Okay, good evening everyone. In compliance with the open public's meeting law, notification of this meeting have been sent to our official newspapers and other publications circulated in the burough of old Japan 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 also please note the fire exits are at the rear of the council chambers and the door that you entered in this evening. Roll call, please. Mayor Gallagher here. Councilman Bon here. Councilman Voice here. Councilman War here. Councilman
Marty here. Councilman here. Councilman here. Rise. Join me to the salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. [Music] Okay. Our first order of business tonight is our consent resolution for council president voice. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Be resolved that the following resolution was placed on the agenda by consent require no discussion at this time having been previously reviewed by
each council person. Uh B and are hereby adopted in their entirety by the mayor and council of the Burough Japan. Bills and claims waiver of 2025 budget reading 2025 budget self-examination 100% disabled veteran tax
exemption award bid to Wolf Road section 7 award bid Perry Street phase 2 a second on that second any discussion on our consent resolution seeing none roll call please yes yes yes
Marty yes Yes. Councilman. Yes. Okay. We have two public hearings tonight. Our first being our 2025 municipal budget adoption and that is for Councilman Guang. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, this is the adoption for uh the
budget for the year 2025. Um, I'd like to open it up, I guess, for public uh comments. Second on that. Second. Second. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on our municipal budget? Seeing none, motion to close. Second.
Second. Okay. Councilman. So be it resolved by the council members of the borrow of Pan County of Bergen that the budget herein before set forth and is hereby adopted and shall constitute an appropriation for the purposes stated of the sums therein set forth as
appropriations and authorization of the amount of $6,892,788 for municipal purposes and $183,81 for open space, recreation, farmland, and historic Our preservation trust fund levy.
Is that second? All in favor? Roll call. Roll call. Roll call. Council. Yes. Council Voice. Yes. Council. Yes. Council Marty. Yes. Councilwoman Visero. Yes. Councilman. Yes. Okay. Our next public hearing is
also for Councilman Gu. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is the second reading of our uh of the ordinance uh ordinance number 127925 uh to uh fix the salaries and wages of officers of the employees of Altapan of the burrow.
Second on that second to open up to the public. Okay. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on ordinance 1279-25? Motion to close. Second. Okay. Councilman. Uh this is ordinance number 1279-25. It's the second reading and
final adoption of the 2025 salary ordinance. Uh the resolution is whereas an ordinance titled an ordinance to fix the salaries, wage and compensation of the officers and employees of the borrowan county of Bergen, state of New Jersey for the year 2025 was introduced
at a meeting of the mayor and councel held on the 21st day of April 2025. Now therefore be it resolved by the mayor and council of the borrow of altapan county Bergen state of New Jersey that said ordinance number 1279-25B and the same is hereby adopted
on the second final reading and be it finally resolved that the borrow clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the note of adoption as required by law. Second. Okay. Any further discussion on this? Okay. None. Roll call, please. Council B. Yes. Councilman Boyce. Yes.
Councilman Guan. Yes. Councilman Marty. Yes, Councilwoman. Yes. Council. Yes. All right. Do we have any new business before us tonight? Seeing none, let's go to old business. Um, let's go to uh first, let's go to
the proposed ordinance amendments for Councilwoman Misero. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I think we had brought this up last time and I just wanted to open for continued discussion among us. Um I was uh only able to just
get the numbers today from Chief Anders as he was away. So um maybe we just hear from each other about where we stand on this. Nothing urgent or pressing right now. I just I wanted a chance to review some of the data before we um yeah move
forward with that. What anyone else has to say besides me? What what numbers? Aren't we talking about changing where you live? Yeah, they were looking for some activity numbers. I mean, I I correct me if I'm wrong. We're we're uh we're looking at changing the ordinance
to allow our current fire officers, our lieutenants, captains, deputy, and chief to hold a uh similar position in another uh municipality. So currently, as uh the audience might not know, our our fire
officers u by ordinance are only allowed to be an uh an officer with theftd because it does create potentially create some sort of uh on a mutual aid scene. Are they working for us or are they working for some other town? Yes. So that's what's it's been.
Uh but in the shrinking days of volunteerism and getting qualified people to step up and hold these roles, um I believe the chief and officers, deput fire officers, uh approached you to to discuss this with the council.
Exactly. Well said, Mr. Mayor. basically what I brought up last time just to summarize for those who weren't here. Um again because there are uh shrinking numbers volunteerism but because thankfully our numbers have been increasing in membership in our fire department the thought was we wouldn't
we would we would benefit from having someone who's let's say a career firefighter somewhere else with their expertise also be um an officer here. the the ordinance as Stan says that they could not be a I believe the wording is that they
couldn't be uh chief not a chief they couldn't be a a line officer a line officer in two um different burrows. So what what they had approached uh our committee about when we met was letting
them make the that decision um rather than having the ordinance. But again, I'm I'm not prepared tonight to for, you know, formally put anything forward because I only just this afternoon received the Right. So, I have a question. Let's say we have someone
I'm I'm not opposed to this because of the volunteer issue that we have, but let's say we have a a C lieutenant in Old Tan and he's a lieutenant or she is a lieutenant in Riverville. There's a mutual aid fire in Riverville and they attend. The
lieutenant gets hurt. Who covers them? Riverville or Al Japan? Are they responding as Riverville? Whichever the department they're responding who were they if they were responding with Rivervale, then under the GIF, wouldn't they be covered? How do we know who
they'd be wearing the turnout coat of the of the corresponding town? Okay. I'm I'm trying not to get into an insurance problem because I I see it, you know, have this latigious society we live in. Uh, I I I understand that question. I
think that's a that's a more clear-cut of who they responded or they respond without their gear in their personal car. Like happens a lot. I've seen it and they're looking for the the house to
take care of them. That's usually only the chief and deputy chief. Yeah. I I don't think it's a far-fetched question. I don't think it's No, it's a good question. Certainly happen. Want is this discussion of it? That's all I'm bringing forward is that it was brought to me and I'd like to bring it here for discussion. The way it's written now, sorry, mayor.
Um, does it specifically say to volunteer at another department or cuz we have some we have a couple one at least a couple that are professional firefighters that you don't want to how do we how do we hold them for that? It doesn't say volunteer. It does not say volunteer. So, I mean regardless of what
we do that has to be changed to make sure that we protect those folks, right? Yeah. that I mean I think a couple weeks ago I asked that specific question is did does this pertain to one individual that I understand is a career firefighter he was just promoted uh to a
leadership position and is but is this more than that this is more than that so this started that discussion that that's one of many the good thing is that if someone is a career let's say they're a Jersey city you know paid firefighter and they live in the bur of old span and they want to volunteer here we don't
want to Mhm. We don't want to discourage them from joining. Say, "Oh, well, you're it's the same as if, you know, you might be something else during the day. If there's a call, but you're at school, I'm at school and then I can't be at, you know, a church thing or something." You know, there's there's there's going to be times where people
have different schedules. And if you're not on schedule for that night, then you're not. If you're on schedule for Riverville, then you're on schedule. Can we get the chief andor deputy prefer the chief? Can we get him in him here in two weeks on the n
19? Not uh I will certainly ask we we'll add this back to old business. That's a good idea. I would like to hear the chief's take take on it. Yeah, we have a couple of career guys now. You know, actually they're cousins. Actually, this is the first time I think that all of
the uh line officers are all line officers do not live in active and active somewhere else. Correct. One line officer lives in Altaban. One, but I'm saying for in other departments, correct? Well, they're active in other departments, not
career departments. Other volunteer departments. That's a good thing. That means you're pulling in people who have I think if they got the ambition and the adrenaline, go for it. Exactly. I'm all all about making it easier for them. Yeah. To to do their job. Is that what they're recommending, Christine? Yes. So
that and keep the current trend which has been But again, that's why there's why I'm requesting to look at some of the call hours and the numbers and things like that just to to make informed decisions. That's all I was asking tonight was time because I only he just returned today. So I want to give him a chance. All
right. Let's let's table it for two weeks. Awesome. there if there's anything else in them. We could always change it back if it doesn't work in a year. We could for if I understand it correctly, we're the only one still with that restriction. The only town around really. Okay. Well, that's another
reason to, you know, think about it. Thank you. I just wanted to discuss. All right. So, we'll Jean will add that for two weeks under old business. All right. Our next uh is a proposed nuisance ordinance. So, let me
start by saying that um um we're going to discuss the council will discuss uh a proposed uh fluid uh nuisance ordinance that runs uh separately from our current noise ordinance. Uh we'll discuss it and then
we're going to open up the meeting to the public and everyone will have an opportunity to be heard on it. So, um do you want to start on uh who wants to I guess I'll start. So, what we're looking to accomplish
here, and it's not a it's not a one-off, um, we want to protect all of the residents. Um, we want them all to enjoy their properties, all enjoy their backyards, whether you're into gardening, listening to the birds, or listening to music. Uh we think every
resident in town has the right to have a peaceful uh enjoyable experience in their own property. So we looked at a lot of things. We've heard complaints from many different sides. We put our heads together. We worked with our
burough attorney and say, "Hey, how do we do something like this? How do we, you know, protect some folks that like more peace and quiet? How do we protect the folks that um want to entertain in their backyard without someone constantly saying it's too noisy, it's
too noisy? So, the intent of this ordinance is to come to a happy medium as best as possible with um so we we can all exist and coexist together and enjoy our our our properties. All right. So,
that's my opening statement. Um, I'm hopeful that everyone had a chance to read the proposed ordinance. Shake your heads, please. I did. Do we have a copy here though or not? Um, I didn't see any up there. I didn't
either. Um, it was part of the package. I know. It's not laser. I just didn't bring it last time. Yeah, that's right. Okay. So, unless unless anyone up here
has anything that they want to add to what I just said, I will ask to open the meeting to the public and we'll take some feedback from the residents that are here um and get their uh very valued opinions. Just something quickly. M Mr. Mayor, I thought we were talking about
um certain noise levels, decibel levels that we were going to put in the ordinance also, but I don't see that here. Part of our noise ordinance. Correct. Well, the the problem with that, as I discussed with the mayor and
council the last a month ago, is that if you're going to do that, if you're going to do a strict noise ordinance, you have to do the model noise ordinance from the D. and that requires a sound pressure meter and certified personnel. So that's not what this is. Courts have upheld
nuisance ordinances that can include amongst other things, you know, noise that's that is objectionable to people. So loud machinery, things like that. Yeah. Lawnmowers at certain times, anything like that. Sure. So this is a way of not having to get into the
certified personnel, noise level, sound pressure meters, and all of that. What about enforcability? I don't see anything about enforcing anything here either. I'm not sure what you mean. Are they going to get a complaint and
are the police going to show up on their door, knock on their door? It's it like any other Yeah, it would be any other complaint that police would I'm sure go there and discuss it with the resident first and then if they thought it was appropriate, issue a
violation. Just like the property maintenance or any other, you know, bur ordinance. Yeah. Property maintenance guy issues things all the time. Yeah. Um, you know, from the zoning office. This is, this is almost zoning, but it's really not. Yeah. My problem with this, it just
seems awfully vague with no um specific numbers. I mean, how loud something is could be subjective to one neighbor to another.
Well, well, the noise level, Brian, is part of the noise ordinance that we may Well, again, if we do a noise ordinance, it has to be that model. We have one now, right? And it says we have the hours in there. I don't think it does it
have the decibel levels and all that. I think I'm not sure actually. I don't think it has decimal levels, but I think the model one does. The model Yeah, the model ordinance has decimal levels. I'm concerned about the the noise ordinance that we currently have being enforcable
because it doesn't follow the D model ordinance. Okay. So with with that said, are we better off as a community uh to adopt that? But you're saying that thing that we don't have all this equipment that's going to make an We don't have
the equipment. We don't have certified personnel. You'd have to have a certified person to operate the equipment whenever you wanted to take a measurement and that would have realistic. Well, you'd have to have police officers. They're really the only under training
for that. You have somebody in the zoning office or at 10:50 at 11:05. That's a good point. You're right. It would have to be police. We haven't been getting complaints about 11:05. We've been getting complaints about the middle
of the day, which is that's my question. I mean, the ordinance clearly says, what is it 11:00 p.m. to 7? Mhm. That's, you know, 11:00 p.m. to 7 a.m. Yeah. That's very generous. U which is good. I have no problem with that. Especially on a Saturday if somebody wants to have a
party, they should be able to. But we don't want 150 dB either at at noon time on Yeah. specifies which annoys or disturbs the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in an office. So then based on that then we have to get what do they call decimal meters and come up with a
number then and make it um you know objective as opposed to subjective. Agree. All right. But then how do we define that number? What's what's too loud? Well, you'd have to have the you'd have to adopt the D ordinance, which that defines the decibel level. It has the
levels. I want to say it's like 85 dB or something like that. Yeah. Everything is specified. You can't vary from it unless you get their approval. It's actually lower than that. I have it here. The NJD prom prom promulgated noise regulations to control noise from stationary,
commercial, and industrial sources in 1974 pursuant to the noise control act of 1971. Within the noise regulations, there are established sound level standards of 50 dB during the nighttime, which they define as 1000 p.m. to 7:00
a.m. and 65 dB during the daytime. So 50 and 65, that's what we're talking about. What's 65 dB? Anybody have an example? Well, I can tell you right now as we speak, as I speak, we're at 62 dB cuz I
just downloaded the free app. Just saying. Good point. The vacuum cleaner is saying it's 65 dB. Um the D ordinance is very strict. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
we're averaging 63.8 dB 60 what? 3.8 right here in front of you. Right here in front of me. Yeah. And I think it says something like at the property line or building building. It's at the property line I believe. Is there
anything in there not just about noise level but like you know vibration base? I don't because sometimes that's part of it too is the I think that's noise level. There are there are professions dedicated to this exact study which are far beyond our our summary of what's
acceptable and what damages somebody's uh health and everything else it says in the in the draft ordinance. But I think that maybe we need one of those people to weigh in on this professional. I mean when we go to a
planning board meeting we have experts on sound. You can't have an air conditioning system on a roof of a building that's beyond a certain decibel level, a generator that's a certain decibel level. This is clearly a land use issue with adjacent residential
properties. It could be something that could be addressed by a professional. Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm going to suggest we have some residents here that want to be heard. Good point, Tom. So, we uh um what's your name? Bill. Bill. We uh kicked a few things around here.
um take it a little vague in a way. Um again, you're kind of vague or you're really about by a letter of the law, I guess, you know. Um love to find something in between. So, if it's okay with the rest of the council, I'd like to uh entertain a motion to open the
meeting to make a motion to open a meeting to the public. Second. Second. All in favor? I Okay, who wants to go first on our proposed Oh, right here. Sorry, he put his hand up first. Question. Come on up and name and address for the record.
Ryan Seagull, 20 wire. Um, what is the ordinance saying is like the um the range like the decel range for what is the ordinance today? Yeah. Yeah. So, like the news I believe 65. I think
it's 65. I think it's 65. So, from from the hours of I look it up. outside. Oh, yeah. Outside. Um, so from 8:00 a.m. or SE from 7 a.m. 7 to 11. 7 to 11. So, I'm by no means a
professional, but I actually used to work for an aiology company. So, just for frame of reference, you know, a lawn mower or a tractor is between 80 to 100 dB. So, just by someone doing that in the front yard for 20 minutes, like what's the, you know, what's the threshold? That's one of the reasons
that that's our problem. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the reasons that several years ago we kind of modified our like some of our landscaping stuff. You know, peace of mind at six o'clock or you know on a um on a weekday we adjusted the hours to 6 a.m. week same with Saturdays
and it's forbidden except for a homeowner you can do anything you want u you know in your own home on a Sunday. Um but that's a good reference point. It's it's come up more because a lot more people have been working from home, right? And and so you have, you know, your neighbors doing landscaping two,
three hours right around you on a Monday, you're holding calls or whatever. So it has been on our agenda more in the past few years because of that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your input. Sir, [Music]
uh good evening, Mayor and Council. Eric Anderson, 39 Greenwoods Road. I'm sure you've all heard of me. Um, my first question is how many actual people are complaining in this in this town of for noise violations or what's perceived as
a noise violation? Do you have any history of Well, the police chie the police department would have that I would say enough to for us to be having this conversation for us to be having this conversation and not just two two years ago. I had three not just around
town, no specific neighborhoods. Okay. So, that's my first question. U my second question is your existing I've been a resident for 3 years of this town. We love it here. We appreciate everything that you guys are doing as a council. to make it the way
it is. Totally understand what you're going through. Your ordinance that you have now gives me very little guidance as to what I can and can't do on my own property. You know, we like to entertain. We're very respectful when we
can be um within the 7 to 11 or the 8 to 11 guidelines. Most of the complaints that come on my house are like at 3:00 or 4 in the afternoon. I couldn't even tell you what I'm doing wrong cuz it's not in here. It's not in your ordinance. Your proposed ordinance,
unfortunately, doesn't give me any more guidance. I don't know what to do with this either. So, you know, we want to be respectful of our neighbors. We want to be friends with our neighbors. We pride ourselves on including our neighbors in our parties or in whatever we're doing,
but we're not getting any help here. So, um I think it would be a great idea to try to bring in an expert to give us guidance here because we want to be living in peace with our neighbors, but at the same time, we want to have fun. That's why we're here. That's why we
bought this big house. I waited 53 years to do it. So, you know, I worked hard to get here, and I want to be able to enjoy it. Um and we have a lot of residents that feel the same way that we do. There's about seven of us here tonight. We represent a much bigger group. We
want to be peaceful. We just want to everybody to understand that we're not trying to cause problems for people. Um I know the one neighbor that did complain about me. I have reached out to him in the past. He had my phone number.
Um I I know based on the readings of the prior minutes, he said that I wasn't responsive. I have text proof that I can hand you all. Showing my responses to him, showing to him to call me if there was an issue. Um, never did it. Called
me one time on whatever the first day was, like in March, Wednesday at 3:00, said, "Your son is playing rap music." 10 minutes later, the police officer showed up at my house.
I had um I was frustrated with this procedure. Um the the police officers, there would be three squad cars showing up at my house for any call. Like that's harassment on my end when I'm not doing anything wrong within the ordinance,
constantly being harassed by these people. So, I uh proactively called Chief Tracy and set up a meeting with him um last week and I said, "Hey, you know, I I want this to stop. Like, I don't want this problem. It's a waste of
time for you guys. You know, we have other issues in Old Tapan that we need to focus on not showing up in my house, but we had a great meeting. They came to my house. Anna came to my house. Um you know, Anna and I may not see eye to eye with the level of the music, but I totally get that. But during this
meeting at 10:00 a.m. in the morning when we were testing the music, this same resident called the police and said that I was blasting my music all morning at like high crazy decibb and we know
that that's not the case. So it's super frustrating for me as a resident and you know I'm asking for you guys to help and I'll do whatever I can to help to to solve the problem. So that's all I have to say. Yeah. And thank you for that. the the intent here is to kind of really I think you said it best is just to come
together and um come to a happy medium for all of our residents. Again, some folks, you know, don't want to hear anything. They don't want to listen to the birds and and I respect that. Others have a beautiful backyard. They have a pool. They have whatever they've they've invested money uh in their homes and
they like to entertain and I respect that. So it's I I think just what this group up here is just trying to figure out a way. Uh and this is no this is no means getting passed tonight or anything. Oh no. So this is this is a conversation and we have conversations
here and we're being recorded and people tomorrow can see what we had to say at home. Uh and that's why we do that. So uh this is this is a conversation. I appreciate what you said about looking for guidance because it is very subjective. Yeah. And I again, you know,
I'm a 53y old. My wife will tell you I'm 12, so I totally get it. Um, and just in advance, you're all invited to next year's Halloween party. So, appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Okay. Anyone else from the public?
Nobody else. Motion to close. A second on it. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Uh, let's a motion to adjurnn. So move. All right. We'll go right into our executive session. Um, roll call, please. Mayor G here. Councilman here.
Councilman here. Councilman Blan here. Councilman Marty here. Councilwoman here. Councilman here. Okay. Tom, engineers report. Good evening. Tom. Hi, Tom.
The only items I was going to mention tonight are the the two bids that were just awarded. Um, just to let the council know, and you're probably all well aware of this, but both projects were were well within budget.
Um, I met with the contractor for Perry Street because it's not somebody we've had before. Um, and it actually was a very good meeting. Um, I told the owner of of Six Curry Street, the Rosins, that we'll we'll basically do that same
meeting again with them, but I wanted to do it myself first. Um, but was very happy with his responses. I think they're going to be respectful of the property. Um, and I don't expect any problems. So, we will do that one more time with the Rosman's present just so I can memorialize anything that comes up
at the meeting. Um, but looking to move forward on that one. What exactly is going to be happen? It's just finishing drainage project. It's phase two. It goes from the head wall that DNL built in the woods kind of behind. It just
runs along the side of number six behind the Ros I've been to Rossman's house. I know. Yeah. If you're looking at their house on the left side, it runs up at the edge of the woods there. Okay. Um the easement actually goes through their yard. So that's the the tricky
part. So, we're trying to get that water, collect it, and send it back out to like White Avenue or what are we doing? It ultimately goes I think it goes under White Avenue to like a drainage. Is that Northvale? Norwood? There's a drain. It's Northale, but
heading towards Norwood. Yeah. Yes. Um it might be in the the system in White Avenue for a very short period of time. Basically, go straight out. But that's the goal is to relieve the water issue in back of Rossman's and also the backyards of is it what's the what's the
street on the other side? Heritage um Westminster that work the heritage work sorry Heritage um Westcot Westcot I'm sorry that work was done that was DNL um which was not a great project part of the reason why the Roswell are so
concerned about being respectful of their property. Um, but I think we've got a different style contractor here. So, I'm I'm really happy about that. Thank you. Um, the other one is the Wolf uh section 7. Again, as you're as you're
aware, this has been ongoing. Um, we've gotten DOT money for the last six or seven years starting all the way down at Bush, Phyllis, um, Howard, Irving, Russell to DeWolf. It was it was
an integrated application that started many many years ago. So this is the last phase of it. Um so we're basically filling in the gaps. We're doing a little bit of drainage at the golf course. The water that runs off the golf course onto the Wolf Road and is a a bit of a hazard and we're finishing up the
paving on on the Wolf it's a relative from Ogal Road to Orangeburg. Yes. Okay. Yes. So then this that will finish um finish out that DOT series of of approved applications that we got. Road closed. The road will be closed at all.
It's thinking of it's really just that businesses on the road and also the golf course. Yeah, it's it's really this will be a couple hours on two different days to mill and to pave. Okay. So not um may or may not be a full closure, but we'll we'll work that out. Okay. Thank you.
And that one was well under budget just because we still had over 200,000 left from DOT and literally couldn't spend it. That's all I have. If you have questions on anything else, I'll try to Any uh news on the crosswalk on Central? Yeah,
we've actually been going back and forth by email today. Um thanks for meeting the other day, by the way. Appreciate that. Yeah, I think that was helpful. Um Councilwoman Misaro and I met uh was that the end of last week?
um to look at the locations. Um one of the important ones I would say is uh right at the entrance to Winding Creek, the Winding Creek entrance that's closest to the school. Uh this is a fair amount of of students in the development and also coming from I would call that
the south. Um it it's also probably the toughest location just because of the bends on either side of it. Um, so that was our our major discussion today. We we can go for as many crosswalks as we want. Uh, the county, as long as we
build the ramps, the handicap ramps, they will put the crosswalks in and the advanced warning signs for the crosswalks. Um, because we've got to certify to them anyway that they meet ADA standards, they meet sight distance standards. They basically put it all on
you. So, our we have a lot of options. we just don't have real good practical options because Winding Creek um it it meets the minimum sight distance. Um but it it just means
um so my concern is God forbid something were to happen and we we've got a crosswalk that we knew just met the standard, somebody's going to say, "Why didn't you put it somewhere else?" No, it's so just meeting is better than just
not me making meeting making. Absolutely. Absolutely. But it's it becomes a tough decision and the way I mentioned it in my email today was it's kind of a no-win. Um so can I just speak to that? Sure. Tom and I met the other day and his lovely wife Joanna was there
too. Very nice. Um the there's three proposed. The first one is between Elena Drive and Aayita at the direct entrance to the high school. To me that's a no-brainer. Yeah, that's where I was thinking actually. That's an easy flight distance there. Y we've got to cross the
turn lane, right, which need to work that out a little bit, but otherwise that's a great location. The third one if we go further down is at Chestnut across central. And then this the the one we're discussing right now is the the sec I'm saying the second one, but
I'm just doing it in order, you know, geographically. But I the one at Elena and Aayita is the one at the entrance to the school. The third one furthest away is uh Chestnut and Central. And then the one we're discussing is Winding Creek
because that is a development. I'll pass this around. But because that there's a lot of students that cross. I'm asking that someone come with me besides me and um to come see at 241 when school lets out. Count how many students have to run across the street across four lanes.
It's like Frogger. It's it's hard to watch. And I I understand the worry would be well if we put a crossover there god forbid something happened because it's coming out of it is into a curve where it becomes a straightaway that is at the the top of the hill
correct towards the bottom towards Parker is a lower grade but Tom and I looked at like locations of it like you said it's a tough call because you don't want to put something in place and then someone god forbid something happens in the
crosswalk But I don't want the solution be like, "Oh, well, you know, we don't want someone to get hurt, so we're not going to do it." I just think we we've been talking about pedestrian safety the intensively the past year and I think these three proposals and Bill had mentioned a possible fourth one um go
towards pedestrian safety because it's a school zone. It says 25 in the school zone. You can't just say, "Oh, well, people are going fast. Oh well." Well, then they need to slow down like that. The solution isn't to let people go around the curve faster. If they know there's three crosswalks coming up, they're going to be if there's flashing
lights, they're going to should be slowing down. That was one thing I want to follow up on. I think it might be worth it investing in the flashing warning signs. Uhhuh. [Music] Because we only And that would be the good spot. Exactly. We don't I don't
think the other two spots would need them. They're very visible. The site this what is it? Site. But you would want to those are very clear. One and three are you can see. But I still think you would want two just so you get one on either. We didn't know at the time. So we put it in the budget. Yeah. But if
you're willing to do that, I think that changes the game a little bit because that people do respond. One would Yes. Um and the other comment I was going to make is just from a practical standpoint, I agree with you. You need one in that vicinity because kids coming
from the south, they don't want to walk past the south end of the school to come back. Mhm. Agreed. And are they going to do it at Chestnut? No, they're going to wait till they get closer to the school. So, I think we need to figure out this location. And the advanced signs, the
flashing signs would be a good the Chestnut location, just so everyone's aware. I'm not proposing that only for school for students. That's if I mean, what if you lived on White A and you wanted to walk to the library? You have to cross Central. You There's reasons
for needing to cross. We have a community garden right there. That's where we parked and there's nowhere to cross. So if you were up at Chestnut Field playing ball with your kid and then you wanted to walk to the community garden, you're not going to walk up to Herring just to walk down. I mean, it's it's not the burrow, it's the I I
understand it's a county road. I just think it's been overlooked by the county uh in a lot of ways with two new developments there that you know we want to it's not just for the students is what I'm trying to say is that yes obviously that's what I see every day as a teacher but there's residents crossing
also and I I think you all agree you've all been vocal about agreeing with that that our resident safety is yes pedestrian safety is important I would like to go for all three locations I just think yes sir as a burrow you should protect yourself a little bit with the middle
So the flashing would be the one that we budgeted for for flashing I would recommend be in that middle location which I'm calling two. One ent entrance three chestnut two is that winding creek middle one. That would be a good spot. I I would suggest that. Tom if if I'm
sorry no if we uh are going to craft a bid to have people install drop curbs. Um, is this an appropriate time to add the curbing and the striping across from to Stanland Park from DeWalt? Stan land to Well, that's the same
situation where if we put the ramps in, the county will put the There's ramps there. There's There's ramps there, Bill. And we're also we just need to stripe it because there is not a crosswalk there. Okay. The ramp actually the ramp I'm there every single day. So, when you come down to end of DeWolf and you're
going to make a right onto Altapan, And you stop at the stop sign, which one out of every 500 people do. There is a ramp on your right. Right there. An ADA ramp right there. Gas station side. No, it's not on a gas. It's on the Dewolf Road side. So, we would need one on the gas
station side. Okay. Yeah. And they're paving that section of Old Span Road this summer. This summer, right? So, they're going to redo those ramps. We should get the curb cut in sooner than later. And that's probably why they never push the crosswalk back because they're going
to be moved slightly prior to the paving. I think you had brought it up with them prior and yeah, as a good idea and with the increased pedestrians on old doesn't Bergen Catholic pick up there too. They do. Hauling Angelsburg and Catholic at the gas station and people are walking home.
Okay, that one will be addressed this summer for sure. The other area and Don Bosco I think. Sorry. And the drop curbs are already correct. the places the one place that we looked at the first place you pointed out already had the proper curb. Yes. At the
entrance to the high school. I think the one side might be good. The other side's not. Yeah. So, there was already existing in in place for I I need to work out with Jason Alex and the county about are there any limitations on crossing the turning lanes?
Is there a place where we it's better to do that or not? Um, so I'll get that feedback and then we'll make a final decision on that location. Be great. And if anyone wants to join me at 241 after school to see what you're talking Watchman in Washington as well that I know we had a resident that uh
asked and I think you responded saying we just got to put the curb cuts in um the ramp right at the like the mouth of of Westwood Avenue. Yes, that one's going to be done. County program is paving for that's next year's paving county. Okay. So, they're actually on me
to get them a new layout for the those two ramps because that's on the way. That's the the gateway to Stone Point, if you will, frozen over there. That one, it's it's real steep there. They're they're borderline handicap ramps, but they will be reconstructed. Okay. I have
one thing for the our engineer. Um, so, as you know, we were discussing the uh base of the cell towers that are not cell towers, the electric towers that are being removed. Um, we had that discussion. They're coming actually to our next environmental commission meeting. So anybody who would like to
attend that meeting um I could tell you my you got me after. Okay. So it's the 20 20th May 20th. So um are there any parameters that you'd like to see in continued soil monitoring and or would
you attend that meeting if it's Zoom possibly? It's an evening meeting at 7 I believe. Yeah. Whatever youth. Yeah. I'd just like to have you in the room in some capacity physically or technologically to uh because they're invited and they're going to tell us
their updated process for removing the towers and monitoring the soil and digging out more than 8 by 8 square feet because the base is larger than 8 by8. Right. And I think there's there'd be nothing wrong with getting some soil testing done independently by two. Yeah.
So you have some baseline numbers. Mhm. Um, and then you can continue to monitor it over time if you'd like. But I think most likely it's going to be as bad as it's going to be now before they move the tower and then over time it's going to slowly go down. So it
might get disturbed when they do the actual work, which would bump those numbers up. Yeah. Um, but I would like to see what the numbers are preconstruction and then maybe post construction and then the burrow can decide if it's worth it to do anything beyond that and where it flows with
storm water, you know, into some of the cap. You talk about that a little bit. That's that's the hard part is, you know, if you're talking about lead paint or something like that once it starts migrating by the time it gets to the stream, how do you determine the actual source?
Mhm. It just becomes really difficult. I'm surprised they don't have some stricter regulations from the state. They may and they'll hopefully educate us that they have the most stringent regulations. They do think so. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All those towers that uh
Japan resident kids have been playing on for 40 years and climbing up and down are now coming down. And that's right. Oh, more than 40 years. I was thinking of one in particular. More than 40 years. Yeah. But it's valid because when you disturb it, that's when
it becomes tough, right? Okay. Anything else for Yeah. Yeah. Tom, now that we just happened to jog my memory, we're talking about ADA compliant ramps on sidewalks. I saw a gentleman the other day. I was at the light by bystate. I
was going west waiting to make a right and parking arbor right there. There was a guy in a wheelchair, one of those rascal scooters, whatever it was, on a wheelchair, older guy. He he came up the sidewalk, which is on the far west side of Park and Arbor on that road. He came
all the way up to the entrance to Bystate and he couldn't go anywhere. There was no ramp. He had to like go over like the the uh landscaping and like somebody helped him get into the parking lot of bystate which wasn't safe
anyway because people are turning in there with no sight. Is there supposed to be a ramp there? I know that it's a high curb too. The Enclave has to is has to redo that island. Okay. And there's some bad sidewalk sections in there that they were going to repair.
Um, basically they had never implemented their ADA improvements along there and now the county is saying you're not getting your bond back until you do it. So Oh, so the county is going to be enforcing that. So the county is enforcing that. I honestly don't remember if there's one on the bystate
side. You would think they would have incorporated that, but I'll check. Okay. That street it's a street. It's a one-way street that goes into Park and Arbor. Is that the borrow street? No. Does anybody know? It's all private. Will it be a burrow street at at some
point? The burrow would have to No. Okay. I just wonder cuz sometimes, you know, they deed it over to the burrow and then we maintain it plow snow, etc. I'll check on that west side. I'm not sure about that. Yeah, it's right at the entrance to by
state. just I just felt bad for the guy and it just made me think, hey, that needs to be Yeah, they're definitely doing the both sides of the island and the east side. So, my guess is they are also doing the west, but I'll Okay, thank you. Um, on that note, do we have
any like mechanism to encourage bystate to continue the sidewalk to maybe the storefronts rather than have anybody have to go off-road once they get to the property line with that fence? I recall that we have any influence other than, you know, they're going to be coming in looking
for residential units on top of every store or something like that. I mean, they're going to be looking for something pretty big from what I'm hearing. Yeah, I haven't heard that. But in the meantime, we get a sidewalk because that's what they're going to be looking for. Yeah. So, you're going to get a big application on that property in some not too distant future is my
guess. You're right, Bill. If there was a a way to come up Park and Arbor up to Old Pan Road and make like a Uturn and go towards Garden State News on a safe sidewalk, it would be good for the businesses alone. Absolutely. Cuz kids, anybody could walk there safely because
it's not a safe entrance for pedestrians. Entrance and exit right there. It's It's fine for cars, but not for pedestrians. Agreed. That's it. Anything else for our engineer? Thank you, Tom. Thanks. Thanks for meeting us. I appreciate that. CF. All
right, let's go to our uh committee reports. We'll start with Councilman Yu. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Really not much tonight. Um report of the senior citizens on the calendar for the month. There's a senior meet and greet on
Tuesday, May 15th at 11:30 at the senior center. And on the following week on Thursday, um May 22nd, they'll be holding their annual 50s dance at the firehouse beginning at
noon. Report of social services. I want to thank the Ananoway family from Goya Foods for their generosity in helping us fill our pantry. Report of the construction department. It looks like we currently have 49 open permits
um for the month of April, which resulted in total fees of about $48,000 for the month. Um report of our DPW, some of the major work they completed in April. They installed four memorial benches at our
various parks in town. They maintained the baseball and softball fields for preparation for their opening day last Sunday. They finished uh over six miles of sewer jet uh sewer line jetting. They applied fertilizer and weed control in all our
fields. And they started mulching burrow property and um delivering mulch and wood chips to our residents. And that completes my report. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Councilwoman Misero. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Um, briefly, recreation committee will be meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 6th, and I'd like to extend my gratitude to everyone who made opening day a success. Town Day committee has been busy planning an exciting event for Saturday, September 6th. This year, we're introducing a new activity
featuring live pro wrestling, and we encourage residents and local businesses to join the fun or consider becoming sponsors. For more information on that, you can uh contact Gloria or me. Pro wrestling. I thought you say participate. Um well there is an element of that
which we will reveal time to no jello in the time of efficiency here. Keep moving on. Uh fire department like Hulk Hogan or something. Yeah. Come on. You're not bringing in. I I won't reveal yet. Bruno San Martino. It's a secret. All right. Sorry. Sorry. Okay. Uh fire
department call stats for the month of April and up until today. Fire Department has 18 calls for service totaling 132 man hours 45 minutes. Total for the year thus far year to date 68 calls for service totaling 485 man hours
4 minutes. Um notable calls TBD on 418 um uh fire station was pulled. Police department fire marshall were notified. 4:18 busy day. Um, Top Pan, New York had
uh a fire fast response from Old Multiples there. Initially on standby, but was upgraded to the scene. Within that same 24-hour period on 4:19, they were called to uh Closter for a second alarm fire. They were on standby. 43
Tower responded. On Easter morning on April 20th, Norwood had a third alarm hazmat situation. Uh 43 tower on fast standby 431 operated inside. Gear was decontaminated due to chemical exposure.
Um and then on 429 Hillsdale Mutually 43 engine responded training. Um they did a vehicle um extrication. Uh they also did a live burn in Bergenfield. 17 members trained in a class A facility. Of the
four required instructors, three were old volunteer fire department members. It would be fire marshal Evan Kudson, Lieutenant Steve Nis, and exec deputy chief Alex Nis. And lastly, apparatus. All apparatus are in service. Um, preventative maintenance performed on 43
car 1. Thank you to the DPW for that. Historical committee, nothing to update other than we're planning the Veterans Day movie event for this fall. And um, lastly, community safety. I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Ultan Police Department and Ultan First Aid Corp for their swift response to a
motor vehicle accident in the burrow involving a minor during the school day last Friday. While I won't share the specifics, I deeply appre appreciate their professionalism and clear communication with me in learning that the minor involved was one of my students. So, thank you OTPD and OT FAC.
As always, our first responders continue to go above and beyond in communication and professionalism and dedicate unwra unwavering dedication to the safety and well-being of our community. And lastly, I wore pink tonight. I want to wish all the mothers here tonight and watching at home a happy Mother's Day, including my
own mom, Kathleen Miser. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Guan. Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor, for remembering me this time. Um, so I have a couple of things. Thank you very much. Uh, in terms of the
library, there was the board meeting. Remember, it was delayed from April 9 to April 23. So, uh, I attended their board meeting. Uh, in terms of numbers, uh, for the year, and remember February, they, uh, closed the library for a week, uh, to put down the new carpet. Uh but
the numbers for the three months combined uh the door numbers uh 17,245 and that's up 12% year-over-year. Circulation 18,041 that's up 11% uh year-over-year. So despite being closed
for a week, that's a lot. Quarter over-arter numbers are up more than double digits uh from last year. Uh they installed the two new printers that we had discussed last time. Uh remember there was a roof leak. uh they had it re the HVAC or the vent uh resealed. Uh
they had that done for free and it it seems to work. So that problem has been solved. Uh there's a there's been a bigger issue about uh school drop off or pickup, right? Using the parking lot of the library. Uh so they're considering signs that say library use only, no
school pickup um and or more forceful kind of actions of you know people out there directing traffic etc. Because you know as you know there are are younger um kids that are coming out of cars walking to the library could potentially run across the parking lot. You have
people picking up students that maybe are on their phone. They're not paying attention and there's a lot of traffic there uh during school pickup. So, they're looking for a good solution there. Uh, touch a truck event, uh, June 11, I think. Um, and then museum passes,
they've added museum passes for the Frick collection, uh, and added passes, uh, to the Met in the city. In terms of OEM, uh, they attended a 3-day ICS 300 uh, training course uh, to learn the ICS300
system. Memorial Day pre-planning meeting is coming up. Uh also uh Andy had to submit hazard uh mitigation plan the HMP to the county. Uh also uh submitted final changes to the emergency operations plan or the EOP which is to
be approved by the county and state and then we will be compliant for two years once that is approved by the county and state. In terms of finance, uh we have a couple of interviews tomorrow for the position of accounts payable. I will be attending those interviews tomorrow. Uh
and just kind of a general uh I know we just closed and approved our our budget for 2025. Uh but I wanted to kind of just give everyone an update of of municipal rates, right? So borrowing rates for AAA, for example. So like the one-year
rate went from 2.92% a year ago to 2.89%. So, that's, you know, short-term rates down slightly. I know, uh, like the Fed is looking to possibly lower interest rates, etc. That's on the short end. But on the back end, meaning like the 10-year rate, municipal AAA's went
from 2.38% to 3.34%. So, they went up and that's even though we're thinking of interest rates coming down, they're coming down from uh like overnight rates, but the long term is going up because of potential inflation, uncertainty in the economy, etc. for us. So, just kind of giving
everyone an idea of kind of that that municipal rate curve that we're talking about. Okay. And that's the uh the end of my report. Thank you, Councilman. Morning. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um all right, real quick. Board of Health. Uh not much. Just there is a
community blood drive, our second one for the year scheduled for July 31st. um EMS. Um for those of you that don't know, um Deputy Chief Max Cadmus is going to be stepping down uh as deputy chief at
towards the end of May. Um he's going to be metriculating with the medical school. Nice. So that's uh fantastic for him. He will stay uh with the um with the MS. Uh just obviously he's not going to have that much time on his hands, but he will be helping out and helping with
that transition. Um, touch a truck day. Uh, May 31st, the ammo code will be there. So, that'll be kind of fun. If anybody wants to touch a truck, please go. Be kind of cool. All right. Um, for their April numbers, they
had 30 um 30 calls and they got out for 100% of them. Uh, 30 responses. That includes uh all mutual a call. So, uh kudos to them. Year to date. Right now, we're at 149 EMS calls. Um, so that's uh
significant amount of calls. Uh, I do want to touch and that's it for EMS. I do want to touch on uh what I touched on last time with the um schools. I actually had a uh a pretty good conversation today with superintendent um Dr. Deo at the school. So, as I
stated before, since um the Enclave, uh Park and Harbor and and I'm going to probably mess this up, but I'm going to call it Aidita um has been there. Um we've had uh and remember uh let me say this that they did a study prior to all
this uh development that was coming into town. They said that there would be um they thought there would be around 30 kids from uh you know, from all that building. Uh right now we're at 58 kids. Um, and remember, Park and Harbor is not
at capacity yet. So, um, they are, uh, they're very well aware of that and they're kind of keeping that, uh, on the back burner. Um, the one thing that is interesting, out of those 58 kids that, uh, have come in, 44% of those kids um,
require um, their special needs kids. Um, with special needs comes uh, high cost. Uh so that is uh something that there it's really um it's getting the attention of the um the superintendent and um the secretary there
um with regards to um the budget and we're all we're all very aware of this. So this 2025 is the last year um that their enrollment waiver they can actually exercise on it's actually expiring. Um so as we saw our um you
know the the taxing authority that they have they our school budget increased 8 and a quarter% this year. Eight and a quart 8 and a quart. Wow. So and that was the conversation I was having um cuz you know obviously prior to the enroll the state said
listen you guys have an enrollment waiver we're building this is what we're expecting. So we got hit with an 8 and a4% um hit for 2025. Did they tell you or can they on an average assessed house of somewhere in the 850ish range here in
town what that is going to be? That's got to be a giant number. It's got to be a giant number. It's going to be a big number for sure. That'd be like $200 $300 per house. It's got to be more than that. So it's $57 actually um for a No
way. It's $57.3 for a per month. It says per month. for a month. For a month at $600 at a house at a home valued at 800. You're right, Tom. It was double what I just said.
Yeah. Um the good news is that next year we're right back to the 2% cap. However, that 2% is now based on on the 8% increase, 8 and a quarter% increase that we're getting hit with this year. And I really wanted to put this out because we really got to start looking ahead um and
thinking because we're going to start we're going to continue to build, right? Uh that's what that's what the state's telling us to do. So we kind of have to keep that in the back of our minds uh for budgeting purposes. I ask you a question. The 58 the 58 additional students, what percentage of the total
number of students is that? So in other words, how many total students are there? Like what I'm saying is if let's say the population went up 1%. Right? But the but the budget went up 8%. That doesn't right that doesn't make sense. But if we have 8% more students so I'll say maybe that 8% makes sense but I
don't think so. Let me let me just let me paint the picture. Um we had a kid and I'm not not really saying we had a kid age out of the special needs program. He was um so what they do here is they try and keep everything in house. uh and whatever we can do in
house they'll do because it obviously saves money a lot of money. Anytime we have to send the kid out and those are severely severely um disabled kids um there's a huge cost. We we have we lost not lost but he aged
out of the program. Um and the school saved about $300,000. The problem is we just got more we just got two more. So that's that's what you know and they listen I the board um uh
the board of ed they do a good job um and they were they're really you know they were a little worried about what's coming down the pike especially once they get capped um and knowing that uh you know there's future building and also that they're not at capacity now. So I just wanted to to to bring that up
so as um as a council and with the mayor we can kind of start forward thinking a little bit. Okay, I have a question for Juan. Hopefully I have an answer. So that was just for the local schools. What about the uh regional high school district? You know,
any numbers from them? I did not. So uh I will do a better job at trying to chase. If it's going to be if it's going to be anywhere near what the local schools is, the 8% increase, we're looking at what easily $1,200 increase on an average home in Japan. I don't have an answer. I'll try and reach out
to him again, see if he sends me a response. Well, I'm happy to report that 124 only of it. Thank you. Is your municip is your municipal board. I was hoping you would bring that up. Fair point. We'll bring that up. So, $1,200 schools, 120 municipal.
Any more good news? That's all I got, mayor. Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for your report. Council member. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Uh I really have very brief report. My police report is always on the public uh meeting which will be the third Monday.
However, the only thing I can report tonight is our two new proposed hires for the police department going through uh psych eval and other evals to um get them on board. More to report later. Thank you. Could you um ebikes?
Yes. I've just witnessed they're crazy all I am I am burst on ebikes. They are not allowed to go more than 25 mph. Well, someone is tweeting. I know. I know. So, I don't know if you can bring if you can just discuss it. I have It's
a concern of mine. I live on a corner. I live by the schools and I see these bikes going around corners and it's it's a disaster on Wolf Road. They fly past my house. Yeah. No helmets. You know what? No helmet or helmet on but no
helmets. This really bothers me. clip your helmet and they're on the sidewalk. Not all the time, but I'd say about half of them are anyway. Even the scooters. Yep. I've had this discussion with the chief. They're uh Okay. They're working on it. All right. It's it's a new thing.
I mean, it's not new. It is, but uh we might need the liability of it has become to get the message across short term hopefully. Yes. But it it's I I I'll report on for a while and I'm I'm fearful of Yeah, I agree. I'll report
next meeting on Thank you. what the outcome is. Thanks, Council President. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Veterans Committee will be meeting this Thursday at 8:00, I'm sorry, at 4:00. That's May 8th. Um I
spoke to the chairman and he's extremely happy that we are now a veteransfriendly town. and he hopes to actually see more uh positive positivity come out of that and more um attendance at the meetings.
Um we received the pavers that we will be using for Veterans Park. They are at the DPW building. We also have the the block for the Veterans Park expansion and we're soliciting bids for the timber that will be supporting the flags. We
also have a boy scout who's interested in uh doing his Eagle Scout project at the Veterans Park as well. And I know that our fearless leader, Fred Puglesley, has responded to an email from him
um suggesting uh that he look into um a a memorial for Purple Heart um holders from the town. Uh the planning board will be meeting on May 14th. The environmental commission
is meeting on May 20th. And at the Environmental Commission, we're really focusing on that uh the towers in town and how to improve the process by which they're being taken down and monitor the soil. As I mentioned earlier, the golf course um still has a inventory of
unused equipment that we're looking to remove so we can reposition our um operations to the garage which is in the middle of the course. I had the pleasure of playing the course with Councilwoman Misaro. Uh the course was much better
than we are, but it still could be improved. Sorry. It's okay. It could it could be improved. The uh the greens seemed good to me. The bunkers, which we're redoing, are uh need a lot of work. Um and then
there's just some cosmetic things. I got our report from Sam who is our manager there and our total revenue for the year to date is uh 587,000 and change. Our budget is 866,000 but we have the rest of the year
to to make up for it. Uh our biggest uh I guess negative from last year was the amount we paid on payroll. So this year we've paid 108,000 thus far in payroll, leaving another 571,000 in the budget for payroll. So
we'll keep a close watch on that. Um, and in terms of and I just realized that we we get the overall rating for the golf course from Sam, but he didn't tell us where we were last year. So I'd really like to know where we are last year so we can see if we're improving.
Uh right now we have a 9.7 out of 10. Uh I'd like to get that to a 9.8. And lastly, the uh the well pump starters uh have been on order for a month, but and they are promised to be
delivered this week. That allows us to fill up our pond to use for irrigation. So that'll be important to have that before the weather turns on us and gets warm. We have 262 members, 28 new ones. The ratio of resident to non-resident are 48 and 52 respectively and the
revenue for memberships is uh 526,000 whereas last year for the entire year it was 562,000. So we expect more to sign up in months to come. I think that concludes my report. Yes. Thank you. Does not request for Oh
yes. Uh I'm not really well verssed in that can but I did see the request uh one of our members uh joined at the end of last year husband senior
uh his wife has a hip problem and will not be playing. So he was hoping he would get a refund on her husband and wife. So really only comes down to about $350 refund. Yeah.
It would be and we would make out a a senior single from the husband and wife and sometimes but she's not going to be playing this. So he was wondering if he could get a refund on that. So what have we done in the past? We
we've done it. We've refund done it in past medical emergency. He doesn't know motion. How many times do we get money for or we give them credit for next year? But since it's a husband and wife, it's a little difficult to I like to make a motion that we refund whatever the the requisite portion
amount is. Yeah, it's $350. I have the email here. I'll second that. Second. All in favor? I Thank you. Thank you. Now you're done. Thank you. Now I'm done. All right. Uh just a couple of comments for me. Um little bit brighter picture. I want
to thank our council. I want I want to thank our CFO Jesse Coward uh B administrator and again everyone on the council for putting what I would call a responsible municipal budget together which we which we passed tonight I believe. Don't quote me to the penny of
the numbers but we're Jesse we're about $124 increase on a assessed house about $855ish like that. I'm 826. Huh? 826 826. Okay. So, um, uh, looking at the
needs of of our community, uh, from parks and wreck to emergency first responders to our salaries to everything that we do. So, I want to thank everyone for, uh, rolling up your sleeves for about six weeks, uh, over January and February and into March to get that get that accomplished.
Um couple of uh couple of fun things for me in the past couple of weeks is uh had the opportunity to uh throw out the first pitch. Had our opening day for little league in in softball. Had an opportunity to address our young athletes. Um on on that day, a day
delayed, but thanks to uh the baseball association of everybody putting a really great day together. I had the opportunity to uh perform a wedding for a fabulous young couple in town. Um, and it was uh it's an honor whenever I get
to uh perform a wedding for for a young couple. Uh, full transparency, I received a call um from our our zoning and building official. There was my understanding an application is in the works. Uh many of us have been seeking a
grocery store in town and my understanding is that the former um AM or food town, however you remember it as will be uh 12 indoor pickle ball courts and some retail. Um so that's um just before you hear it on this on the on the
street. That is what I'm hearing from our building department is that so no bread and milk? No bread and milk. Just checking. Maybe smoothies and pickle ball inside. All right. Um, what else? The last thing I really want to bring up tonight is I had a uh a
meeting uh just before this meeting with our bur attorney, our planner, our bur administrator, and a subcommittee from our planning board to uh start discussing our fourth round housing obligation. Um, we will be uh uh forced
by the uh Department of Community Affairs to uh we're entering our fourth round of affordable housing throughout the state and we're going to do everything in our power to work uh within the parameters and and limit um uh limit what our exposure would be to
uh to that protecting open space, protecting our schools from overdevelopment uh and things like that. So I'm very confident that we can put a responsible plan together. So that early um early meeting tonight we'll be meeting in a couple of weeks to kind of pick up that
conversation. And that is the end of my report on a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor. He's like,