[Music] Watching yourself. Guys are ready. Everybody, please mute your phones before we get started. Being called to order. This is the May 20th, 2025 council meeting for the Bur of Oakland. Would the clerk please read
the statement of compliance? This meeting is being held in accordance with the open public's meeting law. Duly announced, advertised, and posted in the municipal building. The meeting will adjourn at 10 p.m. unless a majority of the council members that are present vote to extend the time. Thank you. I'll
rise for pledge of allegiance. I'll have a soon to be chief legal salute. 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. Remain standing for a quick moment of silence. be seated. Thank you. Would the clerk please call the role? Mayor Kamala here. Council President McCann.
Councilman Pignatelli here. Councilwoman Rose here. Councilman Saliani here. Councilman Slinski here. Councilman Talamini here. All set. Yep. All right. So, this is a pretty special meeting. We have uh we're going to be swearing in our our new
chief and other subordinate officers. At this time, we have uh four ordinance. 25161 to authorize promotion of Captain Timothy The Keane to Chief. We have 25-162 to authorize Lieutenant Michael O'Neal to captain, 25163 to authorize
the promotion of Sergeant Steven Brock to lieutenant, and 25164 to authorize promotion of officer Lewis Guera to sergeant. Do I have a motion to I would like to make the motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Roll call. Council President McCann.
Yes. Councilman Pignatelli. Yes. Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. Well, with that being said, let's bring up uh Captain Keenan and let's get him
promoted. You guys want to hold it? Mommy, hold it. Everybody hold it. All set. Yeah. All right. I I Timothy Keenan 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 that I will bear true faith true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the governments and the governments
established established in the United States in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority under the authority of the people 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 police chief of Oakland of police chief of Oakland to according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations Congratulations. Congratulations. At this time, I'd like to ask Mike
O'Neal to come forward with his family. [Applause] All set. Here we go. I I Michael O'Neal 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 that I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the governments established in the governments 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 Oakland captain of the office of Oakland captain
according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations [Applause]
Thank you. Congratulations to you. Yes, I will send it to you. Congratulations. Congratulations. I was going to say at this time I asked Stephen Brock but here he is right
you got with you Steve my two daughters you hold it that yes okay I I Steven Brock do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the constit Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State
of New Jersey and and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and the governments established and the governments 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 lieutenant of the office of lieutenant according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God.
Congratulations. I like congratulations too. Congratulations. Congratulations. At this time, I'd like to invite Lewis Gua up front. Ready? Sir,
I I Louis Cabaria do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same
and the governments and the governments established in the United States established 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 faithully Y and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform
all the duties of the office of sergeant of the office of sergeant according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations [Applause]
s Help him. Sorry about that. I need to Congratulations to you. Okay, that concludes our promotions. Um, I'm sure everybody's riveted and wants to hear the mayor's report, but at this time we'll take a 5minute recess for
those that would wish to uh celebrate this wonderful day. Have a motion to take a fiveminute recess. Second. All in favor? Five minute recess. All right, meeting's back in order. All right, this time we're up to the mayor's
report. I have a couple items here. Number one, Memorial Day. Join us for the Memorial Day parade Sunday, May 25th. The parade starts at 100 p.m. Uh followed by a ceremony at Veterans Park. Also at 11 11 o'clock there's also the firemen will also have a small memorial service for members of the fire
department. Uh fever pitch is May 31st starting at 9:00 a.m. with the parade and celebrating the end of the year baseball and softball season. Everybody just remember the primary election is up and coming uh June
10th. The polls open from 9 to 8:00 p.m. and early voting begins June 3rd to the 8th. You can visit the polls are open in regular voting from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 6 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thank you. Yep. And early voting will begin on the 3rd
ending on the 8th. You can visit the burrow website for more information. Also, for all the kids, the carnival is coming. Save the date June 18th to the 3rd to the 21st. Uh wristbands are on sale. Uh you can find the QR code on both the burrow website and Facebook
page. uh the Oakland's road program. Uh it's on tonight's agenda to award the bid for the road program for uh this year. Also, I'm also having out that Oakland has two uh newly minted Eagle Scouts. We myself and uh the council woman attended the ceremony for Jack Worst and William Miles. So, we have two
new Eagle Scouts here in Oakland for pack troop 49. Also remind everybody the outdoor market begins on May 34, May 31st from 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. People wondering about Yapo Avenue with the paving right now it is the New
Jersey DOT is looking at the plans and specifications is currently they've put their comments on it and our engineers going back with uh their answers to their comments. Patrius Way bridge update. The deck was poured three weeks ago today. Uh currently they're working
on the Belgian block curbs and drainage on the west side. That's on the reserve side. They're starting new grading and preparing the approaches to the bridge to put a base coat of ashalt down. And currently they're working on the pylons on the floor approaches coming into the
bridge and you'll see people working on the rebar for the deck parapit. And you're going to see some grading working taking place for the next couple weeks. And that's all I have to report at this time. Do I have a motion open to public? A move. Second. All in favor? I. Anybody from the public wish to dress counsel?
I would just like to remind everyone that on the 25th we're going to be holding the Memorial Day parade. Anybody that's wants to march is welcome to show up. We'll be down at the corner of Dogwood and throughout Duke. Um, last year one of the councilmen asked for
pins and I didn't have any with me at the time, so I'm going to do it now because when the day comes, I'm busy. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is for Mr. McCann because I think he's the one that asked for them last time. I I would also like to give a special thanks to our DPW because without them
and without our police department, we wouldn't be doing this. And a special thanks to Rich because he helps me with the insurance which definitely frustrates me. It frustrates me, too. You're not alone. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Have a nice
night. Thank you for your help. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else from the public? Would you address the governing body? Thank you. My name's Nikolai Carlson. I live six Goron away here complaining again about oral transfers from domestic
violence. It seems to be the mode of operating and it's the town judge that gives the order for surveillance. So, I was wondering why this is going on. It's going on for 40 years using
domestic violence legislation and I've been tortured and I need some repose or some I need something done. Thank you, Mr. Carlson.
It's uh it's gone on for 40 years. Mhm. I don't know what I'm at wit's end. I don't know what to do. And it's all that simple, clear-cut administrative procedure with orders for oral transfers and
whatnot. So, thank you, Mr. I could get the help of the town council, I would appreciate it. Okay. All right. Thank you, sir. Anybody else? Not seeing any do. Do I have a motion to close? So moved. Second. All in favor? I
Okay, we've got approval of minutes. We got April 22nd, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor? I I uh April 22nd, 2025 executive minutes. Does anybody have any changes or changes to the minutes? If so, it has
to be done in executive session. So move. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. I got May 9th, 2025 special meeting. Does everybody have changes to the minutes? Approve as is. Approved as is. Do I have a second? Second. All in
favor? I. Okay. Drop the special announcements. Uh we have number one authorized social affairs permit for the Oakland Father's Club for a charity barbecue on June 7th, 202025 from 3 to 7:00 p.m. Rain date is June 8th, 2025. 3
to 7:00 p.m. at Crystal Lake Beach, 62 Lakeshore Drive, Oakland, New Jersey. We have also have the National Public Works Week proclamation. Let me read this. It says national Yeah, we're gonna says National Public Works Week
proclamation May 18th to 24th, 2025. People, purpose, and presence. Whereas the public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and serve service that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality life, and well-being of the people of
the burough of Oakland. And whereas these infrastructures, facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are the managers and employees at all levels of government and who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's
transportation, water supply, water treatment and solid waste systems, build public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. And whereas it is the public interest of the citizens, civic leaders and children in the burough of Oakland to gain knowledge of and maintain an
ongoing interest in understanding the importance of our public works and public works programs in the respective communities. And whereas the year 2025 marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American
Public Workers Association. Now therefore be resolved. I'm Mayor Eric Kamala do hereby designate the week of May 18 through 24th 2025 as National Public Works Week. I urge all citizens to join with representatives of the public works association and government
agencies and activities, events and ceremonies designated to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers and employees and to recognize the sub substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety, advancing the quality of life for all. In witness
there whereof, I have here on to set my hand and cause the seal of the burrow of Oakland done at the burrow of Oakland, New Jersey this day, 20 May 2025. Mayor Kamalo. So to all the public and works employees, thank you for everything. Uh it truly you guys keep the town running
and and it shows to the res. You are the visible side of this this burrow. Okay, going back up to the authorized social affairs program for the fathers club. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. All do we have a second?
Second. All in favor? I Okay, we've got approval of dog park project for the Girl Scouts. So, let me just read this real quick here. Uh where was it in the minutes? Got my notes here. Stand by. So, essentially, they want to the
Girl Scouts are seeking permission to undertake a project to improve the dog park. In particular, they would like to personally install a bench, construct the lost and found mailbox, and work with the shade tree to plant some new trees down there. So move. Do I have a second? All in
favor? I. At this time, I'd like to appoint uh Madison Grafredo to the public fence committee. This is mayor's appointment with council consent. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Okay,
we're moving down to the resolutions. We have 25165 resolution supporting federal tax exemption for municipal bonds. 25166 resolution opposing A5757 2757 authorizing conversion of certain office parks and retail centers
to mixeduse developments. 25167 resolution urging restoration of the energy tax aid. 25168 authorized co-sponsorship agreement between the Bureau of Oakland and the Oakland Volunteer Fire Department Association for the 2025
Carnival. 25169 authorized estimated tax bills. 25170 authorized award of auction bids for the bicycles. 25171 employment agreement with Chief Keenan. 25172 authorized refund utility
Jacobe. 25173 authorized recreation refund. 25174 authorized hire of camp staff. 25175 authorized purchase of DP DPW pickup trucks. 25176 authorized purchase
of police cars. 25177 authorized purchase of bodywn cameras for the police. 25178 cancel capital balances. 25179 a award 2025 road program 25180
authorized shared services agreement with PMPA Lakes for solid waste collection 25181 award contract to Basel Engineering for construction inspection of Harvard Way 25182 amend electrical and plumbing sub code stipen and 25183
Patriots way change order number four does anybody have wish to have any pulled out can we pull Oh 25 183 183. Let me get 169 and 177. [Music]
169 177. Any others? Not seeing with the exclusion of 169 177 183. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call. Council President McCann, yes. Councilman Pignatelli, yes. Councilwoman
Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. All right, Mr. Tammy. 25169 authorized estimated tax bills. Just uh estimated tax bills. That's because um the county hasn't struck
struck a number yet. Right. I don't think they've adopted their budget yet. Uh even if they had, quite frankly, it takes a while for the county uh to strike the rate. Uh and they never are able to get that done in time for the issuance of the third quarter bill. And is this does this is this a pain in the
neck with the you know the people that pay their taxes automatically and and does do we have issues that well for for anybody that that's paying their taxes uh let's say through the mortgage company? No. It's it's pretty seamless to them. They'll get an advice copy of what the estimated tax bill is. Um for
other people, you're not you're not making any more payments. uh it's more work inhouse because you know we have to then calculate the final rate when it's struck do adjustments on the billing uh and have that reflected on the fourth quarter bill. Um but you know is it as
clean as doing it normally? No. No. Because it's not the final rate. It's an estimate. Usually you know we have we're far enough down the road where the estimates are wind up being pretty close but there's always some adjustments to be made. So, I mean, the the person that comes in and pays their bills by hand,
you know, the I mean, it's just it might be another they might get a refund or they might have owe some money after uh everything's set. There's no refund. Yeah. Well, I mean, they're they're going to pay the estimated amount in the third quarter and then there'll be an adjustment on the fourth quarter. Okay.
And then All right. So, yeah. So, just All right. Thank you. Okay. Uh, do I have a motion to approve 25169? So, move. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call. Council President McCann. Yes. Councilman Pignatelli. Yes.
Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Telamini, yes. All right. 25177 authorized body war cameras. Mr. Salami. Uh so so we're we're like so what I understand we're in the middle of
of the the lifetime usage of the cameras and we're just buying extra so we're ahead and and we got some grant money for this. No, we well we do have Yes to the second uh part of the question. We do have some grant money for this uh and some money left over from the original
grant we got when the state made it mandatory uh as well as some grant money that we were able to secure last year through a federal program. Um but no, the original ones that we bought, they're going to be replaced wholesale. We're going to a completely different
system. Uh the first ones proved to be very um say not as user friendly uh as the system that we're going to. uh and they were pretty much at the end of their useful life. Uh and this this purchase includes a refresh halfway
through the contract period. Okay. So, yeah. So, we won't have to be buying all new ones all the time. It'll be staggered sort of. This will be an all-in price. There's five, you know, there's some annual payments involved with the licensing. Um but this is an all-in price. It basically gets us two
rounds of of cameras as well as um seven new mobile cameras for the uh patrol vehicles. Okay. And how long how long does the does this last? Do these cameras the the body warn cameras? Yeah. Three years give or take. Okay. Uh
mobile cameras somewhat longer. Okay. Any further questions? No. All right. Do I have a motion to approve 25177 authorized purchase of body worn cameras? Second. Roll call. Council President McCann, yes. Councilman Pignatelli, yes.
Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. All right. 25183, Patriots, change order number four, Mr. Salani. Yes. I just want to just walk through the change order,
please. Cost the reason why. Sure. Um so when the bridge was constructed um you know the pedestrian uh walkway is on the one side of the bridge right right now the uh the
railing terminates slightly prematurely uh and it needs to be extended on either end to sort of wrap around where the footing of the truss anchors to the uh abupment of the bridge uh to eliminate a
potential fall hazard should somebody sort of walk off the the pedestrian path. Yeah. And Mr. Saliani, it's a pretty good size gap in there and it requires I was talking to the engineer and some uh fabrication has to be done by the bridge
manufacturer itself which is going to attach to the bridge and then connect to the walkway. Okay. So that's that's really the reasoning behind that. So like how how come that wasn't picked up in in the design? Yeah, if you look at the uh letter from John uh Yuk regarding
this, uh I'm just going to read it right from his letter. The required level of detail for the spatial interaction between the approach and bridge pedestrian walkways did not capture the need for this item. It was only during construction that the interaction issue was seen and thus precipitated this change order.
And and I guess so I mean the the bridge to me looks pretty much the same as what was there, right? I mean is is it there's some differences in design but essentially it's the same. So we didn't have this guard rail at
with the with the old bridge I guess. I don't know about but but there is a pretty substantial Sure. Sure. I mean it needs to be done. I'm just um it just seems it's funny. I had asked the same questions as the engineer. I said how how did we get here? How do we miss this? And they bas, you know, as you
seen the letter, for lack of a better thing, sometimes stuff just happens. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve uh 25183 Patric Way change order number four? So moved. Do have a second. Roll call. Council President McCann.
He left. Okay. Councilman Pigmatelli. Yes. Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski. Yes. And Councilman Talamini. Yes. Okay. Moving on. Ordinances. Uh we have 25 water capital
965 replacement of various water manes Leehighway. Mr. Coons, you want to walk the council through this? Sure. Uh Mayor, if you want, I'll just take all four. Okay. We'll just go through with everybody. So, the first two that are on the agenda, uh water capital 965 and 966. For the most part, those two
ordinances uh will replace the emergency funding authorization you gave at the special meeting earlier earlier this month. Uh that enabled us to fund the Lehigh Way emergency repairs which are ongoing now. If you recall, that's the replacement of about 400 ft of water man
as well as restoration of the damaged uh road surface as well. What this will do is it will um negate the need to have to fund it in next year's budget because the original authorization was done via the emergency
process. Okay. Uh the second thing in capital 966 is for a new uh alcoest breathalyzer. Uh and this is something that uh we had funded originally probably seven eight years ago. Uh and
at that time the new equipment um was not I guess certified use. It was challenged legally. It took years to you sort out and become accepted. Uh and I guess that has finally happened and we received notice a short time ago uh that they would like to start deploying these
in Bergen County. That's great. Accepting the interim because there was such a long delay. We didn't know what was happening. we had rescended that funding and said, "All right, well, when we get the approval, we'll reauthorize capital funding for the purchase." Well, that that time is now. Uh, and since we
were doing this capital ordinance anyway, figured we would seek uh funding authorization for the cost at, you know, at this time and just included it. And that's like $22,000 or so. Water capital
967 uh is the normal water capital uh ordinance that we try to do every year just to keep current with our capital needs. Uh so that's things in this case like an anode system, some electrical repairs, and most significantly uh about $600,000 in funding for
replacement water manes. As you know, we have a a fair bit of transite pipe in this community. uh and we're trying to get that replaced as quickly as uh you know funding and budget constraints will allow. Lastly is the flood damage prevention ordinance which we had talked
about during workshop at the last meeting. Uh this is a model ordinance put forth by the by uh the D and FEMA. uh it's meant to sort of better coordinate the interaction of the various codes that affect flood damage
prevention uh and does some updating on the calculations in modeling for things like base flood elevation. Um since the last workshop we sent the uh or we got approval from the D. They had some comments. uh we reviewed those uh and
the ordinance that you have before you for introduction is compliant uh with the D and they'll you know they'll accept this once it's adopted. So the adoption date is the would be the 17th the next meeting uh beating the deadline which is the 18th. So this is ready for
introduction. Anybody have any questions for the administrator? Just with the the water improvements we we did the the filters the big filters. Um, and I I know we there was there's a a shelf life for the for the carbon material that's
in there. Do um do we have any idea how we're doing? Are we you know is that something that gets tested or looked at or like is there an alarm that goes off and says, "Hey, it's time to change." Uh there's there's no alarm. Um it's based on the specifics of, you know, each well
is different depending on the amount of flow, the amount of gallons that are passing through the system, the water chemistry itself. Um, we've had no breakthrough yet. We'll know when you get a test result that is something above non detect. Um, and we're actually working now on putting together a bid uh
that we would that would enable us to buy that material as soon as we need it. Uh, and there was, you know, this is part of the when you would say the O andM part of the uh of the system. This that's the O part, the operating part. Uh, and so that's funded through the uh
water OE budget. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? Anybody else on this side? All right. Not seeing any. We'll do this as a consent agenda for the introduction of 25 water capital 965, 25 capital 966, 25 water capital 967, and 25 code 968.
Do I have who wishes to introduce? So move. Second. Who introd Who did? And who did second? Russ. Russ. Roll call. Council President Ken left. Yep. Councilman Pigmanelli, yes. Councilwoman
Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Slinski, yes. Councilman Talamini, yes. All right, final adoption of public hearing will be on June 17th. Council meeting. All right, work going up to work. Uh work session, Ramapo Indian Hills High
School Field usage agreement. Mr. Coons. Okay. Uh so we have two issues for workshop tonight uh that involve recreation and I see uh Mike and Austin are are here so they can feel free to chime in if council would like them to do that as well but I'll give you some
brief overviews. Uh the first one is if you if you may recall uh over the winter an issue came up with what the high school wanted to charge our wrestling program for the use of their facility and it was going to be a big increase. Uh we eventually wound up sitting down
with with members of the administration and board and you know sort of stated our case to them had I think a positive discussion and the outcome of that was to try to work on some form of agreement uh that would sort of take the field
usage out of the normal permitting process uh and come to a shared understanding over the use of each other's facilities. So what you have in the packet uh is is a draft of that that would basically allow reciprocal use without charge uh you know again under
the terms in here. So the wrestling if I understand correctly uh the wrestling program wouldn't be charged anything and that's sort of in recognition of the fact that right now uh we allow use of our fields for their teams and don't charge them the normal going rate that
we would charge a private team as well. um much to the school's benefit. So, uh you know, I I think that that works favorably for us. We may want to, you know, and Michael can talk uh may want to tweak it a little bit, but um I think the basic structure there is workable
for for you know, certainly from our perspective. I think Mike, before I before I move on, do you have anything you want to add to that? Mike, why don't you come up here? Yeah. You know the drill, Mike name. Mikeino, right? Chairman, wrestling was
the final straw. We have we have we they use our fields, we use their fields. Um there's just been but we keep getting charged and we don't charge back. And when we got this, it was like three times the amount to use the uh the gyms for the wrestling in the winter time. It
was kind of like the final straw. We were prepared to pull everything out of the high school and we were looking for alternative places to do it. So which doesn't benefit them in any any way and plus we want to keep friendship with Indian I mean my kids went through Indian Hills. It wasn't just Indian Hills it's Rambo Indian Hills the whole the whole district. So this was
agreement we we sat down with them and it was it was a very good meeting and actually kind of laid it out. It was you know it's kind of like broke the tariffs and uh I'm I'm comfortable with with the uh what was ran. What's the final game? We won't charge you. You don't charge us.
Correct. We've never charged them. I'm just going forward. I mean, they they need the fields. They call me up and say, "We want to do something. Go go go go go use it." But so all the tariffs are coming down. All tariffs coming down. Beautiful. As long as it doesn't approve it. Any
Mike, you might you may want to stand here. We're going to talk tennis courts and tennis fat and all that stuff. So, the second matter, uh, and I I know some of you are aware of this. We've had issues, uh, pretty much every season with people using the tennis courts who
don't have a badge. And I don't just mean playing tennis, but doing things that they're not supposed to on the courts, riding bikes. A couple years ago, we had one guy that didn't live in town that literally took a snowblower to the tennis court surface because he was able to get in there and it was the winter time and he still wanted to play
it, kid you not. Um, so this is meant to sort of give some more teeth and be a little bit more strict with uh access to the courts and repercussions to those that may buy a badge but then are giving it to their kids, giving it to friends, and you have all these other people that
wind up being on the courts that aren't supposed to be on the courts. You know, the badge revenue helps support the maintenance of the courts. Uh, you know, it's put to good use. We we had an increase this year for the first time in 2010. 15
years. So it, you know, it's still a really good value if if you use the courts. Um, but it was it was sort of, you know, being abused and causing problems down there. So what we'd like to do is add language that specifically says, hey, if you are on the, you know,
on the courts without uh a badge, you know, you may not be able to stand the courts. uh if you know you have a badge and you're giving out that code and letting people use it uh that shouldn't be using it, you you're subject to revocation of your badge and you're going to lose the privilege of of being
on the courts and it would carry a potential vi, you know, fine with it as well. This is a large issue. Um the recreation to town invested a lot in these new courts. We have down we have the pickle ball courts and from my understanding is that there are pickle ball groups and they're just passing the
code around to towns and I mean this morning Jimmy had to fix because someone was sitting on the new pickle ball ball uh nets. This is an issue. A couple years ago there was a fist fight on the courts. I had to call the police and when they went down there and I asked them when they were when they broke the
fight up I said could you please just check to see if they got badges. They refused to do do so because there's no ordinance on it. So basically you there's no teeth at all. you can go on I guess legally you can go on the courts with or without but um we would like to be with because all all recreation participants pay some kind of a capital
fee. This is just tennis doing their part paying a capital fee and so it goes into our infrastructure and the infrastructure for the the tennis court. So we're just asking for some teeth so that we have the ability to remove somebody if they don't belong there. It's not fair to someone who's paid and someone who has not paid. It's not fair
for um these things, these numbers to be passed around on on these, you know, on these chat groups. So, um we're just asking for some teeth in it so we can have these some enforcement. So, obviously you had input into this. Are you satisfied with the way the draft is right now? Yeah, pretty much wrote the
original draft. Yeah. If I if I might, I would suggest that when we do pass this officially that a sign be put up near the gate saying, you know, you give it a your code out or revocation of yours plus a $200 fine, I
think it is. So, I think we should put a sign up so people know in red. Yeah. No problem with that. Yeah. So, so and when they sign up, this would be on the um the gates, but also when you sign up online, this would be there too for signups as part of message. We have a warning.
Is there an agreement on the uh community pass that they have to check off? There isn't right now because there aren't teeth in it. There will be. Yes. That was the question I was asking. Does anybody else have any comments? Well, is it something that you can I'm sorry. Is this something that you can change the
code periodically? We do, but they go, "Oh, got it blasted around." Yeah. Yeah. The second change his social media. So, Mike, if you're satisfied with this, Mr. Coons, is is this in good enough form to introduce tonight as an
ordinance for introduction? No. No. Okay. Too bad there isn't something that Let's say there's nobody on the courts and I want to go use it. I have to put my code into a box. It's the code. Now, we've talked about having individual codes, but just the the code.
You just go and you just put the code and you open it up. I was saying if you you could track it then you would know who gave it out. That's what um a meeting before one of our commissioners Mike Bleecker came up with an idea discussed that that's something we could work on but first we need teeth
otherwise great I agree doesn't matter you know we talked about the potential viability of using like a key fob system that gets issued pretty much as your badge uh you know that that sort of a thing that carries its own implementation cost with it. Uh, I think
the thought was, you know, let's try this sort of approach first. See where that gets us. It guess is Yeah. Again, we put a lot of money. First week the pickle ball nets were broken up. The first week it was open. Mr. Mr. Wall, if you're going to speak, you got to come up soon. Oh, sorry. Sorry.
So, uh, yeah, like I said, it was um the first week I sent you pictures because pictures were sent to me of of the mess, the trash, but today again, so I could be a dead horse, we could we all right. So, so you're comfortable with this? I'm very comfortable with it. Okay. And and I just want to say uh Mad, you know, when we attended that meeting with the
new superintendent, it is refreshing to have a new superintendent at at the regional high school and she was very supportive in working together with the Burrow of Oakland to really drop these artificial barriers that were in place. Everybody there was was was all on
board. I mean, at the end of the day, it's the same tax, same taxpayer were picking their pocket here and charging them over here. It seemed that it was just basically, lack of terms, a bureaucracy and people just moving things around not realizing the grand effect that would have and they were kind of surprised. Some of them were kind of surprised too. So, it was very
positive. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else have any other comments on the work session? No. Okay. Moving on to uh new business. Anybody on the council have any new business? Old business. All right. Uh we'll go for the
council leazison reports. All right. So Wreck, we'll start with Wreck. Um the parade is going to be on uh I guess 3:31, not 3:31, it's 6:30. No, it's 53. 531. 531. Yeah. On Pick a
number. 531. Uh that's always a fun parade. Uh the mayor will be down there. He'll throw out the first pitch or the last pitch of the season. And um it's always fun seeing all the all the the softball and baseball kids in their uniforms and uh
just watching them and and seeing the kids that you coached over the years. It's a lot of fun. Um and then there's going to be a home run derby fundraiser on 66. That's always fun to watch uh Tom Larson hitting all the home runs and uh
and uh uh what you call and then and then you get to watch the girls uh uh Ally Alli Babino. She she she hit a a whole bunch of home runs. She was great. Um and then uh so summer day camp is
still open. you could register and uh the open the open uh or the open camp is closed and all summer camps are still open and then other than that I am good. Thank you, Mayor. Councilman Pigelli. Yes, mayor. Thank you. The only
announcement I have is uh we're still looking for uh someone to volunteer for the environmental commission. Um, if you have an interest in the environment, um, and you have some ideas that you'd like to share with them, please come um, you
can get online the form and, uh, volunteer, um, to be on the environmental commission. That's it, mayor. Thank you, Councilman Saliani. From the flood commission, uh, I was lucky enough to walk with flood commission. We actually walk the river from Glen Gay down to Lenipe Lane. Uh,
we do it every year. Look through, see if anything's blocking the river. Go. Um myself, Tony Schmid, uh and Steve, I'm sorry, his name's forget that Steve that. Thank you. Um there's nothing to report, but we do it every year. See if any trees or any blockages in the river.
It's it's a good time, and the flood commission is looking for new members. Um, just to reiterate, mayor, what I think you said in the name, Memorial Day parade is Sunday, May 25th at 1 PM. The parade route, the parade route is Ramp Valley
Road from Dogwood to Oak Street. Looking forward to seeing everyone in attendance. And then just a reminder that the carnival will starts on June 18th. Uh again, as everyone touched and also I want to um mayor as you as you stated reiterate uh the update from the
fire department. Um the fire department will be held will be having their annual memorial service to honor deceased members of the Oakland Fire Department starting at 11:00 a.m. at company one on Yapo on Yapo Avenue uh on Sunday. Thank you very much. All set? Yes. Good.
Counselor. Thank you, mayor. uh from the library. Uh this Sunday, May 25th, at 3 p.m. the OPL will host classical guitarist Alfredo Festa live on the st library stage. The library is closed on Memorial Day. Uh but on Thursday, May
29th at 6:30, they welcome Dr. David Caspar, a philosophy professor at Rutgers University for a riveting discussion about stoicism. On Monday, June 2nd at 10:00 a.m., uh they have another favorite foreign film featuring
the Japanese movie Like Father, Like Son. And on Tuesday, June 3rd at 6 p.m., Yoga with Sonia returns for a six-w weekek engagement. The children's department continues its weekly story times. However, there is no story time
this Friday, May 23rd. The following Friday, May 30th, uh they have the popular Jigglywiggly musical program for children at 11:00 a.m. And to register for these programs and for more information, visit their website or call
the library at 20113373742. That's all I have for today. Thank you, Councilwoman. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Uh the SE tree committee met on May 5th. Um the Arbor Day event went very well. Uh the committee has been recognized by the
Arbor Day Foundation for their unwavering commitment to the planting, care, and celebration of trees. By prioritizing tree stewardship, they have not only helped enhance Oakland's beauty and livability, but they also invested in a healthier, more sustainable future
for our residents. Uh the forester put in 54 hours. Uh 37 permits were issued, 85 trees removed, and 26 were replaced. Access role met on May 7th. Um we are all set for the carnival
uh for June for Saturday, June 21st from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Um the uh this event is only for this, you know, mainly for the special needs. So it doesn't have all the sights and sounds. Uh but the carnival will run its normal schedule from June 18th through
June 21st. Uh arts committee met yesterday. The outdoor market will start on Saturday, May 31st. It is no longer every Saturday, but will be every other Saturday through November 15th. Uh we will be working with the American Legion
to create a moral mural for their building. More details to follow, but any artists willing to participate in the project are welcome to contact the committee. Um the jured art exhibition and sale went very well and looking forward to doing it again next year.
The committee is in desperate need of volunteers as with all of our committees um to assist with, you know, planning and running their events for music and arts. You do not have to be an artist or musician to join the committee. And trust me, I don't have talent in either one of those. If you are a musician who
would like to perform at one of our events, please reach out to the committee which is listed on our website. That's it. That's it. Okay. All right. We're up to bills to be paid. Bills to be paid. $948,86428. So moved. Do I have a
second? Second. Second. Any questions? Not seeing any. Roll call. Councilman Pignatelli. Yes. Councilwoman Rose, yes. Councilman Saliani, yes. Councilman Sinski, yes. Councilman Talini, yes. Do I have a
motion to adjurnn? So moved, sir. All in favor? All right. This concludes the council meeting for today. The next council burough council meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 at 700 p.m. here in the council chambers. Good night everybody. Meeting a journal.