all right we're up okay so welcome everyone to the April 9th public safety committee meeting i see no one from the public here let's see six of us and six so we'll move to the first discussion item
uh Chief what's the status of the oneway over at the middle school how's it working things are working pretty good we haven't received any complaints and my traffic unit hasn't received any complaints we got one complaint that uh the barricades weren't down one day
right uh we took care of that and since then I haven't heard anything yeah no it's uh so the kids did a uh a presentation on the program and they included the picture chief of you and me moving one of the barricades that first
day yeah here we are you were you were in there you made you were famous uh but um you know I've been in contact with the teacher and everything's been pretty good there so yep and hopefully they'll win a prize
for for that and the good thing is it's not it doesn't cause us a lot of manpower to do we put it up and it seem pretty much seems it works itself so yeah yeah you know um it's a good lesson because bef you know we had in in on on
Bernett there were always the barricades there but we didn't have the sign that said do not enter that that seems to make the difference you know people think you can go around barricades that maybe there's a hole in the road or something but when you say
do not enter it's pretty clear that you're not supposed to do that so um Okay and so it as a par just to add as a parent who drives to MMS it's working great i love it and you're right Vic the the sign really helps because I haven't seen a car try to go through the
barricades no and and we have it on we have it on video cars doing it you know the kids showed because as I said people thought you could go around so um so Chief we we talked this morning at Engineering Public Works about the high
school uh Mr kitner worked with our uh consultants dynamic traffic and they're proposing um to make academy one way temporarily uh in the morning for about
a half hour uh coming out towards Parker and doing drop offs there and then we're also talking about some uh something with Kensington and maybe North um we were told that the some of
the students at the school are doing something similar to what the middle school students did they're looking at the problem and going to come up with a recommendation so when we get that we're going to take a look at everything we'd like you to be involved too and then
come up with some recommendations that we'll offer to the principal and the school district okay sounds good our uh traffic bureau is down there a couple days too as well uh we heard there were some tickets given been given out yeah
but um so so uh what they found out is that a lot of people you know was no there's nowhere else to drop the kids off at so in front of the school so the parents that were dropping off and going just drop off and go we let them go the ones that were sitting there uh
squatting that's the ones we uh ticketed um and they were observing it and they were they came back to me and said maybe if we stopped traffic coming from Kensington onto Parker um that would help out a lot so that was just their observation of being out there okay well
we'll share that with uh with Paul so that you know when we factor all that in um that certainly makes sense not to have and I think Malia spoke about that because she was in traffic today right yeah the left turns are real real killer
right yeah so but that's our next uh we want to we want to tackle that uh high school issue sooner rather than later and certainly before we move forward with any bike lane
there um anything else on the school drop offs we good okay so uh tell us the status of the police vacancies last month we were talking about three and you had I think uh you had the test and
where are we now yeah so we had the written test Monday um we had um little under 30 uh take the test um how many under 30 under 30 okay yeah so um but we
that's that's people that we allowed take the test we had um about 20 more um that are already police officers they had in their applications but they didn't take the test wow we had them as well um the uh the candidates that took
the test we should get the results back um Friday no later than Monday we had the physical fitness test on the 17th so once we complete that then we'll do our rankings and then we'll start the interview
for um the open positions okay so um that's quite a lot the 20 that are current uh police officers right right uh are you you are you looking at those first um so uh we're
waiting we're going to wait till this um till they fit finish the physical fitness test and do all like one big lump uh process um you know I believe we can get good candidates as well that are not police officers already so we just want to um
you know um mix them in there okay so we can expect maybe sometime in April we'll have to schedule interviews yes it's the mayor's favorite thing well actually second favorite i think
the first favorite was the firefighters well you know so we'll we'll we'll get them down to a reasonable number for the positions we're looking for okay my third favorite was all the department heads for the first like three years I was on the township
um and Chief we're still looking at the number three yes two right away and one um in a couple in a few months or so and do you have a sense of when the next academy is uh June oh so this is good
timing right perfect timing actually good okay um Deborah you asked for pedestrian uh crash data yeah I was asking more after some of the engineering meetings where we've been talking about bike lanes we've had a lot of the public talking
about um people getting hit on Parker Avenue so I was well I found I looked at what Mr wary sent around that from data from 2019 to 2014 and then what miss what Chief Sally just said and it looks like on Parker Avenue there weren't really we
great improvements of what the the traffic calming um but for Prospect Street you know I noticed that there's it seems like a lot so I guess my question was is it a lot like how do these compare on Prospect Street to prior years and and um how do they
compare to other areas and I just think it's as we talk about Prospect Street Can we wait until the 2026 um improvements or do we need to do stuff before so that's kind of my stream of conscious thoughts um well the one
uh on Prospect that you see it was uh three on Oakland two of them um it was it was two children but it was the same incident so the one is kind of like it's it's merged it's the it's the same incident and then another one um was
separate um so um I I think I ran this I had I believe I had the stats from the year before but they weren't um I don't think it was that far off from each year um we did in 2025 on
prospect we did have 70 traffic stops on that in that location so we have been doing enforcement and then on Parker Avenue we had this far this year 54 stops on Parker Avenue um so we have been picking up enforcement um I believe
that Prospect Street um with the the barriers better word for them but um I think that that has slowed down traffic a lot i have been observing that um coming down so um then now we have the crossing guard there as well
so chief your report here covers uh January 23rd through April 2025 right that's the whole This is three years here so there was looks like one crash in 23 and then one two three four five
in 24 and then one in 25 yes and you're saying if you look at it it was like it was like five incidents in in a year time period right the 24 one yeah yeah yeah they all seem to be Oakland and Oak View and M in that area there so I think
the uh by putting up the the uh the Ballards um which M Malia did a wonderful video of today um I think that should help a lot with
that set of intersections there yeah so it's nice to have this data now so that we can see how it right helps yeah you can see the cars slowing uh when not even like the cross guard or anyone in the sidewalk you can like see them
slowing down as they get close there so thank you for compiling that um that data Chief Sally yeah and then on Parker you're just saying there's these are two and 23 right yeah so these are a while back hudson and Yeah so I was just curious about because at the at the
public meetings for the bike lanes it seemed like there had been more incidents recently so I was surprised to not see anything on this these lists yeah the one the the top one here that's the woman who was hit when she was crossing the street and the person took
off oh didn't run yeah okay okay um Superintendent Bing said that he had four students hit this year so I don't know if that's data that's not reported
or uh where he got that from but um he said to us when Deb and I were at the the true there was the Prospect and Academy the Parker and Academy child that was hit recently so I don't I don't Yeah I don't know
where his numbers are are from um is this data that you're pulling just from what people call in and report in you said this year this year there was recently a couple months ago a child was hit Parker at
Academy that was on Park that was on um Yeah so Oh this is Prospect right sorry right that's Yeah yeah he might have meant this school year which you know would be 24 to 25 and we and we do have um it'll be it's
all recorded uh but we do have sometimes when it uh if it was like a high school student that was struck and they go and they leave and they go to the high school and then they report it but it still was still reported once once they report it
h So is it the fact that it's missing maybe it's logged under Academy Street like if it's at an intersection it could be how it could be on one of the side streets that I'm missing well I'll look into that thank you
and then because I felt like people were also saying pedestrians were getting struck further up Parker near more like the Clinton area but maybe that was just more than three years ago i I'll look I'll run the side streets as
well to see if there's anything near Parker the only thing I can tell you com that compares is uh a number of years ago I did a um a proposal to get state aid uh state technical assistance that we did
for Parker I'm sorry for Prospect and a couple other streets and I did look at the um the crash data and and honestly the bigger problem we had at that time was at Harvard and Prospect
we had we had a lot of accidents there people going through stop signs all the time so uh occasionally we had a couple others um but since the light was there that whole area has stopped and now you
know since we put the Ballards up I think we're going to see even a lot less going forward yeah also on Prospect around the curve just past that light people used to crash into that front lawn of crash into that yep yep and then we put the signs
up and changed that to 15 miles and you know did all that too so it's nice to see how um traffic calming measures actually like work with the crash data and also the enforcement as Chief Sally was just saying so it's good to remind us that like we do things and then there
are results okay um chief I uh included the 21st century policing report and this was something that I saw when we were at that conference at KA and thought that it would be useful to just go over a little
bit and see uh from your perspective how are we doing in in matching up uh with some of these recommendations of course since uh we have a new president all this stuff has been thrown out uh all
the diversity and everything else but um I still think there are best practices here so I'm just going to put it up just get your comments about some of the the pillars um you know about building trust and legitimacy and they
talk about um you know the it's a you know for both sides police and community and and how do you think we're doing in this this sort of bucket here yeah so um I was actually fortunate enough meet to meet uh who the former
chiefs that were on that committee um Charles Ramsey and Derek uh Dr for Alexander um who um were part of this of writing this um so I do agree with a lot of the pillars that are on here um so I
so what I gather from um this and also um being in certain meetings that uh the importance of having a community policing base is very important and with
that it it it helps to um bridge the gap between the public and the police and also helps to reduce crime um once you get that kind of trust um the the first pillar with building trust and legitimacy um a lot of stuff um is
statewide it's like the AG came down with a bunch of things uh one is police licensing so every officer in New Jersey has to be licensed and there's a certain criteria to keep that license and that
and if you lose your license it moves with you to another department so if I lose my license or something happens to me here and I try to go to another department they will see that the license is revoked or for for whatever reason and you can't you know jump from
department to department um so that that helps to build some of the trust and legitimacy also um you know our internal affairs process um people are not that familiar that most of internal affairs investigations we have is
self-reported so it might be you know 68% might come from inside of the department because the public will not know the rule infraction we will um so um a less amount comes from the public as far as an um anonymous or some
kind of complaint um will come um you know around you know less than 20% from the from the public and then once we get it we will investigate to see if there's some type of rule infraction and mostly
most of the time it is a rule infraction it's very rare that it's criminal in nature that has excessive force um but most of our complaints are some kind of rule uh we call it SOP standard operation procedure where one of those might have
been violated so we do an investigation um and we determine um if it was violated if it was violated or not we use progressive discipline um meaning we start from uh verbal depending on the
seriousness of it and go up uh the ladder there now if it's more serious of course it will jump to a um higher degree but um this is the kind of thing that we um we we check ourselves also um
to build trust and legitimacy we have uh the community board of police um which the AG says we're allowed once uh the internal affairs investigation is over they are allowed to review the summary of it um so now brings out an outside
um public to see where we're at as far as how we are um running running our department and that um I believe builds um some kind of trust a lot of these pillars overlap so um a lot of things
I'm saying might go into the other ones other things but also um transparency is very important um so and sometimes it's hard for the police department to become transparent because a lot of times people want information right away uh but we want to
make sure we're accurate and also sometimes we can't give out the information because we are conducting an investigation and we need to get the right facts and and do the investig so we give it out is uh we give out basic information and then once we have um the facts then we
give out um what happened and everything else so um we have uh the Nyx holder that we use for um various things we use it for um of course for road construction and things of that such but
also we use it if we have um an incident taking place now I just want the public to know that we don't put a lot of information out there because it changes a lot so we might get a call person might say I'm a victim of a robbery we get out there and we realize that it
wasn't a robbery at all so we don't want to put that information out so uh right away so what we'll put out is you know police are responding to a suspicious incident in the area and then once we determine what it is then we update the the public of what it is um so a lot of
calls do come in that way so um but the public wants to know and also we have um u and this moves into the technology part you know this is one of the pillars um we just purchased brand new police radios um we just were up and running
with that about a month ago and with that we have a police scanner that the public listens to and they get information from that as well um so um you know so so that that's another way the public can find out what uh what exactly is going on in the police
department um police uh uh the building trust uh policy oversight i kind of talked a little bit about both but also we're currently updating all of our standard operation procedures we're in the process right now of doing that of
updating them getting them up to date make sure they're not contradicting the attorney general the laws they're up to date with everything we have a company that's that has come in and they're doing the uh overhaul of our standard operation procedures once that's
complete we should be ready for um accreditation in the police department and that's another step of um you know building the trust legitimacy policy oversight um with that so those are um I don't
know what pillars we're on now but pretty much just that one of the one of the questions you know we're we're we're reducing the uh training budget this year um are we still going to be able to maintain our emphasis on training and education for the officers
yes so um so with police licensing and also uh with the AG guidelines we do have mandatory trainings we do have to um we have to do but we have officers that are trained to train our officers to do that also
um we um we also locate a lot of free training as well mhm free training and then also we we have reached out to community on certain things um that have come and done it as uh volunteers to train us on uh certain certain things so
we can use all that to um assist us with with the training uh but we but this you know our department is uh like you said in 2023 and 2024 we were budgeted um you know
increase in training and we've had uh a lot of training deescalation crisis intervention training um cultural awareness um you know active shooter training domestic
violence pursuit policy use of force Um so we and and a lot more that I'm not uh thinking of now but um our department has been um very well trained we might have to cut back on some of the um you know the great
symposiums I go to but you know that's okay yeah you won't be able to go to uh Arizona again or whatever you want um so one of the things that a phrase that I learned when we were going through the Simino stuff was the procedural justice as sort of an
internal sense among the officers that our policies and procedures were going to be just and fair and everyone was going to be treated the same and that you weren't going to have favorites um and some people could do things and some people couldn't and it I think there was
a feeling for a while there that in the police department that um you know some people could do no wrong cuz they were the favorites and uh is that changed some so um unfortunately some some officers might still feel that way the problem is is that they cannot see each
other's um discipline or what is going on with them so um sometimes they might misrepresent how an other officer is treated but they don't know because they can't see their internal affairs uh file or what discipline they received in the
past so um sometimes I think that that happens and that's uh misunderstood sometimes um but we we try to uh stay fair with you know and with our progressive discipline of the
officers and um you know so that's where we're at and you're comfortable with where we're at right now and uh how we're interacting with the community yes i always you know I always think we can do more but we we're doing a lot um
you know we we um piggyback on a lot of um a lot of organizations that are doing things in the community or a lot of events that are taking place um we you know partner with the AAA on pedestrian and crossing the street um easy ride
bike riding um we we join with them our uh open gyms that's that's uh YouthNet we join with them map Maple Fest we we put a table out um we respond to all the um you know and and we we're part of all
the planning of the major events as well right even though we might not participate but we're also we're part of the um you know the uh the working of what is going on with that event you know the big events that we have 4th of July and Junth and everything
else we we go we're invited to so and and um I know there's a whole section here on diversity and equity and inclusion and I mean it's I you know the township committee is still committed to making
sure that not only do our does our police department represent the the community and the real world but that we recognize that we have many different cultures and traditions in our community yeah so our police department you know that's one that's one thing that's you
know a plus with our department we're very diverse um with women officers and uh different races and and religions and backgrounds and everything else so I'm uh I'm good with where we're at in the police department okay anybody have any
comments or questions for the chief on this no good okay uh Chief uh a couple of me township committee meetings ago we had representatives from the village
condominiums on Metobrook come and they raised some questions primarily around the shooting that occurred on Elmwood and I know we don't want to go into that here but um they also talked about there's
speeding that goes on in Mebrook uh you know people trying to beat the light so they're turning off of uh Bdon and going through and getting to Elmwood uh they mentioned there's overnight parking in that on that Meadow Brook area and that
the parking lot pool there are people who don't have permits that are parking there and all that they're saying that no one's being ticketed yeah so um yeah I heard that complaint um a few weeks ago and we have um done a
lot of enforcement over there with the overnight parking um also um we we um we have done details over on Melbrook um of course it's a public street they can cut through but we are looking for the speeding but when we're there we're not
um necessarily getting that but we are um over there as far as the enforcement and um as far as the shooting uh that took place we did make an arrest that night so um soon as that happened we
made the arrest and then on the 13 um you know on the 13th of March we had further charges on them so we were able to um through ballistics once the ball ballistics came back um and our officers interviews and everything else we're
able to put multiple charges on uh that person so the investigation went pretty fast um and the arrest was uh right away and even after the arrest we had um you know additional units in the area for a time period
so the there was a claim made that it took the police 10 minutes to get there do you have a sense of uh response on that night yeah so um from the first call to the first officer arriving we were there uh under four minutes it was
uh 3.8 to be exact um and then a minute later officer uh was in contact with uh one of the callers so it was a minute after that and then right after that the investigation started and then um we had
off uh multiple officers in the area okay thank you anybody have anything else on that our plan I spoke to Patrick about this our plan is uh to reach out to the condo people and just follow up with them now that we've had the public
safety committee meeting and the engineering meeting and just um try to wrap up some of these things that they they talked about they talked about lighting i wasn't sure if that was um lighting like the condo needs more
lighting or No that's those are the street lights on Elmwood we talked about that this morning so Paul Paul is going to work with the police what happens is the Paul puts in a request for the police to do an analysis
it takes it takes us a night to do it so we can you know Okay we knock it out pretty fast oh yeah because you were looking at Memorial Park uh the lights over there no what'd you find on that one um yeah I did have uh notes on that
i don't have them in front of me but I think most of them were working it just seemed to be very dim what I remember um maybe one was out I believe so then you'll look over at the condo area and check out their lighting yes
i think in Memorial Park there was a there was a problem electrical problem that has been worked out chief do you report it to public service or do you just report it to engineering for them to report it to engineering we try to get a poll number
and all that stuff what took a light i think Memorial Park didn't have poll numbers but um the sergeant was pretty descriptive of where these lights were he kind of like pretty much drew a map with it okay um Chief I had asked you today to
just give us a an update on uh following the attorney general's directive i I know I heard that uh Homeland Security and ICE have put out some more uh I don't know what they would even call directives on their own um that may
clash with what our attorney general and our governor are saying have you heard anything have you seen any more activity i I have not and we we sticking with the attorney general of u his recommendations we haven't changed anything um from what we you know
originally put out and what the AG put out okay anybody have any questions on that ICE stuff or Okay uh let's go to the police report good numbers Chief yeah so that's
uh great numbers um you know these guys are I don't know if you heard but you know a lot of people in the public saying they seen officers a lot more out on the street um the uh the robberies the you know the the
big ones robberies act assault burglaries we did have um this this month two attempts one was like on a car but they never went to the house and one was like on a screen of a door and they they took off but other than that um you
know some of the towns around us are still getting burglaries but um our guys are in the area of where we've been having them so um you know the patrol division is doing their thing which is uh driving these numbers down the way they are
any question this is for January and February of this year so and even um like autotheft is statewide going down it's been going down for the last right three years or so but the big one is that you know we we we have been getting a lot of thefts the last couple years so that's pretty good
that we're going down with that as well y uh we do have um again you know we do have a walking officer patrol uh universal officer who walks in the stores so um I tend to believe that that
cut down some of the shoplifting um him in the area so that any comments on this well I think you said autotheft was down because the burglary was going up right
like they weren't taking just the car they were breaking in to get the keys for the car yes but now the burglaries are down so that's Yeah so yeah keep it up this is helpful
the way it's presented to everybody i'm assuming that the number it's like comparing like the same time period from last year yes yeah january February January February i love these PDFs that you send around
Vic thank you so much okay i got nothing else to do i can give you some other things if you No that's okay okay we'll move to traffic these are good numbers too a lot of green increases woo
yeah all numbers are going in the right direction so that's good um if you if you go all the way down you see that the um traffic details have decreased i think that's helped us out with the
numbers you see above um we're trying to uh we told officers the areas we want them to go to but we're trying we're allowing them to do their thing once they're there so we're not like you know holding them on one spot for an hour um
so I think that's helping a lot with that and officers are just doing a great job with that so so last month I'm sorry i'm sorry what do you mean by a traffic detail as opposed to just going out so a traffic detail is um so we'll get a
complaint on Metalbrook Place right that they're speeding so we'll we'll we'll direct the officer to go to Melville Place and do a detail there so that means he'll call it out and he'll sit at that location for 40 minutes that's a traffic detail called
out now if I if I say um you know just stay on your post place is a uh area where we're having um complaints but just you know ride that area that officer ride the area then if they see a traffic violation then they stop it but they're not calling it out they're not just
sitting there they're moving around yeah okay that makes sense i have a question go ahead Deb sorry i was just going to ask all these numbers look so great like green's in the right area red's in the right area and I know
sometimes we get hard on our PD about these not looking as good so it's been I guess this is two months of data with the new 12-h hour and 12-hour shifts so are we like you know keep up the good work like complimenting because we always kind of get negative towards them
and I'm just thinking about like morale yes i don't know like procedures yes they're doing they're Yes they're doing great yeah no I think I think this is we you know again Chief uh we're not looking to
get people more tickets but we are trying to respond to what we're hearing in the community and and people are feeling that um you know traffic is out of control driving is out of control and so these numbers I think reflect uh a
response to the community concerns and so that's that's very good and we we thank the officers for for doing this yeah I was going to add to that um we just this is because we you know we get
so many requests for traffic cominging and all that but at the same time we can't keep um investing in infrastructure to engineer everything so it it has to be a partnership between engineering and enforcement so really
grateful for these numbers yeah I constantly see people saying "Why aren't they enforcing?" And I I can't wait to see the post when someone goes "They did it was me i got a ticket." Yeah so perhaps at our TC meeting on Tuesday
u Mr julia you can say something about this i don't know is that the only thing I can say or can I say other things at the meeting that's it you can say other thing i don't know well you can that's the only thing you can that's the only thing you can say but maybe say
one thing okay one thing it make it one long sentence of many anything more on these uh so these are good numbers chief thank you i know we've been pressuring you so and I really just thank the lieutenants because it really goes back
to lieutenants and uh you know I look at those we all look at those monthly reports and and uh it's it's really the motivation from the lieutenants down to the sergeants down to the officers so okay you um uh chief have you found that
they've been doing less warnings since we've been asking for more you know the war the warnings are up as well um oh there they are okay those all around no all right great but I think last time we saw an up in
warnings but we didn't see violations this time we're seeing you know healthy violations the radar is off the charts and then the warning notices too so okay all right uh we don't have anyone from the community board on police here so we
won't have that update patrick do you have anything on OEM i do a few things hurricane season is coming up uh June 1st it starts they just released predictions for this year
for above normal activity and so you know what that means in terms of numbers where uh we might uh normally get nine hurricane or we expect to get about nine hurricanes compared to an average of 7.2 for those major on an average of uh just
about three so uh probably next month we'll you know maybe we do a little bit of um education and training with our OEM about that i know that the county starts to get stuff down to us so we'll be sure to push that out we've got a gubanatorial debate coming up Wednesday
April 23rd at the Woodland uh the uh police department's put together an order on that and we will have an OEM meeting that week probably that Monday um just prior to go over it since it'll be a uh it'll be a big event I think
it's over 400 attendees at the Woodland um so we'll have a a meeting prior and on C training we have uh been getting out information on search training so thanks to Sergeant Wright and Sergeant Deasio who's been pushing that out to
our Um our searchs we've got uh coming up this month two trainings one with Middle or one training I'm sorry one with Middle Sex OEM and then one in June at New Jersey Transit and also request out from EAR and she's looking for other
search from other municipalities to help with an event that they're having at the end of this month so uh we've had a a good line of communication with them thanks to uh the police sergeants so that's my report is there a role the SER can play in the
gubanatorial debate security stuff yeah yeah could be we can talk to the chief about it absolutely that might be might be a good role for crowd control and directionals and stuff like that because going to be a lot of out of town people too I would bet yep yep yeah a lot of a lot of traveling
you know parking issues and um just a lot of attendees so yeah yeah absolutely we'll reach out to them okay um anything else anything on OEM for Patrick we're good keep
moving uh South Essex Fire Department going to share what am I going to share i'm going to share this uh so we approved the budget 16 $17 million budget um this gets broken out 50 roughly 55%
to 45% between Maplewood and South Orange um we did reduce the budget by about 90,000 uh but one of the biggest expenses that actually was brought into the budget this year is $2.7 million for pension costs uh that was still carried
over in each individual department in past year so uh and then our capital budget is $2 million maplewood pays 60% of that because we have 60% of the firehouses and equipment in Maplewood and 40% in
South Orange and we're buying a new fire engine for about $1.1 million and then these are the numbers um for February and then year to date you can see that uh very few fires which
is good uh and most of these fires are out of town so we you know we don't want these numbers to go up or if we do we want them if they're going to remain the same we you know we'd rather respond to mutual aid than have it here cooking fires we do have we just had one
recently um you know gas leaks you know anytime we have road construction we get gas leaks and then our big numbers as you see over 40% are it has to do with EMS
whether uh SCF SCFD is providing it which is 33% or some of the other agencies like the south south orange fire rescue squad rather um and some of the other ambulances uh smoke detector activation and alarm
activation still you know pretty high so we do responses there so and that's pretty much it i don't know if anyone has any questions no no I guess I have one question about the building what we have
what did you say 60% or what we have more building but we share all the same firefighters so I'm just curious about how that deal works so we have uh we have um there's five pieces of apparatus uh three of them are uh in
Maplewood and two in South Orange so 60% of the apparatus is in Maplewood so and two of the three fire stations are in Maplewood firehouses are in Maplewood so we agreed to cover 60% of capital costs as opposed to 55%
okay so what would 55% be just the different that's the operation so 60% is just for the capital cost 55% is is operation and it's not 50/50 because of the population or No it's not 5050 it's
based on assessed value oh um just like the school is based on assessed value that's you know that's the only way that New Jersey works with these regionalization things it's assessed assessed value got it that
makes sense thank you for explain um Oh I'm sorry we you know we missed the overtime report is there anything to talk about or are we doing all right chief you're on mute maybe you don't want to talk about it
no actually um that's trending the right way too everything's trending down so uh total um 911 dispatch overtime is down 58.39% so that's that's pretty pretty good everything's in going red okay
sounds good okay we have our second public com any other new items no just good job on going down in overtime too uh second public comment we have no one
so let's go into uh close session just so we could hear if there's anything the chief would like to tell us about any incidents uh also I'd like to just uh do a little deeper dive on the schedule and how it's working and any impact it's having and then any personnel things you
want to bring up so can we get a motion to go into closed i move to go into closed i second all in favor i we're in closed metric you want to