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call tonight's council meeting to order roll call Bennett I'm here leosa here mey here Sasso here skara here Wy oh here he's not here Matthews observe with those new
eyes please rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all
adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the annual schedule of regular meetings here adopted and posted on the public bulletin board at the municipal building email to The Herald News the record The Gazette and all persons who've requested the mailing of such since November 19 2024 approval of minutes can have
approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of January 8th 2025 and the bid minutes for the lead base paint inspection services and Architectural service of the second floor Municipal Building opened on January 9th 2025 motion second motion by Le leosa second
by Sasso any discussion Ral skara yes Sasso yes mey yes leosa yes Bennett yes Matthews yes motion carries public comment and I open the meaning to the public anyone desires
to be heard come forward to the microphone state your name haven't see you in a while I hope all well uh seeing no want I entertain a motion to close the public portion of the meeting Mo second motion by Bennett second by skiier all in favor I I motion carries adoption of
ordinances we have none tonight old business Mike will start your way not tonight Raina nothing Bruce no sir Anna Marie how could I nothing Dominic no all that I'll say no how about new business
Dominic nope Anna Marie nothing Bruce no sir Rea yes oh oh you broke you broke your record oh come on guys um just want to um let you guys know this year we are uh filing for
our recertification for sustainable Jersey we do this every three years we have a deadline of February 23rd and tonight there are two uh resolutions one reestablishing the green team which has been in existence 209 but we have to do a formal uh
resolution on that and the second one is we're reop our green grounds and maintenance policy that we've had in place since 2019 which actually the barel has been doing for a long time before that but it's just a formality um with these resolutions to confirm and
reaffirm our commitments so um working with the administration and and Lori um there may be another one coming uh another resolution but hopefully this should be the at L ending of the resolutions then all the work has to be put together thanks tonight there are
two resol one she said okay then I'll pass I'll turn to the administrative agenda presented by Mary Lane thank you Mr President I'd like to start off by thanking our director of Public Works
Bill heffler uh and the entire DPW crew for a great job that they did uh during this past snowstorm our streets were magnificent they they were down to the black top within no time a lot of
pre uh pre uh storm work that they did and performed and uh uh our office along with uh the police department office the dispatcher received a number of calls Thanking us for a great job that uh that
our our DPW did and I just want to say again they are the best of the best um this weekend's snow event has made me address a couple of things snow must be removed from sidewalks within 24 hours of the end of the snow
event you will be ticketed if it is not removed regarding parking vehicles on roadways in the burrow section 50549 of our bur code states that a person may not park or leave an
unattended vehicle on the roadway for a period longer than 24 hours if you do you will be ticketed if a vehicle is left over 48 Hours it shall be considered abandoned after being parked continuously on the street and our
Police Department is authorized to remove the vehicle from the roadway again regardless of the weather event vehicles must always be moved every 24 hours if parked on the street dog license renewal for the month
of January please remember to license your pet at the Board of Health by next Friday the 31st of January looking forward to April the pay County surrogate is partnership with Northeast New Jersey legal services and will be
hosting a free last will and testament event here at the horor municipal building for qualifying bake County Senior residents age 60 and above and all veterans regardless of age on Friday April 11th and I will also put this in
my Friday letters so it's a reminder for everyone on May 3rd the P County surrogates office is in partnership with the wills of for Heroes foundation will be providing Wills for p County Law
Enforcement firefighters and their spouses this event will be held at the P County Police Academy in Wayne flyers for both are posted in the burrow Hall and will be in my Friday letter Please be aware of scam telephone
calls emails and text messages that they are being sent out do not give any personal information over the phone or to anyone that you do not know or recognize their voice our traffic Bureau is enforcing the law drivers please obey
the speed limit and don't be distracted while driving pedestrians look both ways before you cross the street I cannot express to you how concerned I am with the lack of focus when people are driving or when people are out
walking I just ask that you be cautious and take it slow again as I have said in numerous times throughout the year if you see something that doesn't seem just quite right please call our Police Department when you see
it so that they can also respond immediately I had an incident at my home this past weekend where someone came recogniz in that he was from Verizon and I asked him for his ID he said it was in his car I said well have a nice day and
I closed the door I called the police police caught the gentleman down down the block and ordered him out of out of uh out of town uh he did have uh the company that he worked for did have a permit but the individual did not so
just keep in mind what you uh what you have to do if someone comes to your front the front door if you don't want to answer the door that's totally up to you R by Anderson was going door to door too and I asked for solicit license and he said what I said yeah you're supposed
to be doing that okay no no you they have to have an ID and it has to be visible of all the houses he had to pick the mayor he picked mine I didn't tell him what I was but uh would I think he was a little shocked when two police cards arrived told you
what a little shocked when card uh and I'll turn it over to our attorney Michael Pasqual thank you mayor it's my first report of the new year so I have a lotor um last report just the whole Bibles babies things like that rhy yeah no no none of that um first of all I
want to talk about the posos litigation all of you received a communication from our attorneys who are working with us on these matters we were updated pretty much as the timelines the first significant timeline should be within
the next 2 to 3 weeks and that is the and 3M settlements the Claims Administrator reviews all of the claims submitted including ours and then makes allocation of funds we have our claim
all submitted the allocation should come out within the next several weeks that sets in motion then A Brief Review period a comment period once you accept it we think might receive a first payment as early as the end of the first
quarter this year so that's good news for our taxpayers and our rers more than anything uh as to the other two settlements which are Tao and BASF they're still in the process of submitting a formulated claims so those
are the smaller ones but good news is we should be seeing money as early as the end of March so let's hope for the best um I also reported to you as a council I want to report to the community at large what's happening with our tax base because I think it deserves mention um
for 2025 going into the year we reset Tim Henderson working with me working with our brazer um we reset the tax book for the year so that the rable base of the B
auth adjusts every year this year we saw a $22 million gain in our tax base now our base is over 2 billion so 22 million is not as big as it sounds but it's a 85
increase it's nearly a full percentage point which is really good in terms of tax dollars that's $700,000 in taxes so that's an additional 700,000 that will come into our municipality as new tax dollar over and
above that which was received last year and over uh any increase for this year so again growth is a good thing we're projecting continued growth we did settle a number of major tax appeals
last year which cut down the amount of the game we would have really realized in this case um but clearing those off the books also gets rid of liabilities so good growth uh kudos to the mayor the
administration to the council um it sound fiscal Poli policies like that that keeps our bond rate strong makes our ability to borrow so great and also helps to keep a balance in our in our budget so good job to everybody all
around uh and keeping the growth going but also keeping liabilities down um I will be requesting and have requested a special meeting for next week as you are aware affordable housing round four is
upon us every municipality has the ability to adopt a resolution by the end of this month which would allow us to challenge the assigned number given to us by the DCA uh I spoke at length with John Sabo he has been working on this
and other municipalities excuse me for some time what excuse me what we've seen in the DCA numbers is uh Reliance on Old Maps maps that do not show what it
should show they're all D Maps so Parklands ball fields um extreme slopes are showing as vacant as a result it looks like we have far more vacant land than we really do
which does increase Our obligation so John is putting together which I should have by weeks and together I'll survive thanks uh John is putting together our antidote we will say to what they've
given us a different set of numbers which I will ask you to adopt uh within 48 Hours of adopting that resolution I'm required to file a lawsuit which I will be doing uh trying to gain a certificate of compliance to show that we've met the
first step in the process we still have to go from there to the adoption and creation of a housing element of fair share plan we're not by any means done but the first step is to address the artificially High number given to us by the DCA and so uh
again I talked to the council president about this and hoping we'll be able to schedule something for next week um one other piece of interesting news is I was learned today that Senator Buco picked up the resolution that has been
circulating that we adopted 50 other communities at least have adopted and more are adopting um calling for a different way of doing the calculation for total affordable housing growth in the state senator buo is prepared to
introduce it as legislation don't know that it'll succeed but it is going to put it on the front burner and even if it doesn't succeed in the Senate and assembly it could you know very well spur voters
come November to reconsider what they're looking at as well so it's an issue and affordable housing is an issue Statewide um last thing I'll tell you is that we were um we had oral argument last week before
judge filco on the Nexus plastic matter I should receive a decision within the next two weeks as to whether or not the appeal is successful or if our action was sustained and that mayor concludes my
report thank you Michael now turn it over to our engineer Joe burn thank you mayor thank you Michael the uh galvanized water service line replacement project phase three uh work on Hawthorne Avenue is complete and the contractor will be providing a price for
the replacement of the service at Lincoln middle school and St Anthony school which will likely occur when school's out um is uh likely to be finished this week and the contractor will then move on to Second Avenue starting next week uh County Road
opening permit has been submitted by the buau on behalf of MSP construction for the work on diamond Bridge Avenue and to date approximately 22% of these Services have been addressed uh for the 2024 Road improvements uh Road programing local
Aid with regards to the Ada Rams that were installed uh the remaining punch list items and restoration items will be addressed when weather permits um the Franklin Field bleacher improvements uh the Press Box material actually the
Press box was delivered um actually when saw it before I came to the meeting tonight um it's near the South Avenue pump station for the moment so it's not stored in the parking lot um Monday snow uh pushed back the installation of the same but they're
aiming to have installation of complete by the end of the week or early next week um it delayed the uh delayed the crane so they're working on getting that uh for the 2023 Road improvements uh Road program local Aid uh there's
currently a resolution of tonight uh for the final resident assessments um and uh for the Lafayette Avenue streetscape phase 3 project uh preconstruction meeting is currently being rescheduled with AA firms and mayor that concludes my report thank you
Joe um and now I'll turn it over to our administrator Eric Mau thank you everybody so far has been so short I think I need to compensate for that in my report sorry um five minute roll uh uh first of all I want to add a
comment about the mayor's about snow where we have problems on streets usually where people haven't moved their cars off the street get snow on them and then when they clear the snow they throw the snow out into the street and that's where we have problems if people have to
on the street we ask them please when you clear your car clear the snow towards the curb rather than throwing out in the street otherwise one perfectly Cloud streets are going to look look like they're a
mess stre as noted in the bid minutes we received three proposals in response to our RFP for architectural services for the police department and the second four space previously occupied by the Board of Education a Review Committee has been set up to evaluate these
proposals with an initial meeting tomorrow uh um afternoon um two proposals received in response to the RFP for implementation of a lead paint inspection process uh review will begin shortly so that program can get off the ground uh a new
version of salary ordinance 23572 has been distributed tonight included that are three salaries uh one is the first one is a s for a part-time licensed operator for the water system uh this service was formerly contracted
with our former laboratory services company Agra who sold out their business to pce Labs still another company EUR fins won that contract but does not provide license operator Services um D requirements are making it necessary to
bring the function in house um we won't get such a Bargain Basement rate with the lab service doing it but we plan to hire Max Huber pre one of the previous owners of Agra and he was actually the individual who worked with us uh in the
past um we think he'll be a great um addition to our um on staff team it's part-time position uh second position is for a uh zoning officer looc code supervisor these are functions that were
added to the duties of our former Fire official Jean de Austine who is now retired budgetarily we have sort of re um structured recombined existing money for the fire safety zoning and code functions to staff these three functions
with a different configuration of people so even though it's uh it looks like a new $68,000 salary we're taking money from from several places to make that uh work um this position has been filled with the hire of Glenn T who we are
excited to have join our team um he following his experience zoning experience in three other municipalities uh finally the one added tonight is for our public defender our public defenders have made the same $300 per court session for over 20 years I
know it was a number of years before I started 19 years ago um meaning we've essentially had these attorneys working for us for basically less than $100 an hour which is not what attorneys make in
2025 um we're proposing doubling that rate to $600 to make up for the 20 some years of Noe increase budgetarily this will cost about $3,600 for one session uh per month buar will
c00 for one the offc consent resolution r232 adds money to the temporary budget to pay our social security and pension obligations these these monies will be included in the permanent budget and the pension obligation is the number number
it's just the number that the state gives us um director of Revenue and finance Lor Foley and I have been interviewing candidates to fill two vacancies in her Department a water billing Clerk and a payroll accounts payable clerk um we're we're nearly done
with with both but if people are interested in being considered they would have to go to our website and and submit um applications um a Grant application will be submitted to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs this week seeking money to help fund
replacement of the bleachers at wag Ballfield number one with ADA Compliant bleachers um this Grant application was previously authorized by resolution uh the administration is asking the council to hold a public
hearing at its next meeting meeting on February 5th for a potential Bic County open space Grant application for the same project in 2024 the bur was successful in getting Grant funds for both of the from both these sources for new bleachers at wag 2
and three um we and we hope that that success continues uh this morning I distributed information to the council uh via email regarding a water break at the Go Hill Pump Station the weth this location is now back online along with the p
treatment uh at that well um significant damage however was done by the through flooding uh of the electric components of the pump station it appears that most all of this cost should be covered by our insurance contrary to what I initially assumed this break and leak
had nothing to do with our frigid weather um our our uh Department of Public Works um our Police Department um and and our engineer especially the the public works but everybody did a great job in responding to this
emergency um the um Michael mentioned the posos uh we have um NGB financing for the posa system um is the NGB is proceeding through their process they expect to sell bonds I believe in in May
um which would then start our our loan um and we we'll be participating providing that information um with money we're getting from the um P settlement we hope to buy down the amount we're
borrowing um least the amount that we get from the first um tranch of money um that should be about a million dollars so the first million dollar we get hopefully we'll be able to take off of the amount we borrow um and so uh we
lower Debt Service over the next 25 years the remaining money which will be also about a million dollars we would set aside and use to pay off help pay the The Debt Service on those uh B those loan payments as they come
do over the 25 years um and and finally uh the uh we made a request to the county for Diamond Bridge Avenue and War Burton Avenue to be included on their 2026 Road program I don't know whether
we will get both roads but it doesn't hurt to ask a number of years ago we asked for a bunch of roads in believe it or not they did them all in two years so so you know we can we might get lucky again um gole Hill Road is already on planned for
2025 and if we get all those roads done over the next couple years we will'll be in pretty good shape on our County Roads and that concludes uh my report thank you thank you Eric Joe I have a question for you the uh plans and specs for the
25 Road program what's the status with that with that project um I know that the uh the bur funded portion is currently under internal review um I believe the uh NJ do portion is near completion or is under internal review
when when will I want I want a completion date when when are you going to be ready so we can go out for b um it'll have to go through ngj do and ibank review uh for their respective abortions um ibank previously had a
quick turnaround time with 2024 um Bank previously had a quick turn around just just let me Chim and we have to do our ordinance for 200 uh um 25 that portion of that we did an ordinance for last year's roads we
hope to introduce on the the fifth for which we need numbers to get to Michael to draft those Bond ordinances and so that becomes the the immediate thing um we would adopt then probably on on March 5th and we would be looking to go out to
bid sometime in April in well late March maybe receive bids by early April in order to award so hopefully we on schedule to with everything to meet that schedule yeah I believe that's possible okay thank you Mr President will'll
answer any questions that the council may have any questions Michael because the state made a mistake on our Graphics why we have to pay for it you know it's costing us money to do this now well the state doesn't think they made a mistake the legislation actually says they're
supposed to use these maps that D has which are really not good maps for this purpose and so a lot of communities are facing the same exact thing everybody's challenging their number unfortunately what happens is if we fix our allocation
and push it down it conceivably pushes someone else's up but that's not our concern somebody else gets their number pushed down does that push our number up conceivably that's how would play out because the state has determined this is
the number of units we need then allocated across only some but not all of the municipalities in the State uh the whole formula is is wrong because it starts with such an artificially High number
it's not buildable it can't happen because it would be an unprecedented amount of building in this state and it just can't happen it doesn't match yeah the the overall number is absurd um you know again if you did if
you looked at actual new construction Coos issued it's about a third of that which the uh powers that be of the side that we need to build it's tough thank you
Frank this probably a silly question but I just want clarification from some chatter that I hear um when when we have when we do snow plowing is it accurate that we only snowplow our streets and the roads that are County we have to wait for the
county to come and plow them yes lafette go really that's correct if we start plowing their streets we will become legally responsible for them in in the event event of liability we found that
out uh uh on street sweeping on uh at Mohawk and and north8 Street where we would occasionally very occasionally sweep um gravel that ended up there and when a motorcycle skitted there and it
was was was injured we were brought in because by by voluntarily maintaining County Roads um the law basically said we become responsible we're not going to start
plowing the county roads become legally responsible for them are they pretty expeditious do they come around as quickly as we do because I know we do the Count's pretty quick yes home I you know but I'm just curious if I don't
want our residents to be waiting if they happen to be on Lafia or you know go Road and we're doing you know our road so okay that answers my question I thought you had North hildon into your street they don't what I thought you had North course I have both I get twice
twice the no listen I will tell you four Thorne came up in our little cozy Nook of of the town probably 10 times it really was it was outstanding of I still stay home though it's too
cold I can't top that um yes I have a question so Eric you said the county about doing the roads on diamond Bridge to and then you said warburn so um can you ask the county because this was a a
complaint about turning right at that light onto Lincoln because people are trying to turn right but also get into the turning lane and it's causing traffic like there's been issues and I know that's a county road but people are
like coming making that right to Harr to get to Harris Town they're cutting and people are getting cut off you can make a right har they're cutting not following proper um traffic driving
stuff that's that's a police enforcement matter I don't know what I don't know what you were well the question is is there any way we can I guess I don't know if it's a light or anything but there was just complaints that people are making a right onto Lincoln and cars are
coming um but they're trying to jump over Lane to get to Harris town and there like there's been a potential on D Avenue there is no right turn lane it's all one lane follow what I'm saying but there is
a left turn lane there the left and the right it's just that there's people are complaining that it's backed up and that people are getting cut off when they're trying to get to Harris Town B have the eliminate no turn on right on red to eliminate
what Raven is saying probably that traffic would be all the way that's that's the concern because it's not an easy fix that's that's the concern the other day I had to go to the Post Office it
was about 8:00 8:15 oh that's cool time and the traffic was backed up to the railroad from Lincoln Avenue I I I don't think there's I just don't think there's an easy fix for it it was just people complaining about
trying to jump EAS it you know there could be something with the timing of the lights also so the the left turn that you're going to go down on to Harris toown Road has to coincide with the the light on diamond Bridge yeah the
way it turns because that the left turn lane on the bridge backs up too yeah that's why I said about the lces or any time but that's that's County and that was what people were saying that's a county road but count really doesn't do anything with
lights they they may in very rare cases install them but then they let municipalities be responsible for for all the maintenance now I don't know un this this is one that is a a Bergen County light a Bergen County
actually this this is a Bergen Light I'm pretty sure okay so we we'd have to ask Bergen County about timing because the other side is Glenrock and then when you yeah I I I seem to recall discussions before that this is a Bergen Light same
with the other like down at the end of Lincoln but you know but if if we talk to our County and Bering maybe we can get somebody to take a look at it and see whether there's some better way to configure it the only way you could do
it is to make the left from Lincoln onto Diamond Bridge coincide with a right arrow that goes onto Lincoln from Diamond Bridge you could have because they're non-conflicting movements and you can
get some of the traffic off of uh D Bridge perhaps that's about it we'll work on it Rea all right thanks uh yes just to follow up with the councilwoman Sasso just let you know I do live on a main road and uh the
County's been very good about PL I can always speak for my own from that um also uh Michael on on the DCA on these old Maps if they based their number old
maps onali on how much affordable housing they should have and the maps are old and you know prehistoric at this time you know the numbers floor to begin with for every municipality yeah the the
problem is that the formulation for the Statewide need did not rely upon the maps the maps were used for the allocation to each municipality so there was first a determination of what is the Statewide
need and that was using the what they call the Jacobson methodology that judge Jacobson utilized in the Mercer County case and then they like pumped it up a hair just to make it a little more um once the overall state number was
determined then the DCA was charged with allocating it by the communities and what they used really was aerial photography and that's you know old aerial photography and so for instance in North hen what looks flat is a
mountain um you know and it's not flat and so you're seeing skewed numbers as a result of we we have a park going through almost the whole town correct so that's where we think there's some vulnerability in the number it's not going to reduce it dramatically because
that's only one of a number of factors we also had a a large growth in the values of our rable base which is a huge factor in determining what your obligation is
because commercial values have increased over the past number of years that's another reason why we seemingly have capacity number that's another re incredible I would have thought that when it when you first comment they you
know they determin what the need is which is exorbitant my first thought was the need is based off of the humans that need these homes to live in that's only one aspect of it and and so a number of them for instance they look at is it a
growth community so you're looking to to create these opportunities in growth communities we portray as a growth Community we we're second or third highest inake County in growth numbers which is a good thing it's you know
kudos to you guys for uh having a growth Community but the reward you get is oh and by the way means you're probably going to have more people living here to a degree the only issue is that there's not much there's no way to put it I wish
they could tell us where to put all this well when we at the end of June we will have the housing element and fair share plan adopted by the end of June and the housing element of fair share plan will still have a vacant land adjustment and it's going to be the same vacant land
adjustment we had last time we didn't acquire judge broken said it to me when we had our last case he said did you anex any portions of St Patterson or are you the same siiz Community you used to be he said I'm pretty sure we're the same he goes okay so the number can only
be so big our vacant land has not increased Governor tipped State address where he wants to eliminate all local zoning yes that's what is where you're going to find it you're going to find housing being put in industrial areas just because they
say so right and one of the real concerns is that he is largely led by Adam Gordon and the folks at fair share housing um and of course you know again the economic viability of the state is
something we ought to think about too because we got a lot of people living here but if you're losing jobs to other states that's really not helping you no we're suburban community because we want correct we don't want to be a C
help um okay uh mayor quick question on the surrogate that's um and talking about the last will in Testament what was the date that day you guys talked about that do you have that wasn't sure if it was April 11th or that's it was
uh wasn't sure if it was April it was I had I just have April but I'll April 11th it was I had I just have April but is there any way I can get any more information on that I have pamphlets in my office okay that' be great she was here yesterday and we had a very nice
talk and they're going to be coming here with uh probably four to six attorneys uh every other month great uh we outline the uh the building for her because the attorneys need privacy when they're talking with the client and um you know
she's all excited great that that she's going to be here and we actually opened up the doors forced thank you um okay one for Eric Eric um on the uh recent water leak that we had water issue would it be beneficial if we would
consider an alarm that we get notified right away we did okay we did first actually told us something our SK system work I thought I IND problem but it's it's like an 8 in
pipe and which can produce flood quickly yeah a lot of water and basically it filled up the the one room and then you to a fight of about three or 3 and A2 ft and then blew open the door and got videos the door blowing open water in a
huge going out into go Road that's all I had thank you anyone else that's all I had thank you anything else mayor no that concludes the report from the administration can I have a motion to record the administrative agenda Move
Motion by Bennett second by sier all in favor motion carries introduction of ordinance 23572 an ordinance to fix the 2025 salaries wages and compensation of the employees of the bur of hor Thorne County of Pake and state of New Jersey
PR resolve this ordinance is now passed first reading and said ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the governing body in the municipal building 445 laat Avenue for Thor New Jersey on February 19th 2025 and at said time and place all persons interested will be given an opportunity
to be heard concerning the same and the clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish a set ordinance in the record at least one week prior to said hearing with the notice of its introduction time and place when and where said ordinance would be considered for final passage this is um as Eric outlin for
the water system operator the zoning officer and the public defenders in GRE not that for the uh uh public that's per session we will have that uh edited so when is
published have a motion second motion by m second by skier any discussion yes leosa yes me Sasso skara yes Matthews motion carries resolution we have off consent R 23-25 is emergency
temporary budget have a motion by by S any discussion yes Salo yes mil leosa yes Bennett yes Matthews motion carries Cass agenda R uh
m125 R2 24-25 through r292 m159 should be 251 -25 to install handicap parking space at block 52 Lot 2 R 24-25 is to reestablish the Green Team committee R
25-25 is to approve the green grounds and maintenance policy R 26-25 is to resend r825 to update company name and officer R 27-25 is to revise the sidewalk assessment for 147 Mountain a
billinger r 28-25 Professional Services for BOS engineering for wag 2 and three bleachers R 29-25 to prove assessment costs for the 2023 Road program and local projects have a
motion second motion by Bennett second by skier discussion second Bennett yes leosa yes M yeso yes skara yes Matthews motion carries special coun yes Matthews yes
Dominic we'll start your way uh finance committee met before the meeting to discuss financing Rescue five that's it Marie I have nothing other than the ambulance Corps is having their dinner this Saturday night and uh we look forward to celebrating each other
together um I don't know if is it open to the public mayor think my invitation I resent that no one can come we'll tell you how it was that's right uh yes the board of Rec met and uh the
one main item other than scheduling fields in that is that background checks for coaches who got them done three years ago in other words 2022 uh your time is do again you got to get another background check this year
um for the public works committee I spent a lot of time the last two weeks out on walor a and Winnie a just because I got the opportunity to see what they're actually doing out there and um unfortunately as some of you heard we
had a an unmarked gas main they struck and I credit to our emergency responders the fire department was out there for hours in a bitter cold making sure that everyone was safe uh christella was there Boswell had their Engineers on
site some of the Public Works Crews and they got it all capped Public Service came immediately got a cap taken care of and uh other than that the job's gone pretty smooth they're moving fast and it was interesting I got to see in one hole
actually the way they're doing the piping and that so they're doing a good job they're moving along and hopefully we'll have no other uh disturbances they're doing a good job thank you for supervising no no no we didn't have these problems until you started observing no I was observing no no no
problem you started observing observing I have planning board was meeting was cancelled for last evening uh Chamber of Commerce those having their company of the Year dinner on Friday January 31st at maos they're honoring armor products and Remax this year contact Meg at the
chamber for tickets and you need to do it by this Friday and tickets are $85 a person corespondence we have none bills keev a motion to approve the bills and forward them to treasure for payment motion by
mil second by Sasso any discussion I do um I'm really excited um about the bills tonight because um we are providing the first uh Bagels
Express for the NPP for the facade program um so Frankie Bagels was the first one got the work done so he put um he put new wood and facade outside and he put a canvasing out on his business and so that's um because of our grant
program under the NPP so I just want to recognize the business there are um other about five or six more businesses that are in the pipeline but due to the weather um they're going to be a little behind schedule but we do have other businesses um that will be renovating
their storefront so I just wanted to point that out tonight that um he'll be receiving a $10,000 payment reimbursement so the program is working we're started and so hopefully others will join on diamond and laf is that the
only color we wise we have mul col no I think it's flexible because it's in the he's green so manross street it's part of the that program that they told us and they said about the colors they just um I think I don't
know what the requirements are I mean they talked about it in general terms there's a there's a committee out of the NPP that reviews it just to make sure like it's all blending right mayor yes I think there's there's three different colors that they can choose from right mayor and just a quick update uh I
actually spoke to uh Nancy tonight um earlier I should say and she said it's actually seven on board so and she's working hard to get more no it's great so um definitely yes on the bills yeah no it's great so um
yes skara abstain and Richwood press yes on all others s yes yes Le Matthews motion carries Le now open the meeting to the public any desires to be heard forward to microphone state
your name and now open the Mee to the public anyone desires to be heard forward to microphone your name hello your name uh my name is Justina bman okay um and I'm I'm thankful for the opportunity to talk tonight I'm
grateful that I can come here and and voice my concerns and thoughts I don't take that for granted um I'm here to address a concern I have about the uh parking ordinance uh that has been mentioned
50549 regarding the 24-hour parking um9 I am not against the ordinance I think it should be enforced I grew up in in Dumont that has much more stringent uh ordinances about parking during you know a snowfall or um snow STM where you
can't park on the streets at all um so I'm certainly not fighting the ordinance um but more how is it it is enforced um so just for some context um mayor Lane actually escorted my husband uh last
month uh to the hospital um where he stayed for a week and then was home for Christmas and then went right back to the hospital um for another three weeks and had emergency surgery and um he just came home Friday at
evening um and so since then has not been able to drive has not been able to really leave the house and um it's just me you know leaving the house and um taking care of things um so yeah my car
was on the street um during this the snowstorm and I have not been able to get to it um but the way that this was enforced was a ticket was given after 24 hours of it not having been moved and
the ticket was left on the windshield which I wouldn't have seen I don't go to that car um nor does my husband at this point so I'm just going about taking care of my daughter taking care of my husband my mother-in-law who lives with
us and it wasn't brought to my attention if it was in the mailbox or if it was somewhere where I could access it I would have been happy to to move the car to clear the snow to do whatever I had to do to avoid what ended up being close
to $500 that we really can't afford right now what street do you live on what street do you live on Pasadena um as you can imagine Hospital builds add
up and you know when I called the police this morning the the police department um they were very reassuring very friendly I know it's not their um and even when I came to the department earlier today um I initially
thought the ticket was for $55 and they said it's 36 which is great news and then you know I had my friend that had to take me to to come here and also to pick up my car which ended up
being in Patterson which was not great um but we went there so we got towed for being after 48 hours correct yeah and I was towed uh to Patterson and um it was at that point when I got my
car released that I found out that the the towing company charged $400 for it to be there for roughly 12 hours and you can imagine my shock I was feeling great after seeing the police
and being reassured that this was not going to be a big a big deal but then got hit with that do you have a driveway this was not going to be I do and my mother-in-law takes up the driveway because she's older than we are we give that space to her um I have the invoice
here um and you know again if the tickets if the initial ticket was brought to the house into our mailbox somewhere we can access it and see it easily I would have been happy to pay the fine to move the
car and to do what I had to do like this is not something that I usually do I don't not here to break any ordinances or I'm here to you know follow wanting to follow butak ordinances yeah that was
just not expected when I went to take my daughter to school this morning and I didn't see my car I truthfully thought it was stolen because p is very close to Patterson and that is on my mind but to find out it was taken by the town I was
extremely heartbroken um cuz I love this town May who toes our cars don't we have a local Tower like I think Citywide we have a rotation so under local people it could be varying people who are on the the
list it's not unusual for a car to be stored in Patterson unfortunately I've been through it myself uh with with one of my one of my children another story another day um it's hard as far as the ticket it's the only thing I can't
address as to why it happened uh that's something we'll have to talk about internally but as to the ticket unfortunately the ticket is always left with the vehicle because there's no way of actually knowing where you are at
that moment so the Lord does allow for the summons to be placed on the vehicle versus finding the person at home and personally serving it on them so your choices are you either find the owner or you leave it on the windshield
and the police will are not really instructed to go find the person is it possible to find the address that the car is registered to and bring it to that address listen there's a lot of things that could happen and rather than
getting to the point of telling including trying to notify the person hey you got to move your car um I don't know what measures or steps were taken in this case but we'll have to look at that cuz what happened he was just doesn't leave a good taste with most of
us here I'm sure yeah and I don't you know I don't want to have that taste either and it does leave that taste in my mouth I I believe mayor and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe in situations uh where such as yours where you couldn't move the car
because dealing with your husband or even if a resident's going on vacation if they notify the police department normally they'll note it down and they'll wave that 24hour rule as long as right
yeah unfortunately that didn't happen in this case right I was not but for future reference for future reference if you ever have a problem like this and let them know oh I know I'll be on it now was there a breakdown of the charges number yes know
you mean from the to the actual toe and in the storage uh yes I have the invoice here just out of curiosity what was the toe um the toe 150 storage 75 yard fee $50
winch $100. 15 and then tax 244 see I know we have an audience and we we originally just adjusted it because it was well below but what the to companies tend to do is they play you know you play around with the storage and they add other fees on there
that are out of without our control we have no control over that we can only uh we only have an ordance related to the fee that they can charge from this community am I right Mich yeah there's a whole series of fees one of which is the winch fee on there whether they really
needed one or not I don't know but so um we do have a schedule if you want to leave a copy of that just for for curiosity sake and we can compare what you were charged to what the vendors legally allowed to charge I'm happy to
do that and take a look just to make sure you were not overcharged um so if you could give us a copy over charge yeah that'd be great so if you give us a copy that' be
great unfortunately things like the storage fee and things like that nothing as well yeah we we'd be able to help the storage things like that and even if the T you know the citations were given during the daytime these are both from
the first one is from 12:28 a.m. and the second is from 12:31 a.m. if one of us you know there's my husband is home he can't go anywhere if he had seen something going on on the street near our car he could have intervened and
taken the the citation brought it in something would you mind can I middle of the night we had no idea streets that's terrible say that then we start make an excuse of everybody
so um that's all I have for tonight in the meantime is there a neighbor that you could park your husband's car in the driveway um since he's not able to use it at the moment so you're not going through this again just when it snows we're talking about yeah well no even
the 24 hours if it's on the street more than 24 hours you well that's the thing get a ticket there too we've never had a complaint I it's it's usually parked where it's parked um and called this morning to find out why it was towed I asked if there was a complaint and there
wasn't it was just the townwide yeah and um so yeah I can I can ask if there's a lot I can park it in until did you take the address down there so you can let the police department know don't see
T Michael if uh if they would deem to be temporary disabled uh to get a disabled spot would that help him out with the 24 hours I'm just curious it it would not the 24 hours they would still have to move the car every 24 hours right but I
mean we have had circumstances where somebody has a disabled vehicle is temporarily whatever call the police and say and we have had people call and say look you know um but I atne surgery I
won't be moving my car for the next 72 hours and the police would typically then make notations and accommodate that um I was just a little surprised that the towing took place so soon after a snow event
but sorry you went through that and I hope your husband is recovering he is thank you good thank you you're welcome good luck thank you for letting us know of course thank you for listening thank you good
luck anyone else want to be heard no of she just comes to say hi anyone else wants to be heard no okay she just seeing no one I entertain a motion to close the public portion of the meeting so Mo motion by
skar second by Mee all in favor hi uh we were GNA I'm planning on uh a special meeting next Wednesday the 29th at 7 if everyone is available check your calendar and let me know uh that's to discuss the uh
objection to the housing numbers and to uh approve the resolution that will fight that okay you did you want to do it at an earlier time or do you want to do it at 7 it's
up to just why it doesn't interrupt with anyone's work or dinner yeah okay I'm just like I said it's fine with me it's only going take 15 minutes so it's not like it's going to kill you n oh no I'm not worried about my night have a hot date
or something oh no I'm not worri yeah no I was only actually honestly thinking with Eric and Lori working in the building it might be easier for them if it was five or 530 versus 7 that's
all for me do matter Bruce is just Bruce can walk here it's the power of the seat 7:00 walk 29th our next meeting after that is Wednesday February 5th at
7.m have a motion to adjourn Move Motion by second by m all in favor I motion carries Jed carried e e