Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Um, welcome to the state county board of commissioners regular meeting for July 15th. Take a roll call. Bartlett here. Cruz here. D'Vor here.
James here. Deputy Director Lazar, Director Laapour here. Announcement of the open public meeting law. Tonight's meeting was listed in the annual notice adopted the reorganization meeting and advertised in both the
Herald News and the Burham record listing the date, time, and location of tonight's meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Please join me by placing your hand over your heart, saluting the greatest flag of the flag of the greatest country in
the world. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silence to remember all the men and
women who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Thank you. Make a motion to approve the minutes of June 17, 2025. So moved. Second. Okay. That was moved by Cruz. D'Vor second.
Cruz and D'vor. Sure. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. Uh, James, uh, Leapour, yes. I just want to take a moment to apologize to my colleagues. This is a
different sound system and you all sound the same. So, okay. Um, I take a motion to approve the proclamations. Second. Move made by James, second by Bartlett.
Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz, yes. D'Vor, yes. Duffy, I'm sorry. Uh, James, yes. Um, Leapour, yes. Administrator, thank you, director. First, we have a
presentation of a proclamation recognizing Shotti Taha for being named State County Coach of the Year in 2024 2025 for cross country for at PCTI, a proud Wanuki resident. I'm going to turn things over to Commissioner Cruz to present the proclamation.
Congratulations. Thank you. All right, guys. Let's give Shies a big round of applause. It's always a great day when we can honor one of our own uh for a phenomenal achievement. Uh from what I understand, it's the first time also that PCTI has
ever won the county title in cross country. So that's a testament to Shotti's hard work and his dedication to that institution being a student himself of PCTI uh and now giving back uh to our great technical high school. Uh but I think it would be only fitting if before
I read this proclamation, we hear from our coach, a man who has uh led us uh many many many years now uh and is truly the visionary for what you see today. So I'm going to call up our chairman, John Curry, to say a few words. Good evening everyone. Thank you
commissioner and to all of our commissioners and thank you for the great job you do. You know I don't normally attend a lot of these things but shotty have I he's been part of our organization for so many years. I have
known and knew his family. God bless his dad's soul. I guess I can say I represent dad tonight. I don't want to get emotional, but to see you that have grown as a great young man, married now with two
kids, but more importantly, what you've always given to the community and with your with you getting into tech as a pitcher head teacher and then named uh head cross country coach and taking a
young team to this championship. So, I just want to congratulate you. We're proud of your work and we're expecting another championship. Thank you. Thank you again, chairman. And so Shotti, I'll ask you now to come up and join us uh as we read this
proclamation into the record. Whereas the board of county commissioners of the county of PI has the desire to recognize Shotti for being named the 2024 2025 PA county coach of the year for cross country at P County Technical Institute. Whereas Shotti is a highly respected
health and physical education teacher at P County Tech whose dedication is promoting fitness well-being and acade academic excellence has earned him the admiration and respect of his students, colleagues and community members. whereas Shotti has demonstrated
exceptional leadership and coaching ability in his role as the head coach of the boys cross country team guiding the team to a historic victory in 2024 2025 season winning the P County championship for the first time since 1990 as well as
securing the division championship and the NJTAC title both of which had not been achieved in very uh several years. Whereas in recognition of his achievements and outstanding contributions to the sport, Shotti has been named the state county coach of the
year for the year of 2024 and 2025 cross country season, marking a significant milestone in his coaching career. Whereas Shotti's commitment to education, health, fitness extended beyond his professional life. He is a proud graduate of PCTI, the class of 2002, and is deeply rooted in the
community of Patterson, Clifton, and now Wiku. His personal passion for fitness through daily workouts and basketball serves as a positive example for others to follow. Whereas Shotti his contributions to both his students and athletes continue to make a lasting impact on the community, promoting
values of teamwork, perseverance, and personal growth that will benefit generations to come. So now therefore, let it be proclaimed by the Pay County Board of County Commissioners that hereby publicly recognizes and applauds Shotti for his significant contributions that he has made to the county of Psy
and to the community. And let it be further proclaimed that this board wishes Shotti health, happiness, and continued success. Congratulations. Uh, first off, thank you county commissioners for this recognition. This recognition is truly humbling and I
want to take a a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to my amazing athletes. All right, so it's not really about me, it's always about them. Uh, this award is a testament to their hard work, their dedication, and passion for the sport. The real winners are all of
my student athletes. Their effort uh the re uh their effort is driven by each other to succeed. Um and I always tell them and I just we just kicked off last week on our second season together. Um I told them, let's make it a memorable one. And like the
chairman has said, it's time to repeat. Uh this time we're going for something even bigger, which is a state sectional title, which has never been done in our school. Um, and yeah, and Chairman Curry, thank you for your wisdom. Um, you've always been a great coach in my life, and I know it gets emotional when
I say I lost my dad in 2016, and I went to the chairman, and I said to him, you know, uh, if I ever get out of line or I need to be coached, I'm relying on you. And he's been an an amazing coach. All right? And so, I thank him. I I thank my student athletes. I thank PCTI for
putting me in that position to coach and to keep coaching. Um, and last but not least, I want to thank my wife who's over there recording. Um, you know, she's there with the kids day in and day out and she lets me be there with my student athletes doing what I love to do and that's coach. Thank you
again. I appreciate it. Call your family up as well for a picture. Okay, I Three, two, one. Just take a couple. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. No, we're doing
Yeah. Jonathan. Sure. All right. Director. Next, we're going to go a bit out of order and do a uh presentation of proclamation recognizing Jonathan Pah, our county engineer, who's stepping down and taking another position with Wayne Township. We're going to call on Commissioner Bartlett
and Jonathan. Thank you to come up and you're in charge of the video. That's great. That's good. Um, well, it's it's a special treat for me to do this because so much of the work that we've got to do together over several years
has been in that space of infrastructure and transportation, making sure P County is a safe place to get around and to get through. Uh, and your work has been extraordinary in that regard. And also as Wayne resident, uh, I don't know if I'm giving away any secrets, but I know
where your next stop is. And I see Tim Roen here in the second row. And uh I was talking to Chris Rihanna the other day and a good trade is when both sides feel like they got something good out of it and that's very much how weight feel
right now becoming a municipal engineer and in a couple weeks Tim joining us as our new deputy county administrator. So with that let me read this proclamation into the record. Whereas the board of county commissioners of the county of PA has the desire to recognize Jonathan Perah
as he steps down as county engineer for the county of PA. And whereas Jonathan received his bachelor of engineering in civil engineering from Cooper Union University, Master of Science and Engineering and Structural Engineering from Princeton University, a certificate of historic preservation from Drew
University, and a wetlands delineation certificate from Rutgers University. And whereas Jonathan is a licensed professional engineer in the states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, a licensed professional planner in the state of New Jersey, and a certified flood plane manager. And whereas
Jonathan, a devoted husband to his wife Amy, and a dedicated father to his three children, Maya, Evan, and Luke. And whereas Jonathan joined Pay County on June 28, 2010 from Keller and Kirkpatre where he held the positions of assistant director of structural engineering,
senior project manager and senior structural design engineer. And whereas Jonathan assumed the position of county engineer on June 1st, 2018, and has since worked tirelessly with his team to improve and maintain 246 miles of
roadways, 121 bridges bridges, excuse me, and 182 culverts throughout Pay County. And whereas under Jonathan's leadership, major infrastructure projects such as the Westbrook road bridge, 8th Street Bridge, Fairmont Avenue bridge, two bridges road bridge,
and west belt extension among others have been completed successfully enhancing the quality of life and safety for residents of the county. And whereas Jonathan's leadership has resulted in several prestigious recognitions, including the ASCE 2025 Project of the
Year Award for the Fairy Avenue Bridge, the New Jersey Alliance for Action 2025 Distinguished Engineering Award, and the ACEC 2023 National Recognition Award for the Spruce Street Bridge, and the ASCE 2022 Project of the Year Award for the
8th Street Bridge. Now therefore, be it is proclaimed by the P County Board of County Commissioners that he hereby publicly recognizes and applauds Jonathan Parish for the significant contributions he's made to the county of Pay and the community. And be it further proclaimed that this board wishes
Jonathan and his family health, happiness, and continued future success. Thank you. that actually write up down forget. Um commissioners, thank you for the proclamation. Uh since 2010, I've gained incredible experiences with the county
engineer partner. First as principal engineer and then as county engineer the last seven years. It is my honor to work at the county and be part of so many amazing projects and work with even better people. I want to thank retire county engineer Steve Edmond for hiring
me 15 years ago from the private sector. uh for me there's a transition from a consultant engineer to to the public sector engineer. As a consultant engineer I was focused on a particular bridge or project and they were located over the the state or New York or whatnot. However, when I started working
in the public sector I started working besides just the project itself. I started working as if I'm the owner and as the county is they own everything for the last 180 something years. Uh and this could be another 200 years. uh meaning that besides focusing on the
project, we have to review the project and how it impacts the immediate community, the surrounding neighborhoods, towns, and the project overall uh in the interimm basis and also a long-term basis. Uh the current has been um over the last over the years, I was able to see how the county
infrastructure has evolved and improved uh for each of the six municipalities. Uh during construction, we would try to minimize impacts to the residents and the travel public uh because each construction project is a temporary convenience of the public, but it results in a permanent solution that
would last a few generations. I also want to thank former county administrator Anthony Denova and the county commissioners for appointing me to county Junior 7 years ago. It has been an awesome experience. My staff and I were able to accomplish uh over $400 million worth of construction projects
of at least 250 of them combined on the county roadways, bridges, buildings and parks. Some highlights include like you mentioned the population. It also included like the DPW 50 plus miles resurfacing to Bfields and county parks, countless bridges and covert streams and
park projects. My staff is truly professional and they made me they made my job easier. uh which I will miss seeing them on a daily basis and I treasure the friendship and so forth. I want to thank uh Nordon who will be taking over for me on Monday. So any
problems with the county roads uh like to thank Andrew Michelle Muhammad Juan Michael Irene Christian Henry Barry Tim and John my former staff Chuck Assad Tim Floren John and Tom. I
also want to thank two of the most important people in my department, Sandy and Orura. I have known Sandy since the day I started and she's incredible and helping me in particular as I transition to county engine role uh seven years ago. I worked with Laura as a consultant prior to coming to the county on a
couple of her projects. So, I've known her the longest. She's just a wealth of knowledge of the county bridges with an unbelievable passion for the county. I appreciate everything she's done for me this years, probably close to 20 years. I also want to thank county administrator Matt Jordan, former deputy
uh county administrator Mark Seaman, all the department heads, county staff, county planning board members, and of course all the county commissioners past and present. Uh saving the best for last. I want to thank my wife Amy for saying yes to me to that dance 26 years ago.
We are blessed to have the three wonder our three wonderful children, Maya, Evan, Luke, and one happy puppy. Again, I want to thank everyone. I look forward to supporting the county from my new chapter of my professional life as I develop township of engineering. So, thank you all.
Bless you. Bless you. The way you have the game, Johnson, you have to put up a grand streak. 31. Thank you. Good job. Good job. For those that are back. Uh thank you Jonathan for your service
and it's uh it's nice to know that you're not going to be far away and congratulations on this new chapter in your career. Um, director, um, as we are up county, I I thought it appropriate to just give a brief update on, uh, various improvement projects going on in the Pay County park system in the Highlands
region. Um, just as a my just as a quick overview, the uh the board manages uh seven recreational facility, open space facilities up county um ranging from hiking trails, preserved woodlands to traditional parks. Um, and two exciting projects uh
under uh under under construction that you might have drove by the entrance. The the Highlands Rail Trail, which uh I'll talk more about later, and the uh state county arc archaeological center, which is under construction in Ringwood. Next slide. So, over the last three years, the board has invested uh over 11
million in projects in the Highlands region um including uh an exciting acquisition of uh 100 acres of property directly adjacent to where we are right now called Spring Brook Acres. um the Highlands Rail Trail, the archaeological center, um and the new inclusive playground up at Camp Hope in West
Malford. Um just by recap, and I know we've talked about the Spring Brook acres property acquisition a lot. Um using 2.5 million in green acres funding and 2.5 million from the open space farmland and historic trust fund county purchased
approximately 100 acres historically a horse farm in the burrow of Bloomingdale that are we are now in the planning process of turning into the newest recreational facility um in the P County park system. just where we are in terms of next
steps. Um there is a remediation process that the former owner is undertaking. Um we as part of the transaction escroed approximately 1.5 million that is going to be used for the remediation of the property um which I'm told should be
completed sometime in the next 6 months. Uh on a parallel track tonight we're awarding a design contract to TNM and Associates to start the preliminary design of what the park's going to look like. kill everyone. And with that, um, I know Mayor Damato is here. Mayor Damato is going to be a
partner with the county with the county and Bloomingdale residents to figure out what this next park's going to look like in terms of amenities and hiking trail. And Mayor Demano, if you want to come up and say a few words and I know we also have Michael Sandayor,
the business administrator. Michael, thank you for coming. Look forward to working with you. Oh, okay. Perfect. Sorry. First of all, thank you for hosting this meeting up county. I think this should happen a little more often so our up county residents can come out and view um
what's going on throughout the county. Um several years back, well two years ago, Tony Denova called me and said um we're thinking about purchasing the horse farm and turn it into a county park. What do you think? So thought about it for a while and I said, you know, it's kind of a great idea. Everything for the county always happens
down county and we don't get any experiences from what's going on down county unless we want to travel. So with saying so Tony also said that we would have input on what this park would look like which I think is great for our residents and I see some of our residents from the local lake lake
community that borders the park and Icco Lake and Morris Lakes is over there. So I thought it was a great idea to have a a county park in Bloomingdale. For one thing, it brings residents from other towns up here, which enhances our business district downtown, which will
make our town more profitable. It also hopefully um my vision would be if it was possible, I would love to see the sheriff move his horses up here and make it continue to be a stable. So that would kind of bring back what it was originally because I remember as a kid
growing up what the horse form was when it was really active until they had a devastating collapse there. and then from that point on it just never rebounded back. Um, talking to some of our residents, they would like to see more fields. Our fields in our town are very, very busy. Um, so I've been asked,
can we have another soccer field? Can we have another softball field? Well, that's something that we would have to discuss and come up with a plan. Hopefully, we we can do that. Um, with saying that, I know when a county takes on a project, it's always first class.
If anybody knows Dun Levy Dog Park and Memorial Park, um the county built that in honor of former mayor um Jonathan Dunlevy, that park is used all the time and it's kept very well. The upkeep is there. The county takes really care of their parks. If you ever went down to
visit Growl Mountain or Rifle Cam Park, they're beautiful parks and they're used every single day, but the county really takes care of what they own. So, I think that's a that's a a real plus cuz if we drive past the horse farm now, it's not really desirable to look at, all right,
to say the least. But if the county comes in and they build this park, it's going to be first class. I know it. So, with saying that, I thank you for taking on this project. Um, we support you. Um, and whatever we can do to partner up, as you said, we welcome it. Great.
Thank you. And mayor, just to echo what you said, we we do look forward to this being a communitydriven process. Uh recently we added a new park in the city of Payic at at Dundy Island, our first riverfront park. Um and I think what made that
project special was that uh we it was communitydriven what the amenities were going to be. and we did a robust public outreach campaign where um there was boards and people got stickers and they could pick what they wanted and then we created data through that to determine
um what we ultimately put in the park. So I look forward to that process taking place in Bloomingdale and the surrounding communities. Um next is um as as I as I mentioned that you you might have drove by and seen the entrance for the the Highlands Rail Trail. Um this was a $3.6 6 million
project where the county converted the old um New York and Greenwood railway trail bed into a a rail trail. Um funded uh in part by um uh grant dollars from the NJTPA. Um phase one is is is
basically done. Um we're just waiting on signs and then we'll have a formal um ribbon cutting. Phase two um stretches another two miles from FAO drive to Conklintown Road in Wanuk. That's under design. We hope to be out to bid um early next year to get phase two going
right as phase one is done. Um next slide. Um in the burrow of Ringwood um in 2016, the county require acquired what was then the um Harry S. Breland House. Um it's the only uh habitable building remaining on the former Veland Reinmith
farm. Um now referred to the as the the Highlands Meadow uh property. Um rehabilitation work which is slated to be completed in the fall includes u building and site improvements for ADA compliance building accessibility um and upgrades to the mechanical electrical
plumbing systems. Um this site is going to serve as the future home is the P County um archaeological center um where we're going to do um programming um and educational um public education and research um with the county's full archaeological collection.
And finally, uh, Camp Hope, one of our, um, most active, uh, facilities, uh, in West Milford. Um, we added a, uh, inclusive playground, um, which I'm told is being widely used by residents in West Milford and Ringwood and Waniku. Um, we did that with a, uh, almost
million dollar grant from Green Acres. Um, the playground includes ADA accessible paths, parking, ramps, barriers, and guardrails, um, and other new playground equipment. Um so just a brief overview of the significant investment being made by the
commissioners um in our upcount region with uh a lot of exciting projects that um are completed and a lot of exciting projects that are under design. So Q&A any questions? No. All right. With that, I'm going to
turn it over to our clerk for the public hearing regarding the proposed expenditures for the 2025 county open space farmland and historic preservation trust fund. Thank you, administrator. Uh okay. Um this this hearing is
pursuant to NJSA 40 col2-15 um 3B regarding the 2025 Bet County open space farmland and uh farmland and historic preservation trust fund award for proposed expenditures over 100,000.
The following public hearing was advertised in the Herald News uh specifi uh specifying the uh Herald News on June 9 uh June 17th specifying the time, date, and location of the public hearing.
Uh roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett here, Cruz here. D'Vor here. James here. Uh Director Leapour here. Thank you. Motion to open a public hearing on the 2025 Pay County Open Space Farmland and
Historic Preservation Trust Fund project recommendations of 100,000 or more. Get a motion. So move by Bartlett. Second. Second by Cruz. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'vor. Yes. James, yes.
Director Leapour, yes. Any present desire to be heard on the recommendations by the open space committee. Please step forward. State your name and address director. Seeing no one at the microphone, I move to close the public hearing.
Motion made by Cruz. Sec. Come on. State your name and address, please. Hack Miller, uh 91 North Slake Road, Bloomingdale. Uh I just would like to reiterate what the mayor said. No matter what you're going to do with
uh the property, please remember that there are two lake communities that border directly on that on that property. and uh show it uh the respect that that that we would demand.
So we have an opportunity to get into depth. That's what we want to talk about, but that during the public hearing. This is strictly on the recommendations of the open space awards. You'll have an opportunity to speak. Oh, we'll have a public portion. Okay. Thanks. Thank you.
We have a motion. So you don't speak now. Did we vote on it? Yep. Yeah. So, uh county county commissioners uh county commissioners Bartlett Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leapour,
yes. Take a motion to adjurnn. Motion to motion made by Bartlett, second by James. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz, yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Lefor, yes.
Okay. Uh, and that's all I have. Uh, director. Okay. All right. Um, before we go further, I just want to take this opportunity to thank thank Dr. Rose and his staff here at the community college
uh for hosting this for us. Uh, it's a beautiful facility. Um, I'm glad some of us up here um had a hand in James had a hand in doing this. Um so um thank thank you again to Dr. Rose.
Um Mike did want to speak. Oh yes. Right. Yes. Representing Dr. Rose. Thank you. Director uh Michael Cerrone, general counsel of S County Community College. Uh Dr. Rose is unfortunately away on business. Um but on behalf of
Dr. Rose and the trustees, I wanted to welcome you. Thank you for being here. Uh our WAKU campus has grown over the years. Um, in no small part because of the support of you, the commissioners, um, we have a full culinary program here in which you can get a two-year degree
in culinary from baking to being uh, a cook. Um, we have our music and fine arts program here. And with your help with the uh energy savings improvement program that we are undergoing throughout our campuses, if you look in the parking lot on this side, you will
see that they're getting ready to install um uh solar panels uh over the parking as well as on the roof. And when we're done, this campus will be completely solar powered uh which is really exciting. So
So again, uh on behalf of the trustees and Dr. Rose, thank you for all the support and thank you for coming up here and meeting up here. Thank you. That wasn't JCPNL I heard crying in the bushes. Okay, I'll take a motion to suspend the
regular order of business. I'll make that motion. Motion made by Cruz. Second by Bartlett. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leapour, yes. Capital Ordinance 2025-06.
Um, bond ordinance providing for approvements to PCman Preserve in and by the county of Pacific, New Jersey, appropriating 2,18,000, therefore, and authorizing the issuance of 1,875,000
bonds or notes of the county to finance the part of the cost thereof. A motion to open a public hearing on bod ordinance 2025-06. So move D'vour. Motion made by D'vour. Second. Second by Bartlett. Roll call.
County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor. Yes. James. Yes. Director Leapour. Yes. Does anyone present desire to be heard on B ordinance 2025-06? Please step forward. State your name and address.
See Seeing no one. One more. This also this also isn't the ordinary public portion that's still coming later. Coming up coming up. I know I'm not a member of the public, but I want to say I've this is a terrific plan. I've I've looked at u the
design. This is a riparian park, but also right next to a terrific neighborhood. And the way that we're improving its walkability while also improving it as a you know space that is a as flood mitigation, I think is really nicely done. Happy to support this.
Yep. And I and I would just note that this ordinance is fully funded by Greenacres grants that the county has secured over the last two cycles. We encourage that. Um director seeing no one at the mic pertaining to this public uh hearing. I motion to close. Motion made by Cruz. Second.
Second by Bartlett. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor. Yes. James. Yes. Director Leapore. Yes. Motion to adopt B ordinance 2025-06. So moved. Second. Motion made by Bartlett, second by Cruz. Roll call.
County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor. Yes. James. Yes. Director Leapour. Yes. Motion to resume the regular order of business. So moved. Second. DVO. Made by D'vor. Second by Bartlett. James. James.
You do sound alike. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor. Yes. James. Yes. Director Leapour. Yes. Uh, anyone have any reports to submit? Okay. Communications, there are none. Motion made uh to open the public
portion of the meeting. So move. Motion made by Bartlett. Second. Second by Cruz. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leapour. Yes. Anyone wishing to be heard, please
step forward to the microphone. State your name and address. minutes. Now you got three minutes. You have three minutes. I don't need it. And everything you say was a matter of public record. I I just wanted to add that this is special to me buying this because I was
on the council at the time that it was being discussed whether it should or should not be in the Highlands Act. And the day before the bill was proposed and voted on, myself and uh councilwoman,
the late councilwoman Sue Smith, we went down to Trenton and we lobbyed Senator Martin real hard and we got it in the uh in the Highlands Act and now here it is going to be preserved forever. And uh
like I said, it's a special day for me. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else from the public wishing to be heard? Come on down. Good evening. My name is Sharon von Uler. I live at 76 Morris Lake Road. And
I really did like everything that you talked about, your ideas about the horse farm. I thought they were all great. All of them were acceptable. Um, I think that you missed something though. We have like amazing wetlands over there.
Every time I drive by, I see all these beautiful birds and wildlife. And um, I propose that you make that part of the park a wetlands viewing area or a wetlands park just like um the one in
Allenale, the celery farm. They have like um I brought pictures. They're like peers that you can walk down and actually view the wildlife. And because this college is here and all the schools, it would be
great for um students to learn about nature and wetlands. Could be great field trips there. And um this is like one of the platforms. I don't know. Should I give this to somebody?
Here's some pictures. I just don't want to see it wasted. That's all about it. It's gorgeous. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much.
How you doing? Mark Forest, 11 Birch Road, Bloomingdale, and everything sounds really good, but my question is about accessibility and actually getting to the park. The road that's on Union A is extremely narrow and high speed to travel and not really accessible to people that want to walk there or ride
bicycles to it. Would there be any consideration of making the road wider, making a sidewalk or anything that would make it so people could actually bicycle to it, walk to it? Just a consideration. Thanks. Thank you. Anyone else?
Future stars. You got quick. Hi, my name is Victor Woo. I'm live at 111 Holster Road in Clifton. Uh, I just wanted to thank your commissioners for your continued help and support. Just make sure this is the
general open public. Just want to make sure. Um, just want to thank you for your continued support of cross country of a high school up at G Mountain. um as the meat director and uh head timer for the state, you know, it's
greatly appreciated that you help us use the facility and everything else. And I also want to mention that your staff at the county parks department, uh Jonathan Jonathan Plawn, uh and then the folks at the parks themselves, Chris and Tim,
they're always amazing staff to have on hand to help us run all our events amazingly. So having said that, I put on my hat as a head timer for the state county cross country championships. We would like to invite you to come to our cross country championships on October
23rd, which is a Thursday, uh to give out the awards for our county championships. If it's, you know, aligns with your schedules and so on and so forth, um I'm happy to give you contact information and so on and so forth for that as well. Thank you, thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Awesome. Anyone else? Just give me one second here. Uh Kevin Lucio, 48 Vista Way, Bloomingdale. Uh, one of our concerns as
part of the lake uh, communities here is what you build there. Changing classification of our dam and putting more economic pressure on us to do improvements to our facilities because of what you build below us and that is a
concern uh that we have as a lake community. Thank you. All right. Anyone else on public? Mike Sandmire, 27 Matthews Terrace. On behalf of the residents and the mayor and council, we appreciate and want to thank you for giving us the last two
entrenchments of uh open space funding for our Bogue Park playground, which we recently opened up about a month ago. Uh, we also got a Jaylaw grant with that as well. It's about a million dollars of the project we did up there. Would you get a chance? Please stop by. It's beautiful. I just ask tonight if it does come up that we do allow us to
reappropriate some of those funds to some of the other items in the park so we can actually 100% complete that project uh from the last three or four years we've been working on it. So, looking forward to a yes vote. Thank you. Anyone else in the public wish heard? Okay.
Seeing no director to close. Second. You want to do it? All right. Before we do that, no. All right. Have a motion to close by Cruz, second by D'Vor. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes.
Cruz. Yes. D'Vor. Yes. James. Yes. Director Leapour. Yes. So, just to emphasize again to all the the Bloomingdale residents here, um you know, the county is not looking to come in and inflict our will on what we put in there. We look forward to working with the residents and building
something that that the community wants to see. So, like I said, that public outreach process is going to begin in the next 3 to 6 months. We'll have meetings. We'll probably have a meeting here. Um but I'll be sure to keep the mayor and Michael informed uh when we start our public outreach sessions. and we look forward to partnering with you
and with the mayor and with the council on developing our next county park. So that's it. Okay. And uh and the resident who spoke about widening the road and had a concern about that. These are the kind of things that the county is going to uh reach out
to the community to make sure that we address all the concerns um and make it a a phenomenal park for everybody. especially when you take in mind the the warehouse facility that's being built also going to add a lot of we we'll we'll get all that information
and direct one other thing for Michael um that uh reallocation of funds is on our agenda today on our consent agenda and yeah no you you guys came to us for open space funding we provided it in a prior year and then you were able to raise additional funds so the fact that
you did that means we can apply that to do even more uh even more improvements to that park. So, good for you and and we wanted to reward your going out and looking for other funds by making sure you could keep it and do even more. We also got two major donations, one from Silicon and Fit Patrick, general
contractors. Okay. Um thank you everyone for their participation. Uh moving on to the consent agenda. We have late starters. Yes. Um director through you. We have three late starters tonight. The first one is a resolution authorizing the New
Jersey Community Development Block Grant fiscal year 2025 annual action plan to be submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The second late starter is a resolution authorizing a substantial amendment to the P County annual action
plan for fiscal year 2021 to permit the Burrow of Woodland Park to utilize the funds from 2021 to fund the Woodland Park Grimes Park ADA ramp project. And the third one is a resolution
authorizing an award of contract to TNM Associates to complete an update of the P County Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan pursuant to NJSA48 col1-5. I would ask that those three resolution
N7 through N79 be added to the consent agenda. In addition, we have one amendment to resolution N19 and that's we we're asking to amend the ETH clause which was initially for a
total of 4 million. We're reducing that amount to 2 million. Okay. So that's the amendment to resolution 19. 19. All right. And finally, okay, sorry, Miss Bora, we are pulling resolution the
following resolutions from the consent agenda in 18, 35, and 74. That's a good question. No, the motion will be for the late starters in the amendment.
That's all I have. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Okay. Uh I'll take a motion to add resolution uh 7778 and 79 to the light starts and the amendment
amend and and 19 and the amend the amendment of 19 moved by James. Second second by D'Vor. Any questions on roll call? County Commissioners Bartlett.
Yes. Cruz, yes. D'vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leaport, yes. Next, I'll take a motion on the consent agenda. N1 to N79. Um, can can I sure do you mind,
director? Um, so the vote would be N1 through N17, N19 through N34, N36 through N79.
That's not a motion. Yes, direct. Okay. So uh wait did I do oh okay so actually no so N36 through N
uh 703 and N75 through 79. Okay, let's see if I can do this.
Um, I'll take a motion for resolution number 1 to 17, 19-34, 36- 73, and 75 to 79. So move. Second. Moved by Cruz. Second by D'vour.
Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leaport, yes. This is what happens when you're surrounded by very good people. Thank you. Team effort.
Okay, moving on to new business. I need a motion for personnel. Second personel. Motion made by Cruz, second by Bartlett. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'vor. Yes. James. Yes.
Director Leapour. Yes. Need a motion for bills. Move the bills. Second. Motion made by Cruz. Second by Barlet on the bills. Roll call. County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz, yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leaport, yes. Before you adjourn, if I could just uh
congratulate Tim Roman, who was just approved as the deputy county administrator. Thank you. Um, it's not lost on me how big of an opportunity this is and how much it means to be able to serve
the county of Pake where I've uh grown up and lived the majority of my life. Look forward to working with each of you and all of our residents to provide the best services we can provide. So, thank you. Thank you. Good luck.
And once again, I want to thank all the residents who were here tonight um to come and voice their opinions and just to come by and say hello and get a taste of what we do here at the county. Um by the way, when we approved the bills list, a lot of that money that would
been awarded to Blooming Dale and Wik has all part of that. So we just approved it all. Your resolution passed, Mike. There you go. Um okay. Um I'll take a motion to adjurnn. So move second. Motion made by James, second by Cruz.
Roll County Commissioners Bartlett. Yes. Cruz. Yes. D'Vor, yes. James, yes. Director Leaport, yes. Thank you everyone and safe trip home.