent over $600,000 in purchases of food from vendors on Main Street Food vendors and then we also receive food from uh
Community Food Bank of New York um I want to know and you don't have to answer today if it would be possible if we could use the house of Carver Street Park to do food distribution something we'll talk about yep yeah we could talk about it you don't have to answer now y just want to
put but there'll be no cooking or anything no not at all whatever you have Distributing it like right now like tomorrow we distribute groceries so we distribute Believe It or Not shrimp calamari chicken uh fresh vegetables um whole chickens chicken
parts uh pork chops beef things like that real veeg real uh groceries that people actually want to eat okay okay is anyone using that for any real reason right now V do you know aware of no not not this time of
year that's for sure yeah and we would love to partner with the city there no food preparation we have to worry about any of that it's just no food preparation what would the hours be um we do it like um maybe twice a month for 4 hours like tomorrow it'll be 4 hours it's cold out like we've been doing it
at 9° we've been giving out food so what I would recommend just to play it safe is we have a quick meeting with the set it up Vinnie with the Board of Health and you guys just to make sure that all Health codes are met sure when you're in there and stuff because they and we have insurance and everything and stuff like
that maybe just the inspection you know when the food comes in yeah and you can like if if you guys are anybody available tomorrow we're giving out food tomorrow we get a delivery of fresh food like we're getting um onions uh
just a whole bunch of stuff yeah uh and so it's only twice a month for four hours at a time yeah and it would be storing food there um canned food and we do have refrigerators we have shelving and uh we have refrigerators and a freezer that if necessary we could put
in there so you distri commercial you distributed tce on when is the food delivered like how uh the food is delivered fresh tomorrow and we like oh it's right before you distribute it okay yes it'll be it comes tomorrow between 9 and 11: we break it down and then we
start Distributing the food at about 3 3:30 right so like there's no long-term storage require whatever you get you turn over that day the only thing we would store are canned foods can can like can things yeah yeah that kind of
stuff so let's yeah reach out to Susan and see what absolutely all right okay and like I said if you're available anybody can stop by tomorrow over at the Elks at 351 1 Street and you can see what's going on on and uh what time you opening uh we start well they start
lining up a little early but we start at 3:30 uh until we until all the food is finished okay awesome all right thank see what we can do yep all right thank you guys thanks Randy thanks for what you do too we appreciate [Applause]
it anyone else from the public okay so we're going to make a motion to close the public offer second all in favor I I we are now closed to the public and now we will resume need a motion to close the executive session
offer second all in favor I I and opposed a motion to close the council the whole offer second all in favor I I None opposed so with that we will be back in a little over 15 minutes see you
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posted on the municipal busing board roll call please council member Von rudenberg here Deputy Mayor canestrino here council member pagle is absent council member Carol here mayor lros here would everybody please rise for the flag
salute two to 10 shut I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [Music]
all thank you okay so we have a as you can see we have a special night tonight we love nights like tonight uh first I'm going to read a proclamation before we do our uh swearing in and as everybody knows it's Black History Month in February and
it reads whereas in 1976 Black History Month was formally adopted to honor and affirm the importance of black history throughout our American experience and whereas African-Americans have played a vital role in the history of the country and the state of New Jersey from the early days of the Pioneers to our
present day leaders in all things that have made this country great and whereas Black History Month is a time for all Americans to reflect on the rich history and teachings of African-Americans and I encourage everyone to participate in black history history ceremonies
activities and educational programs and whereas the struggle for equality for black Americans is ongoing and the people of the United States should continue to be determined and Vigilant in this ongoing struggle for equality and whereas each February we pause to reflect on the contributions of the
black community to our national identity now therefore be it resolved that the city of hackensac commemorates February as black history month and I John P lros Jr mayor of the city of hackin saac along with members of the city council do hereby Proclaim February as Black History Month in the city of hackin saac
so uh we're planning some special events was mentioned earlier the first meeting February 25th will'll be honoring uh this this uh year in particular they're honoring labor in black history and uh we're going to be honoring all
blackowned businesses in hackin saac with an event at the uh Civic Center at what was time uh 6:30 to 7:30 6:30 to 7:30 uh all different types of uh businesses will hopefully be represented there and we're going to make sure get
as many people as we come and celebrate so look forward to that day and with that on to the next thing okay so we have five officers the top should be the captain and then
theant and then the okay so jio please come forward and whoever you have withes thank how are you now we got it okay repeat after me I state your name I Jose prio do Solly
swear do Solly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true faith and allegiance that will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saint to the Saint and to the government's
established and the government's established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of fire
cap of fire cap according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me so [Applause] congratulations good [Music] luck yeah just it's
official okay Jason con who's holding who's holding raise me I st your name I Jon C do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I
will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true faith and it will be true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the
united states in the United States and in the state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will faithfully and I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of fire Lieutenant of fire Lieutenant according to the best
of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you thank you sir thank youat congratulations saman please come forward okay that works for
me repeat after me I state your name I saman the brly swear you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the constitution in the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that I will bear true
faith that will bear true fa and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the government's established and to the government's established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state Under The Authority Under the authority of the people of the people and that I will faithfully and that I
will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of firefighter of firefighter according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations
[Applause] congratulations congratulations [Music] that Gage did I pronounce it right yes okay right hand please and repeat after me I state your name I jack through
Solly Square through Solly square that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true faith that it would bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments
established and to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that it will Fai that will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of firefighter
of firefighter according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] goodby joh notes please come forward
on the Bible raise your right hand please repeat after me I state your name I John OES do Solly swear do Solly swear that it will support the Constitution that supp the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true Faith now
bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the government's established to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in the state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that it will faithfully and that I will faithfully
impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of firefighter of firefighter according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me so help me congratulations
[Applause] congratulations I say right raise your right hand and repeat after me I state your name I John carar who solemly swear who Solly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the
United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true faith and allegiance that it will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state
under the authority of the people under the authority of and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of firefighter of fir fire according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations
[Applause] congratulations [Applause] congratulations guys so repeat after me I State my name I Nicholas Mar do Solly swear do Solly swear that I will support
the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey that it will bear true faith and allegiance that it will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the
united states in the United States and in the state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will Fai impartially and partially and justly performed and justly perform all the duties of all the duties of firefighter firefighter according to the test of my
ability according to the best of my ability congratulations so we [Applause] gotat conratulations first I'd like to thank the mayor Deputy
Mayor the council and city manager for that continued support of the fire department without their support move forward and we've had that support so that's a good thing um second to the uh to my captain and my lieutenant these promotions are tough to
get takes a lot of hard work and congratulations you for the new hes this goes fast enjoy every every day of it you got got the greatest job in the world congratulations and good luck to [Applause]
you as What's called the class one fire department there's only I think 60 in the United States of around 60 might be one of two in New Jersey now okay so there's only two in the whole state of New Jersey ranking as far as fire department the best the best
here and we're proud of that congratulations to all of you because without you that doesn't happen and to the council as well because it doesn't happen without you guys the city manager thank you so much for what we do congratulations to uh all the new firefighters and to the promotions of C
appreciate thank you best of Lu guys stay [Applause] safe okay
so that's a good night minute recess yeah we're going to take a five minute recess so anybody who wants to leave that's here for the uh swearing in and promotions feel free to leave where's where's everybody going
[Laughter] got e e e e e e e e
all right that's okay need a motion to approve the minutes of the January 28th meeting of the 2025 Cal executive and regular meeting offer second all in favor I you un opposed were you here was I here yeah
we're all here I was on Zoom I was on Zoom yeah no I might have now that's right I you weren't there yeah but you read them so I've read the minutes minutes are sitting right here okay I was
absent yes so with that we go to the city manager report you're up thanks mayor hack uh hackin sack Recreation baseball softball registration is now open for the spring season hackin sack
youth track spring season registration is also open please contact the recreation department or visit their website for more information the city has launched a recycle coach to Queen communities program please download the app for collection schedules as well as
useful information and tips about recycling please sign up for nixel alerts uh during our system if you haven't done so already alerts and notifications regarding inclement weather are posted on the city website social media and nixel a reminder that
vehicles must be moved off the designated snow streets when there is more than 2 in of snow in honor of Black History Month the Art Gallery at the hackpack will be featuring the work of three Afric African-American local artists shaie
Pleasants Ronelle soul and Ellen Jun Wright I hope I pronounced those right the exhibit will run through February 28th tickets are available for the hack pack on February 22nd featuring a night with Nashi a diva's tribute this
performance will also include a special tribute to Lillian Whitaker the city council will be celebrating black history month on February 25th from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. showcasing African African-Americans in labor join us as we
honor celebrate the contributions of African-Americans in the workforce across various Industries and highlight their businesses within the city of hacken this will be held at the Civic Center there will be no executive C or cow meeting that night the businesses
will then be honored at the 8m council meeting after the event that's it mayor okay thank you so much with that we go to new business and I think we're going to love this first one resolution tion
7625 this is a resolution for the adoption of ordinance number 2-202 and ordinance to amend chapter 36 of the code of the city of hackin cultural arts department of to name The Gallery at hackpack in honor of Ruth Bayer Nader this ordinance has been
published according to law and now calls for a public hearing okay I need a motion to open open to the public offer second all in favor I I unone opposed anybody from the public who'd like to speak about this ordinance please come to the
podium give your name to the clerk please probably should have B the mic can the microphone sir I want to I want to thank you all for making this a very special night um
Ruth it seems has spent forever but it it's it's only relatively short number of years devoting herself to seeing the Center for the
Arts and I must say she's had she had assistance on all levels from the council and the Recreation employees it was a collective effort but at
the at the the point of was that she devoted her time her energies her Talent she seeing
this performing center come about and it's wonderful to see it being used that the employees are going over to lunch and they're taking advantage of of what
is thus far been some wonderful GS thank you again thank you sir well deserved next person please hey Council I just want to say thank you
very very much for recognizing Ruth for all of her hard work and contributions to the art community here in hackin saac and thanking you each individually for recognizing her and and giving her this
honor thank you our pleasure thank you okay with that nobody else in the public I'd like to make a couple comments me too I want to be a member of the public staff what about you while it's open very welld deserved Ruth um you you you have a passion uh for the Arts that you know
you do see in the schools a lot and nowadays with youth that they need that guidance they need that inspiration and you have done that uh continuously for the city and the Youth of the city so we appreciate all your your dedication service to the Arts and for being a wonderful role model for for our youth
we appreciate it thank [Applause] you well Ruth it was tough in the beginning right I can remember us down there saying where are we going to put the lights and I don't like the way that wall looks I remember you and I walking there when this was first happening and
look where it's come today and it would be nothing if it weren't for you so I have to be honest and say we really appreciate what you've done and no one is more deserving of this than you are thank you for all you've done for the city and for the Arts in the city thank you
R congratulations and what a tremendous job you have done here for the city of Pakistan so so this battle goes way back and I'm going to go way back to 2010 when this all started when the city purchased that building for Believe It
or Not $700,000 which was a bargain at the time and when you look at it now it's a multi-million dollar gem when you when you look at it the way way it's set up that along with the and I'm going to talk about the park as well because the park is part of that whole Performing Art Center as far as I'm concerned and
it has its own Performing Arts as well um we had a battle with all the locals there all the lawyers in the area fought us tooth and nail you can't take away our parking lot you can't take away it we said it's not your parking lot it's ours somehow they managed and well not
only did they manage but uh saigh okay Chase came up afterwards says I don't admit I'm wrong too often but I was wrong he admitted he came and told us he says the best thing we did so that whole block between the art center and
the park is has been a blessing for hackin sack so let's go back to now it's open right we had a great grand opening and uh what do we do with this downstairs right so the idea of the the gallery came up and there was Ruth just
waiting came I'm sure you did purpose room no no no Gallery best idea ever best idea ever and uh and we ran out of money but we made the best of it we could yes we were
down there picking out paint colors together and where we going to put a light and and it came out wonderful came out lovely it's wonderful but it's not just that Ruth got to exhibit her art there many many times um but it's all the other Artist as well who get to use
it one of them's here tonight Maria Teresa mhm or yep and that was a great show Absolutely and I know now she's in the library at their Gallery so having a good run in hacket sack huh good for you but y but
uh this is all because of of this woman though without her input and push this doesn't happen and uh as far as I'm concerned the hack pack uh soon to be Ruth new Gallery is the nicest Gallery
in the county if not North Jersey so so all right and with that I thank you again and I look forward to using that gallery for years and years and years to come along with the hack Performing Arts Center and uh we made it through covid we made it through all the craziness
that goes on in this world and it's still standing there going strong so good for us yep so [Applause] congratulations thank oh to thank us we have to thank you
thank you very much thank you than you you're welcome thank you thank you very much don't need to thank me I'm just the lawyer I'm just I'm just he's just a lawyer thank you thank you that's
okay want get a picture let's stand come on whoever wants to come come on get in the picture come on crew up here now who's going to get Ted in the picture now you know Ted and my son were best
friends in high school where [Music] they mayor Le got coming out of your at least wait wait we're I'll go for the Mohawk if I can we're going to get one more picture here comes the manity
hour boy and Randy is your support system Ruth right yes absolutely absolutely okay come join us all right lot of handsome men around John amen all right
guys okay we're still open so I need a motion to close to the public offer second all in favor I I None oppos motion to adopt this ordinance offer
second all in favor I I unanimous say be bad to voted by the city council of the city of hackin County of bur state of New Jersey that ordinance number 2- 2025 has passed a second and final reading and is hereby
adopted thank you so we're going to move on to resolution 7725 this is a resolution for final adoption of ordinance number 3-22 an ordinance to establish to new chapter 105 of the code of the city of hackensac to be named lead-based paint
inspections for residential rental dwellings to ensure compliance with state law requirements this ordinance has been published according to law and now calls for a public hearing need a motion to open to the public offer second roll call council member Von rudenberg I
Deputy Mayor krino I council member pagle is absent council member Carol mayor lebros hi okay anyone from the public would like to speak to this ordinance and this ordinance only please come forward seeing no members of the public
motion to close to the public offer second all in favor I I None opposed you need a motion to adopt motion to adopt the ordinance offer second roll call council member Von
rudenberg hi Deputy Mayor krino hi council member pag Le abson Council Carol hi mayor Le hi be resolved by the city council of the city of hackensac County of Bergen and state of New Jersey that ordinance number 32025 has passed a second and final reading and is hereby
adopted Okay resolution 70 8-25 this is a resolution for final adoption of ordinance number 4- 2025 an ordinance authorizing Financial agreement with 123 Anderson Street urban renewal LLC C an urban renewal entity
authorized pursuant to the long-term tax exemption law njsa 4A call 20-1 at SEC for the development of a residential apartment upon block 425 lot one this ordinance has been published according to law and now calls for a public
hearing need a motion to open to the public offer second all in favor I I None opposed anyone from the public who like to speak to ordinance 78-2 please come forward seeing no members of the public motion to close offer second all
in favor I I None opposed motion to adopt the ordinance offer second all in favor I I None opposed be resolved by the city council of the city of hackin County of Bergen state of New Jersey that ordinance number
4-22 has passed a second and final reading and is hereby adopted okay adoption I'm sorry resolution 7925 this is a resolution for final adoption of ordinance number
5-22 an ordinance to amend chapter 32 Section 8 of the code of the city of hackensac with respect to fees charged to utilize hackensac police officers for extra Duty details this ordinance has been published according to law now calls for a public hearing need a motion
to open to the public offer second all in favor I'm sorry roll call council member Von rudenberg I Deputy Mayor canestrino I counc member pagle is absent council member Carol I mayor Le Bros I anyone from the public would like to
speak to ordinance 7925 please come forward seeing no members of the public motion to close offer second all in favor I I I None opposed motion to adopt the ordinance offer second we got yeah we're
going I'm going to oh council member V nberg hi Deputy Mayor Kino hi council member pagle is absent council member Carol State mayor lebros hi be resolved by the city council of the city of hackensac County of Bergen and state of
New Jersey that ordinance number 5- 2025 has passed a second and final reading and is hereby adopted thank you resolution 80-2 this is a resolution for the introduction ordinance number 7- 2025 an ordinance authorizing acceptance of the
deed of storm St cul easement between RF urban renewal LLC RFB urban renewal LLC RF retail urban renewal LLC in the city of hackensac installed upon
portions of block one is that supposed to be 11.2 Al looks like one Z all it's block you can't have a block 11,000 is this the new block it's the
new numbers it's the new block numbers new yeah it's the new numbers so it's 11102 Lots 134 and five formerly known as block 300 Lots 3.02 3.03 3.04 and 3.05 could they make it any more
confusing okay do any need a motion please offer second all in favor I I un opposed be resolves that the above ordinance being ordinance 7-22 is introduced is now passed on first reading and that that ordinance shall be considered for final passage at a
meeting to be held on February 25th 2025 at 8:00 P.M or soon thereafter as a matter can be reached at the regular meeting place of the city council and at such time and place all persons interested be given an opportunity to be heard concerning said ordinance and that the city clerk being she is hereby
authorized and directed to publish said ordinance according to law with a notice of its introduction and passage on first reading and of the time and place when and where said ordance will be further considered for final passage thank you resolution 8125 this is a resolution designating
redeveloper and authorizing Redevelopment agreement with 463 Main Street urban renewal LLC for the Redevelopment of block 411 Lots 2.01 13 14 15 16 and 18 463-4800 need a motion please offer
second all in favor I I I None opposed resolution 8225 say resolution for introduction of ordinance number 8 d225 an ordinance authorizing Financial agreement with 463 Main Street urban renewal LLC an urban renewal entity
authorized pursuance the long-term tax exemption law njsa 48 column 20-1 at sec for the development of a residential Apartment project upon block 411 Lots 2.01 13 14 15 16 and 18 okay need a motion please offer
second all in favor I I None opposed we resolve that the above ordinance being ordinance 8-22 is introduced is now passed on first reading and that set ordinance shall be considered for final passage at a meeting to be held on February 25th 2025 at 8:00 p.m. or as
soon thereafter as the matter can be reached at the regular meeting place of the city council and at such time and place all persons interested be given an opportunity to be heard concerning said ordinance and that the city clerk be and she is hereby authorized and directed to publish that ordinance according to law with the notice of its introduction and
passage on first reading and of the time and place when and where set ordinance will be further considered for final passage thank you resolution 8325 say resolution authorizing tax refunds for state board judgments and overpayments need a motion offer second
all in favor I I opposed resolution 8425 it's a resolution authorizing Municipal support for troma LLC to receive a Class 2 cannabis manufacturing license from the New Jersey cannabis Regulatory Commission to operate within the city of
hackensac need a motion offer second roll call council member Von rudenberg hi Deputy Mayor canestrino hi council member pagle is absent member Carol all M Le BR I resolution 8525 say resolution authorizing the
utilization of a national Co-op contract for the purchase of a John Deere 624 P wheel loader for the DPW need a motion offer second all in favor I I I resolution 8625 say resolution authorizing payment
of bills need a motion to pay the bills offer second roll call council member Von rudenberg hi Deputy Mayor Canino I council member Tagle has absent council member Carol I mayor Le bruss I stain uh before we go on I do I have a conflict
or no I don't have a conflict we're going to take resolution 94-25 out for councilman Carol anyone else have a conflict in this consent agenda just 94 that's 94 okay all right right correct
okay continue please the following items are considered to be routine in nature and will be enacted in one motion any items requiring expenditure are supported by a certification of availability of funds any item requiring discussion will be removed from the consent agenda and
consent agenda items will be reflected in full in the minutes including any exceptions and or additions the res the consent agenda consists of resolution 87-25 is resolution authorizing renewal of Bergen risk as a third party
administrator for cities worker compensation General and autom automobile liability insurance resolution 88-2 is a resolution authorizing leave of absence without pay for Robert mclintoch Jr firefighter from January 22nd 2025 to February 19th 2025
resolution for fiscal year 2026 resolution 9-25 is a resolution authorizing Award of contract to Athletic Field Care LLC for field maintenance resolution 91-2258 d25 is a resolution authorizing the award of State contract for the P
purchase of 12 multi-band port radios and charges for the hackin fire department resolution 9325 is resolution authorizing the award of contract to DMR Architects for hackpack exterior building signage and we need a motion
need a motion please second all in favor I I None opposed now resolution 94-25 resolution 94-25 is resolution authorizing execution of a concession agreement with feed the blue to provide accessible healthy and convenient meal
options to the hackin police department need a motion please offer second roll call council member Von rudenberg hi Deputy Mayor Canino hi council member pagle is absent council member Carol stay mayor Le Ros
hi okay very good it was short and sweet and a motion to open to the public offer second all in favor I I been opposed okay anyone from the public would like to speak please come forward
give your name to the clerk you will have three minutes okay hello yes uh Rich serbo Spring Valley Avenue hi everybody come and visit you know take a ride down the Avenue it's it's absolutely treacherous
okay but look I came across someone that's uh working for a company called RDS Services okay and what he does is of course he gets a cut but he he collects money that's on the table for every
municipality all over the country that is uh coming from the federal government okay so and hackin saacks leaving money on the table okay one year you collected it it was 19 I'm sorry it was
2021 that you collected this $47,000 okay it's it's not a lot uh some municipalities are are leaving Millions on the table but over the years now and I'll I'll make this fast because I want
to say other things hackensac has left $385,000 on the table you have to fill out the forms you you have to get it you have to fill out uh uh applications to uh send to the federal government to get
the money or you don't get it so you're leaving $385,000 on the table that the federal government will send you maybe Mr Kleinman may know about it it's called RDS services and that's enough okay uh
today I called uh or yesterday about the cut off day uh for petitions to get on the ballot uh it's kind of you know it's winter time and and the February cut off date for a
May election is is kind of quick isn't it it it's almost premature to to cut people off uh so I called Debbie of course uh the city has nothing to do with it it's um state law state law Governor Murphy's
uh uh demand whatever it's govern Murphy it's been been in law for years as far as nonpartisan elections all right so I call Governor Murphy and they're going to look into it and they they may extend
uh the time so people can get on the ballot and challenge you okay so I think it's a good thing all right other things are you know there's um there's too much snow and ice between the sidewalk and
the street street it's it's absolutely incredible you can't cross any Street anywhere because of that now I know that's that's uh something that ask that that's not going to happen that uh the city would shovel some of that away but I think they should where people are
crossing okay uh you understand what I'm saying it's between the sidewalk and the street all crosswalk yeah no no it's just that piece of of nothing it's always like a twoot strip of icing yeah it's you can't cross the street so where
do you go you have to go to the next driveway maybe to to get to a place to to cross okay all right one more couple things uh my my time is up okay look uh the city planted two trees in front of my house quite a while ago okay and they
have cracked and destroyed my uh sidewalks so why am I responsible for that I don't think so you planted them okay they're two Red Oaks they are beautiful they no longer are but they broke the sidewalks when were they planted huh it's curious how long ago a
long time ago that's going to say they got to be there a while yeah they are and they the city planted them and they broke my sidewalks they're they're absolutely you know cracked broken too high you could trip on them so what's the story come and look okay it's a
it'll be a good chance for you to come and look and see the traffic on Spring Valley Avenue okay very good thank you thank you Mr Sero anyone else from the MR Sero what what number on Spring Valley 46 thank
you okay and with that the only thing I would say and comment to that while we're still open is uh there are areas in town I think our DPW might want to double back like days after where it's like pestan Crossings are where people walk a lot I do see
some ice out there so we probably they were actually out today they choing Central State clearing the uh crosswalk y cuz I see that and I see sometimes I see elderly people like myself trying to get across the street but uh no it's
it's very hard to go curb to curb you always have a little bit of buffer off the curb because you don't want to catch the cow on the plow on the curb but I hear what you're saying um yeah it's hard to get all the snow up right up to the curb and plus with the amount of
cars we have parked on the streets I don't know it's no parking on Spring Valley by you on the street but uh other streets there's a lot of parking on the streets and that's a constant battle with the the plows okay motion to close the public
offer second all in favor I I None opposed councilwoman Rod Roden board sure I just want to congratulate our newly hired uh firefighters and our newly promoted lieutenant and Captain um we appreciate your service and you are
part of a great great group of men and women um congratulations to Ruth welld deserved uh looking forward to to seeing uh the new name on there um as a city manager mentioned earlier uh baseball and softball of hackin saac is open the registration we're still looking for
coaches um so if anyone's out there that wants to coach or just help out I I say it every year you don't really have to know a lot about softball or baseball but just to you know you'll learn as we go along and just be there um to supervise and and make sure all of our young athletes are safe um and thank you
to our DPW I know Mr Sero mentioned uh some of the snow but they really do a great job out there we've had a few doozies of storms with ice and a few more coming so um we appreciate you and and your hard work and that's it have a good night everyone thank you for coming
out thanks Steph it's always nice to see you have a new fireman young faces joining our fire department so that's always a pleasure one of the fun things that we get to do here in the city so it's nice to do that and the promotions as well um Ruth had her fan club with her and
welld deserved um you know she's brought life to every every exhibit that she's attended and and she continues to do so and and is very instrumental in bringing art and keeping art alive in the city of hackin I'm just a reminder I know the city manager talked about it this is
Black History Month so next council meeting we're not going to have the the committee the whole if we are going to instead replace that with our um honoring of Black History Month so it will be from 6:30 to 7:30 right behind us here in the Civic Center um we're
honoring a number of uh blackowned businesses and uh very appropriate because the theme from what we're told is labor in in in um in the Black History Month this particular year so 6:30 to 7:30 there'll be tables they'll set up and they'll talk a little bit
about their businesses it should be an interesting hour and then they will join us back here at 8:00 to receive their proclamations and recognition so that's the next council meeting February 25th um just real quick I always talk about anything that is appropriate for me and
there were two different Redevelopment projects on here tonight on the agenda very quickly they were both Financial uh Arrangements one was for 123 Anderson Street um where we're looking right now they're they're going to be paying a 12% pilot on their gross the TA what they
pay in taxes right now is about $214,000 and when they're leased as all of our others currently leased at 95% or better once they're pretty fairly leased that 214,000 a year will be returning 1.4 million a year so that would be a
$1.2 million increase to the bottom line on that project then the other was 463 million that was any of you who remember the old Bruce the bed King store kind of the it's directly across from Aldi's on Main Street um smaller only 130 units um
they currently pay the 12% pilot they're going to be paying as well they currently pay $143 3,000 in taxes and they should be returning $563,000 in in a payment pilot to uh to the city so again both of those once
they're functional will be right addressed to the bottom line to help our taxpayers and anyone who's interested can see all of those pilots on the revenue page if you look at the city budgets that are online you can see the revenue page and those contributions we saw about we realized about $10 million
last year on pilot payments and we hope to continue to receive more and more as these buildings continue to progress everyone be careful out there I think we're going to have some late night hopefully we'll all be home well before it starts to snow it doesn't look like it's started yet be careful on the snow and ice it sounds like we're going to
have it tonight and some over the weekend so maintain your properties and stay safe thank you thank you chair well congratulations to Ruth and the firefighters for their U for their accomplishments for this evening I like
to thank everyone who has attended this meeting physically and remotely take care and God bless and get home safe thank you so I want to congratulate our new captain our new lieutenant uh welld deserved it's a lot of hard work to get
to that level um and the five new firefighters uh congratulations to all of them Ruth newer um every Community needs a Ruth new stter who steps up to the plate and does the right thing and you know the the Arts are very important in the city of hackin saac we've made it
clear that we're going to support the Arts we with all the concerts we have multiple close to 10 or more concerts a year outside of the hack pack not to mention all the shows we have inside the hack pack along with the art gallery so the Arts are very important in the city
uh you may have noticed that the statues have been removed from Anderson Street Park um got a lot of positive comments about them uh throughout their stay there I think they were there about three or four months Maybe and uh they were pretty cool looking
we're planning to do it again next year yeah they'll be back they're all on loan so everybody yeah they're loan to the city doesn't cost the taxpayer donme for all that art and uh we had them down by Atlantic Street Park they're pretty cool statues all different types of things representing different uh people and
just regular like people doing stuff around town so it's pretty pretty nice stuff uh plowing you know I I want to reach out to the public because I you know I can't help myself sometimes I'm going on social media but uh couple of
websites it's literally snowing for an hour and people are already freaking out they haven't seen a plow or you know give these guys some time to do their job right takes a while to clear snow it's not easy we're a good-sized city we're the largest city in Bergen County
um when the snow comes down as fast as it did the other day it takes them a while to get around and I think overall they did a really really good job but uh same with our I see the same thing with negativity sometimes on our police or our fire right these guys are working out there all right give them a break
it's very easy to sit on a computer I call them keyboard Cowboys and you know destroy somebody on there say negative comments but uh you know these are working men and women in our city and uh not only do they read it but their
families read it all right so let's try to lay back on the negativity and try to be a little positive um I think that's important for for all of us to do so with that I need a motion to close offer second all in favor I
I have a good evening everybody