for good evening everybody thanks for coming out tonight on a cold night um call a meeting to order it um at 7:30 um in compliance with the open public meeting law notification of this meeting has been sent to our official newspapers and other Publications circulated in the
burough of epan and notice posted on the bulletin board at burough Hall please be reminded that all of our meetings are videotaped and posted to our website within the next day or so and please note the fire exit or at the uh my left your right um where you came in tonight
and in the rear of the council chambers roll call please mayor Gallagher here Council here Council Boyce here Council Guan Council Marty here councilwoman M here councilman here please rise and join me to uh to the flag I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please remain standing as councilman Marty leads us in prayer tonight please bow your
hands heavenly father as We Gather for this council meeting we humbly ask for your guidance and wisdom to navigate our discussions with Open Hearts and Minds May our words be thoughtful our listening attentive and our decisions made with the greater good in
mind grant us the strength to work together collaboratively and reach outcomes that benefit all the residents of ultan also we ask that you protect our brothers and sisters serving in our Mighty military our First Responders please Shield them with your strength
and keep them safe from all evil and harm we place this meaning in your hands amen amen amen okay I'll entertain a motion to open the meeting for the public so move second second all favor I would anyone from the public like to be you heard
tonight step forward here we go name an address for the record please and sit if you want to just okay that's fine um I'm Jackson Weaver and I'm a life Scout wait uh jackon Jackson Robert Weaver 12
place okay um I'm a life Scout with the uh police Scouts of troop 132 I'm currently working on my Eagle Scout project um it's a retired American flag it's a retired mailbox uh for American flag drop offs drop off and I'm looking to
repurpose it and place it at the oldan tpw uh with your permission I'm hoping to get this project done and ready to collect Flags by Flag Day June 14th 2025 I have paperwork from the Three Rivers Council to give you and I will need Mr boy's signature and the permission form
thank you for this time sounds like a very worthy uh so where would it be exactly by the recycle or by where would it be the clothing by Theo by the clothing recycle recycle yeah like when you pull in on the left yeah okay and it'll have a special you going to make a
sign or uh yeah I'll have a plaque on it and like a permanent type plaque yeah okay that won't be erased and not with a magic marker or something nice I figured that okay good Jackson do do you or Bill know somebody this is not the first time I'm hearing about this project I thought
somebody else was working on it a couple years ago we had a we had um another Scout in town that was anxious to do it but she's lost her momentum okay so uh thankfully is going to pick up the flag
drop and run with it it's a really nice old school mail box it's very sturdy it's got these rivets it's it it should last Outlast us so I have at least a few to donate I after the past week of wind I literally today actually thought when
I was walking in oh I have to get some new flag but I was ruminating on oh what should I do I know there's someone in nor this is a a perfect idea for that great idea you know see some nice bright colored Flags around town and do you guys retire the flags after you collect
them yes what's a process official ceremony uh yeah the boy cats will do it uh during meeting once a month and to retire them that what is exactly the process what do you do oh uh you to you're retired here's your pension what
do you do to burn them properly okay that's Stan oh it's stanland Park yeah all right actually uh Lou stanland was my boy scout leader 1975 we built that
Park and that's I mean we built that Park after 75 he passed away in 1975 but he was my boy scout leader at the time and fire chief second assistant chief and councilman all at the same time yeah good man so when you dedicate it make sure that
you have the veterans committee here you have Fred P in the back and you know we'd all like to come and witness that I think it's a great idea and I'm going to ask uh council president Boyce to kind of make a motion to move this
project forward all righty I'd like to make a motion to sponsor Jackson's uh Eagle Scout project which entails uh creating a a new uh retirement box
for the purpose of retiring flags and old depants sorry longwinded perect good second second um I'm just going to say all in favor I anybody opposed I didn't think so all right good luck with your project thanks for
coming great idea nice job would anybody else from the public like to be heard on any matter motion to close to the public second all in favor I okay moving on to we have a staff
appointment tonight uh yes Mr Mayor I'd like to make a motion to um appoint Francois c as our new accounts payable clerk second any discussion I understand you
had did you have a chance to meet or was that another position that was uh courtt okay yeah he's here well welcome Hello friends okay where's my check all right we have a a motion did I
hear a second Ron second okay um any other discussion a roll call please counc yes counc yes Council Marty yes Council Sarah yes councilman you yes okay next
is a um uh is a mayor's appointment my appointment to the rec commission and that is for I'm recommending David Yun for an unexpired 5-year term ending on 12 3126 I've um spoke with uh some uh Rec
commission people and David comes highly recommended especially from councilwoman masaro so I am making the recommendation for uh David June for that position it's actually your appointment that is mine right so I'm just letting you know okay I don't need anybody's permission
no for once yeah all right you're not home exactly um all right move on to a board appointment arts and entertainment committee for councilwoman misso all right thank you Mr Meer uh for arts and
entertainment committee um we Eva Sak um for an unexpired three-year term ending 12 3126 for arts and entertainment she's a current member of the ulten uh youth Council and the publicity chairwoman for a current project for students with
sensory sensitivity she comes highly recommended by myself and fellow teachers and coaches uh so I'd like to make a motion to open it to the public for comments or questions just a second yeah just a second any discussion amongst uh the
council okay seeing none roll call pleasei yes Council Boyce yes councilman Marty yes councilwoman yes counc yes okay moving on to a few public hearings tonight uh first one for councilwoman M ordinance
1271 d25 thank you Mr Mayor from the burough clerk's office ordinance number 1271 d25 second reading final adoption facilities uses usage policy resolution whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance
repealing and replacing 179-193 17927 of the ordinances of the buau of ultan entitled facilities usage policy was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and Council held on the 3rd of February 2025 now therefore be it resolved by the
mayor and Council of the burol pan County of Bergen state of New Jersey that said ordinance number 1271 d25 be in the same is hereby adopted on the second final reading and be it finally resolved that the burough clerk is hereby authorized and directed to
publish the notice of adoption as required by law okay this is uh um second reading adoption on this so uh um like to open this up to the public if there's any comment on this ordinance motion to close second okay do
we did we have a second on the uh on the order we didn't oh second okay so any discussion on our part on fac any further discussion on the facilities usage policy seeing none roll call please councilman BAGI yes councilman Boyce yes councilman Marty
yes counc yes councilman you yes okay our next ordinance is 1272 d25 this also uh Council Marty is for uh uh adoption so we would open this to the public uh before voting so uh if you could read
ordinance 1272 d25 yes Mr Mary thank you whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance amending schedule B of the provisions of ordinance number 6811 d99 as amended by ordinance 11-6
to amend the length of service award program of the burough of ultan was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and Council held on the third day of February 2025 now therefore it be it resolved by the mayor and Council of the burrow volan County of Bergen state of New
Jersey that said ordinance number 1272 d25 be and the same is hereby adopted on second and final reading and be it finally resolved that the burrow clerk is hereby author ized and directed to publish the notice of adoption as
required by law all right let's get a second on this if we have one then we'll open it to this uh to to uh uh for adoption here so anyone from the public like to uh have any comments on this amending the low
ordinance see non motion to close Okay second okay all right let's do a roll call on question yes um just just a Nuance change what exactly are we changing were three that I understand no longer in use so we
changed them to the positions that are it's rank it was just just the rank it was it wasn't like crazy night captain and okay that's what I thought I just want to make sure that we're on the same page y thank you that's all okay um roll
call please counc BAGI yes councilman Boy Yes councilman Marty yes councilwoman M yes councilman you yes okay next one is for councilwoman missar let's open this uh to the public being that it's adoption then we'll vote on it
okay uh okay so I'd like to make a motion to open this to the public for yep that's fine second second so from the bur clerk's office would anybody from the public like to be heard on on ordinance 1273 d25 amending the rec
fees motion to close to okay one thank you mror from the burough clerk's office ordinance number 1273 d25 second reading final adoption amend Recreation fees ordinance resolution whereas an ordinance entitled an
ordinance amending chapter 119 of the code of the balt pan article 3 Recreation program fees was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and Council held on the third day of February 2025 now therefore be resolved by the mayor and Council of the bural and County of
Bergen state of New Jersey that said ordinance number 12 7325 being the same is hereby adopted on second and final reading and be it finally resolved that the bur clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the notice of adoption as
required by law second second okay any discussion amongst ourselves saying none roll call please yes yes counc Mar yes counc yes yes okay um moving along to a proposed
resolution solution um council president Bo on a veteran friendly Municipal program would you Enlighten us on some of the details or I'll do my best um it's quite a lengthy uh resolution uh there's a boiler plate resolution that we can follow but it's a resolution
establishing goals for Contracting with veteran-owned businesses Enterprises hiring veterans and Municipal Workforce and recognizing the military service of residents in the civic affairs of the burough of old depen so I think it's born at in the spirit of trying to be
inclusive of every veteran and just make sure that we communicate when we put things out to bid that there are jobs and projects that can be awarded to Veterans it gets a little granular in that it stipulates and this isn't set in
stone that 6% of the contract to be awarded to a qualified veteran subcontractors who are certified in the state of New Jersey um and then also a minimum 5% of uh the workforce of the buau should be
veterans um also it suggest that we hold at least one Patriot Day celebrating in honor of the service of veterans on Memorial Day veterans day and the anniversary of 911 so I I think it definitely has the best intention some of the things we've already done like preferred parking for
veterans in municipally owned Lots um reduced I don't think we've done this but reduced uh fees for local licenses for permits and such we haven't yet done that there are a couple there's
a couple yeah taxes tax tax huh taxes yeah there are a few that's not by ordinance so that's by state correct true we have anything else if it's already by state can we make it by ordinance also there's no reason to
it's like duplicative right okay so I mean it's just open for discussion if is this an that your proposing what is this this is a resolution so I don't think there's any uh um we've
we've listen I I think we're very veteran friendly uh you know I I I don't think many people could say we're not uh you know I know we have a project going on at uh at Oaks and and the you know and the and the parking uh between the what we're planning on for for our first
Veterans Day in in uh uh this fall uh having our own Standalone Veterans Day mhm always honored our our veterans at Memorial Day I'm just wondering are we are we some of the stats you just read there about certain contracts or certain
employees uh I don't want to handicap the burrow I agree um I'll bend over backwards for for a vet and and no question about it I just don't want to um put us in a box put us in a box with having to go a certain way with a
contract uh having to go in a certain way with with uh uh any employee when there might be better suited employee out there that maybe's not a veteran and and uh but I want to continue to support Veterans as
as as big as we all have now regarding that like the set aside programs that are allowed um doesn't necessarily mean that you have to hire a veteran you're going to hire the best person for the job and I don't think you really it's not definitive that you have to have 6% right it's just it's saying that hey
we're going to set aside 6% and if the veteran let's say it's a contract comes in and says uh I could provide the service and he's the best suited in the best price why not give him the contract that's all we're saying we're just making a pledge for for the Vets best efforts uh basis right you yeah and it's
it's kind of on the honor System to some degree I mean we have to keep track of it but it's um you know I don't think there's a penalty if we don't achieve 6% yeah but I don't want to as as the mayor said I don't want to be in position where where
we we were potentially sued years ago on a low bidder law matter of fact it was with garbage um that the second bidder the the second lowest bidder didn't get the job right he sued the b or threaten us the bar I'm not exactly sure it was
like 20 years ago and uh because he said hey I'm providing all the same stuff it's really a Nuance I don't want to be in that position where where the second bidder says wait a minute you're hiring him but I'm a veteran was he the second lowest or was he the L let's say they're really close and and
we didn't we didn't we didn't fulfill our quota of 6% or whatever the percent whatever that might be if I don't want to end up in a lawsuit and and being embarrassed because as you know I have veterans in my family I'm definitely Pro veterans not about that yeah I don't want to put the borrow in some kind of
POS am I am I on the wrong track BR is it Happ no I mean I went and looked at the the statute um that the the um procurement statute and there are categories where you can give preference but it's in that case it's not going to the lowest bidder it
may be going to the even if they're not the even if they're not the low that's my point so well that's the idea of the preference it's not that they're the same and they get a preference it's that they're not the same and they get a preference that's my concern I don't I tried to find a town that's adopted this and I hav't what I was that's what I was
thinking to yeah to see how it works well how about we scour a Jason towns any towns we can find that have adopted this find out how it does with their burough administrator also we we could do is draft our own we couldn't
say where possible yeah in a way two words I could also reach out I can reach out to the league of municipalities and see if I'm sure they have something that they know yeah I have the I have the name of who gave me all of this information I'll just have some more town I'm pretty sure there's a couple of
towns not a lot but there are and one of the things is this resolution because I think that's the main uh part of becoming veteran friendly yeah I don't know what kind of benefit you get I don't think there really is a benefit other than being named a vet that's fine
I just the only hold up on everybody is just that portion of it the uh it sounds like set as it sounds like most of us for me aren't aware maybe aren't aware of the finer details so maybe if we can just pause get a little bit more information and what towns as you said
are doing it and if are are they like ultan towns or are they Newark Patterson and Jersey City that might have uh a whole office to hit a hit a quote or something like that and I don't know I'm not suggesting it is I'd just like to
learn a little bit more before we we maybe acted upon something not being in the know well if you pull our Council we've fil filled our 6% quote and then some yeah that's what in my mind
happen it's such a low threshold we're talking about five or 6% I'd be willing to bet a lot of these contracts that we that we award they're already um veterans that are running them so it doesn't seem like a high high Mark for
us to hit that's what I think if if we if there's a way that we could be assured that we're protecting ourselves from lawsuit yes I like then it B Le and Edgewater are definitely better in threadly
okay no doesn't pretty big municipalities yeah versus don't depan I represent paramis I was not aware of that and I review all of the bids for contracts so they they're okay so maybe
that's maybe that's a good place to ask them yeah uh what parameters and how yeah that's their Council he thinks I mean maybe it's align in the way we advertise or maybe it's where we advertise our bids you know there's certain um okay well can we ask for 30
days to and bring us back in 30 days so do you want this on the March 17th agenda under old business or as a resolution again you want old business I mean we should talk about it old business right you said and then if we if we learn
something more between now and then what if we have Irish veterans coming in oh old business and we'll uh come to a consensus that evening to memorialize it I think we do have a member of the public who might want to
speak when it becomes open and the opportunity to yep a little bit later in the night yeah thank you Mr Man Okay anything else on this all right uh let's move on to our consent resolution for council president
Force thank you Mr Mayor um be resolv that the following resolutions placed on the agenda by consent require no discussion and the same having been previously reviewed by each council person and are hereby adopted in their entirety by the mayor and Council of the buau of ultap
pen bills and claims authorized transfer of 2024 budget appropriation reserves temporary emergency resolution refund 2025 property tax overpayment contract award Wasson golf design Golf Course
bunker Renovations uh Recreation Grant Improvement program Stone Point Park outdoor exercise stations Verizon New Jersey pole attachment agreement uh confirm accounts payable clerk appointment
second any discussion on uh anything on the consent resolution yes what is the Verizon poll attachment agreement it's for um an S SLR like a camera no SLR is a camera the license plate
read yeah yes and we have quite a few of them actually going in we have to do this because we're using Verizon fine okay no I thought it was on their end asking us something it's actually us asking them thank you that's all and then just a quick question uh the uh
storo Park equipment we submitted that Grant we are yes we did we submitted it I just had to do the resolution awesome okay oh keep our fingers crossed for that one yeah they mention anything while we're talking about Stone Point and polls the Wi-Fi over there no it's a
no just they were in a hurry at one point and okay uh we have a second on this that I hear second y okay um roll call please counc yes counc Boy Yes Council Marty
yes Council yes councilman yes all right let's move on to our Council committee reports starting with councilman you thank you Mr Mayor I really don't have much today there's nothing new to report on our construction Department um looking forward to meeting
with our seniors this Thursday during our budget meeting to discuss their requests for 2025 I want to thank the nvot varsity football team members for bringing for restocking our community Pantry um last
meeting and thank I want to thank our DPW crew for their efforts in preparing and cleaning up after our snowstorms that concludes my report Mr Mayor thank you Council woman Miss Arrow thank you Mr Mayor
um see start with uh Recreation uh we met Tuesday February 4 4th opening day is April 26 for baseball softball t ball so save that date April 26th rain date
by I think is the 27th I have to double check but um Town day Saturday September 6th rain date the 7th or is having the first planning meeting in early March we were discussing that this uh yesterday and
today the rec commission continues to work on a comprehensive mission statement to serve as a guide for how they want Recreation to proceed as a governing body over all of our Sports and programs during meetings and outside of meetings I see significant in input
feedback digital ceration and discussion from most Recreation commission members something new this year Rec will be bringing a multiport camp to ultan for spring break this is a four profit business and as such will be paying the full field usage fee the registration
for this opens next week uh any questions on Recreation before I move to historical NOP seeing no I'm moving to historical um we met last Tuesday February 11th uh we discussed the latest update of the ultan
cemetery's history reports on the blue signs um an update on the big tree for our website and ideas for the upcoming year um I want to thank Matthew who's here tonight uh for being the historical committee recording secretary sending us
the minutes uh also a member of our youth Council uh and one of his suggestions that came up at the meeting last week was suggesting that the youth Council collaborate with historical to do a spring cleanup at the ulten cemetery and other locations in town of
historical significance another idea discussed was a potential collaborative night with the historical and veter veterans committee to host a documentary or historical film using our projector equipment at storo the next historical meeting will be
March 11th um next fire far Marshall Evan cutson reports that the 2025 fire prevention registration fee invoices have been mailed to all registered properties in the burough annual inspections are now underway since the
start of the year he's responded to assist with a fire sprinkler leak at a restaurant Town responded to one of the churches for an alarm system issued twice and completed one cause and origin investigation for a fire that was determined to be a result of combustible
material left on a stove toop from the fire chief since his last report on 2225 the dep department has responded to eight incidences and one 100 man hours and 57 minutes making the total so far this
year 31 calls for service and 443 man hours and 45 minutes since the last report one notable incident has occurred within the fire department while delivering 43 engine back to us the fire and safety employee
backing into the garage struck the center wall yesterday breaking the passenger side mirror otpd was on scene taking the report as was Tom Jung fire in safety are fixing it but as a result 43 engine is again out of service until
further further notice 43 Squad is then planned to go out of service at a later time to be determined um when fire and safety has room for it any questions on that before I move on yeah nope um I checked that out I saw
a pictures and there's a police report if any needs that after um also from Chief Anders regrettably Captain mockler suffered a room in Contents fire in her own home in Harrington Park uh of note a good way firefighter
Christian Christian hin attended and successfully completed ice rescue technician training here's responsible for attending one night class and one all day Saturday class this training and subsequent certification occurred in addition to and outside of normal Fire
Department training days of Monday nights and lastly 43 rescues chassis still has not been ordered by the vendor in Long Island um Bill ring the salesman for 43 rescue stated they should be placing the order within the next two
weeks making an inservice estimate of the end of 2025 for 43 rescue to be placed into working service respectfully submitted Charles Chaz Anders chief of Department ultimate fire uh any questions there before I Mo sorry to last one is youth Council so
just brief um thank you Ma Matthew Michelle naha and miles for attending tonight over their February break I might add I want to thank Eva cak for volunteering for our Town's arts and entertainment committee very happy to have her on board I'm looking forward to
continuing to work with this very energetic group in the past three weeks we have already started our project for students with sensory sensitivity by collecting tennis balls for the bottoms of desks and chairs and classrooms um and that's it for those and then um Tom just want to ask you I
was going to mention the healthy town to watch or is that did you have that in your notes uh I don't and we have to um one healthy to watch again that we have to respond we haven't gotten so no I would
say Okay fingers crossed and that's all thank you Mr Mayor okay Council BAGI thank you Mr Mayor uh police department let me start off with some good news uh just a a form that's filled out when
someone recognizes good work by our B employees while on patrol officer antonucci noticed that our driver's side door of our vehicle was left open overnight he also found that the car key that we thought was lost was found thank
you ulaan police officer antonucci for keeping one our community safe and the wonderful thing you did that night it TR it is truly appreciated uh it was found on 24 Russell Avenue so kudos
to in January the police report for January a total of 1,383 calls for service 174 motor vehicle stops 83 motor vehicle summonses 161 radar details 122 traffic enforement enforcement details were
completed 66 security awareness cards were given out 42 School safety checks 13 firearm ID cards one arrest for outstanding traffic warrant three traffic details were completed for outside contractors meaning Suz
PSG uh move on we had a burglary a burglary of note on 131 January 31st a residential burgy burglary occurred on amerway right up the street from me the burglary took place during the
daytime between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. the suspects suspects utilized a second story open window to gain entry into the home where they sto cash jewelry and Handbags the case is under investigation no arrests have been made as of this
date but uh Sergeant de Maria is diligently working on that that's all I have a note unless someone has a a question for me for the police uh yeah I did please um I was
informed that we have a police officer that's going to be resigning you aware of that or not I'm not I heard the same thing I'm not I'll inquire and let you know okay all right um with that said um just looking back historically what's
been going on the last couple years um I noticed that we've had three police officers that willfully resigned either went to other police departments or left policing in general um have we conducted any exit interviews on any of these
people have they been offered exit interviews to figure out what's going on and why they're all leaving ult Jaan no I have I have spoken to the police chief and he says Chief I think the chief yeah no but I'm saying to the council no but he the chief will tell you and the captain will tell you what's going on
all over the place right uh I just think it's you know in Corporate America we we lose people we lose good people we like to do exit interviews and figure out what's going on so I would like to hopefully start that practice maybe belongs in the police committee an exit inter for you yeah it's not a bad
idea and I think it has to start with with part of the chief or at least we got to talk to the Chief and the captain and then but yeah I think it would be a good idea for the police committee to you know uh yeah it's it's a sign of of times whether it's police or or councilman as you said the private
sector I know you know we've had good people in my industry that have left in opportuni so but I don't know what the RO cause is well I mean we'll never know the some left placing all together to pursue other interest and some perhaps you know went for an additional
opportunity somewhere um so yeah I think it's a good idea to uh to try and start that practice right if you recall last meeting I brought up or the meeting before about um years ago with the 80s and 90s there'd be 150 people applying
for patrolman now there's 25 2 three 15 so it's it's difficult and then when they get hired and you know I don't want to sound like the Boomer on this de but the the Next Generation they just N I don't want to
do this anymore just well you think of your parents and grandparents they worked at AT&T their whole life they got a pension that's what they did this this next generation and I'm I'm not saying they're good or bad I'm just saying this next Generation they're not as generation I don't want to say the word
loyal but well they're always looking somewhere else and I don't think we should label any any generation on that my point is we're putting that all aside the reality the reality is it cost us a lot of money to hire on board train and
then losing people in a few years it's a problem and we need to address this problem yeah so two things on that if I can so one um one I think it's a great idea to find out I I think exit interviews are are great to have uh number two is I being the that the fact
our Police Commissioner and myself as mayor haven't heard any uh two Council people seem to have heard some rumors that someone's leaving I'd like to not discuss that any further until we get really to the bottom of that sure okay but it's not a rumor but okay we can we can move forward that's fine do you know
where we stand now right Ron we we just had one on board recently wer we still uh hiring another one yes okay so we're still offici need yes Perhaps Perhaps again a short
one official Yeah well yeah if if if this all comes to fruition we're going have to hire one uh the chief isn't like freaking out he's he's handling the schedule as he's always as he always had okay and and I think he's quite confident in handling the schedule handling it going on um if this comes
fruition like you just said then we might have a little extra overtime well we will have more overtime but that's that's the way things go our overtime has been really low in the last few years well I'll just just just to end the point and I'm I'm just a little troubled I guess is that uh you know
we're hearing this for the first time um you know we not hearing it officially from the you know the chief of police um so people may be talking out of school which troubles me a little bit so I think yeah we'd like to get an official announcement if there's someone leaving
they'll put in their resignation they'll put it in writing they'll talk to the chief we talk to the police committee all that think all that stuff is is great uh but it does trouble me that I'm hearing it for the first time tonight through
hearsay two members of the council so anyway um Ron that was the in your report yes okay I actually want to add something there thank you personally today to the Police Department responding to my house uh early this
morning for a call to my house everything worked out okay um but they were there really really fast and helped uh two people in my house with a situation that was uh unnerving to say the least so they're on patrol nearby
our town at all you know wherever they were coming from two different police officers showed up within a very short amount of time and I know that that's the same for all of our residents you know it wasn't like oh it's a council no it was I just called dispatch you know you get through the paramis you give an
address but they were there very quickly and the person left the property as soon as uh please show up so I just want to thank them personally for today and every day okay thank you uh councilman
Marty thank you Mr Mayor I have no new updates I've had no meeting since our last uh our last meeting uh with First State Health and schools uh first aid meeting I will have tomorrow the 24th I believe if that's a Monday will be the schools and then two
days after that'll be the Health Board of Health so I'll report back next okay uh um council president Boyce thank you Mr Mayor so in addition to what we discussed earlier the planning board held two hearings last week the first
one was the Cho application but Mr Reagan cautioned that the applicant should Ren notice as he found errors in the original notice was a variant request so that application was actually not
heard uh also uh the wiggers application which is on Orangeburg Road um was approved with some riveting testimony from their professional planner was actually a very good testimony um and he attested to the
public uh good that this variance uh sought and created by improving the drainage on Orangeburg road which was actually very important um and the consistencies with the massing and proportions of the adjacent architectural land uses so that
was approved so wiggers was approved Joe was um going it at the earliest possibility that they can actually hand in a correct notice the environmental commission is meeting on um tomorrow at 7:30 we'll be discussing the community
garden rates and also the Orangetown data center resolution wording Mr Rosen town a resident will be attending that meeting where we can uh brainstorm on uh the resolution weing okay the golf
course is still under snow however I did manage to get a list of all the current functioning equipment and the hours that they've all operated so I'd like to speak to Ron about what hours are to be expected from these types of equipment he'll we'll huddle some other time um I
did upon receiving the list of function equipment I asked for a list of the non-functioning equipment I thought that would be helpful to have as well so Sam has furnished that to us uh it's quite an extensive list it's two pages long um about half of it's
functioning but many of them have hours in excess of 2000 which I know is getting a little old as you know the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts came in Jackson Weaver will be working on his flag retirement box that's really good
news um and the veterans committee I'm hoping to get a field trip together to go see Admiral mccraven on Sunday March 16th he's the Admiral that gave the speech about uh if you want to improve
your life start by making your bed your bed oh yeah yeah that's an excellent speech so hope you have books and greetings they splurged and used the color cartridges up to make these flyers so I would like everybody to go especially our veterans committee will be discussing
this um I think that concludes my report for now okay thank you so uh councilman uh Guan is traveling on business and he left us a report i' be happy to uh uh read some of his notes uh starting with the library library has been busy and
proactive in many of the topics discussed at the budget meeting in January there have been a robust discussion about fundraising ideas with new and energetic board members there have been some new suggestions like game show similar to are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader or Jeopardy alaan Edition
the new carpet has been installed in the main section and the reading section makes that liary look brighter with the light tone of the carpet the board is also reaching out to Tom scrael our engineer to check on price uh on price of Paving the parking lot if included on
a Town schedule discussion also about Museum passes such as Metropolitan Museum of Art the freck collection Brooklyn Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Bron Zoo uh and January patrons increased about 10% from one year ago
but that counts to Susan uh mky retirement party which the place was packed okay uh Finance I interviewed the new candidate to fill the open accounts payable role he's an excellent fit with prior micro Finance skills having uh having run a family
restaurant and party room business which was just sold he has a great demeanor and is willing to help in other areas that accounts payable as already shown by his temporary work for the DPW and custodial work he would fit well with the finance team um and he's endorsing
his application and no updates on OEM since the last meeting and that is councilman Juan's report okay uh moving on to mayor's comments very brief I think I'll beat everyone with brief comments tonight uh
I've been traveling on business uh myself this month but I did ask our bur administrator to add something to a website there was an article sent to me uh on the New Jersey salt watch Commission I guess uh just kind of uh
discussing uh with the use of of uh Brine and salt and and this has been a kind of a busy winter so far is that uh the salt level sodium levels in in our drinking water could be elevated and they would just saying to if you're on a low salt diet talk to your doctor about
it uh so we just felt that that was valuable information and I asked Anna to put it on our website um and that the end of my report tonight so we move on to actions uh action on minutes and then is the council president sorry bear with me
please how do I do that just say youd like to make a motion to approve the minutes okay I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes from the regular meeting on January 21st 2025 and and the regular and executive meetings on February 3rd
2025 second second on that second any discussion on our minutes seeing none roll call please councilman B yes councilman Boyce yes Council Marty yes Council yes councilman H yes okay very ni of you Bill moving on to Old
business oh gosh if we have a brief upate on the um Orangetown data center update enormous data center they're proposing Building in Just across the state line all right so assuming everybody on the council is familiar
with the data center project already okay so what we're doing is we're currently writing a resolution um which states that all Japan is categorically against this data center being constructed that close to our town residents for a number of
reasons So to that end um one of the neighbors is meeting with the environmental commission tomorrow night and we'll be putting a pen to paper and drafting a resolution to be sent to Brian Giblin for um just improving whatever we write
right I we'll introduce that here uh our opposition to the project and U as much as we can we'll um somebody representing oan myself yourself um will attend an upcoming meeting in Orangetown and voice
our opposition one other thing that we've done is we've met with um Peter ardido who has a connection with realia water and he'll be reaching out to viia Water's board and informing them of the um impending uh application which is
directly adjacent to the reservoir as well so we thought that was a good strategy yeah I agree great okay thank you you're welcome all right moving on to new business uh councilman U ordinance 1274
d25 thank you Mr Mayor this will be the first reading of ordinance number 1274 d25 our snow removal ordinance resolution whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance to adopt a new chapter 204 of the code of the
buau of ultan to be titled snow removal was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and Council held on the 18th day of February 2025 now therefore be it resolved by the mayor and Council of the buau of ultan County of Bergen state of New Jersey
that ordinance number 1274 d25 B and the same is hereby adopted on first reading and be it further resolve that ordinance number 1274 d25 will be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the said mayor and Council to
be held on a third day of March 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the evening or soon thereafter as a matter can be reached in the council chambers at Burl Hall 227 ultan Road ultan New Jersey at which time and place all persons who may be
interested will be given an opportunity to be heard regarding ordinance number 1274 4-25 and be it finally resolved that the buau clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the introduction and
notice of hearing as required by law second all right any discussion amongst the Council on this ordinance I just want to let the public know that if they want to be heard about heard regarding this issue please show up in next
meeting have we uh I know one thing we discussed last meeting was to create a hardship for um you know for whether it's the elderly or disabled uh homeowners to be able to have we kind of gotten to the bottom of
that with this ordinance in introduction I think it's just going to be kind of like guidance um if you're having a hardship with it contact us and we'll figure out a way to um help you out who's the enforcement agent I think the police are and the D
not Mr drive around the town with the oral vehicle that guy the guy who drives around and tells you your lawn's too high I don't think so no I think it was the Super it was the DPW super and I think the police can we add something to the
website definitely just uh just call us and we'll figure it out we're hoping we only have to talk about this maybe next year starting um but yes we'll we'll add this to the website and um try get the word out as as best as possible it's funny
since you put it because I think you mentioned it in the in your update I did I must have gotten four calls saying you know all of them in favor of this yeah and I got a I got an email um from a resident um didn't know anything about it just saying why don't we have one I'm
like perfect timing how does this affect commercial property owners because I did see a few commercial property owners whose sidewalks were completely covered in snow and ice not they have to do it they have to make arrangements time okay good yeah as long as uh J if you're comfortable and the council's
comfortable that you know we're not looking to you know create a hardship for anyone and if they need some help whether it's the scouts which we talked about or uh brought something up Crill had some program there I I think if we can address it that way I think it's long overdue I can tell you the history
I mean years and years ago this came up few times from the public and we said No at the time because we didn't want to close a hardship somebody on the uh the middle of Birchwood Road some 80-year-old lady lives there no one walks there and you're going to make her
you know shovel her walking and we didn't think that was fair and at the time I remember Alan Bell researched it and said you know how many towns are bur County 72 everyone has except like we were the only one so there's two towns us and somebody else that didn't have that ordinance everyone had it and I
could tell you that most people that are moving into town assume we have the ordinance yeah so they clean in front of their houses anyway so one thing it entails too and uh uh Christine you might want to bring this back to the fire department is it does have a provision there uh for cleaning out
cleaning any fire hydrants if they're on your property or adjacent to your property so I think the if you can share that with the fire deparm and they they'd be happy are pretty Ste I saw them us their boots to kick a kick snow out of the way to to get to a hydrant um
couple weeks ago so I was like okay that was we have had a heavy winter so okay so I sound like we have an introduction in this I think I heard a second G did I hear a second okay uh you did roll call please councilman B yes
councilman Bo yes councilman Marty yes councilman M yes councilman you yes okay I'll entertain a motion to um open a meeting to the public so move second okay all in favor would anyone from the public like to come up and be heard
tonight hello name address just for the record hi Michelle Tang 5 eers Court I'm the president the current president of the old Jaan youth Council and I just want to give a little update on what we've been doing since December 2024 I believe so of course we've been working
with Mrs SOS to collect tennis balls and help with with sensitivity issues for people in the classroom um one of our members was spoke up about the snow shoving ordinance to to eventually get
it here and then the same person also works on pedestrian safety within the school and manag to get a sidewalk approved to make sure people can cross from one side of the road to the other without getting run over cross yes um we have one member who is
currently working with the ultan library um to create a volunteer opportunity within there they're currently waiting our response for that one member uh reached out to the northern Valley magazine and opened up a new section in
it it's called the youth writer section I believe and what they're doing with it is that they're hosting a writing competition within the school and the winner gets to be featured in the magazine and we have a couple members
and we also got a couple other students from school to attend the Orangetown planning board meeting to protest against Data Center and besides all of that um we are making sure that at least two members come to all of the Town bur
meetings and all of the Board of Ed meetings that happen and I think that that sums it up all right thank you for your all your support well thank you for for coming great job multiple numbers here it's great yeah
awesome anyone else hi Fred yesy 71 Drive uh I heard a little discussion on tonight amongst you all with this military friendly uh designation I'm the uh
chairman of our uh veterans board here in Alan have been for a couple years uh councilman voice is our Council representative councelor Marty thank you for your service thank you for your
service uh I think you're making a little bit too much uh of what this really is this designation just demonstrates to the community that you people
have uh incentives and support systems in place to provide support for uh veterans especially the veterans that uh live here in town uh I did speak to a number of the guys on the uh committee
earlier by email and by phone and unfortunately there's a American Legion meeting tonight that a bunch of the guys are also members of the Legion so they couldn't make it but they also wanted to hear the discussion on this uh military
uh friendly uh designation I think it's great I think it'd be wonderful for the town uh a little while ago we had a scout here and he's doing his Eagle project and you know it's a wonderful
idea it's a lot more expanded than what he talked about it's going to be you know box with a a nice surrounding landscaped uh area with it and the part you open it he's going to put a a
dedication to uh one of our uh veterans you know from this community on it that could be interchanged so it's not a permanent you know just Hing one veteran you know it could be any any number of
veterans and one thing I wanted to to say so maybe you get a little bit of a better idea of what a a veteran is and I can only give my own personal experience very quickly uh I I joined a service back in
uh the early '70s so I happen to go overseas in uh for a period of time I was in owwa and I met one of my jobs there was
to to greet returning veterans from Vietnam so I saw veterans in every type of condition uh imaginable uh thank goodness I uh didn't get deployed to go
there but when I came back I I had this immense sense of Pride and a real feel for for our veterans and I would put on my uniform and I'd walk around and this is the
70s and where it was a lot of objection to the to the war of Vietnam and I was embarrassed because I felt like people looking you know like it's not like it is
today and this is one example of how having this designation would make especially some of the older veterans uh feel about their community and where they live in and most of the
guys on our committee are Korean War and you know and newer like we got one guy left from uh World War II which we honored on Memorial day but we're also going to have an old Japan Veterans Day
service you we're not going to go to the high school where they have you know other towns with Liff Lake and uh Hillsdale uh you know included we're going to have our own ceremony which I think is fantastic in addition to the
high school yeah in in addition to not not like you know I have any objection to what the high school is doing I don't but I I think each Community should have their own Veterans Day Service as we have a memorial uh day
service so again I I think it's a great idea and I I really hope that we can get that done thank you thank you thank you hey Fred do you know anything about uh um the war memorial service in Township
next month I'll find out I my son-in-law's my son-in-law is a member of that group I was invited to a ceremony on the 29th so I want to be sure you guys are invited also I'll send you the inv okay uh anyone else from the public
like to be heard tonight motion to close second in favor I Mo I'll move second in favor hey we're adjourned thank you for coming out tonight we never do that well we never