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e e reconvene with all members present uh council member Tom har pus is absolent excus for those who are able please uh rise for the pledge of leg I ask you to remain standing after the pledge i
al un States take a moment to remember members of our U or longtime Madison residents who we lost over last few weeks uh F Roberto longtime Madison resident passed away age of 97 at her home on February 15th
he's survived by her daughter Marie antoinet Tony Mack and her husband Steve and her daughter-in-law Debbie three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren who was predeceased by her uh husband of 68 years Benny
Roberto in 2018 and her son Michael born in Italy in 1927 he was married to uh Benny in 1950 he immigrated to the United States in 51 selling right here in Madison lived on South Street where they raised their
children say that she had a green thumb was an understatement she was well known in the neighborhood for her garden at one time she had over 150 tomato plants growing as well as growing corn Peppers broccoli watermelons and incredible array of
flowers and she gave her great joy to grow the produce and give away to family and friends we also lost carollyn bar Campell lifelong Madison resident died in February at age of 995 survived by her two daughters
Katherine pel and her husband Dr Roger pel who serves on her Zoning Board of adjustment and Carolyn cricas and her husband County Commissioner John cricas I by two sons James and David six grandchildren three great-grandchildren
she was pred deceased by her husband of 65 years Dr James Campbell in 2021 warn in Queens and moved to Madison when she was a junior in high school lived on Greenwood met her future husband who lived
directly across the street from her went to secretarial school and worked several offices over the years until she started a family and became a full-time mother he had a heart of gold and would help anyone in need volunteered a greater amount of time at Overlook
Hospital also lost Edward p junr age 70 he was born in uh 1954 Summit and lifelong Madison resident had a passion for restoring classic cars riding his Harley and love music especially very
knowledgeable the 1950s and 60s rock and roll can tell you anything about a band song or album he was employed by automatic switch for 16 years also had his own business fixing du boxes at one point and he was a master at small engine repair and special fonders for
his 66 Pontiac GTO and he would familar face around town most notably at wly restaurant and uh in the earlier days paza Lanes he leaves behind his wife Sonia one brother
uh Kenneth and one sister Karen Linda Tyler lifelong Madison resident passed away on February 9th he was 78 he behind sister Lois stuff of Madison one brother Bill Tyler and along with many nieces nephews
Grand nieces and Grand nephews born in Summit in 1946 raised in Madison attended St Vincent and Bay Elder High School in College of St Elizabeth was a caretaker at heart and cared for her parents while working as department manager at strs in store in
marown and last week we also lost Vic Schumacher one of Madison's great volunteers at this point I don't have uh his obituary but I can care share some of that background that I'm aware of long time member of our patri celebrations committee always taking a
role on the Memorial Day program it would be seen at the pro at ceremony and on Veterans Day Pro proudly wearing his Navy uniform stiff and straight and looking like he just served yesterday um and he was always uh
presenting and uh doing readings at both programs last season he was recognized for his service to our country at a Yankee game and many of us got to see that which is that he was honored he was a longtime volunteer of madis ambulance Corps also taking leadership roles in
addition to responding to calls he served on the uh Board of of the adult schools of Madison Farm Park in the chams including many years as its president and he was also appointed to fill out unexpired Council terms serving
on this body of May to December in 2002 let's take a moment to remember Al Roberto Carn Campbell Ed P Linda Tyler and Vic schacher and let us pass our thoughts to the families and friends they leave
behind thank you right we have no minutes for approval so welcome all to a special Wednesday uh Gathering we um finished our meeting from Monday because of the taste of Madison and um I missed the taste for
the first time since it's uh was established in 2002 but I did have a good excuse at least I think it's a good excuse my mind I was in Portland Oregon to visit our son his wife and our new grandchild and in fact my granddaughter Stevie Josephine is celebrating her
three-week birthday today and so uh was looking even cuter than the day we left yesterday iess yester early flight and uh somewhat related to great news is on February
14th I performed my 300th wedding ceremony as mayor which uh is certainly a great way to to celebrate Valentine's Day not checking records but I think it might be one part of the job let's move on to reports from
committees finance and burough clerk council president ery thank you mayor this evening we have our fifth hearing on the budget previously we have discussed Capital Public Works the electric utility the water utility the
fire department and their new EMT service at the last meeting we had our first look at the municipal budget and tonight the council and the public will hear from some of our department heads the police department construction Department library and Engineering will be talking about their goals objectives
and capital needs on March 24th we will have a budget hearing a review of our financial strategic planning guidelines and introduction of the official state budget document later this evening Council will be asked to approve the bill list known
as the vouchers which includes over $9 million in payments to vendors and entities this is an unusually large Bill list due to some significant payments first is $3.1 million to the county for their first quarter taxes and the county
open space assessment the bill list also includes a payment to the board of education for 4,677 2433 for their monthly share of property taxes it also includes a payment of over $340,000 for the cook Avenue parking lot
project payment of over $94,000 for the replacement of a sewer lift station pump sorry sewer lift station pump and a payment of over $266,000 for repairs at one of our water wells and last we have a short report from the tax collector the tax quarter
closed earlier this month and the delinquent notices went out two weeks ago please contact the tax collector if you have questions regarding your tax bill that's all M very much and with Public Safety and utilities
uh thank you mayor okay from the fire department the ladder truck was returned to full active service the bucket was repaired and placed back on the truck the fire department will be getting inservice training on animal emergencies their current training
schedules include opio opioid response fire prevention for buildings respiratory protection KT Hazmat training and bloodborne exposure incident and waste plan uh they will be attending a right
they have completed their right to know survey for 2024 fire department also purged the firehouse of 18 gallons of hand sanitizer through the County Hazmat program training was also completed for
new EMS protocols including blood sugar TR testing CPAP the therapy and albal administration okay from the police department Chief missa and Captain longrow will be attending the New Jersey
Conference of Mayors winter Summit on February 27 to take part in the panel to discuss the arriv together program mayor connley is hosting the panel and this will include remarks from Matthew PL platkin Attorneys General of the state
of New Jersey this upcoming Saturday March 1st the Madison police department will be attending coffee with a cop at delicacy a Colombian restaurant in town to meet and discuss local topics with uh visitors the goal is is to continue to
strengthen our relationship with members of all communities in town and they're suggesting that you come visit from 9:00 am to 11: amm on March 1st Chief Misha met with Pastor Carol Howard from the Presbyterian Church of Madison during the week of February 17th
past Pastor Carol wanted to learn more about the police chap program and they are hopeful in bringing her on board as a member and finally the police department will be conducting their firearms qualification refresher next week beginning February 24th this is the
first of four qualifications in 2025 and on March 7th members of the Madison police department community relations unit will be attending a law enforcement fair at the men and arena in the hopes for visitors to learn about the matters of the police department and what they
offer okay uh from the water department they dug and repaired valves in the distribution system they dug and repaired seven curve boxes and shut off valves to include meter changes they also replaced the
injection pump at the ew uh notable events included they reset all Wells and generators after the power outage on February 22nd this included a manual pump down of wells and the alarm
systems the assisted DPW with snow removal and water service for new construction on Loveland Street was completed they will be replacing water service on Valley Road for a remodel and they will continue the meter replacement
and curve box repairs and finally from the electric Department the standby crew was called out to Prospect Street and Sh and Chik Road for down wires the standby Crews also cause call to keep Street for
down wire the standby coolers called out on West Lane for down wires as well a large tree fell in high winds and missed poles and wires on Saturday the 20 February 22nd at 1:24 p.m Madison experienced a large
power outage they lost both 34 KVA lines coming into the Kings Road substation from a fall that caused a large explosion on piece of equipment owned by jcpnl the first EV charger has been
installed and is up and running in the police and fire department parking lot the electric Department completed annual training on chipper safety personal protective equipment confined space entry and lad entry walking and walking
and working surfaces electric Department continues to respond to calls completing Mark cut markouts street light repairs and daily in and daily substation inspections and readings and finally the electric department will be working on
installing the second charger that's all thank you very much Public Works and Engineering Mr range thank you mayor from uh DPW tonight uh twice in the last week uh the sewer department has had to
repair issues with some of our sewer pump stations uh so the sewer department would like to remind all residents um uh and visitors that uh they should not be putting oil grease um or other things that are not water down the drains or
flushing things like floss hygiene products and wipes all of these can uh clog our sewer pumps and create problems for everyone uh we've had as uh Mr lran indicated
we've had uh ice and snow events over the last few weeks as well DW has been out in each of those uh salting the roads parking lots and clearing crosswalks and sidewalks while you may have heard reports on the news about
salt shortages in the area Madison DPW is well prepared for any future snow and ice events uh residents are reminded that curbside yard waste collections will start next Monday March 3D um so you can get your yard waste out for
curbside pickup starting next week and yard waste bags are available at DPW garage and the clerk's office here in heartley Dodge Memorial and from the environmental commission this evening uh the environmental commission will be
hosting an event on Thursday March 13th at 7M uh which is the first talk in its nature lovers speak speaker series which is a partnership with the nature of reading Bookshop um on Main Street Paula Wyman author of Bad
naturalist will share stories successful and otherwise about her attempts to rewi a Blue Ridge Mountaintop she will be interviewed by the Ho by the hosts of the native plant society's podcast the wild story Paula's book is wildly T
widely talked about and reviewers have called it humorous and self-deprecating uh come early for refreshments and say hello to Madison's growing community of n native plant enthusiasts the event registration link is on uh can be found at the nature of reading website under
the events Tab and that's all for me this evening mayor thank you thank you mayor uh the next meeting of the Downtown Development commission will be on March 20th at 7:15 on the second floor of heartley Dodge uh
planning is underway for the Madison Green and clean which will be held Saturday April 26th the farm and Artisan Market vendor contracts have been sent out and prospective vendors should contact Lisa Ellis at DDC at
rosenet for the Chamber of Commerce uh there's an opportunity to join in the uh new the Nautilus Diner placem program they are printing a run and would um welcome advertisers for
that and the Easter fun schedu for April 12th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. that's all mayor Health thank you mayor flu activity remains high but it's not too late to get your flu shot the health department is offering free flu and Co
vaccinations to those that are interested please call the health department for more information the health department hosted several ruter prepared uh ruter interns this month the department staff provided the students with an understanding of governmental local Health providing real world Insight that prepare them for their
careers as public health professionals the health department would also like to remind residents that chicken coups must be licensed with a burrow more information can be found on rosenet.org pet licensing is still ongoing please license your pets before March 1st to avoid late fees information can also be
found on Rosen head thank you may now move on to Communications and petitions none received mayor now we're on to our first of two invitations for comment the public uh this one is limited to the agenda items
and our resolutions our second one is when you may comment on any topic so our agenda item tonight is the budget hearings the dep from department heads so um you may comment on that or you also May comment on afterwards in the
next session and these are the resolutions you may comment on resolution 85 uh film permit for Winger Productions this is retroactive was Barfield and local roads um for February 18th
resolution 86 was appointment of Niki Nick Nicholas forell position of mechanic in the public works department annual salary of $ 6668335 [Music] 1 157 with a probationary perod also
resolution 88 is appointing Robert Bogle to position a part-time site inspector um at a rate of $50 an hour resolution 89 is authorized a release performance bond to HS investors
LLC for preves designated 306 Main Street which is uh the Starbucks location resolution 90 is the friends in the Madison Public Library to hold Touch a Truck fundraiser on Sunday July 20th
2025 Mark the calendar resolution 91 mentioned in Mr land report is appointing Pastor Carol Howard as a police chaplain for Madison police department resolution 92 is awarding Professional Services contractor Helena
ran ra serve as architect and consultant for bur related capital projects and improvements 7 res resolution 93 is approving Raffa license application submitted by m High School
TSO uh resolution 94 is U approving of Jacob Henry Perkins trust dis dispersement of $1,394 resolution 95 is appointing Andre Fernandez to part-time position of
um arts and events assistant and this is at 2250 an hour up to 29 hours a week and those are the resolutions that may comment on if you wish to comment in any of those you step up to lecturn state your name and address write the same on
the clipboard State the resolution or the agenda item you want to comment on and you can start your comments we ask you to try to stay with the three minutes but give you a one minute brece anyone wishing to comment on those items seeing none we close this part of the meeting and we now move on to agenda
discussion schedule Michael if you just advance to the next slide um this evening we're going to be talking to various department heads and on March 24th we're going to have a pretty big presentation with strategic planning guidelines uh some budget discussion and then a budget
introduction and then this year we go to state review so the hope is that we get through State review no problem and then we'll be able to have the budget hearing on April 28th I'm going to take um and talk just for a couple minutes about the construction Department might to advance
that Russ Brown is out this evening so the construction department is basically a fully self-funding department they have uh significant revenues as you can ,000 in permit revenues and they serve both Madison and chadam anywhere you see
construction pretty much they're involved whether it's j to S you may or may not see that a lot of interior Renovations that building that's the building on the corner of Lan and Woodland that shap building of the Jal second of the Jal buildings or the more
obvious ones like where Benjamin Mo was replaced in downtown chadam that building there they're involved in that involved um at the other end of Avenue at the bottom of the hill for the that very large development so there's
significant anywhere you see significant construction the department is there if you go to the next slide please Michael whether it's a single family home detach garage or tenant fit outs there are significant tenant fit outs and um or
the MOs for example right the MOs that we see drive by on Madison Avenue so they have significant number of activity um their goals are uh really to continue to maintain and manage what they do Madison mall apartments on Main Street next to stap Plaza right that's a big
development that hopefully will be wrapping up and multiple other businesses small like the Baker on Waverly Place and large like the mosque hopefully be finished in 2025 they don't have any Capital needs
just operating budget like departments have any um Capital needs but their operating expenses are managed well we're fully staffed had a recent hire there and money that is brought in from them goes to help pay for the fees
there is a certain amount that goes to state so it says questions but if you have questions maybe we'll just take them down and send them to Russ Brown unless it's something really simple got 20 questions 20 Questions number one
just to uh I know R is not here but again covered it quickly with all that's going on that not only do we cover all that but the feedback I get from contractors and those CH bur in Madison the operations of our um Building Code
Department is second to none at the responsiveness the ability to track inspections and all that um they really appreciate the way we approach us is a real high performing department head for us not only he's doing this he's helping us install an
electric vehicle fast charger behind you know with a back ho and laying concrete and everything behind Public Safety he he does he does quite a bit and we appreciate everything that he does any other comments or questions good evening I'd like to thank the governing body for
allowing me to present the 2025 Department overview of the police department so the first side you'll see is Staffing this slide depicts our divisions within the police department as you'll see the patrol division is the largest within our agency and for the
most part the department size has stayed consistent the past several years as we have replace vacancies accordingly the next slide is our table of organ a this slid slide shows the direct line of authority from the chief
on down we have three divisions within the police department you'll see Patrol investigative and support division under our Patrol squads we have one sergeant and four Patrol officers and a dispatcher on each Squad we also have one officer who
recently had signed if you see on the bottom left um we have uh that signed a conditional offer of an appointment and is slated to enter the police academy this Ju we also have a detective Bureau as you'll see one supervisor two detectives
and we also added a full-time community relations officer to assist with the arrive program school security and other community events and that comes from within the our table of organization current Staffing next slide annual statistics I
won't go over uh each and every column as I know we have limited time uh the First Column which is a little bit misleading I wanted to just comment on calls for service calls for service also includes not only our dispatch calls but self-initiated CAD entries if an officer
does a property check or a school check so last year we went under a um U we eliminated unnecessary CAD entries that officer officers were basically uh that should have been part of routine Patrol so we eliminated that the number looks
uh down however uh regular dispatch calls We Believe are the same if not a little a little bit higher As you move down on the same slide you will also see uh our proactive policing is way up motor vehicle stops up 40% from the year
before traffic summons is up 50% from the year before written warnings up 300% approximately and parking summons is uh up about 100% so as you'll see our officers are out there being proactive doing a great job keeping our community
safe lowering Prime as you'll see on uh the next slide and uh still maintaining a strong relationship with our uh with our community so this slide as I yes this slide as I previously commented on um
one thing we've been proactively working on is the uh visibility of our officers during targeted times where motor vehicle burglaries and vehicle thefts have been occurring this has been discussion several times over the past couple years I've I've stood in front of
council to discuss this has been and still is a major problem in the Northeast United States and even the the town surrounding us so I'm proud obviously to to say that we have decreased those uh auto theft related
cases in town the two uh the two that are highlighted if you will bold uh the bll letterings uh motor vehicle thefts and motor vehicle burglaries seven motor vehicle thefts in 2023 down to one in 2024 in that
specific case that individual was immediately identified and arrested burglaries of Motor Vehicles went from 20 in 2023 to two in 2024 and both about a 90% decrease uh from the year prior next slide
please uh one thing I wanted to comment on on this slide is uh the arrive uh call outs we began to track that in 2024 we had 90 uh arrive referrals responses uh last
year out of these these calls are associated as you know with people that are in mental crisis out of those 90 call outs there was not one use of force incident that was related to any one of those Falls U that concerned arve so as you know arve is working we're doing
good things with the program we're keeping the patients safe getting them the treatment that they need and the apprpriate treatment as well as keeping our officers safe um overtime was up a bit that contributed as I as you can see in the bottom left of the slide we had three
officers that were in the police academy and training and we had to have coverage for uh for those shifts and also some military officer on military leave and we had a vacancy in dispatch that is now uh filled next slide please Department
training as you know we're dedicated to increase uh training year in and year out uh late last year earlier even this year at had a department retrained in in the Immigrant trust directive that's a pretty hot topic now that we have been discussing um and guidelines handed down
from the state of New Jersey deescalation training and use of force updates were also very important training that that we took part in in 2024 and lastly the CIT training uh Crisis Intervention training which goes along uh with our arrive uh program
arriv together next slidee community outreach as you can see we do a lot with the community we're out there we're very visible with the community um our officers like to take part in all the events that that occur
around town um as as Bob had stated earlier councilman landrian that we're having a coffee with a cop this Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 11: a.m. at delitos in the center of town uh and again and these types of uh community outreach programs
are scheduled throughout the year each and every year slide 2024 accomplishments uh I'll touch on a few there uh there's a lot of them I'm proud to say we uh we added one additional school resource officer
that's fully funded by the Board of Ed to strengthen our school security division hired three new police officers that I touched on before who are now assigned signed of Patrol we renamed and revamped our Corporal position to OIC
officer in charge and this program allows us to uh evaluate our Future Leaders as these officers are putting quasi supervisory positions in the absence of a sergeant which will help decrease Sergeant overtime we restarted the crime
prevention division where officers are trained to provide home security inspections uh for residents we also decreased uh increased our commity presentations in schools to include anti-bullying presentations Internet safety and uh and
dare we upgraded our interview recording equipment into first and second floor interview rooms as part of our 2024 Capital Improvement and um I'm also proud to note that uh we uh Madison was ranked
the third safest college town in the nation uh which just came out earlier last week so I'm pretty uh it's pretty big deal next slide one more I'm sorry the goals
yeah several important goals to note are um we are constantly in discussion with count County and state representatives to expand the arrive together program this program will go countywide in a very near future and we have been involved uh since day one since uh with
this and in the planning there are additional clinicians do to be HED and we're looking to expand at expanded hours in town and expanded coverage in the towns that already uh that are already have the arriv
program we are also exploring grant opportunities for pedestrian safety and seat Bel enforcement initiatives to make the roadway safer and actually my daughter right now on my knees so I had to put him had to put him
up there um but these are our budgets these are all our accounts that we have so you can take a look at them lastly capital projects my focus is to continue our our yearly upgrade with bulletproof vests which come to an end of life after five years uh these are replaced yearly
with grant money to offset the total cost and I'm also committed to continuing our efforts on auto theft and other Technologies and electronic upgrades including the uh automated License Plate Reader uh features cameras throughout
thank you questions comments thanks for the great presentation the turnaround in car theft and car burglaries is extraordinary so I'm sure many of my colleagues will would say the same thing but I just want to commend you for this remarkable uh
impact that you and your uh Department have had this was a Non-Stop topic two years ago and to see a number single incident on on the books for 2024 is really extraordinary so thank you for your commitment to Leading that not only
in Madison but regionally I know Madison has been a leader and partnering with our neighboring towns in the county to work together which has been very successful as I understand it thank you so one of the um ways that I interact with your department is with Captain
Longo and Corporal dco through uh their work on the complete streets committee uh they're very focused on traffic safety and especially um seeking you know safer ways that we can ensure safety for uh people that are walking and riding their bikes in the streets
and on the sidewalks and it's been a pleasure to work with the two of them their commitment is unwavering and um they've brought some just great ideas to complete streets over the last couple years we're now separately funding complete streets improvements for pedestrian safety in this budget which
is a great uh way to pull it out from just general Road workor Improvement and really focus on safety of all of our road users and I just hope you'll pass uh my compliments and appreciation on to them because they do a great job I will thank
you uh first you know I can't say enough about the work that you guys do I mean you took the it beat me to the punch about the third safest college town I was going to say that but it's no small part to the work that you've done what I
will say is your presentation showed me and the audience how proactive you are the good work that you're doing and also you're mindful of the budget I mean you can't ask more of a chief and of a department so thank you so much I'll keep it short thank you thank
you other comments or questions John Chief uh thank you so much I really appreciate the presentation I just would Echo council president uh erick's comments around the alpr program I think the investment in that is is uh Second To None and I know
regionally in this part of the county we were the leader on that that pulled all that together and it we're we're a small part of a bigger Network um and I know um that the you know you can see in the metrics that the there's been significant Improvement there but I made
similar comments to Chief Wickman when he was here I think a key part of our value proposition as a governing body is to make sure that the people that are in our communities living here working here visiting are safe and I feel like uh you do such a good job with that you and your department so thank you very much
really appreciate it one question I have is um when you think about you know resources and um you know what it takes to do the job I just want to make sure that you feel that there you have the commitment and the support of the council because I I definitely feel like
since I've been a member of the council we've really been committed to uh providing you with what you need yeah absolutely I feel uh feel we have a great relationship ship uh I feel that there's you know two-way communication that's ongoing with with every member of of the governing body along with the bur
Administration so I feel very confident and and comfortable in in the support and it's evident thank you thank you too sure where that was a waiver um just a big thank you for all of your leadership for the arriv
together program I know you're going to go and present uh at the mayor tomorrow yeah tomorrow morning so oh yeah well you get to stay late and get up early good um but but that is incredible especially when you think about that
there was no Force used in any of 90 calls that's a an amazing statistic and thank you for being a leader there I W I'm I'm actually going to present some numbers tomorrow and and it was in another set of paperwork but I wish I brought it uh with me because you would
see uh in in the Years preceding um we've we've had you know use of forces each year con uh during Mental Health crisis calls and you know one year we'd have five use of force incidents but three of them are
from you know the mental crisis call so you know they really were the majority of our use of forces uh that I noticed from uh from the numbers so you know it's nice to see uh it decreased every year especially when we started going uh
training officers in the CIT uh training and deescalation training so um you know it definitely it's working so you know we're we're proud to have it here for for our residents and and for our officers just add a little bit you know part of the theme tomorrow with the new
New Jersey Conference of Mayors is the fact that towns can't act alone in protecting their residents it is a regional effort and you have demonstrated that over the years of uh you know working with the arrive program working with the
uh car theft issues always reaching out and um pulling people together we we'll have um 85 different uh municipalities represented tomorrow and that shows the interest in working together so thank you for your great thank you
mayor all right thank you everyone Chief thank you had a good night's rest you got a big day tomorrow next up mayor we have representatives from the library good evening mayor Conley members of the council it's a real pleasure to speak to you tonight about the
library we spent all of 2024 under construction operating out of our mini library in the chase room we're very proud of the level of service that we were able to maintain during this time and we continued to improve our offerings at every OPP opportunity in addition to our regular
Services we enhanced our Landscaping we have the next slide please thank you we enhanced our Landscaping added two new Museum passes added patr welcome packets in Spanish increased our Outreach to senior residences in Madison launched
stem programming for our younger patrons and performed a full reorganization and inventory of our Holdings after they were returned from Storage that's over 80,000 it was quite a project next slide please we maintained our normal
operating hours throughout construction for the convenience of our patrons the circulation of physical items was lower in 2024 than it has been in previous years but better than might have been expected for the relatively small size of our operation digital circulation continued
to grow at a remarkable rate reflecting a general Trend over the last few years and across all libraries not just us we delivered our programs both virtually and in person at the Madison community art center and the Madison community
house and we'd like to thank both of those venues for making their facilities available to us next slide please our primary goal for 2025 is to return to normal operations in our newly refurbished building which we expect to do this
spring we'll also focus on upgrading the program presentation technology in our Chase room which is currently serving as our mini library and completing our Landscaping improvements finally with construction complete it will be time to update our strategic plan to take us
forward into the next chapter and now our board Treasurer David Luber will address the budget and financial St as you can see the libraries onethird of a mill statutory appropriation set by
the state increased by $15,995 in 2025 unfortunately this increase was exceeded by the combination of increases in our purs and health and dental benefits and
Joint Insurance Fund obligations to cover the difference plus other increases we are increasing our endowment contributions 2025 by 550 ,000 which we're able to do thanks to
some very healthy gains in our mli investments over the past two years on the capital side we are managing increases in some of our construction costs along with having to fund a number of unplanned out of scope
items which Tom B bener will discuss after I cover the operating budget next chart please thank you our largest operating expense items are course Personnel related over 70% of the
increase in Personnel costs for 2025 are for benefits you will note that we do project a decrease in utility expenses reduction is based on our 2024 experience the new LED lighting
that is installed as part of our construction project appears to be making a real difference in our electrical usage the in anticipated savings and electrical costs are expected to be more than enough to cover our planned
increases in books and media uh purchases next chart please I've already discussed much of what you see on this chart with the addition of a recognition of our variable budget which includes
contributions from the friends of the Madison Public Library and Grant and Trust contributions that we receive every year Tom will now talk about the uh construction project um the one thought that I wanted
to add is to remind everybody that this is a 50e project the building opened in 1969 we've had some minor projections and expansion in early 1990 to exper the physical building but other than minor
items this is really the first real time that we taken to do through the entire building uh the First Column of the chart represents the estimated cost for the project that we presented to you a year ago we're still early in the
project but you see costs change particularly in renovation type of items a number of the a couple of the big increases include ASB bestus abatement we continued to find it different places when we decided to replace the carpeting
in the lobby area we found his bestus below the carpet tiles and then as bestus was also found on the pipes wrapping between the two Lobby restrooms these all had to be abated furniture we had used estimates
you know in terms of getting updated uh refurbishing the chairs and different things of that nature and we've also added a few new additional items but we also thought we would like to remind people of the historical uh aspects of the library there are some pieces of
furniture that have there that go back to the original uh building and we've updated those and then there are some unanticipated items there that you see uh added roughly out of scope items over there
$178,000 but the net effect of all of these things what uh ended up making us a I think a project that has been really well managed by Lynn and her staff they have
really spent hours and extra time during the past it's we started basically on this project in the late I guess it was early winter of 93 work 94 and we thought we were going to be
done by hopefully the first of uh 2025 where we're missing it by I think a few a few months how did we what's the source of funds for the library construction well you'll see that there's no change in the
state that ex slide please that stayed exactly the same and they're still holding on their withheld funds until everything is done uh the contribution for the Bureau of Madison the same the library some
additional small contributions but the big funding of this was done by Madison Public Library Inc and the large piece of that is basically the source of funds was a request of Larry tabber I don't know people that have been here in the
town we have a sizable benefit fund that he gave us as a part of under his will and we have been looking for various projects to fund and we've used this as kind of I guess the safety B for us when we were
running into issues that we were encountering happily the market has also worked reasonably well I think to fund that we can do things like this at nli and the market also is hit us on the
construction in that area so any other uh items I think the requests and gifts as I indicated there have been several sizable ones that we've been late in
2024 and early 2025 one of the Librarians uh that passed away uh early in 2024 uh we found we will be receiving a request of almost over a million dollars it was just amazed we were just
surprised that she was able to accumulate money somehow the other thing is what are we going to do in the five-year Capital plan it really is going to be the last area that we've been trying to do we've
been hitting on it in little places it's the courtyard Improvement the plaza and the fountain repairs uh the those items we've tried to play with it a little bit but we're going to I think really really tackle that and do this over the next couple of years and that's part of our
long range plan to get it done in a way that'll I think enhance again the the services of the library any questions or things that I haven't touched on could team presentation and everything going Tom this kind of goes back to I
think my first term on Council many moons ago um I remember discussions about the services that the library that the library prop provides to the town to the residents of the Town something as
simple as access to a Wi-Fi you know while Madison is a wealthy community there are a lot of people here who cannot afford computers cannot afford Wi-Fi service you guys do it that's a valuable service that I know people think of libraryies books and you write
take this out but really that type of a program plus what you do for the children you can't measure in dollars and cents it's invaluable so thank you guys for that well thank you for that one of the things I think that you'll note in that particular area when we
finally are going to be opening up sometime hopefully early spring uh things keep on arising uh is like creating an area for uh sub teens and teens they had to just use space in the
library that we had now we're going to be dedicating a space uh for this uh so that they can have their activities I think uh undertaken one of the uh other things that I think we're looking at is trying
to enhance the outside physical plant one of these we've been working in the rear of the building and I think uh Mr Cody knows the problem we've been having with uh the grounds itself the way the water and
the rains flood down on there and it's going to be another major I think I'll call it major undertaking to get that so we can really feel comfortable that our remodeled Library isn't going to be hit by floods anybody else
questions thank you looking forward to uh cutting a ribbon on the re yes yes I know Lynn keeps worrying about I'm afraid to give a specific date so it's like early spring are we going to look for the
groundhog to figure out the uh yes yes mayor next up we have engineering and land use assistant engineer Dennis Harrington and our new employee Ryan Fury you get a chance to meet Ryan Ryan's going to talk about the water utility I also asked him because it's not on here but it's a project he's going to be working on um to talk about
uh a GIS project that we're we're going to be working on this year something that was Advanced and um encouraged through climate action but we're going to be expanding it into more areas so we're going to have Ryan talk about that for a few minutes as well welcome Conley council members nice
to be in front of you again um presenting tonight for the engineering and land use departments um as I'm sure you all know it has been a challenging year year and a half with our staffing issues but help is on the way as you saw in our opening slide and as Jim
mentioned um we have a internal hire internal promotion with Bonnie Mahi assuming and taking over some of the administrative and land use administrator duties and Ryan Fury recent hire um as project manager um and
assisting in the L engineering and land use functions as well and with council's approval um a construction inspector will be a a rehire I guess we could
say um despite our staffing issues we did have some significant accomplishments in 2024 including um Road improvements which the mill and overlay project which we're part of Mars County cooperative um
to achieve those um improvements at a I won't say discounted but at a very reasonable um affordable rate for for those improvements and in in addition to the three streets we also repaved the the
Overflow parking lot at the uh community pool and dog the dog park as well as doing some curving improvements also through the co-op one of the major improvements was the cook Avenue parking lot um which is
90% complete um there are still the rain Gardens to be completed which now with the weather breaking we hope to have that done within the next I'm going to say months to six weeks with the um the plantings and the excavation the construction of the the rain
Garden itself we also assist um with multiple committees in the borrow including complete streets which has been spoken of earlier which I feel is one of the most important committees that the burrow has
for Public Safety recognizing problem areas and making improvements not just not just recognizing them but taking action um we do have a couple of intersections that are being evaluated um for improvements
to to take care of any safety issues and in conjunction with the police department uh signage uh striping speed reduction we did uh speed reduction on Kings Road this year so there's some of the Improvement and some
other accomplishments to the complete streets committee we had a couple of emergency contracts that we were able to take care of this year including a sanitary manhole on the verge of collapse as well as the DPW garage where the uh trust
system had exhibited some failures and on more Det inspection it was determined that that was an emerging condition and that has been successfully completed and for planning documents
um phase three Park the trail at Park will be completed this spring um we have also prepared a Grant application for additional Mill and overlay through the quop Cooperative program Mars County
which will be funded with a grant uh New Jersey Department of Transportation additional accomplishments um working with uh different other different departments including parks and wreck um I think
maybe the project I'm most proud of was the the Dodge field accessible playground which was successfully completed in summer and fall of this year um were significant Grant um endowments for that
which essentially paid for the entire project it was almost $700,000 total cost to date uh completely covered by grants through Mars County uh and state of New Jersey the Green Acres Program I think that was
a significant accomplishment and a great Jewel for the burrow of Madison and region County as well there are still a couple of things
to um complete at the project site amenities benches and tables trash receptacle but we still have some grant money left so hopefully we can get all of that completed within the funding that's available we had um project for wellbe
and the water system which I think we're at the point now we ready it's been it's been back online for for many months and has been the uh Water Production has been restored so we're really at a punch
list status on that project which is really finishing minor items that are inconsequential or don't don't um detract from its production and its performance on the electrical system a
significant project which is about to commence is the uh solar project at the Madison Recreation Center solar carport um we have been working to finalize the design elements mostly the structural and
Foundation we are there I say and we hope to break round on that this month yeah um and that'll be um you know a significant alternative energy source
for the B solar project May considering other just infrastructure grants we're working on um for again Mill and
overlay three streets that are listed uh as well as a Grant application in process for Shady Lawn Drive regarding land use Services you can see the numbers there different permits
uh applications that we have processed one note on the 667 zoning permit applications when you think of it there's about 250 working days in the year in the calendar year so we're processing about two and a half
applications a day that's pretty much what the level has been over the last three four maybe five years so it's it's quite a workload and you know staff has been able to achieve that and you know continue that
that level of service and this shows a couple of the projects that we talked about um Dodge field playground on the left with the ribbon cutting ceremony as well as an aerial view of the cook parking lot with a little snow on the
ground to be clear that that was a before picture no it's not I'm sorry that's our new that is a new one I lost track here yep much changed yes it's the snow that threw me off I'm
sorry man go ahead okay uh 2025 Department goals you can see um different goals that we have continuing with um public construction projects you mentioned assisting the borrow with
projects including the Mason Masonic Lodge which the burrow acquired last year there's any questions on any of goals for 2025 we do have you know a couple of
Grant applications um with the with the do as well as with Mars County additional trails in we had talked about the road program we do have the milling and overlay as well
as one reconstruction for and one comment now we're talking looking at projections for the next five years on road reconstruction you see some of the projects we've got lined up uh Shady Lawn as we mentioned we had projected for
2027 There's an opportunity with the Department of Transportation to get funding for that project that could be a a 2025 or 20 probably maybe a 2026 project the other projects um are also
being evaluated as everyone knows we have PSG throughout the borrow doing gas system upgrades uh and as they complete their work we're having them repave those roads so depending on where they
end up and that'll be more evident with the um milling and overlay I don't want to say it's it's not a moving Target but it's something that we have to evaluate several times a year depending on what P has been able to accomplish what they
have been able to repay there may be some streets that that get eliminated from this list psng does their work and repaves them but essentially this is done through uh a
thirdparty pavement evaluation firm that comes in every several years they drive the streets they rate them based on their condition in an objective technological me ology that's how we assigned and look
for streets to prioritize for upcoming Ro reconstructions and over with Mill and overlay we had mentioned East Street Dogwood and Harwood are our current do approved
project for mil overlay we would likely do the MRC parking lot and that's going to get all torn up with the solar carport project needed it anyway so it's it's not as being Advanced by 10 years
because of the project You' been 15 years since it was paid so it's time so timing is very good to get that re parking lot repa again Ming an overlay
um is somewhat contention upon PG's work we know they're on Hillside and holding Lane for example so we kind of put the asterisk on there that they may be repaved following the psng work some of all the other streets are
pretty much ranked based on the third party evaluation um at this point I'd like to hand it over to Ryan Fury uh he has expertise in utilities particularly water um prior
employment just to also as a handle just quick comment on the the Reconstruction number for this year is um very low compared to previous years or normal years but next year's is very large and so it balances balances out and the uh
50,000 that we have budget there is to get some design work on Waverly Place so we can drive the final design and project thank thank you for mentioning that mayor Waverly Place is the the heart and soul of of the community I like to think of it as our Rockefeller
Center um and it needs work um we are working toward defining the eventual scope of that project but um that that um thank you for reminding
that now thank you all right Ryan you're on thanks Denis good evening everybody uh as you know I'm Ryan Fury I'm the new employee so I'm looking forward to working with everybody everyone's been extremely nice um so I'm going to be talking about the uh water and sewer infrastructure as well as um touching
upon GIS like Jim said so our approach for the water and sewer um operations is going to be targeting both the distribution system and our system um the reason why we want to Target our distribution system is we want to continue to um replace and swap out
aging infrastructure um whether it be transmission Mains or our customer service connections um this will help improve unaccounted for water loss percentage um any interruptions in service um and it'll also uh equip the
our system to handle any increased demand um on for so whether it be like the hot summer right you know everyone um water and sewer everyone's home more um this will help us um take on that additional load and you know it puts the
uh the burrow in a good position to um you know for growth or anything like that uh additionally so we're going to be looking at um a full evaluation of our treatment system um a lot of new regulations are coming down the pipeline uh Federal and both state um so we want
to make sure that we're proactively taking those into account um Mak systems are properly equipped and uh you know can handle these new regulations so that bur doesn't come out of clients um so that's essentially um more
or less the idea of how we're going to keep things flowing with the water and sewer no pun intended um but uh so for moving forward uh with um one of the first projects that um I got involved with here was uh the GIS mapping so uh
the burough has been very good um in proactive getting uh water sanitary and storm water um already mapped um the electric utility uh is mapped however they use a another um application for
that so what I'm hoping to do is um you have so four utilities three of the four are on one platform it's called the EZ platform and basically what GIS is it's it's a geographic information system right so it's basically an overview of your entire town and it's a app and it
tells you all your assets and and it um it basically gives you an inventory of what what you have so what's good is that three of the four utilities are already mapped so you have a base map of the town already and what we're hoping to do is that the electric utility is very diligent and and um really on top
of you know any kind of Replacements or um new maintenance items or um new things that they're putting in so what we're hoping to do is overlay what they already have onto um the other three into one platform and then that that way it's all in one spot everybody can look at it um and we can do some really cool
things like uh asset inventory load management hydraulic modeling so a lot of things that um you're going to want to evaluate before you start making decisions right because you don't want to make uneducated decisions you want to make sure that um you know what we're doing and we can handle the capacity and
want to don't want to overpromise so uh that's more or less of what uh we're looking to do um I hope sorry if I was a little nervous I just want to make sure that uh uh but uh you know that's you know it's really exciting things I'm
really looking forward to working with everybody and um hope we can make this work out so thank you Ryan and you did a a fine job Eric and thanks well first of all welcome Ryan um and as folks know I'm
kind of a technology nerd so GIS a man after my own heart so thank you for being involved in that and Dennis it just would be remiss if we didn't thank you for all of the uh work you put in in 2024 juggling two three four jobs um all
the land use meetings Michael as well who attended all of those uh planning board meetings and zoning board meetings to run the zooms and all like that so you guys did Yan's work with not that those meetings aren't important and not real work but doing
the real work of the playground in cook Avenue and all of you know attending those meetings and making sure that the folks on the planning board and the zoning board had the support they need um I know it was a little overwhelming so I don't want to minimize the efforts
there for everyone that stepped up um you Michael and others uh in kind of filling those holes why we were why we had them so I'm very happy to see we're back to full capacity uh Personnel wise and look forward to all the great things
you guys are going to do in 2025 so thank you Dennis any other questions or comments I've got a um Brian just um touched on it quickly there but interconnection agreements um what want
to just explain that to for the public yeah um so the interconnection agreements that's going to primarily involve um the the water utility uh So currently Madison has eight interconnections that um you essentially use for emergency purposes um they're
not like I said they're only for emergency purposes like the luxury that we have is that a lot of all of our wells can produce the amount of water that's consider for demand so the interconnections are good um basically insurance for us and it's definitely
something worthwhile to explore because um interconnection Agreements are going to be a lot more financially responsible and um easier to to implement rather than developing a brand new well right a brand new well or digging digging a brand new well or you know
retrofitting um already existing treatment plants that cost tons of money um Additionally you know you're have to worry about lead times and uh you make sure that the the manufacturers actually have the equipment to properly you know fit what we need so the interconnection Agreements are something that we can
explore that we can like do right now right so if if there were a need for additional demand um we have that capability um and it's a matter of you know just calling our partners um next door me I'm not really um quite sure
with those yet uh like but um it's it's like I said it's a matter of just um picking up a phone and and working out something to pull up to benefit both parties so uh it's more so um a good
idea uh to to make sure that um you know we're we're using the Burrow's money in a in a financially responsible way essentially what um that is referring to um and then there's like technical things you would like to go I can go over that but I don't want to take I
don't want to take everyone's time so and and the other for the category of Coming Attractions and um is the P issue so what are what are are you looking at sure yeah so that's a great question um so pasas I'm sure everybody is very well
aware um it's an emerging contaminant um so the EPA just regulated obviously the state regulated it um so basically what P is for those that don't know it's um their man-made industrial materials so uh essentially what
happened was um these chemical companies made these these um pasas compounds for you know I'm sure they had good intentions but you know down the line they found out that uh it was a contamination point right so what happened was it was getting dumped into
water supplies whether it be reservoirs groundw supplies you know New Jersey has a lot of it to be honest with you and it's not just um you know certain pockets it's all of New Jersey um so what the state and federal uh government did is they regulated them down to the parts per trillion level so to give you
like a quantifiable idea of what that means it's like a drop of water in a pool right an Olympic Siz pool very really really small concentrations but you know they're they're not good for you so um for p the three compounds that
um that are regulated they're respectively between 13 and 14 parts per trillion the burrow currently um is in compliance with those uh and what we want to do is make sure what we want to do is make sure that we're equipped for the new EPA rule which is putting it
down to four parts per trillion um so it's not a problem we can definitely you know make sure that it can work but we want to make sure that we're evaluating our systems and making sure that um you know the data backs up what we're looking at so we've already begun looking at all of our treatment plants
all the all the data dating back to I think 2020 um and we're just making um educated decisions on you know what we should be looking at first how we're going to uh spend the money to do it and you know interconnection agreements is one of those um ideas
so uh a lot of information uh but uh that's essentially what um is the emerging contaminant that's coming down the line so uh we just want to make sure we're proactive with it you know regulations um are kind of saying that I'm hearing 2029 20 or 2031 they want um
full compliance so uh like I said we're we're we're doing the steps now to make sure that we're either retrofitting or building what we need to um to make sure that you we don't have to be down a well and put water restrictions
Ryan welcome to Madison you you've already impressed me tonight so oh thank you um I think my question or comment is really for Dennis uh Dennis as as you look at um the infrastructure assessments that you're thinking of for 2025 I would ask that um we take a look
at West Lane because I know uh there's been some issues with water and you know maybe we need additional catch basins Etc so if we can prioritize that um it's been such an issue with Heavy Rain much appreciate it is one of the one of the
many priorities my concern is it can't be a a Band-Aid type of a thing this is a regional issue with storm water with the increased uh frequency and intensity of storms um it needs to be handled on a
more of a regional than just single single Street issue we can't be taking the water um directing it direct you know short circulate downtown to Central Avenue thinking of the storms we had in August when there was feet of water um
in the in the public safety building um so it it needs to be addressed it needs to be addressed comprehensively and but I think more of a regional solution not just adding a few catch Basin here and there if
that's acceptable at this point we'll have to figure out the appropriate approach but I think um we definitely have to look into it and uh communicate with the neighbors there correct yes yeah and if there are Simple Solutions that we can Implement absolutely but you
know as I said with the increasing frequency and intensity of storms starting to identify problematic areas uh in the borrow including West L West West Street West Lan East pomoy you know there are other other problematic areas
that are being identified so it is it is a priority thank you Dennis thank you Ryan and and again Dennis reinforc with Eric said thank you for all the extra work you've been doing keeping this uh flowing because land use boards alone could be uh a department
let alone with everything else going on thank you mayor mayor I wanted to say publicly what I've said privately um to the governing body which is I think we have and now that you've seen our team and seen from all the department heads I I feel right now that we have the best
team that I've ever seen here at the burough of Madison top to bottom Ryan's a great addition we have a lot going on there we anticipate some significant water Capital needs and um treatment needs that we're going to have between now and 2030 so we're fortunate to have
someone like him and his expertise on it and it's always great having Dennis because um not all Engineers can explain things in normal English and whenever Dennis talks I understand what he's saying so uh no shots at any any other Engineers that I might know um anyway
just uh thank you and appreciate your time and appreciate um the entire team we just had a quick shot of the uh Parks and Recreation which are pretty straightforward just um Field improvements Trail resurfacing and
relatively small it's just Capital lines that we have um on reserve for Zach I think the big thing is going to be the uh the um MRC turf field um we have a big reserve for that and we are very fortunate that the turf that we selected is is lasting longer than the warrant
and longer than expected you know what we're just going to keep doing the best job we can maintaining it and uh going from there and jennice has something go ahead say yeah just for Parks and Recreation one of the initiatives the burrow undertook this year was to um to
consider proposals from four different um landscape expert firms and we engaged um square acre Studio who a it's a local firm Tom salaki who did an evaluation of four burrow Parks which were thought to
be underutilized maybe so that's an Initiative for this year um we have the first couple of phases of that project um that it's more project it's a evaluation completed which included public input um so I think that's
important um item to include in tonight's presentation Parks yeah it certainly has created a what call master plan for these four Parks which will have have to be done over time but uh if you don't have a plan you're never going to get
there so yes so there were summerh Hill Central green Del Barton and Li seed Park have been evaluated and had a public design charettes they're called which had a good turnout and that is moving forward this year I'm sure
that'll come to the council at some point for some recommendations and improvements to those parts thank you very much thank you for skipping the last slide I just realize I'm the one on that
slide yeah all right we will move on to ordinance of hearing with the clerk please read the statement okay the ordinance scheduled for hearing was introduced by title and passed on the first reading at the regular meeting of the council held February 10th 2025 was
posted and filed according to law and copies were made available to the general public requesting SC I call up ordinance 4-22 for second reading ask the clerk to read second ordinance by title ordinance 4-22 ordinance of the burough of Madison
amending chapter 94 appendix a of the burough code entitled electric department rules and regulations regarding time of use rates I open the hearing on anyone wishing to comment on ordinance four please step
forward seeing none I close the hearing mayor I'll move ordinance 4-22 any Council discussion roll call vote Please Mr yes Mr landri yes Mr range yes Mahan yes for
yes I declare ordinance 4-22 adopted and finally passed and ask the clerk to publish notice thereof the news paper and follow the ordinance in accordance with the law now we're on to our second of uh two invitations for public comment this is when you may comment on any
topic um ask you to step up the Le turn state your name and address write the same on the clipboard try to keep your comments to uh three minutes but we give you that one minute grace good evening thanks for everything you do I didn't want to speak tonight but I heard everybody talking about road
safety and Public Safety start Brian start with your name and address hi I'm Brian Morton 18 mle Avenue and I had to read that so um one of the things you could do right away to improve Public Safety is put the barriers back in front of Chipotle and leave them up longer
other towns seem to have them up year round so they've been down and since they come down they're making illegal lefts in and out of there daily that's all thank you for everything you do thank you Brian and um we'll relay that on um they were taken away during the
snow season and um I noticed that in chatt andboro they I think they they put them off to the side and move them back and we took them out completely but uh something new our first winter with them so we'll look at it but now certainly it felt like spring today I'm not going to say spring is here for good because I'll
get me in trouble but uh we'll get those out there again any other comments step forward good evening Judy croll on behalf of friends of Drew Forest um I feel a little bit like a
broken record but I we want to keep our streak going of uh continuing to thank and encourage uh the mayor and Council to work towards the preservation of the Jew Forest so we'd like to thank you
once again ongoing commitment to that um it's truly a treasure that's uh the community benefits from in many different ways it's educ educationally ecologically and recreationally uh for nearly four years
friends of du Forest has advocated for a conservation sale that would benefit the university as well as the community and the environment so we hope that all negotiating parties will continue to seek this conservation sale and Friends
remain available to act for and stand for of the forest sometimes refer to ourselves as the voice of the forest and we will continue to do that so that future Generations can enjoy this very special place including young
Phoebe so thank you very much thank you Judy any other comments please step forward resident Jim Bernett uh Jim Bern at Main Street in Madison um oh God I wanted to
point out that this Friday February 28th will Mark the 200th anniversary of the disassembling of the Presbyterian meeting house which stood on top of Hillside Cemetery the Presbyterians disassembled the wood brought it across the street and it was used to help
assemble the Masonic Lodge which is now the heler center so it's just a cool little piece of history that happened 200 years ago this week and we'll try to get a little bit of information out on it Brian's got a wonderful piece that he put together on it but I just wanted to give a shout out to that thank you Jim and for those
watching at home Brian Morton who stepped up before to speak uh has done a lot of research on the uh um the now hel Center the original U Presbyterian church and the fact that the wood from that meeting house is incorporated so Brian thank you for that research and
we've handed that off to the Architects to make sure as we do the renovations there we um certainly we're not planning to destroy it but we need to highlight it and make sure it's uh people know about that this is some great great history that through the efforts of many
we are saving anyone else wishing to to comment all right we close this part of the meeting and we now um would normally move on to introduction ordinances but we have no to introduce tonight and if we did we would have to skip a meeting anyway so um we go on to consent to gen
resolutions will the clerk please read a statement consent agenda resolutions will be enacted with a single motion any resolution requiring expenditure supported by a certification of availability of funds any resolution inquiring discussion will be removed from the consent agenda all resolutions
will be reflected in full in the minute mayor I move resol resolution 85- 2025 your resolution 95- 2025 second discussion
mayor on the application checklist for r85 um it looks like there's a hold harm lless in in indemnification agreement but on the checklist it doesn't indicate that the proof of insurance was actually received that's film it's the yeah yeah
this um they've been this is on go that was a we have it I guess okay all right all right that was an extended okay perfect I'm good any other discussion roll call vote
Please Mr ER yes Mr yes Mr range yesan yes Mr for yes right there is no unfinished business move to approval of vouchers from the current fund 7,437
9010 from the general Capital fund operating fund $685,500 $ 32,896 even from the trust $ 5,657 181 the total is
9,588 5.91 cents mayor I move approval of the vouchers second discussion roll call vote M yes Mr L yes Mr R yes Miss H yes Mr yes and new
business uh while I was away um visiting granddaughter Stevie who will walk in the Drew Forest before I know it um I asked council president R erck to cover a meeting hosted by congresswoman Cheryl and uh she would
like to report back on what was reported at that meeting so thanks mayor so our representative Cheryl uh convened a meeting of MJ 11th Mayors uh elected officials and administrators last Thursday morning she
was reporting on the great Regional work that's been done in the 11th District she emphasized that when towns municipalities work together on projects like des snagging and desilting the whiy river which has been overflowing and impacting several communities Up and Down the River as well as as Regional
efforts like um coordinating and placing the alprs throughout the region her the point she was making is that these types of projects which require coordination and funding um work best when we work regionally she also uh emphasized that
her office is tracking impacts to municipalities in the 11th District due to federal budget freezes uh uh recisions and U impoundment of federal funds she noted that these Federal actions are harmful to our towns and
there's impacts to our municipalities when the federal government moves to resend grants and dispersements that have been promised so her office is tracking impacts to our towns and she's asked all the towns to report to her um how we are impacted by these unilateral
moves by the federal government so Madison will be reporting to her office impacts to our Madison Housing Authority through actions at HUD as well uh as the uncertainty regarding the solar carport funding and other Grant and um funding
opportunities that our town is relying on such as um funding for our uh 44 units of 100% affordable housing on uh wallness Street and Community Place and other uh important initiatives for which money was approved and awarded but has
either not been dispersed or is is threatened to be clawed back so uh I'm appreciative that our representative is is aware that we feel these impacts locally and her office is doing its best to track these impacts and make it known
at the federal level that we feel the pain locally when these actions take place at the federal level for the report and thank you for covering and there is no other new business may I move to adjourn all in
favor hi