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I am making this announcement in compliance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 public law 1 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 kenner for the year 201225.
The Burrow clerk has posted a true copy of the schedule on the bulletin board located at the front entrance of Burrow Hall and has mailed true copies of the 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 meetings act have been satisfied in regard to this meeting. Please stand for the pledge 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. Mayor here, Councilman Bo. Councilman Finella here. Councilwoman Gerardano here. Councilman Laura here. Councilman Piper here. And Council Scur
here. You have I'd like a motion to approve the minutes of August 20th, 2025 and also the executive session of August 20th, 2025. Second motion. Motion made by Councilman
Piper. Seconded by Councilman. Yes. Council Fin. Council. Yes. Council Moro. Yes. Council Piper. Council. Yes. Um, good evening everyone. I have uh received a lovely letter uh from a
resident that I'd like to share um regarding our police department to dear Mayor Carloich. In June of 2025, our daughter attended the Kennorth Police Department Youth Police Academy that was operated and coordinated by members of the Kennorth Police
Department. This is the second time that she attended this program and we would like to inform you that the officers with the Kennorth Police Department did an excellent job again in the planning, organizing and implementing the entire week-long training. This is such a
unique and beneficial way for the Kennorth Police Department to interact with teenage group in the burrow and to provide them a different perspective. The program is enhanced from last year's program with different experiences throughout the week. It is our understanding that the following
individuals put in a great deal of effort and should be acknowledged for hosting such a great week of training. Chief of Police Paul Campanelli, Detective Sergeant Brian Pikton, Detective Detective Brett Byron, Detective Leo uh Felipe, Patrolman Ray
Fino, patrolman Anthony Scarice, Sergeant Joseph Scorzo, and patrolman Robert Ruger along with all the members of the Kennorth Police Department that had to offer support of this program for leading up to and during the week while maintaining their daily assignments and
operations for of the department. Thank you, Mayor Carloish, for supporting this program. Thank you to the members of the Kennorth Police Department and their efforts. Great job, Chief. Thank you very much. I know when Angelina did the police academy, she loved it. It's such
a great uh unique opportunity that uh the kids in the barrel get to enjoy and as always, the department does an outstanding job. So, I just want to say thanks. Thank you. Uh, finance report. Council moral. No report.
Wait a second. Okay. Department of Public Works Council. Uh, the DPW gate has been closed temporarily. DPW has had two separate incidents where residents dropped off hazardous waste without permission. Cow work at General does not accept
hazardous waste. Union County does. Residents can access the yard by calling the DPW mainline. Uh residents who have their regular trash pickups on Tuesdays and Fridays on the west end of town are scheduled for our next bulk pickup on Friday, October 10th. Residents in that
garbage zone may put out five bulk items for pickup plus scrap metal. Uh the staff activity during August of 2025, the department incurred the following time off. 68 short-term disability hours, 56 sick hours, 286
vacation hours, 16 personal hours, and 32 hours of no paid time off. During August, the department incurred 250 hours of overtime. And the recurring bills for August have not yet been received. That's all I have.
Well, the first thing you're talking about was the Friday drop off. That's what's No, it's not cancelled. It's just that residents are sneaking in and dropping these things off and it's it's an incurred cost in the world that we had
before take hazardous waste. I'm just fortunate that you and want to help us out. So, we're doing this to kind of make sure that this doesn't happen and that whoever's bringing in everyone is still welcome in the ER. We ask them to
call before they come in so we can uh so random Friday I come with a TV set cuz Friday's problem, right? Yeah. So, so I call before I get there like that's what we're going on Fridays if that means run out of the recycling center which we built last year that
entrance gate will always be open. It's just that if someone wants to come in Monday through Thursday. Oh, okay. It's for that reason because there one incident or they did it during lunchtime and one of my guys asked him
not to drop it off to the office and he stuck around our shed and dropped it off as the statement of my employees. So, all right. So, so the yard sign stays up Friday drop off time. Yeah. It's the Monday through Thursday call ahead. Okay. Sounds good. And what about
those certain Saturdays? There's certain drop off. That'll still be open. It's the second Saturday of every month drop off because it's the same thing center. They enter off 14 Street. Okay. Good. Department of Public Safety, Councilman Finisha.
Thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Uh for the month of August, the Cons Police Department responded to,68 calls for service and 226 911 calls. There were 375 hours of overtime for the month. OT breakdown is
uh as follows. 129 hours schedule patrol time overtime 94 and 1/2 hours of dispatch overtime 8 hours DB call in 16 hours of DB investigation 9 and 1/2 hours SWAT call out 2 hours patrol
investigation 8 hours arrive program 3 hours municipal court 105 hours of carnival detail police department completed 60 hours of training issued 348 traffic summones and had eight arrests for the month.
There were zero sick days used and zero sick occurrences. There were zero on the job incident injuries. Uh Kendler Police Department received 229 flock hot list alerts from the stationary cameras and cameras continue to provide an excellent
service protecting the burrow. Message from the chief campelli. On August 5th, Kennorth had its national night out at Kennorth Police Department. public came out in full force. We displayed several of our police and military vehicles to the public for children to inspect and
provided other Union County resources for information on county programs. On August 11th through the 16th, Kennel Police Department assisted providing security at the firemen's car. No significant incidents to report. August
14th, Kennaw Police Department responded with several offers to the erect department upon the day camp at Harding School for a water balloon fight. The children put up a valiant effort and I want to call it was a a draw. Police Department is out conducting
various traffic enforcement details throughout the mall. Residents are asked to park legally uh in legal parking spots. Officers are out enforcing parking. Please get in touch with Kennorth Police Department to report a complaint or nuisance. We can't help if
we don't know about it. Uh September 11th ceremony will be held at Bow Hall at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome. And lastly, um, school will be opening September 8th. So, if everyone could be mindful of the times and the dates
school is in session to make sure that, uh, you know, they drive carefully because there are children out there, they may stray and, uh, there's always parents there to watch, but things do happen. So, uh, that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman. Piling zoning,
Councilman Scarice. Thank you, Mayor. Um, no reports are there. You'll have them for next meeting. Oh, two people, but no reports. Uh, recreation and fire. Um, Councilman Piper. Thank you, mayor.
Uh, the monthly report for the fire department in August. During the month of August, the fire department responded to 41 calls. During these incidents, the fire department traveled 91 miles and utilized 145 man hours. The fire
department rescue squad responded to 38 calls traveling 351 miles and utilized 171 man hours. During the month of August, fire department and the rescue squad include 20 hours of training, and the additional man hours in August were
257 administrative site 1,32, building maintenance 8, vehicle maintenance 2, national night out 51, and extra work details 259. So the total call calls for August were
79. Total miles traveled were 442 and the total man hours were 2,215. And that's all I have. Thank you, Councilman. Health, Education, and Welfare. Councilwoman Geodano Piser. Thank you, Mayor. I'll make up for the
two words. Uh the library, uh everybody, I'm sure, is aware they were closed for a couple of days. say replace all the flooring on the main level and it looks really great. I I didn't see it personally, but I got a video of
toddlers dancing and rolling around the new vinyl flooring. So, um the carpet was removed in the majority of the area. It looks great. Uh they're continuing with their traditional programs for children and adults, but there are a
couple of um special events. September 15th is donut decorating at 3:30. September 16th is read to a dog at 4:00. Um, and cursive writing, a new session is starting. It's really popular. It
starts September 30th through October 28th. Those are all for the kids. And we have an adult paint night Thursday, September 11th, starting at 6:30 for the board of education. Um,
we have, as Councilman uh Finishello said, school opens Monday, September 8th, and they're having a grand opening ceremony. Anybody that would like to attend at 6:00 to walk through rarely
and and see how beautiful the school um has been renovated, the addition, and how nicely it all flows together. So that is Monday, September 8th, 6 pm open to everybody. Mr. uh principal uh
Bonowski wanted me to point out that they will be expanding the preschool. We now will have five classrooms, two additional to the three that were existing. So we are able to serve 30
Kennaworth preschoolers in the Kenn in Harding School, not the um outsourcing some of the others. So, I think that's a great service because not only do are we able to service the preschoolers that
are Kennaworth residents, but they then go on from preschool through um elementary school and they get to know the school, the curriculum, and it's all co cohesive uh learning experience. So, that's really great. Um so, I believe
January they're going to have more open enrollment. So anybody's interested should get in touch with Harding School and uh the last is they are starting a strategic planning process. The first
session is October 8th, 6:30 at prayerly and they're really looking for community involvement, participants to uh voice their opinions, get involved about a strategic plan of goals and and things
we all want to achieve over the next 5 years. So, I urge anybody that's interested in getting involved to attend the meeting Wednesday, October 8th at 6:30 at uh St. Teresa's is having its first ever
annual golf classic. It will be October 29th, 7:30 a.m. start to 400 p.m. Uh it's at Galton Hill Golf Course. And let me see there is an email hsa
my yscs.org or you can call St. Theresa's school for more information but it's our first annual and it's a great fundraiser and I think it'll be a lot of fun. The health department um we do have the part-time
registar secretary position posted. It will close out on October 31st. Uh but Leyani is there until September 26. So we do have time to really give everybody the opportunity to apply that's
interested. And we did get a lot of applications already. So I urge whoever is interested um to go on the website and get more of the information on our website. Uh the seniors, we have the property tax relief anchor and state New
Jersey form. It's all in one now. It's on the burough website. The deadline is October 31st to file. You could either file online or print it and uh do it uh with paper. If you need any help, just
uh I'm sure give u administrator a call. But it really is very easy to do. So I urge everybody, there's still a lot of time. Uh like I said, the the deadline is October 31st. They have two really good lunch and
learns. September 9th is consumer fraud and September 30th is planning for life's what is. So I thought those would be great. 11:30 to 1 and they serve lunch during that time. And then two
special um activities is September 11th autumn wreath making and September 15th is an origami workshop. So uh there's a lot going on in town for the month of September. I urge everybody to get involved. That's all I have.
Thank you, Councilwoman Bur Engineer. Thank you, Mayor. Uh there's a couple of updates on some of the projects. Uh the road program for this year is going to be is actually being advertised this year. That's basically going to be the
remainder of Monroe. Uh I think we stopped at like 16th Street or 17th Street and that's going to continue uh to the end. Um the walking path, I believe last meeting we made a recommendation for uh an award uh to do the uh walking path around the Mario
Park. Uh the burough parking lots uh we're looking to advertise those in the next two weeks. Um which would include the uh a lot across the street, you know, the main burough parking lot alongside of the health department, the
police lot uh and the uh detective bureau lot. Um we would probably just bid them u bid them as alternates. So, you know, we don't know if we have enough money to do all of them, but uh we could bid a base and then do alternates. uh probably do the burrow parking lot as the base bid and
everything else as an alternate. Um the Wilshshire drainage project is like about 98% complete. There's a few little items they still have to come back and finish, but it's essentially completed. Uh we they'll come back in the next week or so and finish it up. Um and then
lastly, I just want to talk about, you know, the flooding issues we know going on in town. Um I know everybody's getting complaints. We probably get a call once a day, at least once a day from a resident complaining about the the drainage and the flooding and everything. And you know, listen, it's a
result of, you know, we had a bunch of heavy rains. Obviously, there's been a lot of a lot of issues in town. Um, and it's it's kind of broken into kind of two categories, right? There there's the storm source and then there's the streams. So, we have been looking at the storm source for a while. We know
there's a couple of areas that could that we can do something uh right now. putting together a list and we'll come back with a recommendation on what we think could be done. Uh there's a few spots where we know there's a couple of pipe restrictions and just those are easy to fix, right? Those are easy
fixes. Um there's also a couple of spots in town mainly over by like Coolage Roosevelt where there's catch basins that aren't connected to anything. They're just like dry wells, right? So you have catch basins, they're not connected. They don't have a discharge. they just go basically go into to a pit.
Um, and they're kind of useless. I mean, you know, anything more than like, you know, an inch of rain, they're going to fill up immediately and spill over. So, we're also looking at a few of those spots and see if there's a way to connect those into the storm source system, which will make them function a lot better. Uh, because again, like I
know a couple people called and said, "Oh my, you know, our street was flooded." And then when we looked on the map, we realized that those streets were where they just had these kind of seafage pits, uh, these catch bases that weren't connected. So they're we know they're going to be a problem and we think there's a few spots where we could
tie them in. Couple of spots are going to be a little more challenging. Just depends on what's the closest to soy we could connect to. Um and then you know then there's the stream issues. After the last big storm we went out and we did you know looked at a couple of areas. We got some complaints. So we
basically walked pretty much all the streams in town. And you know there's kind of two problems there. There's obviously a lot of these streams have gotten a lot of sediment over the years. Uh sediment's built up, uh vegetation, which which you know does uh cause a
little bit of a problem. But the bigger problem, you know, probably like, you know, 80% of the problem is all the obstructions that have been built over the years along these streams. I mean, there's foot bridges, there's sheds built right up to the side of the stream. There's decks, there's swimming
pools, there's fences, and you know, these are really probably the biggest problem along these stream corridors, not so much the sediment. Uh, you know, there's, again, as I mentioned before, like there's limitations. All we could do based on D requirements, right? We
just can't go in and start dredging streams and making them wider. D will allow streams to be cleaned. Uh, that's something that can be done. We could take the sediment out. We could take the obstructions, take the vegetation out. But again, I think the bigger problem is the obstruction. So, you know, cleaning
the streams would help somewhat, but I think it's it's kind of throwing money away unless you get all the obstructions removed at the same time because just cleaning the streams is going to have a very minimal impact. If you clean the streams and remove the obstructions, be a much more significant improvement. And you'll actually probably would see
physically see, you know, improvement of with with some of these larger storms. You clean the streams out, it might help in a few spots. It's not going to have really have a significant impact. So, uh, you know, I think it's a it's again, it's a more of a global problem. You know, um, everybody wants the streams
clean. They say, "Oh, there's a lot of sediment." But again, I think that's a smaller part of the problem. I I think there would have to be I I believe there'd have to be a commitment to remove the obstructions or significant obstructions which are really causing the majority of the problem.
Tony, when you were out looking and if you see or saw something, would it be appropriate to point it out to that homeowner? Uh either something formal so documenting what you said cuz maybe
they're not aware. And if they can, maybe they can move whatever. Um because they're probably the some of the houses that are getting flooded. So if they realize how they can help also help themselves.
Well, on that on that I'm sure you answer that one. Thank you. I think that's a great idea. Right. Uh the friendly letter, right, have an obstruction here. I would be curious, was this permanent work? Did we were permit on something that maybe we shouldn't have? And if it's non permited work, you predate the need for a permit
to, you know, if you put a fence up in 1980, you would okay, but now it's not. Um, so I think a little bit of understanding around that, but I don't think it prevents anybody from a friendly letter. You're shouldn't be or this may be the cause of some of your may think about moving it.
Yeah, probably a lot of these do predate the rules, right? Um, the DP rules, they they change all the time and from the the the rules from the 1980s, the rules today are night and day. I mean, the DP rules have just they they've evolved and they they become um, you know, uh,
massive, right? So, there's a yeah, there's a really good chance some of these were built probably prior to, you know, some of the rules uh, back in the day, the rules were more lenient. Um, so yeah, there's a good chance a lot of them are were probably would be grandfathered. Uh yeah, I mean if if
there's a desire to do that, we could basically identify them and do like I said a friendly letter to the homeowners just pointing out, you know, why it would be a good idea to remove these, what problems they're causing. Uh you know, we we've we've done that before. We did that probably 10 years ago along
Wilshshire when everybody was dumping grass and debris and we sent out a letter and said, "Hey, you know, this is what's causing why you shouldn't be doing this." And uh I think a lot of it stopped. I mean, I think it did. So yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, if that's something that the counselor would like you to do, we can certainly do that. But,
well, especially if somebody's calling and complaining and if you open them up their site and you say, "Well, you have this, you have that." And then follow up with letters. So, it's documented so it doesn't look like you're being nonresponsive and then maybe they could
do something to help themselves as well. Sure. Yeah. I mean, again, we I mean, it might even be better just maybe do it with everybody know to just go along in every every obstruction, maybe have to let that homeowner know rather than just base it on a complaint cuz, you know, you get one or two complaints, that's
one or two homes. There's probably 50 homes that are that are pro causeing a problem. You know, I like I like the idea. I want to be a little bit more proactive, though. Um, I think if you're walking in the streets and see something, say something kind of a thing. That's fine. Uh, but I know Greg, you and I have exchanged some emails. You know, the flooding is localized in a
few areas, mostly flood zones in town. I did my own little research, Mark, and I'm going to have to ask you to validate some of this, but it looks like other towns have created maintenance programs where they codify the D rules as part of
their own code and then set up maintenance service that if a creek runs through your own property, it is your responsibility for the D rules to clean it. But they have set up times for their TPW to come out and collect that vegetative waste. And it's specific to spring cleanup kind of a thing. It puts
the whole town on notice that everybody should be cleaning out a creek that runs through their property. Indeed, people say that you should do this and we're going to set it up so we collect vegetative waste the next day that week or in those zones. I'd like to think of other things like this that we could do. So what I don't know, would you guys be
able to sort of brainstorm a little bit? maybe look at what other towns have done to address flooding because it is out of our control. D says what needs to be done and we have to follow those rules. But there's probably something that we can do to help the residents. You know, we kicked around the idea of water thirsty trees put up in town eastern
spots along these creeks. Would that do anything? If we did 10 little things, could we actually make an impact? So, I'm wondering, can we can we get together and start talking about that and then come back with a plan? The other the other issues are that I'm seeing throughout town, not just where
Tony was mentioning are people are expanding their backyards over our creeks with concrete structures and wooden structures. There's one guy who has a wooden structure. You can see the markout for the survey beyond it and now
it's failing. It's lally dumping like the fill into our trees. So that stuff I borrowed to Tony and he's aware of it. I think we should we should address this with the code enforcer. I mean, if people have built into the creek, they need to remove that. I mean,
not only for their own flooding, but everyone else around them. That's not that's not acceptable. I think we need to get behind get ahead of this. So, start conversations over the months, the last few months. I think letters need to go out. I'm I'm
going to give Anthony a call and see if he can't start working on this when he catches up. We have been talking about I mean me and Greg have We have to do something about it. Yeah. I I mean, Bill, you're right. It is a cumulative effect. It's not just one thing. Like I was saying, just
cleaning the stream isn't enough. You got to clean the stream. You got to remove the debris. Like you said, cleaning the stream is going to be costly. So, if we're going to spend the money to do that, which I think we all would be willing to do, I think the residents also need to do their share as
well, so that we don't just spend money and for no, you know, and get no benefit from it. Yeah. It's got to it's got to be a global program. It's got everyone's got to be on board. Yeah. Absolutely. Because if building into the stream with concrete structures, this No,
it just can't be. What happens if the homeowner refuses to do anything though? Well, that'll be up to the code enforcement. I don't know that they can refuse without being fined. So, I mean, obviously, they can do whatever they want to do, but fines would follow. And
I mean, they're they're at fault. They are at fault. So, go take things apart. No. No. How do you feel somebody? Why the other I think it does depend on what type of stream it is and how it's
positioned. I mean it may be if it's a stream that's in someone's property and it's not a stream that's town thorough property. You know those are different circumstances. Do we have streams like that that although our although the streams are on private property which which is another uh opens up another can of worms in
order if if the borrower to go in and say we're going to clean the stream we would need permission from every single property owner. like I don't think we could just go in there and start doing that work. So now you got to get every property owner to give you permission. There's liability issues. There's insurance. I mean it's just there's a
lot of access going in sort of issues. There are some strings on the tax map where they're labeled on the tax map drainage which means that they're owned by the for example the one that was char.
That's one that brought that to my attention. But like Tony said, like the one he's saying property that's what is that Tony? That's uh off of Yeah. But an easement doesn't necessarily mean the bur owns it. Those easements go all the way back and
they're on the original file maps. Like some of the file maps in in um Kennallorth, you know, these subdivisions were created like 1910, 1920. And we did go back and look and there's no description of what they're for. They just say drainage easement. And that that can have a lot of different meanings. That could just mean
that you're all the property owners have to be aware that they can't build into into that drainage course, right? So yeah, it doesn't necessarily mean that the brother owns it because there's no we did some research. We pulled some D's. We tried to figure out, you know, if what these are for
the only the only reference is to the original file map. Uh most of the D's don't even reference it. So it's basically my opinion is that when those subdivisions were subdivisions were created you know 100 years ago the easements were put there so the property
owners when they bought those lots they were aware that there's a drainage course and you're not supposed to encroach into it. Um so yeah so it it it the borrowers always taking the position that those streams are on private property. I believe they are also I don't know that we could research it
back further. We we know we didn't search all the way back like 100 years. We we pulled the file maps. They're easy to get from the courthouse. Um but without doing a really extensive search to see if there's actually some description in a deed that would specifically say that that was a an
easement to the burrow of Kennallorth. I don't think you're going to find that because they only show up on the file maps. Um and all it says is drainage easement. So um you know I don't think I don't believe the board owns those. I think they're they're still on private property. Um we're not even sure if that
easement means a burrow could even go in there, right? We don't know like it doesn't say to see if there's a recorded ement, right? Because it doesn't say, you know, drainage easement to the burrow count can award for the purpose of maintaining blah blah blah. It just says drainage
easement. That can mean a 100 things. So we can't assume that the burrow has the permission has the ability and the permission to go into there just on the fact that the drainage has been shown on on a file map. Unless Mark unless you you think different. No, I agree with you. Yeah. Can I just
ask a question? How many of these obstructions do you think exist in in these streams? 50 probably 50 or so. I mean there's a lot of them that much because it would seem to me and I don't want to create extra work, right? But with by reviewing aerial or satellite
photographs, we could determine when the obstruction wasn't there and make a determination. Sure, it's particularly relevant if it's something that didn't exist 5 years ago when we know we had permitting and then if someone puts something up during that interm period of time, then we could
take action with respect to forcing them to take it down. Yeah, we could by the aerial photographs. My I think a lot of them I've been there for a while. A lot of these fences, I mean, every single property has a fence or a shed or something, you know? So, it's almost
like every property has something. I mean, there's probably no I thought you meant like bridges and stuff. No, no, I'm talking even a fence. D even regulates how you're supposed to build a fence on a flood zone. Um, it has to be a certain amount of openings. It can't be so close to the stream. Like, they
it's it's clearly defined in their regulations. And we also have our own flood plane management regulation which we're required to have by D regulation. So like Bill said, we already have our flood plane ordinance in place that we can enforce also. Um we don't have to go
to D for enforcement. We can enforce that oursel and we're actually required to have that by by D rules. Um question is right when do they build it? If it predates the ordinance then they're say well we're going to file it. But again, I think there's just a responsibility in
other residents to to to step up and even though they're not required to remove it or maybe they're not in violation. You know, if they want flooding to stop, then everybody, I think, has to do their part whether they're in violation or not. Some people are probably in violation. Some people may not be. I mean, they may have a shed
that's been there for 50 years, right? Uh the D regulations, I don't think they only came into play like 19. Well, I think it's just a question of if people if they want to help the flooding, they have to get on board. Yeah. It's it's everybody has
doing what they can. Correct. Absolutely correct. So, okay. All right. I got ahead. Continue. Continue. Finish. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I didn't mean to cut you off. Yeah. No problem. All right. Um I'm familiar. I want to mention some hot
spots and some of the other things. I'm not exactly Some of them might be Greg's turf, your turf. so on. Um I visually saw down um talking about that waterway basically starts from Brley Field which used to be a lake and runs underground most of the way comes out maybe is
exposed by where Flexi van was goes underground a little bit on Sixth Street. Okay. Then comes out on the surface again and then goes basically uh between Brasser and was that Penrook or No, sure. Yeah, Brasser. uh comes through here and um yeah, it runs along the way out to
basically no magan. Um there definitely is obstruction just natural stuff um woods and stuff and it's very deep. No resident can get in there. It would be hazardous then for anyone to try and do it themselves. So someone did put concrete in in a pipe
over there. Yeah. Well, that that so we we looked at that. I think Tony was on site. My friend, Dave and I were on site. It was an actual drainage concrete pipe, reinforced concrete pipe that a
contractor sealed off with concrete. It wasn't done by a resident, wasn't legally. Someone paid a contractor or it could have been a DW, but we don't have any records of it. But we did, but someone's basically very professionally
sealed off that. And that's what that was. We don't know whether it who it was. We don't know who it was or how they but somebody went in there and did that. Somebody went in there just sealed off and did a very nice job doing very smooth very straight
and uh purpose maybe to prevent water flowing towards their residence. I mean why would they fix those? Because I can't find it. Okay. Um, bringing that up, Tony, some people think that what we did on uh what
by will share is going to make things worse. Maybe I was under the assumption it would help things. Maybe it's going to again this is I talked to the contractor. Yes. He explained everything to me. It's not a cureable. I mean, we know that that's not going to solve all the drainage problems over there. It's going
to help some of the smaller storms. Did they put those flaps in that they were supposed to put in? Yeah, there that was one of the items they had on back order. They have to put it in this week. But yeah, so what happens the problem with that particular area is the stream is higher than the
intersection of Brass or Mullshot. It's actually if you stand in the intersection, the top of the stream is up higher. So when the stream overflows, it just flows right down to the intersection and it floods the intersection. It's not when it's overflowing, the pipes are searchcharging. So the discharge pipe in
the stream when the stream rises, the the catch basin is lower than the bank of the stream. So the water is searchcharged. So the idea is that the one when the but the the the good part is a stream rises and goes down very quickly. It rises quickly, it goes down quickly. So the idea is when the stream
rises, we have a flout gate will close, prevent the water from back discharging or searchcharging into the intersection. We have a storage pipe that'll temporar temporarily store it. When the stream resides, the gates open, everything drains out. Again, it's not a cure all.
um if the stream over tops and nothing's going to solve that. That's just that's game over, right? So, um there's no cure. There's no cure all to these flooding problems. There's things we can do to improve it. Um but, you know, short of, again, I mentioned before,
short of the core of engineers implementing the Growway uh you know, Rowway Basin uh flood control project, that would solve problems. Oh, it's too bad the federal government cut our funds. Yeah. So, yeah, exactly. They never funded it.
Um I think that's been around what, like 10 years? Well, once funded and then they were funds were pulled. Yeah. It's um that's been around for like at least 10 years. Remember, I've been a while. Um so, it's back on ice. Well, yeah. I mean, and again, I' I've told people, look, you know, contact
your your your representatives, you know, your Congress people, see if they tell you you want this funded, you know, um because that's really what would solve these problems. Oh, it'll totally solve. That's a great solution. Yeah. Tony, um, in that same area, I
don't I think it's the county's problem. Um, is there who do we contact? Who could they contact to? Maybe they can give a heads up to the residents when they decide to like spray for mosquitoes. Um, cuz the residents seem to be getting caught off guard and probably not good
stuff to breathe. Is that along the stream or just along the county property or Yeah, I say the back end probably most affected the most if rain back there which I'm sure it desperately needs. But a lot of times they're just sitting there all a sudden they don't realize it till it's already coming in our house. Right. Right.
So because of mosquito control, don't they have to send a letter or something? Yeah. Residents are claiming they're not getting a heads up. So um how do we redeem it? They uh can we contact the county or we have a number we could give? Yeah, I mean we could they got to do it. You don't know when they're going to do
it, right? Right. Yeah, they usually don't. They usually just come out and do it, but we can Yeah, we can contact them. I know it's, you know. Yeah. Okay. Um, let me see. So, you were saying that the residents are responsible for works and all those?
Yeah, they're they're they're on again, they're not on burough property. They're on private property. So, you know, when something's on your own property, it's your maintenance, not the burrows. That's one of the questions I was going to ask, too. when we were looking into the whole Trenton app and by the Cranford app,
some some families, some houses have fences before the roof and then most of them have it after the road. So, it's all it's on all of their property. Yeah. I mean, if if the if the if your property's in a flood flood zone and
it's on, you know, your fence has to meet a certain specification, right? Um they got solid fences aren't permitted. They have to have a certain amount of openings. I forget what the number is, but it has to be an open fence where water can flow through it. So, if you
have like a vinyl fence or a board on board fence or a chain link fence with the slats in it, it it it's not going to it doesn't meet DP rules. Yeah. And that causes obstructions, you know, when you have them especially have them right up to the bank. Uh it's just it's it's causing it's like causing a dam. It's
like creating a dam along the stream. I just didn't know all the homeowners on Trent is it was actually their property. Um yeah, it is the only the the short piece of ditch between um Michigan and
Bloomingdale that they the DOT DOT actually there is an easement that we found out DOT owns. We did research that. So DOT has taken responsibility of it. Uh, believe it or not, they actually have gone out been going out there and
maintaining it only because it it's not it's documented. I mean, they can't say it's not there. We we found the documentation. So, but then the one further down by the grab and go and everything where Perth parks her trucks and everything, that's all fenced in. You can't even get in there. Yeah. And those fences again, they're
not supposed to be there. Now they could have been there they could have been there for 50 years which would be you know would be but again if people want to stop flooding it's every I think it's everybody's responsibility not not just the burrows everybody has to do their part so you know what might be
advantageous if we could put on the burrow website the the map of where these streams run cuz I don't think people see the broader connection of it starts here and it goes through
and all of that and maybe put what the requirements are for building in a flood zone. Absolutely. And then you could see your own block, your house, where the stream either if you can't see it where it used to go, then you'll understand why your yard
floods often, but you're not seeing it. You have a high water table underneath your yard. Yeah. I I'm a little more aware only because it is right across the street for me. Um the one that goes across pling deal down Trenton and Union is
right across the street but and to see where it connects. Um I think people would be it would be informative. Sure. Sure. We can make a make a sketch and put it on the website. Yeah. The rules too. That mean they can see the rules. I love an old strategy. How about we do
this? Um, so you know, you run the planning and zoning committee. Could we make that committee be the intermediary for a bunch of suggestions coming from DBW and the engineering? I would like to know also what other towns are doing with this maintenance stuff that I was. Did you have any in mind that I have wetland provisions from some town I can
send you? Just a place to start. I don't know. Okay. But maybe that's what we do. And Savannah, would that be all right? We list through the planning and zoning committee and then come back to council with some recommendations. We're skipping a few good ideas here. We can do all of them.
Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Um, cumulative effect, you know, every little bit will help. One, no, no one thing is going to help at all. But you put it all together. Yeah. You'll start seeing you'll start seeing the results. Well, um, continuing on that on Seventh Street, which we just redid the sewers,
or at least some of the sores, right? There's no catch basins there. I didn't see any. And that means from the contour to me, I think looks like all the water runs to Sixth Street. And on Sixth Street, there's only two. And that empties into a uh into the brook. They
don't empty into uh like say storm sores. And that pipe's only 14 in. And it looks like it's collapsed. And that's where maybe Greg maybe we could take a look at it. The where it runs, the ground is sunk in down there. So that's kind of a sign something's going on.
It's getting choked off. So, I mean, we I don't know if we could add another pipe, some other point. Um, or even so, the pipe comes out straight. The flow is coming this way. Is that impeding the flow? Uh, some people I'm thinking maybe an elbow. So, that when it does come out, would that help the flow that way?
These are some small fixes which might alleviate. Um, and I don't know if there's any way to to that's the only spots. I mean, uh, we're dumping into the brook. If we could dump it maybe somewhere else, would that help alleviate that whole flooding? because that's the brook that goes and just creating havoc all the way down. Um
yeah, I'm not sure there's anywhere else to go with it. I mean, every that whole everything just drains into that one one brook. So, do you think the elbow would help? Could if it helps. Yeah, you could get a little better transition and let the water get in. So, we'll take a look at that for sure. We'll be able to take a
look at and and uh at least we find out the pipe is collapsed. Can we look at that? Can you got I got a scan like a camera? Yeah, we got a camera. Yeah. the SW the sword rates right there. I don't know if you would go in that way or I sent you guys uh well, you know, I sent you a picture. I I'll I'll
work I'll and the property owner says anything. He goes, I'll, you know, take the fence down. You could use some help. And and also, you can see how uh right on his property, it's it's uh a lot of debris. They said about 20 years ago, they uh they cleaned it out. Um but that
would be too much for an elderly gentleman. There's no way he's going to do it himself. And um I don't know, maybe there's grant monies there or something. I don't know. We we should be able to help the citizens, I would think. Um cuz it's definitely a choke point. It's a couple feet high. So it's
really it's not going to get past maybe 2t wide until it's really like level with the ground the creek. It's that big obstruction. If you take a look at it and it's got some bricks and whatever probably got washed out. Um, we need to clear that uh clean that out or at least
try to figure out a plan, but uh I don't think we residents can to do that physically do that or I can't imagine uh what it would cost to even get a contractor back there. But they would be allowed to clean it out though. That's a big question. I mean, they could clean Yeah. I mean, they could they if they
could they could hire somebody to clean on their property. There are contractors that do that. Yeah, absolutely. There's nothing stopping them from hiring somebody property. That would be in between 40 and I think 38 or 34 Sixth Street.
Okay. Um right there. That's where the pipe is. Well, you see where sort of it is right there. If you're standing facing the brook, the person on the left said uh you definitely have open access. And uh All right. So, at least at least see if that pipe's collapsed cuz if it's if it
is, then that's going to cause a flooding on the street, which they say is getting up to like the bottom of the door of a car. And they they've lost a few cars. Everyone on that street is they see some rain, you all got to move their cars. So, at least if that's flowing into the creek, maybe they'll
I think we should have the committee get together and then have because this is going on pretty long and then have uh the committee meet update council and the engineer. Okay. Um, for Greg, I don't know if there's a few trees that I um need to take a look
at when you get a chance. Obviously, you prioritize what you think you got to do. Yeah. Just send me just send me an email with with your res. Yeah, I send you some picture. Make sure you got them. Also, uh, Mayor, I don't know if we have um I know Crawford's got like floodgates. They got like four
floodgates. Can we ask them? Would that help, Tony? If they say no, a storm is coming. Can they drain down? And so would that help? I think that was the idea of of the orange reservoir was that orange hold they would hold the water. This is
the funding that we lost that was supposed to happen. They would they would if they knew a storm they would follow the weather. They would slowly release before then close it and hold that water upstream and then and it would it would actually work and then
release it again then slowly after the weather was over. What about Cranford? Those locks exist now. I mean, keep a word short of Cranford Cano Club, but if they know the storm's coming, can they open them? Is that a major? They do open them. They they do open
them. I don't know exactly what the criteria is, but I have witnessed that water be higher and lower at different times. So, it's a question. It's definitely a question to find out um how is it automatic protocol like they'll do
it or do we got to request that or Yeah, I don't know. I could talk to our engineer. I'm not she again I'm not sure what the what the criteria is for how they do it or why they you know when they do it. So um I mean those again whatever they're doing they have to be
doing it in conjunction with D. You just can't regulate your you can't regulate the row yourself. So, whatever they're doing, it has to be in conjunction with the state. There has to be oversight on that, uh, I'm sure. So, we could we can look into it. Um, quick question for
Chief. Um, All right, Tony. Uh, thank you very much. You mentioned the parking lot job, the senior. Yeah. Yeah, we'll we'll take you back on to that. Yep. Absolutely.
Um, chief, you got flooded question. Besides the uh speed limit signs on 12th Street, um, in between, I guess it's Lincoln Drive, I guess, by Bobby Jeans and Cordell's, there's a lot of U-turns there. And is there Can we put a no U-turn sign there to kind of discard
County Road? Uh, I will notify the county and see if we can uh get more signs put out there. I have officers that are out there uh doing radar, especially in that area. We get lots of requests cuz people are complaining supposed to be trucks going down certain streets, few turns over there, left
turns over to 14th street. Um, as council finish in my report, I have uh what I have available out to enforcing those types of violations. Uh, U-turns uh department can't be everywhere at once, but we do what we can. Yeah, maybe a sign would help because
Well, the signs are out there. Unfortunately, council will do respect people just do whatever. That's true. So there's no signage now. Uh the thing is that I know some of the signs have been to worn down and uh they might need to be replaced, but that's not a problem. I can reach out. I'm sure
uh because it's a boulevard is kind of short kind of roadway. I will reach out and make sure we have uh the signage upgraded to where it's uh Yeah, cuz they're pulling all the way in and they're pulling all the way in people's driveways over by James's house. Yeah, that's our section.
Yes. Cones apparently. Yeah, they put cones there. Some people go in there and just Yes. I mean, it is what it is. When they come in, if they're pulling it off the boulevard at the Lincoln place and they go into that little area. Yeah. And that's what they do. I mean, I I can't Would that be a legal U-turn if they That's not a legal U-turn because it's
not a major roadway where it's crossing the lines. They can actually make that turn there if traffic permits. If it's on the boulevard and they're doing the Boulevard, that's when we can sight them. Okay. Yeah. I think the U-turns are in on our on in Lincoln using the people's driveways. Since they can't make the
left on 14th Street, they make the right then they make the first. Yeah. Just been problem for many years. Uh the fact is when we did put that the left turn there from 7 to 7, it did eliminate many almost like to say this almost all the major accidents that we had there for people trying to make the
left hand turn. Unfortunately, it's uh it's a cause and effect. So, people were trying to make that left turn. If they see a police officer there, they're not going to do it. But if they don't, they're going to make that left turn or they're going to go, I guess, place and uh I'll try to use some
of their driveways. We do what we can to uh to try to force it. And uh that's like I said, I details that are out there. Uh last month, we wrote a lot of summones. It was probably the most summon a while. And uh that's because of those details. So, I got my guys out
there doing that. any ETA on the sign that we have going eastbound on the westbound the radar the radar thing okay once uh the CFO says I think we'll spend some money next meeting so next meeting we'll go ahead and open
up the dog and after they turn the light at each street and heading toward looking around uh I want to say 10th Street uh further up so when they see it they will slow down if being right here on that if if anybody has been traveling
over the boulevard coming from uh the west end you'll see people see that it lights up you know slow down slow down then people do slow down I sit there with unmarked vehicles I watch it myself uh personally uh I live in Kennorth I sit there at night shift and watch it myself uh just so I can kind of
information that has been a tremendous asset in slowing traffic going eastbound into town once we implement the other one thanks to our CFO giving us the fun to do that we will uh see it slow down going westbound. Cranford has also just
put uh the the traffic uh you see the traffic signals that they put over by the bridge the dam over there allow pedestrian traffic to go. Uh myself and uh Chief Desel were talking about it. Uh we're talking about trying to do something to slow things down over
there. So having that there will give at least people that are pedestrians or riding bike bicyclists opportunity to cross over without having the ability to press the button and it it's something better than nothing. We're trying to do what we can to slow traffic down in that area. Yeah, I see they have one by Dryer's
Farms on Springfield. Yes. Uh Chief uh Chief Crawford and I have been discussing he had a couple couple of them that he had available. That's why he put one over there. He's uh he's been and I have really been discussing the the traffic on the boulevard. We having uh a lot of
complaints obviously not just us. Cranford has the same issues going down towards red Springfield Avenue and also going into Union from five police that's it's a major heavy traffic roadway people using as a cut through to get to and from you can get anywhere you need to coming from
Kevin. So we're very heavy volume traffic. Sounds so cheap. Just to be clear, you make the right out of North 14 and then you turn left where Bobby Jeans lives. If nobody's coming this direction, you
can't make I'm not saying you can't. I said I said just said there's residents complaining that people are pulling in their driveway to turn around. I have I understand. I just saw them. They had their driveways paved. I know there's cones out there. I know the people that live there personally. Uh,
it has happened on occasion prior when they first did the uh the left turn there. They were actually using the I hate to use his name, but Mr. James's driveway to do a U-turn. Uh, that is subsided a lot. I have not seen it. Bobby has not complained to me about it,
but I do know when they pull forward because that area is a very um it's wide and they call this active. You can go left or right, but it's a big mo and you can go in and come back out. There's nothing illegal about that as long as they're not uh you know driving
recklessly as they do. Okay. Good. I won't have to say nothing to the guy that I saw you do the other day do that. Where where abouts? I don't remember. I don't recall. Like I said, if we see it, we do what we can of course. If anything's considered
a a traffic hazard, our guys are out there doing Oh, yeah. Cars are coming out. [Music] Yes. I mean, if you're pulling in there and you're going to make a uh U-turn to come back out to Walmart Boulevard, I mean, common sense should prevail. I mean, if you had another car coming, but
common sense is still common as they say back towards Walker's house. I can't believe they were really pulling through his driveway. Yes, they would literally his driveway. That's just inconsiderate people. And like I said, those types of people I don't care how many signs you get out there.
That's why uh I'm looking to get an actual traffic bureau. uh get the phone officers to put in there to heavily hit the traffic on the west end dealing with those types of complaints that we've been addressing. So that's one of the things we're looking into doing in your
future by CFO. How's the uh cal converter and car thefts um lately? I don't like to talk about uh we have not had many of those recently. We've had the numbers on those are down. Um, and a lot of it has to do
with those rock cameras that we have. A lot of the don't like jinxing as I say it, but those rock cameras have been a great asset to the burrow. They allow us, you know, they give us an opportunity to know when there's a fox in the head. A lot of these people that come in, they're driving stolen cars, stolen plates, vehicles that we
shouldn't be, you know, using. And when they come through those cameras, we get an instant, hey, you got a problem. This guy should officers are out there, those cameras deter a lot of them. So, as soon as we see them coming, they're they're taken off and uh it deters a lot of major crime. We're very lucky with that.
Our officers are very diligent on uh staying on. I saw when you I'm sure when you guys come into the boulevard on the east end, you'll see a car sitting primarily uh by the Acme area. You know, we have posts out there specifically for
those cameras because if they're coming into town and it hits, it's like literally probably a 10-second delay and it goes in headquarters. We have an officer sitting in the area where, okay, here it is. I see it. And, you know, they either stop or they, you know, take off and we do what we can to make sure
our officers are uh are safe in the process and we tell the residents. They either chase them and they can stop them or if they just chase them, then, you know, break them off and let them go. Anything else? Uh, questions
for any signs. I go to you or Greg, you got to go to you cuz it's all traffic stuff. No. Uh, it depends on the science. Uh, if you want to sign that Greg and I have a very good relationship, uh, when it comes to that, he maintains the signs. Yes, I know. He's machines. But, uh, you tell me if
you need certain signs. Uh, Greg and the DBW have been putting up the signs for required. We just we're looking to put the signs up for the parks. I believe we just got that. No, we're still waiting on the proofs. The proofs. Okay. I'm sorry. So, we're working on that, too. The sign is you
come to me or you come to Greg. both of us together will go ahead and uh put him over actually as the take off. Did they put up that old turn on right on 14th in Monroe turning right off of North 14th towards the high school? Cuz
I think they took it down to construction. Uh that's something we did discuss. Was that 14 right turn? No, right. They just finished up so it's a good possibility now that they're finishing. They look at the fence up. Uh I think they do within the last week that whole
area has been sworn. So hopefully uh that's wonder and they're listening to and in regards to the construction I don't know if you're aware of this they uh the board of I reached out to they put up a sign on Monroe heading
west right before it says no left turn. And I knew what they meant. It says no they don't want to make a left hand turn is that new driveway they built. So I called him up and I told him, "You're confusing the residents because they think they can't turn left at the intersection." So they're going to add to that sign
into school driveway. So just so you guys in case anyone calls you and complains, they already got complaints about it. And I reached out to bed, they're making a sign, custom sign, and they're going to fix that issue. similar to the loop at Harding where people cutting geese
try to get into that loop and they put up plastic barricades which that is not a drop off. uh would we be those who have walk through the new that is not a drop off area that's specifically for the admin and uh
parents I mean parents can pull up there and park if they have to run in or they have to be that is not going to be a drop off area that's why we wanted to establish that up front uh you know cuz some people
think that's what it is no it's not drop off is not changed uh it's going to in the back of the school. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Bar CFO. [Music]
Well, I feel kind of left out tonight, but uh just next meeting the uh capital bond ordinance will be available for spending. So, I'm sure you'll see several awards on at that meeting. And that's all I have. Thank you. Attorney,
nothing for public consumption, but we do have some closed session members on here. Thank you, administrative officer. Three funding opportunities were applied for since the last meeting, the Union County Greening and Union County Rec Recreational Trust, which is supported by a resolution that's on consent for
this evening. Also, the PSEG direct install. Um, if approved, it will help us replace the HBAC cooling systems in Burough Hall, fire department, DPW, wreck, and OEM buildings. The program pays up to 80% of the cost of the upgrade, and the customer portion even
paid over 60 months with no added interest through on uh on payment. The process started with a free no obligation uh equipment survey by the auditors. Uh, currently I'm currently working on the 2026 renewal for the burough bureau
general liability insurance coverage. I anticipate having that finalized by either the end of the week or early next week and have that submitted. The motor vehicle commission mobile unit event was very well received. A lot of the residents and uh staff that
participated in it, they came in, they were done in 15 minutes, they got their real IDs. Um, and actually there was a lot of comments about how seamless it was and hopes that we would host another one. And I do have a couple, you know, I'm going to just throw out a
shout out to uh, Senator Cry because um, he sent that uh, mobile uh, DMV here and I used it as well myself. So, they don't always get the recognition they deserve and uh he really uh it was really really
nice of him. I'm I'm grateful. Yep. I thank Senator Cryan for that. Yep. Yep. Okay. Go ahead. I wanted to forget. I have a few things for executive session. That's all I really have with the exception of I just want to point
out the DW superintendent lost the bed and I kind of shake face. I was wondering. I was wondering. Yeah. All right. Is that what you Okay. I did notice it. I didn't recognize you. Okay. Next for council consideration is
the consent agenda. Oh, that's your thing. Consisting of I'll say resolutions 25 through 189 through 25-194. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion second. Motion made by Councilman Clint,
seconded by Councilman Marl. Roll call. Resolutions 25-189 through 25-194 have been approved by one motion. All items will be recorded individually in full in a minute. Councilman Bo, yes. Councilman Finella, yes.
Councilwoman, yes. Councilman Noro, yes. Councilman Piper, yes. And Councilman, yes. Okay. I'd like a motion to open the floor to the public. Second. Motion made by Councilman Bell, seconded by Councilwoman Gardano Presso. All in
favor? I. Does anyone have anything to say for the good and well-being of the Bureau of Coworth? Please come forward and state your name and address. Okay. Seeing no one, I'd like a motion to close the floor for public discussion. Motion.
Second. Motion made by Councilwoman G. Down, seconded by Councilman Piper. All in favor? I. Okay. Uh, next, uh, we have me to go into executive session. Um,
I would like to say that after the uh close session, there will be no formal action taken by the council. The council will convene solely to adjourn the meeting. I'd like a motion to uh enter executive. I think my council might have heard
right ahead of Oh, you're going to show him up tonight? Uh, I'm going to try here. Uh, this Friday, not everybody knows it's lazy mom's day. They do a lot for us. Call your mother. Give your wife the night off. It happens to also be National
Pizza Day. So maybe there's two holidays there online for a reason. We also have on next Sunday the NFL Jets will be playing Steelers, but it's also National Beer Day. So go crack a brew and have one there. Uh, this is all before the next meeting. I'm surprised you didn't
have this. On Tuesday, September 9th is National Council Day. I don't know how you missed that one, Joe. And uh right before we meet for the next time on the 17th, on the 15th is National Felt Hack Day. And I hope everybody can celebrate. I'm so
a motion to enter executive session. Motion made by Councilman Piper, seconded by Councilwoman Gardano Facero. All in favor? Okay. Hey, [Music] [Music]
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