better. It's just the way it does. Everybody ready? Jesus. Everybody ready? Our meeting called to order. This is the June 17th, 2025 meeting of the Oakland Burough Council. Would the clerk please
read the statement of compliance? This meeting is being held in accordance with the open public meetings law duly announced, advertised, and posted in the municipal building. The meeting will adjourn no later than 10 p.m. unless a majority of the council members that are present vote to extend the time. Thank
you. Would the commander please lead us in a pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. Please remain standing
for a moment of silence. Thank you. Roll call. Mayor Kamala present. Council President McCann here. Councilman Pignatelli. Councilwoman Rose here. Councilman Saliani here. Councilman Slinski here.
Councilman Talamini here. Second. Make a motion to excuse Councilman Nutelli. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. All right. We're going to We have a special presentation tonight for a Richard Fialo. He's going
to be joining the US Army. Uh he's a graduate I believe of Ramapo High School and he's an Oakland resident. Correct. So at this time I'd like to bring Richard forward and I also would like to ask Mike McNoli, the commander from the American Legion to come forward. Mike, would you like to go first? I I
would. Okay. So uh we have a uh we have a tradition of uh giving a certificate of honor to people who are joining the military. It reads as such. Certificate honor. This certificate is presented to honor Richard Fial in recognition and
grateful appreciation for entering the United States Armed Forces in the name of freedom and democracy and for allegiance to God and country courageously protecting liberty and independence. This is presented by Michael McNelte, commander of American Legion Post 369,
Department of New Jersey. And we'd like to say welcome to our Blueest Star families. Okay. Locally, that's for you. Thank you so much. We wish you greatest luck and we are here to support you through your entire career in the service. If you have any questions, my card's in there. You can call us and uh
we'll help you out. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. And also, we have something here from the Burough Oak. We have a proclamation honoring Richard Fiello for committing to serve in the United States Army. Whereas the Burough of Oakland takes great pride in recognizing and honoring young men and women of our community who demonstrate
extraordinary courage and patriotism by choosing to serve in the armed forces of the United States. And whereas Richard Fio, a member of the graduating class of 2025, Aramo High School, has committed to enlist in the United States Army following graduation. And whereas Richard Fio has shown exceptional
character, determination, a deep sense of duty to country, choosing a path of service and sacrifice in defense of the freedoms and values we hold dear as Americans. And whereas by making this commitment, Richard Fiello joins a long proud tradition of brave individuals who have answered the call to serve and
protect the United States of America. And whereas the mayor council of the burough of Oakland along with his residents wish to express her deep appreciation, admiration for Richard's service and to offer support and encouragement as he embarks on his honorable journey. Now therefore be proclaimed that I, Mayor Eric Mala, on
behalf of the Burough of Council and residents of Oakland, do hereby recognize and honor Richard Fialo for his courage, courageous commitment to serve in the United States Army and extend our heartfelt gratitude and best wishes for a successful distinguished military career. be further proclaimed. This proclamation is entering the
official records of the Burough of Oakland as a lasting tribute to Richard Fio's dedication of patriotism dated June 17, 2025. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Let's give him a round of applause. Just a commemorative coin from Oakland to remember this day. Thank you for
everything. That's your first challenge coin. There you go. Many more to come. There you go. You don't get yours from me until you get to boot camp. Good luck. Thank you. Good luck to you. Thank you every order of businesses. We are going to
hire a new police officer, Bradley Hildebrandt. And we have resolution 25184 to hire police officer Brandon Hill Debrandt. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Roll call.
Council President McCann. Yes. Councilman Pnel. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. Councilman Tamini. Yes. All right. At this time, I'd like to ask uh Bradley to
come forward with his family, whoever's holding me the Bible, and we're going to swear in this. Put your hand on the Bible if you like. You're going to be This is the oath of office for police officer openers. Yes, sir. I, Bradley Hildebrandt, I, Bradley Hildebrandt, do solemnly swear do
solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey that I will bear true faith I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance
to the same to the same and the government and the government established established in the United States in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully
impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of police officer of the office of police officer according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God.
Congratulations. Thank you sir. Congratulations to you. Welcome to Oakland. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. You're almost done. Not official till you sign it. Thank you. All right, we're going to take a quick fivem minute recess. For
those people that would like to stay can stay. Those that would like to leave can leave. Thank you everybody. All right, this time we are up to the mayor's report. I got a couple items here. First of all, myself, member of the governing body attended the Valley
Middle School graduation. There were 149 graduates. I want to wish all the uh the eighth graders that are moving out to high school the best of luck in their high school years. Uh also for the carnival, carnival is in town. Councilman Saliani is going to be providing more information, but I just want to remind everybody that tomorrow
is the last day for the discount re wristbands and it ends at 3:00. So, if you're going to buy the wristbands, make sure you buy them by 3:00 tomorrow. Then the price goes up. Uh Safety Town in Oakland's going to be held July 8th, 9th, and 10th and 14th, 15th, and 16th.
Uh Oakland, I'm sure you've seen all the social media announcements coming out that have come out already. The Oakland's road paving program has started. It's begun. Uh they're currently working on curb curb cuts and that's going to be followed by milling and paving. Uh Yapo Avenue just so everybody knows it will be done this
year. Uh right now it's the our engineers in correspondence with the department of transportation uh because it is a grant and they're just getting you know f you know finer points worked out and we expect to have it on the agenda for next meeting. Uh Jerome Avenue and West Oakland A will be closed
tomorrow for the duration. There will be a detour. They are working on the storm water uh storm water drains in that area. I'm sure a lot of people have seen especially the kids the new playground by the Danny D building is progressing nicely. Uh they've been working on it now for about about a week. Uh we expect
all the superructure to be completed by the end of the week and then they'll be putting down the surf the surface weather permitting. Uh once again weather has been very challenging for this spring. Uh myself and members of the governing body also attended the flag day celebr ceremony last Saturday
at the Elks Club. And uh if anybody's been down at Great Oak Park, uh you're starting to see the new fencing being installed as you come into the entrance. So it's really the improvements in Great Oak Park are also moving along nicely. Just want to make everybody aware we have a special meeting, a special
meeting June 23rd. It's going to be a combined meeting of the planning board and the governing body. This is for our fourth round affordable housing. So, it's going to be a meeting and it's going to be held down at the senior center. It will not be here. It will be the senior center 7 p.m. special meeting
with the planning with the uh planning board. Patri bridge update. Uh they have completed all the concrete sidewalks. Uh Orange Rocklin has finished the electrical work for the street lights. Uh the grading and base co base course of ash fault have been completed for
both approaches on the bridge. Unfortunately once again we are losing several days due to weather due to weather. We didn't have crews out there at all this week. Uh fortunately the weather is not being cooperative. Uh looking forward uh they have one more day of installing rebar for the parap
pits. Once the rebar is installed but it's going to be the carpenters will be coming in to build out the forms for the jersey barrier which is a parapit on the bridge itself. That should take a couple weeks and that will be followed by a concrete pour. Um, and the concrete has set for 28 days, but in the meantime,
they're going to be working on the guide rail and they will be milling and paving the project all the way out through a 202. And that concludes my report at this time. We have a motion open for public comment. So moved. Have a second. Second. All in favor? I. Anybody wish to
address the governing body? Question. Hi, good evening. Uh, Christopher Bermudez, 28 Kaug. Um, just wanted to ask the bur to consider adopting an ordinance preventing people from parking on their front lawn. I emailed Yep. Yep.
It's becoming out of control. And I dealt with the code enforcement officer. There's 10 cars. It looks like a junkyard on the corner when you're pulling up the development. And he's can't do anything because there's no ordinance. We're one It's one of the only towns
without an ordinance preventing people from parking on their front lawn. Okay, Mr. Coons, I did forward you that email. Yes. Yeah, I got it. Okay. Sorry. What street did you say you live? Kyoga. Ka. Thank you. Okay. We'll we'll take a look at it.
Thank you. Thank you. That's it. Have a nice night. Anybody else wants to address governing body? Marisol Kazowski, 19 Barnard Drive. Um, I just want to say thank you to the town
council for constantly supporting all of the groups and organizations um in our town. And um I know Mr. Salani is going to discuss the Oakland Town Carnival. I just wanted folks to realize that um the town carnival is completely volunteer. I
think a lot of folks lately I've been seeing on social media way too much that folks don't seem to understand that the public events committee is completely a volunteer group. Um the carnival is a fundraiser. It is the biggest fundraiser for most of our organizations in town.
Um I myself am volunteering on many different groups. I'm on I believe five at this point in this town. Got one more coming today. Uh well that would be the fifth. So that one is the fifth and I want actually want to say that might be a double. I might have actually joined a few months ago and there was just a paperwork issue but that's fine. Um it's
a committee I'm passionate about so the arts committee. Um so it's a good thing. Um but basically I wanted to remind folks that when they go to the carnival please go even rain or shine we are going to be running unless there's lightning. Um the hours have changed. It is 6 to10 Monday excuse me Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. And then on Saturday it is 5 to 11. Okay. So the hours have changed from the past. But I would like to remind folks to please please please yes buy the funnel cake from the Boy Scouts and absolutely enjoy the meatballs from the moms. They absolutely need all the funds they can
get for those things, but also to try and stop into some of the boots for other the other volunteer groups. Um, many of the groups are in great need of volunteers. And I would ask the town council members when you guys are out there and you're talking to the new residents, especially the new residents
and, you know, just communicating with them, getting to know them better, please try and recommend them to different groups like our green team or environmental commission. Um, the gardening club, for example, did you guys know the gardening club is still running because it still is? Um, it is going in conjunction with the FL
community. There's many different groups out there. There's a newcomers club that a lot of new folks in town don't know about. Um, as well as Wreck and Mother's Club and Father's Club and Knights of Columbus and the places that we all know. Um, so I would ask that you do that. And on my last note, I'm also a
member of the Oakland Historical um, society. That group predominantly has been functioning to do programs to educate our young people. Their main thing is to run a second grade class trip that all the students go to the Van Allen House and participate in. It's a phenomenal program. They also do a
program with the um schools for fifth grade now for Colonial Day and also with our wreck camp that runs in the summertime. But the Oakland Historical Society is dying. I'm not going to lie, it's dying. We don't have enough volunteers. We don't have enough new
blood. We don't have enough young people. We don't even have enough people to man a booth this year at the carnival. That's just the reality of the situation. And um I've had this conversation with Mr. Camala and a couple of you in the past. I really do feel that the historical society or a
historical setting in a town should be doing so much more than just youth programs. Today's happenings are tomorrow's history. Okay? History's got it eyes on all of you guys. In 10 years, what are people going to remember from what you've done on the council? We
don't have a place to go, one single place to find Oakland's history. Where can we go if you're a high school student right now who's like looking to do a report on 911? Where do you go to get a list of the Oakland residents that were involved? Not only the ones that perished, but the ones who volunteered,
the ones who helped, the ones who were working there. We don't have any sort of unification of information to do that. Wouldn't it be great if we had a website that could do that? That you could look up main events. You could look up when the community garden first started. I believe it's coming up on either its
fifth um five, six years anniversary as well. You know, our town anniversary is coming up. All of these wonderful events. I want my children to grow up in a town where they take pride in our history as well as what's happening today. So, I would ask you, we can't
force people to volunteer. You can't, you know, just say you have to do it. I've had some people tell me, "Kids today have no interest in history." I can tell you at my programs, they absolutely do. We have a ball at our programs. So, could we possibly consider maybe getting a town historian or at
least talking to volunteers who they don't have to be a cosplayer dressing up in a costume or putting on a show. We need people to do a website. We need people to gather information. We need people to organize photographs. Maybe just have a central dump zone where if I have photographs of an event and someone
else does, we can all put them in there. My daughters participated in a beautiful ceremony right in front of this building for the Girl Scouts 110th anniversary. I have amazing pictures of that. I would love to share that with the town and that was over 10 years ago. Okay. So, I
would ask you to please consider the possibility of at some point creating a historian position. Okay. That's it. Thank you. May I ask a question? Sure. Certainly. Um um what is your role in the c on the in the carnival? What are you doing? I am a member of the public events team, right? So I'm there as a
helper. I am a member of um the green team. So I will be manning the booth at the green team. Okay. Um I am a member of the Oakland Historical Society. Right. I teach CCD. I work with Pawns Church. I work with um Ramo Valley Baptist Church, their children's group.
I've been a worker there. Um I am just a concerned citizen. The way I volunteer, the reason I'm in so many different groups is I don't go in to run a group. I don't go in to lead a committee. I go in and okay, where do you need a two-hour shift, right? Where do you need
this? Where do you do that? That enables me to do four or five different groups because I can hit a meeting once once a month, right? And then if I give two hours and someone else joins, if I can get three people today to volunteer to give two hours, that'll take somebody off a seven hour shift, an eight hour
shift. Okay. And to me, that's how we should be volunteering. I've been a coach and wreck. My kids have aged out. They're older now. Okay. So, I' but I've been a coach and wreck. Um I've done a lot with the PTO's all through the schools all the way from K through high
school. My baby is now um going into her junior year, but she's going to be going to Mary Help. When did you first start volunteering? I've been a member of the historical society since 2005. Um 2006. um and members since 2005 on the list in
2006. Okay. My husband actually did the town website. We moved in on 911 and about 3 months after that he volunteered and he worked on the town website for three years. Um I've been a member of the newcomers club. I've been a member of the mother's club. Um I've done games
at the carnival as a member of mother's club. It just Captain Oakland. Captain Oakland. Not Captain Oakland. No, there are so many volunteers. I think one of the reasons that I'm here uh presenting to you guys today, it's totally on my own. I'm not really representing any of
the groups that I've been working with. But I think my biggest problem is that I go to these meetings and I see the same faces at every single meeting helping out. I mean, if I say the Jerry the name Jerry Angero, she's on every single thing, including the ambulance corp.
Okay. At some point, we lose these people. Yes. And and I don't like to talk about that end of it. Um, at some point people get exhausted. I mean, styrofoam in this town, if I go on the history of the styrofoam collection,
it's not a good one. I mean, I actually, when we first started, the green team first started styrofoam collection. We had one person who's no longer in this town who was driving styrofoam in her little electric vehicle to the recycling center two, three times a week. And I
can say that because my car helped her sometimes anytime she had overflow, anytime she couldn't do it. My car was the backup car. And we initially started driving styrofoam and then it expanded to where we had um bins. We got those bins with a grant. The bins disappeared.
And then we started collecting seasonally. We do that two or three times a year now because that's all we can handle. Why is that all we can handle? Because we only have five people. four or five people. I mean, our mayor's been out there helping us, which
is phenomenal, and thank you for that. But we have four or five people who out in the cold are doing a 5 hour, 6 hour shift collecting styrofoam, and then we have people complain, that it's not enough. Well, if you want it once a
month, come do a two-hour shift. If I can get 10 people to do a two-hour shift, we can do that once a month then. Am I wrong? you know, so that's really I just don't think people realize that. And my neighborhood right now, I have on
a block of maybe 15 houses, I have eight new neighbors in the last three years. And I'm pretty certain they don't know this stuff. So, I'm kind of hoping they're watching. And I'm kind of hoping they hear, "Hey, wait, we can do some stuff." I mean, we bring our kids. We do
stuff. I mean, we just recruited a junior member to the public events committee. Why? because this young lady showed up with her mom every event and she was right by my side. She doesn't listen to mom, but she listens to the other grown-ups because we talk to her like a grown-up. And I said to her,
"You've been setting up. You've just spent two, three hours setting up for the Easter for the other kids. You should be a member of this team. How do I do that? Go ask." And now she was signed in. You guys signed her in as a new member of this team. That's what we need to encourage in our kids. I see way
too many kids in high school. I do a lot of work in high school. I teach CCD and I'm now full-time teacher at a high school. These kids are so trained to Here's the rubric. What do I have to check off to get my A? Oh, I've hit five hours of community
service. I'm done. They have forgotten that song, you do good for goodness sake. They've forgotten the feeling. I said, I'm addicted to it. I love seeing the kids light up. I love seeing grown-ups light up. I mean, we were in
the parade for Memorial Day and people saw my daughters dressed up in the carriage and lit up. A couple of you went and waved at us and were like, "Hey, that's kind of cool." You guys lit up. That's what volunteering in this
town does. That's what makes us a gem. That's what gets us farther. We wouldn't have the amazing wreck team we have, the amazing wreck sports without those volunteers. So maybe do six hours at soccer instead of eight and come do
recycling for two hours. It's it's a nice thing to do. Okay. Thank you. Do you guys have any other questions for me as a volunteer? Well, thank you and thank you for your time. Anybody else? Yeah, I guess I'll take it. My name is
uh Nikico Carlson. I live six Gonimo way. been before the council before complaining about oral transfers from domestic violence. It's still going on. The town judge is the one that authorizes
uh domestic violence surveillance. It's been going on for 40 years in every municipality I've lived in where uh I need law I need my civil rights. Thank you, Miss Carlson. It's uh it's
I'm being tortured. So, if uh something could be done, do you have a lawyer? No, I'm not able to get one. No one will take my case. There's too many people involved
with the state government and the local government. And then there's third parties. It's uh it's confusing. It has to do uh starts with my father. He's a sole proprietor of the American Express
Company and uh apparently back in the 70s there was an accident and there's been one thing after another with sodomy in the family and whatnot. It's it's a nightmare. Thank you, Mr.
Cross. So, all right. Thank you. young man from the Boy Scouts like to come up and say hello. So, tell us your name, your address, and why you're here. Um, I'm K. Um, I can't hear you. You need to speak up. Use the
big voice. Uh, I'm Kieran Fay. I live at four Rockway Avenue and I'm just here for my uh citizenship in the community. I think here for your citizenship in the community me. Okay. So, you're here to
watch the meeting then? Yeah. Do you have any questions for us before you sit down? Uh, no, not really. Well, welcome to the meeting. Thank you for coming. I have a motion to close. So moved. Have a second. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Uh
we're up to approval of minutes May 20th, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Who said the first? Who said move? John. Thank you. Does anybody have any changes or discussion? Not seeing any. Uh roll
call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. Councilman Telini. I got May 20th, 2025 executive minutes. If anybody has a change that has to be can only be done in executive. Do I have a motion? So
moved. Second. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. Councilman Telini. Yes. I have four L
raffle license. They got authorized raffle license RL1551 for the Sports Association of Oakland on July 3rd, 2025 for a raffle license to support uniforms, equipment, and offseason training at Directfield 24 Lawler Drive. I got authorized raffle license RL1552
for Southern Pause on June 27th, 2025 for a raffle license to support the the care of rescue pups of Portoelloo at 175 Rampo Valley Road, Oakland, New Jersey. I've got authorized raffle license RL1553 for southern pause on June 27th, 2025
for a 50/50 license to support the care of rescue pups of porttoellos 175 Rampo Valley Road. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? I have the following appointments. These are
appointments mayor with council consent. I have for the green team Ashley Mars Scarvetra and for the arts committee Marisol Kovalaska. Do I have a motion to approve? You have to approve separately or you have introduction together. They're both
together. A motion. Have a second. Second. All in favor? All right. We have the following resolutions. Congratulations, Marisel. Another committee. All right. You hear the following resolutions. 25185 Authorized recreational refunds. 25186 authorized
discharge of tax lean. 25187 chapter 159 NJUFF green team community grant 25188 chapter 159 opioid settlement payment. 25189 chapter 159 recycling tonnage grant. 25190 authorize hire for
summer camp counselors. 25191 appoint OCC secretary. 25192 appoint recreation committee secretary. 25193 Hire seasonal clerk assistant archiving project. 25194 approve liquor
license renewal for the years 25 to 26. 25195 approve approve club liquor license renewals for 2025 through 2026. 25196 authorized shared service agreement to premise for premise for maintenance of fire apparatus.
25197 authorized grant applications NJ DOT for fiscal year 2026 municipal aid program 25198 amend NJ UCF grant application 25199 Ramipo Indian Hills high school field
usage agreement 25200 established filming res regulations 25201 refund tax exempt for veteran 25202 resolution certifying the governing body has reviewed At a minimum, the comment and recommendations
set forth in the 2024 annual audit. 25203. Resolution approving the 2024 annual audit corrective action plan 2024 annual audit report. 25204 authorized auction of police vehicles and bicycles.
25205 authorized change order number one for Jerome Avenue phase 2 storm water sewage improvements and 25206 authorized settlement for Pacific Construction. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Anybody wish any pulled out?
Not seeing any. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Slinski. Yes. Councilman Talamini. Yes. We have the following order ordinance for
introduction. We got 25 code 960 forward planning committee. Mr. uh Mccam. Would you like to address that one? Um sure may um this ordinance uh introduction goes back to a discussion we had last year as we were
heading into uh round four uh for the for the state's requirements for uh affordable housing. Um the uh prior to uh your election to mayor um a a lot of
uh the executive action was uh reactive uh in our community um to events and and and state mandates and so forth. uh talking to some of the members of the council, there will always seems to be some sort of reaction instead of
proactive uh planning uh for what needs to be done. Uh and to be fair, some sometimes things come up and you can't plan for it. But one of the things that the state of New Jersey has made crystal clear since the 1980s is we are going to have affordable housing in New Jersey,
no matter what that does to the characteristics of of the suburbs. uh whether people want it or not is really irrelevant. It's something that every mayor and council uh has to deal with. So um going back to my roots as a
councilman Kreskill years ago, many years ago now, we we had come up with the idea and concept of a forward planning committee. And what that forward planning committee did was uh with the input of uh of every uh department in in the community uh
including uh the schools uh sit down in a comprehensive way with a planner and with whatever professionals we need to hire engineers and attorneys etc. and take a and take a look at um what the census uh census pro projections are
telling us. take a look at our uh comprehensive way, our our master plan and and try to come up with a basically some a 10-year plan uh followed up uh with a a midterm a five-year, you know, plan to coordinate our efforts together
collectively as opposed to peacemail. Uh it worked very well uh in Creskill. In fact, even this in the fourth round now, uh they have they were well positioned to satisfy their their obligations uh pretty easily. One of the few towns that was able to do that despite the new
regional need that has been required. So, um, we we took a look at the Cresco ordinance, uh, and, um, taking a look at adapting it more for a more, uh, a boreal area, uh, like like Oakland and
and just basically, uh, took some ideas, uh, from, uh, Wendy, I want to thank our clerk for her input. was very important and every all the other council members who had input to this to this concept of instead of u reacting being more
proactive. It doesn't mean we won't have reactive situations in the future. It just means that uh we'll have a plan uh in place and and when we have a something pop up we can see and determine how that fits into our plan and any adjustments that need to be
made. Um and uh and and I want to thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your leadership. uh uh on this issue because I know that we when we first discussed this concept uh you were very interested in it and you encouraged uh all of us including myself to proceed and explore how that would
work in Oakland. So that's that's the concept of the plan and uh if anyone has any questions uh any comments I welcome them. I'm sure you everybody had a chance to read it was in your packet. Any questions, comments? Nope. Tell me. Nope. No, I think it's a great idea.
Make It just makes sense to to have something in place. So So like you So we're more proactive than reactive. And I just want to comment on something that you had said, Russ, and and John, is when we got caught up with the affordable housing or the housing that went up behind the high school, it really kind of caught the K through
eight schools off balance. And this forward planning committee will help address these issues so that nobody's caught flatfooted when, you know, when these things happen. So there's some very positive outcome of this. Yeah. And again, it it it it's these things pop up
and um but um you know, when the when the when you're talking about affordable housing, the hands of the of the governing body are pretty much tied. And if you're not planning for it, you end up generally if you're not managing these situations, you end up probably
with the worst possible solutions at the last minute. Um so the lack of leadership uh for years uh uh as it as it specifically relates to this issue is how you end up with projects uh um that you're seeing being built now. Uh we
have the opportunity now to maybe maybe mi mitigate some of um uh mitigate these issues by um being proactive uh with any fur future developments and and and try
to and try to keep the character of our town intact. Thank you, Councilman. Welcome. Council Slinsky, any comments? Yeah. Do you uh what's the size of the committee? Uh, do you have an idea about how many members there going to be? It's right there. Yeah, it's up to what's it
15, Wendy? Up to 15. No more than 15. No more than 15. Okay. So, it's capped at 15. Okay. Y don't forget that includes me school board. I mean I mean the schools I mean everybody's tied into this. That's why it's, you know, more manageable to be able to share that information back and forth across.
Perfect. Thank you. And and I believe the appointments are threeear cycles except for the first. it's it's NASA year which would be this year. Um and then you can stagger the appointments. You could do two years for a few and so forth. You can do multi. It's really up to us what we want to do and how we want
to do it going forward. But the important thing is to get it started and to get a chair of that committee uh and to and to start to call the meetings and uh and start with what what we have today and what we had yesterday and where we're going uh particularly with round four. Yeah. Very very exciting.
Thank you. You're welcome. Uh, Councilwoman, do you have any questions, comments? No, I'm good. Good. Okay. All right. That being said, do I have a motion to introduce 25 code 969 forward planning committee? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call. Council
President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Selani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Telamini, yes. All right. Final adoption will be that the July 15th council meeting here. Council Chambers. Public hearing. Public hearing. I'm sorry. Public hearing. Final adoption. Public
hearing p public hearing and final adoption. Thank you, Wendy. All right. Next, we have 25 code 970 tennis court regulations. Mr. Kun, would you just give us a quick uh reminder? So, it's been sure real quick. Yeah. Uh, so this ordinance amends section 9-9.2 of the
code. uh and is really meant to address a situation that's proven problematic where there are increasing number of people without tennis badges on the the tennis courts, not always playing tennis, sometimes doing other things, sometimes it's kids. Uh and it's caused some some problems. So principal change
here is to um provide a fine mechanism for anybody found to be on the court uh without a badge. Uh and anybody that has a badge that is found to be sharing uh the code to the tennis courts because that has been happening as well uh would
be subject to either a suspension of their uh badge privileges or revocation of that badge uh if it's sort of a persistent issue. So this is sort of uh I think what we felt was probably the mildest way or at least in in intrusive
way uh that that we could to try and address this issue and uh prevent it from happening. Thank you, Mr. Cruz. All right. Do I have a motion to introduce 25 code 970? Was that Russ? Russ who was Mr. McCann.
Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Slinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. All right. Final hearing will be July 15th and with and it also be open to public for public comment. All right. Now, we have the
following adoptions or following ordinance adoptions. We got 25 water capital 965. We got 25 capital 966, 25 water capital 967, and 25 code 968 flood flood damage prevention ordinance. Mr. Coons, could you just kind of give us an
overview of this? Sure. We discussed last month. Sure. Uh, so I'll take the first two together. Uh, water capital 965 and capital 966. Um, both of those uh basically replace the emergency funding that you
authorized uh back in uh May for the improvements uh and repairs to Lehigh Way. If you recall, we had a water main break there. needed to appropriate some emergency funding to pay for those repairs. Uh it involved the not just repairing a section of and
replacing a section of the main but also resurfacing the roadway in the area which had been damaged by the force of the brakes. Uh so the water capital ordinance funds a portion of that work related to the replacement of the water line. Uh the regular capital ordinance funds the road improvement costs. Those
are 110,000 and $155,000 respectively. And then uh the balance of the funding authorized for uh the capital ordinance 966 uh funds the purchase of a new Alcatest um breathalyzer uh which is something
that sort of been kicking around. The courts waiting to get validated for a number of years. Uh and we just received word recently that uh the uh the state wanted us to move forward with that purchase. So, we need to provide some funding for that. Uh, water capital 967
is an ordinance that we try to do uh pretty regularly annually uh to fund a series of uh system upgrades and improvements to maintain the integrity of our water system. This one in particular would help cover such items
as replacement of anode systems on the tanks, acquisition of replacement water meters, uh, and replacement of water manes. Uh, and it is in the total amount of $800,000. I just want to point out we're calling the these are capital ordinances. These are not bond ordinances. We're not authorizing any
debt here. We're using funding available in our um, you know, capital reserves and capital improvement fund uh, to pay for these items. Thank you, Mr. C. All right. And finally, the last one is the flood damage prevention ordinance uh, which was introduced, of course, at the
last meeting. Uh this is something that FEMA and the NJ are requiring uh based on their latest model ordinance guidance. Uh they're meant to align the requirements of the state uniform construction code, FEMA National Flood
Insurance Protection Program regulations, and the New Jersey Flood Hazard Area Control Act uh to improve compliance and really reduce some situations where the regs were potentially at odds with each other. Uh
so it's sort of meant to harmonize all of that. Uh it also makes certain technical changes and increases the amount of freeboard required if you're constructing uh either new or substantially improving structures in the flood plane. Thank you, Mr. Cron. Thank you for the
overview on that. All right, let's uh we're going to move over move to final adoption of uh 25 water capital 965 replacement of various water manes on Lehigh Way. Do I have a motion to approve? You got to open to the public.
Well, I thought we do that and then we open it public. No, we open the public. We open to the public. You said approve. It's been introduced. Okay. So, it's here for hearing. All right. So, this is here for the This is for the public. Uh is open to public for public comment. Does anybody wish to discuss? I said yes. Who Who motioned? I'm sorry. I did.
You did one. Who was the second on the open to the public? Second. Okay. Thank you. All right. This is to open public for 25 water capital 965. Anybody from the public wish to talk about 25 capital 955?
Not seeing any. Do I have a motion to close? Close. The motion to close. All right. Now, with this the final vote on All in favor? All in favor? Sorry. Getting a little ahead of myself. Sorry about that. It's okay. It's okay. Sorry. Good thing Wendy's here. I hate to interrupt. I feel bad about that.
This is the final adoption of 25 water capital 965, replacement of various water manes on Leehigh Way with a motion to approve. to adopt. So I'll move. Do have a second. Second. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilman Councilwoman Rose. Yes.
Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. Councilman Talamini. Yes. All right. We're up to 25. Capital 966. This is capital ordinance Lehi Way and also purchasing the Alco test equipment. Uh do I have a motion open to public for
public comment? Have both. Do I have a second? Second Caroline second. All in favor? I. Anybody from the public wish to discuss 25 Capital 966 capital Ordinance Leehigh Way and the Alco test? Not seeing anybody. Do I have a motion
to close? So moved. Second. Okay. Do all in favor? I. Okay. Do I have a motion for final adoption of 25 Capital 966 capital ordinance Lehighway test? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Roll
call. Council President McCann, yes. Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Slinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. Okay, we're up to 25. Water capital 967, Various Water Improvements General. Uh, do I have a
motion to open to public for public comment? So, move second. Second, Mr. Saliani. All in favor? I. Anybody from the public wish to discuss 25 water capital 967? Not seeing anybody. Do I have a motion
to close? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Is the final adoption of 25 water capital 967 various water improvements general. Do I have a motion? So moved. Mr. Salian. Do you have a
second? Second. Mr. Talamini. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. Okay, we're up to final adoption of 25 code 968, flood
damage prevention ordinance. Do I have a motion open to public? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Anybody from the p public wish to discuss 25 code 968? Not seeing anybody, do you have a motion
to close? So moved. Final adoption 25 code 968 flood damage prevention ordinance. So I have a motion. Was everybody in favor to close? All in favor? Second. Okay. Sorry. Okay. All right. 25 code 968 flood damage. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a
second? Second. Second. Miss Rose. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. Councilman Talamini. Yes. All right. All right, we have work section for access for all logos. I believe this goes to
the council one. Uh yes. So, um one of our volunteers on access for all came up with um three different uh proposals for a new logo for for access for all um to be used on you
know websites, t-shirts, all that other good stuff. um you know, media and everything else. Uh their intent is at the carnival to have the kids to vote for which one they like and then it can be brought back to us to
vote on it and uh confirm which one, you know, will be used. So, okay. So, that's all of Do you have one that you like? Yeah. Well, I actually like I mean I have to say even though they were computerenerated, right, she did a great job. Yeah. You know, and I, you know,
you like them all. I like them all. Yes. Okay. Nice political answer, Carol. You're learning. Caroline, do you want to just talk briefly about, uh, the carnival and access for all coming in early for the people with disabilities?
Yes. So, uh, as everyone knows, the carnival will be opening up early for, um, for access for all at 2:30. Um, it's a free event. Uh hopefully we're going to get hopefully the weather will be nice. Saturday.
2:30. Overcast and hot. Saturday. Saturday. Not all four days. No, I know that. Yeah. Saturday. Saturday. At 2:30. Um yeah. And it's a like I said, it's a great event for the kids. There's no, you know, lights, no music or anything else. So, it's just for them. And they
need to sign up for it. I think they already have. I mean, uh we've already reached out to everybody and they've RSVP to Jody. So, yeah, they've been doing a great job marketing this that community. So, yeah. Thank you.
Anything else? Nope. Good. All right. Moving on to new business. Do we have any new business? Uh, yes. I I actually want to before Mark gets out here, I do want to piggyback off what the resident said about the ordinance for the cars. We do I do get a lot of um text encounters, you know, do we have
ordinances to make sure that, you know, people aren't parking in our lawn or leaving garbage on our lawn? So, I think we should look into this and make sure our ordinances are one up to speed and two, we're enforcing them. Yeah, I think that, you know, I should say that, Councilman. You know, the other thing that we have to take a look at also is
we have a marina downtown on 202. There's boats parked up by buildings. I don't think they belong downtown and that should certainly be addressed at the same time. Yes. So, uh, can we get this as work session or how do we push this forward? Mr. goes. Uh we'll have a draft for you of there's a whole bunch
of changes we've actually been sort of working on. Uh that's actually one of them. And it's kind of it's kind of odd. There's a restriction on parking on lawns like in the the DT1 zone in the business zone, but not in in the residential zones. Uh there there's some
other recommendations we're going to be bringing forth. So, uh look for an ordinance uh for discussion this summer. Thank you very much. Okay. Mr. Mayor, sir, so I am a one of the
officers of JAG, which is the Jersey Access Group, the committee, the organization that represents all the municipal TV stations around the state. And in January, um, we hosted the meeting and I asked
the mayor to present and he, um, he impressed the other members of Jake so much that they decided to make him legislator of the year. Total.
It's not even an election year. That's why it actually means something. Um, this is the first this is the first time that it's gone to a mayor and not someone either at the state or federal level. That's great. Yeah. Way to go.
Congratulations. Nice. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You did it. My pleasure. You came down and uh Do you want to get Yeah. Get a picture with them. What's that? Get a picture with them. Come on. You're usually pictures. Get in. Don't hide.
One more this direction. Hold on. Got it. Perfect. Thank you. We also won several other awards. Just so you know, the the committee, the TV committee with the Oakan Sean, the Oakland Dumb, the Dumb Award, the um parade, the uh and what other
one? One of the council meetings. One of the council meetings. They all won uh first or second or third place in the Jags. So, we It's thanks to you guys for helping us with the gear, the time, and helping us get volunteers that we appreciate. We appreciate all You guys
do a great job. Do a great job. doing a great job. We're up and running all the time. As far as the dump goes, I mean, I think we helped Dr. You're working on me. Actually helped us get our So, it's a big win for the town and for us and uh and not not only that, this is
really just transparency in government the way you guys cover these meetings. I mean, even for the meet special meeting on the 23rd, I know I had asked you guys to come down. We will be there so that you know, every the residents understand like this fourth round affordable housing and what we're dealing with. So, so thank you for doing that. And
obviously for people that don't know, it's on public access and it's also on YouTube so people can go back at a later date the way you guys archive that. So, thank you. Yeah. Trying to make Oakland uh keep it a great place to live and keep our taxes down and all our volunteers help do that. Thanks. Thank
you so much. Thank you. Put it that in a list. We'll put it into our agenda for next month. Put that in those awards in a, you know, those in a list. Okay. I thought we did that already. I guess we'll have I see it again. We'll do it again. We'll do it
again. We sure do. Does anybody else have any new business on the award for it? Anybody else have any new business? The most viewed. Come on. Anybody have any old business? Not seeing any. See a flyer coming. Uh,
we have uh committee liazison reports. We'll start with Mr. Talamini. Uh, so I have uh recreation, nothing to report really, just that there's a a meeting on June 30th at 8:00 p.m. at the Danny D building. And uh it's just also
like uh like they they say we could always use more volunteers. Um coach your kids, take the classes. It's a great thing. Um and come to the Danny Dean meetings. We'll we'll get you set up. All right. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Saliani. So, I have a few
reports. We're going to start with public safety. Um, I do want to This is from EMS. So, EMS for the months of May. They drove 1267 miles. They had 55 calls for service. Service 34 residents and 21 non-residents. They had 750 hours spent
on duty for the for the uh first aid squad members. I also want to highlight something that happened on Saturday. Uh I was with the mayor and and with councilwoman Rose and there's a blood drive that was conducted by the by the EMS and uh this blood drive was was for
um Gary Letta blood drive and it's a it's a drive to uh it's a drive for to help people who need need who need the blood doning and there's 39 pints 39 pints were collected so that's up that's basically double from last year and then
I know I know mayor you're going to do a blood drive in a couple weeks So, we're working on that. So, I want to thank everyone who was part of that. I think it was it was a great it was a great cause and it was nice to see the resident of Oakland show up and support the OF on the OFC report.
Very simply, the communications committee is at the carnival. We'll be at the carnival every day and invite you to stop by the communications table um to talk to the volunteers about work they're doing and how you can get involved with the OC. As you can see, we have an active committee. We win awards.
The mayor gets awards. So any me any members who want to join it's it's a it's a great group and great to meet them at the carnival. Um you can learn about new things like our Oakland TV app and uh also come and also you can come away with a free reusable bag. We look
forward to seeing everyone there at the carnival. If you want to be a part of this team please um the committees are looking for a few volunteers. If you're interested in joining the Bolton board committee, newsletter committee, television committee, or the welcome website, or the social media committee,
please contact myself or email occurs jersey.org to learn more. Oakland TV, as we were talking about, where can we watch these great awards that we won? Oakland TV can now be watched live on the Burough website and a new Oakland TV app. Those wanting to go online can can
go to ww.land- new jersey.org. or communications commission and click the watch Oakland TV live button. You can also search Oakland television on your Android or iPhone and download the Oakland TV app or go onto your Apple TV, Amazon, Fire, Android TV or Roku and search Oakland TV
to to watch. There's one board state still open for the Friends of the Oakland Communication Commission as the fundraising arm to help the Oakland Communications Commission um get resources to so they can keep filming our meetings and give the transparency we're discussing. So that one board seat
is open. If anyone is interested, please uh reach out to the Oakland to the Oakland Communications Commission. And then the next OC meeting is July 7th at 7 PM right here in council chambers. Now, let's talk about the fun stuff. More importantly, the carnival. Yay. So,
as as as we discussed, the carnival is from Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 18th, June 19th, June 20th, from 6:00 p. p.m. to 10 p.m. And on Saturday, it opens at 5:00 p. p.m. and ends at 11 p.m. And also, we want to
highlight on Saturday, June 21st, access for all will be from 2:30 to 4:30. They'll take a half hour break and then and then the carnival will open to the public again at 5:00 p.m. So, one thing I want to talk about, the public events committee, we do a great job. Uh,
so happy to be part of the liaison to be honest. Even I wasn't leazison, I used to attend the events just to help out because they do such a great job in the community. This is the only fundraiser the public events does all year, right? So we need so when you come we come to this this public events fundraiser goes
to the Halloween parade, the toys for tots, the Christmas tree and noring the Easter egg hunt, townwide cleanup, Memorial Day parade, fever pitch for the recreation and and and and also also we um truck event at the library.
The truck event at the library. Thank you. There are so so basically this money funds this so many other events of the year. So that's why we need that's why we need everyone to everyone to join. And I also want to make sure everyone um to point out um Marisol went a little bit a lot
of the 501c3s. So if you don't want to go on rides, come down between all the 51c3s uses as their fundraisers too, especially around the food. And this isn't we want to we want to support the we want to support the Zapel guy. want to support the lemonade stand, but also the Boy Scouts, Father's Club, Knights,
Mother's Club, um, Rotary, Ponds Church. I I might be missing them. The cops even have donuts that they give away. Um, with that being said, you come down, you're supporting other community members, and the food's homemade. It's better than you get anywhere else. So, please come down and and support the carnival. The best donuts, and the green
team is giving away bat boxes and birdhouses for free. So, other than a bag, you can get some swag. I just want to remind everybody the wristbands cut off one more and remember the wristband cut off is tomorrow at 3 p.m. for the discount for the advance.
Yes. Thank you, Council. Thank you, Councilman McCann. Um I I just want to thank Marzal uh for your your well uh your presentation earlier tonight uh and uh your your lack of a better term, your
pitch for more volunteers. Every town struggles with that and has been for years. Although we recognize there's been a shift especially since co and uh I you know thank you from the bottom of my heart uh I'm sure I speak for everyone here for all the work that
you've been doing since 2005 you said I think I smell a certificate coming mayor I need a certificate just I know you don't but that's but that's why you probably should you should do you should do one no uh as it relates to Oakland I
have I have nothing as it relates to my committees but I just do want to acknowledge uh history. Um in the last several hours and several days, the world is uh is in trouble and um we uh
we want to pray for our service people. I'm sure uh everyone here would join me in that. Uh and our men and women in uniform and not just men and women in uniform, but the Department of Defense has civilians deployed across the planet as well. uh and uh all the all the
support uh that the military receives from those people. Uh my thoughts and prayers are with the people and of Iran uh and the people of course of Israel as as rockets uh are reigning on the civilian population in Israel. It's it's
a terrible situation. Um I want to credit the state of Israel for targeting military targets, you know, um in Iran as opposed to the civilian population as what is what's going on with the uh
theocracy in Iran. Um and I I I pray uh uh the decision makers uh in our country are wise uh in the in making their determinations and my thoughts and prayers for those decision makers whether it's u uh the president of the United States uh the head of the
department of defense uh the secretary of state all his whole team national security uh my thoughts and prayers are all the civilians and uh anyone that's caught up in this conflict uh just want to express my concern for that thank you counselor Councilman Slinsky. Uh thank you, Mayor.
Uh just a brief uh update on the library. Uh there's a lot of activities uh coming up uh at the library. Uh programs throughout June include the big concert on Friday, June 27th at 7 p.m. Uh Mark Burgerer uh and the Ride Band
live on the library stage. Uh, summer reading also kicks off on June 25th and they will have free ice cream out front uh for families to come and sign their children up for the program. Uh, there are too many details to read off here. Uh, but the library staff would like me
to uh let you know to sign up for the summer reading program. They have programs for children, young adults, and adults uh that allow you to track your reading and win cool prizes. visit their website or call for more information at
20113373742. And that's all I have for tonight. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you, mayor. Um, Sha Tree Committee met on Monday, June 2nd. Um, I don't have much to report there. Uh, the forester put in 46 hours,
issued 34 permits, 104 trees were removed, and 55 were replaced. Their next meeting is Monday, July 7th at 7:30. Um, Arts in Oakland met yesterday, um, or last night. The Oakland Market is in full swing, off to a soggy start with
the weather. Um, their next, uh, date is June 28th and it will run twice a month through November. Um, they have some great vendors there. Um, so come out and support our vendors. There is a jured art exhibition in sale at the Oakland Public Library, the Autumn Art Show. It
will be from October 12th to November 15th. and murder mystery event. They will be conducting auditions in September. More details to follow. Um performance will be in October October 16th and 17th at the senior center. And
that's it. I just want to make a quick comment. The uh the trees that they put on Oak Street by the post office on 202 and Oak Street, I tell you was really they did a nice job putting the three trees in there to really green up that area. There was a sea of ashalt that was out there. I'm actually going to get one of those trees for my front house. So,
if a person wants a tree, how do they do how do they go about uh you have to uh reach out to the straight trade. There's uh it's an adopt a tree program and you get, you know, they'll sign you up. I think there's a waiting list, but yeah, they will sign you up for it. Terrific. Thank you, council. You're welcome. All
right, we are up to bills to be paid. All right. Uh total bills to be paid 1,8,800.98. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? I see any roll call. Council Council President McCann. Yes.
Councilwoman Rose. Yes. Councilman Saliani. Yes. Councilman Slinski. Yes. Councilman Talamini. Yes. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. So moved. Second favor. All right. We have just the next meeting
is the next official burough meeting is uh will be held Tuesday, July 15th. However, just a reminder for everybody, there is a special meeting, special meeting, joint planning board and council meeting on the 23rd of this month, 700 p.m. down at the senior
center to discuss affordable housing. Thank you so much everybody and have a pleasant evening. Good job. Good night. meeting a journ.