we have a motion to close executive and come back to our regular session first from Kim and second from one all right thank you very much now we are I believe we're going to our counil
reports I think we're done with with uh last but not least Council one you okay public library has a job opening as a fulltime librarian so if you know anyone and please encourage
them to apply and regarding budget we have a 2024 financial statements is uh now I haven't reviewed yet but it's going to probably come to next meetings and uh also the 2025 budget is being
reviewed by the audit so hope that that can be introduced next meeting great um ba report uh I don't have a particular report this evening I'm just very happy
that bringing on new police officers I think that the police department has been doing a really phenomenal job since I've been here putting things together and rearranging things in a lot of case uh their own labor and their own art
putting into where they work and I think it's it just makes me feel good as the VA our department so strong um and then as counil Shin said we are doing a lot of work at the pool and unfortunately it's taking a
little bit longer than like to getes from people I feel have to drag it out of them why don't they walk to do work they come to look at it and then you have to keep calling them but we're getting there the pool we open on time and um there are some improvements that
might have to be made after the PO closes the season Emer taking care of the Emer things thank you that's all I have um she's being very modest she's doing a very big thing for the optimization of our bural management
she's working on two big projects one is the one is the uh digitalized processing system for payments now when she's done by April we're going to decide which which company but we're going to have a system where online you can pay your
taxes pay your fees crit cred card purchasing payments are all over each department where you can make payments including the bill Department um you know wherever wherever it is even the PS and even here the finance uh the clerk's office the uh the the violation
Department everything will be digitalized this is what we've been wanting to do for many many years Roberto is going to bring us to the Modern Age the other thing she's going to do is Implement an HR self registered U program Hardware where each employee
could register in and out as you know we don't have a separate HR department but this will definitely make sure that the employees are checked in and checked out properly and their work is optimized as well we will definitely put order and you know uh into the borrow back again
again bringing us back to the uh bringing us to the Modern Age um so I really appreciate that she's also working really hard on the 12 B view but parking lot as you know is the demolished and we're going to soon put uh before it gets told she promises that
we are going to get 47 parking units this this uh this year for sure we're also going to address the LED through PSG uh replacing uh street lights that are dark with LED lights we will brighten up the spot we also have uh we
have allocated funds to finally put in uh a solar daily uh panels at least 30 of them across places that's required when it's dark when it's unsafe crossing the roads it's going to be great many things that she's going to do and she's going to do it and I really appreciate
that thank you all right good um please report mayor it's day one for me or day two so he's going to give us the uh report from the month and I just have some comments that's okay okay you guys were like double b twins you guys
um just want to start off by thanking you guys for the promotion of sh and the officers uh it's going to go a long way to help this um so thank you um thank you for the Cost Guard Services that's going to be huge for us uh you know we
rant some numbers and certain things and uh just by taking two traffic officers off the road uh just to do traffic for half a day uh you know Crossing this it definitely so it's nice to be able to we were able to do that um we received two
uh police vehicles uh over this past month two Ford Mavericks uh one's going to be given to the traffic department uh one we're going to keep uh it's going to help us with you know cones barricades certain things like that that'll that going be great um the meter meter review
I submitted the report today to the VA uh we worked really well together on that uh so you know whenever we want to sit down and have a discussion you any questions uh you call me or sit down and set up the time um we also had a I guess a retirement
soon to be retirement foro Nelson Ben uh he's going to be around for a still a little while uh but uh you know I want to wish him a nice retirement when his time comes uh also we had a an officer lead for another town Kristen Lee we wish her the best of luck in Harrington Park uh she's still a member of the
palis park Family she was here tonight so it's nice to see that you know we that connection um we received one of our cars back for Durango that was letter I have a picture here looks absolutely beautiful from the the letter
company um so that'll be out on our streets as our our new police vehicle we have the F-150 that's out there now being lettered uh and then we have some designs for uh some of the other cars that are going to be uh lettered in the next basically it's a one for one kind of a thing we brought the Durango out we
brought the F-150 the two uh intercept that we have a number of um we have a accreditation meeting next month April 3D to start our our process of the accreditation um I'm
actually really excited about that I think it's going to it's going to go really well for us um and last thing our our department uh read to some classes at the ECC and limberg over the the month there still I think there's another next week or the end of this week we have some more
uh but over a total of you know 13 officers Went to went to the schools and uh read to a number of classes which uh in the past it's been maybe one or two officers that were able to get off the road we've made it a a big effort to to get out to the community do those things the kids are really excited we handed
out some stickers and bracelets uh they all had their own little badges it was it was nice um so it's nice to be able to do those things other than that uh turn it over to oh before I say that thank you I just want to say again for the uh opportunity to to lead this department for the past six months uh
it's been an honor you know an honor of my lifetime for that and uh I appreciate it and I I look forward to continuing to work with uh the new OIC Captain back to move our department continuously forward Captain before you go we have to recognize the the the uh leadership and
the effort that was created because of you we're going to soon to be accredited and there's a lot of benefits being accredited in the police department we never had accreditation in the police department Department you guys have to actually go inside the police department the police actually took their time to
chip in and making the environment more more more approachable and safe and and and healthy for the employ uh the police officers to come and work there great job on that new lights and everything in three looks great they work really hard because it's a very sensitive matter for
the parking meters we had really bad experience with parking meters they work really really hard they brought in all these cities they did the diligence put of comparisons pros and cons now the uh the police committee and and the police department is going to
figure out what will be very best we'll also Pro we'll probably have a public session where people could come and give their input so that proper procedure was beautiful and not only that we changed our way of doing promotions uh the
interview process is absolutely legit the reason why we had so much losses in the past because the proper procedure coning interviews were not met it's unfortunate that you know that it had to be this way matter of fact the pro procedure was so messed up before the
governing body had to decide who's going to get promoted all the people in the crowd knew who's going to get promoted already that's just wrong right so I'm glad that you you guys uh made a great system with the uh police uh committee
uh Charlie Charlie shins over there John joh is there working really hard because we follow proper procedures in the future there will be less lawsuits because of promotions and and and also the Fleet Management you're part of that too what a great move I mean you did
really great so in behalf the mayor council congratulations and thank you [Applause] than okay thank you everybody uh so you guys know I'm a history guy I love history uh our doors say March 22nd
1899 which means today we are two days into our 126 year which means we have finished our 125th Year celebration uh personally as somebody who loves this town I'd like to thank you mayor for a great year of celebrations on the 125th
uh festivals and events uh I would also like to thank our Council woman uh yuban Wan Yun for her her work and also for that expert work on on that book I worked with yuban uh she's very militant you have to meet every single week we
all we all and she expects you to get things done on time ahead of time and uh correctly I also see Mr Longo is here uh Mr Longville was a very big part of that uh U project and if you haven't seen it yet I'm sure I know we've seen it we put
it out here you should get a copy of that book because it's absolutely wonderful there's lots of great uh material in there from the beginning of uh the incorporating of Palisades Park right up to our presentent day we're having a celebration correct inviting the people who are involved yes we are
going to have yes you made that clear at last uh meeting but because now 125 is closed I figured I would just bring it up and and and uh councilwoman we made the deadline we made the
deadline Mr P thank you very much [Applause] okay so like I said I do love history our department was in uh founded in on December 14th
1920 uh mayor Robert Todd and uh councilman Albert King Incorporated this police dep Department our first police officer was Joseph shokof and he was appointed with a gentleman named William Romain who resigned 17 days later and
David Bell was uh appointed to fill his position Bell would become our first leader of the police department he would become our first Chief in 1944 when he retired shov would be the next chief and he would keep that till 1953 upon his
death now I often think what were these gentlemen these two leaders of the department what were they thinking in this time what what kind of plans they have for this Police Department what did they see that can be improved what did they see what kind of services they can provide to the residents what kind of
department they can offer and I'm sure they had many many big visions and many many dreams and to set this department up for you know the ne the next 100 years or 100 years forward so I see that now right where we're at right now I believe that we're at a pivotal moment
again I believe we're at a pivotal pivotal moment of Reform which we've already started in the past six months with uh Captain Rondo's leadership who by the way uh I'm blessed to have been a part of that he invited me on board with that we worked hand in hand in tandem
uh we did he he invited me to everything we worked very well together I'm very proud to have worked for him this past six months and I think he did an excellent job and I'm glad that you guys all acknowledge that because it's 100% true he did a wonderful job uh with that said I also believe that now is the time
for some some big dream thinking uh to reform and also a lot of outside of the box thinking a lot of the old ways didn't work but we we are at this moment right now where if we if we Comm commit to reforming this Police Department if we commit to putting the department
first commit to uh prospering I know we will achieve that objective I just know we will if you want to visit our headquarters take a look look what we've done in six months look how we've tried to we didn't try we did look how we changed the place we have historic
photos all over the place to give the officers a sense of Pride to see where this began where it started and where it can go where we can go we can get there we can get there a lot of the officers have text or called and said that they're starting to feel like the police
department is a family they're coming in on their off time to hang out they're involved with things in Prior years you would never ever see that many officers lined in the back for a promotion but they're here because number one they see what's happening Sean catrell 100%
deserve that promotion and they see that they see these two new hires one was an engineer making a ton of money but loves to be a police officer we're fortunate and thankful that he's here with us okay and over the next months as he goes through his uh field training process
he's going to become part of our family too just as Fernando St is and we're very happy that they're coming on board with us so all I can say to the mayor and councel is thank you for your uh Trust in Me In This Moment uh thank you for your trust in Captain Rando and more importantly thank you for your support
and partnership because I'm 100% certain that in the days ahead we will continue the reform that we started we will also build the police department that you will be proud of we will build a police department where you will say I'm I'm proud to be living in
Palisades Park and I'm proud to have this as my I can't believe my [Applause] ears I think my three minutes is probably up not that easy um I like the reason why you're saying you know what the old
work doesn't work the old ways doesn't work new way is a way to go that is the definition of reform finding something that works and giving up on stuff that never worked that didn't work it didn't work with the current situation now having said that as you guys know that
um the the residents um commonly call us and complain that we don't see police presence in our residential streets if we're lucky we'll see them once in a blue moon um we discussed this in our uh work session that you and and Captain
Jamie rundo will create a a a schedule that is not traceable by the Grand Theft Autos or people want to rob their house it's got to be different it can't be 10 o00 I'll be here every single day you're going to that's why it's not that easy but however I believe that you'll get
that done and before the next month meeting with that plus the uh a program where the cross intersections where most prone uh police president is there to provide tickets and to reduce whatever it takes to reduce the intersection
accidents those are the things that we're hoping for um next month okay guys if that's okay as we agree yeah mayor I may just say a couple things on that uh number one in the past few years we had a a budget Crunch and uh we're just starting to catch up as Captain rundo
said that we're starting to replace one at a time they're going to be lettered part of the process the officers out part of the problem is they're not visible because a lot of our Fleet is not letter and uh that's happening now we uh we thank uh our police committee
and our budget committee who did a great job this year arguing to uh I should say in a polite way negotiating to uh fund us so that we can do all of these uh Endeavors and now you'll start to see our police vehicles with now so now rather than just seeing a Ford Explorer
black drive down the street you're going to know that's a police car uh you're going to know that that this vehicle that's owned by the town that an officer in uniform is driving is a police car it's going to be very visible we're going to take more uh proactivity on Broad Avenue to have more visibility we have two specials coming out uh in the
middle of April they will be up and down Broad Avenue be very visible uh and yeah we're just going to keep doing what we can do and we'll also we have a coffee with a cop set up for next month we we'll announce that uh on our website very soon and we have a couple other events events that we're planning with
the community uh our goal goal is to we we had a lot I mean when when Jim when captain randoo and I first came to this position it was just me and him him and I that was it is true uh we had no Command Staff we had nothing so most of our time was spent trying to figure out
we had a saying we'll figure it out trying to figure everything out uh and that's what we did for the most of the time but then we started to build a team you gave us promotions based off who was the most qualified and you would be surprised if you saw an officer thriving in his capacity like Chris the kid is a
genius and he's doing a tremendous job and other officers too they're doing a tremendous job no politics no and they also now that they're filling these positions they're allowing us to Branch out and do more things and captain rundo and I have decided that now is the time to reach out we're fixing as much as we
can internally but now is also the time to be brave and get out there in front of the community answer any questions that you have of us believe you believe us you can answer whatever ask us whatever you want and uh we can express our Vision to you as well as the community and hopefully we can create
stronger Partnerships because I believe that this town is worth it I believe the residents here are worth it and I believe our Police Department is worth it [Applause] mayam what the difference is right before when there was Grand Theft Auto
before these two young leaders came about and start to reform when when a when a resident called the police department hey my ringtone or my recording someone trying to open the door in my car making a very responsible
citizen complaint I mean uh a report and what us see the response was oh you come down to the police station we'll give you a police report now these guys will be on the scene they'll be there they'll make sure that if this is the the resident that almost got into trouble
they'll pay more attention they'll go to the residents make them feel safe we're here for you you don't have to come to us we'll go to you guys both of you guys congratulations [Applause] oh wow that's makes me feel really good we have a motion to close and open for
the public participation thank you Chris Christine one have a second somebody thank you s Council s all right you guys have three minutes please come on up oh by the way Roberto's going to
put in uh crosswalks on Grand Avenue too I want to get that going yeah Roberto the VA about it granden danger going sh right we're going to put in crosswalk go ahead 435
East Park New Jersey thank you are you going P the streets two streets which which street are you talking about pal pal Boulevard yeah pal Boulevard there's one section that's not paided okay well
why you doing that I uh you know the street where that that little uh postage stamp property has that big apartment house bouard you know the one that I have the I have the house
behind somebody help me out with that location that I'm always complaining about what it's on St and B Boulevard that big apartment house it's only 40 by
100 but it looks bigger than that to me well anyhow now you're Paving the streets that street is almost 59 years old it never was paid so this year to get my U house insurance they wouldn't give me the
house insurance because the the street is got like it's all crooked I did my my parking lots about two years ago and and they never did the street wa about Central you it's 11
Street okay 11 Street at the de end the 500 that's the street that needs to be fixed it's not mine Roberto would you put that into the list let's go for a drive see if need a pure because that's not my street so if
I paid the I couldn't get the insurance so was your street why you can't why you cannot get the insurance the insurance when because I Comm come out of my driveway my parking lots well you're not on 11th Street well she's on 11 the
house is on 11th Street yeah so your resident on 11th Street the building is on 11th street it's not my house there's no Street there but she's on 11th Street it's a five Family House know yeah I know what that is that street as you come out of the pth
there's a big hole because they put all the big trucks there when they building all around and they break the Tre oh every year I go call the DPW they come up with a little bucket fill it in by the next year it's out again but nobody
ever bother I have a question for you because of the construction that's they're having yeah is there damage on public roads what because of the construction that they're having over there in a small lot the apartment that's building built yeah because of construction trucks are going back and
forth in the dead dead end of 11 Street did you could you testify said that the because of the trucks that going in there no no the roads are more worse that's been there every year it's like poth holes we'll put it in there it needs a street got it got it that's it
okay that's good and we'll get back to you um do you have the folder R CH later later privately don't want to I don't care I don't care everybody up C
all day long thank you anybody else oh n please come up name and address please thank you n we are we a lot of traff is crazy there okay um another thing
that I have a question I see it's the high school it's all in Li yeah we have to settlement here I didn't see that in the new come out and what was the settlement for for the resol police
offic 14 and 15 and 15 I didn't see in the and I would like to know what was the settlement about oh it's settlement of of law against the B no I know it was a too but it's no detail I would like to know what
was yeah that it's all it's all confidential once the settlements Agreements are signed uh if if you want to see a copy you can submit an open request okay another thing I I like what um your say about the police officer he
seem like it's going to get better we've been waiting for getting better and work together and I'm glad to hear that I want to see that coming through um because we we love what they doing and we need them and I hope you know this is coming in in a good way no political
invol and just promotion for what we do because a lot of Officer but we want to see it and we want to work together I'm glad to hear all this assignment being I can't wait to put it together thank you thank you thank you anybody else please
come up name and address 519 Second Street 519 Second Street yes I came here last A or B A okay I can't your name last name isim first name
is yes I came last meeting here about talked about the SE Fring issue what issueing issue yes didn't we go there yes I thought we went to the Second Street didn't we I didn't get any I didn't hear about any you said you're
the 500 R we went to the 500 exactly where it went we went there we discovered that there might be a problem with first of all uh the DPW or whoever didn't clear out the drains there it's been clogging up we're going to address that first because the most easiest and secondly we're going to assess with the
engineer which we're working on make sure that enough drain sewage drains I don't think there's enough we might have to go some construction get some grants going there if possible cuz we were to save the taxpayers money but we're on it where we see why we could avoid the d uh
the flood cuz there is a main line of there there is a there's a hub there's a drain what's that called The Catch Bas but the other one the storm drain is not the right and that's that's what's broken up and it's also not up to
today's standard so when we redo that they may have to do some Paving we just actually got a proposal we Haven Second Street yet um but they'll be doing some work there to so the engineer's working on it so we'll get back to you um if you can just give her your private phone
number quietly because then she'll get back to you if that's okay okay thank you thank you thank you anybody else sir please come up name and address put down if I have enough time I'll ear yearly 329 East columia okay I have
have two issues um one is you brought up the subject uh last Springtime and he said once the weather gets warmer yes they may be Patrol people walking Ro Avenue you
gotcha is that happening yes it is happening no it's not happening it will happen oh we'll have is that warm yet okay well that word warm that's not's what war for you that's a start for me
what's a war for you right when it's cold you can okay to do the wrong thing no just think it's not about the weather per se it's not the indication of when we're going to do buy the weather it's around that time we'll establish ourselves set we do that there's a reason why we got uh two part-time Court
enforcers there's a reason also we change the zoning or uh the ordinance to actually we have the ordinance where te actually on the road as well on the streets and Broad Avenue to to enforce the codes on there but as we discussed
before Teo cannot go inside your your house let say someone calls hey that's illegal in tennessy it's not the Teo it's the code enforcer okay all right second thing is there's a reason why there's a reason why we're doing that you'll notice that there's there's astrays there's trash cans in every
single uh block and there will be a sign that says please do not lit once we are in attack when people are walking around we're going to give them sufficient amount a month or two to give them warnings please don't lit here please don't Litter here but after that we will enforce that'll keep it clear that's
that's great second question is what's going on with the temporary police station down by shop right we are about to we're I could I could guarantee you now that the uh the um the the
investigation right will be concluded um no no later than before the April's meeting okay we are still paying for that right and how long are should we still oiga to pay for that
well well right now what what the council is doing is because there's like I believe six months left or something like that if I recall less than six months so the counselor is right now communicating with the vendor saying that hey could you get off our site and
give us a discount the whole point was this I told you about this this I can tell you and record this whoever was in charge of that project broke the law plain and simple it caused a lot of financial burden and situation for our
governing body before we in agreed to agreed to purchase the rental of that expensive um uh facility uh trailer is to make sure that the initial charges did not go over 20% as soon as we
approved the sign it off the ging body and then the people were in charge start to give us the additional charges there was over 20% that amounts to over $400 extra, thousand right now the police department do not need that we want to save that
$400,000 well that's why kind of bringing it up with obviously it's not being used it wasn't even be allowed to be used if you recall there was a demonstration that was done by the police department before the reform people were here saying that people are getting sick right we went through the
remediation we went to the air quality test right now it's contained there's no reason that we need it right now we are all agreeing that we don't have to spend extra4 $500,000 to install s lines generators electrical stuff yeah I agree
you know why you know okay yeah I go ahead all right thank you thank you anybody else please go ahead name and address good evening mayor council my name is Christopher qua ADC West Homestead
Avenue P Park um first I just wanted to uh thank you mayor and councel it's been uh two months since I last been here in January to speak and uh start the new year in terms of what we as uh Community
have expected in terms of where we are going after hearing Mr V Kim mayor Kim Miss councilwoman y I've been seeing nothing but incredible progress and the attention to detail to
listen to miss Loro Mr Ernie and Jo and everybody's concerns and immediately following up getting phone numbers saying that hey we're walking on site this is what this town needs somebody who's been constantly um diligently making sure that all concern
are met as much as as much effort can be put into it to ensure that these problems are remediated and beautification of palates Park is a wonderful thing in terms of a proposal and for you mayor to put your own money and to want to do this project of making
Pal Park look nicer more amendable to people who have been walking under those bridges making them feel safer students who I constantly see taking that road and walking to home I'm very prideful to be here I'm very
prideful to be in palat's park um as much as this governing body has been working effortless effortlessly I see how much attention to detail even Mr vure councilman I commend you because I see your concern for the town in terms
of how much we spend and things of that nature there's it's natural for us to have moments of contestation here that's what this government body is meant for we are meant to have discussion a meeting of the minds and to have true
concerns and care for this town and I have seen nothing else from this governing body except a positive movement and progress you embody all of you you all embody our model PR culture and progress I just wanted to say thank you and also to the
police officer and to the fire department I want to say God bless you guys because seeing those Chang seeing what we what we're trending towards there's nothing that we can't do and there's nothing that says that palat part can't be better and what everybody
has Visions for for this time in L of and and also in regards to that I also would like to propose I have um I've been speaking to somebody out of my own personal time for the wellness center to say I would like to propose potentially an idea of doing a wellness day for all
government government employees whether Council clerk correct that's why I would like to speak to Mr Kim which is a wonderful thing that uh you have spoken about in terms of I want to do that again I would love to assist and give you any context to make that happen because I think that's a wonderful thing
they deserve time off they deserve just a day of rest to feel better for us to adjust their backs to help them because they've been walking or working or lifting everybody everybody here is doing their part so why can't we help as Citizens as well so I want to say thank you God bless you all
and uh truly truly to all of you here as well thank [Music] you anybody else thank you very much we have a motion to close public and come back to the regular session we have a
motion motion first and second thank you I have a motion to close the regular session one more time I'll make a motion thank you very much all in favor thank you very much guys have a wonderful night and