e e I'm it's not specific you know okay everybody ready meeting call the order this is the February 25th meeting 2025 of the burough council meeting uh
with the clerk please read the statement of compliance this meeting is being held in accordance with the open public meetings law Duan announced advertis and posted in the municipal building this Mee will meeting will adjourn at 10 p.m. unless the majority of the council members that are present vote to extend
the time all rise for pledge of allegiance C tell would you Alle Us in Pledge of Allegiance yes thank you I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy
and justice for all remain standing for a moment of silence would the clerk please call the rooll council president mccan here councilwoman Rose here councilman patelli here councilman Sani here
councilman slinsky here councilman talamini motion to excuse councilman talamini go second second all in favor I uh Council M has informed me he'll be running about 5 minutes late we'll let the record Show when he joins us and
then mayor Camala present all right for the mayor's report uh couple things here first of all uh baseball softball late registration is currently open at this time uh the last day to register is March 10th remember that's March 10th there will be no
registrations after March 10th so uh if your children plan on playing softball or baseball uh please get your registration in by the 10 um update on the Patriot Way Bridge uh I'm happy to report that the crews have been working throughout the winter all last month I think they only missed two days due to
weather um currently they have finished the forms for the end walls with the rebar and uh they expect to be pouring the first end wall hopefully this Friday and that'll be followed by the other end wall starting next week um also they have completed all the deck hangers a
majority of them they should be completing the next week or two and if anybody drives past the bridge you'll notice that the deck pans are currently over span three that's the side on the 202 side so certain of deck pans are going in that's going to be followed by rebar and then pouring of the deck itself uh we're going to be having uh
two special budget meetings one on March 5th and March 6th uh here at council chambers we certainly encourage the public to attend or watch on television uh the road program we just had a a meeting uh today with our bur engineer uh Bur
management team uh we expect a road program to go out to bid early April so uh we should be Paving like I said late spring early summer just want to remind everybody about the banner program for the Hometown Heroes for veterans here in town uh the deadline to get your uh
forms in is going to be March 14th so that's March 14th is the deadline uh for the banner program and then they're going to be going out printing uh for the people that are living in the areas or psg's been working in the roadways um we are currently working with public
service right now and finalizing the paving schedule for those roads that are affected also over the people in The Reserve uh FiOS phase one that's to the right of the Patriots way Bridge as you're coming in um the Cur they've completed pulling the fiber and splicing in that section they're starting to
light the fiber itself and they're going to be pulling fiber in phase two and with that I have two appointments I'd like to make for the green team one is going to be Christina Morel and the second is going to person is going to be S Cynthia aquus and that's the end of my
report uh do have a motion open to public so moved second all in favor I I not seeing any public do have a motion to close so moved second all in favor I all right up to approval of minutes uh February 11th 2025 have a motion to
approve some move I'll second all in favor all right February 11th 2025 executive session am minuts if anybody has any changes they have to be done in executive session don't move have a second second all favor I all right
we've got uh several Raffles here we've got authorized raffle we're going to do this as a consent agenda uh authorized raffle license RL 1536 for the mother's club of Oakland for a 5050 on May 2nd for donation for cancer research and and non-monetary donations for Oakland residents battling cancer at PTO Bellos
at 155 rampo Valley Road we've got to authorize raffle license RL W 537 for the mother's club of Oakland for the raffle on May 2nd for donations to cancer research and Oakland residents battling cancer at PTO Bell's restaurant 155 RPO Valley Road authorize raffle
license rl1 1538 for the sports Association of Oakland for raffle on 322 to raise funds for the 12 U team for week week long coopertown tournament at the Knights of Columbus 7even Courthouse Place Oakland and Raffa license RL 1539
Sports Association of Oakland for a 5050 on 32 3 to raise funds for the 12 U team for a week long Cooperstown tournament at the Nights of Columbus 7 Courthouse Place motion to approve do have a second second all in favor I I would the clerk just update the minutes councilman tal
has joined us at the days 709 all we're up to resolutions we'll do this as a consent agenda we have 2591 authorized special litigation Council to file mediation arbitration regarding Pacific 2592 authorized contract of hearing officer Gian carloon
2593 authorized contract CRS coordinator 2594 award contract to Christopher Kan for alternate burough prosecutor 2595 authorized Grant submittal ARP Community challenge Grant 2596 authorized submission of strategic plan for the Oakland Municipal Alliance grant for
fiscal year 2026 2597 resolution for municipal Aid restoration 2598 resolution authorizing approval of 2025 blap list $25.99 authorized Recreation refund 25100 authorized water payment refund and 25101 authorized auction of
the bucket truck does anybody wish to have any pulled out yes mayor 25- 98 98 anybody else with the exclusion of 2598 do I have a motion to approve joh move second loll
call council president McAn yes councilman p yes councilwoman Rose yes councilman salani yes councilman linski yes councilman talamini yes okay 2598 Miss uh Council P I'm
assuming this affects you directly so yes I have to abstain you have to obain all right do have a motion to approve 2598 resolution authorizing approval of 2025 Loa list Z move second roll call council president McAn yes Council
pelli abstain councilwoman Rose yes councilman Sani yes councilman cinski yes councilman T yes all right we're up to ordinances 25 code 960 and ordiz amending chapter 9-2 entitled Municipal
tennis court and athletic fields Mr Co you just walk us through why we have to amend this this uh uh sure uh so besides a couple of the Minimus um language changes Lally like grammatical Corrections
uh the main fee schedule that was in the introduced version actually had picked up the wrong column on a document Source document that we were working from and basically double book the cap fee uh that's charged for certain programs uh
the amended version uses the correct fee uh to charge to the public so uh in discussing with the burough attorney he felt that the change was significant enough that uh it would trigger the need for an amendment uh not just an amendment separate public car any
discussion not seeing any do have a motion to amend 25 code 960 so moved second uh roll call council president MCC yes Council fantelli yes Council woman Rose yes
councilman Sani yes councilman linsk yes councilman T yes final adoption public hearing will be at the held at the March 11th meeting next we have 25 code 961 amend buau code CH 2-7 and 2-9 uh
this really has to do with the access for all committee uh what I would like to do is I'd like to realign them as they're better aligned if we make them a subcommittee of the public events uh they will maintain their current level of funding and there will be no impact
whatsoever on the functioning of that committee do I have a motion to introduce so moved discussion so we would have to work with the public events committee and we have to update the B committee
for this to happen correct correct any other further discussion not seeing any roll call council president mccan yes councilman pelli yes councilwoman Rose yes councilman
saliani yes councilman linski yes Council M meeting yes public hearing and final adoption will be held on March 11th uh we don't have anything on Work session does anybody in the council if any new business not seeing any old
business not seeing any do we have bro Council Lea on reports let's start with Mr talamini uh let's just say I got here late so no reports tonight I have one for you to readold what you got the magic Masters all right
Harlem magic Masters versus the Oakland magic uh Advanced tickets are available uh you get them at the Hard uh at the Oakland Hardware Oakland Library $12 for adults $10 for children it's Sunday March 16th at 2 pm at Valley Middle
School um that's a fun event I've played in it one one year and I've gone a number of years um it's you should go you never thank you coun pelli yes thank you mayor uh for the senior
citizens um early St Patrick's Day luncheon March 6th at 12:30 p.m. the cost is $5 per person then there's a peripheral vascular disease lunch and
learn on March 11th at 12:00 p.m. then there's inro to genealogy presentation which should be very interesting March 20th at 100
p.m. and all events uh can be uh registered in the office or by calling 20145 7731 and for the Board of Health we met last night and um they passed ordinance 25-2
special review fees uh there's an additional uh review fee of $80 if the application is submitted more than once sometimes they make a m a change and the application has to be all reviewed all over again
um that cost is going to be uh $80 and that's it mayor thank you councilman so thank you mayor so I have a few quick updates we'll start with a simple one the flood commission will be meeting on Monday March 10th at 7:30 p.m. at the
senior center um we uh we have no report there already G report at the last update but want remind everyone that they will be meeting all are welcome to attend also on Monday March 10th will be the public events committee at the senior center which starts at 7
p.m. regarding the public events committee the Easter egg hunt is slated for Saturday April 12th with a 10 a.m. start and a rain date of Sunday April 13th 1 p.m. also we are um we are preparing for the Memorial Day Parade
which will be the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and uh we are looking for volunteers to assist with that parade more to come on both after Monday night's meeting from Public Safety uh fire department update um I had my I had the luxure of attending my first fire department meeting as liaison and we
just wanted to hand along great meeting it was great to meet everyone and just to hand over some key stats for the fire department so far for this year so year to date they've conducted seven drills totaling 302 man hours um there have
been 62 fire calls and that's total 417 hours um they've worked they've responded to Mutual Aid calls to W off four mutual Aid calls for white off and Franklin AES white off and Franklin Lakes and uh the fire department drills on Monday nights if any at the opo fire
department if anyone wants to come down and watch they can come down on those Monday nights to um see what the fire department doing drills and as always volunteers are needed for the uh fire department that's my update there thank you councilman councilman m i report
Council M seninsky thank you mayor uh from the library uh there are a lot of uh fun programs coming up uh this Thursday at 6:30 they will have 3D origami instruction registration is required as well as the weekly Pyrenees
foreign language Meetup for adults uh on Sunday at 2 pm they will have a free concert on the library stage as Ellen lafern performs songs by 20th century women registration is required uh on Monday March 3rd uh the opl will have
favorite foreign films at 10: a.m. and a new free art class called Arty time which will be recurring for four sessions through March each CL each class focusing on a different project uh registration is required for each class the first session's project is painting
a winter sced uh also uh yoga has two more sessions in March uh on March 4th and the 11th uh as well as the cookbook Club will be on March 10th uh for children they will continue their weekly story times every Tuesday and Thursday
morning along with a special music program this Friday called toddler dance party at 11 a.m. registration is also required uh there's also uh the art class with Maddie and friends on Saturday at 11: uh and lastly on March
8th they will have their certified yoga instructor J mean will be teaching a great children's yoga class at 10: a.m. uh registration is required that's all I have okay councilwoman Rose thank you mayor um I don't have much to report um
Arts committee um had to adjourn their meeting so they're going to meet tomorrow and the shade tree is coming up on March 3rd at 7:30 and that's it okay we're up to bills to be paid bills to be paid uh
$33,860 cents so moved do I have a second second any discussion not seeing any roll call council president mccan yes Council pelli yes councilwoman Rose yes Council
s yes Council yes counc meeting yes okay this concludes our council meeting I do I have a motion to motion move a second second all in favor all right the next proo council meeting will be held Thursday March 11th 7 pm here at the burrow council chambers at
this time meeting is adjourned thank you everybody for