All right. >> All good. >> All righty. >> Good evening, everyone. >> Good evening. >> In compliance with the open public's meeting law, notification of this meeting has been sent to our official newspapers and other publications
circulated in the Burough Bowl, Japan notice posted on the bulletin board, not Burough Hall. Please be reminded that all of our meetings are video recorded and posted to our website. And please note the fire extras are at the rear of the council chambers and at the main door as you entered this evening. Uh
roll call please. >> Mayor Gallagher >> here. Councilman Bonagi here. >> Councilman Boyce >> here. Counciloman Costello >> here. Councilman War. >> Councilman Marty. Councilman >> here. >> Would you please rise and join me 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. Would you please remain standing and join me in a moment of silence for National Guard members Sarah Beextorm,
killed in the line of duty protecting our nation's capital, and Andrew Wolf, who remains in critical condition tonight. Please pray for their families during this very difficult time. Thank you. >> All right. Our first order of business tonight is our consent resolution for
council president voice. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Be 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 the burough of
Voltipan. Bills and claims transfer 2025 budget appropriations cancel 2025 and 2026 added assessment billing interlocal services agreement pistol range animal control services agreement educational
cooperative pricing system agreement retirement agreement police chief uh employee health savings account contribution >> a second >> second have any discussion on any of the items in our consent that resolution.
>> Yes. Um, >> please. >> Animal control. >> I go, >> isn't this I know, but isn't this annual? >> If so, why why December? What? Shouldn't this come through during the budget time or >> we're just signing the contract? It's for It's for January. >> Okay. So,
>> you're approving a contract for January 1 through December 31st. >> Sure. Was there I'm sorry. I must have missed it. I didn't see the contract. Was there a >> Was it It wasn't that >> I'm sure it was. I I probably >> No. I mean it's >> same money >> increase but nothing
>> okay >> right that's fine I mean I haven't heard any negatives >> no >> from the police want your job back >> no I'm just saying it's it's worked >> okay not >> yeah whatever we've done it's worked so yeah it's good okay that's all I have >> okay
>> motion and a second uh any other comments seeing none roll call please >> Councilman Banagi yes >> yes >> yes Yes. Council. >> Yes. >> Okay. Moving on to new business. Uh, ordinance 1285-25
for council president. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have a first reading to amend the golf course fees ordinance, a resolution whereby or whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance supplementing chapter 119 fees with the code of the burough of ultipan to amend the fees charged for the use of
the ultipan golf course was introduced at a meeting of the mayor and council held on the first day of December 2025. Now therefore be resolved by the mayor and council of the burultipan county of Bergen state of New Jersey that ordinance number 1285-25 being the same is hereby adopted on
first reading and be it further resolved that the ordinance number 1285-25 be further considered for final passage in a meeting um of the said mayor and council to be held on the 18th day of December 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the
evening or as soon thereafter as the matter can be reached by the council chambers at Burough Hall 227 Oldipan Roadan New Jersey at which time and place all persons who may be interested will be given an opportunity to be heard regarding ordinance number 1285-25
and be it finally resolved that the burough clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the introduction and notice of hearing as required by law. Second. >> Okay. Any discussion on this ordinance?
>> I have a couple of questions. >> Um one, the first question is what is the um percentage change from prior year for the new fees? >> It's a 5% change >> increase. >> Yes. Uh that's to cover additional expenses such as labor. Also,
fertilizers have gone up, other you know, consumables for the golf course. We also actually did add a new designation which is a family designation uh that allows for a husband and wife plus two juniors with additional juniors
of uh being different for out of town residents compared to in town residents. We can probably get into this maybe during the budget process, but I was curious if the the fees cover the cost of of running the course or does the
town cover a portion of it? >> Uh the the course itself is positive making money make money. >> Yeah, Bill, maybe explain to where we were in like 2020 and where we are now. >> Should we do that? >> No, I mean just readers digest two. Do
you just explain how in 20 >> when did we >> 2020 >> we became um we hired an outside management company to manage the golf course. Prior to that we had all in town employees running the golf course >> 22 we had two retirements.
>> Yeah >> we had two big retirements. That's true because >> 2020 was the first year we were profitable because of co shot up 20 to 30% >> working from home. >> Right. So everybody could go >> could play a golf course because it was outside. >> Right. Right.
>> But we had a retirement of a couple longtime um >> high salaried employees. >> High salaried employees with benefits. >> We put it out to bed. We vetted a lot of RFPs. We narrowed it down to three. They
gave presentations. We've been um we've had Keer Sports Management managing the golf course ever since and we've been profitable ever since they took over the management. >> Okay. >> And previous we were we'd make we'd taken I don't know I want to say
700,000. We'd we'd make 5,000. We'd lose 20. >> Yeah. It was >> we'd make 10, we'd lose 50, we'd make 50. We'd never really we never really made money there, right, as a business, but now we're making money. Do we have a feeling for um how this compares to other >> town?
Sure. >> About budget items. >> Yeah, >> it's always a budget. >> Yeah. The last five years. >> Yeah, we've been talking about that. You should see the planning. >> The whole thing is like locked up. >> Oh, there you go. >> Okay. >> Okay. Uh where were we?
>> Uh similar courses in other towns where the fees compare. >> Same. >> Yeah, we're right on par with them. >> Yeah. And not many other towns have a municipality. >> It's it's unique, right? We have nine holes. There might be 18 in River. So it really depends. There's no sort of
>> temporary professionals who who make that determination where we price everything. >> They are >> um how we can maximize, for lack of a better word, profits. >> Sure. >> And we've worked we've worked well with that. >> One of the big things we did was going to tea times. We didn't have
>> online. Yeah. Mhm. >> So now the downtime that they have is actually being used. >> Yeah. So non- peak hours are open to the public. >> Yeah. We we've modernized the management of running >> and and we're making we're making good
revenue now as opposed to let's say seven eight years ago. >> Great. >> And Bill the number of um memberships pretty much stayed stable. It's well it was down now it's up and we haven't um it's very much stable and it's actually it's kind of interesting. I think it's
is it 242? I think we have 242 members. >> How many do we >> It's somewhat equal between in town and out of town. Like 50/50 split. >> How many do we have back in the day when I moved to Alapan? You couldn't even get onto the golf course. >> We we had 500 members back in the 80s. >> 500.
>> Yeah. It was a long time. No, we had a like a waiting list like that. >> Um But it it it really >> it's a whole different vibe now. Popularity general popularity of golf has declined. I mean there was a peak um
>> Tiger Woods, etc. >> It is. >> I heard people quitting pickle ball and starting golfing. >> Okay. >> There's space there for new courts, right? >> I think we had a motion and a second. I think I heard down here. Uh couple of
comments. Roll pole, please. >> Councilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Voice, >> yes. >> Counciloman Cell, >> yes. Councilman, >> yes. Councilman, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh, next item on the new business would be ordinance 1286-25. That's for Councilman U.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is the first reading of ordinance number 1286-25, amend zoning ordinance resolution. Whereas an ordinance entitled an ordinance to amend ordinance number 2558A titled permitted uses was introduced at
a me meeting of the mayor and council held on the first day of December 2025. Now therefore be it resolved by the mayor and council of the burrow of Ultapan County of Bergen State of New Jersey that ordinance number 1286-25
being the same is hereby adopted on first reading and be it further resolved that said ordinance number 1286-25 will be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the said mayor and council to be held on the 18th day
of December 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the evening or as soon thereafter as a matter can be reached in the council chambers at Burough Hall 227 Ultipan Road, Ultan, New Jersey, at which time and place all persons who may be interested will be given an opportunity
to be heard regarding ordinance number 1286-25 and be it finally finally resolved that the burough clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish the introduction and notice of hearing as required by
Have a second on that. >> Second. >> Second. >> Uh, any discussion on this uh amending the zoning ordinance? Seeing none, roll call, please. >> Council, >> yes. >> Council, >> yes. >> Councilwoman, >> yes. >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> All right. Do we have any old business that we would like to discuss this evening? >> Yes. Uh, please just to update if anyone has one on Oak's house. >> Um, I'm sorry. >> No, not yet. We need just the
>> What do we need? Why we What are we doing? >> Site plans. Is that what Yeah, we just need to get that done. So, would you go out? >> Okay. We're going to >> I mean, we have the drawings. >> Okay. >> But we have place somewhere. >> So, who who has this information? Who's
who's moving forward on this? >> Is it Tom? Is it us? >> We don't we don't have the information. We need to create it basically. >> Okay. Who I mean, we I'm not I'm not pointing fingers. I mean, is it is it your responsibility? Yeah, I think Bill and I are going to try to do it together so that we don't have to hire a surveyor and Sure.
>> through do all that stuff, but we do need some elevations. So, it's it's going to be a little bit of an effort. We need to get together out there. >> Right. Well, if you need somebody I'm I'm free. If you need somebody to hold a transit rod, I you know, I'll I'll do whatever you need to do. >> Might take you. >> Oh, that's fine. I'm I'm I'm looking for something to do in January or whatever
if you guys need something. >> Do Do you think we can have this done at least move forward on this at at Reorg? >> We got a shovel in the ground. I don't know if we'll have a shovel in the ground. >> Well, I mean a shovel in the ground in the spring. That's not >> Yeah, >> it would be nice if we could if we could go out to bid um in February and then
start, you know, break ground in March or something. >> That's not that's not an issue. >> Okay. So, it just it seems like just little by if we can just tackle one step at a time. So, if it's that site plan, did you say >> we can Yeah, we need a site plan, a partial site plan just for that immediate surrounding area. So if we
could kind of, you know, in pencil put down January 5th to have an update, that would be wouldn't have. >> We could have the plan done by then. >> Okay. Mhm. >> Okay. >> All right. And I'm still around if you need help.
>> Okay. Anything else? Old business. >> All right. Um, entertain a motion to open the meeting to the public. >> So move. >> All in favor? >> Second. I >> I >> Would anyone from the public like to be heard this evening on any matter? >> Motion to close. >> Second. >> Second. >> Favor. >> I.
>> All right. Motion to adjurnn. >> We'll move. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. We'll move right into our executive meeting. >> Uh, roll call, please. >> Mayor Gallagher, >> here. >> Council here. >> Councilman Boyce here. >> Council here. >> Councilman Guan here. >> Councilman Marty. Councilman Yu
>> here. Okay. Tom, engineers report. Thank you. Good evening everybody. >> Hey Tom. >> Just a couple items to mention. There's not a lot going on honestly right now. Um the ADA ramps on Central Avenue were
completed. So the next step would be to get the county to put the crosswalks in and the typical um warning signs on either side of the crosswalks. Um, so I'll reach out to them and get that process moving.
The other item I was going to mention is that our paving contractor, DLS, was in town today. Um, working on some punch list stuff. So, we can finally get that contract closed and be rid of them at least for another year hopefully. And
that's all I had. I'll try to answer any other questions that you might have. >> Yeah, Tom. Um, the crosswalk by Chestnut, where's that exactly? Where is it? >> Yeah. Is it >> The new ramps are obvious. So, it's going to go >> Is it like towards Norwood up from Chestnut?
>> It's just on just toward downtown Old Japan from from >> So, it's on the west side of Chestnut. >> Yes. >> On the Winding Creek side of Chestnut. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> All right. The reason I bring this up is because I I recently I only spoke to the
mayor about this, but um you remember we had a gentleman come in ask about a dog park. >> Mhm. I spoke with Andy. I walked the site. I thought a good spot might be on the other side of the community garden. That's at Chestnut. Um, not at Stone Point. I didn't like
Stone Point. I'm not a big dog park guy, but I'm willing to listen. So, it's it's fine. So, if we had me and Andy looked at it and I thought, well, okay, that would work. Um, but there's a parking issue. Obviously, you only like three
cars there. So, if people could park >> at the playground at at Chestnut, there's 20 20 30 spots there. Quite a few. >> Uh, and then walk and then cross safely. That would work. >> So, anyway, we'll talk about it at budget time.
>> Um, >> are there sidewalks on Chestnut on we'll call it the west side of Chestnut? >> Yes. >> Yes. Cuz because of the ball field there. Yeah. >> Okay. >> It's pretty safe. Chestnut's safe. It's just crossing right there. Some people they fly both ways.
>> Where would the dog park be? >> You know where the community garden is? By >> the corner of Chestnut and Central. >> Second one >> behind it. >> Behind it. >> Adjacent to it or we haven't really figured it out yet. >> Where Bill H wanted to put the uh wall. >> Oh yeah, the walk by Park.
>> Yeah, it's it's it Andy thought it was a home run if if that's what you want to do. It's it's out of the way. >> Nice. Yeah. >> Uh it is sort of private. So walkable from a lot of >> walkable not disturbing any neighbors. >> Anyway, we'll talk about the budget.
>> Does wetland have anything? >> There's a sewer there. >> Yeah, >> but we already put the garden on top of the sewer >> and but that whole >> like you don't have to be in front of >> Yeah. This is not a structure. >> It's not. It's just going to be wood
chipped on the ground and a fence. >> Oh, >> not going to be filling it in. It's not an issue. Yeah, I mean we too I don't think has to be changed. It doesn't have to be level to be a dog park. I mean it doesn't it can't be like >> right >> this but it doesn't have to be level
level. You just >> I know be discussed. >> Okay, we'll I'll come up with something with Andy. We'll take a look and see what's up. >> Maybe a sketch or something. >> Yeah, I could do that. >> You do that? >> Yeah, we have a landscape architect to um I'll do >> Bill's doing enough. >> I'll draw one lefty. I'll see what I can
kind of design a text. Yeah, the um our council provided me a sketch. It was very uh robust >> rectangle. >> The fencing rectangle. >> It was still a great idea. It was very nicely well done. >> Okay. Anything else for Tom? >> Tom, just a general question. Did we
ever use that paving contractor before? Have we used them in the past? >> We had years ago. Um and it's the same ownership. Um this experience was really bad. Yeah, I I seem to have heard a lot of complaints about this this >> experience was really bad.
>> For what streets? >> Uh >> that it was bad on >> Well, the work itself for the most part was fine. >> Um just >> logistically dealing with them. >> They also did Old Span Road for the county which was a nightmare. >> The police didn't really like him either.
>> Yeah, there was some damage >> damage done to some buildings. the fact that they did like they got they got the county stuff and then they said, "Oh, well, let's put it all together so we don't have to come in and that really screwed everything up." >> Yeah. All right. >> You would think that that would be a
home run for them to get both jobs be in the same place in the same time frame could make more money, but it was just really our deal with them. >> Okay. It's just to be mindful for the future. >> Yeah. >> I have another crosswalk question over at the Exxon station. I think they have
the ADA compliant mats and the curb cut and everything from DeWolf across to the gas station sidewalk, >> right? >> Yet there's no there's no handicap striping or anything or or any um crosswalk striping across there. I know
that some kids get dropped off there from school and they cross to go to walk down to Wolf, >> but they're just walking across the street. Are >> you talking about the new ramps? Yeah, they're nice. >> The DLS was supposed the process when the countyy's paving, which is a little
bit crazy, is that, >> you know, we're responsible to redo the ramps before they come in and do their paving because they're they're now only taking responsibility for face of curb to face of curb, right? >> So, anything beyond that, including sidewalks, is on the burrow. So, we meet
with the county, they tell us what they want, but then we have to implement it and pay for it. So for that particular project, for the paving pan road, they were closing down the ramps on this side, the ones closer to the gas station. >> Okay.
>> And making the ramps on the I call it the east side. I think you would call it the north side. Um redoing putting new ones in there. >> Okay. >> And DLS just whiffed on it. They just didn't do it. >> They just >> they missed it on the draw. So that's
why right now I think it's in a a state of like partial construction from what I understand. >> So it would be a ramp to a full curb if going from the wolf across to the gas station. >> Yeah. They were going to close those off and put full depth curb in and put the main ramp on the north or east side
whatever you want to call it by Wiklinsky's house. >> Ah so is there a way to crossly safely cross Altapan Road near the gas station and can we get one? >> Not yet. Have you seen people drive down from Kristen? You know how fast they go, Bill. You're there all the time like me. >> Yeah.
>> I I wouldn't cross there ever. >> Well, a lot of people do, especially kids coming from down that hill. >> So, Holy Angels and Don who I know drop off. I'm pretty sure Don Bosco and Dwight Angel would drop off at the gas station right there
>> and then kids walk across Ultan Road to DeWolf and then mosy on up to Wolf. So, that's a very important spot. How did the schools decide on that area do for a pickup? It's been that way. Doing that forever. >> Put crosswalks where there's a turning
lane. >> They won't put it through the turning lane. >> Yeah. So, isn't there a turning lane right there? >> Yes, there is. >> Yeah. Problem with >> It's really wide right there. >> It's really wide. It's 60 50 60 feet wide either.
>> Yeah. So, they they made us move it to the other side, but the work is just not complete. So, right now there's I don't know that they closed off the curbs yet though either, but they might not. They're not striped for it because they did the >> paving and striping in anticipation of
this work that hadn't been done yet. >> That's the confusion. >> It's not the best place for pickup and drop. >> Yeah. I would have the schools move that spot and they have moved spots in the past depending on, >> you know, where the kids are kind of clustered, right? So, we might say,
"Let's go, hey, this is a very dangerous intersection, blah, blah, blah." And then maybe they can move it to a different spot. >> How do we go about doing that? There's so many schools. >> Yeah. Be like, >> I use that one spot. >> They can use I'm at Starbucks sometimes at 6:15 in the morning, 6:30. I'm at Starbucks and somebody picks up there. I think Don Bosco,
>> it's between 6:45 and 7 are the pickups. 2:30 or the drop off >> and all the kids are there at in Starbucks. Yeah. >> And a bus pulls up and it's safe. It's in the bystate parking lot. >> Oh, that's great. >> In the parking lot. There's no crossing in the street. There's no car. >> I never let my kids take the bus for
that reason. >> I mean, that's a safe spot down to Exxon station. >> It's not safe. >> So, well, in addition to just schools, >> pick up and drop off at this station. People do cross there. I see people cross there regularly. So, if we could
>> We do. There are people that you could have a 100 crosswalks across Alton Pen Road and people are going to cross. where they want to cross. I watch it in front of the firehouse right here. How >> many hundred thousands of dollars we spend on sidewalks and they walk in the street. >> Yeah. So, I I appreciate >> I'll follow I'll follow up with the
county just so it's clear that we're we're waiting on the contractor. >> Are there sidewalks on W Klinsk's uh side? >> No. No. >> But on Old Road? >> Yes. On Old Span Road, but not on the Wolf. >> No. So, okay. So, now they're going to cross on the north side or east side, whatever we call it.
>> Sidewalks on my side of Right. Right. So now they're supposed to cross. >> Then they're going to cross cuz you can't go through a turning lane to Waklinsky's property. And now they're going to cross. Then they're going to go across again by Wonder Wolf and you can't see the people coming from like the farm the the cars till the last
second. >> I think it's a great idea to have a conversation with the schools and but I just don't know how did they select that as a stop. I don't know. It's been like that for many years. >> I could tell you that that spot's been there for at least 30 years.
>> Mhm. It's like Halloween on board. >> Yeah, let's start again. >> Really got to go there. >> Okay, if you can make that phone call and let us know what you find out, that that'd be great. >> Um, where were we? Engineers report. Anything else for Tom? >> Thank you, Tom. >> Thank you.
>> Thanks, Tom. Have a great >> holiday everybody. Tom, >> nice holidays. >> All right, council committee's report. Let's uh let's start with council. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Really not much. um report from the senior advisory committee. Next week on Thursday,
December 11th, they'll be um celebrating the season with their annual holiday lunchon at the firehouse. Um wreck department report. Friday, December 5th will be uh the burrow's
annual tree lighting celebration outside of Burough Hall. Report from the construction department. November's numbers, there's currently 25 open permits
um yielding a total of $11,976 for the month in fees, bringing the annual total to $357,751. Report from the DPW, some of the major work they completed in the month of November. They worked on the GIS system for the storm water
system for the storm water drains. They decorated all the burrow buildings for the holidays. Uh installed internet access at all the field houses and some pump stations. They confirmed the cell signal booster
is up and running at Stone Point. They collected 5,000 yards of leaves. They cleaned leaves from the golf course. They are um
working on installing a new playground at Gallagher Field and they help set up and cleaned up after election day. Um and
a report from the fire department for the month. One more thing on DPW just and they also lowered our flags to half staff in in tribute to the two national guards. >> Okay. Thank you. >> When does leaf pickup end? >> This week. >> This week. >> Thanks for reminding me. For all the
residents, the last leaf pickup will be this week. Um at your street report from the fire department for the month of November. Uh the fire department had eight calls of ser
eight calls for service totaling 34 manh hours. The total for the year is 207 calls for service totaling 1272 1,272 man hours. Training the department members participated in extensive
vehicle execration training this month. uh apparatus report. The new command vehicle has arrived. They'll be working on the lights and radios and all the programming before it's in service. And
43 squad, 43 engine, 43 tower, and 43 marine are all in service. And I believe tonight is um they're celebrating with a annual dinner where the officers cook for the crew.
So congratulations and job well done to the crew this year. And that concludes my >> It's also the annual gear check. So So they go through and make sure their gear is compliant for another year. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You're welcome.
>> All right. Thank you. >> Who's my report? >> Um Councilwoman Costello, >> I don't I don't have anything to report. Um, Councilwoman, >> thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, can I have the
full police report on on our next meeting, which will be Reorg. Uh, but for today, as of today, we have a retired police chief. As of me saying it right now, our current police chief is
no more. He has retired. and uh Bob Wal, our captain, is the officer in charge. Currently, we are scheduled, we have two uh resumes submitted for police chief and the testing company, interview
company that we engage with right now says the 15th as far as I know and Anna knows, but we don't have confirmation of that. We just have it's going to be the 15th, but I'm working on that. >> Uh I'm meeting with the captain tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm not sure of his
schedule just so we can chat to see what he needs cuz he's just kind of being thrown into this and I'm sure he's he's very confident. He's been there a long long time and uh but I just want to touch base with him and you know make sure he has our our support uh whatever he's going to need. Hopefully
we they interview on the 15th, we interview again, we'll have somebody in place by the 30th. If we don't 31st, if we don't, we're going to have to appoint a officer in charge because our captain
is retiring on the 31st. So, that's our only glitch that may happen. So, we might have to have a special meeting. Um, is that the only way we can do that, Brian? >> Yes, >> we have to have a special resolution. >> We'll have to have a special meeting to
appoint it'll literally be a 10-minute meeting to appoint an officer in charge. And >> we have a a meeting on May 18th. >> We do have a meeting on the 18th. Well, if timing is right, >> we'll have it we'll have it done by
then. But I guess we have to have a contingency. Let's just say I can, you know. >> Okay. >> So, on the 18th, we could discuss that. >> Sure. And we can say on the 18th if this if we don't have someone in place this >> well you you'll be making decision
because you won't have another meeting. >> Right. So you'll either appoint someone as chief or you'll appoint officer in charge. >> Correct. Exactly. So, if we don't if we don't get to meet before the 18th as a committee, the three of us to discuss that, then we're going to have to have a
a person in mind on that night that I'll bring up and we'll discuss >> and say this is in case we don't have a chief, this person's going to be the officer in charge. Correct. That that should work. Then we won't have to have a special meeting. >> Well, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Except that you're going to do one or the other
because again, the mayor and council would have to meet in order to appoint the chief. So, I think on the 18th, you're either going to appoint a chief or you're going to appoint an officer in charge. You're going to do one or the other. >> Yeah. But I'm thinking like let's say the the the committee the the the
interview uh the third party interviewer, they can't get there till the 17th. So, they interview and stuff and we can't get together on the 18th, but we can get together on the 20th. >> On the 18th, we have to say something. >> Maybe we have a little bit of a fallback. I know we floated the idea of the 21st. I know we got Jeff coming on
the 18th, but the 21st is a Monday. Uh that, you know, a lot of us have Mondays kind of set aside, so maybe that could work if Okay. >> We got pushed back a couple of days. >> Okay. And we'd only need a quorum. >> 22nd is the Monday. >> 20 seconds. >> Okay. >> We wouldn't need everybody. We just need a quorum. Everybody would be great. But
>> we only need what do we need like three? Oh, four. >> Is a few days, but we'll see. >> Right. Okay. To be discussed, I I think otherwise we're >> okay. >> We're heading in the right direction. >> Thank you for your effort. You could do a remote meeting as well, which makes it much easier. >> We could do a remote meeting. I don't know. You could do M Microsoft Teams or
whatever. Zoom or whatever. >> Yes. >> Still legal. Yeah. >> That might be the easiest thing. But anyway, well, I I think we're we're Let's not put the cart before the horse. Let's see where we're at. >> Terrible. >> Well, I hated those. >> You have to open them off to the public,
right? >> You do. You do. >> You have to advertise, too, before you >> 48 hours. Yeah, it's where it gets covered. >> I know. I know. >> Okay. So, that's that's my report. I'm good. >> Okay. Thank you. Let's move for >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have a few
things. Uh OEM in November. Uh Andy's report uh says that uh he met with the police to go over the election protocol. Uh that was early November. Uh he was monitoring a couple of the storm couple of storms that uh did happen in
November. Uh also he had the remainder of the mobile radios installed. Uh next week is the county OEM meeting and also next week deputies will be attending a basic workshop course uh at
Metife and that's part of the new mandatory training. Uh in January uh they're going to have a winter preparedness meeting with the departments. Uh so that's OEM uh library. Uh there's a board meeting next week, so I don't
have any update in terms of numbers for November yet. Uh please put on your calendar this Saturday uh the 6th is the craft fair from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the library. Uh they're also preparing their budget
for uh the budget meeting I think is in January. And then just a couple of uh programs I wanted to highlight for the month of December. Uh, one program, uh, is make your own wrapping paper and gift box in time for the holidays. Uh, I wish they actually had a course on how to
wrap gifts since my wrapping is pretty bad. >> Me too. >> Uh, another program is a kids art class and that's led by NVOT teams. uh in finance. Uh remember we it was about a month ago uh had the
insurance company uh present to the employees uh of the burrow about another alternative to the current uh expensive health care plan. What was presented was the high deductible uh health care plan where the town then would
>> town would put money into an HSA uh for that employee. remember both us as the employer and the employee the current plan is expensive for both of us. Uh and then after that I did a town hall meeting for one of the departments
uh to get a little bit more understanding clarification of that. Uh from that meeting it yielded 20% of our insured employees uh converted to the high deductible plan. That obviously has
saved them in terms of uh premiums paid uh and it has saved the borrow $62,000 of savings annually according to Jesse. Is that right? >> 62,000. Yeah. >> So happy happy to report that. Uh next year I'll do a better effort in terms of
follow-ups and town halls and uh offer that hopefully that plan is still offered. Offer that plan to the rest of the employees and do the town hall meeting to the other departments. That's the end of my report. >> Awesome. That's good news. Thank you for that. >> That's Jesse. Thank you. Great. Thank you.
>> Okay. Uh Council President Voice. Thank you, Mr. >> Uh so the planning board was a pretty quick meeting. Um last time we memorialized three applications. One was to uh provide a variance relief for a
pool cabana which impacted the F of the property on Hidden Court. The other was for a small roof over a patio. Um I believe it was on spring court that went into the sideyard setback a little bit. Had the um the only way around it would
have been to clip the corner of the roof which uh the planning board agreed and the that that was unnecessary. And then the last one was to provide a modest business use, less intensive use within a residential area along in old onapan
road. So that that's it for the planning board. Um aside from everything else we're doing. Um the veterans all observed Veterans Day at the high school and were provided lunch. That was a really good event. We elected not to
have our um first ever ultipan only Veterans Day ceremony at Oaks Park so that we can in the future um have something when we break ground and we actually start the new memorial expansion over there. So we chose not to
do anything for that. Um the golf course I'm happy to um announce that the bunkers are almost done. There's one step which we have to seal the concrete which is part of the Billy Bunker system which goes under the sand but it has to
be dry to do that. So once it's dry and we have the weather on our side they can seal it then they can put the sand in. Um the management says that they're going to try to keep people off of them for the winter so that opening next year they're you know pristine and perfect.
Uh, but the membership, while the management has reported that the membership really like the way the bunkers are, they're a little bit smaller. So, I assume it's going to speed up play, a little less sand. Um, let's see. We are meeting with the
management team and their accounting division on December 3rd to go over the operating budget for 2026. I think we're going to try to put in some other um fail safes and some other metrics so we can check in on them as they progress
through the year in terms of their you know expenses and profitability as the year goes on. So it's not uh so there's no surprises. The environmental commission had an awesome meeting on November 18th. It
actually was a really great meeting. A lot of things were discussed. Um, we're going to continue the photo contest next year. Uh, Patrick Ambbouti, who's been working with the school and had reached out to Danielle for their walk to school
days. They're looking to increase the um the number of those per year by having a walk to school Wednesday. We're hoping to get that off the ground next year, weather permitting. Um Danielle says it's terrific. That's our superintendent. Um, Hooked on
Fishing was is scheduled for next year, June 6th and 7th. We figured out what our meeting dates are for next year. We uh are interested in uh contributing to the master plan. Um
once that gets going, they would, you know, they're not looking to make it lead certified or anything, but a green review of the upcoming overlay design standards that we're hoping to do um with uh Burgess Associates.
Also, let's see. We came up with a lot of new initiatives for last year for next year like um invasive species removal in town. We can identify those in different parks. We
thought since we have our scout master also sitting, Ryan Weaver sitting on the environmental commission, he has volunteered some of the boy scouts to help take the invasive species out of some of the parks. Deer management was discussed. No
resolution. and the list goes on. Um, we do have one boy scout also who's interested in installing birdhouses, pollinator plants, and native plants that provide food for birds somewhere in town. So,
I'm trying to tee up a meeting with Andy Brackenberry to find a place. I was thinking behind the library because I know Councilman Bagi and I identified a while back. >> The library wants to do a butterfly garden. >> That's a perfect spot. Yeah. And they
they do own They didn't know they had that piece of property. >> Yeah. >> I thought that was an ement. >> I thought it was Bergen County Housing. >> Yeah. Bergen County Housing. Yeah. >> No, Buren County Housing gave them that piece of property. >> Okay. >> So, they do own that property and they I
know Kimberly, they they really want to do like a >> Yeah, there's a mess back there. >> Butterfly garden or something. So, that would be fantastic. >> It's fairly level. It's not a lot of work to make it into a garden. I mean, me and Bill looked at it that one time. >> Yeah. So, we're going to make a list of native plants. I think it's it'll
probably happen in the spring. Um, that concludes my report. >> Thank you, sir. >> I got a question. Just native plants. >> Yes. >> Native plants probably mean
>> uh you're friendly. >> Not necessarily. >> Not necessarily. So, >> they'll eat them. Native just means native to the area. >> No, I get that for the reason is not >> the deal. >> There's a 50-50 shot. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I mean, that's more Bill's game than
>> Okay. >> All right. Fair enough. Um, my comments tonight very very brief. Uh, attended the uh League of Municipalities Conference uh two weeks ago or so. uh our burough attorney, burough administrator, CFO,
uh court was there, Jyn was there, and I'm not sure if Bob Rush was there. I didn't see him. >> He was there with >> Okay. So, uh down there got all sorts of new knowledge attending that uh conference there. And uh it was well, we actually uh also attended I attended um
and Anna's the administrative I guess for the Bergen County League of Municipalities. And I guess they had their reorg meeting. We can call it uh elected new officers uh on that first Tuesday afternoon. So the Bergen County League of Municipalities. Um also I sent
out to everybody uh the committee assignments for 2026. I didn't hear any anything negative to that. So I'm I'm assuming everyone is tickled pink for their new uh uh assignments that they uh will be looking into in 2026. So thank
you for uh for overseeing those various committees and departments. And that is all I have. Um motion to adjurnn. >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. We are now going to move