Ready? Yes. Answers me. Timing couldn't have been worse for this for me. I just don't crappy thing. Section 5, 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 in Star Ledger
in December of 2024 and by filing said notice in the office of the township clerk. Mr. Dafis present, Mr. Luca here, Sangel here, Furman here, Mayor Adams here. Whereas chapter 231 public laws
1975 commonly known as the open public meetings act requires all meetings of public bodies be open to the public and whereas section 7A provides that the governing body has a discretion to permit prohibit or regulate the act of participation of the public at any meeting and whereas are the governing
body to comply with the provision this act sana conduct its business in an orderly and expeditious manner. Now therefore be resolved by the township committee township of Mapwood that it does hereby prohibit except to set forth in the formal agenda active
participation in deliberations of the governing body by the public and except as otherwise prescribed by law does limit the public to the observations of the actions and discussions of the governing body at all of its regular and special meetings. So moved. Second. Mr.
Daffus. Yes. Luca. Yes. Angel. Yes. Herman. Yes. Mayor Adams. Yes. Uh, please rise for a salute to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. With liberty and justice for all. Yeah. doesn't. Um, so good evening everyone and welcome to the July 1st meeting of the Maplewood
Township Committee 2025. I think that's the year we're still in. Feels like it's been about five years this first six months. So, we'll just move forward with what we do on a local level. We have two proclamations tonight. One is for
disability pride month read by committee member Angel. The other is Parks and Recreation Month uh read by Deputy Mayor Herman. Then we will have public comment on agenda items only. Then we'll move into our board of health meeting that um
committee member Angel will run and then we have one ordinance on for introduction. We have um administrative reports and Mr. Wary, Miss Credidio, and Miss Fritzen. Then we have reports from elected officials, Committee Member
Duca, Deputy Mayor Herman, Committee Member Angel, and Committee Member Daffis. And then my report, we have one discussion item on for tonight that I don't think will take long um given past history, and that is regarding cancelling the second meeting of the
month uh in August uh which is pretty traditional. So um then we have our consent agenda. We have a second public comment on any subject matter and then we will adjourn. So with that I will ask committee member Angel to read the
proclamation for disability pride month. Thank you mayor. Um disability pride month. Whereas on July 26th 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law prohibiting discrimination based on disability and affirming the rights of millions of
Americans. And whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four adults in the United States lives with a disability which may include challenges related to mobility, cognition, vision, hearing, independent living, or self-care. And
whereas at the Township of Maplewood, we celebrate the richness of our diversity and recognize that while we all face challenges, we must also embrace the joy found in what makes each of us unique, even in the face of adversity. Adversity. And whereas disability pride is about acknowledgement and
celebration, it is about building and strengthening community and reminding those who may feel isolated, misunderstood, or unseen that they are not alone, that they are valued, and that they are supported. And whereas we honor advocates like Everly Haristen, founder of the Garden State chapter of
the National Federation of the Blind, and we recognize the wide spectrum of disability, including non-visible disabilities such as mental health conditions, chronic illnesses, and learning or cognitive differences. And whereas we also celebrate the progress society has made in breaking stigmas,
fostering representation, and expanding opportunities for people with both visible and invisible disabilities. And whereas in the township of Maplewood, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming community, one where the social contract means not only seeing one another, but acknowledging,
engaging, and affirming that every individual matters. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Deb Angel, on behalf of Nancy Adams, mayor of the Township of Maplewood, and the entire Maplewood Township Committee, do hereby proclaim the month of July as Disability Pride Month in the Township of Maplewood.
Thank you. We'll move on to parks and recreation month. Not the TV show that everybody says. I don't watch. It feels like that here sometimes. It does. Deputy mayor. Thank you. So, this is a proclamation designating
July as parks and recreation month, not the TV show. Whereas parks and recreation are essential to communities across the country, including here in Maplewood. And whereas Maplewood recognizes the values of parks and recreation and
honors the dedicated full-time, part-time, and seasonal professionals who enrich our community through impactful programs, services, and memorable experiences for residents of all ages. And whereas Maplewood's Department of Community Services offers robust year-round programming for all
ages, including youth sports, senior classes, art and fitness programs, community events, and summer camps. And whereas park and parks and recreation promote health and wellness by encouraging active lifestyles, offering space for sports, walking, community
events, and providing vital access to nature, which supports mental well-being. And whereas recreation programs support childhood development, lifelong learning, and foster friendships, memories, and community bonds that last a lifetime. And whereas our parks enhance environmental
sustainability, preserve green spaces, and contribute to public health, economic vitality, and overall community well-being. Recognition that led the US House of Representatives to designate July as Parks and Recreation Month. Now therefore, be it resolved that I, Malia
Herman, deputy mayor of the Township of Maplewood, on behalf of Nancy Adams, mayor of the Township of Maplewood on and the rest of the Maplewood Township Committee, proclaim July as Park and Recreation Month in the Township of Maplewood. Yes. Great.
Okay, with that, we'll move into our first public comment for agenda items only. If there's anyone in the room who would like to speak to the township committee on any items on our agenda this evening, then please come to the microphone, give your name and address,
and uh you have three minutes to speak. Hello. Might want to move the mic down just Yeah, perfect. Hi, my name is Angela and I live on uh Hilton Avenue and um I have a concern. I took some pictures. Um I've been to the township here uh maybe about three, four times
cuz um there was a dead rat on my uh sidewalk and um I don't know where it's coming from. So I noticed that in not my backyard, but my neighbor's backyard. Um, it's like the woods back there. And
I'm embarrassed to have a barbecue because when the people come there, they they look and they look at the woods over there. I mean, I have pictures here and they have a shed back there that's all corroded on the bottom and they put plates there so that way you don't see
the holes. So, I mean, there's a rat. I found a snake back there. So, I mean, I don't know if the town can do something about it to go back there. Sure, we can. It's not just her house. It's the other two houses in the backyard because when the other people used to live there, it
was nice and clean. You know, they had their garbage cans back there, but this lady takes the garbage and puts it on the side of the house where my driveway is. And they need to clean it up. I mean, cuz I mean, years ago when um they we used to have the lawn police out and
they clean and stuff like that, but now you don't see that anymore in May, you know. Oh, but you know, and then my neighbor next door has two young kids. I mean, I don't want, you know, want them to go outside and get bit, whatever. And I told them, I says, "Don't let the kids go outside because there's a, you know, dead rat out there." So, I mean, if the
town can come them, they they can walk on my property. I don't care cuz I know they get scared to walk on the people's property or something like that. But just to come and look back there to see how how it looks. Okay. I mean, I don't know if you want to see the pictures. I'd like you to leave those and your name and address with our clerk and
we'll get that to the right department. Yes. Oh, so I give it to Liz, right? Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. This is for agenda items if if we can, but um come on up.
Let's do sometimes it's easier. Hello, Mayor Adams and the township committee. My name is Nancy Rego. I've been a resident for Maplewood over 50 years. I have two major concerns. The first is the refrigerator on Springfield Avenue. That has been an eyes sore from
day one. First of all, you have people parked in their cars for hours in the adjacent parking lot waiting for food to be dropped off. I actually went there to drop off food twice and was approached by a man who told me, "Drop it and leave
it. It was scary and unnecessary. So, also you have the vans coming, parking in the front there, which they shouldn't. There is a sign there. They come out with shopping bags, raid the whole refrigerator, and off they go in their vans. You can tell they're not from Maplewood. They're from other
towns. My concern is that you have this refrigerator there. It was replaced three times. Are you using our tax money for this to be replaced? Because my taxes are increased every year. And it's unfortunate that you have a lot of elderly people on fixed incomes and we
have to pay these outrageous prices, but yet we're putting refrigerators there to help the homeless. I'm all for helping the homeless. My kids and my and myself were involved in soup kitchens. We we were um every town has food pantries
available. A lady of Sorrowos, St. Joe's, St. Ros Lima, St. Teresa's in Summit. Also, you have people sitting on the benches and I saw a man there urinating. It's disgusting and it needs to be corrected immediately. Um, why is
it necessary? My concern is why is it necessary to Maplewood to help other surrounding towns? There's only one family that I know that goes to that refrigerator that actually lives in Maplewood and actually needs it. There's people from different towns that are coming to our refrigerator and we have
to donate food, which I understand that, but every town has their own food pantry and it's available in every town. On Sunday, I passed by and it looked awful by the refrigerator. I have pictures. There was clothes items, toys, empty
boxes, underweares, and garbage left right in the front. And I do have pictures of it. It was picked up later that day, but it's an eyes sore. Something needs to be done. Um, I will bring you these pictures and this is some of it
all over in the front there. I mean, it's it's an eyesore. I don't know why it was put there. They should have really approached the people that live in that area. Why wasn't it put in the in um downtown Maplewood? Why wasn't it put by Dehar Park? Why was it on
Springfield Avenue? Okay. Just problem there is that you have the bus there and people come in there from different towns just waiting. And if you go in that parking lot, I was there the other day cuz I picked up some food. They're just waiting in the cars. You said you
had two items. I just Okay. And their time's almost up. Sorry. I just So my other item is the Jity in Maplewood Center. I did bring this up with Eugina from the Department of Public Works, but the township should be aware of this problem. I went to pick up my son or daughter or daughter at the Maple train
station. I park there for a few minutes. What happens? The Jitney comes right behind me, starts beeping on the horn for me to keep going. Why is it that the Jity has preference to take all the spots in that area? I pay taxes. I should be able to wait there like they
do. They are very um rude drivers and very persistent. They blocked me in one time and I couldn't get out. I have a parent who's disabled. I need to get to somewhere too. If you ever see the jittneys down our streets, Hilton, Franklin, and Lexington, you'll see them
speeding down the streets. They have no care for other people. They want to get from point A to point B, and it has become really unnecessary. Okay. They This also happened to my husband. The man told him to he actually got out of the jney and approached my husband and
was very rude about it and told him to keep going. And my husband said, "I'm not moving my vehicle because the way that you have approached me is unnecessary." Understood. Thank you. Okay. Uh, if you could leave your pictures with our clerk. Anyone else want to speak this public
comment? Mary Pagglea, 183 Franklin Avenue, Maplewood. It's about the parking lot by St. Joseph's Church. There's some strange stuff going in that parking lot. There's all these alcohol bottles in in there. I don't know what people are doing. And I know I've seen
people smoking pot and then I don't know if they're getting in their cars. I don't stay around to watch, but you could smell it. And they park. They're obstructing. You can't get through. Like if you're trying to go through, you can't get through. I don't know what people understand as parking and obstructing a way of the driving the
person who's trying to drive around it, but it's there's something wrong there. people just not understanding. But I don't like all these alcohol bottles in there. These little bottles, shop bottles all over the place. You see it all the time. It's not alcohol. It's beer. It's something else. And there's
dirty stuff they're leaving. It's It's really sickening. It's very sickening that they're doing stuff like that. And people don't understand how to use that garbage. The people with the dogs, if you're going to throw away your dog's uh you know, stuff, put it in the garbage. They just throw it on the floor. you
know, with the hot weather, it smells horrible. It's just terrible. And and also about that, I I have to I definitely confirm what she said. And I don't know if that you can do anything. Does people understand that driving is 25 miles an hour on our streets? They come down 45 miles an hour. They're just
flying by. They may They don't even stop at the stop sign. They just whip around people. I don't know. Can you get drones out then to watch them? Because I don't see police anymore. We used to have police going around. We don't see anybody anymore. Yeah. Yeah. So, I that's what my concern. Okay. Thank you.
Yeah, our enforcement numbers are up by our police department. So, I just want to note that, but we'll alert them of that and we'll reach out to St. Joseph's Church about their parking lot. Uh, is there anyone else in the room who'd like to speak?
Anyone on Zoom, Mr. W? If anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak on agenda items only, please raise your hand. I am moving over. Oh. Um, I see no hands. Mayor,
I'm moving over Alex Patron. Alex, welcome to the public portion. You may unmute unmute yourself and have three minutes to speak on agenda items. Hi all. Um, so Pat, you just informed me today that I think one of the agenda items is the filming
on Claremont AB again. Um, yeah. So, thank you for providing the dates and the times because Can everybody hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Okay, great. Sorry, I searched for something else. Um, thank you for providing because the location agent who
I reached out to provided nothing. Um, you relayed that 3:00 a.m. I guess is back on the docket as the direct neighbor. I just struggle to understand why this is even a discussion. I know many of the neighbors were bought out and they have to make their own decisions. That's their own
consideration. We live right next door. They filmed until midnight. The light noise and the actual noise is wildly inconvenient. Right. This is the fourth time in three and a half years we've experienced this multiple times late at night. I struggle to understand why we have town ordained hours allowed for
filming and we allow um businesses to operate a commercial enterprise in a residential neighborhood. So these types of hours, it's the same it's the same comments as last time. Many of the residents in town, they have children that they are supporting. They have dual
working households. They have early hours. They have late hours. I just really would would urge the township committee again and I'm just really surprised that 3M is even on the email that was sent to me because I thought that we covered this topic. I
appreciated everybody's responses, thoughtful responses and and yet here we are again. So that's it for me on this topic. I just please I urge you the direct neighbor. Okay. Thank you. these. Oh,
she keep you keep cutting out a little bit. So, is that on our end or their end? No, it's their end. Why is it that we also can't see her? She didn't put her camera or a little bit off. Just show dark. Oh. Oh, there. Sorry guys. I'm I'm in Penn Station coming home from
a late night at work. I start my day at 5:00 a.m. So, again, I just I am very surprised to see 3M is even an optionality yet again for this filming crew. I know that they'll try to buy people out. I just would urge you to not allow residents to be bought out at the
inconvenience of other residents. That's it. Plain and simple. Did that come through? Yes. Great. I just didn't want to say thank you if you weren't done. No, no, I'm done. I shared I can I can reiterate, but again, it's just I don't know why we're here again. They filmed until midnight. It was
inconvenient. It's incredible amounts of light noise and actual noise. I think nobody can really appreciate it unless you've lived next to a filming studio four times in three and a half years as we have done. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks.
Anyone else on Zoom? Mr. Green, anyone else would like to speak on agenda items? Please raise your hand. I see no hands. Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Now we'll move into our board of health. I'm going to turn that over to committee member Angel. Thank you. Pursuant to
section 5, 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 2024 and by filing send notice in the office of the township clerk. Mayor Adams here. Mr. Daffis here. Luca here. Thurman here. Miss Angel here.
Whereas chapter 231 public 1975 following known as the open public meetings act requires loomings of public bodies be open to the public. And whereas section 7A provides that the board of health has the discretion to permit prohibit or regulate the active
participation in the public in any meeting. and whereas desire the Maplewood Board of Health to comply with the provision of this act same time to conduct its business in an orderly and expeditious manner. Now therefore be resolved by the Maplewood Board of Health. Town County Township of Mapwood
does hereby prohibit except as set forth in the formal agenda. Active participation in deliberations of the board of health by the public and except as otherwise described by law does limit the public to the observation of the actions and discussions of the board of
health at all of its regular and special meetings. So moved. Second. Mayor Adams. Yes. Mr. Daffus. Yes. Mr. Luca. Yes. Miss Herman, yes. Miss Angel, yes. Now, I move that we approve the board of health meeting minutes from June 4th,
2025. Second. Mayor Adams, yes. Daffis, yes. Luca, yes. Miss Herman, yes. Zangel, yes. Now I turn things over to Health Officer Candace Davenport. Welcome back, Miss Stavenport. Thank you so much. Good
evening, everyone. Uh we'll start off our presentation with um heat advisories. So uh we have we've had heat um high heat days and we are having more to come. So we just wanted to highlight uh this flyer from the state health
department on how to prevent heat related illnesses and how to identify signs of heat exhaustion. You'll notice that it also mentions to find a cool place um to to stay cool in this type of weather. I just want to mention that the state
has a uh website called um Chill Out New Jersey and it's an app where you can find all the locations for cooling centers um throughout New Jersey. Just want to mention that 2024 was the third warmest summer in New Jersey since we were recording it since 1895. And that
in 2023 in the United States 119,600 heat related illnesses um created emergency department visits. So it is a significant concern uh for all of us. Next slide please.
Moving on to nursing update. We had uh six reportable diseases investigated and um our pdium nurse Julia Canowitz was able to do a monthly health screening at the senior center on Irvington Avenue and um screened 11 residents there. Next
slide. Just want to update everyone on the county vaccine for children free program. Uh the dates for those vaccine um for children clinics are Wednesday, July 9th. Again, Wednesday, July 16th, and July 23rd, all in different
locations in Bloomfield, Orange, and Irvington. If you'd like to make an appointment for your vaccines for children, um especially those that are required for school age attendance, um you can go to their website or give them a phone call at 973 8778456.
And this information is also available in um Spanish and Haitian Creole. Thank you. Next slide. Okay, so it might be cut off over here. Um, we usually have our farmers market um, health screening provided by the
County of Essex and Robert with Johnson Foundation. They're usually done on the second Monday of the month, but uh, there's a scheduling error. Um, so or a scheduling change, excuse me. So, just want to make everyone aware that they will be there on Monday, July 14th from
2:00 to 5:00 p.m. U, they'll also be there August 4th, September 8th, and October 6th. The blood uh services offered will be blood pressure, glucose, um A1C testing, uh cholesterol screenings, and nutrition and health education. So, please visit our farmers
market especially on those days. Next slide. Also, there's a free virtual Narcan screening through our uh partners at Ruckers and Adapt that is this um this month, July 30th, at the end of the
month at 100 p.m. Um this is important for uh substance use awareness and um injury prevention. We want people to learn how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose and receive a free Narcan kit per attendee. Thank you.
Next slide. Okay. So, the reach for recovery event is usually there on the uh fourth Wednesday of every month by the community fridge. Unfortunately, had to be postponed. It will be there again at the end of the month um again on the uh fourth Wednesday. They provide services
um including substance use disorder information um and support and education. These are pictures from our May visit. Uh so, we want to thank the county for their presence and they were doing some screening there as well. Next slide. Moving on to our
environmental health update. Uh in the month of June, uh you can see all of the inspections uh that we've done. Um complaints are usually related to um garbage um related complaints and um we are pretty much up to date on our our
licensing. And moving on to uh pools and camp inspections. Next slide. for animal control. We have the report for May. Uh you can see that there were 34 calls. Most of them, however, were
for wildlife, and that's um cut off there, but it says 23 calls for wildlife um and eight strays and uh two enforcement and one bite. Those bites are, by the way, it could be a dog, cat, or even a bat bite um that we we use our
um animal trust fund to uh pay for the lab testing. Next slide. As you can see, the um June was also a busy month for our crisis intervention social workers with 17 cases. Um eight of those were new cases. So they are
seeing um new people, seven co-response and 11 clinical cases. We hope next month by the way to um have CSPJ here to provide their annual presentation of their services. So, um, Pam Baker, the director for homeless
outreach, will be here, um, to give you an update on that. And finally is our make the right call, um, information. We want to encourage people to, um, use these services, especially the mental health crisis and social service numbers. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Miss
Davenport. Any questions for health officer from my colleagues? Mayor Adams, you spoke to the um, uh, the heat, the high heat. What are your thoughts on using the our the Maplewood pool as a cooling center to use the Maplewood pool as a cooling
center? Right. So, we have had um we've done that in the past and we've done that recently uh based on an ordinance uh that the town passed a couple of years ago. Um Maplewood was at the forefront of addressing climate change and heat related illness because we opened the the the uh pool as a cooling
center. However, you know, as with climate change, we all have to adapt to the new uh changes and opportunities that are available. When you go on the chill out NJ or or um heat hub NJ website, when you look at their cooling centers that they list, most of them
list um public indoor spaces such as libraries and senior centers um that are open to the public and um usually are um air conditioner, you know, indoors and uh temperature regulated with air conditioning. um you don't see very much
a pool of for used as a cooling center. So um this is an opportunity for us to adapt and change um our mechanism for where we send people for um getting cool and getting relief in these heat um hot
heat days. Um there's also concern I think for at the pool uh with with a lot of people coming. I think we open it up um but it also opens up other public health issues that we have to deal with like water safety um and people making
making sure that everyone knows how to swim and uses the um the services properly especially like the diving pool. But it also brings up another public health issue of um the occupational health issues related to heat related illnesses for our youth um
especially the um young staffers that are there. Um I think that our township has made um improvements and and changes so that we can give people more breaks and you know get them water. But when
you're talking about, you know, you know, 100 degree days, this is a lot and and it's overwhelming for even anyone working outside. So that's those are just some of my concerns. I think that there's opportunities here to look at other places that we can think of um to
be consistent with what other places are using as cooling centers. So I would I would agree with you that the pool should not be a cooling center. And it's not it's not set up to be a cooling center. Then why do we we have we have a cooling center policy. Yes. And that is if
people need um relief from the heat, they're to call the police number. Yes. They are to go to the police station if necessary. They will be put in the courtroom which is airond conditioned just like you're saying and that will give us enough time to contact community
services to open up the community center at Deart Park. Yes. To make that functional. Right. And if that's not available because of now we have a program of the the camping, then we use the senior center. That's our backup cooling center. So there is a process
for a cooling center just like you're talking about. Yes. The pool is a relief because people are paying taxes for that facility, not just the user fees. So that's just a relief. That's not the cooling center. And I think to
call it a cooling center is the wrong thing to call it. And it's not that. That was my fault cuz I asked the question, but I I because it's triggered by three consecutive days of excessive heat that in my mind says it's to give
it as cooling relief to residents. So that that may be me my fault for misspeaking, but I was wondering because there were a lot of issues in the last heat uh where we opened the pool. Um and
a lot of them were health related issues including for our Maplewood residents who work at the pool as as teens. So I just wanted to know your opinion on it as um as something to because of that issue. Yeah, we always talk about work
related worker related issues when they're working outdoors, especially in the high heat. So, I want to bring that as a consideration for um what happens when we have, you know, a lot of people and a lot of um resources and the staff
don't get a chance to um take breaks or um and there's no air conditioning at the pool and Yeah. And you're outside working u for the whole time. Okay, that's all I want to know. So, I need to I need to follow up on this. Um,
I think you were set up a little bit and I just want to apologize. Um, because you're not necessarily saying that we should revisit the policy that we put into place. You're identifying
concerns and the concerns that you've identified, if I hurt you correctly, could also establish a policy that the pool isn't open on those extreme heat days. Because whether you have more people or the people that you're going
to have, it is an occupational hazard to have people outside, young people and older people. That's why other towns close down their parks. They closed down their parks during the heat wave and we're going to have more heat waves with climate change. So,
so the the the things that you've identified are occupational hazards to our camps outdoors, our parks and recreational activities outdoors, including using the
pool which is outdoors on those extreme hot days. Right. So, is it fair then, if you agree with that, is it fair then to say that you're not necessarily commenting on the policy that the
township has? No. Yeah, I'm not commenting on the policy. I'm just saying I didn't think that you were, but I think it may have come out that way because of how the question was answered was asked. Um, but I also think that um, you know, this is a separate concern.
These occupational hazards are real and we need to talk about those in the various subcommittees that we have and andor as appropriate here uh before the public. Right. Right. Right. Okay. And
uh as committee member Duca established, we do have cooling centers. Do uh and we do have a cooling policy. Right. That's established. That's correct. Thank you. Yeah, I have a totally different topic.
I serve on the um sustainable Jersey uh um certification committee. One of the actions we're talking about is ordinances to ban smoking and outdoor cafes. Do we do we have any policy on smoking
and outdoor cafes? So there is the policy well there's this the law of like you can't smoke in front of a restaurant. No within um certain spaces. I'll have to look in that at
look I don't know if our it just seems strange that we don't because we have policies for public spaces right for public parks and sidewalks and stuff like that. But I don't know if we ever put anything in the cafe ordinance that
says no smoking. No. Okay. So then so in our streetery policies we have it sounds like we don't have any policy that talks about smoking or non-smoking. I thought in New Jersey you have to have isn't it no smoking in outdoor areas
unless you have a designated smoking area? No, it's no smoking restaurants. It's in the inside. Um look, it's not outside. So anyway, this is coming up. So it might be something and since we're we've been a leader in, you know, the smokefree
stuff, we might want to take a look at that. I doubt that there's much going on just, you know, sort of a practical thing. People don't want smoke around any. But um we might want to look at it for the future and certainly if it becomes an action, get some points for
it. Got it. So it's not an action yet. not in action yet. Okay, I'll take a look at that. Okay. And if I will take another look. We we got this packet last week when we tal we had our meeting. I'll see if there are some model ordinances. Yes. Okay. And I'll get it to you. Yeah. If you could send that um
and we can take a look in that, that's a really great thing for um the health and community services committee to take a look at. Anyone else from my colleagues? I had a question. So, not really a question, but um I love our crisis intervention social work program so much as you know and um
I love Mr. Duca before the public safety committee meetings. He gives us kind of like yeartoear or month over month data and I was just curious if perhaps the next meeting you can just do like a little bit of year or month over month to see if there's any trends more phone calls coming in or more people coming in month by month. I'm just curious cuz as
we look at it from crime also sometimes they're interrelated and I'm just curious to see what it looks like versus just the numbers for June if we can see like what they were January, February, March, April, May, June and then maybe we can even compare it to previous years which might not be in exact since we have now two. Yeah, we um we can provide
data, you know, if if you want if we can push it to because we have CSPJ coming next month, but if we could do it in September. Um we gave a presentation to the community board on police for the year report um in September. So, we can definitely do a year end report in
September for that with the crisis social workers and they can give you some um data on what they're seeing and the trends if there's any. Yeah. Great. Thank you. And now is the time that we open up to questions from the public. So if anyone
here in the room has questions for our health officer um specifically, come on up. I'm sorry. Could we could we have her could we have our health officer speak about a concern that was brought up earlier by a resident? Oh yeah, go
ahead. Could you explain to us how is our policy on rat control and what if if you suspect that there is a property that isn't being properly maintained what is the policy that we or what's the
procedures we take and if you want to jump in Mr. wary, you can do that, too. But this seems appro this seems where the agenda item is, you know, with for someone to raise it. So, if you could talk about the rats and about property maintenance. That's great. Yeah. President who mentioned that
information. So, our policy is um we get we get lots of phone calls about this. I don't know why I love talking about this, but um but if someone has a an issue with rodents being identified, they can call the health department or do a report of concern through GoPilot. um our RHS's or
health inspectors will go out and inspect the area. We look for two things. One is rodent harborage or shelter for animals like rodents or other vermin and we also look for food sources. These are the two things that are going to keep um rodents there. So
what you might not think is a problem such as someone's open compost bin, uh someone's garbage, someone's bird feeder, um grass seed left open in a garage. These are all sources of food. Construction is also another issue that
brings rodents um into the area. You disturb the ground and they they come up uh during the time period unless they bait in advance of the construction which we um do in Maplewood. So if you have an issue, our RHS's will come out. They'll inspect not only your property
because the res the rodent is probably, you know, crossing through other people's property, not necessarily yours, but they'll also visit the homes that are adjacent to and behind. And if there's issues with um as someone mentioned, the structure of someone's home, we will talk to that resident um
and along with code um issue them, you know, notice of violations or just educate them about what needs to be done for reducing rodents in the area. It does take a a community though to address this issue.
So, you said they can go to the website um to put in a complaint or call the health department. Is that what you said? And then we could come out um you know that day or in the next day or two and then do um Yeah, that's what I told that's why I had her give the following
up with both property maintenance and department issue that was brought up. Yes, we we would do it together and assist. Yes. here. Come on up to the to the microphone. Thank you. And they say to me, "Oh, well, can I
walk on your property?" Cuz I'm not allowed to walk on the property cuz, you know, they can get sued or whatever, right? So, you can come on my property. My property is clean. It's just that, you know, you look, but I but then nothing gets done when I don't know if he still works here. Uh he was a tall gentleman or if he retired. He had
glasses. He used to drive around in a in a jeep. Now I think he's got saying it. So, but I mean I I went to the town plenty of times to tell them that, you know, with the rat and stuff like that and they don't do anything. I don't know if they get scared, but I don't know if they tell her, you know, cuz I mean
she's a nice lady. I don't And you know, I don't want to hurt her feelings, but keep up with your grass. I mean, yeah. two years ago, she had her whole front lawn redone by a landscaper where it looks so nice. And I complimented her. I said, "Wow, your your thing looks really
nice." And then in the front of the house, it's all these weeds and everything are growing. her flowers are too. Yeah. I mean because I'm embarrassed people come here and they look like oh my god like my
visit. Thank you so much. So, the clerk and and our health department will work together to have um our our Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. Anyone else in the room have questions for our health
officer or from my colleagues up here? Any others? Zoom. Uh Mr. Wary, anyone online have questions? Would anyone joining us on Zoom like to address the board of health? If so, please raise your hand. I see no hands. Thank you, Mr. Wary. Um,
our next scheduled board of health meeting is Tuesday, August 5th, 2025, and I move to adjourn. Second. Mayor Adams. Yes. Mr. Daffis, yes. Duca, yes. Miss Herman, yes. Miss Angel, yes.
Okay, we're back into our uh regular township committee meeting and we have an ordinance on for introduction. Uh yes, mayor. We're at item number eight, introduction of a new ordinance. Ordinance number 3162-25
is an ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 126 of the township code of the township Mapwood entitle firearms with respect to firearm storage. This ordinance will amend and supplement
chapter 126 of the township code to establish standards for safe firearm storage. I move the passage of this ordinance on first reading, its publication according to law in the Maplewood South Orange News record, and a hearing to be held on
September 16, 2025. I'll second. Mr. Davis, yes. Mr. Duca, yes. Benal, yes. Herman, yes. Mayor Adams, yes. Thank you. We'll move on to administrative reports. Mr. Worry. Thank you, Mayor. Uh we have additional
requests for film permits where the requests are outside of the what is typically permitted in our film ordinance. So it come to the township committee looking for approval of waiverss. Start with the easier ones. So we have a request for filming on
Claremont, excuse me, on Tower Drive in July, July 22nd and 23rd. On the 22nd, the filming would extend past our 10 PM deadline. They expect to film
until 10 p.m., likely wrap sometime before midnight. And then on Wednesday, July 23rd, film until uh 12 midnight, and likely wrap sometime around 1:00. the the film crew there is currently
getting the consent forms that we require for the uh for the residents that are most immediately affected and then providing notice to the uh the other residents in that area along the roadway. Um and the request is that if they obtain all the necessary consent
forms and provide the necessary notice that the waiver be granted. So again it's two days of filming. Okay. Can you repeat the dates? Yep. July 22nd, which is a Tuesday, and July 23rd, a Wednesday. Again, going past the
1000 p.m. Uh, one of those um one of those until midnight, the other one until probably around 1:00 a.m. And where was the location again? Tower Drive. Tower Drive. Is this the same production? No. No, different production
on Drive. That's a location on tower where we see a lot of uh film permit requests. Our new ordinance, what is the cut off? 10:00 10 p.m. And what is the notification been? I'm sorry. What is have um the residents
been notified? They're working through the notice process now both but there's if you're more immediately impacted. So those are usually if if you're on a typical roadway, it's the three properties on either side and the six properties across the street. This one's
kind of on a curve where some backyards are may be affected as well. So we'll require some notice/conent um in those areas as well. And then outside of that is just a notice requirement. So it's not that the property owners have to say yes, you know, I agree that this is going to happen. Uh but that they're notified
that this is going to happen. Um, with the consent, you know, we we usually bring back to the township committee if there's a 100% uh approval of it or, you know, in some instances we've received, let's say, of the 12 that are required, 11 of them sign off. And usually we'll um, you know, in those instances
recommend that the waiver be granted if we think it's a reasonable request, midnight 1 a.m.'s I've seen us grant here before. You said this is the easier one of the two. did. And um is this is the filming going to be entirely inside
the building? They do have some exterior scenes for this shoot and that will also be between 10 and midnight. Yeah, there's some backyard shots. Uh I think there's a there's a pool there and they'll be
using the uh the pool grounds as well. Are those weekdays? They are. Yes. It's a It's a Tuesday and a Wednesday in July. And do we know what the like has has the community like approved? Have they come back and approved like some we
we they have the film company has already uh provided to us some of the consent forms that are required and they're still soliciting the consent forms from the remaining property owners because I feel like we need to know who's you like if a majority of the consent forms have been signed before we can
sign off. Right. I s I absolutely do. Yes. You know, the township committee in certain instances has said that as soon as you know, as long as we receive a sufficient number of signoffs on the consent form that they would agree to move forward with um
providing the waiver and so that's discretion you would give to me to make sure that receive, you know, an adequate number. Again, the adequate number is not always 100%. It's something within reason. So, it's a two-part request, right? one day.
Our restriction currently is 10 p.m. Yes. But that realistic realistically means that they're not out of there until midnight, right? So, no. So, our filming operation is until 9:00 p.m. Rap is at 10 p.m. So, the 10 p.m. is they
call it tail lights. They got to be off the street at 10 p.m. So, what are they requesting? One is midnight and one is 1:00 a.m. I'm confused. Yes. About they haven't given us They haven't given us exact rap hours. They've given us 10
p.m. wrap on filming one day, 12 a.m. wrap on filming the next day. We're still working with them on the final times, but I I certainly wouldn't expect past midnight on the on the first night for RAP. And I don't think I wouldn't
recommend permitting rap beyond 1:00 a.m. on the second night. It's hard after we just heard public comment from someone saying how disturbing it is to have filming late hours on a weekday to then say yes to this without even knowing if the
neighborhood has said that they're okay with it. Yeah. Again, you would be okay. I don't think we are. We're saying we're giving you the authority that if you get permission or they get permission then it's a go. Right. That's right. Our ordinance states that we're not saying
yes or no. We're just saying that if they come with some threshold we can decide on the threshold whether it's 90% 75%. They get 75% sign off. Then are we saying that Mr. Weary has the ability to do this? And then are there like in the waiverss are there like rules that they
have to maintain going late or is it just like you can film as normal? I don't know. I'm just curious because Yeah. No, absolutely. So I mean I think that there are there are uh expectations that we have of them. So, you know, there there's I think complaints we've
received recently that we are uh making sure that our when we go through the permitting process, but also when we have police out there for enforcement, we pay special attention to certain things. So that's like idling um you know minimizing using the lift gate
which kind of makes some noise um making sure they're not closing roads when they're not permitted like having a a police presence there uh where possible to um to not store box trucks on the street when they can you know find parking elsewhere. And so yes, we are
working with them to minimize the impact on any shoot, but um you know there is still a no, there is still impact on Claremont or excuse me on on Tower, which is the one we're discussing right now. Um they expect to have box trucks
in front of six of the homes on Tower Drive uh adjacent to the uh to the property where they're filming. and then around the corner have a generator in one property and a craft service truck in another property where they're, you know,
renting out driveways. So, you know, the these I I would expect, again, I would expect the about 12 consent forms required for the shoot that are the homes most immediately impacted. You may be a home where you
have a box truck parked in front of your house at night where you've only received notice. you haven't actually signed off to saying yes, I consent those. But so that, you know, the impacts are are different depending on how close you are to the film shoot. So wait, if you have a truck parked in
front of your house, but you're not next to the the shoot, you don't count as having to give consent because it's just like a parking situation. Yeah. And and you wouldn't be giving consent, but you we do require you get notice to say, "We are filming on your road. There will be parking taken up along this street. Here
are the hours. here's who to contact at the film company if you have any trouble. Here's who to contact at the township if you have any trouble. And those are also things that we give to our police department to make sure that they um their operations, the film operations are only within the footprint that we permit. But in that example, if
you have a box truck in front of your home, you may get notice and not be required for actual um u to sign off on it, give consent for it. Whereas those people more immediately impacted maybe that's by noise by by sound you know the
loading of the trucks or the generators running um we do look for consent from those property owners not always 100% that we get but we look for consent from those property owners. So just to move this, I would agree to give you authorization if you can if the
filming company can reach 90% uh approval sign off of of immediate of those immediate neighbors. And secondly, in addition to police coverage, I would like us to have somebody um working overtime paid for by the movie company
from our property maintenance, our code folks who will actually focus on code issues like cars that are running and noise being made because I don't think because the police are going to be focusing on sort of the general safety
issues, but in addition, I think we need somebody there who's focusing on, you know, people making noise, the lift gate coming down, something like that. I Yes. And and we are we have required police
officers be present beyond just police officers there for traffic control, but police officers that are Okay. So, if it's police officers, that's fine. Yeah. There should be somebody for traffic control. Yes. In addition, there should be one or two officers there, you know,
people are not idols, right? And also just to to make things quiet. I agree. Yes. Yeah. So, I would I would put that forward. 90% approval and sufficient police personnel or municipal personnel
to u minimize the disturbance. I'm go with 85%. It's a small street though. I think 90%. I would prefer 90 is fine. I'm fine. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. I'm Do you need us to vote or anything? Uh, no. I I if
anyone else has comments, I would be interested to hear them, though. I'm I'm good with the proposal. I just find that you're going to have you're going to have some practical concerns on the ground, right? Because if we
if using our procedure and our policy waiverss are established, it's going to be very difficult to control that, right? In terms of noise and lighting, like if we say you can film until midnight, but don't do this
and don't do that and and don't talk and don't, you know, like it's just going to be difficult. Filming is a very dynamic environment. So I just, you know, there's a baseline reality of what filming brings with it and certainly it is a certain amount of noise and it is a certain amount of trucks and is a
certain amount of lighting. Yeah, absolutely. But that Mr. Warrior, you've been making that clear and you know dealing with another film shoot and you know so I think and that's been a lot of that's been addressed through daily
conversations basically, right? So yeah, I'm in favor. If you don't need a vote, then you can move on to the other one. So I mean, we know that the the scene they're filming isn't going to be like a really loud um they indicate. Yeah. So the scene
they're filming, I mean, I can tell you uh same place they film Mrs. Me. Yes. This is a popular filming location and house. It's a romantic comedy. Same street, same interest. I I would not say darn
Village Green will post about it. So, um and then we'll know. [Laughter] I'm looking I'm looking specifically for what they're doing outside, which I knew that um they had related to our clerk's office, but it's not in this letter, but
they do. If you give them all the warnings that we talked about and you get 90% of the neighbors, I think we should we will Okay, very need to know what they're filming. So, I mean, as long as on to the filming um for American Classic, which we've dealt with
both on Claremont on Deart Road and in Maplewood Village. They're filming at the Burgdorf and in surrounding areas. Uh we'll break these up because there like on Deart Road for example, they have um they've requested filming um on
July 3rd, July 15th, and July 25th. Now July 15th falls within the permitted hours. July 3rd, a Thursday, they're looking to film until 3:00 a.m. July 25th, a Friday, they're looking to film until 3:00 a.m. On to Hart, at least to
date, they haven't had issues with filming. um after midnight. So the we have permitted it because they have received uh the required signoffs and I have not received complaints from residents on that road uh about that operation
on Deart Road. This is on Deart. So the request is for Deart on two dates, July 3rd and and July 25th to film until 3:00 a.m. Any questions on that one? All right. So then you're requesting Deheart on July 3rd and July 5th. Not Deheart Park,
Dehart Road. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm like having trouble. July 25th. That's because I turned the fan. And that that is on Deart Road. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh the second one is at uh the
Burgdorf. They have various dates between July 7th and July 25th where they're looking to film outside of the typical hours. A lot of these are interior filming and so it's inside of the
Burgdorf with uh very little impact on on the surrounding area, especially considering it abuts commercial parking lots, larger roadways. Um, but they do have some exterior filming where they're looking to um go into
um like 11 p.m. on the on July 22nd uh is the the one exterior there. And then they'll be so that's at the Burgdorf and then at the at the Woodland all interior filming. you know, they have some where they're looking to go to
2 am and to one um Oh, yeah, just to 2 am. But again, that's interior where the impact thus far hasn't um been an issue with the the neighbors. So, you know, we at the Burgdorf, the
one we have received complaints about the air conditioning unit that runs in the parking lot behind the Burgdorf, the generator for generator. Yeah, the generator runs the air conditioning unit. Yeah. Yeah. And they've they've said they're going to address that resident. It's on
Inwood. That's right. Yep. They're going to go talk to them. Yeah. They're going to work with the resident on Inwood Place that um has concerns over that generator. So So those are requests for Burgdorf and Woodland to operate outside of those um uh otherwise permissible
hours. Any questions on that one? Okay. I can't hear half of what you're saying and it's not because of the fans. No, no, no. Don't change. I can speak up. It it's just it's just the acoustics in here are awful. And before I leave this place, I'm gonna fix the acoustics in this room. If I have to pay for it myself, I will because this is
ridiculous. I can't hear anything that's being said. The last is Claremont. It's historic, Mr. Daffus, so it might get a little expensive. I mean, I know I'm a little bit older these days, but still, I mean, I can't hear anything.
Okay. So, okay. So, the last one is on Claremont. Um, on Claremont, they're looking for uh approval right now just for July 11th. They're looking to film until 3:00 a.m. But I think that it's
important to understand, you know, as the this is their this would be their first night shoot. They had gone up until 12:00 p.m. one night. That that was the the latest shoot they've gone. Um, but this one again, July 11th until 3:00 a.m., that's what they're
requesting right now. We are aware that they're looking to come back two additional uh night shoots on August 8th and August 11th. So that's on Claremont. That's on Claremont. Now, we've we've we talked to
the film company. Uh we had meetings with them today along with the New Jersey Film Commission. We talked about how to best limit their impact to the block. They have um revised their operation where they would um all the
box trucks that usually come and drop off equipment and then stay there while filming is going on, they can come drop off equipment and go stage at a parking lot that they're renting. So that helps cut down the amount of roadway that they need for those box trucks, which is
helpful. Um and the um and we've also talked with them about again idling uh minimizing liftgate operations, having additional police there to enforce quality of life issues. Um, and so,
well, you know, we're we're we're working to bring you the the, you know, a request that limits the amount of impact they have on residents, but understanding that, you know, any operation until 3:00 a.m. would impact residents. They have a majority of
signoffs from those kind of the 12 people that we would require. Um, there is a a neighbor adjacent who has not signed off. Did you say August 11th a Monday was the date that they want? July 11th. So So
there there So there are three dates. The one we're that is before you right now because it's the only one that they've talked to residents on Claremont about is July 11th. That is until 3:00 a.m. There will they expect additional requests also into the morning for
August 8th and August 11th. So, so Friday, Friday, August 8th, Monday, I'm sorry, Friday, July 11th, Friday, August 8th, and Monday, August 11th. Right now, you're just considering the
first July 11th, but I think it's important for you to understand what may be the full impact of these requests. So, the the question about the box trucks dropping stuff off and then leaving and staging somewhere else. At the conclusion of the shoot, are the box
trucks coming back to for the picking up of what they broke down to put back in? Yes. So, they there will be operations to load those box trucks um at the conclusion of the RA. So, if they're if they're done at 3:00 3:00 a.m., then yes, you know, between 1 and three,
they'll likely be loading trucks, right? So, that's that's where I have tail lights. That's where I have a big problem with because if they if they came and said, "Look, we're going to drop stuff off, set it up, move the truck somewhere else, then we're not, you know, we're going to film till 3 and then we're not going to come back till 7
in the morning to put the stuff back in the trucks. I feel more comfortable." But I would not feel comfortable having the loading stuff put back into trucks at 3:00 in the morning. So, and we brought that up to them and we talked about that at length today. And what
they said was they would be moving a lot of stuff out only the stuff that they need and then lifting putting on the lift and only raising the lift once instead of doing it up and down. Yeah, I'm uncomfortable too. And we had
requested that to your point, Mr. Duca, that they leave the stuff in the house until the next day. You know, they their response is that because of their insurance, they're required to secure everything and it's not secure in the house. And also that um because of you
know the labor that they use having them come back at an early morning that that's the reason why I'm a no. Yeah, I'm a no too. I mean we are a suburban town. 3:00 a.m. is way too late. Why do they need to film so late night scenes and in the summer there's just less
night, right? And so they end up starting later because the sun sets later. That pushes their filming. Then I would add that if it's hot, most houses the windows are closed and the air conditioning's on or the air conditioning unit like I have in my our
bedrooms of our house and I can't hear anything outside. Um, but if it was a nice spring day, there'd be a lot more open windows. So just something to consider because I think I think the way I left the meeting
with them with a lot more discussion and information and a lot more guidance from the uh film commission um I felt comfortable that we could try it once and then if it doesn't work that we
that we don't let them do it again. But that's me. Yeah. So, the the agreeing the agreements from the neighbors are all but this one adjacent neighbor. She hasn't signed off on anything. She also
hasn't complained at all. Well, um so I I know that she spoke uh earlier today. Oh, okay. Mhm. But we of the usually it's 12. This one's 11 because there's like a corner property. So they there's a but 11 of the 11 for
the previous waiverss we have the film company has secured 10 out of 11 signatures. Then the rest of the block is notified. Right. But I I understand that the majority of concern that has been brought to the township committee is from the rest of the block. People who are outside of that immediate area
but are still impacted and have brought those concerns to the township committee. Yeah, I have a real issue with 3:00 a.m. on a Monday especially. So, I'm like kind of stuck on a weekday at 3:00 a.m. like that's really late. And to Mr. Duca's point about loading out and everything. If you're doing interior
shoots from 12 to 2 and then you leave your stuff there to come back in the morning, then it's different. But if they're going to start pulling up their trucks, which make noise, and then loading, like that's a really big disruption. And people who live here do have young kids and people are going to get woken up and dogs are going to get woken up and I do have a little bit of
an issue even knowing that not everybody is noticed or has to give consent like that is a big and I'm scared about setting pref precedent saying we're going to let you do a 3:00 a.m. here and I don't know I get a little worried about it. Yeah. and about precedent. So I think that we have done this on Deart
Road and even and what we discussed today on Hart Road, but I that is a different fact pattern in that they don't have the same I think what we've used is you know they don't have the same fatigue from filming it we've experienced on Claremont and it was a
3:00 a.m. Yeah. Yeah. Right. But you know the residents on Claremont have spoken to us. They've emailed us and we promised them that we would try and work with them and not discount their concerns, right? That we tried to
balance things out. And I just think 3:00 a.m. is too late. And even if the film crew, and this is a great film crew, and they've been very responsible and respectful, people who are doing the tasks on the ground, it just doesn't
always translate to those folks. And there will be disruptions and that is way too late. For me, I'm okay with it once and then do you want to weigh in or not bother?
Uh 3:00 a.m. is really late. Um are we What's the question to us where if we're okay the first one and then see how it goes or we're going to just not do it at all? I think there's three nos, right? There's seems like there's no I'm a no. You're a no. There's three
would midnight be acceptable to the committee. Midnight midnight rap. So that's that that means you know they're off the street at midnight license. Yes. I'm okay on midnight on a f on Friday night. I think that we can see how they do before we could approve it on a Monday.
Say that one more. I'm okay with midnight on the Friday. The first Friday night. I was just going to say we can see how they do before we approve that late on a Monday night. Yep. Okay. And then and and midnight is is acceptable to the committee. All right. Now, just to get
out ahead of the the next request will be, okay, you know, if we if we don't allow them to go until 3:00 a.m., that's 3 hours of shooting that they would look to make up on another night. And so then you start the conversation of all right, we're going to have more days. So right now where we're talking about 3 days, maybe they're talking about six days,
right? and and it's a request for six days, but u that you know I I see that that will be the next request and so and it may help me to have this conversation today as opposed to two weeks from now. Um you know I
yeah for the same reason we're talking about fatigue on the block and we think that 12 a.m. is a is a better time than 3:00 am. you know, I I is there, you know, will there become too many days of shooting on Claremont?
So, I'm a no. I think that um there is fatigue on the block. We did hear from residents. Residents took time to come here last time we had a resident tonight. Um I think, you know, it's not just this film, but there's been
previous things there. So, I would be uh more inclined to say less than, you know, if they came back and said six or so, I would say no. Can we tell them to just get it right the first take?
Sure. Yeah. Tell Kevin tell him that. I think I think unfortunately this this specific shoot is um getting a lot of push back in large part because of the fatigue that's not
their fault. So, and the resident, you know, making a nice chunk of money for renting out the house. Um so I already gave my I think you have guidance. What does everybody else feel about if we're limiting it then they
have to have more? What kind of feedback have you gotten from the residents? Like not the notice ones, but the broader ones that came to speak to us. They they came and spoke to us. Yeah. No, no, no. I know. But like it does I don't I don't feel like they want either. They don't
want 3:00 a.m. shoots and they don't want six days of midnight shoots. Can you address what the film company mentioned and and the commission mentioned today about what they've done to um address some of the concerns of the neighbors not within the shoot area
like the trucks being moved and gone and well they haven't done that yet. I mean, they they like I said, we anything on Claremont that we approve would have a smaller footprint with this shoot than they had in previous shoots because we would only we would not let them stage
box trucks on the roadway on Claremont when they're not being either loaded or unloaded. So, that cuts the footprint down by a block, a short block, but a block. And so, you know, that's helpful. The town has also been more proactive on
Claremont about, you know, making sure trucks aren't idling if they don't need to be idling. I mean, there are craft service trucks idling. There are because they, you know, have some refrigeration or food operation. There are generators idling um for electric, but you know, anything that doesn't need to be idling,
making sure they're not idling. um working to make sure staff crew cars aren't parked on adjacent streets, that they're not blocking fire hydrants, that they're not um you know, too close to intersections. Um so, yeah, we have been working with them around those, you know, issues that
come along with filming and having a lot of people on the roadway. But do they need to have like a food truck the entire for like a night shoot like that? Why can't they just bring Well, they'll they have a large operation and so it's food, it's beverages, it's, you know, they'll serve
coffee, they'll, you know, they typically have a craft service truck available. Yeah. Cuz it's a commissary, so like their hours, their employee hours are a certain hour, so they have to be fed. Yeah. They have to have breaks. It's in their contracts. In this one, they have the they've rented out a
driveway adjacent to the shoot and so they put the craft service um truck into a driveway, which is helpful. But, you know, but like when people go, they're probably like chitchatting like is there do they know if it's like midnight to
not be like, you know, if it's very late that they shouldn't place your order and get your order and go, you know, we've given them that direction. They've given their crews that direction. They use, you know, walkie-talkies to limit, you know, people shouting. And so that is
the very clear direction given from the township. But I think, you know, you also have to understand that we may not get 100% compliance, right? That's the reason. Not going to. I mean, I didn't want to I said may it's not realistic. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah.
We should just decide. Yeah. Yeah. So, what are we deciding on now? And they they haven't come back with their with all the requests. So you asked us a hypothetical that if they came back and asked for multiple days, right? They're asking for three now. That's right. They came back and asked for four or asked
for five or asked for six. You mentioned six. I say no to six. I say no to five. I could probably live with four. That's how many they asked for before because haven't we granted them waiverss before.
Yes, we granted them uh they they shot until you have um we shot until midnight or they shot until midnight one night and they had some late shoots. So, let's see. They shot on Claremont
um until 8:00 PM, 400 pm, 12 a.m. were their shoot days. But then, you know, just so you understand the full flavor of what the residents deal with, they also had trucks on the street for prep days, one, two, three, four days, and then trucks
on for wrap one to two days. So, it's a, you know, it's longer than just shooting. They only went to midnight one night. I was just asking because our ordinance says something and I know like when you're shooting a film or whatnot, you have schedules and you just keep coming back for waivers. I don't know. It's
like there's a certain amount of waiverss we want to give to a production when they're shooting here or something like that, but it just is like keep coming and granting. We don't have a maximum number of permitted film days in town. There's no there's no cap on and filming is very, like I said, it's very
dynamic, right? We do have a film schedule, but they always go over. There's something going on with the actors, you know, it's a very evolving thing. So, um, do you have what you need to move forward for now? I do. Yes. And you can
always come back, though. Yes. Okay. You have Thank you for asking that. My next question because we've talked about this a lot. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Like almost an hour, I feel like. All right. Moving on to uh discussion. Nope.
Oh, we still have more for you. Sorry. It's so long. I forgot what poor That's my only report, Mayor. Thank you. That's your whole report? It is. We say no questions for Mr. Weary, right? No, I'm only kidding. You can if you have any. No. Okay. I do have a question. Can
you give us an update on this sewer bill for the Yes. We received a an Excel sheet from our consultant today. It went to our tax collector. Uh it'll go to our finance uh uh software company to upload. And you know, we're looking to
get tax bills out as soon as we can. I mean, I should know this week what their timeline is for getting that uploaded and and printing it. But we had put out communications for the public, for anybody listening. Typically, we mail out um t we mail out sewer bills in May,
end of May. They're due the end of June. Um we are waiting because this year will be the first year that we have a storm water utility billing on with the sewer utility billing. And so those will be on the same bill. We need to get everything um in place for that storm order bill.
So, it will be mailed in July um due either late July or August. The the timeline when we mail it and expect people to receive it, we will set the due date two weeks from that anticipated receipt date from the resident and then they'll have a 30-day grace period after
that. So, likely about um 45 days. Yeah. To pay the bill. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to legal credidio. Yes, mayor. Brief report I circulated last night uh A4 I'm sorry S4654
A5878 um which modifies public notice requirements was uh passed both houses yesterday was signed by the governor last night. Um what this does it allows municipalities to publish public notices
on their website. Uh in the near term in addition to or in lie of uh regular print publication starting in March 2026 it will be required to publish public notices on our website. Uh there's a
great deal of detail about what we need to do in order to comply with that. We need to maintain an archive. we need to publish certain notices in other online news sources with hyperlinks to where we um have our notices. The league
definitely expects some cleanup. The uh bill was definitely reflects being written um at the end of session. There'll be some technical corrections. Okay. Um so we'll be working with uh Miss Fritzen's office and Mr. ary to you
know make sure that our public notice uh requirements are updated as we move forward. Okay. Did you have anything else? Yep. Any questions for Miss Credidio? Seeing none, moving on to clerk's office. Miss Fritzen mayor.
Is that true? Uh oh, you have to change your uh who who always has a report. All right. move on to reports from elected officials. Mr. Duca, thank you, Mayor. I only have three report three uh
things tonight, but they're juicy. Uh 4th of July, Friday, we have a grand program planned. We have nine o'clock is the 5K race. 10 o'clock is the bike parade, which will be starting at Rickleton
Square. will be up near the um entrance to the uh train tracks in the back there. 10:30 we will be having the kids fun run in Memorial Park North and so that's right across street. So the bike race will come down there. We'll have some refreshments there. Then the kids
can go over and run in the fun race. Um and then at noon we've brought back adult softball. This is a pickup game co-ed. And it's co-ed and 18 and over. You have to show up with a glove and bat. It's going to be a situation where you sign up. As you get there, there'll
be a clipboard. You sign up. First uh two teams out there are going to play. Next team will play after that. At 1:30, we're going to have our bingo over at the Maplewood Community Center, which is at 120 Bernett Avenue in Dehort Park there. And we're going to have some indoor bingo. So, it'll be nice and
cool. Uh 3 PM we have the ice cream eating contest and that's the Maplewood Rotary Club and it'll be for kids and adults and there will be of course the township committee contest. I would rather do pie. I won the pie 4
p.m. there'll be the pet parade right outside there and again no fighters or biters and that includes both animals and people. Um and we will have it judged. It will be a pet parade and then we have a little break until 7:30 the
park opens Park South 8 Memorial Park South and then it and we have a DJ there and we have ice cream vendors and as Father Hot said it's free to get in but you have to pay to get the food. Yes, ice cream vendors. Um uh you you'll be
able to uh have some sweet treats will be available for sale. But we have DJ Jimmy and he's going to light up the night with his music and light show. And then at 900 PM we have the fireworks. So again um that is Friday the 4th of July.
Now if it rain it doesn't it's not supposed to rain so I'm not going to even say anything. Okay. Um next up the next day July 5th we have the opening of the library and that will be at 11 a.m. on Baker Street. We're closing Baker
Street. We'll have a little stage set up there. We'll have some uh we'll have music. Maplewood Community Band is going to play some music. We're going to have a special flag raising. Um, we're going to have some readings and then speeches. After that, we'll do a ribbon cutting.
You all know your positions now. I hope I sent them out. Yes. Very see what was in the email. Very official. Yes. Yes. And then um we have a slew of activities. We have kids activities at 12. We have a chamber
orchestra at 1. We have more children's program with Jay Cooper at two. Three o'clock is more music. Uh then we have a a mobile uh kids activity. Then we have Boogie Boogie Baby and that's for six and under and that's at 4:00. And then
we'll have an art exhibit in the community room during the whole time. And my last thing is uh I don't think we could have a meeting without talking about the Parker Avenue bike lanes. Um, so we have a engineering public works and planning committee meeting on July
9th and that's at 8 a.m. and you can go on our website and get the Zoom link. That's a Zoom meeting. And then our next meeting July 15th, we will uh we're we're plann to um vote whether to move forward. And I wanted to check with you
all. What I was thinking is that we would have a standalone resolution on the agenda that would say we're authorizing to the engineer to move forward with the installation of the bike lanes on Parker Avenue and if you're in favor you vote yes and if you're opposed you vote no. Yes. Does
that sound all right? Resolution. Okay. Yeah. That this would be done by no. This would be done by and then at some point we might want to um codify it with an ordinance because we might have to you know no parking and all that kind of stuff. But at least at this point it's moving forward with an engineering
report. We would have to change the ordinance for parking anyway. There's probably a slew of ordinance we change. But this would give us the yes or no of doing it. And then if if if we get three yeses and the engineer is authorized to move forward. And so the specifics would
we be deciding on that or the resolution should just be moving forward? Yeah. Moving forward based on based on what the last proposal is, right? the last proposal that we saw which is dedicated bike lane between um uh Bdon and Maplewood Avenue. So if we wanted to
talk about the last proposal and the specifics that would be at the public engineering meeting. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Luca? No. Good. Deputy Mayor Herman. Great. Uh
it's hard act to follow. Lots of fun going on this weekend. Uh so we had a we had another meeting we had last week was on the inclusive playground. So I'm really excited that this is moving forward. In the last couple of weeks we've had meetings with the wreck committee and the all access
committee and we had a really good uh public meeting last Wednesday and so we have a lot of input and we'll be going back with the engineers to um to work on that. So thank you to everyone who came out and sent your ideas. That's really
helpful. Um, so the fun isn't stopping. After this weekend with the Fourth of July and the um um opening of the library next week, we have a lot of stuff going on, including our first
float night, July 8th. So, next Tuesday night, instead of listening to the TC meeting, you could be floating around at the pool. It is B Y F. Bring your own float. July 8th. Yeah. Yeah. We don't have a TC meeting.
Tuesday, July 8th. And then the second float night is going to be Thursday, August 7. So, u mark those on your calendar. Also, next week, villagers tryyouts for softball is on July 9. Uh there's a senior social on July 8th, and the
seniors are all going to the Golden Nugget Flea Market on July 9. I mean, it's just like non-stop fun over here. Um, and then you can also, um, next the weekend after the 4th of July is always Maple Woodstock here in town. And I want
to put a, uh, plug out to think about volunteering. Can I have your attention? This is important. Maple Woodstock religion. I know. Go to maplewoodstock.com and check out how you can volunteer. We
need um this is a community thing and it'd be really great if folks uh volunteered. Um and then you can also check out some of our wreck offerings. Tennis, pickle ball, Aqua Zumba in the pool after dark. Zumba, Aqua Zumba,
basketball, soccer, flag football, ultimate not until 3 in the morning, but anyway, lots of really good stuff. So, thank you. Um that's your report. That's my report. Okay. Any questions? Well, thank you.
Thank you. And we've lost our audience. Committee member angle husbands. Okay. Um just want to congratulate the Maplewood Makos and the new coach Bal on their win last week. And sorry the game was well sorry but not sorry the game was rained out
today cuz I had to be here and missed it. And that's my report. Any questions for Miss Angle? Seeing none, Mr. def. You all reported on the fun things. I'll report on the state budget as of yesterday. We have a state budget. The
New Jersey legislature signed it. The the governor uh you know put forward a a budget to fund the state for the next 12 months. And it's a mixed bag, right? So, there's some really good stuff in there. Uh expanding property tax relief,
especially for our seniors. Uh expanding school funding. excited to see what that means uh for our school district. Um and the mansion tax, the real estate transfer tax, which used to be 1%
um uh above 1 million at $1 million and above uh sales of property, is now going to be 2% at $2 million and an additional percentage point every $500,000. So, um, so that's another revenue source
for the state. Um, the pensions are fully funded, fully funded, uh, which is another great investment, but there are some things that, uh, we should pay attention to and that we may want to get involved, uh, in advocacy about to pay
for a lot of these things. Um it seems that the state affordable trust fund, affordable housing trust fund is um being as some people call it rated. Um and you know the affordable housing
trust fund is an important reliable source for affordable housing projects across the state and certainly we in Maplewood have relied on that. Uh the the the state affordable housing trust fund uh applies to small projects 20
units or less. It applies to adaptive reuse. It applies to rehabilitation and so on and so forth. We certainly have used recently in a project uh over on on Tiffany Place um where we were able to
put in um two uh affordable units uh and for persons with special needs using uh that funding. So uh not having that funding is a big problem, folks. And it's really a bad time to be rating it because uh we now have obligations under
this new law, the fourth round, to um to um create more affordable housing units. And not all these projects are going to be big projects. They're going to be smaller projects. And we want municipalities to do this, to lean into it, um and to be creative with smaller
projects. So, we may want to do some advocacy about that with our legislature and with the governor's office. Um and then our public sector employees are upset that uh this budget also includes I think over 100 million in healthcare cuts. So healthc care is going to become
more expensive and we've heard already from CWA, PBA and and other public sector unions uh about their dissatisfaction um over that. So, I just wanted to report that and uh we will have more
details as those become available and we will be monitoring this. Thank you. That's my report. Any uh idea what happened to the Main Street New Jersey funding that we advocated for down cut? Half cut. It's compromised. Compromised
at all. You mean what do you mean? Come again. Compromised in what? It's not cut entirely. Okay. So they were going to cut 750 out of Yeah. I don't think it was 750. Okay. Well, that's better than, you know, sharp stick in the eye. You
know, we know that putting budgets together, we have the same problem here at the local level. It's a very difficult thing to to balance, right? Um, and there are a lot of great things about this budget. Certainly, there are. Um, but there are some challenges as
well. So, any questions for Mr. B? Seeing none, I was just going to report on what everybody reported on. So, I have no report other than happy 4th of July everybody. And let's move on to the consent agenda. No, let's move to the discussion item. Hey, I corrected myself
first. Uh, mayor discussion item. So, it's uh been the custom that you uh cancel your second meeting in August, which would be the August 19th meeting. I'm Any
discussion? Second. Daffis, yes. Luca, yes. Benal, yes. Herman, yes. Mayor Adams, yes. Thank you. Some towns can't cancel both their August. We have to give back 125th of our Okay, we're going to move on to the
consent agenda. Can I get a motion? I move the consent agenda. We We have I'm about to do that. We're moving out uh all except 13A, which we could vote on separately. So I move 13B through
13 L. Second uh M. Sorry. M second. Mr. Davis, yes. Yes. Mr. Angel, yes. Herman, yes. Mayor Adams, yes. And I move 13A. Second. Roll
call. Mr. Davis, yes. Luca, yes. Sangel, abstain. Sherman, yes. Mayor Adams, yes. Thank you. Now, we'll move on to our second public comment on I should say agenda items only since the first round was
everything. So, on any subject matters, unless Mr. Herman would like to come to the microphone, um then we'll go to the online audience. Anyone joining on Zoom would like to speak in public portion, please raise your hand. And moving over Erin McCall
to public portion. Okay. Well, let's try someone else. Moving over Joan Crystal to public portion. Welcome Joan. You may unmute yourself and have three minutes to address the committee. Thank you. Uh, since you've
been discussing the impact of filming in town, I'd like to make you aware of the fact that senior exercise classes are being cancelled at the Woodland due to filming. And I'm wondering if there's anything
that we can do about that. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else, Mr. Worry? Yes. Moving over Alex Patron to public portion. Welcome, Alex. You have three minutes. Great. Thank you. Um Dean, I'm happy to
connect with you on affordable housing. It's what I do. So, I'm sure that we can think some through some advocacy. I want to note a couple things based on Pat's comments. I've spoken to two of my neighbors because I saw the consent. Two of whom said they did not sign off on
consent for July. I have texts in front of me that note that. So, I think if we're going through this process, can we ensure that we're seeing documents that are signed appropriately? One is directly across the street, one is next door. I've only spoken to two neighbors because I'd asked them to not sign off
until 3 a.m. as a house that is directly impacted. So, this just goes to show like at the end of the day, we're residents. They're a business. They're trying to address profit margins. I run businesses. I understand that. I appreciate that. But I think what is
hard to to to really articulate until you've experienced it multiple times uh as we have through multiple filming. So fatigue is very much real. Mayor Adams, thank you for for noting that. But it is a tremendous amount of pressure that
seems to be exerted on residents. We talked about this in one of the last meetings. uh there seems to be some manipulative practices involved in relaying that consent is signed off and again two individuals right across the street from me and next door saying absolutely they did not and showing me
the text between them and some of the production company. I guess I fail to understand and I think Miss Angle you commented on this or it might have been you Miss Herman but I fail to understand why Maplewood residents are being put in a position to be bought out. is creating strife and and honestly this um less
than neighborly feel in neighborhoods. I think that this is really again I go back to it is about profit margins exclusively here. Uh yes they can film more days until midnight and my family can sleep in the middle of the night and yes we do have things like air
conditioning and white noise but I can assure you that the noise is real, the light noise is real. And so I just go back to like where we talked last time. I think we really need to have some focus groups and just really discuss broader implications impact to residents. We just heard another one.
We've heard from some businesses not just in our town but in Summit where town is closed and foot traffic is gone. And I know that we say that there are benefits here and I am all for more revenue. I work in municipal finance so I appreciate how difficult budgets are.
Uh but but I think that what we're remiss in acknowledging is that there are real impacts to residents here and bringing back to the table this idea that we've signed off on consent. I think we just need to look into that a little bit if you wouldn't mind Pat.
That's it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. W. Yes. Moving over Daniel Van Dusen to public portion. Welcome Daniel. You may unmute yourself and have three minutes to address the committee.
Hello everyone. Uh sorry to say I'm another uh Claremont resident. Um but though further up I think I want to emphasize two things. One of which is it seems as though whether or not the days
have been approved so far by production. It is not being contemplated at all that we won't have many more days of filming on Claremont. I live on the upper part of Claremont. However, my house has been affected every single time there's been
filming for different productions many more days. This has included uh recycling not being picked up. This has included a contractor being turned away at the bottom of the street when my house is under renovation. My house has never received notice from any
production company at any point in time that production was happening making any accommodation on my household's uh account impossible. uh if we truly think that we are going to be approving something like 8 days or
10 days or I have no idea how many days of shooting and if the series is uh renewed. I think we need to have much more than eight affected households be consenting. I think the entire street needs to be notified that this is
happening. The street is not pleased obviously from everyone chiming in both in person and online. I think we need a much different process for this sort of thing rather than a one day approval for filming because it seems like we're
trapped now and now production uh is seemingly it it almost feels like a threat. Oh, if we can't film until 3 then we're just going to film for way more days. I don't know if that's coming from them in that sort of a tone. That's what it feels like as a resident having listened to the first part of that
discussion. The second thing I'm going to say is no matter what the production is saying, uh, they will obviously be going outside those terms. So, once again, I live on the upper part of Claremont. At no point in time have they ever told the town that my house is going to be affected. Uh, the not the
last time they filmed, but the time before that, I had three box trucks outside of my house. I couldn't get out of my house without almost being hit with my toddler in a stroller trying to squeeze through box trucks as a sprinter sped up Claremont. Um, the idling is out of control. I don't know
when it was supposed to get better. The people on the ground here are saying that they have special permission from the town for anything related to filming. This seems to include having 20 cars and sprinter vans of the staff napping in their cars because production
doesn't seem to be able to rent out any space for air conditioning on hot days. I'm all for every staff member feeling comfortable, but that needs to be a productions issue to resolve. It shouldn't mean that then there are 30 cars, 20 cars, however many it is on
that particular day idling for six, seven hours. It sounds ridiculous. I have videos unfortunately of many. Thank you. Thank you. I will just say that in our meeting today um we I asked about if
the series is picked up and uh the answer was that they would be building sets for the interiors of these houses and using existing exterior shots. So they wouldn't necessarily come back to the same houses. They would replicate
them. It's cheaper for them. Yeah. Moving over Erin McCall to panelist. Welcome, Aaron. You may unmute yourself and have three minutes to address the committee. Thank you. Hi, I'm Aaron. You heard from
me last time. Um, I wanted to point out a couple things on the filming discussion. So, um, first I want to say thanks to Miss Angel, Mr. Duca, Miss Herman, and Mr. Daffis.
Um, thank you for listening to us. I heard your listening to us come through and the questions that you asked. Um, thank you, Miss Adams, for continuing to talk to the folks involved in filming and the New Jersey Commission to try to find a
resolution. Um, so, so, thank you all for that. As it relates to the Tower Drive request, I'm curious, will it affect Wyoming Avenue? That seems like a pretty important question that would affect um quality of life for residents as there's commute
hours. for the downtown request. What does work with the inwood neighbor mean for the air conditioning noise? What are we slash you
asking from production to work out with a neighbor? What power does that neighbor have? Are you advocating for the neighbor, for the community member, or are you pushing that responsibility for advocacy for someone's property down
to the taxpaying resident to then have to broker with a production company? It's very ambiguous. It's curious. Excuse me. Ambiguous. Ambiguous. No, it was just someone who reached out to the township by email
about the issue. And so we asked the production crew to go talk with them just like they do of Claremont. Okay. Yeah, that's all that was. I'm curious what your impressions were of the production that took place in town recently.
Were you affected by the impact to parking? Did you notice three black sprinter vans that idled all weekend, multiple days in the bank parking lot? I didn't notice any police enforcement.
I'm curious what your impressions were of that event. I also noticed lots of portable air conditioning units, air conditioning open spaces with um open tents and open doors. I I don't feel good about all that. Um and it really
just adds salt to the wound. I heard many of you reference um well we haven't heard complaints from some of those other shoot locations and I'm curious have you asked they probably are not burnout like those of us in the Claremont community but I do not think
that the conclusion is it has not been incredibly disruptive or risky. I think my time just went to red. I I can't see it. you have I'd like to ask for a little bit more time.
Are the dates that you cited are they the 3:00 a.m. date or are they the day that the shoot starts and it extends to 3:00 a.m. the next day, July 3rd? So, is it 3:00 a.m. July 3rd or does that mean 3:00 a.m. July 4th? I'd like for you to
clarify that because I think the day of the week is important. Some of those are represented as a Friday, maybe bleeding into a Saturday and that's different. Mayor, you mentioned I'm okay with one, meaning one permit. It's not one,
and I understand you've had follow-up conversations, but I'm just left wondering. We have already done more than one. We've already done multiple, and we've seen how it's gone. And I realize this is not on your block. So you're not
seeing it in the on the ground fashion. But what I am left thinking is where is the enforcement? You've asked a lot of questions. You've heard our grievances and some people have offered suggestions. I just want to
point out where is the enforcement to the waiverss to the basics? How is it going to be followed up on? What do f and finally what do we Maplewood stand to gain?
It sure seems like we are accommodating film crews over the needs of residents. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Wary. Yes. Moving over. Soshima Diala.
Welcome to public portion. You may unmute yourself and address the committee. Close caption. Okay. Hi. Can you guys hear me? Yes, we can. Okay. Hi, my name is Toshima Diala. Um, I live on Bdon and
I just wanted to address the overnight policy in terms of the overnight parking. I know that we're not allowed to park um in between the hours of 2 to 6, but I've run into a issue where even when I do call in to park my car
overnight, they're starting to tell me that I'm calling too much or they won't be able to accommodate me. So, I did ask them in regards to getting a parking permit, and they just reassured me that I probably was not going to get approved just because I have a driveway. But I
feel like I work overnights and the times I get off of work is in between those times and it's very frustrating to come back and park my car and have to wake up in like 4 hours to move it again for someone who has to leave in the morning. Especially for people who live
in a two family home where you have people that have multiple cars and it's just a one-way driveway. It makes it very difficult with everyone's schedules. So, I just wanted to know if there was a way where you can grant permit parking maybe for certain residents that have this issue or
certain residents who live in a two family house where there's multiple cars and they only have one way a oneway straight driveway. Um, so that that was my concern. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um, I was just going to ask did we get
her at a a street? I live on Bdon Parkway. We're in Parkway. Okay. North is north or south matter. I mean south is the dead end. Okay. We have just added parking. Yeah.
So we just added parking in the parking lot overnight parking. You can get a parking permit in the um Mapler Crest parking lot. I know you guys have like um dedicated lots for where people can park, but I
just feel like you also have to take into consideration if I park there, does that mean I have to walk home at night during that time to get back to my house? Well, yeah, you'll have I think that raises a safety concern. I understand.
Go ahead. Sorry. That's what we we we made these lots available folks that are having some difficulties. Um, you know, how you can get back and forth. I don't know. I mean, you'd have to work that out. Um, I don't I don't really think that's
a fair answer in terms of how I have to work that out. Like, I just feel like it takes away from the convenience of just being able to park my car in front of my house versus having to park in a lot and potentially walk home at during a random time at night where anything could
happen to me. It would be a difference if you guys had like consistent trolleys or buses or something that picks up residents from the parking lots to their house, but you guys don't have that. We can discuss it
in the budget season for sure, but um yeah, I don't the need would have to be there. But thank you for your call. I'm move on to other um res I'm sorry. So, what am I supposed to do moving forward? Because I see a need for it myself and
I've seen forums where people also feel the same way. I feel like it's kind of just like a brush off like we'll come back to it, but it's an issue for me right now currently. Yeah. Go ahead, Mr. Dus. So, we're not brushing you off by any mean. Please
don't feel that way. Um, we're hearing your concern loud and clear and we've heard this concern from other residents who are experiencing the same issue in multifamily uh zones. In fact, we've also explored
the idea of eliminating overnight part the overnight parking restriction townwide. We've been advised by our public safety officials that that wasn't a wise choice. Um, so what we've done in the meantime is, as committee member
Duca noted, made available public parking uh, areas as close as possible to some of these multif family zones uh, including yours. Um, and created a permit parking um, process to allow you
to park there and not chance having to park in front of your house overnight. and get a ticket. Now, I understand your concern. Um, and I feel you. I really do. I do think that there is uh an inequity here. Um, and we need to
continue exploring this and and speaking to our residents who have this concern. So, we will continue doing that. Um, but in the meantime, there is somewhat of a redress to your concern.
It's not ideal. Uh and maybe there will be a better uh version of this soon. Uh but we're we're definitely listening and we're definitely very um very much leaning into this being a real concern
for a lot of our residents in town. Thank you. Thank you, M. Um I'm I'm so sorry to Sorry, ma'am. We We can't have a back and forth much longer. we have other residents to get to and um but you
can certainly email or make an appointment. Um I have office hours and town hall every Tuesday and we can discuss it further. Now moving Rebecca Shear to panelist. Welcome to public portion. Rebecca, you may unmute yourself and have three
minutes to address the committee. Hi, thanks. Um, my name is Rebecca Shear. I'm at 27 Tuskcen Road in Maplewood. I actually joined to speak about something else which I decided not to speak about, but just to stay um to listen to the meeting, but I just um
since I'm the last commenter, I just wanted to um speak and say that I think that she has a valid point. Um, I have a driveway, so this is never an issue for me needing to park on the road overnight. But I just want to comment that Maplewood is not a one-sizefititall
community in terms of housing and in terms of the needs of residents and the hours that they work. And if I had to park elsewhere, um I think it's nice and I'm glad that the township committee is doing what you're doing to um address this issue,
but if I had to park somewhere in a lot away from my home and walk home in the middle of the night, as a woman especially, I would um I would be concerned as well. So, I'm glad that you're taking this issue into account and I hope that you um continue to listen to the concerns of residents who
are facing this. But thanks for all you do. Thank you. Anyone else? If any other members would like to address the town committee, please raise your hand now. I see no hands, mayor. Okay. I'll take a
motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Second. Second. Mr. Davis, yes. Luca, yes. Yes. Chairman, yes. Mayor Adams, yes. Thank you and good night everyone and happy Fourth of July weekend and happy library opening. Huh? Under the
9:30. I know that's Yeah, right. While you were talking. Oh, I was doing it.