We're good. Okay. Everybody please rise for calling the meeting to order and do the pledge of allegiance. Everybody pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One
nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is a meeting. This is a meeting of the Hillsdale Burough Council on the 6th day of May, 2025. Notice of the time and place of this meeting has been provided
to the Ridgewood News and the Bergen record. A copy is posted on the bulletin board outside of this meeting room and provided to any interested parties. Please silence all cell phones. Please wait to be recognized by the mayor during the public hearing and the public comment part of the meeting. You will need to state your name and town of
residence for the record. Will the clerk please read the role? Mayor Shinfield here. Council President Oroso here. Council member Kleti here. Council member Fox here. Council member Maton here. Council member Ruko here. Council member Troy here. Slide. Okay. Um we're going to
start by adjourning to close session. Um and so it's to provide for a meeting not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act. Tonight we'll be talking about burough personnel, police, and affordable housing. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Clerk,
please read the role. Council member Kleti, yes. Council member Fox, yes. Council member Mass. Council President Osco, yes. Council member Ruko, yes. Council member Troy, move. We are enclosed. Okay. Okay. We're going to uh Can I get a motion to reconvene? Motion. Second.
Second. All those in favor say I. We are back in session. Um the action that we took in close session, we had an interview with uh respective chief and this body has uh agreed upon Travis Woods, Lieutenant
Travis Woods being promoted to our chief. We will take action in the next week and begin that process. So congratulations to the lieutenant. Um we also I guess it's all right. So,
moving on. Recognition for municipal clerks week. Very important. It's very important. I understand. Why isn't it Why isn't it municipal clerk's month? Isn't it always? Is that not the case? And I have I commented to Denise that what I had to
sign the resolution sitting right next to it was her signature. So, she had to sign her own resolution for this. But, um I I give you a standing ovation. I We are we are blessed to have her here. She's she makes me look confident. So, and that's not easy
to do. So, I I thank you for that. Um we're going to move on to the approval of minutes. Uh we'll do them all. Well, well, actually, we can't do the first one um because uh Councilman Fox was not here for it, but we'll go through the quickly just by voice and or April 1st, the uh council minute meetings. Um can I
get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. I'd like to move for add amendments to the minutes if I like. And I'd like to a motion to amend the minutes for for the April 1st meeting. Yes. Um, I'd like to add a sentence on page 23, which is the
last page of those minutes, that otherwise accurately summarized my council commentary relating to why our bylaws weren't followed when a PBA rep uh addressed the council at our March 11th meeting. I motioned to add the following sentence at the end of that
paragraph. Quote, he said he looked forward to hearing why this was uh permitted. Yeah, I listened to the tape of that meeting and it justifies that amendment. I I think that's fine and if you were planning on bringing it up again, I'm prepared to talk about that, but that's for later on. But if you if
you want to add that to it, yeah, it was something I said and I thought it was important. Okay, I don't have a problem. Anybody else have a problem with that? No second. So, a second to that proposed amendment. That's fine. So, as amended, um, can we get approval for the April
1st meeting? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I it is approved um with Councilman Fox absent. So you were outstanding. Okay. So we'll just uh April 15th close session minutes. Motion motion. Second. Second. Those in favor
signify by saying I. I. April 15th council minute meetings regular session. Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. And they are all approved. We're going to go to the initial public comments. Limited to three minutes on items on the
agenda only. One topic per speaker. Would anyone like to be heard? Seeing nobody who wants to be heard, we're going to go on to the discussion of the budget introduction. Can I get a We're going to first do the waiver of the reading of
the full budget. I strongly encourage us to do so. Uh 25128. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. We're going to wave that. Great. Okay. So, it is now time.
Go ahead. It's now time for the public hearing on the 2025 municipal budget. Um, so we need a motion to open the public hearing on the 25 municipal budget. I get a motion.
Motion. Second. Second. Clerk, will you please read the role? Council member Rico, I. Council member Trophy, yes. Council member Kleti, yes. Council member Fox, yes. Council member Mazuchan. Yes. Council President. Yes. Great. We're now opening the public
meeting uh meeting to the public. If anyone desires to be heard on the 2025 municipal budget, please signify raising your hand. Seeing nobody. Uh motion to close the the public hearing on municipal budget. Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by
saying I. I. It's closed. Okay. Now it's time for the municipal budget resolution. the adoption of the 2025 municipal budget 25129 first. Can we get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Uh, the clerk, read the role for this.
Council member Kleti, yes. Council member Fox, yes. Council member Mazuchan, yes. Council President Roso, yes. Council member Ruko, yes. Council member Choimu, yes. Okay. Um, so at this point, we're at the public hearing 2025.
uh Bergen County Open Space Municipal Park Improvement Program. Motion to open the public hearing on the 2025 Bergen County Open Space Recreation Flood Plane Protection Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund, Beachwood Park Pavilion.
Motion. Motion. Second. Second. Okay. Uh, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I'll now open the meeting of the public. If anyone desires to be heard on the 2025 Pton County Open Space Recreation Flood Plan Protection, farmland, and Historic Transportation Trust Fund. Anybody here interested in
contacting on that? I don't see anybody that wants to do that. So, can I motion to close the public hearing on this uh this resol? Yeah. 2025 B County Protection Program Trust Fund. Motion. Second. working. Please read. Well, no.
You know what? Uh, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Okay, great. That's done. Uh, 25130, the trust fund application, municipal endorsing resolution, Beachwood Park improvement plan. Uh, can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor
signify by saying I. I. I. It is adopted. There it is. Okay. Correspondence. Um, we have received a letter on April 18th from Brian Enis regarding religious and secular displays on public property. A motion to receipt
and file the letter. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. And it is passed. Okay. It's now time for the professional monthly report. I feel like
I'm like an auctioneer here. Um, the Burough Engineer support. You sound like you. Sound like you. I just want to keep the water close by. Uh, Nick, I'll try my best to talk as fast as you just did. I don't think I can do that.
Um, so a couple of paving projects getting underway. Um, we have the NJ DOT fiscal year 2025 uh grant. We just submitted a proposal for design for that. Um, that should probably be on one of the uh upcoming meetings. We have the
NJ DOT fiscal year 2024 grant for Melville Road. That was supposed to start last year. Got delayed due to weather. We ended up having to put it off until this spring. So, that is starting this week. Um the uh 2025 Riverside Cooperative Paving Program is also starting. We have
a pre-construction meeting for that on Thursday. Um so once we get through that meeting, we'll have a better idea of scheduling, but we're thinking it'll likely be starting somewhere in June. Um, for Memorial Field, we started the
geotechnical testing. We dug test pits last week. Um, we still have some more testing to do. There's going to be a series of borings that's going to be starting on uh May 12th going to May 16th. There's 5 days of borings and that would complete the u the on-site testing
and we have to do all the uh the analysis for that and we once we receive a geotechnical report, we'll be able to go full speed ahead on the design for that project. Um, Nick, I guess the holes that we we dug up there
in the water that was uh turned up. Mhm. Is that's not going to impact project? Shouldn't. No, the the there was two test pits that had uh had that issue and both those were in the in the northeast corner where the wetlands are. They weren't in the wetlands, but it's in that vicinity. So, it it's it's not
surprising that those areas were more wet than other areas. Um but we don't we don't see that as as being a being an issue for the design of the project. It should be fine. Um was there any other questions on memorial? Okay. Um we also
met with the um environmental commission last week at uh at Beachwood the nature trail. Um so we we walked the site and we basically took a look at the condition of the trail um and tried to come up with a good idea for the scope
of the project going forward. Um, we're thinking that in order to start that project, we'll probably do an initial investigation where we kind of identify uh areas in most need to prepare and kind of prioritize those areas, come up
with a price, approximate pricing for how much we can do with the amount of money that we have and then we'll go into the design from there. So, that is the uh the plan for that project. That's uh that's all I have. on the day of any questions
centennial uh will be completed memorial. So it it it's already completed. It's just a matter of doing the uh the cuts. The the contractor has a series of cuts that they're um under contract need to deliver before the field is considered
open. Um we we think somewhere around Memorial Day is is around where we'll end up for that. Yeah. And through inspections, how's that field reacting to all the rain? It seems to be performing much better. We've had quite a few raintorms since that's been done.
And the field has been more or less dry within a day, which is previously it was 2 or 3 days at a minimum whenever we had significant definitely. Anyone else? I have, you know, I have my own projects with you, but it's not but they're still in the
back and forth phase. So, I appreciate sure all you're doing. Um, okay. So, let's move on to committee reports. See, there nobody else there. Uh, and we will start with the council president that council. So, Nick was uh kind enough to give us an update on Centennial and
Memorial. Uh, we had a reccomission meeting last night. Uh we also talked about uh the need to make a decision on the type of artificial turf that we use for the Memorial project because a lot of things are going to be dependent on which turf we actually pick. There's two choices. There's a a no fill product by
uh called Pivot by a company called Pancake and then there's the uh the traditional uh artificial turf which has a rubber infield a rubber infield by a company called Field Turf uh which is uh very prevalent in New Jersey. the uh pivot product is a new more uh a newer
product that's out on the market that's uh came into play uh late last year. Uh and fuel turf has been around. They both have positives and negatives. Uh but we have to evaluate the decision uh with the sports association, get some good input uh from each one of those
organizations so we can make the right decision for the town as well as the environmental commission because one of those products is probably a little bit environmentally better than the other. There's also a cost difference, too. So, we would if we picked one over the other, I would ask this. Well, I think I think so when you you net out
maintenance over the the life of the product, but I'm talking about from financial standpoint of an outlay with it's about $100,000. Okay. So, that $100,000 in the SC scope of a $5.8 billion project isn't going to force us to make major modifications to other
other items. It's possible at that point that we could I don't want to say find the the but but it would not be constraining to to if we chose the more expensive product. Right. And you know I go back to Nick on this uh Nick you're
not familiar with the the no product. Right. Other than the uh presentation that we all sat through for that. No. Um we haven't had any experience in using that but nobody really has in New Jersey. There's very few installs. Right. So the so the the the only real
negative that we could identify today is what is that product going to be like in five years from now, right? Correct. Um so but you know you would have to make the decision with a leap of faith uh if you will, right? Um so there's also another couple projects going on at Kora
Nicoba where 150 tons of clay were put down. Corora was opened and I think uh we received great feedback from HBSA and the rest of that field. Uh Nicaraka will be open shortly. Um when the weather improves, we'll be able to finish uh laser grading and evening out uh the
material there. Um so uh so with regards to the recognition as well, the summer brochure uh is going to come out for the activities. It's going to be released on uh May 15th. Uh you can find that on the burough website.
Um, the Easter egg hunt had a big turnout over at Beachwood. Uh, Greg Stock made a great Easter bunny and they had a jugler which was very well received. Um, Mike had discussed at the recession
meeting last night that the bathrooms are going to be improved this year at Houston. Mike, that's a project that's going to be in place. I have that in my report. Yes, sir. Okay. Um, and uh, and then as far as the summer concert series, uh, three dates were set up. uh June 25th, July 9th, and July 30th. All
at the Beach with Fields. We're going to have a country band, an 80s band, and uh a new a New Jersey and the New Jersey concert band. So, that's it. Council thoughts uh for the pool. Registration is going extremely well
this spring. Uh we're up about $81,000 more than last year. A new filter and pump for the kiddie pool was installed. Uh the main pool pump and motor was replaced today. And the open house is May 17th, uh, 10 to 3 pm. That's it.
Councily, thank you. Regarding the environmental commission, uh, we have two grants that we're we're working on with Beachwood Trail, grant one and two. Nick touched upon the status of grant two and your update. So, thank you. In terms of grant one, um, obviously this is taking a lot longer than everyone
would like. It's well over a year at this point in time. Uh so uh our BA Mike Gazalei has reached out directly uh to the D commissioner for assistance and I don't know if Mike you're going to elaborate on that in your update or not but uh it's something that is most
likely necessary at this point to push this along. Um members of the environmental commission met uh with Mike uh regarding an update to Hillsdale's community forestry plan which is due by December 31st, 2025.
uh having an approved plan is intended to reduce the burrow's potential liabilities associated with street tree management and afford access to relevant grant opportunities. So, they're working uh with an individual who uh prepared the burough's existing plan uh for a
quote to update the plan regarding the Pasak Valley Regional High School Board of Education. On April 28th, they unanimously appointed Dirk Phillips as the interim superintendent of the district from May 1st, 2025 through no
later than June 30th, 2026. He's the former superintendent of Glenidge and assistant superintendent in Berkeley Heights. And throughout his career, he was a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and also recognized as as a wrestling coach. Uh they also appointed
Cynthia Kirk as the new board of ed business administrator replacing Mr. Osami. Uh and they also approved their 2025 2026 budget. Uh which no change from what we reported on last time which resulted in an overall 3.33% total tax
levy increase and specifically for Hillsdale on the average assessed home value of 477,000. That's That's a tax of $3,774, which is about $12121 increase per
That's all. Okay, council. Okay. Uh let's start with ambulance. Uh the statistics for the month of March are in. It was another strong month for the Hillsdale Volunteer Ambulance Service. They responded to 70 calls, including 26 mutual aid calls,
continuing to show up, not just for hail sale, but for uh our neighboring communities as well. Our incredible volunteers put in 1,366 hours of service in the month of March. And on top of that, our perm staff contributed about 513 hours. So,
just a big thanks to everyone involved for supporting those calls and being behind the scenes. Uh for the local board of ed, there was a meeting on the 24th which also included a budget presentation. The school budget for 2025 20226 includes a slight decrease in the
operating budget but a new debt service cost um of 436,69 brings the total tax levy up by about 3.49%. Uh so for that average home assessed in Hillsdale 4 uh
477,000 that means about an increase of $20.54 a month. Um that budget uh you said a month a month. So 250 for the year. Uh that budget should have been shured with the bureau. Uh I want to say around
April 25th. Um also that tax increase is exclusive of the referendum. So that $15 million bond will be assessed and collected in the 2026 calendar year. Um, as far as the George White renovation project, there's approximately 60 to 70% of those modular classrooms have been
delivered, but there's a lot more expected to be delivered. Uh, and they're on their way. Uh, and the last thing, this this year's Arbor Day celebration was held on Friday, April 25th at Metobrook School. Also, a big thank you to Victoria's Nursery for donating the trees and plants and to
Hillsdale's Environmental Commission uh for making it all happen. It was great to see our students getting involved and taking pride in helping to beautify and take care of our schools. Okay, Counciloman, um my um committees haven't met. Um
we'll be meeting next week. Uh so probably you won't get a report until the following month. Okay. That's it. Thank you. The Access for All uh group met on April 28th. I couldn't attend due to my travel schedule, but uh I
communicated with Ron Miller uh upon my return. They had their May art show at the library on May 1st. It was a great success. Pasc Press, you might have seen ran a story about it uh online dated May 4th. That was the fifth annual art show. It allowed individuals with disabilities
to express themselves artistically. The theme this year, which changes every year, was what does it mean to be included? I want to recognize Jennifer Romangh, Gia Schneider, Grace Salah, half our president Ron Miller, and Cindy Fox for working so hard on this. Also
want to recognize Ruda Fiorino, who did a lot of the arrangement and has done traditionally most of the arrangement uh for all the other earlier art shows, but this year because of an unfortunate skiing accident in Utah, she was unable to to be there and do the work. So the
rest of the team pitched in. The members of the uh access for all committee would like to be involved in discussions regarding the use of the new community center. Uh I direct this burough administrator with a specific focus on accessibility and the incorporation of
the universal design concepts in the space that will make it more user friendly for any residents who have disabilities. The board of health met on uh April 29th. Again, I wasn't present due to travel schedule. Uh I'm awaiting further contact from them. However, due
to the good work that our burough clerk does in terms of distributing the material, I can report that through March the revenues have aggregated just over $14,000 um mostly generated from food licenses. We also want to uh comment on member
Lois Cohan. She continues her active outreach to the community via conducting exercise classes and social communication sessions at the library, yoga classes and music therapy classes at Hillfell House and also conduct several nursing assessment nursing home
assessments that usually result in referrals to medical or pastoral professionals. Uh the board of health is due to approve at its next meeting a change in their by creating a position of treasurer. that person would work with our CFO more closely in terms of coordinating expenditures. And finally,
there is u there was an adult blood pressure clinic that was held but very few residents took advantage of it and they're going to be consulting with the burrow on whether to continue the program. That's all. Mayor, Mr. Ba, thank you Mr. Mayor. On the Kora
and Nicarocker, uh we placed 150 tons as was mentioned before and we did regrading laser grading. This work should have been done 10 12 years ago. So we are setting funds aside for professional ongoing maintenance. So we don't have to be here again in in 5 10
years. So it be uh ongoing maintenance. Uh for Beachwood Bath Shell uh the bathrooms will be repaired uh this year. We do have a grant for that. It expires end of this year. We've had three extensions already. I'm hoping to to finish it this year. Uh we did remove uh
the wooden uh roof and the feet ovals. Ovals. Okay. So it it looks uh there's no roof right now. So we have several ideas. If you have any ideas on what it should look like uh please let us know. Uh we'll probably have a contractor
start on this. Where are the kids going to go up and hide out up there? Uh we'll have some ways for them to do that if that's if that's what you want. Sure. Sure. Sure. This is when when is the completion date for this? You know, because there is a a music arts festival
in June. Yeah. So, it probably look like this for a while. Uh because last year the song within the kids spaces. Yeah. So, some of the ideas and uh we'll put these on the website so we can see you things that match the
current uh structure of what we have. But yeah, I think this year it will not look as nice. Okay. Uh, will the roof be there when they give the concerts? No, no, no. We're still in the design. It's going to affect the sound quality. Uh, we'll have
the speakers closer to the um transition year. Uh, does the band shell uh and you asked about the D. Yes, we did reach out directly to the D for a status on the Beachwood Trail. Uh, we even connected directly with the commissioner herself. Uh, we are
promised a response uh shortly. Uh we do need to make a decision on the turf in the next maybe 3 weeks. Uh we are looking at uh different fields that have it. We are calling uh towns uh nationwide that have it. They're installing about 35 uh new fields this
year. So we're in uh in contact and we're trying to really find a hole in the pivot one. Uh the feedback I'm getting and we are getting so far on the traditional one is the pebbles the black pebbles fly everywhere the eyes and the ears and the
sneakers in the house. Um so um we're seriously considering the pivot for now but uh we'll make that decision uh with the council in the next few weeks. Uh Park Mobile uh should be up and running in the well next week. We
are installing uh signs and I carry this with me everywhere. So they are they'll there'll be 26 signs going up uh in three parking lots. The central the uh the west parking will still have uh permit
parking, but the perimeter of it is going to be painted green the spots and there'll be a post every fifth spot to tell you which zone you're in. So, there are 3,000 people in Hillsdale right now that actually downloaded this app. And
all you have to do is put in the zone number, which will be where you park. And uh it's $125 per hour. Uh you can always increase the hours if you are traveling. Lastly, uh I visited uh the community center on Patterson Street
last week. They are done with the framing. The framing is done, which is unbelievable. Uh it it it is on the first floor and it it it will be ADA uh compliant. We made minor uh adjustments to the meeting room uh and the dividing
wall. They had it going in a direction where where one room will be all lit with the windows and one room will be dark. So we changed the direction of the wall. Small things like that. We moved uh we will have uh a projector and projector screen. So
we uh we put the atlas there. uh the uh the internet uh if you and we'll be looking for a name um for the center. If you have any ideas again for a name, you know, Shinefield Center, whatever you want to
name it. Yeah, maybe. Sure. Yeah. Any ideas? Let's let's do that to you to just you know call it Hillsdale, you know, community center is boring. It's something exciting. Yeah. What did What did Very exciting name. Uh they named it
Woodflake. I was going to say what did Whake Woodflake. Ah they spent a lot of manpower hours on that. Yeah, but don't tell him that. He'll be upset. Uh lastly, uh this is lastly. There are two uh there are three resolutions just uh
in case any questions. 25133 to authorize execution of the fair and open contract for janitorial service for tropical cleaning. It's the same service. It's actually slightly cheaper uh with this new uh with this uh new
contract. And then two uh 25134 and 25135 uh we had budgeted less than we expected for uh for one was for the self storage and
was and one was for the chief's settlement with the attorney. So one for W and one was for the U Bman. So that's what that increase is for and that's why Mike I just want to go back to Memorial
and the project timeline. So I'm very concerned about when we're going to get a shovel on the ground there and the design uh timeline that was initially u laid out by Nick the how many ever days it was three four five months. How how does
that look? and and I don't know if you're going to be in a position maybe next week to lay that out so we can see that are we going to get this field done by you know May 1st of or middle of April of next year or are we going to expect slip? So they actually started
the work before you even authorized the payment to them. So they're actually working for free for now just so we don't waste time. Uh you're not getting paid to do all that work right now but just so we don't have to eat. I I know but he drives a BMW. I know.
So you might have to give it back. So So we are pushing the timeline rather than wait until we actually have a resolution which we should. I mean the CFO will tell me you like but you can't do that. Um but they're actually starting the work right now. So I don't have timeline now until
they go through the boring and do all the testing and then when they can start the actual design. I don't even know we'll have that next week the timeline. No. So the we as I mentioned before we still have additional testing that needs to be done. We did test pits already. We we
have to do borings. Uh the borings are scheduled for May 12th through May 16th and then they have to do the the actual analysis for that. So we we need to get that information before we can design a lot of the components of this
site. We'll try. Any other questions of the BA? Okay, we're going to move on to ordinances. Uh 2513 for adoption an ordinance amending chapter 138 of the burough code entitled fees pertaining to soil moving. Can I
get a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance 2513? Motion to open. Second. Second. It's now open to the public. Would anybody like to comment on Oh, here we go. Good. So movement is a Rick Cavino 64 Westdale
Avenue. I just is I just looked at this tonight but I note the additions to a single family dwelling a $1,200 engineering fee. We did an add a level last year and one garage
bay. No soil movement involved. just brought in top soil when we were done. That would have been at the time construction costs are different. That's about 1% of the entire project. I think it's a very high fee for homeowners
doing an addition. We recently did our kitchen. Is that would that count as an addition to our to this under this definition? So I think this you just there should be a dimminimous exception to these
fees and now I haven't read the cross reference over to the section 20. Maybe it's in there but it just seems like an extraordinary fee. When we did the big job 15 years ago we were in that under
25 yard category. I think we paid the $25 fee at the building department. Whatever it was whatever it was then. So, I just ask that you take a look at that. I think it it' be a burden on a lot of homeowners doing modest
projects and it may be appropriate for a lot of what we see going on around town with the big projects. Do you have any thoughts on this? Thank you. Well, we we are trying to match to what the surrounding towns are charging. we were intercharging and then we had to
ask for more money to put into the uh escro fund. Um but point was taken for the small projects. Yeah. And if I could add also those uh those fees are um only on an as needed basis. So if there is a
project where no engineering review is required, we just don't bill it and then the any unused escrow is returned to the homeowner. I know for our job we paid into the escrow account, but as a fee I'm reading this as being a fee. No, it's it's not it's an escro deposit.
It's not a $1,200. Correct. That's that's an escro deposit. Okay. That it's not clear. I thought it was okay. I thought we were going to have to pay table this, but that Thank you for this. Um Okay. So, uh anybody else? No, I would just I would just note
in there that the filing fee has a separate column. It's much lower than the escro deposit for cost. Second. That's what you're referring to. Okay. Um, can we get a motion to close? Motion to close. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
I. Great. Can we get a motion to adopt 2513? Motion. Second. Second. Will the clerk please read the role? Council member Fox. Yes. Council member Mazuchong. Yes. Council President Oso. Yes. Council member Rico. Yes. Council member Trophy.
Yes. Council member Kleti. Yes. Now therefore, be it resolved that this ordinance is adopted and the burough clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law. We are moving on to adoption of 25-14, an ordinance amending chapter 258, storm series of
the burough code to create article 4 privatelyowned salt storage. Can I get a motion to open this ordinance for discussion of the public? Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Would anybody in the public like to be heard on this
ordinance? Seeing nobody, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close. Second. Second. All those in favor? I Okay, we're going to get a motion to adopt ordinance 2514. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second.
Uh, we'll click read the role. Council member Rico, yes. Council member Chovinu, yes. Council member Kleti, yes. Council member Fox, yes. Council member Mazian, yes. Council President Oso. Yes. Now therefore, be it resolved that this ordinance is adopted and the borrow clerk is authorized to advertise the
same according to law. We are moving on to the introduction of 2515 bond ordinance to authorize the undertaking of the memorial field recreation and athletic facilities project in by and for the burrow of Hillsdale in the county of Bergen state
of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $5.1 million to pay the cost thereof to make a to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriations and to provide for the issuance bond
bond of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds. Be it resolved that ordinance 2515 does now pass a first reading and that set ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the mayor and council in the municipal
building 380 Hillsdale Avenue, Hillsdale, New Jersey on June 17th, 2025 at 7 p.m. or as soon as thereafter and at said time uh and place, all persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the same. The
clerk was hereby authorized and directed to publish set ordinance in the Ridgewood News once at least one week prior to set hearing with a notice of its introduction and of the time and place when and where said ordinance would be considered for final passage. Can I get a motion? Motion. Can I get a
second? Second. Will the clerk please read the role? Council member Chromuse. Yes. Council member Kleti. Yes. Council member Fox. Yes. Council member Matan. Yes. Council President Oso. Yes. Council member Luko. Yes. 2515 is introduced. that we will work on the introduction of
2516 an ordinance to provide and for and determine a maximum rate amount and method of payment of compensation to persons holding certain opposite positions of employment in the burrow of Hillsdale County Bergen State of New Jersey. Be it resolved that ordinance
2516 does not pass the first reading and that said ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the mayor and council in the municipal bill building 380 Hillsdale Avenue, Hillsdale, New Jersey on June 17th, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as thereafter and at said time and place,
all persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the saying. And the clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish set ordinance in the Ridgewood News once at least one week prior to set hearing with a notice of its introduction and of the time and place when and where set
ordinance would be considered for final passage. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Will the clerk please read the role? Council member Kleti. Yes. Council member Fox. Yes. Council member Mazich. Council President Oso. Yes. Council member Lugo. Yes.
Council member Chamuk. Yes. Excuse me. Uh, ordinance 2516 is now introduced. Uh, we're moving to the introduction of 2517, an ordinance replacing chapter 310, article 20 26, site plan design standard section 107,
storm water control of the burough code. You guys are testing my ability to read Roman numerals. He resolved ordinance 2517 does not pass the first reading and the set ordinance be further considered for final passage of a meeting of the mayor and council in the municipal building. 380 Hillsdale Avenue,
Hillsdale, New Jersey on June 17th, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as thereafter at said time and place, all persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the same. And the clerk was hereby authorized and directed to publish said ordinance in the Ridgewood News once at least one week prior to set hearing with a notice of
its introduction and of the time and place when and where said ordinance would be considered for final passage. Can I have a motion, please? Motion. Is there a second? Second. Will the clerk please discussion please? Oh discussion discussion on this one. Um I found you know slogging through this to be very
technical uh somewhat indecipherable I guess for me who I don't have an engineering background and most of us here don't have that. Could NIP perhaps help us understand what this does why it's necessary and how how it might affect residents because that's that's
the bottom line. So I I think the impact of residents first and foremost is pretty minimal. A lot of these rules are already in place under the uh the NJAC code as far as D regulations go. Um these um regulations are specific to
major developments which are developments that uh either affect 1 acre or more of land or create a quarter acre or more of new impervious surface. So that's typically actual developments, not residential homes. Um and it
enforces certain storm water design standards that are more stringent than there were previous. Um so basically there are required runoff reductions that they need to meet. There are certain types of um stormwater
management techniques that need to be used that are considered green infrastructure as part of a D initiative. So to the long and short of it is basically a lot of these rules were already in place at by the D and enforced by the D and now they're having towns as a
requirement adopt the ordinance that pretty much just reiterates the same rules but it's not going to affect the smaller homeowner who has a lot of 100 by 200 or whatever you know. No okay we've already had a second clerk please read the role. Council member
Fox. Yes. Council member Maton. Yes. Council President Oso. Yes. Council member Ruko. Yes. Council member Choby Muk. Yes. Council member Kleti. Yes. 2517 has been introduced. 2518 for introduction capital ordinance of the borrow of Hillsdale in the county of
Bergen, New Jersey. Authorizing various public improvements and acquisitions in buy and for the burrow appropriating therefore the sum of $1,250,500 and providing that such sum so appropriated shall be raised from the burrow's capital improvement fund. from
the burough's uniform construction code penalties trust and from the burough's forfeite trust fund. Be it resolved that ordinance 2518 does now pass a first reading and that set ordinance be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the mayor and council in the municipal building 380 Hillsdale
Avenue uh Hillsdale New Jersey on June 17, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as thereafter and at said time and place all persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the same. And the clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish set ordinance in the Ridgewood News once at least one
week prior to set hearing with a notice of its introduction and of the time and place when and where said ordinance would be considered for final passage. Can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Will the clerk please read the role? Council member Mazachon. Yes.
Council President Oso. Yes. Council member Ruko. Yes. Council member Chromu. Yes. Council member Kleti. Yes. Council member class. Yes. It is now introduced. We are moving on to the consent agenda which is 25131 through 25148. Does anybody have
something that they want pulled from the consent agenda? Seeing nothing that's on the consent agenda, let's move down for a motion to pass the consent agenda. Is there a motion? A motion. Is there a second? Second. Will the clerk please read the role? Council President Oso.
Yes. Council member Rico. Yes. Council member Trinu. Yes. Council member Kleti. Yes. Council member Fox. Yes. Council member Matthew Chong. Yes. Be consented by passes as introduced. Um there's nothing on consent. We'll move on to public
comment. Jerry's smiling already. You're limited to three minutes. Any topic, please state your name. Jerry Bey, 64 West LA Avenue, Hillsdale. Um I have two things I wanted to talk about quickly. Uh, one of them is, um, I'm sure you've
all either seen it on social media, but or heard it from your neighbors that there's some concerns about kids behaving badly in the community, not just our community, but some other local communities as well. I'd encourage us as a community to try to uh, take a look at
that and see what we could do. Respectfully, I suggest a three-prong approach that includes parents, community members, and our police department. And perhaps our police department could do some drivebys. I feel like people speed less when they
think that they know where cops might be in a daytime. Um uh so maybe after school hours, just being present, um around our community might be a helpful way to diminish some of the concerns that are going on. The second uh reason
that I'm here is because the 125th anniversary committee is uh coming to a close and um we began this endeavor in uh 3 years ago in 2022. We started planning for what we we we'd be doing in
2023. Uh I think we had a successful uh celebration going on that year and because it was so good many people asked us to sell more bricks and that's what led us to taking an extra year to complete this anniversary year. So it's
been three years in uh in the making. I'd like to thank our my committee of very dedicated residents of our town. I'd like to thank the library for their support. Um, and thank all of our community members and the council members who did attend any of our
events, who supported us with lawn signs, um, buying bricks, buying journals, attending the gala. Um, all of that was very helpful um, to us throughout this celebration time. Um, let's see. Uh, our committee would
recommend that the town consider having a town historian. So in 25 years, people aren't trying to dig up all this information again, but somebody who might be uh having some ongoing uh information to the residents
of our community about the great history of our town. Um, we uh this we suggested this at a previous meeting, but also we'll bring it up again that maybe in the community center there could be some kind of a display case uh that rotated the display um in coordination with this
historian and the library. The library has a huge room with lots of Hillsdale memorabilia in it and that could be rotated. The community center, I'm sure, is going to be a place we're going to see a lot of action and it would be place to keep our history vibrant. Um, I
want to remind you in 2048 and 2073 to open the time capsules that are in the front of the police department. Um, and I the last thing is that on if you mark your calendars for Saturday, May 17th at
1:30, we will have a dedication and a blessing of the community pathway that uh was installed in the park. If you haven't been over there, I encourage you to go by and check it out. It really is lovely. And excuse me, your three minutes is up. Okay.
So, come and join us. Thank you. I I I I know that I get to speak in council commentaries first, but um you thank everybody for the work that was done on 125. I'm known to speak for everybody else here. Thank you for your incredible job. Three years in doing this. You have
been so wonderful and I the bottom of my heart. So I know I'm over but clergy from the community will be there. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So um we are moving on to council
commentaries and I am going to lead off. Um first of all and it's very important. I know we've had some problems with the weather but the fire department the the volunteer fire department is out there now in the west lot with our carnival.
And if you can find time when it's not raining, go out there and support them. They support us. It's a great event for family, for kids. Don't eat too much funnel cake. But other than that, have a great time. Uh it's wonderful there. And I
enjoy being in there. If there was a dunk tank, I may even volunteer, but don't do a dunk tank. Um wanted to update everybody. I had a call on May 2nd with the Department of Environmental Protection from the state regarding Alexander dry cleaners. They
are slow moving and everything that you always hear about state bureaucracy that takes you longer than than you anticipate. But they have finally put some financing in place to get some people down here. and they're promising now that it's June that they're coming
in um to start that work and that we're hoping by sometime in August for some completion on that work and then maybe some settling and then the prospective owners could come in and we could be looking at revitalizing returning that property
back to the income roles and just the roles in general of of use um you know in shorter order after that. So, um that's really most of my report and let's move on to the commentary we started last time this
way. Let's start over here. Council Rico, thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to uh say Frank Gluckler, he's a stalwart of our volunteer fire department. He has served members of this community for decades. Um and he's still actively
serving in various capacities. He celebrated his 100th birthday uh I believe last month. Um fire department is going to be holding a celebration for Frank. I believe it's June 1st at the firehouse. Unfortunately, I won't be able even though I'm a member of the
fire committee to to attend because of a prior family commitment. Um but I wanted to formally thank him for his many years of outstanding service to the community, wishing him good health and um and happiness going forward. That's all.
Okay. I just want to say happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in uh Hillsdale, of course, and all the mothers everywhere. Um and um that's it for me. Okay, Councilwoman. Um but Jerry, you're I
just wanted to thank her again personally. I was on that committee. I saw all the love and dedication and everything that you put to make everything happen. um you really do love this town and we're very fortunate to have you run that whole committee and so thank you so much and I do hope that
people do constant dedication. Again, more work put into this, but it's going to be a great um event. Again, it's on Saturday the 17th at 1:30 at Veterans Park. Yes. Council, thank you. Uh just regarding
the memorial field project, I just want to reiterate that uh and this is just building off of the council commentary. Uh that I I believe it's important to kind of adopt an official project completion date of April 1st. I think we should try to keep that date in mind,
work backwards from that or reverse engineer from that. Uh to to reiterate what the mayor said, please uh fire department annual carnival is is occurring. go down, have fun, and help the fire department out while you're having fun. Uh, and three, happy
Mother's Day. Thank you. Okay, a couple of pops. Uh, just happy Mother's Day to all the moms. President Yes. I wanted to congratulate Travis Woods. I have nothing but the highest of expectations of him on becoming Jose's next police chief. And
also, happy Mother's Day to our moms out there, especially my mom out there in heaven. All right. Um, seeing no other business, can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All
those in favor? I We are adjourned. Best weld.