##VIDEO ID:X9sBvg2Q51A## e the for 75 I call tonight's council meeting to Bennett leosa here mey here Sasso here skara here here Matthews here please rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance United States of America theic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the annual schedule of regular meetings herefor adopted and posted on the public Bolton board at the municipal building email to The Herald News the record The Gazette and all persons who requested the mailing of such since December 7th 2023 approval of the minutes have approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of October 16th 2024 and the bid minutes for the disposal of our Solid Waste type 1 cont motion by wki second by leosa any discussion we do okay on the uh disposal where we thought in budget line it was worth a shot okay could have been worse wki yes skara yes Sasso yes mey yes leosa yes Matthews yes motion carries public comment now open meeting to the public for agenda items anyone wants to be heard raise your hand come forward to be recognized not on sidewalk stuff figured I'd throw that out there seeing no one can I have a motion to close the public portion of the meeting so move by SK second by Sasso all in favor I motion carries public hearing 2023 Road program special assessments I'll now open the meeting to the public if anyone desires to be heard on the 2023 Road program special assessments please raise your hand and be recognized come forward to the microphone state your name for the record now you're up come on up you have a microphone Lori it's Michael day sleep we said 3 o' watch the ho thing it's the it's the repaired one what did oh no what's the base part came off it had dolls in it bring some glue in Nails okay don't don't lean on it so my name is Diana gallano I reside at 375 Central Avenue 211 Central Avenue um I had two slabs replaced and um they broke the my side my driveway I'm sorry and no one has said anything about repairing it from in here the process of replacing sidewalks they cracked your apron okay and garbage was left I mean I picked up the garbage but there was garbage food left there they left me without a driveway for over a week they left the actual pipe outside and that stain you know another piece of the sidewalk as well so is there anyone from the contractor that you show this to or told them no I came here I actually took the day off last week to come here and they told me about the meeting and then I got the certified mail so they told me to bring it up here okay uh engineer over here um with that not not on TV but over there so he'll he'll contact you and have uh have it checked out sto the sidewalk they chip the sidewalk so I don't know if it's the same company or not well any damage that they've done they done he he'll take a look at it that the same thing that they did on well good thing is you don't pay for the curb that's you pay for the sidewalk and you're D so whatever damage was done to whatever you're responsible for we'll have them take a look good I think it's anyone else wish to be heard I think it's the house that throwing out dead ends into because that that was left for we hello hello um my name is jolma Hernandez and we just live at 341 Central LA I honestly don't know what I'm doing here but anyway I just want to know how much we're going to get charged because more or less what happened to the lady that just spook happened to us I mean we were supposed to just get like two pieces of the sidewalk repair and then they had to do the whole thing they fix our driveway I mean thank God they fix it but they did something my husband works construction he actually came and talked to the major and he explained to him that uh the way they did it in the future it probably it's going to open up or something I really don't know but we just want to make sure how much we're going to get charged because it was a lot and we didn't I mean I think we were supposed to get all that work your initial letter usually outlines a rough amount what they're going to be doing two slabs four slabs and a estimate yeah did that have it on it they did it they did more they did more okay the whole almost the whole sidewalk was this was done this year or last year this year okay you won't get any notice or until next year so this they the the the notices we're talking about are the are the uh um one the hearing is is for work that was done in 2023 but but but if you leave uh your information with the engineer we can try to get you an answer so we did the 23 work and 24 was this like work that got delayed okay well if the work's done okay I either way they got maybe okay okay either way give the engineer your name Andress I'm sorry I had it wrong and then he'll look up whether you are in the right spot assume if they got a letter it's for the proper here they had the work done though either way the work's done issue has damages you know and and and she has an excess says C up that's not this they got a letter to come or notification of it okay it's just not this ordinance that we're talking about their issues still exist but it's not the issue right anyone else wish to be heard well either one you yeah my money's on the taller guy good evening everyone um my name is uh Eddie Romero and iide next door 328 Grand Avenue and uh I'm your neighbor so um saying thing I got the letter saying that they was going to do the sidewalk I was happy because I'm very big it was small crack and I all right no problem but I got a little bit upset because when I came back from work I find out that my driveway it was about three or four feet inside the driver so the guy actually knock on my door and ask me if he's okay just to cut my driveway and repair my driveway but I say all right there's nothing I can do do whatever you got to do I got pictures I got everything and my drive looks no no cracks and anything and now it looks like it's just half it's weird looks weird right now that's number one number two it was a Sign by the end of the Cur decide it said do not parking anytime whoever grabbed the sign and put it right in front of my house boom right in front of my house I don't know why they did that but I wasn't home where they you know when the job was done got pictures and uh and I was supposed to I think the first time I they was charging me like six you know press 1,600 now I got the bill it's an estim almost 24 2500 so I just would like to know who I say I got picture before the driver was damaged and I got picture after the driver was damaged I'll give you the same thing if you get seems like we got a lot of damage from this uh phase of work who was the contract wasn't a good one so the the sign I'm aware of and the sign is going to be moved move back to where it was okay I called and left a message actually on November 4th um just you pick up but I did I did leave you a voicemail so okay yeah okay so you're connected all right what kind of damage do you have sir come on down okay that's a start just wondering because I see some improvements some of the sidewalk placed on the railroads property they being assessed for this also because I don't see listed on this admission you're talking on Grand have okay the railroad begins being curbing in sidewalk or disc curbing okay the side the sidewalk was replaced property just wondering if they're also being assessed as the rest of us are I I think we were I think we were notified that the railroad was doing their own upgrades the sidewalk was replaced when they replaced the rest of the sidewalks I can tell you that so I don't know I'm just bring it to I'll have to look because I don't know and I don't know what Authority we have to assess uh the the railroad yeah the railroad would be exempt um so that would not be an option for us but we don't ordinarily do the railroad property the railroad does its own so it's kind of confusing why it would would have been done I I had property it was done no I don't doubt you that's I don't I'm not doubting you I'm just saying that's should not have been done this was around the time that all the tie railroad ties and I inquired how come we have all those railroad ties out there and then they did Diamond bridge I was told they were doing Diamond Bridge War Burton and then they were going to do central so that was the answer when I was asking what was going on which is fine that's what they should be doing they do their own and we don't have the authority to assess them but they're responsible to take care of their property we got to look into that Randy because if that was part of yeah you should be paying for their work in fact we I think when the doed this when the do reviewed this project we stayed clear of the rail we stopped short of the railroad property so we should not have been um you know doing anything on the railroad property because the do which which funded the overall project not the uh sidewalks basically we told them we were stopping short of the railroad property not disagreeing with you I'm just pointing it out okay um and then I'm wondering also because I frequently walk up lafab it seems to me there's a lot of sections of lafay ab that are in far worse shape than what central aers yeah I'm just wondering if that's an agenda to be we do sidewalks when we do the the roads so and County doesn't do sidewalks when they do roads so if there's sidewalks on uh on County Roads we'd have to deal with those through um um and code enforcement rather than doing it as part of a road program because we don't repave County Roads and so therefore we don't do the sidewalks on them so Central LA is not a County Road it's just a municip thank you okay would you like to be heard regarding the sidewalk assessment just have a question I have um just give us your name Sir Mark turn okay I have a house on 410th Avenue and Central Avenue um there's I I got two bills was there two phases of construction so I've got one bill which what's it on the corner of uh four 410th Avenue 410 number four no you're on he's on 10th on on 10th yes there were there were two there were I think there were two diff we did 10th one year we did um we did Central with a different project a different year this is this is the same year within within a couple months of each other are you a COR of property I paid what's that are you a corner property yes okay but I paid one bill 168 which is um and they got another bill for $1,000 and change guess that was for of apron and um corner but um it supped it was to phases or or no well it isn't two phases it was two there would have been different projects a 10th Avenue would have been a different project than Central Avenue I I wouldn't call them different phases of the same project but they would have been different contracts done at different times by different contractors right but within within a month or two of of each other they're they're done a year apart but we're billing them out at the same time that's what that's what's happening and um who decides how if the works need to be done I guess far the engineer yeah so they just look at it and there are standards that if it doesn't meet uh Ada standards for the uh you know how whether they're cracked or whether they're lifted more than a certain amount then we replace them right and I know the bill was a th90 that's percentage of it I guess pay percentage of it that's because it was was apron plus the corner um handicap no you don't pay for the handicap you would not pay for the handicap we we we pay for that all just just for the apron you're talking about the apron any sidewalk that's not part of the uh the handicap ramp yeah why all the work it was I mean it was good it was um was in back ini I had photographs of it I I got this bill I deleted the photographs I think I another bill so I don't know can I just take a look at the at the two bills this one is for doesn't say what I'm looking for says that would have been yeah 10th Avenue would have been one one year's project and Central would have been another they close to each other yeah the bill have to pay that $1,000 yeah unless unless there's a problem with the work or something that you feel there was a mistake in the billing but other than that yes that okay all right um yeah I was going why I got two bills as why all right good enough I try thank you thank you anyone else wish to be heard okay and we'll have the engineer follow up with all those that gave their name and contacts so can I entertain a motion uh close to close a public hearing for the 2023 Road program second all right motion by mey second by wki any discussion roll call leosa yes Mee yes saso yes skara yes yes Matthews yes motion carries adoption of ordinances we have zoning ordinance 2349 d24 an ordinance to repeal and replace chapter 540 zoning and Land Development part three storm order management article 11 storm order management for major development and now open to meeting to the public anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance please raise your hand come to the microphone state your name it's for the record by the way these people don't have to stay do oh you can leave if you want you guys can go whenever you want you're going to miss all the excitement though just let you know now we're talking about storm water management that doesn't excite you okay so seeing none I entertain a motion of the public hearing on this ordinance be closed that be resolved that this ordinance was posted on bulletin board which Public Notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available on the B website and available to the public now therefore it be resolved that this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law have a motion moved motion by wki second by skier discussion wki yes skara yes Sasso yes mey yes leosa yes Matthews yes motion carries ordinance 23504 an ordinance to amend chapter 280 of the code of the burrow of foror housing standards creating there under article two lead based paint inspections and now open the meeting to the public if anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance please raise your hand to be recognized come forward to the microphone guess lead's not a uh Frank is are an age for this of a house how old the house is uh any rental is going to be inspected 197 and there's a date of what after 1979 it was built after 1980 197 78 78 then it's exempt because there was no lead there was no lead paint right okay seeing none attended motion public hearing on this ordinance be closed be resolved this ordinance was posted on the bulletin board which Public Notices were customarily posted published in the record and made available to the B website and available to the public now therefore be it resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the SE according to law have a motion some Move Motion by second by Sesso R call Lea yes mey yes Sasso yes skara wki yes Matthews yes motion carries ordinance 23 51-24 an ordinance to amend chapter 25 of the code of the buau of hathorne Department of Public Safety Article 2 Police Department sections 25 through 12 contracted off-duty employment so as to there under Section d uh paragraph five permitting the use of a secondary service administrator now open the meeing to the public if anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance please come forward state your name little quick synopsis this is for off-duty employment where they don't have to wait three months to get paid by psng so we always paid them right away right don't we pay them right away the police officers well when they're doing the we're not allowed to pay if we don't have the money for for everybody other than a public utility we collect the money in advance so we can pay them right away the state doesn't allow us to collect the money from the utility right away so they do the work the police officers do do the assignment but then we have to chase psng for the money and we have to get collect the money before we can pay the officers W and in this case they'd pay them and Chase psng okay so seeing none I entertain a motion to close the public or ordinance be closed and be resolved that this ordinance was posted on the Bolton board which public not notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available on the Bor website and available to the public now therefore be resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law have a motion Move Motion by second bya any discussion I didn't think so call wki yes skara yes saso yes mey yes leosa yes Matthews yes carries ordinance 23 52-24 in ordinance to further amend and supplement chapter 505 article 25052 stop intersections section 505-19 no stopping or standing and section 505-20 no stopping or standing certain hours so as to add there to certain additional locations and now open the meeting to the public if anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance please raise your hand to be recognized come forward to the microphone state your name various stop signs in different areas now we're losing them seeing no one I entertain a motion of the public hearing of this ordinance be closed that it be resolved this ordinance was posted on the bulletin board which Public Notices are customary posted published in the record and made available on the Bor website and available to the public now therefore be it resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk has authorized to advertise the same according to law have a motion so move second motion by skara second by leosa any discussion leosa yes mey yes Sasso Yes skiar Yes W yes Matthews yes motion carries all business Joe will start your way I just like to publicly thank the mayor every item I brought up in our memo this past week was addressed so thank you very much mayor that's all you're welcome Joe Rea not tonight Michael no nothing Anna Marie I have nothing I'm okay how about new business Dominic nope I'm okay and Marie I'm good Michael still good Raina running um just want to thank the mayor for Washington app with the speeding know you'll elaborate more just complaints from uh residents about speeding but the speeding is not just only on Washington it's on diamond and warburn so we're out and about so it's going to be address thanks go only thing I have is Happy Birthday Eric thank you well I'd like to congratulate all those who won in yesterday's election and thank those who didn't to give us an option uh or an alternative person to consider to vote for so at this point we'll turn it over to the mayor for the administrative agenda thank you Mr President as you know when I took office I was asked by residents about bringing early voting to hathorne I worked with the county to make this happen happen and I would like to thank them for giving me permission to have early voting in the burrow to say it is a success is an understatement at the primary in June there were 220 early voters and the November election that we just had there was 3,993 early voters at our library prior to election day I want to thank our election official Lori Fernandez for ensuring that not only the early voting worked flawlessly but her fress election day voting at all the polls her poll workers and master board workers are terrific and her team that night did a terrific job the process works well and our poll workers are well informed and well trained I want to thank our library director Monica Smith and her staff for working so well with our election official Lori in ensuring safe and early voting location I also want to thank our police our DPW in assisting to ensure that the ballots and Equipment were brought safely to Patterson later election night I am very proud of everyone who worked so hard at the burrow to ensure a safe voting experience prior to election day and on Election Day itself the ambulance Corps had a successful Tricky Tray thank you to all the sponsors and all who attended a special thanks to our MC Michael Pasqual he did a great job that night congratulations to Fire Chief Joe banza on being elected as chief for another third another term this week Linda Boer was sworn in as our Deputy register of Vital Statistics congratulations to the m I'm sorry LMS boys soccer team on an undefeated season we are ver all very proud of you also congratulations as as well as mighty might Cubs football team for an undefeated season the first ever as Halloween has now passed I want to give praise to our police they planned above and beyond what they do in the normal day to focus on Halloween nights as they knew that they would be in inundated with a tremendous amount of turkey trayers throughout the town our police had the foresight to anticipate that we would have a large volume of children due to the warm weather the police had different squads in different sections of town and because of this we didn't experience any problems thanks to their supervision and guidance our residents and those out triy Trick yeah tricky tryan we're safe triy triy tickets instead of getting and they were safely crossed by our police and at at that our busy intersections and thank you to our outstanding Police Department leaf pickup in the streets has begun by our DPW please note that they started in w three not in W one which was stated on the calendar W one will be picked up next week page 21 in the calendar outlines the schedule leaf collection will continue until the end of December please remember that leaves are picked up in bags and or barrels at the curb on your regular yard way day you can pick up 15 bags of Le 15 Leaf Bags free at the recycling center while supplies last this Sunday November 10th the hathorne exempt Firemen's Association and the fire department will hold its annual memorial service at 8:30 a.m. mass at St Anthony's Church our burrow officers at the municipal building will be bur our burrow offices at the municipal building will be closed on Monday in observance of Veterans Day by the recycling center will be open on Monday at 11:00 a.m. the burrow will hold its annual Veterans Day service in front of burrow Hall honoring our veterans please attend please plan on attending tour for Tots is holding their annual Drive the train will be here to pick up the unwrapped toys on December 14th at 10:00 a.m. there will be boxes in the lobby of burrow Hall our Burl tree lighting and Santa parade will take place on Friday December 6th the Chamber of Commerce Santa parade step St off at 6:00 p.m. please note that there are no County Clerk services for passports V veterans ID and notary Oaths of office in hathorne for November and December due to staff constraints they will be they will be in some of the surrounding towns which I will post in my Friday letter our food pantry is in need of non perishable items if you are able to donate please drop them off to fill us our registar in the health department the second floor of burrow Hall if you are the owner of dogs please be mindful of the Neighbors in your pet area and outside for the length of for the length of time that the dogs are barking outside the law basically States 20 minutes due to the increased volume in congestion in town please be sure to obey the speed limit the police are insuring issuing summonses for speeding the police can't be everywhere all the time but they are doing a great job and and I appreciate their attention to the problems of speeding please look both ways before you want to cross the street I am presently working with the county to lower the speed limit on goel road which is a county road I hope to I hope that this will happen soon if you are if you see something that doesn't look quite right please call our Police Department when you see it so they can resp respond immediately and now I turn it over to my attorney Michael Pasqual thank you mayor uh Eric happy birthday yesterday but Joe you missed annamarie's birthday which was Monday so happy birthday no that's not true you didn't report it I didn't report it but I personally said it on Facebook yeah whatever on Facebook has got to be true and congratulations to Joe burn he won reelection as the mayor in his community so congratulations what was your turnout Joe what was the turnout people uh about 420 that's respectable good job yeah he won 420 to nothing he pitched a shut out so let's let's be clear all right which of you has ever pitched a shut out in this so congrats Joe don't let them take it from you uh on the you know something uh the ordinance reading tonight that the council president got to do reminds me of something that's come up a very recent vintage and that is the Star Ledger is going to stop publishing a newspaper in print form starting February 1 not only is the Star Ledger stopping printing but other satellite papers throughout the state are also stopping publication there is an archaic law that remains on the book book that requires all ordinances all Public Notices to be published in print newspapers it's always been a way of subsidizing newspapers because back in the day newspapers held great sway when it came to elections um the league of municipalities The Institute of local government attorneys have taken to urging uh the president of the Senate and the assembly to finally change the law so that we can publish where people actually will see it which will be on our websites on a created you know contractors website so that when we advertise for jobs we actually reach a much broader percentage of the contractors in the world so we're working very hard to try to change a law that's going to save taxpayers thousands of dollars in publication cost so would you like a resolution to send to our elected officials we're working on draft some for circulating around and I'll have one for the next meeting so but I mean it's time it's time to stop this because we spend an awful lot of money publishing I don't know what your publication budget is L but it's high I'm sure yeah online is really the way we want to go and it's easier and it's so much more cost efficient so we will see um couple things on the spoiled of matter since Mr spoiled is filed claims against the buau rjf will be stepping in to defend those claims as well so Mr SP and was two sets of attorneys to deal with um we have a case management conference scheduled for early December on the agenda for introduction are a couple of ordinances one tonight that adds more stop signs these are in the Westervelt and Mohawk uh cross streets uh three-way and four-way stops Nexus Plastics has submitted its legal brief in opposition to are challenging our ordinance uh regarding the resoning of the former pyx site my brief is due by the end of the month I will share with you both briefs since it always makes for good reading I do know Frank you read these things so that is good and since you're laid up it's a hobby yeah it's it's it's a good one um ordinance 23532 24 is on the agenda tonight amends the B3 b3a zones we have an old-fashioned notion of gas station service station back from the day when a gas station service station was a combination that typically existed you had a two pumps and two lifts and people did repairs um with the Advent of most repairs being done in dealerships now and other larger uh entities the old-fashioned gas stations with lifts and garage is giving way so we've had some success The sonoko Crossings is a really nice facility it's been a benefit to our community it looks great people enjoy it um there are certain zones in town where this makes sense on your high traffic areas where you have large Lots the ordinance tonight is going to allow clarify at least that gas stations and convenience stores can exist together on in certain zones we don't want them everywhere you don't want them in residential zones you don't want them in areas because they are high traffic producers but certainly on your major arterial roads like gole Road where you have the B3 b3a Zone and where you have large enough lots to accommodate it um there's no reason not to consider the combination convenience store gas station so this ordinance would allow that as a combined use even though each use is separately now permitted it has to be a gas station not a repair store right there are three variations there's gas only gas plus repair gas plus convenience there's no combination of all three that's permitted but there's no service station with convenience so it's got to be a gas station SL convenience and again what the ordinance committee working with the admin ministration we all felt was let's limit this right now at least as we look at it to the B3 Zone it is the Zone where it makes the most sense both users are currently permitted now we're just clarifying the fact that they would be allowed together provided you have dimensional requirements that make this feasible you don't want to cram 10 pounds of groceries into the 5B bag right so this would allow a development of certain sites in in town in those zones and so uh we do encourage you're moving this along and moving it for further discussion part from that mayor um I have nothing else to report so thank you Michael now turn it over to our engineer Joe burn thank you mayor uh the Franklin Field uh bleacher improvements project uh so signed and sealed uh shop drawings were recently received and permits were issued uh so mobile ization and construction will start before the end of the week uh the 2025 roadway improvements program uh the initial resident assessment inspections have been completed and base maps for the design drawings are currently being worked on uh the 2023 uh roadway improvements uh resident questions and inquiries uh regarding the assessments are currently and actively being reviewed and addressed um we hope to have everything finalized soon so uh and the Lafayette Avenue streetscape phase 3 project uh the project was advertised for bid on Monday November 4th and the bid opening is scheduled for November 22nd with an award date of December 4th uh planned so and that's all I have to report mayor thank you Joe just one thing that Joe had mentioned uh I spoke with the contractor he's picking up the permits tomorrow for the bleachers uh at Franklin Field and they're going to mobilize starting tomorrow and continue on with working there to uh get the footings in and uh this way they can if it gets cold they can build uh start building the uh the bleachers when they come and now turn it over to our uh administrator Eric Mauer thank you mayor our new radio system for fire radios and pagers and volunteer ambulance uh Squad um volunteer emeralds Corp paging is finally live I've been reporting that it's almost here well now it is here and it's live um although it's 5 months later than expected we will be able to discontinue paying on the old copper TI lines that handled back hul from remote locations I thank everyone in the council for authorizing the funding for this essential emergency communications project um as explained in the memo in your packet ordinance 23542 24 increases water rates by 9% in 2025 and another 9% in 2026 to allow to cover higher debt service costs for the posos project and also the galvanized service line replacement project plus the media replacement costs for the two thou the posos treatment system both of which were state mandated projects the anticipated settlement money on the posos lawsuits keeps the increases each year below 10% rather than closer to 12% beginning in 2027 we should see annual rate increases at much lower numbers since the only uh pressure on the budget will come from regular operating costs which is now a diminishing proportion of the total water utility budget and so much goes to Debt Service and the final phases of uh service line replacement um our bids for solid waste for the mid pic County Co-op came in slightly higher than I had hoped but probably not out of range from what should have been expected I had hoped we'd stay below $90 per ton but the low bid was over 993 for us this translates into roughly a 5 and a half per year compounded um increase since we left the last uh um contract five years ago this is due in part to everything that happened in the five years since uh our last contract triggered by covid higher cost for fuel Insurance labor and Equipment replacement um that the uh contractor has to bear um but also in part because we got a little lucky last time around g g gave us a lower price than the rest of the co-op perhaps trying to set themselves up for our collection contract bid a year later something that didn't work out for them um this time they were by far the highest bidder um this uh cost will result in an increase of about 150,000 in next year's budget but that will then remain flat for the following uh four years uh the state has announced that $6 million is being made available for the next round of shared service leap grants we have recently approve approved a resolution to join with Pate County to file an application for money from this pot to establish a fiber link among municipalities in the county which should save us money on our internet connection that's assuming we get the grant um our department heads are working on their 2025 budget requests so that we'll be prepared to review the budget with the finance uh committee early next year um notices to Tree Service companies in the area are being sent out this week about our new tree removal ordinance and that concludes my report thank you Eric and now we'll answer any questions that the council may have Mr President does anyone have any questions for administration yeah I know nothing else that concludes the report from Administration thank you thank you have a motion to record some mve motion by mey second by with techy all in favor hi motion carries introduction of ordinances we have zoning ordinance 23 53-24 and ordinance to amend and supplement chapter 540 zoning as to the Bur of hathorne P County New Jersey regulating gasoline service stations with convenience stores in certain locations be resolved this ordinance has now passed the first reading and set ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the governing body in the Minal building 445 Lafayette Avenue horor New Jersey on December 4th 2024 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 in direct uh to publish the ordinance in the record once at least one week prior to said hearing with the notice of its introduction and time in place when and where said ordinance would be considered for final passage have a motion so move second motion by skier second by m any discussion um I think we already had it we had it yeah just Frank I just want to make sure that the public understands that this is B3 Zone and the retail zone so it's coming from west side of goel road down to um the wof so it's really the corner of Nissan and and Paul's fobo going to the right on goel road it's well really the whatever is permitted in the B3 zone is permitted in the b3a with one exception of being C dealerships so um it would be prent on both sides of the street okay cuz I did look at the zoning map tonight and so it's just west of um what we're talking on Lafia Yeah so basically you take the Lafayette gaffle intersection and go towards wof M Park um really it's that strip in that area B3 b3a also includes a portion of Wago with the overlay that was down below in both zones it's it's an overlay in every zone so it's in those want to be clear that this is and you made it very clear that this is not in the B2 I mean residential this is not in any residential Zone nor is it in the B1 or B2 zones yeah it's very specific to B3 I just want to be clear on that to the public yeah we do not want to see proliferation of this use because it is a high volume High trffic use but in certain sites it could work um it like work very successfully on the crossing s but then think where that is it's across from gas station a restaurant it's you know it makes sense not in the residential because I'm down the street from two gas stations so yeah I'm good thank you r w yes I'm sorry I thought I was on the wrong one still Yes ski thank you skara Sasso yes Mee leosa yes yes Matthews yes motion carries ordinance 2354-20 an ordinance to further amend and supplement the code of the burre of hathorne to amend chapter 220 fees sections 22021 water so as to revise the water rates for res this ordinance has now passed first reading and the set ordinance be further considered for final passage at the meeting of the governing body in the municipal building 445 Lafayette Avenue in horor New Jersey on December 4th 2024 and it 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 the said ordinance in the record once at least one week here uh prior to the hearing with the notice of its introduction of time and place when and where said ordinance will be considered for final passage have a motion so move second motion by skira second by mey obviously we don't like to increase our water rates by this percentage but thanks to unfunded State mandates for our water line replacement and obviously the posos cleansing systems we have to loal leosa yes mey yes tasso yes skara yes mki yes Matthews yes motion carries ordinance 2355 d24 an ordinance to further amend and supplement chapter 505 Article 2 50512 stop intersections so as to their uh add their two certain additional locations be resolved this ordinance does now pass first reading and said ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the governing body in the municipal building at 445 Lafayette Avenue horor New Jersey on December 4th 2024 at said time and place all persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the same the clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish said ordinance in the record once one week prior to the said hearing with the notice of its introduction of time and place when the set ordinance would be considered for final passage can I have a motion Sasha I'll make a motion second motion by Sasso second by skira any discussion Frank I just want to thank for putting the stop sign on bake and Loretta um for taking care of that four-way stop because there's been concerns and uh about children in the area cuz the cars do come off uh out of that one industrial property in the street so I really appreciate you putting it on the ordinance and getting those signs thanks it was just for you I know I've been asking for the last couple years counselor we finally got to it got pull now roll call um wki no I'm not first this time oh I am first yes skara yes Sasso yes me yes leosa yes Matthew yes motion carries Bond ordinance 23564 Bond ordinance providing for the insallation of bleachers and other improvements at the wag field fields and describe their heroin in the burrow of hathorne in the county of bake New Jersey appropriating $295,000 therefore an authorizing after application of Grant funds the issuance of bonds or notes in the amount of $95,000 uh in the B for the financing of the same be resolve this ordinance has now passed first reading and the set ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the governing body in the municipal building 445 lafay adav horor New Jersey on December 14 2024 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 once at least one week prior set hearing with the notice of his introduction of time and place when and where set ordinance would be considered final passage have a motion so move moot by SK second by Mee any discussion I have a question um does this include the Box yes on top the uh press press box I want to say but we know there's no press is there any equipment included in that any um sound systems or do they still need that this is strictly the physical structure okay thank you however Eric did a good job picking out all the colors Bear's blue kind of had a color consultant yeah paid a little more but it was worth it nice have one on not on staff but on hand thank you roll call leosa yes M yes Sasso yes skara yes mki yes Matthews yes motion carries resolutions consent agenda R1 15-24 to r153 d24 R1 15-24 is the horor fire department clothing allowance for the eligible members R1 15124 is the horor volunteer Ambulance Corp clothing allowance for eligible members r152 d24 is Bosell Engineering Services for phase F four galvanized pipe replacement project and our 153-20 is Award of solid waste disposal contract to reworld Sustainable Solutions have a motion don't move second motion by Millie second by Sasso any discussion roll call puty abstain on r150 and R1 1551 yes on all others skara yes Sasso yes mey yes leosa yes Matthews yes motion carries reports of special Council committees Joe we'll start your way shade tree commission was date change due to the election yesterday so it'll be next Tuesday the 11th that's Monday 12th that's the 12th 12 Tuesday just want to see if we're paying attention you guys are good okay thank you keep us on our toes Rea nothing tonight uh yes the Hispanic heritage committee had a wrap-up meeting discussing our uh uh this previous year's um event and we look forward to uh planning for our next event and concludes my report when you guys meet do you speak in Spanish I have limited Spanish so but there there are people that do Converse in Spanish see a BRI the comedy is free here huh what so just to uh concur with the mayor Lane while I first time I wasn't able to attend our uh ambulance CPS had a very successful beef steak they do appreciate all of your participation they need it thank you and um as always the library is the Hub of our town don't stop going there that's the end of my report Dominic I couldn't hear you can hear me do we need a uh a meeting for finance yeah of course we will need one we'll need to discuss um budget transfers I will probably send something around and then if we want to um meet as a result of it uh um you know we can do that or if you want to just take the information by email um but I'm I'm meeting with our finance director tomorrow so I should by tomorrow or Friday I should be sending something out out to the finance committee um do we have a MIP Alliance meeting this month to discuss next year okay thank you that's all I have okay uh next week's planning board on the 12th has been cancelled um and the Chamber of Commerce would like to thank uh Chamber of Commerce and the horth thorn Farmers Market managers would like to thank all their vendors customers and volunteers to help make the 16th season of the horor farmers market a success they would also like to thank the mayor the council the horor police department the horor DPW and the mayor LS Bay the second library for their assistance all season long they could not have done it without all of your support and then also thank you to all those who supported the farmers market and that's all I have Corr respondents we have none but we have bills have a motion to approve them and there was a late bill that was added today by Eric um clothing allowance and something for the GIF correct yeah the one for the GIF um is is just changing um the dollar amount what's already on the bill list um apparently we underpaid one of our early early quarter this year there were I don't understand exactly how it happened but we did and so rather than paying one quarter now we have to pay a little over one quar so to make sure we pay the full amount for the keep trying that see if we get away with it we didn't so we tried but didn't work any other questions on the bills thank you for authorizing for me to add that bill but I didn't get it in time for tonight so it'll come on next next uh meeting thank you while I'm talking to you I forgot to ask you under your new business did our percentage of uh voters increase with the early voting from our typical presidential years or was it just more convenient that you know did we have more voters in general um I'm sorry I don't have that answer at the moment wow Mr President I think it I think it was more convenient for more people out to make it more convenient hope as as of the the first Saturday that it started there was over 600 people that voted just that one Saturday and Sunday and Monday and then it it went down to like 300 then it went back up to 4 or five and it ranged between 4 and and six Su and I'm sorry you were talking about just early voting no oh toal as a total total so if you can find that out that just to know because hopefully it grew the participation rate had to take pressure off though the day of election oh absolutely right no long lines it was yesterday was a was a um nice smooth day smooth day there was a constant flow at most all the places okay um but I'm sorry I don't know the number that came out yesterday um but as the mayor said 4,000 over those nine days which was exactly follow on that absolutely you don't I just something that I really like about the early voting um because you know things out of your control could happen the machine could you know we had glitches in in the past and people can get disenfranchise because they got to run to work they you know when you combin everything in one day it gets very tense and the poll workers nobody knows they get very minimal training they they don't get paid a lot of money they there from 5: in the morning to 8 at night 8:30 at night uh so I think this gives people a lot of breathing room they can go they if it's not there they can come back another day um I think it's going to be beneficial so I am also very very curious about total number of votes um comparing to previous years now the last president election was a CO year so it was a lot of vote by mail uh still totals it's still totals but that number is going to be a little skewed anyway yeah that's going to be higher anyway but um it'd be curious to know because I think I think it's a it's a success I really do definitely yeah definitely a success a success see I screwed it up and you just get HED with it I think all the residents that I spoke to were very happy with it they found it very convenient and this is our first year doing it so while even if the numbers are the same which I don't think they are it will just continue to uh increase with each election year yeah plus you have the Dropbox outside here which was also pretty well utilized so it just takes a lot of pressure off I don't want to jinx us but dare I say we had no complaints about it no it was very uh it was all positive experence clerk for running a very smooth ship on this one was convenient Lori did a great job she did good job Lori thank you 1,15 wow wow District reporting 133 districts I'm just curious what we normally get yeah we typically don't get 10,000 we get 8 8,000 13,000 how we the early voting no it's not 13,000 voters that's to number we have registered bot c vot c yeah ballots cast would be like for instance you could vote for two two three commissioners like that so that's why that number will be higher but if there's 10,000 ballots cast that's crazy now did Lori if I remember talking to you earlier last week uh you were doing an evaluation of how many what what the state or the county has ha owners registered voters in this town and wasn't it just over 15 registered voters is 15,200 that that might be a little bit High when we only have 19,000 in our town that's what the Count's reporting yeah that that doesn't seem right and we have 4,000 that are under 18 so uh well that would be that would be the number so it's so there's like hundreds that are you know less than a thousand that are would apparently be not registered among people 18 and older if all those numbers are accurate yeah I have a little little doubt with that number but it's still a good number that we had if 10,000 but I will say that the last go about about we found a good number of individuals who had passed away but are still on the voter roles and to get them to removed twice to get them removed was not easy especially the woman who lives across the street from me we had seen her but thankfully we reported her as being passed made proof and then they removed her from the voter it isn't it is a nightmare Joe oh it is okay can I have a motion to approve the bills motion by Mee second by Sasso roll call leosa stain on horth environmental commission bills and yes on all others M yes Sasso yes skara abstain on Ridgewood press yes or no others wki abstain on the fire department yes on all others matthus yes motion carries public comment now open the meeting to the public anyone desires to be heard come on forward state your name wow wow you've been sitting on this for a couple months oh it's a new one so uh electronic spe our second one which we are very grateful to receive uh Linda Harman rwood Avenue sorry I wouldn't lean on that it fell before um let you know JF we we were just paying the bill now so that's of insurance we may want to yeah okay well this should be fine so it was installed July 1st on a utility poll um the beginning of September it was removed I believe because it was on an old utility poll and the utilities had to be removed but both polls are still there so anyway that sign is gone um metal pole still there there is no metal pole it was installed on a utility poll that shouldn't be I wasn't in charge um beginning of October since we have still no sign there was a message trailer brought um sat there for two and a half days it didn't work so after two calls from our residents the police removed it um here we are the beginning of November as a ma pole been ordered I'll check see check tomorrow okay a work order been started to reinstall the sign I I don't know I don't have that those answers I'll I'll get whatever uh I can get and get back to you thank you you're welcome anyone else wish to be heard seeing no one I entertain a motion to close the public portion of the meeting so move second motion by withi second by skier all in favor I close session pursuant to njsa 10 col 4-13 and the Attorney General's formal opinion 29 1976 I entertain a motion to adopt the resolution CSO 5-24 so that the public can be excluded from this portion of the meeting in order so that the council may discuss contract negotiations and items to be discussed in closed session can be disclosed to the public with the course of actions determined or a decision has been reached c a motion to go into so moved motion by skar second by me all in favor motion carries there there was a speed how fast you're going thing and it got removed e