So far so good. So far so good. Okay. Good evening uh ladies and gentlemen. Um for those who celebrated, happy Easter to you. Happy Passover. Hope everyone had some nice time with family and friends over the past week or so. So 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 bureau of Japan and notice posted on the bulletin board at Oakan. Uh bullet board at Bur Hall, I'm sorry. All meetings are videotaped and posted to our website within the next couple of days. And please note the fire
extras are at the main entrance of the council chambers and at the rear of the council chambers. Roll call, please. Mayor Gallagher here. Councilman Bag here. Councilman Boyce here. Councilman Wong here. Councilman Marty here. Councilman here. Council here. Would you
please join stand and join me in a 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. Please remain standing as
Councilman Yu leads us in prayer tonight. Good and gracious God, our most glorious creator, as we greet the signs of nature all around us, of spring once again regaling us in bloom in the songs of
returning birds and the fields soon to be planted. We give you praise for an even greater sign of new life, the resurrection of your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that we especially celebrate at this time. Heavenly Father, we thank you
for this gathering and ask you for your wisdom and guidance as we discuss things that affect our residents. Help us listen with open hearts and minds and may our time together be fruitful and productive. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen.
Okay. At this time, I will entertain a motion to open the meeting to the public. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Would anyone from the public like to be heard today, sir? Please name and address for the record. Yes. Good evening. My name is Frank. Uh Mr. Mayor, town council
members. Uh I'll make my remarks very brief. Uh two years ago, we started the veterans committee here in Oakan and uh with our leadership uh Fred Bugi and also we had a lot of help here from Mr. wooden voice and Anna uh very helpful
and we just want to recognize them for their help and uh in helping us uh to develop the committee and get things uh on their footing. That's all that's my brief remarks. I want to thank you for uh for helping us out in the last two
years and uh you know looking forward to Memorial Day parade uh as organized by Dr. Mark Johnson here and then the veterans uh leave town. So, thank you. Well, thank you for coming in. Thank you on behalf of the mayor and council and all the residents. No, I appreciate all
your hard work and bringing recognition to our deserving veterans. So, thank you for the committee's work on on behalf of our residents. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Anyone else? Go have a beer. All right. Would anyone else from the public like
to be heard on any matter? Motion to close. A second on it. Second. Second. All in favor? I I uh our next order of business are some public hearings tonight. And the first one is for
Councilwoman Misro Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund applications. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, this is an announcement that we're seeking a grant from the county, uh, which is the Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund Peninsula Park Improvement Grant application. This
is for park improvement, uh, Stone Point Park Wellness Stations. Uh, second on that. Second. Any questions on that? These are the uh, um, kind of you can elaborate a little bit more. These are
the wellness stations around Stone exercise. Dr. Rubina Gothia has been the champion of this uh for quite a few years. And um what is exactly included in it, Christine? The application. No, no, the
the actual physical. So every, you know, few feet when you have it, one would be like a gentle pull-up bar, one would be a soft crunch station. Just so when you're doing your walking loops, nothing that involves electric or ga or gas or water or stationary. Uh, some can be for
stretching, some can be for gentle pulls, weatherproof. It's made for outside. Yes, they're made for outside. And we're we would be uh seeking a matching grant from the county trust fund for outdoor exercise equipment which is a made which is equipped
specifically for outdoor exercise applications for 40,000. So it' be a split the matching 2020. All right. Oh, it's 44. Keep your fingers crossed. We'll be be part of the mayor's wellness program. Definitely. Keep your fingers crossed we get it.
We'll be we'll be healthier in town. Nothing I have to do with it. But anyway, we have a a motion and a second. Roll call, please. We don't have to do We don't have to do a roll call on this. No. Okay. Then the resolution is actually on the consent agenda. Oh, that's right. Okay. I'm
sorry. I stand corrected. All right. Next order of business is ordinance 1275-25 for Councilman Gu. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, sorry, I have quite a few of these. Um, we had the first readings at the last meeting that we had two
weeks ago. Uh, the first one, um, this basically have to do with the bond ordinance and, uh, you know, funding the equipment from the bond, etc., etc. Uh, we read that last week. I'd like to open it to the public for any comment.
Second. All in favor? I I. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on capital ordinance 1275-25? Motion to close. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Council. Thank you. So, ordinance 127525, it's capital ordinance various improvements and acquisitions.
So whereas an ordinance entitled bond ordinance to authorize the making of various public improvements and the acquisition of new additional or replacement equipment and machinery, new communication and signal systems equipment, new information technology equipment, and new automotive vehicles
including original apparatus and equipment in buyin for the baran in the county of Bergen, state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of 1,941,351 to pay the cost thereof to appropriate a state grant to make a down
payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide for the issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and council held on the 7th day of April
2025. Now therefore, be it resolved by the mayor and councel of the bar of Alapan, county of Bergen, state of New Jersey, that said, ordinance number 127525B, and the same is hereby adopted on the second and final reading, and be it finally resolved that the borrow
clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the notice of adoption as required by law. Second on that. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. This is what we do. Council, yes. Councilman Boyce. Yes. Councilman, yes. Councilman
Marty, yes. Councilwoman Misero, yes. Councilman, yes. Okay, moving along to our next uh public hearing on ordinance 1276-25 for Councilman U. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a second reading of ordinance number
1276-25, capital ordinance, various sewer improvements and acquisitions. At this time, I'd like to open it up to public for comment or question. Okay. All in favor? I. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on ordinance 1276-25?
Motion to close. Second. Second. Second. All in favor? I. I. Councilman. Resolution. Whereas an ordinance entitled bond ordinance to authorize the making of various sanitary sewer improvements and the acquisition of a new automotive vehicle including
original apparatus and equipment in by and for the sewer sewer utility of the burough of Ultipan in a county of Bergen state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of $197,000 to pay the cost thereof to authorize the issuance of bonds to
finance such appropriation and to provide for the issue Issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and council held on the 7th day of April 20125. Now therefore, be it resolved by
the mayor and council of the bureau of Ultipan, County of Bergen, state of New Jersey, that said, ordinance number 1276-25 be in the same is hereby adopted on 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. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Councilman Baki, yes. Councilman Boyce, yes. Councilman Gu. Yes. Councilman Marty, yes. Councilwoman Mero, yes. Councilman Le, yes. Okay,
moving right along. Uh, ordinance 1277-25 for Councilman Guan. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a second reading uh and final adoption. This resolution basically uh allows for us to take uh money out of the capital improvement
fund and the general capital surplus to pay for various improvements uh and equipment uh for us. Uh I'd like to open it up to the public for any comment. Second. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on ordinance 1277-25?
Seeing none. Motion to close. Second. Okay. Uh Councilman. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is ordinance number 1277-25. Again, our second reading and final adoption of this resolution. It's called capital ordinance. Various improvements and acquisitions fully
funded resolution. Whereas an ordinance entitled a capital ordinance appropriating the sum of $255,000 for the making of various improvements and the acquisition of various equipment by the burrow of Altapan and to appropriate $165,000 from
the capital improvement fund and $90,000 from the general capital surplus was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and council held on the 7th day of April 2025. Now therefore be it resolved by the mayor and council of the borrow of voltapan county of Bergen state of New
Jersey that said ordinance number 1277-25B and the same is hereby adopted on the second and final reading and be it finally resolved that the borrow clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the notice of adoption as required by law. Have a second on that
second. Second. Okay. Any further discussion on this ordinance? Seeing none. Roll call, please. Council, yes. Council Boyce, yes. Councilman Borum. Yes. Councilman Marty. Yes. Councilman Sarah. Yes. Councilman Eu. Yes. Okay. Last of our public hearings tonight is
ordinance 1278-25. And that is for Councilman Guan as well. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh this is a second reading of a resolution that we introduced a couple of weeks ago. Uh and this is to establish uh a cap bank. Uh so I'd like to open it up to the
public for any comment. Second. Would anyone from the public like to be heard on ordinance 1278-25? Seeing none, motion to close. Okay. Councilman. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, this is ordinance number 1278-25. It's the second reading and final
adoption of that resolution. Uh, it's called exceed municipal budget appropriation limits and establish a cap bank resolution. Whereas an ordinance entitled borrow to pan Bergen County, New Jersey calendar year 2025 ordinance
to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank uh was introduced at a meeting of mayor and council held on the 7th day of April 2025. Now therefore be it resolved by the mayor and council of the borrowan county of Bergen state of New
Jersey that said ordinance number 1278-25B and the same is hereby adopted on second and final reading and be it finally resolved that the borrow clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the notice of adoption as required by law. Second on that second
second. Okay. Um any further discussion on this ordinance? None. Roll call, please. Councilman, yes. Councilman Boyce, yes. Councilman Bor, yes. Councilman Martin, yes. Councilman, yes. Councilman, yes. All right. Next order
of business. We have a resolution in front of us tonight. It's for council president. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I'm not sure if you'd like me to read the entire resolution into the record. Um, I would love you to read that into the record.
All right. Okay. Well, sit back and enjoy. Um, a resolution establishing goals for the contracting with veteranowned businesses, enterprises, having veterans in the municipal workforce, and recognition recognizing the military
service of residents in the civilian civic affairs of the burough of Volultipan. Whereas the New Jersey local public contracts law NJSA4A col 11-1 E it's uh eat I don't know how to
say this right LPCL permits um counties and municipalities to establish by resolution qualified veteranowned business enterprises VOBS and service connected disabled veteranowned businesses enterprises SDV OB contract
contracting programs known as veterans business entities, VBE. And whereas the LPCL further authorizes municipalities to establish goals for the municipality in setting aside a certain percentage of the dollar value of the total
um procurements to be awarded as contract uh to VBES. And whereas the LPCL provides that municipalities uh that have set goals for contracts
awarded to VODs shall make a good faith effort and that's the key word there good faith effort to attain any goal by tracking and awarding the contracted VBE and whereas the mayor and council of the Bur of Japan
recognizes the importance of publicly recognizing veterans for their service And whereas the mayor and council of the Burville depend has determined that subject to the compliance with the LPCL and other state regulations concerning procurement that it is in the best
interest of the burough in the bureau to encourage the participation of veterans in the business of local government and the workforce and in civic affairs of the community. Now therefore it be resolved by the Bur of Ultipan that the following goals are hereby established.
Number one, in the procurement of goods and services and construction in accordance with the NJSA48 colon 11-42D in burrow uh the bureau shall make a good faith effort to award 6% of the total contract
dollars of veteran business enterprises. In achieving this goal, the bureau shall consider the portion of any public contract awarded that may be performed by a VOB or SDVOB subcontractor. Number
two, in the procurement of procurement of goods and services and construction in accordance with NJSA4A1-42D for contracts awarded to non- veteran prime vendors where there are not three qualified veteran biders.
We shall request that 6% of the contract be awarded to qualified veteran subcontractors who are qualified in the state of New Jersey in the state of New Jersey selected assistance vendor information NJSAVVI database. Number three, in the
hiring of employees, the bureau shall make a good faith effort to achieve the goal of a minimum of 5% veteran workforce. D I'm sorry. Four, a discount for veterans on local license and permit fees. Five, uh, preferred parking for
veterans in municipalowned lots. Six, hold at least one patriot day public celebration honoring the service of veterans on Memorial Day, Veterans Day, andor the anniversary of 911. Uh, be it further resolved that in order to
achieve the goals established in this resolution, the bureau shall make best effort in accordance with NJSA 4A col 11-43 to advertise the bureau's goals and to track the award of
public contracts to VOBS and SDVOB subcontractors. I'll second that resolution. want read again. We got a second. Any any uh further discussion on uh our veteran friendly
municipality program? I think it's a terrific program recognizing our veterans and uh I know that uh Bill, thank you for your efforts on this. Councilman Marty, thank you. Um as a as a veteran yourself, uh I think it's a great thing for all the council. Thanks for so for getting us today. I just want
to thank Bill as well, man. I know you put a lot of work into it, so it's greatly appreciate it. Thank you. It's my pleasure. Okay. Well deserved. Okay. Um, roll call, please. Councilman. Yes. Council, yes. Council Guan, Councilman Barney, yes. Council member, yes.
Councilman, yes. All right. To keep our council president busy. Oh, boy. Uh, we have our consent resolution tonight. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, our consent resolution from the Burough CL clerk's office. Um, be it resolved that the following
resolutions placed on the agenda by consent require no discussion and the same having been previously reviewed by each council person be and are hereby adopted in their entirety by the mayor and council of this Burough Voltapan. Bills and claims. Released cash, bonds,
and escrow. Temporary emergency resolution. Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund application. Stonepoint Park Wellness Station. Request for proposals. Architectural design services. I like that. Um, reduce air traffic noise. Uh,
approve petition to FAA to reduce air traffic noise. Seems a little redundant. It's the same thing. Okay. I don't know why. That seems a little forgot to Okay, we have uh any more? No, thanks.
Okay, I don't mind anyway. Uh second on that. Second. We have any discussion on our consent resolution? Uh I just regarding um the uh redundancy there. Uh yeah. uh the mayor was uh brought in and
uh I think it's great that uh he agreed to this but a little bit about um TANS which is what the resolution is about. Uh stands for taxpayers for um aircraft noise solutions and safety. Uh it's a community organization tasked with finding workable solutions to the aircraft noise that adversely affects
residents quality of life in the Pasc Valley and surrounding towns. TANS 2 members believe there are solutions that can be undertaken that will improve resident quality of life and ensure a safe environment while continuing uh to provide safe necessary access to air travel in and out of Teter airport,
Newark airport and all others uh within our vicinity. Um and what they are looking for is basically municipal support uh in uh petition filings to the FA to help uh reduce or find a workable solution uh in reducing air traffic noise. So, thank you.
Yeah, I believe uh I actually think a couple of years ago um I forget the organization part of the port authority or something they have these every other month zoom meetings or something and the Pasc Valley mayors tried to kind of get a seat at the table and then we were denied. Yeah. Way back before my time
Victor when Victor was mayor. So they uh they they um so uh again they I think tonight is to bring uh we've been getting and and Anna you have uh we have something that when residents reach out we we have a you know complaint form for a better name or something that we or an
email or uh well we could put uh they have somewhere that they can we can put the link on the website. Okay. All right. So uh but thank you. I know you you dove into this. You had some residents talk to you about this once. So, uh, all right. Anyway, so that's on
our Mr. Mayor, I think you talked about this before, um, about Teterboro having a temporary route over the Pasco Valley. What was explained that depends on weather patterns and the construction on one runway. Um, I mean, when when these planes are
flying, they're flying and when they're not, they're not. It's just it is, you know, there's no rhyme or reason. You see the first one coming. So construction on one runway is causing a lot of the traffic that and and and what that was explained to me at probably last year early last year
was what weather patterns have something to do with it too. I know people coming down Route 17, but if I remember correctly that put them right over Hackinac University Medical Center, so they're people are concerned about that.
Um, so it's kind of a kind of above our pay grade, but uh we want to uh certainly go on record to say that uh someone should really be taking a a better and harder look at this because it is safety and and quality of life concerns.
All right, we'll leave that. I mean, I know it comes right down the mayor's street when I'm over there at any of the parks or houses right over all of ours and our and the right away 6:00 in the morning. We could we can count I could see them. Yeah. And it's it's loud and
low. So, if there's anything that we can at least put our This is a good uh not start again, but this is a good reboot, if you will, and saying, "Hey, listen. This is this is unacceptable, but I don't know how far we'll get." But anyway, thank you. All right. Uh roll call. Councilman.
Yes. Councilman, yes. Councilman, yes. Councilman Marty, yes. Council, yes. Councilman Hugh, yes. All right, let's go into our council committee reports. We'll start with Councilman U. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Really not much tonight. Um, our senior chairperson would just
like to remind everybody May 2nd is their annual 50th dance, noon at the firehouse. That's a Friday. And mayor, you have a special invitation to show up. That's awesome. Thank you. It's a Friday at noon. Friday at noon. I'll
join you. Just celebrating the 50s. Or do you have to be in your 50? Well, you have to dress like you were from the 50s. Oh, good. Cuz I'm not in my 50s anymore. Well, thank you for that special invite. I'll do everything I can. All right. I'll let them know to make it that night. I'll let them know you'll be
there that afternoon. our social services um chair would like to remind everybody to um make donations to our pantry whenever you have anything available. Also, there's an opportunity for residents to cook and deliver food
to um some less fortunate neighbors that we have. If you're interested in doing that, please reach out to me or Diane Besser, our our social services director. Um, DPW, I just wanted to let everybody
know that they'll be they're going to start grinding all the branches that they've collected probably around next week and mulch deliveries will probably start miday. So, if we get that mulch form up on our website, it'll be
great. And that just about concludes my report. Mr. Mayor, I have a question. Yep. the social services donating goods, right? Um, can you donate money and like at at work when I have we we have like a
matching program, right? And they list a lot of the different charities and they actually have like the Ultipan fire. They have they have parts of Ultan that you contribute to. Could that be is it a separate entity that you can contribute
to that would get matching from a separate entity as part of the town social services but they do have a trust fund um because there was a separate from the it's budget it's only yeah it's not in the budget we actually don't give
them anything in the budget they get donations right okay so you can do that I mean people have done that yeah I want to see what kind of structure it is so that it could be matching Right. So you get double what what I would contribute. So if we can get more detail on a number
like a tax number or something or how to do it. It would be the burrow's tax number. Yeah. Or how to do it. Okay. And if they do the do they do the fire company or do they do the fire department? Probably the company. Oh the company. We've gotten donations from the company from uh corporate. Yeah.
Matching like from Lever Brothers. Somebody else sent us stuff. Yeah. Company. I see. I see. Yeah. And any EMS would be library separate, right? Library would be separate. I know we've gotten donations there. They might
have. Okay. Thank you. How um the food pantry that we have, how often is it? A lot. Is it? That's great. I mean, I'm happy people are using it. You know, they are. Well, there's a need. It's growing. It's grown. Yeah.
A lot of our seniors need a little assistance now and then. I mean, I think we had the 10 or whatever. I think we're at like 20.
Great. We have a refrigerator. So yeah, we take that. Nice. Awesome. Thank you, Councilwoman Misaro. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, the Easter egg hunt was held this last Saturday at Oaks Park. Um, I
don't want to take too much of the time because I know Mr. Mayor wants to speak about that. He was just special guest there with Mr. Bunny. Uh, thank you to our DPW and especially our rec director, Gloria, uh, Weezner,
as well as the OT Police Department for helping coordinate this familyfriendly event. Um, I know I was able to get there. Uh, it was a beautiful day. It was rescheduled um, a few different times and it turned out to be uh, perfectly planned for that day.
Um, so I, like I said, I'll let Mr. Mary talk about that, but it was it was great uh to be there and to see all the the happy kids. Um I'll have some pictures uh to send to the burrow for that. Um opening day for T-ball, baseball, and
softball is this Saturday, April 26th. Um still awaiting the schedule that, but I know u Mr. Mayor is tradition. We'll be throwing out the first pitch again. When I get that schedule, I will forward your way.
uh very proud of our youth council who hosted a technology help session on Saturday, April 12th at the senior center. I want to thank Arav and Michelle for helping me help out with the seniors. Um I want to also thank
Councilman Yu for attending that event on a Saturday of the Masters tournament when we both went to watch golf and to the kids who came out on a busy weekend to come commit. I also would like to announce that the youth writer spotlight
hosted by Aviseric published its first edition which I have in my hand in Northern Valley living. This program features the creative talents of high school writers living in Northern Valley to offer an opportunity for high schoolers to publish their literary
works and in an esteemed magazine such as Northern Valley Living. Congratulations to Evelyn Leang and Jiho Lee, both grade 11, for their works, Yin and Yang, and I am the summer sun. I would also like to thank Ailen Co and
Aviserk for coming tonight. Um, Councilman Yu and I also hosted students from Northern Valley for a special tour of the fire department on Friday, April 11th. Thank you, Councilman Uu, for giving a fun and informative tour and for allowing the students to have an interactive
experience as part of their community-based outings program. The fire department monthly report will be available at the end of the month. But I did want to note that the fire department responded on a mutual aid call on Friday, April 18th to Tan, New
York to assist with a working structure fire at a commercial garage. Our ladder truck was requested to stand by to Pan Firehouse and eventually Old Pan Fire Department was requested to relocate to the scene and provide fast coverage FAST. Thankfully, despite property
damage, everyone got out safely. Nobody was injured in knocking down fire. Old Pan Fire Department also responded mutual aid to Closter Saturday, April 19th for a working house fire. And then early Easter morning, Old Pan Fire Department was called in mutual aid to
Norwood for a second alarm working fire. Um the fire committee met last Tuesday, April 15th, and we would like to recommend that ordinance 27-15A 4, department officers shall not be officers in the fire department of
another municipality, be removed to strike this and allow the fire company the freedom to decide. times have changed and that the state of volunteerism has changed that every single member is part of multiple departments. Um so that's the
first thing that I wanted to to bring up and then I had um second remark. So we can go back to that. Can I go go back to can we revisit that or should we discuss it now? Um, we could we can we'll start under
old business since we've talked about it before. The ordinance, you mean the fire officers? Yes. Yeah, we can. Let's let's catch a breath and we'll go under old business. Let everyone think about it for a minute. Okay. And then lastly, um, I would like an update from our
burough engineer regarding the Central Avenue crosswalks from the county and burrow. I've requested several times to meet. I have not heard back. my suggestion to meet with me outside of the school on Central Lab where the location should be. I took aerial photos. Um took screenshots, presented
that to the county and to our burough engineer. I have not heard back. Would like to uh have an answer on this. uh based on my daily travels to and from Northern Valdan and seeing the high school students and residents trying to cross Central Avenue at busy locations
in time without any crosswalk safety has been something I've brought up several times without any response from the county. Um I also would like to read just from today at around 5:00 I received this communication regarding this and I'll make it brief.
uh several students uh put this together regarding safety to and from the school. Not just for students but for residents. The questions are how often do you walk to and from school? Do you use a shortcut in the front driveway of the school which would be on Central Lab located across from Aayita and Alena
Drive? Do you often see others taking the same route? How often do you feel that that route is dangerous? On a scale of 1 to five, how much do you feel that a sidewalk or another safety precaution is needed? Um, and some of the comments I'll just make
this brief. Uh, I cross there every day. Um, cars don't maintain the speed limit. When I'm walking in the morning, the leftmost lane does not stop because the car line blocks vision. If students or parents are running late, they drop themselves or their children off at
school in the road. They do not stop the car the car to let students cross. Proposed solution. If the if parking is an issue for the crossing guard, work something out with Winding Creek Homeowners Association to let him have a designated parking spot.
Um, next student says, uh, there's always a handful of NVOT students that use this route to cross towards, but also residents during the day. I cross every day, especially uh before and after school. The cars, especially uh
younger drivers, do not slow down at all. So, when the attempts across the street, I feel at danger. Um, 4.9 out of five feeling of danger. Um, I walk home nearly every day from school. If the weather is bad, um, I have to call my
mom, otherwise I walk home every day. There's always a handful of students that walk across this route. Every day I feel danger, especially after school because of the drivers. Um, in closing, I just in my own personal remarks, it's something I've brought up. There is no crossing
across Central A. If you were coming from Ana, if you're coming from Aita, Winding Creek, Chestnut, Northvale, Norwood, there's nowhere for anyone across. I brought it up and I've
asked and I've got nothing. And I'm not waiting anymore for I I watch it every single morning. I have video of it. I have kids sending me video and I'm I'm I'm asking for something to be done. The county hasn't responded and I'm I'm asking I'll get you I'll get you an answer tomorrow.
Thank you. I know they're working. I the my last email to them I said let me know when you'll be there. I'll meet you outside personally. They don't respond to that. I'll get you an answer tomorrow. What are you proposing? What where are you proposing this? Um we we've talked about this
right. right at um right in front of the the entrance kind of. Yeah, there already is a The good thing is it's already the sidewalk already has a drop curve the drop curve on both sides. So you would you would be literally just putting it into the driveway of so of
the high school between not if when that gets done. Okay. And then I believe we budgeted for the flashing lights. Yes, we did. Okay, we did. So when that crosswalk gets put in the fl the flashing lights are in. Does that you
can never guarantee and people not have feelings. Does that solve the problem? It certainly helps. It creates a place for people to cross right now. No, no, I know right now. But but but that solves the problem. We're not suggesting something else because solve it. It
helps. It helps slow solving it would be a pedestrian bridge across the road. Solving would be people stopping for pedestrians, which you can't always control. People slowing down in a school zone, which we can't control. Um, what I'm going to ask is that you send that report or whatever you just
read to Ron and share this with the chief of police. Absolutely. And, uh, maybe it's more drivers, maybe it's more speeding tickets, maybe it's more citations. So, get get people's attention. So, um, safety is number one.
And whatever we have to do to get safety handled, even if it's if we don't have the flashing lights yet and we have the crosswalk installed, just a place for residents believe we are the community is in progress, right? The county moves at glacier speed. I'm aware. Um they
always did. Yeah, I'll get I'll get an answer from the county. Okay. Thank you. And I the part about I will meet them. I work there. I said I can come out and if that's if they don't answer I'm not sure. I'm not if I recall I think the spots are already
picked. Uh I just need to see where where they are on this. Perfect. I have some suggestions for them and I made that known with pictures. So, yes, I'd like to and they have that. I saw that. Thank you. Who's they? You have a contact with
county engineering. Tom is on there. Uh we have the county on there. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anything uh on that subject? I don't mean to cut you off there. Just um No, that that that's it. Just wanted
to finish that. Thank you. Okay. Uh, Council Ben. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, police report, uh, the following police activities. I'm sorry, I'm getting a just bringing up an
email from our chief from today that I wanted to read. Um well, in the meantime, uh a total of 1,348 calls for service and special details were attended by the Altapam police officers. 198 motor vehicle stops, 77
motor vehicle summones were issued, 149 radar details were completed, 98 traffic enforcement details were completed, 40 school safety checks were conducted. Security deficiencies are noted by officers and conveyed to the school administrative staff. Six firearm
ID permits and applications were received. One arrest for uh domestic violence incident. Six traffic details were completed for outside contractors such as Suez and PSEG. Total total to the municipality for the month was $1,52.64. Uh $680 in permit and report
fees were turned over to the burough treasurer. Okay. Now we have an issue with a police car. I saw I saw it on a flatbed the other day. Yes, you did. Following following up on our conversation, Ron 604, which
is one of the cars, is a 2018 Chevy Tahoe with 104,000 mi. Its replacement has been ordered and will hopefully arrive this year sometime in August or September. It will not see upfitting until probably later after the first of the next year.
Steve, uh, Steve meaning the mechanic at the DPW. Steve advised that the torque converter went bad and sent its damaged parts into the transmission. A rebuilt transmission is $6,500 with a three-year $100,000 uh 100,000 mile warranty. Jesse was not in
today. I wanted to speak to her to see if had if there were any emergency funds and if they were available. This would put a significant dent in my vehicle maintenance budget. I think it's worth fixing fixing, excuse me, because at auction with the right guy in quotes, we
might get 15 to $20,000 for the vehicle once we get the new one on the road. As it is, we will get $0 for the vehicle. So, I said I told him to write this email to me explaining it. We'll discuss it tonight. I don't know if anybody has
a comment. Well, nice segue, I think. Well, our our our our car guy, who is Guy, said, "Yeah, it pays to fix it because you got to get a three-year warranty, and when you go to sell it, it's going to be worth something." Right now, you pretty
much just throwing it away. Also valuable is the upfitting, as we've learned, that could cost uh 23,00,000, right? So, or 15 or more. So I I mean we've kind of lost a lot of
the purchasing power and understanding the whole auction thing and selling of used equipment and all the potential revenue that that has brought into the burrow and could potentially bring into the burrow in the future when when Guy
left the deis. So, I know he's still in some capacity connected to Old Japan and that he's he's the insurance. I'm going to talk about this under old business. I'm going to talk about that. But is there a way for him to be All right, someone talk about it now. That's old
business. Let's talk about it now. Um, any more comments about the car? Does everyone agree we should fix it? If not, let's talk about it. So, we need the car, I guess. I mean, I know we need the car. Some cars take a siesta certain days or shifts and stuff like that, but to pull one of those cars into that
rotation would just put undo burden on the other cars. On the other car, makes sense to fix. So, the cost is 6,500. Yes. Threeear warranty on it. So, correct. I mean, it's like 2,000 a year if you, you know, it's on the transmission. Yeah. On the transmission.
Correct. I'm fine with that cost. Okay. All right. So, anybody opposed? I'm sorry. I don't want to step anybody's fix the car. Okay, good. Um, the that's the end of my report, but as long as we're here, let's talk about We talked about in our
budget at the beginning of this year a couple of times. We talked about it at budget time to a guy is now our uh insurance commissioner, but we talked about having him on for a stipen just to take care of our fleet fleets, our cars, cuz he's
really good at it. And over the years, he saved us a boatload of money and advised us correctly where to get a part, where not to get a part, where to get something fixed, where not to get something fixed. He has every contact and every phone number on the East Coast.
My suggestion was a stipen of $2,500 right now using a number he makes on commissioner 285 bucks a year. Yeah. So at this point he was it doesn't even go into his
career and that's not the point. This someone going to do a service for us. You want to keep them on? He's got to make at least 1500 bucks. I I do want to keep them on. I mean, but that's me personally because I I've seen over the years. I've been here a long time. I've seen how many times, you know, some Andy
got a price to do X, Y, and Z. Guy made a phone call to save $1,000 just because we sent it to Emerson instead of to Terbar or with to get or whatever the thing was. Guy seems to be he's a car guy. He's a car guy and and he's he's got all looking at.
Anyway, any conversation? Anybody have an opinion? I think I I don't like the way it looks. And why? A former councilman dealing with something that the burrow really should be dealing with. We should be auctioning
these off through the burrow. No, this isn't about that. This is this is about the comprehensive the whole picture. Yeah, I get it. What should we be buying? I mean, we've saved a lot of money. He just got us the Dodge Chargers if I recall. Right, Anna? We had to dodge charges for the police at really
cheap as as cars go. Very cheap. Uh because he called all around and found it. This isn't about guy being an ex- councilman or anything. Former councilman is actually easier. This is this is a new position we're looking to create. Well, with the commissioner and
just commissioner kind of well personnel right now. Yeah. Are we talking about personnel? No, I think it's more of a personal I don't know what his role is with the burrow. None. Oh, he's our insurance
commissioner. For a tiny stip we're talking about expanding his role perhaps, which we've talked about before. This isn't new. So, is this something close? That's okay. Jean, you want the next 15 minutes.
Thank you. Anyway, everybody keep it in your heads and if Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was going to suggest. Anyway, you think there's a problem? not take action on it tonight. Yeah, we'll certainly discuss it. I mean, well, come prepared. Um Ron, I don't know if there's anything you can write up, pros and cons, you know, things like that for us to consider. Yes. But yeah, let's put it
closed uh next meeting. Okay. Okay. Okay. Just just as parting, I did discuss with Andy. I did discuss with the police chief and they thought it was not necessarily this person, but a person to do this is a good idea. That's all I got. So that's my
report unless somebody has anything for me. Nope. Thank you. All right, Councilman Marty. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right. Uh the health not too much to report. Their meeting was rescheduled. Their monthly meeting for uh this
Wednesday, April 23rd. Uh the only thing I will mention that there was a potential measles exposure in New Jersey by a non-resident who was passing through. So more fun. Arkidge. Like New Jersey Transit. It was the NJ
Transit and Starbucks and Park Ridge. That person was in Starbucks. My daughter lives in Park Ridge. They sent out a thing. The town sent out a memo and everything. I think we'll all be all right. Yeah. All right. Uh EMS uh year to date 129
calls. Uh specifically, uh in April through April 17th, they um had 12 calls out. So that was a few days ago and they were able to staff 100% of those calls. So that's wonderful. Uh they are continuing to onboard new crew chiefs to
help enhance that role in EMS. Uh with the schools, uh I know Councilman, you had asked me the budget was um made public, the proposed budget for 25 and uh 26. It was sent to the newspaper. Um one thing I did want to comment on, I
had a nice uh conversation. um with the school today. Uh so through round three, this is what was relayed to me. Um there was a Rucker study uh that was done on the potential impact of new enroles to
the schools. Um and that was uh including the Enclave um I'm going to pronounce this wrong. Ada Ayita Ayita Aayita Aayita Aayita. All right. uh and Park and Arbor. That Rucker study actually showed um around 30 students
that they were predicting would be enrolled in our school system. Um yeah, K through K through Yeah, the lower schools. Correct. Uh to date we're at 60. So, um John Zable said 50 when we
It's got two years ago. It's got to be somewhere in our report, but yeah, I I don't remember the number from around three I was involved in it. Right. The thing that I just, you know, want to keep in mind is that right now we're at 60. It's a lot. They said 30 and Park and Arbor is not even at full capacity
yet. So something we need to maybe start thinking down the road. I mean more more fun coming there. So the schools have some kind of additional they could add additional to their taxes going outside of their cap for
additional enrollies. the the thing I mean I that's keeping that I see where your mind is going good but the the point is if we just keep growing are we going to have these space to accommodate okay that's what you're worried about that's what I'm that's where my mind went I'm like well where are we going to
where are we going to put them you know but something that we would have to think about in the future um this is uh actually you know what I'm going to hold off on my next comment because it has to do with um the special needs students I know that there was an increase in
percentage but I don't have those numbers on the top of my head um with within the new um children that were registered there is a higher percentage of those children that are needing extra services and when I was on the board of
ed I was part of student development and I can tell you that is very costly it's the big it's one of the big ones it's the big the biggest so just I just wanted to put that out there for everybody to you know we can think about all this fun. And uh that's it, sir.
That's my report. Yeah, it's it's unfortunate that um you know, we've said it, you know, countless times up here that uh those decisions are taken out of our hands regards to the third round, the fourth round. Uh you know, still still working through that. Uh just going to start working through that
really. Um so it is it's another one of those unfunded mandates and how it affects our schools, how it affects our infrastructure and and things like that. It's yeah, it's u um it's tough. It's it's tough for us to uh keep absorbing,
you know, because someone in Trenton is is signing legislation that's saying, "Hey, it doesn't doesn't matter. You guys figure it out." That's what it comes down to. So, tell all your friends. All right. Uh thank you one. Uh
Councilman Boyce. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll start off with something light. The golf course uh saw lots of action this past weekend. We have 265 members. About half are from Old Japan, half are from outside our boundary. But um the grass
hasn't even started growing yet there. It'll start growing soon. Um I did take a walk around the whole golf course today, partially for exercise and partially because I had some members ask me to check on the condition of the course. I found it to be adequate considering
the grass hasn't grown yet. Maintenance um could be a little bit better. I found some trees that looked like they were midway through being cut down. Um checked the tree ordinance for that one. Um but there's some routine things that
could be improved. I'll be bringing that up with the management. Uh we also need 10 more golf carts because we ran out and we actually uh would benefit from that. Um, if we were to just rent them for the summer, it's about $2,000 per
month. If we add them to our fleet, I believe it's 600. No, it's $760 per month. So, I waiting for Jesse to come in before we can make a decision each each. No, for the all 10 of them
for 10 of them some months. 760 per month. If we got 10 more and added to our fleet and we own and we own them for subsequent years. Release them. Yeah, you want to lease them, but it when we have carts, we generate revenue from renting those carts. So, it's it's
not still not budgeted. So, we have to we have to wait leasing. Let me ask a silly question on carts, but do my math. Somebody can help me with my math lesson here. So, you have nine holes. You have a fourome on every hole. There'd be one
waiting. So, it's nine times two per You know where I'm going with this? 18 cards in the in the mix. So we don't have enough carts based on the size of our course. That's what they're saying that we usually carry I think 26 or 27 cards.
So 9 * 27 carts two two carts for some people wait at the beginning people drive them to their cars cards per hole for you some out of commission in case repair four cards per take a card each. No. Well two if you had a force of them you could have
two cards. Yeah, that two individual cards on, right? And then the force of waiting has two carts. Okay. So, there's four carts at one hole. So, you potentially could have a force of waiting on every hole. Worst case. Worst case. I doubtful, but All right. Help me with that math.
30. So, you're up at 36 cards. 26. Yeah. How many cards we have? Believe 26 or seven. Oh, that makes sense. Thank you. Okay. All right. Einstein. Someone smarter than me did that first. how smart. Well, they I mean they've lived
it. They've lived the shortage and had people wanting carts. So, okay. Uh so, we'll be addressing that with our CFO when she returns. So, our ROI in those carts. We're going to get 10 more at 700. Find out the revenue per cart. Find out that it would help uh if they
were hosting corporate adding, the more carts, the more they can accommodate. So, that's a revenue generator. You will make the money back. problem is because it's not budgeted and released and we just have to see if we can do it and how we're gonna do it like it will make the
money but you just because the money comes in doesn't mean you can actually pay no so leasing them is inside the cap do without that police car if we pay for the lease that's inside the budget cap as opposed to the operator right as opposed to if we own
them and then we could capitalize outside the cap one of the carts the guys out there would leasing them. You have long gone in the back. You another one broken. I understand the we don't purchase. All right. So, we have to wait on uh we'll we'll bring
back some math to the council. Just a quick question for Bill. How many tea times are there in a day of operation? Hours of operation. Oh gosh. You know this. Guess it varies, but 15 minutes. It's all online. We could figure every eight minutes or something. What I'm I
guess what I'm asking is are all our tea times booked every day? Not solid, but but in the afternoons when they're available, I mean, it's on the weekends, on good days, on holidays, it's jam-packed. Mhm. Okay. The parking lot's full. It's beautiful. Hop up there. They
got good restaurant, too. Yeah, restaurant's great. Hot Pocket Specialty. Um, so I would like to give a shout out to our planning board. I mean, we've been through the ringer with the planning board, but we did hear two bits of testimony. Two two people wanted uh
variances for their properties and our planning consultant, Burgess Associates, have a really deep bench. We had a substitute uh planning person there. His name was Steven Leiden. And he was really good, very very even keel, very
he explained everything perfectly. And the town's in good hands with with that gentleman. With Burgess. Yeah. That in particular, Leiden. Um, and we we required that both applicants come back with more information at the next at the
next planning board meeting. Uh, the environmental commission meeting I attended. Uh, we had a town resident come in uh who was very concerned and I've seen emails. I also received an email from Councilwoman Misaro that the
um towers in town are being taken down, of which I believe there's 20 of them, and they're not providing notice to the residents. They're leaning on, you know, former conversations that we've had with them saying, "Oh, we informed your mayor and council," which
is, you know, not quite uh I guess timely. We haven't done that. They were supposed to be telling residents. Yeah, they're not. Well, they tell them as they're cutting trees down in their driveways. You can't move your car though. High tension. Well, see, so they cut
down trees adjacent to personal property and then in an order to clean up the branches that might fall when you're cutting down a large tree, they go onto the property to use a blower or a rake and clean it up and clean it up, which is reasonable. you'd want them to do a good job, but they're just not they
don't have the best attitude when dealing with our public. So, you have a Sarah something? I'll talk to Sarah. Yeah, we I would like to meet with Sarah. Um, you met Sarah when we went over to Wilbur. Right. Exactly. Well,
they need a little more PR with our residents. Okay. And inform them when and where they're doing their work. You'll make that call. Okay. Well, I had an issue with them years ago with the with the Sheridans at the end of Mavis Road and um they wanted to cut their uh
easement. Mhm. Oh, we have to do this because of the power lines knowing full well that in two years they were going to dismantle the power lines and and the Sheridans had a tree that was up leaning a little bit this way, but the leaning part was in the 50oot rightway, not the
bottom. Oh, we have to take it down. Going to take it down. Knowing full well that they were going to dismantle the towers. It was I don't think those towers are coming in. What are we talking about? Where are they stopping? Water towers. No, the the certain towers
that the ones the ones near Dorataki's run that go I think they're eventually going. Yeah, but still the the they decommissioned, right? That's what I mean. So, the ones on the on the seventh fairway of the golf course and the ones by Sheridan's house aren't energized. So, so what are you worried about a tree
in the 50 foot rightway? I don't know if it was I went up there personally and talked to the tree guy and he didn't want that. All right. So, we'll we'll speak to Sarah that meeting about that. Um, but the the other point of concern about that is that there is a concern about
lead in the soil directly below the towers. And in speaking with our Dave, our very own Dave Keel, who knows a thing or two about the environment, he said that lead doesn't migrate through the soil very rapidly. Uh but they're only digging it
out 2 feet deep and from what they said, it was only an 8 ft square. Now that base of the towers are larger than 8 ft, so that doesn't make any sense to me. Also, when you agitate things and they become in solution, they're apparently
potentially flowing into Dorataki's run when there's a storm water event from a storm. And we know it doesn't ever rain around here. So, we would like to bring that up in our forthcoming meeting um as well. So, perhaps we
invite Sarah to attend the environmental commission meeting. Mhm. Yes. That won't be for another three weeks, but I don't know what the schedule looks like, but yeah, let's let's let's do that. Yeah. And we can talk to her about ongoing monitoring and
maintenance of the said removal and the soil around it and etc., etc. What's the lead? There's lead in those stansions. Lead in the paint that covers. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, probably. I mean, they've been there since before I was born. And they're not taking them down
daintily with gloves on and hazmat suits piece by piece. What I've heard is that they're toppling them over and letting it go boom and crash and all the lead flies all over the place. This is what I've heard. So, have pictures and video. Yes, we have pictures and video of it.
So, I think that's a great suggestion, Mr. Mayor. We'll invite her to the meeting. Thank you. Before that, if we could have the communication of the schedule for residents instead of waiting for the meeting in 3 weeks if they're going to be doing more. Yeah. Because they need to move their cars, tell their kids to go inside, etc., and
they're not being given that courtesy. Um, I think we did a great thing by acknowledging the veterans in town and the new committee and all the forthcoming veterans that'll be working in town with our new veterans friendly town initiative. Uh, thank you for your
support. I know you made a lot of happy veterans. We're trying to do a good job. Um I think that in reading that very lengthy resolution uh I thought that towards the end of it I won't start from the beginning it
suggested that we acknowledge you know which where we're providing opportunities um and after the after we've hired and had veterans work in town we post those successes. So I would like to make the suggestion we put that on our website
like a veteran section or something on the website. Yeah, right under our veteran section. Okay. Just something to add to it. And uh we have a boy scout that's interested in actually doing something at the veterans memorial which is forthcoming. So we're inviting him back to the next meeting. I actually
reached back out to him today. Um his name is Tim and we're going to walk through the corner of Oaks Park and find something uh meritorious of an Eagle Scout project there. Did we have an Eagle Scout doing something recently? We do. We have one creating a flag uh
retirement box. That's right. And that's probably going to be positioned at the police building. Okay. Um it's an old uh mailbox. One of those really sturdy old mailboxes. Okay. That concludes my report. Thank you. Uh very briefly from me tonight. Um Mr.
Mayor, you forgot court. Oh, did I how did I forget court? Why' I go to you first? I wasn't sure. Sorry, court. I'm there. I thought it was some special day or something. Wait. But you knew I would only take 30 seconds. So, it's almost as good as nothing. So, very quickly, library uh
they had a plan and board meeting two weeks ago. It was delayed because a lot of people were sick and then last week vacation. So, uh that board meeting is going to take place this Wednesday. Uh the board itself did approve the town paving program. Uh they coordinated with Anna. Uh in terms of the roof leak that
I mentioned last time, they resealed around the vent uh HVAC vent uh up on the roof. So, uh, we'll see how that, uh, holds up. Uh, some ceiling tiles need to be replaced, uh, due to the water damage, but nothing major. Uh, the board is to discuss fundraising on
Wednesday. Uh, summer reading kickoff is June 11th. I think, Mr. Mayor, either you're going to be invited or you have been. I have been. I said I'd keep my schedule. It's a daytime event. Uh, yes. Yes. Uh, and then they want to do a
touch a truck event. Uh, so they'll be reaching out to EMS, fire, DPW to coordinate. Uh, in terms of OEM, no update there. And in finance, I forgot to mention last time that the new accounts payable person had resigned and
I think we're currently still looking for we we have them actually come in and sit down for a couple of hours in the morning. And then once we have a couple candidates, we'll have the three. Excellent.
That's the end of my short report. Thank you, sir. Uh just going back to uh Councilwoman Misero just for a minute. Um I don't know if you got the email or not, but I I only learned it yesterday. I guess they're going to be 6:00 now on
Sunday evenings. We will be testing our siren, something they call box alarms or something like that. Uh where they'll they'll they'll blow Riverale and Alipan's um whistle. I think it's 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. They forgot already last night. So, if you have residents saying,
"Hey, why is this thing going off, you know, every night, every Sunday at 6:30, you'll know what what it's all about. We used to love that grown up, just to be honest." And 6:00 was how we knew to come home. I had 15 minutes to get home for dinner as a kid. That's it was a good, you know, it didn't it doesn't
alarm me, quote unquote. Well, court's going to get to hear him more often than Thank you. All right. Sunday at 6. All right. Very briefly for me tonight, I attended uh since our last meeting, I attended the Pasc Valley Mayor's uh um monthly dinner, dinner meeting. A lot of
discussion was about budgets and who felt they did better in uh in their budgets this year than others. So, it was kind of a bragging contest there. Uh and I said we did the best. Uh, I attended the Bergen County League of Municipalities breakfast and we had New Jersey Transit come in and discuss uh
all things transit um at uh at that breakfast meeting. I had the uh uh great honor to attend and meet uh personally with the Easter Bunny yesterday uh at the Easter egg hunt. I was really encouraged that what a great crowd. I mean, there were a lot a lot of kids
there and it was awesome. So, uh, thank you to Wreck and and and, uh, uh, Christine for putting, you know, get involved in that, our DPW in our place, as she said there. And I'm really looking forward to Saturday, opening day. Um, it's just it's an honor to be able
to stand there and say a few words to the parents, the coaches, the uh, uh, the league, and to uh, and to throw out that uh, ceremonial first pitch. So, I'm looking forward to that on uh on Saturday. So, uh, that's end of my report. Move on to, um, action on the
minutes for council president. Okay. So, action on the minutes. Uh the minutes to be approved are the regular meeting minutes from March 17, 2025, special meeting minutes from March 26, 2025, closed meeting from April 7th, 2025, and the regular and
executive meeting from April 7th, 2025. A second on that second. Any discussion on the minutes? Roll call, please. Council, yes. Council, yes. Council, yes. Councilman Hardy, yes. Councilomano. Yes. Councilman Yu. Yes.
Okay. Moving on to old business. Um we have a proposed nuisance ordinance amendment. Uh that was probably in the uh in the packet, a copy of that, Jean, right? Yes. Yeah, it was in the packet. I don't I don't know if anyone had a chance to review that. I hopefully you
did. Um I know some of you are on emails as much as Easter Sunday. Yes. Uh this is um this along with the updated noise ordinance. We um we have some issues in a certain neighborhood and
trying to address it as best we can. So um anybody have any comments on what they read there? We the plan would be to introduce this next meeting. I think anything is good anything going forward is good as as we usually do. we
have a good faith effort and then see how that works and maybe we tweak it or maybe we make it better or whatever. But I think we we need to do something because it's not the first time. I I actually we I went over to that neighborhood. I was on the way back from the Easter egg hunt when that email came
across my phone. So I drove over and I didn't hear anything and you saw some of the follow-up emails that that happened after that. Um and um yeah, it's discouraging. police chief drove over there today. He didn't hear anything. Anyway, you said you were
gonna go ahead. Yeah. Um I you know, first of all, I want to give kudos to to Mayor Gallagher for he headed over there. I mean, a Saturday afternoon, it's nice out. He's here for the Easter egg thing. We both got the same email regarding what was going on.
It my point is this. It's that's not the only place where residents have concern. So, it's not like we're just singling out one resident. I think it is good to have something in place. I mean, I did read it over and I promise I won't be hooting or hollering according to it. Some of the wording of it. Yeah. Yeah,
that's right. No hooting. So, I won't hoot hoot. Um, but I do, you know, I mean, there's something to be said for we try good faith effort at first. You, you know, you want to work with your neighbor and stop by and say, "Hey, you know, could you turn it down, etc." But there are certainly areas in town that
that could use some enforcement in my opinion. And this, this is one of them. And I know that sometimes when they go over, oh, it's not there. But I I do believe that that particular incident and area um you know, we were all young people at one point and do you see the police
coming, you turn down the music and then they leave and you turn back up. So I I do believe that we have several areas where residents have concerned about the noise and I would like to see something. Did we purchase the uh Nothing yet. All right. Well, we will, right? We will. So, we'll get this Yeah, we'll get this
in our books and then we'll talk about enforcement. I echo Councilwoman Miss Arrow's comments there. Get it? Yes. Okay. All right. We'll we'll we'll keep trying. We'll uh Yeah, keep trying,
Bill. It's not right. Yeah. You must hear it all the time. So, I did speak to my uh in-laws who live within earshot of that home and uh they haven't heard anything this year and while I could count the number of times they've left
the house on one hand, um it hasn't occurred this year to the best of their knowledge. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Well, um everyone read it over again if there's any kind. We'll introduce uh we'll introduce next
meeting. Okay. Uh we'll circle back to uh uh Councilwoman Misero on fire officers. You wanted to comment on our current ordinance? Yeah. So uh as I said um fire committee met last
Tuesday. Uh and uh you know we discussed the the current ordinance again it's 27-15A partheses 4 department officers shall not be officers in the fire department of another municipality. And again, uh, our recommendation, and I know Councilman, you will speak to this
also, is that it be removed to strike this and allow the fire company the freedom to to decide. I don't know, Councilman, you if you want to. Yeah, exactly what you said before. This does come uh from the recommendation from our fire chief.
Um, he says this part of our ordinance is a little anti antiquated. There seems to be no other mutual aid townowns that have anything like this on their on their burough ordinance. Um times have changed. We're struggling to
recruit volunteers and this just puts another hindrance to it. And I think Christine and I were all about making things a little easier for our volunteer departments to function. And if we get rid of this, this should alleviate some of the issues they have. And it's not
like who's who was the committee? I'm sorry. yourself uh me court and uh Christine so and you know we talk I I express concern so what happens if you know we have a lieutenant from old Tapan and they become a lieutenant in Riverville
say and there's a mutual aid call which which department would they really respond to and it seems like at least these officers that are in now none of them are members are they're members of other departments but they're not officers of other departments
an ordinance. Well, their their focus is on ultipan because they are officers of ultipan now and they see it that way. I'd also they have an obligation. I'd also like to point out that of our line
officers um and many of our department members are gift number I think all of them are firefighters and other municipalities. So, it's it it's part of the nature of it. It's a good sign that our fire department's been recruiting so
highly that we're getting uh members at that high number. And also, you know, if we have someone who's a career firefighter, wouldn't we love their we benefit from their experience as a bureau? I mean, someone who's, you know, working in another place and has, you
know, responded to multiple calls, we benefit uh from that. I know that, you know, I trust the in-house that the the uh we b, like I said, we benefit from their leadership skills and, you know, if there's an issue with like lieutenants not showing up or something,
I believe they handle those things. Um, the company votes for their Yeah, they have their election. I I'm my my point is this that we have an opportunity to in the state of volunteerism today to have a show of good faith and also to
benefit from the fact that you know if they're leadership in our bureau um I think the chief could decide that and I would also say that we talked about not having you couldn't be a chief in another town and here right a chief
that's part of the part of and and that part we you know agree with. You're not going to be the chief of town being the but a lieutenant let's say who's also you know captain in another town or something. I mean
it would be up to in this case it would be up to the chief to decide if someone weren't showing up or if there were you know we've used other towns that are close as an example of a mutual aid situation. If they're on in one town, they're on. If they're if they're not,
they're not. I mean, that's decided. I don't think we have uh multiple I don't think we have mutual aid towns with where they share officers right now. Yeah. But just to be clear, Christine, would this change in our
ordinance? Make it the chief's decision on a daily basis or on a like two guys show up to a fire, he or to a scene, no, you can't be here. What does he do? You know, you're saying it's up to the chief. Didn't you just say that to to
choose his line officers as appropriate? So, if someone is already okay somewhere, let's say person is in town a right now and wants and they want to name them all. Well, you can't because you're Shouldn't the department um company name that person? Yeah, we chief
and then we endorse it at least. So, I mean the shouldn't the company vote on that person? Don't you and because if if it's just up to the chief I'm not talking about current chiefs or it creates politics down the road. Well, I don't like you so I'm not going to make you an officer. Well, I think what Christine was saying
was for some reason. I'm not saying currently where you seem to be fine. As as a chief, they could talk to their lieutenant and say, "Listen, you're you're not you're not doing your job right for all dependent. I think you should step aside and these elections happen. You need something administrative behind that. Otherwise, it's just capriccious. It's just
whatever." And then it's going to cause a problem. Then it comes down to the company. Are they going to be reelected next year? Probably not. Yeah. But you know as well as I do that sometimes elections in our fire company are like eighth grade student council. Whoever
has the most friends that comes on that day wins. I don't disagree. Well, it's it's wrong. I I think we needed something administrative in our ordinance that that is a lot. you know, you're in parameters of this guidelines
guidelines rather than removing it. Can I have a Can I add say something? Yes, I can. Um, all right. I want to make sure we're not talking about one isolated incident where we have a career firefighter who was just
um promoted to a to a lieutenant position in a career firefighter that currently holds a lieutenant position in our fire department. that would that's beyond this, right? It's Yes. It wouldn't just be for this that was originally discussed. That's what that's what I thought the conversation was
going to be about. Okay. But the chief so my other my other we rely a lot on mutual aid more and more and more. Okay. Uh, as everyone knows here and in the audience that, you know, I'm a pretty active firefighter
and middle of the night, early early morning, we're lucky we have four people to show up for an alarm. Four people. Okay. So, we rely on mutual aid. And my concern is that when you're a pick a
town, pick a surrounding bordering town. When you're a lieutenant there or you're a lieutenant here, you can only serve in one capacity. So, you can't be a lieutenant. You can't wear two hats um on a fire scene, on a police scene. You you have
to kind of pick and choose. So, a working house fire in Alapan, is this person an Alapan lieutenant or captain leading a crew, managing a crew, or are they in River?
when Rivervale comes because they might be a Riverale resident who we're thankful that they're an ultipan firefighter because we we'll take every able body we can get. But what capacity are they? Where is their where's their loyalty?
That's that's that's my I mean I whichever whichever I've known this for 40 plus years. Whatever tone goes off first, that's who you have to respond to. Yeah. What if in this case I would like to and actually go ahead. Oh, no. I don't want to I was just going to say what if someone's in a fire fighter and
also an EM uh EMS EM pick which tone you're responding to. It's the same then if you're duty night you're going to the first spots. But that's what I'm saying. This isn't the only time where there could be a call if there's a fire and you need the first respond you need EMS
there and police. It's not a unique situation. That's a good thing. I'm missing something. I'm sorry. You're You're saying you can't wear two hats, but you can. I mean, at the same time, you can't. No, you can't. But I'm saying if you if you are at the same time was my my comment. All right. Yes. So, that
you want to take No, I I think this deserves more discussion with our chief and we'll we'll go back with our chief, but I think I I understand what you guys are saying. has to be some kind of hierarchal structure and where you're going to respond where you might respond
to if there was a mutual aid call to and put it in the ordinance so it's not subjective. I'll ask the hard question so it doesn't become I'll ask a question. So when you come back we're we'll come back in we'll come back in
May. I'd love to know what our current officers percentages are. fire calls only, not training and maintenance on Mondays or meetings. I'd love to know what their response is as as a as a sitting lieutenant,
captain, deputy. You call up to the chief if you want, but I'd like to know where where we stand. How active is that unreasonable to ask? They were elected for a reason.
Of course they were. Should you just pull stats for every member? Sure. That way it's sure for everybody. Yeah, good idea. But again, it's management now, so we're we're talking about management, but by all means,
I mean, they were elected to to to Councilman's point. I mean, we have a mixed bag of current, you know, uh, we have veterans that that, you know, almost like in the am lot of folks do different jobs and things there. But when when you're a fire officer,
I would think, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a former chief. I would think that their their position first and foremost is to be on a fire scene leading a crew. They were when I was chief. I would agree. That would be important. And you
know what? To your point, Mayor Gallagher, you and I were both out on the same call a few weeks ago early and where is it? Where is everyone? I mean, it happened to be behind the house. So, it was, you know, for me it was on my way to work. But you've made that point and uh I think numbers,
statistics would help. So, yeah, listen, I value every member and everything that they do. If it's one, I I value everyone in what they can contribute. Um it's it's just that I I don't want to dilute that anymore. And u when we have a call
let's say in old Panor River and they all of a sudden three of our lieutenants or captain end up because they have other commitments elsewhere and then that now we we lose what we voted to have.
Anyway, that's that's just my uh decision. And uh so you know you can bring back to the chief on some reservations but it's it's up to this council to decide what um what we want to do. Thank you.
Um okay nothing that's for tonight. That's that. Okay. Thank you. All right. Um, next uh order of business is new business and we have ordinance 1279-25 2025 salary ordinance for
Councilman Guan. Yep. So, this is uh ordinance uh to amend the current salary ordinance to update it for 2025. As you see, there's about five pages worth of salaries, etc. Um, not sure I can answer any specific questions
about any of them, but uh, I'd like to introduce this uh, ordinance. Okay. Uh, do I have a second on that? Second. Okay. Any discussion on this? Uh, Councilman Marty, you're uh, yeah,
I'm looking. Are you uh, you Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They It was brought up to a th00and, right? Which Yeah, that's what I believe. Yeah. Yeah. I saw it in the email. I just wanted to confirm. Okay. Thank you. Uh right here. Yeah.
All right. We have a uh uh introduction and we have a second. Uh and no further questions. Roll call, please. Councilman, yes. Council, yes. Councilman Juan, yes. Councilman Marty, yes. Councilwoman Misero, yes. Councilman Yu, yes.
Okay. Uh at this time, I'll entertain a motion to uh open the meeting to the public once again. So move. Second. All in favor? I would anyone from the public like to be heard on any matter tonight? Second. Okay. Motion to adjurnn. So move. Okay.
Second. Very good. We're journal. I spirited. Spirited. Spirited. Spirited. Your constituents in a month. All right. Well, that that's good. You know, make an application for the fire
department. Thank you. All right. And you get to read the resilience. He shows up even when Bill you didn't look forward to having you know you voted on nothing. You voted on nothing. Why? I didn't get to read the resolution.
We know what it says. Got me twice. You got me twice today. He doesn't like you. I don't think I was taking video. You read all those ordinance the capital stuff. All right. You must be leaning back or something. Are we going to do it based
on percentage? Like how does that I don't know. We We have it very vague here and I'm sort of like, well, how do we do that? Is it a blank percentage? You know what I'm