this meeting is called to order in accordance with the open public meeting act notice of this meeting was provided to the home use tribune the starlet ledger and the Highland Park planet on January 8th 2025 and was posted on borrow website at www.hpbar.com
hbro.com and on the bulletin board of borrow 221 South Fifth Avenue Highland Park New Jersey and has remained posted continuously posted as required by law by exit to my right and left of council chambers chief can you lead us in the
pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call mayor Foster yes council
member George yes council member Hail here council member Hurst yes council President yes council member Ponic here council member Vargas here tony Shaw here assistant administrator Callahan here
okay council report i'm going to start off with council member George thank you best wishes during the holidays for all of our residents and to everybody who has to pay their taxes today's uh uh
Judah day April 15th uh with regard to the police department we will shortly be adding another officer to fill a vacancy officer Tyler Morris will be joining the force at the end of the month we are very impressed with his interview and he will definitely be an asset to the department in the town but the police
police department is again holding its make a kite with a cop event on April 30th at the community center we'll have more on that on our social media and website pages last year was a great event it filled up rapidly i enjoyed it a lot there were lots of laughter and
fun it was a merry mess and I hope you find time uh to take the children or make a cut yourself uh two programs of note through the county prosecutor's office one is the vision zero program which will be using departments across the county to enforce traffic laws along
countywide roadways highland Park will be included in this um we will share details after the program uh and let you know on its success the other program is the blue envelope program which invites drivers who may be on the autism
spectrum to maintain their vehicle credentials in a special blue envelope designed for the program this allows a driver to self-identify with officers in a traffic situation in a private way that the driver may have personality
behaviors which have in the past caused significant incidents between officers and drivers our officers are receiving specific training and how to deal with drivers who react in certain circumstances which could appear antagonist antagonistic or worse than
untrade with regard to the fire department we've added two paid part-time firefighters to the roles of our fire department which will significantly increase coverage in the department chief Shami is able to schedule more coverage for our fire
department and also cut down on overtime for shifts as well i spoke with him this afternoon and he said uh they came aboard this week and already we are being able to make up a lot of shift problems that we've had the department is continuing its training sessions each
month for both paid and volunteer firefighters in subjects like turnout gear maintenance and other vital information that keeps us up to date the next training will be truck and hose operations bringing our fighter fighters hands-on training and maintenance of
hose and other equipment in actual rolling training with the trucks with regard to the library the board has been of trustees has been reworking policy and procedures and its code of conduct for patrons and employees the library is partnering with the Highland Park Human
Relations Commission for a book discussion program in its very early stages which hopefully we'll hear more about uh but the book is The Heaven and Earth Bookstore excellent and thoughtprovoking work on race relations human relations and the network of us
which forms our community the next board of trustees meeting is this coming Monday April 21st in the meeting room at the media room at the library thank you mayor thank you Council Member Post thank you Mayor i think I may have my
shortest report ever tonight uh so my name is Jason Melnik i'm uh the chair of the Health and Human Services Committee uh the board of health met last Thursday and they wanted to remind everyone and to really stress the importance of getting your MMR vaccines to protect
against the measles um and to really ensure that you get all recommended vaccines so they would strongly encourage everyone if you have not already roll up your sleeves and uh get yourself a vaccine with all recommended vaccines um as I indicated in prior
reports and they also emphasize you do not want to get measles so um again strongly encourage you to uh discuss with your health provider and make sure that you get all of your recommended vaccines and that mayor was all I had for tonight thank you Council Member
Vargas thank you mayor hello everybody my name is Vargas and I serve as a council lean for the RS Recreation Department um this past week as part of local government week I had the pleasure of meeting with residents at LA
Restaurant Avenue the meetup meetup was especially meaningful as it was conducted entirely in Spanish allowing for deeper connection with our Spanish speaking community i was able to share information with a new Highland Park resident about various moral services and how to navigate our town how to
access and translate the moral website which was a very good resource for her our conversation plushed up many topics including the school district community engagement and small business resources it was a very productive and enriching experience with valuable ideas exchange and I hope that it repeats itself next
year um I really really enjoyed it um so I want the mayor for suggesting this idea to the council and making it happen um community announcements there will be a fraud prevention info session of the department by the department of aging well um on Tuesday April 22nd at 10:45
at the community center the presentations will be led by the Highland Park Police Department Inforgard New Jersey and the Middle Sex County Prosecutor's Office and will focus on how to protect yourself from fraud and scams um that same day later on will be the spring lunchon at 12:00
p.m um with musical entertainment provided by Gordon James please join um the community center and the community there for more information please call 7328190052 there will also be a 90 plus birthday celebration on lunch thrown by the Middle Sex
County and that will take place on Thursday May 9th from 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m so if you know anybody that's in that age bracket please invite them um that will take place at the Edison and Senior Center i mentioned that already um you can call
7327453295 that's 7327453295 to register or more details for that event youth recreation programs um they begin next week so if you haven't registered yet please do so you can go to Highland Park.com to register
for these youth programs such as soccer baseball youth tennis basketball girls wrestling and dance again you can call 7281900 for assistance on how you register and I'll just keep reminding at every single um meeting that we have
leading up to these events that the Memorial Day parade will take place on Sunday May 26 at 11:00 a.m there's fireworks in the park Thursday July 3rd with festivities and vendors beginning at 6 PM down at Donaldson Park and of course Parks Act is coming up and that
first one will be on Wednesday July 17th um for any of these events and details please go to the Bora website follow our social media pages or check out um the New Jersey Highland Park Recreation on Facebook and Instagram the Arts Commission has um exciting learn and
creativities coming up and that will be starting with one of them called Unleash Your Inner Poet a transformative poetry workshop for non poets that will take place Sunday April 28th at 7:30 at the Highland Park Community Center registration is required please go on
their social media or go to our website for more information on how to register they will also be coming um with two more workshops one called simple and stylish beginner jewelry jewelry making on Tuesday May 27th at 700 p.m that will
take place at the library and the third one is embracing imperfection the art of wabishabi on Sunday June 29 at 2 p.m at the Highland Park Library we want to thank Iowa Park Library for being accommodating and letting us schedule these um events there as well as the
community center who's always accommodating to these events the historical commission meeting will take place this Thursday in person at Bora Park and on the agenda will be a review of the Bora's historical archives so I'm very excited about that i haven't yet to see that um they will also be providing
us with an update on their grant application which they just submitted to the New Jersey Council for Humanities and I'm hopeful that the commission will qualify and receive this important support as part of their community's history project that they're hoping um to lay out later this year and that's
all I have stay tuned for more details thank you Mayor thank you Council Member Hill thank you Madam Mayor uh I also participated in the uh local government week i thought it was fantastic i had a really good time i uh spent some time um sitting in Giddy's Pizzeria um I had
people come up and discuss uh the importance of redevelopment which we certainly um are a part of all of our redevelopment plans i had uh people want to talk about rank choice voting htts pickup our schools um and uh had had a
bit of a difference of opinion we had a couple people came up and say "Please get rid of the deer." And somebody else say "Please don't do anything with the deer." So that was always good but my favorite was when I had a husband come up and tell me that Donald Trump was the greatest person ever followed by his wife telling him to stop being annoying
and then we had to stand up to him so the diversity of the opinion um I think is a wonderful thing at Highland Park we see it all over the place um but I certainly got to see it firsthand um at at Giddy's um and it was uh it was it was great i hope we get to do it again thank you mayor for for making that
happen um uh in terms of other things um uh uh remember that the 5K race and and and uh uh the spring street fair is coming on uh sat Sunday May 4th um at 9:00 a.m there is a 5K race um uh which
all the proceeds go to PTO organizations in Highland Park Schools if you want to run if you want to sponsor if you want to um be a part of it um please take a look at the Main Street website um after the uh 5K is of course our our uh street fair it goes from 11:30 to 4:30 um uh
it's it's one of the highlight events of the year um uh we are still looking for uh anybody who is interested in being a vendor but also anybody who is interested in sponsorship opportunities um if you go to the Main Street website and uh main
streethp.orgsponsorship opportunities there's a bunch of different opportunities um for that um and as always the farmers market is up and running on Friday afternoon so please come out and enjoy and lastly I just wanted to wish everyone who is celebrating Passover to have a happy
Passover um and those who will celebrate uh this weekend uh also a happy Easter that's all I have mayor thank you Council Member Hirs thank you Mayor good evening um good evening everyone my name is Matthew Hirs i chair the public works and public
utilities committee uh and um just wanted to uh wish everyone a happy fair housing month uh April is fair housing month just something to remember congress passed the Fair Housing Act on April 11th 1968 making it illegal to deny housing to people based on their race skin color religion or country of
origin it has essentially prohibited discrimination uh in the housing market and provided marginalized groups with equal opportunity to rent or purchase homes upon signing the act into one law uh into law one week after the assassination of Dr martin Luther King
Jr President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed at long last fair housing is all for all is now part of the American way of life housing discrimination based on gender was added to the Fair Housing Act in 1974 and discrimination against those with disabilities or with children under
the 18 under the age of 18 was included in 1988 now we all know that uh you know President Johnson uh in the Fair Housing Act was was a was was a profound and landmark piece of legislation uh passed again just after the assassination of Dr martin Luther King and to proclaim at
long last fair housing uh for all is now part of the American way of life is idealistic and important but but obviously not true uh so we do have we still 50 years later uh almost you know approaching 60 years later we uh are um
still have a lot of work to do uh and I know that this council certainly support council certainly support uh fair housing uh and to address discrimination in any way in the housing uh so that's that um uh and as public works and public utilities chair I just wanted to
announce uh the garbage collection schedule uh for this week um April 14th through April 18th uh burough offices are closed this Friday April 18th and observance of Good Friday the uh and the garbage collection schedule um uh is as follows and then we'll start with tomorrow since we are halfway through
that program uh Wednesday April 16th um garbage collection is in business district and southside uh Thursday April 17th uh there will be Southside recycling collection and Friday April 18th there is no garbage no recycling uh
so um please uh prepare accordingly and um u and please be mindful of the change in schedule we encourage all of our Highland Park residents to download the free recycle coach app to keep up to date with recycling and garbage updates
uh just a report out on trash collection for the month of March uh we collected 348 and a half tons of of uh of trash collected over nine collection days delivered to Middle Sex County Landfill uh year to date uh we've collected more
than 913 tons uh the uh the tipping fee uh or otherwise known as the solid waste disposal fee that Highland Park pays for month for the month of March was $25,000718 was
$25,718.554 and year-to- date $67,3161 uh just a little bit on the tipping fee um uh this is charged to municipality and private uh and private haulers for each ton of solid waste delivered to the Middle Sex County landfill the Middle Sex County Board of Commissioners and the Authorities Commissioners have restricted the use of
Middle Sex County landfill to solid waste produced within the county uh in order to extend the landfill's lifespan and prevent access excess truck traffic through the county's transportation network uh with recycling uh to date we uh um I'm sorry in the month of March we
had nearly 75 tons of recycling collected over eight recycling days delivered to Colgate Paper Stock uh in uh Jersey Avenue near Brunswick uh year-to- date collection is 233.3 tons uh an update on our recycling
processor i know I've spoken about the Colgate recycling company uh quite a bit up here and environmental commission went out and uh uh spent time with them um Colgate has been purchased by Republic Services and we have been told that they will provide this the same
safe level of service that had been previously provided by Colgate so uh you should see no difference in the way uh recycling is collected but just wanted to add that note uh bulk pickup it's the season yay uh bulk pickup uh it's April so that means bulk you can make your
appointment to have your bulk uh trash picked up uh curbside both waste collection will be by appointment pickups are scheduled on Wednesdays during April May June September and October to make an appointment which you need to do please call public works at
732-2247-9379 each household may request up to two collections per year uh just another note the week after the townwide garage sale Tuesday September 17th and Thursday September 19th there will be bulk pickups where no appointment is necessary so in September you will not have to make an appointment uh but
recycling will not be collected during during that time so just please keep that in mind we'll report back uh more closely to to to that time as well materials may be left uh may be placed at the curbside no sooner than one hour before sundown of the day prior to scheduled pickup materials not properly
secured bundled and unacceptable items are listed on www.hpb.com uh materials put out for collection without a schedule appointment or on the wrong date will not be collected so please contact public works during office hours 6:30 to
3 pm uh let them know that you that you want to pick up at your address and schedule you uh Sustainable Highland Park is another area that falls under the public works public utilities portfolio um Sustainable Highland Park is planning its Earth Day fair on Sunday May 4th 11 a.m to
3:30 with Councilman Hel signing on the street fair uh the Earth Day Fair is part of that is is is embedded in that on North Third Avenue uh from Raran to Dennis uh we're going to have 25 interactive booths an environmental and education booth free native plant
giveaways a rain barrel build a Rucker solar car on display a Green Threads fashion show more on that as well as live musical performances between 11 and 3 um regarding the fashion show uh showcase your sustainable designs upcycle
innovation the submission deadline is April 26 but you probably need to know more information about this you can reach out for more information at www.sustainable park.org uh and just real kudos to uh the members of sustainable Highland Park who have really been working over time
uh to to to to plan a lot of exciting initiatives as well as meeting them as as meeting the requirements of being the Highland Park's green team uh where we get points from sustainable Jersey uh for for our environmental initiatives opening us up to more grants and obviously statewide recognition
uh thank you to Highland Park resident Josephine Chimo who uh led a workshop turning your lawn into a food garden last Sunday uh there we learned how to transform your lawn into a thriving food garden using permaculture and square foot gardening uh this is just a sample
of some of many programs that we're going to see from either sustainable the environmental commission uh or the shade tree advisory committee so please keep a look out for more interactive uh presentations on how to maintain um uh uh landscape care on your property uh
information on inv on invasive plantings and guide tips on native plantings and so much more um Sustainable Highland Park will will have its next general meeting on Zoom next Wednesday April 23rd at 7:30 p.m you can find the
listing and the link at www.hpvo.com uh just a quick note you've probably seen uh our our tree contractor out and about planting a hundred planting trees as part of our tree planting uh uh contract which is really exciting so some of those empty spots along the
verge uh thank you Jacob Callahan for your for your keen stewardship over this program as well um uh you know we do have a lot of you know so so so these are planting street trees around the burrow and the burrow really prides itself on being a green community and in order to do that we need to have a
methodical long-term and annual approach to uh uh to to to our tree plans and schedule uh the Shakes advisory committee provides um immense uh uh uh input uh oversight uh and feedback regarding our tree planning schedule they also work where we work closely
with our with our vendors and our watering contractors uh and it really is a a welloiled operation and again thank you to Jacob Cahan and Terry Coair for being the administrative uh brains behind uh these programs so um if you do if you have a stretch of uh street where
you do not have a tree please request one we do these uh twice a year and um uh and a hundred are going in now uh and um uh we will have more in future future cycles so please keep uh please keep your eyes open to that and you are free
to request a tree uh I did just want to just chime in on the town hall um meetings thank you Mayor uh Harry Glazer uh everyone who helped set those up i was at a Kihei at the corner of South Third and uh Rarin and it was a lot of fun uh we had some really good
conversations uh uh uh some of the areas that we touched on were traffic traffic enforcement deer management came up um uh once again uh uh not not necessarily concerns but questions about South Third and the new public plaza and and and our
schools um it was great feedback and I think as council members a lot of that is stuff that we don't always hear because you know we're so we're working on our own you know specific areas so it's really good to get kind of that broad feedback uh and then we can report back to our colleagues on what we heard in their buckets so thank you Mayor
that's my report thank you um Council Member Kim Chan thank you Mayor my name is Stephanie Kim Chan and I chair uh finance i also um want to
start my report by reporting on the local government week also thank you mayor for um helping organize this um I was actually at the Me Too um and flower shop um on LA last week and um while I
was in the middle of the day I did re uh receive some feedback um actually the first was a compliment on as I quote whoever did the Felton pot please thank them for me um so and uh they would like
to see more of that the resident and also um from one of the business owners on the question how do I become culture right what's the steps what who do I reach out to which I um reached out to councilman hail and may work with some
of resources that he has just so you know residents that you know um so thank you mayor looking forward to the next one and um rent control will be meeting
on April 24th at 5:30 here in council chambers also um April is still financial literacy month last council meeting i also reminded everyone it was uh financial literacy month and
challenge you to look over your subscriptions um in recent events with the stock market now is the time to kind of shuffle around maybe your 401ks or retirements if you're so daring to look
in even log into the account um so you know now is the time to refresh and maybe look over that with financial advice or your banker also today is tax day as well like uh
Councilman George had mentioned um the most stressful day I think of the year and uh just wanted to mention at participating locations Planet Fitness because it's the most stressful day of the year is offering free hydro massages
you don't need a membership anyone can go in and it's pretty don't need a membership any it's only until the end of this week only until 19 but just check and make sure the location you're going to is to participate in which I
thought was really cool um and also wishing our community a happy Passover and a happy Easter and that's our board may thank you um assistant bur administrator Callahan and
uh I don't have much to report today i just want to reemphasize something council member Hirsh said about the tree plantings uh they are going around town over the next few days um if you have any issues or questions about your tree or the planting uh please don't be afraid to reach out to me and I'll see
what I can do to help thank you the return attorney's report and my report is very brief um I'm glad that everyone participated in government week uh last week it was a lot of fun for I can tell by each and every one of
us that's up here that we really had an opportunity not only to support local businesses in town but to meet and greet people who come in and have a cup of coffee or support in in a very direct way they came out they bought coffee
they bought cakes they bought food at these various different establishment and that was one more sale or a few more sales for that day that that business made so we had government week to meet each and every residents but we also supported local business and our focus at all time is to make sure that our
local businesses are being supported so kudos to all of us who made it happen thank you all um last but not least I want to say happy Passover happy Easter be safe to everyone and as we go through this time of year let's be reflective and be kind and
gentler to each other last but not least I would like to take a moment of silence for a longtime Highland Park resident Herb Gross he passed away earlier this year and Mr gross was always a constant fixture right in the back of the room so
may we have a moment of silence okay and now it's time for public participation total of um 21 minutes three minutes per speaker limited to items on this agenda comments from members of the public attending in
person will be heard first followed by those attending via Zoom please state your name and address mary Baution 709 Madison Avenue and I'm here to ask you to uh kindly
vote no on resolutions 118 and 119 and uh in particular uh 119 uh this is the pot shop that uh our recent mayor Gail Mitler and her friends and family are directly involved in and uh the
entire process uh was done without any disclosure on the behalf of Gail Mittler or her friends or her son um that they were actually involved in an application for a pot shop while the town was considering this entire process um many
of us feel that that really is uh a lack of integrity unethical um really an example of where personal interests have stepped in uh as opposed
to the greater good of the community um and a couple of weeks back several of you took the step of uh not voting to give this particular um outfit an extension and um that was a good step
forward and we hope that tonight enough of you will take this step as well uh to not endorse a permit for this particular location to open there i I think many of us would agree we're seeing a lot of
issues in various levels of government where things are happening uh for the personal interest of elected officials and it's very hard to stand up against it um but here in Highland Park we hope that you will be brave and stand up
against this particular location um we know that you're friendly with Gail Mitler she was mayor here a long time you're probably friends with her son perhaps her employee who's also involved Arie Weinberg but again it's really
important to separate these cordial friendships with the way that this particular location came about and we hope that enough of you will recognize that it's important to stand up and you can still run into Gail or her son
Steven or Arie Weinberg and other circumstances and say "Look sorry I just couldn't go forward with it um but that's how I felt about it." Uh a lot of people are looking to see what kind of integrity the council will have in this
issue um I'm going to also give you each a copy of this uh chart showing all the connections and on the back of it um you'll also notice regarding uh resolution 119 um the loca the second location at
question uh this this location the second pot shop at tonight is right next door to a bubble tea spot this is a picture of families kids going in and out um and the May I just finish if I
could and uh in addition the advertising that the bubble shop uses which actually has a picture of our high school on it so again this is a magnet for our kids right next door to this pot shop thank you so much and may I hand out these
to get them to Jay okay and we'll get them later okay great yeah thank you so much hi u Melissa go uh 13 Lewis Street on Fargo of course um I would wish that you would vote no on 118 and
119 um Colleen Tyler has been at these meetings and she wrote down for some things for me to say but she's out of the country um these businesses present continuing threats to the youth of our community and put Han Park in a negative
light which can affect the future home values these are not family-friendly businesses i live three blocks away from Blackburn and um Parsy Park is one block away and I do have some gentlemen that
were hanging out at the picnic tables and smoking already before we had Anja and um the garbage from Blackburn is already flying into the yard across the street um because they don't cover
their their big garbage cans that's flying across the street into uh that vacant business forest on Jab so I've been picking up the garbage and um I've also been taking pictures of the little
packages from Anja they they take their gummies or whatever and they throw the packages on the side of my house but I went to speak to them and they stopped that i said I could bring some more garbage cans and they stopped that but
um it really is the detriment to that part of the community because it's more residential there than it is on the main street and um it will drag the value of my house down and the little kids are
right there and those little h those houses right behind have little kids they're rentals with little kids so I Okay thank you anyone on Zoom um I'm not seeing anyone
hand all right see there's no one may I have a motion to close public participation so moved second council member yes council member Hail yes council member Hir yes council
President Kimchan yes council member Ponic yes council member Vargas yes ordinance requiring a second reading clerk can you please report an ordinance number 25-2106 an ordinance authorizing the lease of a building located at 20-40 River Road to
the Ryes Cultural Center has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final reading by title and affidavit of publication are on file yeah now it's time for public hearing on this ordinance if you would like to speak
please come up to the microphone and or if you're on Zoom you can raise your raise your hand button anyone on Zoom j no no one's address right seeing no one may I have a motion to close public participation on
ordinance number 25-2106 so move second roll council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hurst yes council President Kim Johan yes council member Panic yes council member Vort yes
may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25106 so move second roll council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kentoa yes council member
Ponic yes council member Vargas yes cler please report on ordinance number 25-2107 an ordinance authorizing the lease of a building located at 101 Ritton A Avenue a Avenue to the lower Ritton Wershed Partnership has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final
reading by title and affidavit of publication are on file now it's time for public hearing on this ordinance if you would like to speak please come up to the microphone and do so if you're on Zoom raise your hands anyone on Zoom no one's raising okay seeing there's no one
may I have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance number 25-2107 second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kenta yes council member Panic yes council member
Vargas yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25-2107 so move second roll call council member George uh just want to comment that u I abstained on
25-2107 on general counsel to a lower ramp and watershed partnership but it's the only wooden boat shop in Highland Park noted is that a yes abstain he abains
council member Hail yes council member Hurst yes council President Kim Johan yes council member Ponic yes council member Vargas yes cler please report on ordinance number ordinance number 25-2108
ordinance authorizing the lease of the first floor of a building located at 212 Ratton Avenue to Main Street Highland Park to maintain office space has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final reading by title and affidavit of publication are on file now
it's time for public hearing on this ordinance if you would like to speak please come up to the microphone announce yourself if there is anyone on Zoom please raise hand and there's no one on Zoom and there's no one who Okay see no see no further may I have a motion to close
public participation on ordinance number 25-2108 so move second ro council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs stand council President Kim Johto Johan yes council member Christi yes council
member Vargas yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25-2108 so move second roll council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs council President Kinchan yes council
member Ponic yes yes council member Vargas yes clerk please report on ordinance number 25-2109 an ordinance authorizing the lease of a second floor the second floor of a building located at 212 Ratington
Avenue to the Reformed Church of Final Park affordable housing corporation to maintain an emergency shelter for residents has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final reading by title and affidavit of publication are on file may I have a motion to adopt or reject
public hearing public oh sorry now it's time for public hearing and ordinance number this ordinance if you would like to speak please come up to the microphone those who on Zoom raise hand and there is no one on Zoom okay seeing there's no one may I
have a motion to close public hearing on ordinance number 25219 so move second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kim
Johan yes council member Christristan yes council member Ves yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25 that's 21109 second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member
Hir yes council President Koha yes council member Pistan yes council member Vardis yes clerk please report on ordinance number 25-2110 an ordinance authorizing the lease of
2027-133 Ratington Avenue to the Reformed Church of Highland Park affordable housing corporation to maintain a storage and repair area for donations of household items first floor and our affordable housing unit second floor has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final
reading by title and affidavit of publication are on file now it's time for public hearing on this ordinance if you would like to speak please come up to the microphone there's anyone on Zoom please do the raise hand and there's no one on Zoom and there
okay seeing there's no one may I have a motion to close public hearing on ordinance number 2510 so move roll call a second second roll call council member George yes council
member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kim Johan yes council member Ponic yes council member Mart yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25 at 2110 so move second roll call council member
George i just want to point out to the public that this series of ordinances on second reading are the bureau participating in allowing charitable organizations to have space that we have available to carry on operations where they might not otherwise be able to
provide the services that they do and I vote a resounding yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kincha yes council member Piston yes council member Vort yes clerk please report on ordinance number
25-2111 capital ordinance providing for improvements to North 10th Avenue and Vulker Street project has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final reading by title and affidavit are on file now it's time for public hearing on this ordinance if you'd like to speak please
come up to the microphone those on Zoom raise hand and there's no one on Zoom and there's no one okay seeing no one may I have a motion to close public hearing on ordinance number 252111 so moved
second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kinshaw yes council member Stone yes council member Vargas yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject ordinance number 25-211
motion second council member George yes Council Member Hail yes Council Member Hirs i'm gonna give this one a yes because it's Fulford uh yes absolutely if there's a yes box though is is in need and this is a very
exciting project council President Kim Johan yes council member Piston yes council member Vargas yes cler please report on ordinance number 25-2112 an ordinance amending and supplementing part one administrative
legislation chapter 72 salaries and compensation to establish positions and provide compensation for specific employees of the bureau of Highland Park New Jersey has been duly advertised for consideration of passage on final reading by title and affidavit of publication or on file now it's time for
public hearing and this ordinance if you would like to speak speak please come up to the microphone those who are on Zoom may do so by raising up your hands may I have a motion to close public hearing on ordinance number 25-2112
so move second council member George yes council member Hails yes council member Her yes council President Kimchan yes council member Panic yes council member Vargas yes may I have a motion to adopt or reject
ordinance number 25112 so move second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hir yes council President Kincha yes council member Stan yes council member Vargas yes
consent agenda resolution may I ask any member of council if they would like to have any of the following consent agenda items pulled from the consent agenda for a separate vote okay seeing there's none may I have a motion
to adopt or reject the following consent agenda items A12 through through 12 I second roll call council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Ken
Johan yes council member Pistani yes council member Vargas yes okay okay um now it's time for second public participation three minutes per speaker on any topic subject to conclude by 9:00
p.m comments from members of the public attending in person will be heard first followed by those persons attending on Zoom okay seeing seeing no one may I have a motion to close publication there is one
oh there is your Charlie you have three minutes hello can you hear me good evening uh Charlie Kratville i live in New Brunswick i'm the editor of New Brunswick today community news outlet
here spoke on the first about a disturbing video from the Highland Park Rent Control Board meeting and never got any response from the elected officials so I'm here tonight and wanted to ask you mayor very directly did you tell the
burrow attorney to adjourn the rent control board anyone else on Zoom and I can see that there's no one else on Zoom may I have a motion to close public
participation second welcome council member George yes council member Hail yes council member Hirs yes council President Kim Choan yes council member Panic yes council member Vargas yes
the question um um was brought up did the rent control meeting did I said did I advise the burough attorney to close the meeting yes I did um the meeting was not proceeding in accordance with the local
public meeting act and and so I suggested that the meeting be closed okay now may I have a motion to adjurnn so move second all in favor i thank you and next meeting May 6 have a good night
happy holidays