even ladies and gentlemen like to call this work session meeting of the mayor and Council the order at this time I'd ask everyone to please rise for a moment of Silent prayer and our reflection please look the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all please not
The Fire Rises you into the main hallway the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the r of the public to advance notice of and attend any meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accord to the act the mayor and Council to B Milford have qu notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted in a b Hall notices have intent to the record and the Ridgewood news the mission of this governing body is to provide essential service through
the establishment implementation of public policy that will safeguard infrastructure provide Fair honest courteous and Professional Services establish a sense of trust and accomplishment between all residents and the research and prudent planning seek to minimize risk while improving our services we are sensitive to the needs and satisfaction of our taxpayers while realizing that this governing body cannot be all things for all people within the revenue constraints imposed by state mandates economic conditions and prevailing attitudes about taxation at this time I would ask the CER to please call councilwoman
San here councilman Zer here council president Dy here councilman gr here councilman Seymour here councilwoman here mayor P here before we start tonight I'm going to ask for a motion to add an appointment so I would like a motion for to add Teresa skwa to the Green Team I make that motion second all
favor will be the second appointment okay Proclamation the mayor's Proclamation for black history Office of the mayor Proclamation whereas the history of Black History Month goes back to 1915 and was first celebrated in 1926 and whereas in 1976 President Gerald Ford issued the first African-American history month Proclamation and whereas National Black
History Month serves as both a celebration and as a powerful reminder that Black's history and American history and black culture is American culture and whereas understanding black history is important to understanding our nation and whereas it is appropriate to acknowledge and celebrate the immeasurable contribution of black Americans honor the legacies and achievements of the generation's past recognize past Injustice and confront Injustice that still festers today and whereas we are committed to advancing
equity and racial Justice whereas an African-American buring ground was first discovered in Milford and is believed to date back to well before 1883 whereas we support the recognition and acknowledgement of the African-American bural ground which enslaved people were buried whereas the bur of the Milford wishes to honor the history and contributions of African-Americans in our community our state and our nation now therefore I Mayor Michael patrino Mayor of the B of the Milford Proclaim February 2025
Black history month and encourage all residents and businesses to celebrate our diverse Heritage and culture and continue our efforts to create a world that is more just and more peaceful thank you making a motion to appoint VY Veron to planning board Al 2 motion second all in favor I any oppos make get a motion to appoint Teresa
scanga to the Green Team motion second all in favor anyos thank you very much beny and Teresa thank you for your service to the B under unfinished business may get a motion for the approval of the minute from the January 27th 2025 closed and public session meetings so mov second all in favor any oppos any extensions I abstain with respect to the closed
meeting not the open yeah okay we have a few ordinances up for adoption M first one being ordinance 2025 01 and the clerk has the opportunity I thein Capital ordinance to appropriate the sum of $822 32 for the undertaking of the Hard Castle Pond Improvement project in by and for the bar Alford in the county of Bergen state of New Jersey and providing that some so appropriated
shall be raised from the county Grant and from the open space trust fund of the borrow okay the purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate funds from a Burgen County open space Grant and The Bu of New Milford open space trust fund to undertake an improvement project at H Castle Pond which will include repaving Park Pathways installation of new benches and trash receptable and planting trees Mak get a motion to open to a public for a public hearing on the ordinance Mo second all in favor I any opposed ladies and gentlemen public if
anyone has any questions or comments regarding dis ordinance now is the opportunity seeing that no member of the public wishes to come forward AR for motion a motion to adopt this ordinance on this final reading Council yes Council yes counc president yes councilman gr yes councilman SE yes
councilman GRE yes second one up for tonight is 2025 col 02 has the opportunity I ask you to please read the ordinance Bond ordinance to authorize the undertaking of ADA accessible restroom improvements at the municipal building in by and for the bar of new mford in the county of Bergen state
of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $220,000 to pay the cost thereof to appropriate a Federal grant to make a down payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide for the issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds uh purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate a burden County Community Development Grant and authorize a bond for adaa accessible restroom improvements at the B Hall May get a motion to open to the public for public he
on Miss so moveed Jack all in favor I opposed ladies and gentlemen of the public if anyone has any questions or comments regarding this ordinance now it's the opportunity seeing that no member in the public wishes to come forward at this time I ask for motion to close the v motion second may get a motion to adop the orance on Final reading so second a call please Council yes Council Z yes council president
du yes counc yes coun yes coun yes 2025 col 03 an ordinance to amend chapter two of the revised General ordinances of the bar Milford entitled Administration
thereby amending section 2-1 19.1 entitled composition of the nilford police department purpose of this ordinance is to amend the composition the mil Police Department to allow for up to seven sergeants making a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this ordinance move second all in favor any opposed ladies and gentlemen of the public if anyone has any questions or comments regarding this ordinance now is the opportunity seeing that no member of the public wishes to come forward at this time I ask for motion to close the
some all favor I oppos may a motion to adopt this ordinance on Final motion second aoll call pleas Council s yes Council yes council president ducky yes Council gry yes Council yes Council M yes 2025 col 04 an ordinance
to amend chapter 19 of the revised General ordinances of the bar and Milford entitled Parks and Recreation section 19-3 EES purpose of this ordinance is to modify the fees for certain recreational programs and fees for referees and umpires cify fees for coordinators site supervisors and counselors make it a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this ordinance second G of the public if anyone
has any questions or comments regard Mis ordinance now is the opportunity see of the public wish to come forward at this time I ask for motion to close the motion second all in favor anyos a motion to adopt this ordinance on Final read motion second aoll councilman yes councilman's honor yes council president Duffy yes councilman gry yes councilman Seymour yes councilman GR
yes final oneup production tonight is 2025 Co 05 yes an ordinance to amend the revised General ordinances of the Barb and Milford entitled salary adopted as ordinance 9101 and amended annually by ordinance up to and including ordinance 2024
06 purpose of this ordinance is to establish Sal arranges for all full-time and part-time positions make get a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this some move second all in favor I I oppos ladies and gentlemen the public anyone has any questions or comments regarding this ordinance now is the opportunity see that no of the public which is come forward at this time I motion motion second all favor
get a motion to adop this ordinance on Final so second roll pleas councilman sanus yes councilman Zer yes council president duck yes councilman gron yes Council yes Council Grant yes okay that takes care of adoptions let's move on to introductions remember ready
2025 col 06 Capital ordinance to appropriate the sum of $228,600 for the Improvement of various roads in by and for the borrow Milford in the county of Bergen state of New Jersey and providing that such sum so appropriated shall be raised from the state Grant okay so that means the purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate funds from the New Jersey Department of Transportation Grant to undertake a road Improvement project on
rosin Avenue from the Dumont border to the KAC Monroe Avenue and Lincoln place to Roslin Avenue and Maran Avenue from Florence Street to Madison Avenue set improvements shall include Road reconstruction and curb and drainage improvements where necessary Meg a motion to introduce this ordinance on its first reading motion second roll pleas councilman s yes councilman Z yes council president D yes councilman
gry yes councilman seore yes councilwoman Grant yes the public hearing on this ordinance will be at our February 24th meeting when you hear all the streets you try to put in your head where everything yeah second one up for introduction tonight is 2025 col 07 Capital ordinance to amend in its entirety the capital ordinance ordinance number 2024 26 entitled capital capital ordinance of the B Milford in the
county of Bergen New Jersey authorizing the undertaking of Grant Management based of FMA home elevation project in buying for the burrow appropriating therefore the sum of $19,124 61 and providing that such some so appropriated shall be raised from a Federal grant which was adopted on September 9th 2024 so I I wasn't here
for that so we're amending this because because when we originally adopted the ordinance it said that the money was all going to be raised from the grant when in fact a majority of is going to be raised from the grant but a small portion is going to come from the home the homeowners and so we're correcting that okay I just I I I read that but I just wanted that to clarify thank you well that was basically the summary so may I get a motion to introduce this or ordinance on this
first reading so mov second call please councilwoman s yes councilman zler yes council president D yes councilman gry yes councilman Seymour yes councilwoman Grant yes public hearing on this ordinance will also be at our February 24th meeting okay final one up for introduction tonight is 2025 08 when CL has the opportunity please read the ordinance Capital ordinance of the Barb mil in the county of Bergen
New Jersey authorizing the undertaking of the construction phase of the thema home elevation project in by and for the burrow appropriating therefore the sum of 3,982 55228014 98255
28 of which 3,597 43947 is to be raised from the FEMA flood mitigations assistant Grant and $385,500 are if they enter
into a contract to move forward they're obligated to pay for the for the um elevation out of pocket and they're going to get reimbursed some homeowners qualify for 100% reimbursement some qualify for 90% reimbursement and some qualify for 75% reimbursement and the qualifications how does that stand out how how do you that's determined by the state and it has to do with uh their flood claims in the past repetive okay
and does how many homes does this reflect this dat or is it Federal is it it's Federal it's it's a Federal grant administered through New Jersey o we had to bring everybody okay may I get a motion to introduce this ordinance on this first reading motion second a please yes councilwoman Stan yes councilman Zer yes council president Duffy yes Council M
gry yes councilman Seymour yes Council yes the public he will there at February 21th meeting this has been a long process and it's I can't wait to see the final product yeah we appr completion of year two in this process already it feels even longer actually Grand 15 hous
times 3 and right yeah a lot of work it is a lot of work so PS right okay item number one tonight is planning board recommendations administrator okay I actually I just listed myself although it wasn't my idea to I put it on the agenda the planning board present recommendations to the mayor and Council um at the end last
year I believe and we talked about that we would discuss them our first work session of the year so there were three recommendations that the board made I forwarded that information to everybody along with information about the existing ordinance the first one was they want to um repeal the provision for three foot front yard setbacks the provision that a minimum of 30 foot setback be provided in all instances which removes the calculation based on the average right now
it says it's the average of the people I think within 200 ft of it yeah 200 ft of either side of the lot line and they wanted to make it 30 ft regardless let me just go through all three of them do you want to take one at a time anyone have any questions about that one just say it again so right now our or says if you're putting up something new the front yard set back has to
be either 30 ft or the average of the people on 200 ft of either side of so there are some streets where the houses are much closer so you would not have a 30ft setback if you went by the formula and pling board is suggesting that it should always be the 30 set back okay okay I to uh they're recommending section 2.14 B number two amended to permit a
fence in the sidey yard to be a maximum of 6 ft in height where the fence in the sidey yard is currently permissible at a maximum of 4 ft of he this is side note but this wouldn't have any effect on driver visibility unless you're driving through people's backyards no well like sometimes side the front I know but there are some sidey yards that side Corners no that's a
side triangle which is a separate ordinance you can't be you can't obstruct the side triangles on Corners that was my thank you for that was my question or you Dr back I I'm personally not a fan but with that said I've been uh uh enlightened by some members that uh they
believe it's called for board recommends the standard set forth in subsection 18- 4.6 streets and sidewalks setting forth the requirements for maximum driveway wids be incorporated into a new subsection 30281 G4 and further be amended to include a specific spe ific prohibition against
permitting more than one curb per individ curb cut per individual lot so right now we have chapter 18 covers the construction of driveways and that's in um only in certain districts I think is the the question and the other ordinance deals with off street parking and they want to add a section let's
see they want to add it to 30281 G which says the following standard shall apply to one and two family dwellings and they want to include that as an additional an additional um they want inv right yes basically clarify it it makes makes
the uh first one a b stronger yes does this one about circular driveways like if there's so this CC driveway there are a couple usually the only place that they left them is like on County Roads because there's a there's a Ingress egress issue because they're so busy that for safety purposes they have to like you know other than that it's for
don't say I'm not sure there are a couple you go to board and try to get Bing board the time board looks at it they may Grant it if you're un like called ACC it was it was sort of looked at but that was exactly what planning boards thoughts was do it on an individual basis okay but if it's already says it says it in 18 18 what the maximum is for a residential district why does it have to be added to the section of that want to you family just for clarity because
yeah because you can't enforce the law when when the zoning officer is doing uh is what cour there's no way from my understanding for that to enforce the side of the what cour and this streng strengthens ordinance but it says it here where the total width of a residential district is 75 ft or more than maximum of all dver shall not exceed 20 ft in wi that's what they want to add to the other section and what I'm saying is it's here so I'm just having trouble figuring
out what the distinction is in the other I understand adding the the second curve cut part of it right because that's not in there yet uh do this before I uh spes I know that there was some kind
of thing that was missing and I know the zoning Bo wanted it to be added by the planning board the planning board looked at it and the planning board added it exactly where it is I'd have to go back into my notes yeah I'm trying yeah it was so such a while ago I can't remember but I thought it was I thought it was to strengthen that yeah so the you could you could find it in both places but again I'd have to look back and I don't remember is that common
to put that type of thing in two places I mean there must be a reason why I'm not sure why they wanted to put it in 3028 G that's adding it yeah but she applies to one and two
family dwellings and my question was because it's already it already tells you what the residential is maybe it needs to be in land use for The Zing person to enforce it I think it's that make sense he would be able to enforce it if it was under the other ordinance or deny it it wasn't inuse
you talking about um Vince yeah he only he doesn't only have jurisdiction over L use right so I mean if that's his issue so this is this in his Zing ordinance they want to add it to his own yeah yeah and this was also recommended by can't remember okay we're give with that y I'll look back but
on my not but I just all three of them we're going to prepare yes please now do you want me to prepare them and send them back to the planning board to make sure it says with B set the process send it back well any anything that has to do with land use we're going to adopt it or we're going to ince it it has to go to it so we want to make sure that it's what they're asking for before we go through that process
yeah I mean if you want to send it to me I can send it to is Dan still attorney for the board who's the attorney for the bo for the board zoning board is B so planning board is off the there's a zoning issue though so it goes to zoning board no this is coming through the planning board oh yeah there planning board recommendations yeah let's prepare it send it to them already I guess he's a board J's busy by the
way his he had his Su Friday congrats congrats second but it's the first Lana boy of their generation so like they're like the're two the two brothers they have four four girls and uh has three girls and and Dan has one girl and another first boy yeah congratulations so they're so they're so recorded is it
and record record I would okay item number two is recommendation to your s parking restrictions administrator yes so uh last year I think in October uh Lieutenant Pano brought to us uh concern from residents about the no parking um was stock stock in that day and um those
those restrictions were put into place to prevent people who were commuting from parking there all day and they said the residents claimed that there was not really a lot an issue your parking and Justin had suggested that we would res that for Stockton and also on MTH and Trenton and at the time when we discussed it before the governing body the decision was to remove the signs and have reevaluated to decide to see whether
or not there is any problem that arises after removing the signs and he said that no one other resident no one other than residents or guests have been parking in these locations he's he's perfectly fine with resending wance we don't have a parking problem at our commuter parking at the dead end of Henley so there's not going to be anything you know 600 yards away from that for the problem so I would recommend that we go along with
that and we tend the commuter restriction I agree okay schedule pleas one yeah okay I only one item it is uh Thursday February 27th is the milford's annual Crescent Moon Lighting sponsored by the Milford public events committee it'll be at 6:00 p.m. it'll take place on the bur Hall La and uh this will also be a food collection event so anyone attending all we ask is
that you bring a can a non-p perishable food item and we will donate it to our local food pantry there any other events coming up that I missed for March or April allow me to just say that the rabies clinic on Saturday was led beautifully as it always does j page does a great job Dr Carberry is wonderful and everybody else who volunteered was terrific dogs cats everybody was well behaved and yeah
came as far away from as far away as MAA most most of the people in Milford but we did have some residents from well Burger County residents from places other than New Milford yeah very well was well done and thank the DPW for um helping us out they were great I have an event to share that uh people may be interested in it's not a new Milford burough event but the uh hackensac River Nation Summit is happening Tuesday February 25th from 10:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Fairly Dickinson University Student Union building it is being hosted by the northern New Jersey Community Foundation and the topic will be the hackensac river so there will be people from the US Environmental Protection Agency to talk about uh the hackensac river super fund site there will be workshops to um uh discuss cost eff of storm
water management planning uh let's see New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and New Jersey Futures will be there so there'll be a number of people attending and it's open to uh public officials leaders of environmental and Community organizations Business Leaders and citizens do you have a digital copy of that yes can you send it to Matt Matt can you send that to
yep it's the River Nation Summit thank you and people can come it's from 10: to 6: and people can come for the entire day or they can come for part of it so it's it's open excellent and there will be food thank Youk so item number four is the administrator's report thank you mayor uh not
a long report as far as25 budgets we're meeting with individual departments in the next couple of weeks to go over their budget requests um we're still waiting on some information from the tax assessor that he's he has to finalize due to the revow because people get a little long a little bit of a longer lead time before it has to be completed when you're doing the reevaluation um so we don't have C numbers yet but we did ask uh Steve to drop some numbers into
the budget work sheet so that we could just have an idea of what we're aiming for and miraculously we got our number from the BCA earlier than ever unfortunately it's 8,000 more than it was last year W so but you know what usually I'm beating on their door to try and get it before we introduce our budget so it's helpful to have it know what we're up against uh Chris I was looking at the budget book recently and I noticed that there are several boards and committees that haven't well they're not
included in that book do you have you gotten updates the people who I haven't heard from I've taken the liberty of putting in the requests for them there w't very many um and one of them is a familiar committee which has a pretty stable budget so we knew what we needed there I I put in that request nobody gets left out um I just want to go back to
the BC withan so every year the number comes out and it's more than we like so was it two years ago we had enough and we actually asked them for the audit so like a week or so later they sent us this huge document that outlined everything and they me the numbers matched it was exactly it was on par with exactly what they said the increase was and I don't want anyone to think that we just take it with a grain of soul that this is the number but we actually went through that
process was exact so um another item of housekeeping currently our June public session is scheduled for June 23rd there are actually five Mondays in June and I spoke to the mayor about potentially moving the public session from the 23rd to the 30th especially since we only have one meeting in July well it's a choice between you or me so get you when is when is
the July meeting the July meeting is four the end it's a Friday like usually what are we doing here the June public section is going to be on June 30th as opposed to June 23rd and the July meeting is on the 28th perfect my thing is we should keep it on the 23rd might want to go away thatly
moving B Ro might be covering that just say it's a SE home I'm the golf I'm a past president I have to go yeah you June 23rd is also the Deo graduation and on Tuesday the 24th is high school graduation so we will not be having a meeting on the 23th okay um well you'll get the graduation
okay and we'll have one meeting in July and that's the 28th can the high school graduation and um next on the list bar Hall is closed this coming Monday February 17th and observance of President's Day and our next meeting of Mayor and council is a public session scheduled for Monday February 24th and that's it for me thank you very much uh the only thing I'm going to
add to this on Saturday I was contacted by the eles we wanted to do a little quick impr prompt to uh they wanted to donate $5,000 to our social services department nice I accepted it on behalf of the mayor and Council and I turning it over to you to give this to Jen wow no
for dos yes that's really nice and for what social services yeah I was at I was at the babies Clan and I'm like all right well I'm like 500 ft away let me stop by and this is what they did I said you know that's that's very apparently they couldn't make it really could not make it tonight so they wanted to get it done and they have to have it done by
xon time for uh speci thank you okay resolutions is there any that need to be pulled for further discussion under a vote Yes mayor 2025 call on 83 please that one any others if not then at this time I ask for a motion to open
to the public second all favor ladies and gentlemen the public anyone has any questions or comments regarding good and Welfare for mil now is the opportunity to come public all we ask is for your name and address seeing that no member of the public I ask for motion to close the so move second all in favor any opposed may get a motion to adopt resolution
2025 73 through 2025 col 82 motion second all in favor oppos may get a motion to approve resolution 2025 col three motion second may you get a roll call please discussion he just wants to ref Council s yes Council yes council president Duffy yes Council MC
gry yes councilman seamor obain councilwoman Grant yes I just also before we end I just wanted to to once again thank the DPW for the great job they did with our recent snowstorms we have we're calculating maybe three more in the next week and a half any kind of combination of snow sleeve ice rain whatever but whatever it is they're going to be on top of it so than
them anything else I have a question I don't want to make a big deal out of this has anybody heard any chatter about raising chickens in town yes there's always chatter about well it's it's up it's up to chatter again recently I believe they should do we have an ordinance pertaining today they have to go to the Board of Health Board of Health has a jurisdiction on that I tried to
find one and I I I I did trying to find oh yeah regarding raising chickens the raising of chickens CU it's up for chatter again bus no not me I believe EG prices are coming down that's what I heard right now they're going up I heard that somewhere in October or April of last year or something they've been going up since then but I heard they were coming down somebody told me
that be nice but I don't think that's but no I just wanted to know if you heard Board of Health anyone has questions about yes from time to time the Board of Health does have MERS on a number of different occasion do we permit it yeah we don't permit no Chicken cops no raisin and chickens none whatsoever correct H okay so that's
just how the board voted I know some town in Bergen County allow it there was some I mean the health officer had some comments on it as well I think at the last round of this discussion yes yes what this was discuss this several years ago came up two three years ago maybe I think it was longer ago than that I towns in Burn County that permit it do I was wondering how you can refute it just by putting it as an ordinance saying
no I mean if people allow it in theast what's what's our reason that say no theyed health reasons they have cited noise but if other towns say it's okay what's our reason says it's not okay listen I'm just asking questions you'll have to review the Board of Health because it's been discussed it's literally it's like it's a time bytime decision and it's really a judgment call because you're going to have there's going to be opinions from people I mean I we dealt with it for years in t there there are opinions from people that come in saying it's wonderful and it promotes
you know uh the environment and it's it's you know it's healthier to eat the the Homegrown eggs and there's other people that are going to come in and say exactly what you just heard that if um rats like coyotes got track or other other foxes like those kind of of animals and then uh that it's also L there's no ways cuz if you have a rooster which usually not allow yeah the roosters will link you up and you crack it on youever with well they they they they make noise
all day long but we already have Fox so it's not a big deal my guess with the high incidence of the bird flu in chickens I doubt very much the Board of Health well by John listen I'm just asking questions anyone is well to actually you should look look uh ask get the minutes from their reasoning in decision this way if anyone asks you you know let's going on y yeah just curious some
could probably help you pin down I'm not fing yes I'm not raising chickens I just heard some chattering I just want to know in case it comes up one night at a meeting when the public comes and says I want to raise chickens okay else anyone I just have quick um I've been thinking about this uh for a couple of months now I wanted to bring
this up um after all of our January business was tended to um regarding our Council leis on reports um now that a couple of things have come uh the mayor gives a very full report of all activities and scheduled events and that goes into the minutes and the fact that we we are
recording our meetings and it's accessible to so many um I would like to talk about maybe just giving a short report at each meeting rather than a file a full Council report um written so I'd like to talk about it and see what you guys think you want to add that to the agenda do we have to add that topic to the agenda before we discuss it it's
not we pass through buiness yeah so we could add it right sure oh okay so do I should ask for a motion to add for the next I get a motion to add ry's topic about Council committee reports to the next agenda so mov second all favor I any oppos that's first thing public or what uh yeah we you'll
put it under okay made the motion item number one minutes thank you very much Ladi gentlemen and please be careful with the upcoming weather not second than