Welcome to the regular meeting of the mayor council and notice was given as follows. Notice was filed January 9, 2025 with the record in the court ledger hold official newspapers of the burough. Notice posted on the board at the burough hall and bor website. Copy is
preserved in the clerk's office. A pledge of allegiance and moment moment of silence is brought to you by council John M. [Music] To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Council here. Council me here. Council here. Council here. Council here
for administrator here. Thank you very much. This move forward with the adoption of minutes. Adoption of the menu session of the media council April 21, 2025. Executive session of the mayor council April 21st, 2025. regular
meeting of the mayor council April 28, 2025. Thank you. Council members, any questions or concerns concerning the reoption of minutes? I just want to thank you for allowing
who you [Music] me for. I have a motion. Make a motion. Second roll. Council Kim. Yes. Council Lee. Yes.
Councelor M. Yes. Council Shin. Yes. Council Petri. Yes. Councilman. Yes. Thank you very much. Let's go to second reading of the ordinance. Second reading hearing ordinance 2025-3 bound ordinance for authorization
for various road improvements. Hi, Council members. Questions or concerns about bottl- have a motion to pass? I'm sorry. Sorry. We have a motion to close and open to the public. I'll make a motion. We have a second. Second. All in favor?
Public, you have three minutes to discuss only about bond ordinance 2025-13. Once twice. I have a motion to close to to the public and open back to our regular session. Motion. Thank you. I have a second.
Yeah, she she got away. All in favor? Thank you. Good. I have a motion to pass B ordinance 2025-13. I'll make a motion to pass ordinance 2025-13.
Have a second. Council Kim, yes. Council me, yes. Council me, yes. Council Shen, yes. Council Bri, yes. Council, yes. Ordinance 2025-3 bond ordinance for authorization for various road
improvements was approved for final adoption by the main council of the bores at a regular meeting held on May 27, 2025. A copy of the ordinance will be posted on the bullet board in the Bor Hall and will be available at the office of the B.
Thank you. Let's move for the next second reading. Secondary ordinance 2025-4 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and the establish bank. Thank you, council members. Any questions on ordinance
1225-14? Great. We have a motion to close it open to the public. Motion first and second. All in favor? Public, you have three minutes to discuss about 25-14. I have a motion to close and open
back to a regular session. Second. All in favor? Great. Now, I have a motion to pass ordinance 2025-14. First by Council Kim. I have a second. Thank you.
Council council Lee. Yes. Council me. Yes. Council. Yes. Council Petri. Yes. Council. Yes. Ordinance 2025-4 ordinance to exceed the municipal baz appropriation limit and and to
establish a bank was approved for the final adoption by the mayor council of the borsburg at a regular meeting of May 27 2025. A copy of the audience will be posted on the board in the hall and will be available.
Okay, good. Thank you. Let's go with the third second reading ordinance 2025-15. Second reading ordinance 2025-15 establishment of the salary for year 2025. Council members questions about
establishment of salaries for 125. Great. I have a motion I have a motion to close and open to the public. Thank you again. Is there a second? Thank you. All in favor? I. Great. Public, you have three minutes to talk
about ordinance 2025-15. We have a motion to close the public and go back to our regular session. Okay. I have a second. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Great. Now, may I have a motion to pass our second
reading? Ordinance 2025-15, the establishment of salaries for year 2025. Please, uh, mayor, before we move on, simple change. Uh, yes. Ordinance 2025-15, right? The the ordinance that we're just going over, right? Uh, the
mayor and council, uh, the base salary range has to be lower. Doesn't really matter. Yeah. But, um, we're not we're not getting Okay. So, I thought this was already here on our in our work session. I thought this
was something that Yeah. Just simple stipulation. Stipulation. What would you like to add to 9,000? 9,000. Okay. So, you're saying the council 9,000 to 20 9,000 to Oh, I see. And then 13 to 30.
It's not We did our first year. Is there a specific reason why you want to lower it? Right. So, how much was it before? The lowest was what? 6,000 7,000,000. So no, no, no. The previous
one last year range 9,000 9,000. It wasn't never was 13,000. If I remember correctly, you're right. We had the CFO. Oh, no. No. I don't It's not the CFO. It's It's just I understand what this
is. We do have a problem here because because we all agreed that it will be 9,000. I I do remember there's no reason to raise this. Um yeah, we don't there's no reason to raise it because we the government body
decided not to go with one too. Yeah. Me too. Me too. All of us. So yeah, it should be it should be the previous one. Which was what? How much? 10,000. 10,000. Could you find some legal remedy at our second meeting right now? We
should we should have done this in the first. Yeah. Unfortunately, it's more than just a semantic minor change. This will have to be reintroduced for first. Would this be would this affect our passing of our
budget? That you'd have to ask the CFO. CFO, is there please come out Roy? Is there any way to remedy this? because it's true that we the governing body do not want to uh change the base salary. But do we need resolution ordinance
125-15 to pass the budget? Not to exceed not to exceed not to exceed. So it's okay. The base is what? 9,000. and and for the beyond the resolution right the resolution is
what is based on the resolution okay this is nothing more than a range still and the concept is not to exceed that's the concept I see but this is so this doesn't mean that we have to get in
our vote that's correct so resolution will dictate the exact Will this resolution? Good. Good. Thank you very much for that confirmation, gentlemen. Thank you for stating that. Appreciate it. Good. I'm glad the officials are here today for
the budget. So, mayor, yes, go ahead. I'm sorry. Say that again. Ordinance 15. It says section six, the salary sh commence as of January 1st, 2025. Right.
So section six so actually this salary will be affected from from we'll get the rest from test 25. However the uh the two financial officers the top guys said that it's
okay we could keep it we could change this right now to 9,000 to originally and me it was 10,000. No, I mean not only did the compliment all these this is all retro. Yeah, but we haven't change we're not changing anything so it doesn't really matter. It always comes
out this way because we get this past round names. So when this comes out it always comes out retro. Yeah, it just means that you know we're starting the salary range from January 1st, but we always do that on May because we we have
to go through the budget with this together this first and then the budget. We're okay. Council not to exceed. We just Yeah, we just listened. I hope you listened. Um the CFO and the auditor
said it's okay. The council counselor provo said it's okay. Um we all We would like to uh if a council member would start uh make a motion. What does the
Okay, we're going to get into that. Go ahead. So, uh you speak a little louder, please. So, can I could I get a motion on ordinance 2025-15? uh the title position of mayor council
six councils their base salary will be not to exist exceed 30,000 for mayor and 20,000 for the council we're going to cross out the uh the minimum of base salary so yes could you say that again council
so could you re reiterate u re say it again what he's just said re reiterate what he just Yes. Oh, I thought you No, no, no. Okay. So, there's a motion to to approve the
ordinance as amended that the base salary for the mayor and the six council instead of a designation of an amount for a base a minimum. It'll just it'll now read not to exceed and then
for the mayor 30,000 and for all council 20,000. Is that okay council? That's fine. So the men the motion is made. We need a second. Roll call.
Council me. Yes. Council me. Yes. Plain words. Yes. Council. Yes. Okay. Amended ordinance 2025. Establishment of salary for year
2025 was approved for a final adoption by the mayor council of the fin at a regular meeting held on May 27, 2025. A copy of the ordinance will be posted on the working board in the borrow and will be available at the office of the bar.
Great. Thank you. Let's move with Miss for the ordinance. Introduction of ordinance ordinance 2025 16 amending of creating chapter 14 title phoning and the photography. Council members question about amending
and creating chapter 141 filming and photography. We've been working on this. All right, there's no more questions. Um, I guess we can move forward. Let's move to the second one. That's the first one.
Oh, we have to vote. Yeah, we have we do have to vote the introduction passing. All right, if there's no questions, we have a motion to pass the introduction of ordinance 2025-16 filming and photography. I'll make a motion. Thank you. May I have a
second? Yeah. Thank you. Shin wo. Councelor Kim. Yes. Council Lee. Yes. Council me. Yes. Council Shin. Yes. Councelor Petri. Yes. Council W. Yes. Introduction of audience 2025-16 amending of creating chapter 141
entitled filing and the photography was introduced pass on the first reading at a regular meeting of the main council held on May 27 2025 and all the publish in accordance with the law said ordinance will be considered for a first reading and adoption at a meeting held
on June 23rd 2025 at 6 p.m. in the council chamber which time a person interested may appear or against the passage of the said ordinance. A copy of ordinance will be posted on the welcome board in the B hall and will be available at the office of the B club.
Thank you. This move the other one introduction of ordinance 2025 17 ordinance for authorization for various capital improvements. Council members, questions, concerns as we all review this is about
the work that we have to do. Speak a little louder, please. Did this what what was included in our work session? Any questions? I have a motion to pass ordinance 2025-17 first reading.
I'll make a motion. Thank you. We have a second. Second. Thank you. Roll call. Council. Yes. Council. Yes. Council me. Yes. Council. Yes. Council Petri. Yes. Council. Yes. Ordinance
2025-17 bond ordinance for authorization for various capital insurement was introduced and the pass on the first reading and regulating of the mayor council held on May 27, 2025 and order published in accordance with the law said ordinance will be considered for
the first reading and adoption at a meeting held on June 23rd, 2025 at 6 p.m. in the council chamber at which time a person interested may appear or against the passage of the second ordinance. Copy of the ordinance will be posted on the welcome board in the B
hall and will be available at the office of the board. Thank you. Let's go with ordinance 2025-18. Introduction introduction of ordinance 2025-8 adopting development to plan for
20 21 council. Would you give us a little summary of what's going on here? Uh yeah, for both uh well, let's talk about ordinance 2025-18. This is part of and pursuant to uh one of our settlement agreements with
one of the uh plaintiffs in to build a remedy lawsuit. So, this is the one one of the uh things that that we we are doing in furtherance of that settlement. Pretty much the governing council
members or the mayor don't really have much to say about this. You know, it has this is a procedure we have to get hired to. Correct. It's it's more procedural. Correct. Yes. the this is done through the courts of
making us do this. Well, the the settlement the courts have been overseeing the settlement agreements that we've reached. Okay. And the settlement agreement which was approved by the court did have a provision that required us to pursue the uh adoption of
a redevelopment plan from the planning board. So, we previously directed the planning board to investigate the necessity uh and and whether or not to to designate this property within an area of redevelopment. Uh the planning board did do so. And now this is
basically our stamp of approval on the plan that the planning board looked into and and approved through the courts by telling us we're doing this. I have a question. Um on page 14 of the
plan itself, it actually talks about infrastructure and public improvement. So one of the concerns that we had about this redevelopment understand is our culture you know order but however
really how do we actually you know accommodate all these people right once they occupy especially this is 21 grand has a big traffic right also it has a sewer problem and so when rain
comes and I know DPW folks and and their police officers they working very hard. So I guess this is a section that they try to come up with some kind of plan. I guess so that we can we we have a better
I mean they can actually help to reduce the potential you know traffic right and sewer. Um and so is it possible you could a little explain further how this can be you know they can comply to this?
how they can comply with comply to example. Yeah, I got it. Just let me just let me just finish that. Yeah, go ahead. Give me an example. Okay, so it says transportation development district and and uh and so and it also says
department of transportation desirable typical sections BTS, right? And so on. And also it says water and sewer infrastructure and who is overse this is like NJP best management practices. I guess
there is some guideline that you know kind of uh the that this developer has to follow. Am I right? I I don't know about timeline, but in terms of your specific
bless that this provision in in the um in this plan would require a roadwide of grand. Okay. Is that mean the state is going to inspect in the middle or as part of that process? Yes, it is. I
understand it's either a state road or do for example will will examine the uh traffic. Yeah. So right there are certain procedures that are in place and it does involve over oversight by the owner of the road
whether it's the state. But how about the application has to be made. How about the floods? Right now we already have floods in Grand Island. Yeah, these are all things that are going to be parted and the details will will be worked out in in the process. and and our representative will definitely
uh declare that we have concerns with flooding in Grand Avenue. Oh, okay. Who can who are our representative? Our engineer, our traffic engineering. Okay. And also he says something like
improvement may be funed through these sources and one of the source is municipal capital budget. I hope you don't have to money on that. Well, there there may be funds that have to be spent to get this.
Remember this. I No, no, no. But see, right now you're you're kind of getting confused. You're part of the governance committee. We know why we're in this situation. We were builders remedy a lawsuit that took us took our rights, our ordinance away
from the planning and the zoning board throughout the window. We're in the process of trying to get our rights back because the the former administration didn't take care of this. We are we we we took the grunt work of it. We're fixing that. Should have been resolved a long time ago. After this procedure, our
goal is to make sure that we get our rights back. So So we we control our own destiny in the future. Right now we have Go ahead. One more. Okay. I don't see here I don't see any the mentioning
about the school in school effect uh the democratic no democratic the projection says in New Jersey okay one addition of one apartment it creates one 0.3 to 0.4
poor students. So if you add like the 5 670 units there will be about 2 40 students more in the schoolation of this which is about 15 to
20% increase of the students that is a lot but there's no mention about this so we have to think about that too. Go ahead. Unfortunately, the court does not get involved in that. And in all the lawsuits, we're all aware of the fact
that there are going to be more students. They could say they're not going to be it's going to be this kind of couple or that kind of couple. The courts don't care because we're going to build a remedy. We broke the law. Now, um if the court will not accept our our
legal um concern from a from our attorney saying that, hey, we we're going to have this much influx of students. The court will say it's dismissed. We can't accept that. That's none of our business because again, our former administrator administration did
not follow through after 15 16 years of preparation. That's the problem. We have a lawsuit that we have to settle. It's very unfortunate. Yeah. But eventually there will be a disaster coming to our but we have no choice. We have to find some way right. But but but
we have we are finding some way uh causing you should know what we're doing inside which we cannot discuss about. We're trying to make sure whatever power that we have as a governing body and whatever we could have as resource to make sure that for after this builder
revenue is done that we reduce from fourth round. The fourth round is now active. Okay. So yeah if anybody else has any questions about this I would suggest that they would move to executive session.
We could talk about it if you want to talk about it more executive session. Anybody want to have a motion? Yeah, I do. Okay, good. I have a second on the executive. That means uh we're going to have to stop and go inside, which is perfectly fine. Is there a second to the
executive meeting to discuss this further because right now we got to be careful. There are certain things that we shouldn't talk about. Could I have a second? Okay, fine. It's been denied. So, um so can we can we uh go ahead with
this? There's any more questions? All right, good. We have a motion to pass ordinance 2025- 18 introduction. I know it's a hard pill to swallow. It
is, council members. I I totally understand you guys, but pretty much we have no choice. If we don't do this, we're going to lose our rights in the future. They're going to say, "Hey, I'm going to buy three properties in the middle of resident area. You're not complying with the Affordable Housing
Act in the state of New Jersey. I'm going to buy three homes. I'm going to build 50 units, 70 units in in a residential area." And there's nothing we can do about it. We do not want to make this uh this this happen ever again. The new administration and new council members, I hope you guys
understand that it's a past, but the pan this past is haunting us. We want to make it right. So, we're going through this procedure so we won't be in the situation ever again. May I have a motion? Make a motion. Thank you very much. I know it's very
difficult. I know it's very unfair even for me. I found out two years after I became the mayor. When I was a council member, I never heard about it. I don't remember eight council members or the mayor talking about this. We have a second. I'll second. Thank you. Welcome.
Council Lee. Yes. Council me. Yes. Council Shin. Yes. Council Petri. I'm abstaining because there's too many open scenes in there that nobody wants
to go into the executive session talk. So I abstain council. Yes. Audience 2025 18 adopting redevelopment plan for 21 Grand Avenue was introduced and then passed on for the first meeting
at a regular meeting of the mayor council held on May 27, 2025. An order published in accordance with the law said ordinance will be considered for person and adoption at a meeting held on June 23rd 20125 at 6 pm in the council
chamber at which time all persons interest may appear for or against the passage of the said ordinance. A copy of ordinance will be posted on the welcome board in the bal and will be available at the office of the board. Thank you very much council members.
All right, let's go with the uh ordinance 202519. Introduction introduction of ordinance 2025-9 adopting redevelopment for 15 Grand Avenue. This is this is the same exact thing as
ordinance 2025-18 but for a different property also on Grand Avenue. This is for 15 Grand Any questions about ordinance 2025-9? Same situation except this is 15
grand. I have a question. Yes. Does this be you were saying if I understood right they're going to widen Grand Avenue?
Well, we we will, but it it requires taking some of the frontage from from their property. Take quite a few, right? I mean, you got houses all around there. They're going to It's not building. It's
not just you going to take it. They're going to put it inside their property. You know, where the uh fitness factory is, all that kind of place. That's where they're going to put it in. Okay. understand that with all that traffic that's going to be in there. Absolutely. You're going to have you're
going to have to come up with a traffic have the police department will be will be the will be house sim off our our traffic engineer and he's definitely involved in this. He's actually the one that recommended
that. All I see is a big headache with this. We have no choice. Ladies and gentlemen, it's always Yes. You could all say no and lose our rights. And again, a schmo joke could come and say, "You're not following the law. I'm gonna buy four homes and I'm going to raise it
to 10 10 floors, 15 floors with 60 units on a small street and we have nothing to save." You want to continue that, please say no. So I guess I'm the new councilman. Okay.
So I guess I'm in front of like 22,000 residents in front of them. Okay. So I want to explain the situation. So there is no other ways. Okay. But to accept this at this time because of some stupid things happened before, right, Scott?
Correct. Pretty much that's what we just want to make sure that this doesn't happen in the future because we still got round four. We have to settle with round three. get our rights back so we could dictate our own future around four.
That's what we're going for. We need to get our We did get our rights back, didn't we? We need our ordinances, right? The judge allow us to use our ordinance, right? Well, we implemented new new ordinances that comply with with what the judge wanted. So, we got that.
We got it. Just said, "You could use your ordinance, but it's got to be amended." We amended that. Now, we got to settle in with round three. In round four, it's up to us to make sure that we reduce the impact and imprint of the the the influx of residents coming in. I
fully agree with you guys. That is my number one concern as much as you. But let's get this over first because we have if you don't get this passed. We can't do round four. We're in trouble because round four, we're not complying.
And again, a person with a person with all the money could buy uh I don't know two 200 square feet 50 by 100 two of them and say I'm going to build an apartment anywhere I want because you have no choice. So please I know it's really
tough. I know it's really tough. So am I. Yeah, I'll vote. Okay, I'll second. But uh okay in the meantime okay okay when the audience orance the audience participate in time yes if there is anybody who have some better idea or
what any the ideas than this okay please represent present it to the councilman too okay I'd like to hear yes opinion too yeah we'll have that in the second reading yeah then I'll make a
motion thank That was that was that was the first. May I have a second? Wait, John. Uh, councilman, do you want to say something before we do the motion? Yes. Uh, for
ordinance- page 14, affordable housing requirement, right? for this side. Uh total obligation of the uh photo of the housing unit is 102. But if you go back dash number 18 yes page is number 14. We're at page 14.
Yeah. And I see 124 affordable housing units. Are we specifying the uh site for that number comes out from the specific site or are we talking about general requirements? How come that's in this ordinance is the
same affordable housing? Oh, the these were okay. When when the redevelopment when we adopted the when we adopted a resolution sending this to the planning board, the planning board considered these two properties together. So, we we've now segregated
the two properties for purposes of the ordinance, but they're both within the same what we're going to consider the same redevelopment. So, the site as a whole, yeah, these two properties as a whole is a redevelopment area, but these properties being approved separately
because there are different buildings. If I remember correctly, the settlement of this one 15 grand it's not it's much lower. All right, guys. If you guys want to I I
think because we're we're going to a little more deeper into the process where we shouldn't talk this in public. The the attorney recommended that we should go to executive meeting. I say we should go to executive meeting. I need a motion. May I have a motion? I made a
motion before. I didn't I this is a different I didn't I didn't deny it. You didn't get the second. He didn't get a second. So please don't make it. I'll second. There you go. Now you got it. I have a motion. You got a second.
Um is this is a roll call, right? Yeah. All in favor, can I make one stipulation of that request? Can we go into the executive session at the end of the uh uh uh discussion and so they don't have to wait and come back out and you know we
do the I like that. I like that council. Then then uh let's have a right now we have a second on executive. There's a stipulation on the on the floor. It says that we should do the executive meeting after we're done with all of our
agendas. Make a motion. Second. All in favor? Thank you. Let's move forward. Agenda resolution 2025. No to the is this is actually we're going to
the executive. So you got to do this. No, at the end. At the end. Okay. Agenda resolution 2025- 154 amendment of 2025. Who is our our come up. Thank you for your
patience. Amen. This is the amendment right now. Any question about the amendment? Remember we have to do one more month because it got delayed. No, this is for this is for something else. You guys are here for
155. The state. Yeah, but it's not. Is it what? At 154 or 155. You should you guys should be coming in for the adoption of 125 budget mun budget. Correct. Not the amendment of 125 municipal budget.
Okay, then go ahead. The other four. So the state reviewed all reviewed the budget. They had recommendations at RMA Paul, myself, we went through and made those adjustments. So first of all is you're
going to do the amendment that the state required us to do and then you're going to move forward with the hearing and then final adoption. Yeah. So, um what Roy just said is that
uh the agenda will be we have the hearing on the introduced budget as introduced. We now have uh the budget amendment which will uh discuss and bring up and then that
will be voted on and then we'll have a hearing on the amended budget and then we'll have a vote on the full budget. Okay. So any questions on the introduced budget as
would be answered first. So you're saying that right now we should discuss about the amendment or do you want to discuss together? You have to have the hearing. Tonight is the hearing as a what was introduced. Correct. And also the adoption. Right. Correct. Okay.
which would be after the amendment. Okay. And the state has approved the amendment which allows you to vote introduce it and adopt it on the same and we're doing ordinance. No ordinance. It's all resolution. Resolution. Okay.
Any questions council? So, please you talk to me say I have Yeah, you have a question. Go ahead. valable question u regarding tax increase. So in terms of tax increase we are still for the go for the
$335 house. Yes medium house the the amendment uh had no impact on the tax increase. Yes. Does this include just for a park? Does it include the school budget, the county
budget? No, this would be just the municipal portion and the library tax. And how much is that? 335. 335. Do we have an approximate amount on county tax and school tax? Sure.
Um I actually have the county at $95. I actually did this um as in Do you have the two-year comparison? I actually have the threeear. Okay. The county taxes are 49.
County is 49 instead of 95. Yeah. The 95 was uh over a two-year period. This for county or school? County is 95 over a two-year period. over last year
49. Last year was 49. So 51, right? What about the school? Uh the school uh based upon the difference between this year and last year was $141
and over two years it was 260. So right now it's 260 over two years. What will the tax go up then with all that figures that you just put in? What's the average per household? $545 including the library. So library,
local, school, county open space, and county. Roy, would you please kindly explain why there's a jump in the cost of taxes? Yes. The major impact was the increase. Health benefits is up
430,000. Other insurance is 130. The utility authority in Bergen County is 132,000. Because your assessed value went up, the library is up $150,000. Your normal salary and wages
is up 186,000. The debt is up $84,000. You add it all up. That's your increase this year. Yeah. And the one thing I'd like to point out is again the reason why we were showing year after year increases and then I also wanted to
show a two-year increase is the municipal rate over the 2-year budgets not just 25 but from 23 to 24 and 25 is 263 $263.36 over a two-year period. That's
right. So, uh, the one-year period agreed, you know, it's a higher number, but I wanted to give it some context and show it over a two-year period. And, and this is a extraordinary case where everything just shot up.
Actually, it's not just Palis Park. It's the state health benefit plan. The increase in the state health benefit plan is uh been going up in the high 20% per year. Uh there are municipalities throughout
the state. I'm on a world uh a statewide chat. Municipalities are contemplating pulling out of the state health benefit. I think we discussed with the CFO. Yeah, it's still uh in in progress. It's
a work in progress. I'd like to see more municipalities uh go ahead with it and see what that reaction is. It it seems like it's kind of like a grouping together municipalities with equal equal uh grading I guess they come
together they create their own private the uh joint uh a a joint meeting which it would be called if you did or shared services uh I haven't seen yet I do have a client that does private insurance and they do
that through uh an extraordinary policy and then the balance is selfinsured there's There's also statutes in New Jersey law allowing some municipalities to potentially bond
the uh seed money if you decide to go self-insured because you don't want to go self-insured and then the first year you go self-insured you get hit with a lot of extraordinary expenses and kind of defeats the whole purpose. So again it's it's happening as we speak
throughout the state. This is not the only place it's happening. Uh we'll see where it goes. Do you know this is all more like New Jersey because Yeah. Well, I mean I think everyone if you own your own business or you know
someone owns your own business. We've all been doing this as business owners. Been dealing with this for years. The increase in the numbers are just staggering. What a family pays for Unfortunately, we live
in the time that all this you know all this cost is so much it's actually making us think should we be on this right like like in White Plains I know that the benefits
reduced so my wife has a coverage health insurance coverage it went up a little bit but then we lost a lot of benefits now I have to pay $100 for a primary no no $50 primary specialty is $100 per visit. It's It's horrible. It's
horrible. Any questions, council members? All right. Um, may I have a motion then? Resolution 2025-4. There's a motion here from Council Ken. Have a second.
1545. Second. Thank you. Council Lee. Yes. Council. Yes. Council Shin. Yes. Council vitri. Yes. Council. Yes. The next concern
resolution 155 adoption of 2025 municipal budget hearing is a budget hearing open to the public and this is open to the public. Don't you think that should be an ordinance then even It's our consent to give it to
the public. Got it. Okay. Hold on a second. Any questions about adoption of 2025- municipal budget? This is a hearing. Right. Right. I have a second. All in favor?
Please go ahead. So I would like to know. So ask me our like this coming year, one house is going to go out of the tax. Yes. So when you get your tax bill in
August, the increase will be from January 1st through December 31st. So the last two quarters will be the increase and it'll be like you said 500 530 something dollars on the average house average the assessment.
And how much you say will be for the school tax? 141 I believe. Yes. And for all those tax you mention the local is 335, the library is
18 and the county is 51. All right. Thank you. Any more questions from the public? All right. I have a motion to close public and come back to the regular. I have a motion. Thank you. I have a second. All in favor?
Right. Um if there's any more further questions about resolution-5 budget. I have a motion to pass resolution. We have a second. Sounds like an ice cream truck. I have a second. Okay. Roll call.
Council K. Council. Yes. Council me. Yes. Council. Yes. Council. Yes. Council. Yes. Thank you. Let's go to next resolution of consent. You guys are good. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your hard work. I have a question for you don't ask him right now. It's okay. No, we not we didn't get to Okay. What resolution has questions about
the 178? 178 about hiring a new financial officer. Whoa. Okay. So, you have to wait. Could you wait? I got you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Go ahead.
Resolution 2025 181. Um, Roberto, I would like to explain this 181. Yes. Unfortunately, please.
Unfortunately, Unfortunately, the water meter for the house park was in a four or five ft under the ground. For 10 years, the area had been asking us to
raise that water meter above ground. Uh until this year, nothing had been done and the year basically said this is it. We're not put a needle there, you will not have water. So, we had to go out and
get a price for raising the needle. Like I said, there couldn't believe that anybody would get into a rectangle squir down in order to get to the ocean laws are very strict about
these confined and they would not allow anyone to go into the pit. Uh we had to go out and get estimates for doing this. We had someone who said they were going to do it when they finally came into the
quote. It was way over the bid limit that try to get some other prices. So the um this work was done otherwise we would Thank you. This is I believe part of the
uh the unexpected issue that we had with the pipe broke breaking. Correct. Yes. So uh the boral administrator called Lanza and they were very kind to be providing us
expedition service on Friday. I remember he went there Friday night and he started working on it and good thing that he fixed it with welding. It will be it will be right. There's a flange on it and landing works with
water on major projects. We work very well together with our people and from what I understand that came in as it was placed on it for
5 to 10 minutes and then it exploded like a geyser at least 30 people. Um it was put back together who just some other
things was able to order the putting them back on may or may not do it before Thursday. That's the only issue. We're trying our best. That was that was unexpected. We called everybody that we could call the
and if it's not done right, I mean they were very agreeable because on Friday before there was a lot of hysteria they were going to take the needle off that they had just put in but they agreed to leave it on. So that would have been another whole thing
and started out being a very nice day because they said they weren't going to charge us deposit for doing this because of everything and we don't have to pay for the water and then this other took away the happy part of not paying for that. So, so it should be finished
this week. Thank you. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Council members, any question about resolution 181. I have no you go first. Okay. So, uh
having said that, I mean, thanks for that information. I never expect the water is somewhere you know outside of our but anyway I'm glad that that you know worked out. So when um you said by
the end of this week it'll all fix as of this morning I was told at quarter 8 that we would have water today. Later this afternoon when I didn't hear from him I called him back and said there was a small issue and the elder would not come back until
Thursday you know do the water operation again. So I reached out to a friend to ask him if he could do something to get it I did not hear back from him. He's I mean the point is if the waters on Thursday we'll open it's not going to be
perfect but we're going to open it again for opening swimming pool getting the water into the pool the pool the same going into the pool. Is this including all three pools?
All three pools. All three pools be filled. I don't know if they'll be filled for this week. Well, no. I mean, we have the water and done. The C council was ask Council Beach is asking this. This line that has an issue. Does that supposed to fill all three poles?
Oh, yeah. Yes. It's the same line. It's just not in the ground anymore. It's above ground. Okay. I have another question. All the years that I've lived in town, well, I shouldn't say that. I live here. I'm sorry. All the years that the pool has been
established, I can't remember any time that the pool was delayed opening on Memorial Day. And to me, I mean, I just can't comprehend that from January, and I know
this has happened in the past. January, they started their whatever they had to do to get everything ready. ordinances or resolutions I should say and then they turn around and then when the warmer months come and they go after it
and they start doing things uh to me I I just don't understand it's the first time I I can't understand first time pass for the full history I'm sure I agree with you and it
was certainly not our intention to have that happen No, I know. Nice to meet you. We at the work session. Yeah. Okay, good. I think Karen was here at the work session. She did even admit that this is the first
time that she could ever remember. Um, and we said, "Yeah, we understand monkeys do fall down from trees once in a blue moon." And hopefully I agree with you that this shouldn't happen. I think what council vi is is insinuating to the VA is that maybe we could work with the
swimming pool for next year that we start this earlier than around what it is around this time. Absolutely. We actually started late February, March and unfortunately I was counting on somebody and then they just disappointed
me. No reason to think it wasn't going to get done. when we start February, March, we're going to make sure the pumps work, the water line works, all that kind of stuff beforehand. Next year, we're going to work anything to that because everything's it should be
okay. But let's see. So, next time we don't make the same mistake again. Thank you, Council. Any more questions? All right. I have a motion to pass resolution 2025-181 on consent agenda.
Got a motion for a second. Motion from Shen. Roll call. Council. Yes. Council M. Council me. Yes. Council. Yes. Yes.
Thank you.