ni to see you mayor at 7 o' in accordance with Section Five of the open public meetings act chapter 231 P 1975 notice of this meeting was posted on the bulletin board designed for that purpose a notice was transmitted to the official newspapers provided by
resolution adopted January 4th 2025 meeting notice has been posted continuously posted our website may I have a roll call yes mayor council president Morgan here councilwoman Phillips here councilman aison here councilman Pagan
here councilwoman Haren here councilman Dort here thank you please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge aliance to the flag United States of America to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible
Justice please remain standing for a moment of silence thank you please be seated I'll now open it up for public comment on agenda items only that's public comment on an agenda item if you'd like to make comment on any of our agenda items please step up to the microphone state your name and address
for the record not seeing any public comment I'll close the public comment portion and we'll commence with the caucus work session not seeing any items on the caucus work session is that correct items good all right we'll move into the approval of
the minutes of March 4th 2025 work session may I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 4th 2025 work session please so moved motion by councilman Pagan I have a second second seconded by councilwoman
Phillips all those in favor I any opposed or abstained right thank you next we'll move right into council member reports councilman deor sure start off
with some highlights for the engineering report we are working on finalizing the paving program some streets we are targeting Crest AV 7th AV second AV and Oak once we're looking to hopefully hit depending on what budgets available to us in the capital program so working with the Baro engineer and identifying
and locking in those as far as public works we do have our first quarterly meeting to review the shared service agreement coming up here soon in April that's all we have Wonder any questions for councilman deor report all right thank you
next thank you mayor um on the Civic events committee side we have our Easter egg hunt coming up um scheduled for April 19th at 10:00 a.m. um against the American region field um so we're really excited about that he put together a really nice flyer
for um the event and um that should be coming out shortly um we had um you know plans for Memorial Day and Fourth of July are underway really excited about um getting more floats and bands incorporated into the Fourth of July
event for this year and um things are moving um that's it for me thank you councilman Haron any questions what time is Easter 10 a.' uh Council Addison okay um on the
shade tree uh we're uh looking to do probably 30 trees uh for the spring planting um so that's uh kind of underway uh and then on H Devin Avenue we just saw Bill Spearman set up a meeting
uh to get uh hopefully some grant money from him we still haven't received and deposited the uh the money for the remediation testing so I'm gon to follow up on that so we can get that started um and then on the fountain um nobody seemed to really like the uh the boulden
Rocks I don't particularly like it either so I'm going to uh show up to the uh historic preservation we have a new plan maybe to put a um like a a mill uh circle with a fountain coming up the top that's kind of indestructible it's more
historically relevant and I think it looks good so I'm G to see if that'll float and do that St I think it's it should be vandalism free sounds good that's it any questions for
Council all right you council president Morgan thanks mayor um just briefly I I I spoke with our CFO um we are sounds like he's he's getting the the budget together and we're hoping to
introduce it uh the second meeting of April but uh other than that uh any other than that everything uh is is moving along well and uh but that's it for today thanks mayor questions for the
council president anyone all right Council councilwoman Phillips thank you mayor I have um the fire department um report report from February 32 calls in Haden Heights 18 calls in barington six calls to Mutual
Aid three calls to the highway for a total of 59 calls um seven firefighters per call which is great and 25 career staff calls I also have the report for the police department monthly statistics for February 1100 calls for service 10
arrests and charges nine accidents and 197 motor vehicle summons is issued um some highlights from the report Fort officer Megan propati will be recognized and presented with a meritorious service award at the 2024 police award ceremony
um and that's related to her role in a hostage negotiation situation which took place in October of 2024 in Lawnside um so kudos to officer propati she's our only female officer she does a wonderful job every day and we're very proud of
her um there's also an event coming up on March 22nd from noon to 1 p.m. at the Heights Library that's being called books and badges um and there will be snacks always good to have snacks provided by the Philly Pretzel Factory
and all school age children are welcome so we encourage the community to to attend that event um last but certainly not least the 30th Anniversary remembrance ceremony for fallen officers uh patrolman Norcross and investigator
mcin is scheduled for April 17th at 10:00 a.m. located at um the Dell so that will be a nice event um I believe we couldn't do the 25th anniversary because of Co is that right Chief yeah so this will be h a really nice opportunity to honor them like they
deserve to be honored and we encourage everyone to come that's it for the police my only other update is um the mayor and I were invited to attend challenge day at the high school on March 4th um this was our second year doing it and the second year that the
district had the program it's uh an awesome dayong event where youth from the high school that are selected by uh teachers and staff participate in a experiential learning program which essentially is designed to um increase
their self-esteem promote positive peer experiences and eliminate or reduce bullying and harassment um and there's a lot of participants from the community adult participants and it's really just a great day where kids learn that they're not the only ones going through
hard times times and uh learn to relate to each other where they otherwise may not be able to do so in a regular school day um so we had a nice time there it was a great program we look forward to doing it in the future if they can have it and that is the end of my long report
sorry any questions for councilman Phillips whoa whoa whoa what I was G to say now um thank you Council Phillips Council Pagan nothing report mayor thank you um and mayor's report so
obviously to um Echo what council when Phillips had mentioned about challenge day I thought it was a huge success once again for the second year they they conducted it um I do want to highlight and thank um the Cy County um Board of Health and uh carel from there from the
director um was able to secure funding to support um challenge day this year specifically uh some of the the areas that they did not have covered and so uh we cannot thank uh the county enough they also had the opportunity to participate uh they brought a few people
from the county come and participate and see the uh what challenge day is all about with the hopes of trying to find a way to um Branch this out and offer it to additional districts uh within the county so trying to put a little bit
more together uh building a great partnership there with uh Corey Mueller and um I guess you would call it the guidance Department within the district as well as with the county uh Department of Health so really thrilled about that relationship also uh was happy to meet
with the school district uh the superintendent and their new CFO uh earlier this month just to start to build a relationship there um I've spoken at length with Mike Mans dorfer about possibility of continuing to try to do some shared service AG um
initiatives whether it's sidewalks or U Grant application going forward so just again trying to strengthen that relationship with them and I'm thrilled to announce obviously earlier this month we appointed four ladies to the senior um Municipal coordinators uh
positions for the county for um the senior committee and those four ladies will be attending their first meeting tomorrow um which will be great looking forward to that so that is it for the mayor's report questions any other comments
awesome I forgot to say how great I went to the high school play it was fabulous oh yeah it was so good it was fabulous they did a great job I'm partial to Legally Blond what did you say Legally Blond fabulous
awesome um moving now into unfinished business and seeing none we'll move right into new business and we have resolution 2025 98 a resolution authorizing a contract to Bach Associates for professional Engineering Services and compliance New Jersey environmental infrastructure trust program guidelines and regulations for
sanitary sewer system Rehabilitation project resolution 2025 99 resolution authorizing transfers appropriation reserves resolution 20251 100 resolution awarding contract to think paver hardscaping LLC for on call maintenance service contract resolution 2025 101
resolution authorizing payment of bills and claims for the second half of March and resolution 2025 102 resolution providing for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of New Jersey open public public meeting meetings Act njsa 10 4-12 for a matter
related to Personnel in the Haden Height's fire department discussion is expected to be about 15 minutes in duration formal action may be taken on the foregoing matter following executive session I have a motion for those resolutions please so moveed motion by
councilman ban I have a second oison second seconded by councilman oison may have a roll call vote please yes mayor council president Morgan yes councilwoman Phillips yes aison yes councilman Pagan yes councilwoman Haren yes councilman deore yes thank you thank
you next I will open it for public comment this is public comment on anything at all doesn't have to be on the agenda if you'd like to make a comment come on up you can come right up to this microphone here and you're gonna you're just going to state your name and town uh that you
live in I'm Jack Connelly I live in hen Heights Here hi Jack hi Jack uh do you guys have jurisdiction over uh King's Highway and the construction being done over there we we so Kings Highway is a
is a County Road um but it goes it obviously goes through Haden Heights and aabon so we work with our partners at County for that that project in its entirety uh I was going to and from school today and obviously the construction is taking a long time because it's not private own
construction as union workers but I thought that the signage was very complicated and I saw a lot of people getting confused I was wondering if there was any way to make that clear working on the signage so I'm be happy to reach out to our partners at the county and see if we can look into uh
improving some of the signage Out There Our police department does has a great relationship with them as well um and they have liaison on site every day so we'll work with them and see what we can do anything specific that you kind of noticed uh you know where uh Brooklyn p
is do there is a spot there where I saw like eight people going to the freshly laid cement because they thought that they were able to go there oh they were going they were driving into the the freshly laid cement yeah or is that cement I don't know well there I saw
like four cars do that oh boy so including my grandma so awesome well Jackie sorry to hear about that thank you for bringing this to our attention we I'm sure they're probably aware of it too since they had somebody drive into their cement but we
will reach out to them and see if we can improve with the signage and the uh specifically the detours I know it's a it's a tough tough um tough couple um I would say year ahead of us with all of the construction that's going on in Kings Highway yeah but it's going to look great when it's done and hopefully
The Pedestrian improvements along there will be be really appreciated by the D yeah awesome anything else Jack uh not really awesome I want to commend you for coming up here I don't how old are you jack you don't mind me asking um 13 13 that's awesome I don't think we have had
many 13y olds come to our meeting since no we appreciate hearing from you yes that's true every every meeting awesome thank you so much Jack we appreciate it do you mind giving us your
address 3032 thank you thanks Jack thanks Jack good job any other public comment all right not seeing any we'll close the public comment portion and we're going to recess into executive session so we
just asked uh the chief stay um Craig we're good I don't think we need it right we don't need Craig for anything um e e e e e
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now all right good back on motion motion to come out of EX session so moved have a second second second by council president motion by councilman
deore seconded by council president Morgan all those in favor I opposed or abstained thank you uh not seeing any business to act on May I have a motion to adjourn the meeting motion by councilman Pagan may I have a second second by council
president Morgan all those in favor I any opposed or abstain thank you good night nervous