e e e e e e e e e e e e p i get them all the time are they LED we should be live I just think it misrepresents like it's coming from us re I just it gave me the impression like make we're all set president than 701 I call tonight's council meeting to order roll call Bennett here thank you leosa here mey here Sasso here skara here wki here Matthews here please rise and join us on the Pledge of Allegiance and please stay standing for a moment of silence for Jeff Kowalski our friend and coworker who passed away unexpected Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the annual schedule of regular meetings here adopted and posted on the public bolon board at the municipal building emailed to The Herald News the the record The Gazette and all persons who requested the mailing as such since December 7th 2023 approval of the minutes have approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of April 17th and the mid minutes for the pool concessions for 2425 year so moved uh motion by wki second by skiera any discussion roll call wki yes skara yes Sasso yes mey yes leosa abstain Bennett yes Matthews yes motion carries public comment I'll open the meeting to the public for agenda items only please if anyone's desires to be heard come forward to the microphone state your name seeing no one I entertain a motion to close the public portion of the meeting motion byki second by Bennett all in favor I motion carries adoption of ordinances budget ordinance number 23 38-24 2024 Municipal budget Appropriations limits and to establish a cap Bank pursuant to njsa 4A col 44514 I'll 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 seeing no one I attain a motion that this public hearing on this ordinance be closed that it be resolved that this ordinance was posted on the bulletin board of which Public Notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available on the bur website and available to the public now therefore be resolved the dis ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law I have a motion motion by Mee second by skier any discussion Frank yes what paper is this in is this the Burgen record only paper we put this in Lori our budget record yeah Bergen Record um the record in Bergen and Pate County the Herold news and Bergen and Pate County basically North jersey.com yeah because you see all the things in there I always look for don't see it it was published today maybe it's on the other side I just the synopsis they notified when they're putting it in um I send it in oh yeah okay just curious yep thank you roll call Bennett yes leosa yes M yes Sasso yes skara yes wki yes Matthews yes motion carries Capital ordinance 23 39-24 an ordinance to authorize the purchase of a jet vack truck for use by the Department of Public Works and the water department in and by the bur of hathorne in the county of Pake state of New Jersey and to appropriate the sum of 390,000 from General Capital surplus funds of the bur of horor for such purpose and now open the meeting to the public if anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance raise your hand come forward to the microphone and state your name seeing N I entertain that the motion of this public hearing of on this ordinance be closed that it be resolved this ordinance was posted on a bulletin board on which Public Notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available to B website and available to the public now therefore be it resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law have a motion motion by Bennett second by skier any discussion y Miss just want you to know that our chairman of the Public Public Works that he made a deal with this company to save us a lot of money yeah we started off what direct I'm sor direct excuse me I Bruce good job Bruce now we got to give him a raise why just for the benefit of the public for this this ordinance and the previous one we're not buying two um we're splitting the cost between the water utility and the uh General capital and therefore we need two separate uh funding ordinances and and the total cost is is Will fund the the vehicle there are not two different vehicles good point roll call wki yes skara yes saso yes M yes leosa yes Bennett yes Matthews yes motion carries Capital ordinance 2340 d24 this is from the water park an ordinance authorizing purchase of a jet fact truck for use by the Department of Public Works and the water department in and by the B of hathorne in the county of Pake state of New Jersey and to appropriate the sum of 195,000 from the war M utility Capital Improvement fund and The Bu of hothorn for such purpose now open to meeting to the public anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance raise your hand come forward to the microphone seeing none I entertained a motion that the public hearing on this ordinance be closed and that it be resolved this ordinance was posted on the bolon board and which C Public Notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available on the burough website and available to the public now therefore be it resolved that this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law Move Motion by Bennett second by Sasso any discussion on this one no it'll be uh I can't wait till we get it because it'll make the department so much quicker more efficient in terms particularly with water main brakes and things like that it'll make the job more efficient and much safer for our guys so good job yes I think we believe we'll have it by leave by leave uh by fall that's by Lea season that's what I I your director said okay R Bennett yes leosa yes Mee yes tasso yes skara yes W Matthews yes motion carries water utility Bond ordinance 23 41-24 is a water utility Bond ordinance providing for the rehabilitation of the peach tree water tank all and in the burough of hathorne in the county of bque New Jersey appropriating 1,450,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes in the burrow in the amount of 1 million $450,000 for the financing of the same now open a meeting to the public anyone desires to be heard go forward to the microphone and state your name seeing none entertain a motion at the public hearing on this ordinance be closed and that be resolved this ordinance was posted on the buletten board in which Public Notices are customarily posted published in the record made available on the burough 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 Kev a motion motion by leosa second by mely any discussion just a couple comments um Mr President just for for the public I think the council knows um this is the third of our three metal water storage um tanks um we're doing Rehabilitation now as it has a small amount of deterioration to prevent a much larger cost um should we fail to do this um and we're we are seeking um um njib New Jersey infrastructure Bank uh funds um to finance this to reduce the interest costs so okay anybody else roll call wki yes skara yes tasso yes mey yes leosa yes Bennett yes Matthews yes motion carries all business Joe we'll start your way thank you um first I'd like to thank the police department for enforcing our pool parking lot when I called on Monday evening into Tuesday about the tractor trailers being parked in the pool parking lot again and another thank you out to the mayor um the old gas station at Mohawk and gole do you have a report yes I do Joe I spoke to the owner of the property today he did say that the the gentleman who owns the construction company right next door to him he asked for permission if he could park him there for a little bit and the owner of the of the Mobile station property said yes he could uh I did speak with him with regard of if it's a long drawn out Affair then he may have to re make an application out for his Z to the uh planning board for approval it's been a year well I know they were there and they were gone they were there and they were gone wasn't I don't believe I may be wrong but I don't believe it was a steady one year hasn't it's been a year they every time I come down Mohawk Avenue the the dumpsters and the ride off rolloff trailers are parked there and I just think well when you say trailers the rollof you know what the a roll a roll off a rollof what the box that's parked next to the truck is moved with okay I I just think that I don't have a problem with it let's supply for planning board or if it needs a zoning adjustment but let's do it the right way let's just not park the truck there and say oh you know I'm just parking here for a year or so I'll call them tomorrow thank you U mayor have they cleaned the property up are they clean the property up it's I when I spoke with the owner today I asked them particularly what's the status of the development he said that as of as of his last meeting with the with their attorney they're just about complete it with all the legal matters and he's coming in for a demolition permit probably next week and after that then he's Pro probably going to start with the trees okay we do need a developers agreement we've never that's correct on that so yeah we we are still waiting on them I do know Mr vogle reached out to me uh Tuesday to give me an update so hopefully we're at the point where we'll have a developers agreement they're not going to be doing any major work at that site until we have a developers agreement in hand and it's been dragging forever so and when you say major work what it's it's often the case that we allow somebody to do basic cleaning of their property removing scrub trees cleaning up uh you know what you may have uh some demolition you know it gets to the point where what is the demolition that's going to be involved if it's substantial demolition we're going to want to know the bonds and everything are in place if we're talking about removing a small building uh you know sheds and stuff like that nobody gets too concerned so um you know we usually work with our building department on what's you know where the line is drawn and it's really each case is a little different for the next actually what they'll be taking down there is the building gas so that may that may need in which case I'm the gas station needs to come down the trailer the exterior office the green trailer right um I don't know how much further they said they were going to Pivot the diesel fuel tank dispensers so that there would be room as opposed right now it runs parallel with wagal Road they want to Pivot it so that it is um perpendicular to Wago road so that that is really where the the grocery store is going to go to so that's that's a lot of work yeah and again if it it if we're talking about taking down a shed we always allow it if we're talking about these you know taking down major structural portions of the property I'm going to want to see the bonds in place so we will do that thank you and then the last I I put this under old um do we have youth in government this year and if so when can I put it into my calendar they don't want to do it anymore didn't know that I thought we were just postponing it because of we didn't postpone it they did they said there was no interest I think last year it was very hard to fill the the the seats it's disappointing I I always enjoyed that yeah me too one of my favorite nights yeah can we still go din I'm sorry in addition um the Board of Ed does a youth and government night as well so they have you know they were struggling to fill their night and and then our night as well but yeah sadly it's um well when Mr Ward it was Mr Ward that was in charge right when he left corre kind of fell apart right all right so I don't have to add anything to my calendar that's all I have you can bring a youth to the audience one day if you want but they're all bring your youth to one day all adults with their own kids Nowa no I'm good Michael nope not tonight Bruce uh yeah I'd like to give a shout out to the principal Washington school and her staff for the uh Arbor Day tree planting last Friday what they did uh which I thought was very clever was they they allowed the third grade class to come out and not only watch the tree being planted but each of them came up and took the shovel and put a shovel full of dirt in to to plant the tree and I thought that was pretty clever in terms of Education it'll it'll teach the kids something about trees and get them interested and as they grow and this tree grows they'll feel a personal connection to itself well done Washington School an Marie yes just a follow up on the rav um report that you're compiling Joe has that been completed with all the necessary documentation we uh we provided a copy to the mayor's office though uh we're getting some additional information for him once that's complete would you kindly provide a copy to myself as as well for review yeah I don't think that'll be a problem are you talking about the r have extension go Road yes the okay accident reports and speeding tickets that were're compiling plus his report that that has all been compiled uh I sent the report on to the County engineer and he sent me an an email back regarding some additional items that he needed which I turned over to our traffic department they sent it back down to him uh to them and uh we're just uh waiting for them to get back to us okay once it's complete you'll share with us absolutely okay thank you very much but uh I can tell you this that Boswell's report uh basically approved uh the concept uh they now the it's in the County's hands thank you that's it Dominic okay old business Eric when I don't know if it was you spoke to mayor say from Patterson regarding the Pooles on River Street or yes I did the day after the meeting obviously you did your part of the job but did they give you a time when he thinks he might fill them he he he said I'll get right on it there's one that's at least 12 inches deep right now I wouldn't doubt that I don't even go that way anymore tough to get to work without going to Route 20 that well I I actually uh go on 208 and and get off onto Maple Avenue and go down First Avenue and then one of the side streets there and then get on 20 okay that's what I do it's it's not worth ruining my vehicle there there's a method to Terry Duffy's Madness B when you the tire while you're waiting for the tow truck you got to go in for a beer okay new business Dominic I'm okay anarie I'm good thank you Bruce no sir Mike I'm good Rea um just want to make some announcements um been working with uh Moren cook and uh Bill Hoffner and I have some exciting news to share um we are officially having a polystyrene collection facility container at the recycling center um it's going to be effective May 15th it's a permanent container it's all enclosed so we will be taking clean poly styrene just like we've done for the collections twice a year but now we have a permanent location um this has been in the works for quite some time because p County put together um a joint shared agreement with Clifton and Clifton was the lucky town to get the foam cycle machine which takes all the styrofoam and compresses the poly sirene thank you poly iring um and compacts it and it will be sold uh well actually be provided to a facility to make molding of frames so um all we have to do is collect it in hathorne and DPW we will drive it to Clifton where they will process the material and there'll be no cost to us just we have the container so I'm really excited about this um May 15th we're going to launch it please come to the green lecture tomorrow to learn more about the recycling program at the library at 7 o'clock but it's official we've got the container and um we're ready to go so no more collection collection dates no more collection days wow it's permanent we can't see you at your clicker no I will be retiring from the clicker just not the same R do do we uh do we get a fee for bringing the uh the uh polyyne down there no no fee no it's open to all the municipalities in P County um I'll just say my displeasure because um I really believe that hathorne should have been the selected facility the town to get the foam cycle from pay County since we've been doing it since 2018 and Clifton just started um but there was agreement between Clifton and baz County so they got the machine they will be the ones processing for all the 16 municipalities um it is up to the municipalities to purchase any type of container the county is giving us a very small container um it's just more of a promotional um like when you have the clothing um donation bins we're going to get one of those so um DPW is going to pick one up from cliff for us but we're going to probably be the first town like really launching it but um we don't have to go and have collection days and we don't have to go to hos scho anymore so Clifton will handle it great thank you is is anybody managing uh because I know it has to be clean oh yeah so all the recycling people have been they came down in January to learn how to do it so they'll be training and everything but seriously guys we can only take clean material so um we will be as rigorous as we were at the collection day at our recycling center so Joe you have a question follow that report well no I was going to do that later you don't want to do it now all right we can do it now um the other thing is help the hathorne be defeat litter that's May 18th um that's really a huge program with the commission the Green Team bur of horth and the hathorne Rotary Club so we'll be meeting at the 8 Acre Woods the 18th of May from 10 to 12 um so come on down and we're giving out free G grabbers for the first 25 so nice yeah so it will be good we'll be doing press releases about the poly stering I'm sure people will be very happy to hear that but we've got it permanently so thank you Joe all right only one um the wagw road sidewalks that go from our some of it's our property some of it's the county property that go under the railroad trestles people are walking in the road because they have so much debris on the sidewalk okay take care of it tomorrow what I think is happening I think it's getting knocked over from the railroad when the trains go by and it just sits there and clogs up the drains that's it I have nothing further for that turn to administrative agenda presented by mayor Lane thank you Mr President uh tonight I have a proclamation for uh mental health week uh mental health month for the month of May and the chairman of the committee is here I'd like them to come forward please were they previous years wasn't wearing a t-shirt either nothing STI stand over here the camera is over here whereas mental health is essential to everyone's overall health and well-being and whereas all Americans experience time of difficulty and stress in their lives and whereas prevention is an effective way to reduce the burden of mental health conditions and whereas there is strong research that animal companionship humor spirituality religion Recreation social connections and work life balance can help all Americans protect the health and well-being and whereas mental health conditions are real and prevalent in our nation and whereas with effective treatment those individuals with mental health and other chronic health conditions can recover and let lead full productive lives and whereas each business school government agency health care provider organization and citizens share the burden of mental health problems and has a responsibility to promote mental health wellness and support prevention of efforts now therefore let the mayor and councel the burrow of hathorne do hereby proclaimed May 2024 as mental health awareness month in the burrow of hathorne and we also call upon the citizens public and private institutions businesses and schools in hathorne New Jersey to re recommit our community to increasing awareness and understanding of mental health the steps our citizens can take to protect their mental health and the need for appropriate and accessible service for all people with mental health conditions I witness whereof I have unto set my hand and caus the Seal of the burrow of forth Thorne to be affixed this first day of May 2024 signed by myself and the full Council and I just uh want to let everyone know that yesterday uh being uh May 1st no 30th sorry was uh we raised the flag at the ambulance building in uh in conjunction with health month say a few [Applause] words G get your mic hold on Jim I'll get l or you can just talk real loud he's a preacher isn't he all right you go amen does that come out there we okay um so just something uh that we wanted to share on behalf of the stigma free team now more than ever it is imperative that we come together to reduce the stigma behind mental health this is a disease that needs to be treated as so and there is no shame in wanting help it is also important that all of us become increasingly knowledgeable of mental health so that we can become the First Responders to family and friends who are struggling in respect to the leadership provided by samama the substance abuse in mental health administration we need all hands on deck their wheel highlights the eight Dimensions of Wellness this includes physical social Financial spiritual occupational environmental intellectual and emotional it's important that we all work together to ensure the most holistic modes for wellness our team hopes to offer a mental health first aid training later this summer to keep our team members and Community leaders up to- dat in their training and their awareness we also so you know have created hawthor saree.com our team has worked together with the Hawthorne Police Department to create hawthor stigma free.com offer some immediate guidance on navigating mental health and some signs to be aware of on this page you will also find the plethora of resources provided by our great Community Hawthorne and especially Pake County and a few from the state of New Jersey there are great resources and we hope more people will become aware of them uh may God bless Hawthorne and give us peace uh lastly we have a walk on May 19 at 2 pm at the high school if you all can attend or the town can come on out we'll be sharing this with all the PTO and we're making it very familyfriendly walk for wellness on behalf of the mayor's Wellness campaign um but uh Sigma free team is doing a lot of the work so we're very excited about it thank you thank you you all right hey Jim that's going to be at the high school the track but it's going to start at the high school yeah start at high school at 2m great thank you where your sneakers hit it again maybe turn that off and one of them okay Jeff was a well-respected and esteemed colleague of ours our condolences to his father Norman who had worked for many years in our recycling center and his sister Karen Jeff will be missed by his burrow of horth Thorne family our water testing continues to come back non detect this includes the epa's most recent expanded list of chemicals the vehicles and roll parked in the vacant Mobile station which I just went over that with you Joe I want to thank Lisa DeVos of the environmental commission and green team for the springberg walk last sat last Sunday please be sure to enjoy one one more of the walks planned for May and June we have a list posted on our website to the horor seniors you are invited to a dress rehearsal at Lincoln middle school for the prodction production of Mia junr on Thursday May 16th at 6 p.m in the High School auditorium if you would like to attend please call 973 42711 168 we will be doing a walk for wellness under the mayor's Wellness campaign on Sunday May 19th at 2 pm we will meet at the high school track warm up around the and walk around the pond returning to the high school where we will have some vendors and food and please join us lastly plans are underway for the Memorial Day service at noon at the and the parade which follows at 1:30 stepping off at the corner of Lafia and Ray I would also like to mention that I was able to secure early voting here in hathorne it will take place at the hathorne library more to come at the next meeting and at this time I'll turn it over to my attorney Michael Pasqual thank you thank you mayor my condolences to Norman the family Jeff always uh helped us out at the Bandshell every time he was working nights doing the water and I was closing up he says you go I'll take care of it and he was always a help to all of us so um Everybody in the DBW loved them we all did um a terrible loss uh more mundane matters we had tax appeal hearings yesterday in P County uh sent a memo out late in the day like at 5:00 but we only had 15 tax appeals filed in Hawthorne at the county level which is a very low number compared to past years Tim and I settled all of them except one um which you can imagine which one and um we we actually in settling those we had a couple cases that were affirmed to the tax court because they were for larger properties but only a couple of them too and um we settled the rest with our homeowners again we always think where there's reason to settle cases and make adjustments we will the total amount of reduction off of our uh entire basis or base was $450,000 uh the amount of revenues we'll be refunding is a little over $14,000 so in the grand scheme of things that's a very good number and we expect that this year we will add significantly to the rateable will B base and not take from the rable base because we settled most of our big appeals last year so uh we we see at least two to three years of good growth in the rable base uh P5 settlement is moving along Eric was able to provide some additional information to our California Council and uh there is indication that that is moving to a point where uh we might actually start to see formulation of money we will see I didn't say money I said formulation of money so you know the wheels of Justice turn slowly two weeks yeah there's no two weeks here that's for sure um and then finally and and importantly for all of us we have our almost final Bandshell schedule all set we are doing a uh very ambitious presentation of 12 shows in 10 weeks so we begin with uh Joes and friends on June 23rd on June 28th and we need to confirm with them uh the hawthor fire department band will be celebrating their 100th anniversary on Sunday June 14th we have Studio 2 a Beatles tribute band never had a Beatles tribute band before uh it should be great this covers most of the earlier years of The Beatles so uh that should be gray on June July 21st filet of Soul a mtown band is coming 10piece a very polished group on July 28th Christian maio and Captain Jack come back with its Billy Joel tribute always a big one on August 2nd that's a Friday night Estelle Barbieri has written another play and uh it's not titled yet it's still being tweaked but Estelle and her friends are going to present a play uh hathern high school students current and a couple recent graduates so mark that down Friday August 2nd rain date on the 3D on August 4th Harpy love Harper lovey and the wait list are returning a dynamic Young singer on August 6 two days later is a busy weekend comes National Night Out not really a b event but it's at the Bandshell on August 11th we have the jazz singer Sion arbell on August 18th we have country music with big hick and on August 25th we have movie night and the intended movie subject to us getting it is going to be Legos 2 the Lego movies are fantastic they're great for kids and if everything works out well we may have a full event as well stay tuned for that so uh thank the committee the committee is phenomenal and uh we look forward to seeing all of you down there we're going to start circulating the uh flyers in the next week or so so thank you everybody thank you to our donors but we still need more money that concludes my report mayor thank you thank you mayor uh the Galvan water uh service line replacement Phase 2 uh suar properties has completed 277 test pits to date and 24 service Replacements have been completed as of last week uh there are a handful of test pits required for warberg the police department has asked that uh we wait until school is out before investigating those uh for phase three of the same project the submission uh is currently under review by the njib uh the recreational field facility up grade project uh the punch list work for the uh fence work has been completed and for Franklin Field lighting uh the field is substantially complete and is currently being used for recreation uh there's some additional installation wiring uh that's still needed in relation to the speakers and power zones and a light study is currently being coordinated with musco lighting uh for the posos uh water treatment systems uh um all of the uh systems are operational at all the pump stations and revised Landscaping plans were previously prepared um a markette was called out in for landscaping uh by the contractor this past Monday um installation of the Landscaping should be soon um though we're still awaiting a final date from the contractor as far as when that work will be completed um but Pac 2 is currently proc procuring the uh plantings and uh will provide theu for installation shortly uh the Hawthorne Kitty pool enhancements um Premier Pool Renovations has uh completed the initial Plumbing work and poured the concrete uh the contractor is currently awaiting delivery of the spray features uh which is due the beginning of May so should be soon um for the uh ha Hawthorn d revitalization phase three uh we're currently awaiting uh comments from NJ do and uh Boswell is currently coordinating with the uh with the arborist regarding uh Planters and Street trees uh for the same project um for the uh 2024 roadway projects uh plans and specifications are currently being worked on and uh as far as the uh 2024 resident assessments um calls from the residents and property owners as part of the uh programs are currently being received and reviewed prior to uh the final design of set projects uh the 2021 resident assessments um calls from the resident property owners are currently uh being received um and reviewed prior to final invoices being submitted for the same uh the ray Avenue and goel road traffic study uh was pre as was previously discussed was prepared and submitted to the mayor and has been submitted to the county and some additional information has been requested that is uh currently being prepared um the Franklin Field bleacher improvements um the final design drawings and specifications uh have been provided to the mayor but lead times on the materials uh are pushing the construction to the winter uh so as not to interfere with the football season and the Hawthorne Library roof project um delivery of the materials for the flat section of the roof uh was scheduled for today May 1st and installation is scheduled for tomorrow May 2nd and that concludes my report mayor administrator Eric thank you mayor I'd like to offer my condolences as well to Jeff Kowalski's father and sister um Jeff was a good employee a good union shop Steward and a good person I'm Who I'm fortunate to have fortunate to have known I'm just adding to Michael's comments on the tax settlements um with with that reduction of our tax base um the impact on next year's taxes would be less than 200s of a percent because it's it's that small of a number and will be more than uh um wiped out by uh increases that we expect in the tax base um um the bill added to the bill list tonight is a progress payment on the radio project for the new equipment for the um fire department and ambulance core radios and pagers um which is now 80% complete what we are awaiting is the final black call connection from Washington School to the municipal building being provided by Verizon so we can make the system operational um the resolution was added to the agenda r 7524 um it's an which adds money to the temporary budget pending adoption of the budget at in two weeks um for payroll other operating expense and two items on the agenda tonight resolutions 78 and 79 uh those two resolutions are for Capital items um being purchased with Surplus as budgeted so as not to affect taxes a front end loader using general Surplus and water meters using water Surplus the bureau rece received a $1,000 safety award from the Morris County JF for our safety program which we will spend on items that will further that safety program thank you to Jen Scully who coordinates the program and and to all the Departments that assisted in this effort um as I mentioned two weeks ago notices are being mailed today regarding our P situation as required by the DP despite the new treatment system being fully operational and multiple rounds of post construction Tes showing non- detect for both pfoa and pfos unfortunately we will not be cleared by the D until the running annual average of test results drops below the um maximum contaminant levels which should happen in the next couple weeks based on a a testing round that has already been completed and submitted to the state with our pasas Saga drawing to a close I'm in conversation with Ridgewood in another adjacent Town regarding sale of water using the available C capacity of our system sales would help spread out the cost of the new treatment system and today I submitted a request to Congressman Pas grell's office for federal funding for upgrades to our main sewer pump station although we've not been successful in the past for this type of funding we'll see where this one goes and that concludes my report Dominic I'm okay I'm good stop shooting in I'm good than no not working no I'm good marinaa Joe just a couple questions um with the njib in phase two do we know um what we'll be receiving from them like principal forgiveness or low interest is that going to be decided at the end of the completion of the project um at this point I don't think we're um we're expecting principal forgiveness uh on the posos no no no I'm talking galvaniz on the galvanized pipe we are expecting it on the posos um but we won't know for sure until the end of of the project okay it won't be something that we will learn until um final permanent funding is is put in place okay so it's at the end so that would go the same as phase three right okay um to the uh Franklin Field um we are going after the contractor correct for all the damage that he has um put on that's correct okay because it did get resolved by our contractor um the third is the kidy pool so we really in line with getting those um sprinklers the splash yes everything's ready when they get delivered which is expected in the next week they just snap and into place there's no real construction at that point if for some reason um the delivery is delayed it doesn't stop our operation in the pool and once they show up they get snapped into place okay great I think that concludes everything thanks Joe mayor thank you Raina Joe I have nothing history history being made right there said on May 1st 2024 Eric I just had a question if you could follow up with the Board of Education U hockey people contacted me again remember uh Dr spro had said that they were going to be given a key and then I said that they saw him on the field over weekend on the cameras that's because the lock was cut off they were never given a key so could you just follow up and say what is yes or no okay okay know just comment on that there was a lot of work put into that and I would hate to see that I just would hate to see that without having an answer yes or no that that work was done what you know why not just tell them no so that they wouldn't have done the work no the I was told that it was being locked specifically so that it's reserved for the hockey people which is great but then not give them a key well that's when I spoke to the superintendent goes well Barry should have a key I said I don't think he does so could you follow up on that and I think it just got dropped he sort of does well B Cutters don't count but a new key to the new lock 100% with you okay any other questions for the administration mayor anything from you that concludes the report from Administration Mr President could I have a motion to record the administrative so mov second by Scar second by mey all in favor I motion Carri introduction of ordinances we have none this evening we have resolution off consent we have R 75-24 is emergency temporary budget can I have a motion on that Some Mo motion by SK second by leosa and obviously this is because of the adoption of budget is off one meeting so that will be uh covering us until then roll call sorry I'm so sorry you're um where uh roll call on off consent and then I'll get back to you okay thank you who made the motion uh skira and then leosa thank you sorry um Bennett yes leosa yes mey yes Sasso yes skara yes wki Matthews yes motion cares we um I forgot to let Lori have time after the administrative agenda she'd like to tell us about voter registration and the deadline thank you president um I just wanted to mention May 14th is the last day of reg register to vote if you are not a registered voter as yet um also if you need to update your address or your name uh April for May 14th is the last day my office the clerk's office will remain open till 9 p.m. to receive your applications if you're going to do it by paper you can register on online as well um it's on the nj.gov website um I do have a flyer on this information which I will post everywhere and nixel out and anything else anywhere else you think I need to put this information the website my vote voting page um but just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention and um also ballots have been mailed out by the count now the those of you who have requested a vote by mail ballot the Dropbox out at the municipal building is open for your completed ballot I did see somebody drop it in there tonight it's under camera it's under lock and key it does get emptied every night or every other night by the um P County Sheriff's Office and escorted down to the holding place um as the mayor mentioned early voting will take place um it for the primary election it starts May 29th at the library I will get all those details um out as well um but any questions it'll be on our website on the library website um in person voting at at the machine is the only thing that will happen there um any questions call our office 973 427 11167 okay uh I think that's it thank you Lori just a question if you could put together a report on what you just said I can put that in my Friday letter absolutely that'll go out to everyone then okay you got it have a quick question thank you president I have a quick question Lori um the voter registration is just for the to register to vote by May 14th for just for the primary not for the general I want to get clarification um we register to vote to vote if you're not a registered vot only V in the primary here corre so for the general there's going to be another deadline for voting correct okay yeah 21 days before election day you have to be registered to vote so to vote in this primary you have to be registered by May by May 14th thank you get clarification yep you got it read his letter on Friday you'll get it let go okay cassette agenda R 7624 through R9 uh 79 -24 r76 d24 is to authorize acquisition of an mrap vehicle r77 d24 is extend shared service agreement with Prospect Park for the library R 7824 is a purchase of water meters from Rio Supply and r79 d24 is a purchase of a front end loader from jessco a motion motion by bet it second by melee any discussion now there was some discussion about the MRA vehicle online I just want to say that's a free piece of equipment that police are able to get the only thing we have to do is pay the transportation to get it from wherever it's coming from um so for anyone who is interested why we're doing that it goes through flooded Waters and it's at no cost to us R call wki yes skara yes Sasso yes M yes leosa yes Bennet yes Matthews yes motion carries reports to special Council committees Dominic we'll start your way okay I would like to thank Lorie Nancy and Ellen for the cooperation for the mayor and mpal Alliance dinner at the high school last week it was a success we had over what about 90 people that okay was was handled very well the and the play afterwards was excellent I just want to thank you for all your good job thank you an Mar yes the library Friends of the library would like to remind everybody that there's still time to register for the um chocolate night on May 17th you can get tickets at the circulation desk for $20 also this Sunday they're having their craft show the spring craft show which is sponsored by the friends of the library it's a lot of fun a lot of great vendors so don't wait go and visit this Sunday from 10:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. their ongoing book sale is in the law where the library the friends of the library sells Gently Used Books it's always a wonderful thing I know they accept also donations of Gently Used Books don't just drop them make sure you have arrangements made um the hours to accept gently used books are Monday night 6:30 to 8 Tuesday morning 10: a.m. to 12:00 noon and every third Saturday 10:00 a.m. to noon um in addition to that the poror Ambulance Corp thanks everyone for their participation in the tag day they made a Lov $4,300 and as always they would like us to highlight and and I know that we do this anyway all the wonderful efforts of our volunteer um all of our volunteers but the ambulance Corps is having um they're highlighting their efforts through social media um with the upcoming EMS week starting May 19th through May 25th so let's not forget to participate in all of the events because your donation helps them continue to function that is the end of my report no sir mik the Board of Education had their budget presentation last night and as expected the cuts in the state aid were the topic of conversation uh superintendent uh Dr Rick SPO stated that the 2% increase in in the annual budget uh would equate to about $854,000 and the state aid cut that they received was $30,000 more than that at $884,000 with the additional Cuts in health uh additional costs in health uh care benefits Transportation costs and salaries Etc they would require $980,000 to balance this year's budget cut no no just to balance the budget that's the what they require okay uh Cuts they had to have cuts and programs such as the Hope program that's the one that's uh located next to the be cave on Lafayette Avenue uh reduction of a custodian and two teachers elimination um they eliminated uh the contract for power professionals from outside agencies uh they also had a reduction of supplemental programs uh professional development and supplies so this is something that's strongly affected our little Board of Education that concludes my report Reena um just want to mention again some of the upcoming dates so the green lectures is tomorrow May 2nd at the library at 7 hathorne recycling program the next one is May 14th Tuesday native plants and then of course we have helped the hathorne be defeat loner on May 18th from 10 to 12 at the 8 Acre Woods and then as the mayor said we have the bird walks there's one May 4th 11th and there's one on a Wednesday on the 8th so um come out and support us thanks Jo all right I'm going to start with the Board of Health Report um it has been emailed to all mayor and Council from Hawthorne Board of Health start with the rabies vaccine is going to be at the pool parking lot on May 14th so please if you have your dog please come on or Cat come on down on May 14th for the rabies in that report also it states that Tao has responded to Hawthorne for one dog two cats five raccoons eight skunks three Three Squirrels three opossum one woodchuck and one deer and it's that they're here every day to chase the geese I'm asking anyone that does see them do that please take a picture and forward it to me now as for the shade tree commission I would just like to clarify my comments I stated at the last meeting that the sapling giveaway was cancelled please understand that this event was cancelled not because we removed it from the budget but it was due to the lack of saplings available due to this past Year's weather and extremely wet weather not a lack not a lack of us budgeting for it that is all saw that thread too I have nothing for this evening so we'll move on to correspondence we have none but we have bills as amended give a motion to approve the bills and forward them to the treasur for payment so move Sasso second motion by melee second by Sasso any discussions roll call Bennett yes leosa yes and everything except foror environmental commission bills mey yes and everything Sasso yes skara yes Fernandez yes on everything but the fire department Department abstain on the fire department I saw that thank you Matthews yes on all of them thank you motion carries public comment open the meaning to the public anyone desires to be heard come forward to the microphone state your name Mr PE right was Tak care of Watch What Happens hit the first I want to find out what happened to our mail good question I I still not answer I can answer that the mailbox was tried to be broken into they they did not get into it but the post office took it away uh and either there's one on order or they're they're definitely going to have another one put in but but it it either this one's getting repaired or they're buying a new one because uh I used to know where other mailboxes were like our Main Street Diamond Bridge not there in front of the bank it's not there I don't know where the mailboxes are Glen Rock other than the post office and you could only Park two cars in front yeah not in this town but if I could just comment on that they've had a very large it was in another town that I work in and they explain that that they're having a string of of robberies people actually are stealing checks out of them that people mail the Sur around like on M Street there's there's no cameras there like uh robing a bank right yeah I just walk right in it is a federal offense okay back to uh oh tonight I'm going to cover procedures and I'm going to go to paral Le a I was one of those that put up the money before we sold the house and I'm getting flustered because I asked many times to get this is not a bill banford I was trying to get the Parmer Lee one so I realized that you don't know that I'm paying for that uh concrete even though I sold the house right okay I'll play along than your word for so Mike's aware of all of this uh so how do I get this stuff mailed to me former Le we only mail John to the homeowner right the current homeowner so it would not go to you it it would go to the homeowner who then would come to you no I the homeowner wouldn't come to me that that can't be in your procedure but that is I could be in Arizona but but the procedure is that we build the current homeowner period we don't make arrangements to Bill other people that's just not what the law provides the law provides a current homeowner gets to BU you've put money in escrow with with your attorney or the there's money my attorney there's money because we did it correctly knew that there was an assessment one day going to happen held money and so when the bill comes due that property owner gets the bill and then they'll present it to me and I'll issue to the check but the check the bill does not go to you John okay but if I'm responsible as a new owner know that what I'm pay for you're entitled to request a copy of any thing like that but again we don't mail it to somebody else I asked for the copy a couple of times I keep getting that it's not the final number did to get the final number I I got I got off the record I got a number that sounds reasonable and it's not going to be an issue there but how do you get how do I get the money out of Esco to pay the burrow no you don't pay the burrow the I'm holding the money in ESO because I was your attorney how you know to send it to you the property owner when they purchase the property knows when the bill comes due to contact their attorney who would then contact me and the money gets released by me all right and then I get the balance maybe well turke could be lunch money I mean there is postage in handling John oh yeah you sound like the three and a half% charge they put on the Visa now if you want to charge something right you charge the pizza they the services yeah go get the money John okay yeah I want to close that out that's mom's estate all right so I'll wait on that um all right now we'll come back to bford the good news is um Joe was at his sight did all the measurements everything I said was correct the crack is filled in um so I want I want to go through the procedure that I went through that I hope nobody else has to go through uh the guy uh am that did our street from sfmf construction uh he's out of business they have new people in DLS guys name was Rob okay so they're they're another contractor what they do is DS hires contractors and they give them a new t-shirt that says P have their own companies bills I had from Jamie are are from SNF construction that was for the extra work I had all right interesting thing happened when they were filling in the crack uh it only took them 10 minutes so that's the wasn't theer fill in but we're still not finished with the with the a so as soon as I come down to to beat them the one guy says I can guarantee absolutely this was not done by a dump truck so then I said well I thought you was done d by a dumb truck Joe and he got it from somebody else but you're you're going to look into that on your side right that's where we left it okay well it doesn't really matter as long as they fixed it that's what's important well it's fixed with a c gun which is how I thought they were going to fix it when they said it take 10 minutes to put that stuff in and and then they they uh one of the secretaries explained now they got to square it off on the bottom before they put the cement in US you make it bigger before you make it filled in yes well this is bigger looks like a piece of masking tape was put over the crack because that's all white I have to dirty it up now okay and we'll see so Joe came up with the idea of moving the apron over the apron is definitely off center they saw I have I have pictures of it by the way I have to put exponents on my after pictures I take the picture gets fixed all right that's the second one oh now this is the third one so I have to use exponents for my pictures of that area uh he was going to move the apron over and then son of a gun when I was fixing those uh the sidewalks things I suggested to the engineer to take the full one and just move it and then we only have to replace one slot and I said it they said oh we can't do that so that's something else I want to bring up so that doesn't make sense all right so are you looking for what is the question I didn't get to the question I'm giving you a status report there was progress okay there is a time limit but okay okay the crack was filled um so on this stuff we're we're still looking into things and we made progress on that all right I want to dump another one on you do you have a cable committee you used to have one years ago it's a Communications committee now yes okay um just before we noticed the crack in the sidewalk they came and put new telephone poles on our street and they took all of the old ones off except my house down to Diamond Bridge there's four telephone polls and just looking around town I see double telephone poles all over all over the place so Verizon is willing to move their lines they can't move their lines until the capable people move their lines well that's not true they can move their lines but they can't remove the pole till the cable company moves this each person's each company's responsible obviously if it's a utility pole electric is what controls it and then phone and cable which is lower has to follow Verizon can move to the second poll anytime they want C in the middle doesn't hinge on either or they can move it if they want but they can't take the poll out until the last person's off the old pole okay so how do we get them off the pole well that's not a B for that problem it's all over town well I guess we can have Eric contact our cable company and our cable rep he's been doing that well that and it turn other towns have the same issue I have double poles right outside my neighbor's house as well oh okay you know so you're not alone they're annoyingly ugly okay now um the last thing is U the procedure to get something fixed you give a 10e guarantee on the work we don't give a 10 year guarantee on the work it's in the or or ordinance 10 year life it's the contractor that is hired by the contractor there's no there's no 10 guarantee well it's it's in it's in the thing that you approve no the 10 years the only mention of 10 years would be the useful life yes that's it useful life is not a guarantee useful life is the term for which we can Bond something we can only bond an improvement to the extent it's it got a useful life there's no guarantee it'll live that 10 years and it might live 30 but that yeah it is is not a guarant the guarantee is a 2-year maintenance Bond two two two years this many and just so you know concrete is a product that's made to break the only way you going to stop house 45 years I'm just telling you the only way you're not going to get concrete I'm an architect only way you're not going to get concrete to brake is if you post tension it basically compresses it as it dries so that there is no moisture or air bubbles in the concrete so okay there it can crack naturally without it being anyone's fault all right so now uh the last thing is if someone has a problem with their concrete call the administration B administrator is the person that would handle your comment think Lor was the one she's the clerk she handles all the advertisement and works for us day-to-day operation is handled by the bir but I want to know Lori doesn't fix it town doesn't fix it Lori has to call somebody Lori is not involved do not call Lori ever again for this product okay call the B administrator and he will handle contract pass it on to the engineer to make sure that it happens all right the engineer that was in charge of the project yes yes okay and I was supposed to get a call or something back this is from between last meeting in now no March March I'm I'm on uh March of 20 2022 well is when I uh reported the the the crack at that time they tell me to to talk to the Lord I gave her the information uh I I was supposed to hear from somebody within a few days okay I did okay okay well I Mr burn is involved now he will you've talked to him he will follow up and carry this to the end mhm okay and if he doesn't you can call me and then I'll get on his case okay all right so I I'll wait on you to uh call him anytime in the middle of the night 2 o'clock he's up at least 10 or 15 minutes you now you expect to get out the bills by July June 15th for for banord look at that table they're the ones that do it not us I would we're intending I would imagine former Lee went out already I don't know I Eric can you take that up offline and call him tomorrow yes okay very good he'll get back to you tomorrow if he doesn't then you call Joe and Joe will call me Bo Bo boom lot of people we'll see you we'll see you next meeting you dump on the mayor and the mayor dumps on on either way it's over there okay see you next meeting does anyone else wish to be heard gentleman in the back how you gonna follow that [Music] Barry par and you no he lives on banford now oh it's all those Paving guys yeah yeah know Barry Houston 235 Washington Avenue uh just well last meeting I was here it was a few months ago while our teams were in the midst the playoffs and just so you know congratulations both of them won I'm sure you saw Yes I congratulated you guys last meeting thank you very much everybody for your support and what's going on with the agreement for the ring we're working with the school board the school board is taking a moment to uh really take a look at the entirety of their operation down on the fields and see what the future the the entire facility looks like we have an agreement so let's be clear about that there is an agreement the original agreement not it remains good and in place the school board though does wish to uh revisit the agreement we're willing to do that with them and so you know we keep working with them but they're going to take the time to also undertake a a comprehensive study to see what else needs to be done down there okay if you can find a place to put the buses that would help everybody uh because that seems to be a major issue there's a parking lot across the street next to the building they just built they can put a few buses in there put a bus in a number of places but again um yeah they're they're look they want they want to look at a long-term picture not just bandid for this year and I understand that okay so we're we're going to keep working with them I mean I'm under the impression also that the agreement from 1996 is still intact sure should be honored and I don't have a key to well I have a key to the main gate you're supposed to have two keys according to Dr SPO I talked to him personally on Good Friday he says Barry should have one obviously I've been talking to your crony and said Barry should have a key to both and then they said oh we checked on the video camera he was in there on Saturday the grap Vine said the lock got cut off so that you could get in there I don't know who's by someone I don't know who's cutting the lock but but someone uh and that it's been three weeks in a row that a new lock has been put in there yes well the person that does cut the lot she did cut the lot l a few weeks ago but since then and prior to that has only cut the chain to be a nice guy M but all I was told by the superintendent that you should have keys the mayor even followed up with the superintendent and he told him the same story so go to the Schoolboard meeting and say where the hell is my key well I was asked not to go to the last one but I'm going to this well I'm directing you to go yeah well my other question is why are they locking it it's supposed to be open to the public I was told it's locked for your use only and that's why you were going to get a key to keep the shot Putters The discus and all the soccer players out of there that damages the boards that you personally finish the shop Footers are the high school track team which I have what I have a shop fo at my house they I understand but you're the guy that does all the repairs of the boards and that's why they told me it was locked just for hockey use and that's why you were the only one that was going to get a key to the upstairs and the you know to the gate at the street and the block on the uh rink itself I'm just relaying what I was told by the superintendent I mean that's kind of silly I mean it kind of defeats the purpose of the rink being available to the public which no I thought this was something you you would be happy with so the the boards aren't getting destroyed again nothing well as far as soccer goes I mean several years ago I put up a sign saying for for hockey or roller roller skating only I put it in English and Spanish the rec department was supposed to do it but that was that never happened but and since then cuz I was asking the police and they said it can't be enforced unless there's a sign and I think I made up an ordinance or something or looked I looked it up put a number legit but uh I mean since then we haven't I mean they were out of town just coming to play I mean it's a very convenient soccer field you know for like an indoor soccer thing sure but yeah they were they were beating it pretty good but we haven't had a soccer issue in several years but it's just like I said people you know I'm always getting messaged or whatever and you know it's locked again and I don't have keys for that red lock it's a red lock I got keys for the green lock so well the green Lock's upstairs that's upstairs yeah up top yeah so you need a I I just don't I mean to me I didn't come up with the system this is from the school board well okay I'll address at the school board I mean to me it's silly I mean people want to skate I mean of all ages if anything this is kind of backr on them because I'm getting a lot of uh a lot of interest from younger kids it's we spreading that we actually have a rink it's like the quite you know it's the most kept secret inor but it's kind of working out I ain't trying to grow your farm league I totally understand we we always have mean back in the day we had several teams on each level and just you know for other reasons you know several other sports you know gaming whatever takes off but like I said we've gener generated enough interest where I think I may be able to get a u a team if I can use that term Peewee well they're called midgets in our league so uh but no I I said but I'll I'll address that at the board of meeting yes you know do me a favor stop locking it I don't have a key and I I mean if that's the case I'm gonna hang the key on the outside of the shed and say open it up when you want to use it I mean it's kind of silly I mean like I said there's a lot of people that are disappointed when they go down there and then to be told that the town locked it or whatever town has nothing to do with it whatsoever but you just that's for our TV audience it's kind of embarrassing when they say stuff like that I mean we know yeah i' I've text you know you okay but so if I got that agreement I can tell them too no you're GNA behave and and I always behave sometimes but um yeah listen again we are working with the board we understand their concerns look we have concerns with a lot of the facilities and use and overuse we do want to protect and preserve our facilities I mean I mean yes it's in congruent that people can walk the track but they can't play inside the rink on the other hand the investment of the rink is is different because you can misuse the rink in ways you can't really misuse the track well so that's that's a concern it really hasn't been misused in in years I understand I mean we're the ones that usually beat it to death with the exception of when they were going in there throwing shop puts and whatever baseballs you know you know so again we're going to keep working with them and they've expressed the willingness to work with us it we still have an agreement there's going to be a rink there it's not going anywhere we're not moving it well you hear this fiveyear deal again I and I've never been on social media in my life I'm never going to start because of people like your Fred Ed and um he's the one that text me goes you're going yeah the fact is um you there's Miss and disinformation out there everywhere yeah truth is we're going to have a rink there the is there are the coming out for the rink or soon not yet not yet okay no we're again we're going to work all that out with the school board because they do want to look at their facilities and and it's it's understandable they asked for let's take a deep breath and study and you know we said yeah I mean the materials that you supply me with to get the rink supposedly back in shape after they condemned it uh they have held up 99% I mean the rink really looks really looks good and I guess every time I go down there to try to keep it make sure it's clean because I don't want to be accused of having a unsanitary rink or whatever but even I sprayed the weeds andn but I gotta get my way in there it's always locked so we'll see what happens this Monday if it gets locked again let me see what we can do and uh you know uh just way you don't have to cut anything out I don't know who's doing it but God bless him short guy could be short guy bald I think he I think I saw him down there yeah but everything else is great though like I said I do appreciate all everybody's help we had a great season nobody got hurt good and we happen to win two championships which is uh that's phenomenal probably something that the Board of Ed didn't want to see but and by the way thank thanks for putting on the on your thing out there something else to go B good thank you good night thanks Barry sir no that's her not your sir so people can't walk on a track when they G locked in no they no they can walk on the track no people can walk on the track the issue is people can walk in the track but the question is use of the hockey ring and it is a bit different so these are some of the things we're working on with the board hi Rick briskin uh 138 Hillcrest Avenue in Hawthorne on the in the Heights quick so there's a giant water tower up there Amar knows about it it's right by your thing I'm just curious about what what who gets the uh contracts for that and uh that's our water tower right the walkon water tower it's part of our whole water system right okay so the guys are putting up all the antennas and everything I get it so are we at least getting money from that oh definitely that's the whole reason why we're doing it that's why I want to bring this up getting like three4 of a million dollars a year I'm ready man I live right there I mean that's my backyard okay so but the guys who work on it there's always a butt I know that's true there is always a but it's true the guys who work on it they are freelance guys I I guess anyway putting up the antennas when each vendor does their own thing like L of times way after hours okay so that's I know it sounds but it's true they're up there they're hammered and what time is that uh like from 6 o'clock at night to 9 o'clock at least 9 o' w they start well okay so they can go to 10 yeah the issue why they I think they work after hours is after well it's no it's it's that most of those antennas are connecting uh um to to Wall Street business to to Wall to Wall Street and and they need to be open when they have to be they can't be interfering with those signals while uh um you know while wall Street's doing business yeah really what these well they just keep putting up new antennas though I yeah but I'm keep getting new tenants how long does it how much we're full we're full we're full so on that that's what I want that's more what's that uh Hillcrest Avenue yeah so on that tank though it's the relay point the the most of the trading has I don't know how much you want to give out about that um it's very simple everybody knows it's public information the trading houses are largely luminium Mawa and we are a perfect relay point between New York here and there because of the height of that Tower so we've gotten many premium vendors on there who are transmitting a high very fast because trades happen like this you know and we do have cameras on all the facilities so anyone's getting the idea don't do it we'll get you no with the the fact is the no I just curious how work has to be to to Joe I'm just saying to Joe's Point yeah everything is monitored away State Secrets yeah I don't don't I know where antennas are that they use for detecting for planes but we're not allowed to talk of their location those aren't TV antennas the ones on top of that they're all for this I mean there a variety of uses cell phone cell phones but the big money is in the ones that are serving Wall Street wow all right well collect the money guys cuz that's so the the late night work is disruptive it is but they're up there and they're uh yeah you know but but is it going this is not this is in a cycle now it's not constant or is it there shouldn't be I mean most most once everything get up yeah they they have to periodically go up and adjust things and and change things out but but the the primarily in in installation is done or almost done for the LA for the last group that is is occupying the last free space yeah most most of it done it'll be maintenance from here uh in the very near future good does anyone else wish to be heard seeing none can have motion to close a public portion of the meeting second motion by mey second by Scara pH favor I I the next council meeting is Wednesday May 15 2024 have a motion to adjourn motion by withi second by SK all in favor I we're adjourned for