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I'm making this announcement in compliance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 public law 1975 laws of the state of New Jersey. The burough clerk has prepared a schedule of the meetings of the governing body of the bureau of Kennaworth for the year 2025.
The burrow clerk has posted a true copy of this schedule on the bulletin board located at the front entrance of Burrow Hall and has mailed true copies of this schedule to the local source in the store ledger and is maintaining a copy of this schedule in her office during the year
2025. Accordingly, the notice requirements of the open public's meetings act have been satisfied in regard to this meeting. Please stand for the salute to the flag 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. [Music] Mayor Carlo here. Councilman Bole here.
Councilman Finestella here. Councilman Morrow here. Councilman Piper. Uh, Councilman Gerice here. And Councilman Janer is excused. Doug said he's wrong. Yeah. Doug say.
Okay. I'd like a motion to approve the minutes of April 16, 2025. Motion. Second. Motion made by Councilman uh Finestrell, seconded by Councilman Bole. Uh, roll call.
Councilman Bole, yes. Councilman Finestella, yes. Councilman Morrow, yes. Councilman Scur, yes. Councilwoman Gardaniano Personno is excused and Councilman Viper Zeno. Okay. I have two proclamations this evening. Uh, one is for police week
and one is for the armed forces week uh for 2025. I want to also recognize that we have um some veterans on our police department as well. Chief Paul Campanelli, Officer Ray Fino, and Officer Anthony
Almeida. I'd like to uh I'm going to start with the uh Police Week proclamation and then I'll move into the armed forces. I don't think I don't see Commander Jean's here, but I'll send it over to him to recognize National Police
Week 2025 and to honor the service and sacrifice of those law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty while protecting our communities and safeguarding our democracy. Whereas there are more than 800,000 law enforcement officers serving in
communities across the United States, including the dedicated members of the Kennaworth Police Department. And since the first recorded death in 1786, more than 24,400 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate sacrifice and been killed in the line of
duty. And the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC. And 345 new names of fallen heroes are being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this
spring, including 148 officers killed in 2024 and 197 officers killed in previous years. The service and sacrifice of all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the virtual natural
national national law enforcement officers memorial funds 377th annual candlelight viril on the evening of May 135. The candle lit Virgil is part of the National Police Week which takes place
this year on May 11th through the 17th. Whereas May 15th is designated as police officers, peace officers Memorial Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families and United States flag should be flown at half staff. Now therefore, be it resolved that the mayor
and council of the Bureau of Kennorth formally designate May 11th to the 17, 2025 as police week in the Burough of Kennorth and publicly salute the service of law enforcement officers in our community and the in the communities
across the nation. And witness hereof, I, Mayor Linda Carloage, have here unto signed my name officially and close the seal of the Bureau of Kennorth to be affixed the seventh day of May, 2020. I'm going to present this to the chief.
Thank you very much. Um, actually we have the city vice commander from the BFW. He's one of our guys. Okay. I just want to take a moment. I know we're not being videotaped, but I want to thank the mayor and the caric council members, uh the bur clerk from Nation. I have the
privilege of working uh for best department in the county. If it wasn't for these guys, uh we're very lucky to have what we have here. So, thank you very much and we appreciate you. Thank you very much. Okay. Armed Forces Day, May 17, 2025. Whereas Armed Forces Day is celebrated
annually on the 3rd Saturday of May, serving as a day to honor and recognize the brave men and women of our armed forces who have served and continue to serve in defense of our great nation. And this day provides us with an opportunity to express our gratitude to
our military personnel for their unwavering commitment, sacrifice, and dedication to protecting our freedoms and ensuring our safety. Whereas the Burrow of Kennorth acknowledges the remarkable contributions of our veterans, active
duty service members, and reser reser as well as families who support them. And we strive to promote awareness, appreciation, and pride within our community for those who have done the uniform and served with honor in the United States Army, Navy,
Air Force, Marines, Corpse, and Marine Corpse, and Coast Guard. We encourage all citizens to take a moment on Armed Forces Day 2025 to reflect on the valor and dedication of our service members and to extend our thanks and admiration
to them and their families. Now therefore, be it resolved that I, the mayor of the Burrow of Kennorth, along with the council, do hereby proclaim May 17, 2025 as Armed Forces Day in Kennorth, New Jersey. We call upon all residents to observe this day with
appropriate ceremonies and activities that honor our armed force members who have defended the ideals of liberty and justice for all. And witness whereof, I, Mayor Linda Carloage, here have unto signed my name officially and closed the seal of the Bureau of Canord to be
affixed this 7th day of May, 2025. Just so you know, Randy is senior vice commander at the counter uh post 2230 BFW. That's why it's accepted. Uh thank you on behalf of Bobby Jeans, the commander of BFW post 2230. We humbly
thank you for this award and honor to serve the community of Kent. Thank you very much for your service. [Music] uh finance report. Councilman Mororrow. Uh thanks, mayor. Super quick tonight. Uh we sent the state the budget uh for
the state law and we've gotten it back with very nonsubstantial adjustments that need to be made. That's it. We're proceeding with the budget. Okay. Thank you, Councilman. Department of Public Works. Councilman Bole. Thank you, mayor. Um, there will
be a six six monthly Friday bulk events uh spread around the burrow and are scheduled according to the roots and days we collect your regular household trash. Residents who have their trash pickups on Mondays and Thursdays on the south
side. We'll have our first bulk pickup event on Friday, May 9th. Put your stuff out tomorrow evening. Residents in that garbage zone may put out five bulk items for pickup. A flyer posted on the burrow website lists all six monthly pickup
days scheduled for the burrow and what we will take and what we will not take. Each of our three garbage routes will get two different bulk days during 2025. Um people may know we have the town cleanup this Saturday uh Greg put
together. We would like to thank the 33 residents who have volunteered to participate in the end. I think it's more now, right? At least a couple more. There's a lot more. Okay. Um, who volunteered to participate in the annual Kennorth Community Cleanup Day sponsored by the New Jersey Clean Communities on
Saturday, May 10th to help keep Kennorth clean. And what time are we meeting? 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. at the DPW location. Oh, it's at the DPW lot now. Yes, we're going to be there since they have so many. We meet there first and then Okay.
Spread out. Yep. All right. And that's all I have. Great. Is it too late to sign up for that? I just want to ask that. I had a couple people today say that they were gone. Yeah. I I had a registration was closed on the 4th
because I have to be a plan for supplies, materials, and for um res. It's a huge hit and people still want it one late summer. Okay. Great. So, everyone will keep that in their back of their mind. Late summer, we may
have another uh town cleanup. Great. Nice. Thank you, Councilman. Okay. Department of Public Safety, Councilman Fenistra. Thank you, Mayor. Uh for April, the Penwell Police Department responded to 182 calls for
service and 153 911 calls. There were 95 hours of overtime for the month. Overtime breakdown is 36 hours for schedule patrol. Overtime 39 and a half hours for dispatch overtime swap call
out 31 hours. Detective bureau call in 4 hours a ride program 8 hours patrol invest 7 and 1/2 hours police department completed 224 hours of training for the month including a ride firearms user and
various classes. Can PD issued 194 traffic summones and had 13 arrests for the month. There were four sick days used and zero sick occurrences. There were zero OJI on the
job injuries. Come police department received 152 total flock hot list alerts from the stationary cameras. Officers responded to several incidents to provide direct directive against the crimes. Economists continue to offer an
excellent service in protecting the burrows. And a message from Chief Campelli. We're happy to report that the permanent radar sign has been installed on the west end of the boulevard. It has immediately affected traffic flow for
storing cars traveling eastbound from Cranford and look forward to installing the other one for westbound traffic on the boulevard. We anticipate Peyton the boulevard by the end of May pending weather and contractor delays. Please get in touch with the
count police department to report a complaint or nuisance. We can't help if we don't know about it. Count police department has implemented more aggressive driving speed enforcement details throughout the burrow. The police department is asking our residents to please slow down, stop for
people in crosswalks and please mark legal spot. park and legal spots only. Um, we are having our annual street fair on May 18th. The boulevard will be completely closed from 7:00 a.m.
to 7:00 p.m. South 18th, 19th, and 20th Street. Will not be accessible with a vehicle. If you plan on using your vehicle will have to be moved prior to 7 a.m. on May 18th to the north side of
the boulevard VFW lot or on South or South 17th Street parking lot. Uh you could park there and ask you in advance for understanding and cooperating with this. Um, lastly, the PBA fishing derby is
Saturday, June 7th from 8:00 a.m. till 10:00 a.m. Open to kids who attend the schools in Canor School District. Ages 3 to 13. Complimentary breakfast and coffee while supplies last. Free kids
t-shirts for the event must be signed up before June 5th. And here's the uh flyer which uh I don't know if we post it on our website or it's currently posted on uh several social media pages. Uh we'll hopefully have it up
u website page if possible but we currently have it on our Instagram. So we have I'm sure exit 138 they have it on there but we're trying to put it out there. We like
people to have a uh opportunity to pre-register just makes the event quicker so we know better accountability of who's actually there. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. That's why I'm Thank you, Councilman. Planning and zoning. Councilman Scarice. Thank you,
Mayor. Uh for the month of April, total receipts for the construction department is $119,664 mostly from building fees um and road opening fees and some other uh miscellaneous um
here. We had 25 construction permit applications received in the month of April. 31 construction permits were issued during the month of April. Um, we had 26 zoning permit applications submitted, which are fences, uh, HVAC
pools, decks, and EV chargers. Move this down. We have uh, five violations. A couple were fences falling apart. There's one garage kind of falling apart, broken windows on it, and so on,
and one fire hydrant being blocked. Um also from um the redevelopment of the old market properties is continuing and is on looks uh on a good trajectory. It's still uh in works but it's good
um where we're at. We've made a lot of progress with it. So let's keep our fingers crossed and that's all I have. Mayor Okay. Thank you, Councilman. Recreation and fire. Councilman Viper. Thank you, Mayor. Uh there's no recreation uh report tonight. Uh for the
fire department during the month of April, uh we responded to 31 calls. Uh during these incidents, the fire department traveled 76 miles, utilized 117 12 man hours. The fire department rescue squad responded to 38 calls,
traveled 245 miles, and utilized 152 man hours. So during the month of April, the fire department and rescue squad completed 153 hours of training. So the additional manhour utilized this month uh last month was administrative 265 stipen
1364 vehicle maintenance 20 building maintenance 35 so the total calls for April were 69 total miles of travel 321 and the total manh hour is 26.5 that's all I have thank you
councilman uh brow engineer and thank you mayor I have two things. One's little one's pretty easy. The second one might take a few minutes. Um just first off, uh we um requested to get estimates for the paving, the
parking lots. Um so we looked at the uh detective bureau driveway. Uh the parking lot behind you, detective bureau was done several years ago, so it's pretty good shape. uh the municipal building parking lot, the police parking lot, and the parking on the side of the
wreck building. And all total, it's 98,500 for all all those lots. Um, keep in mind, these are estimates. If we did do it, it would have to go out the bid. Numbers could go up or down. Can you repeat the lots again that that were in that list for the 98,000? What's that?
Can you repeat the lots? Oh, sure. It's the um detective bureau driveway, not not the parking lot in the back. the uh municipal parking lot on the corner. Uh the police park Yeah. across the street. Uh the police parking lot in the rear of
the building. And then the parking spaces alongside of the uh wreck building. The ones facing the street like the one you just pull up and bad shape. Yeah, those are much worse shape. Which
municipal lot? I I I uh thought you were talking about the one on the side of the wreck, the 24th Street. and the one across the street. So, it's both 23rd Street. 23rd Street. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I called the actually Coke got out of the employee lot. Tony, can you forward that to me so I can Yeah, I did.
I um I had forwarded to Laura. So, I think you you have it, right? So, I think numbers yet. So, I can send it to you also, but keep in mind their estimates. So, um you're not going to go up or down. I want to ask a question about there's like a
b a ledge or something like a little step going into the building department or the previous health department where the sidewalk is not flush. Yeah, that was the that was never ADA.
The ADA transcript was supposed to go actually is through the front. If somebody had to get in there through the ADA, I think they have to go through the front and then through the side. I'm not sure that was ever an ADA. Actually, that door I'm not sure meets ADA requirements. So, if we wanted to make that an ADA entry thing, we'd have to
retrofit the whole door. So, I mean, is there some way we could do something about that step that that Yeah, we could. I mean, if you wanted to get rid of that, it still wouldn't be I don't think the door itself would be AA ADA compliant, but we could look into
We'd have to bring it up the sidewalk up there up to the up to the top. A little bit like a ramp. So, right. Okay. Yeah, not a problem. Just want to ask about that. And then, um, second one, I'm going to ask actually Mike Scader if you join me on this one. This is regarding the OEM building. Mhm. So, for the last
3 years, we've been trying to get a grant through the federal government, and it's the CDS, which is congressionally directed spending. I think they used to call it your marks in the past. Um, and what the way the grant works, they have like various subcommittees. And one of the
subcommittees is Department of Homeland Security. And under that subcommittee, they accept grants emergency operations center. and we believed that our OEM building would fell would fall under that category. So we'd spend it for the
last 3 years, never heard anything back from them. Uh when we checked the awards, obviously we weren't obviously given an award. Um this year uh at least go through Cody Booker's office. So this year I contacted their staff and I was speaking to somebody in his in their office. I spoke to this gentleman, very
helpful, very knowledgeable. he handles the grants and I asked him like, you know, are we doing something wrong? What can we be doing better? What could we be doing better? Is there anything we can do to help our case to get this grant through? So, we did some research and got back to me and it turns out it our
application was sent to Washington last year, got to the subcommittee, but they for some reason determined we actually didn't meet the criteria for an EOC emergency operation center. I don't see it that way. that I read it. I believe that we we qualify, but um you know, I'm
not going to go down to Washington argue with the subcommittee, right? So, um that grant we had for 1.2 million. That was 100% no match. Um and that was a little high. We kind of threw a lot of extra things in there thinking if we don't get the full amount, uh if we got
a certain amount, we still be able to do the building. Uh so, what they told me was that there's there's other programs we could fit into. So there's a program under Department of Agriculture what's called a uh community facilities grant and it's it's set aside for communities
under 20,000 uh people and he basically confirmed that we could fit into that category and they can move our grant application into that program. Uh the only downside to that is a match right it's the burough would have to come up with 45% they only fund 55%. So, I was
talking to Buddy today. We were talking about it and we could we can trim it down, right? We can get this probably to somewhere about 550,000, say 600, you know, to play it safe with with with some additional like
soft cost. So, you know, at 45% match that would be 270,000. Uh Mike informed me that there's $104,000 already budgeted to the OEM building. So that gives us $166,000 gap if the burough wanted to
pursue this and and submit that grant. Um keep in mind this is a 2026 grant. Um and realistically he wouldn't even start this job to 2000. If we were given an award probably wouldn't start this job to 2027. So there is time if wanted to
fund it. You don't have to fund it all. It wouldn't be in 2025. it would be really 2026, but realistically you also have 2027. Um, and I did ask I haven't got an answer yet, but I also asked if we could
use other grant sources uh for the match, but they haven't confirmed that yet because some grants don't allow you to do that. Some grants allow you to use other sources, like a top grant, you can use other sources. I'm not sure with this one. They didn't get back to me.
So, um I asked Mike because he knows the condition of the building better than anybody. I know it's pretty bad. Doesn't look that bad in the pictures. Look at So, we uh did an estimate a few years back. This whole project got started.
Um we estimated to do all the repairs that needed to be done to bring it up to a sufficient total was about $135,000. Uh the CFO at the time felt that 135,000 we could get a new building for a lot cheaper than that and he gave us
104,000. Um when Tony started doing the numbers then we were at least 350 360 I think the numbers were. So that never materialized. The money was earmarked for a new building and not repairs. Uh but even with the repairs that need to be done, the stuff was pulling off the
whole side of the you could grab it off the building and it's bad. It's deteriorated even worse. Expenses have gone up. So now those costs are probably, you know, 200,000. We've had bathrooms still freeze every winter. Pipes were freezing. Yeah, we had a very unreliable furnace in there.
So we did upgrade the heat finally. We didn't have heat in there for 3 years. Yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, we had to turn off at the street cuz we kept we couldn't rely on that. So two years ago, we put a new uh heating system in. Uh but other than that it hasn't we really haven't upgraded anything and it's just
deteriorating even worse. Uh there's some parts where this cinder block is 3/4 the way push through on corner and you know so it is deteriorating and is becoming worse and probably double that amount of that 135 and rehab it and that's probably what another 10 years on
the building. Yeah. I mean it's only a mandate. the building's just going to keep deteriorating to to try to repair it where it would, you know, be substantially uh sound and last to spend more money than what what we would need. And again, this is all based on actually getting an award, right? You know, at
this point, we would just have to continue the grant process hopefully to get that award and then of course, you know, we get we have to provide the match. So, but yeah, I agree. The building's in pretty it was in bad shape when we looked at it four or five years ago. I remember looking at it. Yeah, I
took pictures like five years ago for before and after and the after never happened. Yeah, the previous CFO I don't know why he thought that we could do it for less. I told him at the time there's no way there's no way we're going to do it for that amount. He insisted that we can do that was what was was allocated.
So it was never really ever sufficiently funded even back even back then. And what kind of construction do you have? That money is just in an espro account now. So it's still still available. Uh what what operations go on there at the a lot
of storage. Um I mean the maintenance of our generators or light towers and signs are police. Uh they store a lot of their equipment inside. So it's more storage. So basically we're looking to put a steel building up and bathroom in it. You know insulated steel building with a
bathroom to be used for the same purposes. Yeah. Yep. So but in an emergency there is a there is a possibility they people would have to stay there like two or three like during a crisis may have to be there two or three days. So you need key, you know, you need plumbing, you need a bathroom,
um even like something small kitchen there so you can have food cuz people could be could be laid out there, right? Two, three. Yeah, if we end up using that for our emergency operation center. Right now we don't have a sufficient emergency operation center was uh for our wall originally, but it didn't meet
any of the criteria that the state requires. So, we moved it over to the firehouse cuz that beats all the criteria. But if we have an event that we're like last time we had major flooding, we had to use that as a shelter because we couldn't get schools or anything else open. And there was really no room for emergency operation
center at that point there. So, it would kind of be like our backup emergency operation center as well as um you know the storage and everything else. That's the biggest thing is a lot of that equipment can't be left outside, you know. And Mike, when are we going to have to start talking about raising the
firehouse gate, roof, whatever we working on that? When will we have to fund it? Well, we don't we don't. So, there was a concession from the manufacturer for the fire truck manufacturer to do that. So, we have money put aside for that that was included in price. Okay, great. Uh, so
we've been working on that and uh actually met with garage door Tuesday for the third. So, we're just waiting on the engineer to do his thing and through our contractor just so he can get the permits. That's the reason why we believe we we fell under the emergency
operations center. Um, one of the stipulations it it says that you have to coordinate with other jurisdictions, which we do anyway. We have a mutual aid agreement, but there has to be more like a regional facility where it actually would directly service multiple
jurisdictions. So, but that's not really what it says, but again, like we're really not going to we're not going to argue and go over that. Um, so the, you know, this is an option to move it into into the other program. Just keeping in mind we'd have to be able to provide the the match. So, Tony, you mentioned the
previous CFO and whatever. What does the current CFO recommend or suggest? I don't know. You're up. You have the money. Well, it sounds like it's going to be a project that needs to get done in the next couple years anyway. You have a
chance to get 50% paid by a grant. Apply for the grant. Doesn't hurt. Even if we're getting the rent, doesn't mean we have to do it. So, yeah, I agree. Again, if you had a year in 2026 27 when we'd have to fund it where we're also talking about buying property for parking lots
and all these other things, like how are we trusting the budget at that point? Just like your house, you know, there are things you need to do at times and others might be luxury, right? Okay. I mean, that's the best way to say. So, absorbing maybe one project's doable.
When we start thinking two, we're stressing it. Yeah. I mean, the other thing we can do is, you know, we're going to get into start discussing this year's capital and hopefully next week I'll talk to you guys about trying to schedule getting some of the departments in there and start moving on that. And I know we're waiting for the other county grant to see where that stands and the
CDBG grants where the federal funding stands with that because that might be totally cancelled. Um but we can see the availability to maybe put in another 100,000 of this year's capital towards that. So then next year if it
doesn't just need another 100,000 and it's not a huge big portion of money. Yes. But it's not 500,000 coming just from the burrow just for one thing. old school way of saving your money. I like that. Thank you. What lots are we
looking at purchasing for a parking lot? Uh there's a need for parking in town, but there's nowhere to put a parking lot. So theoretically, you'd have to buy a property, right, to put a parking lot. So that's So it was just a hypothetical lot we're talking
about. Yeah. Okay. Just a hypothetical parking need. We don't have a place to put it. Got it. Got it. Okay. And I know that it's I just wanted to see did I miss something? No, I'm not. Okay. Okay. Is the building going to have a larger footprint? It looks kind of small. It kind of describing it looks kind of
small. Depends on the money we get to expand it a little bit. Um, you know, we still need the yard. You still need to get in and out. It doesn't make sense to put it uh the garage like all the garage doors the way they are now. It's in the
front and you have you need to get one thing out. You got to move 17 things out of your way to get to it. So, it makes more sense to put the garage doors on like the Sheridan Avenue side. So, you would need that lot to pull in and turn around back into the base, but we were looking a little bigger, but I like 10 by 10 bigger than what we have now. And
that would, you know, that would be that's more than we need now. And but it's it's sufficient to take us into the future probably. Yeah, that's important cuz you don't want to do this and have to, you know, 10 years from now. If you're saying that people might have to
sleep there, then you sleep on the open bays or sleep. You really wouldn't be sleeping. You would be there 24 hours a day manning radios, manning, you know, phones, computers, allocating resources from the state and all that. So, you have to have an emergency operation center that's functional. Um, part of
that is having a kitchen, having a bathroom, having bathrooms enough for your staff. You could have seven or eight people in there. Um, you know, you'd have if we had a major major incident, you'd have fire chief, police chief, uh mayor, finance guys, you know,
all you have at least six people in there and you know 24 hours bathroom is a bathroom, one bathroom good enough? Probably not. Um you know, you have every place is closed. All the food places are closed. You're there for 18 20 hours. You know, you're going to need
to stock some, you know, bring food with you, have a refrigerator, have a place to eat. Mhm. Um and all these things. If you go on the uh the state police website, OEM, they list what you should have in your emergency operations center. So, like I said, originally it was our conference room here. So, that
checked none of the boxes for anything we had. Uh so, we said we moved it over to the firehouse cuz that's a better option, but with how busy that place could be when there's a major storm, it's not, you know, that's that's a big problem as well.
There might be some savings like we're we're figing a new on a new foundation. We'll be done on the building. We may find the foundation suitable and add some savings. So we may like the electric service. We may be able to to salvage that. So there may be some still be some savings as we get, you know,
once we get into construction. We're not counting on it. We're figuring like the worst case scenario that we got to do all this all this new. Um though, you know, there could be another $100,000 that comes off the top depending on what we find. Um, and again, I'm still weighing out an answer if we could use other funding. So, if we could use
infrastructure money, you know, that could be 20 26 2027 infrastructure money could be used. I obviously you wouldn't have that money to do other projects, but you know, if this was something that you want to prioritize and that money could be possibly be allocated. I don't
have that answer yet. Okay. What do you need an answer from us? I just wonder what want would you like to have them uh continue with this and transfer the grant to the other program? Um I think we should try to get the grant. Yeah. I mean like like Ken said, if you get the money, you don't have to accept it. Like
you can always reject, you know, chart it down. If someone's willing I I'm with Ken. If someone's willing to pay for half of it and we need it, we should we should do it. Yeah. and and and this this um this gentleman at Cory Booker's office, he's really like helping us, really advocating for us um to push this
through. So, he's doing everything he can do to help. So, uh we didn't have that previously like we, you know, we were on our own. Um and uh we didn't get to have that interaction. So, uh you know, this year we we have we have some help on the side. Can you apply for both grants, Tom?
I mean uh you got new administration maybe reapply under homeland security again maybe he already went he already had ran it by the committee again so he did that for us spoke to the committee ahead of time you know hasn't been sent there it's still in the process they
came back and said yeah we really don't think we can approve it under this program that's why he's encouraging us to move it to the other program because we do meet that criteria at least it'll get through the first step um then you know it would be up to um the senator's
office to decide what applications get sent to to Washington. Uh then it has to go through the committee in Washington. They do the final selection. But last year it was sent I mean they did picked us as one of the applications to continue and sent it down to Washington. That's a big step. I mean to get to get
picked to be to be sent to this to the uh congressional committee that's that that's big. I mean that's a big big step. Uh fortunately we we we hit a brick wall. So, but yeah, too many of the layers of government sounds like to mess you got to jump through. We're
going to try. This has been this has been a mission of mine to get to get this done for the next three years. So, uh you know, I if you want us to do it, we'll we'll keep pushing. I agree with the mayor. I think it's worth a shot to apply for the grant and we take it when you have all this other information uh
with an informed decision approach know exactly how much we need to spend. And I know there are a lot of projects, capital projects we need done in town. If this is on the list, it's on the list. And I agree, it would be great to get the money from somewhere else. Yeah. And and it's not that big a gap. I
mean, the gap isn't isn't huge. We first, you know, look at this. The gap seems a lot bigger, but, you know, we trimmed it down with the money already budgeted. I mean, $166,000 isn't, you know, I mean, it's money. Don't get me wrong. I want to minimize it, but it's not like we're a million dollars short. So, how many
roads would that pay? Just curious. uh you know picked a couple roads. Unfortunately, we can't use the state aid money for this, but and and we're still looking for other grants. I mean, we're still looking to see if there's other grants that we can use to supplement this if they let us do that.
Um and we're doing that anyway. We're always looking for grants. We're always scanning for money that we could we can get into the burrow. Um and this is a you know, this is a good opportunity. I think so. I think it's a good idea tonight because he's my leazison. I called in this afternoon when Tony
called me and brought him out to the building so he could test how bad it is. I mean, there's, you know, we're going to have to start doing some repairs regardless cuz there's some safety issues, but we're trying to keep them in. Um, just do what we have to do to keep, you know, operating there. But
like there's a lot of conduit is just rusted through. The actual conduit just rusted through. So, it's it's bad. If anybody would want, you know, wants to come see it firsthand, just give me a call and I'm always around. How do we get to a state of disrepair like this? The building's probably 100 years old.
Um, I think it served us something before it was even owned by the burrow. Um, but it's probably close to 100 years old, I believe. It wasn't built that well in the first place. I mean, I've seen it several times. I' I've gone through it. It probably wasn't It was slapped together originally. Probably
never intended to be to be standing still. It wasn't up to 1925 standards. Throw together. Throw them together. Lasted 100 years. Must have been must have been not bad. They use cinder blocks instead of concrete blocks like and that's just those will
deteriorate over time. They're not meant to. Right. Right. It makes sense. Yeah. So, all right. That's what you That's what we'll do. We'll just we'll keep it going. Yep. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Fellow
CFO, Mr. Grum. Thank you, mayor. Uh well, tonight we have a bud public hearing on the budget and hopeful adoption. Uh I want to thank the committee for all their hard work. It was uh another treacherous year unfortunately uh for the average house.
This budget is uh average house this year is $184,888. The municipal tax increase including the libraries uh estimated to be 140 $143.86. Uh when we first started out this budget, we were at uh almost a $344
increase for this average house. So good job. We were able to cut over three $200. So uh we're we're doing what we have to. We're heading in the right direction. And the good news is is that no services were lost with this budget.
So we also want to thank all the departments, Laura, all the department heads for working with us for the cuts that we had to make. Uh we had to cut over $824,000 in appropriations and I mean uh we had to come up with
$824,000 in revenues and had to cut appropriations by at least $285,000 just to fall within the cap. So was not an easy task. So thank you again and thank you. Great. Thank you. Works magic. Yep. All right. Thanks. Thank
you, brother attorney. Thank you, mayor. Uh Mayor, I just want to uh point out that the two uh votes that we have regarding the budget, uh we need uh four affirmative votes for each of those uh motions, those resolutions to pass. Uh
and we uh like to acknowledge on the record that Councilman Piper came in shortly after the roll call. So, he's here and he's able to vote. 607. Um there 607. Thank you. Okay. Even better than
what I have. Uh the clerk told me we have uh an ordinance uh for garbage uh that's on uh this evening. Uh, I had a conversation uh with Councilman Morrow and with uh the superintendent
uh and uh there is uh some discussion I think that uh the council like would like to have on it and uh I thought of one change but I that certainly is uh related to uh the discussion. So uh you
know it's up to you may we can have that discussion now or you know what we should have before we vote on the introduction. Um, I think we can have the discussion now. Okay. Um, so Captain Moore, you want to bring up the issue and then Sure, I will. And I read it
again and I'd like your interpretation on something else this time. It's good to have. Um, I love this resol uh this ordinance by the way. I think it was a hell of a job by you, Greg, the committee with you to arrange for bulk
pickup to be a constant thing in our burrow separate from the budget negotiations. I think that was a huge win. Uh I know that there are conversations going on around the amount of items that can be picked up. You aggregate that over the year with multiple pickups. It multiplies. You said there or you said there was going
to be two pickups this year. It's 10 items. It's a wonderful thing that we're doing here. There's one piece in here that I'm very sensitive to because as we're working on the budget and we're trying to save the town residents as much money as we can. I don't want to force them to spend anything because
we're changing something here. There's one little thing that sticks out here and it's that all bad garbage shall be placed in suitable containers and not on the ground. And it's created an area of contention in my own mind because I think of the day after Christmas or the next pickup after Christmas. I've got
two, three bags just full of wrapping paper, the tubes, maybe those throw in the recycle. I don't want to get myself in trouble. Uh, but packaging from inside of toys and all these things that normally would just be uh non non-kitchen waste kind of garbage. And I would put it out in a bag and it would
go out inside the street and it would it would go out there not in a bin because the bins had the family event that we had all the garbage from that appropriately. You don't want that on the ground. So, I found that my my own lifestyle would wind up violating what we would be passing here. And I don't
think it would be so uncommon to think that other people would be looking at it that way. However, and this is Mark where I I I don't know, maybe we need to uh do a couple things here. One, I would like us to consider just pulling this one area of contention out so we can debate it a little bit further. Uh keep
the rest of it because this is a wonderful ordinance that we're passing. It does a lot of good. The thing that I'm a little confused about, Mark, and it's it's how we define we've got bulk ways to find garbage, rubbish, and refues. Garbage is defined as what I think we don't want on the ground. It's
the kitchen refues, animal or vegetative uh material. I'm I'm paraphrasing here, decaying and decomposing substances. These are the things you don't want in a bag on the ground. The fox will come and start eating it and ripping it apart. The change we're making says all bagged
garbage shall be in a container. Ref uh refues and rubbish are defined as what I'm thinking of as the paper, as the plastic, as the toys that we're throwing out. So, the way it's worded right now, Mark, I really would like your opinion on this. Am I making a mountain out of a
molehill? Because now all bagged garbage, it's the chicken bones and things like that that really should be in the bin. Not the paper, not the refues. Cuz it doesn't say all bad garbage, refugees, and rubbish. It just says garbage. So, we might be okay with
what my concern was. And I I I I think it does cover it. I think that's a very valid distinction that you brought up. Uh it does say bagged garbage. I think that we should capitalize the G so that it's shown that we're we're we're using
the definition and I think that that clarifies it 50%. Um when you look at receptacical requirements goes one step further. It says all garbage as defined. So, we
could say that because that makes you look at the definition and then you'll realize it is the decomposible kitchen waste that we're talking about. So, I think that if you wanted to add a capital to bagged garbage there
and put as defined, comma, I think it addresses your concern. I think that if we look at 106-6, which was what my concern was when we spoke and and Greg shared my my
my concern on that, I think that we ought to strike out bundled curbside because you don't bundle garbage as defined. You're not going to be bundling kitchen waste. So, I would suggest that that be a change. So that's a strike through a bundled curbside period and
now or uh bundled curbside period. Uh and similarly for the same reason why I said we should capitalize the G in garbage, we should capitalize the G in 106-6. And I think that with these
changes, we address my concerns and uh your concern, council. Uh and uh just for record, and I could give uh the clerk my handwritten markup because it really is not too bad actually. Uh it's
uh uh changing the word garb to 106-6 from a lowercase G and garbage to an uppercase. striking out the words for bundle curbside from 106-6. And then further down
uh uh in the second to last sentence of that section, make the same changes which would be all bagged capital G and garbage as defined, and I think it addresses all the concerns. It actually removes mine. Yes. Okay. So,
uh, when we do get to this point, if I would say make the motion as, uh, changed as we discussed and then have that second. Do I have to repeat the changes or just as we discussed? You could reference to what was discussed on
the record. Excellent. Okay. Thank you. Question mark. There was something else. I was going to probably address it at a later date. I like the the term household defined. Um, so basically would say what it should say is so you have a two family
house that counts as two households. That's going to be subject to interpretation. Household could just mean a house regardless of how many different families. What does it say that? Uh, section B 106-22. I'm just trying to think like we
all know what it means, but we're not going to be here forever. So what else? Just picking this up. Go all can be captain. Where is it? Um 106-22 bulk waste. Um let it be household is limited.
106-22 you said. Yeah. Unit. Does that make sense? East childhood unit. Yeah. Maybe you could add a word unit would help. Yeah. Somehow I just think they need a little tweaking. That's all. Just so that it's a multifamily. They are able to put out
each family is able to put out five bulk items. So if it says household unit, if it's a single family house, that's one unit. If it's a two family house, that's two units. Yeah, I think the only concern that I have with that is uh do
we have apartment complexes where they throw everything into a dumpster and does this impact? Nothing yet. No, we don't have that right now. Okay. So, appropriate word dwelling or is a unit. They probably both work. I guess the
same. Well, I use the word dwelling because it's very specific to a homeowner situation. Unit could be a unit and storage facility. Dwelling is very we can say each residential household. I mean, you've I I when I hear that
language, I think that if it's a two family house, there are two residents or two separate households. I don't know if that clarifies it to your satisfaction. Each residential household. I don't know. I just think there's going to be confusion at some point. I can see
I just that's why I just wanted two families will be unless you want to put for example two families, two units. I don't or you just say two units. I'll go back to it because it's tied to household unit. So it's now not what I'm thinking dwelling would be a household because dwelling right unit
I mean I think unit makes sense each household unit each household unit. It's pretty clear to me what that makes it a little clear. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So then that'll be the last change and that's going to be 106-22B. We're going to insert the word
unit between the word the word household and his. Yes, I think that clarifies it all. Good. We'll use the mayor's word. That's a good word. Thank you. I think it uh very quickly. All right. I think that's good. Okay. I'm going to move on
to uh the administrative officer. Okay. So, as you know, the Union County Board of Commissioners announced the capital projects uh grant and it's aimed at large scale community enhancement efforts. uh an application was submitted. The scope of the proposal
includes accessibility enhancements um such as parking lot improvements um entry egress improvements. Um what we would include in that would al would be uh parking maybe possibility of parking lot layout
restructuring the inclusion of handicap parking spots as well as parking spots for our combat wounded. Also included in the scope of the grant that was submitted is a walking path at Deario, re refurbishing the infield, replacing bleachers, and various other park
improvements. Uh installation of touchless water fountains for our parks and our facilities. Uh some of our facilities did just receive touchless water fountains, but there's others that, you know, we were unable to cover under that grant. So I'm hoping to include that for our parks as well as
for facilities that still have not received them. The project's also going to address existing hazards within the burough facilities such as uh right outside of the Sally port for the police department. The drain was broken. So, we need to get that fixed. There is a
slight drainage issue at one of the uh restrooms at at the park. Um the other issues that are going to be addressed through this are going to be some security issues. Whether it is the expansion of some of the safety net for
spectators at the ball field, but also a big part of that is going to be the installation of security cameras where we do not have any at the parks as well as the replacement of some of our old and dated uh security cameras to make them compliant. The total request for this non-matching
grant is $574,500. Right now, there's no award date, but we're hoping to hear something by June. And uh the scope of the project may have to change. We're we may have to prioritize based off of, you know, what the final award is that we're given
today. The borrower flag poles were installed. And I want to thank Keith Campanelli um as well as Captain Pastor Lieutenant Grady and Superintendent Woodshine. I probably butchered that again, didn't I? Grace parading the colors this
afternoon. And while we're talking about flags, I just wanted to let everyone know that uh council had agreed to doing a burrow flag initiative that has been since sent out to um our schools and other local organizations as well as posted on the burough website and social
media. We hope to have all the deadline for that project is June 2nd and we're hoping to announce a selected design in time for flag day on June 14th. Let's see. Uh DPW interviews have
been conducted pending uh requisite uh background checks. We have to have a resolution on for appointment for the next meeting. And I'd also like to take the time to thank OEM coordinator and fire chief Mike Sperry for his diligence and updating the burough's portion of the uh Union County hazard mitigation
plan. It's a very timeconsuming process and I just want to recognize his experience and dedication. Thank you, Mike. Absolutely. Thank you, Mike. And that is all I have. Thank you. I have to uh add that the the poles do look really nice, the three of them. When you're standing
across the street, there's symmetric symmetry. It It looks nice. So, I'm looking forward to uh what comes of our uh flag contest. Next for council consideration is an ordinance for public hearing and adoption for ordinance 2025-4, calendar
year 2025, ordinance to establish a cap bank pursuant to NJSA 484-45.14. Okay. The purpose of this ordinance is to establish a cap bank in New Jersey. Establishing a cap bank via ordinance allows municipalities to increase their
budget appropriations beyond the 2.5 cola limit to the statutory permitted 3.5% and to bank any unused portion for future years. Is there a motion to open the floor for public comment on this ordinance only?
Motion made by Councilman Moro, seconded by Councilman Fenistrala. All in favor? Does anyone have anything to say on this ordinance and this ordinance only? Please come forward and state your name and address. Okay, seeing no one, I'd like a motion to close the floor for public
comment on this ordinance only. Motion second. Motion by by Councilman Scary, seconded by Councilman Mora. All in favor? I roll call. Okay. Is there a motion to approve ordinance
2025-04 for adoption? Motion. Uh motion made by Councilman Phil and Estrella, seconded by Councilman Mara. Roll call. Sorry. Councilman Bole, yes. Councilman Finella, yes. Councilman Mororrow, yes. Councilman Piper, yes.
Council Scarice, yes. And Councilman Jer is excused. Next up, we have resolution 25-120 um to read the budget by title only for public hearing. Sir, a motion to approve resolution 25-120 to read budget by title only for
public hearing. Motion second. Motion made by Councilman Moro, seconded by Councilman Scarice. All in favor? I. Next up, we have resolution 25-121 adoption of the 2025 municipal budget. Is there a motion to open the floor to
the public for the 2025 budget hearing? Motion. Second. Motion made by Councilman Finestro, seconded by Councilman Morrow. Does anyone have anything to say on this ordinance and this ordinance
only, please come for or the budget, the adoption of the budget? Okay, seeing no one, is there a motion to close the floor to the public? Motion second. A motion made by Councilman Skiri, seconded by Councilman
Marorrow. Is there a motion to approve resolution 25-121, adoption of the 2025 municipal municipal budget? Motion second. Motion made by Councilman Finch, seconded by Councilman Marorrow. Uh he's
you're on a roll tonight. Roll call. Councilman Bole. Yes. Councilman Finrella, yes. Councilman Mora, yes. Councilman Piper, yes. Councilman Sces, yes. Counciloman Gerardo Perno is excused. Next for council consideration is a
consent agenda consisting of resolutions 25-122 through 25-130. Please be advised that resolution 25-129 has been amended to remove the two from the designated redevelopers title. It will now read Kennallorth Corporate Property Urban
Renewal LLC. Is there a motion to approve the amended amendment to the resolution 25-129 as read by the clerk? Motion. Second. Oh, motion made by Councilman Piper, seconded by Councilman Scurice.
All in favor? I Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion. Motion made by Councilman Scurry, seconded by Councilman Piper. Roll call. Resolutions 25-122 through 25-130 have
been approved by one motion. All items will be reported individually and in a minute. Councilman Bole, yes. Councilman Finistella, yes. Councilman Mororrow, yes. Councilman Piper. Yes. Councilman Scarice. Yes. And Councilman Gerard Cora is excused.
Next for council consideration is the or an ordinance for introduction 20250 amending chapter 106 garbage rubbish refuge and recycling. I would like to make a motion to amend a few sections of this ordinance. Section
106-6 receptical requirements to remove the last three words that read or herbicide. uh later on the next page or the last new sentence I'll say here where we say all bad garbage we'd like that changed
or motion to change it to capitalize the G so it align with the definition add a comma words as defined another comma and leave the rest as is under section 106-22 paragraph B the word unit to be
inserted After the second word reading each household new word unit, did you change the lowerase G to a capital in garbage 1066? Yes. Okay. I apologize, Miss. Okay. So, that's a
motion to move as amended. Correct. Correct. I'll second it. Okay. Motion. All in favor? I Okay. Is there a motion to approve
ordinance 2025-05 on introduction? Motion. Second. Motion made by Councilman Street. Seconded by Councilman Bole. Roll call. Councilman Bole. Yes. Councilman Finella. Yes. Councilman Mororrow. Yes.
Councilman Piper. Yes. Councilman Scarice. Yes. Councilman Girardano. Chriso is excused. Ordinance 2025-05 will be scheduled for public hearing and adoption at the June 4th, 2025 council meeting at 6 p.m. and it will be published with the corrections. I'll
give you the uh my hand up as meeting. Thank you. Okay. At this time, I'd like a motion to open the floor to the public. Motion second. Motion made by Councilman Piper. I want to count seconded by
Councilman Finesta. Does anyone have anything to say for the good and well-being of the Barrow? Please come forward and state your name and address. Brian Evans, 46 North 14th Street. So, I wanted to just address today. So, I'm going to be entering the uh flag
competition. Great. I wanted to get some feedback from town council administrative stuff. So, I have a few copies here. So, I could uh have someone brought creative talking today. Perfect. So, if we go to the uh kind of second page in here, I'll just give you
a quick outline of what I'm going to discuss tonight. And for the post, I have these that we peruse afterwards. Just wanted to give a brief overview kind of who I am. Uh then I'll just quick talk really quick about what are kind of these five flag guidelines
that this association called NAVA the North American Vexal Association Vexalology is a study of flags and then I'm going to show you guys kind of some early kind of concepts I have and I wanted to get feedback on those for how we kind of present it. So just a little
bit about me if we go to the next slide in front of you. I'm Brian Evans. I work as a director of design for a consulting firm. Um, specifically like digital design. I'm not I'm not an engineer. This is a here. I'm a member of the North American
Vexological Association. So, very deep interest in flag. Some very nerdy aspect about my life. Also a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology. So, you the next slide. I think there's five very specific guidelines when we think about the design of a good flag for communities. I think the number one is
you really want to keep it simple. You want to be able to see it far away. You want to be able to, you know, distinguish it blocks and blocks away. I think the second aspect is you want to use meaningful inspiration from the historic and the the values of the community. The next aspect is you only
want to use two or three basic colors. You don't want to have five, six different colors. You don't want it to to look uh too verbose. You don't you want it to be very kind of focused in orientation towards it. The next aspect is you don't want necessarily any lettering or seals on your flag. Since
it is meant to be viewed from afar, you're not really going to be able to read those lettering in the seals when you do it. So, you want really simple shapes. And that's why you see that as a common pattern with some of the best designed national flags. Last part is you want it to be uh distinctive. You want to be able to tell it apart from
other flags. So, we go to the next page. We have some really great history in our town to bring into a flag. You know, we have one of the first Supreme Court justices in the US, John J. He owned a 60acre property in Kennorth. You had a hill in Kennallorth used as a beaconing station for General Washington's army as
the British uh you know were kind of coming towards Morristown and they would light torches and shoot cannons off. You have uh you know the the kind of the Nitski like designing the actual boulevard which is a really big center of commerce for our town. So we have a lot of really interesting elements to go
off of. As you can see on this page, I do have a depiction of the J family code of arms. And then we do have the literary society that's uh was used to found the town name, but the town worth Castle was depicted in our seal. So, if you go to the next page, you'll see our first kind
of flag design concept. This one is my favorite, but I I do want to kind of hear your guys feedback on it. There's a torch at the top that uh is meant to represent the tank kettle heel where they would beacon the uh uh you know the American soldiers from the British
arriving. If you look there's also a kind of color with a navy a yellow and a navy band. Now the middle one is actually meant to represent the boulevard. The north and south blue stripes would represent the north and south side of the town. And then we have
two stars on the bottom aspect. So those are taken from John J's family code of arms, but it could also be meant to represent the left one being the past of the town in terms of the great service that has been taken by, you know, the veterans of this town. Also the kind of
commitment of those to dedication to the town and the right one being the the commitment that our town makes through educational opportunities for students and mentorship. So this way you have a really kind of complete aspect of the history and values. If you go to the next
page, you'll see several variations on this. The first one slimming down that middle stripe representing the boulevard. The second option leaves out that aspect of the north south boulevard one and brings a bigger focus that tin kettle hill aspect. And then the uh
fourth option there just kind of remixes the elements to have a more visually interesting kind of diagonal element. So, I'm going to show go through a second concept, but I just wanted to pause and see if any of the members of the uh you know, mayor, council, administrative staff had any feedback. Well, I like that they're the school
colors. Um, it's another element. I got to say I'm just impressed that somebody like lives in the diversity of talent here is amazing. Uh, I personally uh uh I like the color schemes you have. I'm with the mayor on that. It
represents the county fairs in my mind. Uh the tin kettle hill is just it gives me goosebumps to think of that we can have a historical aspect like that here. I love your idea of dividing the north and the south with the boulevard and representing that in the flag and those stars are excellent symbolism to me. Uh
I really like what you've put together here. I find the hardest thing here choosing between the options because they they kind of incorporate this symbolism that it's really shocking to me uh in a good way. Well done just putting this together.
I I have a question. So on the first one, the flag concept one, is there some way that we could incorporate that uh uh tin kettle hill um perhaps in the center of
the of the uh yellow stripe. Maybe absolutely. Um, we'll have to kind of figure out how to do it, but we could I think um the beacon is meant to represent the uh the aspect of of like what happened at Tim Kennel Hill. Okay. Um but uh we can look to kind of create
a variation that has that and I can put that in with the submission. I like the tie into history. I didn't know there was a battle actually in town. So it'll be a marker or something. New Jersey does a terrible job of you know of the history. So much history has
happened. you don't capitalize on. Yeah. So, so from my research, Tim Kell used a beaconing station. So, I believe the battle actually happened a little farther over in like the Springfield or region, but there was a battle in 1780 with the the you know colonial forces
facing against some Hessen forces from what I read. It was a minor skirmish. I didn't necessarily still count. It's pretty interesting. Get on the map. The battle of Connecticut.
I mean, I like the diagonal yellow visually. I like I like the way that looks visually. I I could see that flying and seeing that angled stripe that it looks like a Caribbean country.
I don't know the flag up. It is somewhat similar. I guess you could say that about all of them, couldn't you? Trinidad's flag is black and red. So I don't think you'd get confused for some similar did a great job. So let me go to the
next concept. um because this one may keep some elements we're kind of familiar with in the town seal without actually putting a town seal on the flag. So this is meant to represent uh the Penworth Castle which is the existing kind of seal of the town. So in this case I I made the symbol a little
simpler at least to live on a flag where it's no longer like a direct picture of the castle. So it has a lot of similar symbology. I mean we'll still be able to have at that chevron the representation of Tim Kettle Hill. We still have the representation of those two stars, but
we'll also get to keep the castle and kind of have that element there. And I've also provided a few variations if you go to the next page. Now, if you look on the next page, I've tried to bring in some other elements to discuss our kind of colonial past. In this case, I've made a K with 13 stars to kind of
represent the uh, you know, kind of role in the uh, Revolutionary War. Additionally, I've brought the castle in by just adding a stripe of a castle ramp park to the top. And then um in those options, there's also a white line under the castle ramp parks to still represent
the boulevard, the north and south of town. And that middle option has the beacon. And then um in the third option, it's very similar to the kind of north south and boulevard aspect, but I've actually made the it's a little hard to see, but I did make the stripe a little darker to be similar to the gold around
the seal that we have today. I like your concept ones better than twos. Okay. Just personal opinion. I kind of like concept. I agree. Yeah. I like for the council.
I would add maybe something else. Yeah. Once I get them in, I'm going to present them to uh the entire governing body and we'll go through them. And then just on the last page, I wanted to show you just some other visual inspirations that I took in while I was
doing it. These are not necessarily my favorites, but just wanted to show you guys what was kind of left on the cutting room floor. There's a few options that have decay mixed in with the the other symbols that I brought in. You know, one we even did like 13 stripes and 13 stars on it. So, I just wanted to bring those to attention if
there was any preference towards any of those. Interesting. Looks good. Cool. So, thank you guys for your feedback and uh yeah, I'm excited. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Excellent. Thank you.
The stripes are maybe in the castle and thank you for the history lesson, too. Had to do some research for this one. Yeah. No, that's great. Thanks. Okay. Anyone else from the public? Okay. Seeing no one, I'd like a motion
to close the floor for public discussion. Second. Motion made by Councilman Bole, seconded by Councilman Skirice. All in favor? Okay. Is there anything else? Any and any other discussions that anyone would
like to have? Um, I have a question. remember we uh back in September there was this lead paint inspection. We had a $17,000 grant and I kind of through the board health and I just never heard enough else about it. So I don't know, you know, we talk about things and it's
like you never get no feedback. I don't know. I I believe they were we had to apply for an extension on that. I'm not sure what the status is. I don't know if we've heard back on that or not yet. I can check with them tomorrow. Okay. This is something I was looking through old notes on with the natural.
I got something um maybe Paulie might be able to help. Um I thought I stumbled upon I could have swore it's kind of worth uh youth police youth academy. Is that true? Is it open or is it summer youth academy? I was going to put something in
your but right now it happens after school. So the next council meeting um probably the first of next month I'll put this up there um police offers junior youth academy every year uh signups all that will be uh fully posted
with the time counties. It will be a $50 fee this year to help u eliminate some of the uh fees that we have. We uh we need to do what we can to try to make sure we give the kids good opportunity to go to different places.
uh that cost money to uh bus service to take these kids. So predominantly all those funds will go to those things. This is a thing we do every year. So that's that'll be done at the end of this year. So by uh next first council meeting of our right sure you will have
that before the year. Thank you. Uh I have another item. Um is there executive? I don't know if this should be an executive or not. Um, maybe I should ask Mark before I bring it up. The issues of the VFW
noise. Does it matter? Uh, yeah. I don't think we should discuss that. Okay. I would like to discuss it tonight if I guess afterwards. That'd be appropriate. That's the Do you want she want to enter into an executive session?
If if he wants to have some sort of discussion about Well, as long as every other We'll do that at the very end. Is there anything else? You know, take care of that first. Okay. Okay. Is there a motion to uh enter executive session to discuss attorney to
discuss attorney client privilege? Motion on this show. Is there other business? Just going to say happy mother's day to Thank you. Wait, I got I got something on. I got you, Joe. This time it's national uh teachers week and nurses
week. All right. All right. You rubbed off on me, Joe. I got to hide this. Is he going to Is he going to say? Oh, that's funny. Joe, don't say anything. Okay. Excellent. So, motion made by Councilman Mo,
seconded by Councilman Bole. Okay, we have need to enter into executive session. So, thank you everyone. Heat up here. [Music]
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