now they won't quiet down good evening everyone boys and girls we have some Champion here all our homework done tonight I hope so all right in compliance with the open Public's meeting law notification of this meeting has been sent to our official newspapers
and other Publications circulated in the burough of ultan and notice posted on the bulletin board at burough Hall please be reminded that all of our meetings are video recorded and and publish to our uh posted on our website within the next day or so also please
note the fire exits are at the main door to my left your right as you enter tonight and in the rear of the council chambers uh roll call please mayor Gallagher here councilman here councilman Bo here councilman Guan here councilman Marty here councilwoman M
here councilman you please rise and Jo me to to the flag I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation God
indivisible justice for all all right tonight our first two orders of business are uh one of my favorite things that I get to do as mayor is is honor our our Champions that are among us um that's one of the best things I do and one of
the hardest things I have to do is make sure I get everyone's name right so bear with me there okay uh first we're going to um we're going to honor the ultan Sharks third and fourth grade soccer team raise your hand if you're on raise your
hand okay whereas the Sharks defeated Norwood in the quarters demeris in the semis and attained the championship by beating Harington Park in the in the finals now therefore I Thomas Gallagher mayor of the burough of ultan on behalf of the mayor and Council and our
residents honor the old Japan sharks third and fourth grade soccer team on their outstanding undefeated season and to hereby proclaim the admiration of our entire community and congratulate coach Paul
alip Oscar elip Aiden latat Andrew fan Bryce smitson Matthew Haley Gavin stabil Luke stabil I didn't say that right I guess miles Anderson Ryan Co Ryan Patel and Kai mun
congratulations [Applause] guys now you stand up and run around [Music] can I get in the
middle can I hold the trophy my neighbor he lives right behind me I never see him I never see me all good yes cam [Applause]
congratulations other Champions strange as it sounds there are other champions one in 2018 is that's all I know okay might be one right now next the next man we have the ultan seventh eighth grade
grade girls soccer team they here tonight I see any [Applause] hands okay whereas the ultan seventh and eighth grade girls soccer team defeated
Northville in the quarters cluster in the semis and secured the champion Ship by beating demist in the finals now therefore I Thomas Gallagher mayor of the burough of ultan on behalf of the mayor and Council and our residents honor the ultap pan seventh and eighth
grade soccer team on their outstanding winning season and to hereby proclaim the admiration of our entire community and recognize coach kahanov close Okay Reagan McNamara Skyler Park Ashley kov
Mila Klein Juliana d'angelus Isabella Isabelle Sheridan Jacqueline Chelli Sophia DeMarco Ariana Grandad Lydia Kim Elizabeth velotti
lyanna Deano Ashley vogliano Gianna Spinelli and Elizabeth Fang up up [Applause] is our coach here
congratulations up SM [Applause] congratulations coach minute break she will take a five minute recess if anyone needs to do homework otherwise you're locked in and get to
listen to all of our business matters tonight the kids want to stay no problem with that another conversation the third boy there's like 22 te like 22 see you Brian so if you do playoffs many
te we need to shut that door that's so cool where are worst noises Hooligans they're chaning forever star Starbucks Birch well thanks everyone for
staying um all right moving on to our um uh a public hearing tonight and it's on ordinance 1274 d25 uh snow removal regulations for councilman BAGI thank you Mr Mayor uh this is an ordinance for snow removal in
front of your homes and seeing that this is a second reading and final adoption i' like to open a meeting to the public second on that second all in favor hi would anyone from the public like to be heard on the on the our snow removal
regulations motion to close second on it second favor I councilman resolution whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance to adopt a new chapter 204 of the code of the borrow of alapan to be titled snow removal was introduced at a meeting of
the mayor and Council held on the third day of February 2025 now therefore it beat resolved by the mayor and Council B Vol pan County of Bergen state of New Jersey that said to ordinance number 1274 25b and the same is hereby adopted
on second second and 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 second on that second second any further discussion on this ordinance
change none Rollo please councilman BAGI yes councilman Boyce yes Council gu yes Council yes councilwoman Miss yes all right moving on to a resolution um this resolution is supporting uh Senate Bill
s465 amending affordable housing perspective need formula uh I have thean as council president ready to discuss that I am ready to discuss it yes please so essentially this is uh exactly as you said to support
s465 amending the affordable housing perspective need formula um it is extraordinarily lengthy um if you'd like I can read the entire thing uh otherwise I can just no it's on the table right if anyone do we have to read have to read by title no it's on the uh
it's on our website uh basically it will be right sure it will be will be Yeah so basically uh what what this uh what this Bill is saying is that we're asking U uh the legislation in New Jersey to kind of take a second look at um you know last
March I think it was I think it was a year ago um that the legislation passed what we feel is a very aggressive uh affordable housing numbers and what small communities are forced to uh are forced to build and Rehab um let me go on the record that ultap pan is
certainly not against affordable and and and moderate income housing for for folks um we just think the formula is broken we're asking them and many many other municipalities throughout New Jersey asking to them to take a second look at it um so um I can pull out one
interesting fact sure to support that uh one of the whereas is is uh whereas there already appears to be ample housing available to cover all households in New Jersey making the need for 84699 new units du be at best that's
that's a lot of units it's a lot of units that are available so anyway that's uh um that's are you introducing this as uh um yeah so I'd like to I believe I'd like to introduce now this resolution to support
s465 to amend the affordable housing perspective need formula into the record have a second second any uh any further discussion anyone have a comment uh any further comment on this sign roll call please counc yes
coun yes coun gu yesc Mar yes yes all right staying with our Council president Boyce uh our consent resolution please yes thank you this is from the burough clerk's office the consent resolution uh be it resolved
that the following resolution needs to be is placed on the agenda by consent requires no discussion and the same uh having been previously reviewed by each council person B and the B and are hereby adopted in the entirety by the
mayor and Council of the burough of vol depan bills and claims temporary emergency resolution transfer unexpected I'm sorry un unexpended unexpended 2023 appropriation Reserve balance to storm recovery Reserve uh
refund building permit fee Bond anticipation note loap list uh certification contract award fiser and Sun Company Inc Golf Course Maintenance uh change order number one and final Perry Street drainage improvements change order number one and
final 2024 road paving program change order number one Fred Street drainage improvements have a second on that second any discussion on our consent resolution seeing none roll call please councilman BAGI yes councilman Boyce yes
Council yes Council Marty yes Council yes all right do we have any new business to come before us tonight seeing none we'll move on to old business um you're a busy man tonight apparently so council president uh Boyce
you want to uh just open discussion on this and yes of course so this is uh regarding the data Bank uh that Orangeburg would like to place on a uh partially developed track of land adjacent to the old Japan border um it's
a contiguous piece of land with Lake depan it backs up to some of our residents who happen to be in the audience and uh it's a quite ambitious project they've already built one data center on the property they're looking to build another data centered a miror
image sister data center if you will and as well as a substation so um after speaking with members of the public after speaking with our environmental commission we've put together a draft uh
resolution opposing the application for the data Bank um Orangeburg Phase 2 lg-4 so should I just read it as a courtesy everyone get a chance to review the draft uh resolution for this so yeah
I would I would uh uh I would ask you to um uh if you're making a motion to read this into the record and and accept it and then and then we'll get a second on it and then we'll if you can read it for the public do we open to the public no no okay all right so I'd like to read it
for the public for uh adoption uh whereas the mayor and Council of the bur Vol depen have become aware of the um application for the data Bank Orangeburg Phase 2 lg-4 on property known as section uh
7315 block one Lot 19 in the town of Orangetown New York and whereas the proposal includes the construction of a data center as well as an electrical substation on the property and whereas the impact of the existing and proposed data centers on the property will
require 880,000 to 990,000 um megawatts of power or roughly the equivalent of 150,000 homes with additional existing and proposed data centers in the area we feel it places a heavy burden on the existing electrical
infrastructure and whereas the data center technology rapidly advancing um and make it possible that the existing designs will become immediately Obsolete and will have unnecessarily caused irre irreversible environmental impacts and
whereas the application includes a 70,000 foot outdoor electrical substation which will add further Industrial Level electrical infrastructure to the site which such massive infrastructure challenges to public Health's Public Health whereas an
understanding and concern is growing about long-term effects of el uh and increasing the potential uh precipitating or risk of otrii lateral sclerosis and other illnesses and whereas emergency services
in Old Jaan and Orangetown are both members um will be seriously challenged uh to extinguish a fire uh furthermore the impact of a potential fire could add toxic chemicals to the reservoir which
could make the re Reservoir unrecoverable whereas the lake depan Watershed and buffer will be impacted by sign significant disturbance and will render the ecosystem Services of these valuable lands ineffective this disturbance will
impact the local flora and fauna and reduce the water quality of Lake depan the impact of to Lake depan will Bridge States and all people and whereas the data center will have a significant visual impact on adjacent shared view
sheds including adjacent residential uses businesses and roadways and whereas the sound will emanate from each data center created by a proposed 60 AC units on the roofs and will degrade the
quality of life and will interfere with both people and Wildlife and whereas the data centers are not at permitted use in the Orangetown Loi Zone at the time of the original application submitted and
there's a few more whereas additional impervious coverage adjacent to the connected Watershed will impact everyone Downstream uh and whereas the visual and noise impact are unknown uh and should
the power go out there will be 24 generators running to keep the 120 HVAC units working operationally now therefore be resolved by the mayor and Council the burrow b depend that the burrow and its residents
strongly oppose Data Bank Orangeburg Phase 2 lg-4 project and the further resolved that copies of this resolution be delivered to the town of Orangetown town of Orangetown planning board us Congressman uh Michael Lawler
Rockland County Executive Edwin day legislator Thomas divany and Viola Environmental Services second second on that thank thank you any uh any discussion on this so I just want to
uh kind of comment that uh councilman Boyce with his environmental background his his Professional Services he has gone gone above and beyond um contacting Bergen Swan uh the Water Company uh
other environmental watch do groups as well and and everyone and everybody that he could tell how bad this thing could be for our local area um councilman voice has done that so kudos to you I I I I hope our our our comments hold some
weight um in New York um we can only hope and uh they usually don't they usually don't yes but we can on that planning board but we can try and we'll keep trying so uh so with those comments we have a um we have the motion
introduced we have a second uh roll call please yes councilman Boyce yes Council Guan yes Council Marty yes Council yes okay uh next I will entertain a motion to open the meeting to the public so
move would anyone from the public like to be heard tonight on on any matter sir sure thank you Dave Rosen come on up yeah please thank you first uh I want to thank you uh bill as well as mayor
Gallagher Tom uh for all all your support and of course as as Tom mentioned the all the work that you did to assist in terms of uh uh making this uh past this resolution related to Data Bank a reality so really appreciate that
um as per the comment earlier there's no doubt that this is going to be a difficult fight uh and so uh obviously we look forward to continue to work with you obviously resolutions are great but in the end uh we've got a lot of work to
do here both from a public standpoint I think the main point I just wanted to add to uh the comments I've already shared is just how uh to put into context just how significant is from a regional standpoint this is just not
just about the couple of uh ultap pan houses that are uh adjacent to this facility this is Lake toan this is uh uh a project that already uh spans uh
150,000 SQ foot existing data center they haven't even turned on yet which will consume 45 megawatt of power which is the equivalent to about 45,000 homes uh uh that that that would uh basically draw enough electricity to to light up
this next data center as Bill mentioned will be essentially a mirror image of it and at the end of the day um this is not where it stops there's already at on the orange town a they have apparently got it on on their um I forget what they
call the uh the specific um Charter or their uh town plans but they specif they have already approved uh the on a contingent basis um they've just uh signed a letter of intent to build uh to
sell 8 Acres of property that's going to be next to Data Bank to another private Equity company to develop another 30 megawatt data center that it thank that's not immediately next to Old Jaan but in the same general area we're all
served by Rockland electric or I I want to use the term served in quotes because again I know it's a difficult time but the power grid is not the most stable and these power these data centers will draw a tremendous amount of power and a lot of expense in terms of building
infrastructure that we all here and in New York will be paying for so whatever assistance anybody who is attending here or can give us in terms of reaching out to legislators more broadly just as importantly to the New York side because their position is as much as they give
us lip service is we don't have standing that's their position we're in New Jersey they're in New York that makes it sort of twice as difficult but again I really appreciate again uh the work that you've done thank you and we look forward to continue to work with you my neighbors and I and thank you for all
the service you provide more broadly thank you thank you very much would anybody else from the public like to be heard on any item tonight [Music] sir I have a
letter pleas oh yes my name Rob letter [Music] I have have one um so I was here about a year ago uh discussing uh field quality concerns uh for our Recreation Sports uh and more so
the Youth of our town I'm here again to to continue that discussion uh it's been uh a year and a half of my volunteer service with the rec committee and and through that time you know first first year for me was really understanding
process developing budgets seeing where our our cost exposures were and then obviously how to grow to uh the rec program and ensuring that we have a safe uh and good service area for our kids um
I've had made requests and comments before about Capital Improvement projects um it I know it's a it's a process and I know Rec Sports are not a they're more of a money sync versus a um a cash generating business for our town
but uh I believe we serve the kids here and that's that's my intent on this discussion so when I went through stuff last year we were able to get the DPW to uh Advance a a program to redo Gallagher field infield which worked out very well
um it did address a number of concerns it didn't fix everything but it did get us in a much better standing there uh this is something I want to continue with the other fields um I I found repeated issues uh at Chestnut at Stone Point and and we still have some issues
at Galler that we need to to look at um my big concern right now as you read through the letter is uh fence conditions uh primarily back stop issues um curling off fences you know there's Jagged points Nature has a way of just working
uh against any fence you put up nature will find a way to take it down right so so this isn't anything that people have done over time it's just a fact of having a facility and doing proper maintenance to the facility so there's a number of items there that we need to
look at right away um and take care of uh another item that I there's some wish list items that I have for fence uh fence extensions that certain areas would make better play uh ensure people safety around the fields um primarily at the 6090 field uh I know a lot of
parents s of Sidelines and there's really no safe place for the people watching the sporting events there to to uh watch the games um another issue is uh over course of time right uh Fields will sink they'll shift you know that's
just nature doing its thing so a process to to do that is obviously the easy thing is just to add dirt and take care of it but that's not really fixing the problem right we have to understand what's causing the problem whether we have to know what the topography is of the land what the soil perk issues are
so that way we can do a general understanding of what the field issues are and where we can fix them I think this is something that we have to look at for a longterm plan right because you can't just say the fields were established 15 20 years ago and not keep
doing a proper maintenance program with them you do it for buildings you do maintenance for HVAC utilities within a structure you upgrade roofs you do things like that so this is something I think we really need to start developing and introducing as part of our long-term plan here um walking around you know
there's visual items you know I know the batting cage is are not a pretty concept for for the general public I do believe there's ways we can soften them up with some landscaping around those I know there's some rework that needs to be done I have been very good with the DPW
and and working with them in my short one and a half years here so I've been trying to systematically take pieces of like bites of the Apple to get things done and just do a complete this is too much work Rob we can't do this in in this time and I have to give them things
that I feel are important first and then make that list so I I know the batting cage is something that I um people have been questioning it is a needed a needed tool for for our sports program and you know it's something that we do need and value that is how do we make it better
for the general public as we see that area um also on that list and this is just something that I saw I figured I'd bring it up here uh there is some roof conditions at at the Gazebo and the municipal building at Stone Point so
when I was looking around uh visually it's just the something different with the wood it just doesn't look like it was maintained looking closer um I noticed that there wasn't a proper drip cap installed at the roof so water's basically shedding off the roof going right on top of the fasia and it's
causing pre uh it's shortening the life cycle of that of the wood structure there causing wood rot it's just ugly in my simple simple language right so that's something that you know I know I we're not going to fix right now but I just
want to bring it up to your attention because you know that's a it's a beautiful building that we have over there two of them they get used for many activities throughout this community not just for our short baseball season when we do our our our uh opening day but Camp Serendipity uses it the soccer uses
it it's used during the summer uh for basketball and you know Town day we're all over there so you know I want it to look nice for the people of the town and that's you know something you see and it's you know the building's not painted it's not maintained it's you know it just doesn't show as well as it should
so you know I think that's something that we have to take a look at right um that's really my two sents here it's like you know I want to I want us to get together and really make this happen um you know I'm not familiar with introduction of budgets and that process
for the town but you know it's I'm going to start coming more often to V vocalize that stuff and really get that into play um my last thing is you know I I had some issues in the this past year I don't want to go into full details of
all those but we've had issues with unired payments because of structure with the town something I have to work more closely with you guys on to resolve we're basically going to be hamstrung by the end of this season on on having umpire sers uh another issue that we
have is uh budget Appropriations I think collectively we need to look at how much we're putting into the rep program as a whole as example we baseball gets about $1,000 plus or minus maybe it's 1,25 we get charged from the town for
our community service application 750 so that leaves it $250 on top for we we get to then assess on how we can use that um doesn't really cover a whole lot barely covers ice pack and things of that nature right so I
believe funding for rec programs that parents pay for should pay for um equipment right balls uni uniform gear catcher equipment umpire payments lme for the field stuff like that that
we need to to do that I believe the town's responsibility is the other components right field maintenance um fence upgrades batting cages updates like those are things that we cannot fund through a rep program those are things that have to be looked at
holistically through the town um I had one other item that I wanted to discuss and bring up which is just like we're volunteers right so we're we're required from the town to go through a an application to get background checked and with that it's a it's a great
process I don't have a complaint about doing that but my my complaint is that we're basically telling the parents that you're volunteering and now you're responsible for this application fee it's the nominal fee it's like 65 it might be up more now it's been a year or two since I've done that I think this is
something that the town should be responsible for you know we're volunteer if we were Town employees and we were we were required to do this I'm pretty sure it would be a town requirement that the to would have to pay for that so I don't see the difference and why I don't understand the difference why we treat
it that way and it said the other way um I think I covered most of the stuff on my I didn't want to read it word for word I wanted you guys to kind of do it I have a lot of pictures that I took I walked the site for about two hours the other day I know Christina has also
walked the site she she advised me she did that uh prior as well Council woman Christine sorry um yeah I mean I value the stuff that we do here I value what the town provides I just want to like I said last year when I was here I want to get it to the next level and then
maintain it at that level that's my important said a lot I wrote some notes yeah uh couple of things uh you mentioned about the budget process and all that so so we've spent uh this this Council spent the last uh uh six or seven Thursdays
going through line by line our budgets from from every Department uh some of it you know we the budget has not passed yet so I I can't really comment but some of the things that you mentioned there were addressed in our in our budget process um we are hopeful that they fit
into uh what we want to do there um Christine I'm sure you can you know when the time is ready you'll you'll communicate uh what was in there but some of the things that you have that you have in this letter here uh are addressed like fencing and batting cages and things like that uh I made a note
about the roof I'm not a roofer but our U the responsibility of our bur on buildings is uh is our is Danny braberry our DPW superintendent so we'll make sure that we let him know that uh there's concerns on the on on the condition of the roofs and uh he's
pretty proactive on coming back to us and saying Hey listen we're all for uh prolonging you know the life of these buildings and Facilities so if there's money we have to put into to a roof or something or lighting I mean I don't know if a roof is 100% necessary at this
time repl yeah I don't know either typically you know you see signs of it it's it's only a matter of time before the next thing goes right and it's always easier spend a couple dollars wors $100 and that's that's my point the Empire issue I've heard that before I I
think somehow that's a financial thing I can comment it's it's not just a baseball thing it's uh remember our auditor made recommendations about how we disperse uh umpire or referee fees right I'm in the middle of the soccer and we have the same issues or very similar issues this past year and it's
been difficult there are I mean we've been talking to the auditor been talking to Jesse about different solution it is less convenient than it used to be but we have to do it because our auditor um it's the town auditor right so it's like the police of finance and so we have to
abide by those rules to make sure that people are paying so for example referees and umpires you know they like to take the cash and not report it our auditor says we need a W4 from those umpires ref reeson it just it is what it is it has to be that way and we can't
get around that so uh soccer is working on it I'm sure baseball it's a fairly difficult thing to do but there are solutions that we can come up with yeah I mean that's we we were able to accommodate this season but know the the process I was told was that this season
after this season the process will not be accepted and I did go through three separate other assigners to work with us two one was not able to serve us he he does serve HP and cluster and whatnot he works with those commissions uh he
wasn't able to take us on another one St flatouts just said no didn't give me an explanation why uh the one we have right now has been working with us but you know he he does comment that our process here is more regiment and more strict than neighbors so I don't understand
what what's different with us and our requirement if we were to follow the same statutes from the other towns through the state I I I don't know but that I'm just saying that's that's the other towns are about three three of the surrounding 10 towns that are as strict as us it's only because our auditor had
that one check and went through our finances and says no we shouldn't be doing it that way that doesn't mean the other towns are doing it correctly it just means that they have not come up with they haven't noticed that Etc so we share ordor I I don't I don't want I don't want to rat out any other towns I don't
want to R out any other we're working on on options to identify okay independent assigners that we could pay direct and then they they're responsible to pay the Umpire I don't know if that's an okay process it's something I need to discuss more we can we can chat offline but yeah
it's it's just been it's been a headache and a half and I spent close to 30 40 hours trying to go through this and you know at some point I got to throw my hands up and be like I don't know what to do if I could speak to that and I'd say you did spend a lot of time on that
as did Jesse an and I and with what we were given we we made what I thought was a very responsible plan to have the new Google sheet and they could sign up for it um we do have to look at you know like you said well why is our town doing
it this way and others aren't from what I've talked to I've talked to a lot of other towns Rec departments they're going to be coming over to our system soon because that sooner or later this is going to be something that happens and if you I just wanted to clarify because you said they the people you
talked to said they weren't going to even be able to assign for you yeah there's other options we could train people I think one of our own Recreation uh members had said okay well then we could train people to become umpires I think we don't want to get in a situation where we're allowing them to
dictate a lot of the names on the list are guys that I I coach baseball at the high school not softball baseball and a lot of the guys who are on our list or guys who do a game for us at 4:00 and then go to the town game they have to submit all that tax stuff through the high school so for them to strong on and say well I'm just not going to do it
it's not that they're the only UPS do we love them sure have they been doing it for a few years yeah but I'm not uh comfortable with them dictating how our recreation department operates and I'm not going to go under the radar on something just because they don't want
to submit a I'm not looking to not follow the rules and rs that all right re work together to come up with a it's just no it has I agree with you it's been a lot of time and putting our brains together coming up with something
that as you pointed out might not even work beyond the season like it's for this season okay it's in place but going forward because like court side it's not just for baseball you're right like we have to this is going to be something for soccer so so um I just wanted to to speak to that to
let everyone know that you know it's on my radar as well we've been working through it and um we'll continue with that discussion so one other note I had here and um uh I mean I'm a big proponent of of of training uh First Responders are close to my heart um but background
check in the fee you say that our volunteer coaches are responsible for that fee guessing it's 65 or so is that do they have to be recertified every year or is this are we doing they're new our requirement right now and I I can double check but it's the New Jersey
application that we have to do through Rucker safety program is is a lifetime application there soccer has has done where they are looking to do a a yearly or by yearly something like that they're they they're discussing that um the background check the actual
fingerprinting where you you go through the the police department and you know we were pushing to have it here but the closest one we had to go to I think was the new city um that one at the one at that time was only at the time of your application I think that's something that probably should be done you know
can we it might it might be police or Anna do you know that no I think they use we used to we used to it's party we used to do it and then it used to be paramis so if again I don't know if you answered my question right or maybe misunderstood it um so it's not
like every year every coach um needs to be recertified for let's call it $65 it's the it's the new ones it's the ones that are coming and it's like I have to send it out to them and let them know it's like you want a volunteer services great and I let them know right away this is a requirement through the town I
copied a link from our town uh webs do we know on average how many a year if you had a guess we average about 10 to 15 at highend 20 for per se per per sport division right it's typically the the kindergarten first and second grade
and then their children get to be eighth grade they're out we have the kindergarten house the initial taste right it's it's a sour taste in your mouth it's like so I I think that's shows a good incentive to to come help yeah and just thinking out loud it's uh
listen personally it's it's a council decision but you know the i' love to look for a way to cover that uh I don't know if we need five coaches per team you know and it's you know the one guy or mom or dad that shows up for for one game and we just spent that money on
them it's but the ones that are really GNA you know lead our kids to these championships that we saw tonight those I'm I I don't think it's necessarily the money from from what I've seen from soccer I think it's the convenience right so there's been a huge decline in volunteerism right and so when you're
trying to get your coach is right you know they're on the margin whatever and then now you say oh by the way you have to go get you know background check fingerprint and pay $65 no right so you know 20 years ago everyone would be signing up for this nowadays it's it's like pulling teeth to get volunteers now
we did definitely need this question if we can make it more convenient for them so let's say we have one day here where everyone can get fingerprinted better than going to New City right and saying yes maybe the town reimburses half or something and come on this one day it makes it a lot more conven I think
convenience more than the cost is the issue yeah I don't think there's a parent out there that doesn't want people going through background checks I right we have to do it but can we make it more convenient all right let's we can we can look into that you know if there's a way to do that and I don't I started I don't
think a firefighter should be paying out of pocket to to take a training course to be a firefighter in ult Jaan as a volunteer so uh that's along the same lines so I I happen to agree with you so we'll see if we can see if we can work that out okay apprciate all right um
that's all I had can we speak a minute about the condition of the fields please yeah um so they're more than 35 years old because I played Little League baseball at Chestnut and that b and Gallagher field before it was Gallagher
field oh so that's kind of I played ball there in the 60s I'm proud of the field I know we I know that there's been discussions on um drainage or whatever over the years and I'm not an expert at FS but I am I am compared to I've
remember as a kid playing and uh even adult softball in other towns and I think our fields are in pretty good shape could some be better sure um yeah I'm I'm going to suggest that if we could use the dpw's gis system and then create a map of different improvements
that we could make okay that way we have a plan and we can chip away at it over time as budget season comes we can allocate certain funds to working on different areas I know that our town engineer Tom scrael and I and Guy carnaza fixed a lot of the drainage over
at Stone Point at one point by uh building a it was kind of like a um trench drain along the outside of the field that brought the water around before that it was much worse I'm sure there's many more small things that need to be done that was done with grant
money so if we know these things ahead of time we can apply for Grants and hopefully get some but let's get it on a plan so we can have a long-term approach that's good good call good call thank you so I can work with Jen on that and Andy to get it on a plan we can use your photographs
that you put here we'll link the photographs to the plan in GIS which will give that'll be really good thank you any inten for the kids in town to have the best programs available to we work hard for them good well thank you for thank you for what you do thank you
so anything else before we let Rob go thank you sir thank you [Music] thank anyone else from the public like to be heard ma'am please name Chan first name Qi last name f
n uh 34 cor way thank you thank you um first of all I want to like to thank everyone your support about our uh case the data Bank um so I just want to give a little bit more information here see if that can be some background
information to support that um so the Bloomberg building right behind our house so the noise level is get increasing significantly um and does it hum it hums
right hums yeah right yeah yeah it's I drove past in Orangeburg just and I shut my my my vehicle off I just sat there said oh that does help yeah anyway go ahead I'm sorry no we couldn't even open the window in in in the spring or
or fall or summer because it's too loud and they run every every Saturday they run from morning to the late afternoon and recently I even once one Thursday I I hear that started like 7 o' in the morning um it's just the and they're
cutting trees behind our backyard and they said because of the fair Hazard um but it's not going to help reduce the the the noise level so just want give a little more information like that and see if that can be
useful I can I'll be happy to add a few more whereases and to my list thank you that's all thank you thank you very much thank you anyone else from the public like to be heard sir good evening hi I've been here
before do you have question for the records Peto Harrington Park um chairman of environmental commission and vice chairman of the planning board please um bill and I had a discussion I know you haven't talked about exactly what this lady was talking about that plant over
there I just want to go over a little bit about this three years ago when that was first being considered I went to the planning board meeting in Orangeburg to he because as a representative Bergen Swan and during that meeting um they
talked and then they opened it to the audience and somebody from old Japan raised their hand and went up there and explained the concerns they had and basically they were told to be quiet and go away because since they lived in New Jersey and old Jaan they had no standing
there which obviously is very wrong I mean that person lived on the board so they were going to be adversely affected by this and very rude by the way very rude I know that at least in my plenty board and I'm sure in yours you would not deal with somebody in the same way
um so anyhow I know that um our state senator Scapes had gone to that meeting and a number of us spoke to her afterwards outside and she said she would into it but to my knowledge I don't know of anything that she did um
and this is now ongoing and I understand that they're going to expand on this as well and the concern I'm having and I brought this up and I the last minute I went to spoke to you about the extra water going Downstream and affecting those towns like mine that are
Downstream and now receiving more flooding than we have in the past um and this is something that I'm not really sure how we can go and rectify this one thing I I spoke to Bill about was that maybe we need to go a little bit higher up and maybe get our um Federal members
of the house gimer and on the other side it's laer um maybe if we can get some Mayors and people together and see if we can get the two of them together and try to help us on this because you know we don't want extra water we don't want
trees being cut down that are going to have negative effects I know that during that meeting three years ago they were talking about there were some Eagle nests in that area and they didn't seem to have any concern about that and they were just cut down so I mean as an environmentalist I don't over pound on
that but I am concerned about just doing the right thing and I think that you know old Japan will be as negatively affected on this as your residents are from the noise and other things and you may get some flooding from this as well from what they're doing um but it's just
it's a concern and one thing I would like to suggest besides maybe trying to reach out to our federal Representatives but also that Mayors um you know my mayor June and yourself other local Mayors around here maybe get together
with some the environmental commissions and try to work together on this um I did reach out to Matt seramy who is the wers chef manager for violia but he handles New Jersey he doesn't handle the New York side but he is going to reach
out on that side and I'm going to have a meeting with him and try to find out what they can do as well but I mean the key thing here is that I just want to open myself I'm dilling on have a good discussion I would like to open myself to assist in any way I can because again
as much as I am concerned about Harrington Park I'm concerned about your town of travel it's the environmental issue so I'm happy here to help in any way I can I mean I have a good relationship with Dave you're chairman of the environmental commission and I've reached out to um holworth and um I know
somebody in Westwood so I have a couple of environmental comms that I do have contact with so again if we can just get something where we're all together and this is something that we can work with on a state level and if we have to on a federal level just to do the right thing
and that's all this is concerned about you just reminded me about the Hackensack River Keeper also yes so we can work with with that group as well that's right um because you know watersheds don't respect town and state boundaries we're
all connected so um I think the hackin rer keeper is a perfect conduit for that explanation to uh Orangetown thank you for coming in today appreciate it thank you thank you thanks for the meetings we've
[Music] had would anybody else from the public like to be heard on any item tonight motion to close second second heard all in favor I motion to adour don't move second I all right we're
adjourned we'll go right into our executive meeting roll call please mayor here Council B here Council here here here here counc okay first Engineers report Tom
you're up just a couple quick updates uh our tax maps have been sent down to the state for their review we expect some pretty lengthy comments not that there's a lot wrong with the tax maps necessarily but um
we've been through this process once before and and they're very particular about how they look line weights um fonts things like that so there's going to be a lot of cleaning up of those maps to do but um with the reval coming up we we don't have much choice so we're in
the middle of that proc process or we're starting that process now um Perry Street and the Wolf dot projects um we're finalizing those plans and specs now based on some dot comments um probably we'll be bidding those if not
the end of this month in April um and then the last project I was going to mention is the 2025 burrow Paving program um we've come up with a list of streets for that it includes Perry the library parking lot which the Bur would would be reimbursed for from
the library um Charles Pine grve Irving Firehouse parking lot Leonard Senior Center parking lot and Dearborn Drive is that both sides of Charles no this side of
Charles this where am I uh okay your side my side your side of right Old Farm yeah just have the two water no we don't want to do it too quickly afterwards um we can work with the water
company to get more done obviously but it's not on the Burrows ping us so Tom you spoke to the library and they agreed on was it is it price charge back or how Kimber Kimberly came by the other day she did um yeah she just came by for do you know where
came but she walked around and we we said then I I gave her the numbers and everything so she's she's aware of it um didn't seem like it was it was close to what they had said but she'll get okay so yeah cuz the there's a board meeting
on the 12th so they'll probably discuss it then okay she had that the only thing she wanted some ex she has a problem because everybody keeps going into the handicap Park I gave her a solution so she figures if she puts in the handicap
tiets wres down don't park here I tell her I don't know if that's going to work told her to put up two Co so this is during school pickup and drop off that parents are going into the handicap spot sitting there for 20 minutes wow and they coming out um and
doesn't like it so I recommended putting two cones there or you know couple of tall cones so they can't do it and then remove them when school pickup is over right like how many people need to park there do it only because then they go and park in the Striped area yeah yeah
and then they they actually just pull it so you have the driveway they pull in right to the side they stand right there she says they just flip you they don't care maybe it's a 305 drive-thru by one of
old depen's finest I mention that I think you should really come tell I'll talk to them about it yeah they don't want to they're for warnings you know what a warning might help she was very nice ni she came
around to met everyone so Central LA uh County update anything yeah I met with them um it's actually a tough spot to find a
crosswalk that um you have slight distance so they had some ideas I was going to get back to them with an aerial view so that we could kind of um collaborate on it and come up with some um keep me if you want me to meet with
you I work in that building so I can meet you yeah it kind of spells itself out honestly um we could easily get one all the way up by the new tow houses but it does yeah that doesn't really serve the purpose because it's you know as
soon as you come around the bend off of chestnut that's where I'm assuming people want AC cross because you're you're at that south end of the school yeah it's it's yeah there's two spots there is the one by AA could use it because kids from AA and from be Enclave
that's where they cross and then you are correct at that awful curve where nicker roacher is on to the right um that's where kids cross and they just shouldn't be but that's where they I mean I have video of it every day that because if they live in
Winding Creek that's their way to get home it's off I videotape it every day saying please I tell them I like I'm that lady that stands there and says like you need to wait go to but there's no cross so they're just literally in the morning and afternoon but there is no you're right there's no sight line
because there's that curve but that can't be our answer of like well like Frogger good luck to you getting across like I'm just trying to think realistically what about what about Parker place or what about what were you going yeah there I was going to say exactly that there's really I think
there's two choices there there's a possibility of one near nickach if we took a pretty large tree down it gives you it gives you significantly more sight distance or
you've got to push it down further closer towood Parker or you know towards chestna come meet me at I'll show you yeah I mean in this case I'd rather have safety than a tree there and we can plant more trees but it's our tip yeah
and I'll lay those two options out on a little plan I just I have not quite done it yet but it's it's on the thank you agenda yeah keep councilwoman M she's very passionate it's just I'm I just it's it's hard to watch every morning and every afternoon it really is it's
not it's no one's fault it's no fault yours it's a county road right it's just very difficult to to see these kids running across traffic and they're going to do what they're going to do exactly so we I could put you could put it at Parker you could put it at AA they're going to stay they're going to cross
where they want to cross anyway but we have to make a real best effort Maybe maybe the you know Police Department after school can you know sit there and just see what I'm talking about about what's going on there I think we talked about this cops library now that we
don't have enough uh safety is a concern safety is a concern yeah or or a tunnel tunnel and the Burrow's responsibility on that would be to put the the ramp infrastructure in the handicap ramps in and then the county will do the striping
and even the advanced signage they would do the Advanced Sign not the the light lighted ones they'll do the they'll do the standard ones okay you know crosswalk ahead what about by the Exxon station any uh discussion on that
with anybody no I'm not aware of another County Road okay okay I have a wild idea that I just want to run by you only because we're thinking about doing as part of our um Master planning um
an overlay Zone with some different areas and possibly adding some design parameters I don't know if it's even possible mechanically but is there any way that you could just kind of walk us through what you would do if some crazy
person suggested maybe burying all the power lines that run up and down ultan road is that even like remotely possible well it in a County Road it would be the the power company would have to do it yeah yeah from what I I know and I'm not an expert it's a
bazillion dollars a foot I don't know how much it is to do it but it's czy crazy and who pays for it, a foot something like that I kind of mentioned you know be nice if they put
under no not who said that roin oh well don't call me on but it was a like you said like gazillion thous when the village was built pretty sure when they built the village and they did it all underne they didn't want so you can you can see where it starts and where it ends uh and they were on ground but it
was it was a fortune and I think the P the developer paid for that there's certain parts of town that don't have poles also sure yeah yeah there's a few streets like how how hard is it like to do retroactive like everything is
already Greenwood Church on this everything's underground but you we do have fire fires there occasionally and it's really hard to get to that fires underground yeah man shortage you know as a short somewhere because that's that neighborhood's been built in the 60s
right so underground cables was way ahead of their time and uh but we in not a lot but every once in a while there's a fire there you can't get to it well if we're going to be going for a grant maybe that could be part of the grant but um the whole gr it could be all of it
but it's all private infrastructure it's not you know the burrow doesn't have any control over that over private gas electric like it's on r private meaning C who would have to fund it and then
it's a BPU issue to to because they'd have to get a rate increase in order to pay for it um there's a lot of not only the money I think there's a ton of red tape that goes along with it also yeah is the red tape even you know surmountable or is it just literally
impossible it sounds like huge yeah I think the money I think it comes down to the money yeah I I don't have any idea what kind of rate increase they would have to implement but my guess is it would be pretty significant and people just wouldn't stand for it how do we get
a a number on that I I understand that it would be a rate increase and it would be this and that but how I guess they'd have to know what you're proposing well when they did the very everything from the wolf to Washington when they upgraded this the substation um on Orange Road North yeah
they dug a trench all the way to cler they went underground all the way out of town all the way through Norwood all the way to cloter yeah I I can email I think his name is back house from onor John back house uhuh who was in charge of that project and might he might share some of those numbers yeah and I could ask the folks at Kramer what they would
charge for a mile and a half of underr conduit it all right thanks for entertaining that question th I appreciate I'm curious too I'll ask him the question I mean think about it if there were no power lines through the center of old Japan and you know we do an overlay Zone
it would and we're doing new streetcape it would look much better than if we do a beautiful streetscape with all these telephone poles and wires they're all crooked all over the place up Washington it's rock yeah swies yeah after PC is on the west side of
town west side of town oh that makes it cleaner so much more convenient thank you any other challenging questions for engineer anyone I think he said crazy started with can I start with crazy thank you thank you Tom thank you
all right let's go to our Council committee's report we're going to start with councilwoman misso tonight thank you Mr Mayor uh so leing arts and and Rec some fun upcoming dates Easter egg hunt is April 12th opening day is April
26th Town day September 6 our first planning meeting for Town day is Wednesday March 12th at 7 pm in the basement of the Senior Center contact Gloria or myself if you're interested in joining our town Day committee or donating towards sponsorship fire
department 43 engine is back in service but experiencing an issue with the brakes Tom J Jung is looking into it uh our fire department tonight is out on a a training uh call for the next hour two so I will be meeting up with them after
to debrief on how that goes and lastly the youth Council again had m members here tonight that was Matthew Manelli and alen Co and I want to thank them uh for their work as a group uh each week particularly in researching the Orangetown data bank and attending Orangetown meetings with their busy
schedules this is certainly commendable uh I meeting with the youth Council again this Thursday March 6 at the library at 5:00 pm and at this meeting we're discussing upcoming Community projects such as snack stand for games volunteer opportunities with seniors in our community and volunteering for Town
day and that's all I have thank you Mr Mayor thank you uh let's go down to councilman Guan thank you Mr Mayor uh some quick comments uh on the library there was a very nice article in the northern Valley
Living magazine about Susan's retirement and uh her accom accomplishments uh Kimberly our new director is planning to attend the Ala conference in Philadelphia uh for her it'll be good to uh Network and have uh maybe get some growth opportunities here
for our library since it's our first uh year here uh councilman BAGI had a gardening class last week did that go excellent yeah how many uh had about 25 25 yeah and it's the best audience ever as seniors they have the best wow they
have normal questions and they're real actually interested in everything excellent thank you and they thank you very much uh for that you're welcome uh they're excited about the read Across America with the fire police mayor and councel coming up um then final numbers
door numbers right uh we won't know them until the board meeting on March 12 uh but remember the carpet uh installation the library was closed for a week so those will be lower uh for the month of February uh in terms of OEM Andy met
with the fire and EMS uh this past uh few weeks met with the superintendent and business administrator for the OT schools he also met with the Orange and Rockland Rico uh concerning the Harring Corner
substation uh he met with the high school regarding their Emergency Operations plan as well as Viola and he met with the uh d uh for the Harding sewer pump number one to get that project uh up and running and then in terms of Finance
Jesse just reminded me that our temporary Bond got bonded got funded at a lower slightly lower interest rate than we had been uh paying before so that's uh that's good obviously we're worried about uh higher interest rates right if the if we have higher inflation
we might have higher interest rates at some point but getting this uh rate a little bit lower uh helps every little bit and that's the uh end of my report thank you K uh councilman morning thank
you uh starting with schools not too much the report they had a meeting on the 24th where they uh The Honorable recipients received all their Awards a lot of happy 7th and 8th the z b and right now they are currently in contract negotiations with the
teachers union and uh more to follow on that um Board of Health more fun news uh currently the CDC is investigating a vaccine averse event uh for hospitalizations for cardia excuse me cardiac and neurological events
following the chicken G vaccine what exactly I had to look it up because I had never heard of it but hey I got the report so I'm going to report it uh chickun G anyway um yeah 65 and olders uh
individuals are the ones that um it's been actually affecting um there was a confirmed I'm sure everybody's heard in the news confirmed measles case and Burton County um post international travel it's only one it's been contained um but it is one of our local hospitals um so just uh you know keep an eye out
for high fevers any rashes and if you do call your doctor uh and uh good news is uh flu cases in the state have seen a slight decrease RSV continues to decrease as well uh and the border of health is actually uh looking to schedule a blood drive in town um it's
still preliminary so we're trying to figure out uh when and where it's going to happen so as soon as I find out I will let you know um first a Corp we have a couple members here thanks for coming um 32 total dispatches for the month of uh February uh we were able to
get 25 of those calls um staffed and out of the um total 32 calls seven were for Mutual a so 25 were actually in town seven Mutual a and in uh all total we were able to get 25 of those staff um the first a core is currently in process
of reprogramming their pagers to bifurcate their tones into a duty and a general page which I think is going to be great for them uh the goal there is to encourage more members to keep their pages on at night um kind of separating who's on duty and um as opposed to
General call so not everybody gets woken up um and this will go live March 10th um further EMS first a Corps will be participating uh in the St Patty's Day Parade uh in our neighbors here in Rockland County and Po River uh later on this
month uh and that is what I have to report for now thank you all right councilman BAGI yes Mr Mayor uh as far as police department goes you may or may not have seen uh advertisements on Facebook or other social media that we are now hiring
there's an advertisement out there it's also posted on uh Common Police posting boards social media in the state of course we're hiring a new new Patrol person we have the the trollman you just
swore in like two meetings ago is on the road being trained now he's with the field training officer and seems to be picking up on things really well doing really well um so that's really all I have I'll have a complete report for your actual police report at the third meeting one
more thing yes sir my daughter had a baby Saturday congratulations hey wow so a everybody's good yep number 11 11 11 all right ulations congrats uh council
president Bo thank you Mr Mayor I promise it'll be brief the golf course uh I had a call from Ray Donnelly and we've decided to start a new uh process to slowly improve the course uh which we're going to call the monthly
maintenance milestones and we're going to be work with working with the super over there because there are slight improvements that we can nudge the course better every month and uh I just think he needs those Direction so I'm taking a golf cart ride later this week
or next week and I invited Christine to come with me yes of course yeah sure love to we could all we could have a parade um and the veterans we are pleased to announce that we raised um money for a scholarship for an nvot
deserving senior and uh we got that done that concludes my report thank you um very brief comments for me tonight before we close is that uh really looking forward to putting our uh finishing touches on our 2025 Municipal
budget uh a lot of hard work from uh this Council and from our CFO and bur administrator and all our department heads to uh put that plan together so I'm looking forward to getting that kind of passed within the next um four weeks or so do you have that meeting date uh
we don't have a meeting at with Jeff right I know you would have told me I'm I'm just afraid I miss that uh and the other thing I'm really looking for forward to over the next several months we talked about a number of times is putting together our our our housing element plan uh We've submitted our
number uh to the Department of Community Affairs on uh what we feel is a somewhat responsible um uh low and moderate number that we could um that we could handle over the next decade uh and it's a matter of now putting that together
and how we're going to do it so I look forward to working with our attorney uh the county our planner and the planning board is to put um um put this plan together to address the uh um our needs so uh that's
the end of my report so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so move second second all in favor we are adjourned thank you