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This is the East Lake Town Hall. Uh just for background, I just want you uh to know as our residents that the mayor has decided to hold town halls at least monthly. We will be picking places like East Lake and uh certain area specific

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uh depending on the issues. Uh, but we're going to try for the most part, I was talking to Brian because we do have a recording system and it's easier that way to be at the hills, the hive, broke lawn or central in general, right? Unless, like I said, there is a specific issue in a specific area of the

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neighborhood, then we will be there. Uh, so it starts now. Uh, this is a general town hall. Uh, all residents are encouraged to ask questions. Any kind of questions, you're more than welcome. We are looking to um be here for about an hour or so. Okay. So, with that being

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said, I can uh just turn it over to the mayor. Mayor, would you like to say anything? >> Thank you everybody for coming here. I really appreciate it. Uh it's a busy time for end of the school year. Uh even if you don't have parents, uh you have friends, you have kids. So, you'll

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definitely be uh busy taking care of summer plans and vacations. So, thank you for coming. I appreciate your time and I will not waste your time. Whatever questions you have, I will answer. And if I don't have the answers, we'll take it down and get back to you. Uh the two

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things that I have mentioned when I announced this was the Lake Hawat library project and public safety. Uh the Lake Hawat Library project is going to continue. We're going to refer the building. Uh I know many people in the past have said that how come you're not

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going to knock the building down. Well, that was that ship has sailed. you know whatever happened in the past no action was taken uh and the costs have risen to the point where to invest the money to do that is no longer feasible however we

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have a good engineering company we're going to look at the building we already have with architects and we're going to refurbish that building we have visited at least two other libraries to see what they have done with their small libraries when they refurbished so we have references and we are talking to

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other libraries to see how they have done Uh and as I get more update, we will share at future council meetings and also at future town halls. Second thing is public safety. Uh two horrible accidents. Uh you know Denise uh she's

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still recovering and Anthony who is full of spirit and he's doing very well. Uh and hopefully he'll be back home within the next 30 days and so far he's doing really well. But that brings a topic on how do we manage uh you know all these

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accidents that are actually preventable you know uh obviously the people who hit them you know I can't say because the investigation still going on but you know I think we all know these days with cell phones rushing in the morning I've

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seen it myself when I was in the back of the garbage truck how people are just zooming around everybody's late uh and all I ask is you people to just slow down. But in addition to that, what is it that the township can do? So, we're going to implement something called

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vision zero. Other towns have been very successful with it. And what they do is they actually go around to many locations and see why the the way the roads are designed, what can we do to slow it down, whether it's speed bumps,

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signage, uh markings on the ground, uh you know, and of course there's always enforcement, and those are the things we're going to evaluate over the next few months in different parts of the town. Now, we have a huge town, 26.2 square miles. that's larger than

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Manhattan. Uh though we don't have the density, but it's a huge town. So, we're going to go section by section to see how we can mitigate uh proper flow of traffic so we can prevent all these accidents from happening. Uh we're reviewing this vision zero with other

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town experts who have done it. So, we're not going to reinvent the playbook. We're going to take their playbooks and adjust it to the needs of precipitate. So, uh, those are the two things that I want to make an announcement on on what's been on my plate for the last,

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uh, few, at least for the last 30 days. Uh, now we can get into the questions. So, whoever is brave, please raise your hands. We'll give you the mic. We have two mics here, so we'll keep one in the audience. >> State your name. >> Yeah, just state your name.

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>> Uh, Nick Centerville. So uh the question I have this has come up a few times through the history but I'm thinking uh with a little more open mind we can u discuss this topic. Um there are a large group of us who'd like to have chickens in paripony. Now currently the ordinance

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states that you have to have five acres and in previous conversations I've had with council dpierro u that had to do with a big industrial farm and they sold off some land so once they were under five acres they can get rid of it. But we're not talking about that now. We're talking about little little coups. And

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it's not unreasonable cuz if you go to Morris Plains, I have the ordinances. Mortis Plains allows it. Booten allows it. Again, it's only like four or five chickens per household. You have to have four square uh feet uh for the coupe and then eight uh square feet per chicken.

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Up to four chickens, no roosters. I don't think that's unreasonable. The benefits include, of course, you know, your own heat, uh, eggs, and they also control ticks and other pests such as lantern flies. So, I I'd like to at least open the discussion about the

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possibility of bringing chickens back to our >> Okay. So, Mr. Curs, right? Is that right? >> So, it's funny you said that. I just set up a meeting with uh the courts and the administration because, as you know, there was a few court cases that have

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come into play. uh there are people that have an expressed interest with regards to chickens. So we are meeting about that and we're looking into it to see uh what we can allow and what cannot be allowed. The challenge I believe is going to be or they're going to make a

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determination based on lot sizes potentially. Uh so that's where it's at. But to answer your question, we are looking into it. It is happening and like I said, I just scheduled a meeting so we're kind of ahead of you a little bit which is good. I always like that when somebody says something.

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Yes, you're very welcome. Not a problem at all. Uh, anyone else? Mr. Kazano. >> Uh, two questions. If you need help with the driving, I've ran two divisions with 170 drivers, two years, no chargeable accidents. Boston, New York, Philip, all

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tractor trailer. It's all re-education. We took goal G zero accidents. I reversed it because most of our stuff was back in. So, we've made stickers up. Get out and look. Shop's got to buy into it. Everybody's

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got to buy into it. I also know two schools that have full-blown simulators. We can simulate any weather condition, any vehicle condition. Second thing is what is our excuse me, what is our town council going to do with tre

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>> with what? >> Treate. >> You mean Tre New Jersey? Okay. We've the three counties have lost 33,000 jobs in four months. Okay. Our ratio is going to be 13 to1 residual. New York is at 14

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to1. Boston's at 14 to1. Chicago is at 15 to1. Portland, Oregon's at 15 to1. And Portland, Oregon's at 60% vacancy rate. It's all on the business reports. So, we

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got people leaving like crazy. And it's uh the other third question would be she's also taken almost all of our senior citizen benefits away from us. >> Yeah. Our next thing is going to be reevaluation of every house is what she's calling for, but she's going to

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exempt all the 67 affordable houses towns. >> Okay. Thank you. So on the first one with your experience, you know, the problem is not with the town drivers, you know, on the town

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vehicles, it's the public. You know, my focus with vision zero is educating on the public and how we can re-engineer or slow things down in the town itself. So, I'll take a look at your idea to see how we can help the public be better

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drivers, you know, um, and you know, but as far as the town is concerned, we haven't had any accidents with the town employees driving. >> You've got 95 just initiated uh, late this week. I sent you a notice on it now has cameras from Maine to Florida. They

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will be issuing right to the plate. >> Yes. Yes. And we're also going to be turn around to tailgating or say weaving or whatever or on the cell phone. >> The AI camera can pick it up. >> Yeah.

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>> So if he's driving your car, you get the ticket, you get the points. >> Okay. Well, that's something the federal government is doing. Uh I'll have to impact, you know, at the town level and what that is. Uh your second thing was

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about uh the job loss. >> Okay. Well uh you know whenever uh most of the corporations need to put out a notice when there x amount of jobs are being lost especially when if it happens in participating they let us know. So

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far that hasn't happened yet. I think the only notice we put out is one for embassy suites. uh when you were sold and had about how many jobs were being lost but beyond that nothing has happened in Pipony to that level the county absolutely but they don't let us know on that counting but it is

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something we can look into to see if they can let us know >> the ripple effects 1 to 13 >> yeah exon's leaving >> y >> Samsung >> Samsung just announced >> Bay refineries is leaving so fuel's

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gonna go down >> well business is leaving the state of New Jersey. You know, thankfully nothing's happened in Peripany. Uh, you know, in the past it has happened, but now I can tell you a lot of businesses are coming to Pipony. You know, uh, we are situated in a perfectly uh, optimum

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space. Uh, every business owner that I talk to that want to come to Paripony, the line I give them is within 5 minutes, the minute you get off the highway, you can be in any place in Pipony. Yeah, >> you know, and I've tested it myself at different hours. You know, I get off

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287, 80, 46, 53, 202, not 53, but uh 46. That's what I meant. Uh the minute you get off and you're in Pipony within 5 minutes, you can be at the furthest part of town, you know. So, we do have that advantage. Uh and number three was remind me again,

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>> the governor. >> The governor. Yes. >> Yeah. >> So, what are we going to do about Trenton? Well, when I uh I have a layers on assigned to me, you know, something that I can let her know if there's anything that I wanted to let her know. >> Well, she's lower the tax. >> Yeah. >> If you're at a million dollars, you're

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at 9% corporate tax. Yeah. >> Anything over a million dollars, you go to 14 and a half. >> Well, what I can do along with the mayors is to do nothing but uh advise govern the governor to say these are the issues that my constituents have brought to me. What are you going to do about

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it? And I do talk to other mayors about it. to see, you know, what are you hearing from your, you know, residents? So, that's what I can offer. >> Can definitely bring the concerns up up the chain. >> Don't know if anything's going to get done about it, though. Mr. >> At least it goes up the chain with you.

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>> That's the That's definitely what he can offer you. He can put it up the chain. >> Four other surrounding mayors are saying the same thing. >> Y exactly. Yeah. >> I personally spoke to them. You know, they said, "Look, what are you hearing? This is what's actually going on."

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>> So, It's 0% income tax versus 14%. You know, they're gone. >> I wish I had the ability to control uh you know, corporate taxes and precipitating, you know, >> but uh right now >> got to express it up the line. >> Yeah, definitely.

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>> Well, I'm definitely vocal about things and then she will, you know, more than often I talk to my layers on at least once a week if not uh several times a month. Okay. >> All right. Who's next? >> Mr. Let >> Thank you very much,

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>> Mr. Mayor. I didn't intend to ask a question, but here goes. First, two thank yous. First, thank you for meeting with me. Last week, there was an hour of really good back and forth conversation. Thank you for that. Secondly, thank you for doing this because this is four years. We didn't have any open meetings

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like this. This is critical. I think we talked about it. I'd like to see more of them every month. >> Every month. So the question I was not going to ask I was reminded when I met my old friend Justin Leon. So I have to say it was probably back in early 2000s maybe 2003 or four uh I was

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I became a member of the traffic advisory committee. So it's been a long time but a friend of mine in law enforcement told me that every traffic problem can be solved with one of three E education engineering enforcement. One of those three E. So we engaged members

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of the local media. Back then I was the chairman. We did a whole bunch of stories. We continued to do them to educate the public about what the traffic committee did, what we wanted to do, how we do it. Engineering. Here's where Justin came in. Justin attended every meeting every month. And we

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invited residents to come in. And we weren't just listening and and kicking them out. We took action. And Justin was one of the reasons why many things got done. But the last E is enforcement. We talked about that. To me, nothing is ever going to change unless we aggressively enforce traffic regulations

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aggressively. You need to know from your police chief how many summones are being issued, where the hot spots are. One of the things we did through Justin was we purchased, I think, two devices, maybe three, that passively and actively gathered information, data, so that when

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a resident came in and said, "We've got speeding on my block." We would deploy these things either passively where they would not register. They would just collect the data or they would tell you what your speed is. In either case, we were able to repudiate or confirm that these things were taking place. But then

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enforcement comes in. So again, the long question is how are we going to get our police department to aggressively uh enforce the law and how are you going to play a role? >> Great question. Uh I did appreciate meeting you. You gave me a thoughtful list and I I mean I'm going through it.

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I had a good weekend reading. Uh when the accidents happened, I immediately uh told uh a police department to start aggressively enforcing in like I think I had a long list of five to six roads. And then I went to those roads in the

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morning and I saw just about every single day somebody pulled over. So I know that's working but I know that's not enough. And on social media people also list that hey people are you know speeding on my street. uh the loud mufflers, you know, a lot of people

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equate that to speed, but they're just, you know, making noise. They're not really speeding. But, uh it's just people have to tell us, you know, where it is before we implement vision zero and the equipment that you mentioned that will tell us the data that we need. But before that is whatever the

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residents are telling me. And I also know when I drive around town where I naturally speed up and I tell, you know, our police officers, can we put somebody uh hidden? Because a lot of times when you see a police officer, you slow down, you know, but that doesn't correct the problem. You know, sometimes you

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actually have to get a ticket in order to learn. >> Yeah. Also, just to add on that, um Mr. Lights, as we talked, uh I have already requested from the chief all the stats, monthly stats, and we'll be looking at that. And as you know, than anybody. When you look at these things, the

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numbers reveal themselves. So, we'll be able to determine how aggressive they are being in quotas. Quotas are not >> quotas. Not aggressive enforcement. >> No, no, no. Exactly. >> Exactly. I mean, I'll give you one spot. >> Beverick and Route 46. >> Yes.

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>> People don't want to wait for that light. >> Oh, yes. >> And that light will >> That's the mayor's pet peeve, by the way. >> Going through. >> Yeah. >> There's a full day of tickets right there. >> Yes. >> Again, if I may add, it's like raising kids. If you do it inconsistently, the lesson does not >> No, it has to be.

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>> If you do it consistently, people will get the word that participant PD is not playing around and it'll slow down. It takes time. >> I was just going to say it takes a little time, but consistency is key in this situation. >> And I know about that light. I have actually a stopwatch in my car. At every

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stop light, I'm measuring, you know, and some lights are way too long. I'll be honest with you, three and a half minutes uh during rush hour. That's sometimes too long. So one of the things I am doing is uh the secretary or not the commissioner for the department of

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transportation she's from Pacific I know her Priya Jane you know and one of the things is I'll be engaging with her to say can we get some kind of a smart light uh other towns have done it across the country you know where you know for example at midnight you know we keep 46

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completely green until somebody from the side streets come then it can become red so this way a flow traffic can go and we You don't have people just sitting on 46 and nobody else is around as a four stops, you know. So, those are the things that I want to bring. So, at least the flow of traffic goes from one

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town to the next, you know, uh and during during rush hour, you know, yes, the light can stay on a little bit longer, but as soon as the traffic, you know, minimizes a little bit, let the side streets go back and forth. So, hopefully, uh, you know, we'll get

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grants for that because I'm all about grants. Everything that I look at first I'm like okay is there a grant out there before we spend taxpayer money and if there isn't then we'll have to look at taxpayer money and look at the you know return on the investment >> any other questions

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>> yes I think most of you know me anyway here mayor nice to meet you too you answered a lot of the questions about the roads some of these are really bad but also Kingston new pavement Fresh drag strip.

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>> And so I don't mean necessarily the kids. I mean people trying to bypass 202. >> Yeah. >> And also parents dropping their kids off to Lake Park. I don't drive Kingston too often in the morning even though I live by there. I saw a woman open up her door, stop traffic, and let her kids cross right in the middle of the street.

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>> I was there that day. I I live on Atlantic. I take every day when I go to work. >> Okay. So we're neighbors on. >> Yes. The other question is, does the township deal in handshakes with contracts or do we actually have things written down in paper?

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>> But this is what I I want to clarify. >> Now, obviously you live on Atlantic. You're familiar with the construction yard at the end of the street of Kingston. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. How long have you lived in the lake, sir? >> Since 2000. >> Okay. When that ramp was built, the

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state was here and I believe the meeting might have been at Lake Par School. The director of transportation, whoever it was, there was a lot of people, a lot of town officials. He said, and there's customers at where I work at will also

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reiterate what I'm saying. The state said when the on-ramp is done, that yard will be removed. It'll be restored to its natural state. That was a little meadow there. It had trees. Beautiful. I'd come out the street in the morning.

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Once in a while you see a deer there. Felt like Precipany was when I first moved here. I'm here 42 years. Well, CO hit. There was five or six trucks there. They put a few pine trees in there. I guess supposed to be restoring, but I think actually people used it for a

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restroom. No, whatever. But CO cleared up. They started adding more trucks. >> Yeah. >> I walk out on my front lawn. I see yellow excavators. I've brought it up before a few times over the years. Nobody could give an answer. There has

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to be something written somewhere where the state said when this yard will be removed when the on-ramp is done. That on-ramp's been there what 15 years or better. I mean, it's terrible. And they expanded it and they pounded the

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dirt, never mind a runoff going into the lake or whatever else. It's terrible. It makes looks like Freeling Heisen Avenue and I used to work in Elizabeth. Anybody familiar with that? You go down Freeling Heisen Avenue. >> I grew up in Carney. I I went to Freeland Hising Avenue. >> Okay. So, you're familiar what I'm

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saying. You see the the fencing around it and everything else. You see the heavy equipment. When are they going to take it away? It should have been gone over 10 12 years ago. At least two treatment administrations ago. >> You're right. >> And I've brought it up a few times, but nobody seems to come up with an answer.

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Oh, here. It's the state. Well, yes, it is the state. The state put it there, but the state told the township of Precipany, "We're going to take it away." So, I was just wondering if perhaps you could have some influence in getting it away so I could see a tree instead of a yellow excavator. >> Now, we can

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>> And thank you for your time. And if I talk a little excited, just >> No, it's okay. And >> I get a little wired. >> Oh, please. >> That area is on my list. Unfortunately, it's not high on the list, but I will definitely It's something that I need to look into. Uh I've seen it for I

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remember before all the trucks were put in they looked really nice you know uh way before I moved here but some I honest right now I don't have an answer but you said influence this kind of influence I have on making >> that's something that that you said is a

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state matter so the the best thing we can do is have the mayor start knocking on doors out there and talking to the people and saying hey what the heck's going on we can look what I will do is I will I will see if I can find any specific documents. It is from 15 years ago. So, it was before my time. There is

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an archives. I will go ahead and take a look and see if I can locate the documents. But even if we didn't, if we don't have a document, it's just still by the conduct, right? We can prove the fact that this was something that, you know, they had promised. So, it's something that we and I know the mayor will definitely, you know, make some

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noise over there when the time comes and let's uh hope we can get some kind of results for you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Yes, ma'am. Council Dero remembers. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> I'm Sue Deessa. I live in Lake Kawwa. >> Yes.

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>> Thank you for doing this. Uh the last one I went to was under Soraniano. >> So, thank you for starting this again. I appreciate it. I live over in Lake Hayawa um for 42 years. Um if you're going to look for a speed trap, it's

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River Road. It's between 6 and 7 a.m. and 6 and 7 pm. And in the evening, we've got children riding their bikes, but it's a cut through to Montville on Veil Road and to 46. And when I tell you

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they're doing 50, 60 miles an hour, it's scary because I walk every morning. So, it's scary. Especially in the dark, but if you could just put that on your >> 6 a.m. or p.m. >> Both. I walk I walk in both times. So, in the in the evening though, there's

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children on bikes. Yeah. >> And the other thing with the children on the bikes, nobody's wearing helmets. >> So, we have to try and reinforce that. My other question is about Beverly Road >> and I know it's under stage two. >> I have a question about stage one. >> Yes.

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>> Cuz I walk the town. >> The sidewalks in stage one are all pitting. There's all little holes. I took pictures to show you and it's basically from the firehouse to the bank. What is it? Chase Bank. And I don't know if it's because it's a bad

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product because there's only two reasons why I've been told bad cement or the use of salt when it when it's icy that only calcium chloride should be used. But the driveway for the bank is so bad and it's

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only a year old. It looks horrible and I'm worried because we're starting the second phase and the sidewalks on the other side of of like where is Howard's bagel bagels that's all been done. Yeah, >> but if it's had cement, it's all going

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to be pitted in a year as well. It looks awful. It really does. I know, you know, we're trying to make the main street, you know, people come have traffic, you know, foot traffic, go to the businesses. There's a lot of new businesses, interesting businesses. The honest chops guy is really funny. But,

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you know, we wanted to bring people out, but just walking on it, it's it's not that nice and it's it could get dangerous, especially if if um companies or businesses who probably responsible for cleaning the sidewalks are using the wrong product to melt the salt.

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>> Yeah, it looks horrible. Okay. Okay. >> So, two things uh that I'm taking from your commentary. uh ebikes. Okay, we'll definitely take a look at River Road, but on the ebikes, uh I asked the police department uh that summer is happening.

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Summer is coming. Kids are going to be out of school within I think a week, a week and a half, and they're all going to be out, you know. So they're going to reach out to all the schools with the school resource officers and educate the kids and the parents and they will be enforcing very heavily with the new

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rules that the state have put out for ebikes including helmets. Uh, you know, and I'll be honest with you, I do have one of those scooters that I drive around the lake, but I have always worn a helmet, you know. Uh, but many kids that I have walked around the lake with in other parts, they're zooming right by

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me, even in cars when I when I drive, you know, to the point I'm going to have to put a dash cam on my vehicle so I can tell people that look look what's happening. So, that's really that's where the strong enforcement, as Mr. that said that we're going to do that on the kids because ultimately it's the parents are going to pay those tickets

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and and not the kids. Uh and number two was the north beet. I'll let Justin mention >> Yeah, I can speak to that. Um we are aware of the problem. Uh the first phase actually last summer we identified areas that were starting to spoil and pit. the

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um contractor came back in, he repaired and replaced concrete. Um probably about 30% of the sidewalk was replaced last year. This year it's even worse than it was last year. Um we thought it was attributed to the road salt, not

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necessarily what um maybe um the business owners were putting down, but the salt from the road when they they salt the road and it kind of gets up on the sidewalk. But what we're finding out now is um with a lot of the building that's going on in town, some of the um

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the um apartments, some of the warehouses, they're having the same problem. Uh so we're looking into it being a a product problem, a something specific with the concrete that is

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creating this issue. Um we matter of fact we met with our contractor from the first phase um a week ago Monday um well yeah last Monday um to look at it again because they're still under a uh maintenance bond. They have a two-year maintenance bond. So they're still

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responsible for it. Um and we're just trying to figure out what the problem is. It will be corrected. They will be replacing it and and fixing it. Uh no at their cost. >> Okay. >> It's not costing the town. it's this is part of their product and they're like I said they're under a maintenance bond.

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Um so they're obligated to go back and fix it. Um but we have to find out what the bigger problem is and there's something uh really going on we think with the concrete that's creating this. >> But you don't know about the new concrete that just went in. Could that be a problem as well? >> We don't know. Uh you know that's what

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it will be um you know we'll be looking into >> contractor. No, two two different contractors and it actually the concrete was purchased from three different concrete vendors. So when we we specify a concrete it has to be the DOT

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specification but even in that there are products that that can be interchanged and we believe it must be something with one of these little added mixtures into the concrete that may be creating it. Yeah, this seems that one block.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. It and it's not just there. It's all over. And it's it's odd where you see it in some areas and not in other areas. That's where we thought it was the um the salt initially, but going into this year, um it just seems like

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it's getting much worse and it it can't be attributed to the salt now. >> So, another other municipality might have the same issue. We're we're learning that they are. Yeah, it seems like it's a a much broader problem.

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>> Thank you, Justin. >> Thank you, sir. Any other questions? >> Come on. It's got to be all There it is. >> There it is. We got one. >> Thank you. Here you go, sir. >> My name is Rosario Fernando. I'm a resident in person for 33 years.

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>> Okay. uh the mayor was talking and everybody was talking about the traffic and the road condition and everything. For example, I seen that many roads in the middle of the dividing line, wide or yellow lines are faded. Yeah,

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>> if as a senior citizen like so many citizen drives at night also. So I come to know when I drive my son was living in lake a so when I come from there by the way road I don't have the white lane

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to see it so the from the incoming vehicle they come to the the other side because that is the white line or yellow line is not divided everything was faded and I cannot judge >> it's a guessing game

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>> yes so I have to guess and truth I see many like uh Baldwin has it. >> Yeah. So many roads like that for my concern is mostly if the senior doesn't drive at night definitely they're going to be have >> confused. Yeah.

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>> Can you look into that? >> Absolutely. >> And I think we do have our line repainting program. Right. >> We do. >> Yeah. We do. >> The next one is on the uh when you come from way broke to Smith road to Littleton when you have the turning right. Yeah.

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>> So there is two line to turn. One is on the left and right. The most of the people come from the left and they want to bridge on that passing on the 46. It's dangerous for us. So there is no sign that it's saying that that lane left us to must to turn

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into left to 80 or 287. So there is no sign also. The people was confusing us. So that it's dangerous. How many time they supposed to get hit? because they immediately come and speed up and try to merge which I as to go the

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little time. >> Well, one of the things I can tell you is I actually go through these sites where people complain with the engineer we actually to go there you know and actually walk and see exactly what everybody's doing. >> I see I know many years so many accidents before happen but the

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engineers has changed that I see the signals and everything. I think a couple of years before I was finished my service uh Nia Eve there is no traffic at all but that corner has a big accident without the traffic. Well now that you

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brought this up we'll go take a look one day this week and you know and see what needs to be corrected whether the town has to do it county or state. Uh we already have a process in place to do existing stuff with the state right on Littleton Road >> County. On county yes

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>> thank you. Yep. No problem. Any other questions? >> Yeah, mine is more so I don't think >> Yeah, mine is more so a commentary. Uh gentleman on my left was mentioning prop I mean taxes for businesses, you know,

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14 to zero, but uh you mentioned Exxon. I used to live in Madison right across from the Exxon facility and they left like 20 years ago. When you know when they left it was name only the recent you saw but corporations their biggest

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asset are their employees. So when you go home you see young people that are in New Jersey super educated. We have one of the best school systems in the country very very uh outstanding students master's bachelor's degree. So I don't think corporations are looking

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at that um as their only factor when they factor in where to stay New Jersey not. So if you look at that Exxon facility right now, the jets are in there. My wife's company's in there. There's so many corporations in there.

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It more than you know replaced the jobs that Exxon had there and the good well-paying jobs. >> Warren Park facility is not the facility name facility really Warren Sussex all the rest of state New Jersey. >> Bayway one of their subcorporations.

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Standard Standard Oil was here 137 years ago. >> Yeah. They turned around, they said either you move or no job. >> Yeah. So it's eb and flow, right? New Jersey still provides, you know, the reason New Jersey is very expensive to

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stay because jobs are here. Highpaying jobs are here. The city is here >> according to your business report last night that was on YouTube >> and turn around on the news. >> We are expecting the Fed into 2027. >> Okay. So, I'm just here to add some

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enthusiasm because our biggest asset is our young people and you will you won't find any any more talented more educated people in any state. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um before I take more questions, I just want to take a second

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just to uh thank Brian Satch from Video on the Go. Uh Brian is always there and he helps us anytime we do these town halls and he is going to be key when we continue to do these uh every month. So Brian, thank you sir.

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Uh since we're here I had this thought and I've seen it before and this is has more to do and I preface by saying that I know 46 is a state road because we have limited u immediately jump in and say it's a state road. >> Okay. So basically I've lived in Florida. I used to work in Barcelona and

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they have where they have tunnels that go under the road. >> Yeah. >> Because we've had three people at least three people died just this year trying to cross over 46. >> Yeah. >> So >> yes. >> So I'm just thinking just throwing that out there maybe talking to the state if we can get some under underground pedestrian crosses that might help that

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situation. >> Uh you know I know it's easy for uh and you have heard this in the past. Oh it's a state road it's a county road. that's not going to scare me into approaching the county and the state. One of the things uh one of the first things I

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ended up doing is on uh Littleton Road, a lot of tractor trailers are going on Mara and frontage all the way down to Essex. So we called the county brought them out foot on the ground and saying look what's happening and signage is going to change because it was confusing

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to a lot of truck drivers on which way they need to go. They thought going to the right was a shortcut, but now everything is going to say, you know, go to the left for 287 and 80, you know, and no trucks on the right, you know, and we're going to have an ordinance. So, in the future, as soon as we pass

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the ordinance, if they get caught, they're going to get ticketed. >> And I believe the sign we did put up some additional signages there as of right now. So, it does prevent it. I mean, I've seen it prevented a couple trucks from going, but you know, we're going to continue to work on that and and I know he's going to do your ask.

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And one thing about the ordinance is it's just not a law on the books. But the way this ordinance works is we're going to send the data the actual road to a GPS company. So you know for the trucks that have because anytime you use a GPS except you know even on the phone it knows what kind of vehicle you're

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driving and based on the you know weight of the vehicle it prevents you from going on certain roads. So this ordinance we're going to do is actually going to put it in in the truck driver's GPS to not go on that road anymore. and we worked that out with the county.

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>> Okay. >> No, no, your question. He's just adding on to that. Just letting you know for traffic. He's giving you an example as to why cuz you said it's a state road. So, he's saying like look, he doesn't care. He doesn't shy away. He's giving you an example of look that was a county road and we got that done. So, he's

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basically kind of teeing it up to say we're going to get that done. Don't hold us to the >> But I will say that the >> tunnel tunnel. Well, is it a tunnel? We can have a walkway over, right? I mean, we have two options. >> So, a followup. You made a good point

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about saying you're not afraid of the state or county. And speaking of that ramp >> from 202 down to uh 80. >> Yes. >> That has to be one of the most dangerous interchanges that I've ever seen. >> People speed up, right? >> Exactly. And all you need to do is look at all the skid marks um and you'll know

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>> not at the ramp. >> Oh yeah, it's bumper cars trying for Paripony residents going down that ramp trying to get on to 80. >> It's dangerous. So you know again we tried to bring this up with the previous administration it went nowhere. Perhaps with your influence that needs to be

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looked at redesigned. Justin might have some ideas. I have no clue how to redesign it but it is impossible. and and I think we just had a massive accident there what two weeks ago. >> Yeah. >> So thankfully nobody died but there were some injuries. Just a thought. >> Absolutely.

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>> Actually at that meeting when they were having to talk why don't we eliminate the ramp they said no it's going to put too much traffic on road but people said the way that's designed you're going to have a problem. It's not going to work out what you're doing. That was put in

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because the federal government mandated x amount of distance between on ramps and off ramps. >> Yeah. >> Because the other one you would have just went right off by the end over here by the north. >> It was a short little stretch and it was actually less problems

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>> 40 years ago to you probably had close to the same traffic in some ways, but now it's just like I've seen dump trucks do four lane changes. >> I never like this redesign. I like the old way much better. Sir Ashai

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short-term residence of Piponyi uh moved here in uh 2020 1923. Uh couple of questions regarding the traffic. I believe the traffic is between 80 and 10 and it's a parking lot

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in the morning and evening they're going the other way. So I think you should look at how you can reroute some of that traffic away from little road and some other route. I'm not sure. Uh the second thing is the recycling green recycling

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pickup uh by Pipony Sanitation Department. Yeah, >> they do pick it up but it's 80% it's not on time. So we have to call them and we get the message that we are running late and so so forth and so

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forth. And the third comment I have is I don't know whether you have any statistics on uh seniors living in Paripony and uh what if there are any plans to uh help them with their daily life or or

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uh health or any other things. >> Okay, I'll go in the reverse. Uh statistics depends on what I'm looking for. If it's just seniors, you know, uh I can pretty much uh find out uh how many seniors have their taxes frozen.

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That's one way to see how many seniors we have. I also go to Upper Spring Senior Center uh you know by on N road where I see a robust group of people coming there every single day you know for you know mental health uh and physical health uh and camaraderie with

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other seniors. uh parti and Mars plans have about between six to eight adult daycarees and all the ones that I visit they're pack every time I go there. So I think you know with the bus services that we provide we have a pretty robust senior uh activities for people to

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partake in. So uh you know I'm open to suggestion to see what needs improving. Just call my office and I'll be more than happy to take a look at it. But you know, I know we have a pretty robust senior population. I go to these places just at the Q&A that we're having, you

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know, but it was more informally where this is grabbing and saying, "Hey, can you do this?" Or, you know, um, you know, there's a tree on my, you know, on my son's property. Can you come take a look? Things like that. But, uh, you know,

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that's what we have right now. You know, I'm always looking to improve. I just need people to give me feedback. And I also ask the seniors, is there anything more that you want? And what they're telling me is don't take anything away. >> So they like what they're, you know, what we're providing so far. So that's a

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good sign. >> All right. >> So maybe suggestion is like you said, you can email council people or the mayor or the action center action.net. Y

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>> something you want to add or ask. >> Any other questions we have? Yeah, it's >> got to be a question, not a comment. I'm just kidding. No, I'm joking. Okay, joking. Go for an hour. Use up my time. >> So, you know, the roads, you know,

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design engineers, the flow is there. I think what's missing is the one person that controls everything. That's the drivers. It's education, right? I do that. I have to get to 280 in the morning. So, I do that. But I mean, if we had police officers on the 287 merge,

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that might make things a little orderly. Yeah. >> So, it's just everybody buying to get on to 287. So, it's more of an education thing. I mean, you can re-engineer the roads all you want, but people are people, right? >> You add another lane, that's just one more lane people have to zoom across.

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So, on I I'll Dennis, where's Dennis? >> He had to leave. >> He had to leave. Okay. He mentioned enforcement. You know, on Route 24, when you go to 287 North, I know that middle lane is backed up for at least 2, three miles, and a lot of people cut in, but

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you know when they don't cut in, when there's a cop sitting on the corner, you know. So, I think you have a good suggestion. You can certainly uh ask the troopers to sit there on 387 so people uh, you know, don't cut in, you know, uh

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especially at the last minute and floor traffic will be better mitigated. If it backs it up, that may create another problem, you know. So, this is a, you know, if you fix one area, it impacts another one. >> We don't have the right answers for this, but it's something that we can ask

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the DOT to say a lot of people are complaining. Can you do something about it? And it seems like uh it seems morbid, but sometimes change only happens when someone dies. you know, and that's why one of the things with vision zero is you want to prevent these things

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before it actually happens. But, uh, you can call the state trooper, uh, you know, uh, not trooper, the state police and say that on the 28780 ram, put somebody on that, >> put someone there for some enforcement. >> Yeah. >> Now, here's the thing is we're going to call them and they'll have somebody

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there for a day or two and then they're going to remove them. Just want you to let you guys know we're going to make the call and just important that you guys are aware that we are doing things is just a followup that we'll follow up with them and you know we'll continue to just be on top of them until hopefully we get people educated enough

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>> and we may have to call them every quarter. >> I was just going to say that you know >> we'll be on top of them. >> Yeah. >> And and I got you Mr. P. >> Can we add going through the null uh golf course to be looked at? I go

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through that every day. I do 20 because that's what it says. And there's lots of not only little animals. There's golfers that are really bad and they're on the street. But people buzz right through that stop sign that was just put up. Um

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they don't even stop and they're doing 40, 35, 40 all through there. So >> on northern water, right? >> Yeah. Right through the golf course. Right. Right. So I go that way every morning to work and on the way home. And you can't do 20 because people are behind you bump, you know, flashing

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their lights and screaming at you. But it is 20 and if that could be enforced, maybe it would stop. >> Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. >> Yes, of course. >> Um, and this is what I was thinking when I was on the traffic committee, too. Um,

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just in general, do you think it's a township vision zero is something that New York City did too, right? I mean, and it's so it encompasses lots of different things. traffic calming like you said, even if even if you put trees on a road, it calms people.

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>> But if we if Port Tiffany understood the people understood that we were doing a whole host of things, including monitoring, ticketing, having signage out there, um having a guy sitting there at

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different parts of the neighborhood, all different places at all different times, and they don't know where it's going to happen. I mean, maybe for a year, maybe with an education component to it,

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maybe that would be go a long way as part of decision. >> We just talked about that with the chief this morning. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And this way they never know what's going to happen where and when. Or maybe they do or they're going to be in late or they're going to be inter. >> I don't know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, obviously you can't

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advertise things like that, but it's something that, you know, >> one of the things I mentioned is part is a huge town, right? So, we're going to do targeted enforcement. We're just rotating around uh and we'll do exactly what you said. You know, we talked to

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the chief this morning uh and said, let's put, you know, cars, unmarked cars in people's driveways. I recently went on a police ride and you know something that I noticed that when you're an unmarked car, people just zoom right by you, you know. Uh so we're going to talk

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to neighbors, go to different neighborhoods, uh and put cars in the driveways for enforcement, you know. Uh >> I think once you give out tickets, you know, as much as I don't want to penalize people, but if they're speeding way over, they definitely need to be get

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ticketed. >> Oh, they do. I mean, even our neighborhoods that do all the small neighborhoods are super fast young people and kids on regular bikes without >> So, I'll tell you this. Recently, I was on uh I played crossing guard a few

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weeks ago on Littleton. There's a sign that says 25 miles per hour in school zone and everybody's doing 50, you know. So, you know, and the next day are given out. We'll never have a perfect solution, you

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know. We'll always like, you know, we'll be proactive in some areas, reactive in some areas, you know, but we'll always miss some areas because, you know, we have 95 deployable police officers. It's a good number. You know, even if you had

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200, we still want to solve the problem. >> Anthony, one of your solutions might be is to get some of our police officers to go for DoD training. >> Okay. This way they turn around because right now our police officers have no legal right except for signals or pulling them over and they have no right

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to look at their logs. They have no right to look at their weights. Do safety training uh inspection week will start the third and fourth week in June. Maybe invite the state police down here. Okay? Because they can turn around not only check their CDLs, they can check

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their logs, they can check their routing, they can check everything. Basically, there's uh what you can quote and I have access to is the CSA, which you're familiar or not, carrier safety ratings. You turn around, you can actually pull up a driver. The only thing I can't pull up is a fatality.

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Uh then they can turn around, issue major tickets. Instead of the $25, $30 ticket, they're $1,000 tickets or it's a tow. >> Are we able So, you're saying we can call the state police to request them to basically traffic to our roads on the highways? Yeah. And in other words, what

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they do, they're going to do in the third and fourth week is called safety week. They pull the vehicles into the rest areas. Youbody have >> anybody ever been out for Clinton >> on 78? >> Yeah. I' been to stop. Okay. You have an A, B, and C inspection.

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>> A is basically nothing. C is go right through the vehicle. So if our if our people are trained, they can do the same thing. Okay. >> Are they are they going to come up here on the road or are they going to be called? you have to be called. >> And the other situation you talk about

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exit ramps major issue is get rid of the shoulder from from the entrance of our road onto 80. Okay. That will turn around and stop a lot of the people cutting in and out. Yeah. About 60% of it. It's been brought up before, but

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that's a DOT issue. The other thing is your yard. That's a DOT yard. The what? >> Your yard. >> Oh, the yard. Okay. the art that was promised. DOT is seven years behind in construction. >> They're seven years behind. >> Well, sometimes the government doesn't work at the pace we want him to work at.

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Uh at least, you know, I'll make sure our pace is much faster. >> Any other questions? >> Just to follow up to the gentleman, I may be seven years behind, but on that ramp, they're 15 years behind because it was only supposed to serve one purpose,

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that ramp. No other yard whatsoever. Just once that ramp was done, it was gone and that was promised. It wasn't going to be used for staging for anybody else. It was just for that one job. >> Any other uh questions we have?

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>> Okay. So, seeing no more questions, I will uh go ahead and end this session. I will go ahead. Any questions? No. Okay. I will uh go ahead and uh end this session. Uh again, I want to thank you, Brian, and video on the go. Mayor, I want to thank you for having this town hall. I want to thank the residents for

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showing up. I'd like to thank our guys, uh, our a team up here. Without them, we can't do anything. So, I want to thank you guys and, uh, council president. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> With that said, we ask you all to have a good night. If there's anything you need to see next month,

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>> Nick's winning. That's what we >> 53 years since we've had a J. >> Well, they're playing tonight, right? >> They're playing tonight. >> Yeah. So everybody go get the gate. What are we doing?