Good evening. I'd like to officially call this work session meeting of the mayor and council to order. At this time, I'd ask everyone to please rise for a moment of s or reflection as we think about our law enforcement men and women who protect our country during police week. Please hold the pledge. I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please note the fire exits behind you or behind some of you into the main
hallway and to my right and where else into the uh council chambers. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and attend any meetings of public bodies in which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with this act,
the mayor and council of the Burough of New Milford have course notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place there are posted in the Bur Hall. Notices have been sent to the record in the Ridgewood News. The mission of this governing body is to provide essential services for the establishment and implementation of public policy that will safeguard the
infrastructure. Provide fair, honest, courteous and professional services. Establish a sense of trust and accomplishment between all residents through 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 this governing body
cannot be all things to all people within the revenue constraints imposed by state mandates, economic conditions, and prevailing attitudes about taxation. At this time, I would ask the clerk to please call the role. Councilwoman San here. Councilman Zman here. Council President Duffy here. Councilman here.
Councilman Seymour here. Councilman Grant here. Mayor here. Before we start, I'm going to ask for a motion to add a appointment. I'd ask for a motion to appoint Joe Luna to planning board class 4. So moved.
All in favor? I post. Up first is a proclamation for mental health awareness. Office of the mayor proclamation. Whereas mental health is essential to overall well-being and affects every aspect of our lives from how we think and feel to how we act,
relate to others, and handle stress. And whereas millions of individuals and families across our communities are impacted by mental health conditions which know which know boundaries and whereas stigma surrounding mental health remains a barrier that prevents many people from seeking the help they need
and deserve. And whereas we recognize the importance of raising awareness, increasing access to care, and supporting the mental wellness of all people through education, open dialogue, and community action. And whereas May is recognized throughout the nation as mental health awareness month and serves
as a crucial reminder that no one is alone, that help is available and together we can create a culture of compassion, understanding, and support. And whereas mental health month celebrates the resilience and strength of individuals living with mental illness, recognizing their courage,
determination, and achievements in overcoming obstacles, seeking help, and embracing hope and healing. And whereas mental health month serves as a call to action for individuals, communities, and policy makers to prioritize mental health and well-being, invest in prevention, early intervention, and
support services, and work together to create a more inclusive, compassionate, and supportive society. Now therefore be resolved. I mayor Michael Patrino do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as mental health awareness month in the burough of New Milford to increase public understanding of the importance
of mental health and to promote identification and treatment of mental health needs. Okay. Under appointments may get a motion to appoint Nicholas Ki to fire company number one. John Norman to the office of emergency management and Joe
Lunham to the planning board class 4. So move second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Congratulations and thank you very much. Nicholas, John, and Joe serving our burrow. Under unfinished business, may I
get approval of the minutes from the April 28th, 2025 closed and work sessions? Second. All in favor? Any opposed? We have a few ordinance adoptions tonight. First one being 2025 col4. And
when the clerk has the opportunity, I would ask her to please read the ordinance. An ordinance to repeal and replace chapter 25 of the revised general ordinances of the borrower entitled flood prevention and protection. Purpose of this ordinance is to adopt the model code coordinated
ordinance for flood damage prevention as provided by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This ordinance was developed by the NJP at discretion of the federal emergency management agency FEMA to incorporate the higher state standards found in the flood hazard area control act and uniform construction
code. That was a mouthful, right? Make it a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this ordinance. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Ladies and gentlemen from the public, if anyone has any questions or comments regarding this ordinance, now is your opportunity. Seeing that no member of
the public wishes to come forward at this time, I would ask for a motion to close to the public. Motion. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Make it a motion to adopt this ordinance on its final reading. Motion. Second. May I get a roll call, please? Councilwoman Sanus, yes. Councilman
Syler, yes. Council President Duffy, yes. Councilman Grosky, yes. Councilman Seymour, yes. Councilwoman Grant. Yes. Okay. The next one tonight is ordinance 2025 com 15. And when the clerk has the opportunity, I'd ask you to please read the ordinance. bond ordinance to
authorize the making of various public improvements and the acquisition of new additional or replacement equipment and machinery, new communication and signal systems equipment, and a new automotive vehicle including original apparatus and equipment in buy and for the borrowing
in the county of Bergen, state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $797,000 to pay the cost thereof 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. Purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the issuance of a bond for various capital acquisitions and improvements including a dump truck, road resurfacing, communication equipment, and a fire department rescue boat and various other
equipment. May I get a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this ordinance? Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Ladies and gentlemen, the public. If anyone has any questions or comments regarding this ordinance, now is your opportunity.
Motion to close to the public. Second. All in favor? I. Any oppos? Making a motion to adopt this ordinance on its final reading. Second. Make a roll call, please. Councilman San, yes. Councilman Zer, yes. Council President Duffy, yes.
Councilman Groky, yes. Councilman Seymour, yes. Councilman Grant, yes. Next one is 2025 col 16. And when the clerk has the opportunity, I'd ask you to please read the ordinance. Capital Ordinance of the Burough Milford in the county of Burton State of New Jersey
authorizing the making of various public acquisitions and including any fine for the burrow of burrow appropriating therefore the sum of $24,900 and providing that such sums so appropriated shall be raised from the capital improvement fund of the borrow.
So this ordinance is to appropriate funds from the bureau of capital improvement fund for various acquisition improvements to the fire department and the board of health. May I get a motion to open to the public for a public hearing on this ordinance? 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 would ask for a motion to close the motion to close the public. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? May I get a
motion to adopt this ordinance on its final reading? Motion. Second. May I get a roll call, please? Councilman Sus, yes. Councilman Dollar, yes. Council President Duffy, yes. Councilman Groski, yes. Councilman Sey, yes. Councilwoman Grant, yes.
Okay. Under new business, we have a couple of ordinance introductions. First one being 2025 col 17. And when the clerk has the opportunity, I would ask her to please read the ordinance. An ordinance to amend chapter 30 of the revised general ordinances of the Garry Milford entitled land use regulations,
thereby amending subsection 30-28.9 entitled parking of commercial other vehicles and boats in residential districts. Purpose of this ordinance is to increase the permitted height of commercial vehicles in residential districts to accommodate the current common height of commercial cargo vans,
which is 10 ft. Make it a motion to introduce this ordinance on its first reading. Motion second. Make a roll call, please. Councilman San. Yes. Councilman Smer. Yes. President Dumpy. When can I make a
comment? Right now. Okay. Um I have to be honest. Uh when I first saw this, I um was concerned about seeing, you know, uh tall vans in
driveways uh when especially when we have some neighborhoods that are side by side, very close to each other. So I did a little digging around and saw that uh
the the proposal from the fire from the PD is actually an average. Uh there are other towns that allow higher, wider, longer. So I feel confident in uh saying
yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Councilman Roth. Yes. Councilman Seymour. Yes. Councilman. Yes. The final introduction tonight is 2025 col 18. And when the clerk has the opportunity, Vodessa, please read the
ordinance. An ordinance to amend chapter 7 of the revised general ordinances Milford entitled traffic thereby amending subsection 7-3.3 entitled parking prohibited at all times on certain streets and subsection
7-3.4 4 entitled parking prohibited during certain hours on certain streets. Okay. The purpose of this ordinance is to prohibit parking on certain sections of Cedar Road, Sha Drive, and Ryel Road and to prohibit parking on Null Road during certain hours on school days due to
safety concerns as recommended by the traffic so officer of the Nilford Police Department. Make it a motion to introduce this ordinance on its first reading. Motion second. Make it a roll call, please. Councilman Sanen, yes. Councilman
Zylmer, yes. Council President Duffy, yes. Councilman Grosky, yes. Councilman Seymour, yes. Councilman Grant, yes. And I was failing to say that the public hearing on this ordinance will be our May 28th meeting as well and on the previous one as well
as for 2025. Okay, moving on to item number one is D water conservation ordinance. Councilwoman St. All right. Well, thank you very much everyone. Um well, it's getting the weather is getting nice and the sprinklers lawn sprinklers are
coming on. Uh I attended I think I mentioned I attended a previous meeting. I had attended a webinar hosted by ANJACK which is the association of environmental commissions for the that supports all of our environmental
commission work and um the speaker was the NJ and they were urging everyone to uh pay attention to landscape watering uh and they're urging people to urging
municipalities to adopt a an ordinance uh to uh in to support that. So, the reason why currently we've been in a drought warning since November, even though we've had rain these last couple
weeks, our groundwater and our streams have not recharged. And this ordinance is uh primarily for drinking water. The aim uh with uh with adopting a water conservation
ordinance is to avoid a water emergency where the governor would have to call a state of emergency and then there would be restrictions on personal use of water. Um the restrictions would be much higher. So right now there are no uh
restrictions. It's a request to conserve The uh the model ordinance recommends a two day per week uh two day per week watering uh with time restrictions early morning
and evening. Um and the restriction would be 30 minutes per zone. So it's actually a good practice for people to water each zone for 30 minutes. It makes the uh the uh the landscaping more resilient to to drought. A zone being
defined as a zone. Some people have lawns like the front yard, backyard, sideyard, that would be a zone. Um so right now they're urging people to uh reduce their watering and also to have
smart meters so that they uh their automatic sprinklers don't water when it's raining out. Oftent times we see sprinklers uh running when it's raining out. Uh some of the recommendations they're
urging the public to um avoid overfertilizing lawns and using brooms instead of a hose to clean up walkways cuz there's a lot of people who like to use their water to to clean and to to dust
and so just being mindful about that. um the model. So I did look uh to see I did have a conversation with the environmental commission and they are supportive. They're split down the
middle. They are supportive of conserving water. They don't want to be uh have be punitive to our uh citizens, right? they don't want it to our citiz our residents to feel like it's a hardship like they're being asked to do
something other communities aren't being asked to do. They also did ask that if we were going to uh ask our residents to do this that the burrow would also follow the same uh watering restrictions.
So, um, and I did look up that in 2021, uh, Bergenfield did, uh, adopt a water conservation ordinance. And, um, so I have that to pass around if you want to see what theirs looks
like. One final piece, uh, this is, uh, this water conservation ordinance is, uh, Thank you. this water conservation. Does that differ from the model that was provided? They have the model has a lot
of options in it and this is what this is what they adopted as a final. So they um adopted so I'll I'm coming up to that. So, sustainable Jersey is uh
offers a water conservation ordinance model and they uh offer a st a best standards of pro of uh best standards of practice and Bergenfield did the full they did all of the restrictions with
the smart meters and the timed um the two day a week the timed because there are three three uh main pieces is three main points, three main elements. So, there's limiting outdoor
watering from automated systems to no more than two days a week. Uh provisions requiring smart controllers for all newly installed irrigation systems and provisions that incentivize converting existing systems into smart
controllers. Would this impose any financial burden on the residents? Uh well that would be something we would have to discuss. There would have to if someone is watering we there is a there's
a m ground maintenance. What? Property maintenance. Property maintenance. There is penalties and fines. There's penalties and fines. But there are um they would have to work with
uh irrigation installers that are certified with the D. There's certifications where people to install the smart meters. It's get it gets quite complicated and that's where the environmental commission was like don't
want to put a burden onto people but there the it's not written that people that those that's for new that's for new installations and um the D does have u resources for irrigation installers to
become certified to become certified smart meter installers. So there's pro there's process and I know it's a lot and I tend to agree with uh half of the environmental commission about
heard I believe that the county when the water levels get low put in restrictions the governor puts in restrictions I don't think it's fair that the burrow put in restrictions two one day two days what do you do if there's no water
shortage or anything like that what do you do in the beginning of the season when you're doing new seedings and you have to water every single day. There's a lot of issues that come up putting in ordinances something like to that effect. So I think it is a burden on our
uh New York residents and uh I directed the county because they funded in the past when to restrict water usage. How does it affect people in a business such as power washing take power wash homes? You're
talking about irrigation. This is irrigation water and lawns, but the same water is used when people go there and people in this business, they go there while somebody's home. I can't answer that. This is I would say that's a different say that's a different purpose. It's just a one time
thing. This is for drinking water. It is typical. So, as someone who used to live in California and has experienced drought and water, deep water restrictions, it is really, really important. Like one of the biggest issues is landscaping, landscape
watering. People are uh overwater for too long. The part that is, you know, if if everyone could water 2 days a week, half an hour in each zone, it would save a lot of water. What you're saying is
you're restricting it to like an even day or an odd day. What happens if people can't do it on an even day or an odd day? Avoid that. says avoid every other success if every other day watering is actually too much. Yeah. So with your trash pick up
like other um I have to agree with Ira about we will get a directive like you said from the governor or the county executive. Um, but I don't think there's anything
wrong with reminding people and of, you know, apprising them of the situation. It's a what do they call a teaching moment. You know, we had a we had pretty bad drought conditions last year and
like you said it they have not really rebounded since then. So if we could maybe find something that number one, how are you going to enforce such a thing? And you shouldn't be. It should
just be about, you know, learning and be conscious and help us uh be a good citizen, you know, type thing rather than Yeah. I mean, I'm with Iron Randy on that, but to take it one step further, I think we
could do better than just reminding people. I think we can actually have an educational campaign associated. True. Put it in all of our buildings, social media, and I know it's the end of the year, but this is the kind of thing you want to get the schools schools involved because, you know, it's it's it's the
kids that understand this and, you know, remind their parents. True. You know, and this directly affects our drinking water. So that's why it's it's it's a public health issue because this affects our our drinking water. But rather than
I mean you have to just do more than just teaching. I think rather than adopting an ordinance, you should suggest that people follow these right guidelines. There are some issues within the guidelines that I think this would have to be revised as far as I'm concerned. I don't think it's very
precise. It also um gives exceptions to the restrictions up leaves it up to the burrow administrator to make sure I didn't think you'd like that. I think that the burrow can order as often as the director of the DPW thinks we need to. That's my Yeah, there
also it allows for you come on in. Yeah, you go. Although to your comment already, it does say irrigation necessary for the establishment of fully sided or seated grass is outside in perview of this, but
it does say irrigation shall not be conducted between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day. Irrigation using automatic systems may only be used between 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. So, I'm not sure of the difference between when it call says irrigation and then it then
it says ir different kind of irrigation. To me, this is not well drafted. I I I agree with you, Council President. I like the idea of raising awareness and inform and being informative about the importance of these issues that you're raising. I agree with Councilman San and
I I like your suggestion to loop in schools. Yeah, it's great. I think it's not right now. Oh, sure. And just to just to be clear, I'm not a merry I'm not, you know, pushing for like a full ordinance. I just wanted to
bring it to awareness that this was something that the D is asking all municipalities to consider. Can we start public awareness like maybe at night out at the environmental table and
have a separate thing with talk about watering the lawns and and everything else? But can the also be a an example with the I think we could be conscious of it. Like I said, I'm not exactly sure of every single burrow property and
where we have new seed and where we don't. But I think I think Vince would be willing to consider Yeah. If there's new seed, obviously you need to water, but if but after Well, there you go. Like when we
Williams Field is going to be watered every day because we just ripped out an infield and grass. So if we don't water it constantly, we're soccer people are going to be upset there's no grass next fall. So but I think there's I think
that they already use uh good judgment more so more so than the average homeowner necessarily. They're doing it based upon the needs of whatever it is that's being planted. I just got my lawnmos fixed so I haven't rolled it out
yet but yeah. Right. and watering early in the morning and the so to answer your question about not watering between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. is is evaporation. So I'm just saying the way
it was drafted sounds but bullet point I mean to me absolutely you know the the idea that somebody takes a half an hour and cleans their driveway with water is just mindblowing to me. But that kind of
thing should be education. That's where education really it's a lot faster and easier than sweeping. I will say no not allowed. All right. Well, thank you all for your input. I appreciate the
discussion. I think I think don't wait till I And um we're going to work with environmental on the educational component of this, right? They want to be a part of this, I assume. Yes, I'll go I'll bring this back to 911. They were they were aware that this was up
for discussion with you all today. So, I just wanted to make sure that they they also had the same concern. So, it is it's it's everyone's being thoughtful about it. There's no rush and urgency on it. But thank you for bringing education
is is important. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Anything else on that? No. Now we'll move on to number two which is Meljip drainage plan recommendation administrator. This is a fun one too. Thank you mayor. I think I circulated this earlier. Um there's been a
recommendation from uh the GIF about uh adopting resolution that um gives a commitment to creating a long range plan to address drainage issues. that the recommendation has come as a
result of the fact that there's been some lawsuits against communities alleging that residents suffered large losses because towns are negligent in controlling flood waters and they're going to provide legal and engineering resources to assist members at no cost
in their efforts to implement flood risk control program. um you know it's not realistically the argument is it's not realistically possible to keep the entire system up to date but that's where some of the title 59 protections
come in but in order to you know use design immunity you have to be able to prove that the design was in fact approved by the governing body or another appropriate authority before the construction began and those records don't necessarily exist for things that
took place 5075 5 years ago. So, um, most towns lack complete records and often can't qualify. So, there's a way another way to qualify for immunity even if the records were missing. They're not liable for exercise of discretion when in the face of competing demands to
determine whether or not to utilize or apply existing resources unless a court concludes that the determination of public entity was powerfully unreasonable. and they can take a reasonable amount of time to correct any deficiency. So for that reason, they're asking that each
year the five and 10 year capital budget should update infrastructure projects, including drain drainage. And they're offering legal services to assist with guidance for design immunity and scarce resource immunity defenses to storm water flooding claims and also
engineering uh services. is 3 hours of engineering consultation at no cost to review the municipality's compliance with the municipal separate storm water sewer system MS4 permit from an engineering perspective and identify any shortcomings and recommendations for
cost-effective solutions to meet the requirements. There's a resolution that was recommended. It's on our agenda for this evening and um you know my intention is to take advantage of the resources that are provided and um we do adopt design immunity for anything that
we do currently those resolutions that you see periodically on our agenda and as usual we're going to follow the advice of the GIF and do everything that we can to uh protect the interest of the borrow. Great. Definitely. It's a good idea. It's a no-brainer. Yeah. We have
immunity under the TOR claims act. That's all that discussion that you heard about immunity was all the that's they were regurgitating the stat the statute that gives us status as the king. All right. So if you know to claims that comes from sovereign immunity, right? So it's good
to be the king. You ever see like history of the world, right? It's good to be the king. There's a reason why we have immunity. It's because it come and the Supreme Court actually this week rendered an opinion that um impinged that a little bit with annual cliffs and
whether or not they you file a f if you file a frivolous claim whether you can be liable for that as a municipality if they the Supreme Court found you could which I think was appropriate. Um but that being said generally as a public entity as you all know we are immune
from any kind of claim like that. So okay why not do it? Operation Simpa. It's good to be here. Can't wait to be here. No, that's I just can't wait to That's Operation Masa. I mean, like, you know, that's why he's
got me, you know. Yeah. You think Judge Kelly knew knew his Disney quotes like this? Come on. But he couldn't tell you anything about Jesuit education. And I can't I went to Boston College.
I knew you I knew you'd get it. He's He went to the inferior fighting where he's going to show up here. I hope he does. Good. Okay. That's me right now. Item number three is the Main Street Improvement
Project Administrator. Thank you, mayor. As you know, this is a project that's been on the boards for quite some time. Um, we had some setbacks. We did go out to bid. The bid came in significantly over what we were expecting, so we did not award it. And we kind of went back
to the drawing board. Um, we have a DOT grant, $470,000, which a requirement of the grant is to award it within two years, which we're fast approaching. The award letter came from May of 2023. So, there's a resolution on tonight's agenda
to ask for an extension for the DOT for us to award the project and the engineer is going to follow through with that after the resolution is adopted. So, um we have a total budget of $595,750. We've spent already uh $70,000
of that. We have a current construction estimate of $617 $17,89. And there's engineering quote for additional design and construction administration of about
$68,000. So as it stands right now, our budget is short about $161,000. So in order to move forward, we would have to make a decision of whether or not we want to um allocate additional funds. the mayor, myself,
Vince, and Silk got together on Friday to talk a little bit about it in advance of our meeting to talk about the possibility of making any changes to the current project as proposed to see if there were any economies to be found. Um, and one of the things we talked
about was, you know, part of the original plan for the streetscape was to eliminate the bumpouts on Main Street, which would involve uh a significant amount of uh more of uh the resurfacing, work with the inlets, etc. So, we asked
Nia to look at the project if we were to eliminate that portion of it. It was it like last minute. It actually came in at like 6:00 tonight, the estimate, but it turns out that it would be approximately a $60,000 savings if we were to approach
the project separately without the bumpouts. So, the decision that we were talking about when we met was, you know, we wanted to bring it to the governing body to see to have a discussion about the expectations for Main Street and to see, you know, how people wish to
proceed at this point. What else is in the plan? I don't recall at this point. I know the bumpouts were a big issue. Well, it's going to involve resurfacing. There's some ADA ramps that have to be redesigned. Um the corners, the
crosswalk, the uh brick work. It's basically a street neighbors, they're all broken and sunk. They're going with the new ones that are stamped so that never happens again. Streetscape beautifification in addition to resurfacing.
And did I hear you mention something about painting the lights? Not going to be doing that. That's not part of it because it's a sign. That was one of the things that our last bit. Okay, good. I as I recall the bumpouts were creating issues and that's one reason we wanted
to get rid of them. They also um leave less room for parking, but they're also traffic coming, which is something that it's sort of like there's like dual purpose. It They're traffic calming, meaning people do not go as fast on Main Street because the
road isn't as wide, right? Main Street gets a lot of pedestrian crossing at at the especially those two crosswalks that are all beat up right now. And there are a lot of large trucks that go up and
down Main Street along with residents on their way to schools and whatnot. So, if they don't slow down, they can't stop. So it in my mind that slowing of traffic is important. So I was never The con is
it takes up if you got rid of all the lumps, you could probably add one or maybe two block spots. But the other thing is it's also would be easier to snow plow without the bumps. But what's more important and what's economically
feasible? That's that's what we're talking about. What else can we cut out? It's either we're going to move forward or enough. So there's not really much more that we can It's just the dollars. Yes. To go with the project as is, we would need another 60. 60. If we That's
with leaving the fun. Oh, so if we leave them in 60 less. So we're only looking at 100,000. Correct. Doesn't I mean where are we going to find that? That's my next question. The same place that
we pass upon ordinance to cover it. Okay. Do you have extra money like you know any bonds that you haven't used before? No, they're all used up and then I'm not trying to get in your way, Chrissy.
What was the amount of the grant again initially? $470,000 and we're adding Well, we're at 595 already. Mhm. And we're looking to either add another 100 to 160,000.
I think we're going to if we can do it. If we can do it, it's worth it. But without the bumpouts. Without. You mean no bumpouts or with the bumpouts and save $60,000? Save $60,000. If you read the bumpouts, you save. This is a trick question.
Seriously, she likes the bumpouts. Keep the bump out. Eat the pumps out. Yeah. Save the money. Well, one of the other things we talked about was we did sort of like an adopt a spot that didn't really work out well, right? So, we're going to take over the
care and maintenance so that they'll have a uniform appearance. Absolutely. And better maintenance. You will only water them twice a week. Excellent. How will they fix the uh walkways, the crosswalks? They're brand new. They're going to have the the PA crosswalk the curb with the
curb cut and now there's only half because the did a project and they paved half the street. So you can see actually one of the crosswalks ends. But I think that they said they're not actually doing the papers as the crosswalk. They're not doing that. They're stamping doing the stamp.
I think it's just stamping. Yes. They stamp to make it look like they're pavers, but it's No, I don't I don't think they're not even doing that. So that doesn't work though. Good. Say that again. I'm saying. It's just going to be regular crossing. A regular marked cross
on the red brick. Oh, good. I hope something helps because too many cars do not stop for pedestrians on Main Street. Yeah. Well, every street but that's
but I understand it's not like who could can the PD get a grant for that or is that us? known as us. They need to rewrite the statute because the statute is really unclear as to when you as a driver have to so like and when you as a
pedestrian have to like exercise caution too. So like I've been in situations and we all probably have where you're driving at 30 or 40 mph down a regular street or what 25 whatever and someone just steps off the curb into the crosswalk assuming that you're going to stop because oh I'm in the crosswalk
there's a shield around me now like I'm not going to get killed the car hits me. That happens all the time. And like one of the towns that comes to my mind because I live close that's also they they were one of the first towns that went crazy because they have a major downtown pedestrian areas, Westwood. Westwood has signs on every crosswalk
that's like huge like these like things that come out that say stop. And they got those blinking ones. Like Ken has some of those blinking signs. Those signs work. Those signs really work. It's really hard to notice that there's somebody standing there, but they don't go off till someone walks into the crosswalk.
One very simple thing I've seen is the flag like in or they have them in several places in Oregon. Those big orange flags you wave and pedestrian and motorists see that. But when you're c the person you carry it as you walk. Yeah. So 100%. You got you got to get people to buy into picking up the flag
and using it. Right. I love doing that. Or I still like the flag. It's so cheap. That program or didn't pay for that. that was donated by RO um what is it a rotary a rotary
there was a time when rotary clubs I guess were donating these to towns and ordo was one of them because they may have a rotary but we don't have one so we never would or like the grand hub you want to try that at a certain intersection really get someone to help
sponsor it I would love to try that at an intersection on main street I mean maybe um outreach and eagle for example any of the questions made and eagle that's kind of their area
yeah like the worst spots they can't be I think the blinking light people see that and they're learning about it and they know what it means we're getting to another the one thing the one thing we have to be careful with
lines is if we get too many they too will also just blend in with everything. Why too messed up? It's enforcement also by your PD which I your PD is awesome. I mean know I'm a huge fan. I mean like but it's enforcement. The PD knows and Brian knows Clinty knows that that we
you want enforcement. He will have moved to tell them to enforce you know people violating that rule. I mean they're not only but they but they will assign them to watch the bad crosswalks. They do that
for towns that do that. They sit they sit patrol cars to watch and the second someone goes through they come and they give you a ticket and when 20 people get tickets in a day. I haven't seen that in Okay. I haven't seen that on Main Street. All right. Well, that may be a conversation that the police committee
may want to have with the chief if that's something that's a big issue. I'm surprised there are more aren't more accidents on Main Street. I love when you stop and somebody tries to go around you and they're like, "Oh my god, they're going to hit or they honk at you like you're doing something." But see with the bumpouts that can't happen on
Main Street. You can't go there. Unless you're like literally driving the other way. That's bad. That's bad on Boulevard. She got thrown in the air. Oh, I know. Both of her legs. That's a horrible spot
right there where the old and that's exactly what happened. Went around. She has color lost salon. Where did you go? You said keep the bus. Then they finally put up a
line. Matt, I agree. I'm sorry. I agree with what how you want the project to go. Bumps or no bumps? Personally, I prefer the bump. I don't like the mug mounts, but So, keeping them safe. I do believe in saving money.
Same. Okay. Step two. And maybe we can keep that on a list for the future. Anyone that flags the above? No, the flags. I'd like to that would be a list for many years out if we're going to do what the next
time we do a street. When was the last time we did a street on When was that? Is that 15 10 years ago? At least 15. Really? Yeah. I guess I was new on the council cuz I remember. How much did the flask cost? I mean, really. I mean, you
had the little thing on the pole. I know doing it, but I'm still then go for the lights. Where are they going? Down here. One down by Boulevard. No, one down by River Road. We're putting in two. One down, I think, by Ramler and the other one by
what ridge. Maybe post I think. I think they need a streetcape. Talk about a grand. That spot needs a streetcape. Do I have to do we have to get a motion to pay a bond? Right. Well, when I I'm going to have to put that
together. That'll be a future meeting. Come up with $100,000. Oh, I'm schedule updates next. Okay. Tuesday, May 13th is the Suicide Prevention Symposium sponsored by the New Milford Public School District and
MJ45. It's from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Milford High School Auditorium, excuse me. On Monday, May 26 is the Milford's annual Memorial Day parade sponsored by the Milford Public Events Committee. The parade will start at 9:00 a.m. from Nightsfield parking
lot to the Burough Hall. Everyone who is attending the parade will be participants in the parade are asked to get there. no later than 8:45 to line up in the parking lot. Saturday, May 31st is mental health awareness sponsored by the New Milford Municipal Alliance. It's from 9:30 to 12:00 p.m. at the Nightsfield Pavilion.
Right after that is Music of the Arts, sponsored by the New Milford Arts Committee from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Nightsfield Pavilion. And on Monday, June 30th is the New Milford Athletic Department 29th annual golf outing sponsored by the New Milford Athletic Boosters. Uh, golf starts at 8:15 a.m.
and it's at the golf club at Mansion Ridge. Two new things that I added today. On uh May 15th at 8:00 a.m., I'll be reading the proclamation to the police department to recognize Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day. On
June 3rd at 7:15 a.m., I'll be reading the public works week proclamation down at the DBW. So, all are invited to that. Any other events that are What was the day of the video? 15th. What's Thursday? Peace officers memorial day. But this is
police. Did you say peace? Peace officers. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace officers. Okay. So that's Thursday. That's late, isn't it? They're going to be not around.
What do you mean late? Is that 15 a.m.? No, I mean the DPW one. Isn't that the third Sunday in? No, they want to do We want to do it on They want to do it on June 5th cuz Vince is going to he's here on that day. Okay. I have it as June 3rd. If that changes,
I'll text. I'm pretty sure saying if you look at the proclamation, you know what? Maybe I have it on. It's What's next Tuesday? Today's the 12th. 20th. I'm sorry. It is It is next May 20th. May 20th.
Whi, which thing? BBW May 20th, 7:15. I don't know why I wrote down 6 in the morning. That is a mistake. I know Eddie won't be there. My heart will be there. 7:15. Yes. Mayor, can I add a couple events to the
mayor's wellness? Because I I noticed the mayor's wellness events weren't on there. They're not on there, but there's so many of them. They are on the burough website. they are on the burough update, but I do have two that I want to point out is that on uh at 11:00 a.m. at Kennedy Field is Parents and Pals
walking group. They're meeting Thursday mornings. So the uh the 15th, the 22nd, and the 29th, and the walk with the mayor is Sunday, May 18th, and the YMCA schedule uh for classes is available on The mayor's walk is at 4 p.m., right?
Correct. Yeah. Why don't you join us this time? We'll meet at the burl gaze. I can come as is. Yes or absolutely is required. Let's move on to the administrator. You're welcome. Um,
happy to report the burrow is going to be hosting another Motor Vehicle Commission mobile mobile event on Monday, June 16th. The NBC mobile unit will be set up in the Burough Hall parking lot and appointments can be scheduled beginning Monday, May 19th at 10:00 a.m. They go quick.
Pre-registration is required and the link to register will be posted on the BAR website and the Office of the Mayor Facebook page on Friday, May 16th. There are a total of 72 72 appointments available at 10 a.m. a week from today.
The deadline to register to vote in the June 10th primary election is Tuesday, May 20th, which is next Tuesday. June 3rd is the deadline to apply for a mailing ballot and early voting will be held from Friday, June 6th through Sunday, June 8th.
Uh, the burrow is looking forward to hosting the Burton County Commissioners on Wednesday, June 4th, as they take their regularly scheduled county commissioners meeting on the road. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Milk Council Chambers. Uh, what time are they starting again?
7. Starting at 7 p.m. June 4th. June 4th, 7 p.m. Monday. The service inspections for the electric vehicle charging stations at the Carl Hall and the library were completed last week and they should be powered by the public service within 4 to 6 weeks. The EV
station at Banksfield requires the installation of a transformer by public service which is probably about a month out. Once that's installed, it will be four to six weeks to complete the work and get the service inspection and then another month before the station is powered and ready to use. Uh, Burough
Hall is going to be closed on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day. And for that reason, we're going to be the next meeting of the mayor council. It's a public session which is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28th at 7 p.m. Except for me. Thank you. Okay.
And the only thing I'd like to add is um I'm sure most of you know that uh recently New Milford was um ranked ninth safest city by Safewise. The criteria they use is FBI cr crime data uh specifically focused on
property crime and violent crime. So, um, violent crime is actually up 9% in the state of New Jersey, but it actually went down in New Milford. So, we we doing a great job. To round out the list of towns, list of towns that we
are in company with. These would be the only burden that made it. We're not the only We're not the only top 10 I think were the only burden. Yeah. Okay. Number one is Vernon Township. Number two is Bernard's Township. Number three is Spart Township. Four is Jefferson Township. Five is a Paccom. Six is
Denville. Seven is Mount Olive. Eight is West Milford. Nine is New Milford. They they must have mixed that up. I think we're really 10 is Madison. 11 is Jackson Township. 12 is Dumont. Our friends in Newmont. 13 is Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Har Harrison Township. 14 is Baraga Township. 15 is
Montville, Manchester, Floren Park, South River, Rididgewood, another Burden County, and Hillsboro Township. That's the top 20. What's the stat? What's this? This is uh safest cities in uh New Jersey. Is it what what's the ranking by city? Like how do you get to be is it
like any town in the whole state? The whole the whole they look at every they look at the FBI data in every town and then they come up with 114 that meet criteria and then within them they rank them and you know consistently on the list. We were 13th for a while. So, we
want to obviously we want to thank the the police for all that they do, but not only just enforcement, but they've been doing a great job over the years with community policing. And I think that's a huge part of this because residents have to be involved otherwise this doesn't happen. And we have to thank the governing body because over the last few
years, you know, we've been providing the resources that they need to do their job. So, put all of that together and good things can happen. It doesn't mean something terrible can't happen tomorrow, but we're on a good track. And also the police department has a great relationship with the uh school district
between the SRO's and the public safety meetings. So that is a huge help for all that's going on. So I just wanted to thank all them. I just want to point out to your point uh but the police at the schools do more than just provide security. They actively engage the kids
and they greet the kids and say hi to them and the kids the kids the kids love them um and and view them as friends and it's really a nice thing to see a complete community integration of our police with with with our students and the parents too. It's great to see them
out there. Agreed. Good point on my point to make a point. That's right. Okay. resolutions. Do any need to be pulled for further discussion and or
vote? If not, at this time just question uh what's the date of the lease the between the swim club when does this when technically it starts January of this year. Okay. And it's ends in
December 5 years out. Got it. Thank you. May I get a motion to open to the public? Motion. Second. All in favor? I oppose. Ladies and gentlemen of the public, if anyone has any questions or comments regarding the good welcome to
Robin Milford, you are invited to come up. Seeing that no member of the public wishes to come up at this time, I would ask for a motion to close the public. So move. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? May get a motion to adopt resolutions
2025 column 134 to 2025 column 139. Motion second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to go into close session. When we come out of close session, this governing body will take no action and
immediately adjourn the meeting. Making a motion to close. Motion to close. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Good night and start enjoying the weather. Although it's going to rain for the rest of this
week, but yeah, which is good. Turn off your sprinklers.