such a there it goes you're quiet time yeah all right we're up okay uh Chief are you on he's not no
I'll text him now man his box is there but we don't see him oh you do see his I don't see his box that's odd you might have the oh here he is here is e all right Chief Sally's having some technical difficulties he's going to try
another way to log in okay um so we do have a two members of the public Brian I believe there's Brian Kelly and Grant Smith
um if either of you would like to speak to the Public Safety Committee if you could just raise your hand and we'll move you over to a panelist can you hear me we can hear you Chief okay and see you okay got it fuzzy
little you gotta fix that camera a little bit I had a nice new camera that one's not working the old fuzzy one's working so I had to switch all right okay uh just Brian Kelly Grant Smith if you'd like to to speak to us please raise your hand we'll move you over as a
panelist okay so I don't see anybody move uh raising their hand so we'll go on uh with the rest of the agenda there's another public comment period at the end we can deal with it then um so welcome uh Chief we're going to go
into the first discussion item and that's the crossing guard Appreciation Week Deborah hi so there were some emails from Julia flath from the South Orange Walk ride bike that they're um organizing that crossing guard
appreciation day again so I don't know if there's anything outstanding but I just wanted to mention it we should like promote it if our I was curious like if our guards were invited um I think last year we made a donate a gift card so I don't know if you needed any help or if it's on your radar or if Maplewood is
getting involved or what yes we're all informed um our Sergeant who's in charge is getting the gift cards while the GI cards and the invitations out so all the guards know and we'll take care of them great perfect and I'll send the invite around to the uh my fellow TC colleagues
if you guys want to come as well it should be a fun event for like proston guard Appreciation Week okay and it's March for the public March Tuesday March 4th 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at JP House in South Orange and
they were kind to shift to timing a little bit to accommodate our crossing guard schedule since they work later than the South Orange Crossings so this is for Maplewood and South Orange together correct it's a joint effort between um at South Orange PD Maplewood
PD walk ride bike maybe okay all right um we're going to move now to the next item which is the parking overnight and I'm going to just share the agenda boom
okay and so um basically I spoke about this at the last Township committee meeting made one little alteration since then uh and there as I said then there are four public parking lots where residents can
park overnight Yale Prospect Woodland and Highland and I'm suggesting that we expand that to include deheart Maple Crest and Indiana um this allows residents uh who
are in one two three family detached dwelling units to purchase a permit for $240 a year to park in the lot um and anyone else in town anyone
anywhere can purchase uh a a a parking permit for $50 a month or $600 uh a year um so that exists now I don't know how
many spots We Rent Out I didn't get that from Liz I do know that there are some spots in the Yale lot um and I know there are some in the Woodland and those are those are uh down down in that little corner and then
there's some in Highland I don't know about the Prospect Street if there's any there um by expanding this it would allow us to capture some folks who have spoken to us before who live on
Lombardi um and also uh by including Indiana we can help uh some folks who are uh at the uh Western end of Springfield Avenue and some of those multiple family
homes um Chief I wanted to give you an opportunity if just to share with us if you have had any if the police have had any problems with this overnight parking in the public Lots uh you're
muted no we haven't had any problems with that um the only thing I would say is if we can get the permanent parking um in one section of the lot right not all over the place but like um the pool lot everybody parks on one
corner um as far as the permits makes it easier for us and also um we identify um you know who's supposed to park there overnight yeah my thought is if we agree to do this that we would work with DPW
to designate some spots and maybe put some signs up that say you know overnight parking by permit only yes because I think some people might see a car there and think that they can park there without a permit and then they get a ticket and that becomes a whole mess
so um we can we can talk about um what would be an appropriate message on a sign so that's my proposal um I know uh Brian Kelly was at our meeting yesterday I believe the code meeting and he also
attended the meeting this morning and he has a particular interest in the Indiana lot because he's a broker for the old ricardi or the former ricard's building which has two apartments on top and um there are some other apartments there on
that end of Springfield Avenue who have difficulty with parking uh by opening up the Maple Crest lot we've uh Deborah you've mentioned issues on boen Parkway and boen Parkway South and um you know we could let folks
who who have reached out to us know that they'd be eligible to park there with a permit M I'm supportive of this whole concept um but my one question about Maple Crest is because that's also where the inclusive playground is going to be
and we've talked about creating more handicap or accessible parking spots there and so I just wasn't sure how this if we start giving permitted spots there how that might affect playground and all that kind of things so I'm just bringing that okay so um there it's overnight parking so essentially they have to move
the cars during the day so it's not permanent parking so it they're they're subject to any of the rules so um let's say parking is 3 hours starting at 9:00 they'd have to move their car uh by
12:00 in order not to get a ticket so that would be explained to them and everything so they it's just overnight parking really it's great how many spaces do we think we can designate if we adopt this
um do we have an idea maybe we don't just yet yeah I think it's on it's there's there's really no capacity the capacity is the is the parking lot but um you know dehart's a very large parking lot and on my senses we would put put this
over uh near the basketball court so probably you know there's 20 spots that could be available there at deart uh Maple Crest little tighter Indiana I think you could find uh uh you know if you had to you could
probably uh do eight six to eight spots there um hang on I have a couple other questions Malia and then you could jump in sure uh what's the difference between the type A the type B permit I I didn't
really understand that in the memo okay so the type a is um parking that uh is for someone who uh doesn't have a driveway I'm sorry type A is uh let's
see now you got me here so I didn't have it in here um it say a difference so I'm sorry so type A is the uh person who Parks uh who has a one two or three family detached
dwelling unit and um doesn't have a driveway uh or um they they live in a or they anyone who lives in a one two or family dwelling unit if you have a if you don't have a driveway you can park in front of
your house that's a type B and that's $240 um a type A is you get to park in a public parking lot and you don't get to park in front of your house you get to park in a
public parking lot and you live in a one two or three family detached dwelling so if you live in a multiple family house uh presumably you have uh or apartment rather presumably you have one spot in that unit
then you're entitled to a type B parking spot which is $50 okay thank you for clarifying that that's really helpful and then what we did is we yeah so we made it so anybody now anybody in Maplewood if you look under this I just highlight this area
here um anyone in Maplewood actually can purchase a type a parking permit for $600 so if even if you have a driveway even if you have you have a lot of cars you can buy you don't have you can live in a multiple family house you can live
in a one two or three family house you can purchase um uh the type a parking at $600 so if I wanted to park on Prospect I could pay 600 bucks in park there got it okay yeah I think this is
great great I support this we've been talking about doing this and um I like the way that this is set up it's Equitable right it provides options and it's available even to those that as you just said have a driving have a driveway um and they choose for whatever reason
to Avail themselves of this um and we can communicate this out I think this is a big win Malia thank you um okay I I still don't understand the difference between paying
600 a year or 240 per year so how do you qualify for the 240 because that's obviously less than $50 a month so the 240 is that it's it's the one two or three family house that you can purchase one the first permit at
240 and that's basically because in a one two or three family home um we know that there's limited parking so you get a spot at a lower cost or a lower rate and that's just for your first one correct
and then if you want another one then it's up to the the higher amount correct so so an example of somebody who might pay 600 would be somebody who is in an apartment correct because presumably
they have one parking space in their building because we require that okay so like for example the the y Street Apartments there on the corner of Y and Springfield there's one spot per unit some of those people have a second
car so they pay $600 to park behind in the Yale lot got it okay cuz like a house like a regular house would have like space for one car but then if you want to have a second car and you don't have space for that second
car you pay 240 correct yeah if you had a third car you'd pay it it is a a better deal for people who have um homes than people who are in apartments correct um is there a reason for
that um I think it's because when it's type A is also uh I'm sorry type A for the person who's in a onew and family mimics the type B who you can park in front of your house
and it's 240 to park in front of your house house so we I think we just kept at the same rate to park in a public lot for your first car okay I'm just thinking that you know we have residents that live in homes and also in
apartments and if a resident in a home and an apartment have more than one car they're paying different rates for that second car to be in a lot only a multiple family so if you're like if you live in a two family house or three Family House on boen Parkway South
then you'd pay 240 so if if I lived on the second floor and you lived on the third floor we'd each be able to get one permit for 240 yeah I think you have to distinguish between apartment we have different kinds of Apartments here Department
buildings that come with a park that you can pay extra for a parking spot in the building or there's these multif family houses that have a driveway so you can park tandem or you might not have parking and then you get ticketed on the street cuz it's the easiest place to park you just risk
it yeah I mean it's sounding like I for example could go and get a $240 pass to park in a lot but that doesn't really seem fair um that somebody in an apartment building who has a a car then has to pay 600 so I
don't know maybe I'm just not understanding it clearly we need to do a good job explaining um I but I like the concept overall I'm I'm definitely in favor of this I like adding more um options to our residents I've definitely heard this
um from people who have been you know residents who have been frustrated and not having enough space so um I really um I really like this um you know just wanting to look at the you know the equity of homeowners versus apartment owners making sure that all of our
residents are treated equally um and then I did want to go back to what Miss Engle brought up regarding the Maple Crest Park cuz that parking lot is really small and um a lot of people go so the the the inclusive playground that will
be there um a lot of people who go to playgrounds will go in the morning so if we have like if half or more of that parking lot has cars that are going to be staying there until noon I I could see that as being a
problem so we may want to either limit like it's a very small lot I don't know how how many spots are there maybe 20 40 oh maybe 20 yeah we might want to like limit the number of permits that we allow there or um yeah I don't know but
I I think having a number of cars staying there until 12 will really um cut into the access for the playground yep we can do that you know we can do that administratively with Liz does that she can just uh limit it to
Maple Crest to certain number sounds good okay and then lastly I think since we are in Public Safety Committee discussing this um we may want to take a look at our
infrastructure at these locations I mean certainly the heart is well lit at night at least up by the senior center and the community center as you get closer to the basketball court um after certain hour it gets pretty dark there
um so we want to make sure that you know when we make this available it's also a safe option for people to uh walk to and from their cars there good point we'll take a look at that from the Maple Crest lot too because I was just thinking about that having to cut by where the
old tennis courts were that back way that I wouldn't feel safe doing that okay uh next up is Parker a um so Chief you you missed the meeting yesterday but that's okay because we're going to set
up a special meeting you're going to meet with Paul kitner uh you and I guess uh dagio is now traffic yes it'll be Lieutenant deago okay so
um if you guys can meet with with uh Paul go over the plans and give him your feedback we're Gathering feedback uh we did hear from the fire department they were actually in favor of the bike lanes because it gives them
uh wider access without having cars on the street um so they thought it was a good idea uh and we met with the the principal of the school today and he he didn't see um he's not opposed to it he
thinks there's a lot of challenges which there are there would have to be a lot of enforcement so as you talked to Paul kittner um talk to him about your observations and your feelings and also how you might um be able to enforce this
because this is dedicated parking Lanes on both sides of the street on Parker and we wouldn't allow parking on that street okay um Patrick you want want to give us uh an update on the uh scheduling and
Management Services for police off duty rates did we go out toh solicit quotes be can you stop sharing yes we did we went out with an RFP for off duty scheduling management and we
were scheduled to open that today we had a change to make to the RFP so we issued an addenda this week and push the opening date back to May 5th so we have to have so much time between advertisement and opening so it just you
know it extends us a little bit but we only got you know one question on one area and and so uh that's we expect that'll be the last change we make and if if we are we able to Institute this mid
year yeah yeah absolutely any questions on this okay and then uh Chief the police vacancies I know we spoke about a few vacancies at the last meeting what's our plan going to fill those yes so um we
yesterday we spent um myself and our admin spent most of the day interviewing uh possible candidates for uh police um we um we we we exhausted our list our police list that we have so
we uh interviewed three out of that list and then we went to uh Morris Police Academy which has the alternate root police program there these are these are persons that pay for themselves to go to the police academy um and we had the
opportunity to interview seven um that were at at that uh Academy um to look for possible candidates um out of our the end of our list that we went through in the uh altime rout candidates we um
identified four that we would uh like to move on however with the alternate route um uh you know things have changed in um higher end police officers because um you know we used to have a line going around the corner with uh persons
wanting to become police officers the alternate Ru program when we spoke to these U candidates they already were interviewed by two or three different agencies so they um it's kind of like the NFL draft you know you go there and uh you know you um you tell them you
know how great Maple it is and then another agency tells them how great they are um we did leave our applications there um um we're waiting to follow up with the uh staff there to see who's interested in going further um and once we identify that we'll um push them for
forward for interviews um the the local police academy s County also Union County does not have an alternate root program so that's why we had to go to Morris also um I believe pic has one as well
but also um if um we get one or two candidates out of that uh we can also go to um uh resumés from other agencies um you know and try to get a uh you know transfer officers but also we
have a job fair coming up uh next month in May um March um with the U Kan University uh we go there every year and we get we do get a lot of um resumés and um possible candidates from that and
that's usually um uh we get a mix of persons that are not um officers yet but also officers that are looking to transfer so um we'll find out from alterate rout officers who are interested and um from there we'll determine if we need to continue with
interviews um to fill the slots okay is there uh I know we have a couple vacancies now we have some coming up right uh yes um well we have two now um and one um anticipating um this year
um so that's that's where we're at and the the process is you do interviews and if you find someone you want to pass along to be interviewed by the township committee then you'll call us together to do those interviews yes so yes so we we want to get enough
candidates uh to um you know to a move so you uh so the so the T committee can interview um so if it's two slots you know at least um I'm thinking about five five candidates to interview from to choose
from and then we always um you know uh rank another one uh when we anticipate the other one's going to go so just one I don't so if we're looking at people that have not gone through alternate route we just have to be aware of when academies start right yeah
yes yes um even with the alterar rout um officers that we interviewed they only been in the academy for 5 weeks so they still got time as well okay well I'm sure if they meet with us they'll want to work
here we're like the uh you know where where where're the Eagles well like that Chief said uh with it being competitive we'll want to schedule interviews pretty quick with anybody coming out alternate route because other towns will be looking to do the same thing yeah I think we the ones that we
um we like the three are pretty are pretty uh pretty good so um we're trying to get an answer real fast from them and then uh move on it and chief we discussed since we have exhausted our list giving another test what's the status of that yeah so we
have to um uh call the state state um Chiefs Association to schedule that so um we'll we'll uh will go through that process as well yeah and how long does that take till they give the exam
um it's it doesn't take him long to to uh do the exam it's just the fact that we have to advertise and um get the applications out and everything um for that um so um I you know I I think we
should do it after the after the U job job fair I mean at least hopefully we have a date at the job fair so we can tell people that we're having a test we hand things out and then be ready to go okay any questions for the chief on
this okay so let's go to the police activities um so Chief uh we got the crime statistics for the whole year now comp compared with uh 2023
so um you know our robberies are down I'll let you speak I'm just gonna keep going if you have anything to say right so um yeah the good news is the robberies have been gone down consistently for three years um a lot of that's due to um good arrest from the
detective Bureau also our uh presence in those areas from our Patrol Division also picking up the officer at the Wawa overnight so that has has helped to reduce uh these crimes each year since 2022 um aggravated assaults have gone
down um most most of our assault uh situations are with domestic violence um incidents where the uh victim the uh the victim knows who is uh who's knows the perpetrator and um usually that's you
know results in an arrest with that and just we had a little uptick right so this is um so the burglaries um you know I've been uh talking about this all last year that um they have been uh
they have been going up the uh the residential burglaries um we we um have been working with other agencies and have made some identifications with some of these older burglaries um we we are still you um getting evidence and things
together to possibly make an arrest make make arrest um the good news is in uh in January um uh from 2024 to 2025 we had 20 in 2024 in January we had four burglaries this year this year in
January we had two so we had a uh 50% uh decrease in December we had um five burglaries three of them were um or businesses storefronts uh we had made an rest in that so we cleared uh three of
those um uh uh burglaries to a business and then there was one uh this year um we this year with the two burglaries in January we had uh one to a business we made an arrest in that and the second one was to a home and we made an arrest
of a juvenile in that one so the two uh Burg had this year we made a rest in both so we um see we see that trending down a little bit and we are making arrest and identifications great thank you theft
also up pretty significant right so um with the theft um it's uh package theft's uh shoplifting um going into unlocked Vehicles taking uh items outside from the vehicle um but uh again in in
January uh comparing 2024 to 2025 um we we um in 2024 we had 15 thefts this year in January we had 10 um and uh two of them are shoplifting six of them
are uh going through unlocked vehicles and the other one and the unlocked vehicle thefts were like in a course of two nights um so the um in almost in the same area uh so we we picked up Patrols in those areas and then there was a few
package steps in January so that is trending down um but um again it was a pocket of them in January where they're going through uh unlocked Vehicles the same thing we were seeing in 2024 which was um a big
increase Auto thefts um every year are have been going down um and um the same thing uh this year January 20 24 there was five January this year three and uh unlocked vehicles and uh vehicles are
taken and then eventually we recover them in a different uh different municipality so they have been trending down every year they've been trending is this uh Beyond Maplewood this is also happening in other places just generally Auto thefts are down yes
yes they are and then I don't I don't I don't know if it's because of technology or that's why the brokies are picking up because that's the way to get the car you have to go get the keys this is all the incidents right and
most of those are the thefts that are um increasing but um we um we hope to continue uh the trend this year of the decrease we're seeing in the first mon anyone have any questions about any
of these statistics itics I do I had one question um Chief thank you for this um I want to go back to the assaults uh all the domestic violence related incidents they're all counted and and uh indicated
as assaults right aggravated assaults um uh a lot of them are simple assaults which is u meaning uh there was no weapon evolved or there was um pretty much if you if you if you use your hands and your fist that's a simple assault
Agra aggravated assault um could be um you know uh with a weapon a bat could be a weapon a gun of course is a weapon a knife and so on thank you and the 42 that we see here for all of
2024 um is that 42 distinct incidences Burg that's burglary oh sorry yeah um 10 10 yes sorry about that yeah I was looking at the wrong place so the 10 are those all
distinct incidences no I uh you I'm sorry or could they involve the same people counted therefore more than once u a little bit of both it could be the same uh uh person or it could be um
various people and some of them are and they're not all domestic I should say it could be be um uh aggravated assault could be on the street as well okay thank
you I wanted to ask about oh wait am I on I wanted to ask about the um so just to clarify if some auto theft is only when they take the car and they don't enter the house if
they enter the house to get the keys and then they take the car that's listed as a burglary yes so that's not also listed as an auto theft corre even though the burglary often times is both burglary and auto theft
right all right because then I I guess we may not actually be seeing an auto theft decline they're just go theide house to get it the auto theft decline is a straight auto theft you know Street straight yeah car right yeah the
burglary is the one that really um right but but you got you got remember most a lot of our burglaries you know a lot of times they don't get the car I mean they they're attempting to get the car they're go in the house something happened dogs started barking uh lights came on they took
off yeah yeah then also there's multiple right when you have somebody come multiple times to the same house yes and is that counted as two different burglaries yes okay every time they come and and make that attempt going as
bur thanks yeah so I'm going to keep doing these charts for 2025 so that we'll be able to keep looking at Trends year to year to year so good idea I hope they're helpful
they are thank you Vic I like your charts yeah and they're transparent too the public should see this okay um did uh Chief we're going to go into executive uh later in case you want to go into any in more detail but
did you want to say anything else about Auto thefts home invasions uh no just uh the fact that um most of the auto thefts the Straight Street auto thefts are with vehicles
that are um uh left unlocked sometimes the keys are in the car and a lot of our thefts is the same way you know they uh the keys the the doors are unlocked people are just going in taking laptops or whatever so uh with the vehicle secure your uh your
vehicle um keys I mean you know you have them in the house um make sure your all your doors are secured and um if you see any anything suspicious call us immediately because we are in the area um and we get there pretty fast so and
um so um anything suspicious if you you know you're not sure call us we'll get there and um you know find out what's going on so Patrick can we have um somebody do a story about this because we had 53 Auto thefts last year and it
would be interesting to do a little story about how many of these had keys in were running um things like that just so we could reinforce the people not to leave your car running when you're running into 7eleven or Wawa
um okay yeah yeah absolutely okay we're going to move now to um the police activity reports and these are I got I did these based on the monthly report we get from Debbie
um so the first is the moving violations Chief you want to speak about these yeah yes so uh the moving moving violations are um pretty much uh everything moving uh you know um as far as uh speeding and
um um left turn in a parking space um um uh you know crossing a dou y lines uh going through uh stop sign not yielding a stop sign so um this is broken down by Shi as you can
see um so uh the top row is shift three shift three um is definitely our busiest um shift in the department we no longer have shifts this year but um shift three is our was is our busiest
it's uh when most people are coming home when we have the most traffic um and uh that's the busiest shift so um and that's why you see the numers higher for shift three for the year Chief one thing um these numbers do
show is that it's not a good trend line from October to December everything's going pretty much either flat uh two of the two of the three shifts are going down um some significantly yeah so um I I did uh look
at the uh J uh January to December stats as far as U moving tickets and um has gone up in January um as far as moving violations um so there is an increase
there um so um the next stat should show it trending up okay I think we'd like to be up in this number here this 145 you know I think we hear a lot from people that you know people are speeding people are not
obeying the traffic the pedestrians so um just if you can just keep emphasizing that right and and the same with the Radar Radar U we get those numbers back up as well as far as radar summonses a lot of
times with the um and I explained this before a lot of times with the radar summonses um it it could come off as a moving violation as well so um it if you pull somebody over speeding officers do have discretion they um
sometimes they might not receive the spinning summons but they might see receive another type of summons from moving that gets us into the whole warning notice too right and that's discretion as well so uh the warning notice um officers use uh instead of the
actual uh issu insuance of the ticket but um the warning notice does follow the driver so the next time the person is pulled over if the if the next time the person's pulled over we can see that the warning was issued for that offense yeah it's um you know one other
thing is when you look at these it's not Universal on the shift all the officers you know some are at zero and some are you know giv out 20 warning notices 20 tickets is there an emphasis on trying to get everybody to get a little higher
in their numbers yes yes even when we uh interviewed the uh the kids in the academy alternate route we're talking about um you know how you feel about issuing tickets and so on and uh the first thing that came out their mouth was that well we do have discretion but
um but you know we're trying to explain to them you know this is part of your job as far as uh uh traffic and uh safety okay I added these two for this uh I didn't have these last month these are crime suppression details right so
why don't you talk a little bit about these what what are these right so we we do a lot of um so of course last year our uh biggest and major crime was uh burglaries so what we do is um uh like
like like for example if we know that this particular resident is getting five time uh attempts of burglaries we'll do a detail there we call a crime supression detail where uh a patrol unit will uh do a detail in that area for a certain
period of time um but um but we we just don't use patrols we use other uh ways of of uh attempting to suppress crimes in areas where we've been seeing an uptick such as uh these deaths and uh these burglaries so that's what you see
there that's our details that we do um last year we uh we had special details out for Burg iies um uh overnight and um these These are the statistics you're seeing for those uh types of details total chronic
suppression details 4,633 so um you know we've been doing a lot of um these type details to try to an attempt to suppress these uh burglaries and other crimes in the area and again like um you know the
public might say um well we don't see the officer well um you know we we have other ways of doing the pr suppression detail than having a marked unit in the in the area okay any questions on this anybody I have a question Chief are these
details regularly scheduled officers on that shift or is this special detail overtime shift right so it it's so if we is both so um all shifts all officers do a chronic suppression detail on their tool
but when we receive um um an uptick in the crime that we have been seeing with the burglaries then we add extra to it um so um the trend last year was burglary so we um picked up the the crime suppression details on top of the
patrol uh division in these areas if it's some other crime we'll do the same thing with another crime in a different area if it if if it shows that it's happening over there so um I would say both last year here but um normally it's every and as always every uh tour and
every officer does a PR suppression detail and then uh just we also talked about the vehicle stop so if you talk about the difference between a motor vehicle motor a moving violation a warning notice and what does the vehicle
stop in comparison to those yeah so um you know the warning notice and the moving violation is all part of the vehicle stop but also could be vehicle stops without um anything issu so it could be um it could it could be a
verbal warning but it can be a written warning or it can be a moving actual moving ticket so um and and and so you know a vehicle stop is just is just that um you know you on a detail you see a violation and you stop the vehicle and
uh go from there if you if if they issued a violation or not or they or not issued a violation I just want to look up something here so the so we're doing like 4,000 vehicle
stops and we're doing 2,000 moving violations about 50% is that sort of normal for uh and uh is that then add the warnings official warning War well the warnings
are there's still a gap of uh sorry so it's about five 5, still a gap of about a thousand right between the stops and the warning notices the radar and the and the moving violations so that's roughly
25% that people are just leaving after a stop is that normal um I would I I don't know if that's normal with other departments I'm not going to commit to that but I'll uh have did a research for that what's the what's the norm for that
okay just seems because you're saying that that they generally are stopping because they observe something that's not correct right either right right lights out or something happened or maybe a plate was bad or right so yeah we're not going to stop anybody for um
no reason so right it has to be a violation or something that uh and uh you know you know um yeah so it is a violation of some sort um why the why the vehicle stopped um but um
officer Discretions right to ticket warning or uh verbally um tell them about the violation so a verbal warning would not be a warning notice right warning notice is a written right okay so maybe the verbals are that other 25%
it would just be be helpful for you to give us some sense of how that matches up with your own professional experience right and the warning notices could just go through that again so uh if I'm pulled over I get a warning does that
get written up anywhere how does that work I know you explained it last time but if you do it one more time right it's written up and uh is is in the uh it's in the system so if you get pulled over for the same violation um it will pop up that you were stopped for that
violation What if I get pulled over for a different violation well uh everything you know everything it's all in there okay are vehicle stops noted as well like if you're not given you're not given a moving violation you're not given a
official warning but you're just stopped is that noted all of our all of our uh incidents with the public is catted in our cash system so when an officer pulls over a vehicle he gives the uh you know the the vehicle information the location
of the stop over the radio dispatchers enter enter a cc number a case number and that information is entered there so the stop is recorded So when the person gets pulled over again then the officer could see okay this person's been has
had several vehicle stops but no warnings or violations like they'll see that well well it's it's not it's not really a violation I mean they're not giving them a violation because it's not written but it's an incident that the vehicle was stopped but it might not say what it's
for but it's a it'll say traffic stop but it will say that right yeah okay if you check if you check our system if you check our our dispatch system but that normally doesn't happen with a uh just a a routine vehicle stop unless you issue
a ticket or a warning it's I mean it's there but um you know if I pull if I'm on spring for down I a car over I'm not calling dispatcher the to check to see if we stopped this vehicle before like that okay so so when you pull someone over
you see if they have you'll see if they have like a warning violation if it's written if it's if it's written but if you're just pulling somebody over you're not checking that no because it's I mean you don't know it could be a thousand cars driving through
I mean I call the dispatch every a car or make that connection that's that's just that's a lot of vehicle stops well this I mean you know and compared to the
the number that got violations or actual warnings interesting numbers thanks for pulling that Vic in Chief um does anyone have anything else they want to talk about the traffic enforcement pedestrian safety
Chief we just want you to keep enforcing it you it's the thing we hear the most I do too do you have anything uh that you might want to add for uh the crossing guard on Prospect that's still working out okay awesome my excuse me
awesome my captain was uh checking up on that um the last couple weeks and said everything's going smoothly everything's fine at that location so and I haven't heard any complaints can can I ask that um maybe
at our next meeting we look at um also um like like our like people who are getting hit um like pedestrians pedestrian incidents um I I seem to just see like a I just hear a lot of them and I don't
know where we are like what's what's normal if we're up if we're down I don't know if they're all getting recorded I I do have a um accident stat in front of me so um in 2023 we had 777
accidents in 2024 we had 714 um I don't have a breakdown of pedestrians I believe there was let me see uh motor vehicle accident injuries pedestrian um 11 in
2024 motor vehicle accidents injuries pedestrian 20234 okay so we did go uh down 8% um between 2023 and 2024 in motor vehicle action total going the right
direction I'm interested in seeing going back to the tickets like next because I know that switching to the 12-hour shifts part of that was to be able to get more people on the road to be able to do enforcement I think if I understood that correctly so I'm curious to start seeing the 2025 numbers because I feel like they'll be more like real
here at the 2024 oh and and uh it's just in January from December it was there was 23 more moving violations written from month to month so um
continue to look uh look at that we see so now uh we don't have three shifts we have two shifts and then we have an A and B right yes so the new the new reports will reflect that the new monthly reports yes
okay and there's um so the a shift of course Works four days together and while the a shift is working the B shift is All 4 days and then the B shift works and then the a shift's all uh you know switches so
okay all right we're gonna just move to overtime everybody is that good okay so um any uh red flags on overtime Patrick can you give us a sense of the year I know you spoke last time that overtime
was up for dispatch um are we talking you know have we solved anything for this year going into this year no we're still pulling together some information and it's a little difficult on the dispatch side
because um lieutenants are included in that dispatch number so it's not solely dispatchers right when we budget because the the uh lieutenant and Watch Commander is included in the you know in the dispatch area and coordinate that
response U they're grouped in that budget line so right now we got to go back through some payroll to figure out you know what are those are dispatchers what are those are um are lieutenants salary and wages and it makes a big
difference just because of the the difference in their pay so hopefully we have some more information early next week and I I imagine that'll be discussed again at the next bu bu meeting the um uh just looking at
overtime for this year you know I know it's just January but uh that 911 911 dispatch overtime uh for that month comparison 2024 to 2025 uh has gone down
20% um for January however we do have um if you look at the police overtime um is going up uh this year and that's only because um we were switching schedules so for us to fill the empty
schedule when we had to you know because we had to G days off the switch um it it caused us um uh overtime to fill like two shifts or two shifts to switch over so that's where you see the um the increase in that and it was about
it was approxim about 80 hours of that that we had to do switch from uh um you know the 4 and3 to the 4 and four a squad B Squad and um make sure that the officers had enough time days off between the
switch okay and I I would assume that uh if we let these vacancies go much longer that's going to incur some overtime too right right so that's why we have been jumping on these interviews and I gu
spent most of the day yesterday interviewing okay all right uh anything else for the chief we're going to come back to him at the end there Chief you have anything for us you want to share yeah I do um
NAA Malloy deputy chief uh Naima Malloy uh we went uh for her last week and she received she was Honore for uh Public Safety appreciation dinner for the peace Island organization we all went out there she received a
beautiful plaque and award I'm just going to read the first paragraph of uh what they read uh when they when she was presented uh deputy chief Malloy has over 25 years dedicated Public Service in 2023 NAA Malloy became the first female in the history of the Maplewood
Police Department to hold the position of deputy chief she is UN she is an undergraduate of Ruckers University and has a master's degree from seen Hall University debut Malloy is a certified public manager and has completed the FBI
midatlantic leads certification in 2024 she became a graduate of the distinguished New Jersey State Police command and Leadership program and it goes on and on and on I can be here all day reading the accomplishments but she um received her award also um the
Attorney General also was honor uh Mr plankin he was there and there was a whole bunch of honoraries there and um uh State Police um gave a couple Awards out for um some incredible jobs they did uh responding uh on a
scene so um Tasha committee was there mayor everybody was there um and it was a good event and we were the loudest in Applause for her that's right Maplewood was in the house you were in the house even the Attorney General mentioned Maplewood
right um okay I don't see anybody from the community board on police so we'll go Patrick do you have anything on OEM yeah we're starting to work with the county now on our update of the Emergency Operations plan so we kind of
been in hold while they work with other municipalities that have earlier deadlines on needing to uh resubmit our deadline is over the summer so we just uploaded all their all of our documents to them and start working with them to go through that so that'll
um that project will pick up quickly in the next couple months we also had an opportunity to review Winchester Gardens Emergency Operations plan so we finished that and we'll uh we'll get that back to them and they just invited us to another
alotment drill to be held later this month so I'll share that with OEM and with the chief it'll be you know similar to previous drills but they expect that there will be a call to the police
department this uh time to at in the scenario to Aid in that search and so may you know it's a good opportunity for us maybe get some new officers there who weren't at the last training maybe some new members of OEM who hadn't been over there before so I'll speak with um OEM
and with the chief about that that is all thank you thank you uh on the South essics Fire Department I reported on this at the last Township committee meeting tomorrow night we're doing a budget meeting on Zoom I'll I I don't have the public uh Patrick you
have the public uh Zoom yeah could you circulate that uh tomorrow or later or in case anybody wants to jump on it's 7:30 it's uh um we're looking that uh looking to adopt the budget on the 25th of
February um for 2024 we had about 5,000 runs uh incidents um again most of those are OEM I'm sorry not OEM they're EMS uh uh in only in Maplewood not in South
Orange so um about nearly uh let's see 48% are ems calls of all the calls uh fires are relatively small number in both towns um
we only had uh eight structure fires in Maplewood nine structure fires in South Orange we had a bunch of other fires brush fires garbage fires car fires cooking fires um but luckily we only had eight
so it was only a total of 17 in the Two Towns so um we did uh come to an agreement on a five-year contract with the unions and that was a big big uh win and we'll be uh moving forward forward um
things are going pretty well there um does anyone have any other items they'd like to bring up in public if not we can go back to the uh participant list and see if anyone would like to address the committee they can raise their hand we can move you over to
a panelist okay okay we have Brian hi Brian you can unmute yourself and address the committee yes super okay wonderful well thank you for letting me witness uh some of the minations of
Municipal goodness um I have a very small question and it has to do with um these these overnight parking um ideas I and I think they're fantastic and that is the sort of stuff we need for uh um for Maplewood um is there any reason we
would not allow the an entire lot like the Indiana lot or the prospect prospect lot to be open to overnight parking I thought I heard an answer to one of Dean's questions being hey we're only going to use maybe a portion of them as over
so I think you know there is a there's a practical issue here and that is um people are allowed to park from 2: to 6 2: am. to 6:00 a.m. and then they have to follow the the rules of the laot so
um in some instances they could actually stay till like noon or or 11 o'clock so we want to we don't want to tie up those all those spots for overnight parking um because they would able to park
overnight and then once the parking um three-hour parking let's say kicks in at 9:00 they would have three hours to stay there so um that kind of defeats the purpose of keeping those um spots open so if that was the case we might want to
limit the number of spots in a parking lot we don't really know until we see what the demand is and are you is it going to be an open kind of like yeah so you could sell a thousand permits you could sell 100 permits you
don't know I mean the reality is we're talking you know if if we're talking if a dozen that would be a lot okay okay you know in all these Lots because it's not like people are first of all it costs money right so you know some people are
if they have a if they have a spot they're going to park where it's for free uh if they have a second car they're going to have to judge whether it's worth having you know pay for parking or or not maybe even having the second car but if they want to park a uh a second car or a first car then we can
accommodate them okay this sounds like it's evolving and and also the um I guess I guess the parking requirements is more of a question for zoning is that correct so it's really
not a public safety thing if we're talking about uh requirements for offices or retail having a minimum number of parking spaces correct yeah that would have been this morning yeah that's this morning or yesterday morning yesterday morning at
Co yeah we we every morning and every night this week you heard this morning that we're moving to um eliminate any required parking for non- business so in in the instance you're talking about you're talking about the
former ricard's property um the people there would not have you know by the time you rent that we'll have our ordinance adopted they would have no requirement to have parking on-site
parking for their uh businesses there we go okay but the apartment so but so then the question is where can they Park so it doesn't have to be on site but there is a limit on Springfield Avenue so I mentioned to you
before we do have I believe it's 10 spots in the Indiana lot which there's no time limited parking and that was designed to allow um employees of some of the businesses up there to park so if you got someone
to go in there they would be able to park over at that uh Indiana lot presuming you know assuming that there's spots open they'd be able to park there all day long yeah the other thing that we have in that particular area is we have Merchant parking
which I believe is $25 don't hold me to that but I think it's $25 for a permit and you get to park in certain areas uh beyond the time limitation you have that on Springfield Avenue or just in the village we do have
it on Springfield Avenue over in that area on park on park and on Indiana it's not a lot there's maybe five or six spots this was really to accommodate ricard's when they were there I don't know that business owners know that I didn't know that I think
that's news to me too that's good to know yeah and would there I I guess um is there any way of um well would there ever be consideration to allow overnight no I guess it would all be um
overnight in front of a retail operation or a merchant they probably don't have that requirement yeah okay no they wouldn't have the need either okay right yep yep okay I'm done okay Brian I just want to that
related to your question is the I is Merchant parking right uh you didn't ask this directly but it was sort of embedded within your question uh and we're not talking about Merchant parking tonight but we will be talking about Merchant parking soon because um I'm
sort of doing a little bit of a study townwide of merchants and their parking needs and what they apply for what they can get what is our capacity to accommodate all Merchant parking and so on and so forth and I we'll be presenting that soon and having that
conversation soon super and and that's Merchant as in their customers parking as opposed to their employees no their employees employees okay okay yeah yeah because we want to make sure that Merchants Avail themselves of the parking permit it's really easy it's
very inexpensive my God we essentially give it away at $25 uh you know for the year and and we want to encourage Merchants to take advantage of that and therefore not take away from customer parking uh but not all all Merchants
Avail themselves of that and then some Merchants who do get penalized when they're told that uh inadvertently penalized not intentionally when they're told that they can't get as many permits as they need for their staff anyway more to come soon on that good thank you and
and remember Deborah the Yale Street l there's no time limit in the back there so that's where we've been telling people in the area where you were on the General Stores to have employees Park back there yeah I just didn't know that the merchant permits were available on
Springfield Avenue so for what Dean was just saying I don't know if you want Nicole to publicize that because we never knew we're always like in front of our store we want our customers park there you know yeah but there's like 80 spots back there so there plenty of
plenty of but so the the uh when we did this for the ricard's no one ever wanted to park no one ever took a per I don't think we've ever sold the permit you don't really need one well no they had employees they were complaining about their employees had no place to park and we told them but they didn't
want it whatever um okay anybody else want to speak I see no one all right so um we're going to need uh we're going to move into executive session so I'll move we go into
executive session second all in favor I okay uh Patrick you're going to close us down on YouTube