##VIDEO ID:wKbxOw3cvZs## okay like to call to order uh tanel pacan reorganization regular meeting for January 7th 20125 please bow your heads for a moment of [Music] prayer please stand for [Music] y to the flag the United States of America for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all adequate notice of this meeting has been provided indicating the time and place of this meeting ordance with chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 by advertising a notice in the Star Ledger The Express Times and by posting a copy on the Bolton board and municipal buildings at this time we i' like to swear in councilman lukaro councilman rich mcade and councilman Scott Marinelli Senator steinard come you doing the same time yeah it one at a time or yeah one at a time yeah she stands over here SCE tonight ready I your name I swear me swear I will support the Constitution I will support the Constitution the United States the United States and the Constitution the Constitution the state of New Jersey the state of New Jersey that I will bear true faith and Allegiance then I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same to the government's established the government established the United States in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I will Faithfully that are fa impartially justly performed justly performed all the duties all the duties of the office of councilman of the office of councilman to the best ability the best ability con than next person ready to dance see I was [Music] first good um I I Richard mcqu do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and I will bear true faith and Allegiance and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same to the government's established and to the government's established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of people under the authority of the people and I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform perform all the duties all the duties of the office of the office of council member of council member to the best of my ability to the best of my abilties so help you than congratulations [Music] you solemnly swear you Solly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constition of the state New Jersey that will bear true faith and allegiance that will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same to the governments established and to the government established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in the state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people that will faithfully ially impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of the office of councilman the office of council according to the best my ability congratulations everyone right congratul ulations guys it's nice that we can continue to uh keep running at the pace we are and keeping the town in the ways going and keep it going so things get better uh roll call please yes Council here Council Marinelli here here here right here uh wait would you summarize executive session please yeah the township Council met an executive session where it discussed a contractual matter related to team Local Union number 469 negotiations contractual EMS lease agreement uh minutes from the executive session will relas at such time as the council deems no public har will come from it uh no official action was taken thank you all right public comment comment on agenda items only have anyone seeing none we will move on to reorganization um number one resolution number two charge for individuals requesting an annual meeting calendar have a motion in a second please motion second roll call counc yes coun Marinelli yes coun yes council president yes mayor right yes resolution number three establish a cash management program or plan motion and second please motion second roll call councilman valaro yes Council Marinelli yes Council mqu yes council president PLO yes may right yes resolution number nine authorize Tax Collectors to process and cancel any Municipal charged refunds or delinquencies for less than $10 motion and second please motion second roll call councilman car yes Council Marinelli yes Council mcqu yes council president PLO yes May right yes number resolution number okay we'll go back to that all right resolution number eight authorize interest to be charged on delinquent taxes motion motion second and roll call councilman yes Council Marinelli yes Council mqu council president poo yes right yes resolution number 12 appointment of council president motion second coun counc Marinelli counc council president yes yes okay organizational consent agenda 1 through 26 no correction 1 through 29 you have a motion in second please motion second roll call Council yes Council Marinelli yes councilman mcqu yes council president yes mayor R yes new business resolution number 33 approve a temporary Municipal andur utility budget a motion in second please motion second roll call councilman b car yes Council Marinelli yes Council M yes coun president yes may yes resolution number 34 contract was Farms to remove deer carcasses from Municipal Road rights of way rways for a fee of $35 for year 2025 motion second please motion second roll call counc yes counc Marinelli yes counc yes council president yes yes resolution number 35 authorized membership to the Mars County Co-op and approved fee of $1,000 for year 2025 motion second call councilman yes Council Marinelli yes Council mqu yes council president yes right yes resolution 36 authorized application for grant for NJ Department of Community Affairs for phase two of playground imp improvements at low pacon Park motion and second please motion second VOC call yes councilman delaro yes councilman Marinelli yes councilman mcqu yes counc president yes right yes resolution number 37 appoint Tower's list for three-year term 2025 to 2027 pursuant to completion of all required documentation Motion in second please motion I'll second that V councilman yes councilman Marinelli yes councilman McQuade yes council president yes right yes resolution number 38 appoint millinger as judge pursuant to Shared court agreement with pakan Township and compensate as per L pacan salary ordinance motion second please motion second roll call councilman yes counc may yes sorry Council M yes council president yes mayor yes uh discuss affordable housing dispute Pro um res my God resolution program and set up a special meeting for January 29th 2025 at 6: p.m. just motion second vo call want to explain that yeah I will coun yes M yes council president yes and mayor R yes so um our affordable housing uh has resumed uh and that's a program uh we've gone through the first three rounds and uh it's requiring we have an outline of um dates we have to meet uh with particular benchmarks uh for you know things that we have to decide going forward and each municipality must adopt a resolution with the determination of its present and perspective fair share obligation by uh January 31st the municipality then must file an action regarding the resolution with the affordable housing dispute resolu ution program within 48 Hours of adoption and must post a resolution on the website so that's the first thing that's going to be done and that'll start at the planning board level on the 22nd and our planner then will um you know go over those uh numbers with our planning board who will make a recommendation to council to adopt that resolution so that's just a brief okay and we have to get action has to be done on the 29th so we can get out to them correct yes we have two days to get time all right great uh okay uh special council meeting scheduled for Wednesday January 15th at 6:30 executive session will be at 7:30 um we'll be a public session Council reports Rich mayor I just have a statement I'd like to read um I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the citizens of our community for your trust and support in reelecting me to serve as one of your leaders it is an honor to begin my second term and I proud to continue serving you all throughout my tenure I've had the privilege of working alongside the dedicated individual Seated on the Das together we have made progress and I look forward to continuing this important work my commitment remains steadfast to focus on what is best for every citizen ensuring that our Township continues to thrive and is a wonderful place to live for all that's all thank you l yeah first of all happy New Year to all and the second thing um this is the start of my 13th year I never thought I I would be here this long but it is an honor um when people behind you support for the work that uh you continue doing to benefit the town as a whole um for past administrations we've been having a good team up here to do what's best for the township you know to help with the uh taxes uh to make the right decisions uh moving forward for planning uh specifically for the new park development you know things of that nature that uh benefits the town and grows the town and it makes it more um uh appealing to folks who want to live here so you know I want to continue that you know we have a good team up here uh common sense like-minded and um you know help also U you know I believe we're one of the 50 town in New Jersey that helped lower uh property taxes uh in over the years property taxes been kept at you know flat or even minimal at at best to raise and that is again to help the folks um to make low packan a beautiful town and also an affordable town to live in and I appreciate that um you know the folks um support us and you know um at the booth where it counts so thank thank you all appreciate it thank you Scott again happy New Year uh I've been involved in this town for 40 years starting with the fire company then 30 years with the police department now I F with the council you people voted me in and I hope continue to work that way and make this swn great okay thank you Jim um yes Recreation last month we had a visit from Santa at the fire station on Striker Road was a huge success I'd like to thank their Recreation committee as well as the fire department for all their efforts and also we need to uh the laa wants to schedule a meeting with us and the DPW to go over the fields for this upcoming Sports season okay that's all for now thank you all right um only it's like I said before it's great work working with you guys hope you continue to do it for a a long time [Music] um our battle with trucks still going on our guys are stopping vehicles on Bel Road 59 everywhere they're they popping up everywhere so it's nice to see the PDS out there stopping them um epw guys been doing a great job streets are nice everything leaves are up everything and I know you got a lot of Limbs coming down all over so it's crazy way they've been falling so thank you Brock um that's all I have uh Engineers report Adam yes thank you Mr Mayor let's give everyone an update on the uh Park improvements plan preparation it's on track for um the targeted bidding uh early next year we've just completed the 60% design effort on the project uh the 90% design Milestone is planned for the end of February and we expect that we will be able to achieve that uh with the um the pool designers and the other recreation facility designers that we're working with on that uh once we reach that 90% design phase we expect that we'll be able to provide a more clear schedule for for the ultimate Demolition and construction of the park improvements and that'll include the playgrounds the pool the Fieldhouse uh the snack stand and the open air in Four Season Pavilions um and then certainly we'll be continuing to coordinate with members of the council and the in the laa as well um right now uh the pool demolition the previous meeting was held today we had 13 contractors come for that so a lot of interest there which is good bids will be open next Wednesday on January 15th and we hope that you know shortly thereafter we'll be beginning the effort to demolish the existing pool and sort of prepare that for the future construction of the new pool um with that the pickle ball courts that are planned for next to the pool uh currently um as we're developing the plans for the pool there's going to be some revisions some minor revisions to the plans for the pickle ball courts just to accommodate parking and some other walkways that are being planned around there uh nothing major certainly and we do still expect that construction will begin this winter on the pickle ball court so that you know they can be opened early in the uh or late in the spring early in the summer uh for the for the public to use the community um as mentioned in the resolutions we are seeking a second grant for funding for the playground improvements received one Grant last year uh from the DCA LG local Recreation Improvement Grant fund so we'll be seeking a second round of funding for that for the playground as well and then we've also started on the next um ngd funded local Aid F project Stonehenge Drive improvements Buckley Hill to Red School Lane uh the survey was performed uh in December last month mid-mon and will shortly be begin design work for that project um that's all I have right now thank you police chief not here for chief okay uh approval of Department reports motion second motion second all in favor I all right public comment have three minutes Mr B Mr B Mr that's yes um I'd like to I'd like to ask if if Council or mayor or somebody could get in touch with Comcast and see if they're going to go forward at all soon on any uh on the Comcast lines they laid in breakley gardens to put Comcast uh into breakley Gardens you know to install it do we know where we stand on that b no that's what I'm just to reach out to yeah I've been wondering the same thing yeah that's just um and the other thing is um the rent loving board meeting will have probably be one this month yes okay then the other thing is is um I would hope that the um rent rolls for break the gardens are produced in timely manner as per uh the rent the rent control ordance this year instead of waiting instead of landlord waiting until May or June that's supp she produc the beginning of the year I know okay okay thank you very much sorry my name is Demitri zabas I'm here representing the neighborhood of Los Halla Road um came the last meeting last year but missed missed some of the points and was asked to come back with some some photos and some more details so the first part is the roadway itself it is if you look at it it's pretty much third third world level there's Parts with the pavement there's Parts with I mean literally it's eroding off the Happ um and this year nothing was done to it last couple years people came up and dropped some asphalt no roller no nothing really actually made it worse became rougher um the road was paved 30 years ago a few years back it was repaved but only halfway up Los Hollow uh you you'll see on there's a map there that shows you up to where it it was paid um something really has got to done about it i' I've I've I've personally had to repair rims in my car multiple times um it's dangerous the the second ask I have is the outlet of Los Hollow I'm not sure what the there's a strange history to it low Hollow actually on the tax map there's no low or low Hollow there's just L Hollow going all the way down a little bit road but physically there's a low Hollow there now which is cut off going up to one of the plots and then there's a some remnants of what used to be a road back in there officially it still exists on the on the on our own tax L's Hollow exists and goes all the way to Liber road but it doesn't uh the only way out in the case of an emergency which we have trees down power outage every single month the only way out is back over the hill out TRC Lane uh the new proprietor of the plot there has a gate that randomly is locked or not locked and actually the gate is on what is Township is on Lo Hollow the gate is not even at the private part the private part begins at shc Lan which isn't if you see on the map on this map the orang spot is where the gate is that is randomly locked the green green part is still officially low Hol Road the the Yellow Part there is true back the blue part is is what used to exist that is now overgrown so the reason I I mentioned the overgrown part and the historical part is because the township made it a de end it wasn't it wasn't a de end until the township made it at that end so we need access out the back way um I went up there to take pictures this particular day it was open but like I said it's random when it's open closed so I would ask that the township look for and some of the Deeds that I looked up actually Grant the township access through those plots um but I'm not a lawyer so I would ask the township look at it right we are looking into it we have spoken with the owner we just heard from the attorney the other day um we have we have a key now for it for the lock we found out there was a combination lock on it and now it's been removed so that will not be on there anymore they promised us that the road and all the property we have to look into and uh figure out with all du respect the key is not acceptable we've had emergencies up there we've had fires actually the two plots down from mine burned down the trucks couldn't the fire trucks couldn't get through the back when was that some years some years back now but um this past couple of months we've had trees fall my son missed the final exam because he couldn't get off the road because the tree was down you Tred to go out the back and then the gate was locked that was December MH so a key is that adequate a key is that adequate we need to be able to get the key was given to the police chief so as soon as there's a problem the road just so we where the road is closed now they can use trck Lane to get to their homes see where the gate is separates L Hollow in true back no where the gate is is in the middle of hollow it's actually soon you close gate though okay that becomes true back no no I'm sorry so so at this the the the green part on the map is Los Hollow not chac so where the gate is in the middle of Los Hol yeah so we're going just have to look into it um it's my understanding some of them are private we're have to really I mean saying something private and actually finding out it's private it's two different things um if it's private it's private um there might be some emergency permission use for the township to enter but uh we we just we speculating at this point so we're going to find out what's private what's public and I take yeah we're going to have to check it we don't it's been so much crazy stuff up there over the years oh for sure there's no question um I mean whether there's access to TRC or not I agree we don't we can't assume no but where the gate is now is well within Los Hol it will will not be locked no more if there's no they will have it open so can I can I ask the assessment of the road though because it's pretty bad the photo here that that shows that the vo is hazardous condition is this before the gate yeah oh yeah well well before the gate yeah yeah okay oh yeah I I walked up the road and took photos how much of the road would you say 100 yards 200,000 yards a half a mile that's not pav it's paved but it's Rubble yeah there was an incredible amount of damage done that house the the building up there were sending tractor trailers left I got pictures of them I 18 dealers and can I have your name for record please Christina gon 190 Road I'm the LA we're the last house before the gate and we got locked in when the tree went down we missed our flight to Texas because we couldn't get down there um we will help you out we W for us to what that was open and now that was 9 years ago and now they closed it and we get locked up there a lot yeah we're we're the last house before the gate um and getting back to the road the road is destroyed the road I drove up there last year the street signs have been have fallen down the the speed because the road is all crumbled because of those tractor trailers going by understandably they couldn't make that hair pin turn up the other side but it it took a lot of damage and some got to fix it because our our cars are getting destroyed going down there it's like but it's a little it's a little bit much all right well I promise you we will help you out we'll be Des right away thank you Road 258 have property on the top property on the bottom um if we're talking about this guy's driveway all right years ago Hummer had it and I know you were part of the fire department when we had a fire on top of the mountain per house down Hummer tried to keep people from using that road and he he put a big pile of soil there nobody could get through uh if you on the GPS they're going to take you on truebeck Lane people are getting stuck in there and if you notice this is where the gate is on this one if you look up you'll see the power lines run back there so now if that Gate's locked the power goes down Power's Out power company can't get in there to fix it so it it it's just and the road is a mess and mainly because this guy does they won't come across the bridge through be Lane to go to his house house he has these tractor trailers coming in they're going up and they're ruining our road because they can't get across trck Lane because it's a rickety bridge to begin with and um so yeah it's something needs to be done really seriously before somebody gets hurt or another house catches on fire and burns down to the ground it's that's not right no we'll take care of it D anyone else second the concerns on on those did you approach just say name please all right thank you sir may sound like a joke but my name is Zas I live on 27 road I think I spoke to may but this is it sounds like a job because these guys they took the road they make it private you know their own property and now we got to go through these channels to open the road to me if I cut the my grass the wrong way probably the city is going to come and tell me you car it the wrong way this is a serious matter somebody of you guys you should really you know take care of this situation we'll take care of it look into it right I promise you that right thank you all right sir thank you anyone else s than congrats everybody happy New Year um what 12 of your drive just want to let you know that I am y leison again for the county so if you have any needs just let me know thank you for everything you've been doing on the roads it is 2025 so that means it's our Bicentennial so we do have some things planned including a parade that we like all the towns to be included in so I'll send you more details on that and I will find out more about Comcast I do know that my neighborhood and other parts of lat already hooked up to Comcast and people have already switched over so I'll find out when they're finishing the rest of the town but yeah yeah they've been they've been going through they have all their County permits so they've been doing work so they're going to be going through lat over into Stewartsville and all that so yeah I'll I'll let you know and if I can find out when everybody will be turned on thank you all right thank you anyone else Senator well thank you first of all just congratulations to all of you on your election uh I know elected office is not always easy work but it's certainly good work and and fulfilling work when when you do it for the right reasons I know all of you do so just as a Township resident grateful to all for your your stewardship and happy New Year to all of you uh Mr zamas happy to chat with you I know you have spoke to me at my office about some of your issues and maybe we can chat about those to know tonight while I was sitting in the back of the room I texted Tony bedman the governor Affairs agent from Comcast and assemblyman robod Clifton who's the project manager who's handling the project in low patties uh at a reorganization meeting swearing somebody in tonight so he promise You' give me a shout in the morning and I'll find out where you all stand on on the hookups uh in the for Mr bets and everybody else uh beyond that if my office can be any of to have help to any of you uh certainly here to do whatever we can do to try to make uh you your guys job easier but again grateful to all of you to the work that you do I've known most of you now for for many decades and we're certainly in good hands having all of you leading the township thank you Happy New Year thank you than anyone else yes we have we heard anything about Toby no we have not nothing right yeah okay been dying all right no nothing else if there's nothing else uh motion for adjournment motion all in favor thank you for coming out thank you [Music]