Okay, great. Pursuant to section 52 chapter 231 public law 1975. This is to state for the record that adequate notice of this meeting has been provided to the public by posting and maintaining the annual notice of regular meetings on the
bulletin board of the municipal building by mailing the annual notice of regular meetings for 2025 to the news record and star ledger in December of 2024 and by filing said notice in the office of the township clerk. >> Mr. Davis >> present. >> Mr. Duca
>> here. >> Miss Angel Herman >> here. >> Mayor Adams >> here. Whereas chapter 231 public laws 1975 commonly known as the open public meetings act requires all meanings of publicities be open to the public and
whereas section 7A provides that the governing body has a discretion to permit prohibit or regulate the active participation of the public in any meeting and whereas desire the governing body to comply with the provision this act same time to conduct its business in
in an orderly and expeditious manner now therefore be resolved by the township committee township of Mapwood does hereby prohibit except as set forth in a formal agenda. Active participation in the deliberations of the governing body by the public and except as otherwise prescribed by law does the public the
observations of the actions and discussions of the governing body at all regular and special meetings. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Daffis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Mr. Herman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes.
All right. I'd ask that everyone stand for the pledge of allegiance and then remain standing for a moment of silence. >> I pledge algiance to the >> United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We have uh two moments of silence this evening. Um the first is for Ruth Pearlmutter. Uh Ruth, uh old friend of mine back in the day, longtime Maplewood
resident, married to um both she and her husband Ben were very um active in the community. Ben was the chair of the economic development commission that I was on back in I don't know 911 92. Uh
and Ruth was the founder of the Jersey Animal Coalition um and volunteer and cherished member of the community. So please hold a message I mean a moment of silence. Thank you. And one more moment of
silence this afternoon. Our um South Essex Fire Chief's mother passed away. Um, so our thoughts are with Chief Alvarez and his family during this difficult time. So please join me in a moment of silence.
Thank you. my shoes. >> All right. Welcome to the Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 meeting of the Maplewood Township Committee. Um, we have two proclamations on for this evening. One is breast cancer awareness
month, which is this month in October. The other is domestic violence awareness month. Um, I will read the breast cancer awareness proclamation and Deputy Mayor Herman will read the domestic violence awareness proclamation. We have a few
boards and committee appointments. Uh, William Co Kolier to the Historic Preservation Commission. Um, Dar Patel to the zoning board of adjustment and Christer's reappoint to the arts
council. Then we'll have public comment on agenda items only. Then we have ordinances on for final passage. Um and we don't have any on for introduction. Right. >> Right. Um so we have several on for
final and none for introduction. Then we'll move to reports from departments uh administration, township attorney, township clerk. Then we'll have reports from elected officials starting with Mr. Daffus and Mr. Duca, Deputy Mayor
Herman, and then I go last. We have uh four discussion items on for tonight from um public safety and from engineering and public works and planning committees. Those are both chaired by Mr. Duca. So all four items are his. First is police offduty
administrative fee, the Columbia High School drop off and pickup traffic pattern, proposed 2026 jitney and parking, commuter parking fee increase, and Parker Avenue bike lanes. Then we have a consent agenda, public comment on
any topic at all and then we will adjourn. So with that um I will go into the uh breast cancer awareness. So I get the privilege of reading this because I am a breast cancer survivor.
So good news. So this is real important that we um recognize things like this every month just to gently remind people to um take care of themselves basically. Whereas breast cancer will affect approximately one in eight women in the United States
during their lifetime and one in 833 men will be also diagnosed. And whereas in 2025, an estimated 316,950 women and more than 2800 men nationwide will be diagnosed with invasive breast
cancer. And whereas breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer death with death rates 40% higher among black women than white women and serving as the leading cause of cancer related death among Latino
women. And whereas early detection does indeed save lives with 66% of breast cancers diagnosed at an early stage when treatment is most effective. And whereas advances in screening treatment
awareness have contributed to a 43% decline in breast cancer deaths in the United States since 1989. And today more than four million women people are living with or beyond breast cancer. And now therefore, be it
proclaimed that I, Nancy Adams, mayor of the Township of Maplewood and breast cancer survivor, on behalf of the Maplewood Township Committee, do hereby proclaim October 2025 as breast cancer awareness month in the township of Maplewood and encourage all residents to
speak with their healthc care providers about breast cancer risk and the importance of regular screenings. And be it further resolved that the township of Maplewood recognizes the power of community action, community action, and encourages participation in efforts led
by the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Kman Organization, and other local and national organizations dedicated to increasing awareness, advancing research, and supporting those affected by breast cancer. Thank you.
Thank you for reading that. My mom is also a survivor. So, it's it's really good to hear that recognition. Y I'm reading tonight a proclamation for domestic violence awareness month. Whereas October is domestic violence
awareness month designated to raise awareness of its prevalence and impact. And whereas domestic violence affects individuals of all ages, genders, races, orientations, and socioeconomic status with one in four women and one in nine
men experiencing severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime, impacting more than 12 million people annually in the US. And whereas domestic violence hotlines receive more than 19,000 calls daily highlighting the
urgent need for awareness, prevention, and support. And whereas in New Jersey, while domestic violence homicides have declined, reports, arrests, assaults, and incidents involving children or substance use continue to rise. Now
therefore, be it resolved that I, Malia Herman, deputy mayor of the township of Maplewood, on behalf of Nancy Adams, the mayor of Maplewood, and the township committee, proclaim October 2025 as domestic violence awareness month in Maplewood. And be it further resolved,
residents are encouraged, if safe to do so, to seek support and resources through the National Domestic Violence Hotline. That number is 1-8007997233. 1-8007997233 or by texting start sort
to 88788 or visiting the hotline.org. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. Two important uh proclamations. appreciate everyone taking a moment to listen. Uh we have board and committee appointments
now. Uh we'll start with Historic Preservation Commission, Mr. Duca. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh we have William Collier here. Come on up to the mic. Um he is going we're going to be appointing him as an alternate number two. We're still working on the date of uh he he'll
start, but we'll figure out his termination date when we move around some people. So, so if you could just tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to serve on the historic preservation commission. >> William Collier, live over on board and Terrace. Uh, I've been a Maple resident
for seven years November. U always had a a huge interest in historic architecture and infrastructure and home building. Um, my family goes back many generations in New Jersey of home builders.
Currently I work at a a uh building materials supplier in Chadam but uh also do carpentry work. So I live here in Maplewood with my wife, two daughters and dog.
>> You're set. >> Fallen in love with the town of course and its community and uh a lot of the historic touches and that the town has. >> Great. Thank you. You want to make a motion? >> I'll move the appointment of William Collier as alternate number two on the
Historic Preservation Commission. >> I'll second, >> Mr. Daffis. >> Yes. Thank you for serving. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Miss Herman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. Thanks so much for stepping up and for joining. >> Congratulations.
>> Congrats. Now we have an appointment to the zoning board of adjustment for alternate number two. Darina Patel, come on up to the microphone. Tell us a little about yourself. >> I believe you expressed interest several months ago maybe through the forum. I
>> forget when I actually >> Yeah. And then when we had >> Yep. >> I figured that it would it would be a seed that I planted. it ever came to life, it would be great. >> Great. >> Um, so yeah, Daron Patel. Um, I've lived
in 17 Plymouth Place and I've lived in Maplewood for almost 10 years. Um, thank you first of all for your consideration for this appointment. Um, I think it aligns with uh my experience and my
background. So um, I am a licensed architect. I've been um I have about 15 years of experience both in large and small scale mostly commercial development um all having to deal with building
regulation sometimes dealing with zoning approvals I'm somewhat familiar with the process um and I would love to be considered because um at least in um the way that I approach my practice is that I focus on
community development with balanced growth um focusing also on equity, sustainability and creating well-connected spaces. So, I would love to be considered and so thank you. >> Well, thank you so much for um for
putting yourself up for nomination to this board. We just had a vacancy as our secretary informed me about a month ago. So, I'm really glad that um and I circulated, by the way, your bio and your your uh resume to my colleagues on the township committee um so that they
could make an informed vote on this one. So, I'm going to move uh Dar Patel to the zoning board of adjustment alternate. >> I'll second the nomination. >> Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Herman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams,
>> yes. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Um, Adele Lewis will be in touch with you. She's the secretary of the board of adjustment. >> Okay. You're very welcome. >> Thank you. >> We didn't. >> Oh, yes. >> Got to give you your your creds on that.
Uh, arts council. We have reappoint of Chris Dener. Uh, Mr. Duffis. >> Mayor, thank you. Yes. I move the reappoint to the Maplewood Arts Council of Mr. Christopher Duner. >> Second.
>> Mr. Daffis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Miss Herman, >> yes. Mayor Adams, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> And we clap for Mr. Duser as well. >> If he's watching, you got your applause. There you go. Um, okay. Now, we'll move
into our first public comment of the evening on agenda items only. If there's anyone who would like to speak and address the township committee, please do so now. Is there anyone online? Mr. um wary, >> I almost called you Mr. Daffus. I have
no idea why. >> It was just kind of I felt that. >> If anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak in public portion, please raise your hand. >> I see no hands, mayor. >> Okay. So, we will move on to our ordinances on final passage. Uh, the
first is 3170-25. Pritz. >> Uh, yes, mayor. Our final passage ordinance number 3170-25 is an ordinance to amend chapter 271 of the code of the township of Maplewood entitled zoning and development
regulations with respect to parking requirements in the pedestrian retail business zone. This ordinance will amend article five zoning provisions of chapter 271 of the township code to reduce the number of
parking spaces required in the pedestrian retail business PRB zone. Thank you. This ordinance has been published. Copies posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and copies made available to the general public in accordance law. I'd like to
open a hearing on this ordinance. Is there anyone who would like to speak uh about this ordinance to the township committee? Anyone online? >> Anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak on this ordinance, please raise your hand.
>> I see no hands. Mayor. >> Okay. And with that, I'll ask for a motion from Mr. Daffus. >> Gladly, Mayor. We've worked on this ordinance all year. So I move this ordinance to be adopted as a whole and the clerk be directed to publish the
same as a past ordinance in the Maplewood South Orange News record according to law. >> Second. >> Mr. Davis. >> Yes. >> Mr. Duca. >> Yes. >> M. Herman. >> Yes. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes. Next. Ordinance 3171-25.
>> Yes. Also on final mayor ordinance 3171-25 is an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 62 of the code of the township of Mapwood entitled sustainability committee and repealing chapter 40 entitled green team. This
ordinance will amend and supplement chapter 62 of the township code to establish sustainable mapwood as the township's green team and to modify committee membership and will also repeal chapter 40 of the township code
entitled green team. Thank you. The ordinance, this ordinance has been published, copies posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and copies made available to the general public in according to the with the law. With uh that is I'd open the hearing on
this ordinance. Is there anyone in the room or online who would like to speak to it? If >> anyone on Zoom would like to speak on this ordinance, please raise your hand. >> I see no hands, mayor. Okay. Seeing none, then we'll go to a motion by Mr.
Duca. >> I move this ordinance be adopted as a whole and the clerk be directed to publish the same as a past ordinance in the Maplewood South Orange News record according to law. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes.
>> Miss Herman, >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. Next ordinance is 3172. Also on final passage, mayor ordinance 3172-25 is an ordinance amending and
supplementing chapter 257 of the code of the township of Mapwood entitled vehicles and traffic with respect to overnight parking. This ordinance will amend and supplement article 3 of chapter 257 of the township code to
establish a new type C overnight parking permit in certain circumstances. This ordinance has been published, copies posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and copies made available to the general public in accordance with the law. Is there anyone
who would like to speak on this ordinance? If anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak on this ordinance, please raise your hand. >> I see no hands. Mayor. >> Okay. And just to um clarify, there are some anxious residents who are waiting
for this. So, this has to be advertised 10 days after before it goes into effect. >> That's correct. But the process will be ready um as soon as soon as we uh meet that threshold. >> Okay. So people, if you're watching, you
want to apply for a permit for overnight parking um by this ordinance, you can do so in like 10 days. Mr. Davis, >> Deputy Mayor Herman. >> Yeah. I just wanted to ask one point of clarification if I could. >> Sure. >> Um so in looking at the zoning, the R24
areas, one of those is on Bdon across from Seth Bdon Elementary School. And I wonder if Mr. Duka, if you can um explain to residents how um I know that's an area of concern for a lot of residents regarding safe pickups and drop offs from school, how we can make
sure that this ordinance doesn't interfere with uh safety in that area. >> Um yes, certainly. So the section that we're that you're referring to consists of about three private homes that would qualify here and one I think it's a six
uh unit apartment building. So that would not qualify. >> Okay. >> So of those three homes, if anyone in those homes wanted to get a permit to park on the street, I think what we would do is work with them to have them park and somewhere else in the zone,
either on Tuskcen Road or on Brown Street or Harding Street. I don't think any of them would want to park on Boyd. And it's a pretty >> busy >> road and to leave your car out overnight, you know, it's just
>> you got a lot of cars going by is just so I think I think we will work with that. Um you you raised earlier today you raised another question on Dunell if if in fact we were to between Jefferson and um Oakland if in fact we were to set
up bike lanes there. Well, we would have to work that out, too, because certainly bike lanes would I don't want to use the word Trump, but certainly bike lanes would would supersede um the parking on the street. Uh so, we would have to work something there, too.
So, I don't think that's going to be the case there because there's >> driveways. >> Yeah, sufficient driveways and parking. I also think on Biden there's sufficient driveways and parking for those three homes. So, >> I think we'll be okay and and if it comes up, we'll we'll figure a workaround. we have the ability to um
you know do stuff with the permit system in the clerk's office to and and you know we want anybody who's using this to be friendly with their neighbors and not you know try to not have your car there uh and prevent your neighbor from using the front of his or her house >> and to be clear this is overnight
parking >> yes two to six right >> two to six so I doubt even if they use it shouldn't interfere with >> and these residents right in the ordinance it does say that they wouldn't be leaving their cars there >> uh right >> long term. >> Thank you for clarifying. I think that
really helps. >> Right. Then Doo, >> I just have a uh not a question, but I suggest that after the waiting period that we do outreach to those residents who took the time to address this committee about this in particular that
it's now in effect. >> Yeah, I've been in touch with one of them at least on Bdon Parkway or Bdon. Did I say Bdon? Yeah, that's what I meant. Okay, Mr. Tuca, can you make a motion? >> Yes. I move this ordinance be adopted as a whole and the clerk be directed to
publish the same as a past ordinance in the Maplewood South Orange News Record according to law. >> I'll second. Mr. Fritzen, >> Mr. Daffis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Mr. Ferman, >> yes. >> Mayor Adams, >> yes. Thank you. Uh, we have no ordinances on for introduction. Now,
we'll move to reports from departments. Mayor, did you want to let our appointees know that they don't have to stay for the whole meeting? >> Oh, >> okay. You can certainly stay as long as you want, but >> they know they want to watch. >> Okay.
>> It's a test. >> So, Mr. Wary, >> thank you, mayor. Uh, one item. There was a late addition on the printed agenda you have before you, resolution 323-25. mistakenly uh potential committee members were not notified of the late
addition. I'd recommend that we remove that from the consent agenda. We can put that on the November 5th agenda. >> Could you state which one it is? >> Yeah, this is uh resolution 323-25, resolution um appointing uh Essex
Regional Health Commission for Environmental Health Services. >> Okay. Okay. >> Anything else? >> That is my full >> That's your report. You didn't give your little closing statement. Nothing else. Any questions for our
administrator? Seeing none, we'll move on to our attorney. >> All right. No report from our attorney. Does anyone have any questions for Miss Crediov? Moving right along. Clerk's office. Miss
Pritson. So, uh, our two appointees here tonight, a bonus for you. I'd like to informally invite you to our volunteer dinner. >> Good thing they >> volunteer appreciation dinner. And uh, you're just in time because it's not
till Monday night. And uh, we'll send you a formal invitation tomorrow. And we'd love to have you come out and uh, meet your fellow volunteers. There'll be about a hundred of them there. So, uh, welcome.
And, uh, as you all know, we're working on a terrific event for October 27th in in our, uh, volunteer appreciation night. And, um, yeah, we have over 100 people signed up already. And, um, the
other thing coming up, little thing, general election day, uh, working on that for uh, uh, Tuesday, November 4th. And um everything's up on the website. I think it's pretty self-explanatory for anyone that has a question uh with what
we've posted, but we certainly uh have a lot of people walk in with questions. And uh we are here in the clerk's office to uh assist. And our township committee meeting will be the next night on uh Wednesday uh
November 5th, our next meeting. And um yeah, the other thing coming up is Veterans Day right in this room. As you all know, I really love Veterans Day in our program. And we're going to make it um bigger and better for our 22nd year
in a row of uh Veterans Day. A lot of towns I know do not have programs like we do. And I'd encourage um everybody listening to come out. You don't have to be a veteran. Uh you are more than welcome. It's a great short about an
hour ceremony and then we have lunch afterwards for uh veterans and all that uh come out. So those are my three events coming up and I look forward to seeing everyone there. >> Thank you, Miss Fritzen. Any questions for our clerk?
Seeing none. Okay, we'll move to elected officials. Committee member Davis. >> Thank you, mayor. I have no report from any of my committees which did not meet since our last township committee meeting. But I do have two things. Um just further edifying that uh election
day is fast approaching us on Tuesday, November 4th, and early voting begins this weekend. And uh so you can vote early in person still counts, still legitimate. Um, and you can find out where nearby closest to us on our
website or on the Essex County Clerk's website. And lastly, I want to express my gratitude to our community, which came out uh in full force on Saturday, this past weekend, to express their
patriotism in what turned out to be a joyous and powerful display of community solidarity. We had no single incident uh public safety wise or other. Just lots of joy. People raising their voices and
coming together side by side as neighbors and friends. Um it was just really beautiful and uh very moving. It gave me a lot of hope of the path forward. Uh and what I hear is that um across the country and around the world while they were doing the same thing on
the same day, there were very few if any public incidents, public safety incidents, no arrests. It was truly a very peaceful movement um expressing our great patriotism for this great nation that we all live in.
Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. I was sorry to be on vacation, but there were five or six on Cape Cod that day, too. >> Yeah, including Ptown and out by where I was staying. So, it's >> I acknowledged you and said that you
were probably attending one of them. >> I was certainly in traffic for one, but um no, thank you and thank you for um leading that on Saturday. Uh committee member Duca. Oh, any questions for Mr.
Thank you, mayor. Um, three things. The, uh, Hilton Neighborhood Association Halloween parade is this Saturday at Dehart Park. Starts at 2:30 promptly. And, uh, right after that, we're going to be working with the Maplewood Police Department for a trunk or treat event.
So, um, this is the first year that that's happening, and we're glad to be partnering up with the police. Uh second is that we did a walk through with the superintendent of schools and the principal of Seth Bdon school to look at
some alternative drop off uh ideas. We did come up with one um that would have cars enter um Jacobe Street and exit on Henry and we're still working on that and we'll have a uh the we'll be presenting um a plan to the school and
talking about how it might work and then we would be meeting with the community and also community being the resident community and the parent community um just to talk about that. And lastly, uh, tomorrow in Atlantic City, our Maplewood Middle School, uh, STEM team, the
creative crew, is going to be presenting their, um, scissor gate, traffic scissor gate. Um, so I'm heading down there to give them support and, uh, hopefully they are one of three finalists in the state and hopefully they will win. >> So, think good thoughts about 10:00
tomorrow morning. >> I think we need a new name for that. Scissor gate. It sounds like Watergate. I know there is a different name, but that's I like I like calling scissor tape. >> Well, that's it. >> Sounds like a controversial thing. All
right. Any questions for Mr. Duca? >> No, we'll hear more from him during our discussion items. >> Sure will. >> I know. >> Deputy Mayor, your turn. >> Hi. Thank you. I have a few announcements. First, I want to say happy Dwali to all who celebrate. We
here in Maplewood are going to be celebrating on Saturday at Maplewood Memorial Park. Festivities kick off at 2 o'clock and we'll be lighting uh sparklers at 5:30. So, please come on down to Maplewood Memorial Park and join us for the fun. Um we have a couple
other fun events happening this Thursday um which is a very important day. the follys. Um, Deputy Administrator uh Perez, do you know if we're sold out on the Follys or we not sold out, but it's getting really close. So, if you don't
have your ticket, hurry and get it. It's $10. Um, and that's always a really good time. We also have the Craft Brew nights on Springfield Avenue. And um I believe that if you go to Craft Brew, you have the distinct
>> uh Well, this could be very exciting, you know, to have your ID checked, right? We're going to have ID. Yeah, I'm I you know, >> anybody who goes >> anybody who asks me for my ID, I get very flattered, so I'm happy about that. >> Yeah. Um especially on Thursday. Um so
we also we had several committee meetings actually that I want to just give quick little updates on. Our senior committee had a really great conversation about our senior bus. And so you can look forward to having some more information about that senior bus and how seniors can take advantage of
our dial a ride. Um and Tuesday trips. So uh look for that coming out really soon. Our recreation committee. We talked about a lot of different events. Um and we did spend quite a bit of time talking about the ski club. Um we are at
capacity for that and there is a waiting list. The good news is that we are working down through that waiting list. Um, but we're we're looking for next year and we're thinking about, you know, trying a lottery system to make it more fair. Um, we're hoping that South Orange
might uh uh partner with us on this. Um, the the ski club doesn't make us money. It's just something that we do because it's important to our community and to our kids and they they have a good time. So, we want to um uh you know, make that
as as uh work as best as we can. Um, we also had a youth advisory committee meeting and the youth are going to be working on a um they want to have a web presence for ways that youth can get involved and volunteer. So, we're really excited uh that they want to work on
that. Um, looking ahead, we have some recreation programming coming up. Adult open gym basketball registration is open that begins November 6 and it's on Sundays, Sunday mornings. So, check that out. We also have fall 2 tennis next
week. There's still some openings. Our hope meditation series starts on November 20th. It's a really good thing to do during the holidays. You know, when it gets a little stressful. Um, we have a bunch of senior programming happening. Our fun costume party is on
October 29th. We have a senior trip to Red Bank for holiday shopping. Um, and then the senior Friendsgiving on November 13 at the Woodland. and a if you want to mark your calendars ahead of time, our tree lighting, our annual tree lighting on Springfield Avenue Gazebo,
it will be on Saturday, December 13 from 4 to 6. And then the very next day, we will have our Hanukkah lighting on December 14th. So, that'll be a really exciting weekend of fun. And that's all I've got. Okay, thank you. Anybody have any
questions? Okay, well, thanks for that. So, you took a couple of mine, which is good. they've got covered. So, um, one thing I just want to put on my colleagues radar, um, and that has to do with recycling, um,
South Orange is going to be, um, so here's the skinny on it really basically is that our, uh, end user for recycling, what's the name of it again? Um, >> beayhore >> beayhore accepts our recycling. It's
been working out very well since we've been contracted with them. Um, much more of our um, with the dual stream that we switched to a couple years ago. Much more of the stuff that is delivered to Beayshore is actually being recycled and
we are getting money back for it going against our expenses for collecting recycling. Um they do accept um one two numbers for plastic sorry uh numbers one two and five but that and
that's typically what we say is re will pick up but beayshore does accept 1 through seven and South Orange is planning on having the town um advertise that they're taking all
numbers 1 through seven. Um so there was long discussion. Um the downside is is that those other numbers besides one, two and five are less recyclable. Um so environmentally speaking um
some people oppose that we collect it um because it does end up in the waist stream. May plastic is very light so may cost us a little more to collect as far as tonnage. But then if it's getting recycled, then we'll get more back as
well. So, um, so I don't know if we need to have a decision now, but this just came up to me today from, uh, Walter Clark and South Orange, uh, whether or not the township we in our subcommittee, Mr. Kitner and I have been working on this for a few
years. And when we meet with South Orange because we have a shared contract with um the collect the hauler and the end user um we were more inclined to just stick with promoting the recycling of the one two and seven or I mean one
two and five as opposed to one through seven. Um but it would be also good if we were consistent with South Orange. And so if you have any thoughts on it now that would be great. If not, um, you know, I'll talk about it.
>> We were going to put it on engineering public works. Do you want it to go there or >> I I Well, we talk about recycling there. I just Yeah, I think it's we have time for it to go there. So, okay. So, we'll just But just keep it on your um radar and think about what you what you think
about it. If anybody has any questions, we can talk. Can you can you tell us a little bit about um when you say that the other items, not one, two, and five, which is our current policy, but all of
one through seven, um they're less recyclable, >> less of a marketable. There's not as much of a market for reusing those numbers of plastic. something to do with all the chemical
technical stuff that I don't wouldn't be able to. >> So, some of it could be recycled and some of it may end up in the the waist stream. >> Yeah. >> So, it's not like >> which it would do anyway if we didn't promote collecting them. It would people
would throw it in the garbage. >> So, South Orange has decided to move in this direction. Yeah. >> Because they find that the tradeoff is that we're still recycling more. >> Yeah. Let me see if Walter says anything. Uh >> I think what happens is let's say you
collect seven plastic seven at some point probably the market gets saturated and there's no and they and Beayshore isn't able to sell it so they dump it. >> And that's what happens, >> right? >> But that happens with some of our other
plastics too. >> Sure. Sure. Sure. Little market. >> Okay. All right. Well, thank you for that. It's very interesting. >> Yeah. I I would like um communicationwise for our township to um reach out. We have a lot of new residents since we switched this and we
have a pretty I I feel like there's not a huge I don't I don't know what the percentage and neither does Mr. Kitner as to how many of our households put out their recycling every week, but it's definitely not 100%. That means a lot of the households are
still already throwing stuff out. So I think it would be beneficial for us or what we get back in revenue so to speak toward, you know, against our expenses if we put that out in communications um to remind people about the dual
stream the times and the importance of recycling. >> I think we've been communications has been putting out like whether it's fibers or co-mingled. It was forgotten this week. >> Um I had a >> Yeah, that's done. And also, but the help about the app recycle coach, which
you have on your phone, like I get a reminder every Sunday night just from the app on my phone. You put in recycle coach. You download it on your phone. You put in your town and then every it has the information of every town. So, I get whether it's
fibers or whether it's uh co-mingled. >> That's a great tip. >> Yeah. See, that's why that needs to go out. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. No, but what you're talking >> But I'm talking about the need that people >> compliance recycling compliance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Here in ' 89, I was afraid to put
recycling in the garbage. Like we had to put it in seven different bins. We had clear glass, colored glass, you know, blah blah blah blah blah. And it was well known that we would get fined if we threw out our recycling. But I don't know, that kind of dissipated along the
way. Not that I want to start finding people, but I do want compliance to be a little higher than it is. >> Is there any way for us to kind of figure out where we are in terms of percentage of households that do recycle? >> Could do. >> I mean, I'd be surprised that it's not as high as it can be in Maplewood.
>> I know. >> I thought everybody recycle. No, >> if you drive around on the pickup days, you won't see bins at every house. >> Sometimes on pickup days, I forget to put my recycling out. So, don't put me in the column of not recycling. >> We'll find you.
>> Yeah, I'm concerned about that. Uh, I'm not a We can think about it. Yeah. Nothing jumps out to me, but we can think about it. >> Okay. >> Well, maybe we can from Basso. >> Want to remind us that when we used to talk to the township committee at >> at the recycling on Saturday, a lot of
residents come and dump it too because some who live in apartments or some who live in areas where they don't have >> Very good point. So they bring it there. We used to see people and we used to wonder why don't they put it out? It just doesn't work for them. >> Very good point. >> Right. So we wouldn't be able to
necessarily unless we had somebody counting recycling center. But >> I think there's got to be a way to get some information. >> Aren't you still welcome the dog? You should be >> No, my dog died. >> Oh, I guess not. >> Jeez. >> Well,
>> not I don't walk him. My husband walks him. dog. >> The dog I used to walk. >> Oh, you have George though. You can walk with George the dog. >> Okay,
we're going to move on to discussion items. And since Mr. Duca is already working, >> um, first is outside police duty rates. The outside duty police rates rather. Uh this is a uh proposal that was sent to
us by administration. Um we currently charge 2% when and this is for an over this is a rate that we charge when you go out and um do work uh let's say at a construction company or
an event not not a not a town event but a private event. Um then you're charged $95.18 an hour per police officer. And then we put an administrative fee on top of that which is 2% right now. And so that brings us in about $2.
And um we're proposing to bring it to $5 per hour because our costs have gone up and now we're paying a third-party provider uh jobs for blue um some of the costs. So, this is this was discussed at public
safety and there was unanimous um recommendation that we increase the administrative fee from the current 2% um to a $5 per hour administrative fee.
>> Can you define for us off duty? >> Yeah, these are these are police public uh police officers. Most of them are these are in this case it's Maplewood who are hired by PSEG by uh construction
companies when they're doing paving uh tree companies when they have to take trees down. Um and it could be an event uh I'm trying to think sometimes like a store will have a special sale not so much here but in some of the bigger
stores and they'll hire police officers to be there. uh could be at a supermarket, a bank, things like that. So, as long as they are hiring a public uh police officer, that police officer is uh it's an offduty job and that's what they're doing.
>> Can I ask you a couple follow-up questions about that? Um, I've been digging into this a lot lately because of all the events that we have in town. And some of them are events organized by uh community groups, some of them are private events, um, some of
them are at municipal facilities uh, private facilities and some of them are in public spaces like parks and so on. So, um, let's say that I am a, um, I'm an organization that is having an
event in a park and I want to hire police officers to keep us safe for that event in the park during the day. And um, I get assigned two officers who are
otherwise on duty in the township during that time. No, >> no, you can't do that. >> No, they're off duty. >> This is on their This is on their private time that they get hired to do this. >> And that's because they don't you can't have somebody in an event and then get
called away um on a police call. So, they're not allowed to use onduty police officers at any event unless something happens and we have no choice. >> Okay. And that applies uh across the board for circumstances like that. In my
experience, >> yeah, >> especially, uh, we always have, you have to hire off duty and it's dictated, by the way, by the, uh, the police determine if you need police on site, how many police they recommend, and that's how many police you have to hire,
>> right? Yeah. No, I mean, we I think administrator wear is is probably tapping into where I'm going with this. I think we just need to do some education out there. Uh sometimes people don't really understand why they have to pay for that if that's what they want and what does it mean and what is off duty and that's why I'm engaging
publicly in this matter. But yeah, I understand otherwise how we what our policy is and how we do this. But >> um I think we can explain that to the community sometimes a little bit. Well, anybody having an event on public on
municipal property, for example, has to get a permit from the clerk's office and then that triggers an event planning meeting. And at the event planning meeting are all the relevant departments and that's when it's determined, well, we want to close the street off. Do we
need police coverage or can we just use barricades? And that those department heads determined that at that meeting. Correct me if I'm wrong. >> Yes. Yes, I'm wrong or yes, I'm right. >> No, you're correct. >> Yes, you're correct. >> You're correct. >> Yeah. Um, so yeah,
>> and these are also offduty police officers I think we discussed in public safety that are used at our high school football games. >> Um, it's the same offduty. Yes. But they are not covered by this because that is a school situation. So they don't pay
the administrative fee and that is assigned in-house. >> Okay. So things like the Oyster Fest, the uh Maple Woodstock >> Mayfest, those some of those bigger things where we require police officers, those are assigned in-house and there's no administrative fee for that.
>> And how would we determine what is inhouse and what is not in-house? >> It's in the ordinance. >> Okay. >> It's a it defines a number of different um events. >> Okay. So that's where the public can verify.
>> Thank you. or just call the clerk's office and find out. >> Well, that's it. >> And all we're doing here is we're just going to be changing the administrative fee, >> right? >> This is a this is a pretty standard thing. Like all that paving, all those police officers that are on Springfield Avenue, those were offduty police
officers or hired by the company >> um to direct traffic and what have you. Now, even though you're off duty, you have all the police powers as a police officer. >> Yeah, of course. >> That's 24 hours, >> right? Even if you're off duty and you see something, you can intervene as a police officer, but
>> these are assigned to be at certain events. >> Any other points on this or questions? >> No, I I support the change that you're suggesting. >> Okay. So, um >> next meeting. >> Yeah, we need to do an ordinance changing this. >> Okay.
>> Do we need a vote? >> No, because we'll do a >> Yeah. All right. Columbia High School off. >> Yep. Yep. Yep. So, um let's talk about the drop off. So, just
to just to clarify to the public, um the cones that were put up on Parker between Valley and Prospect were not put up there as part of the bike lanes. They were put up there as part of the new drop off pattern. the bike lanes have
not been um established yet. What we voted on was to authorize the engineer to move forward with establishing the bike lanes and a little later we'll be voting on a contract. We also will be uh voting on the next month some changes in
legislation. So those cones are not for the bike lane even though people are sending us emails telling us that they are. >> That's right. >> They're not. They were there to visually tell people that we do not want drop
offs and pickups on Parker. It is too um um too busy and it's dangerous and the way people were driving uh they were going in around the lanes. They were dropping kids off uh in a way that was
endangering them. Um so that's what the cones were for. Now we want to remove the cones. We want to set up um you know, we want to be clear about no drop off. So, we we need to um I think in the in the end
um put some signs up. I provided you with some models of signs. There's a there's a pretty big sign that they use in West Orange that's pretty clear that uh the West Orange Police Department will take it. There are other places um I mean that use different kinds of signs
that you can put up on polls and and there's A-frame signs. Although I will notice that the the West Orange sign which is an A-frame A-frame sign is secured to a telephone pole with a chain. So we'd have to make sure whatever whatever we put up stays there because
>> that's also on a a bigger sign because it's on a fourlane road. >> Yeah. So, um, we do need to have some signs put up, uh, about no drop off. And I think what we ought to do right now, the police are ticketing people for
stopping in the travel lane or impeding traffic. >> Uh, at the last public safety meeting, we were told that there were eight tickets given for stopping in the travel lane and impeding traffic. It is really a bad thing to do because as I said,
people do go around you and they're in the other lane and you got people coming up and you got kids crossing. It is a very uh unsafe situation. So what I would suggest is that um you know first I thought maybe we should just do the no
stopping no standing but we do have a commitment with the residents there that we will allow in the bike lanes um temporary uh >> pardon >> uh standing I guess deliveries >> deliveries yeah >> so uh as an alternative and I want to
thank deputy mayor Herman for helping me think through this as an alternative I would suggest that we pass a township ordinance that just prohibits drop offs and pickups on Parker between Valley and Prospect
and wanted see you think that would uh Yeah. Yeah. during the school year. Yeah. So, you think we could do it that way? And this I also think that it would be easier for the police to do a um a to0 a
township ordinance than a title 39 which then you know it could entail some points and all this other kind of stuff. So township ordinance you just make a a fine um you don't have to go see the prosecutor, you don't have to plead out, you can just do what you have to do. So,
if that's agreeable to us that we would have no drop offs on Parker um between Valley and Prospect, we'll we'll do the times, we'll do the, you know, school days and leave it at that. What are our thoughts on um like Valley
for example? You know, like when we were coming up on Valley heading toward the high school um you get stuck in traffic and some parents drop off right there from the roadway. I mean that's sort of I mean I don't want to get like too like
street by street, >> but um it's just you know >> what I would suggest is that we focus on Parker first and let's see what happens. I think I think I think one of the disadvantages and and we've talked about this is that as we implemented this New
Jersey American water decided to be in the area >> so we really haven't had a clean um travel pattern there even today I think valley was closed between Parker and Hixon right >> so I think we'll have a better sense
when all that is done and if we see Valley then we might talk to the county and because that's a county. >> Oh, that's a county, right? >> But I think I actually think um maybe Mount Pleasant where the high school is in West Orange could be a county. I'm
not exactly sure. That might be a county, too. But in any event, why don't we do Parker and then see what happens on Valley and go from there. >> I I agree. Um I agree with this and you know, specifying no stopping or standing
to drop off a passenger. I mean, it's just not safe, right? Um it's just not safe to drop off kids in the middle of the road. Um you know and pulling over as you said isn't safe for cars having to go around and you know we you know this is this is what the whole point of
the traffic plan at CHS is is to make it safe for our kids getting to school. So um yeah I think this is a a good next next step. >> Okay. So the other thing I would ask is if Mr. Weary if you would work with Mr. Kitner to get um ordering some signs now
um so that we can get them up because right now even the chief has made a declaration, police chief has made a declaration or an order I guess not to have drop offs there. So let's get the signs up and then we'll do the ordinance and go from there. >> Yeah, I'm not in favor of the uh
sandwich board. So >> you you can you can express your opinion to Mr. Weary. Yeah, >> I'm going to bring it up another time. I just think sign between all the uh cones and then the future ballards along the high school. I think uh signs on poles
are good enough and a lot of thing weird things happen to sandwich boards when they're >> Yep. >> because they stand there and there are kids throwing stuff. >> So, I think we're good to move forward with the no drop off, right? Yep. Good.
Okay. You want me to keep going? >> No, I want >> you want me to stop, right? >> I do. >> Uh, but I'm going to keep going because >> you have another discussion item >> proposed to have Jitney Jitney parking
and the combo. So, um, we talked about this at Engineering Public Works and we are recommending that, um, we increase the Jity fees for 2026.
Um, and I'll give you those numbers in a moment. We have not increased fees since 2023. And since 2023, our costs of the Jity have gone up 12%. they're going up about 6% a year. Um
so uh what we are recommending and I will say that um there's a split on one recommendation. There's not a unanimous but um there's a agreement to increase
or recommend an increase of the parking fee from $330 to $400 um >> a year. a year. Um, an increase in the Jity parking combo from 360 a year to
415. That's a 15% increase. And um, by a two in favor and Ms. Engel not in favor, an increase in the Jity fee by 10% from $150 to $165.
So the new fees for 2026 if we move forward with this would be uh the Jity fee at 165, parking at 400 and Jitney parking combo at 415. And again we are favoring Jitneys because we want people
to take the jitneys as opposed to the cars because a single occupant vehicle really creates traffic and and land use problems of finding places for parking. So that is the recommendation from Engineering Public Works. We did not
discuss the Jity per ride fee which is now $3. We did increase that fee from $2 in 2023 and I would just recommend we leave it the same. >> I'm sorry. What was the last? >> Leave it the same. >> Leave it the same.
>> Leave it at $3. >> So that's the recommendation. >> I'm in favor of your recommendations. Yeah. So I think the the discussion was to not increase the jity quite as much because we want to encourage people to ride the
jity but to um increase the parking at a higher amount to discourage parking um and we started off with a proposal of 20% across the board and then I believe the discussion was to break it out into
10% 15% % >> and then looks like 21%. >> Yes, correct. >> So I I think that makes sense to break it out like that and um you know encourage the Jity writers um I believe
even at these prices this is still not breaking even is that correct to >> that is correct yes the uh the revenue um from Jitney is uh about 15% of the budget. Okay.
>> And then if you add in the uh the combo, it's another 20%. And and if you add the the um uh Jitney and combo together, that's 35%. So yeah, it doesn't cover, but generally
mass transit um has a fair box of about 35 to 40%. So we're we're in that number. like New Jersey Transit, they try to keep the fair revenue about >> 40% or less of between 35 and 40% of the total cost
>> and we're somewhat in line with neighboring towns or still pretty >> No, we're still way lower. >> Okay. So, residents should know that if they are uh >> residents should know that we're way lower than other nearby towns. >> I'm not quite sure why, be honest.
and that the prices paid by those using this the jity and the parking doesn't cover quite cover the amount. So all taxpayers are paying for the remainder just to clarify. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And also we are we're less than
South Orange, less than Milbour, half with this increase, half what Summit is for residents with commuter parking permits. I think I think one of the things that we've seen we feel about the Jity is that there there's a
tremendous benefit townwide to having a Jity because people do move here um because they don't have to buy two cars. They can buy one car and use the Jity. It opens up the eastern side of town >> or more interest in living there because you have this jity. So you can be a
onecar family and use the jity. So I think there's some public good that requires a public investment in addition to the revenue, >> right? And we do >> and we do >> and I I'm more talking about commuter parking permits. >> Same.
>> Than I am about >> Same. I'm very supportive of the Jity. I think it opens up a lot more of our town to have access to the train. Um and I think that the prices that we have is is reasonable. um the parking, you know, if you have the choice, you could park or
you could take a Jney. You know, we'd really like for you to take the Jitney, but um yeah, if our part and our parking is much is lower than our neighboring towns, you know. Yeah, I think and it's been a while as you said since we raised
the any of these, but in particular I think we need to the township needs to either in the ordinance add like a an annual increase if we're allowed to do that of say whatever percentage to the to the commuter parking.
>> Well, that's not what we agreed to at home public works. Okay, >> we're not. Let me finish. Okay, >> I'm not saying that we do it now. I'm saying it's something we should consider so that we don't have to revisit this every year and go into have these
discussions to do you know from 21% or 21 and a half% or 20 whatever it is but I think the parking the commuter parking at the very least should be increased more frequently um to just encourage
walking to just and encourage use and and to keep up with our the Joneses in our neighboring towns. >> I think all the committees should look at their fees and increase fees. >> Yes, there are a lot of fees. >> So I think about that today. >> I I applaud the committee that you're on
engineering public works for doing this. >> Well, you can applaud yourself all you want, Mr. >> So So where is our discussion? I I'm >> where the recommendation is right here. >> Recommendation is what was in the memo. Uh I read it again. Jitney's 165 for
2026. parking for 400 for 2026 and Jitney parking combo 415. >> But what I heard during the discussion is maybe leaning into increasing the parking combos and not the jity to encourage more jitney use
>> and we took that into account. The jity fee is being increased by 10 recommended increase is 10%. Parking recommended increase is 21% and the parking combo is recommending 15%. >> So that Yeah. Yeah. >> I mean, if we're going up 6% a year and
we haven't raised the jity in a couple years, we're still below what it's costing us or, you know, the increase that it's been. So, at 10% instead of 12. >> I support the recommendations. >> Yep. I think you have the support. >> Let's do the uh an ordinance for this, too. Okay.
>> Muga Parker Avenue bike lane. >> Yes. So tonight on the consent agenda, we will be awarding a contract to SLI and Sun General Contracting in the amount of $374,331.75 for the traffic uh improvements on
Parker Avenue. That will include um some curbing work and some new crosswalks. the uh highintensity beacons that we'll be installing at Kensington and North Terrace and then the bike lanes, the striping of the bike lanes, the
dedicated bike lane from Bdon Avenue to Maplewood Avenue. We received four bids. We did a base bid, a bid alternate A and a bid alternate B. Uh the bids came in for all three at a range of 505 was the
highest. uh 401 was the lowest and we uh agreed or was decided not to award base B thus uh resulting in the 374,000 that is within the budget. Um so we are
uh with this now we will bring the contractor in if we approve this tonight we'll bring the contractor in and work will get started in November. Um and the idea is that the striping has to be done uh I believe temperature of 50
or below. So we should be okay um you know to get that done. Um we have some work to do. Uh we have to um create an ordinance that prohibits parking in in
the bike lanes on Parker and that is um what we can do. I had uh I drafted some of uh an ordinance here using relying a lot on Hoboken in Jersey City. Um
and again we will have a dedicated bike lane of five feet in width. Um it'll be a solid white line striping and it'll include the bicycle symbols. Um it will um you can be a and then anyone
operating a motor vehicle is not allowed to drive or park in the bike lane except for the purposes of entering or exiting your driveway of course. Uh the Maplewood Police is allowed or is authorized to permit parking in the lane
for um construction job, tree removal jobs, etc. and on specific holidays and religious hol holy days. And then we said short-term delivery vehicles and emergency vehicles will be permitted to stop in the bicycle lane. That was our agreement with the residents who live
there. Um in in addition to bicycle riders, talking about people on roller blades, um folks would have low-speed electric vehicles. Uh and there there's a definition of class one and class two.
The state has a definition. a scooter, motorized wheelchair, and bicycle with an attached trailer with a child. And they have to have safety flags for those two. >> Does a motorized wheelchair include those um little carts that some Yeah,
like what is it called? >> A rascal? I don't know. >> Yeah, I think it should. >> Yeah, we can we can make sure it >> that Seinfeld episode over there, Rick. That's right. Um, and then we we put in we can put in here some rules and
regulations that uh anyone riding a bike has to ride in the same direction. Um, you have to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. You have to obey the instructions, stop signs, things like that. You can't carry more than one person at a time. We see a lot of I saw
on the way here I saw two um bikes with more than with four people on two different bikes. Um >> like for a kid car seat a kid bike. >> No, no, no. This is somebody who >> you know this is on the handle on the handlebars or st stands up and the other
sits. Oh, dangerous. >> Um and then you know uh I pulled out you know Jersey City and and and Hoboken have $175 fee. I pulled out the $50 fee which is um the current maximum fines
that we have in 257 already. So, I don't know if we want to go higher than that. Uh, the people the I'm sorry, the people who bid or the contractor who bid it, they will be responsible put up bike lane signs throughout the whole area.
So, if we are good to go, then I can work with our attorney in drafting a final ordinance to introduce and we can introduce that at the next meeting and make that happen. And this will allow the police to >> give tickets, right? And are
>> we worried about why does the ticket in for doing a violation in Hobok and 175 and we're only thinking 50? >> Well, 50 is what we have in our ordinance right now. >> Yeah. >> More. >> I >> Yeah,
>> I think we should start with 50. Get people used to it. >> We can always We can always >> get it enforced. >> Cheap on our minds and space. >> Yeah. I have one question. >> Uh, can we require helmets for under 18?
>> It's already required by state. >> Yeah. >> Oh, see that's because it's such a good idea. >> Yeah. >> Um, we'll have to definitely remember to remind people of that. >> Well, so the police can ticket. >> So, they can take it for that too. That would be just
>> I think I I don't know what the >> I think. >> I don't know who gets the ticket. I don't know who it's under. If you're under 17, I think I think confiscate the bike. >> 17. >> I'm not sure what the law says. >> That's what the law says. 17. >> No. No. I I know that. But I don't think
you give a ticket to a 17y old. >> Why not? >> Just don't think you do. I think I don't know if the law says that. >> Yeah. Would we want to do anything give it to >> Well, it doesn't matter. Whatever the law is, we have to follow the law. >> Well, we have to enforce the law, too.
So, >> first. Yes. >> Just a question of who gets a ticket. >> So, is it an add-on? Like if you get stopped for something else, then they could add that on. >> So, adults are not required to wear. >> Yes.
>> You know, the idea of Mhm. >> Right. >> So, it's state law but not necessarily enforc >> enforced. >> Well, it depends. I think it does get enforced. I've seen people get not not
here, but I've seen people in the state be pulled over for riding without a helmet. And I know it's no no 18 and under. >> 17. >> 17 and under. And I believe they confiscate the bike or they call the parent to come and get the bike so that
it doesn't keep riding. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> So that's I think that's the remedy as opposed to a ticket. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So we're off. >> We're good for that. Good for Okay. is the second part of this is that we did promise the residents that they would
get permits to park on side streets. So we would have to so right now we have um parking prohibited certain times in certain streets. We have schedules. We have no stopping standing certain streets and we have time limited parking
on certain streets. And we would have to allow Parker Avenue residents between Maplewood Avenue and Bdon Avenue both on the north and south side to ent be entitled to at no cost to one resident parking permit for each automobile registered in the household. Um and
would go with the clerks and that would allow somebody to park on one of the side streets. We should add in here something about um the adjacent side street or the nearby side street. So >> they already are these in places where there's no parking. >> Some of them have like uh like for
example Bur Road might have um no parking during school hours and stuff, but >> okay, >> they would this would be a permit to be able to do that. >> I'd be I'd like to look at what the restrictions are on those adjacent streets before we >> Well, I also have a question about that.
Is is that side street by permit for special circumstances for hardship or you have a driveway, but you also can get a permit to park on the street? The ladder? >> Yeah. Because you can't park it. You
can't park that second car or that first car on this on your street. So, we're allowing them to park on a side street. That's what we told them. >> I mean, you can accept deliveries. Yeah. Yeah, >> you can park there during uh holidays.
You can make special arrangements with PD in certain circumstances. Yeah. So, why are we also giving parking on top of that >> around the corner? So, that >> that's what we said. That's what we told the people we would do. They asked, you
know, where would they be able to park? And they asked, "Are we are we going to be able to park on streets where right now adjacent where and this is around schools like all those like Kensington and North?" Um,
okay. I mean, sure, I you know how I feel about parking and public roads and I I think that we are always putting parking over people and it's a mistake, but I also understand that that was uh what we said and we should honor what we
said. Okay. So, um if you want to look at the uh code, it's all here. All the number, all the sections are here. >> Does that include the the current restrictions on those side streets? >> Yep. Okay. >> You go on here, you'll find you look at the schedules, you'll see
>> this is daytime, not overnight. >> Oh, yeah. There's no over nobody can park overnight, >> right? I'm just >> This is only daytime. Um, and this is suppose you know you have somebody comes over to clean your house. They have to park in the driveway and you park your car around the corner.
That's every Monday. You know you can't park your car in the street or you have two cars and you somebody's, you know, coming to visit you. You can't say, "Oh, park in the street. You have a wake, you park around the corner." Things like that.
>> Okay. Is everybody all right? We'll move forward. >> Yep. Okay, good work. >> Moving all along. >> All right, that's it. >> All right, we have a consent agenda with the exclusion of the one Mr. Wary said,
which is just want to make sure number 14 >> J. >> Yes. Resolution 323-25. >> All right. So, a motion on everything. >> I'll move it, mayor. I'll move that we adopt the consent agenda items 14A
through 14I. >> I'll seconden. >> Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> Miss Herman, >> yes. Mayor Adams, >> yes. We come to our second public comment on any issue at all from the
public. There's anyone online who would like to speak to the township committee about any subject matter, please raise your hand. Mayor, I'm moving Ruth Beckerman Redau to panelist.
Welcome Ruth. You may unmute yourself and address the committee. Can she turn a camera or can >> Yes. >> Hello. Hello. And thank you for the opportunity to share some thoughts with
you. I wasn't able to attend your meeting when you discussed the Megaplewood Village allianc's proposal to institute paid parking in the village. So, I want to take an opportunity to just raise um two
thoughts that I had. I read their proposal. I read the study that they um referenced in the proposal and I did watch your committee meeting um and and I came to the thought that um the conclusion that two of the reasons
for recommending that we institute paid parking was related to one was to relate to the equitable enforcement of parking regulations that currently exist and the second was to increase park sparking
space availability by increasing the turnover of parking spaces and then reduce congestion from people driving around looking for a parking space. I just wanted to share that I don't
understand why those two things are being connected to paid charging for parking. So, the electronic equipment that was um was spoken of in the proposal
can be um used to increase consistent enforcement. As I understand it, it goes into a police car. They can drive around. if it's two hours or one hours, they could um they could know read the
the license plate and know if someone has overstayed the regulations and then give him a ticket. I wasn't I'm still not clear on why that means is connected to having required paid parking. I I
don't see that connection and I just wanted to share that with you. Um, and the second goal was to increase the turnover of parking spaces. And I'm assuming the theory is that if people get tickets for overstaying their
welcome, then they won't um overstay their welcome, but again, I don't understand why it necessitates having paid parking. And the last thing I wanted to speak to is that um this concern of lack of parking um a
challenge to find parking which I do sometimes find. I usually find it though between the periods of April 15th and November 15th when we reduce the available parking by 21 spaces by turning those parking
spaces over to the restaurants, which I've used many times myself and really like. I would ask the committee to consider reducing the length of time that we turn those spaces over from the current seven months to maybe four
months. Um, it seems excessive to me. I I know I just ran over, so I'll leave it at that. >> Thank you very much for your thoughts. We're still going to be discussing this quite a bit, I'm sure. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome.
>> Anyone else, Mr. Bur? >> If any other attendee would like to speak in public portion, please raise your hand now. I see no other hands, mayor. >> Okay. Thank you very much everybody. I take a motion to adjourn. >> I move it. >> Second.
>> Mr. Daffis, >> yes. >> Mr. Duca, >> yes. >> M. Herman. >> Yes. >> Mayor Adams. >> Yes. Thank you. Good night everyone.