all right good evening welcome to the January 14th 2025 meeting of the panic Township Council Miss Marsh in accordance with the requirements of New Jersey open public meetings act notice of this meeting was included in the annual meeting notice which was filed in the office of the Township Clerk posted on
the bulletin board in the municipal building publishes a legal notice in the Suburban Trends daily record and record newspapers distributed to all persons requesting notice in accordance with Township policy all right please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance followed by a prayer and a moment of silence for individuals serving our
nation I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all most gracious Providence we ask that
you bless this governing body with an abundance of wisdom and understanding so that every deliberation will result in actions which will promote the common good and the general welfare for all of the people of the quic ship amen
amen I also want to mention Mr councilman Cole is feeling a little under the weather so I hope he gets better soon and can get with us next time and I also um just want to give our thoughts to the uh individuals in California that are suffering through uh so much difficulty at the moment so
thinking about that thinking and praying about that so moving on number four the clerk will please call the role Mrs lence Lynch here Mr Co is absent Mrs Russell here Mr syracusa here mayor Dy you here right number five presentations
there are no presentation scheduled for this evening um item number six at this time are there any reports or comments from any of the volunteers serving our community seeing none we'll go on to number seven the next item on the agenda is public comments this comment period
will be limited to a total of 30 minutes additional time is reserved later in the evening we welcome comments suggestions and questions during this time however the purpose of this period is to allow public comment not to engage in a dialogue if you have a specific question please feel free to pose it and then follow up with staff via telephone or
email comments are limited to 3 minutes if anyone wishes to address the council please wait to be recognized and come to the microphone and provide your name for the record yes sir come on up
thank you Mr Mayor Paul mailer Panic Township I'm here tonight to honor now former Library trustee Barbara musio and her more than 30 years of dedicated service to the library but first a
little story if you hover on the resources tab on the New Jersey State Library trustees association website the first thing you'll find listed is the New Jersey library manual for trustees as such by
all reasonable standards this state manual is the leading Authority for trustee ethical behavior in New Jersey therefore residents in opposition to certain Panic Library Board of Trustees actions have every right to hold our trustees accountable to its most basic
guidelines one of those is that trustees and I'm quoting from the manual insist that the board and staff behave professionally in his December 10 2024 email addressed to this body and to the Library trustees attorney Douglas Zucker
attacked former trustee barbam musio writing that quote once she expressed her dissent with the June statement released by the trustees musio should have acknowledged and supported the majority Viewpoint while we recognize that supporting a majority vote is a basic
trustee responsibility his claim in the context of the release of that statement is without Merit for the following reasons one Mr Zucker IGN yours njsa 40 col 54-15 C1 an exclusion for funds restricted for
capital projects he does so in a thinly veiled attempt to justify councilwoman Russell's quote it's the law and quote claims that she made at multiple Library trustee meetings councilwoman Russell made those claims while insisting that the former board had no choice but to
return the money to the municipality when those funds could have and should have have been reserved for Capital Improvements had the 2024 board's discussion been held in the sunshine of public review those conflicting facts would have negated
their statements validity number two without so much as a public Vote or public review truste President White released the statement as though it had been unanimously approved the truth is that the statement was factually incorrect had been aggressively challenged by trustee muo and was
improperly released by board president white as though it had unanimous approval number three as a result trusty muo had no responsibility to support a majority decision she deemed untruthful and unethical the fact that quote Ms muo was
the only dissenting opinion end quote as attorney Zucker has written defines her as a courageous defender of the truth that she lost her position on the board and has been vilified by the attorney Zucker and by by extension the balance
of the 2024 trustee board is their Collective disgrace to own in addition attorney Zucker wrote that the Board of Trustees appropriately relies on the advice of a licensed attorney rather than the uninformed opinions of an interested member of the public with a clear political
agenda while uninformed opinions rarely require four pages of written response I'm happy to have gotten attorney zucker's attendance attention as to a political agenda I challenge Mr Zucker and any member of the library board or Town Council to define or to identify
anything political in any of my written or oral comments regarding the library if there is a political agenda involved it clearly lies with Mr Zucker councilwoman Russell and trusty President White all of whom treated a board colleague not just
disrespectfully but with vengful prevarication so in conclusion I'm asking this board to consider honoring trusty m I for more than 30 years of dedicated service to the library thank you okay thank you thank
you is there anyone else who' like to address Council right seeing none we will uh continue with the agenda uh manager report the next item is manager's report Mr bro thank you mayor good evening everyone uh within my
WR report I have a number of items to go over with the governing body the first is as in past years based upon the statutory schedule for the introduction and Adoption of the budget I've prepared uh proposed dates for the budget meetings it largely models what we've
done in Prior years with the exception of the uh Saturday meeting being a little bit longer or a little bit later in the calendar uh in March 1st to accommodate for some scheduling conflicts which truncates things a little bit um leading to the high viated meeting which would be two meetings in
one week uh that's not a problem for the staff or me but I wanted to float it to council we don't need an answer yet uh if the council does have an answer that's great if you still need time to review it and reconcile it with your schedules you know we can re re uh visit this at the next council meeting I do
need time to review my schedule if it's okay sure so I I need time to review but I know for sure that I am not available March 1st okay h that's the big
day can we do it earlier or later so the 23rd what is the um what is the window we got yeah the 23rd is um there's two conflicts on the 23rd that I know two members of council can't
be there for that excuse me the 202nd uh which would move it up to the 15th which may be a little tight but if that works for everybody we can 15th works for me March right March March 15th is Saturday yes
yeah it's there one big powow about the budget we'll get together and go through the whole thing so it's a process we have to answer you on the first it's tough to do it at night Pi one Saturday yeah the the Saturday is really kind of the anchor to the whole schedule as well as the statutorily required introduction
and adoption dates we do it so that we have two weeks of float in case there's any issues um Saturday Saturday March 1st so you said the 22nd is 22nd is out cuz I know uh two two members of council can't make
that so that leaves us with the 15th and I guess after the eth would be no good right it's pushing it too far yeah after the first we yeah we end up pushing it too far and we limit our ability to can we make it by the 15th can you make it we you said it's a little tight right we
I can we will'll get it done I guess if it's got to be the 15th is there anyone that have conflict February or March March March February 15th February February February looking at the wrong we're moving it up hold on that's what I was wondering I was like yeah February 15th February 15th oh and
you need me to answer that now that's the weekend of Valentine's Day yeah that's Valentine's week yeah that's Valentine's Day Saturday no Valentine's Day iend it with you Fray I mean like you it's the morning it's the morning just so you know Valentine's Day is Friday Friday yeah right um I don't care about
Valentine's Day sure the um so noted but I don't know if I can answer right now I can do that I mean that so if it's all with Council what I'll do is I'll I'll revise the schedule anticipating the anchor date being
February 15th and bring it back on the 28th all right if I have a problem I will email you tomorrow I need to look at my other calendar and then it will become if there problems on the 15th then it will become who can make the most okay at that point because we got to we got move try to make it February
15th yeah I can make that Mo move something so it's not a big I think I can all right uh moving on the next item uh just for the benefit of a Public Presentation of a status update uh the township is in the process of a pfos mitigation project associated with one
of the portable Wells which was taken offline several years ago prior to the threshold being implemented by the njd um our goal was to secure as much money from outside sources to support the project as possible uh in 2024
through a congressionally directed spending formerly known as earmark congresswoman Cheryl's office identified $1.1 million in the federal budget to assist the township of panic suppor system thank you um the budget was supposed to be adopted in September of
last year but as we know the federal government doesn't hold the strict schedule that we're trying to with our budget so as we've been the subject of continuing resolutions that have not included that appropriation and who knows what the future holds uh we'll next kind of review this in in March or
April additionally we made application through the New Jersey ibank which is formally the New Jersey infrastructure trust uh which calls for a couple of benefits the first half of the principle would be without interest and the other half of the principle would be at an interest rate that's more favorable than
we could secure on the outside Market um um and if you get in early uh there's an opportunity for principal forgiveness um with a maximum of $10 million to be allocated among all the all the towns that make application so we would hope to get a million maybe two
uh and we have a budget schedule or a bidding schedule constructed to take advantage of their calendar which is a fiscal year and begins in July so we currently have a projected schedule of advertising the project in March opening bids in May with an award in July
we're communicating with congresswoman Cheryl's office communicating with ibank um one of the downfalls of of going through the ibank is there are additional costs so there will be additional Professional Services fees because 100 100% of inspection is required construction inspection the inspector they're all the time but if it
cost us an extra you know 100 or 2,000 to save on hundreds of thousands of interest and possib principle you know the cost benefit is there it's administratively challenging to deal with the state in this regard uh
but bottom line is the goal is to have the project out to bid in 2025 with an award and maximize as much money from either the federal budget or the state of New Jersey to decrease the impact on the rate payers in the township of quic um I'll keep everybody updated as we
proceed through with the schedule uh and hopefully the federal budget will include the appropriation that the Congress woman has identified force uh with respect to Historic preservation project projects again just an update as we initiate the year we
will be opening bids for the restoration of the railroad station uh the council may be may recall that previously that was uh we received bids for that that were significantly Beyond which the Grant and the budget allowed um we went back to the county of Mars's open space
or historic preservation trust fund committee excuse me and uh renewed an application to get additional funds from them they were kind enough to grant them so hopefully we get good bids back on the 16th and and make an award uh we received an award for the landscape plan
at the Martin Barry house so that is underway with the goal of having documents in to the county so an application can be made for construction documents so the first step in the phase is to do a plan phase two is you go ask for construction documents phase three
based on those construction documents you ask for a construction Grant um as we found success we are grateful to the county and the trust fund for all their support of this and uh we really hope we get good numbers on the train station because if you look at it on close inspection you see the exterior between
the roof and the paints it needs help it needs stabilization so we're grateful for the 75% support there and then lastly the final item in my report is with respect to the membership requirements for Junior Firefighters which is scheduled for discussion so I'll be happy to try to answer any
questions otherwise that concludes my report any comments from Council on the report not at this time I would just like to say you know thank thank you for pushing this side Bank thing in Congressman Cheryl's office I know it's a lot more followup
paperwork but it helps us with the funds in town so big money but yes thank you yeah it's always good to get get somebody else's money to do this and uh the junior fighter fire me membership I I think I think that's a that's a good idea if we can get volunteers it's hard
so yes if we get people interested yeah that's uh we well I'll get do my on that a little later but so all right moving on uh there no public hearing scheduled for this evening um there's no ordinances to be introduced the next
item is resolutions Miss Marsh beginning with resolution R 2025 54 releasing Phillips Edison and Company I'm sorry Philips Edison and Company and Plaza 23 station LLC from performance guarantee 2025 55 authorizing tax office refunds
overpayments or cancellations and 2025 56 approving payment of the itemized claims is set forth on the January 9th 2025 Bill list and 2018 feem elevation escro list okay thank you are there any comments on the resolutions from Council
no hearing none is there a motion to adopt these resolutions I'll make a motion to adopt resolutions r225 d54 through r225 d56 a second all right a roll call please Mrs Florence Lynch yes Mrs
Russell yes Mr syracusa yes mayor Dy yes yes yes yes next slem in agenda is items for discussion so this is the fire department Junior fighter fires membership yes the origin of this is there is a uh individual who wants to
join the Township's fire department as a junior firefighter unfortunately the individual lives outside of the municipal border but close so the fire uh respective company Chiefs got together and made request of me that I recommend that there be a change in ordinance currently the municipal
ordinance precludes membership from anyone that does not reside within the municipal boundary so uh I don't see a downside I reviewed it with the company Chiefs um with the status of volunteers and getting people to participate in things
I think any barrier we can remove to enhance our membership uh serves our community I know of a me I know of a volunteer uh in the for State Squad that lives in in eastern Essex County but likes first state Squad so the individual comes up on weekends and
rides um I I I can't see a downside so unless I can't either I mean we need volunteers just out of curiosity how far away are they not far okay yeah and and so the recommended change of the council approves it which would have to be introduced be an ordinance on the 28th is that it be resident of the township
of quic or a contiguous municipality okay obviously juniors are 14 to 18 so they're not driving so they're you know they got to work out those Logistics their parents AR going to want to drive them far away but but I'll leave it I'll leave it to them and the members of the fire department be grateful that wants to
join yes I look at it so continuous I'm fine with that good excellent thank you all in ordinance will be prepared for potential introduction on the 28th thank you okay good thank you good idea good idea thank you to the fire companies for
for uh proposing that so thank you to the fire ches all right there's no reports or notices this evening um the next item on the agenda is Council reports and announcements councilwoman Floris Lynch all right um speaking of uh the fire department um as
most of you may know there was a fire today in Lincoln Park earlier today a house fire um both our firehouses went out in response as Mutual Aid big response from banic at least 10 from
each don't quote me on the numbers but um and thank God they were there because Lincoln Park didn't have a lot you know so uh you know I mean I'm grateful for volunteers so I don't think anyone was
her but um it was a mess so I think that the house was destroyed right it was a total loss um anyway um so thank you for everyone on that let's see my senior citizen advisory committee they will be meeting here tomorrow at
10:00 so that'll be their first meeting meeting of the year um historic district commission we did have our first meeting and I know um Adam you covered most of the things but
just to give you a quick uh highlight um they went through their reorganization meeting um I don't think there was any changes Dave wisneski is the commission chair elain sta will be the vice chair Ryan Lombardi is the commission
secretary I believe that was all passed on to you correct okay um and there were open space uh Advisory Board leaon uh they were recommending Patricia cherell but they thought the Town Council had to approve that so I guess a
council appointment right um and uh let's see then let's see I'll just go over some of the highlights the they did their meeting schedule uh for the remainder of the year just for everyone's um just for
everyone's information they meet at the Pompton Plains ra Railroad Station it will be closed as Mr Brewer brought up for renovations once that project uh starts hopefully starts um and um at
that time they'll be meeting in the Martin Berry house um and if that's not available they'll do the Panic library history room so so that's all been arranged um just so you know the museum will be open on the 2nd and fourth
Sunday of each month um and open to the public from 12:00 to 3: of course when there's work going on on possibly not but more to come on that uh what else do they want me to speak up about um you probably
know uh every year we do the pathways of History they plan on doing two weekends for the path ways in 2025 one in May and October and it's also the 250th um uh they're doing the the planning for
well the county was um doing the planning for the American Revolution uh 250th anniversary so we have a lot of projects in the works like that it's not just like a one day event or one weekend event it goes on for
quite a while in in 24 25 and Beyond so um one of the things they're working on that they wanted me to bring up is the um Liberty uh poll which is something that they're working on with the first Reformed Church more to come on that but
just to kind of let you know about that and unless anybody has any other specific questions um Adam already covered that the grant you know they going to be opening the bids for the restoration at the railroad station so if no one has any more on that I'll move
along to um the planning board they met last night no changes in officers there either um Angelo Caputo is the chair John Mella is the vice chair um they just really had two things they went
through the um the rules uh the meeting dates the planning board meeting dates did get moved to the second month they're only meeting once a month and it's the second Monday of the month rather than it used to be the first and third um that's because I believe our
planner was not available um let's see what else and then there was just two items on the agenda one was uh a resolution for a subdivision that they had to just vote on and finalize and the other one was a request for an
extension on a subdivision they they needed the the extension to record the Deeds so the attorney was here just to ask for the extension on that which was granted and that's it on the planning board unless you have
questions and then I just wanted to Echo what um our mayor said about praying for everyone in the California fires um I also just wanted to mention I guess we had a big uh jcpnl outage and last I heard there was still 20
customers out I'm assuming they're all up now they were all restored shortly after and one question that came up about um you had it in your weekly report about the The Walking path with the railings when you were talking about the
southern Wayne end uh with the railings being constructed that had nothing to do with um the other railings that we were talking about removing right for that that's not going to be done until after the whole projects complete so we are
working on the agreement between the township and the county park Commission in order to get access to make the improvements over by the swim Lan at Park this is the specific railings over the bridge accompany the bridge into and that's what I figured somebody had asked me and I said no that's separate and
then we those other rails are getting removed though eventually for the swim Lanes by the for the that that is the plan yes subject to the budget which the c l to approve and all the other so we don't steps you know cuz somebody had asked me if that was going to happen before swim season and I said I hope so
but I don't know yeah I'm 50/50 okay um I think that's it for me thank you all right councilwoman thank you uh council mcole is not here hopefully um you get better and you come uh come see us next time we miss you councilwoman
Russell thank you my my Turner ready yes so my first a squad met last night they had 170 calls for December 49 of them were to Cedar Crest um just to give you an idea of how many times they go to cedarest in
2019 they went to cedarest 78 times in 2024 they went to cedarest over 400 times and sometimes it's just because somebody has a stomach ache so I know Adam had went up there and hopefully we can get this rectified so that our uh
first aid is not drained um Morris County 200 Club is still taking scholarship applications up until the 28th Library board meets tomorrow um the environmental they are they somebody had put in their application
afterwards I know with commissions we're okay to a point afterwards because they felt they needed it correct usually with commissions we do um with statutory boards he said you do yes correct so um did you all get a chance to review that
application the one that she had emailed us that came in late yes for the for the environmental somebody came in me and and the head of the environmental requested they could always use it you know for quorums and stuff like that sometimes a lot of people don't make it and they do they do
a lot of work it it really say so I'd like to add him on for them I mean I don't have a problem with that I know you were just talking about if it's huh I I have to look and see if that's a maral appointment or Council appointment oh is it Council appointment I think so
okay yeah I think the only now I know you were talking about statutory you know uh Comm you know if they need it what if um I know someone today had reached out about putting in an application for one of the Committees yeah but we said we weren't going to do that only for the commissions we saided
that years ago yes that we were is there a reason because yeah because then people are doing it late and it becomes the only reason I asked there's one or you know the the group I know lost some people and uh it was a senior citizen Advisory Group and um maybe we could we decided we were going to do that every 6
months I'll invite them never mind they can come to the meeting and they can just wait for June I never saw a problem with it um environmental also um I don't have his name I apologize but Eagle Scout is doing he came in he did that he's doing that dog park so um the environmental Club does collect plastic
bags uh for TR fenes so I suggested that that could be a great donation for that so hopefully and there's also um l park a GoFundMe yeah the new dog park there's also a GoFundMe for so if you feel like someone will do it um met with my County
preservation trust committee um it's likely that they're going to be putting out a referendum that'll go on the ballot so that open space money to the county can be used for stewardship um with your open space areas so we are reviewing um the wording
on that on our next meeting on the 27th but that'll that'll be great because it could work towards um evasive species uh dredging anything that can help our open space or our parks that needs to be done
not for building it won't it won't allow building of like extra parking lots or stuff like that but anything to help the invasive species and so I think that's a really good thing because what they deemed is that the open space was
created to grab all the open space and and as it's gone in Morris County basically most of it is there's not a lot left so now it's you can use the money to take care of what we've already purchased which I think is wonderful and that's been there's a
committee from about seven different towns I had it right here um and we all meet and we all discuss it and and you know everybody has their own opinions but it's it's been a lot of hard work but it's really worked out well so look for that on your ballot okay that's all
I got all right councilwoman thank you councilman syracusa hey good evening everyone um I had two meetings this last week and this week the first was the Parks and Recreation advisory committee um lot of great people doing a lot of great things so this is my first exposure to that and um I was proud to
be there um biggest takeaway with the parks of recreation was they're looking for lifeguards uh so the more lifeguards the better uh the minimum age of that is 15 years old so they're exploring options on how to uh to recruit more more lifeguards and I think um training
will be uh I'll be taken care of by the parks rer scheduled how they're going to do it uh the second um committee was the um let's see open space um biggest takeaway that I got from that was
prioritizing the proposed project list so there's about 10 uh 10 projects that they asked um you know the members to come back with on priorities on where they want to focus the efforts for the year uh some really great things on there and again a lot of great people doing some great things for town so
thank you to them um that's all I have all right councilman thank you um a couple things for me I did not have any committ committees that met except I was on the planning board but you heard that from uh Melissa um councilman s I'd like to welcome you to the first official meeting oh thanks sir good to see you
good to have you here thank you much um I also like to give a shout out to our Police Department there's a couple things that happened in town over the last couple weeks that were kind of kind of scary so I just thank thank them for their responsiveness um they're always seems to be on top of
things so thank you to them um the fire department also I know Melissa mentioned one thing and they responded to an accident the other day on Route 23 I think they cut somebody out of a car or something right so there we see um it was a pretty bad scene so I'm thankful they have the equipment to do it and
they know how to do it so thank you to all our volunteers um for that um Eagle Scout project we have another E Eagle Scout project in town so this is great we seem to have a lot of those which is very nice and I just want to just give a thank you to all the township um
employees that work in the building um everybody that works here sets up the meeting Miss Carl Mr Brewer that would be the not me and everybody that works downstairs um they really they really do a great job and this is a really great town to live in so I'm thankful I'm here
thankful I'm here so that's I'm thankful you're here too you are yeah uhoh there's one where all all right next on the agenda is public comment as a reminder we welcome comments suggestions and questions rather than dialogue comments are
limited to 3 minutes if anyone wishes to address the council please wait to be recognized and come to the microphone and provide your name for the record come on up Megan Dempsey good evening everyone happy New Year thank you um I just
wanted to say congratulations to councilman sakusa great to see you up here and also councilman Cole I'm sorry to hear he's not feeling well um I had intended be here for your swearing in ceremony but I showed up at 7:00 in the blistering wind it was like why are the doors locked I tried not to take it personally and then realized I had
completely missed to the meeting I was like they locked me out you are not the only one I and I literally had looked the day before and saw I was at 6 o00 so it was totally on me anyway congratulations um and I hope you have a successful um time on the council I also
um also wanted to publicly thank the police department um but particularly for the very strong relationship and support that they show to the school district so um my fifth grader at Hillview came home the day of the volleyball game they have a big volleyball game students versus teachers
and apparently detective Juliana was on his team which was like huge for them and he said there were officers on all the teams and then I realized I wasn't sure if he met police officers or the district security guards but regardless I know that um they really uh they do a lot of rounds of the schools and really
trying to build a very positive relationship with the students so that if there is any time they need them for anything they kind of have that trust with the kids and that great relationship and that's been ongoing for years um so I just really appreciate that as a parent because I know it makes
our school safer um and I just wanted to you know thank them all for being involved in those kinds of things where they can you know show the kids that they're real people and you know they can trust them um and then lastly I did just want to express my disappointment and frustration that the council did not change the liaison to the library
trustees there have been uh numerous concerns raised by members of the public and former trustees about the behavior of councilwoman Russell in that role um and it's kind of disheartening to see that the council didn't seem to take the community's concerns into effect when making that appointment this year so I
did just want to uh state that for the record thank you and have a great night okay thank you yeah I also think um it's like when when when we we were young our parents used to say if you do something bad he's going to come and get you right with the police and that's like the worst thing you can do cuz then you CH
chase them away so hopefully that has kind of has kind of stopped so um anybody else yes [Music] sir again Paul mailer uh Quantic resident uh with regard to uh ambulance
visits to Cedar Crest I understand from a friend and I I went looking for the memorandum on the website and couldn't find it but I understand that the approval memorandum for Cedar Crest had an additional driveway some kind of entrance that didn't require the ambulances to use Route
23 and I also understand that the ambulances have some kind of electronic clicker where they can change the light to turn across the the the highway uh which I guess gets them there quicker sounds kind of dangerous to me but uh you know these are volunteers in those
ambulances to going across the highway so if that's true if if Cedar Crest was responsible for for uh a separate Road way we should make them do it okay I'm not quite sure what the topography might be but would be a good idea thank you
okay thank you yeah I guess that's something we can look into I don't if you've looked into that yet but no I've never seen it in the review of the approv okay right well we'll check and see if it's there supped um anybody else no
okay come on up I didn't see you sorry I didn't see you wave your hand I guess I didn't wave it high enough well first of all I want to um thank the township for putting our flag at half staff in honor of Jimmy Carter and we
all know he died um when he was you know he lived to be 100 and all the in incredible accomplishments his humanitarian his presidency Nobel Peace Prize so I want to honor that and I'm really glad the flag is at half staff
that's the first then the second thing one of the SEC other comments I want to make I want to thank this is the last week of President Biden's Administration and I want to thank President Biden for bringing the country
back helping to solve the covid pr uh crisis his leadership NATO all sorts of incredible things that he has done yes there's problems there always are but he brought the country together there weren't millions of people dying from Co
as soon as we got in in control of that um so and also I want to um agree with what's going on in California and to send our um our commitment to help California in
these crises which leads me to a question about New Jersey and wildfires and that would be you know we've had droughts here for a number of years now and I know there's a problem with fires because of all the uh here in New Jersey uh with all the dry vegetation and so
what I'm curious at is is New Jersey or do we know of programs in New Jersey that I have missed under you know has there been something presented um in New Jersey as well as locally here in order to
hopefully if there is a fire mitigate so we don't get into a California kind of situation just a question um the other thing I would like to two things I support what Paul ma mer
is saying and I'm also supporting what Megan dempson said at the end about the library and um I want to honor Barbara musio for um all her hard work first of all just to get a library the building
of the library itself and I love that history of where she got lots of people to carry the books from here walking to the new library I think that's history is incredible so um but my concern too is
um Kyle Russell is now the um Deputy Mayor and it sounds to me like when she gives reports about all the different committees that she's on maybe being the leaz on to the library board might might
be something that she should reev re resign from because of her time involved in being Deputy Mayor as well as the complaints that you know the community have sounded about um some of the things that have happened at the
library so um the other two things well like Wildlife but um wildfires one other thing is you know we talked about trying to figure out solutions to all the different congestion that happens not only at the library with the
parking lot but I was wondering is anyone either on the council or the library setting up a committee between the schools and the council and the town um in order to help solve that problem um you know I'm aware that
people are concerned that somebody's going to get hurt that they've been a couple accidents so I'm just curious if anything is in the works so thank you very much right thank you thank you yeah I know New Jersey has a forest fire Ser service um and they theyve seem to do a good job I mean I
don't know much about them but I know they have a dedicated service for that okay um so I'm sure they keep an eye on things um um in order to honor Barbie mus we definitely can talk about it you know we we'll we'll talk to Adam about that and then the library parking lot I guess you're talking about the school
when the school gets out yes yes I think one of the biggest problems there is people turning around in Ryan Lane which they're not supposed to do right cuz that kind of clogs things up oh you making yeah that kind of is that because they don't want to cross I don't
know well you got to if you if you sorry if you got if you want to talk you got to come up sorry but but I the couple times I've dri driven through there is traffic kind of goes slow but then when somebody wants to Quick turn around and come back it kind of shuts everything down and I think that's a a bit of an
issue so I don't know what we can do to address that but well I speak I the idea that a lot of it is also because big cars you can't see when you come out of the library parking lot so there's a little bit more to but I think people should let people
in more more than they do like I mean me personally I like to kind of like leave a space in front of the car you know my truck and just let somebody come in I mean that would that would be nice if everybody in town could let somebody in in front of you um I think we can solve a lot of this
problem yeah so all right we we we we can check with the police department I guess right and see if there's anything we can do they're aware of the situation in monitoring the paring okay okay well then that that kind of solves it Karen Randolph Panic um I got a text from Kyle thank you for the appointment to the
environmental commission um and you told us about the eagle scout Evan um um um I'm going to get it I'm going to get it Brier yeah I have I have it on thing I just couldn't look it up right yeah um so my question question
would be what's going to happen to the old dog park and are there any you know openings for ideas there not that I have any yet but um we'd have to talk about it on the committee on the commission so that was it okay thank you
yes heard all the old l park I I don't know if there's if we can do anything there right I we're moving it for a reason yeah the plan would be to take it down and just not put anything return it to park space which the environmental commission has done a fabulous job with VAR project so ideas and options would happily be
entertained yeah definitely talk about it in in in committee so anything else for public comment right seeing none move on with the agenda there are no minutes presented for approval there's no items for close session there being no further business
is there a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn I'll second all in favor I I opposed meeting adjourned that 7:44 [Music]